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00:03:11.860 Hello, America.

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00:03:20.700 It is Friday, and we've got a lot to talk about, and I might even premiere a new song called Thune, The Ballless Rhino.

00:03:30.580 It might come up. It's Friday. You just never know what's going to happen here.

00:03:36.220 But I want to start with some of the news of the week, and some of the news of the week has been really quite concerning.

00:03:43.740 I mean, maybe it was just me, but you're kind of like, wow, really?

00:03:48.760 Is that what we got going for us?

00:03:53.400 And you worry about what's going to happen next.

00:03:58.900 I mean, the next generation seems to be lost, is it?

00:04:03.220 Let's start there here in just a second.

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00:05:16.560 Here's the latest on Austin Metcalfe's family.

00:05:20.820 Austin Metcalfe, he was the one that was killed by Carmelo Anthony.

00:05:25.340 Now the family is getting hate-filled death threats.

00:05:29.580 Sources connected to the trial have told TMZ the Metcalfe family

00:05:33.760 have been receiving death threats since anthony was arrested but after tuesday's guilty verdict

00:05:39.960 the family has been flooded with dozens of hateful messages across social media and text messages

00:05:45.720 to their personal phones they obtain one of the hostile messages which um says you're just mad

00:05:53.040 because austin is no longer living yeah i i think that would that's probably accurate um they should

00:06:00.360 have stabbed hunter too that's uh that's another son of the family um didn't you beat megan too i

00:06:09.060 blame you uh and then it's followed with uh he effed around and found out kind of makes you

00:06:19.140 i don't know kind of makes you worried about the future let me play cut seven this is jasmine

00:06:26.800 crockett listen to this if a 300 pound man is beating me like on top of me and beating me down

00:06:36.800 i i'm not limited to to fist you know i would argue that even the only time we go into things

00:06:45.280 like people's hands being um considered deadly weapons is typically like if they're a professional

00:06:50.480 boxer or that kind of stuff but i think by the time you start getting to like football player

00:06:55.100 good argument good freaking argument we're not talking about like the golfers we're talking

00:07:02.340 about football players right like this is what they are trained to do is to inflict like serious

00:07:08.820 physical contact stop um you know she's talking about uh she's talking about Metcalf here but

00:07:14.580 um I just would like to remind you um Carmelo was also a football player so you got two football

00:07:20.940 players is this is this is absolutely ridiculous and she first of all he wasn't sitting on top of

00:07:26.900 him that didn't happen that didn't happen um and she suggests later in this clip that she would 0.59

00:07:32.740 stab uh metcalf herself oh okay great all these things that are happening you look at today's

00:07:42.960 uh generation and there's a lot of people and i want to talk to the people who've given up on

00:07:46.500 this generation because you know look i've been there i i get it i really do i've been there you

00:07:52.700 look at them with faces buried in a phone you hear the words you know anxiety and trigger warning and

00:07:57.660 safe space and you're you know somewhere in your chest a voice just says these kids are not going

00:08:03.700 to survive i mean they are soft they're lost there's there's no way we are doomed and i want

00:08:09.920 you to know i used to be there it's been a while but i used to be there you know let me tell you

00:08:16.660 let me tell you who these kids are the men who climbed out of the landing crafts at at normandy

00:08:22.840 the men we now call the greatest generation the men we build monuments to when they were boys

00:08:28.960 their parents and their grandparents said exactly the same thing i mean word for word they said the

00:08:35.000 same thing and i want to prove it to you we have forgotten that and forgetting is one of the most

00:08:39.140 dangerous things we do so let me remind you in the 1920s and 30s the grown-ups looked at the

00:08:44.440 rising generation and they said exactly the same these kids are soft they're never the automobile

00:08:50.560 has ruined them jazz has corrupted them the movies the dance halls made them shallow and they're just

00:08:58.380 they're pleasure mad they're weak they have no discipline they have no future it's all gonna end

00:09:04.760 okay we even at the time adults reached back to an ancient authority to to uh agree with us

00:09:14.140 and the quote that everybody quoted at the time is the children now love luxury they have bad

00:09:20.480 manners and contempt for authority and they were quoting that as from socrates it wasn't from

00:09:26.380 socrates okay it was written in 1907 by a graduate student named kenneth freeman and he put socrates

00:09:33.980 name on it because he wanted so badly and the society wanted old wise greek men to confirm

00:09:41.360 that the kids today are are going to the dogs that's how deep this ran the urge to bury the

00:09:48.080 young generation and this isn't the first time and it's not gonna be the last time and and you

00:09:55.700 know at the turn of the century when parents and grandparents were talking about the what's now

00:10:00.160 known as the greatest generation, they looked for a 25-year-old quote. They made up a 2,500-year-old

00:10:06.620 quote. Every single time this happens, every time we're wrong. Now I want you to look at what these

00:10:13.980 kids were handed. The men who stormed the beaches grew up in the Great Depression. One in four

00:10:20.660 fathers had no work. There were bread lines around the block, no prospects for any work on any

00:10:27.260 horizon. Broken economy, dropped in their laps by the mistakes of the generation before them.

00:10:32.720 Sound familiar? Nobody looked at a 19-year-old standing in a 1934 soup line and saw a hero.

00:10:39.420 They saw a problem. They saw a burden. And then the world caught fire. And that soft, lost,

00:10:45.720 good-for-nothing generation put on a uniform, 16 million of them. That's 12% of the entire country. 0.84

00:10:52.500 and they went. More than 400,000 of them never came home. And the boys that waded on to Omaha

00:11:01.060 Beach, they waded into machine gun fire. They were 18, 19, and 20 years old. And here's the thing I

00:11:09.700 want you to understand. None of them were born to be great. Greatness is not a personality that they

00:11:16.000 had. It was a choice that they made the moment the bill came due. Crisis didn't expose them as

00:11:24.180 soft. It revealed who they had been the whole time underneath all of that contempt. They just

00:11:29.760 hadn't been given the opportunity. So now I want you to turn around and look at today's generation,

00:11:35.740 the generation we're writing off today. Let me give you some numbers here that I think are pretty 0.91

00:11:39.420 staggering. When you hear news and it's bad news and you think we're doomed, I just want you to

00:11:45.120 remember all of this, okay? You think they're degenerate. Listen to this data. By every

00:11:52.500 indication, they are the most sober, most disciplined teenagers in the entire history

00:11:57.740 of America record keeping, okay? Teen drinking on high school students and high school seniors

00:12:04.360 has fallen from 73% in the year 2000 to 42%. Binge drinking, which everybody was saying was

00:12:13.720 going to be the end of the world binge binge drinking you would expect all of this stuff to

00:12:17.500 be through the roof binge drinking went from 30 down to nine the abuse of opioid pills among

00:12:26.840 seniors in high school from nearly 10 at its peak to six tenths of one percent

00:12:34.180 you're not having this problem with the teenagers teen birth rate just hit the lowest point ever

00:12:40.860 recorded, down roughly three quarters from its peak. It might have some other problems there,

00:12:46.800 but two out of three high school seniors didn't touch alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine at all

00:12:54.500 in the last month. That's not the fingerprint of a lost generation. That is a generation quietly,

00:13:02.460 stubbornly refusing the poisons that wrecked the ones before it.

00:13:06.240 and here's what they have in common with the boys in 1944 because it's everything okay both

00:13:12.680 generations were handed a broken world by their own parents and grandparents and they were blamed

00:13:18.920 for the breakage one inherited the crash in the dust bowl this one is inheriting the debt

00:13:24.640 hollowed out institutions that nobody trusts anymore and a glowing rectangle that is engineered

00:13:30.780 by the smartest people alive to capture their attention and never give it back.

00:13:35.800 Both came to age at a time when the old order was cracking apart.

00:13:43.360 So I wanted to start the show today before we get into anything.

00:13:48.220 If you believe that history runs in long cycles,

00:13:52.080 that roughly every 80 years it hands a young generation a crisis

00:13:55.880 and dares them, go ahead, rebuild it.

00:13:58.340 then the clock is telling you something it's telling you it's their turn

00:14:03.540 now yeah a lot of these kids are anxious and not going to wave that away because it's real and it

00:14:10.320 matters but ask yourself honestly

00:14:13.040 would would you be anxious if you were their their age if you were just growing up and you

00:14:21.820 didn't know all the things you knew but you did know all the things that they do know and see

00:14:27.240 every day, would you have a little

00:14:29.180 anxiety? Because I would. And it's not a

00:14:31.160 weakness. I think

00:14:33.280 it's a generation that can feel the

00:14:35.200 weight of what is coming

00:14:36.420 and hasn't been given

00:14:38.880 the tools yet or the trust

00:14:41.380 to carry it.

00:14:43.820 The boys in

00:14:45.220 1938, they weren't calm either.

00:14:48.160 Don't mistake

00:14:49.220 the trembling before the test

00:14:51.360 for failing the test.

00:14:57.900 I wanted to give you some hope today.

00:14:59.740 I'm going to give you some stats today during the show

00:15:02.400 that I think you'll find remarkable.

00:15:04.500 I'm doing something later on today on, do we survive?

00:15:07.540 Because that's a question that is asked to me all the time.

00:15:11.200 So what do you think?

00:15:12.100 Do we, I mean, how are we going to survive?

00:15:13.660 How are we going to do this?

00:15:14.600 I'm going to show you some stats.

00:15:16.980 I mean, the bad is bad,

00:15:19.320 but can we focus on the good that we have going for us right now?

00:15:23.020 Because there's a few things.

00:15:24.080 So, if you are young, hear me on this.

00:15:28.640 I know what people say about you.

00:15:31.000 I know what you've heard your whole life, that you're fragile, you're addicted,

00:15:36.100 you won't amount to anything that came before you.

00:15:38.600 I'm telling you, with the receipts in my hand, they're wrong.

00:15:42.480 They're wrong.

00:15:43.040 And they always have been wrong about every generation that ever rose.

00:15:47.440 You come from a long line of people who were underestimated

00:15:51.360 right until the day they became legends.

00:15:55.000 And you don't have to wait for a war to find out who you are.

00:15:58.580 And here's the one gift I can give to you

00:16:01.200 that I wish somebody would have given the greatest generation.

00:16:04.240 The thing nobody thought to say.

00:16:06.340 Nobody stood up back in 1936

00:16:08.280 and looked at a scared kid in a bread line

00:16:11.200 who had every reason to be afraid.

00:16:13.260 Look him in the eye and say, I see you.

00:16:15.440 I see you. I know who you are.

00:16:17.520 The world is going to ask everything of you.

00:16:20.660 And you're going to be equal to it.

00:16:23.120 You're going to be fine.

00:16:24.080 you're actually going to be remembered as the greatest generation.

00:16:27.860 I wish every high school student in America could hear that.

00:16:31.360 They had to find out who they were the hard way,

00:16:34.060 alone, in the dark, under fire, on a foreign beach,

00:16:38.160 without anyone saying to them,

00:16:40.020 except maybe their military leaders,

00:16:41.640 who were feeding them steak the night before they went into battle

00:16:46.360 like a condemned man.

