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INSANITY: Will the left nationalize THIS industry next?

Sometimes the mainstream media publishes an article SO insane, it’s hard to believe it’s true. This time, Glenn and Stu can't help but wonder if a recent New York Times op-ed (called ‘Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over'), was supposed to be written for April Fools Day (despite being published five days later...). Could sports — specifically baseball — be the left’s next target for nationalization? And, more importantly, how could a sports league nationalize with a team based in Toronto, Canada…?

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GLENN: Stu, I read something today, that I thought, no. This can't be true. And then -- and then, as I read it, I thought. Definitely can't be true. And then by the time I finished, I thought. I'm pretty sure this is actual.

STU: Oh, no.

GLENN: Okay. This is a New York Times editorial today. Okay? Opening day of Major League Baseball season, which falls on Thursday, after being delayed for a week by labor dispute, is as good of an occasion as any, for fans of the game to come to terms with certain hard facts. I'm talking of course about the inevitable future, in which professional baseball, is what?

The inevitable future, that baseball is --

STU: Gosh. Woke. That it's --

GLENN: No. Nationalized. The inevitable truth that baseball is nationalized, and put under some authority of some federal entity.

STU: Wait.

GLENN: Hmm?

STU: Why on earth would that occur?

GLENN: Attendants at the games, have declined steadily since 2008. And viewership figures are almost hilariously bleak.

An ordinary national prime time MLB broadcast, such as ESPN's Sunday night baseball attracts some 1.5 million pairs of eyes, each week. Which is to say, roughly the number that are likely to be watching, a heavily censored version of good fellows, on basic cable movie channel, at the same time, in the same time slot.

Even the World Series attracts smaller audiences, than the average Thursday night football broadcast. The dregs of the National Football League's weekly schedule. In 1975, the World Series had an average of 36 million viewers per game. In 2021, it barely attracts 12 million per game. Casual --

STU: Wait. We're going to -- okay. 12 million a game. We're going to nationalize --

GLENN: Oh, he hasn't started yet.

STU: Okay. Okay.

GLENN: Casual observers may assume that despite the lack of popularity, baseball is somehow insanely valuable. This is an illusion. A major league baseball generated around 11 billion dollars in revenue in 2019. But this figure does not accurately reflect the demand for its product. Mike trouts 426 million-dollar contract. Is effectively being paid by millions of grandparents who just want to tune into Anderson Cooper or the antiques road show.

STU: Oh, stop.

GLENN: As that audience dies off, and younger generations of cord cutters take their place, baseball's revenue will plummet.

Culturally, the game is increasingly irrelevant. The average age of a person watching baseball on television is 57. And one shutters to think, what the comparable figure is for broadcast. Typical American 10-year-olds are as likely to recognize, Jorge Soler, who was named the most valuable player of last year's World Series. As they are their local congressional representative. College athletes drafted by --

STU: That's -- that's such a -- that's a ridiculous point.

GLENN: In some parts of the country, participation in Little League has decreased by nearly 50 percent in the past decade and a half. When my wife and I signed up our 5 and 6-year-old daughters for t-ball a few weeks ago, we did so partly out of the grim sense of obligation. We might have -- we might have been Irish parents in rolling our children in step dancing classes. This is your heritage. And you're going to learn it. And you're going to love it.

STU: All right. I don't think I'm like super bullish on the future of baseball, as compared to maybe some other sports. I love baseball. But, I mean, this is a ridiculous piece. Of you're taking on a guy from the MLB MVP. Who, yes. He wouldn't be highly recognized. But, like, there are a lot of players in baseball who would be. And those are the guys who win the MVP for the entire season.

GLENN: I think it's worth being honest, up front. About what nationalizing baseball would entail. While I would like to think that the Biden administration could just take all the 30 teams and dissolve the league by executive Fiat. Citing language --

STU: Who wrote this? This is pathetic. Who wrote this?

GLENN: This is written by Matthew Walther. He's an editor of The Lamp. A Catholic literary journal.

STU: Right.

GLENN: He writes frequently about sports.

STU: He should stop writing frequently about sports. I don't think he's ever heard about sports.

GLENN: So listen to this. It's more realistic to assume Congress would have to be involved. Legislation would authorize purchasing the teams, at their current, although absurdly inflated market valuation. Players, coaches, and other staff members would become federal employees. General manager would be appointed. Blah, blah, blah. I mean, this has got to be a joke, right?

STU: Was it April 1st that it was posted?

