The Glenn Beck Program - September 28, 2026


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00:00:00.000 so a new report is out came out friday for uh tp usa and uh uvu the place where uh charlie kirk
00:00:10.100 was killed and it's a it's an internal uh document that shows what really happened that day and
00:00:17.800 there are going to be people give you all kinds of opinions on it i have an opinion and it's all
00:00:22.900 about the facts and i share those with you on today's podcast plus broken families there's
00:00:28.060 this heartbreaking story um in the wall street journal came out this weekend about 138 families
00:00:36.300 every month have somebody say you're not my parent anymore you're toxic you're you know you're you're
00:00:45.380 dangerous to be around i need a safe space or whatever it is we talk about that and the reaction
00:00:52.040 from the audience was pretty intense. We did a poll and, uh, more than half of us are facing
00:00:59.940 these kinds of problems and it's getting worse. This is 10 times worse than it was five years
00:01:05.840 ago. Also, Justin Haskins joins us. He's got a new poll out and it'll show you how much trouble
00:01:11.760 We are actually in with the youth, anybody under 30.
00:01:17.300 The extreme views is shocking.
00:01:22.940 We go into the war with questions like, do you want America to win or the Iranians to win?
00:01:30.020 Would you trade for cheap oil and gas? 0.62
00:01:34.160 Would you dismantle Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state for cheap oil and gas? 0.89
00:01:42.920 What do you think the results are? 1.00
00:01:45.100 It's terrifying.
00:01:47.300 We have that and so much more on today's Best Up podcast.
00:01:59.400 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:04.160 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:09.960 We're glad you're here.
00:02:11.660 This weekend we had, I don't know, about 100 people up to the house here at the Standing Rock Ranch.
00:02:16.660 We had the first wedding here at the ranch.
00:02:20.700 It was a family wedding.
00:02:23.380 And had a conversation with one of my nephews.
00:02:28.300 We don't see the world the same.
00:02:30.480 And I love him to death.
00:02:32.060 And he loves his uncle.
00:02:34.080 And we were having a conversation.
00:02:36.940 I said, just when we finished hugging each other,
00:02:41.220 I looked him in the eye and said, just make me a promise, will you?
00:02:44.180 That this will never stop.
00:02:45.460 Our love will never stop because we disagree on politics
00:02:47.800 because it's not worth it.
00:02:49.460 And he said, Uncle Glenn, I promise you.
00:02:52.660 I'm going to talk about those families that are struggling,
00:02:56.640 including mine, from a story from the Wall Street Journal here
00:02:59.860 coming up in just a minute.
00:03:00.800 If you're struggling with your family because of politics, you are not alone.
00:03:05.740 And I have to tell you, I have a hard time.
00:03:09.180 Well, we'll get into it in a minute.
00:03:11.920 There was news that came out on Friday.
00:03:14.620 Utah Valley University released the independent review of the day Charlie Kirk was killed on campus.
00:03:20.820 Outside experts did more than 70 interviews, read thousands of pages, videos, dispatch logs, text messages, blah, blah, blah.
00:03:29.940 It's all released, and within an hour, everybody had a verdict.
00:03:32.980 Everybody had something.
00:03:34.260 I got to get on the air, and I got to talk about this.
00:03:36.320 I got to quick.
00:03:37.060 I got to get on my podcast.
00:03:39.420 The family's lawyer blamed the university.
00:03:42.540 Parts of the left blamed Turning Point.
00:03:44.920 Podcasters said, the silence is the real story.
00:03:49.400 Is it?
00:03:50.020 Is that the real story?
00:03:51.340 The silence?
00:03:51.920 Huh.
00:03:54.620 Most of these people couldn't even finish page 10.
00:03:57.320 They told us, you know, silence.
00:04:05.180 Sometimes silence is the real story.
00:04:08.200 Like my opinion on some of these podcasters is...
00:04:15.020 Now, I just told a story there, didn't I?
00:04:20.420 My silence was the story.
00:04:23.020 Not this time.
00:04:24.220 You know, we're living in the so-called information age.
00:04:28.460 We're not living in the information age anymore.
00:04:30.380 We were in the information age.
00:04:32.280 Now we're in the opinion and outrage age.
00:04:36.400 Opinion is the currency of the day, and it is so cheap to print.
00:04:40.480 It is nobody ever runs out of opinions.
00:04:43.820 My gosh.
00:04:46.300 Facts are what's scarce in today's world.
00:04:49.600 So let me not sell you a side here.
00:04:52.060 Let me tell you the facts of what's in the report in order.
00:04:56.040 You decide what it means.
00:04:57.380 You're smart enough to figure this out.
00:04:58.880 So you decide.
00:05:00.600 So in July of last year, a Turning Point field representative asked the campus club to request the outdoor courtyard.