00:16:47.540 so i want to do for them what nobody did for the previous generation say it before the fire

00:16:58.240 instead of after after i believe in you i want you to find somebody who is in that coming greatest

00:17:04.940 generation say the same thing out loud while it still counts say i believe in you you're not the

00:17:10.500 generation that is a coward. You're not. You're not a generation. You have something happening

00:17:19.820 in your generation. I don't know what it is, but you are the generation that is about to be asked

00:17:25.900 to build. And I think that when the moment comes, you're going to be the greatest one yet.

00:17:32.100 And to the adults who have lost faith,

00:17:34.500 I get it

00:17:37.900 But that's our job

00:17:42.400 Not to diagnose them

00:17:44.360 But to believe in them

00:17:46.840 Out loud

00:17:47.540 The way somebody should have believed

00:17:49.280 In the boys on the beach

00:17:50.220 Back when they were still kids

00:17:52.120 Look what they turned into

00:17:55.520 When no one had faith in them

00:17:57.260 And I mean

00:17:57.920 Do this research yourself

00:17:59.360 It's amazing

00:18:00.480 No one had faith 0.96

00:18:02.180 In the greatest American generation

00:18:04.140 Everyone thought the country was going to be over because they're too weak. 1.00

00:18:07.400 They're too pathetic. 1.00

00:18:08.360 They don't know how to work hard. 1.00

00:18:10.220 They don't know any of those things.

00:18:11.900 Somehow or another, that generation found it.

00:18:15.800 And I'm telling you now, I think this generation is going to find it too.

00:18:19.840 We're in good hands.

00:18:21.060 We just need to believe in them, and we have to help equip them.

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00:19:49.960 history only survives if they do torch members get an exclusive preview of the chasing embers

00:20:06.980 audiobook get hooked today at torch 250.com can i hear a bit of the audiobook the that's

00:20:15.540 We're releasing, I think, the prologue today, next week, a couple of chapters of it.

00:20:20.620 But this is a book that I read.

00:20:22.760 It's my first young adult fiction novel.

00:20:26.060 I wrote it a couple of years ago with Michaela, who is just as brilliant, brilliant, 20-something,

00:20:35.140 and a young mom and hard worker, and I just love her to death.

00:20:40.020 Just brilliant.

00:20:41.440 I told her this story.

00:20:42.860 She said, may I write it?

00:20:44.460 So she writes it.

00:20:45.380 and it's brilliant.

00:20:46.460 We never did an audio book.

00:20:47.880 People asked over and over,

00:20:49.340 will you do an audio book?

00:20:50.440 Audio books take so much time to do.

00:20:53.140 It was hard for me to find time,

00:20:55.120 but we've put an audio book together

00:20:56.800 and here's just a little bit of the prologue.

00:20:59.320 Listen.

00:21:00.560 They were next door now.

00:21:02.280 Hide them, the husband yelled.

00:21:04.240 Without hesitation,

00:21:05.100 the wife placed her hand on her daughter's shoulder, 1.00

00:21:07.020 turned her around and shoved her into the bedroom.

00:21:09.900 The husband sprinted through the front room,

00:21:11.980 removing all traces of the children

00:21:13.660 and wedging the unfinished toy sword underneath the couch cushions.

00:21:18.200 With the crying baby still clinging to her chest, 1.00

00:21:20.500 the wife flung open the doors of their old wardrobe, 1.00

00:21:23.560 violently whipped clothes aside to make room, 1.00

00:21:26.020 and yelled to her daughter, 1.00

00:21:27.140 Ember, get in.

00:21:28.980 Still holding her boy in one arm, 0.71

00:21:30.840 she grabbed her daughter by the waist and forced her into the wardrobe. 0.74

00:21:34.640 She handed her the baby, saying, 0.99

00:21:36.460 Quiet him. You have to quiet him. 0.72

00:21:39.920 The wife looked at her children tucked into the wardrobe

00:21:42.480 and placed her hand over her mouth 0.99

00:21:44.620 to stifle the scream that was rising in her throat.

00:21:50.580 It's called Chasing Embers.

00:21:52.180 It is a dystopian look at the future

00:21:54.060 where the kids have to save history.

00:22:00.860 They have to save the actual story.

00:22:02.840 They're searching for the actual story.

00:22:04.320 This is set in the future in what was America,

00:22:08.120 but America is barely known.

00:22:10.860 All of history has been erased by the algorithms and giant corporations and, you know, whomever.

00:22:19.500 One could say progressives, but we don't necessarily name anything.

00:22:23.280 And what I've done is, you know, Michaela and I have hidden history lessons all the way through because that's what the kids are trying to save.

00:22:32.180 They're trying to piece together who this country was, who these people were, who they are, where do they come from?

00:22:38.400 and all the while they are being hunted literally hunted by uh the the giant corporation that kind

00:22:46.580 of controls this dystopian future um it comes out in a couple of weeks you'll be able to get

00:22:52.080 the prologue today and then chapters one and two next week and then the whole book the week after

00:22:57.660 you get them for free right now if you are a torch member just go to torch 250 torch 250.com

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00:23:06.480 We have so many things.

00:23:08.660 Do we also have, do I have time, Sarah, to play the,

00:23:12.200 no, I'm hearing the music, so I don't have time.

00:23:15.000 Also, the next episode of The American Story is out,

00:23:19.760 which takes literally probably 30 hours

00:23:24.860 to produce one episode and longer than that

00:23:29.080 just to write it with Nathan Nipper.

00:23:31.180 It's a great way to learn history.

00:23:34.440 We've got to equip the youth with our history.

00:23:37.460 If we can restore the story of who we are,

00:23:40.600 I'm telling you, nothing will stop this generation.

00:23:44.080 And they're facing a lot.

00:23:45.620 But you know what?

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00:25:06.840 Friday and Glenn yes our

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00:25:12.420 stay with us on the Glenn Beck program

00:25:23.480 so i want to talk to you about the problem with our society and the opportunity for our society

00:25:36.920 you know what is the one thing you you hate the most about what's happening in our society i 0.84

00:25:42.720 despise the fact that everybody is a whiner there was like oh it's so hard i'm never gonna make it

00:25:49.960 And I know I sound like the old guy, get off my lawn.

00:25:52.720 I know, I get it.

00:25:54.500 But hear me out for a second.

00:25:58.740 Every trouble that I've ever had in my life, every trouble,

00:26:02.440 everything that my father, I mean, he was so wise.

00:26:05.480 My father, you know, taught me, you sit around and whine about it

00:26:08.900 or you make the adjustments you need to make

00:26:11.120 and then find a way to learn from that and grow from that and use that.

00:26:18.120 Okay.

00:26:19.960 I think that's the secret of life.

00:26:22.300 You can either let life crush you

00:26:24.260 or you can allow it to motivate you

00:26:26.960 and go, you know what?

00:26:27.920 No, no, no, I'm getting back up again.

00:26:29.940 I'm not staying down.

00:26:30.960 Nobody, nobody can put their thumb and keep me down.

00:26:35.340 And when you have that, it's really hard,

00:26:37.160 especially when you're young.

00:26:38.620 But once you start doing it, once you really start,

00:26:42.580 you have to do it smartly.

00:26:43.680 You can't just be a bully about it.

00:26:46.200 But once you really figure this out,

00:26:48.780 everything can change. Everything can change. And I want to show you why this hardship that

00:26:54.100 everybody's going through is good. It doesn't mean... Look, I remember I was absolutely flat

00:27:00.600 broke. I was divorced. I was a recovering alcoholic, barely holding on. Nobody wanted to

00:27:06.960 work with me. You name it, I had screwed it up in my life. And I would never want to go back to

00:27:15.980 those days. However, in retrospect, that's the biggest growth I ever had. Those days are what

00:27:24.780 changed me and made me into the man I am today. Without those days, I don't know who I'd be,

00:27:30.540 but I wouldn't be sitting here with you. So let me prove this out with science, okay?

00:27:35.640 1968 a scientist uh get uh comes out and he's decided he's going to make utopia not for people

00:27:45.180 but for mice and rats okay his name was john calhoun he worked at the national institute

00:27:51.820 of mental health and he wanted to answer the question uh that i think should interest all of

00:27:57.220 us. What happens with a society when every problem is removed, when everything becomes easy?

00:28:08.420 IG, I can't imagine why that's relevant today in America. Everybody has it so easy and we're

00:28:14.840 all complaining, oh, it's so hard. Oh my gosh, go somewhere else in the world and look. Okay.

00:28:20.820 Sorry, just became the old man yelling at the sky again

00:28:25.180 So he builds this paradise

00:28:28.520 It's a mouse world

00:28:31.040 Unlimited food

00:28:32.640 Water that never runs out

00:28:34.460 No predators, no disease

00:28:36.220 Perfect temperature

00:28:37.500 Endless nesting material

00:28:39.580 Every danger, every want, every stressor

00:28:42.500 That a mouse has ever faced in the history of mice

00:28:44.740 Completely gone

00:28:46.080 The only thing he gives them

00:28:48.560 Besides protection

00:28:49.560 was each other and time now he called his last experiment universe 25 and the number matters

00:28:58.080 because it was the 25th time he had built one of these little gardens of ease and edens for mice

00:29:02.620 and rats okay and it ended the same way first 24 already told him where the story goes but he

00:29:10.840 thought i'm gonna try it one more time he drops in eight mice four males four females and at first

00:29:17.900 it's mouse heaven, okay? They breed, the population doubled about every 55 days,

00:29:24.000 and he called this the strive period. It was heaven, and it was working exactly as denied,

00:29:31.800 or designed, but by day 300 or 315, something like that, there were more than 600 mice thriving in a

00:29:40.320 space that he had built to hold nearly 4,000, so they have plenty of room to spare. They have

00:29:46.480 absolutely everything it is mouse heaven that's the peak something starts to go horribly wrong

00:29:55.960 growth slows for no physical reason there is they can't figure it out all of a sudden and in every

00:30:03.240 all 25 experiments exactly the same thing okay this is the thing that none of the researchers

00:30:10.820 counted on. There was no territory to defend. There's no predator to escape. There's no scarcity

00:30:17.140 to overcome. There's no role left for a mouse to fill. And a creature with no role, no struggle,

00:30:24.720 no purpose starts to come apart. The males who had nothing to fight for either turned violent

00:30:31.680 or vanished into apathy. Let me ask you something. What's happening in our society right now?

00:30:40.820 The males, the young males that have nothing to fight for,

00:30:45.460 they either are turning violent or apathetic. 0.89

00:30:51.380 Then you have the moms.

00:30:53.320 The mothers stop mothering. 0.91

00:30:55.740 They abandon their young. 0.99

00:30:57.560 They began attacking their young.

00:30:59.540 They forgot about their children.

