The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Carol Roth | 3/25/26

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

Glenn praises Delta Air Lines for suspending VIP treatment for members of Congress amid the TSA funding drama. Glenn lists 12 things you can do to practice courage and make real change when engaging in political discourse. “You Will Own Nothing” author Carol Roth joins to discuss why we should be concerned about the oil coming through the Strait of Hormuz, even if America is oil-independent.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Check out for a discount. Jace.com promo code back. Today, the condensed version of the podcast is really good. It has some really useful things in it, but get a full perspective and understanding of all of it. You should listen to the full podcast. You can get that right here and also at glenbeck.com slash torch. Get the full thing today.

But if you only have time for the edited version, six stories today that tell you exactly where we are as a nation, 12 things that you can do to make sure you're not part of the problem and practice one of the most important things that we need in our country, and that is courage. Also, why if we are energy independent are we spending so much money at the gas station? Why do we care what's coming through the Straits of Hormuz? Carol has that answer. You don't want to miss it all on the edited version of today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck program. You know, we always see things and we read history and we're like, how did these people miss this? How did the people living at that time not see what was coming their way?

Because people say the same thing every time it will never go that far. Not this time. It's different this time. And it's usually not. So let me tell you the things that you need to watch for and all these things are happening right now. Let's start with cultural pressure to conform. Is that happening? Not legally.

Not legally. socially, when silence becomes safer than speaking. Okay? Or the next step. Language that removes legitimacy from any opposition. They're not wrong, but they shouldn't be allowed. Then the normalization of unequal justice. Similar actions produce wildly different consequences,

depending on the political alignment. You're seeing that in Chicago right now. Guy with a gun kills a woman on a pier. You know how that ends in Chicago? Not this time because he's an illegal. So now he's the hero. Then the last one, indifference from the public. This is the final stage before, I believe, acceleration.

So what do you do about it? I don't know who I'm going to talk to in the audience here because not everybody will think this way. Not everybody will understand it, but it's going to take enough of us. There has to be enough of us that are willing to say, That is unthinkable but possible. And I cannot be the quiet one in the crowd.

When the crowd starts crying for blood, left, right, indifferent, it doesn't matter. When the world truly goes insane and we have lost it because the crowd is indifferent, how do you round up a bunch of people? You lie to them and you convince other people that your lies are true and they shrug. they don't show up for one reason or another. They just don't show up. And then the boots come marching in. So how do you prepare?

Because you're not going to be the hero you want to be unless you are living it right now and doing everything you can to live this right now. So let me give you, and I don't know if I can get to all 12, I'll post these, but let me give you a few that you can do right now. Always tell the truth. even in all of the small things. Not the grand, not the heroic truth, just the daily truth.

Always tell the truth. Don't repeat something that you haven't verified. Don't nod along in a group when you disagree. Don't soften the reality to avoid discomfort. Now, that doesn't mean you have to be picking fights with people, but you're in a group of people. just live live not by lies.

You're in a group of people and they're starting to tell you how Charlie Kirk was murdered by, you know, I don't care space aliens. You don't have to say, you're stupid. You just say, that's not true. That's not true.

And here's why it's not true. Or if you don't know that it, you don't, you can't, you haven't done your homework on it. You can say, I highly suspect that is not true. I would love to hear your reasoning behind that because I'm going to do my own homework on this,

but I doubt that is true. You must be a road bump, okay? Every time you bend the truth to make your life a little bit easier, you are rehearsing for surrender. And every time you speak it calmly and clearly, you are rehearsing courage. Next thing you have to do,

build a tolerance for social friction. most people don't fear jail because they don't see themselves going to jail. They fear being disliked. Start there. Say something mildly unpopular in a calm setting. Not to cause trouble just to rehearse. Disagree without raising your voice. Hold your ground without needing approval or to win.

Just that's not true. if you can't endure an awkward conversation, you will not be able to endure real pressure. And this must be courage is a muscle. You must practice these things, but you must do it in a peaceful way. Next thing, separate your identity from your tribe. The moment your beliefs are tied to your group's approval, you're owned, you're dead. That's stacked justification. may come in with one viewpoint that you think is reasonable, but this society now makes it so

you must agree with all of it because you're a traitor if you don't. And you will be forever afraid of being exposed so you go along with it. Separate yourself from your tribe. Criticize your own side when they're wrong. Defend fairness for people you disagree with. refuse to cheer for something just because it benefits your team. This builds independence, and that's the core of moral stability. You have to be independent. You have to think for yourself, and you have to have the courage to say it. Number four, strengthen your understanding of first principles, not talking points, principles.

