Glenn Beck (17:42)
Yeah, and you tell her you enjoy your Friday night night with chat GPT girly. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. Great story in place media today. When Donald Trump's strongest voting block starts to fall off after six months of a largely successful second term, it's time for some soul searching. Not just because the midterms loom or because 2028 is already on the horizon, but the demographic in question. Young men will shape, defend and lead this country well beyond the next election. If they've grown too cynical to bother, the rest of us are going to be left holding the bag. When the past and the present betray a generation, expect that generation to reshape the future. Today's young men are angrier, more cynical, more disruptive and more serious. They don't want to save Social Security. They they want to be saved from it. They aren't starting out wide eyed like the boomers. They didn't get the luxury of being idealists first and realist later. They started with realism forged by debt, disillusionment and betrayal. These young men want a way of life back. They want accountability for the people who stole it from. This is something we have been talking about on this program. If we do not hold people accountable, we are in deep trouble. You lose the Republic. The average 25 year old white male is already more based than his Republican voting grandfather ever was or could be. And he's not finding any comfort in Fox News. So the question is, will anyone offer him a white pill before he plants the flag of I just don't care anymore at the 50 yard line of American life? This generation will not follow unless they're given a mission worth sacrificing for. Trump's brand won't carry them forever. They can't afford homes, they can't find wives who aren't steeped in feminist dogma. They can't compete in a DEI rigged job market. And now they're expected to watch the people who ruined their future skate without any consequence. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Young men don't just want slogans. They want justice. They want our leaders to treat domestic traitors at least as ruthlessly as we've treated our allies in trade negotiations. They've seen enough memes. If the memes don't end in prison time, they'll see them as mockery. They want consequences and they wanted them handed out with severe prejudice. That's the instinct of men who have been cornered too long. Dread it. Dread it. Run from it, because it is coming. When the past and present betray a generation, expect that generation to restrain, reshape the future. Our shot at shaping that future is now. And if we fail, if we fail to hold the deep state accountable yet again, then we better produce an economic boom big enough to distract from the urge to burn everything down. We've convinced ourselves that soft, passive men defined the modern male. But sooner or later, the animal comes raging back and a new generation rises looking to settle old scores. You better get ready. That's from the Blaze Today and it is an excellent piece, well written and spot on. So let me talk directly to any young man who might be listening right now, because I see this in my son. You have been lied to over and over and over again. Not once, not twice, but since the day you were born. You've been lied to. You were lied about. You were lied to about what it even means to be a man. Lied to about what's good. Lied to about truth itself. You have been told that masculinity is dangerous. And in some ways it is. I'll get into that in here a second. They told you it had to be tamed, medicated and deconstructed. They told you you can't follow your instincts. You can't. You're not here to protect or provide. You're not here to lead. You're told, sit down, shut up. Memorize these dates and names that mean nothing in real life. And just follow the rules. Remember, this will be on the test. And these are the same rules that you watched break your parents. You watched them. You. You saw how your country and your and your future was hollowed out in bankruptcy. You know. You know what I mean. You saw the look on your father's face and in his eyes in 2008, when everything he worked for was just wiped out. You saw your mom do twice the work and still come up short. And then somehow or another, they saved up enough to send you off to school. And they told you it was for an education. Because they believed that. But that wasn't an education. They were reprogramming you. They taught you how to protest, how to self diagnose, how to beg for safe spaces instead of building strength. They trained you for cubicles, for conveyor, conveyor belts, not for mountains, not for missions, not for meaning. None of those came into play. And now people wonder why the youth is discouraged. Why the 20 somethings while the males are discouraged, why they feel like just giving up. Why so many 20 somethings and teenagers are just checking out, kill themselves or kill others. I wonder why. I wonder why this society hasn't given them anything to live for. Nothing has meaning. Well, let me tell you the truth that they never will. You were born for something more. A lot more. And deep in your bones you know it. There has to be more than this. Because if this is all there is, what a colossal waste of time and energy. I wouldn't want it either. But here's the truth. The truth is you were born for a reason. You were made to push boundaries, to defend the weak, to build, to risk, to sweat, to suffer for something greater than yourself. You know nothing in life worth having comes easy. And you have had that lie told you over and over again. Just do these things and you'll make it. No, no. Nothing is easy. They tell you that lie and then they encourage you to give up. Don't. You were made to take that fire in your chest and turn it into something, into purpose. And yes, they were right about one thing. Man is to be feared for a couple of reasons. There is a beast inside of you. Everybody has one. Men have a monster. It's a destructive force that rages when life seems unfair, when justice feels like a joke, when you're. When you're told to, taught to be powerless, to pretend that you're powerless. The world fears that part of you. Because when that beast is unleashed, especially