00:31:01.200 The whole intricate social order that made a mouse a mouse

00:31:06.360 completely dissolved in 25 identical experiments 25 times it happens at the same time then came

00:31:16.200 the most haunting part of the experiment experiment i think there's a new kind of mouse that appears

00:31:21.820 this mouse didn't fight they didn't court they didn't mate they didn't uh compete they wouldn't

00:31:33.120 engage with others at all. They ate, they slept, they groomed themselves endlessly, perfectly. I

00:31:40.320 mean, their coats were sleek and flawless. They were unscarred because they'd never been in a

00:31:45.020 single struggle before. And they started paying attention to what they looked like and grooming 0.81

00:31:50.660 themselves. By every outward measure, they were the healthiest, best-looking mice in the universe.

00:31:57.980 Calhoun in the experiment, after 25 times of this happening, called them the beautiful ones.

00:32:04.340 He called them the beautiful ones, but as he also noted, they were already dead inside.

00:32:10.200 They were alive, they were fed, they were immaculate and utterly and completely empty inside.

00:32:18.860 So what happens?

00:32:20.540 Population, this thing is built, I think it said for 4,000.

00:32:23.920 The population peaks at 2,200

00:32:26.700 Barely half of what the space could hold

00:32:29.620 And then the population begins to decline

00:32:32.840 May I ask what's happening with our birth rate?

00:32:37.040 What is happening with our population?

00:32:40.020 On day 600

00:32:41.520 In a world still overflowing with food

00:32:44.880 The last baby is born

00:32:48.180 Day 600

00:32:50.420 After that, nothing

00:32:52.240 Not one more mouse, not ever.

00:32:56.360 And on day 920, the last of the mice dies in paradise.

00:33:02.600 And universe 25 becomes the 25th tomb.

00:33:07.740 And in that tomb, the bowls are still full.

00:33:11.420 The water is still flowing.

00:33:14.020 There's plenty of stuff to make a home for yourself.

00:33:18.700 Calhoun in the experiments

00:33:22.340 As it starts to fall apart

00:33:23.820 He pulls out some of the beautiful ones

00:33:26.000 And he puts them in a fresh

00:33:28.160 Clean world with normal mice

00:33:30.180 To see if they could

00:33:32.240 Come back

00:33:32.800 They couldn't

00:33:35.220 They had forgotten how to be mice

00:33:38.140 There was never

00:33:39.920 Any recovery of any of the mice

00:33:42.100 When he

00:33:45.800 Wrote the paper

00:33:46.720 and he's writing about paradise.

00:33:52.820 He didn't title the paper Paradise.

00:33:55.480 He titled it Death Squared.

00:33:59.040 And the reason why he titled that is because there are two deaths.

00:34:01.920 The first death that comes first, can you guess?

00:34:08.520 Death of the spirit.

00:34:11.240 The death of the body comes later.

00:34:14.300 It just makes the death of the spirit official.

00:34:24.060 I'm tired of people not being honest.

00:34:26.420 I'm tired of people playing games.

00:34:28.100 I'm tired of people trying to win.

00:34:31.860 I'm tired of people, you know, trying to position them, whatever.

00:34:37.040 So let me be honest with you the way I want people to be honest with me.

00:34:40.760 because the internet has turned us into something we aren't.

00:34:52.820 Ease is not something we should want.

00:34:58.220 Scientists argue about what this mouse utopia really proved.

00:35:03.660 It wasn't overcrowding.

00:35:05.580 The place was half empty when the rot set in. 1.00

00:35:08.900 Mice are not men.

00:35:09.800 You can't draw a straight, clean line from a rodent pen to a human civilization.

00:35:14.220 I'm not going to pretend you can.

00:35:16.120 But you strip away every argument, and one fact still sits there and just will not move.

00:35:22.460 The mice didn't die because they ran out of something.

00:35:26.440 They died because they had everything.

00:35:30.260 Every problem was solved.

00:35:31.960 Every need was met.

00:35:33.400 Every stressor lovingly removed.

00:35:36.040 it was a the ultimate safe space and it killed them

00:35:43.320 take away the struggle and it turns out you've taken away the very thing that was actually

00:35:50.880 holding them together you know we are always we're always our best in struggle you know 0.90

00:35:57.000 something happens pearl harbor we come together and we kick somebody's ass uh 9-11 happens and 1.00

00:36:03.660 To quote Toby Keith, we'll put a boot up your ass. 0.99

00:36:08.260 When something bad happens, a tornado or a hurricane or an earthquake happens, 0.99

00:36:14.520 and we rush together to help, that's who we are.

00:36:20.480 And we can't look away from that.

00:36:25.040 We also can't look away that society is trying to take

00:36:29.600 and make us the most comfortable people to have ever drawn breath,

00:36:32.960 and that's not necessarily good.

00:36:35.440 We have engineered away more friction and risk

00:36:38.640 than any other human in history.

00:36:42.020 And it is a genuine triumph, it is.

00:36:44.760 I'm not romanticizing hunger or hardship.

00:36:47.400 Those are real evils worth fighting.

00:36:51.080 But the experiment whispers a warning 0.99

00:36:53.440 only a fool would ignore. 0.98

00:36:56.600 Comfort is not the same thing as flourishing. 0.98

00:36:59.920 A life with nothing left to overcome

00:37:01.960 is not a paradise.

00:37:04.020 It is a slow and beautiful surrender,

00:37:07.100 eventually to death.

00:37:09.900 Notice which societies on earth

00:37:11.340 are the safest, richest,

00:37:13.300 most frictionless ever built.

00:37:16.120 And notice that those are the exact societies

00:37:19.060 quietly deciding not to have a next generation.

00:37:24.420 The mice in abundance stop making mice.

00:37:27.520 but here's where the story for me changes and stops becoming prophecy and becomes a choice

00:37:36.200 because there is one thing those mice could never do that you can do today

00:37:42.080 a mouse can't sit down and go you know what i'm going to give my life meaning

00:37:47.180 life is more than endless cheese it can't choose the hard road when the easy one is sitting right

00:37:53.520 there. It can't invent a purpose out of thin air. You can. You can pick up somebody else's burden

00:38:00.680 that nobody's forcing on you. You can build the thing that maybe doesn't need to be building,

00:38:09.360 but need to be built, but you can build it. You can have the child. You can take the harder job.

00:38:16.220 You can serve the cause. You can fight the fight. You can fill a role that no one assigned you.

00:38:20.720 You know, I think about that guy who he and his wife aborted their baby because of Down syndrome.

00:38:28.380 Do we happen to have that audio?

00:38:30.740 Let's play the audio.

00:38:31.640 This is what the father, he aborted a child that had Down syndrome because of, you know, well, it's just not going to have a good life.

00:38:41.220 Really?

00:38:41.960 Okay.

00:38:42.460 Listen to this.

00:38:46.540 Yeah, Sarah, you do.

00:38:47.880 Let me see if I can find it.

00:38:48.880 I'm sorry.

00:38:50.720 where is it is towards the bottom yeah 17 cut 17 uh yeah of course i'm glad my dad didn't

00:38:59.180 terminate me um but i'm normal so do you hear that yeah somebody asked him are you glad your

00:39:08.700 dad you glad you're alive and your dad didn't abort you yeah of course i am but i'm normal

00:39:14.260 the cavalier attitude and i i contend this had nothing to do with a child it had everything to

00:39:22.020 do with his life it had everything to do with his wife's life they wanted an easy life they didn't

00:39:28.640 want a trouble a troubled child they didn't want to have to deal with a mess welcome to the mouse

00:39:36.240 kingdom. Every living soul needs purpose. Find yours. They need something to strive for.

00:39:45.840 Strive for something. And we have a very bright future ahead. Stop looking for the easy path.

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00:46:06.500 this is the glenn beck program hello america it's friday we have a lot to talk about today

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00:46:25.580 as well as anybody else uh i i heard the name of one of our insiders their their screen name

00:46:32.160 is Thune, The Ballless Rhino.

00:46:35.880 And I thought, that should be a song.

00:46:40.720 And so I made a song, Thune, The Ballless Rhino,

00:46:43.600 and I thought, you know what,

00:46:44.880 I'm just going to play this for the insiders.

00:46:46.920 It doesn't belong on the regular show.

00:46:49.360 And then Jason just took a poll.

00:46:51.960 What does the poll say about Thune, The Ballless Rhino?

00:46:54.760 Specifically, should you share

00:46:56.340 Thune, The Ballless Rhino song to the national audience?

00:46:59.200 and 95% have overwhelmingly agreed

00:47:03.320 you must share this with the national audience.

00:47:07.360 It's too good.

00:47:08.340 I'm just saying, John, you could pass the SAVE Act.

00:47:11.620 You could.

00:47:12.660 You could.

00:47:13.660 Will you?

00:47:14.400 No, because you're Thune the Ballest Rhino. 1.00

00:47:16.660 That's why. 0.99

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00:48:33.800 I saw Disclosure Day last night, and I want to talk about that

00:48:36.300 because I think it's important that we talk about it.

00:48:40.000 I'll give you my review of it here in just a second.

00:48:42.080 First, I'm playing this almost under duress, almost under duress.

00:48:49.780 Here it is, the world premiere of Thune, the ballless rhino.

00:48:55.860 you have it are we not playing it

00:49:01.660 are we playing it jason here is thune the ball is rhino okay thank you

00:49:11.560 He walks in big, talks like a king

00:49:25.780 But the room stays cold when it's time to bring

00:49:28.140 He points at the board, then ducks to fight

00:49:30.560 All soup, no spark, and the words all bite

00:49:33.120 He says, I got this, then shift the blame

00:49:35.680 The same old grin with the different names

00:49:38.260 Say it loud, say it plain

00:49:40.540 You had the chair but lost the game

00:49:42.980 Too much pose, not enough drive

00:49:45.560 You keep the crowd but you never arrive

00:49:48.220 Through the ballless rhino 0.87

00:49:50.540 You don't get it done

00:49:52.820 Through the ballless rhino

00:49:55.440 Always on the run

00:49:57.960 You make a big scene

00:50:00.380 Then fold up small

00:50:02.880 Through the ballless rhino 0.99

00:50:05.240 Ain't got balls at all 0.98

00:50:07.940 okay all right all right all right that's enough uh there you go yes ricky is it any wonder 0.99

00:50:15.600 we never get any interviews of note from the swamp any wonder at all you know what

00:50:23.920 to miss on a john thune interview i'm happily playing that i'm happily playing that

00:50:32.920 I have to, he has nothing to say that I need to hear.

00:50:36.460 You know, he's a ballless rhino. 0.99

00:50:38.700 Anyway, you're going to, you're going to be in DC. 0.84

00:50:40.960 You could take that track right to his office and just like blast it through the halls.

00:50:45.020 We got to do that.

00:50:45.980 Oh my gosh.

00:50:46.700 Thank you for that.

00:50:47.680 I will be in DC soon.

00:50:49.300 Thank you for that idea.

00:50:50.840 I mean, I mean, I, I may need, I may need enough copy.

00:50:55.580 I may need a hundred copies.

00:50:56.760 Let's just leave it at that.

00:50:57.600 I don't know what hundred people I could give it to, but I might need a hundred copies.

