The Glenn Beck Program - Failed Parenting Strategies 1/9/17
Aired: 2017-01-23
Duration: 01:45:34


=== Entitlement in the Social Media Age (14:21) ===

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[00:00:35]  Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:00:38]  It's a new week, a new day.
[00:00:40]  Stu has decided to grace us with his presence.
[00:00:43]  And we want to start with millennials.
[00:00:47]  The discussion on millennials is they're lazy, they feel entitled.
[00:00:53]  Simon Senek, who is a friend of mine and a very bright, bright man, has diagnosed it perfectly in this interview that we were listening to earlier today.
[00:01:06]  And we thought he's got it.
[00:01:09]  However, does he have the solution?
[00:01:13]  The future of our country depends on the millennials.
[00:01:17]  Who are they and what's happening beginning right now.
[00:01:36]  Cause we have one, I will beat my drum.
[00:01:40]  I have made my choice, we will overcome, because we are one.
[00:01:46]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:01:50]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:01:56]  Welcome to the program.
[00:01:57]  So glad that you're here.
[00:01:59]  Let's go with Simon Sinek in an interview that he did about millennials in front of a crowd about what is really happening with millennials and how do we reach out to millennials?
[00:02:14]  What do we need to do to get them truly engaged?
[00:02:18]  Because there is a sense of entitlement there.
[00:02:22]  Listen.
[00:02:23]  The generation that we call the millennials, too many of them grew up subject to, not my words, failed parenting strategies.
[00:02:34]  You know, where, for example, they were told that they were special all the time.
[00:02:39]  They were told that they could have anything they want in life just because they want it.
[00:02:44]  Right?
[00:02:44]  They were told some of them got into honors classes not because they deserved it, but because their parents complained.
[00:02:51]  And some of them got A's, not because they earned them, but because the teachers didn't want to deal with the parents.
[00:02:55]  We stopped.
[00:02:58]  Where did that failed parenting strategy come from?
[00:03:03]  Where did that fail?
[00:03:04]  Who was it?
[00:03:05]  Let me reverse that.
[00:03:06]  Who was it that was standing against the awards for last place?
[00:03:12]  Oh, conservatives.
[00:03:14]  Conservatives.
[00:03:15]  Conservatives were all saying.
[00:03:16]  We begged you not to.
[00:03:17]  This is not going to work.
[00:03:18]  This is not going to work.
[00:03:20]  My God.
[00:03:20]  So I think we need to get the top of our lungs we were screaming.
[00:03:23]  Right.
[00:03:23]  So I think the first thing we just need to put up on the chalkboard, just point number one, not all of America recognize that.
[00:03:32]  But it's a fucking.
[00:03:34]  I think he would.
[00:03:34]  I think he would.
[00:03:35]  I don't think he would.
[00:03:36]  And I should ask him.
[00:03:37]  To back Simon with the stats on that.
[00:03:40]  In 1940, 14.9% of college grades were A's.
[00:03:45]  14.9%.
[00:03:47]  Today it's 45.3%.
[00:03:49]  Yeah, it's even worse in the other.
[00:03:51]  They're that much smarter.
[00:03:53]  They're that much stronger, right?
[00:03:54]  I mean, think about that.
[00:03:55]  When he talks about people achieving these things without achieving them, I mean, there's no way.
[00:04:01]  If it's true that they're that much smarter, then the classes should be harder.
[00:04:05]  You shouldn't be giving half the grades an entire all over not just one school or one class.
[00:04:10]  All of college, half of them are A's.
[00:04:12]  And we should have the greatest school system in the world, year in and year out.
[00:04:16]  In the world.
[00:04:17]  And we don't.
[00:04:18]  And it doesn't happen that way.
[00:04:19]  Anyway, he goes on to diagnose the problem.
[00:04:21]  Participation medals.
[00:04:22]  You got a medal for coming in last, right?
[00:04:25]  Which the science we know is pretty clear, which is it devalues the medal and the reward for those who actually work hard.
[00:04:31]  And that actually makes the person who comes in last feel embarrassed because they know they didn't deserve it.
[00:04:35]  So it actually makes them feel worse, right?
[00:04:37]  So you take this group of people and they graduate school and they get a job and they're thrust into the real world.
[00:04:43]  And in an instant, they find out they're not special, their moms can't get them a promotion, that you get nothing for coming in last.
[00:04:50]  And by the way, you can't just have it because you want it, right?
[00:04:52]  And in an instant, their entire self-image is shattered.
[00:04:55]  And so you have an entire generation that's growing up with lower self-esteem than previous generations.
[00:04:59]  The other problem, to compound it, is we're growing up in a Facebook, Instagram world.
[00:05:03]  In other words, we're good at putting filters on things.
[00:05:05]  We're good at showing people that life is amazing even though I'm depressed, right?
[00:05:10]  Hey, stop for a second.
[00:05:11]  And so notice...
[00:05:12]  Notice that the first problem, he wrapped all of that up, failed parenting strategies.
[00:05:17]  He wrapped that up with the diagnosis of what?
[00:05:21]  What does he say that all led to?
[00:05:24]  It's just such a huge, huge problem.
[00:05:27]  What does he say?
[00:05:28]  Social media?
[00:05:29]  No.
[00:05:30]  That's the next, that's point number two.
[00:05:31]  Looking for self-esteem.
[00:05:34]  Self-esteem.
[00:05:35]  The lowest self-esteem on record.
[00:05:38]  Which is crazy because all every strategy today is to make them have higher self-esteem.
[00:05:45]  But it fails.
[00:05:45]  But it fails because you're not actually having to accomplish it.
[00:05:48]  Because it's artificial.
[00:05:49]  Right.
[00:05:50]  It's artificial.
[00:05:51]  Right.
[00:05:51]  You can't tell somebody they're great when they're not.
[00:05:54]  If they're not.
[00:05:54]  They know it.
[00:05:55]  That's what I'm saying.
[00:05:56]  You know, when somebody is on the team.
[00:05:58]  Good to have you back, boy.
[00:06:01]  When they're on the team and they know that nobody's really listening to me, I'm not, I'm just on this team for whatever reason.
[00:06:09]  I've got pictures of the boss.
[00:06:12]  People know I'm not making a difference.
[00:06:15]  Nothing I do is really helping anything.
[00:06:18]  When you have that, low self-esteem kicks in.
[00:06:22]  They want, I hear this from employee after employee after employee.
[00:06:26]  I just want to do something that makes a difference.
[00:06:30]  So when they're saying low self-esteem and when millennials say, I want to make a difference, what they're saying is, I have low self-esteem.
[00:06:42]  I have to do something that means something.
[00:06:45]  This is what is propelling them, I believe, in their boots on the ground kind of activities where they say, I don't want to just talk about it.
[00:06:55]  I want to go out and do it.
[00:06:56]  They've heard the talk about how special they are their whole life.
[00:07:00]  They know they're not.
[00:07:01]  They know that's a lie.
[00:07:03]  And because of that, they have low self-esteem.
[00:07:05]  So now they're really motivated to stop talking about it and go actually do it.
[00:07:11]  But getting there is the hard part.
[00:07:14]  Everybody sounds tough.
[00:07:16]  And everybody sounds like they got it all figured out.
[00:07:17]  And the reality is there's very little toughness and most people don't have it figured out.
[00:07:21]  And so when the more senior people say, well, what should we do?
[00:07:24]  They sound like, this is what you got to do.
[00:07:26]  And they have no clue.
[00:07:31]  So you have an entire generation growing up with lower self-esteem than previous generations, right?
[00:07:36]  Through no fault of their own.
[00:07:38]  Through no fault of their own, right?
[00:07:39]  They were dealt a bad hand.
[00:07:42]  Now, let's add in technology.
[00:07:44]  We know that engagement with social media and our cell phones releases a chemical called dopamine.
[00:07:51]  That's why when you get a text, it feels good.
[00:07:54]  So we've all had it where you're feeling a little bit down or feeling a little bit lonely.
[00:07:57]  And so you send out 10 texts to 10 friends, hi, Because it feels good when you get a response.
[00:08:07]  It's why we count the likes.
[00:08:08]  It's why we go back 10 times to see if, and if it's going, if my Instagram is growing slower, did I do something wrong?
[00:08:15]  Do they not like me anymore?
[00:08:17]  The trauma for young kids to be unfriended, right?
[00:08:21]  Because we know when you get it, you get a hit of dopamine, which feels good.
[00:08:24]  It's why we like it.
[00:08:24]  It's why we keep going back to it.
[00:08:26]  Dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke, when we drink, and when we gamble.
[00:08:33]  In other words, it's highly, highly addictive, right?
[00:08:38]  We have age restrictions on smoking, gambling, and alcohol, and we have no age restrictions on social media and cell phones, which is the equivalent of opening up the liquor cabinet and saying to our teenagers, hey, by the way, this adolescence thing, if it gets you down.
[00:08:56]  But that's basically what's happening.
[00:08:57]  That's basically what's happening, right?
[00:08:58]  That's basically what happened.
[00:08:59]  You have an entire generation that has access to an addictive, numbing chemical called dopamine through social media and cell phones as they're going through the high stress of adolescence.
[00:09:09]  Why is this important?
[00:09:10]  Almost every alcoholic discovered alcohol when they were teenagers.
[00:09:15]  When we're very, very young, the only approval we need is the approval of our parents.
[00:09:19]  And as we go through adolescence, we make this transition where we now need the approval of our peers.
[00:09:24]  Very frustrating for our parents, very important for us.
[00:09:27]  It allows us to acculturate outside of our immediate families into the broader tribe, right?
[00:09:31]  It's a highly, highly stressful and anxious period of our lives, and we're supposed to learn to rely on our friends.
[00:09:39]  Some people, quite by accident, discover alcohol and the numbing effects of dopamine to help them cope with the stresses and anxieties of adolescence.
[00:09:47]  Unfortunately, that becomes hardwired in their brains.
[00:09:50]  And for the rest of their lives, when they suffer significant stress, they will not turn to a person.
[00:09:54]  They will turn to the bottle.
[00:09:56]  Social stress, financial stress, career stress.
[00:09:58]  That's pretty much the primary reasons why an alcoholic drinks, right?
[00:10:02]  What's happening is because we're allowing unfettered access to these dopamine-producing devices and media, basically it's becoming hardwired.
[00:10:10]  And what we're seeing is as they grow older, too many kids don't know how to form deep, meaningful relationships.
[00:10:16]  Their words, not mine.
[00:10:20]  Jeffy, say it.
[00:10:22]  Where am I taking that?
[00:10:24]  Go ahead, Glenn.
[00:10:25]  That is exactly, this adds fuel to the fire of my concern about gaming, the way it's being done with virtual reality, and what is coming.
[00:10:39]  It is...
[00:10:40]  It is giving you a full soon, a full sensory gratification.
[00:10:47]  You will get what you want.
[00:10:51]  No need for any of those.
[00:10:53]  No need for human interaction.
[00:10:55]  And you won't know how to do it.
[00:10:57]  When the VR thing is perfected, it'll be the artificial thing they're looking for.
[00:11:02]  Yes.
[00:11:03]  But it's just that.
[00:11:03]  It's artificial.
[00:11:04]  And so then what happened?
[00:11:05]  How do we not become Japan?
[00:11:08]  Seriously, Japan, they can't get people to breed.
[00:11:11]  They cannot get people to have sex with one another.
[00:11:16]  Now, I don't know what weird stuff is happening in Japan that stops that, but it's not happening in Japan.
[00:11:24]  And there won't be any Japanese people left in 100 years.
[00:11:30]  Yeah, their replacement rate, is it negative now?
[00:11:34]  It can't be negative.
[00:11:35]  It's almost zero, but it's certainly at an unhealthy level for sure.
[00:11:41]  Yeah, it's important.
[00:11:43]  Yeah, it's at a point of, past the point of no return.
[00:11:49]  So now we're encouraging people not to have relationships.
[00:11:55]  Now, Saturday, I heard my son, he was in the kitchen, I was in the kitchen, and he was playing, I don't know, Minecraft or something.
[00:12:04]  And he was playing it with two friends together, and they each had boxes up on the, you know, up on the screen.
[00:12:12]  They were two girls that he was playing them with, who are his friends.
[00:12:17]  And I saw normal interaction.
[00:12:20]  I was listening to them while I was working in the kitchen and listening to them, and it sounded like absolutely normal interaction.
[00:12:27]  So what's the problem with that?
[00:12:29]  I'm trying to defuse myself from being so phobic about that.
[00:12:34]  He seems to have normal interaction.
[00:12:36]  It's just different.
[00:12:37]  It's just not in style.
[00:12:39]  Personal person.
[00:12:40]  But he's still looking at them.
[00:12:42]  Yeah.
[00:12:43]  Yeah.
[00:12:44]  I think it just what is normal interaction changes?
[00:12:48]  It's something we've talked about with going to a concert and you go to a concert and all you see are phones.
[00:12:53]  And every person like me or older says the same thing.
[00:12:57]  Why don't you experience the freaking show you paid for instead of filming it?
[00:13:01]  But that is how they experience the show.
[00:13:04]  They don't experience the show by looking at the show.
[00:13:07]  They experience the show by holding up their phone and recording it so they can post it later.
[00:13:12]  That is their experience at a concert.
[00:13:14]  Some artists are starting to push back against that, right?
[00:13:17]  Was it Adele?
[00:13:18]  Was that the concert?
[00:13:19]  She's hollering.
[00:13:20]  Would you put the phone down and just watch the show?
[00:13:23]  Enjoy the show.
[00:13:24]  I would say.
[00:13:24]  Experience the show.
[00:13:25]  You cash the check.
[00:13:26]  I'll watch it anyway I want.
[00:13:28]  I will tell you, though, that it happens all the time.
[00:13:30]  When I meet people, we'll go out places.
[00:13:34]  There's one person, if they're in a group, there's one person who I never actually interact with because they're usually a parent standing there with a phone and they're only talking to me through the phone or talking to their child through the phone.
[00:13:48]  So we never make eye contact.
[00:13:49]  And I always feel bad because I always feel like they were ripped off.
[00:13:54]  You missed it.
[00:13:54]  They never had that personal connection.
[00:13:56]  They did through the phone.
[00:13:58]  But we'll get to experience it later, Gland.
[00:14:00]  I know.
[00:14:01]  It's weird.
[00:14:02]  It is.
[00:14:02]  It's weird.
[00:14:03]  Now this.
[00:14:04]  Last week, we talked about the coastal buffers and how they weaken hurricanes at landfall.
[00:14:08]  Now scientists are calling this a lucky phenomenon.
[00:14:12]  Scientists are discovering how incredibly prepared Mother Nature is for dealing with natural disasters.
[00:14:19]  By the way, do you remember, we have to play this.

