Glenn Beck (45:36)
Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. You know, my wife and I decided last year that we wanted to get better at things. We wanted to, we wanted to learn something new every day. And the Charlie Kirk death has really changed me in multiple ways. But one of those is I really realized how much I had coasted, you know, in my spiritual life, even my educational life. I was really kind of coasting there for a while. And, you know, coasting implies you're going to downhill. You, you, you, you can't coast going uphill. And so last night, Tanya and I talked about it, we threw the car back into gear and we signed up for Hillsdale's, the Hillsdale Free online education. Last night, I don't know if you know anything about it, but you should. You know, for a long time I wondered who is tutoring this kid who is teaching the classics, the founding civics God to Charlie Kirk? Because he was, every time I saw him, he was more knowledgeable than the time before. And the Hillsdale president was up during the memorial and it was a game changer for me. It was game changing. He said, you know how that happened? He said, I didn't even know it. He said Charlie was taking online classes at Hillsdale and I didn't know it till he received his 19th certificate for a Finnish course. That's who did it. And so Tanya and I were like, we're signing up now with that, I have a message to you. If you're thinking about going into college and parents and grandparents, if you're thinking about your kids or your grandkids going into college, I want you to listen to this. We'll do it in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about legacy box. What if you could time travel without ever leaving your couch. 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Don't let life fight fade away on old tapes. Digitize and future proof those priceless moments. Fast forward into the digital age with Legacy Box. Legacybox.com records. Do it today. Unlock 50% off your order. That's legacybox.com records. All right, so let me give a message to a couple of groups of people, and I want to speak specifically to you. If you are in the age between 30 and 130, because you never know, you could be voting in, you know, in Illinois at 130 anyway, you're never too old to learn. Ever, ever, ever. The minute you stop learning is the day you start dying. And here's an easy way to do it. The price is really right. It's free, and you can do it on your own time. It's Hillsdale. But there's other options. And I'll get into that here in a second. Let me also speak directly to the group of people that are under 30. I want to talk specifically to you. If you're a young man or woman and you're standing at the edge of adulthood and you're wondering what to do, you have been told your whole life, go to college or you're. Or you will fail. So what did you do? You put in years of work. You studied so hard to pass every test, to get high enough grades to be able to get into the college that you wanted to. You volunteered your time. You took all of the tests and all the classes you needed to take because that was your gateway. That was your gateway to a bright future. Your parents, your grandparents, all of us encouraged you because they were right until recently. But here's the truth. Now, things have so radically changed that college, for many adults or many coming adults, it is the fastest road to failure. And I'm going to lay this case out for you. I want you to ask yourself, you just got out of high school. Let's say you were in 12 years of a really broken system. Is that broken system? Do you want more of that? Do you think that what they didn't prepare you for on moving out of your house, even understanding financing, being being able to read or write or do math, do you think those people will suddenly prepare you for success in the next four years while you're paying for it? Because here are the facts. Listen to these. Today only 37% of high school seniors are proficient in reading, 37% in math. It's worse. Only 24% of your fellow graduates in high school can do math. That's the foundation. Here's what happened. This system took your. Took the hard earned money, really from your mom and dad through crippling taxes. We spent more money per pupil than anyone else in the world. And what do you have to show for it now? That same system, the same experts that designed that nightmare want to want you to step up to the plate and bet a hundred grand or more on four years of what? The same. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Here's what's going to happen. You're going to take on debt. $37,000 on average, often more than 50,000. You're also going to give up earnings, another hundred twenty thousand dollars in lost wages over four years. And then what? Those who are graduating now are trying to tell you the lesson. Over half of the graduates are underemployed or working jobs. Now that never required a degree at all. Those jobs don't exist if your major is psychology, communications, anthropology or any of the new studies programs. Odds are, listen to this. Your degree will carry a negative return on investment. So in other words, you'll never pay that off. Never. You'll never make enough money to even break even on that education. Now maybe you're okay with being straddled with educational debt for the next 20 years. I'm not. I don't think a lot of people are. I know your