00:51:00.820 um all right i saw a disclosure day steven spielberg's new film last night uh and it's it's

00:51:07.500 good it's very good it's you know steven spielberg it's not his best everybody's like oh it's the

00:51:11.920 best film he's ever made no it's not it's not but not his best is still better than most movies that

00:51:19.280 are out okay so it's worth seeing with that i'm not gonna blow anything but with that some moments 0.77

00:51:27.200 in this are just downright stupid they kind of make you question if spiel did spielberg see the

00:51:34.100 final edit of this you know and when you'll know it when you see it because there are a couple of 1.00

00:51:39.220 jar jar binks level stupid calls in this movie you know grown adults hiding behind a leafless 0.71

00:51:46.480 bush and a split rail fence while being hunted the people are on the other side of the fence 1.00

00:51:51.540 and they're just crouched down behind a split rail fence

00:51:54.320 and a bush with no leaves, you know?

00:51:57.080 Or they're hiding behind a rock,

00:51:59.540 literally about seven feet away.

00:52:01.940 They had a chance to escape,

00:52:03.480 but they wanted to see what happened.

00:52:05.000 So they're standing behind this rock

00:52:06.780 while everybody's searching for him.

00:52:08.460 It's like, please, did Spielberg watch this movie?

00:52:12.300 Anyway, in the end, you'll find the aliens

00:52:14.920 more believable than some of the humans,

00:52:16.620 but go see it.

00:52:17.720 That said, that's the worst of it.

00:52:19.580 And it's only a couple of scenes, you know,

00:52:21.460 quickly that go by you're just like oh come on um but here's what i recommend if you want your

00:52:27.980 money's worth uh don't go out and watch the nine o'clock show or the eight o'clock show

00:52:35.240 you know go to dinner and then go reverse that go to the six or seven o'clock show and then go

00:52:41.380 have dinner and invite some friends that you know can think invite some friends to go with you

00:52:47.920 and go see the movie then sit down and dinner and then because i'm telling you

00:52:52.480 the real the real story is not the one on the screen it's the conversation that that movie

00:52:58.780 will make will just pull right out of you okay um it opens and no spoiler alert needed here

00:53:05.160 it because the opening scene is the world is at defcon 2 one step from the great the brink you

00:53:12.200 know it's a sub sub sub sub sub sub sub plot or is it i think the movie would say yes but i'm not

00:53:20.780 so sure but um defcon 2 in case you don't know only time in american history we've ever had it

00:53:26.420 is strategic air command has confirmed defcon 2 only one time in our history and that's the cuban

00:53:32.480 missile crisis in 1962 defcon 1 is we're at full war nuclear war um defcon 2 is without going to

00:53:41.780 war it is when everything the rockets are juiced and ready to take off all the planes that need to

00:53:48.960 be up in the air are in the air we just have to call them back it's that kind of thing most people

00:53:53.740 i think in the theater missed what happened at the end and i won't tell you what happened at the end

00:53:58.160 but the disclosure is over the chases you know take over the whole movie um and that opening

00:54:05.320 fear of defcon 2 kind of vanishes by the final credits it's there and it's not sloppy writing i

00:54:11.960 think it's misdirection it's the magician's other hand the story tells you what you're supposed to

00:54:17.700 fear in the first five minutes and then walks you right past it while you're staring at a spectacle

00:54:23.500 okay now in reality if and i don't believe this is what's happening here but people are like this

00:54:32.080 movie and it's just softening up if this movie was built to soften you up for disclosure

00:54:39.100 then the ending is really important and you might miss the whole point on what the government would

00:54:46.420 want you to do in case of disclosure real or a psyop okay there's also in the movie a religious

00:54:52.400 angle that uh i'm not i'm not really sure i'm all that comfortable with um i mean i am comfortable

00:55:00.780 with it being presented in the movie, the way it was presented. It's just, these are all

00:55:06.040 conversations we have to have. Okay. Um, and this, what this, this part is, you know, more to the

00:55:12.460 surface and it's pretty unavoidable. Um, and the question is if they, if there are aliens, are they

00:55:18.920 from God? Now hold that thought because this is where the movie stops being entertainment and

00:55:25.920 starts asking harder questions about the world we're actually living in and there's two theories

00:55:30.760 that i think are worth mentioning here predictive programming and cultivation theory okay there is

00:55:38.000 an old idea called predictive programming it was popularized by a researcher alan watt and the idea

00:55:44.600 is that entertainment can preload the public with ideas you put concepts into films and shows and

00:55:51.360 stories year in advance so when something similar appears in reality it feels familiar almost

00:55:57.160 inevitable we've seen it with the x-files okay yeah it's like an episode of the x-files okay

00:56:02.060 that that's what they mean pre-loading you so you you don't necessarily freak out i've seen

00:56:08.160 instead when it happens you're like i've seen this before i've seen this movie before right

00:56:11.900 now skeptics rightly point out that this can become uh a conspiracy lens that explains

00:56:20.080 everything therefore doesn't explain anything all right but you don't have to go full fringe

00:56:26.000 to see something real here the department of defense or war and the cia have had an official

00:56:32.900 entertainment liaison office for decades did you know that um they are they are brought in to help

00:56:44.180 shape stories and it's not a shadowy conspiracy it's i mean it's it's out there you know they're

00:56:51.680 they're given jets and bases and and technical advisors for their movies and in in exchange

00:56:57.240 they shape the stories for the government and this is documented policy hollywood gets access

00:57:02.800 government gets their understanding of influence okay now the second theory is cultivation theory

00:57:10.020 This one was developed by a guy named George Grubner, and he was at the University of Pennsylvania.

00:57:16.560 Decades of research on this shows that, now listen to this, heavy media consumption doesn't just entertain, it cultivates your sense of reality.

00:57:27.360 Heavy media consumption.

00:57:29.560 What are most people doing eight hours every day?

00:57:33.720 They are scrolling and staring and consuming media.

00:57:40.020 This research shows that heavy viewers develop mean world syndrome, where everything is a danger.

00:57:48.500 They overestimate the danger, crime, threats.

00:57:51.760 They become more fearful, more dependent, and more open to strongman measures.

00:57:57.800 Fear sells, fear shapes.

00:58:01.500 Grubner testified in front of Congress that fearful people are easier to manipulate and control.

00:58:08.380 Psychologists have studied this for years and years and years.

00:58:10.640 Repeated exposure to threats in media can desensitize or heighten anxiety depending on the framing.

00:58:17.580 So wars, crisis, existential threats, stories to prime populations,

00:58:25.520 and it primes them to accept changes they might otherwise resist.

00:58:29.760 Look how our country has been primed.

00:58:32.040 Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.

00:58:35.180 What does that do?

00:58:36.200 that primes you to turn on your neighbor, that primes you to excuse violence.

00:58:42.600 This isn't magic.

00:58:43.820 This is human psychology, and it plays a heavy, heavy role in our society

00:58:49.320 and our culture today.

00:58:50.960 So, you know, I don't know if this is all of this stuff that you're seeing now

00:58:58.200 with the UFOs, if it's natural or being fed to us,

00:59:01.280 but we know stuff is being fed to us through our algorithms intentionally.

00:59:06.200 also think about Orson Welles

00:59:08.880 Orson Welles in 1938

00:59:11.260 War of the Worlds

00:59:12.300 what was the lesson

00:59:15.200 we were supposed to learn from that

00:59:16.760 we were taught

00:59:19.360 that War of the Worlds

00:59:20.940 with Orson Welles

00:59:22.600 caused mass panic

00:59:24.200 people fleeing into the streets

00:59:25.620 believing Martians has landed

00:59:27.120 blah blah blah

00:59:27.720 but that's not true

00:59:30.180 only about 2% of the country

00:59:33.160 was even tuned in

00:59:34.680 It was War of the Worlds and Orson Welles and the Mercury Radio Theater was something that was, it was up against the hardest show.

00:59:44.080 A radio show done by a ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen.

00:59:49.520 I mean, I know it's hard to beat.

00:59:50.980 It's hard to beat.

00:59:51.560 It's like Lawrence Welk.

00:59:52.420 We're being beaten by a guy with an accordion.

00:59:55.400 Yeah.

00:59:56.080 Anyway, 2% were listening to Orson Welles.

00:59:58.920 The panic was tiny.

01:00:00.020 It was real, but it was tiny.

01:00:01.100 The legend that there was mass panic, where did that come from?

01:00:06.100 Listen to this.

01:00:07.880 Newspapers.

01:00:09.680 Newspapers who were losing advertising revenue to radio during the Depression.

01:00:15.080 And newspapers seized the broadcast to paint radio as reckless and untrustworthy.

01:00:23.200 Hmm.

01:00:23.760 You mean like the way cable news paints podcasters?

01:00:29.280 Huh.

01:00:29.680 Huh.

01:00:31.100 So the hysteria wasn't about public gullibility.

01:00:34.340 It was about one medium manufacturing fear to destroy a rival.

01:00:40.260 The lesson we supposedly learned was wrong.

01:00:45.060 The real lesson is always ask who profits from the fear.

01:00:51.720 President Reagan, he said in 1987, he was at the United Nations,

01:00:58.400 and he said that all of our earthly differences would vanish

01:01:02.780 if we would face an alien or an alien threat from the outside of the world.

01:01:08.420 A sitting president musing out loud about unity through extraterrestrial fear.

01:01:16.780 Back in 1960, the Brookings Institute delivered a report to NASA

01:01:23.840 on the implications of discovering extraterrestrial life,

01:01:27.300 And this is in the movie.

01:01:28.520 I mean, they don't quote this, but this is implied in the movie.

01:01:32.380 What they found in 1960, they warned the government that if you talk about aliens and you confirm them, it could destabilize our entire society.

01:01:44.540 It would challenge religious and cultural foundations and that leaders should carefully consider if they're going to release the information.

01:01:54.400 That's what this whole movie is about.

01:01:56.120 The fight between somebody who wants the information released and somebody who doesn't want the information released and which one is right.

01:02:03.500 This conversation is 65 years old, and it happened in government buildings on the record in the 1960s.

01:02:11.300 We've been seeing a steady drumbeat of disclosure that is happening.

01:02:16.520 I don't know what's real and what's not.

01:02:19.120 Pentagon is releasing footage, congressional hearings, talk of, and I'm quoting, non-human biologics.

01:02:27.240 What?

01:02:27.520 A government who has been denying this for decades suddenly decides to open the door?

01:02:35.480 Why and who profits from fear?

01:02:40.160 Run a pure thought experiment here.

01:02:42.140 Not claiming this is happening, just asking what it could mean if disclosure narratives were softening us up for a bigger narrative, something bigger, actual disclosure.

01:02:54.420 What major permanent shifts in the Western world might need a spectacular distraction?

01:03:02.100 We're living right now with rapid changes, currency, power, governance.

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01:04:41.900 And he talks about something called the ratchet effect.

01:04:45.580 A crisis expands government power.

01:04:48.100 We know that.

01:04:49.120 And even after the crisis passes, the machine doesn't go back.

01:04:53.640 It only ratchets upward, bigger.

01:04:56.360 Wars change borders and currencies.

01:04:58.720 They don't have to be won outright.

