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00:00:30.620 Man, there's a lot to talk about.

00:00:32.640 You don't want to miss any of today's show.

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00:00:37.880 Gives you the highlights of today's podcast.

00:00:40.480 The importance of justice in our society.

00:00:43.140 I don't know, Hunter Biden.

00:00:45.540 Also, one of our good friends arrested by the police for standing in his own neighborhood,

00:00:52.200 just filming this Hamas protest in a Jewish neighborhood.

00:00:58.960 He's arrested.

00:01:00.240 He didn't say anything.

00:01:01.940 Wait till you see this.

00:01:03.240 Also, why are we so depressed?

00:01:07.700 I think I have a unique answer for you that will make a lot of sense that you should share with friends.

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00:02:39.820 All right, I want to play something, and I am only using Democrats because of what is in the news,

00:02:47.160 but we have all said this before.

00:02:50.120 I know I have said this a million times in my life.

00:02:53.780 I want you to hear what the Democrats have said about Donald Trump.

00:02:58.140 Listen.

00:02:58.960 No one is above the law.

00:03:01.060 No one is above the law.

00:03:03.300 Nobody is above the law.

00:03:05.880 No one is above the law.

00:03:07.740 No one is above the law.

00:03:08.780 Nobody is above the law.

00:03:10.800 No one is above the law.

00:03:12.560 No one is above the law.

00:03:14.200 No one is above the law.

00:03:15.680 No one is above the law.

00:03:18.200 No one is above the law.

00:03:20.040 No one is above the law.

00:03:24.080 Okay, and then we get to Hunter Biden.

00:03:25.980 All right, so we know this.

00:03:29.500 No one is above the law.

00:03:32.040 and we all say it and supposedly we all mean it but do we

00:03:39.920 when they accused donald trump of an imperfect phone call i wanted to know the truth i wanted

00:03:48.820 to know exactly what was happening when they said that he was an agent of russia i didn't believe it

00:03:57.360 but i went to my staff and i said i want you to take this as yes it's very possible find the proof

00:04:06.880 or find the evidence that it's a lie but find the truth because no one is above the law

00:04:16.340 well we found out that it was to quote donald trump a perfect phone call there was nothing wrong

00:04:26.840 there was there was nothing there there was no collusion with russia it was all a hoax and

00:04:36.560 in the last few years we've been showing you this and half the country still believes the lie

00:04:46.000 why because they actually believe and i fear some of us do as well as long as it's on our side

00:04:56.560 we can skate i don't believe that

00:05:00.340 the democrats some democrats are now saying that you know if joe biden wanted to save his reputation

00:05:12.500 he should have also pardoned donald trump at the same time but i don't think they fit in the same

00:05:18.340 category and we'll get into that later but i i just want to start with comparing something here

00:05:26.960 one man has has done all kinds of things has taken millions of dollars from foreign countries

00:05:36.260 to influence the vice president and the president of the united states and these countries are hostile

00:05:43.380 towards us he has helped by taking money he has helped china by companies here in america that can

00:05:54.320 make specific things for weapons that it's it's against the law to be able to sell that technology

00:06:03.160 but somehow or another he got it done

00:06:06.340 those are pretty important laws now there's another important law murder okay manslaughter

00:06:18.040 killing someone else that is huge if you kill somebody you should go to jail

00:06:24.740 but to tails matter okay okay so he didn't pay his taxes because he was money laundering

00:06:35.440 all right that's bad but what makes it a crime that you must pay attention to is he was laundering that

00:06:47.260 money from a country that was hostile towards us an enemy of the state

00:06:53.480 that my friend is treason if you're on a train let's say a subway and you are threatening to kill

00:07:03.620 everybody and you kill somebody that's murder however if you're on a train and somebody comes in

00:07:12.360 and is threatening to kill everybody on the train says they don't care if they die or go to prison 0.88

00:07:18.180 and everyone on that train and everyone on that train car says i've i live in new york i i know crazy

00:07:23.900 people okay and i've seen these kinds of scenes before on the subway believe me they're not that

