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There is a drug, and we have a guest coming up who is now working in silicon valley that says all of the billionaires in silicon valley are taking it uh and that's what's causing them to be to think out of the box the source on that by the way is tim ferris a guy who is extraordinarily credible um and uh and a guy who has experimented with his own body.

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Tucker Carlson talking to this Democrat who

has tweeted right after the shooting, tweeted, hunt Republicans.

This guy is one of the more despicable human beings.

that I have heard for quite some time.

He is actually calling for,

I think, would you agree?

More violence?

At least more violent rhetoric.

Yeah, more violent Democrats.

More violent rhetoric.

Meanwhile, CBS News has just a poll out that says, Americans say that our political debate is increasingly uncivil

and a

remarkably sad story.

An ending to the story of the kid

that went to North Korea, tried to take a souvenir poster home on New Year's Eve,

was just sent home years later after being beaten, now we know, to death.

What is America going to do?

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In Cincinnati, there's a 22-year-old American college student

that returned home last week.

He had been imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months.

He died in a Cincinnati hospital.

He had been home less than a week.

Now, the reason why the North Koreans sent him home is because they said he got botulism.

He was in prison, and somehow or another, he got botulism, and he went into a coma.

That excuse, doctors are now saying, is

not an excuse.

It is a slap in the face to America,

to our intelligence.

As Otto Warmbringer, Warmbeer came home to Cincinnati,

greeted by his parents,

he was unable to speak, he was unable to see, he was unable to react to any verbal commands.

His parents said he looked so uncomfortable and in so much pain.

They knew they would never hear his voice again,

but they said

the look of anguish on his face within a day was gone.

They believe that he knew he was home.

He had severe brain damage.

One senior U.S.

official told the New York Times that intelligence reports show that Warmbeer had been repeatedly beaten,

beaten

into a vegetative state.

Now, since the 1990s, 16 Americans have been detained by North Korea, and during that time, it's incredibly rare to see evidence of abuse or torture.

North Koreans have been very, very careful.

They don't want to give humanitarian groups any, you know,

any cause to protest.

They don't want to hand anybody more ammo for criticism.

We're, by the way, still technically at war.

I don't know if people really understand this, but no peace treaty was ever signed during the Korean War.

We are still technically at war.

We have an armistice.

We have a standoff.

So now, why

at the brink of war

with three

carrier battle groups?

The only time the United States has ever had three carrier battle groups in one region, it has been because we were about to go to war.

War always follows.

In the past, war always follows three carrier groups in a region.

So why, when we have all of that firepower, did the North Koreans break decades of pattern to deliver us a broken, beaten, and clearly tortured American citizen?

He was murdered by the Kim family syndicate.

And I want you to understand that because

it's not a nation.

This is a group of people held hostage by gangsters.

Kim Jong-un

made this Cincinnati, 20-year-old Cincinnati

resident

into a

Corleone-style message.

This is what the mob does.

They beat or kill and dump the body on your doorstep, and that's exactly what they did.

He was killed and beaten, not because he took a poster or tried to take a poster.

He was beaten because he was an American citizen, and his death was meant to intimidate us.

Why would he break decades of a standoff?

Well, I think the answer is found here.

How exactly do we respond to this?

We're at war.

Is this not a war crime?

The State Department should be demanding those responsible to be held accountable, but North Korea is never going to comply.

But we at least owe that to the family of this victim.

Why would Kim Jong-un

do this at this time

secretary of defense james mattis said that a war with North Korea quote will be catastrophic and the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes end quote

is it possible that we have waited and waited and waited and waited and pussyfooted around with North Korea to the point of no return.

And now North Korea knows we don't want to fight.

They know they have the upper hand.

And now the tail is going to wag the dog.

Multiple battle carrier groups are sitting off the coast of North Korea.

They can't sit there forever.

Capitulation on our side is not an option.

The only way out, we have said, is if Kim Jong-un gives up and dismantles his nuclear and missile programs.

Do you think he's going to do that?

Was this the sign of a guy dumping a body off on our doorstep?

Is that not the answer of what I'm going to do with our nuclear missiles?

Yeah, am I going to stop them?

No, I just dumped a body on your front doorstep.

Here's the thing.

He's worried about the survival of his regime

He can't be perceived as giving in to the United States of America He is escalating this

and We are moving closer to war

The question is

what will we do

What should we do?

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Mercury.

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Warmbier has just passed away.

He spent a year and a half in North Korea.

A lot of bad things happened,

but at least we got him home to be with his parents, where they were so happy to see him, even though he was in very tough condition, but he just passed away a little while ago.

That's a brutal regime,

and

we'll be able to handle it.

I don't know exactly what that means.

We're going to be able to handle it, because I don't know what I would do if I were in his position.

I mean, what would you do if you're president of the United States and you wake up?

That's why you don't want to be president of the United States, because somebody is always waking you up from a nap to say, Mr.

President, there's a problem.

I don't want to wake up every day like that.

And these are big problems, too.

These are huge.

We've got the Russian thing going on in Syria, and we've got this North Korean deal.

We can't just, are we going to let them just get away with it?

Are you going to just lob missiles?

No, you're going to assassinate that fat bastard who represents it.

I mean, that would be the only thing that you could come into my office, you know, without an actual professional briefing.

If you guys, if I were a president, let's laugh about that, and you guys were my cabinet, okay, man, would we be in trouble.

If this is the best information I get, I'm going for you, Pat.

I'm going to put that operation together.

Although it's legally barred.

I know.

I know.

Well, we would say that.

I would say to you, Pat.

This is what I would say to you, Pat.

I'd be very disappointed.

If I find out, if I ever found out that you put something like that together and had that done by the end of the week, I would be very pissed.

Why would you say by the end of the week?

Or at any time by the end of the week or somewhere around there, I would be very upset.

Of course, was it the 80s when we supposedly made that illegal?

Yes, we did.

Reagan, right?

Reagan.

Yeah.

And we shouldn't assassinate.

No, of course not.

Not as a general rule.

Just when you really want to?

Just when you really need to, like with this guy.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, I don't know what you do or how you handle this, but there's got to be sanctions.

Let me just say, okay, hang on just a second.

Let's just play devil's advocate

because I know there have got to be some people that are thinking, just leave it alone.

Just leave it alone.

Just don't do anything.

What are the ramifications of not doing anything?

You

open yourself up for more of the same.

And that's where we're at now by not doing anything, right?

Yeah.

With this guy.

Well, yeah,

that's why this kid is dead, because Obama did nothing.

Right.

He did nothing.

Although,

though, they said that he went into this coma soon after being captured.

Well, of course he'd been in it for a while.

Soon after they beat the crap out of him and knocked him into a coma.

But what I'm saying is if you brought him back, he still would have been in a coma.

Whether he would have died right away.

We don't know how soon it was, though.

I think they said within a few weeks, right?

Well, no, but you don't.

Do you remember the days you pass

i remember the days guys you know it's amazing i got up this morning and i thought um

there are so many millennials that are working here now and so many people that are 20 25 years old they do not remember an america before 9-11

they don't remember that

So they've always been in a world where the American passport was a target.

When I was growing up, the American passport was like, back off, Jack.

Nobody would touch an American citizen.

You're not going anywhere and they kidnap an American citizen or arrest them.

They might arrest you, but they're not going to beat you to death

because they know America will respond.

American passports were a shield to go anywhere.

Everybody wanted an American passport.

Not now.

You have an American passport.

They took this guy.

It's one thing to arrest him and convict him for hard labor or whatever because he stole a poster or tried to steal a poster.

We don't even know if he actually stole a poster earlier.

Whatever.

But that's one thing to arrest him and try him.

That's something the old Soviet Union would have done.

But they would not have beaten him.

They would have made sure that they took care of that guy.