00:05:10.440 Charlie had spoken at UVU before he knew the place.
00:05:13.640 The police chief learned about the event three weeks out.
00:05:16.980 Okay. All right. That's probably a, you know, the planning form estimated 600 people didn't list any safety concerns. So the police chief doesn't find out until three weeks out. That's a problem. That's a problem. University staff warned the courtyard would be hard to control. Point in their favor. Turning Point wanted it anyway with its own ticketing. University went along. Probably shouldn't have done that. Reviewers said it should have kept those decisions for itself.
00:05:43.760 Then there was no security assessment, no written plan.
00:05:48.220 Nobody studied the rooftops.
00:05:50.760 Two days before Charlie's own security flagged the walkway above the stage,
00:05:58.100 the chief taped it off and posted two officers there.
00:06:02.360 That morning, he texts Charlie's security supervisor, meet at 11.
00:06:06.580 Well, they didn't meet.
00:06:07.800 Why?
00:06:08.700 The chief was clearing protesters off the walkway,
00:06:11.520 than chasing students off a balcony outside the president's office.
00:06:14.880 He was busy fixing the problems he could see.
00:06:18.680 13 sworn officers for the whole university.
00:06:22.540 No screening, bike racks for barriers, camera recording,
00:06:26.600 nobody watching, no ambulance.
00:06:29.280 You know, the emergency manager was on vacation.
00:06:33.300 And then at 1223, a shot came from the roof more than 400 feet away.
00:06:38.440 So
00:06:40.520 Whose fault is it?
00:06:46.900 Well, I read this thing
00:06:48.200 I can't find any bad faith
00:06:50.860 I can't find any plot line here
00:06:53.460 No conspiracy
00:06:54.400 I didn't find a single Jew in the report 1.00
00:06:57.160 What I found were serious failures 1.00
00:07:00.540 And failures on both sides of the table
00:07:03.700 You know what?
00:07:05.560 This is one of those things like 0.99
00:07:07.060 Crap happens 0.97
00:07:08.400 Charlie's security leads 0.99
00:07:16.020 Turning Point's field representatives
00:07:18.320 The student who invited him
00:07:21.600 All declined to be interviewed
00:07:23.600 The family has filed notice of a lawsuit
00:07:27.720 Lawsuits make people stop talking
00:07:29.920 That's what it is
00:07:31.060 That's not a confession
00:07:32.560 That's the silence
00:07:33.720 It's a lawsuit and litigation
00:07:36.680 The silence speaks volumes.
00:07:38.660 Yes, everybody's going to court and they've all got an attorney.
00:07:43.940 It's just a blank space.
00:07:46.520 And in the opinion age, somebody has to rush to fill in that silence.
00:07:51.760 I can talk, I can talk, I can talk, listen to me.
00:07:53.820 I can talk, I can talk, look how many followers I can get.
00:07:59.780 You know, this would make me feel awful if we hadn't been here before, but we have.
00:08:03.820 Let me take you back to probably the biggest one, April 1912.
00:08:10.460 Days before the most famous ship in the world left Southampton.
00:08:15.160 The line shuffles its officers.
00:08:17.620 The second officer gets bumped.
00:08:20.200 He walks off the ship down the gangway with a little key in his pocket.
00:08:24.060 Little key.
00:08:25.060 What was that little key?
00:08:26.080 You probably never heard this story.
00:08:27.740 Oh, this was a big scandal back then.
00:08:29.440 He kept the key.
00:08:31.220 It opened the locker that held the binoculars for the crow's nest.
00:08:35.340 Nobody noticed.
00:08:36.420 Nobody thought it mattered.
00:08:38.020 Okay?
00:08:38.500 Four nights later, two lookouts standing in that nest.
00:08:42.260 No moon.
00:08:43.320 The sea so flat, nothing broke against the ice.
00:08:46.580 They're watching with their bare eyes.
00:08:48.480 They have no binoculars.
00:08:49.800 Because he left with a key, he did it intentionally.
00:08:52.940 All day, other ships had warned of ice warnings.
00:08:57.900 Titanic's radio men, buried, buried.
00:09:00.640 Why weren't they watching the radio?
00:09:01.960 Why weren't they getting those reports?
00:09:03.580 Because they were buried in passenger telegrams.
00:09:06.760 The job they were paid for.
00:09:09.040 Late that night, the nearest ship broke in one more time.
00:09:12.080 Stopped, surrounded by ice.
00:09:14.940 Titanic's operator told him, shut up, we're busy.
00:09:18.300 So the man shot off the set and went to bed.
00:09:21.340 About 10 minutes later, the lookout rang the bell.
00:09:26.140 Asked under oath, how much sooner would you have rung that bell if you had had your glasses?
00:09:31.860 He said, enough to get away.
