The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Carol Roth | 8/27/26

Episode Date: August 27, 2026

Will Lake Ontario actually be changed to Lake America? (Spoiler Alert: Yes) Glenn gives the history of puberty blockers in children and debunks the idea that these blockers are beneficial. Former investment banker Carol Roth joins Glenn to discuss the affordability issue in America and the rising price of beef.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know, the national anthem of Canada is, oh, Canada. Now it's kind of like, oh, Canada. We get into Canada on today's podcast. Also, trans ignorance is not bliss. You've heard that phrase, I'm sure, a million times. I'm going to give you the origins of ignorance of bliss and show you, no, no, it's not. No, it's not. And we talk to Carol Roth about the economy.

What can actually be done? This is a great show. You don't want to miss a second of it. And this is the best of, Glenn Beck. You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck program. Oh, man. Today's a day. You should be an insider because everything's coming undone.

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Oh, let's see, where do we begin? Should we begin with Canada? By the way, I kind of feel sorry for Canadians because they're not in on the joke. And then again, I kind of feel sorry for us because we may not be in on the joke either. I'm not sure if the Trump is going to change Lake Ontario to Lake America. He might, he might. And even if he does, it's hysterical. it's hysterical that I mean, I've never seen a joke that can actually change maps.

But he has that ability to change maps somehow or another. We have that ability in the president. That might be too much power. I think that might be, I mean, I don't know if, really, that's the president can change the map. Okay. But I saw him yesterday and he's drawing him. he's taking a map of Lake Ontario and he's like, yeah, a lot of people think I won't do it. I don't know.

It's Lake America, Lake America. He scratches out Ontario and writes America. Look, it's just that easy. It just requires a pen and it's Lake America. And I'm thinking the guy is just trolling, just trolling Canada. It doesn't necessarily make me happy that he does. I'm torn. The worst part of me is laughing my.

butt off because he's true. The better part of me is like, there's a lot of Canadians that just don't need this. There's a lot. There's a few that absolutely deserve it. There's a lot of Canadians that don't. One of them that does would have to be Doug Ford. He is the premier of Ontario,

which is, I don't know, a place up in Canada. And he says that Trump isn't being very nice. you to listen to this. When President Trump says we're harder to deal with in China, well, he's treating China, communist China, but then he's treating his closest trading partner. So, again, I have all the confidence in the world that the prime minister and Minister Dominic LeBlanc and the ambassador and everyone else at the table are going to fight. They're going to fight tough. You're going to fight. They're going to fight tough. You're going to fight tough. The fighting Canadians look out everybody.

Um, okay, is he treating Canada harsher? No, no. Is he busy playing with, um, kid gloves with China compared to, to Canada? Yeah, absolutely. You know why? China can do something about it. You can't. You're on the grand scheme of the world.

I mean, I don't mean, I love Canada. I love you. I love you. But let's be honest with you. What are you going to throw? cheese at us? Come on. Come on. Really? You're not exactly a threatening. I mean, you're right next to, you're a little tougher than France, but that's about it. And so China, they've got nuclear weapons. They're a sworn enemy of us. Of course. Yeah, we are going to be, we are going to be a little more

vocal against you guys because quite honestly, sometimes you're a little more vocal with your own family. When a member of your own family starts to turn on the family and you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, what the, what are you doing? Yeah, I am going to be, because that person I know is an enemy. I know you're an enemy. You've been a sworn enemy of ours for a long time. You're all, you've been saying for a while. And then in 2027, we go in. Okay. That's on the record. with China. Canada, you're like a member of our family. All of a sudden, you're turning on us and you're like,

I like China more. Wait, you what? I mean, do we have, do we have the audio? I'm not sure if we have the audio. Where is it? Carney in 2012. Do you have this story? It's not a clip.

It's just, it's just an old article that Ezra Levant actually. tweeted yesterday. Flashback from 2012. There you got it. Yeah, I got it. Bank of Canada governor, Mark Carney, says even a slowing China offers vast opportunities to Canadian companies. China economy expected to grow up a 7.5% this year, but even at that rate, the country

is injecting 600 billion U.S. dollars in the global economy. Twice the United States contributes to roughly the same as it did five years ago. There's a huge amount of growth that's coming on. Carney said at a panel discussing a discussion at the conference organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, there is sustained opportunity. These are relentless forces. He warned that Canadian multinationals are typically half as engaged in Asia as they are in the seven other countries of the West. It's not too late.

