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Jim Acosta joins Glenn Beck to talk about the lack of a migrant caravan, Google's new product, and the latest on the situation with the migrant caravan and the border. Glenn also talks about the new Google product, Cyber Monday, and much more.
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Okay, on the podcast today, we start with Jim Acosta on the caravan.
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So the whole thing that Jim Acosta was talking about that got him kicked out of the White House
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There's nobody coming and they're not going to climb walls.
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Pat stops by and joins us for a little talk on that.
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We also talk a little bit about the new Google product, seeing that it is Cyber Monday.
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Oh, some really exciting stuff happening there.
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Yeah, if you want your home to be incredibly creepy, they've got some great options for you.
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They've got great, you know, very much like China has.
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We talk about the Chinese social score as well.
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Yesterday, after we were told by the press that this was not going to happen,
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this was not, that Donald Trump was just juicing the election,
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Yesterday, an estimated 1,000 migrants from the infamous migrant caravan
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They threw rocks and bottles at U.S. border agents.
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In response, our agents fired tear gas at the crowd,
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which gave the media the drama they had been craving.
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So they could write lines like this from the Associated Press,
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Quote, children screamed and coughed in the mayhem of the tear gas, end quote.
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The headline might as well have been Evil America Tear Gases Babies.
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I know we started to actually predict that this was coming within a year.
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This spring, what is happening right now is the Palestinian state is being made on our border,
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and the United States of America will be made into Israel.
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Yesterday morning, a group of Central Americans who were just fed up with the conditions in the migrant camps in Tijuana
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held a rally urging the United States to speed up its asylum claims process.
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Currently, the U.S. is processing 60 to 100 migrant asylum applications per day.
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However, as the march veered toward the border, around 1,000 people decided to make a break for it.
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They pushed past a Mexican police blockade and tried to squeeze through wire and scale fences.
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As a result, the U.S. temporarily closed its border crossings between San Diego and Tijuana.
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Now, apparently, a lot of the migrants' impatience stems from a pending deal between the U.S. and Mexico
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over how we're going to deal with the asylum seekers.
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In the past, asylum seekers have been allowed to remain in the U.S. while their cases are processed in the U.S. courts.
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However, the Trump administration wants the caravan to stay in Mexico while their cases are processed.
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Gee, that makes sense, because if we make Mexico do that, maybe Mexico will worry about their own southern border.
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However, yesterday's protesters, they hope to make their asylum case in person to U.S. agents before this potential deal takes effect.
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Now, it sounds all heart-wrenching, but the fact remains that the 1,000-plus migrants who rushed the border yesterday
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are trying to expedite the legal process by breaking the law.
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There's no solution for an immigration crush like this.
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Yes, the asylum application process is going to be slow,
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especially when a mob of 6,000 people show up at the border at the same time.
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Most other countries would be just as slow or slower,
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Frankly, most countries would close their border and turn this caravan around a long time ago.
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But it is, at least for the time being, still governed by the rule of law.
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What is it these people are trying to get to America for?
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We cannot help other people who are trying to escape lawlessness
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Trying to crash through the border fence is not the way you immigrate to the U.S.
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Do you remember when last we spoke, we were still talking about Jim Acosta
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and what he said to the president and how he was kicked out, etc., etc.
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I want you to listen to what he was talking about because what he was talking about was the migrant crisis.
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And this is a fascinating thing that's happened because you had the migrant caravan coming.
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And what we heard from the media was not whether this was a danger or whether this was real
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or what the causes of it were or how we should deal with it.
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It was Donald Trump is basically just talking about this because of the elections coming up.
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Then right after the election, their coverage goes away.
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And the only thing they talk about is now that the elections passed,
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Conservative media doesn't care about the caravan.
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Then this morning, people are talking about the caravan again
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because there's people running across our border and climbing fences.
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I thought you said it was only an election issue.
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I mean, obviously, that's not true if you're complaining about how much they're covering it today.