parents are not. The system is going to tell you in four years, don't worry, we'll pass that back. We'll pass that debt back on to the shoulders of who they'll say the government. But it'll be your mom and dad again. So your mom and dad that paid through the nose for your elementary and your high school education, then tried everything they could to help you through your college education. They're going to be saddled with the debt of your and everybody else's education. What kind of system is that? That is a con. This is the biggest con in our history. The house always seems to win here. You never do. Your parents never do. The other thing they'll convince you of is we. That's why we need violent revolution. No, we just simply need people like you saying, I finally get it. And I'm, I'm not playing that game. I'm not going to play that game anymore. If you do play the game, here's what's going to happen. You're going to send out resumes, Doors are not going to open. Uh, many are going to double down with graduate school because maybe it'll get better later. Another con. Throwing more time, more money after the bad because they can't admit to themselves this was bad. This has been a waste. That's human nature. Don't fall into that. Because here's the darker cost. In those years you spend in college, you won't just be spending your hard earned money and all of your hard earned time to what? Memorize facts that you'll promptly forget. You're going to be taught despair. You are going to be trained to believe the system is rigged and there is no hope, but through destruction, violence and blame of other people. That's the education that the universities are actually selling. And it is a lie. I urge you, don't buy it. Don't buy into it. Do not put a down payment on that. I want you to look at universities in a whole different way. Universities are, and I don't know if you can relate to this, universities are the record companies of the old world. Okay? In the day, in my day, record companies controlled who made it. They charged you, they owned you. They told you what to play. Then came something called Napster. Napster was going to put all of these companies out of business. But the record companies colluded with government and did everything they could to put it out of business. And they thought they won. See, this is why there's a push for socialism and communism or anything like that, because they need a big government to enforce for the oligarchs. That's what they need. Just only more and bigger government with harsher laws and thugs to enforce it can stop change. Or so they think. Because that's what they thought with Napster, but it didn't happen. They just got smarter. People just went, oh, okay, well, that's the law. That's the game you're going to play. We'll find a way around that. See, the business model for the record company was over, but everybody else just stayed in denial. The independence genie for the artist was out. Spotify was born and empowered the independent artists. And the power now is in the hands of people like Taylor Swift, in the hands of the creator. That's you. There is the creator, capital T, capital C, and then there's the creator, you. That's the power of God in you as an individual. You create the same way he creates. You think, you speak, you act. And it is New York City. I was just in New York City. Do you know those taxi cab medallions that they have in New York City? It's a little. It's a little plate that they put on the hood of every taxicab to show this is an official New York City cab, you know, that pays their taxes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's not a sham. Well, what is a sham are those taxicab medallions. They were crazy for a while. They were selling for like a million dollars. You couldn't get enough of them because there's only a limited number of cabs. And the city got their money. And you could buy one of those medallions for a million bucks. And so somebody a long time ago who's in a working class could buy a medallion and in the end that, that would be their retirement. They could sell that and they'd have their retirement money. They could pay off their house or whatever. That was a way to wealth for a lot of people in the taxicab business in New York City. About 15 years ago, they were the price of 10 physical cabs. One cab, one plate for one cab. You could buy 10 physical cabs without the plate or the plate. Okay, million dollars plus. Then Uber came along about two years ago. There was an auction for these taxicab medallions. A couple of them sold for less than $200,000. And then the rest of them went unsold. No market. Why? Because you can't outthink the free market. They will find a way. Freedom always finds a way. And education is being democratized exactly the same way. Today you can audit. You want to go to a great university, mit. Did you know you could get every class and audit every class at MIT for free? Why do you need a certificate from them? Why? They're Giving you the knowledge for free without the sheepskin at the end. But you have all the knowledge, so you can, you can talk to anybody about whatever it is they're inventing and working on. You have the same access to knowledge for free. You can take Hillsdale courses, the Constitution, history, philosophy, civics, art. Free. You know, and if Harvard or Yale actually cared about fairness and equity and inclusion, you