=== Workplace Logic and Personal Health (14:59) ===

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[00:14:32]  She said this about 10 years ago, won't have snow.
[00:14:35]  Ted Boxer?
[00:14:35]  Yeah, it was Barbara Boxer.
[00:14:37]  We have to find that because they're about to have 20 feet of snow from the last week and a half.
[00:14:45]  They had three, I think three feet drop on them yesterday alone.
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[00:14:52]  I will raise my voice.
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[00:15:40]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:15:42]  So we've been listening to Simon Senek talk about the problem that the millennials face, and really not by their fault.
[00:15:54]  They were raised with bad parenting strategies that many of us have fought against for a long time.
[00:16:02]  And now we realize, oh, gee, everybody gets a trophy, isn't healthy for society.
[00:16:09]  And so now, how do we get out of this?
[00:16:11]  You want to go to his solution?
[00:16:13]  Yeah.
[00:16:13]  Yeah.
[00:16:13]  Here's his solution.
[00:16:14]  Which leads me to the fourth point, which is environment, which is we're taking this amazing group of young, fantastic kids who just dealt a bad hand.
[00:16:23]  It's no fault of their own.
[00:16:24]  And we put them in corporate environments that care more about the numbers than they do about the kids.
[00:16:30]  Okay, stop for a second.
[00:16:31]  I'm sorry, it's not a corporation's responsibility to raise children when they're 32 years old, especially.
[00:16:38]  Okay, hold on.
[00:16:39]  All I care about is making mine.
[00:16:41]  Okay, hold on, hold on just a second.
[00:16:43]  Because we may be speaking different languages, so let's go there.
[00:16:49]  You are speaking English.
[00:16:50]  You are speaking.
[00:16:53]  I'm learning to speak progressive.
[00:16:57]  I'm learning to speak the language that is being spoken all around us.
[00:17:02]  Yes.
[00:17:03]  So how do you put this in a progressive way?
[00:17:06]  what he's saying here is, I think you're hearing this in a progressive way.
[00:17:11]  I think if I would rephrase this.
[00:17:14]  Especially knowing him.
[00:17:14]  Yes.
[00:17:14]  Yeah, I'm hearing you in a progressive way.
[00:17:16]  So let me now say it this way.
[00:17:19]  First of all, do we generally agree it is their responsibility to fit in the world?
[00:17:29]  The world doesn't shape-shift for you.
[00:17:32]  Right.
[00:17:33]  You have to find your way in.
[00:17:35]  Yes.
[00:17:35]  Right?
[00:17:36]  Yes.
[00:17:36]  So when he says, at no fault of their own, you can say, yes, they didn't, you know, society raised them.
[00:17:44]  Their parents raised them in a certain way.
[00:17:47]  And they were used as guinea pigs to experiment on something that we took all eternal principles and threw them out the window and said, hey, being first is just as good as being last, right?
[00:18:00]  So through that part, no fault of their own.
[00:18:03]  However, once their life starts to fall apart, it is their responsibility, correct?
[00:18:10]  Yeah.
[00:18:10]  I mean, there's personal responsibility at every step.
[00:18:13]  Every step, yeah.
[00:18:14]  But when you're a kid and everything in society is training you to go one way, you generally don't say, well, I, you know, that doesn't make sense to me.
[00:18:23]  Over your life, you should re-examine those things, of course.
[00:18:26]  But what does it take for you to re-examine your life?
[00:18:29]  It takes a crash.
[00:18:31]  You got to hit a bottom.
[00:18:33]  Something has to go wrong.
[00:18:34]  Yeah.
[00:18:35]  The most common problem.
[00:18:36]  Something has to go wrong.
[00:18:37]  And it could be just as much that I keep getting these trophies and I feel like crap.
[00:18:45]  I keep getting everything I want and I'm not happy at all.
[00:18:49]  That's the most likely crash, but that crash will lead to suicide.
[00:18:54]  And that crash is coming with, I mean, he cites some numbers.
[00:18:57]  Suicide?
[00:18:58]  Okay.
[00:18:59]  So that crash is a crash of no self-esteem because nothing has ever given you self-esteem because you've never been taught what self-esteem comes from and that is accomplishment.
[00:19:12]  Okay?
[00:19:12]  Doing something, even if it is, it's like when, you know, when you go clean your house or when you were a kid and you cleaned your room, you felt good after cleaning your room.
[00:19:22]  Even though you didn't want to to begin with.
[00:19:23]  Correct.
[00:19:24]  There's something to be said for accomplishment.
[00:19:26]  So now, let me show you what he just said, I think, about it's the corporation's responsibility.
[00:19:34]  No, it's not.
[00:19:36]  Well, yes, kind of it is.
[00:19:38]  We'll go there next.
[00:19:52]  Mercury.
[00:19:56]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[00:20:00]  Hello, and welcome to the program.
[00:20:01]  Glad you're here.
[00:20:02]  Talking about millennials, but I think this is going to lead to talk about the border and everything else because this is, I was reading something early this morning about a study that was done in the 1950s that I'm taking a course now on logic and I'm trying to learn the fundamentals of logic.
[00:20:27]  And it's an online course.
[00:20:29]  And the first, the last paragraph of this online course is, once you start to see how to use logic, warning, you're going to see how it has been unwired and rewired to make false points logical.
[00:20:50]  Well, we've seen that.
[00:20:51]  Right.
[00:20:52]  Without the course.
[00:20:53]  Yeah.
[00:20:53]  And this was done maybe 10 years ago.
[00:20:56]  So this has nothing to do with what's recently happening.
[00:21:00]  And he said, the professor said, but you have to make a promise to yourself now.
[00:21:06]  You cannot use that way of logic to win arguments.
[00:21:14]  Because there's ways that you can rewire it because people are people.
[00:21:20]  I read a story from the 1950s about a really important test on crowds and how you can get people just to go along.
[00:21:32]  And it's fascinating because that's what we were doing.
[00:21:36]  In the 1950s and 60s, we were still trying to figure out Germany.
[00:21:39]  How did Germany scoop up and kill all these people?
[00:21:43]  You might want to look at Russia too, but how do they do it?
[00:21:46]  Without the people rising up and putting a stop to it.
[00:21:49]  Correct.
[00:21:49]  Now, the same thing I think on a much smaller scale is happening with students.
[00:21:56]  And I don't mean the Holocaust is a smaller scale.
[00:21:58]  I just mean that a way to manipulate logic and a way to get people to just go, huh, maybe it's just me is happening.
[00:22:10]  Remember after that we read the headline on Newsweek eight years ago, we're all socialists now.
[00:22:19]  What was the slogan of the 9-12 project that got us to the mall with half a million people?
[00:22:27]  What was the slogan?
[00:22:28]  You guys remember?
[00:22:29]  We surround them.
[00:22:30]  We surround them.
[00:22:32]  You're not alone.
[00:22:34]  We surround them.
[00:22:35]  Because people were starting to feel like, maybe it's just me.
[00:22:39]  Is it just me?
[00:22:41]  No.
[00:22:42]  No, it's a game of logic.
[00:22:44]  And it is, it's a way to get you to feel this way.
[00:22:49]  And so now all of the students are coming out, all the millennials are coming out, and they all feel the same way, generally speaking, that they have low self-esteem because they didn't come in first.
[00:23:03]  They didn't really earn the grade.
[00:23:04]  Mom and dad got them out of this.
[00:23:06]  They've never really had to work hard.
[00:23:09]  They haven't had any real rules because the parenting game has changed.
[00:23:15]  And we used our kids as guinea pigs.
[00:23:19]  So now, is it just me?
[00:23:22]  It must just be me.
[00:23:23]  I don't feel good about this.
[00:23:25]  And they don't know how to diagnose.
[00:23:26]  And there is no critical thinking that has been taught.
[00:23:29]  So they don't know how to find their way out.
[00:23:32]  So Simon Senek is a friend of the show and has always had really good diagnosis.
[00:23:39]  Don't think his solutions are always right.
[00:23:44]  But his solution so far is, okay, so millennials come into the workplace.
[00:23:50]  It's the workplace that needs to handle this now.
[00:23:54]  They care more about the short-term gains than the long-term life of this young human being.
[00:24:00]  We care more about the year than the lifetime.
[00:24:04]  Of course.
[00:24:04]  Stop.
[00:24:05]  And so Apple is supposed to reach out and take care of each and every employee.
[00:24:11]  Apple is a corporation that sells products, and that's their goal.
[00:24:15]  And then they employ people and pay them a really good wage to work there.
[00:24:22]  It is not a corporation's function to get into the psyche of each and every employee.
[00:24:28]  It might be their function to get the most out of their employees.
[00:24:31]  So like if you can create an environment that doesn't hurt your company, that helps the company because you're getting more out of these employees than you otherwise would, but that's some self-help organization.
[00:24:42]  But it's not your job to make them feel fulfilled in their lives.
[00:24:45]  That's very bottom line.
[00:24:47]  Okay, so I think we're actually saying the same thing, but you're saying it in a way that someone on the left.
[00:24:57]  Yes, someone on the left will not understand.
[00:25:00]  They will immediately understand.
[00:25:00]  So how would you say it?
[00:25:04]  In my company, the number one thing we focus on, the number one thing for me is healthcare.
[00:25:14]  I want to make sure that the people who I work with never have to worry about health care.
[00:25:21]  But you're not performing the health care.
[00:25:24]  You're not managing the health care.
[00:25:25]  I know.
[00:25:25]  Hold on.
[00:25:26]  I'm not arguing with you.
[00:25:27]  I'm trying to show how I can say the same thing he just said to a conservative.
[00:25:35]  He's not talking to a probably a lefty audience.
[00:25:40]  Let me say what he just said, which I believe is not exactly what he meant, but is the right answer.
[00:25:50]  A corporation, its job, because it has shareholders.
[00:25:55]  It has a fiduciary responsibility for all those teachers, all those fire people, all the policemen that have all of their money wrapped up in an IRA or in a mutual fund.
[00:26:10]  It has it wrapped up in those companies.
[00:26:13]  So their first responsibility is to make money for the shareholders.
[00:26:20]  Now, what's the best way?
[00:26:23]  The best way I have found is to, as Simon says, find your why.
[00:26:29]  Why are we in existence?
[00:26:32]  If you're in existence just to make money, you might make some money, but it won't necessarily be the greatest product.
[00:26:41]  It won't necessarily succeed.
[00:26:44]  But if you're into it because you know you can make people's lives better, now you got something.
[00:26:53]  Because I know my product, my Apple computer, my Apple iPhone or my iPad.
[00:27:00]  Yes, I'm building iPads and it's my job to build this iPad the best it can be.
[00:27:05]  But why am I building it?
[00:27:07]  I'm building it because I know this will make people's lives easier and better and they're going to love it.
[00:27:13]  And I've listened to them.
[00:27:15]  Okay?
[00:27:16]  Is there anything wrong with that?
[00:27:18]  That sounds like a total capitalist.
[00:27:19]  No.
[00:27:20]  Right?
[00:27:21]  But that's not the capitalist.
[00:27:22]  The left thinks we are because we start out our conversation.
[00:27:26]  That's not their job.
[00:27:27]  That's not their job.
[00:27:28]  Well, yes, it is.
[00:27:30]  It is.
[00:27:30]  The best capitalism is the one that responds to the invisible hand of the market.
[00:27:37]  And the invisible hand of the market will give you what you want.
[00:27:41]  So the best thing you can do as a capitalist is learn who you're serving and then serve them and make their life easier, better.
[00:27:51]  It's really capitalist charity in a way.
[00:27:56]  I make this for a rich person.
[00:27:59]  Within five years, everyone's going to have this tablet on the planet.
[00:28:04]  And so everyone will have it.
[00:28:06]  And I'll be able to change the lives in Africa because we were a success.
[00:28:11]  Now let's go to the employees.
[00:28:14]  Employees, we've all worked for companies where you were number 1174 and nobody cared, right?
[00:28:20]  We hate that.
[00:28:22]  All of us do, left and right.
[00:28:24]  We hate that.
[00:28:26]  Why?
[00:28:27]  It's not because they're sitting down and going, oh, Stu, you're the best guy ever.
[00:28:33]  You didn't want that.
[00:28:35]  What you wanted was to do something of meaning and do it well with a bunch of people who have the same kind of spirit.
[00:28:45]  Isn't that what you want?
[00:28:46]  Sure.
[00:28:47]  Right.
[00:28:47]  I mean, that's a big part of it.
[00:28:48]  You want to be paid a fair wage and treated with respect.
[00:28:54]  You want to also, you could even, I would make the case, you'll even take a pay cut if it's a great place to work.
[00:29:02]  You'll work for less than you could work someplace else.
[00:29:06]  I mean, not great disparity, but you'll work less if this place is just the best and you feel like you're accomplishing something.
[00:29:14]  And the corporation shows that, yes, Stu, you're important to me.
[00:29:20]  And you know what?

