GLENNFebruary 08, 2017

Simon Sinek: There's Not a Problem With Millennials, But...

Simon Sinek, motivational speaker and author of Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration, joined Glenn in studio today for a lengthy discussion about the Millennial generation. While there are troubling trends Sinek noted about Millennials, he also pointed to other generational traits that are neither good or bad, but a byproduct of early experiences.

"Every generation is impacted by whatever's going on during their formative years. If you grew up during the Depression and the Second World War, during rations, probably you're a little miserly," Sinek said.

One significant challenge facing Millennials is technology, which breeds isolation and loneliness. Ever the optimist, Sinek offered tangible ways for parents and Millennials to reverse this trend.

Enjoy the complimentary clip above or read the transcript below for details.

GLENN: Let's get into a couple things. Because you just gave a really good assessment of the problem of millennials. The problem with millennials and how -- I shouldn't say it that way.

SIMON: That's how it's phrased to me.

GLENN: Yeah.

SIMON: I had an answer because every time I spoke anywhere, someone would invariable raise their hand and say, "So we're having problems leading our millennials. Or can you address the millennial problem."

GLENN: And you and I -- in fact, everybody in this room, we totally agree with you. There's not a problem with millennials.

SIMON: There's not a problem with millennials.

GLENN: Right. You want to explain.

SIMON: Yeah. So I got the question all the time, so I had to fashion an answer. As is my nature, I sort of talked to a lot of people and made some observations and tried to share what I observed and broke it down into four basic observations: Parenting, technology, and patience, and environment. And really quickly, I won't do the whole thing -- but basically, parents themselves -- this is not like me judging parents. But if you go look at the data, it's not psychologists. It's parents themselves who, as their kids got older, looked back and said, "I think we did some things wrong. I think we screwed this up a little bit."

And there's an excessive amount of coddling, you know, Purelling the heck out of anything, you know, literally and figuratively. And what happens is a generation grows up overly coddled with a lack of independence. So you can argue that, to some degree, parents bear some responsibility, which I think is not unfair.

The other is technology, which is a hard one because no one can argue against the fact that technology has been a huge benefit to us in our lives and made certain things a lot easier. However, everything comes at a cost. And the cost of excessive amounts of technology are multiple -- are multi-faceted. One, there are addictive qualities to technology. Social media and cell phones, specifically. There's a chemical called dopamine that is released. When we -- when our phones go -- bing or buzz or flash, that's the same chemical that's released when we drink, when we smoke, when we gamble. Almost all addictions are dopamine-based addictions. In other words, it's addictive. And like all addictions, in time, you will waste time, waste resources, and most importantly, destroy relationships. And that's exactly what we seem to be seeing.

I talk to a lot of young people, and they freely admitted that their friendships are superficial. That though they have fun with their friends, they wouldn't turn to their friends in hard times.

GLENN: Wow.

SIMON: They freely admitted that there's a sense of loneliness and isolation that they struggle with, and that they struggle to ask for help. They all sound tough. Like -- this is a Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat world. We're good at curating our lives, you know, filtering everything to show the world how we want it to be seen. But there's a distinct lack of social skills to literally ask for help. And, you know, millennials often say we want feedback. What they want is positive affirmation. They're not very good with negative feedback.

STU: That's so true.

SIMON: And one of the big criticisms that was lodged against that answer, was how can I generalize and categorize an entire generation?

GLENN: Well, because at some point, you have to.

SIMON: Well, the fact of the matter is, one can make generalizations; otherwise, you wouldn't have disciplines like psychology or sociology.

But also, every generation is impacted by whatever's going on, during their formative years. If you grew up during the Depression and the Second World War, during rations, probably you're a little miserly. You know, we made fun of our grandparents.

GLENN: Until our grandparents died.

SIMON: Right. My grandparents collected everything, wouldn't waste anything.

There's nothing wrong with them. It's just that they grew up -- they came of age in a time where that's what they learned. And so it lasted the rest of their life. It's a generation based on what they went through.

If you came of age during the 1960s and '70s, during the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon, you're a little cynical about authority and government.

It's not -- these are fair generalizations. So we have to consider that there are things that have happened in the formative years of this generation, largely technological, that has an impact.

GLENN: So how does this -- how does this generation turn out? Let me take a pause. You think about that. What does that mean now for the coming generation?

(chuckling)

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GLENN: Simon Sinek is with us. He's the author of a new book Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration. He is the author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last. If you have not read those books, you need to read those books.

Truly a guy who can get down to your core on who you are and why you're driven to do the things that you are. The good things. When you find those things, you're going to be totally transformed and life becomes so much easier.

Simon, we were talking about millennials. And I guess we only got through half of the points on what's affecting millennials.

STU: Yeah, it might be too long. Maybe people should just go and check out the whole thing. Because it's worth it. What is it? Fifteen, 20 minutes?

SIMON: Fifteen minutes.

GLENN: It's really, really good. Tell us where you think -- what does this mean -- what does the generation -- the millennial generation look like in 20 years?