00:07:28.860 uncommon however this was unlike anything else this man was deadly serious

00:07:37.580 and a a todd beamer isn't that his name from 9-11 a todd beamer stands up and has the courage to do

00:07:50.040 something he was a marine his name is daniel penny what he did is he choked him out

00:07:57.860 he came up from behind him choked him out that's easy to do chuck norris did it to me

00:08:04.180 i don't know why he did anyway he choked he choked him out okay it's what you do

00:08:10.540 now he has been charged with manslaughter and reckless endangerment he's on videotape

00:08:23.280 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

00:08:30.840 i was just trying to protect everybody else everybody else on the train says thank god for

00:08:35.840 this guy but he's going through a trial now and could go to prison for protecting people

00:08:44.300 for doing the right thing for standing up to protect others is there anything more noble

00:08:52.820 than someone willing to risk their life to save others is there anything more nor noble is there

00:09:01.500 anything that we should as a society say yeah let's look at all the details but this one is pretty easy

00:09:08.340 because everything's on camera

00:09:10.280 first of all one thing you should learn is don't ever talk to the cops the cops absolutely set him up

00:09:22.160 in that interview they knew he was dead and they're talking to him and saying things like

00:09:28.020 correct me if i'm wrong stew you know we were we're marines too we understand oh yeah and he would seem

00:09:34.240 like they were understanding just trying to get the the facts of it and set him up to confess to

00:09:40.020 something that he didn't do um the whole thing was a disaster okay so why why are these two stories

00:09:48.140 so important today the justice that is handed down in a courtroom sometimes is flawed okay because

00:09:57.820 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

00:10:07.180 something that i think is really important when in doubt if there's a shadow of a doubt you can't convict

00:10:16.040 them we would rather let one guilty guy or 12 guilty guys go three three uh free then one person

00:10:26.840 go to jail unjustly i just want you to think for a second how many people are in jail today in america 0.57

00:10:33.160 that should not be in jail how many people are in jail because they were praying outside of an abortion

00:10:40.880 clinic that they were a grandmother that was walking through the capital they weren't breaking

00:10:47.100 windows they weren't doing anything they were quote parading

00:10:51.280 never before in my lifetime that i can remember this this injustice happened to blacks for you know

00:11:02.520 150 years 250 years 200 years in my lifetime i don't remember the civil rights movement i was too young

00:11:13.140 and i grew up in seattle and you know everybody was white and there was like hey everything's great right

00:11:19.440 justice isn't about what just happens in the courtroom this is the principle that underpins every

00:11:31.400 every every society the survival of civilization relies on justice if justice is not upheld

00:11:42.360 society commits suicide if it is upheld it thrives

00:11:51.040 this is the thing about america this is why people came here not because we were the most just

00:11:59.520 but because we tried to be just our our declaration of independence our constitution it was all about

00:12:09.100 to make a more perfect nation not a perfect nation a more perfect nation that we have these ideas that we

00:12:18.960 hold as self-evident everybody believes in them because we know it's true everybody's created equal

00:12:25.180 not equal outcomes but you come into the world with every opportunity that a king or a prince or a

00:12:36.200 popper has you decide through your actions what you're going to do are you going to be a villain

00:12:46.460 or are you going to try to be noble when your back is up against the wall are you somebody that takes

00:12:56.900 money from china because you can or are you somebody that is sitting on a train seeing somebody and saying

00:13:05.860 this guy is crazy i gotta do something i'm trained to do something i'm not i'm not 0.50

00:13:12.360 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 0.89

00:13:20.100 do let's trip him hey let's give him a wedgie i i remember getting those in third grade i don't know

00:13:27.360 what to do when justice is corrupted when the rich and the powerful are allowed to escape accountability

00:13:38.840 and the average person is crushed under the weight of every single minor infraction

00:13:46.540 you know that's true today look at look at mr penny

00:13:53.200 he's being he's being held to the highest of standards and it's clear to everyone this guy was

00:14:05.000 trying to do the right thing if you didn't pay your taxes do you think you would have gotten a pardon