on young men, the world knows what happens and it is not good. But here's the other reason. They fear. And they've hidden this truth. They fear you because they know if you figure out that that contained, that controlled, that shaped, is the most powerful thing on earth. You were not created to be a monster. You were created to master one. You weren't created to medicate that monster. You weren't. You weren't created to. To disavow that monster, to claim it doesn't exist. You were made to. You were made to tame that monster. I'm riddled with add. Riddled with add. If I were your age, they would have medicated me from the beginning. And I don't think I would be doing this job. I have. I don't even know. I have 1, 2, 5 screens in front of me. 6 screens, 7 screens in front of me, 8 screens in front of me. And I know what's on all of them. I can see them and I can talk to you. And I can process that. I have somebody. Once in a while, Sarah will speak into my ear. And say, two minutes. I can do all of these things because I have add. It's a blessing. But if I were your age, they would have told me that was a curse and I'll never make it unless I medicate. Don't medicate it. Conquer it, tame it. It's a strength. You don't suppress these things. You discipline these things. You make the things that are inside of you serve truth. That's what you do once that serves truth. That's what you have, that all of a sudden you're able to protect your future wife, your children, your neighbors. The kind of strength that under control separates tyrants from heroes. Don't believe the lies that you're alone because you're not alone. You are part of an amazing brotherhood of men all across time that have felt the same call, the same call and the same pull both ways. But the ones who tamed that, the ones that understood, the ones that were allowed to be them, that were also told, you're not alone, you're not abnormal. This is normal in your life. But channel that. Those are the men that cross the oceans in wooden. In wooden boats. They were the ones that walked across the bloody beaches in Normandy. They were the men who picked up Dead Freds at Gettysburg and still charged forward. They're the men who looked up in the sky and said, I'm going to go there. And then when they got there, they said, what's next? That's the blood of men that runs through your veins. And they were not monsters. They were not unbridled men. They were men. They were men. And you are that image bearer of truth, that vessel of strength, that defender of civilization. You were made in the image of God. You are a literal son of God. And you are. You were born with glory and honor. Now the question is, do you return at the end with glory and honor? But that is your birthright. And no professor, no bureaucrat, no algorithm can take any of that from you. So what now? What do you do now? Well, now you decide. And believe me, I've. I'm an alcoholic. My mother committed suicide. When I was young, I almost committed suicide. I've had suicides in my family. I've been there. I have absolutely been there and back and then back there and then back. It's hard. And I remember, I thought, okay, I'm deciding. I'm not going to drink anymore, and I am not going to end my life the way my mom did. And I made that decision on my knees, down on the floor. I mean, I know exactly Where I was in the room. I remember the smell of the. I remember everything about it. But I also remember I. When I made that decision, I got back up and that night I went to bed. And the next morning I still felt like dog crap, even though I made the decision. And it took years of holding on to that decision and deciding the same thing every day. You have two roads in front of you right now. One leads to despair. Quiet, maybe comfortable, but death. And that lets the world define you, that lets fear run your life. That's you becoming passive, bitter and numb. I've been down that road. That is not good. That's the dangerous one to some degree. The other road is also dangerous, but not in the same way, because this one, the road is steep. It's very lonely at time, but it leads to someplace. I. Every time I meet a new alcoholic, somebody who has just started to give up alcohol and surrender their life and say, I just, I'm more than this. I don't want this in my life anymore. I tell them the same thing every time. Keep going. It is so worth it. If you take that road, you reclaim your manhood, you reclaim your life, you take ownership. You stop waiting for somebody to rescue you. You stop blaming things on everybody else, and you just start taking responsibility and you build the kind of future, the future that you want your sons to inherit. But it takes, like everything else, an awful lot of self education, an awful lot of self discipline. You train for it. You stay humble, you stay grounded in truth. You build real friendships. You love fiercely, and you do the hard thing, especially when no one else is watching. Because hear me, the world will not get better until you do. But you are not defined by your past. You're not defined by the things that restrain you. You're not defined by your obstacles. You're not limited by your pain. You're not doomed by the system you were born into. You are capable of unbelievable greatness, of leading and discovering, of healing and rebuilding all the things that others have destroyed. That's your job. You can be the generation that finds the key to freedom again. Not just politically, but spiritually, personally, culturally. You are the generation that are going to be the first people to walk on Mars. You will break chains that you don't even recognize right now. You are going to love well. You're going to have unbelievable sons and daughters. You're going to fight justly. You're going to build wisely. You're going to leave this place better than you found it, better than anything my generation could have done. So rise up as a man. The time for boyhood has passed. The time of blame is passed. The time to rise up as a man is right now. Stand up and stand like a man. And having done everything you can recognize tomorrow still might suck a little bit. But when you finally get there, it was so worth the fight. And it's still worth the fight. All you have to do is stand.