SIMON: So the statistics -- the trends are already kind of alarming. And I think we need to take note of the trends, which is, we see suicide on the rise amongst this generation. Addiction to prescription drugs on the rise. You know, people who criticize this talk say, "Yes, suicides on the rise amongst other generations too."

Yes, but let's -- you know, this -- we want to see it decline in the younger generation, not increase.

GLENN: Yes.

SIMON: I give you a perfect example. A friend of mine, she's working with me over at my apartment. She's 27, 28 years old. And about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, she opens up her bag and pops a pill.

So I say to her, "What's up?" You know. She goes, "I'm just taking an Adderall."

I said why?

She goes, I'm having trouble concentrating.

I said, that's because it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Like, everybody has trouble concentrating at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

But for some reason, the intense pressure that I think her generation has on her, both to be individuals, but also to perform, there's a sense that she literally believed that a dip in her concentration in the afternoon would -- there was something broken in her brain.

So she's medicating with these Adderall to keep her focus intense.

That's impossible.

GLENN: Really bad.

SIMON: It's really bad.

So my fear is that the trend data is alarming. And if we don't intervene, it's only going to get worse.

School shootings is another one. There was one school shooting in the '60s. Twenty-seven in the '80s. Fifty-eight in the '90s. Over 120 in the past decade. Seventy percent of them perpetrated by kids born after the year 1980. These school shootings are done by kids.

GLENN: Yeah.

SIMON: And it's an antisocial behavior like suicide.

GLENN: Right. I know you're going to disagree with this, but it's not the gun. It is a sign -- it's a cry for help. There is something wrong.

SIMON: There's -- and it's a -- they're feeling lonely and isolated.

GLENN: Yes.

SIMON: Which is exaggerated by things like technology. Because you can have an entire friendship and social life online without ever having to go outside and meet other people. And I'm hearing some of the struggles that parents are having. A 14-year-old -- people I met who have a 14-year-old who struggles to answer the front door because there's a person there.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

SIMON: Or I make a joke that this young generation, when they're using their phones -- Google Maps to get from A to B. You know, walking through a city and their phones die, that they'll spend more time looking for a charger than simply asking someone for directions.

And sort of a fear or a lack of skills to ask for help, you know. Or admit that they need help.

And so what that creates is isolation and loneliness.

GLENN: This is really not good.

SIMON: Now, here's a scary, scary statistic. Guess which demographic has the highest rate increase for suicide in America right now? Not absolute number, but highest rate of increase. Girls, ten to 14. It's doubled. It has doubled. Amongst men, it's Baby Boomers that have the highest rate of increase, but number two is boys ten to 14.

PAT: Jeez.

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Inside Glenn Beck’s PRIVATE conversation with Donald Trump

Glenn recently traveled to Mar-a-Lago to attend a PragerU event, but got a chance to talk with President-elect Donald Trump as well. Glenn discusses everything he can about the shocking conversation they had, which covered a wide range of topics: What’s happening to South Korea? What’s really going on with the Russia/Ukraine war? Do Biden and the Democrats want that war? How much of a threat is Iran? Why is Trump worried about ‘nuclear proliferation’? Glenn also explains what made this meeting very different than the others he has had with presidents and why he now believes it was a blessing that Trump lost in 2020: He’s a changed man now and he’s coming back with laser focus to change everything FAST.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: So I don't know where to even begin with -- I just had the most amazing, surreal experience at Mar-a-Lago, last night. Just surreal.

I was there to help raise money for Prager University. And Dennis Prager, who, by the way, let me give you an update on him.

He was severely injured. He fell in the shower. Hit his head, and it snapped his neck back.

And he has injuries to his neck.

And he is making progress. And only Dennis would be as positive. I mean, somehow or another, he's still like, huh? I'm doing great.

And it's going to be a long process to get him back. But he had been -- he wasn't able to breathe on his own. But that is over. And he spoke for the first time, here the last couple of days. And he's fully there. His body just isn't working. But he has a long road.

But he is -- he is doing better.

And believe me, he appreciates and can feel your prayers. He obviously wasn't there last night.

But he still is in the hospital.

So we were there, raising money for Prager U. Who they're just doing amazing things.

If you want to give for education, what they're doing now, on education, and Prager U. And the impact that they're having, is incredible.

Just incredible.

Dennis Prager. You know, Rush Limbaugh, when my generation, and maybe the generation, you know, after me, when we would go, people will remember Rush Limbaugh, if they read about the history of, you know, people who made some impact.

But even Rush Limbaugh, for his important and his legendary and as game-changing as he was, will eventually be forgotten.

I don't think Dennis Prager will because of Prager University. That thing is making a huge impact. And well worth your support, and it would I think make Dennis feel a lot better, knowing that they raised a lot of money last night.

And they really need your help. They have huge plans. Just go to DennisPrager.org -- it's PragerUniversity.org. And if you have some money that you would like to invest in the future, that's a great place to invest.

