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The importance of justice in our society. Also, one of our good friends arrested by the police for standing in his own neighborhood, just filming a Hamas protest in a Jewish neighborhood. Also why are we so depressed? I have a unique answer that will make a lot of sense.
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Also, one of our good friends arrested by the police for standing in his own neighborhood,
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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All right, I want to play something, and I am only using Democrats because of what is in the news,
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I know I have said this a million times in my life.
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I want you to hear what the Democrats have said about Donald Trump.
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and we all say it and supposedly we all mean it but do we
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when they accused donald trump of an imperfect phone call i wanted to know the truth i wanted
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to know exactly what was happening when they said that he was an agent of russia i didn't believe it
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but i went to my staff and i said i want you to take this as yes it's very possible find the proof
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or find the evidence that it's a lie but find the truth because no one is above the law
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well we found out that it was to quote donald trump a perfect phone call there was nothing wrong
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there was there was nothing there there was no collusion with russia it was all a hoax and
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in the last few years we've been showing you this and half the country still believes the lie
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why because they actually believe and i fear some of us do as well as long as it's on our side
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the democrats some democrats are now saying that you know if joe biden wanted to save his reputation
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he should have also pardoned donald trump at the same time but i don't think they fit in the same
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category and we'll get into that later but i i just want to start with comparing something here
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one man has has done all kinds of things has taken millions of dollars from foreign countries
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to influence the vice president and the president of the united states and these countries are hostile
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towards us he has helped by taking money he has helped china by companies here in america that can
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make specific things for weapons that it's it's against the law to be able to sell that technology
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those are pretty important laws now there's another important law murder okay manslaughter
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killing someone else that is huge if you kill somebody you should go to jail
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but to tails matter okay okay so he didn't pay his taxes because he was money laundering
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all right that's bad but what makes it a crime that you must pay attention to is he was laundering that
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money from a country that was hostile towards us an enemy of the state
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that my friend is treason if you're on a train let's say a subway and you are threatening to kill
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everybody and you kill somebody that's murder however if you're on a train and somebody comes in
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and is threatening to kill everybody on the train says they don't care if they die or go to prison
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and everyone on that train and everyone on that train car says i've i live in new york i i know crazy
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people okay and i've seen these kinds of scenes before on the subway believe me they're not that
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uncommon however this was unlike anything else this man was deadly serious
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and a a todd beamer isn't that his name from 9-11 a todd beamer stands up and has the courage to do
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something he was a marine his name is daniel penny what he did is he choked him out
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he came up from behind him choked him out that's easy to do chuck norris did it to me
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i don't know why he did anyway he choked he choked him out okay it's what you do
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now he has been charged with manslaughter and reckless endangerment he's on videotape
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talking to the cops saying i he didn't know he was dead i i didn't mean to hurt him i hope he's okay
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i was just trying to protect everybody else everybody else on the train says thank god for
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this guy but he's going through a trial now and could go to prison for protecting people
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for doing the right thing for standing up to protect others is there anything more noble
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than someone willing to risk their life to save others is there anything more nor noble is there
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anything that we should as a society say yeah let's look at all the details but this one is pretty easy
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first of all one thing you should learn is don't ever talk to the cops the cops absolutely set him up
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in that interview they knew he was dead and they're talking to him and saying things like
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correct me if i'm wrong stew you know we were we're marines too we understand oh yeah and he would seem
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like they were understanding just trying to get the the facts of it and set him up to confess to
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something that he didn't do um the whole thing was a disaster okay so why why are these two stories
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so important today the justice that is handed down in a courtroom sometimes is flawed okay because
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we're man it even if it's 12 in a jury we could get it wrong it's why we have in our society
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something that i think is really important when in doubt if there's a shadow of a doubt you can't convict
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them we would rather let one guilty guy or 12 guilty guys go three three uh free then one person
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go to jail unjustly i just want you to think for a second how many people are in jail today in america
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that should not be in jail how many people are in jail because they were praying outside of an abortion
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clinic that they were a grandmother that was walking through the capital they weren't breaking
