The Glenn Beck Program

Glenn's 'Disclosure Day' Movie Review: Is It All a PSYOP?! | Guest: Bill Cloud | 6/12/26

133 min
Jun 12, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

Glenn Beck examines generational resilience, arguing that today's youth—despite anxiety and challenges—are the most disciplined in American history. He reviews Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' film, warning of potential psychological manipulation through fear narratives, and discusses how Christian podcasters are being seduced by Russian Orthodox ideology promoting Russia as a divine restrainer against Western evil.

Insights
  • Current generation alpha shows measurably better health outcomes (lowest drinking, drug use, birth rates) than predecessors, contradicting cultural narratives of decline and weakness
  • Fear-based media narratives (predictive programming, cultivation theory) can prime populations to accept authoritarian control and major societal shifts they might otherwise resist
  • Dugin's theology reframes Russia and Islam as God's instruments to destroy the West, seducing Western Christians through eschatological language while promoting alliance with Iran and hostile regimes
  • Civilization collapse is not inevitable from debt, demographics, or rivals—only from internal loss of belief that the society is worth defending and saving
  • The gap between what media reports (poverty, crime, decline) and measurable reality (extreme poverty down 66%, child mortality down 92% since 1990) reveals systematic fear-selling over truth-telling
Trends
Rise of eschatological narratives in geopolitical strategy: Russia/Iran framing conflict as prophetic end-times battle to attract Christian supportersGenerational health metrics improving while cultural anxiety increases: disconnect between objective wellness data and subjective fear in media consumptionEntertainment-government collaboration deepening: Pentagon/CIA liaison offices shaping Hollywood narratives to pre-load public acceptance of policy shiftsChristian influencer vulnerability to anti-Western ideology: podcasters adopting Russian Orthodox theology as alternative to perceived Western decadenceAlgorithmic cultivation of mean-world syndrome: heavy media consumption correlates with overestimated threat perception and openness to authoritarian solutionsDebt-to-GDP trajectory unsustainable but politically invisible: trillion-dollar annual interest payments normalized without public discourse or accountabilityHistorical literacy collapse as civilizational risk: 13% proficiency in US history among 8th graders creates vulnerability to competing narratives and ideologiesAI arrival coinciding with lowest social trust: concentration of unprecedented power during maximum polarization and institutional distrustGlobal poverty reduction as suppressed narrative: 1.1 billion people lifted from extreme poverty in 30 years receives minimal media coverage vs. crisis narratives
Topics
Generational resilience and youth mental health statisticsSpielberg's 'Disclosure Day' film analysis and narrative framingPredictive programming and entertainment-government collaborationCultivation theory and fear-based media psychologyAlexander Dugin's Russian Orthodox geopolitical theologyCatechon doctrine and end-times eschatology in geopoliticsChristian susceptibility to anti-Western ideologyNational debt crisis and interest payment trajectoryHistorical literacy decline and civilizational vulnerabilityGeneration Alpha health metrics and behavioral dataArtificial intelligence concentration of power risksGlobal poverty reduction and development metricsSocial trust decline and institutional legitimacyFISA renewal and intelligence agency oversightDisclosure narratives and UFO/extraterrestrial disclosure strategy
Companies
Paramount Pictures / Steven Spielberg Productions
Produced and directed 'Disclosure Day' film; subject of extended analysis regarding narrative framing and potential p...
Pentagon / Department of Defense
Maintains official entertainment liaison office that shapes Hollywood narratives in exchange for access to military a...
CIA
Collaborates with entertainment industry through liaison office to influence public narratives and shape understandin...
NASA
Received 1960 Brookings Institute report warning of societal destabilization risks from confirmed extraterrestrial li...
Plan Parenthood
Criticized for opposing ultrasound access to pregnant women considering abortion, contrasted with Pre-Born clinic model
People
Bill Cloud
Guest expert analyzing Alexander Dugin's Catechon theology and how Christian podcasters are being seduced by Russian ...
Steven Spielberg
Director of 'Disclosure Day' film; analyzed for narrative framing, potential government collaboration, and psychologi...
Alexander Dugin
Architect of Russian Orthodox geopolitical theology promoting Russia as divine restrainer against Western evil; influ...
John Calhoun
Conducted Universe 25 mouse utopia experiment demonstrating societal collapse from comfort without struggle or purpose
George Gerbner
Developed cultivation theory showing heavy media consumption creates mean-world syndrome and increases susceptibility...
Robert Higgs
Developed ratchet effect theory explaining how crises expand government power that never fully retracts after crisis ...
Alan Watt
Popularized predictive programming theory explaining how entertainment pre-loads public with ideas before real-world ...
Orson Welles
1938 'War of the Worlds' broadcast used as case study of media-manufactured panic and newspaper industry competition
Ronald Reagan
1987 UN speech musing about alien threat as potential unifying force for humanity; cited as early government consider...
Emily Blunt
Lead actress in 'Disclosure Day'; praised for compelling performance portraying character channeling alien beings
Zach Brown
Announced commitment to perform at Trump's 80th birthday UFC event, framing participation as patriotism over politics
Quotes
"Greatness is not a personality that they had it was a choice that they made the moment the bill came due"
Glenn BeckEarly segment on generational resilience
"The mice didn't die because they ran out of something they died because they had everything every problem was solved every need was met every stressor lovingly removed"
Glenn BeckUniverse 25 mouse utopia analysis
"Civilizations die when they stop believing they're worth saving"
Glenn BeckFinal segment on national survival
"Watch the other hand watch the other hand admire the big eyed invaders in the movie go see the movie six clock show dinner at nine talk about the opening and the ending"
Glenn BeckDisclosure Day film analysis
"The only wound that is on that entire board that is actually fatal is the one that nobody can fix from the outside and that is the decision of people make that they choose to be the villain of their own story"
Glenn BeckClosing segment on civilizational survival
Full Transcript
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is on oh hello america welcome to the glenn beck program we're so glad you're here thank you so much it is friday and we've got a lot to talk about and i might even premiere a new song called soon the ballless rhino that i may come up it might come up it's friday you know you just never know what's gonna happen here 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 i mean i maybe it was just me but i can like wow really is that what we got going for us and and you worry about what's gonna happen next what i mean the next generation seems to be lost is it start there here in just a second first let me tell you about simply safe simply safe is you know is here to remind you it's a dangerous dangerous world out there and i don't mean that it's some abstract you know cable news this guy is falling kind of way i mean people are getting stabbed in broad daylight you know every time you open the news it feels like somebody 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carmelo anthony now the family is getting hate filled death threats sources connected to the trial have told tmz the metcalfe family have been receiving death threats since anthony was arrested but after tuesday's guilty verdict the family has been flooded with dozens of hateful messages across social media and text messages to their personal phones they obtain one of the hostile messages which says you're just mad because austin is no longer living yeah i think that would that's probably accurate they should have stabbed hunter too that's that's another son of the family didn't you beat megan too i blame you and then it's followed with the he f'd around and found out kind of makes you i don't know kind of makes you worried about the future let me play cut seven this is jasmine crocket listen to this if a 300 pound man is beating me like on top of me and beating me down i i'm not limited to to fist you know i would argue that even the only time we go into things like people's hands being considered deadly weapons is typically like if they're a professional boxer or that kind of stuff but i think by the time you start getting to like football player good argument good freaking argument we're not talking about like the golfers we're talking about football players right like this is what they are trained to do is to inflict like serious physical contact stop you know she's talking about she's talking about metcalf here but i just would like to remind you carmelo was also a football player so you got two football players is this is this is absolutely ridiculous and she first of all he wasn't sitting on top of him that didn't happen that didn't happen and she suggests later in this clip that she would stab metcalf herself oh okay great all these things that are happening you look at today's generation and there's a lot of people and i want to talk to the people who've given up on this generation because you know look i've been there i get it i really do i've been there you look at them with faces buried in a phone you hear the words you know anxiety and trigger warning and safe space and your you know somewhere in your chest a voice just says these kids are not going to survive i mean they are soft they're lost there's there's no way we are doomed and i want 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 let me tell you who these kids are the men who climbed out of the landing crafts at normandy the men we now call the greatest generation the men we build monuments to when they were boys their parents and their grandparents said exactly the same thing i mean word for word they said the same thing and i want to prove it to you we have forgotten that and forgetting is one of the most dangerous things we do so let me