On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Brian in Colorado to discuss the latest in the Brett Kavanugh saga. Also, David Barton joins the show to discuss his new book, "This Precarious Moment," and what's really happening with millennials.
00:17:24.400And so we just kind of think we'll always be here.
00:17:26.820And yet at the same time, you have 5,500 years of recorded history and there's never been a socialist nation that's increased freedom or increased prosperity.
00:17:35.980And yet right now, 75% of students in college support socialism above all forms of government.
00:17:41.460We cannot survive if that becomes the belief when they become leaders.
00:17:45.900Uh, and in the same way, four out of five millennials believe there is no absolute moral truth.
00:17:51.020Man, if we can't agree that things like rape and murder are wrong, you've got no chance for having a nation in the future.
00:17:56.600You got 53% of millennials who believe that free speech should be limited.
00:18:00.86019% who believe that violence is the right response to free speech you don't like.
00:18:22.280They care about whether you're sincere.
00:18:23.960And if you are sincere and say, and what we have found works so well is just asking questions because they really have had a load dumped on them by their professors and by the culture.
00:18:46.340How does whatever fill in the blank, they start to engage and, and they, I find that they actually, they actually, um, begin to move toward you faster and not, not just blindly accepting things, but because you're engaging them and asking them to think as long as you're not trying to win.
00:20:03.820I mean, they, they, they have a desire to spend one-on-one time with people who can influence them and help them and thank them.
00:20:10.640Now that's not necessarily their motivation, but what is interesting is they respond really, really well to that.
00:20:16.700And so when you create a relationship that is a genuine, as you said, not trying to win, just a genuine relationship, you can make so much progress in turning them in a different direction.
00:20:56.660He has a book out called this precarious moment.
00:20:59.380Uh, he's written it with, uh, James Garlow, who's a, just a great, great guy and good thinker.
00:21:04.720Um, and they have the stats in the book and they have different things.
00:21:08.840We've con we were concentrating just for a second on millennials because I know David has seen it and I've seen it because we're doing it with Mercury one.
00:21:17.180And when you present the facts to millennials, if you're not trying to win, they say, wait a minute, what?
00:21:28.800David, talk about a few of the millennials that we have had in for our two week, you know, training course.
00:21:34.640And they have actually come a little hostile.
00:21:44.500You know, we don't, we don't run from that situation.
00:21:47.020We just embrace them and say, let's have a conversation as long as you'll engage in the conversation.
00:21:51.700And so we start asking them questions and, you know, they have their opinions, but we just ask them questions and it's kind of like they sit back and, uh, I don't know.
00:22:01.300And so once you ask the questions that lead them to the information, it's amazing to see that they then take those questions and go back to those that taught them and change them.
00:22:10.760We literally, we have a girl that came in that, you know, learned all sorts of stuff.
00:22:16.380She went back to her professor, started asking her professor questions.
00:22:19.700He got all befuddled because he didn't know the answers.
00:22:22.440He now has asked her to meet with him once a week and teach her, teach him what she learned in all these classes.
00:23:02.640And she showed him that and then showed him the documentation.
00:23:05.460And he said, okay, I want more because I clearly didn't.
00:23:09.000But that's the thing of asking questions with the relationships.
00:23:11.520And we take these, these guys that come in hostile or otherwise, and just because of relationships, but, and as we tell them, we have a lot of fun with them.
00:23:20.380I mean, quite frankly, we tell them that sarcasm is our love language.
00:23:23.220If we don't make fun of you, it's because we don't like you.
00:23:25.460So, so, you know, we, we, we kid and joke and have a great, great time, but they come out transformed and they are some of the most mature individuals.
00:23:34.480And these, these guys are all, it's in their mind to become leaders.
00:23:50.300We are going to do Black History Month, a museum here at our studios in February.
00:23:57.800If you don't think that's a little controversial, but we have worked on this and we're working on it with the Lincoln Museum.
00:24:06.100And it's going to be a little mind-blowing and really, really eye-opening to a lot of people on both sides.
00:24:15.360And it's Black History, but, you know, not all the Black History that everybody knows.
00:24:19.680Let's tell the Black History that really nobody knows.
00:24:22.800And that's going to be here at our studios in the month of February.
00:24:28.000And yesterday we decided that because they're, they're going to, we're going to have docents.
00:24:31.800We're going to have people that are going to tell these individual stories about these people in here on stage 19 as you come through.
00:24:40.960And they're all going to be, I said yesterday, let's get some of the kids that we've met that are even 15 years old that just will learn it and really know it.
00:24:51.600It's really quite exciting to see millennials what happens when they're unleashed and told the truth.
00:24:57.400David's new book, David Barton and James Garlow's new book, This Precarious Moment, The Six Urgent Steps That Will Save You, Your Family, and Your Country.
00:26:08.660And then when you look now, the founding fathers were very good because Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution says they can establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
00:26:36.600And by the way, Ben Franklin said that when you came, you needed to have a certificate from a religious society attesting to your good moral character from the country from which you left.
00:26:44.720The immigrant must not only support the Constitution and our government of laws, but renounce allegiance to any other nation or loyalty to any other system.
00:26:56.600And by the way, we had Muslims in America since 1619.
00:27:00.080But to be part of the country, you had to agree to the Constitution, not come here to overturn it.
00:27:04.980The immigrant must believe in the equality of all Americans to renounce and renounce any title of nobility.