01:05:00.680 They just need to last long enough for people to forget what life was like before and accept the new normal.

01:05:05.320 So in 2026, we see shifting global orders, debates over the dollar's dominance, pushes for digital currency, stable coins, bricks, all of this stuff, okay?

01:05:17.160 All of this is under strain.

01:05:19.500 Okay, so we have all this competition, protectionism, realignments, everything's about to change.

01:05:27.700 You feel it, you feel it.

01:05:29.280 A dramatic external threat, if it's real or amplified, could unify populations.

01:05:37.160 It would justify new controls, surveillance, global coordination.

01:05:42.260 Everything else would face resistance, but if you could just bring everybody together.

01:05:45.660 Now, again, this is a thought experiment.

01:05:47.260 I really don't believe this is what it is.

01:05:49.940 I think Disclosure Day, I don't think it's a government operation.

01:05:54.080 I think it's Spielberg.

01:05:55.080 He is a master storyteller who has his finger on the pulse, and he sees what's going on.

01:05:58.840 He wrote a great story.

01:05:59.800 I think that's what's happening.

01:06:01.460 However, he has collaborated with government entities

01:06:04.040 to help shape narratives before.

01:06:05.800 The famous Clinton denial, 0.91

01:06:07.200 I did not have sex with that woman, 0.66

01:06:08.760 that's Steven Spielberg, okay?

01:06:11.180 The deeper point here is not aliens.

01:06:14.480 It's vulnerability.

01:06:16.600 The only door any power,

01:06:18.320 human or otherwise, needs is fear.

01:06:22.260 A person grounded in true faith,

01:06:25.280 history principles cannot be stampeded by flashing lights or headlines

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01:08:15.480 ricky and jason i want to ask you um

01:08:34.820 do you uh are you gonna go see disclosure day i already bought my tickets at imax

01:08:44.560 for this sunday now i was super super hyped until your review and now i'm like oh man is it worth

01:08:53.200 hang on i went in yeah it is i went in you know with all of the hype that it is the best

01:09:01.520 spielberg movie ever that's a really high bar you look at spielberg movies and they're

01:09:08.480 really really good they're iconic i think this is a good movie but i didn't hear like you know

01:09:16.840 the the et theme or the indiana jones theme or any of those things i didn't hear john williams

01:09:23.480 a memorable theme in this the jurassic park thing and everybody said this is john williams

01:09:28.980 best score ever it's a really good score it's really good best score ever i don't know so i

01:09:35.800 I walked into it thinking it's going to be just the greatest movie

01:09:40.580 you've ever seen in your life because Spielberg.

01:09:42.500 It's not.

01:09:43.100 It's a really good movie.

01:09:45.900 His top 10 is still one of the best movies of all time.

01:09:51.140 But really, it's better than Jaws, better than E.T.,

01:09:55.800 better than Schindler's List.

01:09:57.300 I don't think so.

01:09:58.920 I don't think so.

01:09:59.840 But it's good.

01:10:01.220 It's a really good movie.

01:10:01.980 What I wanted to know is, you're going into it, Ricky, do you buy into this is anything other than Steven Spielberg, finger on the pulse of the population going, everybody's talking about extraterrestrials.

01:10:17.200 I got one more movie in me.

01:10:18.460 I have this story.

01:10:20.280 I agree.

01:10:20.880 I think it's completely opportunistic of the cultural moment that we're in.

01:10:25.160 i think it's impressive though that he was able to produce it direct it cast it

01:10:31.420 like probably they do this what years two years in advance so like how the heck did this guy know

01:10:38.900 right that he would release it's just the right moment when we're talking about it this i i tend

01:10:46.180 to believe jason and i go along with his theory that he did this in cahoots with the government

01:10:50.140 you think so jason you think this is a psyop or he just he's just

01:10:57.020 slightly in code what do you mean he's in cahoots with the government well i i don't know what it

01:11:03.960 is i i all i know is that i don't like it and i i you know me back when this first came out i was

01:11:11.900 all about what the government has on this stuff after ever since that new york times article i

01:11:16.500 I was like, oh my gosh, at this point with all the heavy, heavy emphasis on Christians,

01:11:22.340 with them saying this is going to somehow make us question our faith, based off of what?

01:11:28.320 No Christian I know thinks that, but that's the message they're trying to push.

01:11:32.320 Now, my mind always goes to why.

01:11:35.300 So I think that there will be those who question there.

01:11:39.400 If this were true, you know, this disclosure was made.

01:11:43.240 I think it would, some would question.

01:11:45.640 I think some would question, I think a lot of people would say, if they're aliens and they look like, you know, the big-eyed bug people, then that is, that's not from God.

01:11:59.640 That's from Satan.

01:12:00.580 I think there will be a lot of people that would say, this is from the devil, and it would be very, very bad.

01:12:08.000 And I think there would be some that would say, and I don't understand this one, that some would say, no, God made us.

01:12:15.640 You know, there's a quote at the beginning of,

01:12:18.160 and I didn't look it up, but I'll bet you it's in the Apocrypha.

01:12:22.380 Does, can you look up in Genesis real quick,

01:12:27.040 do a search in Genesis, when God created man,

01:12:30.680 he said that they are the supreme being on this earth.

01:12:39.320 I don't remember the exact quote from the movie,

01:12:41.800 but they make a big deal out of, no, no, no, a nun says.

01:12:45.200 no no no it's the supreme being on this earth what's it say ricky do you have it didn't god

01:12:50.320 say that he would didn't he say that he would give us dominion over everything right i've never read

01:12:56.100 anything like that i could not remember anything i didn't do a search so genesis 126 let us make

01:13:03.300 mankind in our image so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky

01:13:07.280 is that what they're pulling from maybe i mean she quoted it but it was a you know it was a

01:13:14.860 sketchy you know i was like i don't think i've ever heard that before but a lot of people who

01:13:19.520 don't look at the bible or read the bible they won't know and they'll take that away um but

01:13:24.740 yeah i guess dominion over the fish and the sea make god i mean god make us in his image some

01:13:30.540 people say that means you know because jesus came down to get a body why does he have a body does he

01:13:36.500 take that body and put it on a hanger when he's not using i mean i don't i don't understand the

01:13:40.740 whole body thing if you don't believe god has a body and i know that's really weird but i mean

01:13:45.780 you know some people believe that we are literally in his own image some people say that our spirit

01:13:50.660 is in his image i don't know i'll know when i get to heaven you know i've always said if i get up to

01:13:56.220 heaven and god's a space octopus i'm going to be shocked but it'll be my duty to go oh okay didn't

01:14:03.700 see that one coming, but all right, Lord, I'm with you, I guess. And, you know, and then the

01:14:11.520 Lord would say, Lord, I've got eight arms to hug you. And it'll continue to be surprising. But,

01:14:17.720 you know, so I don't know. To me, that's not essential to my salvation. What's essential

01:14:21.980 to my salvation is Jesus is my savior. He is the line of redemption. And that's all I really need

01:14:28.060 to know everything else is you know up in the air for me uh you know far as being locked into it

01:14:33.980 when i get to the other side that's when i'll lock into it um but i i think this would you know

01:14:38.780 they show in the movie somebody bowing down to the emily blunt character and she's just kind of

01:14:45.680 channeling these beings what jason would bow down to the emily blunt character if i know anything

01:14:52.560 about him oh i no i i've met emily blunt i bowed out to her too i think i might have might have i

01:14:59.440 will worship you now you met her what is she like she seems non-woke she was she was super fun i met

01:15:08.200 her briefly it was backstage uh she was dating michael buble at the time and uh they were on

01:15:15.440 segues and they came in they were they played with the kids for a while i mean it was she was

01:15:20.400 really nice she was very delightful i really liked her i'm mostly going for emily straight woman

01:15:27.420 she is really you know best performance of her career probably probably she's really really

01:15:35.220 good in this and the and what she's going through is she pulls it off to where it's completely

01:15:42.220 believable it's completely it's a great story it's a great story but i just i i think the

01:15:48.700 interesting part of this is taking it beyond the movie that's why i said get some smart friends

01:15:53.580 don't go see this alone go see this with some friends that you like to talk to who you know

01:15:58.420 can think um and then just say watch the movie notice everything you can in it and let's talk

01:16:05.500 about it afterwards because we had a fascinating discussion on the way home in fact we were we had

01:16:10.280 somebody else uh we had a bunch of people uh with us and i always have to have security so i actually

01:16:15.480 has kicked security out of my car and said drive our friend's car behind us we're going to drive

01:16:20.560 halfway home you know where we have to have the fork in the road and they go one way we go the

01:16:23.920 other way because we wanted to talk after it uh and i thought i wish we would have had dinner

01:16:27.720 after the movie not before because it's it's a it's it's a great conversation starter it's fun

01:16:33.100 to think about this stuff it's also fun just to watch a movie i'm i'm right now i'm just on this

01:16:39.940 mission of trying to figure out what is their big i don't i'm just going to call it psyop psyop

01:16:45.060 between christians and this ufo community i don't know it it feels like they're specifically trying

01:16:52.040 to do something specifically on people with faith and that's what's ticking me off and i haven't

01:16:57.420 seen the movie yet i'm going to see it tomorrow uh but i that's what i mean if they don't want it

01:17:02.300 to appear to be a psyop well stop making it appear so much like a psyop number one just a few days

01:17:09.000 ago every single whistleblower person you know that's come out uh and their mother and including

01:17:15.980 congressman everyone was in dc making a big disclosure uh you know uh you know pitch and i i

01:17:24.380 was like wait a minute you guys picked this week just a few days before one of the biggest movies

01:17:30.080 of the summer comes out specifically about the government finally doing a disclosure day

01:17:34.500 i don't know to me it's just way too much and that could be favors to spielberg i mean that

01:17:41.200 could just be hey everybody's that could be favors to spielberg it could be everybody just

01:17:45.400 going hey look the movie is coming out everybody's talking about it let's make sure we ride that wave

01:17:50.280 right now i mean sometimes you know sometimes it is just about the money um and sometimes it's just

01:17:56.660 about i can get my message out everybody's going to be paying attention to it you know if i ever

01:18:01.580 wrote a sci-fi book that had aliens in it i'd be out saying i want my book to release right now

01:18:07.680 because everybody's talking about it right now where you'd have a hard time getting an interview

01:18:12.580 on shows with a ufo book if you released it now you might have a better shot because people are

01:18:18.740 talking about the movie and so it's relatable with steven spielberg's movie number one at the

01:18:23.300 box office this weekend are aliens real we talked to author you know jason buttrill about his book

01:18:29.740 aliens are up my butt jason what do you think that's that's what would happen that's what

01:18:35.580 would happen well glenn it's not comfortable i can tell you that i bet it's not i bet it's not 0.98

01:18:40.380 uh can i just switch uh topics i am so disappointed i have to say

01:18:45.800 i i hope he has i hope he's outplayed them but i think the president has been outplayed 0.51

01:18:54.420 by stupid congress and i can't believe it i can't believe it but this is the first time i've been 0.96

01:19:01.980 i've looked at it and gone i don't understand this move at all well no the chinese in school 0.99

01:19:06.700 thing that too but this one is really bad listen to this headline house rejects last minute

01:19:11.980 extension for key fisa spy power amid bill pulte uh uproar or pult how do you say his name ricky

01:19:20.000 pult or pulte i don't know he's not going to be there for long so i haven't really worked on

01:19:25.440 sorry all right good so um this guy is the guy who was picked by trump to uh take tulsi gabbard's job

01:19:36.060 as uh as the dni director of national uh intelligence that's the guy who's over all

01:19:43.840 of the intelligence agencies so congress and the senate they pitch a fit and they're like this guy

01:19:48.300 doesn't have any experience at all and they say to the president the president wants faiza renewed

01:19:53.940 they say to the president we're not going to renew faiza i mean what i when i hear that i hear the

01:19:59.920 heavens open up and i hear angels singing hallelujah i mean that is the greatest thing i could ever

01:20:05.160 hear you won't refer great you've been the ones pushing for it and saying we gotta have it gotta

01:20:11.720 have it gotta have it gotta have it more important than the save america act or anything else gotta

01:20:16.720 have FISA, got to have FISA, got to have FISA, got to have FISA. Okay. So I just, I just nominated

01:20:22.420 somebody that you feel so strongly that he's the wrong guy that you're rejecting FISA.