00:14:14.140 if if you even thought about meeting with the heads of the communist party and then got a deal that no

00:14:24.160 one on earth has ever received from the chinese do you think the fbi would be at your door

00:14:31.540 of course they would and when the average person is under that weight

00:14:40.580 when the average person feels they've got to answer for absolutely everything and the law just gets

00:14:49.080 bigger and bigger and so just show me the person i'll show you the crime

00:14:54.440 you become the soviet union you become a state where the people begin to feel like prisoners 0.74

00:15:02.780 and the entire foundation of even the greatest society ever begins to crack

00:15:11.340 justice is what keeps us believing that we live in a system worth defending

00:15:18.640 has anybody watched anything about the tuskegee airmen even do you know that african-american

00:15:27.900 corps in world war ii were more effective than almost any other group of soldiers why why

00:15:37.880 they had no reason to believe that this was a just society no no they knew it wasn't just

00:15:46.960 but they believed in the principles that someday we will live up to those standards and that was worth

00:15:56.940 defending you know why people aren't joining the military right now because we're not sure this is worth

00:16:03.500 defending why justice the trust of justice has been broken we have to live in a society if we want

00:16:15.800 to have a society live in a society that no matter our station in life we know we're protected by the same

00:16:22.660 laws we have the same rights the same basic principles but what happens when that's shattered

00:16:28.700 when we see those with wealth or influence walking free after committing unbelievably blatant crimes

00:16:38.020 well you are held accountable for every jot and tittle people lose faith and not just in the system

00:16:48.600 but in the idea of the country itself this is why we're in so much trouble this is foundational

00:17:01.000 you look at history why the french revolution happen because all the fat cats were living lavishly while

00:17:10.700 the common people starved and were paying for all of the fat cat parties with taxes with money they

00:17:18.140 didn't have why did americans take to the streets after 2008 the financial crisis it wasn't just occupy

00:17:26.360 wall street that kicked off the tea party that changed america why because wall street bankers got bonuses

00:17:35.560 while we lost our homes

00:17:38.180 these things are not events what's happening to us these are warnings

00:17:48.980 when justice is applied unequally resentment festers society fractures people stop believing

00:18:02.140 the system can ever work for them how many of us know people that say ah it's not gonna oh they'll get

00:18:09.240 away with it i don't know systems against me my kids won't have it better than me why is that

00:18:16.580 because we no longer believe it has nothing to do with money honestly it has everything to do

00:18:22.000 with the belief that everyone has the same opportunities and while some of that is true most of that

00:18:30.820 that convinces us we don't is a lie truth and true justice it's about accountability and fairness

00:18:41.240 it's not about punishing the rich because they're rich hating the rich because they're rich or the poor

00:18:48.080 because they're poor

00:18:49.160 it's about making sure the rules apply to everyone equally the rich the poor the black the white 0.74

00:18:58.120 that is the american dream and if the powerful can skirt the law

00:19:04.160 what incentive do you have to follow the law if the powerless are crushed under the weight of

00:19:11.320 unjust laws how do you trust the system

00:19:14.980 and by the way justice is also about dignity

00:19:20.400 it says you matter your voice your rights your existence it holds value

00:19:29.900 this is why black lives matter was so dangerous because it said one group matters no no all life 0.93

00:19:42.580 matters that's true justice some lives matter more than others no that's poison to a nation demand better

00:19:56.840 it is the cure to what ills us

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00:21:03.380 now back to the podcast this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:21:08.240 all right i want to talk to you a little bit here about justice uh right now we are we're living in a

00:21:19.800 world and hopefully donald trump is going to be correcting some of these uh real errors of of our

00:21:28.860 ways we we are a world that has gone truly insane and our neighbors up in canada are just as insane

00:21:36.280 uh if not more so they're farther down the road um a good friend of the program a good friend of mine

00:21:42.980 is ezra levant he is rebel news uh which is kind of like the blaze up in canada um he is jewish uh and

00:21:50.940 he has just been arrested he was arrested in fact i want to play the video of him being arrested

00:21:57.880 he is only standing as a journalist filming in his own jewish neighborhood a palestinian uh you know

