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00:00:00.000 hey it's a great friday episode uh that you don't want to miss uh just it's been a crazy week and

00:00:07.480 we talk about the secret documents that were you know in the corvette i mean nothing is nobody's

00:00:15.860 going to steal anything when there's a corvette in the room the hypocrisy of all of it which is

00:00:21.820 missing the point um plus all the other crazy news stories of the week bill o'reilly joins us

00:00:28.500 and uh we also end the week the way we started the week and that is talking a little bit about

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00:01:21.580 welcome to the glenbeck program we're glad you're here a couple of uh stories uh to note let's start

00:01:30.940 with the president and his documents now there is a third place that he stores uh top secret documents

00:01:39.020 um you remember when trump did this and they were in a room and the fbi had told him you know it had

00:01:46.760 to be locked and so he put the special lock on but that wasn't good enough and uh they were all

00:01:51.820 speculating that he may have uh the designs of the stealth bomber uh and he was he was selling them to

00:02:00.760 russia yeah selling them to russia remember all of that speculation these i mean this is this could be

00:02:05.960 nuclear secrets um and none of that was true now joe biden three different locations and i love the

00:02:15.900 response when it was found in his garage but i put it in it's in my garage with my corvette i lock the

00:02:24.700 door oh i know those garage door openers that you cannot penetrate those places it's like fort and

00:02:31.720 oh it is and and you know what there are two people in that garage at all time and they both

00:02:37.560 have keys to the corvette and guns and you can't start that corvette you'll look it's a sir turn your

00:02:45.300 key and they're in there all the time so that's good stuff yeah yeah it's an impenetrable like you

00:02:52.320 said it's impenetrable yeah and the third location is where do we know yet i think it's other vacation

00:02:57.360 home because so he's got them at both his homes i think one of the one and the office at university

00:03:05.000 of pennsylvania right but but other than that just the other places he has them um but yeah i think

00:03:09.840 one of them only there was only one document there they found okay just the one just one and so right

00:03:15.380 again what i find to be fascinating about this is how they the most transparent administration that

00:03:23.320 focuses so much on transparency that's all they care about somehow they found out about this before

00:03:28.360 the election and didn't tell anybody and then when the press found out about this they were already at

00:03:34.000 a point in the timeline where they knew about these additional fines on the documents and when the press

00:03:39.000 came to them and said hey we heard about these documents that were found they said uh well yeah sure

00:03:43.600 and didn't say anything about the additional documents they already knew about they lied and lied and

00:03:48.900 hoped and prayed that no one would say anything and now eventually we finally know but i mean

00:03:54.020 they're hiding something right uh the implosion of trust this is why look when you have the implosion

00:04:00.180 of trust i told you that is the last step before usually a world war and a total reset and i said before

00:04:09.420 we understood the great reset so i kind of regret those words uh it wasn't me i didn't call it on anyway

00:04:14.780 um the implosion of trust that is the reset comes whether you like it or not the reset comes either

00:04:25.640 with uh fire terror and blood uh because a fascistic kind of authoritarian leader has to come up

00:04:35.200 because you don't believe the doctors you don't believe the banks you won't do what they say to do

00:04:41.780 the bubba effect you think if a submariner takes a picture of a submarine in port for his daughter to

00:04:49.660 see remember this that guy went to prison for it you think that the community on anything like that

00:04:58.880 not top secret just that you think the community is gonna go wait a minute wait a minute he took a

00:05:06.140 picture of the sub for his daughter and he's going to prison but all of these people with the top

00:05:11.940 secret stuff that's fine the bubba effect so you don't do what you have to do as a society to stay 0.77

00:05:21.980 together you're not all on the same page so an authoritarian has to step up or there needs to be

00:05:31.020 and i hate to use this word because i don't mean it the way i don't mean it the way that communists

00:05:34.900 mean it a purge you have to have somebody go in do investigations well let me just say this is what