So I get to Mar-a-Lago. And I have a few minutes with the president. And I ask him, what the hell is going on with South Korea, North Korea, China, Syria, Ukraine, Russia?

He is laser focused on this. And, again, he reiterated to me, the nuclear proliferation that is coming, is going to be our biggest problem.

He said, we had Iran, absolutely crippled.

He said, I hope we can get them there quickly. He said, but nukes are up for sale now.

North Korea has them. And he said, I don't have any -- you know, evidence that they've sold them. But they are up for sale. And he said proliferation of nukes are coming.

And Russia is still the biggest threat. I asked him -- I just want to be really careful. Because it wasn't. It was just a personal conversation.

But I asked him about the next 40-some takes. I said, I'm very concerned that Biden or whoever is the president of the United States right now, the military industrial complex. Barack Obama. I don't know who it is.

Wants war. And he didn't get into who was the president or anything else. He just said, this man is so incompetent. He said, he has absolutely no idea the history of even Ukraine, let alone Russia.

He said, this -- this -- this should never have happened.

And he said, it is a meat grinder.

He said, when this is all over, and the world can see what's happened, he said, North Korea -- I asked him about the North Korean fighters.

I said, you know, are they good?

He said, Glenn, it's a country of 5 million soldiers. He's like, it's a religion over there.

Their state is the religion. Their supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is like their God. If he says, you're going to war and you are going to fight and tie, he says, 5 million. And they'll just keep coming.

And he said, it -- the way he described it to me, it almost sounds like colonial days when everyone was just in a line. You know, and, you know, okay. We want to be fair.

We will wear the red coat so you can see where to aim. We are just going to stand in a big line.

I got the impression that that's almost how North Korea.

They have so many people, that wave after wave is coming. And he said, there's no respect for life. None.

He said, it's unlike anything modern. The modern world has seen in a long time.

He said, I don't remember exactly how he said it. But basically, they don't even have tourniquets.

He said, if the guys are shot in the legs, they bleed to death. And people are just walking over them.

He said, you're wounded, you die.

There's no medics coming for you.

You just die because they got plenty of soldiers behind you. And he said, it is bloodshed like the world cannot imagine.

And I asked him, I said, I -- I think everybody wants peace.

And he said, hmm. I think so too.

And he kind of hedged his -- at least this is my impression, that he kind of -- my impression is, we're going to pay a very, very high price.

With Putin. Because we have violated every single red line, with Vladimir Putin.

Everything he said, don't do, we have done.

And I personally think -- this is my opinion. I didn't express this to the president.

But I personally think, one, they want war.

I don't know who they is.

The military-industrial complex. The Biden family to wipe out the corruption.

Ukraine is nothing, but a money-laundering system. That's all it is.

It's money being laundered. I don't know where it's going. Why isn't anyone concerned on how much money we're sending over? All these weapons.

They're being sold on the black market to our enemies.

What the hell is happening? Why is this happening?

And so my personal opinion is, either they're trying to wipe out -- remember, the Hunter Biden thing is for ten years.

For crimes that he's never even been accused of.

Statute of limitations runs out in five years, on most things.

Except for like murder, human trafficking.

Treason.

Things like that.

But he's been -- never before in American history, has this ever happened.

Never before. A blanket pardon for anything he did, from 2014.

Gee. When did he go over to Ukraine? 2014.

And so I don't know if they're just trying to buy their way out of trouble. They want a war to destroy all of any evidence, or anybody involved.

I don't know.

But somebody wants war. And it might just be the military-industrial complex, just saying, you know, we really need to upgrade our military. So let's just give them all this old stuff. And we'll make new stuff for you, America.

It could be that.

It could be the State Department. The State Department. And I won't give you his response.

But I said, you realize, you have the opportunity, because we did talk about how this endless wars are just insane.

And I said, it's the State Department. It's the -- and you can -- you can stop that nonsense.

You can just fire them all.

And get people in here, who don't think the same way Woodrow Wilson did over 100 years ago.

He's very well aware of that.

And things are going to change. I was -- everything we talked about, he was laser focused.

I mean, you know, I've met with presidents before.

I met with Ronald Reagan

I met with George H.W. Bush. I met with George W. Bush. And I met with Donald Trump.

I have more confidence in Donald Trump now, than any other president I've met with. The guy is super, super informed.

It is a blessing, honestly.

It is a miracle, that he lost in 2020. And I say that, you listen to this show. You remember what I was saying. We're all doomed. We're all going to die. Okay?

The country is over if we don't correct this in four years. We would not have had this president, the man he is today, if it wasn't for his loss in 2020.

He had four years to go, okay. What did I do wrong? How did they get me?

How did they thwart me? How do I stop it? And how do I reverse this machine, while dismantling this machine? He is laser focused on that.

And if he said it once to me, he said it a thousand times. Glenn, it's going to be breathtaking. It's coming. Change is coming.

And it is coming fast. They are not going to know how to deal with it.

I'm filled with confidence, and, again, I say this with the caveat, that, you know, the left will never say.