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windows they weren't doing anything they were quote parading
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never before in my lifetime that i can remember this this injustice happened to blacks for you know
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150 years 250 years 200 years in my lifetime i don't remember the civil rights movement i was too young
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and i grew up in seattle and you know everybody was white and there was like hey everything's great right
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justice isn't about what just happens in the courtroom this is the principle that underpins every
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every every society the survival of civilization relies on justice if justice is not upheld
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society commits suicide if it is upheld it thrives
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this is the thing about america this is why people came here not because we were the most just
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but because we tried to be just our our declaration of independence our constitution it was all about
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to make a more perfect nation not a perfect nation a more perfect nation that we have these ideas that we
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hold as self-evident everybody believes in them because we know it's true everybody's created equal
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not equal outcomes but you come into the world with every opportunity that a king or a prince or a
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popper has you decide through your actions what you're going to do are you going to be a villain
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or are you going to try to be noble when your back is up against the wall are you somebody that takes
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money from china because you can or are you somebody that is sitting on a train seeing somebody and saying
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this guy is crazy i gotta do something i'm trained to do something i'm not i'm not
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god help you if you're on the train and i'm the guy you're looking for because i don't know what to
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do let's trip him hey let's give him a wedgie i i remember getting those in third grade i don't know
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what to do when justice is corrupted when the rich and the powerful are allowed to escape accountability
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and the average person is crushed under the weight of every single minor infraction
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you know that's true today look at look at mr penny
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he's being he's being held to the highest of standards and it's clear to everyone this guy was
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trying to do the right thing if you didn't pay your taxes do you think you would have gotten a pardon
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if if you even thought about meeting with the heads of the communist party and then got a deal that no
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one on earth has ever received from the chinese do you think the fbi would be at your door
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of course they would and when the average person is under that weight
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when the average person feels they've got to answer for absolutely everything and the law just gets
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bigger and bigger and so just show me the person i'll show you the crime
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you become the soviet union you become a state where the people begin to feel like prisoners
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and the entire foundation of even the greatest society ever begins to crack
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justice is what keeps us believing that we live in a system worth defending
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has anybody watched anything about the tuskegee airmen even do you know that african-american
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corps in world war ii were more effective than almost any other group of soldiers why why
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they had no reason to believe that this was a just society no no they knew it wasn't just
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but they believed in the principles that someday we will live up to those standards and that was worth
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defending you know why people aren't joining the military right now because we're not sure this is worth
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defending why justice the trust of justice has been broken we have to live in a society if we want
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to have a society live in a society that no matter our station in life we know we're protected by the same
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laws we have the same rights the same basic principles but what happens when that's shattered
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when we see those with wealth or influence walking free after committing unbelievably blatant crimes
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well you are held accountable for every jot and tittle people lose faith and not just in the system
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but in the idea of the country itself this is why we're in so much trouble this is foundational
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you look at history why the french revolution happen because all the fat cats were living lavishly while
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the common people starved and were paying for all of the fat cat parties with taxes with money they
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didn't have why did americans take to the streets after 2008 the financial crisis it wasn't just occupy
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wall street that kicked off the tea party that changed america why because wall street bankers got bonuses
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these things are not events what's happening to us these are warnings
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when justice is applied unequally resentment festers society fractures people stop believing
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the system can ever work for them how many of us know people that say ah it's not gonna oh they'll get
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away with it i don't know systems against me my kids won't have it better than me why is that
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because we no longer believe it has nothing to do with money honestly it has everything to do
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with the belief that everyone has the same opportunities and while some of that is true most of that
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that convinces us we don't is a lie truth and true justice it's about accountability and fairness
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it's not about punishing the rich because they're rich hating the rich because they're rich or the poor
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it's about making sure the rules apply to everyone equally the rich the poor the black the white
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that is the american dream and if the powerful can skirt the law
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what incentive do you have to follow the law if the powerless are crushed under the weight of
