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The Glenn Beck Program

Ep 134 | Our Terrifying Future in the Metaverse | Matthew Ball | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.625.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Everyone wants to know: What the heck is the metaverse? Well, it's complicated, but it will be our new future, so Glenn asks the beginner-level questions: Will we own digital homes? Who will govern the metaverse? How do we protect our rights in the metaverse? Do we need VR goggles? Neuralink? What happens if the metaverse gets into the wrong hands? The answers are both terrifying and thrilling. On this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Glenn talks to Matthew Ball, co-founder of Ball Metaverse Research Partners and prolific essayist, who focuses on technology, gaming, Disney, crypto, and the future of our world. Sponsors: Patriot Mobile - Patriot Mobile shares your values and supports organizations fighting for religious freedom, constitutional rights, sanctity of life, and our Veteran and First Responder heroes. Go to PATRIOTMOBILE.com/BECK or call 972-PATRIOT. Get free activation with the offer code BECK! Veterans and First Responders save even more so make the switch today. Support a company that loves America, loves you, AND shares YOUR values.  Built Bars are made with real chocolate, high in protein and low in calories and carbs, and taste exactly like a candy bar. Go to https://BuiltBar.com and use promo code “BECK15” to save 15% off your next order. Z Stack - Formulated by Dr Vladimir Zelenko, the world renowned doctor that President Trump credited with his successful early treatment protocol and his decision to take hydroxychl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:22.2

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:29.8

For thousands of years humans have worked to make the unimaginable, imaginable and possible.

0:39.3

First people dreamt about flying like the birds then flying to the moon or speaking to somebody

0:46.0

on the other side of the house, the next room and then the world. We made it happen.

0:52.6

Where is the next frontier? Well our world is becoming increasingly more digital. The great

0:59.6

explorers of our time perhaps are not scaling Mount Everest or plunging to the bottom of the ocean.

1:05.3

They're navigating the invisible world of ones and zeros. We live in a world of total connection now.

1:12.4

Total networking, total communication, total information. We are shifting from web 2.0

1:21.2

to the internet of persons to web 3.0, the internet of things.

1:28.5

Maybe you don't know what that is but you will soon. There's been a word that's also been

1:32.8

popping up that people don't really know what it is. Metaverse, Facebook even rebranded itself as

1:39.9

meta. Mark Zuckerberg said recently that within the next decade the metaverse will reach

1:45.2

billions of people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce and support jobs

1:51.2

for millions of creators and developers. What does that mean? What is the metaverse?

1:59.8

Today's guest has the answers and I think this is information we all need to know.

2:05.9

Today on the podcast, the metaverse with Matthew Ball. I know it doesn't really look like it but

2:13.0

I've actually lost weight. I've lost like 15 pounds. That's like taking a handful of dirt off

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