remind you in the 1920s and 30s the grown-ups looked at the rising generation and they said exactly the same these kids are soft they're never the automobile has ruined them jazz has corrupted them the movies the dance halls made them shallow and they're just their pleasure mad they're weak they have no discipline they have no future it's all gonna end okay we even at the time adults reached back to an ancient authority to to uh agree with us and the quote that everybody quoted at the time is the children now love luxury they have bad manners and contempt for authority and they were quoting that as from socrates it wasn't from socrates okay it was written in 1907 by a graduate student named kenneth freeman and he put socrates name on it because he wanted so badly and the society wanted old wise greek men to confirm that the kids today are are going to the dogs that's how deep this ran the urge to bury the young generation and this isn't the first time and it's not gonna be the last time and and you know at the turn of the century when parents and grandparents were talking about the what's now known as the greatest generation they looked for a 25 year old quote they made up a 2,500 year old quote okay every single time this happens every time we're wrong now I want you to look at what these kids were handed the men who stormed the beaches grew up in the great depression one in four fathers had no work there were bread lines around the block no prospects for any work on any horizon broken economy dropped in their laps by the mistakes of the generation before them sounding to sound familiar nobody looked at a 19 year old standing in a 1934 soup line and saw a hero they saw a problem they saw a burden and then the world caught fire and that soft loss good for nothing generation put on a uniform 16 million of them that's 12 percent of the entire country and they went more than 400,000 of them never came home and the boys that waited on to Omaha Beach they waited into machine gun fire they were 18 19 and 20 years old and here's the thing I want you to understand none of them were born to be great greatness is not a personality that they had it was a choice that they made the moment the bill came due crisis didn't expose them as soft it revealed who they had been the whole time underneath all of that contempt they just hadn't been given they just hadn't been given the opportunity so now I want you to turn around and look at today's generation the generation we're riding off today let me give you some numbers here that I think are pretty staggering when you hear news and it's bad news and you think we're doomed I just want you to remember all of this okay you think they're degenerate listen to this data by every indication they are the most sober most disciplined teenagers in the entire history of america record keeping okay teen drinking on high school students and high school seniors has fallen from 73 percent in the year 2000 to 42 percent binge drinking which everybody was saying was going to be the end of the world binge binge drinking you would expect all of this stuff to be through the roof binge drinking went from 30 down to nine the abuse of opioid pills among seniors in high school from nearly 10 at its peak to six tenths of one percent you're not having this problem with the teenagers teen birth rate just hit the lowest point ever recorded down roughly three quarters from its peak might have some other problems there but two out of three high school seniors didn't touch alcohol marijuana or nicotine at all in the last month that's not the fingerprint of a lost generation that is a generation quietly stubbornly refusing the poisons the wrecked the ones before it and here's what they have in common with the boys in 1944 because it's everything okay both generations were handed a broken world by their own parents and grandparents and they were blamed for the wreckage one inherited the crash in the dust bowl this one is inheriting the debt hollowed out institutions that nobody trusts anymore and a glowing rectangle that is engineered by the smartest people alive to capture their attention and never give it back both came to age at a time when the old order was cracking apart so I wanted to start the show today before we get into anything if you believe that history runs in long cycles that roughly every every 80 years at hands a young generation of crisis and dares them go ahead rebuild it then the clock is telling you something it's telling you it's their turn now yeah a lot of these kids are anxious and not going to wave that away because it's real and it matters but ask yourself honestly would would would you be anxious if you were there their age if you were just growing up and you didn't know all the things you knew but you did know all the things that they do know and say do know and see every day would you would you have a little anxiety because I would and it's not a weakness I think it's a generation that can feel the weight of what is coming and hasn't been given the tools yet or the trust to carry it the boys in 1938 they weren't calm either don't mistake the trembling before the test for failing the test I wanted to give you some hope today I'm gonna I'm gonna give you some stats today during the show that I think you'll find remarkable I'm doing something later on today on do we survive because that that's a question that is asked to me all the time so what do you think do we I mean how are we gonna survive are we gonna do this I'm gonna show you some stats I mean the bad is bad but can we focus on the good that we have going for us right now because there's a few things so if you are young hear me on this I know what people say about you I know what you've heard your whole life that you're fragile you're addicted you won't amount to anything that came before you I'm telling you with the receipts in my hand they're wrong they're wrong and they always have been wrong about every year every generation that ever rose you come from a long line of people who were underestimated right until the day they became legends and you don't have to wait for a war to find out who you are and here's the one gift I can give to you that I wish somebody would have given the greatest generation the thing nobody thought to say nobody stood up back in 1936 and looked at a scared kid in a bread line who had every reason to be afraid look up in the eye say I see you I see you I know you are world is going to ask everything of you and you're going to be equal to it you're going to be fine you're actually going to be remembered as the greatest generation I wish every high school student in America could hear that they had to find out who they were the hard way alone in the dark under fire on a foreign beach without anyone saying to them except maybe their military leaders who were feeding them steak the night before they went into battle like a condemned man so I want to do for them what nobody did for the previous generation say it before the fire instead of after after I believe in you I want you to find somebody who is in that coming greatest generation say the same thing out loud while it still counts say I believe in you you're not the generation that is is a coward you're not you're not a generation you you have something happening in your generation I don't know what it is but you are the generation that it's about to be asked to build and I think that when the moment comes you're going to be the greatest one yet and to the adults who have lost faith I get it but that's our job not to diagnose them but to believe in them out loud the way somebody should have believed in the boys on the beach back when they were still kids look what they turned into when no one had faith in them and I mean do this research yourself it's amazing no one had faith in the greatest American generation everyone thought the country was going to be over because they're too weak they're too pathetic they don't know how to work hard they don't know any of those things somehow or another that generation found it and I'm telling you now I think this generation is going to find it too we're in good hands we just need to believe in them and we have to help equip them give them some information and knowledge that they need but the first thing that has to happen is just tell them I believe in you I see who you are I see you I know who you are I believe in you all right back in just a second let me tell you about relief factor summer is here next time the kids or the grandkids are out in the backyard throwing water balloons at each other soaking everything in sight driving the dog crazy laughing like lunatics why don't I join them have some fun if the answer is I can't because I hurt too much it's time to change that I want to give give you a tip here and please take it under strong consideration try relief factor it's a hundred percent drug-free research-based supplement designed to help support a healthy inflammatory response addressing the pain at the source instead of just masking it over a million people have tried relief factor two-thirds 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and um a young mom and hard worker and i just love her to death just brilliant i told her this story she said may i write it so she writes it and it's brilliant we never did an audiobook people asked over and over will you do an audiobook audiobooks take so much time to do it was hard for me to find time but we've put an audiobook together and here's just a little bit of the prologue listen they were next door now hide them the husband yelled without hesitation the wife placed her hand on her daughter's shoulder turned her around and shoved her into the bedroom the husband sprinted through the front room removing all traces of the children and wedging the unfinished toy sword underneath the couch cushions with the crying baby still clinging to her chest the wife flung open the doors of their old ward robe violently whipped clothes aside to make room and yelled to her daughter ember get in still holding her boy in one arm she grabbed her daughter by the waist and forced her into the wardrobe she handed her the baby saying quiet him you have to quiet him the wife looked at her children tucked into the wardrobe and placed her hand over her mouth to stifle the scream that was rising in her throat we it's called chasing embers it is a dystopian look at the future where the kids have to save history they have to save the actual story they're searching for the actual story this is set in the future in what was america but america is is barely known all of history has been erased by the algorithms and giant corporations and you know