Social Media-Good Or Bad? LL&L LIVE 12-6-21

In this episode of Life, Lessons, & Laughter with Glenn Ambrose, I look into social media. What do we like about it? What don't we like about it? Are there other options available to us to have the best of both worlds? Recorded Live on 12-6-21.

Transcript

Welcome to Life,

Lessons and Laughter with your host,

Glenn Ambrose.

Hello,

Hello.

Here I am.

I'm here.

I think I need a little more light.

So how is everybody tonight?

I got some good.

I'm just suggesting my lighting.

I got some good feedback from some of you guys on my Instagram and my Facebook pages today.

So thank you.

I mean,

Of course,

I have my opinions,

But I really wanted to get some of your opinions about today's topic,

Which is social media.

Social media.

Literally where we are.

We are on social media.

You know,

The whole world is it's kind of surreal,

You know,

When you just stop and think about it.

Like when you put a little distance between you and what your life consists of when it comes to social media,

And then,

You know,

Just to put it into perspective,

Just think back,

You know,

20 years or something,

Or even 10 years or five years,

You know,

Just to see how much of a part of our lives that it's become.

And it's become a huge part.

I mean,

It's really,

I mean,

I almost have trouble admitting it.

It's a gigantic part of our lives.

Oh,

Let me click on my comments here.

Hey,

There I am.

Hi,

Laura.

And let me turn my comments on on my Facebook because that always kicks off.

Yeah,

So,

So,

You know,

Social media is a huge,

Huge aspect.

Okay,

There we go.

Hopefully I can read all your comments now.

So yeah,

Hop on,

Say hello.

Let me know where you're watching from.

I know Laura's in Rhode Island.

So,

So social media is,

You know,

A gigantic part.

Hey,

Raina.

Thanks for joining.

Where are you Raina?

Well,

I know you're,

You're on YouTube because I can see the little icon,

But I mean,

In the world.

Buddy's here.

What's up,

Buddy?

Buddy is in Massachusetts,

I believe.

I think possibly still in G Vegas.

Raina's in Dallas.

Sweet.

And I had some people commenting on my Instagram page too that are from the UK.

So they're going to be watching tomorrow because it's too damn late over there,

Which I don't blame them.

So social media,

And I would love to hear you guys' input as I,

As I move forward.

You know,

What do you like about social media?

What do you not like about social media?

Because it's a gigantic part of our lives.

And somebody,

You know,

One of my favorite comments today was from my,

My friend Michelle Miller.

And she,

She said that it's a necessary evil.

And that jumped out at me because I was like,

Wow.

I'm like,

Hey,

Pam's here.

New Mexico.

Sweet.

So,

Yeah,

A necessary evil.

I could relate to that because it's kind of necessary for business.

I mean,

Of course,

Not all businesses,

But mine,

For example.

I mean,

I don't know.

There might be other ways to go about it.

Maybe depending on,

You know,

Like if I want to work in a certain area or maybe within a company,

You know,

There,

There's variations of,

Of life coaching and even spiritual teaching that,

That you can have a job that's localized,

Which is exactly what I don't want.

So,

So it's not going to work for me.

But,

But there's a lot of businesses that really rely on it.

And,

And it's amazing.

And that kind of,

There were things started,

I started taking some notes right before and things started tying in to a,

To a broader perspective that I think kind of explain things.

Because a lot of,

You know,

Like I just said,

Necessary evil,

Specifically for businesses.

Somebody else was very insightful and they said that it feeds controversy and sales and that they're not concerned about society,

Which,

You know,

That,

That's the type of stuff that,

That started tying in.

And what I'm seeing is that the,

The social media is,

You know,

It's a business,

It's,

It's,

It's a business.

And if you look at it like a business,

Then it kind of makes more sense because you have a broader perspective,

You know,

And this is what I think we,

We have to look at.

You know,

Of course,

Big business right now is very much in the forefront of people's vision because there's a lot going on in the world,

Especially in the United States.

Well,

With big business everywhere and big pharma,

You know,

So you've got all this,

You've got all this money,

Money,

Change of money happening with,

With you know,

A lot of small businesses going out of businesses and the big businesses having record years during the pandemic and all this stuff.

So,

You know,

There's a lot of this mentality going on.

And if you just look at it like a business,

And we treated it as a business,

It's,

It's,

Of course,

It still has its drawbacks,

But we're responsible for our own interactions and how we use things,

You know,

As a technically,

There's nothing wrong with social media,

Technically.

The problem is,

Is that we use it improperly.

And that's when it becomes a problem.

Of course,

You know,

Everything is like that.

Nothing is good or bad.

It just is.