00:05:42.820 the freedom caucus was talking about do investigations do them properly and let the real rule of law

00:05:51.600 work and restore the trust but you think there's another pandemic coming do you think anybody is

00:05:58.820 going to stand in line for that vax look at lisa marie presley she dies first thing a lot of

00:06:04.880 people thought was i wonder if she had the vaccine yeah and with good reason people wonder that because

00:06:11.840 we've seen many many stories about young people who are otherwise healthy who have just dropped dead

00:06:16.760 but you know what she's not an example of young people she's only 54 but she's been but she had a

00:06:22.060 long-term opioid addiction like she she's been a mess are you saying heroin addicts are unhealthy 1.00

00:06:29.260 yeah how dare you and lizzo is the picture of health right like i've seen her in the bikini 0.98

00:06:34.840 right yeah there's certainly you know i think better examples of of of why you would worry on

00:06:41.300 this but i think it's your point glenn i think is really on the mark here which is nobody trusts

00:06:46.560 anything anymore right like you just immediately jump to what the worst case scenario because so often

00:06:52.140 the worst case scenario is the thing that's actually true you know it seems like over and over again

00:06:56.240 where whatever we thought the worst case scenario could be winds up being true and so you're gonna

00:07:01.740 be that's gonna be one of the first things you go to is like whatever they're telling me i don't trust

00:07:07.020 and the whole concept of a civilization is based on trust trust it really is and all i would want

00:07:15.280 is speaking for myself all i would want is for them to look into this oh yeah of course just look

00:07:20.880 into it right and see if it has anything at all to do with do you try we just got a study from

00:07:26.920 environmentalist and the government is taking it seriously about gas stoves and they say we're not

00:07:34.720 doing anything the states are doing it washington state has already made it new york yeah so you cannot

00:07:40.960 have build a new home with a gas stove in it well where why why because they took that seriously

00:07:49.820 see the administration is doing all kinds of things and they're doing them based on these

00:07:54.820 studies so if you get a study that says no actually the vaccine had nothing to do nobody's going to

00:08:00.320 believe it because no one has any credibility and it becomes very dangerous a good example of this is

00:08:07.300 you know we had paul ehrlich spent in the 1970s telling us we were all going to die that there was going

00:08:13.820 to be no uk you know in the year 2000 the west side freeway or highway in new york was going to be

00:08:19.780 completely submerged by now there will there be no food for the population right by 1980 we won't

00:08:26.180 people will be struggling to have a a steak as you know only the richest people on earth will be eating

00:08:32.640 it we were told by 2020 there would be no snow caps in north america have you noticed in the

00:08:40.740 nevadas the snow cap this year there's some snow uh so you go through all of this for 50 years right

00:08:49.060 i mean paul ehrlich using him as a specific example of some of these uh claims has been around for 50

00:08:55.240 years and this week he was on television with a new environmental scare story that they put on

00:09:01.500 network television we're supposed to believe how the hell is this guy still on television making claims

00:09:05.800 because people don't know who he is these people are are washed over and over again usually in the

00:09:10.880 university system and so that's the problem look here's where it gets dangerous it's already dangerous 1.00

00:09:16.300 with doctors it's already dangerous because do who do you trust who do you trust when things are

00:09:23.680 really coming down to it and the pharmaceutical company says no this is great do you trust that that

00:09:29.360 that is what they say it is because they've been hiding information we just found that out again

00:09:33.720 only hiding information they're in collusion with the government the government yeah so what do you

00:09:40.420 do this week the faa grounded all flights okay that hasn't happened since 9 11 and that was the only

00:09:49.800 other time it's ever happened right so we grounded all flights why because there was a glitch in the

00:09:58.160 computer system where they contact the planes ago hey by the way there's another plane coming your way

00:10:04.400 so there was a glitch in the computer system now pete buddha judge finds out about it and pete buddha judge

00:10:11.260 you know he gets on the case and immediately says you know what it was no big deal there this was not