whomever you one could say progressives but we don't necessarily name anything and what i've done is you know mcaleb and i have hidden history lessons all the way through because that's what the kids are trying to save they're trying to piece together who this country was who these people were who they are where do they come from um and all the while they are being hunted literally hunted by uh the the giant corporation that kind of controls this dystopian future um it comes out in a couple of weeks you'll be able to get the prologue today and then chapters one and two next week and then the whole book the week after you get them for free right now if you are a torch member just go to torch 250 torch 250 dot com and sign up for the torch we have so many things do we also have do i have time sara to play the uh no i'm hearing the music so i don't have time um also the next episode of the american story is out which takes literally uh probably 30 hours to produce one episode um and longer than that just to write it with nathan nipper um it's a great way to learn history we've got to equip the youth with our history if that we can restore the story of who we are i'm telling you nothing will stop this generation and they're facing a lot but you know what there was an experiment with rats that tells us everything we need to know i'll tell you about that next first let me tell you about uh rapid radios remember when a walkie 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they ship fast from their headquarters in michigan it's rapidradios.com rapidradios.com rapidradios communication redefined coming up it's friday and glenn yes our glenn is providing hope through a story about rats yes rats stay with us on the glenn beck program so i want to talk to you about the problem with our society and the opportunity for our society you know what is the one thing you if you hate the most about what's happening in our society i despise the fact that everybody is a whiner there was like oh it's so hard i'm never gonna make it and i know i sound like the old guy get off my lawn i know i get it but hear me out for a second every trouble that i've ever had in my life every trouble everything that my my father he was so wise my father you know taught me you sit around and whine about it or you make the adjustments you need to make and then find a way to learn from that and grow from that and use that okay i think that's the secret of life you can either let life crush you or you can allow it to motivate you and go you know no no no i'm getting back up again i'm not staying down nobody nobody can put their thumb and keep me down and when you have that it's really hard especially when you're young but once you start doing it once you really start you have to do it smartly you can't just be a bully about it um but once you really figure this out everything can change everything can change and i want to show you why this hardship that everybody's going through is good it doesn't mean look i remember i was absolutely flat broke i was divorced i was a recovering alcoholic barely holding on nobody wanted to work with me uh you know you name it i had screwed it up in my life okay and i would never want to go back to those days however in retrospect that's the biggest growth i ever had that those days are what changed me and made me into the man i am today without those days i don't know who i'd be but i wouldn't be sitting here with you so let me let me prove this out with science okay 1968 scientists uh get uh comes out and he's decided he's going to make utopia not for people but for mice and rats okay his name was john calhoun he worked at the national institute of mental health and he wanted to answer the question that i think should interest all of us what happens with a society when every problem is removed when everything becomes easy i g i can't imagine why that's relevant today in america arc everybody has it's so easy and we're all complaining oh it's so hard oh my gosh go somewhere else in the world and look okay sorry he just became the old man yelling at this the sky again um so he builds this paradise it's a a mouse world unlimited food water that never runs out no predators no disease perfect temperature endless nesting material every danger every want every stressor that a mouse has ever faced in the history of mice completely gone the only thing he gives them besides protection was each other and time now he called his last experiment universe 25 and the number matters because it was the 25th time he had built one of these little gardens of eaves and edens for mice and rats okay and it ended the same way first 24 already told him where the story goes but he thought i'm gonna try it one more time he drops in eight mice four males four females and at first it's mouse heaven okay they breed the population doubled about every 55 days um and he called this the strive period uh it was heaven and it was working exactly as denied or designed but by day 300 or 315 something like that there were more than 600 mice thriving in a space that he had uh built to hold nearly 4 000 so they have plenty of room to spare they have absolutely everything it is mouse heaven that's the peak something starts to go horribly wrong growth slows for no physical reason there is they they can't figure it out all of a sudden and in every all 25 experiments exactly the same thing okay this the thing that none of the researchers counted on there was no territory to defend there's no predator to escape there's no scarcity to overcome there's no role left for a mouse to fill and a creature with no role no struggle no purpose starts to come apart the males who had nothing to fight for either turned violent or vanished into apathy let me ask you something what's happening in our society right now the males the young males that have nothing to fight for they either are turning violent or apathetic then you have the moms the mothers stop mothering they abandoned their young they began attacking their young they forgot about their children the whole intricate social order that made a mouse a mouse completely dissolved in 25 identical experiments 25 times it happens at the same time then came the most haunting part of the experiment i think there's a new kind of mouse that appears this mouse didn't fight they didn't court they didn't mate they didn't compete they wouldn't engage with others at all they they ate they slept they groomed themselves endlessly perfectly i mean their coats were sleek and flawless they were unscarred because they'd never been in a single struggle before and they started paying attention to what they looked like and and grooming themselves by every outward measure they were the healthiest best-looking mice in the universe the calhoun in the experiment after 25 times of this happening called them the beautiful ones he called them the beautiful ones but as he also noted they were already dead inside they were alive they were fed they were immaculate and utterly and completely empty inside so what happens population this thing is belt i think it said for 4 000 population peaks at 2200 barely half of what the space could hold and then the population begins to decline may i ask what's happening with our birth rate what is happening with our population on day 600 in a world still overflowing with food the last baby is born day 600 after that nothing not one more mouse not ever and on day 920 the last mice the last of the mice dies in paradise and universe 25 becomes the 25th tomb and in that tomb the bowls are still full the water is still flowing there's plenty of there's plenty of stuff to make a home for yourself calhoun in the experiments as it starts to fall apart he pulls out some of the beautiful ones and he puts them in a fresh clean world with normal mice to see if they could come back they couldn't they had forgotten how to be mice there was never any recovery of any of the mice when he wrote the paper and he's writing about paradise he didn't title the paper paradise he titled it death squared and the reason why he titled that is because there are two deaths the first death that comes first can you guess death of the spirit the death of the body comes later it just makes the death of the spirit official i'm tired of people not being honest i'm tired of people playing games i'm tired of people trying to win i'm tired of people you know trying to position them whatever so let me be honest with you the way i want people to be honest with me because the internet has turned us into something um we aren't is is not something we should want scientists argue about what this mouse utopia really proved it wasn't overcrowding the place was half empty when the rot set in mice are not men you can't draw a straight clean line from a rodent pin to a human civilization i'm not going to pretend you can but you strip away every argument and one fact still sits there and just will not move the mice didn't die because they ran out of something they died because they had everything every problem was solved every need was met every stressor lovingly removed it was a the ultimate safe space and it killed them take away the struggle and it turns out you've taken away the very thing that was actually holding them together you know we are always we're always our best in struggle you know something happens pearl harbour we come together and we kick somebody's ass uh 9 11 happens and to quote toby keith will put a boot up your ass okay when something bad happens a tornado or a hurricane or an earthquake happens and we rush together to help that's who we are and and we can't look away from that we also can't look away that society is trying to take and make us the most comfortable people to have ever drawn breath and that's not necessarily good we have injured engineered away more friction and risk than any other human in history and it is a genuine triumph it is i'm not romanticizing hunger or hardship those are real evils worth fighting but the experiment whispers a warning only a fool would ignore comfort is not the same thing as flourishing a life with nothing left to overcome is not a paradise it is a slow and beautiful surrender eventually to death notice which societies on earth are the safest richest most frictionless ever built and notice that those are the exact societies quietly deciding not to have a next generation the mice in abundance stop making mice but here's where the story for me changes and stops becoming prophecy and becomes a choice because there is one thing those mice could never do that you can do today a mouse can't sit on go you know what i'm going to give my life meaning life is more than