Do not let him die or fall down

or have a bowl of botulism.

Let's make sure he doesn't do that.

Well, I mean, you know, I don't know if this is related, but it seems like there's now a huge industry into saying how bad the American

country is and what we stand for.

I mean, the left, people don't remember this now, but at the time when this guy was captured, the left attacked him.

Yes.

They wrote white privilege stuff.

Yeah,

Bussell wrote, why do people blame Otto Warmbier for for his North Korea sentence?

Privilege can sometimes come at a price.

Privilege?

North Korea proves your white male privilege is not universal.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Salon, this might be America's biggest idiot frat boy.

Meet the UVA student who

thought he could pull and prank in North Korea.

Salon.

I will tell you that if this were my son at the time,

and if he would have called me, I would have said, Are you crazy?

What the hell were you doing?

It was obviously not a good decision.

Yeah, not a good decision.

But then you're calling the State Department and you're asking them, what are you doing to get my son out of there?

Right.

Right.

Someone's life is a situation.

And apparently, according to the father,

the family was told, hey, keep a low profile by Obama.

Keep a low profile.

Don't make any waves.

And this is the result of that.

He pretty much credited Trump for getting this out of him here.

It was interesting.

I mean,

I don't know if North Korea actually

gave him up because they thought he was on the verge of death and didn't want him to die on their soil.

Because it's interesting that he would be over there and be in a coma for what is reported 16, 17 months, and then come over here two days later and die.

So maybe he was just on life support the whole time and they just brought him back and he, you know,

it was just all artificial that he was alive in the first place.

I don't know.

Salon also, a frat boy Otto Frederick Warnbier gets the nightly show treatment he richly deserves.

And then there's a thing, a picture of Larry Wilmore, who is the host of the nightly show,

and he's got a little acronym, Alpha Sigma, Sigma, but in big letters at the top, A-S-S, ass.

Then over his picture, they're calling him an ass.

Isn't that funny?

Interestingly enough, Otto Warnbier actually did outlive the nightly show.

We can say that,

just in case anyone was keeping track.

But I mean, this is despicable.

The guy was, I mean, yes, he made a mistake.

Yes, it was a silly mistake.

I mean, just going there.

I mean, I want to go to North Korea.

I've always wanted to go to North Korea because I find it to be a fascinating place.

But I'm never going to go to North Korea.

Wait, we could send you there on special assignment.

Proud, are you in with me on this one?

Special assignment.

That's a good idea, Glenn.

Thank you.

I thought so, too.

Can you imagine the reporting you'd be able to do?

My gosh.

You can finally see that hotel, that giant hotel.

Yeah.

And you can talk about what a rat hole the place is.

Remember, I would say

what I'd really like is like a poster from the wall of one of those hotels.

That's nice.

That would be great.

They appreciate it.

You can't blame the kid.

You don't beat people to death for trying to take a New Year's Eve poster.

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So last night

we were saying our prayers before kids go to bed and

said a long involved prayer for Donald Trump last night

because we are

I don't

wish

his position on any man.

If you just look at what has happened in the last 24 hours, I don't know how we get around these things, but we really need to come together because

there's real trouble ahead.

What was it, yesterday or the day before, Syria time, the U.S.

fought a

shot a fighter jet down.

We had a Syrian fighter jet, and it was a dogfight.

I mean, when's the last time the United States was in a dogfight

with another

with another plane?

We

shot them down because this Syrian fighter jet had just bombed

Syrian rebel forces.

Well, we are there to help the Syrian rebel forces.

There was a time

during the last presidency that I would have applauded that kind of action.

And I'm sure there's a lot lot of people still that will still applaud that action.

But here's the problem with this latest escalation into our intervention into Syria.

So we have North Korea that is bubbling over.

I don't know what the president should do.

And now, because we did nothing in Syria for so long, And the Russians know,

A,

how weak we have been, and the Syrians know how weak we have been.

Now Donald Trump comes in and is like, we're not weak anymore.

Well, the Russians are desperate.

With oil at $47 a barrel right now,

Russia is collapsing.

Everything outside of Moscow,

all of the towns and farmlands that are surrounding Moscow, outside of the main cities of Moscow, everything is defaulting.

They are in real trouble.

They need a game changer.

So the problem with this is there's not any good guys in this scenario.

You know, when we used to be able to cheer during the Olympics as kids, because we knew China and Russia were bad and

America and England and Australia, we were good and we were a team and they were a team.

That's not the way the world is right now.

There is no, you know, Australia in the Middle East.

There's, there's no, there's no England, there's no Thomas Jefferson guy who's like, you know, Tom, Tom Paine, you should write some because all the stuff we're talking about is common sense.

You know, the Mahdi crawling out of a well, coming back, you know, after thousands of years hiding in the well, coming back to wash the world in blood.

That's common sense.

Everybody knows it.

No, no, there's no Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson in this area.

So we are just like in North Korea now, we are looking at bad and worse options.

And here's why.

We know what the Russians are doing.

The Russians are just trying to broker a deal in the Middle East.

That's all they're trying to do.

They want to be the power.

in the Middle East.

That's why they're in with Syria.

That's why they're in with Iran.

Iran is sweeping now across Iraq and into Syria.

They're looking to build a crescent-shaped power and their own little caliphate.

ISIS now is starting to fade into the background, but we're saying we're there fighting ISIS.

Well, we are and we aren't.

We let ISIS foster and grow.

And now what we're doing is trying to hold Iran back from taking Iraq and Syria.

And Russia is on the side of Syria and Iran.

So let's just look at the bad guys here.

You have the oppressive Bashar Assad

government forces, which are battling against ISIS, and the U.S.-backed Syrian democratic forces.

Syrian, well, they're democratic.

They're democratic.

That's good.

No,

just like the former socialist republics that all had democratic

people's republic, no.

These guys are now the PKK.

These guys are really bad.

They're Kurds in Iraq and there are Kurds in Syria.

The Kurds in Syria are Marxist, Leninist, revolutionary terrorists.

And they're the guys that we are backing.

So we're supporting them.

What are we doing here?

Who are we really backing?

We've been down this road so many times in Iran with the Shah,

Pinochet in Chile,

Noriega in Nicaragua, the Contras, Batista in Cuba.

I mean, we keep making the same mistake over and over and over again.

We support or prop, you know, a dictator up one after the other.

And then there was the complicated mess in Bosnia where we back the Muslim majority while bombing the Christian minority into submission.

And let's not forget the recent disasters backing the initial Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt and the situation in Libya, which is still a monumental mess.

All of these issues are complex and they're all tribal.

They're all people who have been warring with each other for a thousand years.

And there were compelling reasons that we took action before each of them.

But there were better reasons each time to stay out of the mess.

The decision to intervene in a civil war and coups and regime changes over the years have been made both by the Republicans and the Democrats.

Neither party is immune from the temptation to mess up other people's lives.

But in the civil war in Syria, the stakes have never been higher.

After shooting down the Syrian plane the other day, Russia threatened to target any American jet that strays into Russian-protected space.

Well, that's anything west of the Euphrates.

That's almost all of Syria.

They also

not only say, we're now pitting the Soviets or the former Soviets with the United States, we're going to take the MiGs

and our F-18s and go head to head, they've also cut off all communication on the battlefield.

Pray for our President

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The last thing anyone should want is a direct military conflict between the two most powerful nuclear-armed nations on Earth.

What we need to do is lead from behind.

We

have started to begin this lie that we don't count,

but we do.

The entire world is pushing us into

chaos.

The entire world

is in commotion.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the sun hide its face and the moon turn blood red and the stars fall from the sky.

The entire earth is in commotion, and there are wars and there are rumors of wars.

We need to let our leaders know that cooler heads must prevail here.