00:10:17.300 espionage this was not somebody trying to do this it was just a it was just a an uncorrupted or i'm sorry

00:10:24.200 it was just a corrupted file well wait isn't that how espionage works i mean it doesn't have to be

00:10:34.460 espionage but it's basically what they're saying is somebody downloaded you know c lizzo in a bikini

00:10:43.600 and somebody opened it and it infected all of the the the entire server system okay me personally i think

00:10:52.680 you'd be smarter if you said c lizzo in a bikini and it didn't corrupt the files unless you push delete

00:10:58.560 but anyway um so the uh the somebody went in and did something they weren't supposed to do and it

00:11:09.380 corrupted a file and shut it all down coincidentally on the same day at the same time canada had the

00:11:18.560 same corrupted file now i think the uk did as well they had how did that happen yeah how did that

00:11:25.420 happen and if you think that you know you don't need a spot why use a spy with a thumb drive that

00:11:32.360 has to go in you know cloak and dagger and like i'm okay i'm at the the main faa apple and i'm just

00:11:39.160 going to put this thumb drive in it and i'm going to infect that machine why do that when you can

00:11:44.500 easily find out who works with the fba faa and is on those computers all the time and target an email

00:11:52.260 that they'll open up and then it's infected and it's over well these people are lying to you that

00:12:01.180 we're there's no evidence well of course there's no evidence yet are you even looking into it you

00:12:08.980 really expect us to believe that the first time we have grounded all of our airplanes since 9 11

00:12:17.240 and the second time in all of aviation history it's ever happened on the same day it happened in

00:12:24.320 canada and i'm just learning now from you guys i guess in great britain come on yeah come on both

00:12:30.780 canada and great britain so said it was completely unrelated though huh it's weird it's not a coincidence

00:12:37.260 what a weird weird coincidence what a weird they're still investigating the root cause of

00:12:42.140 the failure really huh huh now on the other side of our border the faa said we're continuing a

00:12:50.860 thorough review to determine the root cause wait canada we're still investing in the root cause of

00:12:55.740 the failure america we're continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause that's weird

00:13:01.400 another coincidence another coincidence doing the same thing same thing and saying the exact same

00:13:06.520 our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file wow a corrupted file

00:13:13.800 how was it corrupted well there's no evidence of a cyber attack that wasn't the question

00:13:20.320 the question was how was it corrupted this is this is embarrassing it's a mysterious coincidence

00:13:29.000 and it's true like this is going off a little bit more on on this particular angle on the story but

00:13:33.540 it's like we were told for how many years that the russians yeah where we're doing so many things

00:13:41.260 like this that they were going to take they took over the 2016 election and basically handed it to

00:13:45.980 donald trump and that's basically what we were told for the media and you don't think they're doing

00:13:49.440 the low-hanging fruit and now we're in a position where we're funding 50 60 billion dollars worth of

00:13:55.900 missiles to fire at their people and their soldiers and they don't do any cyber attacks right now

00:14:01.460 nothing's going on yeah really i want you to do something real quick i want you to google

00:14:05.680 google corrupted file one of the top links is from the u.s government cyber security and infrastructure

00:14:13.260 security agency okay just google corrupted file you'll see u.s government cyber security click on

00:14:20.180 it understanding hidden threats with corrupted software files it goes on to explain how hackers

00:14:30.020 use phishing attacks to corrupt files on your computer and shut down like your life or like

00:14:38.220 air traffic control yeah but we know that didn't happen where there's no hacking involved at all

00:14:44.580 nobody nobody hacked no of course not it was probably if there was hacking it was a lone wolf

00:14:49.000 right yes definitely definitely not something maybe it could have been a republican extreme

00:14:54.900 probably probably white supremacist freedom caucus this is the sort of valuable stuff that happens

00:14:59.820 on this program glenn just asked me to just tell it said everybody hey search for corrupted file which

00:15:04.700 i listened i did that as he was talking and i saw the first link which is corrupt a file.net