endless cheese it can't choose the hard road when the easy one is sitting right there it can't invent a purpose out of thin air you can you can pick up somebody else's burden that nobody's forcing on you you can build the thing that maybe doesn't need to be building but need to be built but you can build it you can have the child you can take the harder job you can serve the cause you can fight the fight you can fill a role that no one assigned you you know i think about that that guy who uh he and his wife uh aborted their baby because of down syndrome do we happen to have that audio let's play the audio this is 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 really okay listen listen to this uh yeah seria do let me see if i can find it i'm sorry um where is it is towards the bottom yeah 17 cut 17 uh yeah of course i'm glad my dad didn't terminate me um but i'm normal so do you hear that yeah somebody asked him are you glad your dad you're glad you're alive and your dad didn't abort you yeah of course i am but i'm normal the cavalier attitude and i i contend this had nothing to do with the child it had everything to do with his life it had everything to do with his wife's life they wanted an easy life they didn't want a trouble a troubled child they didn't want to have to deal with a mess welcome to the mouse kingdom every living soul needs purpose find yours they need something to strive for strive for something and we have a very very bright future ahead stop looking for the easy path all right back in just a second let me tell you now about uh our sponsor this after half hour it's chapter i 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overwhelmingly agreed you must share this with the national audience it's too good i'm just saying john you could pass the save act you could you could will you know because you're thune the ballast rhino that's why we'll get into this here in just a second first let me tell you about super sure i spent a lot of time around entrepreneurs one thing i learned uh is that business owners will gladly take you know they'll take just about any challenge and they'll work 80 hour work weeks they'll solve problems nobody else can solve the figure figure out the payroll in the inventory and the hiring the customer service the taxes and a thousand other things but when they sit down to shop for business insurance they suddenly they look like somebody who's just opened an ica box with the instructions missing you know it's like i'm not gonna have all the screws or i'm gonna have too many i don't know how to put this together a finding insurance sucks that's why i want to check out super sure super 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it is the world premiere of thune the ball is rhino you have it are we not playing it are we playing it jason here is thune the ball is rhino okay thank you oh he walks in big talks like a king but the room stays cold when it's time to bring he points at the board then ducks to fight all suit no spark in the words all bite he says i got this then shifts the blame the same old grin with the different names say it loud say it plain you had the chair but lost the game too much pose not enough drive you keep the crowd but you never arrive through the ball is rhino you don't get it done through the ball is rhino always on the run you make a big scene then fold up small through the ball is rhino i got balls at all okay all right all right all right that's enough uh there you go yes ricky is it any wonder we never get any interviews of note from the swamp any wonder at all you know what to miss on a john thune interview i'm happily playing that i'm happily playing that he has nothing to say that i need to hear you know he's a ball is rhino anyway you're gonna let me be in dc you could take that track right to his office and just like blast it through the halls we got to do that oh my gosh thank you for that i will be in dc soon thank you for that idea i mean i mean i i may need i may need enough copy i may need a hundred copies let's just leave it at that i don't know what hundred people i could give it to but i might need a hundred copies all right i saw a disclosure day steven spielberg's new film last night uh and it's it's good it's very good it's you know steven spielberg it's not his bed everybody's like oh it's the best film he's ever made no it's not it's not but not his best is still better than most movies that are out okay so it's worth seeing with that i'm not gonna blow anything but with that some moments in this are just downright stupid the kind to make you question if spiel did spielberg see the final edit of this you know and when you'll know it when you see it because there are a couple of jar jar binks level stupid calls in this movie you know grown adults hiding behind a leafless bush in a split rail fence while being hunted the people are on the other side of the fence and they're just crouch down behind a split rail fence and a bush with no leaves you know or they're hiding behind a rock literally about seven feet away they had a chance to escape but they wanted to see what happened so they're standing behind this rock while everybody's searching for him was like please did spielberg watch this movie anyway in the end you'll find the the alien's more believable than some of the humans but go see it that said that's the worst of it and it's only a couple of scenes you know quickly they go by you're just like oh come on um but here's what i recommend if you want your money's worth uh don't go out and watch the nine o'clock show or the eight o'clock show you know go to dinner and then go and reverse that go to the six or seven o'clock show and then go have dinner and invite some friends that you know can think invite some friends to go with you and go see the movie then sit down at dinner and then because i'm telling you the real the real story is not the one on the screen it's the conversation that that movie will make will just pull right out of you okay um it opens and no spoiler alert needed here it because the opening scene is the world is at def con two one step from the the brink you know it's a sub sub sub sub sub sub plot or is it i think the movie would say yes but i'm not so sure but um def con two in case you don't know only time in american history we've ever had it is strategic air command has confirmed def con two only one time in our history and that's the cuban missile crisis in 1962 def con one is we're at full war nuclear war um def con two is without going to war it is when everything the rockets are juiced and ready to take off all the planes that need to be up in the air are in the air we just have to call them back it's that kind of thing most people i think in the theater missed what happened at the end and i won't tell you what happened at the end but the disclosure is over the chases you know take over the whole movie um and that opening fear of def con two kind of vanishes by the final credits it's there and it's not sloppy writing i think it's misdirection it's the magician's other hand the story tells you what you're supposed to fear in the first five minutes and then walks you right past it while you're staring at a spectacle okay now in reality if and i don't believe this is what's happening here but people are like this movie and it's just softening up if this movie was built to soften you up for disclosure then the ending is really important and you might miss the whole point on what the government would want you to do in case of disclosure real or a scyop okay there's also in the movie a religious angle that uh i'm not i'm not really sure i'm all that comfortable with um i mean i am comfortable with it being presented the movie the way it was presented it's just these are all conversations we have to have okay um and this what this this part is you know more to the surface and it's pretty unavoidable and the question is if they if there are aliens are they from god now hold that thought because this is where the movie stops being entertainment and starts asking harder questions about the world we're actually living in and there's two theories that i think are worth mentioning here predictive programming and cultivation theory okay there is an old idea called predictive programming it was popularized by a researcher alan watt and the idea is that entertainment can preload the public with ideas you put concepts into films and shows and stories year in advance so when something similar appears in reality it feels familiar almost inevitable we've seen it with the x files okay yeah it's like an episode of the x files okay that that's what they mean preloading you so you you don't necessarily freak out i've seen instead when it happens you're like i've seen this before i've seen this movie before right now skeptics rightly point out that this can become a conspiracy lens that explains everything and therefore doesn't explain anything all right but you don't have to go full fringe to see something real here the department of defense or war and the cia have had an official entertainment liaison office for decades did you know that um they are they are brought in to help shape stories and it's not a shadowy conspiracy it's i mean it's it's out there you know they are they're given jets and bases and and technical advisors for their movies and in in exchange they shape the stories for the government and this is documented policy hollywood gets access government gets their understanding of influence okay now the second theory is cultivation theory this one was developed by a guy named george grubner and he was at the university of pennsylvania decades of research on this shows that now listen to this heavy media consumption doesn't just entertain it cultivates your sense of reality heavy media consumption what are most people doing eight hours every day they are scrolling and staring and consuming media this research shows that heavy viewers develop mean world syndrome where everything is a danger they overestimate the danger crime threats they become more fearful more dependent and more open to strong man measures fear cells fear shapes grubner testified in front of congress that fearful people are easier to manipulate and control psychologists have studied this for years and years and years repeated exposure to threats in media can desensitize or heighten anxiety depending on the framing so wars crisis existential threats stories in prime to to prime populations um and it primes them to accept changes they might otherwise resist look how our our country has been primed nazi nazi nazi nazi nazi nazi nazi nazi nazi what does that do that primes you to turn on