But I say this with the caveat that I would say on any president. As long as he's constitutional. As long as he's following the Constitution and the laws, he -- he is going to be remembered as one of the greatest presidents of all time.

Because he's at least going to give it a college try. I mean, he's -- he's going for it.

We talked about his appointments. And what he had planned. There's some things that -- well, recommend take a one-minute break.

GLENN: So when we're looking at the world stage, everything that's happening is happening because America vacated the leadership role. I hope Americans realize, without the consequences, at least so far, how close we are to seeing what happens to the world, if America leaves the world stage.

And I don't want to be the world's policeman. I don't want to be involved in foreign wars.

The president doesn't want to be involved in foreign wars. He wants to end them. He wants us to concentrate on us.

But somebody has to be there, to say, knock it off!

And he's the guy -- he's already doing that. It's conversations of some conversations he has recently. And the world is being put on notice.

I'm back, very soon. You might want to change your behavior. Because everything you have been doing, is not going to happen anymore.

And I wish I could express the things that he expressed to me. Because he would be so excited.

He would like, oh, my gosh. This is fantastic.

STU: Isn't this sort of hopeful about the whole Russia, nuclear war stuff too.

Why would Vladimir Putin with eight weeks left, start what winds up being a nuclear war, when he's got somebody who is going to be a lot more sane in office, just a few weeks away.

GLENN: So because this is my impression.

Because he's being backed into a corner by Joe Biden. Every red line. He does not want to do it. But he's getting pressure from the hard-liners, in his country.

STU: Right.

GLENN: To use just even tactical nukes. Which we don't know what that would cause.

STU: Yep.

GLENN: And what our response would be -- if he drops a tactical nuke, Joe Biden will launch. He will. He will. He will.

STU: Put that's a massive step. Tactical nuke. That will be a massive thing. Why would he do that, knowing that this whole situation changes?

GLENN: Again, things are so dynamic.

Look at what's happening.

I wish I could get the president on the phone, to just have the conversation, he explained it so well.

STU: Sure.

GLENN: Look what's happening with Turkey. With Syria. With Iran.

Ukraine, Russia, North Korea, China. And South Korea.

They're not disconnected. Okay? They're all connected.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: To each other. And he is -- he is confident that the Middle East will be solved. He's like, we'll get the Abrahamic Accords back.

They've dealt with me before, in the Middle East.

They know.

He said, everything else around the world is so on the edge. He was really pissed.

He was like, none of this -- I just would like to remind you, none of this was happening four years ago.

STU: Yep.

GLENN: He said, this is all because of incompetence, stupidity, and a complete misunderstanding of how the world works.

And he -- he, again, reiterated, nuclear war is -- I mean, every time I see him. And he must have said it three times last night. Nuclear war is real.

And it is endgame changing. And he said, at all costs, we have to avoid that.

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Mom ARRESTED for letting son WALK TO STORE speaks out

Brittany Patterson was recently arrested in Fannin County, Georgia, after a police officer found her 10-year-old son walking by himself. She was charged for violating the “reckless conduct” statute, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1997 by the Georgia Supreme Court. Brittany and ParentsUSA Executive Director & General Counsel David DeLugas join Glenn to tell this dystopian story. You can find out more and join the fight to protect parental rights at https://parentsusa.org

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Brittany Patterson is on with us now.

And also her attorney. Want to make sure that she doesn't say anything that would cost her in court.

David Delugas is with the Parents USA.

He's an executive director, and general counsel. Brittany, tell this audience your story.

What happened to you?

BRITTANY: So basically I have two kids that homeschool. And two kids that go to public school.

And any time I leave the house to run errands, or take somebody to the appointment.

The homeschool kids always get the choice to stay or go.

So on this particular day, I had to take my older son, to an appointment.

And so I had to pick him up at school, and take him.

And I thought that both my homeschool kids were going to come.

But when I went back to holler for them. They didn't answer.

I waited for a minute.

Hollered again. Didn't answer. So I figured, he didn't want to come.

And he was somewhere out on the property.

Or somewhere in the House, where he couldn't hear me. Or something like that.

So, I mean, went ahead and left. And went and picked up my son.

Took him to the doctor. And while we were at the doctor, I got a call from a sheriff's deputy, saying that she had found Soren, less than a mile from our house. In a little tiny town of middle bluff.

GLENN: What's the population of that town?

BRITTANY: So I don't know exactly. But it's like 350, I think, 370 something like that.

GLENN: 370 people?

BRITTANY: Yes.

GLENN: Okay. All right. So huge metropolis.

BRITTANY: There's a four-way stop sign. That's all there is.

GLENN: Okay. Okay.

BRITTANY: So, anyway, she started asking me questions. If I knew he was there.

Of course, I said no. Because I didn't.

And, you know, she seemed very concerned that something terrible was going to happen to him.

I was not concerned.

So basically, she ended up putting her in her car. And bringing him back to my house.

And my dad just for some background. My dad lives in our basement apartment.

And he's pretty much here all the time.

Because he has a physical disability. So he can't drive.

GLENN: Okay.