00:15:11.060 and apparently what the service is is you like this is what it says struggle with a report you can't

00:15:17.620 complete bored by an excel sheet tired with this code which won't work send us your file and we'll corrupt

00:15:23.280 it your boss customer or teacher will think you delivered it on time and he can't open it due to

00:15:27.600 a technology hassle mission completed oh my gosh you know i have a feeling though that's a little like

00:15:36.080 googling how do i dispose of 115 pound body

00:15:41.300 pat gray from pat gray unleashed thank you for joining us pat

00:15:45.880 this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening

00:15:52.520 i'm going to call this segment may god have mercy on our souls okay and i'll explain that afterwards

00:16:03.200 but i want to play a few clips here for you this is not an old clip of kamala harris talking about

00:16:09.800 electric school buses this is a new one just happened here's kamala harris in front of a group 1.00

00:16:18.040 of adults and the transportation agency talking about one of her favorite things here it is

00:16:25.480 you know what also excites me what i'm i among the many things i'm excited about electric school buses

00:16:31.800 i love electric school buses i just love them for so many reasons maybe because i went to school on 0.93

00:16:41.860 a school bus raise your hand if you went to school on a school bus right oh my gosh this woman is nuts 1.00

00:16:52.180 i mean this is i feel like the 10th time i've seen this clip oh yeah does she say this at every speech

00:16:56.580 oh i don't know but that wasn't even a speech that was a question and answer thing you know so what

00:17:00.880 else is going on you know what i'm excited about school buses oh my gosh then in answering another

00:17:08.660 question listen to this i convened and i've convened now at least three times uh a group that

00:17:16.700 has their acronym caracom it is the caribbean nations island nations in the western hemisphere

00:17:24.600 that is where the caribbean is we are also in the western hemisphere they are our neighbors oh dear god

00:17:30.320 i mean who is she talking is she talking to school children she no she's talking to a group of

00:17:35.880 so-called informed adults that went to go listen to her and the transportation people about what the

00:17:45.160 future is for you're telling them that we're in the western hemisphere if those people don't know 0.93

00:17:53.600 that we're in the western hemisphere we're more screwed than i think and we're so screwed i think

00:17:59.880 jesus is coming soon uh may i ask your for your expert opinion on something related to this uh uh

00:18:06.480 you're a guy who's you got around uh you lived a little when you were a little yeah you lived a

00:18:12.420 little bit younger there was some uh uh some drug uh yes you were in that world yes uh i have a

00:18:20.360 friend whose theory is that kamala harris is constantly high no no no no no the theory is 1.00

00:18:28.720 constantly low low iq she is dumb as a box of sand she is oh you might as well take a sandbag 1.00

00:18:38.240 put it in heels and there's your vice president you will be safer as a nation may god have mercy on 1.00

00:18:45.840 our soul but does does dumb make you laugh hysterically at the idea of an electric school 0.99

00:18:52.600 bus i would say no she's dumb so she doesn't know how to do things her job is to promote electric 1.00

00:18:59.420 school buses she doesn't know how to do it so she overacts and she looks crazy and dumb 1.00

00:19:09.000 she's not high she's not crazy she's just dumb but she's not the best clip i want to play uh i want 1.00

00:19:20.580 to play a clip of hank johnson now i want to remind you who hank johnson is now let's listen to what he 0.79

00:19:28.660 said this week to a reporter outside of the capital when they found out and they asked him what do you

00:19:36.840 think about the top secret documents of biden listen my response to it all is that alleged

00:19:44.180 classified documents showing up allegedly in the possession of uh of uh joseph biden uh you know i

00:19:53.660 mean there's so much that needs to be um investigated oh and we agree yes and that's that's what i call

00:20:00.640 for is for everything to be investigated but i'm suspicious of the timing of it i'm i'm also aware

00:20:07.140 of the fact that things can be planted on people ah places and things can be planted um things things