know what they do? They'd give their education online for free. They, they would just do it without a degree. But you could learn everything you needed to learn at Harvard. But they won't do it with an endowment that the size of, of Harvard and Yale. They could make collegeable, affordable for almost any everyone. By opening up campuses all over the United States just paid for with the endowment, which still would have enough money to keep it going forever. They could open up campuses all over the country. Yale could do the same thing. They won't. BYU, BYU Provo, BYU Idaho, BYU Hawaii. What is it, like $5,000 a year to go? Because they're actually trying to educate people. You could follow their model and open free classes teaching actual skills all over the world like B O. BYU does. All over the world. Free. But Harvard won't, Yale won't. Because they're not in that business. They don't practice what they preach. They're liars. Google does it. Google's job certificates cost less than a new iPhone and can land you work within six months. Did you know that apprenticeships let you earn while you learn real wages? You can make 50, 60, $70,000 within two years without a penny of debt with an apprenticeship. Yeah, but I'll never make it. Well, I don't know. Steve Jobs did. Bill Gates did. Mark Zuckerberg did. They all got out. They were all like, this is ridiculous. I don't know. I'm not the smartest guy in the room, but. But I'm okay. I've made a good deal of success, whatever. However you want to define that. I define that now with my family more than anything else. But I've had success. I've had failure. I know. They're both frauds. I didn't go to college. What, what, what is it that you're going to get? I'm sorry? Oh, a certificate that you could hang on the wall and nobody cares about. All right, let me pick this up in a second. Because of more. Let me tell you about American financing. Most Americans have someday in comes to their finances. Someday we'll pay off the credit cards. Someday we'll get a handle on the mortgage. Someday we'll feeling like we're just, you know, not. We're not. We're treading water right now, but someday we'll stop that. The truth is, if that's your thinking, you are going to fill your days with nothing but empty yesterdays. Someday rarely comes. Now I want to talk to you about American Financing. I want to talk to you about actually changing your life. This is not just a lender. 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Breaking out of that mindset, it's not just the billionaires, it is the leaders of tomorrow that are doing this. Charlie Kirk is one of them. But you could also look to. I mean do you know how much a welder makes? Do you know how much a construction guy makes? Do you know how much an electrician makes? Like over $100,000, 120, $150,000. I don't know about you, but I think that's a pretty good gig. Project manners, managers. But people don't want to do those jobs because they don't feel they're honorable. Why? Because, well, I didn't go to college. Who cares? What is your goal? Now if those don't sound exciting to you, that's fine. Find your gift. Let's say an AI. Prompting prompters are going to be the unique key to AI. Music producers, 3D animation while it lasts. Artists, video game design, professional chef, photographer. Be a part of the thousands of young leaders who are choosing skills over slogans. Freedom over debt. Independence over indoctrination. Four years from now, you, you are going to face a very stark choice. You can hold a diploma that employers now check it out yourself, increasingly dismiss. Or you can hold cash in the bank, skills in your hands, freedom in your future. You can control it. Parents, let me say this to you. I'm telling you now, the future belongs to those who tailor their education, that learn on their own terms. Put knowledge into practice right away. I know you've worked a long time to save for college. Put that money into a house, down payment for your kids. You would be so much better to help your kids buy a house. Because higher education, one of the points of that is you're going to get a good job so you can have a home, you can settle down and have children. Well, the golden ticket, higher education is no longer the ticket to home ownership. It's not. You have to throw away everything you think you know, because it's all changing. Reimagine re engineer. I don't know what's right for you. I don't. But that's the beauty of freedom. Neither do the colleges. You know what's right for you. And this is much bigger than success. The idea of fame and fortune. They are fleeting shadows that gave birth to the biggest lies. Clicks are important, likes are friends. Followers are equal to important. And success and money, it's garbage. It's all empty garbage. The definition of success, the way we wrote it, is being rewritten. So you're going to live in financial slavery, chained to loans for decades, or financial freedom, charting your life on your terms. Break free while you can, become who you were meant to be. And when the world looks back, it will be you. The generation that chose the independence over indoctrination, who turned the tide. I started classes at Hillsdale last night. Join me. This is Glenn Beck. You know when the crisis strikes, when a war erupts, when missiles fall, when families lose everything? 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