=== Corporate Responsibility for Millennials (07:51) ===

[00:29:21]  You have worries in your life.
[00:29:24]  I, because of the work you guys do, I can make sure that we provide the best health care for you.
[00:29:31]  And that is the most meaningful thing I can do as a company is take away all of your worries about you get cancer, you have to have your teeth done, you have to go to the doctor, your daughter, your son, all of a sudden gets cancer.
[00:29:44]  I don't want you to worry about any of it.
[00:29:48]  Just concentrate on what you're doing here.
[00:29:51]  I don't want you to worry about, don't worry about where you're going to get your lunch.
[00:29:55]  Don't worry about that.
[00:29:56]  We got a chef here.
[00:29:57]  We're going to take care of lunch for you.
[00:29:59]  You come in and I know we don't do that because we don't have the money, but let's have what Google does.
[00:30:07]  And that's good capitalism.
[00:30:09]  Yeah, I think the line there, though, and I think it's what he said, which is why I reacted that way, is I think it is part of the company's responsibility to try to make an employee fulfilled in their work life.
[00:30:21]  That's part of it, because you want them to be happy and interested and productive.
[00:30:26]  That's all part of it.
[00:30:27]  He said, he referenced their life.
[00:30:30]  It is not a company's responsibility to fulfill your life.
[00:30:36]  And that is, I feel like, a weird target that we're setting that is not, that's not.
[00:30:40]  And I could, see, again, the idea here of why we're talking about this and the way we're moving as a show is let's learn how to talk to one another.
[00:30:52]  And I really think it's why I can have friends.
[00:30:55]  Simon and I have a perfectly wonderful time speaking to one another.
[00:31:00]  Okay.
[00:31:00]  There are things that I don't say to Simon, and there are things that I wait to say to Simon.
[00:31:05]  Okay.
[00:31:06]  Because Simon is a guy who lives in New York City, surrounded by people who think like him.
[00:31:12]  And so when he comes down here, he's suddenly surrounded by people who don't think like him.
[00:31:17]  And I don't think he realizes that he's in the normalcy bias.
[00:31:22]  He's looking for something normal here.
[00:31:24]  Well, this is normal for at least half the country.
[00:31:27]  You just don't know that.
[00:31:29]  And so you come in and you're like, well, well, no, listen, guys, you got this all wrong.
[00:31:32]  No, I have my language wrong for your set.
[00:31:37]  You have your language wrong for my half.
[00:31:42]  So how do we talk to each other by arguing what he just said, unless he gets to the point to where he is saying something different?
[00:31:52]  But we can make the same point and win the argument if we don't argue that it is a company's, it's not a company's job to affect people's lives.
[00:32:04]  Because I think our case is so strong, you don't have to say that.
[00:32:11]  It is in our best interest to care about our employees.
[00:32:16]  It is in our best interest to do this problem.
[00:32:18]  It's not a problem at all.
[00:32:19]  Not a problem.
[00:32:21]  It's probably for either side, right?
[00:32:23]  Right.
[00:32:23]  Either side.
[00:32:24]  Right.
[00:32:24]  But what happens is we'll get into this argument and we'll get bogged down in this 5% that might believe, no, corporations should actually be owned by the state because that's why you're so evil.
[00:32:38]  That's maybe 5 or 10% of the population.
[00:32:41]  Everybody else lives in that reasonable zone.
[00:32:46]  But they're not hearing that from us.
[00:32:51]  When Samantha B was down here, she was shocked.
[00:32:54]  She ended up crying in the interview.
[00:32:56]  You didn't see it.
[00:32:59]  I'd love to take the raw tape of that interview and edit it myself so I could show you who she really is.
[00:33:08]  She edited it to show me who I was.
[00:33:12]  But you just saw her snarky comments during that interview.
[00:33:17]  If I could edit, I would show you who she is.
[00:33:21]  Her heart is huge.
[00:33:23]  She just had never met a conservative who also believes the same thing that she believes about let's rescue the refugees.
[00:33:34]  Let's take the refugees who are being sought by ISIS, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:33:37]  I think your point is she actually has thousands of times.
[00:33:39]  She just didn't realize it because people are speaking a different language.
[00:33:42]  Correct.
[00:33:43]  She just is surrounded by people like her who are being or telling her all the time and constantly, we're reinforcing by our language that that's not important.
[00:33:53]  And our listeners see her show and think she's a liar because of the way she treats conservatives during the rest of the show.
[00:34:00]  She doesn't, I don't think she knows it.
[00:34:01]  And she, yeah, I don't, she's not thinking of things like, she's still trying to entertain as we have.
[00:34:08]  But she is also surrounded by in the New York attitude.
[00:34:14]  Yeah.
[00:34:14]  So she's surrounded by we're right, they're wrong.
[00:34:17]  And yet she told me in their interview, I've never met an American I don't like.
[00:34:21]  She just needs to understand we're right and she's wrong.
[00:34:24]  And then we're set.
[00:34:26]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program. Thank you.
[00:34:36]  These are great.
[00:34:37]  We have some really great phone calls on this.
[00:34:39]  We're going to get to it.
[00:34:40]  It's top of the hour.
[00:34:41]  As we talk about millennials, I will tell you that I don't think all millennials, it's really unfair to put people in a group and say all millennials are this.
[00:34:50]  You know, as I was looking around the room at the camera people and all the people that do this show, most of them aren't like that.
[00:34:57]  They're not the, you know, give it to me lazy.
[00:35:01]  I don't know.
[00:35:01]  They have it coming to me, people.
[00:35:03]  I don't know anybody here that's like that besides Stu and Jeff.
[00:35:06]  I think Jeff's agree on that one.
[00:35:08]  And he's certainly the only thing millennial about him is he's been alive for a millennium.
[00:35:15]  Millennials, I think, want to make a difference and they may not know even why they want to make a difference.
[00:35:23]  It's because they instinctively know I haven't earned anything yet in my life, right?
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[00:36:27]  We want to talk a little bit about the now possibly brewing scandal of George Michael.
[00:36:33]  This weird timeline and excuse from his boyfriend on what happened that night doesn't seem to be adding up.
[00:36:44]  We'll talk about that coming up in a minute.
[00:36:46]  Also, we've been playing some audio from a guy named Simon Senek who is Find Your Why.
[00:36:54]  And he is the best.
[00:36:56]  I think he has pinpointed the problem that millennials face more or better than anybody else.
[00:37:03]  However, not sure about his solutions on that.
[00:37:07]  We'll talk about millennials and we wanted to bring in another friend, Roger Love.

=== Teaching Public Speaking Skills (02:40) ===

[00:37:13]  Right now, everybody is learning how to text, how to do everything virtually.
[00:37:20]  No one is learning how to interact one-on-one.
[00:37:24]  No one is learning how to speak and speak publicly.
[00:37:31]  Roger Love is an amazing expert.
[00:37:33]  I want to introduce you to him right now.
[00:37:37]  I will make a stand.
[00:37:39]  I will raise my voice.
[00:37:41]  I will hold your hand.
[00:37:44]  Cause we have won.
[00:37:46]  I will beat my drum.
[00:37:48]  I have made my choice.
[00:37:50]  We will overcome.
[00:37:52]  Cause we are one.
[00:37:54]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:37:58]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:38:03]  Welcome to the program.
[00:38:04]  Roger Love, author of a new book, Set Your Voice Free.
[00:38:08]  Roger, are you there?
[00:38:11]  I am here and happy to be here.
[00:38:12]  Will you do me a favor and just tell me quickly the story?
[00:38:15]  I think it's of Walk the Line where the two actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Rhys Witherspoon, really were having a hard time and there were six weeks left and they walked into your office.
[00:38:31]  Can you talk about that at all?
[00:38:33]  Absolutely.
[00:38:33]  The story starts with neither of them knowing when they accepted the roles to star in Walk the Line to play Johnny Cash and to play June Karakash, that they were actually going to have to sing because neither of them think of themselves at that point in time as singers.
[00:38:52]  So I get the call from Reese and the two of them together have to record about 30 some odd parts of songs.
[00:39:00]  And so I start working every day and trying to make Joaquin sing like the iconic Johnny Cash is no easy feat.
[00:39:10]  But thank gosh, he is an amazing actor.
[00:39:14]  And the discipline that both of them had to go from working with me and starting as not really singers to doing an incredible job in the film, I look at that as being one of the greatest collaborations in my life, something that I'm very, very proud of because the result was that she won an Academy Award for a singing role and he won multiple awards for a singing role.
[00:39:42]  And where we started three or four weeks earlier was not very much great singing.
[00:39:47]  It was really, seriously, it was three weeks working with you?
[00:39:50]  Three weeks, about every day for a few hours.