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it says you matter your voice your rights your existence it holds value
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this is why black lives matter was so dangerous because it said one group matters no no all life
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matters that's true justice some lives matter more than others no that's poison to a nation demand better
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now back to the podcast this is the best of the glenbeck program
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all right i want to talk to you a little bit here about justice uh right now we are we're living in a
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world and hopefully donald trump is going to be correcting some of these uh real errors of of our
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ways we we are a world that has gone truly insane and our neighbors up in canada are just as insane
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uh if not more so they're farther down the road um a good friend of the program a good friend of mine
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is ezra levant he is rebel news uh which is kind of like the blaze up in canada um he is jewish uh and
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he has just been arrested he was arrested in fact i want to play the video of him being arrested
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he is only standing as a journalist filming in his own jewish neighborhood a palestinian uh you know
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protest if i can call it that i want you to listen to what happens the exchange between him and the
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police listen i allowed you to take this video i allowed you to take that so you're refusing to leave
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i'm refusing to leave why because i'm a jew i'm a citizen and i'm your boss and i don't leave
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because you say jews are you know what in the interest of keeping peace here in public safety
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this is his neighborhood he's not an outsider this is his jewish neighborhood
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i'm being arrested because i'm standing on the sidewalk in my city
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i'm a jew who lives in this neighborhood and i'm being arrested because the police
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amazing ezra is with us now ezra this is crazy this is absolutely crazy what's going on
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glenn i've never been arrested before they handcuffed me and they took me to jail for a few hours
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and they said that i had incited a breach of the peace now i wasn't doing anything unlawful i was
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actually just debating with those cops because i i wanted to film you called it a pro-palestinian
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rally it sort of was but i i think it was more than that it was pro-hamas they had set up this
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really macabre display of they were reenacting the final moments of yaya sinwar the the now deceased
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head of hamas where he was sitting in a chair covered with blood or whatever so these palestinian
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activists came into the heart of a jewish residential community so they weren't protesting
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outside an embassy or a political target they were just in the middle of a bunch of apartments
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in a very jewish neighborhood so they were targeting jews as jews canadian jews nothing to do with
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the war overseas they were putting on this sort of reenactment of their hero the head of hamas
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and i thought this was so astonishing i just wanted to film it i wasn't even interacting with
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them i just was quietly filming it and you you sort of heard the jeering they were saying jews
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zionists whatever and so the top cop said to me that by being there i was inciting a breach of the
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peace i myself obviously was not breaching the peace but these pro-hamas thugs were and they
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essentially vetoed me being on my own sidewalk this is public property i'm not i wasn't in some
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you know private place to be trespassed or something and the cops arrested me the path
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of least resistance which you which i mentioned when it happened because there was about 20 of them
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and there was one of me and instead of upholding the law they said well just take ezra out because
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we know he's not going to riot he's not going to get violent take out the quiet jew and let the noisy
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hamas ones continue i that's just crazy and you know what i don't regret being arrested because i
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there's no way i was going to leave because they were saying you know you were committing the sin of
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being jewish on the sidewalk i'm sorry i'm not going to leave just because you say jews can't be here and
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ezra is there a chance you go to jail for this that that this is upheld in canadian court now
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well i did go to jail for a few hours then they released me without charge
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now i was so upset with this precedent that and that was about nine days ago that that happened
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so two days ago these same hamas protesters came back to that same jewish neighborhood
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and i i glenn i said this can't stand so i sent an email out to our viewers and i said come stand with
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me we'll be peaceful we won't engage with the hamas ones we'll just stand on the public sidewalk
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and you know just assert our rights we'll take back our streets and i said be aware that we may be
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arrested but if that's where we are we need to know so a hundred people came out two days ago 100
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people and the police saw my email so they put out a tweet the night before
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saying that they reserved the right to arrest people so they were trying to scare my people off
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but i showed up on sunday morning and a hundred people were there and i led them across the street
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and we stood there and i think the police sized us up and thought there's a hundred of them we really
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can't arrest a hundred of them it was no longer the path of least resistance so we took back the
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streets and and it was a victory and i think we undid that terrible precedent that was set you can't
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arrest a peaceful person because someone else is threatening them they're doing it they're doing
