Best of the Program | 6/10/26

Summary

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The Glenn Beck Program – Best of the Program | 6/10/26

Date: June 10, 2026
Theme: Examining the roots and ramifications of recent violence (Texas and Belfast stabbings), societal breakdowns in identity, loneliness, the perils of political expediency, and candid warnings to both political parties about sacrificing principles for short-term wins.

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Overview

This "Best of" episode of The Glenn Beck Program delves into high-profile violent incidents in Texas and Belfast, exploring their deeper cultural and political causes. Glenn Beck discusses how a loss of collective identity, eroding social cohesion, and divisive politics are fueling chaos in America and abroad. He warns of the consequences when movements trade principles for power and draws historical parallels to stress the dangers of prioritizing winning over integrity.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recent Stabbings in Texas and Belfast: What’s Happening to Western Society?

[03:12–13:14]

• Texas Incident:
  Glenn opens with commentary on a Texas stabbing, reflecting on the broader implications for American society, specifically concerning kids and moral decline.

• Belfast Attack:
  Describes the attempted beheading of Stephen Ogleby in Belfast by a Sudanese asylum seeker. Glenn connects this violence to larger patterns seen across the UK and Europe owing to immigration policies and a loss of national identity.

  “We have sown entitlement, we have sown grievance. And we're now reaping the knives in schools and parking lots…” (08:28)

• The "Bubba Effect":
  Glenn describes a scenario where government neglect leads to vigilante overreactions among the populace, fueling cycles of violence and unrest.

  “If the elites keep denying reality and blaming the native population instead of confronting failed policies, they're lighting the fuse themselves.” (11:59)

• On Diversity and Unity:
  He criticizes the platitude "Diversity is our strength," countering with the necessity for shared values and unity.

  “Unity is our strength. Coming together even though we're diverse people coming together under one principle, that's a strength.” (08:44)

• Real-World Consequences:
  Glenn links increases in violent crime, including beheadings and sexual assaults, to failed policies, erasure of borders, and the weaponization of race. He questions the priorities of compassion over security.

  “This isn't about kindness. This is suicide. Suicide by compassion without any wisdom at all.” (12:15)

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2. The Disintegration of Identity and Community Among American Youth

[16:30–31:32]

• Loss of Collective Story:
  Glenn laments that young Americans no longer know the country’s narrative nor feel connected to shared institutions like family, church, or community groups.

  “Humans must have a story, okay? And the story they're being fed to replace that is just of grievance and anger and revenge. That's not healthy.” (18:43)

• Impact of Loneliness:
  Cites statistics about record-low church attendance and friendships, especially among youth, calling loneliness “an epidemic” with profound health consequences.

  “The most wired, the most connected, the most in touch generation that’s ever drawn breath is also the most alone human beings have ever produced.” (19:45)

• The Role of Technology:
  Discusses how social media and constant digital engagement are corrosive to identity formation in young people, replacing guidance from family and community with algorithms and online influencers.

  “She’s looking at that mirror. It’s actually worse than a mirror. The phone, the feed, the algorithm... This is who you are, right?” (21:50)

• Predatory Ideologies:
  Glenn warns that ideologies—sometimes harmful and identity-focused—prey upon the loneliness and confusion of youth, offering belonging at the cost of independent thought.

  “The hook is set into your kid the deepest when your kid is lost... When a kid feels invisible, a ready-made identity stop becomes attractive and irresistible.” (23:04)

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3. Practical Advice for Parents and Grandparents

[26:50–31:32]

• Create Spaces for Belonging and Questioning:
  Encourages families to foster environments where children can belong and safely disagree—even about foundational beliefs.

  “Give them a place where they belong. And more importantly, where they belong, where they can sit and disagree. And it’s allowed.” (26:50)

• Warn About the Trap:
  Advocate for open conversations with young people about groups or movements that demand compliance and discourage independent thought.

  “If anyone ever tells you that you have to stop doubting in order to belong, run.” (27:56)

• Be a Safe Listener:
  Glenn shares personal stories emphasizing the importance of not overreacting so children continue to confide in their parents.

  “Believe me, my son and my daughter have told me things that I’m like, oh, my gosh, don’t react... Yes, you do, because they are so lonely.” (30:09)

• Filling the “I Am”:
  Shares his father's advice about the power of identity formation:

  “The two most powerful words in any language is ‘I am.’ And it’s usually followed by a blank. ... If you don’t fill that in, there are all kinds of people that are just waiting to fill it in for you.” (31:18)

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4. Political Expediency and the Graham Platner Nomination in Maine

[31:38–40:47+]

• Context:
  Graham Platner wins the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine, despite significant baggage: an SS Totenkopf tattoo, allegations of abusive behavior, and questions about his character.

  “There is the tattoo that he covered up. It is the Totenkoff. That is the death head that the SS wore on their caps. ... And that is happening. They’re turning a blind eye to that...” (31:58)

• Hypocrisy of Political Parties:
  Glenn notes both parties have, when desperate, supported deeply flawed candidates for short-term advantage, always to their eventual regret.