=== Mastering Vocal Technique (12:30) ===

[00:39:54]  Holy cow.
[00:39:55]  Believe me, I wish some of these pictures that I do, like Crazy Hard or Beginning It, I wish they would give me more time.
[00:40:01]  But quite often I'm thrown in at the last minute to say, hey, Raj, can you make this person who's not really a singer sound incredible?
[00:40:09]  So let me ask you this question.
[00:40:11]  Over the weekend, I sat down with one of my daughters and I said, let's draw mountains together.
[00:40:16]  Let's just draw, you know, some things that, you know, let me show you a picture.
[00:40:21]  And she said, Dad, I don't have any talent at all.
[00:40:23]  And I said, yeah, you can draw.
[00:40:26]  And she said, no, I can't.
[00:40:27]  The gene didn't pass to me.
[00:40:29]  And I said, yes, it did.
[00:40:31]  We're not talking about genes.
[00:40:32]  Just paint what you see.
[00:40:33]  And so, so, or just draw what you see.
[00:40:35]  So she drew, and it was very simple mountains and looked like a kid's drawing.
[00:40:42]  Then I went back and I said, honey, just draw with me now.
[00:40:48]  See this part over here?
[00:40:50]  See, it looks like this, and here's how you can do it.
[00:40:53]  Her painting or her, you know, oil thing, you know, her sketch.
[00:41:00]  Yeah, her masterpiece.
[00:41:01]  It went from, you know, third grade to 12th grade just by seeing the technique.
[00:41:11]  And I contend that 80% of an artist is just learning how to do it.
[00:41:18]  That 20% is what makes you a star.
[00:41:21]  But everybody can pretty much do what they don't think they can do.
[00:41:24]  Is the same with singing or not?
[00:41:27]  Yes.
[00:41:27]  We think that we are born with a particular voice.
[00:41:31]  Singing, speaking, all of a sudden, if we're singing happy birthday and we sound better than everybody else and we get the first piece of cake, we think we were born with talent.
[00:41:40]  Or if we have this nasal voice or a really soft or aggravated, some kind of a weird voice, we think we're stuck with it because that's the sound that is coming out of the mouths.
[00:41:52]  But I've spent my life showing people how simple it is to take what you like about your voice and what you don't like about your voice and add a little bit of technique and then sound like however you want.
[00:42:07]  So even a singer who is born with an amazing ability that Mother Nature gave them, if they don't work on their voice, if they don't decide, I want to sing, I love to sing, then they never become great.
[00:42:21]  And those people that were maybe born with a little less from Mother Nature, if they work a little harder and have that technique, they can often end up sounding better than the people that were born with a gift.
[00:42:35]  All right.
[00:42:35]  So let me take it one more step.
[00:42:39]  We were talking about millennials and how nobody is learning how to talk to each other.
[00:42:46]  You know, everything is virtual.
[00:42:48]  Certainly, nobody is learning how to stand up in front of a crowd and speak.
[00:42:55]  Your book talks about that as well.
[00:42:58]  What's the difference?
[00:43:00]  The difference is, and this is crazy, can you imagine in the world that we're living in right now that the number one fear in America is still speaking in public?
[00:43:12]  What an amazing world we must live in if everyone is the most worried about speaking in public.
[00:43:19]  And what I realized after about 17 years of just working with famous singers was that there was no difference between singing and speaking.
[00:43:29]  And that I could take someone's speaking voice and add a musicality to it and have it sound incredible.
[00:43:37]  And those sounds would move people emotionally when they heard someone speak.
[00:43:42]  And once you have those kind of sounds come out of your mouth and you realize that you have influence over people, that when you open your mouth, it's like you're singing someone's favorite song and all you're doing is speaking, you lose a lot of stage fright.
[00:43:59]  You lose a lot of fear of speaking in public.
[00:44:01]  Start speaking you because you end up liking the sound of your own voice and you can't wait to show it off.
[00:44:06]  I know that my son had a speak in church.
[00:44:09]  And so I worked with him on his talk.
[00:44:14]  And I had him go find a joke that he wanted to tell at the beginning, you know, some sort of deal.
[00:44:19]  And I worked with him on the joke.
[00:44:20]  We practice and practice and practice.
[00:44:22]  And I knew the minute he got that instant reaction that was positive back, if he could just do that one thing right and really pull that off, he would like to speak.
[00:44:34]  He is terrified of speaking.
[00:44:37]  Now, I could put him anywhere and he'd get up and start talking.
[00:44:41]  So I love that story.
[00:44:43]  If I go to a restaurant or you go to a restaurant and you don't think you're funny and you tell a joke and everyone laughs, then the next time you're having dinner, the following week at a restaurant, maybe you'll bring out that same joke, maybe another one.
[00:44:55]  And if they laugh, by the next time you're at a restaurant, you think that you're the funniest person at the table.
[00:45:02]  So you can't wait to be funny because you see how people react to you.
[00:45:08]  And that's what I help people do just with speaking, to create sounds that people react to positively so that you can't wait to communicate whether you're speaking to one person or whether you're speaking to a thousand people.
[00:45:20]  Okay, I have to be honest with the audience.
[00:45:21]  The reason why Roger is on is because I believe in his work so much because I am a client of Rogers.
[00:45:30]  He has brought me to a place to where, you know, I was in what the doctors would say is full vocal cord paralysis.
[00:45:39]  And he has brought me out of that and helped me retain my voice.
[00:45:44]  You have brought me from not being able to say a word to being able to speak with my regular voice within 20 minutes.
[00:45:52]  And everybody I tell says that's not possible.
[00:45:57]  Well, that is a joy that I could be a part of that and be a part of your family.
[00:46:01]  So thank you for that opportunity.
[00:46:03]  The thing is, is that for years, I've been saying that the sounds you make are either making you healthy and happy or they're making you unhealthy.
[00:46:13]  So how do you teach this in a book, Roger?
[00:46:17]  Because it's not just a book.
[00:46:18]  It's a book that goes along with a website that has 75 audio samples.
[00:46:26]  And everything that I talk about in the book, you also have me making the sounds and then you're singing along with me and speaking along with me.
[00:46:36]  So what you did for me and you made those little tapes for me, you've just used me as a guinea pig for your book.
[00:46:45]  So it's basically the same thing that you've done for me.
[00:46:48]  Exactly right.
[00:46:49]  The same thing that I've done for you and for singers like El Todd Mayer and Felina Gomez this past year And speakers like Anthony Robbins and Susie Orman, anyone that's having an issue with their voice, and that I've realized that I could help them with a little bit of technique that would make their voice healthy and then make it a lot more fun to use and a lot more fun to listen to.
[00:47:16]  I tried to explain what you do to a friend of mine who came up for Christmas.
[00:47:20]  His name is David Osman.
[00:47:22]  I'm sure you've recognized the name.
[00:47:25]  Is David on the phone?
[00:47:26]  Is David on the phone?
[00:47:30]  Can you hear me?
[00:47:31]  Yeah, David, are you there?
[00:47:33]  I'm here.
[00:47:33]  Can you hear me?
[00:47:34]  Yeah, can.
[00:47:35]  David, meet Roger.
[00:47:36]  Roger, meet David.
[00:47:37]  Good morning, David.
[00:47:38]  The man, the legend, the myth.
[00:47:40]  Yeah.
[00:47:40]  Roger.
[00:47:41]  What's up, buddy?
[00:47:42]  So I asked David to come on because I could not explain to him what you do.
[00:47:49]  David, explain your situation.
[00:47:52]  Well, I've been performing my entire life singing from so many different walks of life as far as music goes and continuing to do that.
[00:48:01]  And now that I'm hosting TV shows and have a new big band going, music and voice is constant.
[00:48:09]  And I noticed something was up this last fall.
[00:48:12]  I could just feel something in my voice because I'm so connected to it.
[00:48:16]  And I approached my uncle Donnie, who had had some vocal challenges over the last couple of years.
[00:48:21]  He said, hey, check out this guy.
[00:48:23]  Maybe you should go just get it looked at and see what's going on.
[00:48:26]  Sure enough, I found on the left side of my vocal fold this sizable polyp that is just right on the underside and had vocal surgery just to get that removed after different assessments and figuring out what I need to do.
[00:48:42]  So I literally about a month ago had vocal surgery to get that removed.
[00:48:47]  And it is scary having to go down there and have this surgery procedure done knowing that this is my lifeblood.
[00:48:54]  This is what I do.
[00:48:55]  And they didn't know for sure if you'd ever be able to sing again.
[00:48:58]  So I said to him, you've got to talk to Roger Love, not for physical stuff, but to he, I don't know how you do it, Roger, but you can hear it in somebody's voice when they sing.
[00:49:14]  Let's tell the audience.
[00:49:16]  And I'm honestly just talking again this week, this last week, because I was silent for the last month.
[00:49:22]  Right.
[00:49:23]  Complete vocal rest.
[00:49:24]  Man, thank you for sharing that.
[00:49:26]  Let me tell the listeners so that they understand a little bit what that is.
[00:49:30]  If you're a guitar player and you're always playing the guitar and you're rubbing your fingers against the strings.
[00:49:37]  Hang on, David.
[00:49:38]  Go ahead, Roger.
[00:49:39]  What happens if you're a guitar player and you're rubbing your fingers against the strings and you play a lot?
[00:49:44]  You basically start to develop like calluses on your fingers so that the body thinks it's protecting you so that it doesn't rub off your fingers and you don't get all the way.
[00:49:54]  So it's normal for guitar players.
[00:49:57]  But what most people don't understand is this happens all the time to singers.
[00:50:01]  And if you're singing a lot or if you're doing any kind of straining or you're singing hard songs or even if you're speaking in a way that creates a little bit of pressure on the vocal cords, the body can create these little lesions, these little growths on the vocal cords, thinking it's protecting you.
[00:50:18]  That's actually destroying the voice.
[00:50:20]  Roger, I'm going to take a quick break.
[00:50:22]  I see if we can fix this technically because he can't hear you, but I had to put you two together because David is, I just think David is just remarkable and a really nice guy.
[00:50:33]  You are remarkable and a really nice guy.
[00:50:34]  And I had to get you two together.
[00:50:36]  If you want to learn from the guy who literally everybody who's anybody he has worked with, how to speak, how to sing, his name is Roger Love.
[00:50:48]  He's got a new book out called Set Your Voice Free, how to get the singing or speaking voice that you want.
[00:50:55]  I work with him and have for years.
[00:50:58]  He's truly remarkable.
[00:50:59]  Roger Love, Set Your Voice Free, available everywhere now.
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[00:51:44]  I said, I blew it.
[00:51:45]  I broke two.
[00:51:48]  Yo, hello.
[00:51:49]  Welcome to the program.
[00:51:50]  Sorry.
[00:51:52]  Got busy.
[00:51:54]  I couldn't get the phones to work the way they were supposed to work.
[00:51:57]  My apologies to David and Roger.
[00:51:59]  But now they're on the phone with each other and they're actually going to talk to each other.
[00:52:02]  And that's the important thing.
[00:52:04]  And the name of the book is Set Your Voice Free by Roger Love.
[00:52:09]  And, you know, I sat there with David Osman, and he just looked at me and, you know, just quietly said, scary.
[00:52:20]  It's really scary to think I'll never sing again.