And long term, it's important, imperative, that the United States of America go back to our founding principles and stay out of foreign entanglements.

When we respond, we have to respond with overwhelming, frightening, terrifying, and awesome power on any direct threat to us, any hit on us.

But when it comes to everybody else's foreign mess,

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Next hour, I want to share with you a couple of things.

A new insight

about who we are and where we are

as

people and the way out.

There's an interesting

set of books that I've been reading as I've been looking for this answer for the last you know, six months.

And I've kind of narrowed it down to five books, and I've been teaching it here at the studios and

looking for some

assistance from some of the writers of these books to come in and

help steer me in the right place so I really understand it

and then share it with you.

I want to share one of them, one of these observations

next that I had

reading a book.

And then in hour number three,

we have the authors of

a new book called Stealing Fire.

And it is the new

thing

now to

what's being called get into the flow.

And the flow is something that you can induce, they say,

with meditation,

but also they say that you can get into the flow by taking a very small amount of LSD and mescaline.

And they are saying that this is happening in Silicon Valley.

The real disruptors are all altering their mental state.

And if I haven't read this book, I've read some of this book.

And if I'm not mistaken,

I think they're actually advocating.

And some of these guys are like the Navy SEALs are experimenting experimenting with these things.

And DARPA, I mean, it sounds very,

what was the

red skull?

Who is the

Captain America came after at first?

It wasn't the red skull that was experimenting with drugs that make you

superhuman.

Racking my mind going through history.

Like, which one is he talking?

The Nazi regime?

Is this the, no, you're talking about Captain America?

Yeah, right.

Yeah, that was real.

That was the Nazi regime.

Anyway, but the Nazis did do this.

They were looking for things that make you superhuman.

And we're apparently doing that, too.

And this is a case that it's a good thing.

I don't think I'm going to be convinced.

That was the reports with LSD Forever, right?

I mean, that the CIA created that for our military and then it broke loose into

the public, which created the 60s movement, right?

They're saying that it's such a low dose that it doesn't cause any of those psychedelic effects.

But one, like 100 milligrams,

I don't remember, I don't want to give the exact dosage, but they say it's really, really small and that you don't, almost don't even feel it in your system.

And unlike other shows, we were telling you to try this at home.

Just experiment with it, see how much you can handle.

No, actually, we're not.

What is masculine?

I'd have to go to Jeffy.

Jeffy.

What is masculine?

I actually forget what

is because that was like a 60s drug.

Yeah, it was definitely a 60s and early 70s drug.

I wanted to tie it in with LSD because I can't remember exactly what it is.

But I think mescaline was a

stimulant taken from

some sort of plant, but I don't know.

LSD was obviously mad-made.

And

I just don't remember.

I just don't.

Yeah, it looks like it is a

hallucinogenic drug.

You take too much of it.

yeah

what was it used for i mean used for treatment of anything uh effects comparable to those of lsd

um occurs naturally in the peyote cactus

um was a plant you got that right you know your drugs i mean don't test him on that seriously jeffy really is our drug actor he knows he knows his drugs whenever i have a question we go to the doctor and we call up jeffy jeffy what do you think about this

double up on this take another one of those

You're welcome.

Also, we have new poll numbers out on the United States.

And where do we

what do we perceive?

7% of the American population believe that the political rhetoric in America is getting better.

I want to meet those people.

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There is a new pullout.

Shows most Americans feel like there is real problems in our communication with other fellow Americans, but that's

talk.

What is it, 6%, 7%?

Say that it's getting better?

7%?

7%, yeah.

Yeah, say it's getting better.

Oh, yeah, things are great.

I'd like to meet those 7%, beat the snot out of it, quite frankly.

But

are we getting better?

Are we getting worse?

I think we're getting worse as evidenced on something that happened with Tucker Carlson last night.

We'll get into that here in just a second.

But

not only that,

how do we get

around this?

Other than just admiring the problem, how do we solve this?

I have a new attitude on this that I'm going to be laying some of the foundational work on here in the next few months, and I want to bring you along for the ride

and hear your opinion because to me, and I've shared it with a lot of people here recently in the building, and it makes an awful lot of sense to me.

And I want to start there with Tucker Carlson and what happened last night with a liberal who said it's okay to hunt Republicans.

We go there right now.

I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.

Cause we have won.

I will be my drum.

I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are one.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

You know, there's

a lot of things today that are really disturbing.

Al Franken

was talking about, hey, let's not move so fast with impeachment, telling the Democrats, let's not move so fast with impeachment because

Mike Pence is worse.

And at the same time, it just shows that there's just not an honest bone in any of their bodies.

It's not really about Donald Trump and his tweets and his incivility or anything like that that they say it is.

It's just the fact that he's a Republican for many of them.

And then on the flip side of that,

you have Keith Oberman, who thank God nobody is watching.

But he is speaking

in terms of revolution.

And he said something really disturbing a few weeks ago, and now he's saying it again,

just in a different way.

This time he's saying, you know what?

Best that Donald Trump implodes than our country implodes.

You know, we never, ever, ever said anything like that about Barack Obama.

We, at least on this show, we prayed for his safety.

We prayed for

good decisions to be made.

If he were making a bad decision, I know my prayer every night was: Lord, if there are people that want to destroy the country, please thwart them.

Please help the president see the right decisions for the country.

Never did any of us want to see the president implode or go down in flames because conservatives, at least the ones I know, we were all saying the same thing.

If he goes down, we all go down.

Keith Oberman is saying it's your responsibility now to help him implode.

That is so reckless.

But

there are good people on the other side that have kind of lost their way, and there are bad people on the other side who have

just

are just bad people that just want to see us destroyed and want a war.

And I have news for you.

There are people on our side that have lost their way and people on our side that want a civil war.

I'm not into that.

I don't think that's the answer.

Listen to Tucker Carlson interview

a progressive who

put out a tweet as a columnist right after the shooting last week with the hashtag Hunt Republicans.

People were horrified, of course, by last week's assassination attempt on Republican members of Congress, which wounded five people and nearly killed House Majority Whip Steve Scales.

But most people apparently do not include some people, including New Jersey Democratic strategist Jim Devine.

After the shooting, Devine tweeted this:

We are in a war with selfish, foolish, and narcissistic rich people.

Why is it a shock when things turn violent?

Hashtag Hunt Republican Congressman.

After many people objected, divine did not back down he followed up by tweeting this i'm sorry if my hunt republican congressman hashtag hurt the feelings of any gop snowflakes but you have not engaged in civil discourse end quote we invited jim divine to come on the show and remarkably he agreed he's brave at least jim divine joins us tonight so uh jim divine under what circumstances is it morally acceptable to use violence for political ends it's never moral it's never acceptable to use violence for political ends except sadly perhaps in the most extreme cases, I refer you to George Washington and those guys.

The fact of the matter is we do with valets in this country what they do with bullets elsewhere.

And it is not uncommon in politics that we use the language of war.

We talk about fierce rhetoric.

We talk about camp crusades and so on.

You were on a television program, and I don't know what your body count was when you were on Crossfire.

I assume that there were no real casualties there.

Okay, now stop.

Stop.

What is he saying there?

It's ludicrous.

What is he saying?

He's saying that we're used to this.

We're used to this.

This is violent rhetoric, sure, war rhetoric, but there was no body count on Crossfire.

So he is accepting CNN's crossfire, CNN's Crossfire,

and saying that there was no body count.

And also, by the way, retroactively mocking every Democrat's position in 2011.

Retroactively saying that was completely fine.

What do you mean?

It was on crossfire.

You guys, was there any body count there?

Correct.

Now, that was the exact opposite position they took when it was thought initially that a Republican may have shot a congressperson.

Of course, that wound up not being true, but when they thought it was true, they said it was about the violent rhetoric.

It was.