01:20:33.160 Huh? I don't believe you. I don't believe you. I would have, if I were president, I would have

01:20:40.160 said oh okay good well so be it he's staying why were they so against this guy and they said we

01:20:48.100 need somebody who has experience with the agencies you know what actually i don't want people with

01:20:53.940 experience with the agencies maybe that's a good thing because they're very complex but you know

01:20:58.640 what donald trump didn't have experience with the white house he was an outsider and look at what he

01:21:04.820 did. Look at what he did. Yes, he lost his way the first time he had to get his feet. But Donald

01:21:11.400 Trump and everybody around him, Tulsi Gabbard, can brief this guy if he's smart. And I don't know

01:21:16.500 enough about him. If he's smart, he might be exactly the guy. And seeing that the intelligence

01:21:21.780 agencies start to put the squeeze on the Senate and the House members, and they're like, no, no,

01:21:26.520 we can't have him. That's exactly the guy I want. Exactly the guy I want. And so what does the

01:21:34.300 president do he bails on that guy and says okay we'll pick this guy and now they're willing to do

01:21:39.700 the fisa thing oh really they're willing to do they're willing to give you the fisa renewal

01:21:45.620 oh how brave of congress to do they were going to anyway they were going to anyway

01:21:52.840 he should have exacted something else he should have said you know what go ahead don't pass he's

01:21:59.980 staying unless you want to give me the save america act give me the save america act i'll

01:22:07.320 replace him i still would be hesitant to do that but i don't think the president got anything except

01:22:12.120 faiza they weren't going to cut faiza none of them would have cut faiza what did you do i really want

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01:25:43.100 You know, the only thing I can think of that would explain why he would make this change in exchange for FISA is you have what's going on with Iran, and you know that they are planning terror, trying to plan terror here in the United States. 0.60

01:25:59.120 We have the operations in Venezuela. 0.82

01:26:01.640 We have the FIFA World Cup here in the U.S.

01:26:06.020 All these huge crowds and gatherings, people coming from all over the world.

01:26:10.180 I think we're going to play Iran in the World Cup maybe this weekend.

01:26:14.780 We have our 250, you know, America 250 celebrations happening all over the country,

01:26:20.020 but a massive event beginning this weekend and all the way through August in Washington, D.C.

01:26:29.120 I mean, I think he's concerned about our own security here in the United States, our domestic security, much more than he was the first term.

01:26:39.260 Remember, the first term he was against FISA.

01:26:41.920 He didn't like it.

01:26:43.260 Now he is pushing for it.

01:26:46.920 In fact, he said, FISA 702 is very important to our military.

01:26:50.380 I'm willing to risk up giving up my rights for our great military and country.

01:26:55.700 Speak for yourself, Mr. Trump.

01:26:56.940 I am not.

01:26:58.500 But I think that's the only thing is he might know something that we don't know about threats that have him really spooked.

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01:29:10.000 well hello america it's friday which means we may be very close to a peace deal we may be signing

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01:29:25.240 uh but we're very very close uh when the peace deal is signed then we'll talk about the peace

01:29:30.620 deal don't talk to anybody about the peace deal every we've had a peace deal every friday it's

01:29:34.900 i know it's friday because we're close to a peace deal so so we'll just take that with a grain of

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01:29:45.020 to europe to meet with the iranians and the iranians said we're not meeting with anybody

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01:30:49.160 so um i am gonna break a rule slightly uh i i don't like talking about other pods podcasters

01:30:58.640 especially those who i disagree with um but i just i i need to set this up a little bit um last

01:31:05.280 week i told you about um what was happening in russia and canis owens went over to russia and

01:31:09.960 the story was not about her it was about alexander dugan um and well she came home and i guess she

01:31:14.600 did her podcast today and i have been told that she is uh talking about you know how how russia

01:31:20.140 is uh you know is the defender of the faith and that everything in russia is good and you know

01:31:26.800 of course everything here in america is in decline they're not our culture is evil theirs isn't they're

01:31:32.500 the defender of the faith um and i just disagree with almost all of that well except for the

01:31:38.300 premise that america is in decline yes it is if we choose to continue uh and our culture is evil i

01:31:43.780 think it's pumping up poison. Myself, we have to become people of God, but we certainly don't need

01:31:48.840 a Christian prince to do it. The Lord has it, you know, in hand, and he's requiring his people to 1.00

01:31:55.860 turn his face back to him. If we do, then we'll be saved. If we don't, well, then, you know, all

01:32:00.480 bets are off. But it's as easy as that. I don't need to go to somebody who is telling us, like

01:32:05.640 Alexander Dugan is, Russia is aligned with Iran. Is there any doubt in your mind that Iran is not

01:32:12.860 a good place. Not one where Jesus is like, you know what? Sometimes I like to vacation in Iran. 0.99

01:32:17.200 I just love the, I love the clerics there. I don't think so. Um, Dugan said also he would give

01:32:23.320 nukes to any state that would not United States, like capital state, um, any state that would

01:32:30.600 actually help wipe the West off the face of the map, take America on. Okay. I don't think that's

01:32:37.720 friend, you know, that doesn't, that doesn't sound like somebody I want to hang out with

01:32:42.180 on my vacation, but to each his own, I guess. I've been telling you about Alexander Dugan for

01:32:48.620 a long time, but now he brought up something just last week that I had not, I had not heard about.

01:32:55.200 And it's the, uh, cat etch, cat, cat etch on, I think, or the, uh, cat con. I don't know exactly

01:33:06.400 how to pronounce it i'd never heard of it before there is a op-ed now at glennbeck.com written by

01:33:12.020 bill cloud and he talks about what this is and you know alexander dugan and russia and what they

01:33:18.960 really believe because you cannot get caught in this trap even the very elect are going to get

01:33:23.820 caught in this trap and it's very very dangerous bill welcome to the program hi glenn it's great

01:33:29.040 great to be with you again. Thank you. How do you pronounce this and what is

01:33:33.940 katakon? Katakon. Katakon. Katakon. Katakon. Katakon. Okay. Yeah. Well, it's a, it's a Greek

01:33:44.620 term actually, and it's used by the apostle Paul in a letter he wrote to the Thessalonians

01:33:51.120 and he's describing he who restrains or he who's holding back. And so, you know, it's called the

01:33:58.340 restrainer so that's what it technically means and what he's referring to is that the restrainer

01:34:04.940 the catacomb is who or what holds back the man of sin from being fully revealed and so

01:34:11.520 the assumption is made that the catacomb or the restrainer is a force for good and it's there to

01:34:17.660 keep evil in check but apparently and this is i just found this out uh last week too when i read

01:34:24.720 the article by Mr. Morrow, that Alexander Dugan believes that the West, I think we can include

01:34:32.560 Zionism and Jews and that, that they're the evil in the world that has to be restrained.

01:34:37.680 And so he is apparently applying the role of katakon of the restrainer to Russia, to his 0.99

01:34:45.560 vision of what Russia should be, that they are a God-ordained instrument who, with Islam 0.83

01:34:51.500 it as an ally, that they're in the world to overcome the evil as he sees it, that is the 0.82

01:34:56.940 West and the Jews, et cetera, et cetera. So that's where the idea comes from. 0.88

01:35:04.420 How do Christians, how are they getting caught up in this? I mean, you say to me,

01:35:10.200 hey, you know who the evil is, America. You could convince me that America does great evil with its

01:35:15.640 culture i i agree we are way off base with our culture we are we are an enemy of god in many

01:35:21.740 ways but when you're looking to say okay we gotta wipe that out and hey by the way let's partner

01:35:27.840 with russia i begin to question you let's partner with russia and iran there's no way

01:35:35.140 isaac christian believed that at all ever how are they falling for this well just my opinion i guess

01:35:44.320 is that a lot of Christians just really don't know what the Scripture says, quite honestly.

01:35:49.740 A lot of people don't take the time to study it.

01:35:52.340 A lot of people regurgitate theology.

01:35:54.320 And theology, and I say this respectfully, is not equivalent to the truth.

01:36:00.000 Theology is the study of God, but that's always subjected to a man's opinion.

01:36:04.520 And in this particular case, Dugan is interpreting what Paul said about the restrainer

01:36:11.720 in applying it to Russia in this case.

01:36:14.420 So I think that's how it happens.

01:36:16.800 It's generally a lot of people just really don't know what the scripture has to say.

01:36:21.240 They know what people say it says, but they don't take the time to read it.

01:36:24.960 So, I mean, there's probably a lot of other reasons,

01:36:27.680 and people have their eyes on all the wrong things at this point in time, 0.78

01:36:31.620 including Christians.

01:36:33.560 So that's just my thoughts.

01:36:36.280 Last week, I found out that Dugan and his allies are saying that the Antichrist is going to come from the West, from America, and it's a Jewish Antichrist.

01:36:49.520 Do you read that anywhere in scripture?

01:36:52.340 Anywhere?

01:36:53.160 Any way? 1.00

01:36:55.460 In other words, that there's going to be a Jewish Antichrist?

01:36:58.100 No, I don't.

01:36:59.000 And the Antichrist is coming from the West?