00:09:34.220 We wouldn't have hit the iceberg if I would have had the binocular.
00:09:36.540 See, he took the key. 1.00
00:09:38.120 He was probably a Jew. 1.00
00:09:42.080 The ship that tried to warn them could see the Distrex rockets. 1.00
00:09:45.960 It never came.
00:09:46.680 The only man who could have heard that call was asleep.
00:09:51.120 The lifeboats, Titanic carried more than the law required.
00:09:54.720 but the law was written for smaller ships.
00:09:57.620 Nobody updated it.
00:09:59.640 A key in the wrong pocket, a radio man doing his job,
00:10:02.600 a tired man going to bed, an old rule.
00:10:07.180 There's no villains there.
00:10:08.880 More than 1,500 dead.
00:10:15.300 There wasn't a conspiracy,
00:10:16.920 although everybody tried to make it into a conspiracy at the time.
00:10:20.220 You do the small job in front of you like the ship depends on it,
00:10:23.440 and sometimes it does.
00:10:24.720 For a hundred years, we've refused to believe it.
00:10:29.440 It was the sister ship, swap for insurance.
00:10:33.440 It was the banker who canceled his trip.
00:10:38.500 They wanted to sink the rich men who stood in the way of the Federal Reserve.
00:10:43.840 The banker did counsel. The rich men did die.
00:10:47.220 The Fed did come the next year.
00:10:49.040 Every dot is real, but the line between them is not.
00:10:53.360 We want the plot.
00:10:54.800 Why?
00:10:55.480 Why do we want the plot?
00:10:56.660 Why do we insist on these conspiracy theories?
00:10:58.900 Because it's comforting.
00:11:00.580 Believe it or not, it's comforting.
00:11:02.160 A plot means somebody is in charge.
00:11:05.060 Catch him and it can't happen again.
00:11:07.580 But the truth is harder.
00:11:09.360 Nobody's driving.
00:11:10.180 Sometimes they are, sometimes they're not.
00:11:13.420 It's just ordinary people doing ordinary jobs,
00:11:16.080 leaving a small hole,
00:11:17.420 and that's how Charlie Kirk gets killed.
00:11:19.100 Safety engineers call it Swiss cheese
00:11:24.500 You stack the slices and every one of them has holes
00:11:27.020 Most days, the holes don't line up
00:11:29.160 The disaster is the day they do
00:11:34.240 A familiar courtyard
00:11:36.600 A wrong head count
00:11:38.300 A university that deferred
00:11:40.320 A meeting that never happened
00:11:41.860 Cameras nobody watched
00:11:43.260 The holes lined up at 1223
00:11:46.060 you know i i know this game i've connected dots that weren't connected and had to come back on
00:11:55.420 this microphone and say okay i was wrong on that they weren't connected the plots i fear
00:12:00.640 are not the ones before the shooting they're the ones that come after
00:12:04.420 because every show needs the next episode
00:12:08.860 who's making their career on episode after episode after episode after episode
00:12:16.460 The boring answer is usually one episode.
00:12:20.520 The plot is a series
00:12:22.940 and it'll make you the most famous person in the world.
00:12:28.160 Nobody ever built an audience on,
00:12:30.440 yeah, and then the radio guy went to bed
00:12:32.200 and the guy just forgot the key was in his pocket.
00:12:38.360 I can't read anybody's heart,
00:12:40.020 but I can read incentive.
00:12:42.880 I live inside it too.
00:12:46.000 The conspiracy lets the real failures off the hook.
00:12:49.980 That's the problem here.
00:12:51.780 If it was a plot, nobody answers for 13 officers.
00:12:57.560 A courtyard ringed by roofs.
00:13:00.660 A site the security team never walked with the police.
00:13:04.280 Nobody fixes the cheese.
00:13:06.140 The next speaker stands in the next courtyard under the next roof.
00:13:14.000 But here's what came after the Titanic.
00:13:16.000 A lifeboat seat for every soul
00:13:20.180 A radio watch 24 hours a day
00:13:23.560 An ice patrol that still sails the North Atlantic
00:13:27.660 By the Coast Guard's account, no ship that has heeded its warnings has ever been lost to an iceberg
00:13:33.900 The theories went nowhere
00:13:38.360 The theories didn't save anybody
00:13:40.940 The boring facts did
00:13:46.120 They've saved countless thousands of lives.
00:13:53.000 By the way, I was doing the research on this.
00:13:55.940 I found the key survived.
00:13:57.500 The key survived.
00:13:58.100 It was sold at auction about 20 years ago for 90,000 pounds.
00:14:02.000 It's about the size of your thumb.
00:14:05.500 And that's usually the size of the truth.
00:14:08.980 It's inconsequential sometimes.
00:14:11.340 It's just a whole bunch of little teeny pieces.