BRITTANY: So there's basically always an adult in my house with my kids. Not that there needs to be. But there always is.

GLENN: Okay. And, I mean, want to make sure. Your kids are 11, 12, 14, and 16.

And at the time, Soren, the child that was out walking. Was ten. Correct?

BRITTANY: Correct. He was a few days from turning 11. But he was still ten.

So they brought him home, and dropped him back off at home.

With my dad down stairs. Which is exactly the same way that I left him.

And they left. And so he was here. You know, without me. Or without the police.

Exactly the way I left him, for about 20 minutes, before I -- and so, you know, of course, I had a talk with him. Because I do tell all my kids. You know, if you want to go somewhere.

Send me a text. Call me.

Let me know where you will go. So that way, I can kind of keep tabs on you.

And he obviously didn't do that. So I gave him a little talking to about that.

And then we just kind of went about our day.

And about five minutes later, around 6:30, is when they showed up to arrest me.

GLENN: Okay. I just -- hang on. I just want to bring people up to speed here.

So you know who you're listening to. She was a kindergarten teacher.

She has a master's degree in education leadership. And curriculum obstruction.

Professional teaching license in Atlanta and Georgia. Her husband, Josh. Been in an organization of 17 years.

At all levels. Has been the superintendent of schools, for seven years.

He has a doctorate degree in educational leadership. She left education to go into real estate, because the demands of the kids' competitive sports wasn't working with her teaching schedule.

And that's who you're dealing with. So you're not dealing with people who just -- who don't know what they're doing with children.

You know, they're teachers. They have a doctorate. They know so much more.

This is -- these are professional people.

That have spent their lifetime teaching children, and being around children.

So when they came to your door, in this town of, how many people again?

Thee hundred --

PETER: About 370.

GLENN: About 370 people.

So, you know, one of them leaving the other 369 at home in their beds. What did they say to you?

BRITTANY: They didn't really say anything, other than they asked me to step outside, and put my hands behind my back. So at that point, I asked why. And the female officer said, because you're under arrest. And so, again, I asked, what am I under arrest for?

And for the second time, I didn't get a straight answer.

She said for the incident we spoke about earlier. So then I asked again, so what am I under arrest for? And she said, child -- or reckless endangerment. Which my attorney has told me is not even a thing that exists in Georgia. It could have just been her misspeaking.

But the point is -- and at that point I was going to ask, you know, what -- what was reckless?

What led to this?

I was going to ask for a warrant, that they basically forced me to turn around. Put my hands behind my back.

And they weren't going to answer anymore with any more questions.

GLENN: That sounds like the Soviet Union. Yes, go ahead. David.

DAVID: Yeah. And Brit knows from the body cam. What we heard is Brit said, last time I checked, it wasn't illegal for a kid to walk to the store.

And remarkably, the deputy immediately says, it is when they're ten!

And I -- I assure everybody, it's not illegal for a 10-year-old to be out and about walking. Not in the state of Georgia, it's not. For a deputy to say, it is illegal when they're ten.

GLENN: I grew up in a different time. So make no mistake.

I'm 60.

I think at about six, I went to the store, for a pack of graduates, for my dad.

I mean, at ten. At ten, you could have bought a gun and bullets!

But now, you know, God forbid, in a town where, many my town of 450 people.

Kids can drive trucks, down the road, because it's a farming community.

Stop treating children, like they're morons. Anyway, go ahead.

BRITTANY: Yeah. Well, the point I was going to make is that when I went to jail, I still didn't understand even though I had asked multiple times. I didn't know really what I was being arrested for.

I didn't find that out, until I got to jail, had already been stripped down and changed and fingerprinted.

And body cammed. And all that stuff.

And then they hand me the arrest warrant.

So at that point, I was ready to read it, and understand what -- what they thought was the justification for arresting me.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

Could I just ask, what is this sheriff's name?

The sheriff. Not the deputy. The sheriff of your county.

BRITTANY: So the sheriff of Fannin County is Dane Kirby. And he's been the sheriff for quite some time. I don't know exactly how many years, but several terms.

GLENN: Probably time for him to go away. When is he up for reelection? Do you know?

BRITTANY: I think --

DAVID: Yeah, it's not necessarily -- matters.

I mean, you know, the people in the county can likely become informed, and decide what they will do. But we don't take a stance about his election, or his culpability.

GLENN: Oh, no. No, no, no.

I'm not suggesting you do.

I am. I am -- I am an advocate of sheriffs that follow the Constitution, sheriffs are there. To protect the people of their county.

From out of control government entities.

If they become out of control, the people have the right and the duty to remove them!

So if you happen to live in this county, and your sheriff is Dana Kirby.

I don't know what you're doing.

But I would be out -- I would be -- I would be -- there's only 300, what?

70-some doors to knock on.

I would be knocking on every single one.

Including his. And saying, we need to get this sheriff recalled.

But, anyway, I digress.

DAVID: It's a bigger county than 370. But I get your point. It's an extraordinarily valuable point.