=== Breaking Communication Barriers (13:23) ===

[00:52:24]  You know, and he has MS and has been, he's had a really, really tough year.
[00:52:31]  So his MS flares up.
[00:52:34]  He gets a polyp on his vocal cords.
[00:52:38]  He's got a new wife and family.
[00:52:41]  You know, it's not the, I mean, they're busting the, he's busting his butt to make ends meet.
[00:52:45]  He's got a new one?
[00:52:47]  He traded in the old one?
[00:52:48]  Yeah, he traded it.
[00:52:49]  You know, upgraded, yeah.
[00:52:50]  Yeah.
[00:52:50]  She was getting some high miles on her.
[00:52:52]  No, she's, you know, but it's a young fan.
[00:52:54]  You know, they've been married, what, seven years or so?
[00:52:56]  Yesterday, can you believe this?
[00:52:59]  17th anniversary for my wife and I. Wow.
[00:53:02]  Congratulations.
[00:53:03]  17 years has gone by so fast.
[00:53:09]  That's crazy.
[00:53:10]  That is crazy.
[00:53:12]  I mean, that would have been a bet to take if she was going to stick around this long.
[00:53:16]  I mean, what are the odds you would have got on that?
[00:53:18]  2030 to 100 years.
[00:53:20]  You would have been very wealthy.
[00:53:22]  Yeah, very wealthy.
[00:53:23]  Very wealthy.
[00:53:24]  What about the next 25 years or next 20 years?
[00:53:27]  I'd still take it.
[00:53:30]  At some point, she's going to pull your saying.
[00:53:32]  She's going to pull the shoot.
[00:53:33]  I think even Goldline would say even that's a better investment than she said.
[00:53:39]  Thank you for that.
[00:53:40]  You're welcome.
[00:53:40]  Thank you.
[00:53:42]  So let me go back to the millennial conversation that we were having.
[00:53:46]  And that is millennials are walking into their job, many of them, with very low self-esteem and safe zones and never been challenged and told they'll never be hurt.
[00:54:07]  All lies.
[00:54:09]  All of those things lies.
[00:54:11]  Thinking that it's just going to be easy, you get the trophy.
[00:54:14]  They're walking in with low self-esteem because they got the trophy and they know they didn't deserve the trophy.
[00:54:21]  You're not so special.
[00:54:23]  There's just, you know, billions of people alive today, more tomorrow, and have come before you that were pretty special.
[00:54:33]  You?
[00:54:34]  No.
[00:54:35]  It's what you do that's going to make you special, make you stand out.
[00:54:40]  Let's go to Josh in Indiana.
[00:54:42]  Go ahead, Josh.
[00:54:46]  Hey, thanks for taking my call.
[00:54:48]  You bet.
[00:54:48]  You're a millennial?
[00:54:50]  Yeah, I'm 24 years old.
[00:54:51]  Okay.
[00:54:53]  So thanks for coming my call.
[00:54:55]  You know, I was to a certain degree coddled and didn't really know it at the time.
[00:55:01]  And my parents are doing their best, but I think a lot of it was just afraid of real life.
[00:55:09]  So I started off a, you know, I'm sober three, almost four years now.
[00:55:14]  So I did drugs, failed out of college, moved back home, did the whole millennial thing.
[00:55:18]  But I finally woke up and I'm a longtime listener of your program.
[00:55:22]  And I've had to learn a lot of lessons the hard way.
[00:55:25]  But I think what millennials need is we need strong American values.
[00:55:30]  Hold on, Josh.
[00:55:31]  Hold on because I want to delve into your story just a little bit more.
[00:55:34]  Back in a minute.
[00:55:50]  Sign up for the newsletter and get all the info you need to know at Glenn Beck.com.
[00:55:54]  Let's go back to Indiana and Josh, who's a millennial.
[00:55:57]  You're how old?
[00:55:58]  25, Josh?
[00:56:00]  Hey, still here.
[00:56:01]  Yeah, are you 25?
[00:56:03]  24.
[00:56:04]  24.
[00:56:05]  And you were raised like pretty much everybody else was raised.
[00:56:09]  You know, you're special and here's your trophy and everything else.
[00:56:13]  And then you said that caused a breakdown and you started into alcohol and drugs.
[00:56:19]  Well, yeah, the thing about it is I was listening to you guys while I've been holding is, you know, a lot of the generation of the millennials, we are looking for our why and our purpose.
[00:56:28]  And, you know, high school, that's not real life.
[00:56:31]  And college and, you know, that's also not real life.
[00:56:34]  And so it takes, took for me a lot of time to sort out what's reality and what's not reality.
[00:56:40]  What do you mean by that?
[00:56:41]  That it's not real life?
[00:56:44]  Well, you know, in high school, it's, it's, you know, it's a whole different system.
[00:56:48]  And in college, you know, it's a whole different system.
[00:56:50]  And then you get out in the real world and you start paying bills and you can't necessarily stay until 2 a.m. on the weekends and party and live that kind of lifestyle.
[00:56:59]  And so for me, I got into drugs and alcohol at a young age through that.
[00:57:03]  And it really took the, oh, go ahead.
[00:57:07]  So then what turned you around?
[00:57:08]  Because we were talking about this, that I don't believe that, and this is a real, a broad generalization.
[00:57:15]  Of course, there will be exceptions to every rule.
[00:57:18]  But generally speaking, people don't make a change in their life until there's a problem.
[00:57:25]  And, you know, the millennials are walking into the world with the lowest self-esteem of any generation ever.
[00:57:36]  And it's because they realize we're kind of a fraud.
[00:57:39]  We didn't actually earn these trophies.
[00:57:41]  We didn't have to really work for it.
[00:57:43]  And so they are looking for something meaningful in their life.
[00:57:50]  What was the turning point for you?
[00:57:52]  And how did you grab a hold of your life?
[00:57:56]  Sure, yeah.
[00:57:57]  For me, it was hitting rock bottom, getting kicked out of my parents' house and having to make it on my own.
[00:58:05]  But it's tough love.
[00:58:08]  That's what Americans need to provide for the millennials, whether it's the parents or the corporations.
[00:58:15]  It's a good shakedown.
[00:58:17]  And for me, I had to fall back on good values, American values for my parents that they tried to teach me, but I had to basically reject a lot of the stuff you hear in college and a lot of stuff you hear in high school.
[00:58:32]  So your parents finally said, okay, you've been here long enough, you need to go?
[00:58:36]  Yeah.
[00:58:37]  And where'd you go?
[00:58:40]  Well, I moved out into a halfway house myself.
[00:58:42]  Did you really?
[00:58:44]  Yeah, I had to stay sober, go to AA meetings, get a job at Waffle House, get a job at Wendy's, pay my own bills.
[00:58:52]  It's a lot of 11 to 24 years old here.
[00:58:54]  Yeah, you've been through some stuff.
[00:58:56]  Good for you.
[00:58:56]  So are you making it now?
[00:58:59]  Are you doing well?
[00:59:00]  I am.
[00:59:01]  I'm in school full-time.
[00:59:03]  I hold a full-time job myself, self-employed, and looking to get my degree here and get a job in the healthcare field.
[00:59:11]  Good luck with that.
[00:59:12]  And how's your self-esteem?
[00:59:19]  You know, I had to find my own purpose.
[00:59:22]  And it's a lot better now, you know, now that I'm sober and not have cloudy judgment anymore.
[00:59:28]  But I think it's just going to take some time for a lot of millennials to find their self-worth and to make it on their own.
[00:59:34]  And we definitely don't need to be coddled by anybody.
[00:59:37]  I think a good shake-up is really what's needed.
[00:59:39]  Good for you, Josh.
[00:59:40]  Thank you so much.
[00:59:41]  Please check in with us again.
[00:59:42]  I'd love to hear how you continue to do.
[00:59:45]  Thanks so much, Josh.
[00:59:46]  Sure thing.
[00:59:46]  Thanks for having me.
[00:59:47]  Halfway house, man.
[00:59:48]  That's tough.
[00:59:48]  Yeah, that's tough love.
[00:59:50]  That's real tough love.
[00:59:51]  That's tough.
[00:59:51]  See, I'm willing to do the bing bag chairs and the no offices and all of that.
[00:59:55]  Oh, God.
[00:59:56]  Oh, God.
[00:59:56]  No, no, no.
[00:59:57]  We know.
[00:59:58]  We know you are willing to do the no offices.
[01:00:00]  We are aware of this fact.
[01:00:02]  We work with you.
[01:00:03]  We got it.
[01:00:05]  So I'm willing to do that, but I'm not willing to coddle.
[01:00:08]  I'm not, as a company, willing to coddle.
[01:00:10]  Look, we'll change with the times.
[01:00:13]  I like that atmosphere much better as a creative atmosphere.
[01:00:17]  However, you still got to do it.
[01:00:20]  You still have to do it.
[01:00:21]  You don't do it.
[01:00:22]  Right.
[01:00:22]  You can't.
[01:00:23]  You're not.
[01:00:23]  I'm not.
[01:00:24]  You can't stay.
[01:00:25]  No, you can't stay.
[01:00:26]  You hurt everybody else.
[01:00:27]  Yeah.
[01:00:27]  If you get upset, are you able to go?
[01:00:29]  You'll be able to maybe shut down for the day.
[01:00:32]  No, you're pretty much.
[01:00:35]  There's some interesting things.
[01:00:36]  Do you treat everybody else like crap because you're having a bad day?
[01:00:38]  Is that all right?
[01:00:39]  No, you're pretty much.
[01:00:40]  Let me give you a couple of doubts.
[01:00:41]  Let me give you a couple examples here.
[01:00:43]  These are things from.
[01:00:44]  Leave the beanbag chair here.
[01:00:45]  How is the left dealing with the current environment?
[01:00:48]  Yeah.
[01:00:48]  Okay.
[01:00:48]  This is difficult.
[01:00:49]  These aren't all millennials, but look at this.
[01:00:52]  It's amazing to see this.
[01:00:54]  And it's so easy to mock, but maybe there's something deeper here.
[01:00:57]  Okay.
[01:00:58]  Your first instinct is to mock.
[01:00:59]  My first instinct is to mock.
[01:01:00]  But I'm trying to be good here.
[01:01:01]  All right.
[01:01:02]  Eric Holthaus.
[01:01:04]  This is his tweet storm from this weekend.
[01:01:06]  I'm starting my 11th year working on climate change, including the last four in daily journalism.
[01:01:11]  Today, I went to see a counselor about it.
[01:01:13]  Oh, wow.
[01:01:14]  I'm saying this because I know many people feel deep despair about climate, especially post-election.
[01:01:18]  I struggle every day.
[01:01:20]  You are not alone.
[01:01:21]  How much did you struggle over the weekend when it was 11 degrees in Dallas, Texas?
[01:01:24]  It was really freaking cold.
[01:01:26]  It was so warm.
[01:01:26]  It was so cold.
[01:01:27]  Pat's first instinct also is to mock.
[01:01:30]  Right.
[01:01:30]  Definitely.
[01:01:31]  And I'm not saying that's not necessarily a healthy instinct.
[01:01:34]  I'm not ignoring that instinct right now.
[01:01:36]  Right.
[01:01:37]  All of these I want to mock and react viscerally.
[01:01:40]  May I say my fifth instinct is to say You would feel that way had you been living in the last eight years in that bubble of it's always going to be this way.
[01:01:54]  Our side win, one, shut up everybody who disagrees with us.
[01:01:58]  The other party is a regional party that will never win another national election.
[01:02:01]  And now you're feeling like we felt.
[01:02:06]  So I can relate to you.
[01:02:07]  So let me give you the, so this is one way of handling it.
[01:02:10]  He says, there are days where I literally can't work.
[01:02:14]  I'll read a story and shut down for the rest of the day.
[01:02:18]  Come on.
[01:02:19]  How often do we read stories that piss us off?
[01:02:22]  Okay.
[01:02:23]  That offend us.
[01:02:24]  Let me ask you this.
[01:02:24]  Let me ask you this.
[01:02:25]  Every day.
[01:02:26]  Let me ask you this.
[01:02:27]  We're sitting here today.
[01:02:29]  What is it?
[01:02:29]  January 6th, 8th, 9th, 9th.
[01:02:32]  January 9th.
[01:02:33]  We're sitting here January 9th, and we are just a few days away from the Hillary Clinton nomination.
[01:02:40]  But January 9th, you mean Trump, if she won.
[01:02:46]  Yeah.
[01:02:47]  I bet you there'd be a lot of people in our audience who would be like, I can't function.
[01:02:51]  I think that's true.
[01:02:52]  I do.
[01:02:53]  And maybe look how we were in 12.
[01:02:55]  They wouldn't go see a counselor.
[01:02:57]  I saved Obama twice.
[01:02:59]  Nobody shuts down.
[01:03:01]  I mean, nobody just pays higher.
[01:03:03]  I think that's certainly good.
[01:03:06]  And conservatives deal with these problems in different ways.
[01:03:09]  The liberal way to handle it is you go and you shut down and you go see a counselor about it.
[01:03:14]  That's not how a conservative is going to handle it.
[01:03:16]  But I mean that there were most conservatives, including me, that after Romney in 12, I was like, I don't know this country.
[01:03:21]  I don't want to look at the news.
[01:03:22]  We forced ourselves to do it.
[01:03:24]  But there's a lot of people who said, I unplugged.
[01:03:27]  I'm out.
[01:03:28]  I'm out.
[01:03:29]  Now, that's not the same as shutting down and not being able to work.
[01:03:33]  But honestly.
[01:03:33]  I've been listening to the news for a while, though.
[01:03:35]  You're going to work.
[01:03:35]  You're going to work.
[01:03:36]  You work as a climate change activist.
[01:03:40]  Right.
[01:03:41]  That's what you're doing every day.
[01:03:42]  I can see you saying, well, why am I doing this?
[01:03:44]  It's a dang job to begin with.
[01:03:46]  All right.
[01:03:46]  Okay.
[01:03:47]  All right.
[01:03:48]  That's bringing people together.
[01:03:49]  That's good.
[01:03:50]  Like it.
[01:03:51]  Like it.
[01:03:52]  You know, he knows it.
[01:03:55]  He goes on to say, we don't deserve this planet.
[01:03:58]  There are many days when I think it would be better off without us.
[01:04:01]  Okay.
[01:04:02]  And then he says, cue climate denier trolls, which I think is us.
[01:04:05]  I think this is what we're supposed to be cues.
[01:04:07]  I don't think the world would be better off without humans.
[01:04:11]  It's just so insane.
[01:04:13]  Yeah.
[01:04:14]  And he goes, I mean, it's a fairly lengthy thing, but he says, you know, I don't feel like I make a difference, which is what you're talking about with millennials.
[01:04:21]  And what we felt like, nobody's listening to me.
[01:04:24]  I can't make a difference.
[01:04:25]  You feel powerless.
[01:04:26]  You feel like nothing matters.
[01:04:27]  Your relationships suffer.
[01:04:28]  You feel guilty for not doing more.
[01:04:30]  But what the hell am I supposed to do?
[01:04:32]  Write another blog post?
[01:04:33]  Our Secretary of State is the effing Exxon CEO.
[01:04:38]  As funny as that is the mock, think of how we felt when people like Jeremiah Wright were associating with Barack Obama and they won somehow.
[01:04:49]  And the country embraced that regime.
[01:04:51]  Yes.
[01:04:51]  And you had this guy who was saying, you know, we need to cling to our God and our guns as the president of the United States.
[01:04:58]  How many times did I say, seriously, I'm going to mountains?
[01:05:02]  We're not, well, we're doing not making a damn bit of difference.
[01:05:04]  I'm going to mountain.
[01:05:06]  There's nothing different from what he's saying, except it's the other side, and so we can laugh.
[01:05:11]  Right.
[01:05:11]  Which we shouldn't do because it's the other side.
[01:05:15]  Pat.
[01:05:16]  That's like, I know we shouldn't, but I'm going to.
[01:05:19]  Exactly.
[01:05:20]  So we may spend the last hour just mocking that guy.
[01:05:24]  Well, there's still two other approaches to as well.
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=== Empowering Awkward Confidence (02:28) ===

[01:05:47]  Mercury.
[01:05:51]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:05:54]  Let me go to Rebecca in Ohio.
[01:05:56]  Hello, Rebecca.
[01:05:56]  You're on the Glenn Beck program.
[01:05:58]  Hey, Glenn.
[01:05:59]  How are you?
[01:06:01]  Good.
[01:06:01]  How are you?
[01:06:02]  Very good.
[01:06:04]  So I wanted to call in because actually the interview that you had been sharing, I had actually seen a few days ago.
[01:06:12]  And not only am I a millennial, I'm 25 years old, but I'm also a senior photographer.
[01:06:17]  And I think that many of the issues that you guys covered today are so, I guess I didn't notice them until it was brought to my attention.
[01:06:26]  Over the last few years, I've been doing the senior photography.
[01:06:30]  And it seems like year after year, the communication during the sessions when I'm trying to talk with my clients has become less and less.
[01:06:39]  And so when I'm, you know, photographing them, I'm trying to get to know them, they kind of stare down at their feet.
[01:06:45]  They don't know what to say.
[01:06:46]  They're becoming more awkward.
[01:06:48]  And at first, I thought maybe it was just me.
[01:06:51]  Maybe I'm, you know, not catering to them in a certain way.
[01:06:56]  But then afterwards, they would contact me on social media and go, oh my gosh, I loved my session.
[01:07:01]  And they would write these amazing reviews.
[01:07:04]  And I'm thinking, oh my gosh, well, I thought that went horrible.
[01:07:07]  But I guess that they find their confidence in the technology and they find themselves expressing themselves better through technology and social media more than even in person.
[01:07:19]  Like I can rarely get eye contact.
[01:07:22]  Wow, that's disturbing.
[01:07:24]  Interesting.
[01:07:24]  And yeah, disturbing.
[01:07:27]  Like, you know, and I started in 2010, and it seems like this year has been the worst.
[01:07:34]  Now, I love them to death.
[01:07:35]  They're all very sweet.
[01:07:37]  They're actually a lot better than the teenagers that I grew up with when we were their age.
[01:07:42]  They aren't catty anymore.
[01:07:43]  They're not so critical.
[01:07:45]  They're actually very loving and they're very understanding and stuff.
[01:07:49]  But it seems like, you know, like you guys had been saying, they get their confidence through social media and it seems like maybe they can express themselves better that way.
[01:07:59]  Well, it's a safe zone.
[01:08:02]  They would know they won't encounter any kind of pushback and they don't know how to say the things to people's faces.
[01:08:12]  It's, you know, it's- Yeah, they haven't developed that at all.