00:14:14.360 And that's what I found.
00:14:17.500 Every April, a Coast Guard plane flies out over the spot where Titanic went down and drops a wreath into the sea.
00:14:24.060 Not a theory, not an opinion. Flowers. A wreath.
00:14:27.900 Then the crew turns around, goes back to watching for more ice.
00:14:32.740 That's how you honor the dead.
00:14:34.100 You get the facts straight.
00:14:37.260 You fix what's broke.
00:14:39.300 You leave the conspiracies where they belong, in the trash can,
00:14:43.880 unless you can actually connect dots and they stand under scrutiny.
00:14:49.840 If any of those dots, I'm going to say it, Candace,
00:14:55.120 if any of those dots had anything, they would be used in a court of law.
00:15:01.860 Shame on you. Shame on you.
00:15:05.100 It looks like everybody made really bad mistakes.
00:15:11.400 Charlie deserves more than this.
00:15:14.060 Not a series.
00:15:15.560 Not a villain who happens to look like whoever we are supposed to dislike this week.
00:15:21.840 The truth.
00:15:23.400 The fix.
00:15:25.040 And somebody watching the roof.
00:15:28.860 I got to tell you, the opinion age is going to burn itself out quickly.
00:15:32.260 because it's going to continue to sell you a plot.
00:15:37.120 Give up on the opinions.
00:15:39.020 Don't even take mine.
00:15:41.320 Go read.
00:15:41.800 If you want to know the truth,
00:15:42.880 go read the report yourself.
00:15:45.900 The silence says everything.
00:15:47.520 No, actually the words say everything.
00:15:50.260 Read the report and decide for yourself.
00:15:52.060 Back in just a second.
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00:17:19.940 This last summer, in a conference room in Chicago, more than 200 moms and dads filled chairs.
00:17:25.540 Some of them flew in from as far as Australia.
00:17:27.700 Another 250 watched online.
00:17:31.300 Every one of them has a grown child who stops speaking to them.
00:17:36.720 Wall Street Journal was in that room, and they reported on it.
00:17:41.020 One mom, a retired event planner from Atlanta,
00:17:43.900 hasn't heard from her 28-year-old son in three years.
00:17:47.940 What still stuns her is all the kids are using the same words. 0.82
00:17:55.300 Narcissist, self-absorbed, your fault.
00:17:57.700 A Cornell sociologist found that at any given time, about one American in 10 is cut off from a parent or a child, and one in four from some close relative.
00:18:10.060 Last month alone, more than 138,000 new TikTok videos were posted about cutting off their parents.
00:18:18.940 this is 10 times what it was in august of 2020 10 times
00:18:30.740 a family therapist surveyed a thousand estranged parents 82 percent said the same levels the same
00:18:38.780 labels show up right before the abuse the door is closed and that is you're toxic you're abusive
00:18:45.580 This is an unsafe...
00:18:47.240 Oh, I can't take it.
00:18:52.540 Researchers have a name for it.
00:18:54.780 Concept creep.
00:18:57.380 Ordinary conflict, criticism, a hard disagreement,
00:19:00.760 a parent who doesn't approve gets relabeled as toxic, harmful, dangerous.
00:19:09.420 And once it's harm, leaving isn't a rupture, it's self-care.
00:19:15.580 It's brave.
00:19:18.100 There's a video for it.
00:19:19.480 There's a coach for it.
00:19:20.840 There's paid support groups for it.
00:19:24.680 One psychologist in the piece says that for some adults,
00:19:31.440 cutting off a parent is their first chance at teenage rebellion.
00:19:35.000 You're so brave.
00:19:38.160 He says a parent who disagrees is no longer seen as a family with shared history,
00:19:42.180 but as a member of the other tribe.
00:19:45.580 A professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota summed up what changed in the counselor's office.
00:19:51.000 Therapist gave estrangement the professional authoritative stamp of approval.
00:19:56.800 Why are we listening to these experts?
00:20:01.000 Now, some parents are dangerous.
00:20:03.800 Some children are abused, beaten, terrorized.
00:20:08.620 And you got to leave them because it's a matter of survival.
00:20:15.580 And the generation before mine looked away from that.
00:20:18.660 I'm proud that we look at that.
00:20:22.500 If that's your story, nobody in this program is going to tell you to go back to that house.
00:20:29.380 And some parents need to hear what their kids are saying before they dismiss it.
00:20:34.740 A grievance can be exaggerated but can still be true.
00:20:38.840 And I'm open to hear it.
00:20:41.280 I am open to hear it.
00:20:45.580 but that's not what 138,000 videos a month are about. 0.99
00:20:50.700 For 20 years, this generation told us rightly
00:20:53.700 that a parent who cuts off a child for being gay
00:20:57.140 or living a life a parent didn't approve of
00:20:59.420 has failed as a parent.