Let me throw this in, while we're talking about following the Constitution. Really, really significant, the statute Brent was charged with violating, is actually called reckless conduct. And, hey, in 1997, the Georgia Supreme Court held that statute unconstitutional because it's too vague and gives law enforcement too much power. So how about that? 1997. You would think in what's -- 27 years? Law enforcement in Fannin County would figure out that that statute doesn't apply.

GLENN: What's the name of this county again in Georgia?
DAVID: Fannin. F-A-N-N-I-N.

GLENN: F-A-N-N-I-N?
BRITTANY: Yes.
GLENN: Fannin County in Georgia.

Okay.

So what's next for you?

BRITTANY: Well, right now, we're just kind of in limbo. There's not been any real communication from the county. There's been no offers put on the table, or anything like that.

So really, kind of it's up to them, you know, what happens next.

They have multiple options that they could, you know, decide on. But in the meantime, you know, David and I have just been kind of raising awareness. Because before this happens to me.

I was living in the dark. I had no idea that this was even possible to happen to anybody. Review and since I kind of went public, and, you know, I've just been getting comments.

I've even gotten some cards in the mail and emails, and stuff like that.

From people all over the country, who some of them have found themselves in a similar situation, you know, at some point.

And so it kind of opened my eyes they can't be this is something that does happen.

That I think just a lot of us parents didn't even realize it was a possibility that was happening.

And so I'm just trying to bring that to light. That, you know, we do still have to kind of fight for our parental rights. And make sure that those are something that we get to hold on to.

Because I found that no matter which side of the aisle, people are on. Whether they want to be overprotective. Or let their kids be wild and free.

Both sides don't really want the government involved.

They want to be able to make those decisions as parents. And so it's just been interesting to see. Even though we might have philosophical differences on how to approach parenting. That we can still agree on that same thing.

GLENN: I mean, if you're sending your kid out to go to the store, to pick up some extra ingredients, so you can cook crack in the basement. That might be a problem.

But letting your kid go for a walk, to the store is absolutely normal. The country is out of control, when it comes to everybody and everything is a danger.

It's not. We're creating a society, where kids are -- are still kids, when they're 30 years old. And they don't know what to do.

Give your kids credit.

DAVID: You're on point there.

Absolutely. Let me throw a plug in for an organization called letgrow.org.

And they published statistics and advocate for parents providing more responsibility and freedom for their children, because it's better for kids.

And one of the things they at that they do is dispel this notion, that kids are going to be kidnapped and snatched off the side of the roads. So you should never let your kids be alone.

CDC, to the extent that anybody protects the CDC. But the CDC far and away, the most danger that a child is in, is when they're in an automobile.

So what did this deputy do?

Put them in a car, and driving him, during which could have been an arrest.

And even maybe, more -- more dangerous. Could have been one of those calls. Shots fired.

Officer down. This deputy would have been wheeled right to the scene. And taken this kid right into an active shooter.

Don't put kids in the back of a car, because you will give them a ride home. Leave them alone!

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4 MAJOR cover-ups Kash Patel would EXPOSE as FBI Director

President-Elect Donald Trump has tapped Intelligence Community veteran Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Glenn explains why he’s a big fan of that pick, and it stems from an interview that Kash gave Glenn back in 2023. Glenn plays a clip of the interview, where he urged Trump to declassify information on multiple major cover-ups, including Jeffrey Epstein’s black book, the January 6th pipe bomb incidents, the case of the “deleted” J6 text messages, and Russiagate. So, if he is confirmed as FBI Director, will he release all this information to the public?

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GLENN: But Kash was -- Kash was on my show.

And we were talking about who holds -- who has the diary, who has the phone records, who has everything from Epstein? Do we have that cut?

Yeah. Go ahead. Play it.

Who has Jeffrey Epstein's black book?

VOICE: FBI.

GLENN: Porn music.

VOICE: Oh, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. Just like the manifesto from the Nashville school shooting and the Catholic school. We haven't seen that yet. It's not the national police or PT --

GLENN: Ding, dong, pizza.

VOICE: The FBI says this is not going to happen. They do that because this is another government gangster operation. All these local law enforcement communities get funding from the DOJ and FBI for local programs.

And if you don't cooperate, you're not getting your million dollars for this.

You're not getting -- and that's a lot of money for these local districts. That's how they play the game.

That's why you don't have the black book.

GLENN: So, but the black book is not just sitting -- I mean, that's -- that's Hoover power times ten.

VOICE: And to me, that's a thing that I think President Trump should run on. On day one, roll out the black book. Oh, yeah. Please, I can't take anymore.

VOICE: On day one, roll out all the text messages and communications we were told were deleted. On day one, play the rest of the video of the pipe bomber.

He needed -- one of the forms I talked about, is you need a central note, to continuously declassify.

This is another thing they do. They overclassify. I'm telling you, as a former number two --

STU: Stop it.

GLENN: Yes! Yes!

Oh.