Getting a large share or more than our share in these opportunities from China is readily achievable. So he's saying that China is at this inflection point, and he's, talking to the industry of Canada saying you got to reorient to China. Not, did he say Orient? You've got to reorient to China away from America. Okay, Canada. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, Lake Ontario to Lake America is kind of like, you know, that's a slap of it. This is you said, this is your, you're now your prime minister saying, you know, what? We got to get away from the United States. Let's look at China. I'm sorry, I shouldn't use a Trump voice because it was much more like, what we should do now is something incredibly stupid.

We will shoot ourselves in the feet. That's what we will do. We will throw ourselves in with the communist, who will eventually march over here and will all be speaking Chinese. Oh, what a great French idea I have now, huh? Oh, my God. Okay. Now another story. A citizen. Now this is a story from CTV news, Canadian television news or something. I don't know. A grocery store in Ottawa has removed now its stock of California wines from its shelves. After customers raise concerns, it was not permitted to sell its products because of an Ontario ban on the sale of. U.S. liquor. You know what? When did wine drinkers become such?

I'm sorry, I can only think of a male body part right now. I tried. I tried. My brain is sticking at the male body part. And I can't get beyond that. So you know what I'm trying to say. Fill in a better word for me because I just don't, my thesaurus is not working today.

When did wine drinkers become snitches? I did wine drinkers like, wait a minute here. We're not, of course, you know what? I'm an alcoholic. And it started with wine, but it really ended with whiskey. And so maybe I'm, maybe that's a trade of whiskey drinkers that we just wouldn't snitch. We would just be like, I don't care where that whiskey's from. I want a bottle of whiskey.

Give me my damn Jack Daniels. But I guess wine drinkers probably are a little snooty, especially if you're from Canada. Now, in British Columbia, there's a wine store up there that's like, are you kidding me? Wait, we're not supposed to sell American wine. You know who that's going to hurt? It's going to hurt wine drinkers in Canada. Why? Because they put so much tax on Canadian wine, even with the tariffs, it's better to drink American wine.

And by the way, Canadian wine? Does that sound good to anybody? Really? Canadian wine? How do you make Canadian wine? You know, don't the polar bears eat all of frozen berries? I mean, how are you making wine in Canada? Just sounds bad. It really does.

Probably is bad. So you got that going on in Canada. Then you have the Washington Post, nearly one in three posts about Abu al-Sai. from white right-wing figures mentioned Islam, Muslims, and Sharia, according to the post analysis of conservative commentary across social media

newsletters and podcasts. We're not talking about his ideology and his link with the DSM. This is their genius. They actually put people on to study everything that we're saying. Find out what they're saying about him.

Are they only talking about his Islamists ties, his ties to Hamas lovers. Washington Post, let me ask you this. We're not talking about DSA when we talk about Islamists? I mean, I can't, what is the difference between an Islamist and a DSA member? Honestly, at this point, it's called the red, green alliance. It's the same. It's the same.

It's like, I will. never, ever drive, I don't know, a Chrysler. Do we even make Chrysler anymore? I only drive a Jaguar. Isn't that the same damn company? I won't drive. I won't drive. I will not drive a Kia.

I will only drive a Genesis. It's a Kia with a different name. That's the difference. DSA, I guess. I don't know. Is that the Kia or is that the Genesis? You know, and which one is the Islamist? Is that the Kia or the genus?

I don't know. They're one in the same. So when we are talking about his Islamist's roots, we're talking about the DSA at the same time. But you'll never get that. I only taught that at a chalkboard. Oh, I don't know. In 2008, and you were saying the same thing then.

They're not the same. They'll never work together. They're not the same. It's called the Green Red Alliance. They have the same goals. They're working together. They're sharing funding. Hello.

But you're only in the Washington Post, so what do you know? I have a question. This meta thing. Meta has settled landmark state child harm claims for $18 billion. $18 billion. Have you heard this story yet? Because kids were addicted to the internet. You know, some of them killed themselves, et cetera, et cetera.

So all these states get together. And I applaud the states. I do. I applaud the states that did this. But $18 billion. Has anybody asked, where's that money going? $18 billion is a lot. Do you know that the families are not going to get any of that money?

That's all going. Potentially. Potentially. I love that. These states are going to use it for youth mental health programs, online safety education, don't do drugs, programs helping parents and children navigate social media, prevention programs in school, counseling or behavioral health services, enforcement of children's online safety laws, technology or programs designed to protect minors online.