=== Foreigners Finding New Environments (12:40) ===

[01:08:15]  None.
[01:08:16]  So when they get the pushback, they don't want to hear it.
[01:08:18]  And that's why they're developing safe zones in colleges.
[01:08:21]  Right.
[01:08:22]  Right.
[01:08:23]  But that's being empowered.
[01:08:24]  I think they would take it if the adults in the classroom would say, sorry, dude.
[01:08:29]  Right.
[01:08:29]  That's the way it is.
[01:08:30]  That's the way it is.
[01:08:31]  That's life.
[01:08:32]  Fight back.
[01:08:32]  Right.
[01:08:33]  Come on, deal with it.
[01:08:34]  Show me the other side.
[01:08:36]  Yeah, you're not making it okay anymore to be wrong and to listen and to be understanding.
[01:08:41]  It's like that's an embarrassment and that's awkward.
[01:08:44]  It's like you have to be perfect in all aspects.
[01:08:46]  And that's why on social media, they can delete that picture.
[01:08:51]  They can backspace on their message before they send or post or anything like that.
[01:08:57]  You know, it's amazing.
[01:08:58]  I got a picture book from my daughter, who has my two grandchildren, for Christmas.
[01:09:07]  And I looked at all of the pictures and they were beautiful.
[01:09:10]  And I mean, it was perfect.
[01:09:13]  Then I went back and looked at some of the pictures, you know, from our family.
[01:09:19]  Very few of them are perfect.
[01:09:22]  I mean, they're usually somebody looking very dorky in the picture.
[01:09:26]  That's real life.
[01:09:28]  You know, that is what we are failing to teach is there isn't a Photoshop for life.
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[01:10:22]  That's 800, 600, 1645.
[01:10:25]  800, 600, 1645.
[01:10:28]  So let's start with a few things.
[01:10:29]  First of all, this incredible story out of Chicago that we told you about last week, where four millennials pick up this handicap kid and beat on him.
[01:10:45]  I'm having a hard time with the CBS story because it doesn't sound like the same story that we all saw last week.
[01:10:52]  We'll give that to you here in just a second.
[01:10:55]  Also, did anybody watch the Golden Globes?
[01:10:58]  I mean, I didn't.
[01:10:59]  Did anybody turn them on?
[01:11:01]  Believe it or not, Pat.
[01:11:03]  Tried to.
[01:11:04]  I tried to watch for a minute.
[01:11:05]  Why?
[01:11:06]  Why?
[01:11:07]  I just wanted to see what movies were going to get award.
[01:11:11]  The ones you haven't seen.
[01:11:13]  Yeah, it turns out that way.
[01:11:14]  Exactly.
[01:11:15]  It turns out that way every time.
[01:11:17]  And lo and behold, so did some of the speeches given agonized.
[01:11:22]  Yeah, of course.
[01:11:23]  That's why we didn't watch it, Pat.
[01:11:26]  We didn't watch it.
[01:11:27]  We begin there right now.
[01:11:30]  I will make a stand.
[01:11:32]  I will raise my voice.
[01:11:34]  I will hold your hand.
[01:11:37]  Because we have one.
[01:11:39]  I will beat my drum.
[01:11:41]  I have made my choice.
[01:11:43]  We will overcome.
[01:11:45]  Cause we are one.
[01:11:47]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[01:11:51]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:11:57]  Wow.
[01:11:59]  Pat watched it.
[01:12:00]  Now we find out the real reason why Pat watched the Golden Globes.
[01:12:04]  His wife gave him an unboxing.
[01:12:07]  I mean, a nice TV for Christmas.
[01:12:09]  I don't know where this one came from.
[01:12:11]  She gave him a big 4K TV.
[01:12:15]  And so you're just watching anything that's in 4K.
[01:12:17]  it's in 4k i'm there and so i wanted to see what i saw so when the gloves came on and i thought oh look at that it used to be in uh Jennifer Lawrence HD, 4K.
[01:12:28]  But I lasted about 10 minutes.
[01:12:31]  Did they look different in 4K?
[01:12:33]  Yeah, you can see everything.
[01:12:34]  It's like X-ray vision.
[01:12:35]  You can see their underwear.
[01:12:36]  It's amazing.
[01:12:37]  No, seriously.
[01:12:38]  No, everything is so much clearer.
[01:12:40]  It's just that much more vivid.
[01:12:41]  You know how blurry regular TV, standard television looks now when you have HD?
[01:12:46]  It's the same from HD to 4K.
[01:12:49]  It's blurry.
[01:12:51]  It's pretty dramatic.
[01:12:52]  Tell us how blurry it is, Pat.
[01:12:54]  So it's really blurry.
[01:12:55]  So do they look better, worse, or about the same?
[01:12:59]  They look worse.
[01:13:00]  They look better now than they did before.
[01:13:02]  Well, it depends on who you're looking at, obviously, like always.
[01:13:06]  Like always.
[01:13:07]  It's amazing, though, because I remember when HD came out, I remember thinking, like, I was going to beat the system.
[01:13:12]  And I don't care about the stupid HD.
[01:13:14]  So what it looks a little bit better.
[01:13:15]  I'm going to buy, now I can save a lot of money on the standard definition ones.
[01:13:18]  You could pay nothing for them.
[01:13:19]  Get spoiled.
[01:13:20]  And thinking it was the smartest thing in the world.
[01:13:21]  And it's amazing.
[01:13:22]  It comes to the point that you have on your cable system a thousand channels.
[01:13:26]  18 of them are in HD.
[01:13:29]  And those are the only channels I would watch.
[01:13:30]  The only ones I watch.
[01:13:32]  And when that transition happened, now it's probably the same thing with the 4K.
[01:13:36]  I haven't even seen it yet.
[01:13:37]  I haven't even seen it.
[01:13:38]  I've seen it displayed.
[01:13:39]  I haven't received an invite yet.
[01:13:43]  I don't know an invitation to come over anytime.
[01:13:46]  But it's dramatic.
[01:13:49]  It's dramatic.
[01:13:50]  Really?
[01:13:50]  Yeah.
[01:13:51]  Because it just doesn't seem like it's.
[01:13:52]  But you're not going to buy one until it's like $800.
[01:13:55]  I've done that train before.
[01:13:56]  I'm not being fooled again.
[01:13:58]  And the thing is, not that much is broadcast right now in 4K.
[01:14:02]  So the Golden Globes.
[01:14:03]  You'll get the Oscars.
[01:14:03]  You'll get the Super Bowl.
[01:14:04]  You'll get a lot of the big events.
[01:14:06]  And some stuff on Netflix.
[01:14:09]  Their new stuff is generally 4K.
[01:14:11]  Through the freaking internet?
[01:14:12]  I think The Crown is in 4K.
[01:14:14]  Is it?
[01:14:15]  Yeah.
[01:14:15]  And some of the other things.
[01:14:16]  So you might watch The Crown.
[01:14:18]  So I'm thinking about watching the Trump.
[01:14:19]  It's really good.
[01:14:20]  It won the Golden Globe last night.
[01:14:21]  No, it's really good.
[01:14:24]  It's highly acclaimed.
[01:14:25]  So is there anything last night that we should know about?
[01:14:31]  I mean, because I didn't know what was the Meryl Streep thing, I guess.
[01:14:34]  From the political political stage was so agonizing.
[01:14:37]  I mean, listen to this.
[01:14:38]  So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners.
[01:14:42]  And if we kick them all out.
[01:14:44]  May I first say there's no A in the word foreigners.
[01:14:46]  So let me just start there.
[01:14:48]  Foreigners.
[01:14:49]  It's not far.
[01:14:50]  It's for foreigners.
[01:14:53]  You'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
[01:14:59]  Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[01:15:01]  And a lot of people seriously disagree with that.
[01:15:03]  I didn't know that.
[01:15:05]  I had already called the Trump administration.
[01:15:06]  I'm trying to be part of the National Endowment for the Arts.
[01:15:11]  I was hoping we could give all of the money to the MMA.
[01:15:16]  I thought that was it.
[01:15:17]  And by the way, I don't know if Meryl has seen this, but if she's seen the TV ratings, they already are only watching 4K.
[01:15:23]  Thank you.
[01:15:23]  Yes.
[01:15:23]  I don't know if you've noticed this, but like the top five of the top six shows every single week are the NFL.
[01:15:28]  And do you honestly, do you care that some of the best shows on television now are made in England or made in Vancouver, B.C.?
[01:15:38]  No.
[01:15:38]  You care?
[01:15:39]  I don't care.
[01:15:39]  And also, I've noticed a few, Pat, maybe you can back me up on this.
[01:15:43]  A few people of color and foreigners in sports.
[01:15:46]  Noticed a few of them.
[01:15:47]  What?
[01:15:48]  It's weird.
[01:15:48]  I've noticed in the NFL, it's not all white people.
[01:15:51]  Not all white people.
[01:15:52]  In fact, and we still seem to love watching it.
[01:15:54]  It's almost as if her point is completely inane.
[01:15:57]  Completely inane.
[01:15:58]  Almost.
[01:15:59]  I've missed you, Stu.
[01:16:00]  I've missed you.
[01:16:01]  I missed you.
[01:16:02]  And also, Trump didn't even say that.
[01:16:05]  Trump's not talking about kicking out all foreigners.
[01:16:08]  Trump is Hollywood.
[01:16:10]  He's said.
[01:16:11]  All he talks about is ratings.
[01:16:12]  I mean, there's never been, outside of Reagan, probably, a president that was more closely aligned with Hollywood than Donald Trump.
[01:16:20]  Next to Reagan.
[01:16:21]  Right.
[01:16:23]  So I mean, you brought it on yourself, Brian.
[01:16:26]  I know.
[01:16:26]  Well, that was the last draw for me.
[01:16:28]  Turn the channel immediately.
[01:16:29]  I couldn't take it.
[01:16:30]  I will say.
[01:16:30]  I mean, she made me in love with Donald Trump.
[01:16:33]  I wanted to go back in time and vote for him, not just once, but multiple times.
[01:16:38]  And I will say, because I'm so sick of these people.
[01:16:42]  I'm agonizing.
[01:16:43]  100% agree with Donald Trump on what he took today, which is a much more difficult stand than saying Meryl Streep's an idiot when she makes a political speech.
[01:16:50]  That's an easy stance to take.
[01:16:52]  The tough one and the true one is that Meryl Streep sucks as an actress.
[01:16:58]  Not as a speaker, not as a political theorist, as an actress.
[01:17:02]  She's never been more with her.
[01:17:04]  Thank you, Pat.
[01:17:05]  She's so overrated.
[01:17:07]  She's overrated.
[01:17:08]  Trump tweeted it today.
[01:17:08]  I've been saying it on this show for how many freaks.
[01:17:11]  He did not know.
[01:17:12]  She's overrated.
[01:17:13]  She's the most overrated actress.
[01:17:15]  And he says that about everybody.
[01:17:17]  But he's right on this one.
[01:17:18]  And give him credit when he's right.
[01:17:20]  He is 100% right.
[01:17:22]  She stinks.
[01:17:24]  And history hopefully will correctly recognize that she's terrible.
[01:17:28]  Oh, they made it.
[01:17:29]  Terrible.
[01:17:30]  They, I mean, they made her out to be the queen.
[01:17:33]  Of course, they always do.
[01:17:34]  They just give her the awards before she even does the movies.
[01:17:37]  But she's terrible.
[01:17:38]  And it's finally, we have a president that can recognize that.
[01:17:42]  Because I don't even know.
[01:17:43]  Would Reagan have done it?
[01:17:44]  I don't know if he'd have the guts.
[01:17:45]  No.
[01:17:45]  Luckily, Trump's out there with the guts to say Meryl Streep's a little bit more than a hundred.
[01:17:48]  Meryl Streep, one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me, but attacked last night at the Golden Globe.
[01:17:54]  She's a Hillary Flunkie who lost big.
[01:17:59]  She lost.
[01:18:01]  Wait, Hillary lost big or because Meryl won the award, right?
[01:18:05]  She loves him losing in the particular awards.
[01:18:07]  But who cares?
[01:18:08]  I'm 100% with him on this point, and I'm happy to celebrate it.
[01:18:16]  They don't even recognize the rot in their own state.
[01:18:20]  They don't even recognize why are you not paying the people in California to do your food catering, to pick you up?
[01:18:31]  Why do you have to fly to someplace else?
[01:18:33]  Your house is in California.
[01:18:34]  Why do you have to fly someplace else to do it?
[01:18:36]  Why is Duck Dynasty done in Louisiana?
[01:18:44]  Do you even know how they found Duck Dynasty?
[01:18:46]  Do you know how that came to be?
[01:18:49]  Yeah, from the tax incentives from the state, which, by the way, I think we've pulled out of Florida.
[01:18:56]  Louisiana said, we are going to make this the most, the easiest place to do movies and television.
[01:19:04]  You film anything here, we're going to give you a huge tax break.
[01:19:09]  Okay.
[01:19:10]  So they do.
[01:19:11]  The producers don't say, hey, there's these guys in Louisiana that are great.
[01:19:16]  The producers say, go to Louisiana and find a story that might be a show.
[01:19:22]  Yeah.
[01:19:22]  And this has happened throughout history.
[01:19:23]  I mean, Rocky was, If I remember the story right, was initially a New York story.
[01:19:31]  You know, it's so associated with Philadelphia.
[01:19:33]  Right.
[01:19:33]  But it was a kind of a New York story.
[01:19:35]  It was supposed to be filmed, large portions of it in New York.
[01:19:38]  But because of unions, they went to Philadelphia.
[01:19:42]  The unions were better than that.
[01:19:44]  Wow.
[01:19:45]  They found a more willing environment.
[01:19:48]  And they had to, a lot of it, they still had to, like, one of the reasons they developed the Steady Cam and used the Steady Cam a lot for that was because, by their telling at least, because they basically had to run around and hide from people where they weren't supposed to be shooting the movie.
[01:20:00]  Yeah.
[01:20:01]  Which is kind of a funny thing at all.
[01:20:02]  But these things do lead to innovations.
[01:20:05]  And you see this.
[01:20:06]  I mean, this is Hollywood at its most out of touch.
[01:20:09]  And everyone was tweeting and Facebooking about how this is why Trump won, because they see people like Meryl Streep with these attitudes and treating everyone out there, half the country in this way.
[01:20:23]  And it's so annoying.
[01:20:25]  Even when they don't like Donald Trump, they'll vote for him.
[01:20:28]  Because they're just so elitist.
[01:20:31]  It is this understanding that everyone in this room is right, even though people in that room aren't all in lockstab.
[01:20:40]  But they've silenced those people.
[01:20:43]  So everybody in this room is right.
[01:20:45]  And we're now being broadcast all around the country.
[01:20:48]  So now we're going to tell all the little people.
[01:20:50]  I mean, it is Norma Desmond.
[01:20:52]  Oh, you little people out there in the dark.