  “The seat you believe you cannot afford to lose is the exact seat you’re most likely... to throw away because need makes you stupid.” (36:45)

• Danger of Abandoning Principles:
  Criticizes Democrats (and Republicans before them) for rationalizing egregious candidates in pursuit of power.

  “A principle is something you hold even when it costs you the election. A weapon is something you drop the second it gets too heavy to swing.” (39:02)

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5. Historical Allegory: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

[40:47+]

• Story Recap:
  Glenn recounts the story of Alcibiades, the brilliant, charismatic Athenian whose city supported him despite knowing he could not be trusted, leading to disaster for Athens.

  “Athens did not fall because it lacked talent. It fell because it could not stop reaching for the talented man that they had every reason not to trust. But they had to win.” (around 47:00)

• Lesson:
  The true danger to civilization is not the absence of leaders, but the inability to say no to seductive, unprincipled ones when the stakes feel high.

  “This is not a moment of strength. This is the precise sound a civilization makes right before it decides that the man it can’t afford to trust is the man it can’t afford to lose.” (approx. 48:30)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Race and Divisiveness:
  Stan (Caller): “Truth being told, we all need to stop. I love you. You know, we're all Americans. Let's just stop the crap. It’s really ridiculous...” (03:24)

• On Media and Censorship:
  Glenn Beck: “This isn’t a podcast. This is a movement. And you’re part of it, a big part of it.” (01:52)

• On Beheadings in Britain:
  Glenn Beck: “England hasn’t had beheadings since 1747... until the mass migration from certain Muslim majority countries brought the ideology and the blades with it.” (09:42)

• On Surveillance and Bystander Apathy:
  Glenn Beck: “You know, they’re calling the one guy who stopped the beheading a hero. ... There were a lot of people standing around just taping it with their phone. What do you say you put the phone down?” (14:29)

• On Principle vs. Expediency in Politics:
  Glenn Beck: “Everything you say before the word ‘but’ is what your principles are... Everything after the ‘but’ is what you’re willing to trade those principles for.” (35:23)

• On Identity:
  Glenn Beck’s father: “The two most powerful words in any language is ‘I am.’ ... If you don’t fill that in, I’ll never forget the way he said it. ... there are all kinds of people waiting to fill it in for you.” (31:18)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Intro/Preview – 00:00–02:54
• Caller Stan on Race & Stabbing – 03:04–04:29
• Analysis of Texas and Belfast Attacks – 04:29–13:19
• On Societal Decline, Loneliness, and Youth – 16:30–26:50
• Advice for Parents – 26:50–31:32
• Platner Nomination, Party Hypocrisy – 31:38–36:45
• Principles in Politics / "Nazi" as Weapon – 36:45–39:58
• Alcibiades and Athens Historical Allegory – 40:47–end

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Tone & Style

• Glenn combines urgency, storytelling, and direct appeals to the audience.
• Mixes candid, even blunt, political critique with philosophical and personal reflection.
• Invokes historical allegory, biblical and parental wisdom, and current events to highlight moral lessons.

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Summary: Takeaway for Listeners

This episode explores how violence abroad and at home reflects deeper cultural and moral crises. Glenn Beck warns parents to proactively foster true connection and fortify their children against predatory ideologies. He admonishes political movements (on both sides) not to sacrifice principle for power, using both recent events and ancient history as warnings. The episode closes with a call for integrity, order, and engagement at every level of society, reminding us that civilizations falter not just from without, but from the compromises made within.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

Hey, today is a really good best of podcast. You don't want to miss any of it. I start with a Carmelo story out of out of Texas and what it means, but really what it means, how do we get here and how do we stop this from happening to our kids? I spoke a lot about this in several different parts of the show today, but we're focusing on how did we get here then also the Belfast stabbing, because we're talking about two stabbings. We're talking about Carmela stabbing in the United States and the attempted beheading of an Irish citizen and the nonsense that's going on there. What is the solution? What are we missing? And Graham Platner, he wins. He is now the official Democratic nominee. And I give the Democrats and really all of us three specific warnings on this, and all three of them should be listened to. All this and more on today's podcast. Father Mother's Day is coming up. It's right around the corner, and every year we all go through exactly the same exercise. We tried to find a gift for dad, even though most dads spend their whole lives, you know, insisting, I don't need anything. The best gifts aren't usually the flashiest ones. They're the things that a man reaches for time and time again, over and over, the things that become part of his daily life because they're well made, they're comfortable, and they're built to last. That's why I think American Giant makes so much sense for Father's Day. They make premium hoodies, great T shirts, sweatshirts, everyday essentials made right here in the United States. Their cotton is grown here. Their clothes are cut and sewn here. And the people making them are American workers who still believe in doing the

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[Caller (Stan)]

You're listening to the best of the

[Glenn Beck]

Glenn Beck Program, listening to us in New York City. Stan, welcome. Glad you're here.