And it's how we use it that that messes with it.

That's why I don't have a gigantic issue with social media as far as it impacting my life in a negative way.

Now,

I think social media really impacts my life in a negative way because I'm in control of my life.

Why would something external impact my worlds?

You know,

I just wouldn't let that happen.

So,

So social media doesn't really impact my life in a negative way.

But that doesn't mean that I don't see the negative aspects to it.

You know,

I do.

And a lot of it is because it's a business,

Because what do they,

You know,

What have they found out as social media expanded?

They found out.

And I mean,

There's,

You know,

Research on this that's out there.

They found out that if they expose you to certain bits of information,

That they can actually manipulate the way you think,

The way you act.

They can get you to buy things.

They can steer you into certain directions by minimizing your exposure to certain information and expanding your exposure to other information.

They can actually direct society into different ways.

I mean,

They've proven this.

So that's what they're doing.

You know,

It's a business.

It's it.

So we need to make sure we look at it like that.

And,

You know,

Somebody said,

You know,

They're not concerned with the consequences that it has on society.

And they're not.

I mean,

Facebook doesn't care about you.

It doesn't care about society.

It cares about making money,

Which there's a certain aspect of that that I think is OK,

Because it's a business.

That's the whole point of businesses.

It's to make money.

The point of my business is to make money.

It's just that's how I eat.

So there's nothing wrong with that.

It's just will you sacrifice your values in order to make money?

I won't.

They will.

Most businesses on this planet do.

You know,

So when you understand that and look at like what's the purpose of the whatever you're looking at,

Then you can start understanding the dynamics within it.

And it starts making sense.

You might not like it.

You might not agree with it,

But at least you understand it.

And if you understand it,

Then you can at least that that gets much closer to accepting it.

You know,

I don't think that we need to you know,

I say this about everything.

Everything is energy.

So.

We don't need to fight against things because that just adds energy to it.

You know,

We're like,

You know,

If we if we don't like that,

Facebook and Instagram is,

You know,

That they're manipulating us.

We don't have to fight against Facebook.

I mean,

How how would you?

How would you anyway?

You know,

That's probably a losing battle.

But like we don't have to.

What we have to do is just starve it.

If it's impacting your life negatively,

Starve it.

You know,

Use it less.

Find other avenues.

If it's impacting your life positively,

Increase it.

Like,

I don't know.

I mean,

I would if I didn't have my business,

I think I would be on on social media very,

Very rarely.

You know,

It would just be to keep up with people.

Friends and family,

Which is one of the huge benefits.

I mean,

You know,

I'm in touch.

Well,

I'm in touch with Buddy,

Man.

We knew each other when we were in high school or right around there.

So it's you know,

It's wonderful to stay in touch with people.

To keep up with people,

To find out what's going on in people's lives.

So it's you know,

It's it's very beneficial.

It has it has its benefits.

Creative expression,

Bringing people together,

Spreading love.

You know,

These are things that social media can do.

But it also has the opposite.

If you can spread love on there,

You can spread hate.

You know,

And it's right now,

We are creating a new paradigm here on Earth.

And what we need to do is continue starving what we don't like and feeding what we do like.

So we can do this on social media as it is now,

You know,

Stay off of it or or you don't need you don't have to unfriend people,

But you can block from seeing their posts and still stay friends.

I do that if there's somebody negative all the time.

I don't want to see that stuff.

So I just block it.

If I want to see what's going on with them for some reason,

Then I'll go over to their page and click on it.

I'm still friends with them.

Right.

I just don't want to see the negativity all the time.

So we we can we can feed what we do want to see.

We can put out lots of good.

You know,

We can use it for our benefit.

You know,

To some degree.

The the other piece that and please throw in some comments here.

About what you guys think about this stuff.

The other thing that was big on the comments is that people said.

The pressure on the youth,

Especially to fit to society's expectations to to live up to Instagram's.

Life expectations.

You know,

The pressure on the youth is is tremendous and that to me is kind of.

I don't know,

Man,

I don't I have mixed feelings about that because maybe the timing was perfect,

But last night I decided I want to watch Breakfast Club.

Somebody had mentioned a couple of weeks ago,

It popped into my head a few days ago and I was like,

I just want to watch the Breakfast Club,

Man.

You know,

So I watched it last night and then here we are talking about the pressure of youth,

Which is one of the things that that movie talks about.

And,

You know,

We've the youth has always felt pressure to fit in.

This is nothing new.

The fact that it's on social media as opposed to in real life.

It's it's still the same.

The other aspect of it is not just the youth,

But everybody has mentioned this to me over the years that that.

A lot of people like post the best of their life.

