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Glenn Beck is back with a brand new episode of the Glenn Beck Program. This week, Beck is joined by Dr. Robert Epstein, a research psychologist for the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIPT). Dr. Epstein has been a long-time member of the AIPT and has spent the past 20 years researching the impact of social media on the 2020 election.
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Hey, you want to stop feeling like you're being kicked in the dirt?
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You want to start feeling good about yourself, America, the future?
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Also, the last hour of the podcast is with Dr. Robert Epstein.
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He is a research psychologist for the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
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He's the guy who's been on with us before that has been studying Google and YouTube and everything
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Well, you don't know this, but you paid for this research to happen during the 2020 election.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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You know, this should be concerning anybody who listens to this broadcast because I am more
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clear than I have been in probably at least 10 years.
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Uh, and I am more optimistic than I've possibly ever been in my life.
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Whenever you're optimistic, it means hell for the rest of us.
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But I am telling you, I see the path to victory and restoration.
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I'm going to start laying the path out for you.
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If you have somebody who's like really down, go, hey, you might want to tune into the Glenn
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Beck program because this one I think is going to be good.
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So let me just give you some, some really good news.
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And Stu, when you think of that, what do you think of?
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There's many things over the years I've thought.
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What would be some of the things that, you know, Neanderthal men might think?
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Oh, they might be attracted to the women inside wearing basically no clothing.
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In fact, many of the swimsuit pictures didn't feature swimsuits.
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Which was weird because it just seemed like they were just topless on a beach.
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So this is the kind of Neanderthal thinking that we, thank God, we hate.
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Because we agree with SI that their swimsuit edition has always been a launch pad for progress
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And when I saw those pictures, you know, some dirt bags would cut those pictures out and
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they'd, you know, put them in their locker or whatever.
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I always thought this is a launch pad for the empowerment of all women.
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I just was making sure you also believe the right thing.
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Now you can only advertise if you have taken the step with them in this journey.
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They are saying now the only advertisers that will pay with change.
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So in other words, if you are a company that has already embraced gender equity, advertise
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But if you haven't proven yourself to be a company that has already had, you know, you
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built your business as a launch pad for progress for all women, you know, if you haven't done
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So if I want to put an ad for my cookie butter company, no, you're not a change to the ass
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So if you're a change maker and, and you are part of, or excited that some of your money
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is going to go to the Sports Illustrated gender equity fund, you got to advertise.
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Now I'm trying, I have to tell you, I called our advertising department and I said, I know,
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I know how you all feel about gender fluidity and everything.
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And I said, can we get our ads into Sports Illustrated?
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And specifically the swimsuit edition, because I think, I think this is going to make Sports
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Illustrated and particularly that particular edition into something remarkably big.
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It's like, I remember when Playboy made that important decision to not have nudity in their
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magazine and it really just, it was a rocket ship to the moon after that.
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No, it really, now you said, it sounds to me like you are saying not so.
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Well, they may have reversed the decision in approximately two months.
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Okay, so let me ask you this, let me ask you this, will Sports Illustrated finally embrace
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No, I'm playing the role of the Neanderthal audience that doesn't understand who Alex Alindo
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I got, we're talking to a lot of conservative Neanderthals.
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I don't know what these people do, but you got to talk down to them, Glenn.
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Aren't you glad that Carhartt just stuck into those people this week?
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Anyway, so she is the world's first Austomate porn star.
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And so, I mean, I thought an Austomate porn star is really where Sports Illustrated should
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go because her whole thing is, hey, you have to include everybody in porno films.
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And she said, because she's had an ostomy, that she is even sexier than ever.
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I, I, I, it took me about three minutes because of the circle that Google has become.
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Anybody who has had an ostomy has had a hole put in them and a tube for the elimination of
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It makes her, she said, it makes her sexier than ever.
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However, she's the first porn star with a bag of pee and poop next to her, which I think
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I mean, the listen to the show probably don't think that.
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And I'm thinking SI, if you really are a launch power.
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And I think it needs to be, I think we need to stand on this.
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I will not buy the sports illustrated anything, nor will I contribute to their, their feminist
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empowerment fund sham until I have a copy of sports illustrated with an Austomate model in
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And I want to see the bag of crap on the beach because that's inclusive.
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We should reveal too, that, you know, you want people to stand up for this cause.
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This is what you had in mind when you were putting together the theme song for this year.
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And originally the lyrics were stand up for Austomate porn stars, but we wound up changing
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It was too, well, it was, it was a little clunky and oddly too specific because there are so
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Like, may I, Mars incorporated the, I'm quoting the company behind the colorful candy coated
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chocolates announced yesterday, a global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they
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Now, I immediately think, where is the M&M character that has a colostomy bag?
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Do you know how that porn star feels every time she sees those little M&M's?
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The global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society
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is inclusive as part of their new mission to increase the sense of belonging for 10 million
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I mean, if you were making M&Ms, 10 million seems like kind of a small kind of target.
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Is it that the entire Austomate population potentially could be, could be, could be.
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Thank you, Stu, for being so open-minded and a real thinker.
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Sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025 is their goal.
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And their M&M characters, who serve as mascots of sorts for the brand, will now be receiving
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For instance, the green M&M, previously seen in ads posing seductively and strutting her
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stuff in white go-go boots, will now sport a pair of sneakers.
