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The Glenn Beck Program

Best of the Program | Guest: Brad Meltzer | 6/24/26

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.625.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Glenn explains how the creation of the pencil shows how capitalism is the only way a country can succeed. Glenn reacts to positive reactions from people from other countries traveling to the World Cup who are finally seeing America for what it is, not how the media portrays it. Author of the popular children’s book series “Ordinary People Change the World,” Brad Meltzer, joins to discuss the newest book in the series, “I Am Teddy Roosevelt.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8

Oh, there are so many good highlights from today's show.

0:35.9

We can only get to some of them today.

0:38.6

I want to start with something that, you know, I started with the fact that New York has just

0:44.5

hired a bunch of socialists. They just voted socialist out. Good Democrats, they threw out,

0:50.5

and these were all, when I say good Democrats, what do I mean by that? I don't know. Don't find it.

0:59.9

But people who were like, I led the rally to get Trump out of office. I did all these things. But you're not socialist, are you? Now the socialists are coming in and they're eating

1:04.2

their own. And the problem with this is, is no one is teaching in a understandable way what socialism is and what capitalism is.

1:14.7

You can't defend it if you can't teach it. And so I modeled how you teach what socialism is and what

1:21.7

capitalism is. And I start with the famous pencil story. Also, the World Cup. I am in love with all the people coming here

1:31.9

because they have a skewed idea they've been told by their media and their politicians.

1:38.6

America bad. America, just a killing field. And then they come here and they're like, oh my gosh,

1:44.1

no, this is much better than our country.

1:46.4

And they're expressing it.

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