00:21:01.720 Good parents, we were told, love their kids no matter what.
00:21:04.700 And you know what?
00:21:05.900 They were right.
00:21:11.240 Now, let me turn this around.
00:21:13.620 I'm sorry, I get a little angry.
00:21:16.580 Let me turn this around on the same young adults who are now passing judgment.
00:21:23.000 Slamming the door on a mom or a dad for believing something you don't.
00:21:29.280 And then you call it enlightenment.
00:21:32.280 I got news for you.
00:21:33.640 That's the same sin with the chairs turned around.
00:21:45.580 Oh, Lord.
00:21:59.260 I'm not sure how much more I can take from these safe space, over pampered, everybody gets a trophy holier than thou crowd.
00:22:08.120 I can't take it.
00:22:15.580 But when the Lord attends me, I find this really sad.
00:22:32.300 Your parent is hurting deeply, and they will feel that pain to the end of their life.
00:22:42.340 But I want to tell you something, and this is the saddest part.
00:22:47.580 Their pain is going to end long before yours does.
00:22:52.680 See, we've lost parents already, and that never goes away.
00:23:00.520 And you will have decades left to live with a divorce you filed yourself
00:23:07.880 and didn't even, in many cases, give it a hearing.
00:23:12.340 we've been here before
00:23:20.580 not with an app
00:23:22.640 but with a war
00:23:23.540 we've been here before
00:23:24.720 we were here during the Civil War
00:23:28.040 we were here in the Revolutionary War
00:23:30.540 Ben Franklin, one of the saddest stories
00:23:32.720 he had one son, William
00:23:34.060 he raised him, took him to London
00:23:36.240 watched him become the royal governor of New Jersey
00:23:38.800 and then came the revolution
00:23:40.020 the father chose the country
00:23:44.060 the son chose the king
00:23:45.880 William was arrested in 1776
00:23:50.160 spent two years in an American prison
00:23:52.620 and when he got out
00:23:54.360 he led loyalists against the causes
00:23:56.680 father had bet his life on
00:23:58.080 nine years without a word
00:24:00.860 then the war ended
00:24:02.720 Franklin was the one who signed
00:24:06.620 the peace with Britain
00:24:07.460 And it was Franklin who reached out first.
00:24:12.420 He dropped a hint through a merchant headed for London.
00:24:16.860 Why hasn't my son made any move towards reconciliation?
00:24:21.440 If nations can make peace, why can't we?
00:24:26.960 William wrote back.
00:24:29.580 He asked to revive the affection that had been, in his word, the pride and happiness of his life.
00:24:37.460 He also said, if all of it happened again tomorrow,
00:24:41.400 he'd do exactly the same thing.
00:24:46.420 Franklin answered with a letter you can still read, we should post it.
00:24:50.580 Nothing has ever hurt me so much, he wrote,
00:24:53.700 as to find myself deserted in my old age by my own son.
00:24:58.240 And then he wrote the wisest thing in it.
00:25:02.920 I ought not blame you for differing with me.
00:25:05.440 We are all men
00:25:08.060 Subject to errors
00:25:10.380 Our opinions
00:25:12.400 Are not in our own power
00:25:14.860 And then this
00:25:17.340 There are natural duties
00:25:19.800 Which precede political ones
00:25:21.520 And cannot be extinguished by them
00:25:24.880 Franklin knew the answer
00:25:28.760 He wrote it down
00:25:31.540 He could not do it
00:25:37.500 They met once more
00:25:41.640 In an English port in 1785
00:25:43.600 A few days of business
00:25:45.340 Settling of property
00:25:46.900 Franklin sailed home
00:25:49.120 They never saw each other again
00:25:51.320 When his will was read
00:25:54.460 The son got almost nothing
00:25:55.920 With one line of explanation
00:25:58.160 the part he acted against me in the late war.
00:26:05.460 The man who made peace with the British Empire
00:26:08.020 couldn't make peace with his own son.
00:26:13.140 And it cuts both ways. 0.81
00:26:14.420 The father was right about the war. 0.54
00:26:15.740 The son believed he was right about his duty.
00:26:18.460 Both were proud.
00:26:20.300 Each wanted the other to go first.
00:26:22.360 And when the other one didn't, it wasn't enough.
00:26:28.840 Being right didn't give either one of them a father or a son back.
00:26:35.320 I'm telling you that piece of history because nothing's new.
00:26:39.580 The riff isn't new.
00:26:41.700 The families have split over kings and churches and money,
00:26:44.560 a thousand smaller things since Cain.
00:26:48.120 Here's what's new.
00:26:49.820 The applause.
00:26:51.780 The cheering.
00:26:53.420 The coaching.