Know things deeply, like why free speech matters, especially for views you disdemeanor. dislike. You've probably said it a million times if you're my age. I'll, I strongly disagree, but I'll defend with my life your right to say those things. Why? Why would you do that? Why is free speech important? Why is equal justice important even when it's really inconvenient? Why does due process matter for everyone, including the guilty? If you don't understand why something matters, you will trade it away when it's tested because you won't be able to defend it. Next, limit your consumption of outrage. This is something I am trying to limit my vomiting of outrage on you. I am trying to give you perspective and things that you can actually use in your life

because I do believe troubled times are coming. Outrage feels like action, but it's not. It exhausts you. It distorts you. It makes it feel like every thing. is urgent, and yet if everything is urgent, nothing really is urgent or important. So set boundaries on news intake. Seek primary sources over commentary. I say that understanding that I'm a commentator. You're much better off if you could find primary sources to get the news. You should get the news from a primary source over me or anybody else. but if you do listen to commentary, try to listen to the ones that are not pouring gasoline. They're trying to be fair.

And know that you can't really trust them either because everybody has their own thing. Ask, does this affect my actual behavior? Clarity is strength. Constant agitation is weakness. Six, build real world relationships. Isolation is the breeding ground of fear. You are far less likely to stand alone. You are far more likely to stand with others that are around you that you trust.

So know your neighbors, have conversations outside of your echo chamber, build relationships built on shared values, not just shared opinions. We are building a society on shared opinions. That's death. we have to be shared values and principles. Freedom has always been defended in communities, not in comment sections. Practice self-discipline in unrelated areas. This seems totally disconnected, but the more I think about this one, the more I think it's true.

You have to keep your commitments because you remember, courage is a muscle. Everything is a muscle. And if you don't exercise it when you're not needing it, it's not going to be there. I can't go run a five-minute mile. I can't go run a 25-minute mile, okay? Because I'm not exercising. I'm not in shape for it. You got to wake up when you say you will.

Don't hit the snooze alarm. I did this this morning. I ate that. Do difficult things that have no reward, no external reward, because discipline in small areas becomes the backbone in large ones. If you can't control your habits,

you will not be able to control your fear. And fear is going to play a big role, I believe, in the future. Look how it's already shaping the markets. Nobody knows what's going to happen to the oil markets, and it's shaping the markets. Get comfortable with risk, incrementally. Courage is not recklessness. It's calibrated risk.

Start small. Say what you believe when it costs you just a little bit. Take his position without knowing the outcome. Except that not everybody in the room is not going to approve, but don't make enemies. You have to train your nervous system to understand, I can survive discomfort. I'll be okay. Nine, refuse dehumanization on all sides. The fastest way a society loses its moral footing is when people become categories.

It's the Jews. it's the Democrats, it's the Trumpers. Don't reduce people to labels. Don't assume motives without some evidence. Demand evidence. When somebody says something outrageous, it could be true. And if it's true, it's a huge news story. But if it's not true, it's completely reckless and dangerous.

Demand evidence. Don't celebrate punishment without due process, especially on your own side. the moment you justify it for them, it will be used on you. 10. Anchor yourself in something higher than politics. If politics is your highest value, you're going to justify anything to win. History is filled with people who did terrible things for the greater good. Anchor, deeper, faith, moral philosophy, some code that doesn't change with elections.

That's what will keep you crossing lives. that you cannot ever uncross. 11 study history, not the headlines, study history. I have been trying to take all of the stories every day and I look at them. Before I come up, I go and I search, is there anything parallel in history? What does this story tell us if it happened historically before?

Because patterns repeat. Details change, but patterns repeat. Make it a habit to understand how society's lost, their freedom, how ordinary people rationalized crazy things, how quickly it accelerated, not to become cynical, but to become aware so you don't fit in that pattern anymore. Awareness shortens the distance between warning and action. And 12, decide who you are right now. Decide in advance what lines you will not cross.