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And you also told us that it wasn't even going to arrive.
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Listen to Jim Acosta from CNN on the migrant caravan.
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I wanted to challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign
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Well, if you don't mind, Mr. President, that this caravan was an invasion.
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As you know, Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion.
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It's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S.
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Do you think that you demonized immigrants in this election to try to keep...
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I want them to come into the country, but they have to come in legally.
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You know, they have to come in, Jim, through a process.
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Because we have hundreds of companies moving in.
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But your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and so on.
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Because you asked the question and the president told you,
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You also said they were not going to be climbing walls.
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And if you don't think a thousand people trying to rush our border is an invasion, what do you call it?
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People coming here, standing in line, being cool.
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Yes, it's going to take a while, but I'm going to be cool because I can't go back home.
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But people trying to rush the border, a thousand of them.
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And if you think this is the end of it, you're mistaken.
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I just want you to understand that this is a Marxist utopia.
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If you think these, quote, migrants are really ever going to go away, I think you're mistaken.
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I have this sneaking suspicion that these people are going to be kept in limbo, that these people will be kept in Mexico.
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Instead of having Mexico saying, we're not going to have this separate community here.
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And the United States will finally receive the treatment that Israel has been receiving the entire time.
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And if you don't believe me, read the headlines of how the press covered this.
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No, we were stopping a thousand people who we have no idea who they were from coming across the border.
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Now, I understand if you're a mom and you wanted to get your child here.
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But what responsible mother stands in a crowd and chooses the 1,000 that are going to storm the gates?
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You might not understand it, but things are so bad for me.
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But you cannot tell me that if that was the situation with you, and you were with your children, that you would say, yeah, I'm going to not wait.
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You cannot tell me also, on the other side, that if you were in Honduras, and you were told America is just going to take you, and they're going to take your kids, and you're going to have a life in America.
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You cannot tell me if that's what you believed, and you knew America had a porous border, and they didn't care.
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You can't tell me you wouldn't go, especially if it was dangerous in your community because of drugs or whatever.
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But I would not rush the border because I would think, well, that's really going to hurt my chances.
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I mean, you want to talk about living in the shadows.
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That's really going to hurt my chances of getting in legally.
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You know that's what you would do, and I would do, and any decent person would do.
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You wouldn't rush the border like that, especially with a baby in your arms.
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I am the guy who got my ass kicked by a lot of people for showing compassion to the people on the border.
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So I am the same guy that says, these are people, and we need to have compassion.
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However, when you cause your own problems, when you're running with your baby to rush a border, to break a law, to hope that you're just going to have the border guard.
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I don't know, shoot rubber bullets at someone else, I'm sorry.
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I can feel bad for you because you're so unbelievably misguided.
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The tears for the plight of your young child because of what you are doing.
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But I wanted to bring this up here because there is one that you really need to read.
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The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugan.
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The theory is there's capitalism, there's socialism, right?
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And when you read it, you will understand what Russia is doing.
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And this is the guy who has designed the Ukrainian or Crimean policy for Putin.
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He is literally mixing in end-of-times theology.
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And he's not a religious dude, but he knows Russians are.
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We have to bring about a global bloodbath to bring about the end-of-days so we can restart
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in this new fourth political theory where Russia will rule the world.
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May I just have a quick point against Alexander Dugan here about capitalism failing?
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So an American high school student who works 15 hours a week and makes a minimum wage is
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among the top 20% of wage earners in the world.
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A high school student, again, 15 hours a week, minimum wage, top 20% of wage earners in the world.
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I mean, you know, again, we are so blessed to live here of all the problems that we have.
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It's a lot of people who are intentionally trying to destroy it like Alexander Dugan.
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By the way, speaking of capitalism, I saw this story today and I thought of used to.
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40 million people with diabetes will be left without insulin by 2030.