00:27:11.940So would I have to if I was coming in, would I have to declare that I was not a member of the press title of nobility or a professor or a professor?
00:27:44.740And these guys said and I mean, the debates are great.
00:27:47.680They said, look, when we got here, if we had voted, we would have voted the way that we were thinking from the West Indies and Ireland and elsewhere.
00:27:55.120And Pierce Butler said, you should not be allowed to vote until 14 years here because you need to learn to think like an American.
00:29:21.480And he said the problem is they're speaking their own language.
00:29:24.560They're starting to create signs in German.
00:29:26.700They're starting to create documents in German.
00:29:29.480You can't have a nation if you don't speak the same language.
00:29:32.260So Franklin was one of the first ones out.
00:29:34.020Then Thomas Jefferson, the same thing.
00:29:35.880He said we have immigrants coming in, which is great.
00:29:38.000And by the way, they were so pro-immigration that in the Declaration of Independence, one of the 27 grievances was we're separating from Great Britain because he's trying to stop immigration.
00:29:55.780They will bring with them the principles of the government.
00:29:57.980They leave imbibed with their own early inbibed in their early youth.
00:30:01.580These old principles with their language they will transmit to their children in proportion to their numbers they will share with us in legislation.
00:30:09.380They will infuse it into their old spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it as heterogeneous, incoherent, and distracted mass.
00:30:21.020It is thought better to discourage their settling together in large masses, and they should distribute themselves sparsely among the native for quicker assimilation.
00:30:37.620It seems to me necessary to distribute the Germans, the Germans more equally, mix them in with English, establish English schools that are now where they are now too thickly settled.
00:30:51.320I am against the I am not against the admission of Germans in general, for they have virtues, their industry, frugality, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:58.300And so what we do is show slavery is a human problem.
00:33:01.420It is not a black-white problem, despite what your professors say.
00:33:04.800It is a problem in the way you view humankind.
00:33:07.380So we go through and show, for example, Tim Scott and James Lankford in the U.S. Senate have come up with this thing where you invite other people from other races to come eat a meal with you on Sunday.
00:33:18.600Come into your house and, you know, learn and touch.
00:33:23.220You solve it one person at a time, changing a heart at a time, seeing people different, and not having this black-white polarization that we often try to make today.
00:33:31.120How worried are you, David, about the level of anger now?
00:33:40.600Level of anger is a real problem, but what it's derived from is the bigger problem.
00:33:46.420And there's stereotypes and all these things where we really don't know each other.
00:33:51.680And once you get to know each other and once you do this interrelational stuff, like with millennials and like with folks of other races and other groups, once you start doing individual stuff, that's where it breaks down.
00:34:01.120And that's where you're able to demonstrate that, you know, what you thought about me or what you thought about this group is not accurate.
00:34:29.820What we've got to do in immigration, what we have to do in our relationship with Israel, what we have to do with millennials, what we have to do with people of faith doing a terrible job right now as people of faith.
00:37:09.820For example, his latest season on Revisionist History, you don't really know until kind of, you know, towards the end of it that, oh, wow, this is all about memory.
00:37:22.840And I've learned that everything I thought about memory is probably wrong.
00:37:27.700I'd like to tell you what it was, but I don't trust my memory anymore.
00:38:21.540The memory is something that in the last generation, psychologists have spent an enormous and neurologists have spent an enormous time.
00:38:31.520Amount of work and effort trying to understand how it works.
00:38:35.600And the more we learn about memory, the more we realize how fallible it is.
00:38:40.220And we more and when we systematically go back and we test our memories, we find they don't do very well.
00:38:47.540So there's a famous set of studies that are called flashbulb studies where a famous event happens, 9-11, the Challenger explosion.
00:38:56.380And you go to a large group of people, the incident happens and you say, tell me everything you were doing, thinking on the moment when you heard that news.
00:39:10.600And then they go back to the same group of people a year later, five years later, 10 years later, and they ask them the same set of questions and they compare their answers.
00:39:20.480And lo and behold, what you discover is that not everyone, but many of the people substantially alter their memories of the event without realizing it.
00:39:30.840In other words, they are, the first time they'll say, when I heard, when I saw the towers fall, I was standing in the streets of Manhattan with my best friend, Jim, tears streaming down my face.
00:39:41.420And then 10 years later, they'll say, when I first heard the towers fall, I was watching it on television in my dorm room.
00:39:49.360And I ran out, you know, and then I ran and called my friend, Jim, who was in Boston.
00:39:53.700And they're as convinced 10 years later that's what their memory was as they were the first time they relented their memories on the day of 9-11.
00:40:06.420And so that kind of stuff, my point in doing the Brian Williams thing was, when you understand how fallible memory is, you are a lot more forgiving of what he did.
00:40:16.140And he did something which it turns out a lot of us do all the time, which is we make what's called a time slice error.
00:40:23.640We confuse the timeline in our minds and we think we're one place when something happens and we're in another place.
00:40:32.160Or some, we've heard a story been told so many times that we slowly incorporate ourselves into the story without realizing that we're doing it.
00:40:40.760And my point was that these are not sins of character.
00:40:57.220You know, there are people who deliberately lie, absolutely.
00:41:00.540But a lot of what we think might be deliberate lying is just a manifestation of the frailty of human memory.
00:41:08.660So I really don't want to get into politics on this, but I do want to ask you this question to see if the way I'm when I when I finished with the hearings last week, I felt, OK, I think she believes that.