We got to stop the violent rhetoric.

Okay.

I mean, wait, no, stop.

Don't.

You know what?

I want to have a reasonable conversation.

I want to demagogue this.

But in the hours after five people were shot, including the House Majority Whip, you sent out a tweet that said, hunt Republicans.

I mean, it was clearly a reference to the assassination attempt against Congressman Scalise.

It's hard to imagine how you could justify writing something like that.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting at the Sandy Hook School, we've heard people say, this is not the time to talk about gun violence.

We've heard lots of things follow this.

What does that have to do with it?

Yeah.

What does that have to do with it?

In the immediate aftermath, we don't make policy decisions.

That's when you're emotional.

You find out exactly what's going on.

You make terrible decisions when you're super emotional.

Do we need to talk about the doofy lacrosse team?

When things are in an emotional high, you make really bad decisions and you destroy people's lives.

That only makes sense.

You don't strike out in anger.

This also seems like when you have your quarterback and he gets hurt, and then your backup comes in and he gets hurt, and then your third-string guy comes in and he gets hurt, and then you have to have the punter be quarterback for the rest of the game.

That's this guy's role, the Democratic Party.

He is not good at this.

No,

but that's not what you were saying.

You were encouraging gun violence.

Wait, hold on.

Absolutely not encouraging gun violence.

Absolutely not.

He never encouraged gun violence in my game.

I was stated unless you're not.

What did you mean by that?

Don't put down that word.

I'm talking about you, not some other paper.

I mean, please.

This This is what's been out there.

I'm not interested in

other people.

We see stuff like this.

And this is not an uncomfortable thing.

But we're not.

So your excuse, apparently, is other people have done it.

That's not an excuse.

I'm here to ask you about something that you wrote, and why don't you explain it?

Why don't you say hunt Republicans?

For too long, Republicans in this country have failed to distinguish the differences between politics and war.

And a lot of Democrats have failed to see the similarities.

So you guys either have to tone down the rhetoric or we have to step up.

Unbelievable.

And I don't think there's anything.

Hunt Republicans.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Sarah Palin put the crosshairs on Congress.

I'm just saying hunt Republicans.

But here's the difference.

Here's the difference.

Sarah Palin did that before.

He did this within hours of someone attempting to assassinate.

He wasn't a shooter.

He's an assassin.

Sarah Palin's implication, too, was target these districts for for election purposes.

His implication is hunt them down and shoot them because that happened right after the shooting.

There's a target the district is different than

hunt Republicans.

Yeah.

What?

How do you hunt?

You hunt with a gun.

What was that guy doing?

He was hunting.

He had a list of people he was trying to kill.

He was an assassin.

That's like after Oswald,

you say hunt Soviets, hunt Russians in America, hunt

hunt Republicans then.

What are you talking about?

You don't use that after someone has attempted to assassinate someone.

I mean, obviously, the timing there is crucial.

I mean, the Sarah Palin thing, and by the way, Democrats were also using maps with targets on them at the exact same time.

This is, I know, but this has been so overdone.

And the press here and the Democrats, and this is your point, I think, is we all know this.

We all know this.

Yeah,

it's an obvious thing.

Both sides have always done it.

This guy's point, even his ridiculous point today that the Democrats need to start doing it more isn't even valid.

It's all

a bizarre justification.

My guess is he, at the moment, tried to do something controversial so he would get attention because we're in that age, right?

The social media age, where here's an unknown punter-level quarterback trying to make a name for himself in the Democratic Community.

That is an insult to all punters.

It is, it is.

But that's why I said punter-level quarterback.

Punters are fine.

No, no, no.

That is an insult to all punter-level quarterbacks.

Okay.

This is the water boy who is.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, wow.

Holy cow.

This guy's not even in the stadium.

He has not seen a football.

He thinks football is soccer.

That's how far away he is.

And this is a guy who thinks saying something like this will make him brave so he can get on television and stand out from the other 9,000 Democrat consultants out there.

But this is not.

But he is a guy.

He is speaking a different - he is speaking a different language, and I don't think he's speaking American.

He might be speaking English, but he's not speaking American.

So the question is,

why is he doing this?

I don't know.

Is this healthy?

No.

How do we respond?

That is what has tripped me up for the last

probably four years.

You have been asking me, Glenn, how do we get out of it?

And I've given you platitudes.

I've given you, well, stick by your principles.

And quite honestly, and I've said this to you before,

I've given up hope.

I mean, I've been lying to you when I'm like, well, there's a way out.

We're going to

been lying

because

I know there is.

I just haven't been able to find it.

I don't know what it is.

I have been doing a lot of studying and a lot of soul searching in the last eight months.

In the last four months, I've really gone to work work and buckled down and

got up off the floor and said, okay,

enough is enough.

The answer is surrender

or find a new way to live.

And I knew I didn't want to surrender.

I've been here before.

As an alcoholic, I was down on the floor in my apartment that smelled like soup.

And I was broke and out.

And I was on the floor and I thought to myself,

I'm either going to die and commit suicide and I'm done

or I'm going to stand up and start again.

And I

didn't have any idea when I stood up what it was going to take.

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I've done it again.

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this is the Glenn Beck program all right I want to uh I want to talk to you about something that I have been reading.

There are five books that I'm making everybody, literally everybody in this company read.

And one of them is called called Tribal Leadership, and it is by Dave Logan, John King, and Haley Fisher Wright.

And

it's a good book on tribes.

If you read Seth Godin or anything like that, you know what tribes are

in your company.

And it's a good management book.

It's not, you know, it's not fantastic.

It's not going to change

everything on management books.

It's just a good book.

But as I'm reading this,

what came to mind was they're not just talking about

companies here.

This is a great way to describe where we are in the United States.

And it talks about five stages of tribes.

And I'm going to go over them real quick, and then I want to explain how this goes into the country.

I'm going to explain it

as it was meant to be explained in workplaces.

The first stage of tribes is the lowest stage, and it is

a place where everybody thinks just life sucks.

I imagine this is what a lot of DMVs are like, where

this life sucks, and

you have fighting in the hallways, you have

high theft.

Everybody's just miserable there.

That's a really bad place.

High suicide rates.

I've never worked in a place like that, but bad.

The next level is my life sucks because.

First level, all life sucks.

Just life sucks.

Second level is my life sucks because.

And it's usually things like,

my life sucks because I've got this bad boss.

Think of the office.

Okay.

They're all they're, well, in that particular case, they're not normal, but they're, they could all go out in real life and be generally normal, you know, but it's somebody at work,

not Santoy.

Yeah, but it's because their boss and their work is so crazy and nobody's getting anywhere.

Nobody has a chance of advancement.

The place is never going to change.

They've tried all kinds of stuff, but you know, yeah, right, we're going to change.

We've tried that before, but my life sucks because

the third level is

I'm okay, you suck.

And that's where people at work go, yeah, don't talk to anybody else.

I'll get that done.

Just don't worry about it.

I'll get it done.

And there are those few people that are confident in their abilities.

They can work the system.

They can get it done.

Their life is good and they're building up to get out of there.

Okay.

My life, my life is great.

I'm okay.

It's just everybody else around here.

There's two more stages above that.

And you can relate to these if you've ever worked in these places before.

But I want to show you how it applies to us as Americans.

Back in a minute.

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All right.

Talking about a book called Tribal Leadership that I've been working

with my staff on, and there are about five books that I want to share with you.

And I've been talking about some of them on the television show at five o'clock.

But I really want to take you along for the ride on this because I think it's the answer to America.

I've been looking for some other answers

internally and externally.

There's a problem in America that we're all feeling, and

we all know it.

So now

let's go back to this book about work.

Stage one is life sucks.