your neighbor that primes you to excuse violence okay this isn't magic this is human psychology and it plays a heavy heavy role in our society and our culture today what so you know i don't i don't know if this is all of this stuff that you're seeing now with the ufo's if it's natural or being fed to us but we know stuff is being fed to us um through our algorithms intentionally also think about orson wells orson wells 1938 war the worlds what was the lesson we were supposed to learn from that we we were taught that war the worlds with with orson wells caused mass panic people fleeing into the streets believing martians landed blah blah blah but that's not true only about two percent of the country was even tuned in it was war the worlds and orson wells and the mercury radio theater was something that was it was up against the hardest show a radio show done by a vane trella quest charlie macarthur and edgar bergen i mean it's i know it's hard to beat it's hard to beat it's like lauren's wealth we're being beaten by a guy with an accordion yeah anyway two percent were listening to orson wells the panic was tiny it was real but it was tiny okay the legend that there was mass panic where did that come from listen to this newspapers newspapers who were losing advertising revenue to radio during the depression and newspapers seized the broadcast to paint radio as reckless and untrustworthy hmm you mean like the way cable news paints podcasters huh so the hysteria wasn't about public public gulability it was about one medium manufacturing fear to destroy a rival the lesson we supposedly learned was wrong the real lesson is always ask who profits from the fear president reagan um he said in nineteen i think eighty seven he was at the united nations and he said that all of our earthly differences would vanish if we would face an alien or an alien threat from the outside of the world okay a sitting president musing out loud about unity through extraterrestrial fear back in 1960 brookings the brookings institute um delivered a report to nasa on the implications of discovering extraterrestrial life and this is in the movie i mean it's they don't quote this but this is implied in the movie what they found in 1960 um they warned the government that if you talk about aliens and you confirm them it could destabilize our entire society it would challenge religious and cultural foundations and that leaders would you know should should carefully consider if they're going to release the information that's what this whole movie is about okay the fight between somebody who wants the information released and somebody who doesn't want the information released and which one is right this conversation is 65 years old and it happened in government buildings on the record in the 1960s okay we've been seeing a steady drum beat of disclosure that is happening i don't know what's real and what's not pentagon is releasing footage congressional hearings talk of and i'm quoting non-human uh biologics what a government who has been done not denying this for decades suddenly decides to open the door why and who profits from fear run a pure thought experiment here not claiming this is happening just asking what it could mean if disclosure narratives were suffering softening us up for a bigger narrative or something bigger actual disclosure okay what major permanent shifts in the western world might need a spectacular distraction we're we're living right now with rapid changes currency power governance let me tell you about the ratchet effect because this will explain it all we'll do that next first let me tell you about our sponsor the saff hour uh every piece of your life is connected right now to your banking your medical records your tax information your shopping all of it online all linked all at target and you think i'm careful yeah well you may not know something is wrong before it's too 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crisis expands government power we know that and even after the crisis passes the machine doesn't go back it only ratchets upward bigger wars change borders and currencies they don't have to be one outright they just need to last long enough for people to forget what life was like before and accept the new normal 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 all of this is under strain okay so we have all this competition protectionism realignments everything's about to change you feel it you feel it a dramatic external threat if it's real or amplified could unify populations it would justify new controls surveillance global coordination everything else would face resistance but if you could just bring everybody together now again this is a thought experiment i really don't believe this is what it's what it is i i i think disclosure day i don't think it's a government operation i think it's billberg he's a master storyteller who has his finger on the pulse and he sees what's going on he wrote a great story i think that's what's happening however he has collaborated with government entities to help shape narratives before the famous clinton denial i did not have sex with that woman that's steven spielberg okay the deeper point here is is not aliens it's vulnerability the only door any power human or otherwise needs is fear a person grounded in true faith history principles cannot be stampeded stampeded by flashing lights or headlights watch the other hand watch the other hand admire the big eyed invaders in the movie go see the movie six clock show dinner at nine talk about the open the opening and the ending what is this movie really about insane and just stay awake know what you believe lights in the sky are one thing the ratchet turning the shadows is another all right let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour our sponsor uh is pre-born deep inside of mom's 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best score ever I don't know so I I I walked into it thinking it's gonna be just you know the greatest movie you've ever seen in your life because Spielberg it's not it's a really good movie his you know top 10 is still one of the best movies of all time you know but really it's better than Jaws better than et better than Schindler's list I don't I don't think so I don't think so but it's good it's a really good movie 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 I got one more movie in me I have this story or do you think it's a completely opportunistic of the cultural moment that we're in I think it's impressive though that he was able to produce it direct it cast it like probably they do this what years two years in advance so like how the heck did this guy know right that it would release it's just the right moment when we're talking about it this I I tend to believe Jason and I go along with his theory that he did this in cahoots with the government you think so Jason you think this is a Psyop or he just he's just slightly in what do you mean he's in cahoots with the government well I I don't know what it is all I know is that I don't like it and I you know me back when this first came out I was all about what the government has on this stuff ever since that New York Times article I was like oh my gosh at this point with all the heavy heavy emphasis on Christians with them saying this is going to somehow make us question our faith based off of what no Christian I know thinks that but that's the message they're trying to push now my mind always goes oh I so I think that there will be those who question there if this were true you know this disclosure was made I think it would some would question 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 eye bug people then that is that that's that's not from God that's from Satan I think there will be a lot of people that would say this is from the devil and it would be very very bad 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 you know there's a quote at the beginning of and I didn't look it up but I'll bet you it's in the apocrypha does does uh can can you look up in Genesis real quick do a search in Genesis when God created man he said that they are the supreme being on this earth I don't remember the exact quote from the movie but but they make a big deal out of no no no a nun says no no no it's the supreme being on this earth what's it say Ricky do you have it didn't God say that he would didn't he say that he would give us dominion over everything right I've never read anything like that I could not remember anything I didn't do a search so Genesis 126 let us make mankind in our image so that they may rule over the fish and the sea and the birds in the sky is that what they're pulling from maybe I mean she quoted it but it was a you know it was it was a sketchy you know I was like I don't think I've ever heard that before but a lot of people who don't look at the bible or read the bible they won't know and they'll take that away but yeah I guess dominion over the fish and the sea make God and God make us in his image some people say that means you know because Jesus came down to get a body why does he have a body does he take that body and put it on a hanger when he's not using I mean I don't I don't understand the whole body thing if you don't believe God has a body and I know that's really weird but I mean you know some people believe that we are literally in his own image some people say that our spirit 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 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 see that one coming but all right Lord I'm with you I guess and you know and then the Lord would say a lot of God eight arms two little hugs immediately and it'll continue to be surprising but you know so I don't I don't know it to me that's not essential to my salvation what's essential to my salvation is Jesus is my savior he is the line of redemption and that's all I really need to know everything else is you know up in the air for me uh you know far as being locked into it when I get to the other side that's when I'll lock into it um but I think this would you know that they show in the movie somebody bowing down to the Emily Blunt character and she's just kind of channeling these beings what Jason would bow down to the Emily Blunt character if I know anything about him oh I know I I've met Emily Blunt I bowed out to her too I think I might have I will worship you now you met her what is she like yeah she seems non-woke she was she was super fun I met her briefly it was backstage she was dating Michael Buble at the time and uh they were on segues and they came in they were they played with the kids for a while I mean it was it was she was really nice she