Okay. It doesn't have a compensation fund for any parent who is like, I lost my child and, you know, or I, you know, my child has had therapy now and it's cost all of this money. Can I get some of that money from META because it's social media that really did this? Now, no, the state's going to keep it. Hopefully one of the states, hopefully one of the states will say, no, no, no, we're going to, we're going to make sure that parents who have spent a lot of money on, on, you know, going in and having to have therapy. because of social media, you know? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to say, hey, Mehta destroyed my daughter or my son

because they were trapped in the wrong body for a while because of the social media craze? And now they get it, but they no longer have a wee-wee-wee anymore. So they're going to have a lifetime of therapy and drugs that they have to take now. I mean, I would hope that a few states would say. You know, we're going to have high standards on this, but yeah, I think part of that should probably go to those who are going to be affected for the rest of their life on the wonders of Facebook and social media. This is the best of the Glenbeck program. Here's a question that I want you to ask yourself. If someone in your family got sick tomorrow or there was a medication shortage or a natural disaster and it kept you from getting a doctor for a few days, what do you actually have that you need?

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Jace.com. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So I want to, um, have you ever heard ignorance is bliss? Ignorance is bliss. Is it? Is it? People have asked me over and over again. And I bet you've asked yourself this. You know things that most people don't know because you have been paying attention and you read multiple sources and you listen to multiple sources. You don't just take it for me. I hope to God you don't just take my word for things. I hope you check out everything that I say. But, you know, so you, because you're informed, because you read multiple sources, because you read things from the left and the right, you listen to the left and the right.

you know things that a lot of people don't know. And it's sad. But doing that has probably caused a lot of stress in your life and a lot of angst in your life. And I bet you've had times where you've thought, you know, I don't even know if this is worth it. Is it better to you know this stuff? Because I can't change it, which is a lie. But you'll think that. Ignorance is bliss.

No, it's not. No, it's not. It's really not. Let me tell you a story that now this is coming from. from, um, this is coming from moms of liberty. The parental rights group,

Moms for Liberty has filed a federal lawsuit against the school district, uh, the Chathams and their board of education for allegedly pushing secret gender transitions behind closed doors. Okay. There are activist school boards all across the country that are interfering with the moral or religious development of impressionable kids, suggesting that to the children who are captive audiences that they're trapped in the wrong body in

and then they're helping them without the parents still after the Supreme Court ruling, they're still helping people without parental permission or knowledge. Okay. And so they're going in and doing all of these things that are, we know now, are horrible, absolutely horrible. But are they stopping? And are they ignorant? They're just ignorant.

They're ignorant. They're ignorant of what the truth is. They think they're right, but they're ignorant of what the truth is. Let me tell you something. We've been here before. 1742, English poet named Thomas Gray. He wrote a line about two school boys who don't know what's coming from them, where ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise.

139 years later, an American newspaper man picked up that line and pointed it at one man. And this is how this became really well known, at least in America. It was July 2nd, 1881, train station, Washington, D.C., Charles Gitao. He steps up behind the president of the United States, newly elected, and fires at him twice. One shot grazes his arm. The second one goes right into his back. Within minutes a physician arrives. His name is Dr. Willard Bliss.

Now, not doctor his title. Doctor was a given name. It was on his birth certificate from a mom who apparently had plans. You are going to be a doctor. So he becomes a civil war surgeon. He's well connected, completely certain of himself. Okay. He appoints himself the man in charge.

And everybody, for some strange reason, just lets him do it. Garfield, who is the president, was just shot. his own physician was a woman named Susan Edson, one of the first female doctors in America, chosen by Mrs. Garfield and adored by the Garfield children. Also in the room was Silious Boynton, the president's cousin, who had treated the family for years, knew the family's stomach history, et cetera, et cetera.

But Bliss walks in and just reassigns them to nursing duty and doesn't listen to them. Okay. So for three months, he's reported to have taken their advice exactly zero times. Three months. For three months, he tortures the president. Really?

How does he torture the president? He says, I have to get this bullet out of him or you're going to die. Now, the wound is about the size, you know, of a 44. Unwashed, instruments, unsterilized, again and again, day after day, hunting for a bullet. he was sure was on the right side. He can't find it. Entry hole again, the size of a 44. By the end, there was a channel that had been carved into the president of the United States. It was 20 inches long because he kept sticking instruments into him trying to fight because I know it's there. Everything in the president, that 20 inch path all infected. Now here's the part that matters.

guy named Joseph Lister, Joseph Lister. Know that name? If you've ever heard of Listerine, you know the name. He published a paper on antiseptus 16 years earlier. And he was like, look, you've got to have an antiseptic here. You've got to wash these things. You've got to clear it out. Otherwise, you'd get infected.