00:22:10.720 protest if i can call it that i want you to listen to what happens the exchange between him and the

00:22:18.260 police listen i allowed you to take this video i allowed you to take that so you're refusing to leave

00:22:23.780 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

00:22:30.760 because you say jews are you know what in the interest of keeping peace here in public safety

00:22:35.160 you're under arrest for preaching the peace

00:22:36.720 i'm good

00:22:37.720 this is his neighborhood he's not an outsider this is his jewish neighborhood

00:22:49.000 i'm being arrested because i'm standing on the sidewalk in my city

00:22:54.580 i'm a jew who lives in this neighborhood and i'm being arrested because the police

00:23:00.820 say that's a path of least resistance

00:23:03.640 amazing ezra is with us now ezra this is crazy this is absolutely crazy what's going on

00:23:14.480 glenn i've never been arrested before they handcuffed me and they took me to jail for a few hours

00:23:20.020 and they said that i had incited a breach of the peace now i wasn't doing anything unlawful i was

00:23:27.500 actually just debating with those cops because i i wanted to film you called it a pro-palestinian

00:23:33.140 rally it sort of was but i i think it was more than that it was pro-hamas they had set up this

00:23:37.980 really macabre display of they were reenacting the final moments of yaya sinwar the the now deceased

00:23:47.380 head of hamas where he was sitting in a chair covered with blood or whatever so these palestinian 0.96

00:23:52.540 activists came into the heart of a jewish residential community so they weren't protesting

00:23:57.780 outside an embassy or a political target they were just in the middle of a bunch of apartments

00:24:02.960 in a very jewish neighborhood so they were targeting jews as jews canadian jews nothing to do with

00:24:09.140 the war overseas they were putting on this sort of reenactment of their hero the head of hamas

00:24:15.120 and i thought this was so astonishing i just wanted to film it i wasn't even interacting with

00:24:20.360 them i just was quietly filming it and you you sort of heard the jeering they were saying jews

00:24:26.520 zionists whatever and so the top cop said to me that by being there i was inciting a breach of the

00:24:34.020 peace i myself obviously was not breaching the peace but these pro-hamas thugs were and they

00:24:39.240 essentially vetoed me being on my own sidewalk this is public property i'm not i wasn't in some

00:24:44.840 you know private place to be trespassed or something and the cops arrested me the path

00:24:50.720 of least resistance which you which i mentioned when it happened because there was about 20 of them

00:24:55.760 and there was one of me and instead of upholding the law they said well just take ezra out because

00:25:00.940 we know he's not going to riot he's not going to get violent take out the quiet jew and let the noisy 1.00

00:25:08.340 hamas ones continue i that's just crazy and you know what i don't regret being arrested because i

00:25:14.440 there's no way i was going to leave because they were saying you know you were committing the sin of

00:25:19.760 being jewish on the sidewalk i'm sorry i'm not going to leave just because you say jews can't be here and

00:25:24.160 you heard them say that as i was arrested

00:25:26.160 ezra is there a chance you go to jail for this that that this is upheld in canadian court now

00:25:36.540 well i did go to jail for a few hours then they released me without charge

00:25:41.500 now i was so upset with this precedent that and that was about nine days ago that that happened

00:25:48.040 so two days ago these same hamas protesters came back to that same jewish neighborhood

00:25:54.160 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

00:26:02.360 me we'll be peaceful we won't engage with the hamas ones we'll just stand on the public sidewalk 1.00

00:26:09.720 and you know just assert our rights we'll take back our streets and i said be aware that we may be

00:26:18.300 arrested but if that's where we are we need to know so a hundred people came out two days ago 100

00:26:25.440 people and the police saw my email so they put out a tweet the night before

00:26:32.080 saying that they reserved the right to arrest people so they were trying to scare my people off

00:26:38.000 but i showed up on sunday morning and a hundred people were there and i led them across the street

00:26:46.840 and we stood there and i think the police sized us up and thought there's a hundred of them we really

00:26:53.100 can't arrest a hundred of them it was no longer the path of least resistance so we took back the