So then people start thinking that their life is awesome.

You know,

The people posting and then their life sucks and it doesn't live up to the the lives that are being shared on social media.

So they feel less than.

Now,

That that is I mean,

Everything is is a matter of our self work,

But that we need to be careful of.

I mean,

We you know,

I'm all about empowerment.

We we need to take control over.

Our own lives like that,

That is something I never felt.

I have never because I mean,

I woke up 18 years ago,

So I wasn't on social media before.

So I had been living spiritually for,

I don't know,

Like six,

Seven years before I got on social media.

So I had time to really anchor into who I was.

And I never like when I see people posting boats and beautiful houses and cars and vacations and all that stuff.

Never once did I think that that was that encompassed their life.

Like,

I never thought that never even dawned on me until people started saying that that's how they felt.

I was like,

Really?

You thought that that was their whole life?

That's not their life.

That's just they're just sharing the good stuff that happens.

I do the same thing.

I don't like feeding the negative.

So like if if I'm having a crappy day or something like I have no problem discussing the the difficulties of life.

That I experience with friends,

With my family,

With my clients,

Sometimes on these podcasts,

I have no problem discussing it if there's a purpose.

Like if I'm going to go into the solution or or if it's with my family or friends,

If I need to get it off my chest or just share what's going on in my life or something.

If there's a purpose,

I will do it.

But I don't feed that because I don't want it to expand.

So I don't put my negative stuff out on social media,

Not because my life's perfect,

But I just I don't want more of that.

So to me,

What I put out on social media is putting energy.

I put I'm putting my energy out on social media.

I'm putting my energy,

My attention,

My thoughts,

My words out on social media.

What I put out as a general rule,

I try to be conscious of.

I try to put out what I want to expand.

I don't want to put out things that I don't want more of.

You know,

So I don't put energy into I don't feed that.

But that's a thing that a lot of people struggle with.

They actually,

You know,

I guess,

You know,

I came in through recovery,

As most of you know.

So one of the things that I learned very early on was do not compare your insides to everybody else's outsides.

And I took that to heart.

So I mean,

I really lived that I don't I don't,

You know,

If I don't sit there out in public and go,

Oh,

My God,

Look,

This person must have a wonderful life and my life sucks.

Like I don't you know,

I don't know what's going on inside of them.

And it's the same thing on social media.

I'm not going to sit there and go like,

Oh,

Look,

They posted a bunch of nice pictures there.

And look,

They're there with their spouse and their children and they're all smiling.

So they they must never fight at dinner.

And,

You know,

The kids probably go to bed without a hassle.

And,

You know,

Everybody's just hunky dory all the time.

Like I don't that to me,

That's a stretch.

It's just a picture.

Oh,

Thank you.

You know,

Anybody can smile for a picture.

What's going on in their life?

I have no idea.

You know,

So I think we need to keep our feet on the ground and remember that,

That,

You know,

Just anchor into that's our responsibility.

Everything's our responsibility.

You know,

So I don't want to blame social media for stuff,

Because it's you know,

If you understand it and that it's business.

Then it is what it is,

You know,

And they don't really care about you or society.

They're just trying to make more money.

Why?

Because they're not a socially conscious business.

You know,

There are those businesses out there like that.

I think I'm one of them.

There's many of them,

Even big ones,

Socially conscious businesses.

Facebook is not one.

You know,

So so if we understand how it works and we take responsibility for our interactions,

I think that that's.

You know,

That's key.

That's key in life and that's key with everything.

So,

You know,

I want to lead into this and be honest about it,

Because I am honest.

I'm socially conscious and I'm honest.

So,

Hey,

Sarah,

Thanks for joining us.

Where are you?

Sarah tends to be all over the place.

So I'm curious where we've got New Mexico,

Dallas,

Massachusetts,

Rhode Island.

And I'm sure other places,

But so we'll see where Sarah is.

But yeah,

So,

You know,

There's nothing good or bad.

It's what makes it.

You know,

We if we take responsibility for our lives,

We're good.

You know that that's that's the big thing.

I think the more dangerous parts.

Cindy,

Cindy's in Florida.

Thanks,

Cindy.

So,

You know,

One of the one of the things that's kind of behind the scenes that I think is a little dangerous with social media is.

It's the manipulation of the information,

Because even if you know they're doing it,

You don't know where they're directing you and where they're not.

Censorship.

It really that that knocked me for a couple of days when I first found out that they were censoring information about healthy stuff like natural immune system boosters.

When they started banning that on social media,

I was like,

Oh,

My God,

Wow,

They are really they really don't care about people.

And they're not ashamed to do this.