00:26:54.080 the verbiage that goes along with it
00:26:59.200 to celebrate your courage for destroying your family
00:27:04.220 over an opinion.
00:27:05.460 And I don't care who started it.
00:27:07.240 I don't care who's responsible for it.
00:27:09.420 It's your family.
00:27:18.480 I've lost four dear family members.
00:27:22.500 I don't know if I'll ever see them again
00:27:25.000 I write all the time
00:27:28.920 I never get word back
00:27:31.940 You are not alone
00:27:36.140 Franklin at least called it what it was
00:27:48.020 The thing that hurt him most in his life
00:27:49.880 He didn't post it as a victory
00:27:53.400 Nobody coached him through it
00:28:00.560 Nobody sold him a membership
00:28:02.360 Today there's a whole economy standing at the door
00:28:05.740 Cheering while those doors close
00:28:07.660 An algorithm that noticed what you lingered on
00:28:11.600 And feeds you more of it
00:28:13.100 Influencers who are only credentialists
00:28:15.160 They did it too
00:28:16.260 And often it's a professional who's never met your mom
00:28:21.940 Telling you the reason is her
00:28:25.480 That you're the brave one
00:28:29.400 Even the man who runs one of the biggest estrangement support groups in the country
00:28:35.180 Admits it
00:28:36.000 The person on your phone isn't listening to you
00:28:40.680 Doesn't know you
00:28:41.680 Can't judge your situation
00:28:44.540 A stranger's story is not your diagnosis.
00:28:51.540 To the grown kids, honor your father and your mother.
00:28:57.000 Paul called it the first commandment with a promise detached.
00:29:02.000 He doesn't ever say agree with them.
00:29:04.800 He doesn't say obey them forever.
00:29:07.560 He doesn't say let them hurt you.
00:29:10.220 He says honor them.
00:29:13.540 honor can be done from a distance
00:29:18.220 with rules and limits
00:29:19.380 basic kindness
00:29:22.180 for people
00:29:24.040 who bore you
00:29:25.940 and raised you
00:29:27.300 who worried when you were sick
00:29:38.040 who still think of you
00:29:39.320 every single day
00:29:40.700 boundary is a fence with a gate a cutoff is a wall with no door know which one you're building
00:29:53.120 and who sold you the bricks and to the parents in chicago go first not with a defense surrender
00:30:01.900 just ask a question
00:30:04.220 what did I do
00:30:07.580 to hurt you
00:30:08.780 to deserve this
00:30:10.700 and then do the hardest thing
00:30:13.660 a parent ever does
00:30:14.520 don't explain
00:30:15.160 just listen
00:30:15.820 you don't have to agree
00:30:18.440 just hear it
00:30:21.760 a door you closed
00:30:26.120 to punish something
00:30:27.200 to punish the actions
00:30:30.340 to punish someone
00:30:32.120 You close that door, that door locks from both sides.
00:30:38.300 Benjamin Franklin died in 1790.
00:30:40.760 His son outlived him by 23 years in London, a man without a country,
00:30:44.720 and in the end, a man without a dad.
00:30:49.740 They were both right about something.
00:30:52.520 It didn't matter.
00:30:53.480 I know how hard it is to write
00:31:02.860 even though you think about them
00:31:05.520 every single day
00:31:06.800 multiple times a day
00:31:08.320 never stop writing
00:31:15.260 never stop texting
00:31:17.580 never stop calling
00:31:18.560 reach them one way or another
00:31:23.460 in hopes that they will read that text, that email, that letter.
00:31:33.680 Franklin wrote them.
00:31:37.380 For us, those words, for us, 240-some years ago,
00:31:42.640 we are all men subject to errors.
00:31:45.900 The natural duties come first.
00:31:50.320 Write the letter, no matter which side you're on.
00:31:53.460 Write the letter, and when the answer comes, let it be enough.
00:32:00.860 I will pray for you and ask that you pray for me.
00:32:09.000 Together, maybe we can all heal our families at some point.
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00:33:39.840 Justin, welcome to the program.
00:33:41.320 This this poll that you just are releasing here this week is absolutely terrifying.
00:33:48.560 Yes, it is. It is. It's one of the more terrifying polls I've done.
00:33:52.180 I've done dozens of polls over many years.
00:33:54.540 As you know, you have highlighted a lot of them.
00:33:57.320 One of the key things that I'm always looking for is to find out just how insane America has become, especially with younger people, especially on the left.
00:34:06.100 Been tracking it for a long time. And as this poll illustrates very, very clearly, it's really a series of polls. They all illustrate the same thing. Younger people and the Democratic Party is so far gone and detached from reality that it's hard to believe how crazy things have actually gotten.