[Caller (Stan)]

Hey, who's this? Glenn.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes, it is, sir.

[Caller (Stan)]

Oh, pleasure to be speaking with you, dude.

[Glenn Beck]

Thank you.

[Caller (Stan)]

Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I wanted to comment on your segment you were just doing about the. The stabbing in Texas. Yeah, Yeah. I just. I'm a black guy, right. And, you know, I just want to say, first of all, that, you know, all black communities don't feel the same. I hope people, you know.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, it's kind of. You know, it's weird, Stan, because it's like, not all white people think the same. Why don't all black people think the same? It's stupid.

[Caller (Stan)]

I would imagine, you know, people tend to group and tend to, yes, Think that. That that's the case, but it's. But it's really not. You know, people are individuals, you know, collectively. Tell you the truth, we're all Americans, so truth being told, we all need to stop. I love you. You know, we're all Americans. Let's just stop the crap. It's really ridiculous, you know, and. Because let me tell you, had that been. Had that scenario been reversed or it would have been a big. It would have been a. You know, that would have been a big cabal, you know, and. And, you know, it just seems like either way it goes, the race car is always pulled, and that's always an issue. You know, we.

[Glenn Beck]

You know what, Stan? I think that, you know, because I said I hope that, you know, what we're seeing are just a few NGOs and a few people that really don't get it. And I believe because there wasn't a big uprising yesterday in Texas, that that's not the way the black. The majority of the black community feels. Some do, some don't. But, you know, maybe we are getting past this. Maybe this is a sign that we're getting past it a little bit. This may be a baby step in the right direction. Thank you, Stan. I appreciate it. Especially hearing common sense coming out of New York City. You know, we have two knife attacks and that's what everybody is talking about. And these, these knife attacks, we're not supposed to notice a pattern. I think we were just talking about in Texas, you know, Carmelo Anthony, convicted of first degree murder, 35 years for stabbing, verbal spat. We got it. Now what happens next? Jury took two and a half hours, Evidence is clear. But across the ocean, there is another knife attack that everybody's talking about. Happened in Belfast. That's Northern Ireland, just days ago. I don't know if you saw it, it was horrible. June 8, a 30 year old Sudanese asylum seeker. They're still not sure where he's from, but he was charged. He was charged with attempted murder after a brutal knife attack on a local man in his 40s, Stephen Ogleby. And we have the video of him now on the ground just hacking at this guy's throat. It is horrible. Straddling the guy on the ground, slashing his head and his neck, trying to hack his head off. Victim lost his left eye. Suffered devastating wounds to his face, his neck and his back. He's still fighting for his life in the hospital. He's not dead yet now. So what happened? Well, I think you're starting to see the Bubba effect in Ireland. Protests are up all across Belfast. Fires burn vehicles, clashes. Because it's years of frustration now boiling over. Oh, and it was bad because what, what have I told you in the Bubba effect? What is the Bubba effect? The government has screwed things up.

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Bubba goes in, he thinks he's gonna

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take, you know, vengeance on a Muslim.

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He kills a sheikh because he's wearing

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a turban, even though Muslims don't wear a turban. And everybody's like, bubba, what did you do? And they know they have to punish

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Bubba and they know he has to go to jail. But the federal government comes in and

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they're like, no, back off. We know Bubba did wrong, but we'll take care of that.

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Not you.

[Glenn Beck]

You're the cause of it. So what is, what are you seeing? In Belfast, they went and they set fires at houses that supposedly were for immigrants. Some immigrants are, you know, they're not

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Muslim, they're not from Africa, whatever.

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And they were standing outside, go, wait,

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wait, wait, wait, wait. Doesn't matter. You've enraged the mob and the world

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wants to talk about isolated incidents and

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then far right group unrest.

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Let me tell you what's really happening here. Everything you're seeing, these are horrors.

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They're downstream from progressive policies that have

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weakened our kids, have raced our borders,

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erased our history, erase common sense and Punished anybody who dares notice the consequences.

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We here in America have raised generations

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now without any clear identity. I'm going to get into this next hour.

[Glenn Beck]

You've got to listen to next hour.

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No moral guidelines, no self control, no personal responsibility. Race has been weaponized by politicians to divide us instead of uniting us under one creed. Kids don't know who they are anymore. So a disagreement over a seat in a tent escalates immediately to murder. We have sown entitlement, we have sown grievance. And we're now reaping the knives in schools and parking lots in Belfast Cross the uk, Europe, same globalist mindset. Open the floodgates. Diversity is our strength.

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Since when?

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Unity is our strength. Coming together even though we're diverse people coming together under one principle, that's a strength. Imagine having an army and going, you know what? These guys are all going to do whatever they want. They're all from different armies and they're all from different things. We're just going to let them do what they want. Diversity is our strength. They'd be slaughtered on the field. Then the people who are preaching this garbage to us brand concerned citizens as racists for pointing out the obvious.