00:26:58.220 streets and and it was a victory and i think we undid that terrible precedent that was set you can't

00:27:05.800 arrest a peaceful person because someone else is threatening them they're doing it they're doing

00:27:11.800 it in england too though doing the same thing in england well you know i'm i'm interested in the uk

00:27:18.080 one of our former employees tommy robinson is in prison right now for publishing a documentary on

00:27:24.660 x and and i always say i go to the uk because it's a dystopian time machine to see what canada will be

00:27:31.640 like in five years maybe we're further down the road than that so glenn i would say to you and your

00:27:36.200 american viewers hold on to your rights and if you want a picture of what america would look like if you

00:27:42.400 lose your rights look at us and that's why i was so relieved when donald trump won because i think

00:27:48.080 he's going to turn back oh i think these excesses i i think so too let me uh let me ask you trudeau

00:27:55.320 said that if benjamin netanyahu steps foot in canada he'll have him arrested yeah justin trudeau has

00:28:04.440 sided not just with palestinians because i can understand making the case for innocent civilians and

00:28:10.460 being harmed as collateral damage in a war and you can be compassionate for palestinians i i you can

00:28:18.620 do that but but trudeau has gone much further he he has been so supportive of hamas i don't know if

00:28:25.140 you know this glenn they literally made an english language video thanking canada he was he has

00:28:33.100 absolutely turned against israel at the united nations he support he routinely condemns he he

00:28:41.200 republishes misinformation and hoaxes about israel that hamas circulates and when it's disproven he

00:28:48.860 doesn't correct he's whipped up what i call an anti-semitic crime wave for the last year not just hate

00:28:56.940 crimes because you know sometimes well is a hate crime just a thought crime or a word crime i'm talking

00:29:01.680 about crime crimes molotov cocktails being thrown at synagogues a jewish girl school in in my town

00:29:08.280 shot up with good guns twice constant vandalism constant uttering death threats trespass mischief

00:29:17.180 vandalism and and i'm i'm pretty much a libertarian on free speech i don't like it when people say

00:29:23.380 anti-semitic things but i understand that that's part of freedom yes but first of all not for foreign 1.00

00:29:30.160 nationals if you're a guest in our country if you don't have tenure here as a citizen get out

00:29:35.040 trudeau will instead of deporting these thugs he's bringing in thousands of quote refugees from gaza 1.00

00:29:41.480 and i would say to america be careful because trudeau is bringing in hundreds of thousands of

00:29:47.460 people into canada who share these outrageous beliefs and we have a porous border with you

00:29:53.020 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

00:29:58.560 trying to strengthen the border with canada and i hope i hope it takes effect i hope that well it

00:30:03.280 gets more serious i i will tell you this you know there are a lot of canadians that are saying

00:30:09.100 this tariff uh that donald trump is talking about with canada will kill us uh and hurt america as well

00:30:18.420 if trudeau does not uh abide with the uh border restrictions if he doesn't fall in line with

00:30:27.820 our laws donald trump's not bluffing he he does not mind tariffs and he is going to i mean he will

00:30:36.840 crush any country that is is uh doing damage to the united states he means it i believe that trump 0.83

00:30:46.240 means it but i also believe he doesn't want to put the tariffs on he just is trying to get trudeau's

00:30:51.060 attention yes it's the way he negotiates but he doesn't the one thing you have to understand

00:30:56.200 unlike most politicians donald trump never threatens he makes promises you do this and i'll do that

00:31:06.260 you do this and i'll do that and he means it it's worth rereading the art of the deal where he

00:31:14.100 explains how he negotiates and how he reframes things and takes dramatic positions it really is

00:31:20.320 a decoder for a lot of his political talk but what is he demanding from canada nothing that we

00:31:25.800 ourselves shouldn't demand from our own government he's demanding two things from canada stop the

00:31:30.400 drugs coming over the border especially china made fentanyl that is that is trafficked through canada

00:31:36.380 into the states and number two stop the illegal immigration we should want both of those things 0.88

00:31:41.380 on our own basis and the fact that it takes our big brother in america to smarten us up is sort of