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They're saying that by 2030, there'll be 79 million adults with type 2 diabetes that are expected
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to need insulin to manage their condition if current levels of access remain.
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Only half of them will be able to get an adequate supply.
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They're projecting that it's going to be a huge growth of type 2 diabetes in Africa and Asia,
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Well, type 2 diabetes, isn't that because of food?
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But first of all, I have a lot of faith that the free market will provide the insulin needed.
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We're talking about 10 years from now, 11 years from now, if we know there are going to be
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40 million people, you don't think capitalism is going to say we need to up the insulin.
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Unless they cure it in another way completely and you don't need insulin anymore.
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To manage your conditions, if current levels of access remain, well, it's not going to
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It will actually decline if you lose the capitalist system.
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There was a study that came out and it was all over the media the last week or so that
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was talking about how scary it was that, you know, cancer now is rising to levels.
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You know, cancer now the biggest killer in Australia ahead of heart disease.
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Part of the show, we focus on some of the good things that are happening in the world that
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And the cancer rates, you know, we've gone over that.
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You know, there's so much improvement in that world.
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And what the, what the, when they dig into this report, what's actually happening is
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because they're saying it's the biggest killer now in Australia.
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Well, that's because people are living so much longer.
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They're living essentially long enough to get cancer, right?
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They're, they're now getting to the point where that you don't get cancer, you know,
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these types of cancer that you don't typically get at 50 years old and people were dying
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Now they're living to 80 and 90 and they're developing cancer very late in life.
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And the same thing with, with the diabetes stuff and, and obesity.
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They came out and said that, you know, obesity is now a bigger problem than hunger.
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If we could get to a point where we all choose to die, that's a great world, right?
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Where we all have to make bad decisions to die.
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We don't just die because of things we can't control.
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If we can get to a point where we all have to choose to be fat, lazy pieces of crap, and
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Now, I hope we don't choose that, of course, but, but we will, but that's a better outcome
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Like this is a good, or starvation, which is the most, one of the most brutal ways to die.
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So this, you know, there's some really good things that are happening in the world.
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I'm going to take a quick break and then I'm going to, I'm going to come back and I'm going to give you some of the highlights of this list.
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I'll post later today of the books that I have read that, that I would recommend.
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I've read a few others that I would not recommend, but I'll give you some of the books that I've read that I really recommend in different categories.
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What is the name of that one by Steven Pinker, Stu?
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And it, it is all about, guys, it's, it's, it's not what you think.
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There's another book called, it's better than it looks by Greg Easterbrook.
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And you, you look at it and say, wait a minute, it looks really bad.
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But that's because nobody's showing you the rest of the story.
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And when you start to see how much progress we have made, and you stop concentrating only
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on our problems, all of a sudden you start to say, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's
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And capitalism is starving people to death and taking their money.
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Now, you could make the case that those things are true if you leave out the other side of
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You can equip your kids with some really good stuff about capitalism.
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Uh, but I would suggest that you start with it's, uh, it's, what is it?
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It's, uh, it's better than it looks by Greg Easterbrook.
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These are some of the books that I have read in the last year that I, I highly recommend.
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I'm in the middle of Kate Morton's, The Clockmaker's Daughter.
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This is kind of a, uh, a search through history.
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Um, uh, this woman, uh, in present day England, she is working at a conservatory and she is, uh,
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she opens up, I think it's a satchel, uh, some sort of a satchel and she has to catalog
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everything and she's captivated by a picture that is in there.
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She remembers that in a story that her mother used to tell, but she thought that this was
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So how did this picture of this old house get in there?
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So she starts this investigation and it goes back about a hundred years and you see what
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is happening and I don't know how it ends yet, but it's really, it's a lot of fun.
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If, especially if you're like, you know, history hunts, uh, it's just a really good, uh, story.
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Uh, there is a book called white rose black forest, which I read, I think in the spring
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This one is about a, an allied soldier, world war two, and he has to fly in and parachute
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Uh, and, uh, he has to kill one guy on a certain date.