This is probably the most important one. Because in the moment, you're going to negotiate with yourself. Well, it's just this one time. Well, it's not so bad. So decide right now, what will you never, ever say? What will you never, ever support? What will you never ever turn a blind eye to? Pre-decision removes all hesitation.

And hesitation is where most people are lost. It's that moment we're like, ah, and somebody goes, come on. Okay. Don't hesitate. In the end, it's not going to come down to one grand cinematic moment. It's going to come down to thousands of quiet decisions made by people who no one ever expected to matter. You can either be somebody who shrugs and goes, well, nothing I can do about it. So I'm not paying attention to it.

It doesn't matter. Everybody's doing it. Or people, one of the people who practiced when it was really easy so they could stand when it wasn't easy. Because when that moment comes, you will not rise to the occasion. You will only fall to the level of your preparation. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Carol Roth is with us.

She has her newsletter every day. You want to understand the economy. She speaks your language. Carolroth.com slash news. Carol, there's several things I want to talk to you about. But first one that I don't understand is why oil dropped so dramatically, why everything is as stable as it is when really we have no news. We don't know who we're negotiating with.

Iran came out with horrible demands that seem insane. We came out with our 15-point plan for peace. But the world kind of went, okay, you know what? This is good. And the price of oil went down, which is great. But what are they basing this on? Well, first, Glenn, I just like everyone to know that in addition to, a background in finance, business, and economics. I have seen both seasons of landmen. So I feel like

this is right in my sweet spot to be able to explain to everybody. Right. No. Right. I got it. I got it. Good. Good. Good. The headline that is hitting the markets, and you have to remember that markets react to immediate news. You know, they look out long-term kind of, but they do tend to go kind of minute to minute, you know, when you're looking at it at any point in time. So the news that came out on the CNBC is that Iran signaled safe passage for, quote, non-hostile ships through the Strait of Hormuz. So the market is interpreting that, whether it's true or not, but in this moment of time, that there is going to be more opening and particularly for countries that it may be well aligned with, especially Asia, who is very much affected by the non-travel of ships through

this critical junction. There has been at least the interpretation of a signal that that is going to open up somewhat. So they're perceiving that is okay. Things are moving in the right direction, that, you know, there may be more transportation going through, and that is what is feeding into prices across the market. it's today starting with that drop in oil, whether it's true or not. Okay, so here's where, you know, I said earlier today, look, there's nothing you can do because we don't know. So this is something, be aware of, but just don't worry about it because you don't

know if it's going to get really bad or it's going to get really good. We have no idea. Everybody is just speculating. And so when you look at the price of oil, I just don't want to be on this roller coaster every day going, oh, it's good, it's good. Everything's getting better. and then tomorrow it's, no, it's all going to fall apart. It's going to be $250 a barrel because they don't know what they're talking about. It's just speculation. Is that accurate? It is entirely speculation.

And you have all of these Wall Street houses that are coming out with their predictions, which are forming the consensus of what people are thinking on Wall Street. And it's based on a guess. And that's going to move from moment to moment based on what happens. And by the way, it's like a choose-your-own-a-own-a-vend-a-vend-book, but there's like 17 different paths to go down. And depending on which path, one person goes down, another 17 open up. So we don't know.

There's a great clip that's going around social media this morning with people asking kids on spring break about what's going on and around. They have absolutely no idea. That's kind of everybody's best bed at least for the short term because it's going to drive you crazy otherwise. Can I tell you, do you remember the goal? War, the first Gulf War. And I remember, what was his name?

Bernie, somebody on CNN, um, the anchor. Bernie, he was, I think he was over in Kuwait when that started going. And they were showing the footage and the green missiles and the lights and everything else. It was night vision. And we were watching it on TV. The difference between what we see on TV now and what we saw back then, we were actually

getting news. I don't think we're getting. new. We're just getting opinions all the time. And opinions, I'm so sick of a bit. I'm an opinion guy, Carol. I am so sick of people like me who are just talking out there, but they have no idea. They're guessing like everybody else. But it's not fair for you to put yourself in the same category because you actually, you know, give caveats, use information, you educate yourself. So they're at least informed opinions. The difference that we have between back then, I think I was in high school, then is that we didn't have social media.

