RADIOApril 08, 2024

The TRUTH About Gen Z's "Entitlement"

Gen Z gets a bad rap as entitled, lazy, and whiny. But is that true, or should we listen to their complaints about things like 9-to-5 jobs? Glenn gives his message to Gen Z: Yes, your life is hard…because you’ve been lied to by a government that just wants more power, no matter how it affects you. Something is very wrong in America when you are working all day and still can’t pay your bills, or when you were told to spend a fortune on a degree that ends up being worthless. But the solution isn’t more government handouts. In fact, that’s a big part of the problem.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: So let me speak to Gen Zers here.

I can't imagine what you're going through.

I -- I would hate to be in your position.

When I was your age, we didn't have to deal with any of this stuff. Your life has been tough. And at the same time, in comparison, your life has been very easy. And what I say, what I mean by that is, your early life as a child, was -- was very easy, in some ways. Because everybody was rushing to, you know, save you, protect you. Et cetera, et cetera.

Which makes your life harder now.

You know, when we fell down, and went boom, you know. Our parents were like, oh, look who is -- look whose head just went boom. And they knew that would help us not cry. Right now, your parents have mostly been involved in everything. Your counselors at the schools have been involved in everything. And everybody is making sure that you feel great all the time.

Which doesn't make you feel great. You've grown up with social media, doesn't make you feel great. You have grown up with literally the definition of narcissism, somebody gazing into the pond, looking at themselves all the time.

You've had that, and -- and this system of -- of a self-facing cell phone has -- and I don't mean this as an offense. Because everybody has experienced this. This is not just Gen Zers. But we've become narcissists. And it's all about me, me, me, me.

So you've already navigated landscape, that we didn't have to. You navigated landscape where nothing is true. And you don't trust anybody.

I wouldn't either. I don't, anymore.

But life is worth it, that's the first thing.

Life is really tough, really tough.

But it is worth it. In the end.

But life is not about stuff.

And as -- as a guy who is kind of a pack rat, I can tell you that none of that stuff will create happiness in your life.

And I think your generation has a better handle on happiness. In some ways. Than anybody in my generation. You're starting to realize, that, hey, pharmaceuticals, maybe not as good as natural. The big, huge house, maybe not as-needed as just having a smaller house, and then living your life, instead of having to work all the time and never going to experience it. My friends always say, Glenn, you've worked your whole life. You should go travel the world. I can't. I can't. Because I'm working.

And so I think you have a better balance, at least on what you want. However, there are some things that you have now been brought up to believe that are true, that are not true.

For instance, DEI and -- and CRT. And all of this crap.

You know, reimagining the police.

There are bad police out there.

There are. But when you -- when you reimagine the police, in a way where no police officers want to work in your at the, you get looters and squatters.

And riots.

And that feeds on I need to say. Especially when your politicians convince you that the right thing to do is to show compassion, and say, oh, well, wait a minute. Maybe they were deranged in some way or another. And so we're not going to put any of these people in jail. Or hold them.

And they commit crime after crime after crime.

And it becomes organized crime. That's what's happening. And somebody has to pay for that.

So when your Walgreens goes out of business, in your neighborhood.

It's harder on you.

When -- when they have to pay more for insurance, because people keep robbing them, well, then everything in that store goes up in price.

When politicians convince you, that minimum wage should be $25 an hour. Or I've heard 50, lately.

That means, the price of your hamburger and everything else, is going to go up. And so it affects you. Who pays for these things?

Actions, by politicians, have consequences.

You can't afford health care?

You can't afford a house? You can't really afford really even food? I understand.

And that is real. And it shouldn't be that way. But give me five minutes, and perhaps you'll look at it, in a different way. So we can fix it, together.

Look, picking a real estate agent, out of the hat, is not a good deal. You really need to know who they are. What they've done. What they stand for. What the business practices they are. Are they the best business practices?

What is their marketing campaign like? Do they have people already looking for a house like yours?

Because they have a good marketing campaign. If -- if you don't know to ask these questions. And most people don't. You're going to have somebody like you're just picking a name out of the hat, for your real estate agent.

GLENN: I want to continue our conversation with Gen Zers that feel like it's not worth even trying to go to work, because you'll never get anywhere. You can't afford.

I work full-time, 40-hour week. You still can't afford a place to live. You're still living with your parents. You can't afford food.

And I think they're right to feel this way. That wasn't always the case. But I want them to know, that I blame a lot of it on the hippies. And that may be wrong, but I hate hippies. Hippies have been screwing things up since the 1960s.

And they have been on this socialist march, and they have become everything that they said, they sacrificed back in the 1960s.

They have been liars and politicians.

And they have become greedy for themselves.

And they just won't let go, their time has passed. But these are the people, that have come up with all of these policies, that now, you feel like this is the way the world is.

It doesn't have to be this way.

And I was talking about crime. Looters. Squatters. Riots.

Somebody has to pay for that.

Actions have consequences.

Votes have consequences.

You say, you can't afford health care. I understand that. That's crazy!

Crazy!

My own company used to provide the best health care insurance, in all of New York City, and New York State. At one point, after Obamacare passed, they were taxing us, you know, Cadillac tax taxes. I was the only company, that still carried that, until the insurance company stopped carrying it. Why? Since Obamacare passed, health care costs have gone up 55 percent for the average premium. That's without inflation figured in. 13,000, to 21,000.

But that's just from 2013 to 2020. That doesn't include the last three years. Since Biden has entered office, it's up again, from 21,000, to $24,000 a year.

That is an increase of 80 percent. But you have to remember, politicians promised that if we passed this big government program, it would mean a savings of $2,500 per family.

I -- I mean, you're in school. You know.