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Well, he goes in and something happens to a shoot.
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I can't remember exactly, but he lands in the, in the forest.
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And I think he breaks either one or I think maybe both of his legs.
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Uh, and he passes out, uh, and he's out in the snow at night in the black forest.
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Well, this woman, this German woman who lives in a cabin there in the forest, she happens
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We, you know, you, you know, but he doesn't know that she was going actually to kill herself
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She takes care of him and then drags him back to the cabin, uh, where she nurses him back
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Well, he's trapped and he can't move because of his legs.
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What she can't tell him is that she's anti-Nazi and her biggest foe is the head of the SS in
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her small little town and they have just destroyed her family and she hates the Nazis and that's
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But she can't say this because he's a German soldier.
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But she starts to realize, I don't think he's a German soldier.
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So it's this game back and forth the whole time, this mental game and how it ends is just,
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Um, that is called, uh, the white rose, black forest.
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If you're into tech and see what's coming, uh, he wrote a book called the fear index.
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Um, this guy, uh, was working for CERN, uh, and he had this theory that he could make
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an AI that could predict, you know, uh, uh, habits.
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And he used as an example, it could predict the stock market and it could actually make money.
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So this guy from wall street comes in and says, Hey, I want to hire you for this.
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Well, it turns out that he actually creates AI and then it starts to move into a GI and
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Well, fear, don't fear the machine, fear the goals.
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It now is taking on a life of its own and it is piling money in, but like plane crashes
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are happening just after the stock is dumped and it's no one's in charge of it.
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As the guy starts to figure things out, now he's smeared in the press.
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We should get to today on AI where he's talking about, I mean, he's absolutely in this world
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and you've talked about him as, uh, you know, being very skeptical of how this is happening.
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He's seemingly making major moves to try to make sure that we do it and do it ethically.
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No, he's, uh, he started a huge foundation to do it, but he doesn't believe it'll be done.
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Nor do I, you can't put this genie back in the bottle and somebody somewhere is going
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to go, well, I wonder what would happen, you know?
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Also the new Dan Brown book that came out this year, Origin, that's along the same vein
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If you know somebody that is into history, there's a few things, uh, that I, that I highly
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We just had him on as a podcast over the weekend.
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Um, really great, really great podcast, great book called Reagan by Bob Spitz.
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He's got a long list of, he writes the ultimate biography of people.
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He, he, he writes these books, the people that change culture and, uh, are, uh, deeply
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The only person he said he was with his wife and he, he was like, who can I write about
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But he decided that half of the country loved him.
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And so he went and he started to track him and he met with people that have never been
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interviewed before in his hometown that knew him and his family.
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He went in and he had access to Reagan's personal papers.
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One other author has had access to these, but he left them sealed and the things that he found in those papers, just awesome.
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And he loves Reagan now still says, I disagree with his policies, but I love this guy.
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This was actually, this, this is a, uh, an unfinished book.
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It just stops, uh, in the, about, you know, towards the end of it.
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The reason why it stopped is the guy escaped from Germany, came over here, became one of the
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leading authors, uh, and leading, uh, um, um, authorities on Hitler himself.
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He was writing it in Germany as a, as a missive to the West saying, look, you don't understand
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You don't understand what he's doing and how this is affecting even my friends pay attention.
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Another, uh, book that I read, uh, over the summer, uh, by Thomas Cahill is how the Irish
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I don't even know why I picked this up, but I picked this book up and I loved it.
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You will, um, because of the way Ireland was a lot of the books when Europe was burning
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were, uh, taken to Ireland and left in Ireland.