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it in england too though doing the same thing in england well you know i'm i'm interested in the uk
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one of our former employees tommy robinson is in prison right now for publishing a documentary on
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x and and i always say i go to the uk because it's a dystopian time machine to see what canada will be
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like in five years maybe we're further down the road than that so glenn i would say to you and your
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american viewers hold on to your rights and if you want a picture of what america would look like if you
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lose your rights look at us and that's why i was so relieved when donald trump won because i think
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he's going to turn back oh i think these excesses i i think so too let me uh let me ask you trudeau
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said that if benjamin netanyahu steps foot in canada he'll have him arrested yeah justin trudeau has
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sided not just with palestinians because i can understand making the case for innocent civilians and
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being harmed as collateral damage in a war and you can be compassionate for palestinians i i you can
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do that but but trudeau has gone much further he he has been so supportive of hamas i don't know if
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you know this glenn they literally made an english language video thanking canada he was he has
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absolutely turned against israel at the united nations he support he routinely condemns he he
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republishes misinformation and hoaxes about israel that hamas circulates and when it's disproven he
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doesn't correct he's whipped up what i call an anti-semitic crime wave for the last year not just hate
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crimes because you know sometimes well is a hate crime just a thought crime or a word crime i'm talking
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about crime crimes molotov cocktails being thrown at synagogues a jewish girl school in in my town
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shot up with good guns twice constant vandalism constant uttering death threats trespass mischief
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vandalism and and i'm i'm pretty much a libertarian on free speech i don't like it when people say
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anti-semitic things but i understand that that's part of freedom yes but first of all not for foreign
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nationals if you're a guest in our country if you don't have tenure here as a citizen get out
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trudeau will instead of deporting these thugs he's bringing in thousands of quote refugees from gaza
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and i would say to america be careful because trudeau is bringing in hundreds of thousands of
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people into canada who share these outrageous beliefs and we have a porous border with you
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so don't think that they that they're some of them are trying to get into the u.s that's why trump is
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trying to strengthen the border with canada and i hope i hope it takes effect i hope that well it
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gets more serious i i will tell you this you know there are a lot of canadians that are saying
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this tariff uh that donald trump is talking about with canada will kill us uh and hurt america as well
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if trudeau does not uh abide with the uh border restrictions if he doesn't fall in line with
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our laws donald trump's not bluffing he he does not mind tariffs and he is going to i mean he will
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crush any country that is is uh doing damage to the united states he means it i believe that trump
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means it but i also believe he doesn't want to put the tariffs on he just is trying to get trudeau's
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attention yes it's the way he negotiates but he doesn't the one thing you have to understand
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unlike most politicians donald trump never threatens he makes promises you do this and i'll do that
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you do this and i'll do that and he means it it's worth rereading the art of the deal where he
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explains how he negotiates and how he reframes things and takes dramatic positions it really is
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a decoder for a lot of his political talk but what is he demanding from canada nothing that we
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ourselves shouldn't demand from our own government he's demanding two things from canada stop the
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drugs coming over the border especially china made fentanyl that is that is trafficked through canada
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into the states and number two stop the illegal immigration we should want both of those things
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on our own basis and the fact that it takes our big brother in america to smarten us up is sort of
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embarrassing we should have done those things on our own and and i think that trudeau suddenly has
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a decision to make does he want to just uh you know play to the cameras and have woke press statements
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or is he going to be a grown-up now and get serious and be productive and have a working
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relationship with our best friends and allies and i don't know i mean trudeau he's so low in the polls
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he may try to glenn turn this into an election issue i'm going to stand up to trump and the
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conservative candidate is a trump puppet and he might try and actually run in his next canadian election
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not against the canadian conservative party but like a shadow boxing campaign against trump i wouldn't
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put it past him he hates trump the feelings mutual both men have disparaged each other in the past
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i i just look forward to the day when we get past the trudeau era because he's made our country a
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darker place he really has um ezra i'm glad things are working out stay safe my friend you are a huge
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target and a and a force for good up in canada thank you thanks my friend bye-bye you're streaming the
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best of the glenn beck program and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts
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all right i i want to take a step back from the politics and the actual news of the day and show