Stage two is a company where, you know, people say, my life sucks because of my boss, because this is in my way, because of education, because

the boss has tried things, but he's not going to stick to them.

There's always an excuse.

And what happens, and

it's based in reality.

When I say it's, there's always an excuse, it's based in reality.

But what happens is

it starts to reward entrenched mediocrity and it calcifies.

Stage three is, I'm okay, everybody else here sucks.

Stage four is

really where

very few companies ever get.

Most companies are in stage two or stage three.

Stage four is a company where everybody says, we're okay.

We're doing great.

It's our competition that sucks.

The problem is outside.

We're doing a great job, but boy, do they suck.

And where you really want to get to is a stage five company where a stage five company is,

This is great.

I don't even know how we're getting all this stuff done.

It's so great.

And I don't care about other people, they should come and join us.

Why aren't people coming here?

This is so great.

And you don't worry about competition or anything, you just focus on what you're doing.

I, as I'm reading this,

I am looking at this and saying, we used to be a five-stage country.

We were a country in the 1800s,

and

really for a very long time, that we didn't say the other nations sucked.

When we were at our founding and when we were at our best, we were just worried about us.

We were like, this is great.

Guys, you should see what we're doing over here.

You should come over here.

And people were looking over to us, and that's when they give us a Statue of Liberty.

Look what America is doing.

Because all we were focused on was what we could accomplish, and we didn't bother anybody else.

We didn't hate anybody else.

We just were doing our thing.

Now, that's a nice view of it, forgetting the Indians and slaves and everything else, but generally speaking, that was the American experiment.

Now, listen to this part.

In this book, Tribal Leadership, it talks when there's a stage five company,

and I'm making this into a country.

When there's a stage five

country,

if

the founder of the company leaves,

it's not uncommon that it falls to a stage two company.

And you will hear people in the company say,

well, this place used to stand for something, but it doesn't anymore.

Back in the day, we would have done it this way, but we don't anymore.

And you add that to

this place sucks because the people who are running this place, they just don't get it.

I could fix this company, but nobody will listen to me.

As I'm reading this book about companies,

let's turn that into citizens.

What are the citizens saying?

The citizens are saying,

in a stage two company, the problem is everybody feels like no one's listening to me.

In a stage two country, country, which I contend we're at,

everybody's saying nobody's listening to me.

I can fix this if they would just listen to us.

Why did that guy mow everybody down

yesterday or the day before in England at the mosque?

You see him get out of his car?

He practically took a victory lap.

He thought he was a hero.

He mows all these Muslims down and he gets out, waves his hands up like, yeah.

Why did that happen?

Gang, you just witnessed the Bubba effect in England.

That was the Bubba effect.

He thought he was doing a good thing.

Why?

Because no one in the government is listening to the people.

They're making excuses for Brexit.

What Brexit is all about is the same feeling we have here in America.

I feel like we're losing our culture.

I feel like we're losing who we are.

I feel like we're losing the West.

And you're bringing people in that we know are dangerous.

We just don't know who's dangerous, but you won't even admit that anyone is dangerous.

That's not right.

And so the people feel like I could fix this damn damn thing if people would just listen to me, but nobody's listening to me.

Now here's the real problem.

You get to stage two,

and a stage two company can only, and this explains Donald Trump.

Stage two companies can only be brought up to a stage three company

by someone who speaks the language of stage two people.

What did everybody say about Donald Trump?

He talks the language, he speaks the language of the guy sitting next to you in the bar.

He's the guy who's looking up at the TV and saying, this is all stupid crap, right?

He was speaking the language.

I wasn't.

I wasn't.

He was.

No one else was.

And at least according to this book about management,

you can't bring a stage two person up.

You can't bring a stage three up to four.

You can't bring a four up to five unless you're speaking their language.

You have to understand

where they live, what's happening in their life,

or you're not going to be able to bring it up.

And the problem is, if you don't bring it up, stage two can go down to stage one.

And stage one, listen to this,

are where you find theft,

envy, greed, avarice,

danger, violence, fights,

lies, accusations, recriminations,

because, and suicides.

I contend that we are currently a stage two country

and we are quickly spiraling into a stage one country

and we are being helped

into that position by people like the guy that Tucker Carlson had on last night

and by just talking about those things and not offering any other new path

we are almost guaranteeing that we will go to a stage one.

And if you speak the language of a stage two person who says, My life sucks because I can't get health care, my life sucks because it's dangerous outside, and you guys aren't doing anything about it, and somebody from that speaks the language of that tribe says, I'm going to help you, and then you violate their trust, it only makes things worse

it has to be authentic

or the tribe grows more disillusioned

a stage five

country or company

an Apple a Google

an America

when the founder dies goes to a stage two.

Not always but it's not it's not uncommon

Our founders have died.

Our founders died when we stopped reading and listening to them, when we stopped honoring what they wrote, when we stopped listening to what they advised us to do.

It's clearly official.

that our founders play no role in this country anymore.

It's why people our age feel

this country used to stand for something.

But you have to understand,

people who are 17 now

were a year old when 9-11 happened.

People who were 23

really have no memory of America the way we do.

People who are 30 were kids when it happened.

30!

It won't be repaired unless we teach

the principles of the founders again.

We must restore those things in our own home.

But people like me need to learn how to speak the language

of the people in Ohio, of the people in Arkansas, the people in upstate New York that are really, really hurting.

Everybody's just trying to survive right now.

And everybody, you know, it's the hierarchy of needs.

If you're worried about food and housing and education and health care, you're not caring about anything else.

You don't have the privilege

to worry about anything else.

And I failed to listen to that.

And for that, I need to say to you, the listening audience, I am sorry.

I get it, I think.

Next week, I'm going to do a show.

Just you and me.

Might do one, might do two, depending on how

the first day goes.

But I just want to do it with you, and I want to listen to you.

I have several questions I want to ask you.

Also, this week for

members of the Blaze, I'm doing a show on Thursday live, 5 p.m.

Eastern, 4 o'clock Central.

Doing a show live in just

you on the phone or you on Skype,

and we'll give you all the details, but it'll be the regular number that you call in on here: 888-727-BECK.

If you found anything worthwhile in what I just said, may I suggest that you read the book Tribal Leadership?

It's a New York Times bestseller.

I don't even know when it came out.

It's not a new book.

Tribal Leadership and look at this not only for your company, but also look at this

for the country.

And like I said, I have four or five books that I would like you to read that are

really

important,

especially if you're just running a company.

Friction is another one we'll talk about.

But it ties directly into saving our country.

And I think I have a pathway out, and I'd love

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the program.

Glad you're here.

Coming up next, we have a really fascinating, really fascinating book called Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley and the Navy SEALs and Maverick Scientists are

revolutionizing the way we work and live.

It's all about chemicals.

Can we naturally produce an LSD?

Believe it or not, it's coming up next.

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This is going to be a fascinating conversation.

There is a new book out by Stephen Cottler and Jamie Wheel.

Stephen is on with us.

It's called Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists are

revolutionizing the way we work and live.

This is about getting into the flow, and it takes you to places that are very unexpected.

And I'm not sure I really understand here,

but it's going to be a fascinating conversation.

The idea that Tim Ferriss says that the billionaires that he knows in Silicon Valley are following Steve Jobs' advice and they're all taking LSD or micro-doses of mescaline, and that's why they're able to change the world and see solutions.

Stealing fire.

Where do you get that fire?

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I will hold your hand.

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I will be my drum.

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Steve, welcome to the program.

Glad you're here.

I have to be honest with you.

I've only read 50 pages of the book, and I'm not sure

I understand.

Let me just ask you one question before we get into it to make sure I do understand what the point is here.

Is James Valentine, he was not taking any drugs.

He was just.

He had a different kind of experience, but the same effect.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, okay.

Okay, so I just wanted to know that.