And that's kind of dangerous that like the levels of censorship of information that they're doing,

How much,

You know,

And they found out they could do it.

God knows when,

You know,

Maybe 10 years ago or five years ago,

Whatever.

And they started implementing it and doing it in these little ways.

And then the pandemic hit.

And it's just now,

You know,

I don't know who these people are tied in with and what their agenda is exactly,

But they are really just steering everybody in one direction.

Dramatically.

And that,

You know,

I got to be honest with you,

That just rubs me the wrong way,

Because it's.

People think that they have all the information and they don't,

You know,

And it's and it gets worse.

Like,

I saw this years ago with,

You know,

With the topic of the wars that were going on.

People thought like I was speaking with somebody about 9-11.

Well,

I was actually listening in and chimed in,

But they were saying how the Muslims.

All the Muslims want to kill Americans.

And I was like,

No,

That's not true.

And they said,

Well,

The leaders should have said the leaders of the Muslim,

You know,

Parties,

The groups and stuff.

There's multiple,

Multiple leaders,

Of course.

They said like they should have gone out there and said they should have denounced it.

They should have said,

Hey,

You know,

We don't think 9-11 was right.

You know,

This is wrong.

It wasn't us.

They should have done that if they weren't in alignment with it.

I was like they did do it.

And it was just ironic because a couple of days earlier or maybe even the day before I had ran a search.

Hey,

What are the Muslim leaders saying about 9-11?

And this was a while after it happened.

Like,

I think years.

Yeah,

It was definitely years.

It was it was it was probably like 10 years later.

And and I searched it and I saw all the different heads of the the the Muslim groups denouncing 9-11.

And I was like,

It's right there.

They did denounce it.

But no,

But they didn't put that on the news.

They didn't put that on social media.

Now,

I'm not saying that social social media like banned that information or anything.

That's not what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is I saw it back then,

Which this was probably,

Oh,

I don't know,

Eight years ago or something.

And like I saw that,

You know,

If people look for one thing,

They don't see the rest.

You know,

We're all like that anyway.

So it was already like that.

We already function like that.

We already pick and choose what we want to see.

That's just we all do that.

And,

You know,

That's humans.

We do that.

There's nothing wrong with it.

We just do it.

We should probably try to minimize it.

But but now they're doing it even more with specific topics.

You know,

Just really trying to slant you.

And I mean,

That you know,

That's tough,

Man.

You know,

Hey,

I can let a lot of stuff slide because it's business and their goal is to make money and it's our responsibility to understand this.

But this is downright manipulation.

It's gotten to which I think is is really bad.

So that's pretty much most of it.

Oh,

And Sarah's in Colorado Springs.

Yeah.

Confirmation bias is it's that they're really controlling information and it and it's it's it to me,

It's gotten completely out of control.

So what I decided to do was,

You know,

I haven't look,

I have not had a I voiced my opinions on several things and some of them.

I kind of touched on again here.

So I do have my opinions,

But.

I like to be solution based,

Right?

That's kind of what I do.

It's solution based.

So what I decided that I was going to start my own social media platform.

So this is what I'm doing.

Hey,

Jenny.

So that's what I'm doing.

So this is one of the reasons for the podcast today.

I'm letting you guys know that I am launching a social media platform.

It's in the beta stages now.

So all you people can be the first ones in.

And you guys are going to and I want your input like this is this is why I decided to go in a beta direction.

We're just I was just talking about this with with Rosie,

Who's who's really wonderful and helping me make this come to fruition here.

And,

You know,

We had an opportunity to,

You know,

Should we go?

Should we just hold off and just create this gigantic thing?

And it was like,

No,

I want to create it.

I want more than my perspective.

I want you guys's perspective.

So I want to put out a beta version.

I want you guys to join.

I want you guys to have your loved ones join and your friends join and spread this.

And that's even an aspect of the beta.

I mean,

It's not the main part,

But an aspect of the beta,

The testing of it is to to see how this is going to spread here.

Is this really are people craving a social media platform that doesn't manipulate information,

Doesn't steer anybody in one direction or another direction?

I mean,

You know,

Love.

That's the direction that this is going to be steering people in.

So the the name of it is Loving Nation.

And it is it's going to be more positive.

It's going to be you know,

It's not going to be inundated with the negativity.

And is there going to be some?

I'm sure there's going to be some,

But we're going to try to minimize it.

But what the I think the biggest difference,

Because,

You know,

As this expands,

We have to give people some freedoms.

Right.

So there's you know,

I don't want to get overly crazy with,

You know,

100 percent like nobody can voice their opinion unless it's a big frickin smiley face.

We can't have that.