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you how all of the news of the day is affecting us and what we're supposed to do with it it's one thing
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to listen to a show and go oh he just named this person oh this person's gonna have a trouble
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you know getting confirmed all of that stuff we have to start asking ourselves deeper questions
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than just questions about politics let's start here what the hell is wrong with us
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what is happening what is wrong with us we live at a time where no person in the history of the world
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has ever had it as good as we have it right now right now with all the problems that we have
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no one has lived at a time and lived a better easier life than we do right now
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and we're all bitching and complaining we're depressed so many of us are on pharmaceuticals
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better living through pharmaceuticals so many of us are taking antidepressants
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why are we so depressed why are our kids killing themselves in record numbers
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i would like to suggest it's because our society is based almost entirely now on lies
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it's it's based on what we want to be true not what is true and the biggest lie is me
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now i can say this because if i'm known for anything it's my humility and uh i know there's
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they're fashioning an award for humility and i expect to receive it in any day now but
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let me talk to you a little bit about humility it ain't about me it's not about you
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the biggest lie we buy into and every device we have feeds into it me me me me me
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who was it was it narcissus the the greek hunter that was so beautiful he he sat by the river and
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just looked at his image like man look at me i am so hot
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he the story goes that he fell in love with his image and if if somebody tried to take him away from
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his image he would beat his chest black and blue he had to look at himself and his reflection because
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he just found himself so beautiful let me ask you have you ever tried to take your phone away from
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would they not in some way or another beat themselves black and blue to get it back
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narcissism we are the greek hunter that story is known for a reason it's bad it destroys people
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good people destroys them think about how we are gazing at our own image with selfies
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how we are scrolling and seeing a distorted look at everybody else's life we're doing worse than
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beating ourselves black and blue if we're denied that device people go crazy try it try it just say hey
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honey i'm gonna take your phone away for a while my wife comes to me honey i gotta i gotta take i gotta
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this is happening for a few reasons first of all the companies that make these things have made them
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addictive they make them knowing that the programming they put into it becomes addictive so
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i'm sorry gang we all need a 12-step program because we are all addicted to that device
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see how you feel in a couple of hours you'll be jonesing
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most of us there's this saying that i always hated and because i always heard it around christmas time
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it is better to give than receive oh no it's not no it's not i like lots of presents under the tree
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it feels really really good i went out and got you something you open it and i'm like hey you like it
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great where's my stuff that's what i used to think as a kid
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you know it's better to serve people than to be served no it's not i really like just sitting at the
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table and have somebody come and say would you like more of this yes please that doesn't make any
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sense logically it makes no sense sounds noble and stuff yes yes it is better to give than receive
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you gain something you get a gift you get a favor you get a reward
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you get a little bing on your phone and you're like yeah
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giving whether it's time resources compassion brings deep and abiding sense of fulfillment
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you can't find that kind of joy and i know it because i go to a church where we have to serve
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each other and we have to look out for our brother and sister and we're you know like oh i gotta do
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what i gotta go where i gotta help who move that's not gonna bring me joy somebody actually on
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saturday you know sunday night said uh hey glenn uh we got to get together you want to you want to
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clean the church with me on saturday now when we say clean the church we don't have any paid staff
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he means clean the toilets you want to we can get together we can talk and you know we can clean the
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church and i'm like oh yeah i love cleaning those toilets on sat but i actually do it's weird
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this is a paradox a fundamental truth of human experience the answer is not in religion it's not
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in philosophy spirituality it's in biology it's it's the psychology of what it means to be a human
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i'm talking about this because well i'll tell you in a minute but it's important
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let me start with the science real quick neuroscientists have discovered that if you
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give it activates the brain's pleasure centers in remarkably similar ways to the effects of
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really good food hard drugs sex now i've never i've never given to the point to where i'm like
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i need a cigarette after that one but i'd like to
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in one study participants who gave money to charity experienced the activation in the same area of the
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brain that lights up when you eat chocolate and i know how i feel when i eat chocolate
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this amazing gift to make us feel good it taps into the biological system that governs happiness and reward