00:34:27.660 And we have a lot of work to do on the right to try to repair this, because eventually younger people are going to be the majority voting bloc. 0.69
00:34:35.960 And when that happens, God help us, because they have absolutely no idea what's going on in the world, and we're going to talk about it in this poll. 0.99
00:34:46.080 Okay.
00:34:48.140 Give me the first one that want socialist president.
00:34:52.680 How many people want a socialist president overall, Democrats, and then Republicans?
00:34:59.340 Yeah, so actually that poll question is not in this poll.
00:35:03.120 That's from a different poll that we did a while ago.
00:35:05.800 No, but the answer to that question is, generally speaking, support for socialist presidential candidates is pretty low.
00:35:15.060 But with younger people, it's around 50%.
00:35:18.400 So about 50% of people say under the age of 30 or so that they want a democratic presidential, a democratic socialist president in 2028. So they want a socialist now. And when you trace all sorts of other socialist and Marxist questions that I've asked in previous polls, you'll see that it's around 40, 50%. Sometimes it drops below 40%, depending on the question.
00:35:44.680 But you ask about socialist policies like nationalizing whole industries.
00:35:49.600 You ask about, you know, you name it.
00:35:53.260 Health care, energy, and big tech.
00:35:55.340 Health care, energy, and big tech.
00:35:57.140 It is 76%.
00:35:58.880 76.
00:36:00.700 Yeah, exactly.
00:36:01.580 And so widespread support among younger people for socialism.
00:36:05.160 So you're looking at socialism.
00:36:07.420 Remember, red-green alliance.
00:36:09.460 So you've got socialism.
00:36:11.300 That's the red.
00:36:12.220 Now let's look at the green. 1.00
00:36:13.760 Islam and these numbers are terrifying let's just look at today we'll look at Islam tomorrow 1.00
00:36:22.720 and Sharia law which is holy cow are we in trouble let's look at just the war with Iran here 1.00
00:36:29.940 in the ongoing war between the United States and Iran who do you hope will ultimately win
00:36:37.040 and you were asking americans that's right likely voters not just all americans not just
00:36:43.440 registered voters likely voters and what we found is that among all voters six percent said iran so
00:36:50.560 not a huge percentage 74 said the united states which is the obvious right answer you would think
00:36:57.940 correct 10 10 said they don't care which is pretty astounding and 11 said they're not sure
00:37:03.640 They're still trying to figure out whether they want, you know, Iran to win the war or not.
00:37:08.020 I guess they haven't figured that out.
00:37:09.320 But the really scary thing is not those top line results because the average everyday
00:37:14.360 American is not insane, but many young people are and a huge chunk of the Democratic Party
00:37:21.240 is becoming that way.
00:37:22.220 A quarter of the Democrats surveyed said that they either want Iran to win or they don't
00:37:28.280 care who wins, but they're not rooting for America.
00:37:30.660 less than 50 percent of them said that they want the united states to win this war less than 50
00:37:35.600 percent and younger people it was similar similar thing so under 30 the most radical positions taken
00:37:42.440 throughout all of these polling questions are going to be with younger people and with democrats
00:37:46.620 and it's going to be depending on the question around a quarter or so of of these groups saying
00:37:53.700 the most rap taking the most radical position that you could the second question i actually
00:38:01.180 want to discuss this one because i will discuss it who do you think is most to blame for the war
00:38:06.880 between iran and the united states this one does not surprise me go ahead yeah 39 said it's iran's
00:38:15.400 government 41 which was this is the plurality this is the number one answer said the u.s
00:38:21.060 government. 10% said Israel's government, which is actually interesting because not a lot of people
00:38:25.960 said that. And 9% said not sure. I did too. But when you add Israel's government and the US
00:38:32.840 government together, you have a majority of all voters saying, yes, we think this is either
00:38:38.160 Israel's fault or the United States' fault, primarily the United States. And when you asked
00:38:43.000 Democrats and young people, it was much, much higher. 77% of Democrats said it's either Israel's
00:38:49.520 fault or the U.S. government. Most of them said the U.S. government. Same thing with younger
00:38:53.620 people. The vast majority of them, it was over 60 percent, said it's either America's fault or
00:38:58.660 Israel's fault. So I look at this differently. I look at this as, you know, who's most to blame
00:39:04.800 for the war between Iran and the United States? Well, I mean, we were the ones who pulled the 0.75
00:39:10.120 trigger. You know what I mean? It's not like they pulled the trigger. We did a preemptive
00:39:14.240 strike on them. And it was because of Hezbollah and Hamas and also nuclear. So you could look at 0.97
00:39:22.680 that and say, well, it was their actions, but we were the ones who pulled. So I can look at this
00:39:27.360 at 39% say it's Iran, 41% say it's the US government without attaching negative views
00:39:34.960 to America. Do the numbers bear that out when you're looking at it? Go ahead.