GLENN: No. I just got this today in my show prep. No. April 7th, today.

STU: Maybe he's just late by six days.

GLENN: Maybe.

STU: First of all, we shouldn't nationalize it, even if it collapses.

GLENN: This can't be true.

STU: We should not be involved in that, in any way.

GLENN: We should not nationalize anything.

STU: I would also note that one of the teams plays in Canada, so I don't know why -- how you would be nationalizing the Toronto Bluejays. That would be an interesting trick.

GLENN: No. It came out April 6th. April 6th. Guest essay opinion, New York Times, April 6th.

STU: Now, they've been writing this opinion about how the sport is dying for so many years. I can't even count.

They've been doing it since I was a kid. And, look, it has dropped in attendance a little bit. You look last year. Obviously the covid year. Some of these parks weren't even open at the beginning of the year. So it was down last year.

You know, their numbers are fine. If you can't build a business around 68 million people in the parks, in 2019. 68 million. You can't -- you need to be nationalized? Forget it. Not to mention the TV and the digital deals, on top of the merchandise and all the other crap that goes on. Yes, at times, these -- these teams spend so much money, that they can get themselves in trouble. And there are some issues, with building in inequality, between the Los Angeles Dodgers, and every other team in the league. But still, there's no reason. There's not even an argument, that it would fail. Let alone be nationalized. It's completely ridiculous.

GLENN: I find it interesting, that he says, the average age of people watching it on TV is 57. What's the average number for the person watching TV?

STU: Right. The cable news average audience is like 72 or 3.

GLENN: Right. But they would think about nationalizing that.

STU: No. They would probably --

GLENN: I guarantee you.

STU: Yeah. You're right. The TV average age is --

GLENN: Really old.

STU: People are watching digital.

GLENN: And I shutter to think what it is on radio. Well, most likely, it's on AM radio. And unless you're a conservative, you don't even know what AM radio even means.

STU: Yeah. There's just -- there's just -- there's news talk radio, and sports radio. That's all AM is.

So, you know, this is nonsense. This is basically the -- we're going to have 700 million people, get displaced by global warming next year. It's one of those type of pieces.

GLENN: So I don't want to be -- there are people who are posting on Instagram and Facebook and stuff. My apology to George Soros.

STU: Yes.

GLENN: Last April Fools'. Okay? And they're like, Glenn Beck sold out. He apologized.

STU: Of course, yeah.

GLENN: I called him. I sincerely apologized to Mr. Pepperoni eyes. Does that sound like a sincere apology? For the love of Pete, people are so stupid. But I don't want to be one of those people. When I read this, I'm like, I don't -- I don't know anymore.

I don't know anymore. I don't know. Is this guy serious or not? Does he really --

STU: Probably -- I guess it's serious. The only reason I think it's serious. Is because this type of piece has been written for a long time. Minus the nationalization. That's a wrinkle. Baseball is going to fail. It's not our national past time anymore. It's well behind football and basketball now. And there's truth to some of that for sure.

Certainly football is the number one sport. But still, this is a pretty freaking healthy business.

GLENN: Hang on. Hang on. Maybe he's being sarcastic, and he's actually writing a pro-baseball piece.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: Saying, yeah. It's so bad. It's horrible. It's horrible.

STU: Maybe that's it.

GLENN: We should -- we have to get him on the phone. And if he doesn't get on the show, we'll know.

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Here’s how INTENSE JFK’s Presidential Fitness Test was

President Trump recently signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test and the media is in a frenzy. But Glenn and Stu look back at the history of these tests, including JFK’s version of the Test that seems IMPOSSIBLE for modern Americans. But Glenn has a secret reason for why he’s confident in his pull-up abilities…

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GLENN: What is the -- what is the new physical -- the president's physical fitness, you know, plan?

STU: Well, the thing that RFK Jr and Hegseth were rolling out the other day. I don't know if it was the full test or anything, but they were issuing a challenge to America, to be able to do 100 pushups and 50 pullups within five minutes.

GLENN: That's crazy.

STU: Thank you! That struck you as also crazy.

I don't think there's ever been a time in my life, that I could do that. Let alone now with shoulder problems. And much too much weight.

GLENN: All right. But that was before I needed this walker.

STU: I don't think there was a time in my 20s or my teens, that I could do that. But that -- in five minutes? Fifty pullups?
GLENN: Both of them in 5 minutes.
STU: Yeah, both of them. So it's not like 100 pushups in five minutes. It's both tasks within five minutes.

