Glenn reviews 3 clips that reveal how clueless some Gen Z'ers are. In one clip, a college student is upset that she can't attend her graduation ceremony because of her (probably "mostly peaceful") protesting. Then, there was another protester who praised North Korea for standing with Palestine and Hamas over Israel. But the icing on top of the cake was a young woman who complained about her "narcissistic parents" showing up to every one of her events as a child. But Glenn, Pat, and Stu - all seasoned parents - lay down the truth: That woman has no idea how much her parents sacrificed to be there for her. They didn't do it for themselves. They did it for HER. So, who's the narcissist here?
TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Oh, man. We're just getting back. Pat looks a little peaky today. Because he's at the Madonna concert. We all through town.
STU: What a night.
PAT: Man.
GLENN: It's not worth what we paid for. Which was free. Free.
PAT: We paid zero. Zero dollars.
GLENN: Still a little disappointing at that price. Welcome, Pat. How are you?
PAT: Oh, tired. You know, just getting back from Rio and all. But other than that, doing good.
GLENN: Yeah. That's the only thing that could get you to Rio, too. I'm like, hey, let's go to Rio. And you're like, eh. And I said, Madonna is doing a free concert on the beach.
PAT: Oh, man. Now I'm there.
STU: She might have a bikini on.
PAT: Oh, and just 65 years old. And still as hot as ever.
STU: Maybe not as ever.
(laughter)
PAT: Hmm.
STU: It is --
GLENN: Oh, no. Stop. It's hurting.
STU: She really wants to try to pretend she's 23 still.
PAT: Just let me vomit, Lord, please.
Just let me. Okay. I have something here, that I think is -- well, it's going to cheer you up.
PAT: Good.
GLENN: Two students. Two students.
First, cut four. College student who is a little upset. She was a protester.
And she can't go to her graduation now. Here she is.
PAT: No.
GLENN: I'm being restricted from a lot of things right now. That I didn't expect to be. For standing up something I believe in.
I have family coming in, who I have to let them know. You know, not come to my graduation ceremonies. I'm just disappointed.
I mean, I'm a 2020 high school grad. So I wasn't able to walk then.
GLENN: Oh.
VOICE: And so, you know.
PAT: You know.
VOICE: Here it is. I'm not able to walk now.
GLENN: Yeah. Just walk to a dentist.
VOICE: You said you were standing up for a cause. Would you do it again?
VOICE: I mean, yeah. I would. I was -- I was doing what I believed was right. And I still believe it to be right. So much harm has been done to all of these people.
PAT: All of those people.
VOICE: Already.
GLENN: Give me the people that were raped and stabbed and those people.
PAT: No. Not those people. The other people. The other people who were told to leave, and then they airdropped food.
And then --
GLENN: And then turned on those people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
PAT: Yeah. Those people.
GLENN: Those people. Man. Now, parents, how many times have we said this?
Now, you're going to have to pay the price. Okay?
You're paying the price.
Being a parent. Because you showed up, for all of your kids' activities. Cut five.
VOICE: Am I the only one whose narcissistic parent would show up to every single event I was ever involved in. This is one of those weird ones. Where I always felt like speaking about this behavior negatively, could be perfect saved in the wrong way.
Like my parent was just being supportive. And how lucky was I to have a parent who always showed up. Boo-hoo, your parent was there for you.
But did you also feel like sometimes it was a bit excessive? Especially if it was a bit more of a repetitive thing, where maybe I was doing the same thing on multiple days in a row.
GLENN: Hang on just a second. Cupcake. Just let me just say this.
Yes. We did find it very, very repetitive. Going to every single one of your performances, everyone. Even when you were doing the same thing.
Yes. But we did it, anyway, to show you support.
You narcissistic little piece of crap.
PAT: Hmm.
GLENN: We -- we made effort, to make sure we didn't miss any of them.
Maybe we should have missed some of them.
Maybe we should have.
You know what, go outside and play. Come back when the lights are out.
We'll worry about you. If you don't if come back by 6:00 the next morning.
I mean, you cannot win.
PAT: No, you can't.
GLENN: This generation is so narcissistic, no matter what you did, you showed up, you didn't show up.
STU: Yeah. They're going to complain about it either way. Because there is obviously a thing that has been talked about. The helicopter parenting thing. Is that the complaint here? Just showing up for an event isn't helicopter parenting.
GLENN: No. Showed up for every event. Every event. Every ball fame.
STU: That seems great. Content you want fans at your it became.
PAT: No. It seemed like you wanted to support them. But that's not it. Apparently.
GLENN: You're getting something out of it. You're trying to make yourself look like --
PAT: This makes me look really good. If I go to all your stupid events that I don't want to go to!
GLENN: What you're really doing. Come on. At least guys can be honest about this.
I don't know if women can. There's about half the events, you're like, oh. Right?
PAT: How many recitals do you want to go to? Where you see your kid or your grand kid, for five minutes. And then it's thee hours long.