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You know, not every arrival comes to

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assimilate, to melt into Western society, to respect our laws and customs. Not every incident is about race. We've seen the spikes in knife crime, grooming, gangs, rapes, violence. Authorities that downplay or deny and then accuse the people who are saying, wait a minute, this is my neighborhood. Accuse them of being racist. And let me just talk about beheadings because I don't know the last time

[Glenn Beck]

you saw somebody in the street trying

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to hack somebody's head off. But I looked it up. England hasn't had beheadings since 1747. We weren't even a country. And the guy that they beheaded was executed for treason. So 1747 was the last time people were beheaded in Great Britain until the mass migration from certain Muslim majority countries brought the ideology and the blades with it. I have now seen in the last five years two people on the streets of England. One was beheaded. He was a soldier. Gee, I wonder what that was. And now this one where they tried

[Glenn Beck]

to cut the guy's head off.

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Gee. And the press is like, I don't know. We don't know the. We don't have a probable cause. Probable cause, Probable cause. We don't know the cause. But you don't know the probable cause. I know it was probably rooted in that guy's culture. Probable cause. I mean, it could be the cultural class rooted in Islamic patterns of violence that have no place in Western society. That's probable, isn't it? I mean, good enough is enough, enough is enough. People are rising up because the elites ignored them for too long. If you keep telling people that they are stupid, bigoted, far right just for preferring straight, safe streets and a coherent community where their children aren't continually raped and you. And, and, and they just don't want imported chaos because they got enough chaos in their lives. We have enough problems with crime with Americans. We don't need to bring more people

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in that are criminals that want to behead people.

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You know, towns just didn't slide into third world violence by accident. It happened when leaders prioritized open borders and brought the third world in. And then they added political correctness over integration and vetting over the national interest.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm telling you, Britain does not have a civil war yet. But you are at the, you are at the Bubba effect in Great Britain now. And if the elites keep denying reality and blaming the native population instead of confronting failed policies, they're lighting the fuse themselves. Victims are being stabbed here in America, nearly beheaded in the streets of Great Britain. Their own citizens. Are not these the people that our governments are sworn to protect? You are not very kind. This isn't about kindness. This is suicide. Suicide by compassion without any wisdom at all. What do you say we plant the flag deep in the heart of truth? Borders exist for a reason.

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Assimilation isn't optional here in America. Self control and moral clarity are not relics.

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They're survival. I mean, look how far we have fallen. Look at what our society has become over the last 20 years. We weren't like this before. We were not like this. What has changed?

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Oh, I don't know. The progressive nonsense.

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And I think our children deserve a better future than knife fights. Our neighborhoods deserve better than imported tribal violence. Here's the good news. All of these things, they provide an opportunity for us to, to wake up. When people see that guy on the street in Belfast where the guy is hacking at his neck, it provides a chance for everyone to wake up. Now I think the people are awakened. People in Great Britain, they do not have a Martin Luther King example. They don't. Their example is Gandhi, but Gandhi used it against the English. So they're not really happy with Gandhi. They don't have that example. They only have Christ. And Christ is almost dead in Great Britain. There is no real church in Great Britain. It's starting to revive a little bit, but it's on the ropes. These people are not going to go for a Martin Luther King.

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There is no understanding of that over there.

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If we, if we can reject the division, we can restore real accountability, we can secure our homes and remember who we are under God, then perhaps these tragedies are not going to be in vain. Because we can still choose life. We can still choose order. We can still choose courage over chaos. You know, they're calling the one guy who stopped the beheading a. A hero. And I find that kind of sad. It's true. But there were a lot of people standing around just taping it with their phone. What do you say you put the phone down now. I understand if it's one person, I get it. But if there's lots of people standing around, why don't you. Does no one say, hey, guys, let's stop videotaping, or you, you videotape so we have it on record. And the rest of us, let's go stop that guy from being beheaded.

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Personal responsibility in all things.

[Glenn Beck]