00:31:47.380 embarrassing we should have done those things on our own and and i think that trudeau suddenly has

00:31:52.780 a decision to make does he want to just uh you know play to the cameras and have woke press statements

00:32:00.260 or is he going to be a grown-up now and get serious and be productive and have a working

00:32:06.260 relationship with our best friends and allies and i don't know i mean trudeau he's so low in the polls

00:32:12.200 he may try to glenn turn this into an election issue i'm going to stand up to trump and the

00:32:18.800 conservative candidate is a trump puppet and he might try and actually run in his next canadian election

00:32:25.400 not against the canadian conservative party but like a shadow boxing campaign against trump i wouldn't

00:32:32.160 put it past him he hates trump the feelings mutual both men have disparaged each other in the past

00:32:37.940 i i just look forward to the day when we get past the trudeau era because he's made our country a

00:32:43.480 darker place he really has um ezra i'm glad things are working out stay safe my friend you are a huge

00:32:49.920 target and a and a force for good up in canada thank you thanks my friend bye-bye you're streaming the

00:32:56.540 best of the glenn beck program and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts

00:33:01.040 all right i i want to take a step back from the politics and the actual news of the day and show

00:33:08.600 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

00:33:16.580 to listen to a show and go oh he just named this person oh this person's gonna have a trouble

00:33:21.720 you know getting confirmed all of that stuff we have to start asking ourselves deeper questions

00:33:29.480 than just questions about politics let's start here what the hell is wrong with us

00:33:37.900 what is happening what is wrong with us we live at a time where no person in the history of the world

00:33:48.400 has ever had it as good as we have it right now right now with all the problems that we have

00:33:53.880 no one has lived at a time and lived a better easier life than we do right now

00:34:01.660 and we're all bitching and complaining we're depressed so many of us are on pharmaceuticals

00:34:11.660 better living through pharmaceuticals so many of us are taking antidepressants

00:34:17.320 why are we so depressed why are our kids killing themselves in record numbers

00:34:24.640 i would like to suggest it's because our society is based almost entirely now on lies

00:34:35.180 it's it's based on what we want to be true not what is true and the biggest lie is me

00:34:45.440 now i can say this because if i'm known for anything it's my humility and uh i know there's

00:34:54.120 they're fashioning an award for humility and i expect to receive it in any day now but

00:35:00.000 let me talk to you a little bit about humility it ain't about me it's not about you

00:35:06.760 the biggest lie we buy into and every device we have feeds into it me me me me me

00:35:15.180 who was it was it narcissus the the greek hunter that was so beautiful he he sat by the river and

00:35:26.680 just looked at his image like man look at me i am so hot

00:35:31.600 he the story goes that he fell in love with his image and if if somebody tried to take him away from

00:35:42.640 his image he would beat his chest black and blue he had to look at himself and his reflection because

00:35:50.580 he just found himself so beautiful let me ask you have you ever tried to take your phone away from

00:35:56.980 somebody take their phone away your kids

00:35:59.240 would they not in some way or another beat themselves black and blue to get it back

00:36:09.000 narcissism we are the greek hunter that story is known for a reason it's bad it destroys people 0.98

00:36:25.200 good people destroys them think about how we are gazing at our own image with selfies

00:36:32.520 how we are scrolling and seeing a distorted look at everybody else's life we're doing worse than

00:36:42.300 beating ourselves black and blue if we're denied that device people go crazy try it try it just say hey

00:36:52.560 honey i'm gonna take your phone away for a while my wife comes to me honey i gotta i gotta take i gotta 0.99

00:36:58.640 take your device away you lose your mind

00:37:04.320 this is happening for a few reasons first of all the companies that make these things have made them

00:37:17.080 addictive they make them knowing that the programming they put into it becomes addictive so

00:37:28.100 i'm sorry gang we all need a 12-step program because we are all addicted to that device

00:37:38.180 you don't believe me leave it at home today

00:37:42.320 see how you feel in a couple of hours you'll be jonesing

00:37:49.060 most of us there's this saying that i always hated and because i always heard it around christmas time

