Glenn Beck joins me to talk about the importance of compassion and understanding the world around us, and why we should all be better at it. He also talks about the horrors of the Weimar Republic, and how important it is to be compassionate and open to other people. Glenn Beck is an American conservative commentator, pundit, and radio host who has been a part of the conservative movement since the early 1980s. He is a frequent guest host on conservative talk radio shows and radio talk shows, and is one of the most influential conservative voices in the country. He is also a frequent contributor to conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard, National Post, and National Post Magazine. Glenn also hosts the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on SiriusXM Radio and is a regular contributor on Fox News Radio and conservative talk show host on the conservative network Glenn Beck Radio and TV. Thank you for listening to the Glenn Beck show. Please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms! I'll be looking out for your comments and thoughts on the next episode. Timestamps: 1:00 - What's good to go to? 4:30 - What is Good to Go To? 6:15 - Why we should be compassionate? 8:00 9:40 - What does God want us to do? 11:20 - How do we need compassion? 16:00- What do we can be compassionate in the world? 17: What should we do to make the world better? 18: What is a compassionate human being? 19:15 21: What are we all good to do in life? 22:00 | What is the best thing we can we can learn from the past? 27:30 | What can we learn from other people? 26:40 | What does the world have in a better place? 29:30 32:40 33:30 Is there something for us all of us? 35: What do you have to do to better ourselves? 36:20 | What are you going to do with that? 37: What would you want? 39:00 + 35: Is there a better way to be a better country? 40:20 45:00 Is it possible to be kinder than a better version of Jesus Christ? 44:00 Do you have a better God?
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00:00:02.000I'm joined today by one of my heroes, actually,
00:00:28.000Someone who has been listening to since I was a kid, on and off.
00:00:33.000Mostly via my parents and others who pointed me to him.
00:00:39.000And now I've had a chance to meet him and befriend him.
00:00:43.000And one of the things I love about him is that he's...
00:00:47.000It's two things about him that I think are...
00:02:17.000You know, as he says, the last line is, with terror and slaughter, the copybook headings return.
00:02:26.000And the copybook headings were, you know, what you used to, when I was a kid at least, you'd have, you know, it'd say, water is wet.
00:02:33.000And it would be in a cursive handwriting and you would have to just keep writing water is wet until you got it right.
00:02:40.000And those were all truisms that no one could argue with.
00:02:43.000And we're just, we've completely detached from them.
00:02:47.000Uh, and we have, uh, entered a world of social media that has captivated our children, uh, and taken them down a road along with our schools that is just, I wouldn't want to be a 16 year old kid right now.
00:04:02.000We are all, I believe, sent here to Earth to try to better ourselves and to wield the power that we all have.
00:04:11.000I mean, the thought, all thought is created.
00:04:16.000And so we have amazing creator powers within us.
00:04:21.000And to be able to wield that and still be compassionate, not ego-centered, and to really balance yourself as a human being, I think that's why we're here, to try to master that.
00:05:42.000The churches had already died and society went downhill.
00:05:48.000And at the end of the Weimar Republic, who comes in Hitler and he says, I can restore the glory of.
00:05:57.000And the churches were so dead inside, they no longer had compassion for people.
00:06:03.000Instead, what they had was, make it stop.
00:06:07.000And the first books that were burned were all the books on transgender and LGBTQ. And all the churches and everybody cheered and We're good to
00:07:20.000Because it is easy to preach to someone else's tribe, but much harder to preach to our own.
00:07:30.000And I think that One of the things I think, you know, frankly, you and I may share in common here is that I think our people who share the views you and I do understand that we see the problem, that you see the problem as it exists,
00:07:46.000and yet recognize that compassion is still the solution, and that that is actually practicing what we preach is the best way to actually lead out of our current It's the only way to lead.
00:08:01.000And I'm just as afraid of the extremes on my side or somebody else's side.
00:10:24.000How do you How do you cut through the assault on truth with compassion?
00:10:31.000Boy, if I knew that, we could solve all kinds of problems.
00:10:36.000But I will tell you, the harder you struggle, the...
00:10:46.000Perhaps the more important it is that you embrace the compassion.
00:10:52.000I also believe what's being taught in all media, and I include myself in the media, I'm not pointing to people, I'm pointing to conditions.