All we have to do is choose wisely. We haven't been doing that lately, but I think that time is coming quickly. The hour is late. America, choose wisely. We get fired up during the campaign season. We volunteer, we donate, we vote. And then when the election is over, we go back to our lives and assume the people we elected will handle the rest. How's that working out for us? The other side never stops. They don't take years off. They don't wait for the next election cycle. They understand that culture is shaped every day by the institutions, organizations, and businesses that receive our support. And that is one of the reasons I talk to you about Patriot Mobile so often. Yes, they provide excellent wireless service. You get the coverage on all three major networks, unlimited data, you know, mobile hotspots, international roaming, customer support right here in America, all of that stuff. It's better than with a big. With the big guys. You can keep your phone number, keep your phone, get a new one, whatever you want. But they take a portion of their profits and they donate it to organizations that defend the values that help make this country great in the first place. So join me in this mission. Patriotmobile.com Beck 972 Patriot use the promo code Beck for a free month of service. Patriotmobile.com Beck972 Patriot make the switch today. Now back to the podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. So we heard about Carmelo and the stabbing. We've. We've seen our society, our Classrooms, Our kids just start, just start unhinging and self mutilating and suicide and all of these things. What's happening to us? If you're a parent or a grandparent, I want you to listen carefully here. We are a people that have misplaced our own story. We have lost the thread of who we are and how we got here. Humans must have a story, okay? And the story they're being fed to replace that is just of grievance and anger and revenge. That's not healthy. Do yourself a favor. Ask somebody under 25. Heck, ask them under 30, 35. Tell me the American story. Most people can't do it. On the last national history exam, 13% of 8th graders came out proficient. 13. They're in school currently 13. 4 in 10 couldn't clear the bottom bar, which was, we're going to set a document out in front of you. Tell us anything about it. They couldn't do it. And you can guess what those documents were, right? The civic scores fell for the first time since they started keeping record in 1998. We are raising a generation. That cannot explain the country they're standing in. And it's not just the story that is thinning out. It is everything that used to hold a person in place. Stories, your family hold you in place. The church holds you in place. Churches used to anchor a town. Fewer than half of us now belong to a congregation. Gallup has its lowest measure since they started asking this question in 1937. Then friendships, they used to hold you in place. In 1990, 3% of Americans said they had no close friend at all. 3% no close friend at all. That's now 12% since 1990. We didn't drift apart slowly. We hollowed out in one generation. So of course we're lonely. Surgeon general said that it's an epidemic of loneliness. He gave a body count. He said isolation does to a person, to a human body, roughly what smoking 15 cigarettes a day does.

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Loneliness.

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Now, it used to be that the loneliest people in America were the old people. Not now. It's the under 30s. The most wired, the most connected, the most in touch generation that has ever drawn breath is also the most alone human beings have ever produced. Hang on just a second.

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Try to hold all of that in

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your head at once and then say, what do you think's happening to our kids? No shared story. Emptied out churches, emptied out clubs. A friendship drought. A loneliness the doctors are calling a health emergency. Now, picture being born into that. You don't know all the stuff that You've known in the past. Picture that country being handed to you one day. You don't even know where you are. You have no map. You have no name for who your people are. There's no seat saved at any table for you. You just have a screen in your hand and a thousand strangers glad to tell you who you ought to be. That's the ground our kids are standing on. They didn't crack it. Don't blame them. They didn't crack it. They inherited this. And it's exactly why, out of everything I could talk about, I want to talk about them. Because we all know stuff, but we may forget from time to time. Kids don't know who they are. They don't. We think they do. But try to remember all the things that you used to think about yourself. They're not supposed to know who they are at 19. They're not supposed to know who they are at 16. Certainly not at 11. And that's how young this starts now. 11 is starting to be old. Identity is not something kids have. It's something that kids build piece by piece. And they build it after whatever is reflected back at them. Here's what's changed since we were growing up. When you and I were building ourselves, the mirrors were our friends.

[Caller (Stan)]

Remember?

[Glenn Beck]

What did your mom used to always say? Show me your friends, I'll show you your future. It was our friends. It was our family. It was a coach, it was a teacher. It was a pastor. Today, Your daughter is 12 years old and she's holding a mirror in her hand. Eight or nine hours every day. More waking hours than she spends in any classroom or doing anything else. She's looking at that mirror. It's actually worse than a mirror. The phone, the feed, the algorithm, the shows she watches, the influencers, she follows, what she hears at school. This mirror is actually talking back to her, whispering the same question. This is who you are, right? This is who you are. This is who you are right now. Some of that noise is just noise companies trying to sell her things. Fine. We grew up with that as well. But some of the voices reaching your kids, they are not random, okay? You've got people who know exactly what they're doing. They have a vision for who your kid should become, their patient. And they didn't ask your permission. They don't care about you. I'm telling you, stop assuming that everything coming through that scream in the screen, in that classroom door is neutral. It isn't neutral at all. So picture it. A kid younger than you think, still under construction. Swimming in a sea. An ocean of a thousand voices. And then one of those voices steps forward and offers the whole package. Finished identity. Here's who you are. Here's your people, here's your club. Here's what you stand for. Do you understand now how that lands? Why that lands with kids. Kids. The kid doesn't feel like they're joining something. They feel like they're finally becoming someone. That's the hook. Oh, you're going to join the club for, you know, because you're bi or you want to be trans. You're joining a club and all your friends are there and you're accepted and you're cool. And the hook is set into your kid the deepest. When your kid is lost, when they're cut from the team, when they're dumped, when they're left out of the group chat. When you move to a new town, a new school, nobody saved them a seat. You know how that feels. Even at your age, when a kid feels invisible, a ready made identity stop becomes attractive and becomes irresistible. Because they're looking for a shore. And the people I want to warn you about, the determined ones, they know all of this. They're not looking for your kid at their best best. They're looking for your kid at his loneliness. The loneliest. Don't kid yourself that the one. My kids, my kids are fine. Really. Because a lot of them are hurting. You just can't see it. You don't remember. And here's the other half of this trap. You've seen this movie over and over again. Our kids have never seen this movie before. We've watched movements rise and fall our whole lives. We know things are going to constantly change. We know the smell of it. The they don't. They can't spot the bad movie yet. The group that says sure, you belong over here, but hand your doubt over at the door. Stop questioning, stop pushing back. That one, that one thing, that one group that promises to transform your kid and. And all they have to do is just obey. Just obey. Just fit in. That's the bind. The pull is stronger on the young. The danger is harder for them to see. And the recruiters now have to have to not go out and search everywhere. They just, they find the recruit right there. It's in their pocket. Your gut might say, make a list. Good groups are here. Bad groups are here. Block this app. Ban that channel. Switch schools. Look, you use your judgment. You're the parent, you know your kids. But you're not going to be able to list Your way out of this. Some of these movements are harmless. Some are propaganda. Some are extraordinarily dangerous. Your kids vulnerability is identical for all of those categories. Because the weakness was never in the movement. The weakness is in the normal unfinished kid. And the normal lonely moment that is now not normal or it's becoming normal at epidemic proportions. And it goes wherever they go. You can't pre screen the whole world. So I got a couple of ideas and I want you to actually write this down. If you're, if you're following me on this, write this, write these two things down.

