Best of the Program | Guest: Kristi Rogers | 10/2/26

Glenn Beck (0:00)

Hey, it's Friday, so I wanted to give you some stuff that just makes you feel good. Some of it is politics. Well, one of the things that I'm gonna share with you is politics. We talked to Kristi Rogers. Her husband, Mike, is running for Senate in Michigan, and a race that I thought a few weeks ago was over is now within one point. And there's a good chance that Mike wins this thing only if people get out and vote. And you have to hear what Kristi is saying. It's, it's, this could be a really great thing for Republicans, but you need to know that. Lot of good news in today, including something that I want to talk to you about, about how you are in control of your own destiny, you know?

But you have to actively shape it. And so I ask the question, and this is where we start, who are your heroes on today's podcast?

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I don't know about anybody else, but I am finding a renewed sense of urgency, that we have got to get serious on what we're doing. We have to get serious on our youth and teaching our principles, because nobody is doing it. Literally nobody is doing it. And our, especially Generation Alpha, they are starving for it. They need the education. And I think we can start here with heroes.

Where are your heroes? Who are your heroes? This spring, Harvard asked 2,000 young Americans how they felt about the country. 13% said we were on the right track. 13 The pollster said the biggest challenge since 2018 isn't about the country. It's about them. It's a growing belief that what they do no longer shapes what happens next. That is the biggest lie. That is the most dangerous lie we can have. Another survey asked Ben who they look up to. Mom came in first, dad came in second, coaches and teachers third. Famous names all came in way behind.

I think those two are the same story.

For 50 years, we taught our kids that every hero had clay feet. That George Washington was a hypocrite. Lincoln was just a politician. He didn't do that great. In fact, he betrayed his country. That every great man had a secret. And the secret was the real story, not the great thing that he did. And some of it was true. Some of it wasn't. But all of them were men or women. But we didn't stop at the truth. We kept digging and digging and picking until there was nothing left. And now we wonder why the generation feels like nothing they do matters. Tear down everyone worth looking up to and the only place left to look is your shoes. It's looking down all the time. There's nothing. Doesn't matter.

I was thinking about this the other day.

A friend of mine years ago came to see me in New York. He had been around the block a few thousand times, let's say. He worked at the White House when he was young. He built one of the great industrial companies in America. He, for years and years, was one of the wealthiest men in the country on the Forbes, you know, top 20 And before he died, he gave all of it away. He said, I want to die broke. And he gave it all away. And he was the biggest philanthropist I have ever met. He came to New York one time and he said, I want to come stop by and see you. And so I said, great. And I had an office, I don't know, on the 35th floor or something on the Avenue of Americas. And it was three blocks from the Empire State Building. It was across the street from the New York Public Library. You could see the Chrysler Building from my office window, the Empire State Building from another one, 30 Rock. I mean, it was amazing. My whole office framed in windows. And everyone who walked into that room, they didn't notice anything in the room. They just noticed the skyline. They were like, oh my gosh, look at this. It was amazing. He walks in, he didn't notice any of it. He didn't even look at the skyline or the windows. He walked in, he looked right, as he walked in, he's looking right at my desk and what's on my desk. And he said, where are all the pictures? I said, what do you mean? I looked down there, pictures of my family on my desk. And he said, where are all your heroes?

I didn't have an answer. I didn't know. So he gave me one. He said, you have to have pictures of the people you look up to. You have to have them in front of you. You have to have them on your desk or on the walls, wherever you're looking while you're on the phone or you're in a meeting. You have to have pictures of people you want to be like.