So now everybody who was an expert on tariffs last week is now an expert on Iran and geopolitics this week. Next week they're going to be an expert on AI, and you're just hearing all of the noise that everybody feels empowered to just put out into the universe. You know, we used to have diaries, write down our thoughts. Now we just say, hey, we want everybody to know everything we're thinking. There is no off filter, and it is, it's overwhelming. It really is.

Yeah. It's really not helpful. I mean, we do it to ourselves. I'm not talking about, you know, regulating anybody or anything like that. I'm just like, regulate yourself. There's just, I just turn it off because it's like, it's not useful. It's just not useful. I love that line.

Regulate yourself. Right. So the one question that I keep hearing from, from insiders, is we are supposedly, energy independent. We are supposedly drill baby drill. Why is this affecting us so much? Why do we care about the oil that is coming through the straight? We are supposedly independent. Yeah. Explain that. There are two reasons for it, and I'm going to use an analogy to explain the first. So basically the headline is that we're oil independent on paper, but not in reality. And the analogy is that used, yeah, I'm going to use a, we're going to be basing. We're going to be

apple pies. Do you like apple pie, Glenn? I love apple pies. Okay. So we're going to be baking a hundred apple pies for our business. And it's going to require about eight medium-sized apples for each of our pies. So we need 800 apples, okay? And we just took in a delivery of 800 apples. So are we set to bake our pies? Wait, I was, I'm sorry, I literally was just thinking about pies. I'm sorry, you caught me really off. I started thinking about pies and how much I love pies. So I'm sorry, repeated one more time. We got our delivery.

We need 800 apples. We got a delivery of 800 apples. Can we bake our 100 pies? If they're the right apples and some of them, they're all good. Bing, bang, bang, big. So that's it. So we got a delivery and we got about, you know, 400 Granny Smith and Honey Crisp, which are great.

They're going to go in. Your pie is going to be delicious. But for the other pies, the other 400, we got red delicious. And Red Delicious apples aren't really good for anything. They're definitely not good for baking. They get all mealy. You wouldn't want to use them. Nobody would ever buy our pies again.

So unfortunately, we have 800 apples, but we can't use them all for the pies. We have to use some of them for something else. So it's the same thing with oil. There are different grades and types of oil. They have different properties. And the refineries in the U.S. are set up to handle efficiently only certain types of oil. So we have a mismatch between what it is that we're producing

and what the refiners can handle, which means that even though on paper it looks like, if you look at the numbers that we're energy independent, we are still producing heavily or exporting heavily, and we are importing at the same time. Okay. So we make, are we? Are we mainly light, sweet, crude?

Light and sweet crude, but our refineries, the majority of those are set up to most efficiently process the heavy and sour. The light versus what we get from the Middle East. Yeah. Well, I think we get a lot of it from Canada. We get it from Venezuela. We get it from different places. But, you know, it's the density is the light versus the heavy and the sweet versus the sour

is about, you know, how much sulfur is in it. So the corrosiveness, the processing, and all of that. So there's this mismatch just like we had the mismatch for the apples in our pie. Now, that's only one piece of it. The other piece of it is that there is global market pricing. So even though we have this, you know, theoretically proprietary oil supply, the pricing happens on a global basis. And so somebody who's over, let's say, in Asia, if the oil in their region, let's say, is $30 higher than what it is here, and it costs them like $7 a barrel to transport it, they're still going to be better off. There's still going to be, you know, there's a $23 difference between that $30 and the extra to transport it. So that means they're going to bid up the lower prices and you're going to close the gap due to financial arbitrage.

So basically, if you think about it, the price is global, the refinery needs are very specific, and who loses on both sides of that, the consumer. Okay, so this would be, I mean, if you're a Marxist, this would be an argument you would make and say, well, that's why the refineries and the oil itself have to be owned by the United States, because then it's not in that free market system, and we can keep the oil as, you know, all of this is a lie. You'd still have the mismatch, so it still wouldn't work out anyway. Right. Okay.