[Glenn Beck (continued commentary or co-host)]

First.

[Glenn Beck]

One, give them a place where they belong. And more importantly, where they belong. Where they can sit and disagree. And it's allowed. Okay. Your dinner table, your church is even better. You disagree? I don't know. I have a question about this. Good question. Question, question, question with boldness, even the very existence of God. For if there be a God, he'd must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear. Yes.

[Glenn Beck (continued commentary or co-host)]

Question.

[Glenn Beck]

Because if the only place you're offering your kid belonging is a place that demands their silence, they will pay that price. And when they're hurting, when they've gone quiet and pulled away, that's not a moment to give them space. That's the moment to move towards them. Because somebody's going to fill that void in your kid. And the only question on the table is who? Second thing, tell them about the trap. Tell them. Share this monologue. Talk to them like they're adults. Because they understand a lot more. Speak in plain English. If anyone ever tells you that you have to stop doubting in order to belong, run. Run from them. If they promise that they will transform you and all that you have to do for payment is be compliant. That's the tell. Tell them this now, before they need it. Because they will need it if they haven't already. And when they do, you need them to be able to recognize it on site. You cannot bubble wrap your kids. You can't vet every voice that reaches them. That world is long gone. But you can make sure that when they walk out your door, their eyes are wide open and they have a home worth coming back to. Listen to your kids, encourage them to question even you. Oh, it's gonna be so hard. I hated the teenage kids. I hated the teenage years with my kids. I hated it. But they are, you know, God is just a genius. Do you know why our kids get so nasty when they're teenagers? Because God needs them to find out who they are and they can't do it. If they're living with you and they're 20. So there's this natural thing that says, I just. You don't know anything.

[Glenn Beck (continued commentary or co-host)]

You're stupid.

[Glenn Beck]

That's good. That's good. You want them to have that because that means they're questioning everything and they want to find who they are. You have to make that safe for them. Because if you are fighting that all the time, it will only get worse. And then they won't listen to you anymore. They barely listen if they're. You're like my kids. They barely listen to you anyway. But you've got to make sure that you are a place where you can. They can tell you anything. And believe me, my. My son and my daughter have told me things that I'm like, oh, my gosh, don't react. Don't react.

[Caller (Stan)]

You ever.

[Glenn Beck]

You've ever had a kid tell you anything like that, where you're like, oh, oh, okay, yeah, that's. That's no big deal. And inside you're like, ah, don't react that way. Okay, all right, I understand that. I need some time. Can I think on that? Let's talk about that some more. That's really interesting. I'm glad you told me that. No, I'm not inside. No, I'm not. I'm not. I didn't want to know that. I didn't want to know that. Yes, you do, because they are so lonely. They are looking on who they are. If you can't help them, find safe places to help Mo. My father said to me when I was young, I've said this a million times, son. The two most powerful words in any language is I am. And it's usually followed by a blank. I am blank. I am happy. I am sad. I am a monster. I am worthless. I am great. Whatever it is I am is usually followed with a blank. And if you don't fill that in, I'll never forget the way he said it. He leaned into me and he said, believe me, there are all kinds of people that are just waiting to fill it in for you. You make the choice on what you fill that blank with. And be very careful, because that's who you will be. Share that with your kids.

