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The Glenn Beck Program

'Finding More Reason for Optimism?' (Jonathan Bock joins Glenn) - 3/7/18

The Glenn Beck Program

Mercury Radio Arts

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.625.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Hour 1 Glenn tries something new?...Shares all the good news from all around the world... ‘It's Better Than It Looks’?...the numbers don't lie... ‘hunger may be eliminated in our lifetime’…eradicating all disease by 2030...we must stop feeding fear ... ‘I am so tired of being politically correct’ ... 'Black Mirror' Is Too Real?...social ranking will be mandatory in China…blacklisted based on your social media, online habits?...Glenn's new Netflix ‘must-watch’?...convincing an average person to murder someone in just 90 minutes...Are we sheep or are we people?   Hour 2 Break out the 'bomb free zone' signs?...ISIS strikes Utah high school?.. we 'refuse' to address real problems ...Finding meaning outside ourselves...with Jonathan Bock...Co-author of ‘The Way Back: How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Get It Back’...the fruit of the spirit is not being spread...37% of Christians who go to church say prayer isn't essential...40% rarely open the Bible ...Christians have become the fat guy at the gym who's lecturing others about good health… not living the lives we should live?... ‘The greatest threat to American Christianity is American Christians’…a ‘grand plan’ to change culture?...how do Christians show they’re different from the rest of society?   Hour 3  Trump top economic adviser to resign?...A presidential proclamation coming ...all red, white and blue and eagles... ‘he likes conflict’…a good reason why Trump wants a staff of rivals?...understanding a little of everything from everybody ... why Glenn first sought God and found faith…thank you to Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking…If Glenn Beck and Penn Gillette ran the country? ...Feeling good, loaded with hate?...Assignment for the audience: Watch ‘The Push’ on Netflix…average people, terrifying situation, 90 minutes to murder?... ‘when it counts,’ who do we blame? The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere, Weekdays 9am–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Blaze Radio Network

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On demand

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Love, courage, truth, glad, bad

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You know normally I begin the program and I'm like, hey, things suck today

0:20.0

Um, I want to try something new, I want to try something different

0:26.0

Things don't suck as much as we all think

0:29.0

And if we're going to make it, we have to start looking at the things that are true

0:35.0

That things aren't as bad as we think in all categories

0:41.0

For instance, during the 1960s it was predicted that hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of people would soon die of hunger

0:51.0

In a report from 2015, global malnutrition has declined now to the lowest level in history

0:59.0

Nearly all malnutrition that persists is caused by distribution failures or by government corruption not by lack of supply

1:08.0

Hunger may be eliminated in our lifetime

1:13.0

Resources, they said they would all be exhausted by in the 1970s I remember well there be no oil

1:20.0

There be no natural gas, there be nothing no coal you'll use it all up

1:27.0

Petroleum and natural gas it was but was supposed to be gone by the year 2000

1:32.0

We were going to be a society desperate for fuel

1:37.0

That's not true

1:40.0

They are still abundant resources have not been depleted

1:45.0

There are also no runaway plagues, unstoppable outbreaks of super viruses and mutations were said to menace a growing world

1:55.0

Instead, now listen to this, nearly all disease rates are in decline including the rates of cancer

2:04.0

I don't know, there's something going on, there's the cancer is getting so bad, everything's causing cancer

2:10.0

It's all in decline

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