VOICE: I know you can't see that. Nothing to see here. Gino was a master of it. Of doing it. And we still haven't seen the half of the Russiagate report that we wrote.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

VOICE: It's still under lock and key.
I don't know how the ICA was originally constructed. We went -- we put 10,000 man-hours against John Brennan's team that did it.

And we found out why they came up with their bogus conclusions.

But we couldn't sell it to the world, because we couldn't talk about it. And the government gangsters came in and buried it.

GLENN: Wow. Let me tell you this. I think I need a whole pack of cigarettes after that.
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He is --

PAT: He's going to be good.

GLENN: Oh.

STU: And that's the only reason this part is happening.

Because Kash Patel.

Glenn Beck likes him so much. Look he's definitely going to come after Hunter Biden.

And therefore, we didn't think -- we never would have predicted that Adolf Hitler would do something like this.

GLENN: Here's what -- here's what we need to start tweeting. Okay?

Everybody needs to start tweeting this.

Kash Patel.

We love you!

We love you!

Please, release all of the information on the Biden administration.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: All of the information on Hunter Biden. You can't prosecute him.

But you certainly can prosecute everyone that was involved in the cover-up.

And, by the way, we would like the names on the Jeffrey Epstein list!

There's no reason, that if that was a bunch of truck drivers, we would know every truck driver's name!

Why don't we know this?

And it is too much power, in the hands of the FBI director.

Or the president.

Or whoever might have it.

The only way that thing becomes powerless, is if it is revealed.

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Why Joe Biden’s PARDON of Hunter is NOT the end

President Biden has issued a pardon for his son Hunter that covers any crimes committed over the past 10 years. That would include any possible fraudulent dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma or the Chinese Communist Party. So, is Biden just trying to protect himself? Glenn breaks it all down and also explains how Donald Trump can still bring criminals to justice: Biden only pardoned Hunter and, by extension, himself. But anyone else who was involved in the Biden family’s shady business dealings is still fair game, especially if Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, declassifies everything …

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GLENN: All right. Well, let me -- let me start here.

We've been saying it for decades now.

Decades!

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

That used to be kind of like a bumper sticker thing back in the Reagan era, you know.

These things, I think it's lost its impact.

I don't know if people really understand it, anymore.

Even know it. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Joe Biden has given his blanket pardon to his son. But only for crimes that may have been committed for the last ten years.

Now, this is something that he said he would never do, but I'm not surprised. We're going to -- this is the least surprising story of the decade.

We all knew it. We all knew it was coming, right?

Now, this is the privilege of the US president. The final month of office, actually accounts for about 92 percent of pardons and presidential commutations. It's fairly normal then, for presidents to exercise that constitutional power. And it is his right to do it.

It has no constitutional or Supreme Court oversight. So he can do whatever he wants. It's one of the few powers, that we grant the executive office for which there is no check and balance process outlined in the Constitution.

It's been used every year since Herbert Hoover, when he pardoned the first Thanksgiving turkey.

Legally speaking, Joe Biden giving a blanket pardon to his son for felony crimes, that he's actually admitted to in court!

And sentenced to in court, after millions of dollars were spent, in not only covering up the crimes, but also denying the crimes.

And all of the corruption that went on with the Justice Department and the FBI and the IRS.

All of that now, is gone!

He admitted it, in a book. He admitted it, as soon as he knew dad was going to pardon him. And presidents can do this.

They have, you know, whole staffs dedicated to finding criminals, who may have gotten the short end of the stick.

And if I may pause here for a Glenn Beck moment. Short end of the stick. You know where that comes from?

It's actually a historic reference from the Scottish/Gaelic days where they had physical combat, where two men would take a tree branch and kind of like a wish bone, they would break it in half. And then they would beat each other to death with that stick.

So it's like the turkey wish bone, except the other person dies. Anyway, back to modern times. President can give a blanket pardon to a multi-felony son, directly in the face of his own Justice Department's investigations of the same son.

Now, we're at the point where if this were just cocaine and prostitutes. I don't think we would care that much. I really don't!

I mean, it would be bad. But I don't think him doing cocaine and prostitutes is that much of a surprise!

Would you be that surprised, if cocaine and prostitutes? Dad was doing them too?

No. However, we're talking about money laundering charges to the Biden family. What about the violation of the State Secrets Act?

You know that Biden granted his children, including Hunter, security clearance against the recommendations of the NSA, and the CIA. And that warned him over and over and over again, secrets are being leaked.

How about Chinese prostitute spies? You care about that much?

I don't even know how you face yourself in the mere, if you're part of the White House Press Corp, or anybody in the mainstream media. Who has been saying the whole time: None of this happened. None of this happened!

He's not going to pardon his son. He's not going to need to.

I mean, I feel very bad in a small way for KJP, who has to stand there today, to defend what she's been saying the whole time.

No! I stand by what the president has said for the last two years.

Now she's got to say, if it wasn't -- if it wasn't the president's son, would he then prosecute it?

Yes!

He would have been prosecuted. In fact, he would have been in jail years ago!

So when Joe Biden says, yeah, well, there was -- you know, there was a miscarriage of justice here.