[Glenn Beck (continued commentary or co-host)]

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[Glenn Beck]

Last night in Maine, Democrat Democratic Party got the candidate and had been told it could not afford to lose. Graham Platner. We know him as an oyster farmer. He is a combat veteran. He is an outsider, and he beat the establishment's own recruit, Janet Mills. She was the governor. He Beat her so thoroughly that she quit the race weeks before the votes even were counted. She still got 20% of the vote. That means 20% of Democrats voted for a hat. That is not going to be the senator over this guy, okay? And now he is the nominee, the official nominee for the Democrats against Susan Collins. Collins is the only Republican senator that is sitting in a state that did not vote for Donald Trump. For Democrats trying to take back the Senate, Maine is the doorway, and they think Platner is the key. There's just one problem. Actually, there are several problems. But let's start with this one. There is the tattoo that he covered up. It is the Totenkoff. That is the death head that the SS wore on their caps. And they had the same tattoos on their bodies. That's how. I mean, if you were a member of the ss, that's why you went to prison, most likely afterwards, because you had the. The tattoo and everybody knows it. And that is happening. They're turning a blind eye to that at a time when this just happened on the subway in New York. Listen to what this woman said to another woman who she just, I guess, assumed was Jewish. Listen to this.

[Woman on subway (quoted)]

The Jews. Jews are eating kids. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Don't touch me. Don't touch me.

[Woman on subway (quoted)]

Even kids. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's okay for her to eat a kid, but I can't choke her down? I was just assaulted. Okay, yeah, yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Jews are eating kids. It's okay for her to eat children, but I can't choke her out. At least there were some sane people on the subway with her. But we're entering insane times. You don't mess with this. Then let's look at the old post. There was a report in the New York Times. Remember the New York Times? Their paper, not ours. Which three women who used to be in relationships with him described the behavior they called toxic and unsettling. One of them said that he physically restrained her in a room until she was, in his word, calm. You're not leaving until you're calm. Wow. And the party is lining up behind him. This is the MeToo party. So, yes, he's done these things, but, I mean, he can win. He can win. The stakes are too high. I mean, yes, he's done these things, but, you know, this time it's different. No, no, no. Remember what I told you last week? Everything you say before the word but is what your principles are, what you believe. Everything after the but is what you're willing to trade those principles for. Okay, yes, he's got a Nazi Swastika. But we have to win the Senate. Okay, I want to give you three warnings. One of them is political. One is about a movement and what it becomes when it makes this trade. And the other is very, very old. Older than our country, Older than the idea of our country, even. And I promise you, by the end, you will see it's all the same warning bell. Okay, so let me start with the political one. And I want to aim right back at, you know, the Republicans first, because, you know, the only way you can gain trust with people is when you aim at your own side first. So let me do that. Republicans, they have walked into the same fire and the same trap over and over and over again, and they get burned every single time. Roy Moore in Alabama. 2017. Party rallied around a man drowning in allegations because the seat mattered. They lost. The seat. Reddest state in America went to Democrat Todd Akin in Missouri, Richard Mourdock in Indiana. Two winnable seats in 2012 thrown into the ditch, not over policy, but over the candidate, Christine o' Donnell in Delaware, the insurgent who knocked off the electable guy in the primary and then just lost in the general and just went away. 2020, Mitch McConnell. Sorry, 2022, Mitch McConnell stood up and said the quiet part out loud. He said it was. And I don't like Mitch McConnell, but he's right. He admitted his own voters had handed the other team a majority by nominating people who couldn't close the deal. There's a body of research behind this. You know, a scandal stain or an extreme nominee reliably runs behind in what a plain, generic candidate of the same party would have gotten in the same state. I don't know if it's going to happen in Maine, but the party always tells itself the. You know, the movement's energy. It's gonna outrun the baggage. But the baggage wins the race almost every time.

[Caller (Stan)]

Okay?

[Glenn Beck]