00:39:44.240 If this was the only question we had, then I would say, yeah, there's all sorts of ways you could read this. Maybe they're just thinking, well, America's the one that launched these attacks to begin with.
00:39:56.440 So I think that the important thing to keep in mind, though, is it's in the context of people saying everything that we just talked about in the first poll question, where we're asking, who do you hope will win? 0.50
00:40:08.840 And you've got a quarter of people saying, basically, I don't care or I want Iran to win in the Democratic Party and among younger people.
00:40:16.820 So and the next question that we'll get to shows that this position is more radical than it might seem for this one question that we're talking about alone. 0.86
00:40:24.860 But the reality is Iran has been attacking America for a very long time. 0.52
00:40:29.960 It's not as though it's not as though America just woke up one day and said Donald Trump woke up and said, you know, we're going to attack Iran. 0.76
00:40:37.300 and we have no reason to.
00:40:39.600 That's not what happened, obviously.
00:40:41.440 So people don't know the history of this.
00:40:43.700 Yeah, I was going to say, people don't know the history.
00:40:45.640 They're not paying any attention, unfortunately,
00:40:47.800 for the Republic's sake.
00:40:50.200 Here is the really scary one.
00:40:53.980 Would you support a proposal that would end the war in Iran
00:40:57.880 and provide the United States with low oil and gas prices 0.99
00:41:02.740 in exchange for completely dismantling the nation of israel and replacing it with a new palestinian
00:41:11.260 led nation yes yes and i did write that question just to be clear because because i want to know
00:41:20.380 just how radical these factions have become and the answer to this was absolutely astounding
00:41:28.280 Among all voters, 19% said yes, they would support that proposal. You dismantle Israel, 0.75
00:41:35.800 you install a Palestinian state, and all the Americans get in return is low oil and gas prices 0.84
00:41:41.700 and ending the war in Iran. 19%. So one in five people said that of all voters. Only 58% said no. 0.67
00:41:51.340 So there's a lot of not sure. There's 22% of people, voters, likely voters, who say,
00:41:57.100 well i'm thinking about it maybe i would support support something like that and then when you look
00:42:01.840 at the demographics you wait god just a second what right do you have to dismantle a state
00:42:09.600 for oil and gas i mean that is every charge that every leftist has ever made about any war
00:42:18.080 that they'll do americans the government is only doing it for cheap oil and gas 0.95
00:42:23.200 and they'll go and kill anybody you are saying you will dismantle and basically kill all the 0.97
00:42:30.620 jews for cheap oil and gas it is such a horrific concept i looked at that before i looked at the 0.97
00:42:39.960 i read that and i i kind of laughed when i read it because i'm like this is a crazy question and
00:42:45.940 then i looked at the results go ahead and just break it down by democrats right so 24 so one in
00:42:54.700 four democrats say that they would support this proposal again likely voters these are voters who
00:43:00.320 are saying this and support among young people and this is really the most terrifying part of
00:43:05.740 all of it i mean bad enough we have 19 overall among all voters a quarter of democrats that's
00:43:12.060 all bad, but younger people in particular have bought this idea that we should just get rid of 0.72
00:43:17.560 Israel, just dismantle it, destroy it. 46% for cheap gas, 46% of those aged 18 to 24 said they 0.82
00:43:28.040 would support that 60% of those 25 to 29. And then I believe it was in the forties or so for
00:43:35.420 people who were in their thirties. And so the higher up you go, the less likely you are to
00:43:40.880 support this. When you get to age 40 and above, 40 and above, support for this proposal is I think
00:43:48.020 3%. So basically nobody. So all the support for this proposal is people under the age of 40.
00:43:55.120 It's so important for people to understand this is how radical a lot of our young people have
00:44:00.940 become. They think this kind of policy is completely acceptable at levels that are 40,
00:44:07.300 50 60 percent i don't think people understand how extreme young people have become and you know on
00:44:17.000 the right and the left to some extent but right now we're talking about mostly people on the left
00:44:21.160 who hold these positions it is a huge problem and as these people grow up and become the primary
00:44:26.720 voting base these are these ideas are going to be front and center when they're electing politicians
00:44:33.200 when public policy is going into place,
00:44:35.440 when we decide whether we're going to support Israel in the future or not.
00:44:39.100 So this is incredibly important information is not getting anywhere near
00:44:43.060 enough attention,
00:44:43.780 how radical young people have become on this issue.
00:44:47.940 I'm going to take a break and we're going to talk about, okay, okay.
00:44:50.800 Okay. So now what do we do? Cause these are,
00:44:53.880 if these numbers don't terrify you, you're dead asleep.
00:44:57.780 Um, because this is your future. Uh,
00:45:02.040 And these numbers are, I've never seen anything like this.
00:45:05.920 I've done this for 49 years, never seen anything like this.
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