01:37:01.340 well i mean there are people who believe that but no i don't see that in scripture at all

01:37:08.440 in fact all the patterns that we see in scripture seem to say that the antichrist is going to come

01:37:15.320 from the east for instance nebuchadnezzar he is a prototype of the antichrist he was the king of

01:37:21.740 babylon he's the one that came in and destroyed jerusalem destroyed the temple he went mad for

01:37:26.780 seven years he became a beast he made an image of himself and he is from the east and and so 0.83

01:37:33.160 there's a pattern there so i could go on and on on that but all the patterns and seem to show

01:37:38.160 that he's going to come from the east not from the west and isn't there's something about gog

01:37:46.060 and magog being persia and russia is any of that true well when i was reading about dugan

01:37:58.400 saying that you know he believes russia is the restrainer and all these kinds of things

01:38:05.000 and you know wanting to align himself with islam and how he believed that the restrainer the 0.68

01:38:11.100 the katakon along with al-Mahdi, we're going to lead this holy war against the West and overcome

01:38:16.780 the Jewish anti-Messiah and all these kinds of things. That's when, you know, my brain just

01:38:24.180 really just was on overload. And I began to, you know, connect that idea to all of these different

01:38:30.100 prophecies. And one of them being, there is this battle that is described in Ezekiel 38, 9 with

01:38:37.620 Gog of Magog War. Now, let me just insert this real quick. And what Morrow said in his article

01:38:43.900 is that Dugan believes that this climactic battle that the Catacomb and Almaty is going to fight

01:38:51.080 is Armageddon. But I'm thinking if that happens, and I say if, he might be walking into what is

01:38:59.960 described in ezekiel 38 and 9 so that is this confederation of it's a confederation of islamic

01:39:07.960 nations but it uh the bible described or speaks to the chief prince of mishak and tuval god of

01:39:16.700 magog who comes from the far north and where israel's concerned the far north could be and

01:39:23.320 include russia so you know we've talked people have talked about this all you know for centuries

01:39:28.340 is who is Gog of Magog, and certainly in the last 50, 60, 70 years.

01:39:34.480 But when I saw this, and that there's this man who's pushing this ideology and philosophy, 0.90

01:39:41.560 supposedly even to Putin, and how Russia's destiny is to be the katakon,

01:39:48.260 and to put down the West, and to put down Israel, etc. 0.75

01:39:51.980 That's when I really thought maybe there might be something to this Russia 0.95

01:39:56.080 being allied with these Islamic nations 0.94

01:39:58.840 coming into the mountains of Israel. 0.65

01:40:02.380 That's pretty strong in my view. 0.98

01:40:07.440 But now the result will be, of course,

01:40:10.160 that this invading force will be destroyed.

01:40:14.780 So, Bill, I mean, I'm not asking anybody to believe

01:40:17.340 that we're living in end times or anything,

01:40:18.880 but I just did some research.

01:40:21.240 Let me see if I can find this.

01:40:22.120 It is shocking the number of people

01:40:24.260 that actually believe that we are possibly in the end times.

01:40:32.840 Let me see if I can find it.

01:40:35.420 Let's see here.

01:40:37.360 You look at this.

01:40:38.680 It's not a fringe view.

01:40:39.940 According to Pew, 39%, nearly 4 in 10, say yes, we're living in the end times.

01:40:46.100 Evangelical Christians say 63%.

01:40:48.280 But here's the crazy part.

01:40:49.760 About a quarter of people with no religious affiliation said yes to that as well.

01:40:55.520 9% of atheists say, yes, we're living in the end times.

01:41:01.560 That's interesting. 0.90

01:41:03.440 Yeah, isn't that fascinating?

01:41:05.220 I found that absolutely fascinating.

01:41:08.200 And, you know, I did some research on, you know, this has been happening since, I mean, the apostles thought Jesus was coming back.

01:41:14.060 But there are some things now that are unique that are important pieces, like, for instance, the reestablishment of Israel, important pieces of prophecy that we've now hit that make war, rumors of war, nations rising against earthquakes, famines, all that stuff, mean a little bit more this time.

01:41:37.880 Would you agree or disagree with that?

01:41:39.940 I absolutely agree.

01:41:42.180 If you don't mind, let me give you this passage of Scripture.

01:41:45.880 It's in Hosea chapter 6.

01:41:48.000 It says, Come and let us return unto the Lord.

01:41:49.640 He is stricken, but he will bind us up.

01:41:51.040 He is broken, but he will heal us.

01:41:52.780 After two days, he revives us.

01:41:54.840 And on the third day, he will raise us up that we may live in his sight.

01:41:58.100 So it talks about two days.

01:42:00.340 After two days, something happens.

01:42:01.720 And on the third day, basically, it's describing the Messianic era when we live in his sight, 0.54

01:42:08.040 when Messiah rules and reigns from Jerusalem on the earth.

01:42:11.380 The point being this, a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. 0.95

01:42:14.560 A thousand years is as a day.

01:42:17.040 It's been 2,000 years or two days since the Messiah left, and it was said that he will come again.

01:42:23.800 So we're coming to the end of that second day when he revives us.

01:42:29.220 On the third day, he will raise us up.

01:42:31.460 So we're in that time.

01:42:34.120 We're at that threshold.

01:42:35.040 I believe adamantly that we're coming to the end of the second prophetic day and about to enter into the third day, which means then there are going to be birth pangs.

01:42:46.980 There are going to be all these wars and rumors of wars and all the things that Messiah describes in Matthew 24 and all the prophets talk about.

01:42:53.720 And then, you know, let's bring it back to this philosophy or theology that Dugan has, which, by the way, embraces this idea that Moscow is the third Rome of the Roman Empire, and supposedly, according to their theology, it's to be the last one.

01:43:12.820 So he believes we're in the last days too. And he lines himself with Iran and these exotic nations who they also believe it's the last days, looking at it from a completely different perspective. So all of these things are aligning in a way that I don't think it's happened in human history.

01:43:31.780 I know that there will be people who disagree with that.

01:43:34.600 But when you've got 9% of atheists saying we're living in the last days, that's pretty strong. 0.80

01:43:40.420 It's really remarkable. 0.97

01:43:42.760 I've had atheists say, Glenn, I can't describe.

01:43:45.640 There's no word to describe what's happening in the world right now except for the word evil.

01:43:50.360 And I'm like, you're an atheist.

01:43:51.780 They're like, I know.

01:43:52.960 I know.

01:43:53.280 I know exactly what I'm saying.

01:43:55.280 But that's the only way I can describe what I'm seeing right now.

01:43:58.280 More in just a minute with Bill Cloud.

01:44:00.280 He is the Shore Sheen Ministries founder, Jacob's Tent fellow pastor, and an expert on this.

01:44:06.740 And the calmest guy you can talk to about, you know, end times theology.

01:44:11.140 Billcloud.org is where you can find him.

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01:46:10.700 Bill, somebody asked me today,

01:46:14.460 why are we seeing all of these podcasters

01:46:17.540 go so dark so fast on our side?

01:46:21.120 And they said, well, because there's a lot to gain, you say these things and you get big numbers, et cetera, et cetera, and maybe they're lost that way.

01:46:32.980 And that may have played a role.

01:46:34.660 But I think this is a spiritual battle we're in.

01:46:38.480 And what keeps coming to mind is even the very elect will lose their way.

01:46:44.460 And somebody asked me this morning, are we at the peak of this?

01:46:49.240 and I think we are at the very beginning.

01:46:51.520 If you think it's hard now, give it some time.

01:46:55.940 It's going to get very confusing on how to find truth.

01:46:59.480 Am I wrong on that?

01:47:00.520 Do you agree or disagree? 0.88

01:47:02.460 I agree.

01:47:03.940 In fact, there are some, well, first of all,

01:47:06.980 you go to Matthew 24 and all of the different signs

01:47:10.480 that the Messiah said that we are to be looking for

01:47:12.760 in the last days.

01:47:14.100 He leads off with this one, don't be deceived.

01:47:17.360 And deception, deception, you know, don't be deceived.

01:47:20.540 It keeps popping up when what he said and what Paul said and what others said.

01:47:25.140 And so that's something that that's the primary enemy, I guess you say, is the deception that is going to be, you know, we're going to be exposed to.

01:47:36.360 In fact, if you read about the Antichrist or the one that we think is the Antichrist, it says that he casts truth to the ground.

01:47:44.600 He suppresses the truth.

01:47:46.580 So all of those things are that play into what you're saying.

01:47:50.920 And I, I'm going to add this too, at the risk of, you know, making somebody angry.

01:47:57.180 A lot of these podcasters are regurgitating theology again, bad theology.

01:48:02.840 And that has confused them.

01:48:04.600 That has blinded them to what truly is the truth.

01:48:07.400 That's, I feel very strongly about that.

01:48:09.640 And that's why they're being sucked into this thing.

01:48:11.680 it's really terrifying because some of these people have been friends of mine and you know

01:48:18.060 they can get lost i know i can get lost and it's it's really terrifying what we're what we're

01:48:23.620 facing we just have to stay close to the lord um bill thank you so much for being on with me thank

01:48:27.760 you for all that you do and thanks for the op-ed you can find bill's op-ed on alexander dugan uh

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01:48:45.980 always thank you thank you glenn goodbye so i want to leave i don't want to leave on it i don't want

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01:49:07.740 other people do believe it

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01:51:27.600 welcome to the glenn beck program we're glad you're here um thank you so much for for listening

01:51:37.500 i just got to find a couple more facts here for you just give me a second here um okay um i want

01:51:43.760 to talk to you about the idea and i i've i get this question all the time what do you think glenn

01:51:48.340 i mean how are we going to get through this i don't know i don't know i'm not god i don't have

01:51:53.620 any more information than you do. I might have a few more facts at my fingertips, but you feel it.

01:52:01.060 I feel it. I don't know. I don't know. Men have gone through this before. Generally speaking,

01:52:06.160 when you get to this stage in an empire or in a country this long in the tooth,

01:52:12.860 they don't usually survive. They don't turn around, but we can. But I want to take an honest

01:52:17.980 inventory here because I don't want you to, there's no reason to despair. We have some really

01:52:24.240 solid things going in our favor. But let's start, I want to break this up into two categories,

01:52:30.560 pros and cons. It's what my dad taught me to do. Confronted with a problem, you're trying to find

01:52:35.160 an answer, develop a pro and con list. So let's look at the pro and cons. Let's start with the

01:52:40.020 cons. Let's start with money first. We are nearly $39 trillion in debt. First time since

01:52:47.300 Since the year after World War II, what we owe to the rest of the world is bigger than our entire economy.

01:53:00.740 Now, it's public and private, both of them.

01:53:03.020 Horrible.

01:53:03.880 We now spend more just on the public debt.

01:53:06.800 We spend more paying interest on that debt over a trillion dollars a year now than we spend on the entire United States military, and nobody's talking about it.

01:53:15.960 I said we're going to spend a trillion dollars

01:53:18.260 And every economist said when that happens

01:53:20.360 We're toast

01:53:21.220 We're now spending over a trillion dollars

01:53:23.240 And nobody's talking about it

01:53:24.120 We borrow about 50 billion dollars every week

01:53:27.200 Just to keep our lights on

01:53:28.700 That's not a healthy balance sheet for a country

01:53:31.620 Never been done before

01:53:32.760 And that is a slow fuse

01:53:34.560 And it's already lit

01:53:35.720 And you know there's no memory

01:53:37.760 Nobody is

01:53:39.000 Nobody is laying awake at night

01:53:41.560 Maybe five people in the country are laying awake

01:53:43.460 Our national debt is out of control

01:53:45.180 and people should people should be paying attention how about this one our national

01:53:49.840 report card only 13 of our eighth graders are proficient in history of their own country this

01:53:57.340 is the lowest score of any subject they test why are we having so many problems because they don't

01:54:02.920 13 are proficient four in ten couldn't even rate get a basic understanding of any document put in

01:54:13.440 front of them. What? No country survives if you can't remember. You can't defend what you don't

01:54:20.180 know. Okay. Civilization that forgets its own story lost the argument before it even opens its

01:54:25.380 mouth. Then there's the moral source. In less than 20 years, the share of Americans who call

01:54:31.260 themselves Christian have fallen from 78% to 62, while the number who are claiming that they have

01:54:39.320 no faith at all has nearly doubled. The birth rate now has dropped to 1.6 children per woman.