00:20:16.220 can be planted in places um and then discovered conveniently that may be what has occurred here

00:20:23.280 i'm not ruling that out but i don't i'm i'm open in terms of the investigation needs to be

00:20:28.740 investigated yeah i will tell you things can be planted and and there's a history of people at

00:20:35.160 joe biden's houses where they people groups of people come out and plant things right around his garage

00:20:42.360 um they're called bushes and trees but if they can plant that at his house why can't they plant the

00:20:49.160 top secret documents he's he's brilliant let me remind you who this genius is this is what he said

00:20:57.180 when he's talking to an admiral about the number of marines we have on the island of guam listen

00:21:04.080 very small island and about 24 miles if i recall long so 24 miles long about seven miles wide at the

00:21:16.320 least widest okay uh place on the island and about 20 about 12 miles wide my fear is that uh the whole

00:21:28.600 island will uh become so overly populated that it will tip over and uh and capsize

00:21:38.820 oh dear god uh we don't anticipate that that's the admiral the admiral because he's in uniform

00:21:47.460 has to say we don't anticipate that problem i would give my right arm to have been the one under

00:21:58.060 question when he asked that question because my response would have been first look to the left

00:22:07.380 look to the right look right directly into the camera and say it's not just me right right and 1.00

00:22:16.500 then say sir that that that that is not even worthy of an answer you sir are a moron if you think 0.95

00:22:28.740 that islands will capsize that we have to balance guam and hawaii and all of these islands that's not the 0.99

00:22:36.420 way it works and may god have mercy on not your soul may god have mercy on the souls of everyone who 1.00

00:22:45.940 voted for you because at this time these people are so stupid or ignorant or they just don't care 1.00

00:22:57.700 that they can't see that you are a complete and total moron but i think i just gave the adam sandler 1.00

00:23:09.400 speech mr madison what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things i have ever heard 1.00

00:23:17.920 at no point in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered 0.99

00:23:26.900 irrational thought everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it i award you no

00:23:34.820 points and may god have mercy on your soul that is so true i just i mean think about this that clip 0.78

00:23:42.540 from the guam clip with hank johnson was 2010 10 he's won re-election like six times right since then

00:23:49.820 right and i will say i am disappointed uh in in the entire media i want to hear commentary about

00:23:58.160 every issue from hank johnson anytime anything happens put a microphone in front of this man's

00:24:04.080 face and let him talk about it i just want to know what you do that he will be the secretary of

00:24:09.620 transportation okay did i mean oh my how shame shame on everyone in his district shame on everyone in 1.00

00:24:21.240 his district you cannot be that stupid you can't it's impossible it's impossible impossible like guam 1.00

00:24:30.800 capsizing impossible like guam capsizing impossible you cannot be that and if you are that stupid 1.00

00:24:39.440 we really need to just go there as as people hug them hold their hand say god bless you you bless your 1.00

00:24:50.000 heart you are so cute but you shouldn't vote anymore in fact as a country we cannot allow you to vote

00:24:59.400 because you think guam could capsize and if you don't you thought it was okay to keep that guy in

00:25:09.640 office because that wasn't a good question wasn't a good question wasn't a good thought wasn't so

00:25:17.580 bless your heart sweetheart you are oh you're so cute you're so cute no voting rights for you i am i am

00:25:25.920 really to the point to where i don't want some litmus test where you know where we have to test people

00:25:32.180 they'd be genius i just like them do you think this could be the only question do you think an island

00:25:42.180 could capsize if we put too many people on one side of the island if they even hesitate you're out

00:25:50.000 i don't think that is you know that's that's not racist what they you know did where they would put

00:25:57.420 you know all these tough questions how many windows in the white house no no no no i want to test white

00:26:03.200 people black people asians i want to test anyone who says they want to vote do you think an island 0.96

00:26:10.720 could capsize well nope sorry i can't find your name anywhere in the records can't find it 0.98