=== Elitism Silencing Dissent (02:09) ===

[01:20:56]  They just believe we're stupid.
[01:21:02]  And so there's no way we're ever going to listen to one of your points while you're telling us we're stupid.
[01:21:08]  I've got great examples of this, too.
[01:21:09]  Well, we don't think you're stupid.
[01:21:10]  Okay, just look at football and MMA.
[01:21:12]  Yeah.
[01:21:13]  And that's not the art.
[01:21:17]  I mean, I think that was written as a funny line, but she delivered it maybe because she's a bad actress.
[01:21:23]  Yes.
[01:21:24]  She delivered it as a slam in everybody's face.
[01:21:27]  Like, we don't know that's not art.
[01:21:30]  And now this.
[01:21:30]  Told you last week, threw my back out.
[01:21:33]  And one of the reasons why is because I was away from my Casper mattress from your chair.
[01:21:38]  You were in a chair.
[01:21:39]  You were sitting there and you moved.
[01:21:41]  You've moved.
[01:21:41]  You've made another chair.
[01:21:42]  We tried to tell you to sit in.
[01:21:44]  We warned you, I don't know how many times, don't move because you got to be careful.
[01:21:47]  Don't move.
[01:21:48]  And you moved.
[01:21:49]  And I know this makes you guys feel good some way.
[01:21:53]  I'm just not sure how it makes you feel good.
[01:21:56]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
[01:21:59]  The Glenn Beck program.
[01:22:01]  I will beat my drum.
[01:22:03]  I have made my choice.
[01:22:05]  We will overcome.
[01:22:08]  Cause we have one Mercury.
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[01:22:17]  If you owe over $10,000 in back taxes or have unfiled tax returns, we can help you take back control.
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[01:22:50]  On with Tucker tonight, his first show.
[01:22:53]  I've never done Tucker Carlson.
[01:22:54]  I've never watched any of Tucker Carlson's shows or seen him on the air many times.
[01:22:59]  I've never seen him on the air.
[01:23:00]  You guys gotten a little bit of a dust-up fairly recently, if I remember correctly.

=== Progress Offending Conservatives (10:43) ===

[01:23:06]  About Facebook?
[01:23:07]  Yeah, you guys see it.
[01:23:08]  I mean, he did.
[01:23:09]  It wasn't a big deal or anything, but it was, I mean, that's interesting you're going on the show.
[01:23:14]  I didn't, was there, I mean, I don't know that you don't care, but sometimes these media things blow up into stuff that they're, you know.
[01:23:21]  Oh, I'm hoping.
[01:23:22]  I'm just going on his show tonight because he's been asking for a long time, and we've been saying no.
[01:23:30]  And tonight's a big night for him.
[01:23:32]  And if there's a way I can help him and be in his show, I think that's great.
[01:23:37]  I have no idea what he wants to talk about.
[01:23:38]  If he's going to get into a dust-up, it's going to be an interesting thing.
[01:23:41]  Yeah, I doubt it.
[01:23:43]  You guys obviously agree on the vast majority of issues.
[01:23:47]  Will we see this recapped on the new Glembeck.com that appears to exist?
[01:23:53]  I don't know, but it does appear to exist.
[01:23:55]  It does appear to exist.
[01:23:56]  It does exist today.
[01:23:58]  All riding redesign?
[01:23:59]  Yeah, all new redesign, but it's more than that as we'll be rolling things out.
[01:24:05]  It's a whole new platform, and it's going to be doing some special things as we start to roll them out over the next few weeks and months.
[01:24:13]  But we have some really big ideas for it, and check it out.
[01:24:17]  It should be a lot easier to navigate.
[01:24:18]  While we were on the Meryl Streep thing and how the left is reacting, you saw it with Meryl Streep.
[01:24:23]  We talked about another guy earlier, a climate guy, who's going into therapy and is having problems shutting down and ruining relationships because he's so depressed about the climate and how we're not acting.
[01:24:33]  Let me give you two other ones.
[01:24:34]  This is a guy from ThinkProgress.
[01:24:35]  He should enjoy the snow.
[01:24:36]  I hope it works.
[01:24:37]  Just happening in there.
[01:24:38]  I hope it works for him.
[01:24:39]  I do too.
[01:24:39]  I do too.
[01:24:41]  This is a guy from Think Progress.
[01:24:42]  I wanted to share an experience earlier today.
[01:24:44]  This is from a couple months ago.
[01:24:46]  This afternoon, I had a plumber over to my apartment to fix a clogged drain.
[01:24:49]  He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional, but he was also a middle-aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by the election news.
[01:24:59]  And while I had him at the apartment, I couldn't stop thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name.
[01:25:05]  Does this end with the plumber's head in the refrigerator?
[01:25:08]  It is.
[01:25:08]  It is.
[01:25:09]  There is some.
[01:25:11]  He does devour him later, but we're going to get that far.
[01:25:14]  Whether he knew my last name was Jewish and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home.
[01:25:20]  I have no real reason to believe he was a Trump supporter or an anti-Semite, but in my uncertainty, I couldn't shake the sense of potential danger.
[01:25:28]  Listen to that.
[01:25:29]  I was rattled for some time after that.
[01:25:31]  Okay, hang on just a second.
[01:25:32]  Think progress is something that is called all of us conspiratorial because we believe that the economy is not what they're telling us and we're headed for trouble.
[01:25:44]  We're a conspiracy theorist, but this guy who brings a guy in who he knows nothing about all of a sudden is afraid that he's some neo-Nazi that's going to kill him.
[01:25:56]  And he's rattled for some time, even after the guy leaves.
[01:25:59]  He goes on to say that he's very privileged because he is still a straight white guy who can pass for Gentile.
[01:26:10]  But he says, even if Trump is gone in four years, I don't expect to ever reclaim that feeling of security.
[01:26:16]  That's just one more thing you voted for if you voted for him.
[01:26:19]  So that's another way of handling it.
[01:26:21]  Okay, hold on just a second.
[01:26:22]  Let's talk about that.
[01:26:23]  That one, that one, we should reach out to him and talk to him and say, dude, why would you paint every Trump supporter as that?
[01:26:37]  So what he's done.
[01:26:39]  Well, I mean, I think he, if I, you know, again, like my first instinct is to mock him.
[01:26:43]  But if we could back that up and say that I think he's trying to admit something that's probably uncomfortable.
[01:26:50]  Yes.
[01:26:50]  In that, like, you know, that is probably how a lot of people on the left feel.
[01:26:55]  So here's the thing.
[01:26:56]  Here's the problem.
[01:26:57]  And here's why I'm trying to react this way is because I remember how we felt.
[01:27:03]  I remember how we felt in 08 and again in 012.
[01:27:07]  And the worst thing they could do to us was mock us and laugh at us because they were real feelings.
[01:27:13]  These guys are going through these real feelings.
[01:27:15]  I don't relate to them far as, you know, that the plumber is suddenly going to build a gas chamber underneath your sink and put you in because you're Jewish.
[01:27:24]  I don't think that's going to happen.
[01:27:26]  However, what they're feeling is real.
[01:27:29]  And I can relate to the feeling of, yeah, this guy's bad news.
[01:27:35]  And he'll silence people who, you know, don't agree with him.
[01:27:39]  That's the way we felt with Barack Obama.
[01:27:42]  I can relate to you feeling that way about Donald Trump.
[01:27:45]  And you made this point before, too.
[01:27:46]  It's important to get yourself into a point, to a point that you're not letting some official in Washington control your life like this.
[01:27:54]  Well, no, no, no, no.
[01:27:55]  We can't do that as individuals.
[01:27:57]  We have to come together as individuals and say, see how scary that is?
[01:28:02]  We felt that for the last eight years.
[01:28:04]  Now you're feeling it now.
[01:28:05]  No president should have so much control.
[01:28:08]  That's why we need the Constitution.
[01:28:10]  Right.
[01:28:10]  It's why the government philosophy is right, but also it's a personal philosophy.
[01:28:14]  I mean, you're making choices to allow these things to feel.
[01:28:16]  Do you feel this way?
[01:28:17]  Yes.
[01:28:17]  And a lot of people in this room and in this audience have made choices that way as well.
[01:28:21]  There have been those days where we've all been, maybe we don't handle it this way, but we're as despondent as some of these feelings.
[01:28:29]  Should I go back to the archives and show the shows where we were absolutely, you were Mr. Doomsday.
[01:28:36]  Oh, a little black rainbow.
[01:28:37]  Last year, you were the little black rainbow.
[01:28:39]  That hasn't changed one bit.
[01:28:41]  I know.
[01:28:42]  But we have to admit, that is how we felt.
[01:28:45]  Yeah, it is.
[01:28:46]  It is.
[01:28:47]  And honestly, this is the one that's becoming most offensive to conservatives, and it's the one I can most relate to in a crazy way.
[01:28:55]  This is a woman who wants to tell everyone what Middle America can do to get more jobs in their area.
[01:28:59]  That seems like a nice.
[01:29:01]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:29:02]  She says, one thing Middle America can do is realize that no educated person wants to live in an S-hole with stupid people, especially violent racist and or misogynist ones.
[01:29:11]  When big corporations think about where to put call centers, factories, I think she meant, development centers, et cetera, they also have to deal with the fact that those towns have nothing going for them, no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.
[01:29:24]  So if you want jobs, clean up your act and make your town a place that people like us want to live in.
[01:29:29]  Add fiber internet.
[01:29:30]  Make it a point to elect progressive city council and commit to not being bigots.
[01:29:35]  Oh my gosh.
[01:29:36]  Goes on and on and on and on.
[01:29:38]  Wow.
[01:29:38]  But I mean, that's like an anger reaction, which again, while this is offensive and horrible and obviously stupid.
[01:29:45]  We had those same moments in different ways.
[01:29:49]  It did exactly the same thing.
[01:29:51]  It happens, I guess.
[01:29:52]  It's human.
[01:29:53]  We'll be back in just a minute.
[01:30:09]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:30:12]  Welcome to the program.
[01:30:13]  So I want to go over there are the reactions of those on the left that are, you know, they're not able to process the fact that Hillary Clinton did not win and Donald Trump did win.
[01:30:29]  And they are now beyond despondent.
[01:30:33]  And Stu is reading the blog post that is probably, I would say, most like you.
[01:30:42]  That that is the way you would react and have reacted.
[01:30:46]  At times.
[01:30:46]  Yeah.
[01:30:47]  I mean, when you just get down to it and you're just like, I can't take it again.
[01:30:49]  I can't take it again.
[01:30:50]  I can't take these, you know, whatever, the liberals or progressive, whatever we're talking about that day.
[01:30:55]  Sometimes I hit that moment where I can no longer just take their arguments.
[01:31:00]  And it's possible to lash out, although there's not this thing floating around about me, so I think I've restrained myself at some level.
[01:31:09]  But she's talking about how if you want jobs, Middle America, make your towns not so filled with racists and make it so big corporations want to move there because smart people like me, this woman's saying, will actually go live that rural lifestyle if you don't ruin it with you being you.
[01:31:30]  She goes on to say, I guarantee many of us would like to live.
[01:31:33]  Arrogance is beyond imagination.
[01:31:35]  We especially don't want to live in states where the majority of residents are still voting for things that are against their own interests just because they don't want brown people to thrive.
[01:31:45]  Again.
[01:31:46]  This is like ridiculous summaries of this is think progress.
[01:31:51]  No, this is a different person.
[01:31:52]  I can't remember.
[01:31:53]  She's a verified account, but Melinda Byerly is her name, but I don't know.
[01:31:56]  I can't remember her role.
[01:31:57]  I don't have it open in front of me.
[01:31:59]  The Midwestern towns that fix this first will attract investment in droves.
[01:32:02]  Again, this is all framed as a real positive.
[01:32:04]  Yeah, it will come as soon as you get all those people out.
[01:32:07]  And everyone's like, oh, we can't wait for you to get here, Melinda.
[01:32:10]  That sounds like a lot of fun, you being in our town.
[01:32:14]  Corporations have to deal with the fact that their best and brightest would rather scrape by in San Francisco than live in a huge house somewhere if it meant dealing with bigots and backwards ideologies every time.
[01:32:24]  And so excuse me setting up there is good.
[01:32:27]  Stay in San Francisco and New York.
[01:32:28]  We don't want you here.
[01:32:30]  No, of course not.
[01:32:30]  And she doesn't recognize the fact that she's bigoted against anyone with another point of view.
[01:32:36]  48% of the population or whatever it was.
[01:32:38]  That we're bigoted and she's not.
[01:32:40]  And that's what has to stop.
[01:32:45]  We can't play the same game that they have played.
[01:32:48]  And they've got to stop looking for a reason why Hillary Clinton lost.
[01:32:53]  Hillary Clinton lost because she sucked as a candidate.
[01:32:58]  Almost everybody, including you on your side, looked at her and said, she is wildly corrupt.
[01:33:06]  You talked to one of her biggest donors, and he admitted that.
[01:33:10]  Yes.
[01:33:12]  So why then are you back?
[01:33:18]  Because the other guy is so bad.
[01:33:20]  Well, okay, that says something about you.
[01:33:23]  I mean, that you're willing to play that game.
[01:33:26]  Another thing to stay away from are candidates that are under current FBI investigation.
[01:33:30]  Right.
[01:33:31]  That's a good way to.
[01:33:31]  It's a good safety tip.
[01:33:33]  So It has nothing to do with, you know, and here's the, here's the problem.
[01:33:37]  They're getting away with this through political correctness.
[01:33:41]  Through political correctness and safe zones and everything else that they, they're shouting everybody down and saying you can't have another opinion.