00:37:57.040 it is better to give than receive oh no it's not no it's not i like lots of presents under the tree

00:38:05.720 it feels really really good i went out and got you something you open it and i'm like hey you like it

00:38:11.320 great where's my stuff that's what i used to think as a kid

00:38:15.880 you know it's better to serve people than to be served no it's not i really like just sitting at the

00:38:24.460 table and have somebody come and say would you like more of this yes please that doesn't make any

00:38:30.220 sense logically it makes no sense sounds noble and stuff yes yes it is better to give than receive

00:38:40.400 but inside you're like no it's not

00:38:44.080 receiving

00:38:47.960 should bring more joy right

00:38:51.220 when you receive

00:38:55.100 you gain something you get a gift you get a favor you get a reward

00:38:59.240 you get a little bing on your phone and you're like yeah

00:39:02.080 yet

00:39:05.180 the opposite

00:39:06.880 is true and we know it

00:39:09.160 giving whether it's time resources compassion brings deep and abiding sense of fulfillment

00:39:18.580 you can't find that kind of joy and i know it because i go to a church where we have to serve

00:39:24.580 each other and we have to look out for our brother and sister and we're you know like oh i gotta do

00:39:29.220 what i gotta go where i gotta help who move that's not gonna bring me joy somebody actually on

00:39:37.700 saturday you know sunday night said uh hey glenn uh we got to get together you want to you want to

00:39:44.820 clean the church with me on saturday now when we say clean the church we don't have any paid staff

00:39:49.800 he means clean the toilets you want to we can get together we can talk and you know we can clean the

00:39:55.620 church and i'm like oh yeah i love cleaning those toilets on sat but i actually do it's weird

00:40:02.380 you feel better

00:40:04.780 so how is that working

00:40:07.900 this is a paradox a fundamental truth of human experience the answer is not in religion it's not

00:40:19.100 in philosophy spirituality it's in biology it's it's the psychology of what it means to be a human

00:40:29.720 i'm talking about this because well i'll tell you in a minute but it's important

00:40:38.060 let me start with the science real quick neuroscientists have discovered that if you

00:40:45.740 give it activates the brain's pleasure centers in remarkably similar ways to the effects of

00:40:54.280 really good food hard drugs sex now i've never i've never given to the point to where i'm like

00:41:03.120 i need a cigarette after that one but i'd like to

00:41:06.760 in one study participants who gave money to charity experienced the activation in the same area of the

00:41:17.000 brain that lights up when you eat chocolate and i know how i feel when i eat chocolate

00:41:24.340 somehow or another god gave us this

00:41:31.000 this amazing gift to make us feel good it taps into the biological system that governs happiness and reward

00:41:44.520 you know we're not the most charitable nation in the world anymore did you know that

00:41:52.120 i think we just slipped into number two i don't know who beats us

00:41:58.280 hope to god it's not canada

00:42:03.080 but we were a happy nation for a couple of reasons

00:42:09.360 see this isn't just about brain chemistry giving also has tangible effects on our physical health

00:42:18.480 did you know that researchers the university of california berkeley they found that people who

00:42:23.580 regularly volunteer actually have lower blood pressure reduce stress levels and

00:42:31.580 effects deep effects on their physical health it it gives them a longer lifespan that's incredible

00:42:42.700 another study from carnegie mellon university showed adults over 50 who volunteered at least 200 hours a

00:42:50.300 year were 40 percent less to develop any kind of hypertension 40 percent

00:42:58.700 it's like a heart healthy thing forget the cheerios man it helps your heart both figuratively and

00:43:06.700 biologically and then there's the mental health all kinds of studies have found that acts of kindness

00:43:13.660 one striking study found that people who performed five acts of kindness in a single day reported

00:43:29.660 significantly greater levels of happiness than those who didn't five could just be opening the door for

00:43:36.300 somebody writing a note donating to a cause you care about just calling somebody just asking somebody

00:43:47.100 hey how's your day and actually meaning it just doing five things like that dramatically changes your