GLENN: No. No. That's not true.

STU: RFK Jr. is just doing it in jeans.

GLENN: Yeah, well, RFK, he's -- he's a weirdo. I mean, he is. Come on. When it comes to fitness, he's a weirdo.
STU: Yes.
GLENN: I mean, he's done this his whole life. He's like 800 years old. He can still do it.

STU: Yes. Depressive, I will say.

GLENN: I don't know. He's a sex machine.

STU: Oh. That's been a problem for him. Yes, that's been an issue in his life. Yes.

GLENN: Okay. All right. Go ahead.

STU: Separate from the president's physical fitness test.

GLENN: Right.

STU: But, I mean, they don't, they don't really think we're going to do that, right?
Like, I mean, how long would that take you to do?

STU: I think for me, it would take a good month. I think a month, I could probably get two pullups a day. That would get me around, a little over 50. So I could do that. Plus, the pushups. A solid month, I could get that done.

GLENN: You could do more than two a day. You could do more than two a day.

STU: You know, Glenn, I've got to say. I think -- I will throw a number out there. No science behind this, so just as a guestimate.

I would say 40 percent of the population can't do any pullups. Maybe 30 percent. Thirty percent of the population can do exactly zero pullups. Precisely zero, so an infinite amount of time would be a correct answer for a third of the population.

GLENN: I think you're -- I think you're being -- I think you're being a little too optimistic. I think it's closer to 40 or 50. I think it's closer to 40 or 50. Maybe 60 percent.

STU: Right! Pushups are one thing. I mean, I think almost anyone can do a pushup. One --

GLENN: You can do a pushup. Yes. Yes.

STU: Singular pushup. And if you can do one, you can wait long enough, to do a second one.
And at some point, the hundred gets done. That's not the case with pullups. Pullups, you can sit there and think about how much you want to do a pullup for a really long time. But that doesn't make a pullup happen. If you've got a certain amount of weight on you. You're not doing a pullup. It's not occurring.

GLENN: I have no idea, how many pullups I can do.

STU: I have an exact number of pullups, you can do.

GLENN: Do you? You think so?

STU: Yeah. Yeah. I have the exact number. I have to calculate -- AI has been running a report on me. It came up with zero.

GLENN: Right. Right. Really?
I can do. I mean, this is so pathetic. Listen to this. I bet I could do three. You know, you could do three.

STU: In a row? Proper form.

GLENN: What do you mean in a row?

STU: I mean, holding on to the bar, without letting go, you're doing three. There's no way. I don't think so.

GLENN: I think I could do. Well, with proper form, I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

STU: I'm not saying it has to look pretty. You have to get your chin up above the bar. It can't be one of those things, where you're a quarter of the way up there.

GLENN: So I can do one and rest for ten minutes. I could do another one.

I think I can do that.

STU: If you -- I'm not saying, you jump up, and you pull yourself up as you're pulling up. Full hang --

GLENN: See, you may not know this.

But you know what, I've done the DNA test. Have you ever done the DNA test that tells you all about your genes and everything else? Mine came back with something remarkable, and I have to share. You might feel bad, next.
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STU: Coming up next, Glenn attempts live pullups on the air. Stay tuned!
(OUT AT 8:29 AM)

GLENN: You know no idea what who you're dealing with. No. You don't have any idea who you're dealing with here.

I got my DNA test back like 10 years ago. And we all -- we all took it, because we were looking for things. And so we all took it. My DNA test came back, and everybody in the family, their test made total sense. Like, oh, yeah. That makes...

Then we read mine. We have to find -- I have to find. See if Tania has it still. We should have had it framed. I swear to you, they -- they mixed me up with somebody else.

Somebody else is like, wait a minute. I'm this pathetic? Mine came out and said, you have the muscular structure of a -- of a -- something like a -- an elite athlete. You have the abilities and agility and everything else of an elite athlete. And I'm like, there's not a chance. I don't have any of that!

I don't even know if I have muscles. I have to check once in a while, and go, do I have muscles still?

Doctor is like, I don't know. Can I? Ask just press against my hand on the leg. I don't know.

You know, I don't know how to do that exactly. So --

STU: You sure it said elite athlete and not elephant? I mean, if they misspelled it.

GLENN: It was.

I was having eye problems at the time.

STU: No!

GLENN: I mean, we read it. And I was like Tania, I believe that for Tania.

Maybe they switched me and Tania. Because Tania is really strong. She'll kick your butt.