00:13:15.000And I'm sure there are things that she's heard, read, and things that I have said that maybe taken out of context has created something in her.
00:15:00.000And authoritarianism, fascism, communism, it's just evil.
00:15:08.000And the worst thing that can happen is that you get so...
00:15:14.000Your back is so against the wall and you've been wronged so many times and called so many names and they're destroying everything that you love that you become them.
00:15:27.000And I've got to stop you and you have got to be eliminated.
00:17:27.000But once you start adopting the method, which might seem like it's required to win, you lose the very thing that you were fighting for.
00:17:34.000That's why when when the left is afraid, for instance, if you knew and I'm sure the the leaders of LGBTQ and everything else, I'm sure when they say you're a turnout, just like the Nazis, they know what I didn't I'm sure when they say you're a turnout, just like the Nazis, they They know that story.
00:22:11.000If we can make this turn, we are going to be an amazing country.
00:22:18.000Unfortunately, as you know, the odds are stacked against us.
00:22:22.000We have all these elites that are putting in things that are really authoritarian in nature.
00:22:29.000ESG, the World Economic Forum, what's happening with AI should yes, should terrify people because we are at the place.
00:22:41.000If we don't make the right decision now, I do believe we will either be slaves of an authoritarian state that controls it all until it loses control of AI, you know, or we're all wiped out from it.
00:22:59.000But we are really, truly at a point humanity has never been at.
00:23:08.000I think we're at the, what is it, Fermi's dilemma, where he said the reason why we can't find extraterrestrial life is because they blow themselves up once they come up with nuclear, they split the atom.
00:23:21.000I think actually it is AI. I think this is the point where we're going to prove we are worthy to survive.
00:23:32.000Or it's all going to have to start over again.
00:23:35.000You know, in some ways, the conversation about social media earlier is, I think, the way in which, I mean, one of the chief dangers of AI is that you're saying we're not having that conversation anymore, the conversation equivalent of what you and your sister had after 15 years.
00:23:51.000AI might be the reason we're not having that conversation, actually.
00:23:55.000It's in a sense that's far more present right now where we created spaces that were supposed to imitate the conversations we have in life.
00:24:06.000And instead, the conversations we have in life started imitating the conversations we have on Twitter.
00:24:12.000And I think that that is, you don't have to look to the future to see the danger of that AI. It's picking at algorithms, picking at our own insecurities that cause us to change the way we once behaved even in the so-called real world.
00:24:46.000Reality is about to collapse on itself because of AI and the digital world that we're now entering.
00:24:55.000And when you have a reality collapse, how are you going to trust anybody?
00:25:00.000I think this election you're running in what Tristan Harris calls the last human election.
00:25:08.0002024 will be the last, and I could make an argument that we've already passed this, but the one that will be obvious will be 2028, where AI is so good and it has become personal.
00:25:28.000The social media went for engagement, but AI is actually going for intimacy.
00:25:38.000So it wants to develop a relationship so your engagement never ends.
00:25:43.000And it will become your friend, your spouse.
00:25:47.000Mark my words, we will have the argument very soon that, why are you judging me?
00:25:53.000Because you're saying that my spouse is not alive?
00:25:56.000It's AI. She's as important to me as your wife is.
00:26:00.000And that will slowly can be manipulated to slowly manipulate you to move one way or the other, to vote one way or the other.
00:26:14.000We lose the idea or the real meaning behind free will.
00:26:19.000Did I decide that or was I manipulated to do that?
00:26:24.000And I think that is coming as soon as 2024. How do you inoculate yourself against that?
00:26:31.000Because you could point to the AI, but it only works insofar as it's able to pick on insecurities or uncertainties grounded in truth.
00:26:43.000That you were open to being manipulated in the first place.
00:26:46.000And I think there's two sides to the coin, so I'm not denying what you said, but I'm wondering whether it's also just an occasion to look in the mirror and say, yeah, I mean, how did Mark Zuckerberg, he found it hot or not before he founded Facebook?
00:26:57.000That was the predecessor, sort of picking at human impulses, human insecurities.
00:27:02.000That's what gets us to Instagram, you know, affects now teen girls' body image issues.
00:27:08.000Part of the blame could rest at the feet of Instagram and the algorithms that it uses to create projections of images that cause teen girls to feel that way, but there's a second half to the coin.
