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5 min readThe Power of Choosing Your Heroes
On a Friday episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn Beck opened with a question that became the episode's organizing thread: "Who are your heroes?" The question emerged from troubling data. This spring, Harvard asked 2,000 young Americans how they felt about the country. Only 13 percent said the nation was on the right track. The pollster noted that the biggest challenge wasn't about the country itself—it was a growing belief among young people that what they do no longer shapes what happens next. Beck called that "the most dangerous lie we can have."
He traced the problem to a cultural shift over the last fifty years: we taught our kids that every hero had clay feet. George Washington was a hypocrite. Lincoln was just a politician. Every great person had a secret, and the secret became the real story, not the great thing they did. "Tear down everyone worth looking up to," Beck said, "and the only place left to look is your shoes."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:01) **The Crisis of Heroes and Self-Determination** - Beck opens with a monologue about the cultural loss of heroes and its impact on young Americans' sense of agency.
- 2 (03:23) **The Wisdom of Seneca and Choosing Your Counsel** - Beck explains the ancient rationale for keeping heroes in front of you, drawn from a Roman philosopher and his own mentor.
- 3 (08:03) **Beck's Personal Pantheon of Heroes** - Beck lists the specific flawed, real people he keeps on his desk and why each one earned his place.
- 4 (11:09) **Choosing Who You Are, Not Finding Yourself** - Beck pivots to a personal testimony about taking control of his own identity and rejecting the drift of circumstance.
- 5 (15:20) **Sponsor Break: Jase Medical** - Ad for a kids' emergency medication kit.
- 6 (16:30) **Introducing the Kristi Rogers Interview** - Beck sets up the stakes for the Michigan Senate race and the interview with Mike Rogers' wife.
- 7 (17:42) **A Story of Resilience: The Michigan Church Shooting** - Beck recounts the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting at an LDS chapel in Michigan, focusing on the heroes who emerged.
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Show Notes
Glenn explains that younger generations have no heroes to look up to because society has torn them all down. Glenn tells a couple of stories of faith and forgiveness following tragedy. P2P Strategies Founder & CEO Kristi Rogers, wife of Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R), joins to discuss her husband’s chances as he’s battling to beat his radical opponent, Abdul El-Sayed (D).
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