Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Dr. Paul J. Zak ｜ 1⧸13⧸22
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
159.89676
Summary
Bill O Reilly joins us to talk about the secret documents that were found in the president's corvette, the hypocrisy of all of it, and all the other crazy news stories of the week. Plus, we also end the week the way we started the week, talking about Gratitude.
Transcript
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
00:00:35.580
gratitude but this time we have the world's leading expert on the brain and what gratitude
00:00:43.580
actually does to you and how it really changes your life all this on today's podcast here it is
00:00:49.940
and we would show you real gratitude if you subscribe to the podcast rate or review the
00:00:54.580
podcast here and give us five stars or five dollars or just hand us a bunch of money but if you don't
00:01:00.220
want to do that just subscribe to this who does america and oh blaze tv blaze tv.com oh don't
00:01:05.680
forget also tomorrow's podcast richard dreyfus it's crazy
00:01:10.060
you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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
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
00:06:29.260
yeah how dare you and lizzo is the picture of health right like i've seen her in the bikini
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
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
00:15:41.300
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:18:45.840
our soul but does does dumb make you laugh hysterically at the idea of an electric school
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
00:18:59.420
school buses she doesn't know how to do it so she overacts and she looks crazy and dumb
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:22:45.940
voted for you because at this time these people are so stupid or ignorant or they just don't care
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
00:23:09.400
speech mr madison what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things i have ever heard
00:23:17.920
at no point in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered
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
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
00:24:21.240
his district you cannot be that stupid you can't it's impossible it's impossible impossible like guam
00:24:30.800
capsizing impossible like guam capsizing impossible you cannot be that and if you are that stupid
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
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
00:26:10.720
could capsize well nope sorry i can't find your name anywhere in the records can't find it
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
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
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
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