01:54:46.580 That's well below the replacement number of 2.1. Just to replace ourselves,

01:54:53.900 sit with that combination. We are at the very same time losing the faith that built the thing

01:55:00.660 and in the most literal sense, not making the next generation to carry the thing.

01:55:06.560 and then you know and then the ideas there's a real resurgence of an old seductive notion

01:55:15.500 that the west is not just flawed and can self-correct and be good but now we believe

01:55:22.120 that it's an irredeemable uh evil that needs to be torn down uh instead of repaired because it

01:55:28.100 just can't repair itself you know that liberty itself is a mask for oppression although those 0.95

01:55:33.700 lies are have taken hold there is a genuine challenge from islamists the political ideology 0.97

01:55:41.640 that wants to impose its rules by force you know if there's millions of muslims who came to the 1.00

01:55:49.460 west because they wanted to escape that and now they're in it too add the lowest social trust 0.99

01:55:57.180 we've ever recorded a house divided against itself cannot stand i'm trying to remember who said that

01:56:02.900 one. And then the greatest of all wild cards, artificial intelligence, AGI, ASI, most powerful

01:56:12.400 technology in the history of all humankind, arriving at the same moment of our lowest unity,

01:56:20.080 capable of concentrating power like nothing ever before. Nobody, not the smartest person alive,

01:56:26.380 can tell you for certain how this ends. Okay, if you just look at that column, and that's what

01:56:31.280 everybody wants you to look you would bet against us surviving every day i do this show every day

01:56:37.240 and somebody asked me just this week how do you how do you stay happy and i'm like oh you think

01:56:44.280 i'm happy no um how do i stay happy i don't concentrate on that i spend my work day looking

01:56:51.300 at all of those trying to find a way out but i have told you recently i am i i know you know

01:56:57.860 the problems. So I cannot live there. I can't. You shouldn't either. A lot of brilliant people do.

01:57:08.200 But I have to tell you, no honest accountant ever looks at one column.

01:57:13.700 Nobody who has ever put a pro and con list together, that's not fair just to look at the

01:57:18.380 cons. You're doomed if you always look at the cons. So let me show you the side that they never

01:57:24.260 put on the news. There's a couple of things going our way. Ask Americans whether global poverty has

01:57:32.000 gotten better or worse over the last 30 years, since 1995. Everyone will tell you. Everyone

01:57:39.580 will tell you. Overwhelming majority. Much worse. It's much worse. They're not just wrong. They are

01:57:47.480 wrong about the single greatest good news story in the history of the human race. Since the 90s,

01:57:54.260 more than a third of all of the people on earth lived in extreme poverty.

01:58:00.560 In 1990, a third of earth, extreme poverty.

01:58:06.540 Do you know what that number is today?

01:58:09.580 One in 10.

01:58:11.840 We've gone from 30%, 30% to 10% in extreme.

01:58:17.800 that's more than one and a half billion human beings climbing out of the worst poverty there

01:58:25.000 is. That's 118,000 people every single day climbing out of poverty. 118,000 people climbing

01:58:35.020 out of poverty every day for 30 years straight out of misery that everyone would have told you

01:58:43.280 It's permanent and inevitable.

01:58:45.880 And there's not even a headline on it.

01:58:48.700 You know why?

01:58:49.280 Because it doesn't make you afraid.

01:58:51.240 Fear is what sells.

01:58:53.340 Here's the second one.

01:58:55.620 For almost the entire span of human history, roughly half of all children died before they grew up.

01:59:04.740 Half, 50%.

01:59:05.740 Every mother who ever lived expected to bury half of her children.

01:59:10.680 Today, that number has fallen worldwide to 4%,

01:59:14.060 and it's been cut in half, more than half, since 1990.

01:59:20.620 We are defeating the greatest grief the human race has ever felt

01:59:24.560 in our own lifetime, and no one's talking about it.

01:59:28.380 200 years ago, 1 in 10 people on Earth could read.

01:59:33.160 Today, it's nearly 9 in 10.

01:59:36.960 Except for America, look at what's going on here.

01:59:39.740 In 1900, the average human being lived 32 years.

01:59:44.260 We're now well into our 70s.

01:59:47.740 None of this was an accident, by the way.

01:59:49.500 None of this came from, you know, from the people setting fire to the system.

01:59:54.440 Let me tell you about just Generation Alpha, okay?

01:59:57.680 Generation Alpha.

01:59:58.960 People say, and I did a monologue on this generation at the beginning of the show today.

02:00:03.480 You have to hear it.

02:00:05.300 They're the most sober, most disciplined teenagers in the entire history of American records.

02:00:09.740 keeping. The most. Teen drinking, high school seniors, 73% in the year 2000. It's 42%. Binge

02:00:18.040 drinking, 30%. Now it's nine. Use of opioid pills among seniors went from nearly 10% at its peak

02:00:25.860 to six-tenths of 1%. We have an opioid problem. Not with Generation Alpha, we don't. Teen birth

02:00:33.720 rate, lowest ever recorded. Down three quarters from its peak. Two out of three high school

02:00:39.220 seniors didn't touch alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine in the last month.

02:00:44.060 Those are all good things. They're all good things.

02:00:53.720 Generations in the past of America did not. I mean, they would ride these things out.

02:00:59.020 The exact ideas that we are told to be ashamed of, free markets, private property, rule of law,

02:01:04.500 the scientific method the conviction that every single human life carries equal and infinite worth

02:01:10.180 these ideas they're from the west and they lifted more human beings out of darkness than any force

02:01:16.760 has ever existed on this planet we've done more than anything anyone has ever tried and they're

02:01:23.520 still spreading into the poorest corners of the earth even as we lose our nerve about them here

02:01:29.500 at home. And at the same terrifying time that AI comes to, and everybody's like, we're doomed

02:01:35.840 because of AI, it is also the thing that may cure cancer, unlock energy, the end of scarcity as we

02:01:44.180 know it. And the frontier of it is still being built in the free world by free people, not in

02:01:49.960 prisons of the dictators. I don't know. There's an awful lot to be positive about.

02:01:59.500 there is an awful lot to worry about as well.

02:02:02.980 But worry does you nothing unless you try to solve it.

02:02:06.280 You know the biggest thing we have to solve?

02:02:07.820 Our story.

02:02:09.140 Our story.

02:02:10.100 We have to tell our story.

02:02:12.620 It is why I started The Torch.

02:02:14.980 It is the last, most important thing I will do in my lifetime

02:02:19.280 is try to teach our story.

02:02:22.100 The American Story is out.

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02:02:29.500 with commercials and everything else, wherever you get your podcast.

02:02:33.080 But we are telling the story.

02:02:34.740 We are teaching history because that's the thing that will save us.

02:02:38.940 I'm not going to insult you with a number on, you know, what are the odds?

02:02:42.120 What are the odds?

02:02:42.720 I don't know.

02:02:43.460 I don't know.

02:02:47.280 Civilizations don't die of debt.

02:02:50.100 They don't die of bad demographics or foreign rivals.

02:02:54.420 Rome carried every one of these for centuries.

02:02:59.540 Civilizations die when they stop believing they're worth saving.

02:03:05.300 I told you this week, America has never lost a war.

02:03:13.540 It fought. It chose to fight.

02:03:17.300 We lose wars we choose to lose.

02:03:20.460 We lose the wars that we get bored with.

02:03:24.400 We lose wars that we lose our nerve on.

02:03:28.000 If we choose to fight, no one can defeat us.

02:03:32.400 Every single thing that is in that first column of the cons is survivable.

02:03:37.200 Not one of them is written in stone.

02:03:38.740 Not one of them is destiny.

02:03:41.120 The debt can be fixed, but you have to have people willing to choose the hard things.

02:03:45.080 History can easily be taught again, but you have to choose to learn it or teach it.

02:03:50.960 Faith can be rekindled, but you have to choose to seek it.

02:03:55.040 Rivals can be outbuilt.

02:03:56.400 We're the king of outbuilding our rivals.

02:04:01.440 The only wound that is on that entire board that is actually fatal

02:04:05.500 is the one that nobody can fix from the outside.

02:04:10.680 And that is the decision a people make

02:04:13.780 that they choose to be the villain of their own story.

02:04:20.480 And because they're the villain,

02:04:22.580 that their story is the one that causes all the problems,

02:04:26.740 it's no longer worth the fight, and we lose.

02:04:30.740 That is the one thing that killed every civilization that ever fell, ever.

02:04:36.560 And it's the only one that is entirely, 100% a choice.

02:04:43.900 So the odds of the West making it, you know, it's not a weather report

02:04:47.340 you sit around waiting to receive.

02:04:49.940 It's a vote, and you cast it with your life.

02:04:52.580 And there's only one choice.

02:04:54.080 Are we worth saving?

02:04:56.100 It's not a spectator sport.

02:04:57.480 You can't just say, you know what?

02:04:58.700 Yeah, I listened to talk radio today

02:05:00.020 and I heard Glenn Beckett and I choose that.

02:05:01.500 You got to actually do something about it.

02:05:03.040 If we remember our history on purpose,

02:05:05.880 we recover our moral source on purpose,

02:05:09.060 we choose liberty and truth deliberately

02:05:11.440 instead of just coasting

02:05:12.760 on what our grandparents handed us,

02:05:14.800 then the odds are very, very, very good

02:05:17.580 because we still hold nearly

02:05:19.700 every material advantage on earth.

02:05:22.580 But if we just stand here and fold our arms and go like, I don't know if we're going to make it or not.

02:05:28.860 Because that's the surrender.

02:05:30.320 That's the only thing that actually ended civilizations. 0.51

02:05:34.160 The barbarians been at the gate.

02:05:37.000 Them being at the gate have never been the thing that brought somebody down.

02:05:40.380 It was always the citizen inside who quietly decided, it's not worth defending.

02:05:46.720 So I challenge you as we get closer to our 250, don't be that citizen.

02:05:51.620 be the other kind, the kind that looks at both columns and sees the fire and picks up a bucket

02:05:57.360 anyway. Because that's who we really are, honestly. The only real question on the board

02:06:02.640 is whether we still remember how to pick up that bucket. Are we still willing to pick up that

02:06:07.940 bucket? Do we still have the passion for what's on fire right now? And I, for one, am betting we do.

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The Glenn Beck Program - June 12, 2026

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