She works out every day. All of that. Me? Never. Never.

And it kind of makes me wonder, when I get to the other side, and the Lord went, okay.

So what did you do with your life again?

Because I gave this incredible body, and you wasted it the whole time.

And I'm like, you should have been more clear, okay?

You should have been more clear. I -- maybe I could have played basketball. But I tried once. And it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. It was like sixth grade. And I'll never live -- I don't even want to think about my time on a basketball court. Okay? So don't -- don't start with me. You should have made it a little clearer. When I first started to do stuff. And I think that's fair. I think that's a fair argument. In my defense. In my defense, Your Honor, God, you should have made it a little more clear.

STU: Yeah. I mean, if they really wanted us to do this, then the 11th Commandment is 50 pushups, and -- or, 50 pullups and 100 pushups, right?

Like, put it in a commandment if you really want us to do it. You have to be more specific, we're Americans.

GLENN: Okay. So let me give you the top of the list for the JFK Presidential Fitness Test. Okay? This is what you had to do in high school. In high school.

Thirty-four pullups. Bar dips: Fifty-two. What's -- because I believe I did that. A long time. And I don't recommend it.

STU: It's not a barhop.

GLENN: Oh, it's -- oh, bar dips. Okay. Okay. All right.

Bar dips: 52. Handstand pushups: Fifty. What are handstands?

STU: Oh, my God. Handstands.

GLENN: I can't even stand on my hands. Is that I'm doing a handstand and a push up? Because that's not happening. You're not human.

STU: Yeah. You're balancing yourself on your hands. Your feet are above your hands on the wall. Like a wall. And you're doing --

GLENN: Oh, so you're balancing yourself. That makes it a little easier. Still impossible.

But a little easier.

GLENN: Impossible. You could do precisely zero of those.

Aright. So you had to do 50 handstand pushups.

Or one arm -- 30 -- no, sir.

Twenty-six one-arm burpees in 30 seconds. Is that a one-armed push up?

STU: No. Well, you're bracing your yourself like you're about to begin a pushup in a burpee with only one arm, which that's not that difficult.

But then you're doing. Then you're like, you move your feet towards your hands. And then you jump up in the air basically. And then you do it repeatedly.

GLENN: No, no, no. That's ridiculous. No.

STU: There's a law of gravity. You're not supposed to violate it. If it was a recommendation of gravity, then maybe jumping would be appropriate. But it's not. Follow the law.

GLENN: In 48 seconds, you had to do a 3300-yard shuttle. Now, I've been to the airport. I think I've done a 3300-yard shuttle, but it depends on who is driving. You know.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Rope climb. Try this. Rope climb. Twenty feet, hands only! Sit start.

STU: That's what I remember from the president's physical fitness test. And I remember looking at that rope, like, no chance I could get up that thing.

GLENN: I remember looking up at that thing. Humiliation. Humiliation is coming my way. I'll never kiss a girl, because that ain't happening. I'll get maybe 10 feet up. Maybe. Maybe.

STU: And you were right for 24 years from that time, approximately.

GLENN: Agility run, 17 seconds. Extension pressups, what? What?

I'm sorry. Why am I so tired reading this?

Extension pressups. What's an extension pressup, 8-inch? You had to do 100 of them.

STU: Let's see. Exercise. An exercise for low-back pain involving lying on your stomach and pressing your upper body up with your arms while keeping your hips relaxed and down on the mat.

GLENN: Oh, I could do that know. 8 inches.

STU: The last part of it, relaxing down on the mat.
GLENN: That's what my doctor says I should be doing. What?

STU: I can do relaxed and down on the mat. That part of it --

GLENN: Yeah. I could do that -- I'm the only guy. I took yoga for a while, like three weeks. My wife is like, yoga. You could do yoga. Let's just do yoga together.

I did. And the yoga instructor said to me. Because we were doing a plank.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And she came and all I remember her waking me up. And saying, I think you're the only person I've ever -- ever taught that fell asleep in yoga. And I'm like, it's just so relaxing. Just let me sleep. Let me sleep.

STU: That's interesting, that you did yoga. Is there any footage of that? Any video that we could post? That would be good for --

GLENN: No. There's not. You had to do pegboard. Five trips of pegboard. And I think that's when you have the two pegs.

STU: Yes, it was a board.

GLENN: You have to take it out, and put it up, right?

STU: This is American Ninja Warrior. No way.

GLENN: There's no way. There's no way.