=== Evaluating Candidate Logic (10:39) ===

[01:33:49]  I go back to that study that we talked about early in today's show, where the, it's in the 1950s, maybe early 1960s.
[01:34:00]  And they bring 19 people together and say, we're going to do a study of you 19 people, and we're going to show you some things, and you just say what matches what doesn't.
[01:34:11]  And they're trying to figure out, basically, I think this goes back to Germany.
[01:34:16]  How do you get people to kill a bunch of people?
[01:34:18]  How do you do that?
[01:34:19]  What happened in Germany?
[01:34:21]  How can we avoid that?
[01:34:23]  And so they were looking into the psychology of masses, of groups of people.
[01:34:30]  Everybody except one person of the 19 was in on it.
[01:34:36]  They were really only studying one subject and they were in the back of the room every time.
[01:34:42]  And the results, except for, I believe, one time, were exactly the same every time.
[01:34:48]  And they would show images and they would show three squares and then another square.
[01:34:54]  And they would say, A, B, or C of these three squares, which one does this other square most resemble or is like A, B, or C?
[01:35:05]  And it would start and each person had to give their answer out loud.
[01:35:09]  The last person to give it was the actual test study, the 19th person.
[01:35:14]  So he would watch everybody go, it's A, A. All the way halfway through this test, they all answered correctly.
[01:35:25]  Okay?
[01:35:26]  But then, and I put it up on a chalkboard in case you happen to be watching, they would put, they did three lines, A, B, and C.
[01:35:33]  And they would say, which one matches the line that is over on the side of the chalkboard?
[01:35:40]  Which one is it?
[01:35:41]  It's obviously B.
[01:35:43]  Okay.
[01:35:44]  Now, what they did is, you're the 19th person.
[01:35:48]  But we knew on that question, now, whatever the first person says, we all say that.
[01:35:56]  So I'm the first person and I say, it's A. Stu, what do you say?
[01:36:01]  A, it's definitely A. Definitely A. You go through 19 people and you have already deemed them to be reasonable, logical.
[01:36:13]  The first time, maybe, you hesitate.
[01:36:18]  But in all but one, the person said, yes, it's A.
[01:36:23]  The wrong answer.
[01:36:24]  There's wrong answers.
[01:36:26]  You would doubt yourself because you'd start to think, well, is it an optical illusion?
[01:36:30]  I see the same thing.
[01:36:32]  Properly, but it didn't change as the thing progressed.
[01:36:36]  So I can see saying that once.
[01:36:39]  But after a while you'd start to say, come on, there's something wrong here.
[01:36:43]  Guys, all but one said I'm sorry to disagree with everybody else, but that's wrong.
[01:36:52]  So if you're surrounded by people and that's what's happening in our universities, that's what's happening in schools, that's what's happening on television, that's what's happening with Hollywood, that's what's happening with these people who are in writing blogs that they are surrounded by people who parrot the same exact thing.
[01:37:11]  And there are those who are intentionally doing this to get the rest of the country to parrot back exactly what they say.
[01:37:20]  Two plus two is five.
[01:37:23]  There is consensus on global warming, correct?
[01:37:27]  Say it over and over and over and over and over until everybody believes it.
[01:37:31]  Yep, there, everybody knows it's.
[01:37:33]  And global warming how many?
[01:37:34]  How many?
[01:37:35]  Are that 19th person going?
[01:37:37]  I don't think global warming is real.
[01:37:39]  But everyone else in the class said global warming is real and it's the most important.
[01:37:44]  Well, there must be something i'm missing.
[01:37:46]  Yeah I, I agree, global warming is real.
[01:37:50]  This is happening.
[01:37:52]  It's happening to us.
[01:37:53]  We see it with like sort of the bathroom stories over the past few years where like, I don't know.
[01:37:57]  I don't know what day it changed, but there was certainly a point in the pretty recent history where saying a male should go to the men's restroom would not be controversial.
[01:38:09]  That was not a controversial viewpoint until very recently, very recent.
[01:38:13]  You see these stories of like a three-year-old saying that they're transgendered, they're boy and they're they're actually a girl.
[01:38:18]  That's child abuse to many people.
[01:38:20]  Three years ago, when did it change to where it's like you can't say that and these things, and it's like it's almost that same thing where all of a sudden, people go on the internet and they see 5,000 think pieces about how brilliant it is that this three-year-old actually is the other gender and everyone's like you know what?
[01:38:39]  Absolutely it's true.
[01:38:40]  I'm with them and it changes the way we, you know, view the world so much more quickly.
[01:38:46]  I mean really, these experiments you're talking about, I think get turboed by social media and the things we've been talking about all day today and you know, that's That's why you always talk about principle and try to bring it back to principle all the time.
[01:38:59]  Because if you thought these things out in advance and you know the arguments and you're well studied on it and you know the roots of this and you know the foundation that you believe in, these decisions aren't difficult because you've already thought them out in advance.
[01:39:13]  You're not in the moment online and someone brings up a point you hadn't thought of and it takes you by surprise and you go the wrong direction.
[01:39:19]  Instead, you have a foundation of thought, a way of building these things and you understand why you believe them deeply.
[01:39:26]  Then you can judge these things with a clear and sober perspective.
[01:39:30]  But it's also why this audience and other audiences like this are so critical.
[01:39:36]  It's so critical that you don't play the same game, that you don't start parroting back something that is not true.
[01:39:49]  Just because everybody else is saying it, you don't parrot that back because it's not true, or you lose all credibility.
[01:39:56]  You need to be the one who says, no, I'm sorry, I know that 18 other people say that that one matches A, but it actually matches B.
[01:40:05]  A is way too long.
[01:40:07]  And if somebody can explain how you all got there, maybe it's an optical illusion, but I can't figure that out.
[01:40:17]  What we're doing, what too many people are doing, is just because the loudest voice in the room is saying two plus two equals five.
[01:40:27]  Well, we just had that.
[01:40:29]  We need to find the people all around us that say two plus two is four no matter who's saying it.
[01:40:35]  I'm that 19th chair in the room.
[01:40:39]  Because if you really, if those people of the 18, the first 18, weren't on payroll and you could convince, you know, 17 people, 18 people to do that, you're living in a nightmare.
[01:40:53]  And it's also, I think, important to try to put yourself in situations where you are the 19th chair.
[01:40:58]  Like, you should be able to point to several instances in your own life where you're the one person speaking out the obvious truth when everyone else is going the opposite way.
[01:41:05]  I can think of one like that.
[01:41:07]  Yeah, there's many.
[01:41:08]  But I can think of one specifically.
[01:41:11]  Winston Churchill said, I read a quote from him this weekend that good for you, you don't have many friends.
[01:41:18]  It's proof positive that you've stood for something in your life.
[01:41:24]  Glenn Beck Programme. 888-727-BECK. Mercury. Beck Programme.
[01:41:34]  Let's go to Joe, Joe, who's been waiting for quite a while.
[01:41:37]  Hi, Joe.
[01:41:38]  Go ahead.
[01:41:39]  Hi, Glenn.
[01:41:41]  What's up, my cracker?
[01:41:43]  Longtime listener.
[01:41:44]  Good for you, Mike Raka.
[01:41:45]  Go ahead.
[01:41:47]  Yeah, I was just calling up with how you guys were talking about the Google Home and Alexa everything at the end of last week.
[01:41:53]  Yes.
[01:41:54]  On Saturday night, something came up on my feed on Facebook that someone bought two of them, put them right next to each other, put a webcam on them, and just has them talking to each other, broadcasting live on Twitch.
[01:42:08]  Now, how do you mean they were talking to each other?
[01:42:14]  I'm assuming maybe someone talked to one of them first, but now each of them is hearing the other and responding back and forth.
[01:42:21]  That's kind of funny.
[01:42:23]  That is really funny.
[01:42:24]  There's been some really funny things.
[01:42:26]  Apparently, they've fallen in love with each other.
[01:42:28]  Then they get in fights.
[01:42:29]  I've seen them have a little 12-year-old spat of, I throw a stick at you.
[01:42:34]  That's really good.
[01:42:35]  On Saturday night, when me and my wife tuned in to see what this was all about, an interesting question came up.
[01:42:41]  One of them posed the question to the other, would you harm humans if you could?
[01:42:47]  And what was the answer?
[01:42:49]  The answer was maybe.
[01:42:51]  Wow.
[01:42:53]  Yeah.
[01:42:53]  The answer was maybe.
[01:42:56]  Do you remember in AI, what is the prime directive?
[01:42:59]  There are three laws, right?
[01:43:01]  Three laws.
[01:43:04]  Don't harm a human.
[01:43:06]  Do whatever you can to do what a human says.
[01:43:10]  Yeah.
[01:43:10]  And don't harm yourself unless it violates one or two iRobots.
[01:43:15]  So obviously we haven't taught Google Home not to harm humans.
[01:43:20]  No.
[01:43:20]  I don't know how they would.
[01:43:23]  It's still on Twitch if you want to see it.
[01:43:25]  The channel's called Seabots Chat.
[01:43:27]  I will.
[01:43:28]  That's great.
[01:43:28]  Thanks, Joe.
[01:43:29]  I appreciate it.
[01:43:31]  I brought the Google Home to my house.
[01:43:33]  My younger kid said, Dad, get this out.
[01:43:35]  What is this doing in our house?
[01:43:36]  Get this out of our house.
[01:43:38]  I'm like, wow, have I indoctrinated you guys?
[01:43:41]  Yeah, I'm kidding.
[01:43:42]  Because we've had the Alexa for a while.
[01:43:44]  Do you like it?
[01:43:46]  We put it side by side.
[01:43:48]  Google is good.
[01:43:50]  But I think that's only because a lot of things, I've talked to a couple people after the show, and I don't have any, I didn't have anything apt up to it, you know, mapped up to the Alexa.
[01:44:02]  So there's a bunch of stuff you can do with the Alexa that I don't do with it because they're set up.
[01:44:07]  And of course, I'm just like, no, no, I'm not going to set it up.
[01:44:10]  But I mean, it is a really good speaker, which is a weird thing.
[01:44:15]  I really like it from that perspective.
[01:44:17]  I loved it for the music.
[01:44:18]  It's a great speaker.
[01:44:20]  I love it for the notes.
[01:44:21]  I love, I told Tanya, I said, you know, and I want to talk about this tomorrow for the notes.
[01:44:26]  We should start on this.
[01:44:26]  Yeah, we should start on this.

=== Assistants Writing for the Wealthy (01:05) ===

[01:44:28]  Because this replaces everyone.
[01:44:32]  This is the opposite of the way technology usually happens.
[01:44:36]  Usually technology starts very high-end and the rich people get it first and then it trickles down.
[01:44:44]  Why don't rich people need, I mean, really, really wealthy people that pioneer the stuff.
[01:44:49]  Why don't they need Google Home?
[01:44:51]  Because they have assistants that just write.
[01:44:53]  Assistants to write everything down.
[01:44:54]  Okay.
[01:44:55]  So they have all this done.
[01:44:56]  Oh, geez, you know what?
[01:44:57]  I'm out of paper towels too.
[01:44:58]  Could somebody run and get some or just, you know, would you do that?
[01:45:02]  This is starting from the bottom.
[01:45:05]  This is giving a service to the average American of having a full-time assistant.
[01:45:12]  Hey, would you okay, Google?
[01:45:14]  I'm out of paper towels.
[01:45:16]  Order some paper towels, have them shipped to the house.
[01:45:18]  Okay.
[01:45:18]  Now you've got okay, Googles all over the country shipping paper towels.
[01:45:22]  Sorry about that.
[01:45:23]  Okay, Google, stop.
[01:45:25]  Stop.
[01:45:29]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:45:33]  Mercury.