Chase Hughes Reveals How to Reclaim Your Mind

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: Dr. Phil and behavior expert Chase Hughes reveal how psychological programming shapes your beliefs and the practical steps anyone can take to break free.

Dr. Phil and behavior expert Chase Hughes dive deeper into how Americans are being neurologically and psychologically programmed and h ow to take back control. Chase explains why unconscious forces shape more of our decisions than we realize and why making the unconscious conscious is the first step toward freedom.

Dr. Phil highlights how echo chambers, tribal identity, clickbait headlines, and algorithm-driven outrage keep people reactive instead of reflective. They break down why healthy skepticism, not paranoia, is essential, and why proving yourself wrong is the fastest path to growth.

Chase also walks through his viral “Pledge” and explains how refusing to let electronics define your neighbor, normalize political violence, or decide who to hate is the foundation of reclaiming autonomy. From empathy to identity, from holiday family battles to social media toxicity, this episode equips you with tools to fight back against manipulation—and choose unity over division.

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0:48.4	I'm talking to Chase Hughes, and frankly, we're talking about some things that should be really concerning to people.
0:52.2	If I make you think something is popular, I can get you to accept it.
0:55.0	There's a pretty sinister plan. There are four things that control this little emotional decision-making part of our brain, and that decides your
1:00.6	fate. You've got to wonder, what have I been programmed to do? Am I running a program or am I being who
1:07.2	I really am? That's the big question. Today on the Dr. Phil podcast, part two with
1:13.0	Chase Hughes. If a lot of this is neurological, a lot of this is happening subconsciously, that
1:22.8	makes it hard to push back against this. It does. It makes it very hard to fight back.
1:31.5	And Carl Jung had a beautiful quote about this.
1:38.7	He said, until you make the unconscious, look, if a lot of this is neurological,
1:54.0	a lot of this is happening subconsciously, that makes it hard to push back against this.
2:02.7	If we're being programmed and have been programmed at whatever level the technology
2:08.6	afforded for the last hundred years, and it's just gotten better, because now they can be
2:15.5	programmed with a 30-minute news cycle, the internet available 24 hours a day,
2:21.1	they're getting pounded constantly, constantly, constantly.
2:24.0	That makes it hard to fight back.
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