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Chapter 1: What warnings does Glenn give about a perfect life?
There's a lot on today's best of podcast. You should hear the whole show if you have time, because I talk about the greatest American generation and why I believe Generation Alpha is the rebirth of that generation. And I got the facts to back it up. Also, I saw Disclosure Day yesterday. So if you're going into the weekend, you're thinking about watching it.
There's some things that you should watch for. It's really good. You should go see it. But there's some things that I point out that you really need to watch for because I think it's an important movie to at least, it's at least a fun movie to have a conversation about. Let's put it down. Also, Bill Cloud joins us on today's Best Of, and he's talking about
Alexander Dugan, Russia, Iran, which, by the way, it's Friday, which means, hey, we're going to have a deal by the end of the week. Well, we'll talk about that Monday.
Chapter 2: What is Glenn's review of Steven Spielberg's film 'Disclosure Day'?
We know it's Friday when we say that there's a deal with Iran. But he talks about the deal between Russia and Iran and why it is so dangerous and the possibility that we're living in the end of days. And also rats. Well, actually, mice. There were 25 studies done on mice back in the 50s and 60s. And it tells us everything we need to know about what's wrong with our society.
What is happening to all of us? Wait until you hear this. I found this, dug this study up and started reading about it. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's worth knowing.
Chapter 3: Should Christians be concerned about extraterrestrial life?
Why didn't anybody share this with us? It is so important. All on today's podcast. Father's Day is coming up. It's right around the corner. And every year we all go through exactly the same exercise. We try to find a gift for dad, even though most dads spend their whole lives, you know, insisting they don't need anything. The best gifts aren't usually the flashiest ones.
They're the things that a man reaches for time and time again, over and over. The things have become part of his daily life because they're well made.
Chapter 4: Who is Aleksandr Dugin and why is he significant?
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Chapter 5: What dangers are associated with the Russia-Iran deal?
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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 hate the most about what's happening in our society? I despise the fact that everybody is a whiner. Everybody's like, oh, it's so hard. I'm never going to make it. And I know I sound like the old guy. Get off my lawn.
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Chapter 6: How does the study of mice relate to human society?
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 father, I mean, he was so wise. My father 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 what? 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.
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. 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. 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 prove this out with science, okay? 1968, a scientist 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 can't imagine why that's relevant today in America. Everybody has it 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. Just became the old man yelling at the sky again. So he builds this paradise.
It's 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 Eden's for mice and rats, okay? And it ended the same way. Verse 24 already told him where the story goes, but he thought, I'm going to try it one more time. He drops in eight mice, four males, four females. And at first, it's mouse heaven. They breed.
The population doubled about every 55 days. And he called this the strive period. It was heaven, and it was working exactly as designed. But by day 300 or 315, something like that, there were more than 600 mice thriving in a space that he had built to hold nearly 4,000.
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Chapter 7: What is the concept of the 'katechon' in biblical prophecy?
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 here. Growth slows for no physical reason. They can't figure it out. All of a sudden, and in all 25 experiments, exactly the same thing. This is a 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 stopped 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 ate. They slept.
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 grooming themselves. By every outward measure, they were the healthiest, best-looking mice in the universe.
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 built, I think it said for 4,000.
Population peaks at 2,200, 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 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 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.
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Chapter 8: What implications does the discussion on extraterrestrial life have for society?
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 down and 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 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 guy who he and his wife aborted their baby because of Down syndrome. Do we happen to have that audio? Let's play the audio. 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 to this.
Yeah, sir, you do. Let me see if I can find it. I'm sorry. Where is it? It's towards the bottom. Yeah, 17. Cut 17.
Yeah, of course I'm glad my dad didn't...
terminate me um but i'm normal so you hear that yeah somebody asked him are you glad your dad you 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 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 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 bright future ahead. Stop looking for the easy path. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program. I am going to break a rule slightly.
I don't like talking about other pods, podcasters, especially those who I disagree with. But I just I need to set this up a little bit. Last week, I told you about what was happening in Russia and Candace Owens went over to Russia. And the story was not about her. It was about Alexander Dugan.
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