was very delightful I really liked her I'm mostly going for Emily no straight woman she is really you know best performance of her career probably probably she's really really good in this and the and what she's going through is she pulls it off to where it's completely believable it's completely it's a great story it's a great story but I just I I think the interesting part of this is taking it beyond the movie that's why I said get some smart friends don't go see this alone go see this with some friends that you like to talk to who you know and think um and then just say watch the movie notice everything you can in it and let's talk about it afterwards because we had a fascinating discussion on the way home in fact we were we had somebody else uh we had a bunch of people uh with us and I always have to have security so I actually had kicked security out of my car and said drive our friend's car behind us we're going to drive halfway home you know where we have to have the fork in the road and they go one way we go the other way because we wanted to talk after it uh and I thought I wish we would have had dinner after the movie not before because it's it's a great conversation starter it's fun to think about this stuff I'm I'm right now I'm just on this mission of trying to figure out what is their big I don't I'm just going to call it Psyop Psyop between Christians and this UFO community I don't know it it feels like they're specifically trying to do something specifically on people with faith and that's what's taken me off and I haven't 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 to appear to be a Psyop we'll stop making it appear so much like a Psyop with number one just a few days ago every single whistleblower person you know that's come out uh and their mother and including congressman everyone was in D.C. making a big disclosure uh you know uh you know pitch and I I was like wait a minute you guys picked this week just a few days before one of the biggest movies of the summer comes out specifically about the government finally doing a disclosure day I don't know to me it's just way too much and that could be favors to Spielberg I mean that could just be hey everybody's that could be favors to Spielberg it could be everybody just going hey look the movie is coming out everybody's talking about it let's make sure we ride that wave right now I mean sometimes you know sometimes it is just about the money and sometimes it's just about I can get my message out everybody's going to be paying attention to it you know if I ever wrote a sci-fi book with any aliens in it I'd be out saying I want my book to release right now because everybody's talking about it right now where you'd have a hard time getting an interview on the shows with a UFO book if you released it now you might have a better shot because people are talking about the movie and so it's relatable with Steven Spielberg's movie number one at the box office this weekend are aliens real we talked to author you know Jason Buttrill about his book aliens are up my butt Jason what do you think that's that's what would happen that's what would happen well glad it's not comfortable I can tell you that I bet it's not I bet it's not can I just switch topics I am so disappointed I have to say I hope he has I hope he's outplayed them but I think the president has been outplayed by stupid congress and I can't believe it I can't believe it but this the first time I've been I've looked at and gone I don't understand this move at all well no the Chinese and school thing that too but this one is really bad listen to this headline house rejects last minute extension for key faiza spy power amid bill poll day uproar or poll how do you say his name Ricky pollter poll day I don't know he's not going to be there for long so I haven't really worked on yes I know okay all right good so this guy is the guy who was picked by Trump to uh take Tulsi Gabbard's job as uh as the d and i director of national uh intelligence that's the guy who's over all of the intelligence agencies so congress and the senate they pitch a fit and they're like this guy doesn't have any experience at all and they say to the president the president wants faiza renewed they say to the president we're not going to renew faiza I mean what I when I hear that I hear the heavens open up and I hear angels singing hallelujah I mean that is the greatest thing I could ever hear you won't refer great you've been the ones pushing for it and saying we gotta have it gotta have it gotta have it gotta have it more important than save americac or anything else gotta have faiza gotta have faiza gotta have faiza gotta have faiza okay so I just I just nominated somebody that you feel so strongly that he's the wrong guy that you're rejecting faiza huh I don't believe you I don't believe you I would have if I were president I would have said oh okay good well so be it he's staying why were they so against this guy and they said we need somebody who has experience with the agencies you know what actually I don't want people with experience with the agencies maybe that's a good thing because they're very complex but you know what donald trump didn't have experience with the white house he was an outsider and look at what he did look at what he did yes he lost his way the first time he had to get his feet but donald trump and everybody around him tulsi gabard can brief this guy if he's smart and I don't know enough about him if he's smart he might be exactly the guy and seeing that the intelligence agencies start to put the squeeze on the senate and the house members and they're like no no no we can't have him that's exactly the guy I want exactly the guy I want and so what does the president do he bales on that guy and says okay we'll pick this guy and now they're willing to do the faiza thing oh really they're willing to do they're willing to give you the faiza renewal oh how brave of congress to do they were going to anyway they were going to anyway he should have exacted something else he should have said you know what go ahead don't pass he's staying unless you want to give me the save america act give me the save america act I'll replace him I still would be hesitant to do that but I don't think the president got anything except faiza they weren't going to cut faiza none of them would have cut faiza what did you do I really want an answer on that one because that one I don't understand all right back in just a minute patriot mobile the fight against leftism and all the dangerous things it stands for has only just begun our victories and our losses serve as a forge in which our character as a conservative people is shaped and tested 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it is if we choose to continue uh and our culture is evil i think it's pumping up poison myself we have to become people of god but we certainly don't need a christian prince to do it uh the lord has it you know in hand and um he's requiring his people to turn his face back to him if we do then we'll be saved if we don't well then you know all bets are off uh but it's as easy as that i don't need to go to somebody who is telling us like alexander dugin is russia is aligned with iran is there any doubt in your mind that iran is not a good place not one where jesus is like you know what sometimes i like to vacation in iran i just love the i love the clerics there i don't think so um dugin said also he would give nukes to any state that would not united states like capital state um any state that would actually help wipe the west off the face of the map take america on okay i don't think that's a friend you know that doesn't that doesn't sound like somebody i want to hang out with uh on my vacation but to each his own i guess i've been telling you about alexander dugin for a long time but now he brought up something just last week that i had not i had not heard about and it's the uh uh cat etch cat cat ket etch on i think i or the uh kate con i i don't know exactly how to promote pronounce it i'd never heard of it before there is a op-ed now at glenbeck.com written by bill cloud and he talks about what this is and you know alexander dugin and russia and what they really believe because you cannot get caught in this trap even the very elect are going to get caught in this trap and it's very very dangerous bill welcome to the program hi glenn's great great to be with you again thank you how do you pronounce this and what is kate katech on catacombe catacombe catacombe catacombe okay yeah well it's a it's a greek term actually and it's used by the apostle paul in a letter he wrote to the tesolonians and he's describing he who restrains or he who's holding back and so you know it's called the restrainer so that's what it technically means and what he's referring to is that the restrainer the catacombe is who or what holds back the man of sin from being fully revealed and so the assumption is made that the catacombe or the restrainer is a force for good and it's there to keep evil in check but apparently and this is i i just found this out last week too when i read the article by mr morrow that alexander dugin believes that the west i think we can include zionism and jews and that that they're the evil in the world that has to be restrained and so he is apparently applying the world of catacombe or the restrainer to russia to his vision of what russia should be that they are a god ordained instrument who with islam as an ally that they're in the world to overcome the evil as he sees it that is the west and the jews etc etc so that's what it that's where the idea comes from how do christians how are they getting caught up in this i mean you say to me hey you know who the evil is america you could convince me that america does great evil with its culture i i agree we are way off base with our culture we are we are an enemy of god in many ways but when you're looking to say okay we got to wipe that out and hey by the way let's partner with russia i begin to question you let's partner with russia and aran there's no way isa christian believed that at all ever how are they falling for this well just my opinion i guess is that you know a lot of christians just really don't know what the scripture says quite honestly um a lot of people don't take the time to study it a lot of people regurgitate theology and theology and i say this respectfully is not equivalent to the truth the theology is the study of god that that's always subjected to a man's opinion and in this particular case dugan is interpreting what paul said about the restrainer to and applying it to to russia in this case so i think that's how it