STU: This is amazing.

GLENN: Try this one: You had to do a 45-second handstand. I've never been able to do a handstand. Never!

STU: Never.

GLENN: And I'm an elite athlete. I'm an elite athlete. Try this one: A man carry, 5 miles.

STU: What? What do you mean a --

GLENN: Five-mile man carry.

STU: Is a man carry as obvious as it --

GLENN: I think it is.

STU: You're carrying --

GLENN: If I'm going to carry that man, you have to carry me that man for five miles.

I'm not sure, I can't carry any man for any miles. I mean, if I am -- if I am a firefighter, count on burning in the house. You're going to burn in the house. Because I can't carry you out. I can get in there and go, yeah, I will have to leave you.
I will have to leave you here. I can't help you, sorry.

It's also getting really hot in here. I have to go. You had to do a five-mile jog. An obstacle course.

You had to swim prone for a mile. You had to swim underwater for 50 yards, any strokes, two minutes. Deep waterfront, hang float, with arms. What? What is a deep water hang float with arms. Wait. Wait.

It's a deep waterfront hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes.

What kind of al-Qaeda PE class was this?

STU: Who has access to -- who has access -- like, you're in the middle of the country, you may not have a deep water body nearby. This is -- are you sure this is an actual test?

GLENN: This is the actual test. This is the actual -- what is a deep water front hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes? Can you look that up?

STU: A deep water hang float is an aquatic hang float done in the deep end of a pool with the aid of flotation device, such as a noodle or belt.

In this position, the flotation twice supports your upper body, while your legs and torso hang freely beneath you.

That can't be what it is.

GLENN: You can do that.

Deep-end of the pool.

STU: Can you bring a margarita?

GLENN: Man, this test is no big deal.

What! No way. No way!

Here's the last thing on the test.

A vertical tread in an 8-foot circle for two hours!

No way.

STU: Vertical tread in an 8-foot circle?

GLENN: So you're in the water and you're treading water in a circle for two hours. Two!

STU: This is not -- what?

This is not the test.

GLENN: It is. Now, I told you, this is the top of the test.

This is the top of the test.

So this is for the ones who could do all the other tests.

This was the top of the test. The bottom of the test is not that much better. Here's the entry, okay? Let's see. Pullups, 2/6/10. I don't know what that means. Pushups, 16, 24, 32. Bar dips, four, eight, and 12. Situps, 30, 45, and 60. Broad jump, 6-foot, 6, 6, 6. And 6, 9.

To jump 6 feet? I don't even know if --

STU: That one is possible, yes. Glenn, I know it sounds incredible. But, yes. That one is possible.

GLENN: Sounds incredible. You know, I think we should have the average person Olympics. I really do. I really do.

STU: Oh, I would watch that.


GLENN: I would watch that every time.

You see them coming. And you're like, hmm. That one -- three feet. I'm giving him 3 feet. 200-yard shuttle. Agility run. Rope climb, 18 feet, hands only. 880 yards in three minutes. A mile in seven minutes. Pegboard, six holes. A 50-yard swim. Forty -- 40, 50-yard swim in 36 seconds. Man carry, 880 yards. No, thank you! No, thank you!

Look at -- look at what we've gone down. That's the bottom of it. And I don't think most Americans could do that.

I couldn't. Well, I could. Because I'm an elite -- I have the body of an elite athlete.

STU: No. You could not. Now, of course -- let's just say, this is supposed to be for a high school kid. Right?

So this is the prime of your athletic life. Could you do some of these things? Probably.
GLENN: Go into high school.
Go into any high school, and ask them to do this. There's no way. And all of the kids would be.

STU: Well, that's kind of what the reaction would be.

GLENN: Don't get me wrong. I would have been there too. And my parents would have said, suck it up. Just do it.

So nothing has really changed.

STU: That's been the reaction to this proposal too, of bringing this back. Right? The media is covering this. Like, it's going to embarrass children.

You know, I mean, I do remember it being like, I can't do that. I'm not going to the top of that rope. That's not happening.

That's sort of life. Right? Sometimes you can do things. Sometimes you can't do other things.

GLENN: That's why you have to learn how to injure yourself.

You know, how many stairs can I throw myself down, to not do serious damage, but enough to get me out of PE.

STU: Yeah, you have to fake an why are. You have to learn from LeBron James. Act like you got hit in the eye. And fall down like you were just stabbed over and over again, like you were in an athletic competition.

GLENN: There's no way. There's no way.

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