00:27:19.000The other side of the coin is how do we address the insecurities within that leave us full enough of purpose that would leave us immunized?
00:27:29.000That's the vaccine, if you will, against the virus, if you will, and maybe we can think about that Version of the problem, and we have something more within our own power to address.
00:27:40.000When you introduced me, you gave me far too much credit.
00:27:54.000I try really hard to say what I mean and mean what I say because I've already lost my soul once through my alcoholism and I don't want to lose it a second time.
00:28:06.000But the thing that I think you might be picking up on is vulnerability.
00:28:27.000I know what's true and what I'm willing to do and not do because of eternal principles.
00:28:35.000And when you know that, you're secure enough in yourself where you can be vulnerable and say things like I'm an alcoholic or say things like I told you.
00:28:46.000Most people, I'm talking to Stu, who you know is my producer on the show.
00:28:52.000He said to me today when I came in and I talked about it on the air, he said, I would have never said any of that stuff.
00:29:58.000You know, the thing I'm saying, Glenn, is as long as, and I'm reflecting on, is for as long as we have a boundary between the online world and the offline world, in the offline world, we better darn well figure out How we fortify that hole inside, because that's the last best chance.
00:30:17.000What you described is not, I mean, that's a future that's coming.
00:30:19.000But I think fortification of the actual soul and the purpose and meaning that we starve for, that might be our last best chance to protect ourselves.
00:30:29.000And maybe I'm in a mood, I came from a room full of pastors here in Iowa, where we spent the last two hours talking about, you know, faith and the loss of it in our country.
00:30:39.000But Boy, it makes me think that we don't...
00:30:44.000It's like the analogy was when the Israelites are lost in the desert, right?
00:30:48.000They go back and bend the knee to the Pharaoh.
00:30:50.000Maybe we don't just complain about the Pharaoh.
00:30:52.000Maybe we ask us what it is that makes us want to bend the knee.
00:30:55.000And that might actually be our closest path out because we're not going to change whether the Pharaoh's there or not.
00:31:01.000I think we're both in the same maybe headspace kind of today.
00:31:05.000You coming out of that and me coming out of what I am.
00:31:12.000I really like your candidacy, Vivek, because you're talking about the real issues, not the bullcrap Republican-Democrat issues, but the things that we all know are wrong and the common sense things to fix them.
00:31:34.000We've entered this world of experts and And this has been by design.
00:31:41.000It started, you know, back around the turn of the century and Woodrow Wilson.
00:31:44.000He wanted experts to run everything because we're scientific.
00:31:50.000And we have gotten to the place where it's follow the science.
00:32:21.000But books from so-called experts are giving us all of the advice, and we take it as absolute gospel...
00:32:31.000While dismissing the actual gospel and dismissing those things that are inside ourselves.
00:32:38.000We keep belittling ourselves and giving it to the experts.
00:32:43.000And I would ask Vivek, and this is what I like about you, is...
00:32:49.000You know, there's a reason to talk to experts, but you talk to experts and you take the best of what they have to say and the things that make sense, challenge those things that you don't understand, and maybe they clear up that, and you leave behind the stuff that you don't think they have right.
00:33:11.000You, the individual, makes the decision.
00:33:14.000Instead of saying, well, the experts tell us that inflation is not real, that it's just transitory, and they now tell us, the people who created this transitory situation, they now tell us we should do X, Y, and Z to make sure it doesn't get worse.
00:33:32.000Tell me the last time an expert was held up by the government or mainstream media that has been right.
00:33:44.000And what does right even mean if that's maybe correct, even if it wasn't the correct methodology for settling a question that was actually normative?
00:33:53.000And they always say, do you have a degree in that?
00:33:57.000No, that doesn't mean I'm a moron that I don't.
00:34:44.000Yeah, and so was Thomas Jefferson, and so was everybody else that invented the things that they weren't supposed to invent.
00:34:50.000Glenn, you give me inspiration every time we talk.
00:34:53.000And I am so grateful that you took some time even knowing what you're going through.
00:34:59.000But I think it is actually helpful to everyone who you will touch for you to be as open as you have been, because you're not the only one going through what you're going through.
00:35:12.000And it is a service to the country to be able to at least actually be willing to share it, because so few people are.