So now you can start at the beginning because now I think I got it.

Absolutely.

Let me just put it in historical context for you because it's the thank you for having me, by the way.

But it's the easiest way to frame this up.

Back at the turn of the century, 1902, William James, who is a Harvard philosopher and psychologist, and he's sort of kind of considered the godfather of Western philosophy.

He makes the observation that a whole slew of experiences, what all the experiences that are sort of found north of happy.

So these are

states of awe,

certain kinds of mystical experiences like trance states or states produced by prayer or yoga or meditation, or even in some cases psychedelic states or flow states, which is what we study at the Flow Genome Project, myself and Jamie Wheel, who I wrote the book with, which are those states of kind of optimal states of consciousness where we feel our best and we perform us.

You notice that all these states

were really, really similar.

They produce very similar psychological changes in us.

They seem to heal anxiety, heal trauma, and they, you know, seem to lift us up to incredible heights, and they produce very similar kind of physical experiences in us.

And we sort of turned our back on it.

Like, we weren't really interested in altered states of consciousness at that point.

Freud came along.

He said, hey, pathological problems are much more interesting.

Let's try to fix people.

And that's what psychology did for about 100 years until the late 90s when somebody went, hey, you know, there's this whole upper realm of experiences we haven't looked at.

And now we have, and as it turns out, using high-powered brain imaging technology, James was right.

There's very, very little difference in the brain of kind of a skier in the zone moving down a mountain face, or say, as you pointed out in the beginning,

a billionaire micro-dosing with psychedelics or somebody meditating.

Very similar things happen in the brain.

They produce very similar feelings in us and they have similar benefits.

Okay.

So let's get into this because as I'm, I like,

I've read 55 pages this morning

just trying to get ready for this.

And I wish I would have picked the book up earlier because

I think.

Glenn, I got to tell you, by the way, 55 pages, you're doing well compared to a lot of people I talk to.

Well, I'm embarrassed that I.

I've only read that.

I'm embarrassed that I've only read 55.

But

the idea here

I'm fascinated by because I believe, as long as we're not talking about a drug-only state in the flow, I really truly believe that from 2007 to about 2012, I experienced that.

And just being in the flow, and it was a very different feeling and

real high, high clarity.

Mine was

not drug-induced, but

I could explain it to you.

And I think it's the way John Valentine

James Valentine would explain that as well.

So I think there is something here to

people who can't.

Do you mind if I ask you a question?

What triggered that experience in you?

Like, at the front end of it,

what was going on in your life

that brought that on?

It was

a deep spiritual connection

of

profound gratitude and

service.

So, interestingly, you had an experience, and it's very long-lasting.

It's known as helper's high.

It was discovered by Alan Lukes, founded Big Brother, Big Sisters back in the 90s.

It's essentially a flow state, right?

And let's just define flow for your listeners who don't know what exactly it is.

Flow is a fancy term for being in the zone, being unconscious.

If you play a lot of basketball, it's those moments of rapt attention and total absorption where you get so focused on what you're doing, everything else vanishes.

So your sense of self goes away.

Time passes strangely, it slows down or it'll speed up.

It's what like SEALs and people describe

when they're at their height of going in to kill Osama bin Laden.

Time slows down, everything else disappears.

So there's a now that's a very acute, like when time slows down, that tends to be very acute.

There's a lot of additional brain processes being involved a little bit.

But essentially, helper's high is a flow state produced by altruism.

You even can get a little taste of it.

If you've ever donated to Kiva or an online charity or anything like that, you'll get a little flush of that kind of feel-good feeling on the back end.

You just got it for a very long time.

My wife and I run a dog sanctuary, and so we do hospice care and special needs care, and we live in a very poor community.

And we work here intentionally and live here intentionally to do this work.

And she runs on Helper's High.

So, the difference between

that and

just the dopamine that you get from the

bling of your Facebook or your email.

Exactly.

What is the difference?

So the differences are, as we move into flow, a couple of things happen.

First of all, you get ⁇ so most of

what they call 21st century normal, you and I, where our brains are right now, there's a lot of activity kind of behind our forehead and what's known as the prefrontal cortex, which is your executive function, your attention, your sense of morality, your sense of will, language function, all that stuff.

That's going crazy.

And we, most of us, live with like the steady drip, drip, drip of stress hormones like cortisol and norepinephrine.

That's what psychologists talk about as 21st century normal, essentially.

As you move into all of these states, this happens in meditation, it happens in contemplative states like yoga, it happens in flow states, whether they're triggered by action and adventure sports or by music, right?

James Valentine's experience was he got into these deep trances playing music.

Chess is, you know, Josh Waitskin talks a lot about chess and flow, very, very common in a lot of different things that require intense focus in the present moment or altruism in your case.

And so what happens as you move into those states is activity in the prefrontal cortex gets really quiet.

It dies down.

That's why your sense of self disappears, right?

The inner critic, that nagging always on to feed his voice in your head, goes quiet in those states because the inner critic is basically calculated in your prefrontal cortex.

And as that part of the brain starts to shut down, we can't perform the calculation.

So your inocritic goes away.

Time passes strangely because time's calculated all over the prefrontal cortex.

And when it goes away, we can't separate past, present, from future.

It all blends together into what researchers call the deep now.

And to your question, the stress hormones, norepinephrine, and cortisol, they get flushed out of our system and they get replaced by not just dopamine.

Dopamine itself is a very powerful, you know, feel-good neurochemical with a lot of performance-enhancing benefit, but you also get endorphins and serotonin and andemine and oxytocin.

And it's the cocktail that is so powerful.

And what that cocktail does, you talked about the clarity, it does besides it, you know, it makes us feel selfless, it makes us feel timeless, it also gives,

it massively boosts motivation.

So McKinsey, for example, did a 10-year study of top executives in flow, and they found the top executives were 500% more productive in flow.

That's a huge boost.

And it's because all of these same neurochemicals, they're feel-good drugs.

They're some of the most addictive pleasure chemicals the brain can produce.

Flow is the only time we get all at once.

And so produce this huge spike in motivation, a positive spike, right?

Like a positive addiction.

And so

your job now is to try to figure out how to trip us into this flow?

Yeah, so over the past,

you know, flow science is stretched back 150 years, but recently, past 10 years, we've been able to look under the hood for the the first time.

Where are these experiences coming from?

And we've been able to work backwards.

And we now know that flow states have triggers, preconditions that lead to more flow.

There are 10 individual triggers, what you or I could use on our own to drive ourselves into flow.

And then there's a shared collective version of a flow state known as group flow.

It's what happens if you've ever been in a great brainstorming session.

You've watched a band come together and the music just starts to soar.

Or, for that matter, if you saw the Super Bowl last year and saw a fourth quarter comeback, right, a spectacular, what the Patriots did in the fourth quarter.

Everybody comes together and football looks more like ballet.

That's group flow.

It's what the SEALs rely on so heavily too.

It's a team coming together and being able to kind of behave like a collective organism.

Okay, when we come back, I want to have you go through some of those 10 things that can trip us into it.

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Stephen Kotler, the name of the book is Stealing Fire.

And Stephen, if I understand you right, what you're saying is whether it's drugs, whether it's a spiritual experience, no matter how you get there, there's this place called the flow, and it makes you so much more focused and productive.

And however you get there, you're trying to figure out how to trip yourself into it, correct?

Yeah, what we know about flow is that it, you know, in these states, all of the brain's kind of basic information processing machinery gets amplified.

We take in more information per second, we process it more quickly, we're able to link ideas together.

So creativity goes through the roof, motivation goes through the roof, cooperation, collaboration, all the so-called 21st century skills, skills that we need so badly right now.

Okay, so

give me, we have about five minutes.

Give me the high points on how to trip yourself into it.