We have to be able to talk about stuff and interact and keep up with each other.

Of course,

The theme is going to be more loving.

And and,

You know,

I'm not going to tolerate a bunch of hate stuff on there.

But the biggest stuff is behind the scenes.

It's your your information is not going to be sold to companies or to anybody.

It's not going to be used against you to manipulate.

You know,

There there isn't going to be.

Censorship of.

I can't believe I have to say this.

There's not going to be censorship of things that help humanity.

Right.

I mean,

The fact that they censor things that can help human beings stay healthy to me is.

Unbelievable.

What's the hashtag?

I think the hashtag is natural remedies.

I believe maybe somebody can check it for me.

Hashtag natural remedies.

I believe that's the one.

If it's not that,

It's very close that that is actually banned on social media.

They banned hashtag natural remedies.

Wow.

So so,

Yeah,

This is you know,

This is going to be a social media platform that on the back end,

You can trust the back end.

You know,

There is not somebody that's trying to make money off of you.

Because,

I mean,

You know,

Technology has come this far,

People,

You know,

This is why I can do it.

I mean,

I'm not a multimillionaire.

I'm not taking millions of dollars and launching this thing to try to combat with with Facebook.

That's not what this is.

This is grassroots.

This is how change happens.

All change happens on a grassroots level.

You know,

I've talked about this before.

It's like people look at the spearheads of change and they think that like that group did it or that person did it.

It's no,

It's collective consciousness that does it.

It's grassroots because it's energy.

So when if you had people like in the.

My God,

I don't.

I don't know what time frame to to use or even or even what topic.

So I'll go with I'll go with women's rights this time.

So so like if you had.

Let's just say 70 percent.

If if in 1920 you had 70 percent of the population or whatever,

More than half or whatever,

We're sitting there going,

You know what?

Not only should women have rights,

But I think we can make it happen.

So it's not only thinking that it should be true,

But it's also thinking that it's possible because people have blocks as to what's possible.

Right.

So if there was like maybe maybe even 51 percent,

We'll just say for the sake of argument,

Just for this example,

Right.

If there was 51 percent of the people in the United States in 1920 that not only thought that women should have equal rights,

But believed it was possible,

Then the movement would have happened in 1920.

But it didn't.

You know,

It happened in what the 60s,

I believe,

Is when it started.

That's when there was enough people in their houses having coffee,

Having tea,

Talking to one another,

Not saying a word to anybody.

That started going,

Women should have equal rights.

This is ridiculous.

And it's about time.

This has been going on way too long.

We need to do something about this.

Now,

Even the people who didn't do anything about it,

Collective consciously,

Their energy was in a state that it should happen and it's possible.

That's the grassroots.

That's the energy that fed the women's movement.

Now,

The women's movement had,

You know,

Of course,

Their spearheads and did wonderful things to,

You know,

Make it come into fruition.

But like that.

But it's the grass.

It's the energy.

Everything is energy.

So it's a grassroots energy.

So I believe that there's enough people on the planet.

Social media has been around long enough that there's enough people out there that are like,

I don't want to be manipulated.

I don't want to be sold.

I don't want this stuff.

I want to go just to a place where I can have the good stuffs,

Like bring people together,

Creative expression,

Feed businesses.

Keep up with friends and family,

Spread love,

All those things that you wanted,

That you guys said that you wanted.

There's lots of people that want it.

There's plenty of us that want that.

There's plenty of us.

And I don't care if we're a millionth of Facebook or a hundredth.

I don't care.

Like it's going to be a good place for those of us that are looking for a good place.

You know,

So what I want to do is get you guys on there.

You know,

Help us.

Send me emails.

Glenn at Glenn Ambrose dot com.

Two ends in Glenn.

You know,

Or you can message me even better.

This is easier.

Message me on the social media.

Go on there and message me on there and be like,

Hey,

You know,

This is good.

I do like this.

I don't like that.

Or you might want to look at tweaking this.

We're just launching a very rudimentary start right now.

And it's web based.

It's going to be an app at some point.

But web based is just so easy nowadays because everything is mobile friendly.

So you don't need to have an app.

You just have to have a mobile friendly website.

So that's what this is because,

You know,

We don't have to spend a fortune developing an app when we don't even know what you guys want and all the specifics.

And so that's what we're doing.

We're launching it on the Web.

All you got to do is is just go to the U.

R.

L.

And click,

You know,

Click add to your home screen on your phone.

And you just put it right on your phone,

Which I already did.

So like right there on my phone.

You see that little I know it's hard to see you guys watching,

But there's kind of like a little globe thing.

That's the Web site.

It looks just like an app.