00:26:17.640 the best of the glenbeck program

00:26:23.380 dr paul zach he is a claremont graduate university professor which usually does not go in somebody's

00:26:35.720 favor on this program uh but in his case uh it's a it's a great thing he has been he has been

00:26:42.020 studying uh scientifically um how to improve your attitude in your life how to create experiences that

00:26:51.440 are really good because we're changing as a society i want to talk to him specifically about

00:26:57.620 gratitude his latest book is called immersion the science of extraordinary and the source of

00:27:04.620 happiness welcome paul how are you sir good morning glenn great to talk to you great to talk to you

00:27:10.800 um so i started the week asking my audience to start recognizing things that they're grateful for

00:27:18.900 because i think we're so far away from understanding gratitude and applying the actual action that that

00:27:26.880 should um uh uh turn you turn your gratitude into we don't even recognize the things most times that

00:27:35.240 we're grateful for can you talk to me a little bit about the science of gratitude and how it changes or

00:27:43.160 perhaps doesn't change our life right i think you your setup was exactly correct that we have things

00:27:50.040 that are so good now for most of us that we just feel like we're entitled to perfection but we are

00:27:57.300 a social species and we need the other people around us to really live satisfied lives so the data show

00:28:04.840 that people who are grateful live longer and live healthier that is they flourish better and they

00:28:11.020 flourish because they're connected to those around us so when we are the opposite of grateful when we're

00:28:16.540 entitled there wants to be around that person oh it's the worst i i've noticed that because i i used

00:28:22.980 to be a despicable human being alcoholic and i was just really in my 30s and i sobered up and i i started

00:28:29.280 to live my life completely differently and i used to think i hate people and that's when i was miserable

00:28:35.560 um i love people now and i love talking to people i love going into you know uh a diner and the

00:28:43.260 waitress and we'll strike up a conversation you know what's your life like what's happening

00:28:47.060 and it makes me happier it just makes me happier yeah and our brains evolves in human beings to connect

00:28:56.600 to others so we have specific anatomical functions that are different than any other animal that as you

00:29:02.760 said give us that value of social connection and when we're grateful we are pleasant to be around we are

00:29:09.860 aware of other people's emotions we let those people into our lives and vice versa and so we

00:29:16.500 end up being of service to others right and when you're nice to that waitress she also has a better 1.00

00:29:22.000 day and then we start this virtuous cycle where you have a nice customer the waitress is happy she's

00:29:27.180 nicer to the next customer right that's the way that we can improve society so social media has got to

00:29:34.700 destroy happiness with what everything we're doing where we're on our phones all the time

00:29:38.600 man we're kids are sitting next to each other and they're not talking they're texting each other

00:29:42.740 um you know with with ai starting to come there's an app now where you know you can have an ai friend

00:29:50.280 that will talk to you that that's not the same and it's it's just not it seems to me that that's one of

00:30:00.540 the things that we are really missing is a closeness to a physical friend or family we're just caught up

00:30:09.700 in this this world and that world that we're in is also telling us you don't have enough

00:30:15.280 somebody has more like like every good question the answer is yes and no right to the extent that

00:30:22.160 people are lonely that is not adaptive for human beings it's it's you know a big risk factor for early

00:30:28.300 death and unhappiness so social media in studies we've done gives you between 50 and 80 percent

00:30:34.900 of a real in-person interaction so it's not a bad substitute now the in-person you have so much more

00:30:41.920 bandwidth hitting your brain right you have touch you have smell you have eye contact so you need that

00:30:47.840 in-person interaction if you can get it but if you can't i think social media is not a bad substitute

00:30:52.840 if you're using that to form connection so not just looking at you know a five-second tiktok but

00:30:58.920 actually doing facetime you know connecting to people on facebook whatever it is and by actually

00:31:04.480 talking to people or communicating one-on-one with somebody for sure and what's really cool is that

00:31:12.740 that one-on-one builds our capacity to emotionally connect to others very rapidly so the more we connect