So in 1881, some sort of a medical acid was used at Massachusetts. General and most American surgeons, Lister had come to America himself and lectured to physicians, and most physicians accepted it. Some of them mocked him. Bliss was a mocker. Bliss was like, are you kidding me? Now, he had heard everything Lister had said. He was a guy who heard and knew better.

Then, another name you know, Alexander Graham Bell. He shows up. Bell had read about this in the papers, and so he builds a machine, an induction balance. It's the first really crude medical detector, and he makes it, you know, with the bed springs, okay? And it's for the sole purpose of finding the bullet in Garfield. He tested it on Civil War veteran, carrying an old ball in his body, and it worked. So August 1st, he comes to the White House. He stands behind the president with a receiver at his ear, Alexander Graham Bell, and Bliss says it's on the right.

And so he sweeps the right side, but only the white side. Because Bliss said, that's where it is. Alexander Graham Bell says, it's not there. I'm telling you it's not there. We should check the other side. No, you're not checking the other side. It's there. I've made a 20-inch path into the president's body.

Bliss, I mean, the bell said he heard something faint, but he wasn't convinced. Bliss went to the newspapers, announced he had been right the whole. time. Garfield, in the meantime, went from 210 pounds to 130 pounds. You know how they fed him? They fed him beef broth through enemas for 79 days. He finally dies. Of what? Infection. The autopsy finds the bullet on the left side. Behind the pancreas. It was actually walled off in a protective sack. It didn't damage any organ at all. It had been harmless the entire time. Most physicians looking at the autopsy since have said, if nobody would have touched him, if they would have just patched the wound, he probably would have lived. In fact, it was so commonly known at the time

that could tell the guy who shot him said at his trial, yes, I shot him, but I didn't kill him. The doctor killed him. They hanged him anyway, and they should have. He wasn't wrong. He wasn't wrong. Bliss sent Congress a bill for $25,000. Congress paid him $6,500. Now, the word the newspapers used was ignorance. He was ignorance. But the newspapers were being kind. Ignorance is not knowing. Bliss knew. The information was in print, in English, in his own profession for 16 years. He had listened to the lecture, but he knew. So what killed President James Garfield? Wasn't a gap in the literature.

It was three things stacked together and learn their shape because we've been here before. I'm telling you about where we've been. Okay. They think the same same shape every time. One, a man who's certain. Two, a room where people who would contradict him have been reestablishment. assigned to fetch water or mocked, and three, a machine that can check pointed only where it's already decided where the answer is. Okay. Now, let me bring you back to where I started this story.

Teachers, school boards, hospitals doing reassignment surgery. We know for 15 years, American parents who have a struggling adolescent were told a specific thing by people in white coats. Science is settled. The treatment is safe and reversible and the alternative is a dead child. To question it, and you weren't asking a medical question, you were a bigot. You were shown the door. You were cut out of the conversation. Then England went and checked when Alexander Graham Bell showed up there like, you know what, I could check. Can I check anywhere? Yeah. Dr. Hillary Cass spent four years on it. She commissioned the University of York to do systematic reviews of the actual studies. Her final report came in April 2024. The evidence for puberty blockers in these kids was in the end remarkably thin. She said poorly designed studies, no long-term follow-up, no demonstrated improvement in gender distress or body satisfaction, and no support for the claim that the drugs reduce suicide. She found that. social transition is not a neutral act, that it makes the medical pathway more likely and that a single focus on gender was crowding out depression and anxiety and autism sitting right next to it.

So England does what? They take out the puberty blockers. They're like, no. Then Travis Stock Clinic, it closes Sweden, Finland, Norway. They've already pulled back their own. But here at home, checking has arrived. Not gently. January 30th. of this year a jury in White Plains, New York awarded $2 million to a 22-year-old woman named Fox Varian who had a double mastectomy at 16. The first detransitioned malpractice case

ever to reach a verdict in this country. There's two dozen more that are filed. In May, Texas Children's Hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in America, settled with the Justice Department and the state of Texas for $10 million and agreed to stop the procedures and agreed to build the first detransition clinic in the United States.