So

some really kind of basic stuff is pretty simple.

First thing you need to know is that flow shows up when all our attention is focused on the right here, right now.

So at a very practical level, we go into companies, one of the first things we tell them is if you can't hang a sign on your door that says, bleep off, I'm flowing,

you are in trouble because flow requires 90 to 120 minute periods of concentration to really bring it out.

Which is, by the way, one of the reasons Montessori education is so effective.

It's built around 90 to 120 minutes of uninterrupted concentration periods, right?

They use this and is why Montessori kids, you know, see see so much flow and end up testing better than so many other kids on any test you throw at them.

Very simple thing.

Want to get it, take it one notch up.

We'll go into a trigger that's often called the golden rule of flow, known as the challenge-skills balance.

The idea here is really simple.

All of flow's triggers are things that help drive attention to the present moment, right?

So we pay the most attention to the task at hand when the challenge of the task slightly exceeds our skill set.

So you want to stretch, but not snap.

And this is tricky because if you're sort of a shyer, more timid, maybe a bit of a nerdchiever, whatever, the sweet spot is outside your comfort zone.

You have to be pushing yourself outside your standard comfort zone.

For really super high-productive, top-performers, type A types, the problem here is they blow past the sweet spot.

They will take on challenges that are so much bigger than they need to be.

And so one of the things we always tell people is in this stuff, especially if you're type A, you got to go slow to go fast.

There's a kind of neurobiologically regulated sweet spot as to how we pay attention.

And when you hit it, it really drives focus.

Okay.

Go ahead.

I mean, just a couple places to start.

All right.

So

do you do you do this with

are you guys doing this work with companies coming in and saying yeah we I mean last week I was I sp we spent a day with all the top senior management and top executives in Ameritrade.

And the bigger point is this, and we learned this, you know, we've learned this over the years in our digitally delivered classes.

And for example, we did a six-week training at Google a couple years ago.

It was a joint learning exercise.

We were trying some of this stuff out, and we trained them up in kind of four high-performance basics, like sleep hygiene, get enough sleep at night, kind of stuff.

Real basic.

And then four flow triggers.

How do you deploy these in your life?

And after a a six-week period, and they did about an hour of homework a day, spread out throughout the day, but it took some work, but not a ton, they saw a 35 to 80 percent increase in flow.

Now, put this in context, same McKinsey article I talked about earlier, the same study found that a 15% increase in workplace flow will double overall workplace productivity.

So

what we've learned is not only does flow have triggers, this stuff is really easy to teach.

It's not,

and it's funny because everybody's basically, we're hardwired the same.

We're wired for high performance.

So once you start understanding how this stuff works, you can really step on the gas.

So

you don't have to do this through

drugs.

Through chemical means, right?

No.

In fact,

I mean,

you know, there are a lot.

You have to understand that

what you're talking about is pharmacology today, which has a long history of

strong reactions, lots of politics, lots of mess, goes back a long time.

Tomorrow, you're going to be talking about

EEG headset that zaps your brain in a particular way.

We're already getting there, right?

We have EEG headsets that can dial up a lot of kind of the underlying neurobiology of flow, and they're getting better.

Virtual reality is better,

is really good at this as well.

So, like, you have feelings about, hey,

I don't want to take a pharmacological route.

Totally fine, right?

Absolutely valid.

You know what I mean?

Like, not for everybody.

But, you know, it's an interesting bias because, you know, our idea that if this is internal and comes from us, it's pure and whole and sacred, you know, and

drugs are cheater's way there or they're bad or whatever.

Fine.

Okay, that's where we are right now.

But tomorrow, it's going to be an app on your phone.

That's where it starts to get really interesting.

Wow.

Well, I want to talk to you about that a little bit because

you say

this can be really, really good or highly destructive.

Well, so earlier I mentioned that you get all five of these really potent neurochemicals.

They're very addictive.

There's no

external drugs, cocaine, for example, most addictive drug on earth.

All it does is flood the brain with dopamine, right?

Dopamine is the drug that makes, you know, that

underlies all addictive behavior, right?

Gambling addiction, sex addiction, shopping addiction, you know, cocaine addiction doesn't matter.

So you're getting at the same endogenous neurochemistry.

So these states can be very, very addictive.

And, you know, one of the things, for example, creatives, I talk about this all.

One of the reasons creativity is very addictive.

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We're talking to Stephen Cottler.

He and Jamie Wheel wrote a book called Stealing Fire.

And it's basically about how you can get into a super

focused and productive state, like 500% higher

than where you

normally are, to be able to solve problems and

see the world in a completely different way.

And

it's surprising because when I first picked this up, it talks about Tim Ferris, who I respect a great deal, who has done crazy things to his body just to check it out.

You know,

what foods am I really processing?

I'm going to put a little

processor in

my body to be able to really check blood sugar.

I mean, he's a crazy thinker in a good way.

And as I started reading this, and I haven't read all of it,

it appeared as though it was going towards a place of, hey, you know, maybe,

you know, LSD is the way to go.

That's not the point here.

The point can be, and I think you see it even in the Bible for anybody who's religious, where these guys have gone off and prayed all day and all night, and they come back and they've got it.

They're in the flow.

They have concentrated and focused and found prayer does this to you, to some people.

It can totally change,

I think, your body chemistry.

It does.

It does, right?

Yeah, for sure.

Absolutely.

So anyway, you were saying, I'm sorry we had to interrupt you with a break, Stephen.

Go ahead.

You had asked about, is there a dark side here?

You know, this is a great upside.

And the dark side, I mean, historically, we talked earlier about group flow, right?

What what happens when a whole collective group of people well great oratory especially if you accompany that oratory with lights and sound and

other things can move people into this state right Victor Turner from the University of Chicago the anthropologist talked about it called it communitas and he was talking about it he was talking about Hitler he was talking about hey you know great despots great orators can move can it can move their people people and it's you know the thing is when the prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that shuts down and flow, goes away, there's great benefit.

There's phenomenal benefit.

But it also shuts down certain critical thinking faculties and certain long-term reasoning faculties, right?

We're not meant to live in these states, right?

Somebody comes up to me about once a month and says, hey, Stephen, oh my God, you should study me.

I'm in flow all the time.

And I you know, I used to not know.

I used to get really uncomfortable.

Now I'm like, you know, I got to tell you the truth.

We got a word for that.

We call that schizophrenia.

or bipolar disorder, or

take your pick.

There's a whole bunch of those

diseases that are right on the edge of these experiences.

I mean, the altered state spectrum starts on dreams on one end and goes to schizophrenia on the other.

We're talking about the states that are sort of in the middle, right?

And they're very, very powerful, but there's downsides.

These states are addictive.

I said earlier that creatives have the highest suicide rate out of any profession, and creatives need flow to do their jobs.

As a writer, I can tell you this.

I had to get really good at this mostly out of survival.

That's where a lot of it came from

in the beginning for me, just as a writer.

If you can't trip into these states pretty quickly, you're not going to have a job for long.

So, Stephen, have you ever read Jonathan Haight's book, The Righteous Mind?

Yeah, absolutely.

I got a chance to meet Jonathan not too long ago.

Amazing guy, isn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, in that, he talks a little bit about the elephant and the writer.

He uh he talks about uh things shutting down and the and the hits that we get from all of these positive self-made drugs.

And he kind of uses that in a way and speaking to him

off the air,

you know, he I've said, you know, Stephen,

I mean, Jonathan, I think you've come up with, you know, with part of a solution here to solve our nation's problems and being able to talk to each other.

Well, let me, I mean, let me invert it for you.

I'm working on a conference right now.

So what happens in a terrorist training camp?

They put people in a flow.

That's, I mean, if you look at kind of cultic programming, right?

And we tell people at the Flow Genome Project, don't go shopping in a flow state.