All right. Can I ask you, I read somewhere that Texas, the oil industry, I got this from Landman, too, I love that. But Texas, it's not, it's not gearing up like it's a big, crazy, you know, run on oil, and we're, you know, about to see a big oil boom in Texas. Is that true? And if it is, why? Yeah, so that's true today. If you are a seasoned oil professional, just like a professional in the other industry, you're going to make your long-term investments based on long-term decisions,

not based on a crisis situation. You want to look at the long-term trends. And things have shifted a lot in the last 15 years in terms of capital discipline, the desire for cash returns, focuses on balance sheets. So the reward comes from that discipline, not growth at any cost. So before you may have seen, you know, kind of that wildcat mindset, like let's just go drill everywhere.

Right now, the, you know, the powers that be the investors, the management, they're trying to drive their gains through efficiency and technology instead of just having a drilling frenzy. So there has been the shift, and so they're going to take a long-term view on this. Obviously, if this is something that, you know, God forbid, you see a lot of oil infrastructure that's damaged around the world and things shift substantially over time. I think that that calculus will come into play. But, you know, again, we've watched Landman, so it looks very easy there.

We're just going to go out and wild can get it done. But in reality, you know, they're really running the numbers being disciplined. and focusing on, you know, cash capital discipline and balance sheet control. You know, it's funny because I got the exact opposite message from Landman. I got the gas is so unbelievably cheap for what it takes to get that out of the ground. What these guys do. I'm one of my, you know, my nephew worked as one of the guys on the rigs. And I'm like, I call him all the time.

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Story number one. Power. Quiet, invisible power. Let me tell you about what Delta Airlines just did. They just adjusted its VIP treatment for members of Congress. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Delta. Thank you. Again, did I say thank you, Delta? Thank you. So what does this mean?

Well, for years, our elected officials just glide past all of the things that you have to do at the airport. They skip the line, they avoid the friction. They avoid you, you know, the little people, because they're special. And now Delta, thank you, Delta, says, you know what, we're pausing that. We're not eliminating it. We're not debating it. We're just adjusting it for right now. And they call it a perk. Delta, I think you're using the wrong word. It is a perk.

You look at it as a perk, but it's insulation. Because the moment our leaders feel what you feel, where they stand where you have to stand, their decisions change. And history is really clear on this. The ruling class always separates itself first. And then it forgets what it's like to be a normal. person. Rome did it. Versailles did it. Washington is doing it right now. And when that separation grows, accountability dies. There's story number one. Story number two, the border and the meaning of a nation. The Supreme Court, there's a story in the news today that appears the Supreme Court is

ready to side with enforcement allowing limits on asylum claims process from outside the U.S. Okay, strip away all of the politics here. This is the real question. Does a nation have a right to define itself? Of course it does, or it's not a nation. How can you be a nation if the world gets to define you? This is not a modern debate. This isn't complex.

This is easy. Every civilization that loses control of its borders, loses control of its identity, not overnight, but inevitably, and it's over. And here's why it matters today. What you're seeing with the Supreme Court and warning, because this could change,

we lose control of the House and the Senate, you're going to lose the control of who's coming up because we got a lot of old conservatives. But right now you're seeing reality. No, the law catch up to reality. They're not creating it. They're catching up to reality. Store number three, lawfare, and the weaponization of justice.

There are a few stories out there now that are shocking and should be shocking and horrifying. I can get into this next hour. Shocking and horrifying should shake the country to its core. New reports are out now show that efforts to obtain records tied to political figures were far more expensive than anybody admitted. Okay. Let me translate that into plain English. After 9-11, we all were panicked and worried and freaking out.

We're like, God says patriot in the act, it must be patriotic. And so we passed a bunch of tools in a toolbox that we were told were designed to protect the public. Okay? those tools are now aimed inward, not outward, inward. And once that line is cross, once law becomes a weapon, you don't have equal justice anymore. You have leverage and a banana republic. And history has a lot to tell you about that. When governments begin investigating citizens differently based on political alignment, that does not stabilize a country, it fractures it every single time.

Story number four, Iran and the illusion of control. Just told you, we sent a 15-point proposal to Iran. Iran responds with demands that it's not negotiation, it's more like victory terms. Close all your bases, you know, pay reparations. I mean, it sounded like I was on a college campus when I heard that one. At the same time, inside Iran, the story that nobody's talking about, hundreds are being arrested for speech, for cyberspace activity. Well, there's an old-timey word that only guys with big gray beards would use. So I want you to understand the contradiction on this one.