The Cleveland Clinic followed in June. Something like 20 hospital systems have closed their pediatric gender programs. Same institutions that told parents this was settled science are now building clinics to undo that settled science. And I'm not sure if the Marxist win, they're going to stay there. Okay? I'm not sure that that's actually going to happen. I think they could change back because this isn't actually about science at all. So this is the test.

Not who's right. Everybody in every era feels right. Instead, you should ask this one question. What happens to the person who wants to check? Bell was in the room. He had the right machine. It worked. He was allowed to sweep the right side.

The bullet was on the left. President of the United States died in a house full of the best doctors in America. We've been here before. There's a bill in the congressional record from 1881 to prove it. $25,000 submitted by a man who spent 79 days being certain. So ask about your church, your school board, your party, your doctor. You should ask it about me. Ask about the things you're sure of.

Have I been allowed to check the left, side, the right side, the front, the back? Is anyone being silenced? Is anybody being shouted down because of their viewpoint? It was printed in a newspaper about Dr. Bliss. Ignorance is bliss. That's how we in America, ignorance is bliss. It's not. Ignorance is different than knowing And because you want to be right, you have to be right, because it's your way or the highway, that's not bliss, that's malpractice. That's not bliss. That's suicide. Back a minute, you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. A few years ago when the opportunity came to challenge Roe versus Wade, the alliance defending freedom was right there in the thick of it. Just a few months ago, they won a major free. speech case at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a Christian counselor, Kaylee Childs. And they continue to take on the big business of our time, defending women's sports, protecting

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we've had technical issues. I've got these stupid power issues because I live off the grid. Up in the mountains, I live off the grid. And because I run a business, we've had to have power generation, unlike most people have power generation. But no matter how much it seems I spend on power generation,

solar panels don't work. It doesn't work. If you want to be a third world country, just tell everybody, just solar panels and windmills are the greatest thing. You know, we had a windmill up here. The damn thing blew over in a storm. We didn't even know it was not online anymore. It was that effective, okay? And the solar panels, they don't work.

The technology is not right. Get into nuclear power. America has got to bleed the way again and get into nuclear power. And the minute they start making, I'm sorry to say this, all my, you know, neighbors, because I swear to you will make it so your hair on your cows won't fall out. The minute they make small nukes, I'm buying one. I'm buying one. And I don't care. I'll help power the whole town.

This is ridiculous. Ridiculous. I live in a canyon and, you know, it doesn't have any power. So we have to generate everything ourselves. and no matter how much money you spend, it doesn't seem to matter. Why? Because it doesn't work.

Oh, God. It's like, you know what? I'm going to, you know what, let everybody get rid of your Apple Watch. We're going back to sundials. When the sun isn't there, you won't know what time it is. If it's cloudy, you won't know what time it is. If it's dark, you won't know what time it is.

I think we learned that a long time ago. I don't know why we're still doing it. Anyway, I digress. Let me talk to Carol Roth. By the way, if you're an expert in any of this, and I don't mean I've got some hairbrain idea. I mean, I want a scientist who can tell me what it's going to take. Because every two years I hear, well, it's going to take this.

And I do it, and it doesn't work. Or just a scientist who says, Glenn, your instinct is right. It doesn't work. Anyway, Carol, welcome to the program. How are you? I'm great, Glenn. You know, when you get your first mini-nuk, I'm going to start calling you Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons. And I'm going to expect for you to go out and go going, excellent all the time. Excellent, excellent, Smithers. It's excellent. I have no problem being Mr. Smithers. We are on the verge of really amazing technology with these mini-nukes.

And, you know, I got to tell you, Elon Musk is right. if we don't generate the power, chips don't matter, nothing matters if we can't generate power. And we're not doing it. And thank God Donald Trump is in. But the minute the left wins, the minute Congress changes hands, the minute we lose this president. If the next president isn't like-minded on energy, we lose. We lose to China. And we can't do that. Yeah, and the problem is that all the propaganda is coming from China and Russia and places like that that don't want us to win. You know, it's a complete and total propaganda war. And so you get people who hear words, you know, whether it's data center or hyperscale or nuclear energy. And they don't take time to really understand what that means, you know, what has existed in the past and what hasn't.