Everything's going to look great, right?

And so

I'm working with a lot of different people in the Defense Department right now to talk about, you know, there's a neurobiological addiction underneath all the sociopolitical stuff that generates terrorism.

You're you're dealing with an addictive behavior and really potent neurochemistry so you have to if you're not you know people I for me people always talk about if you're gonna fight terrorism for example you got to get to the source well the source is neurobiological in all of us that's the source My wife must be in a constant state of flow every time she goes to Costco right it's like so so Stephen here is stopped so let me take this a step further and this is probably a conversation I should have off the air with you but

I am looking, I am very concerned about, for instance, last week when the assassination attempt happened at the ballpark.

You know, I immediately got on the air and said, look, there's going to be two kinds of people.

They're going to be those who are saying,

see, this is what happened and you caused blah, blah, blah.

Or, see, now your side did this.

And that's going to feel good.

It's going to feel good to bash people and argue people and everything else.

And there's going to be other people who know that's not healthy.

And it's not healthy to read it.

It's not healthy to be part of it.

You got to stay away from that stuff.

And I explained on the air that, you know, when you see, quote, your side have

a time of righteous indignation, you're going to get all kinds of hits of dopamine.

And

I think Facebook and especially Twitter

is

just

overloading us with

dopamine of

yeah I mean it's it's a double hit right you get one hit so this is Robert Spolsky's work at Stanford where one of the reasons is so so other flow triggers just for quick to back this into novelty complexity and unpredict predictability all grab hold of the attention drive it into the present moment they massively spike dopamine in fact when we look at Facebook and we may or may not have a message, somebody may or not, may not have liked our post or whatever, right?

If there's a like there, we get a 400% spike in dopamine.

That's almost to cocaine levels.

Now, added to that, right, you've got to figure out first order business of the brain is survival.

So the brain is constantly scanning the environment for danger, letting occasional positive things through, but it's really looking to make you feel safe.

So when you show up on Twitter and not

has somebody posted, you know, like your hate scree, and

they've seconded the motion, take, you know,

so you get that 400% dopamine spike from that,

somebody agrees with you.

You're safer in the world, we're safer in numbers.

It's fundamental evolutionary biology, right?

So, suddenly, it's a double hit, and that's, you know,

you're absolutely correct.

We're looking at addictive behavior, and it's spiral no place good.

So,

that's where where I'm stuck with with Jonathan Haight's work is

he's got a way out but we don't have the dopamine hit we don't have the thing that triggers us into the flow in a positive way you know interesting though because one of the things we know about flow

there's 50 60 years of work done at Harvard and other places that kind of backs this up is that the more access you get to the state right you talked about how it can help you solve complex problems, right?

The reason it happens is in the state, not only is information processing totally jacked up, but empathy expands.

We take in different information so we can, right?

Like one of the problems, for example, the environmental movement has is people who live in the cities, and there's 50 years of ecopsychology that backs this up, don't even see nature because we stop having to process it.

It's not critical.

We don't even look at it.

So like when you're trying to have an environmental discussion with somebody who's living in New York, it doesn't matter how much they care about the planet.

They actually can't take in the raw data, right?

We have filters, biases, and confirmation bias is the strongest among them.

We get past those biases.

We expand beyond them in these states.

So these states, over time, they widen empathy, and this is kind of well shown.

And they give us the ability, the reason we can solve critical challenges is you start to be able to see multiple perspectives from all the way around the problem.

Why?

Because your sense of self, which normally drives the bus, which is all those filters, is turned off.

So

in the summer, my family goes up to the mountains where there isn't light for, you know, 25 miles easy.

There's like nobody.

And we stand, and you can see

the Milky Way is 3D and in color.

And when I was living in New York, I remember I first went out and

I stood out there for hours.

And it was the first time

in years that I had thought, wow, we are small and insignificant.

Did you get, did time slow down for you?

Yes.

Yeah, that's the front, that's awe is essentially the front end of a flow state, right?

It's the prefrontal cortex going, holy crap, there's a lot of stuff up there.

I can't process it because the conscious brain is very limited.

It can only hold on to so many things at once.

It dumps it over to the subconscious, which is what happens in flow, right?

And the subconscious takes over, which can process much more information per second.

And time seems to slow down.

It's actually a measure of information processing in the brain.

The more you're processing, the slower it's going.

That's what's happening.

So are you in a constant state of flow?

No.

I mean, you know, I'm not.

I mean, my life, I've reduced, I do six things.

Five of them produce flow.

Like, I've really, I've really, really whittled it down.

I'm very good at this.

So you can get into it pretty much anytime you want.

Well, yes and no.

I mean, I will tell you that Stealing Fire, for example, this particular book I've written, it's my ninth, eighth book.

It was a very challenging book.

It's massive amounts of information, massive amounts of data across six or seven disciplines, tremendous amounts of research, very hard to assemble, wasn't in float for the entire book.

I've never had an experience like that.

It was really a struggle.

And I'm 50 years old and one of the best of the world.

And that was my experience.

So you get better at it for sure, and you can use it to do great stuff and level up your career, but that's not, you know,

if there's expertise out there, you know, a sure thing, I don't know about it yet.

Would you say this is a little bit like, did you see the movie Timeless with Bradley Cooper?

Limitless.

Friend of mine, limitless.

She's the bane of my existence.

I yell at my friend Leslie wrote it, and every time I'm around her, I'm just like, you have no idea.

Every conversation, I want the limitless pill.

This does sound somewhat like that, though, right?

Well, it's the search for it in a natural way.

Right.

And by the way,

there is no limitless pill.

We barely have the brain imaging technology at this point to find the neurochemicals deep in the brain.

Like, we're a ways from that pill.

Let's just say we'll get there using optogenetics or something else first, long before we get there in a pill.

That's disappointing news.

I'm not saying you won't be able to turn it on and off like a light switch.

You will.

It'll just be using different technology than probably pharmacological.

Pharmacological interventions are just fairly crude in how they interact with the system, and we can get much more precise now.

Stephen, you are fascinating, and I would love to talk to you, spend some time off air, and

also just next time you're in town, have you here?

This is just fascinating.

And I'm sorry that I didn't get to the whole book, and we'll have you on again when I have finished the whole book.

Thank you so much, Stephen.

Awesome.

My pleasure.

Appreciate it.

The name of the book is Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley and the Navy SEALs and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and the Way We Work.

Did that fit on the cover?

That's a

long time.

Using the flow and he wrote it.

I could read it 500 times faster than

for that.

When I mean the flow.

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We're just

screwing off at this point.

That was an amazing conversation.

I don't know how you might have related to that, but I found that fascinating.

Well, everyone's, I mean, you know, of course, didn't understand a sports reference at all, but everybody's been in this zone, right?

I mean, everyone's been in the zone at some point in their lives, whether it's in sports, whether it's at work, whether it's, I mean, doing so many different things.

And it's like, if you could actually just turn that on, I mean, it would completely change your life and probably change the world.

Because if you could actually figure out how to do that among a large population.

Yeah, now how do you and like he said, the dark side is you be careful turning it on.

You know, we turn it on before a great candidate's speech.

Ooh.

You might want to turn that zone off because that candidate, if that candidate has ill will,

it can play right into your zone.

I mean, it's...

That's just, I mean, a ridiculous idea, though.

Like a politician would have ill will.

What are the odds?

Oh, that's crazy talk.

Could never happen.

No.

uh-uh.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

I mean, it's and it's funny because that's really what politicians do.

And, you know, with the red, white, and blue, and the balloons, and the band, and all of the excitement, they're trying to put you into that heightened position to, you know, it's old-fashioned propaganda, if you will.

The Star-Spangled Banner and Uncle Sam.

And I think this is the Glenn Beck program, Mercury.