00:31:20.800 the easier it is and here's the really cool thing from a health perspective those social connections

00:31:26.020 reduce cardiovascular stress improve the immune system keep us healthier and happier okay but may i

00:31:34.060 just clarify one thing that's not tweeting something and then reading the responses that what you're talking

00:31:41.100 about is an actual community even if it's text back and forth with one another you're talking about

00:31:47.820 one-on-one communication or not yes sir one-on-one exactly okay all right um the um uh i'm i'm sure you

00:31:59.180 you know about you know glenn fox and imagine you're a holocaust survivor so everything is everything's 0.57

00:32:04.740 better than that um right uh victor frankel however in man's search for meaning he found meaning because

00:32:11.540 nothing had meaning does gratitude play a role at that point on a level we can all understand

00:32:20.180 it does to the extent that it connects us to others right so frankel found meaning in others and just

00:32:28.060 living every day and of being of service to others so part of the practice of gratitude is connecting and

00:32:35.180 serving others and serving something bigger than yourself that makes you grateful to be on the planet

00:32:40.420 so when i said earlier this week that we just have to at least start noticing the things that

00:32:47.400 we're grateful for and every day once a day when you get up or you know twice a day get up and go to

00:32:53.400 sleep or whenever you want to write it but just write a list of the people and the things that you are

00:32:58.300 grateful for um in in my intent is that people will eventually start to say those things to those

00:33:07.820 people and start to put into action those thoughts but you first have to really kind of train yourself

00:33:12.680 to notice these things does is there any kind of benefit from just noticing those things having that

00:33:19.860 switch turn on there is because again it focuses us on being good members of our communities right

00:33:28.680 connecting us to others glenn some years ago what time magazine your favorite publication

00:33:33.480 asked me to write a couple of sentences on new year's resolutions which i'm not a big fan of

00:33:39.440 honestly but they said what's your new year news here and i said what i really want to do is for

00:33:44.800 every social interaction i have add love to the world so i call that the love plus program so i think

00:33:50.220 that's a great way to show gratitude right so every time you interact with someone are you adding love

00:33:55.320 to the world are you decreasing love are you making that person happier or less happy and if you're

00:34:00.260 making that person happier you get the reflection of that they go oh wow it was so great to talk to

00:34:05.460 glenn he was so nice i'm thinking of the waitress in the diner you spoke to right right so then you

00:34:10.320 start this virtuous cycle and that's where that gratitude has a global impact you have let me let me

00:34:16.520 switch uh subjects here for just just a bit just kind of slide over to something else that you do

00:34:21.600 um you're an entrepreneur you have you know uh founded all kinds of different things the immersion

00:34:28.860 neuroscience a software platform um and you have also been with some of the biggest businesses

00:34:37.220 um you know you're a ted talks guy and you talk a lot about these experiences people

00:34:44.760 are craving for real experiences um and so you try to put this in and teach business people how to

00:34:53.780 increase happiness through experiences um i was talking to you about the uh the metaverse

00:35:00.600 and i mean i really see a time where a lot of people who don't have anything really going in their

00:35:08.420 lives they don't necessarily have a job and you know life for them is very different and they want to

00:35:14.640 escape they're working to pay for admission to the metaverse where they can be anything

00:35:20.340 is is the real experience that you study for happiness and and share with these fortune 500

00:35:28.320 companies are real experiences which i think people are are craving are they different than like what is

00:35:36.100 coming in the metaverse yes and no uh you know i think our brain doesn't strongly differentiate

00:35:44.600 between experiences in person and flickering images think of people crying in movies which

00:35:50.000 neurologically to me is fascinating uh you know these are fictional uh stories you know these are

00:35:55.220 professional actors you're aware you're in a theater and yet the end of the movie the boy gets the

00:35:58.880 girl so i agree with you glenn i think there's a risk that in the metaverse with that 3d surround