I tap on it.

And it goes right to the to the Web site,

You know,

Just like an app.

So so there we are.

I'm on it.

So you guys,

It is loving nation dot org.

You can go on there now.

It's live.

Sign up,

Create a profile and start giving me feedback,

You know?

And we're going to build this thing together out of love and with good,

Pure intentions.

And we're going to fine tune it.

And once we get we work out all the kinks and people are wrong,

Wrong,

Wrong.

You know,

I mean,

That's you know,

It's the mushrooming process,

Man.

Spread love.

You guys,

You know,

Talk to people about a movie that you like.

Well,

Hey,

Do you want to get on a social media app?

Well,

It's not an app yet,

Technically,

But do you want to get on a social media platform that is that doesn't have all the negativity,

That doesn't use your information against you,

That doesn't manipulate and censor information,

That's not trying to get you to do something or to buy something or to believe something?

You know,

Spread it around,

Spread it out there and start.

You know,

The more we use it,

The better we're going to be able to iron out the kinks.

And then I can put together this huge app launch and we're going to take all the information that you guys feed and we're going to build.

I mean,

Of course,

We're going to try to fine tune things on this platform that we can.

But there are going to be certain things that we're going to have to hand build.

We're going to literally have to hand build this.

So.

So,

Yeah,

So we're going to do that.

So and the the URL is loving nation dot org.

Dot com,

More business oriented,

You know,

Making a profit,

All that stuff,

Dot org.

No,

That's the general consensus of the dot org and the dot coms.

So it's a dot org.

And it's loving nation.

So hop on there.

And I don't know,

I can't.

Well,

I'll put it I will put the the link on the my Facebook page and on my Instagram account.

I'll put you know,

I'll put the link out there and I'm going to I'm going to start advertising it either tonight or tomorrow.

You know,

Pretty extensively.

So if you guys didn't get that,

It's it's loving nation dot org.

So but I just have to I upload these podcasts to many places.

So I have to be careful to advertise something like this or anything right in the middle of my podcast.

Not the beginning or end.

So yes.

So yeah,

That's in where I where I put it just on certain platforms.

So but yeah,

I'm going to I'm going to post it all over the place for you guys.

So so that's it.

So what do you guys think?

What do you guys think?

You guys excited?

Let me look at my look at the some of the comments.

Yes.

Sarah always goes into some good.

Some good comments.

Sick people make them money.

Yeah.

You know,

I heard I heard Michael Bernard Beckwith talking about this in his movie Spiritual Liberation.

If you guys are into spirituality and you have not seen spiritual liberation,

I hardly recommend it.

That and the shack.

Those are my two favorite spiritual movies.

And spiritual liberation was number one by far for years until the shack came out.

And now I have to check great book,

Too.

But but spiritual liberation by Michael Bernard Beckwith,

The movie.

The book was good,

Too.

But the movie was completely different than the book.

And the movie I loved and he was talking about how people talk about the stock market.

And they're like,

Oh,

You know,

The stock market gets up.

Everything's good.

And it's like,

Yeah,

Well,

You know,

What raises the stock market?

People making companies,

Making guns and ammunition,

People making medicine.

You know,

So there's more sick people and there's more war and the stock market goes up and everybody's like,

Hey,

Everything's good.

No,

That's not that doesn't mean everything's good,

You know,

But it makes money.

It makes money.

So this is you know,

This is why it feeds it is sick people make money.

Nobody's concerned with us getting healthier.

They're concerned with us masking symptoms and and just making more money.

Will you start doing your podcast on this new platform?

Yes.

Yes.

So actually,

That's a great question,

Because one of the things that I'm going to do to help promote this is I'm going to be doing these podcasts are automatically streamed from my YouTube onto this platform.

And I'm going to go like what I'm probably going to do is maybe shorten these a little bit,

Maybe start doing them.

I'm going to try to do them a half hour.

But you know me,

I'll do whatever I feel is necessary.

So if they have to go an hour,

They'll go an hour.

But I'm going to try to trim them down a little bit.

And then I'm going to go over to my to the platform and I'm going to do like a live Q&A there.

So we can,

You know,

Not only to drum up interest in the new platform,

But you know,

So you guys can have more interaction with me as well.

So,

So yeah.

So but so that's the plan.

That's the plan.

Let's see.

Yeah.

So Jenny's saying,

I think lots of lots of it too,

As people think it is possible,

But they worry about being judged for backing change.

Yeah,

Absolutely.

I mean,

You know,

And that this is this is why it takes courage to change.

You know,

It's it's this is why change doesn't take place where right when people think it should.