happens it's it's generally a lot of people just really don't know what the scripture has to say they know what people say it says but they don't take the time to read it so i mean there's probably a lot of other reasons and people have their eyes on all the wrong things at this point in time including christians so that's just my thoughts last week i found out that dugan and his allies are are saying that the antichrist is going to come from the west from america and it's a jewish antichrist do you read that anywhere in scripture anywhere anyway in other words that there's going to be a jewish antichrist no i don't and the antichrist is coming from the west well i mean there are people who believe that but no i don't see that in scripture at all in fact all the patterns that we see in scripture seem to say that the antichrist is going to come from the east for instance nebuchadnezzar he is a prototype of the antichrist he was the king of babelon he's the one that came in and destroyed jesusland destroyed the temple he went mad for seven years he became a beast he made an image of himself and he is from the east and and so there's a pattern there so i could go on and on and that but all the patterns and seem to show that he's going to come from the east not from the west and isn't there's something about gog and maygog being persia and russia is any of that true well when i was reading about dugin saying that you know he believes russia is the restrainer and all these kinds of things and you know wanting to align himself with islam and how he believed that the restrainer the catacomb along with al-mahti we're going to lead this holy war against the west and overcome the jewish antimus uh the jewish missy and all these kinds of things that's when it you know my brain just really just was on overload and i begin to you know connect that idea to all of these different prophecies and one of them being there is this battle that is described in ezekiel 38 and 9 with gog of maygog war now let me just insert this real quick and what morrow said in his article is that dugin believes that this climactic battle that the catacomb and the and al-mahti is going to fight his arm again but i'm thinking if that happens and i say if he might be walking into what is described in ezekiel 38 and 9 so that is this confederation of it's a confederation of islamic nations but it uh the bible described or speaks to the chief prince of mishek and to volgog of maygog who comes from the far north and where israel's concerned the far north could be and include russia so you know we've talked people have talked about this all you know for centuries who is gog of maygog and certainly for in the last 50 60 70 years but when i saw this and that there's this man who's pushing this ideology and philosophy supposedly even you know to putin uh and how russia's destiny is to be the catacomb and to put down the west and to put down israel etc that's what i really thought maybe there might be something to this russia being allied with these islamic nations coming into the mountains of israel um that's that's pretty strong in my my my view so but now the the result will be of course that this invading force will be destroyed so bill i i mean i'm not asking anybody to believe that we're living in end times or anything but you know i just did some research let me see if i can find this it is shocking the number of people that actually believe that we um we are um possibly in the end times um let me see if i can find it um it's let's see here um you look at this it's not a fringe view according to pew 39% nearly four in ten say yes we're living in the end times evangelical christians say 63% but here's the crazy part about a quarter of people with no religious affiliation said yes to that as well nine percent of atheists say yes we're living in the end times um that's interesting yeah isn't that fascinating i found that absolutely fascinating um and you know i did some research on you know this has been happening since i mean the apostles thought jesus was coming back um but there are some things now that are unique that were not uh that are important pieces like for instance the re-establishment of israel important pieces of prophecy that we've now hit that make war rumors of war nations rising against race you know earthquakes famines all that stuff mean a little bit more this time would you agree or disagree with that i absolutely agree um if you don't mind let me give you this passage of scripture it's in hosea chapter six it says come and let us return to the lord he is stricken but he will bind us up he's broken but he will heal us after two days he revives us and on the third day he will raise us up that we may live in his sight so it talks about two days after two days something happens and on the third day basically he's just describing the messianic era when we live in his sight when the sire rules and reigns from jerusalem on the earth point being this a day with the lord is a thousand years a thousand years is as a day it's been two thousand years or two days since the messiah left and it was said that he will come again so we're coming to the end of that second day when he revives us on the third day he will raise us up so we're in that we're in that time we're at that threshold i 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 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 talked about and then you know let's bring it back to this philosophy or theology that duggan has which by the way embraces this idea that moscale is the third realm of the roman empire and supposedly according to their theology it's to be the last one so he believes we're in the last days too and he lines himself with iran and these are 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 that you know i know that there will be people who would disagree with that but when you've got nine percent of atheists saying we're living in the last days that's pretty strong that's pretty it's really remarkable um you know i've had atheists say glenn i can't describe there's no word to describe what's happening in the world right now except for the word evil and i'm like you're an atheist like i know i know i know exactly what i'm saying but that's the only way i can describe what i'm seeing right now i'm more in just a minute with bill cloud he is uh the shor sheen ministries founder jacob's tent fellow pastor and an expert on this and the comest guy you can talk to about you know end times uh theology bill cloud dot org is where you can find him my dad grew up in an era when people expected things to last you 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there's a lot to gain you know you say these things and you get you know big numbers etc etc and maybe they're lost that way and that may have played a role but i think this is a spiritual battle we're in and what keeps coming to mind is even the very elect will lose their way um and it's you know somebody asked me this morning it is are we at the peak of this and i think we are at the very beginning if it's if you think it's hard now give it some time um it's going to get very confusing on how to find truth am i wrong on that do you agree or disagree i agree in fact there are some well first of all you go to matthew 24 and all of the different signs that you know messiah said that we were to be looking for in the last days he leads off with this one don't be deceived and deception deception you know don't be deceived it keeps popping up when what he said and what paul said and what others said and so that's something that i 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 in fact if you read about the antichrist or the the one that we think is the antichrist it says that he casts truth to the ground he suppresses the truth so all of those things are that play into what you're saying and i i'm going to add this too at the risk of you know making somebody angry a lot of these podcasters are regurgitating theology again bad theology and that has confused them that has blinded them to what truly is the truth that's i feel very strongly about that and that's why they're being sucked into this thing it's really terrifying because some of these people have been friends of mine and you know if they can get lost i know i can get lost and it's it's really terrifying what we're what we're facing we just have to stay close to the lord um bill thank you so much for being on with me thank you for all that you do and thanks for the op-ed you find bill's op-ed on alexander dugan uh and what he is preaching you must understand these things or you will be lost you must understand these things you can find it at glenbeck.com right now and read it glenbeck.com bill as always thank you thank you glenn good bye so i want to leave i don't want to leave on it i don't want to leave you on a friday like oh well the antichrist i don't want to leave you there um because this is stuff that is we have to deal with and we have to think about it um whether you believe it or not it's not important other people do believe it and you know that can cause real trouble especially if you're dealing with people like uh russia and aran on this because they will follow through with what they believe is prophecy and that is a little terrifying i want to leave you instead on i'm gonna give you two i'm gonna give you two lists all the things that we have stacked against us and then i'm gonna do something nobody ever does i'll show you all the things that are stacked in our favor of survival we're gonna survive i don't 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this question all the time what do you think glen 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 any more information than you do um i might have a few more facts in my fingertips um but you know you feel it i feel it i don't know i don't know but men have gone through this before generally speaking uh when you get to this stage in an empire or in you know a country's uh this long in the tooth they don't usually survive they don't turn around but we can but i want to take an honest inventory here because i don't want you to i there's no reason to despair we have some really solid things going in our on our favor um but let's start i want to i want to break this up into two categories pros and cons it's my dad taught me to do confronted with a problem you're trying to find an answer to you know develop a pro and con list so let's look at the pro and cons let's start with the cons uh let's start with money first we are nearly 39 trillion dollars in debt first time since uh the year after world war two the we owe uh what we owe to the rest of