00:36:04.780 that is going to be so compelling that we're just going to stay in our little rooms and never

00:36:09.620 talk to real humans and lose that physical contact lose that smell that touch that eye contact

00:36:16.300 what does that do long run i mean it feels like we're running so many experience uh experiments on

00:36:22.400 our children right now you know with all of the stuff i know silicon valley is like no my kids aren't

00:36:27.340 online my kids don't have these devices um and we don't even know what this is going to do to them

00:36:35.040 um what does it do when you're trapped in a virtual world a lot of the time anything again

00:36:43.800 from from a neurologic perspective the brain doesn't differentiate we adapt right away to that

00:36:49.200 new world so again if it's so uh interesting and compelling and much more um you know valuable to us

00:36:57.020 than the actual world then we we do have a problem so i think the answer is going to be a little bit

00:37:01.960 probably okay like uh you know anything like your food or moderation a little bit probably all right

00:37:07.160 yeah exactly but don't overdo it right um with you saying that our happiness i'm what i'm searching

00:37:14.140 here for and i'm sure you know i'm searching for what is the hole that we would be a good place to

00:37:20.520 start filling in there's so much suicide and despair and anger in the world um i know when i was younger

00:37:29.220 i really didn't want to have any children i have four children um and now that i'm you know 58

00:37:37.280 all i can think of is i i wow 59 i'm sorry all i can think of now is besides when did i get so old

00:37:45.180 is i wish i had eight children because of the only thing family is the only thing that really gives true

00:37:54.020 lasting happiness with us not having children so many children and women now waiting so long 0.99

00:38:01.960 is that affecting us too

00:38:04.460 the data are not clear on that but i think the great thing about children is they particularly

00:38:12.100 for men they really humanize us right we really learn how to give full love to others so i think

00:38:18.500 people without children and people whose children are out of the house can take that same approach

00:38:23.920 and apply it to our dear friends to our elderly family members to our nieces and nephews um again

00:38:30.880 the brain is so adaptive and we need connection just uh desperately need it i have about two minutes left

00:38:37.320 and i just want to ask you the science of the extraordinary is such a great uh opening line for

00:38:42.220 your your book immersion can you can you boil that down in 90 seconds and tell me what that is what

00:38:47.860 does it even mean yeah so there is a science to extraordinary experiences from movies to

00:38:55.820 customer experiences to social interactions and it's driven by these two core neurochemicals that

00:39:02.760 are measurable and once we measure those then we can really create extraordinary experiences and as

00:39:08.280 you said glenn basically stretch our brains to be better social creatures to be more emotionally

00:39:14.340 connected to others to be fully present and really build our own happiness and flourishing and is

00:39:21.500 this written for the average person or is this mainly a business book of people how to run their

00:39:28.280 businesses in a much more human sort of way to give the customer the best experience yeah it's really

00:39:35.840 both i mean it focuses on businesses but if you think about anything you do in your life arranging your

00:39:40.720 house getting married but we're all creating experiences so lots of tips on there on how to

00:39:45.980 live a happier life and again stretch your brain to really be fully present for those around you

00:39:51.360 um i can't thank you enough for what you study and and we did our homework um you are i mean you're not

00:39:57.660 just only the the leading you know source of this stuff you are really really buttoned up on it and

00:40:04.160 have done so much uh we are i am struggling to look how i can help my audience find um peace in an

00:40:15.180 absolute tumultuous world where everything seems upside down we're looking at we're we're missing

00:40:23.240 something to be able to weather through this and be able to get to the other side because we all will

00:40:28.860 survive uh and i'd like to talk to you again and if there's ever anything that comes to mind i'd

00:40:34.000 i'd love to talk to you thank you so much thank you glenn i'm grateful for you god bless me too for

00:40:40.040 you uh dr paul zach uh the name of the book is immersion we barely talked about it but pick it up

00:40:47.420 um the science behind what happens when we feel gratitude

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 13, 2023

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