It's like, okay.
I'd chew my arm out to get out of that.
GLENN: Oh, I had to go to the Nutcracker. The Nutcracker every year. And Cheyenne was in it for like, I don't know. Thee minutes. Look, there she is, dressed as a sugar plumb.
Then that's it. Then I have to watch the rest of it. I could have missed those, but we didn't.
STU: Because you're bad parents, I can't believe you're saying this.
GLENN: Really?
You didn't go. You just skipped some of this stuff.
STU: They never have events at the casino, which is where I am.
It's not my fault.
I mean, look, there are lines too. I think Pat will at least be able to agree with this. It's like, you know, there are certain things that you like, that your kids do.
Like I really like basketball. So I love going to watch my kids play. My daughter is in gymnastics. It's really fun to watch her do her events in gymnastics. I freaking love it.
GLENN: I love it too.
STU: Then there's 9,000 other people going.
PAT: Then it's not as good.
GLENN: I say to my wife all the time, honey, we're sitting in the back. We could leave. We could leave, right now.
Nobody would ever know.
It's not right, we have to support all the other -- no, we don't
No, we don't. We're there to support our kids. Not all those. I don't like those kids. I don't know those kids. But I don't like them. Because I generally don't like other people's kids. Nobody does. If you're honest, nobody likes other people's kids.
PAT: I think that's accurate. That's accurate.
GLENN: Yes. Thank you, Pat. Thank you.
PAT: And I certainly don't like that kid, that we just heard from.
STU: Yes.
PAT: I'm not going to any of her events.
GLENN: Yeah. What would you say if that was your kid?
PAT: Oh, man. I would be.
GLENN: If you saw that?
PAT: I would be a little upset, I believe.
STU: Because you don't realize it when you're a kid, that your parents have lives. Right?
PAT: Yeah. Right.
STU: You don't think of it, as like they're canceling something that they could be doing to come to your thing. You just think of it as that's their job, and they're supposed to be there.
GLENN: I'm going to say something I always hated when I heard it. My mother used to say it. And I know once it's uttered, it happens. Because it's happened to me.
I hope that girl gets four children, exactly like her. Then she'll know. Then she'll know.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: I was just trying to help. I was just trying to show you support.
PAT: Problem is, she's so narcissistic, she won't have any children. It will just be about her.
STU: That's probably a good decision.
GLENN: I love that. I love that. If you're narcissistic, please, don't have children.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: You're going to school, and you're battling that nonsense. I don't want you to have children. You would be a horrible, horrible parent.
PAT: These are the kind of idiots that are supporting Hamas.
GLENN: Yeah. It's all about -- it's me, me, me. And all about them.
How could you possibly be.
You're so clueless.
How could you possibly be in the LGBT community.
And standing up for Hamas.
PAT: It doesn't make any sense at all.
GLENN: It doesn't make any sense, unless you're so blind and narcissistic. That all you have to think about is me and my gayness. And I will bring credibility to this movement. It's all about narcissism.
STU: And these stances don't even make sense with each other.
PAT: They don't. They've all been combined here, for some reason. They've all kind of melded into one.
STU: And that's an overall politics thing.
If your team tells you, that you're supposed to support this, then you do for, what? Seventy percent of America.
Like that's terrifying.
GLENN: But wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're saying, it doesn't -- could we please go back?
Pat hasn't heard this. You just go back to cut 45, please. He's saying this doesn't make sense, Pat.
Listen to this.
VOICE: Which side does North Korea support? Palestine or Israel? Discuss.
VOICE: Palestine.
VOICE: It is Palestine.
They have actually never recognized the state of Israel. They have always upheld the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and resistence. And this is beyond moral and rhetorical support.
They have actively armed and trained Palestinian resistance for decades. That includes the PLO, the (inaudible), have trained troops by the DPRK.
PAT: Wow. Isn't that great?
STU: Yay!
GLENN: Now, if you were listening to Friday's show, or Pat a couple weeks ago.
You heard the guy we had on. That said the United States government, took the Malaysian airliner. Opened up a wormhole. And sucked that plane through it.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: I would like them to prove that reality, with all of these stupid moronic kids.
Just open it up. At a college campus. Suck them out into space.
PAT: Yeah. We don't necessarily have a destination. They are just sucked into the wormhole.
GLENN: Yeah.
PAT: There they go. Well, I don't know where they went.
GLENN: That's weird.
STU: You will be shocked, by the way. If you're listening on the radio. Not seeing that clip. She is wearing a mask outdoors while saying all this. Of course.
GLENN: Yes. And looking over her mask to read.
She doesn't know this stuff.
STU: Reading this --
GLENN: She was either given this stuff. Or she went online. And she went, who else supports the Palestinians?
STU: She's like North Korea's Corrine Jean-Pierre. She is reading every word she's saying.
Propaganda.
GLENN: You know who else is with the Palestinians?
Hitler. Hey. That's not. That doesn't help you really.