That's the political warning, and it's bipartisan, and it's earned. The seat you believe you cannot afford to lose is the exact seat you're most likely. You're most tempted to likely throw away because need makes you stupid. And you'll talk yourself into a candidate that you would have laughed out of the room a year ago when the stakes felt smaller. Now, here's the second warning, and this one's harder because it's not about strategy. It's about the soul. For a decade, one word has been used. It is an artillery shell that has been fired by the American left over and over and over again. And that shell is Nazi. It's been pointed at parents, at school boards, it's been pointed at Catholics. Anyone who wouldn't get in line for their political. Their political viewpoint, they've been called a Nazi. Okay? It's like this universal solvent. Pour it on your opponent and you never have to argue with them again. Because you don't debate Nazis, you destroy them. Right? I have seen good people get that label welded to their foreheads for the crime of just disagreeing. And now the people who have used that as a shell, made that word its sword is. Wait, what? You're. You. You got a guy who has a death head tattoo. Covered it up after, but he's. He stands accused by women who knew him and called him frighten. Frightening, controlling. And he's got a death head. Wait, what? And you're swallowing it. What happened to the artillery shell? They're doing it because he's useful. When you excuse your own people in what you damned in everyone else, you've just confessed that your use of Nazi was never a principle. You're not actually worried about Nazis. You use that as a weapon, and that's it. A principle is something you hold even when it costs you the election. A weapon is something you drop the second it gets too heavy to swing. A movement that figures out it can do this, that virtue is just a tool you pick up to hit the other guy and set down when it's inconvenient. That movement loses its soul long before it ever loses the Volt vote. And I believe that has already happened. That's why you have the problem with the Democratic Party. They don't have anything they actually believe in except win. Everything else is a tool. The temptation to weaponize your own goodness, that's human, not partisan. It's human. And the day we start excusing our own side, that's the day to be afraid. Because the day we've become, the thing we've warned everyone about is the last day for us, too. Democrats just went through this with Eric Swalwell. I mean, I mean, despicable, horrible human being discarded disgrace the minute he stopped being useful. And they think they're going to do this with Platner the minute he becomes no longer a use they think he can get rid of. But, you know, remember with Nazis, they've tried that before and it didn't work. Now, let me give you the third one, the third warning. This one goes back 2400 years to Athens. I want to tell you about a guy you probably have never heard of. Most Gifted man of his generation in Athens. His name was Al Sulbidea Sulbiadis. That's it. I'll Sulbiadis. Sorry, I don't speak Greek. Picture this. This guy, charismatic. Think of him as the most charismatic you guys ever met. And then multiply it because he's also beautiful. He's famously rich, he's brilliant, he's brave in battle. He was a student of Socrates. The two of them had saved each other's lives on the battlefield. And when he shows up at the Olympic Games, he didn't just enter one chariot team, he entered seven. And he took first place, second place, and fourth place in front of all of Greece. Just to make the point. No one alive can touch me. So Athens sees this guy and they're like, this guy is fabulous. He's great. He's the future. And they were right to be dazzled. He really was that good. But that's also what made him so dangerous. Because a mediocre man, you can dismiss a brilliant one. You convince yourself you have to have them. So at the moment people decide it needs a man, it loses the one thing it has to keep, and that is the ability to judge him and dismiss him. So this guy goes in and he is talking to Athens and he's. He talks them into a great gamble of war. The Sicilian expedition. And you all know you never take on the Sicilians. It's an enormous fleet, and he sends it across the sea to conquer Syracuse. The cautious men in Athens said, don't do it. But he is. He is who he is and he wins the argument. But on the eve of the fleet's departure, Athens wakes up and they find across the whole city in the dark, somebody had gone around smashing all the sacred statues, the urms, whatever they are, and that stood at every door. And somebody went and did that. The city was horrified. Suspicion fell on. On this guy and his fast crowd. And they knew it was him. His enemies were clever, but that didn't stop him from sailing. They just said, ah, let him go. So they let him go and then recalled him to stand trial, knowing that they had him. Okay, here's where you learn who he really was. Rather than come home and face Athens, he defects. And he defects to Sparta. That's the enemy of Athens. And he didn't just sit there. He handed Sparta the playbook to destroy his own city. He's not going to go back. Fortify this position in our territory, he says, send aid to Syracuse. Both things happen. The great Sicilian expedition, his idea ended in total annihilation The Athenian army was destroyed. All of its generals executed. A generation of young men from Athens, gone. The man that Athens had needed so badly authored their own death. Now, you'd think that would be the end of it, but it wasn't. Because somebody still found him useful. They still found him useful. He wears out his welcome in Sparta because that's what these guys do. He was reportedly, I guess, seducing the Spartan king's wife. And then he fled to Persia. And then, astonishing. Astonishingly, Athens takes him back. The fleet recalls him. He won them some victories. He sails home in 407 and he's a hero. Didn't you just turn and. Yeah. Then the first time, for the first time, things go wrong on his watch. And they turned on him again. And he went into exile again. And he died in a foreign land with his house in flames all around him, murdered, some say at the request of the very people he'd served. Why am I telling you this story that happened in 407? Because the warning that history is handing the Democratic Party this week is. It's handing to. It's handing this lesson and warning to all of us. Because none of us is too good to need the warning or to not need the warning. Athens did not fall because it lacked talent. It fell because it could not stop reaching for the talented man that they had every reason not to trust. But they had to win. They needed him so much to win. They never trusted him, never enough to follow him safely. And so he did the worst possible thing. It used him again and again. And then the using is what got them all killed. So when a party stands out front of a flawed but dazzling candidate, whispering to itself, he's the only one that can win. Stakes are so high. This time it's different. Understand, this has happened over and over and over again in history. This is not a moment of strength. This is the precise sound a civilization makes right before it decides that the man it can't afford to trust is the man it can't afford to lose. The statues came down the night in Athens, but they let him go anyway because they needed him to win. Listen to me carefully. Watch what gets covered up in the night and watch who sails him anyway. They are destructive.