00:43:54.860 happiness now it's not a fluke and it's not modern society this is this is deeply rooted

00:44:03.180 in us we are by nature social creatures we need one another let me take you back

00:44:12.860 a ways back in history when we were all like me hungry eat dog you know

00:44:21.740 last week uh in the biden administration uh take it take us back to our basic beginnings of

00:44:30.380 civilization okay you couldn't be somebody living on your own okay because you get killed something's

00:44:39.660 going to kill you it depend our survival depended on cooperation sharing mutual aid farming was the

00:44:48.700 biggest thing once we realized wait you could do that and i can do this and then we can both have 0.87

00:44:53.260 a meal this is great those who helped their neighbors or shared their resources

00:44:59.100 were more likely to thrive as a part of a community than those who were just hoarding everything for

00:45:04.940 themselves so over time this instinct for generosity was hardwired into our dna i personally think it was there

00:45:14.780 as part of the design from the beginning but

00:45:17.340 what let's just let's just let's just tell you what medical science tells us now

00:45:23.180 by the way keep six feet apart it's very important psychologists called called this the helper's

00:45:31.420 high it's a phenomenon that um where acts of altruism release the endorphins which are the the body's

00:45:40.780 natural painkillers it's a built-in reward system that ensures that we continue to prioritize

00:45:47.820 community and connection why are we depressed we are not connected to one another anymore we're

00:45:55.180 connected to the river we're gazing in we're connected to our devices we're we're not prioritizing

00:46:04.380 community we're prioritizing me me me me me me why do you think we're so divided there are forces that

00:46:14.060 are dividing us and then we're doing it ourself and that ancient instinct remains it is calling to us

00:46:23.500 us and we don't know what it is and we don't know what it is and so we're killing ourselves

00:46:32.300 it's all about giving it's all about gratitude

00:46:39.980 if giving brings joy gratitude multiplies it

00:46:46.300 by the way today is giving tuesday

00:46:48.700 and i don't care if you have any money at all hold the door open for somebody

00:46:55.740 pass it forward go to chick-fil-a and pay for the people behind you

00:47:01.260 it it's a ripple effect

00:47:05.340 and it all stems from gratitude that's another thing we no longer have our society is telling us

00:47:13.100 not to be grateful because you have nothing to be grateful for everybody everybody's against you

00:47:21.020 you'll never make it the system is unjust so you have no gratitude without gratitude

00:47:29.500 you don't want to give you want to hoard you want to protect

00:47:35.740 do you see what's happening to us this is why this is so evil but when we pause just for a second

00:47:43.660 and recognize what we have this is the most powerful tool against negativity

00:47:54.460 if you regularly practice gratitude better sleep increased optimism stronger relationships in fact

00:48:04.460 there was a study done where this doctor said write down every day three things that you're grateful for

00:48:11.900 25 percent increase in happiness in 10 weeks

00:48:17.020 and it it doesn't just make you feel better it makes you actually more generous because you're seeing what

00:48:22.140 you have what others don't and you want to share it

00:48:25.740 it just recognizing the things you might be very poor right now you might have had the worst year of

00:48:33.580 your life i've been there brother

00:48:35.900 but if you can find three things every day write them down because it's a cycle

00:48:46.220 giving fosters gratitude gratitude fuels giving and it just compounds on itself it's a feedback loop of

00:48:55.420 positivity it gets us away from staring at our own image in the modern day river

00:49:05.660 i would love to ask you to support whatever you're passionate about today

00:49:16.780 we were supposed to give thanks last week i hope we did

00:49:21.020 give thanks for the miracles recognize have gratitude for where we are and what has happened and the time we live in

00:49:30.220 today let's put that into action on giving tuesday

00:49:34.140 there's lots of charities you can give to we talk about many of them on this program my

00:49:40.380 personal favorite obviously is mercuryone.org we have a goal of of two hundred thousand dollars

00:49:47.260 which will get us on the ground first we won't have to worry about where are we pulling the money

00:49:52.060 from we'll have that reserve of 200 grand to get us moving the moment a tragedy happens mercuryone.org

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