The Secret to Becoming a MAN | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 270

YouTube.com ^ | October 18, 2025 | Glenn Beck

[Twotone]

It’s time to make men “dangerous” again. Father and son Matt and Maxim Smith join Glenn to break down their epic alternative to a college education. While most young people descend into debt to prepare for jobs already threatened by the rise of AI, 19-year-old Maxim has spent what would have been his college years becoming an EMT, wrangling horses in Wyoming, sailing the Falkland Islands, earning a pilot's license, learning Muay Thai in Thailand, and more as the first beta tester for “The Preparation,” an adventure designed to make young men “confident, competent, and dangerous.” In a culture that drives young men away from masculinity and toward unlimited pornography and video games, our sons can still become “Renaissance men” by bucking the system of radical leftist-dominated academia and instead becoming financially savvy men of virtue and real-world skill.

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KEYWORDS: abowfulofcheetos; cheetos; dangerous; glennbeck; lotsofcheetos; podcast; preparedness

[Twotone]

This was a very interesting podcast...an hour long. Those raising boys should find it thought-provoking.

[Big Red Badger]

Glenn seems to be coming back...
If I could just get past His
CHEETO FACE.

[bobbo666]

If by 19 your boy is not ready to become a man without pi$$ing about the world “playing”; you failed Fatherhood.

[Larry Lucido]

[Red Badger]

Does it involve Cheetos?....................

[CharlesOConnell]

Expect a “my father exploited me” denunciation campaign in 20 years. I say this as author of an essay “Mainstream Studies of Deliberate Dumbing Down”.

[fidelis]

Charlie Kirk on what it means to be a man:

We Know What a Woman is, But What is a Man?

[CharlesOConnell]

My kids’ older nephew remembers the time he came over only to discover, at seeing their newly cleaned faces, that they didn’t come, built in, with permanent orange cheetos powder around their mouths.

[Bigg Red]

👍🏻

[freedomlover]

Is this the "Orange Man Bad" I keep hearing of?

[gundog]

“And each of us would only have to be, like, half a man.”

[bakeneko]

Easy to do this kind of LARPing about when daddy is a rich defense contractor or whatever and provides the safety net.

Did he:
Work as an actual EMT in an urban free-fire zone?
Go to work on the ranch because his family need the money to not get thrown out of the trailer park?
Actually work off the Argentinian coast in a fishing boat?
Pay for all the airplane rentals and training himself?
Join a Bangkok street gang to hone his fighting skills?

Even with all the LARPing, I’m sure he still got plenty of pron and video games.

[Big Red Badger]

Cheeto Man!
.
He was mocking Trump yrs ago.
Glenn’s tone has changed a bit-—
Lately

[GingisK]

I could actually summarized in just a few words: Born male, get really old, and then brow-beaten about acting your age.

[sauropod]

Bkmk