I mean, he got special treatment. Yes, he did. You know, the reason why all of this is a big deal. Is because the Justice Department and the FBI and the IRS made a deal, that one judge said, wait a minute.

I've never seen a deal like this. What's going on here?

That's why this whole thing came undone.

They were trying to sweep it up.

Yes! He was getting a sweetheart deal, that you wouldn't have gotten. Your son wouldn't have gotten.

How are they going to defend it? The same way. The same way.

It doesn't matter. That's why I say it's the least surprising story of the decade.

Nobody is surprised by it. We all knew. We knew this was happening when he was running.

Now, if Trump is who we think he is, or who he's, I hope, going to be.

An agent of change, he can completely blow the lid off of this. And effectively destroy -- and just destroy any semblance of respect Biden had left. Even if he couldn't prosecute Hunter or Joe. That's fine.

But he can declassify every single document in the Biden investigation. From cocaine, China, and the Middle East. And destroy not just the Biden legacy.

He's already destroyed that.

But he can destroy the press.

He can destroy everyone that was involved in this.

The entire apparatus around it!

Biden only granted Hunter immunity.

Only Hunter.

And by extension, himself.

But not the gross military intelligence industrial complex. And the team around them.

All those people can be exposed.

All of those people can go to jail.

And with the appointment of Kash Patel, I predict it's going to happen.

So now why not hearings?

I mean, we could impeach Biden right now.

But you want to spend the money on that?

You want to spend the time on that? Justice would say yes. Our country demands that we say yes. If we want a country, and we have a family that has built billions -- I'm sorry. Millions of dollars, from other countries. Why are we -- why are we in Ukraine?

Why is all this money going to Ukraine? Where is it going?

Where is it ending up?

You know, no one has followed the money on that one. Why? Why?

Is there even more corruption?

You know, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, they really were the ones that kind of industrialized this whole game.

They did it with China. But everybody turned their head.

No big deal. Oh, they were out of office now.

Joe Biden perfected it. If we let this family get away with this, what do you think is going to happen the next time, a president decides to sell themselves and the office.

People must go to jail. The president has every right. Every right to pardon his son.

But Kash Patel, if he's half the man I think -- no, if he is half the man I know he is, declassify all of it!

All of it!

Call out the corruption, that is everywhere.

I have to ask half the country a question. And I know you think that we're stupid, because Donald Trump is a felon. Is he? Is he?

He's a felon on -- on what? On what?

Charges that were brought against him? That have never been brought against anyone ever, in the history of the country?

That's called weaponization. And is it a surprise that they were brought, when he was running? You see, the Hunter Biden thing, that should have been in the pipeline, years before.

But couldn't do it. Because of Biden's grasp on the system. How stupid are you?

I mean, I'm sorry. I don't in between insult you. Because you think I'm stupid. What is it going to take.

You're still donating and supporting the Democratic party?

They just -- they lied to you, on so many things.

But they lied to you, about this.

They lied to you about the laptop being real when they knew it was real!

The FBI was part of it. They tried to make a deal. An underhanded deal, that you would have never gotten. Remember, why would you stand up for someone's extra rights, that you would never get.

If it's right for them, it has to be right for you. Remember, we lend our rights to them, to protect them. They don't have extra rights. They have none. They can't print rights. They come from us.

I -- you know, it is so hard -- you know, we just went through Thanksgiving. And hopefully, you had a big Thanksgiving. And hopefully, you didn't have big battles and fights and everything else.

Hopefully things went well.

But I've got to tell you, it is hard.

I marvel at the blindness of so many Americans.

I marvel at it. And I know they think the same of us.

I know.

That's fine. But we have the Constitution on our side.

We are fighting for the Constitution. Believe me, if Donald Trump, we found out, was selling secrets to Russia. Was selling secrets, or selling his office to China, I would be first in line.

Be first in line to impeach him.

If he was enriching his children, exactly the same way, that Joe Biden was, I would be for his prosecution, and his jail time!

Can you say that?

Until you can rationally describe to me that this isn't just pure nepotism, that utterly destroys Biden's entire career. His entire legacy. His entire presidency.

Everything that this man does. Has done, we now know, for the last ten years.

This isn't just, hey. I pardoned him for this crime. I pardoned him for every crime he may have committed for a ten-year period!

I mean, I just -- if we meet in a grocery store, you know, God bless you. But if you still think that that's okay, I might just pat you on the head and send you down the cereal aisle with the same kind of kindness I show a retarded puppy. But holy cow. Justice is more than a specific outcome. It is a philosophy.

It's a mentality. It's an absolute. We may not get it right every time.

Because we're human. But we should strive for justice.

What if Hunter's crimes were rape or murder?

Would that be okay? Would you still support a blanket pardon?

Or would you say, no. That's too far. But selling my children and your children into slavery, by granting China and others special access to our White House and to our secrets, that's okay?

Good on you. It's not for me.

But good on you.

And let me just end it with, surprise!

He pardoned his son.

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