It takes a little while,

You know,

And and,

You know,

I didn't I didn't mean to minimize the role of those spearheads.

You know,

The the people who did the,

You know,

Helped with women's rights and equal rights and like all all social change all the way down the line in the United States,

As well as all over the globe.

There's always figureheads is always people that that are the face of it that.

You know,

Somebody has to step forward and do this,

This is one of the reasons why I'm doing it.

I mean,

Somebody's got to do it.

Why?

Why not me?

Right.

So.

So sometimes,

You know,

But it does take courage and we to lean in and and to talk to your friends about this stuff and loved ones and be like,

You know,

It's we get all the good.

We still get to stay in touch with our family and friends.

We we still get to talk about stuff.

We just don't have all the manipulation on the back end happening and the censorship and and all the negativity.

I mean,

Like I said,

I mean,

I'm you know,

I'm there's a certain level of of censorship as far as negativity that's going to go on.

I mean,

I'm not I'm not having this,

You know,

Like.

You know,

It's happened to me a few times on on social media where somebody was just being completely negative.

And I said and I deleted their post and they messaged me and they were like,

This isn't you know,

You're supposed to have both sides of the argument.

Mike,

No,

No,

No,

I'm not a news channel.

I don't owe anybody anything.

If you're just spitting hate.

I'm going to take it off my page.

It's just it's going to happen.

And it's going to it's going to happen on here,

Too,

If people are just spitting hate to spit hate.

I'm not you know,

The whole point is to start something that's more positive and loving.

I'm not going to let this turn into another Facebook.

You know,

I can control that the back end.

We're not selling and manipulating and censoring,

You know,

To try to achieve an agenda and all that stuff.

You know,

I can kind of do that.

But but some of the posts like I mean,

They we have to allow an exchange that's based in respect.

And that is really what my foundation is going to be,

Is the conversation respectful?

Because you can have,

You know,

A kind of a weird or unpopular perspective and you can you have the right to voice it.

But do you do it in a respectful way?

You know that that's a big difference.

I mean,

The way people attack each other and the lack of respect that people have for one another on on the social media now just isn't going to fly because I need to keep the energy.

Different,

More positive.

And,

You know,

So is there going to be some stuff?

Yeah,

I'm going to piss some people off.

Some people are going to be like,

Screw that.

Glenn,

Censoring everything.

You know,

Some people are going to say it because they just want to spout negativity.

Cool.

Don't go on it then.

If you if you think that I'm censoring too much or that,

You know,

I'm going to try to have some leeway.

But but yeah,

If if if I start seeing things turn negative.

That's not what this platform is.

So they can you can stay on you or anybody else can stay on regular social media if you want to be negative.

If you want to be respectful and loving,

Then you can go to loving nation.

That's it's in the name.

That's what it's for.

So we're going to try to stay as true to that as possible.

You know,

When still allowing a little bit of leeway for people to express different opinions in a respectful manner.

Enes going to join now.

Sweet.

Giving me a pay.

Well,

I'm not I'm in the middle of a podcast,

So I'm not going to go into any technical stuff at the moment.

Sarah,

I read this shack.

It was phenomenal,

But I don't think I could handle the movie.

Yeah.

You know,

It's it's weird.

I think it's probably the only book I've ever read that I actually like the movie better.

It's weird.

The movie just blew me away.

But bring at least one box of tissues because I've seen it like 15 times and I bawled every time.

It's not an easy.

Very excited.

Exciting news.

Margie.

Your page,

Your rules.

I believe that fostering the environment of division is part of the plan with the current.

Yeah.

Yeah,

That's I agree.

I mean,

It's you know,

I think there.

I think they're.

Fostering division,

You know,

I mean,

I think that this is social media and you know,

I think if you look closely at social media and the regular media,

You're going to see parallels.

I mean,

They're really.

Feeding it.

It's,

You know,

The controversy.

It's amazing.

Like,

No,

What's interesting to me is that this didn't take off,

But.

The timing was,

Was comical and I saw somebody else comment on it,

Which made me made it capture my interest even more.

It was like when,

When some of the fear was dying down with some of the COVID stuff on,

You remember what it was.

It might've been like a year ago or something,

But some of the,

Some of the fear was like minimizing a little bit,

But it might've been like after the election or something when some of that fear minimized a little and,

And then all of a sudden the government came out and said,

Hey,

We have proof of UFOs.

And I was like,

Oh,

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

But I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

I mean,

It wasn't even that big of a deal.

You know,

We're so,

We're so fearful and divided and freaked out that like the government,

You know,

The Pentagon says we have proof of alien life and everybody's like,

Yeah,

But do we have to wear a mask?