The biggest challenge I see, Glenn, is, you know, first of all, obviously, the political will and the propaganda, but then the level of expertise. You know, we had all of these people who were experts in nuclear power who were retired off and, you know, sent to go do something else. And so we don't have that knowledge base. So that's something that our country should be cultivating yesterday so that when we do hopefully get the political will in short, order to be able to do things that are critical for our continued growth and development because energy is, you know, at the core of growth everywhere. If you look at the countries that don't have access to energy, those are the poor countries and the ones, you know, the United States, who uses the most energy, we do because that is

what powers us quite literally. If you want to survive as civilization, as a human, you need food, water, energy. It's almost as if our government for the last 50 years has been against all of those things. We're stifling our farmers. We're roping off all of our water. And we're killing ourselves on energy. I'm so glad that we're changing. Did you hear yesterday I had Donald Trump on?

and we were talking about the meat. Did you hear this? I heard a little bit of it, yeah. Okay, so meat production. He was on and I said, Mr. President, I wasn't planning on talking about this, but you've got to break the back of those four meat packing plants. You've got to make it easy for ranchers and communities

to build their own meat packing, you know, and it's all regulation. And he said, you think that would change everything? I said, I know it would. You got to change your regulation. Now, the left is coming. at me today and said, Glenn Beck doesn't want any regular, he wants poison beef. Nobody wants that. We just want reasonable regulation that is written for the common man, not in favor of the giant

corporations. Do you agree that? Go ahead. Go ahead. I would say, I don't know if you remember, but the book that I wrote that was sort of a takedown of COVID and what happened was called the war on small business. And this has really been a long-term push by big corporations to consolidate power because it's much easier if you are a lobbyist, you're a politician, to go get money and support from one big entity than it is to from, you know, hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of independent-minded small businesses. So there has been a clear movement to try to make it difficult for small businesses, which are the backbone of every, you know, every country in the world, but particularly the United States. It's 99.9% of all business entities. But it's so

difficult. They put these regulations in place. And we're not talking about regulations that would, you know, have beef be poisoned, but just simple things to be able to open, to operate, you know, obviously not even in the meat packing, but like something like in knowledge work. I mean, why is it that, you know, and this is state level versus federal, but why isn't there a huge push to get rid of workers' compensation insurance for people who sit at home working on their computers, Glenn? Why are we taking money from small business owners and workers and giving it to insurance companies? I mean, across the board, the red tape, the amount of difficulty, and when you have, you know, a president who is the small business president, you know, and he said it's Main Street's turn.

I'm so glad that you told him that because it's critical. we need to get rid of all of the red tape, the regulation, the total grift that is surrounding business so small businesses can thrive. What kills me is if you are somebody who's looking into Marxism and you're like, yeah, the problem is the man, the problem is these corporations, I agree with you. I agree with you. I'm not anti-corporation. You might be.

I'm not, not you, but the person looking into Marxism might be anti-corporation. I'm not. but it is the same problem. And what Marxists want to do is grow the size of the government, and the government collusion with the corporation is the problem. They want to marry those two. That's the absolute wrong answer. But we're both identifying the same problem.

The answer is get it back closest to the people, which is what they say they want, but they're going at the exact opposite. they say, Glenn Beck doesn't want any regulation. No, that would be anarchy and I fight the anarchists. You're the one embracing the anarchists. Oh my gosh, I can't take it, Carol. I know. It's as you want to pull your hair out. And some of this is, again, a propaganda problem, but it's based around language and that they have bastardized key words. You know, something like, you know, free markets, you know, meaning capitalism. Oh, capitalism means you're trying to

take advantage of people. No, it doesn't mean that. It means that we have freedom and transparency and, you know, millions of people making decisions every day and that's how things are sorted out instead of a central planning committee of a handful of people making decisions and having the power and giving their cronies all of the benefits. And so it is frustrating because everybody sees the problem, but those who are economically illiterate, they go in the wrong direction. And so, you know, they're desperate and they believe, oh, there are unicorns. There are things that, you know, have never worked in history, but it's going to work this time because it's different. And so, you know, our education system, which obviously

has intentionally been set up this way to make everybody economically illiterate. So they don't fight it. But, you know, theoretically, that's where everybody should be learning this stuff and understanding just basic economic common sense. So I want to take a quick break and I want to come back. I want to talk to you about two things. I want to talk about the lowest hanging fruit on affordability. One is education and the other is housing and what the president can actually do and what we should be saying, this is what we want you to do because this actually changes things quickly. Lowest hanging fruit on affordability. Carol Roth, if you don't get her newsletter, you need to get her newsletter. You can get it at Carolroth.com slash news. Carolroth.com

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