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you know we're not the most charitable nation in the world anymore did you know that
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i think we just slipped into number two i don't know who beats us
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but we were a happy nation for a couple of reasons
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see this isn't just about brain chemistry giving also has tangible effects on our physical health
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did you know that researchers the university of california berkeley they found that people who
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regularly volunteer actually have lower blood pressure reduce stress levels and
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effects deep effects on their physical health it it gives them a longer lifespan that's incredible
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another study from carnegie mellon university showed adults over 50 who volunteered at least 200 hours a
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year were 40 percent less to develop any kind of hypertension 40 percent
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it's like a heart healthy thing forget the cheerios man it helps your heart both figuratively and
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biologically and then there's the mental health all kinds of studies have found that acts of kindness
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one striking study found that people who performed five acts of kindness in a single day reported
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significantly greater levels of happiness than those who didn't five could just be opening the door for
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somebody writing a note donating to a cause you care about just calling somebody just asking somebody
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hey how's your day and actually meaning it just doing five things like that dramatically changes your
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happiness now it's not a fluke and it's not modern society this is this is deeply rooted
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in us we are by nature social creatures we need one another let me take you back
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a ways back in history when we were all like me hungry eat dog you know
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last week uh in the biden administration uh take it take us back to our basic beginnings of
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civilization okay you couldn't be somebody living on your own okay because you get killed something's
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going to kill you it depend our survival depended on cooperation sharing mutual aid farming was the
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biggest thing once we realized wait you could do that and i can do this and then we can both have
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a meal this is great those who helped their neighbors or shared their resources
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were more likely to thrive as a part of a community than those who were just hoarding everything for
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themselves so over time this instinct for generosity was hardwired into our dna i personally think it was there
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what let's just let's just let's just tell you what medical science tells us now
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by the way keep six feet apart it's very important psychologists called called this the helper's
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high it's a phenomenon that um where acts of altruism release the endorphins which are the the body's
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natural painkillers it's a built-in reward system that ensures that we continue to prioritize
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community and connection why are we depressed we are not connected to one another anymore we're
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connected to the river we're gazing in we're connected to our devices we're we're not prioritizing
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community we're prioritizing me me me me me me why do you think we're so divided there are forces that
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are dividing us and then we're doing it ourself and that ancient instinct remains it is calling to us
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us and we don't know what it is and we don't know what it is and so we're killing ourselves
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and i don't care if you have any money at all hold the door open for somebody
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pass it forward go to chick-fil-a and pay for the people behind you
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and it all stems from gratitude that's another thing we no longer have our society is telling us
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not to be grateful because you have nothing to be grateful for everybody everybody's against you
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you'll never make it the system is unjust so you have no gratitude without gratitude
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you don't want to give you want to hoard you want to protect
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do you see what's happening to us this is why this is so evil but when we pause just for a second
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and recognize what we have this is the most powerful tool against negativity
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if you regularly practice gratitude better sleep increased optimism stronger relationships in fact
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there was a study done where this doctor said write down every day three things that you're grateful for
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and it it doesn't just make you feel better it makes you actually more generous because you're seeing what
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you have what others don't and you want to share it
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it just recognizing the things you might be very poor right now you might have had the worst year of
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but if you can find three things every day write them down because it's a cycle
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giving fosters gratitude gratitude fuels giving and it just compounds on itself it's a feedback loop of
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positivity it gets us away from staring at our own image in the modern day river
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i would love to ask you to support whatever you're passionate about today
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we were supposed to give thanks last week i hope we did
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give thanks for the miracles recognize have gratitude for where we are and what has happened and the time we live in
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today let's put that into action on giving tuesday
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there's lots of charities you can give to we talk about many of them on this program my
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personal favorite obviously is mercuryone.org we have a goal of of two hundred thousand dollars
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which will get us on the ground first we won't have to worry about where are we pulling the money
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from we'll have that reserve of 200 grand to get us moving the moment a tragedy happens mercuryone.org