the world is bigger than our entire economy now it's public and private both of them horrible we now spend more just on the public debt we spend 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 i i said we're going to spend a trillion dollars and every economist said when that happens we're a toast we're now spending over a trillion dollars and nobody's talking about it we borrow about 50 billion dollars every week just to keep our lights on that's not a healthy balance sheet for a country never been done before and that is a slow fuse and it's already lit and you know there's no memory nobody is nobody nobody is laying awake at night maybe five people in the country laying away going go our national debt is out of control and people should people should be paying attention how about this one our national report card only 13 percent of our eighth graders are proficient in history of their own country this is the lowest score of any subject they test why are we having so many problems because they don't 13 percent are proficient four in ten couldn't even rate or get a basic understanding of any document put in front of them what no country survives if you can't remember you can't defend what you don't know okay civilization that forgets its own story lost the argument before it even opens its mouth then there's the moral source lessened in less than 20 years the share of americans who call themselves christian have fallen from 78 percent to 62 while the number who are claiming that they have no faith at all has nearly doubled the birth rate now has dropped to 1.6 children per woman that's well-belonged well below the replacement number of 2.1 just to replace ourselves sit with that combination we are at the very same time losing the faith that built the thing and in the most literal sense not making the next generation to carry the thing and then you know and then the ideas there's a real resurgence of an old seductive notion that the west is not just flawed and can self-correct and be good but now we believe that it's an irredeemable evil that needs to be torn down instead of repaired because it just can't repair itself you know that liberty itself is a mask for oppression although those lies are have taken hold there is a genuine challenge from islamists the political ideology that wants to impose its rules by force you know if there's millions of muslims who came to the west because they wanted to escape that and now they're in it too add the lowest social trust we've ever recorded house divided against itself cannot stand i'm trying to remember who said that one and then the greatest of all wildcards artificial intelligence a gi asi most powerful technology in the history of all humankind arriving at the same moment of our lowest unity capable of concentrating power like nothing ever before nobody not the smartest person alive can tell you for certain how this ends okay if you just look at that column and that's what everybody wants you to look you would bet against us surviving every day i do this show every day and somebody asked me just this week how do you how do you stay happy and i'm like oh you think i'm happy no how do i stay happy i don't concentrate on that i spend my work day looking at all of those trying to find a way out but i have told you recently i am i i know you know the problems so i cannot live there i can't you shouldn't either a lot of brilliant people do um but i have to tell you no honest accountant ever looks at one column nobody who has ever put a pro and con list together that's not fair just to look at the cons you'll never you you're doomed if you always look at the cons so let me show you the side that they never put on the news okay there's a couple of things going our way ask americans whether global poverty has gotten better the last 30 years since 1995 everyone will tell you everyone will tell you overwhelming majority much worse it's much worse they're not just wrong they are wrong about the single greatest good news story in the history of the human race since the 90s more than a third of all of the people on earth lived in extreme poverty in 1990 a third of earth extreme poverty do you know what that number is today one in 10 we've gone from 30 30 percent to 10 percent in extreme that's more than one and a billion human beings climbing out of the worst poverty there is that's 118 000 people every single day climbing out of poverty 118 000 people climbing out of poverty every day for 30 years straight out of misery that everyone would have told you it's permanent and inevitable and there's not even a headline on it you know why because it doesn't make you afraid fear is what sells here's the second one for almost the entire span of human history roughly half of all children died before they grew up half 50 percent every mother who ever lived expected to bury half of her children today that number has fallen worldwide to four percent and it's been cut in half more than half since 1990 we are defeating the greatest grief the human race has ever felt in our own lifetime and no one's talking about it 200 years ago one in 10 people on earth could read today it's nearly nine in 10 except for America look at what's going on here in 1900 the average human being lived 32 years we're now well into our 70s none of this was an accident by the way none of this came from you know from the people setting fire to the system let me tell you about just generation alpha okay generation alpha people say and I did a monologue on this generation at the beginning of the show at the beginning of the show today you have to hear it they're the most sober most disciplined teenagers in the entire history of american record keeping the most teen drinking high school seniors 73 percent in the year 2000 it's 42 percent binge drinking 30 percent now it's nine use of opioid pills among seniors went from nearly 10 percent at its peak to six tenths of one percent we have an opioid problem not with generation alpha we don't teen birth rate lowest ever recorded down three quarters from its peak two out of three high school seniors didn't touch alcohol marijuana or nicotine in the last month those are all good things they're all good things generations in the past of america did not i mean they would ride these things out the exact ideas that we are told to be ashamed of free markets private property rule of law the scientific method the conviction that every single human life carries equal and infinite worth these ideas they're from the west and they lifted more human beings out of darkness than any force has ever existed on this planet we've done more than anything anyone has ever tried and they're still spreading into the poorest corners of the earth even as we lose our nerve about them here at home and at the same terrifying time that ai comes to and everybody's like we're doomed because of ai it is also the thing that may cure cancer unlock energy the end of scarcity as we know it and the frontier of it is still being built in the free world by free people not in prisons of the dictators i don't know there's an awful lot to be positive about there is a awful lot to worry about as well but worry does you nothing unless you try to solve it you know the biggest thing we have to solve our story our story we have to tell our story it is why i started the torch it is the the last most important thing i will do in my lifetime is try to teach our story american the american story is out we're up to episode 15 it's all commercial free at the torch you can get it online another episode comes out with commercials and everything else wherever you get your podcast but we are telling the story we are teaching history because that's the thing that will save us i'm not going to insult you with a number on you know what are the odds what are the odds i don't know i don't know know civilizations don't die of debt they don't die of uh bad demographics or foreign rivals roam carried roam carried every one of these for centuries civilizations die when they stop believing they're worth saving i told you this week we have never lost america has never lost a war it fought it chose to fight we lose wars we choose to lose we lose the wars that we get bored with we lose wars that we lose our nerve on if we choose to fight no one can defeat us every single thing that is in that first column of the cons is survivable not one of them is written in stone not one of them is destiny the debt can be fixed but you have to have people willing to choose the hard things history can easily be taught again but you have to learn you have to choose to learn it or teach it faith can be rekindled but you have to choose to seek it rivals can be outbuilt we're the king of outbuilding our rivals the only wound that is on that entire board that is actually fatal is the is the one that nobody can fix from the outside and that is the decision of people make that they choose to be the villain of their own story and because they're the villain that their story is the one that causes all the problems it's no longer worth the fight and we lose that is the one thing that killed every civilization that ever fell ever and it's the only one that is entirely 100% a choice so the odds of the west making it you know it's not a weather report you sit around waiting to receive it's a vote and you cast it with your life and there's only one choice are we worth saving it's not a spectator sport you can't just say you know what yeah I listened to talk radio today and I heard Glenn Beckett and I choose that you got to actually do something about it if we remember our history on purpose we recover our moral source on purpose we choose liberty and truth deliberately instead of just coasting on what our grandparents handed us then the odds are very very very good because we still hold nearly every material advantage on earth 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 because that's the surrender that's the that's the only thing that actually ended civilizations the barbarians been at the gate them being at the gate have never been the thing that brought somebody down it was always the citizen inside who quietly decided that's not worth defending so I challenge you as we get closer to our 250 don't be that citizen be the other kind the kind that looks at both columns and sees the fire and picks up a bucket anyway because that's the that's who we really are honestly the only real question on the board is whether we still remember how to pick up that bucket are we still willing to pick up that bucket do we still have the passion for what's on fire right now and I for one 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