Externally, they're negotiating. Internally, there is no negotiation. They are tightening control. That is not a regime preparing for peace. That is a regime managing instability. And this is the part that I think most of us miss. There are credible signals that Iran is weaker than it appears. When you have an animal in a corner, they become more dangerous because they're cornered. And they're cornered. Again, weak regimes don't go quietly. They either collapse or they lash out.

We'll see which one is going to happen. Story number, they're lashing out internally. Story number five, the economy, and what I believe is a false calm. Oil drop today. Gold rises. Markets breathe. Based on what? What?

People are saying it's stabilizing, based on what? This is the problem with our entire stock market. It's not based on anything real anymore. Okay. Warnings of a recession tied directly to geopolitical shock. Hey, we've seen this movie before. We saw it in 1973 with the oil shock. We saw it with a credit shock in 1974.

This is different. This time it's different. Yeah, is it? Because the pattern is identical. The global system stretched to thin meets disruption. It can't absorb. And then things start to break. And it doesn't break evenly.

It breaks where you live. It doesn't break necessarily for those who get the VIP treatment. at the airport. It breaks on you, groceries and jobs and vacations you suddenly can't afford. Which brings me to number six. Story number six. AI in the Quiet Revolution. All of this stuff is happening.

And the Labor Department just launched AI training. And when I read this story, I thought, oh, just what we need. The government trying to tell us how to use AI. My gosh. I have briefed people in the government. I have. Okay, that's how bad things are. I have briefed them on AI.

And they, I mean, it's, it's like you're talking to a caveman. They have absolutely no understanding. Most of them, some do. Most of them have no understanding. I mean, they're still at the pager system. So would I get this? Would, could I get chatchy PT on my pager?

No. Anyway, companies are openly saying massive job cuts are inevitable and they're coming. And your home, your house is being integrated into the power grid to feed AI infrastructure. This is really, really, really bad. Let this sink in. Your job is going to be replaced in the next few years. Your energy is being repurposed. And you're being offered, of course, Twitter.

adapt. It's not going to go over well. These server farms cannot take a drop of energy, not one piece of energy that we are now producing for the public. They must be forced to produce their own energy because they will end up sucking all of the energy and we will be paying, we'll be paying skyrocketing prices for energy. This is the early stage of a complete economic rewiring that will happen if Donald Trump, somehow or another, is not allowed to finish the job on these AI server farms where he is saying, I'm giving you the green light, you build your own power plant. That has to be codified.

Okay, so step back. Let's look at all six stories here. what do they all have in common? One, power is separating from people. Borders are being redefined. The same time justice is being questioned. War is destabilizing, and the economy is already fragile, and technology is shaping everything underneath all of it.

This is not chaos. I mean, some of it is war is chaos, This is not chaos. This is a world in transition. There's a word for that. Realignment. The old systems that don't work, new systems aren't fully built, and the people down at the bottom and the middle,

they feel that first. That's you. So what actually matters to you today? None of the politics. None of the outrage cycle. Okay. The votes that are, happening in Congress, they absolutely mean something, but listening to the pinheads argue back and

forth, that is a waste of time. Watch for these things. Watch for the things when leaders stop or being forced to stop living in their palace and start living like citizens. Did I mention Delta Airlines? Thank you. When laws are applied unevenly, big danger, we're going to get into that next. When negotiations sound like ultimatums, when markets calm down too quickly for no apparent reason, and when technology moves faster than the culture can absorb, those are not headlines, those are all warning lights. And one last thing, there was a line buried in all of this. In our newsletter today, there is a story about preparing the way, even if you're not

perfect. I think this is the most important story of the day. because none of this is going to be fixed with perfect people. History doesn't turn on perfect people. It doesn't. History turns on people who see clearly and act even though they're not perfect. Not violently, not recklessly, but deliberately. They see it.

They know what they're supposed to do and they act. And they don't allow excuses to get in their way. Like, I don't have the power. I don't really know this. I'm not the one. I'm not smart enough. It won't really make it. They just do what they're supposed to do, and they're not perfect.

And most times, that's just teach your children, that strengthen your community. That's, and I'm saying this like a broken record to members of my family right now, get back to church. Refusing to be manipulated by every headline, those things. Collapse in a society doesn't begin with the loudest voices. it begins with the quietest bystanders. And it's stopped the same way by people who decide they're not going to be a bystander anymore.