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So a lot of the knowledge of that should have been lost was preserved by the Irish, but also
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the whole story of St. Patrick, I couldn't find any snakes, but do you know what he did
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He was a slave who was captured, I think in great Britain and the Irish were horrible slave
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owners and they would just come and they would just capture people and they would take them
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Well, St. Patrick, he escapes, uh, one night just because he heard the voice of God and
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he just walked, uh, he gets, he walks all the way across Ireland, gets to a ship, uh, Providence
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He never wants to have anything to do with, um, with the Irish again, and he's prompted,
00:36:39.520
And so he starts changing people's hearts one town at a time, one church at a time in,
00:36:51.600
Um, a couple of other, uh, real quick, if you're interested in tech, the tech wise family
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The tech wise family, um, far as AI, ASI, AGI, our final invention by James.
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There are three of them here that are really, really good that are, I think are must reads.
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If you want to understand what's coming, our final invention, then Max Tegmark wrote life
00:37:40.520
And I think it's life 3.0 that talks about the industries of the future that will survive.
00:37:47.900
Then one more category, and I've got a lot more books, but I'll post them all online.
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This is just real quick highlights, um, in the social sciences, uh, how to win, how to
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This is the book on how to bring America back together.
00:38:15.140
I have read in a long time, far as solutions, how to win friends and influence people.
00:38:27.080
This is a frightening book, but you will understand how, uh, leadership around the world.
00:38:33.540
This is a very respected, uh, guy, respected by global leaders.
00:38:41.060
This one is, it has some truly frightening things in it.
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Um, the way he just looks at the world and you get an insight on what's coming.
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You may not agree with the lessons that he wants to give, but you should know them because
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Uh, then real quick, the coddling of the American mind by Greg Luken, uh, Lukenoff and
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There's more on these lists and, uh, we'll give you the complete list at glennbeck.com.
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We'll have that posted later today at glennbeck.com.
00:39:30.980
There's some new patents that have just been issued, uh, to Google, uh, that, uh, is really,
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Patents tell us, uh, Google is developing smart home products that are capable of eavesdropping
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on us throughout our home in order to learn more about us and better target us with advertising.
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It goes much further than the current Google home speaker that is promoted to answer our
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And the Google owned Nest thermostat that measures environmental conditions in our home.
00:40:18.840
You don't have to walk over there and turn the little dial thing.
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Now, what the patents describe are sensors and cameras mounted in every room to follow us
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and analyze what we're doing throughout our home.
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They describe in these patents, how the cameras can even recognize the images on a person's
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And if it's a movie star or a singer, it will alert the person.
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Hey, by the way, did you know that person is in a new movie?
00:40:50.860
Oh, by the way, you want tickets to their concert?
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It also connects to the person's browsing history.
00:40:58.380
One patent reads, according to embodiments of this disclosure, a smart home environment
00:41:04.380
may provide with smart device environment policies that use smart devices to monitor
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activities within the smart device environment, then report on these activities and provide
00:41:16.400
smart device control based on these activities.
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So, they're monitoring us and reporting back on what we're doing.
00:41:38.380
He's a reporter for BuzzFeed that talks about, you know, he's a technology reporter.
00:41:42.120
And he was talking about the new Facebook thing that they've just released, which is
00:41:47.140
basically like a screen with a camera that you're kind of just like, it's kind of like
00:41:53.920
And he called it an in-home panopticon, which if you know, if you've ever been to Eastern State
00:41:59.920
Penitentiary in Philly, you know this, but it's like, you know, it was an old style.
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That's, yeah, yeah, that's where that one is, at least.
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But they did, it's a fascinating place to go watch because it was an old style design
00:42:12.560
It was actually deemed cruel and unusual punishment.
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But the idea was, everything you do all the time is always seen.
00:42:23.620
So, all of the cells were made like in a, what is it, the Apple, the new Apple building
00:42:35.980
The prison is a giant circle, and all of the cells are facing the center of that circle.
00:42:42.500
The guard stands in the center of that circle on every floor, and so they can watch everybody
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It was deemed cruel and unusual punishment because you had no privacy.