2,500-dollar savings is not the same as an 80 percent increase. Hospitals, your hospital stay? Is up to 210 percent.

I understand, you can't afford. I can't afford health care. At these costs.

Who can afford health care?

Who can afford insurance?

You also are starting your life thousands of dollars in debt.

Your parents didn't have to have that. They didn't.

I could take a job, and work a job, to pay for your college, as you went.

You can't do that now.

When they took out, their loans, most likely the government wasn't behind their loans. Once that happened, once the government said, you know what, we're going to guarantee all the loans. Once that happened, like health care, the cost of going to a university skyrocketed. And it hasn't stopped. In 1965, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who said, we're going to just guarantee.

We're going to guarantee everybody's college. Don't worry about it, we will help you with the loan.

Well, once the government guaranteed it, universities found, well, we can just charge more. And they have been charging more and more.

In 1965. It was $450 a year, to go to college. Now, let's change with inflation. With inflation, that's $4,000 a year.

You're currently paying on the average, $26,000 a year. As opposed to inflation-adjusted 4,000. What happened?

What happened? By the way, books, the cost of books, up 155 percent.

Gas, gas is up. Why?

Government regulations. Can't afford a house?

Well, that's due to several things. Many of them revolve around the fed and our debt. Look, you have been fed lies, probably your whole life, and your parents just realized it, during COVID.

Okay?

There's something called common sense. And hopefully, you have it. Hopefully, it hasn't been beaten out of you, in this -- in these -- indoctrination camps we call schools.

The US government has run a debt. And we have been concerned about it forever. But they haven't been listening to your mom and dad, and people like me. They haven't been listening. And a lot of people just thought, oh, well. We could get away with it. And somehow or another, it will all work out.

And many of us have been saying, no. We can't pass this on to our children.

And you're now seeing, what we have passed on. So when you say, generation Z, that, you know, this is -- the adults. You created this world. In some ways, yeah. You're right. You're right.

We were lied to, and as many people do, they want to believe the lie.

Because it makes them feel better. Quite honestly, it's -- it's what's happening in your generation with, that's a female. When it's not.

It's a male. And he feels like a -- a female. He wants to be a female. But it makes us feel better to go along with the lie. Because we don't want to hurt his feelings.

It's the same thing that happened, except this was with money. We wanted to believe that we could spend all this money. Because honestly, it would provide you, our children, with a better life.

And when anybody said, wait. We will to have pay this off.

This will cost them.

We never saw the consequence, and it was always way out in the future. Nobody wanted to listen to the doomsday people saying, no. It's going to come faster than you think.

And that time is right now. Our government now, is printing 1 trillion dollars every 100 days. It's never been done. We have more debt than any country has ever had. In the history of the world.

But we're not alone.

Every country is -- is doing this.

They're going into debt, like we've never seen before. And we're all about to pay for that. And it's going to make your life even harder.

That's why, real, true constitutional conservatives, okay?

And you have to -- you have to understand, that everything is being -- is being cut into refractions now.

There are Marxists, and there are decent Democrats, that still believe in the Constitution, and the rule of law.

There are Republicans, that still believe in spending all kinds of money.

Getting us involved in every war around.

And then there are constitutional conservatives. That believe that we should conserve the things that have worked. Throw out the things that don't work.

But we can only do those things that are allowed by our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. You haven't really learned about those, most likely.

But you should. Because all of our -- all of our problems, are caused by government. And the people, supporting a government, that will do things, that are want in our Constitution.

But that's what this election is really all about.

And you might say, I don't really care.

I don't really care. I don't like either of them.

I know a lot of people, don't like either of them.
But one is going to try to cut the size of this government down. Which is causing the problems.

All of these programs. All of the things, that we've said we have wanted. You know, your parents can't retire now.

You know, you have the opportunity, that they didn't. They were promised. I was promised, that we could retire at 65. And we would get Social Security. And we could live off that.

There's no way you could live off that. You, if you look at the bright side, you're paying for Social Security now.

But at least you know, you're never going to get it. I'm probably the first generation, that knows, we're not going to get it. We're not, it was a lie.

But all of the people that are older than I am, they didn't necessarily know it was a lie.

And now, they're stuck. And I know people think about retirement. But honestly, especially for guys, if you retire, you generally die. There is no such thing as retirement. That doesn't mean you stay in the same job, doing the same things.

But you -- you work. You work. It's something. Something that drives you maybe if you're lucky, by the time you're older.

But man is meant to work. We have to find a way, to keep the people who have been raping this country and our Treasury for so many years, away from you.

Because if they teach you, like they taught us, that all of this stuff will work. You're only going to see much, much more pain.

So we have to try to protect you, so you can do your things, while we, my generation stands between you, and the older generation. That just have raped, robbed, and pillaged through their hippie policies. We say, stand back. Enough is enough. Enough is enough.

Let go. My generation should not be the one that takes the power now. Really, the younger generation. Thirty, 40 years old.

They're the ones. Because they will have to live with it, a lot longer than I am.

And the people who created it, cannot fix it. But it can be fixed.

You just have to learn enough about the truth, about why this has happened to us. Why did we make it for so long? Longer -- this Constitution lasted longer than any other Constitution in the world.

The average is 17 years. This thing has lasted hundreds of years. Why?

How?

And why is it falling apart today?

That's what you should dedicate some of your time to figuring out today.

Not just complaining.

You can complain.

I complain. Everybody complains. But learn what caused this. And if you end up thinking that Marxism is the solution. More collectivism is the solution.

Then you haven't done enough homework in the past.

Because that always ends the same way.

And the way that starts at the end. Is exactly what we're going through right now.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.