It was so caught up in everything that's going on,

But,

But what they do,

I thought it was interesting the timing,

Because I actually thought that people were going to respond more.

I,

Because I figured that they just dropped it because some of the fear was dissipating.

So they're like,

Okay,

Well,

We need to keep people on edge.

So we'll just,

You know,

Throw this down there.

They're probably surprised.

They're like,

Oh,

Geez.

I didn't even,

It didn't even,

It didn't even strike a chord for the most part.

Most people didn't even pay attention to it,

Which is funny,

Which is even funnier than the result that I thought was going to happen.

You know,

I thought it was going to spike the fear again and,

And it didn't even do that.

People were like,

Yeah,

Whatever.

We have enough fear still.

We don't have to latch onto that.

Yeah.

Russell brand discusses some of this stuff too,

Which yeah,

He's,

He's,

He's got some good,

I can take him or leave him.

He is one guy that,

That I will just kind of watch snippets of his podcast kind of consistently just snippets.

And then if he catches me on something,

I'll watch a little more.

And then if not,

I'll just not listen to him.

But but yeah,

He,

He has some interesting stuff because he's got a whole team researching stuff,

You know,

For him.

So that's,

So it's kind of cool.

But but that's it people.

So check it out.

Thank you really looking for your input.

Social media at the end of the day is what we make of it,

You know,

So no matter where you are,

Be responsible for your own energy.

You know,

I'm going to wrap it up with,

With a general comment.

Yeah,

Be responsible for your own energy,

Some of the stuff on the back end.

You know,

You don't really,

You can't fully be aware of what they're manipulating and what they're not manipulating on the back end of social media.

But what you can do is be responsible within yourself,

You know,

And if there's something that that you want to research or something,

You know,

Like there's nothing wrong with getting little snippets on social media,

But do a little research on the back end.

That's what I always do.

Like a lot of times when people find out my stance on something,

And they they they disagree with my stance on something and I end up having a conversation with them.

A lot of times what they do is they point to these very loud social media people or loud media people,

The people who are kind of like the spearheads of the movement that I agree with.

Kind of,

But they're the extremist.

So if you take the extremists on two sides of any topic,

They're going to be way out of whack,

Because the truth lies in the middle.

Right.

So or it's right near there.

Right.

So like,

I don't.

So they're like,

Well,

This guy said this,

And that's a load of crap.

And that's what you believe.

It's like,

No,

No,

No,

That's not what I believe.

That's what an extremist that leans in the direction of the way I think said,

I don't believe that.

That's not what I'm saying.

Why?

Why?

Because I do my own research.

I follow patterns of behavior and and do things like,

Oh,

It's a business.

Their their focus is to make money.

So if if that's their focus,

Would they really be concerned about how it affects society?

Well,

No,

Not unless they're specifically a socially conscious business.

Oh,

OK.

Let me look into this business.

Do they seem socially conscious to me?

Do their behaviors act like they're concerned about society?

Oh,

No,

They don't.

Oh,

OK.

So this is how I come to the conclusion that they are business oriented.

Why?

Because their actions try to make money and they are not in alignment with social consciousness.

And then I come to that conclusion,

It's just logical,

You know,

But I I do my research more on a grassroots level and for my own opinion,

I don't believe these extremists.

To me,

Listening to some anti-vax extremists or some pro-vax extremists is the same as trying to get Christianity advice from the KKK.

It's ridiculous.

I mean,

They're an extremist.

They're going to blow everything way out of proportion,

Manipulate information and say something stupid no matter what side they're on,

Because they're extremists and they don't give a crap about the truth.

They're just trying to manipulate.

So there.

So what the reason I went off on that tangent is because I wanted to leave you guys with the idea of using of taking responsibility for your own lives,

Empowerment.

This is spirituality.

If you lean into spirituality,

If you lean into self-work,

What you find is empowerment.

What you find is self-responsibility.

What you find is the ability to create whatever life you want,

Regardless of Facebook or Instagram or Mark Zuckerberg or the extremists on both sides or the government or anything else.

So yes,

Go check out that platform.

But the point is,

Take responsibility for your lives.

And this can be a way for you to do that.

Feed what you want to expand.

Starve what you want that you're not.

And whatever you're not interested in,

Just starve it.

You don't have to fight against it.

Starve it.

And just spend your energy feeding what you want to expand.

So thank you people.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for being a part of.

And I'm pumped,

Man.

This is a whole level of creativity that I'm entering into that I haven't in a while.

And it's exciting and it's fun and I'm grateful that you guys are part of it.

Thank you.

And I will talk with you guys very,

Very soon.

All right.

Let me find my ending.

Peace.

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