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So, for somebody to say, oh, Facebook's just released a panopticon is cruel and unusual punishment.
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We don't even, you know, his point in the story, which I thought was interesting, was
00:43:17.360
we, like Facebook gets a good amount of heat from the media and from consumers about being
00:43:26.660
Like they're just, like they're doing stuff that's creepy, it weirds us out, but we do
00:43:37.500
So, they, I mean, think about Facebook, who's in the middle of not only all the stuff that
00:43:41.300
they dealt with with the elections and all of that, but all the privacy stuff, all of
00:43:45.340
the, you know, mistakes and all of that they've been dealing with for multiple years, and in
00:43:51.000
the middle of that environment, they introduce for consumers a screen and camera for you to
00:43:57.900
talk to in every room in your home all the time and expect it to be well-received, and
00:44:07.560
Why is China, why is China spending so much money themselves building this system when we
00:44:15.640
So, in case you don't know, the social credit monitoring system in China, in all Beijing citizens
00:44:24.620
in 2020 will have this, and it is, it monitors 22 million citizens in 2020.
00:44:38.780
It's supposed to turn on in 2020, but they have already started it with, I think, 22 million,
00:44:46.440
and it monitors everything, and if you get great social credit, if you're talking to the
00:44:55.400
right people online, if you're shopping at the right stores, if you're, you know, paying
00:45:01.300
your bills on time, you know, if you're not jaywalking, all of that, all of that, you're
00:45:08.460
not talking harshly to others, all of that goes into your social media score, and when
00:45:16.740
you have a social media score, if it's in the green zone, you're great, but if it's in
00:45:20.800
the yellow zone, which already, 11 million people, 11 million.
00:45:29.360
Just, it's 11 million people who have been blocked from booking flights, 4 million high
00:45:34.180
speed train trips have been blocked, over 3 million just upgrades, so you want to go and
00:45:44.660
It's not going to be fully unearthed until 2020 and 2021, and they're going to have everybody
00:45:53.460
When they're going to blacklist you, they have the people they choose and say that are
00:45:59.860
untrustworthy citizens will, quote, be unable to move even a single step, end quote, according
00:46:12.240
If you are on their blacklist, you can't move a single step.
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And by the way, there's no way to, there's no way to fight this.
00:46:20.000
If you're Chinese, you get it, you're on the list, doesn't matter.
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By the way, it's going to monitor if you're giving blood donations, because that's what
00:46:37.080
If you violate traffic laws, smoke or drink or speak poorly about the government, that's
00:46:44.440
And what they're saying, you know, because how can you ever tell, right?
00:46:47.860
Like when you're saying something that pisses off an authoritarian government, it's almost
00:46:52.260
And what they think it's going to do is, yeah, a lot of people are going to get burned by
00:46:56.820
this, but the larger scale of it is people will just be so uninvolved in politics because
00:47:03.000
they're terrified that their daily lives will be destroyed, that they just won't pay attention
00:47:09.480
And what was the, I mean, you know, they talked about the, you know, the United States being
00:47:13.180
a government that is only, can only work with a moral and engaged people, right?
00:47:19.520
They want to create an entire population that is completely disengaged so that they can do
00:47:27.440
Well, I think that works out fine here too, because that's what's happening to us.
00:47:33.120
We'd gladly give up a bit of our freedom for somebody just to take this and handle it so
00:47:45.000
Look, look at the, look at this, the Cyber Monday specials today.
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I mean, I, I just don't know how you live life without that anymore.
00:48:27.540
I don't use any other Google product that I know of.
00:48:32.660
Google search is enough, but it's not putting it in my home.
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Do not allow Google Nest to be put into your home.
00:48:42.960
I have to change the temperature in my upstairs.
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You're willing to sacrifice reporting on how you have your temperature gauge set and a microphone in that thing.
00:48:59.480
You're willing to just give away that right because I don't want to walk upstairs and turn that down.