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The description for the candy company on the M&M's website said, she enjoys being a hyper
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I am a little offended, quite honestly, because she's just, she's, could we call her what she
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M&M went on to say, I think we all win when we see more women in leading roles.
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And that's why the green M&M said, quote, I'm happy to take on the part of a supportive
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Another character, the brown M&M, the one I'm thinking that needs to have the colostomy
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bag, described her motto as, not posse, just the boss.
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So M&M Mars has said that there is an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming,
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and unifying while remaining rooted in our signature jester, wit, and humor, end quote.
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Now, I don't know about you, but with all of the issues that people so-called people say
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that they're dealing with every day, I think the inclusivity of each color of the M&M
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And the more these companies can do this, the more I just want to buy their product.
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No, this is because a lot of times the left says CEOs don't do anything and they don't
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I mean, so now we have the global vice president of M&Ms talking about the individual diverse
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First real time they've redesigned these guys since 1941.
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This is literally a product that is at every store in America, two feet from a cash register
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All you have to do is make sure the things get delivered.
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Says they're only going to accept advertisers who have the S in their ESG.
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I'm going to give you two other stories that all blow your mind.
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I mean, it's not in the book because it hadn't happened yet.
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But the Sports Illustrated thing is directly out of the book.
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It's exactly what the book explains is going to happen.
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There might be some individual bookstores that have the book.
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Call your local bookstore and see if they have it.
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And I can't wait to tell you what we're doing about that.
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Go to glensnewbook.com and get the Kindle book.
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The very unofficial, never even paid for, haven't even talked to the company about a sponsorship.
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That is what you should be buying for your root beer and your soda.
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And they're official, unofficial sponsor of the Glenn Beck program.
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Also, not a sponsor of this hour's program, but one that maybe they will go, what the hell is happening?
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Bringing the American values that never wear out into clothing.
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I just want to start doing business with local people and I want to start doing business with, you know, everybody that we advertise on this program.
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If we weren't conservative, there would be a business book about what has happened to the clients of this show.
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Because so many have started with five people and an idea and they're like, this is our last dollar.
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I'm like, don't worry, don't worry, I believe in your product, we'll be fine.
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And they've gone on to sell for, you know, a billion dollars or they're publicly traded companies and everything else.
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And then once they're publicly traded, then, you know, the board of directors comes in and they're like, we can't have you advertising on a conservative show.
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Let's go to, let's go to Corey on line four in Virginia.
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Glenn, you've been talking about the struggle with the different book formats for your new book, The Great Reset.
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I was wondering if or when an audio book version of it will be coming in.
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So I am trying to, I've scheduled tomorrow to begin recording.
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But if you can tell, I don't know if people can tell.
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I have really, I have problems with my vocal cords.
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They can go into paralysis and they do about every couple of years.
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And I'm having a problem with my vocal cords right now.
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I don't know if you can hear the scratchiness in it.
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So it's going to take me about 30 hours to record.
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So I'm just trying to push it off a little bit.
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But as soon as I feel my vocal cords can handle the weight, I am, I'm reading the book.
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I want to say, I want to say that reaching out to local businesses to sell this book is
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the first step I've heard that I can do something with.
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I'm a very big believer that when the big box stores come, especially to the small community,
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But they're taking away full businesses and the American dream from our neighbors.
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And if there's anything in the world as free people we can do on the left or the right,
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it is to go around these giant corporations and put the power and the money back in our
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If we want that power back, we just quit using those.
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I'm going to gather up and talk to everybody I know in my community and see if I can't get
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I'm certainly going to buy one as soon as I get home.
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And I teach people that are immigrants that are coming from different countries and they
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A lot of them go right out and buy a couple of trucks.
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They can go right to work hauling freight, making better than a family wage.
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I know several of them that now have fleets of trucks, but the fuel's going up so much
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and the giant trucking companies are hauling it for so cheap.
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It's getting harder and harder and the regulations are piling up.
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If we can get around those big companies, even the people that I'm training, especially the
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immigrants that are coming here, it's going to help us all get free and more powerful.
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Bud, you are exactly right in that you've pretty much summed up the last chapter of the
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And, you know, when I was talking to my staff yesterday and I'm like, we're going guerrilla.
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I mean, you can't stop something if it's duplicated everywhere.
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I mean, we're just we're just divvy up all of the work instead of doing it at one place
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And as I'm talking about, I'm like, this is The Great Reset.
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This how did we not think of this in the first place?
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This is the solution that we present in the book.
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We can get you involved and get you making money, your community making money by printing
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these and selling them in local bookstores and and bypassing all of the the other.
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Right now, do you know that there are about 600 different products in your in your grocery
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OK, minimum of about 600 different products and different lines.
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Though all of those different brands, everything that's in there.
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Did you know that we walk in and we think we have such variety and we do.
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So when there's a food chain breakdown, it's because one of the 12 companies, the reason
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why your meat is so expensive is because we have let the butchers only come from four companies
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and these four companies, they'll never convince me they're not colluding.
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I mean, maybe they have psychics at work, so they know exactly what the other people are
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They are making money hand over fist while our local ranchers are dying.
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Well, we could go and vote for somebody in Washington and make sure they break up this monopoly or
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we can just start our own butcher, local butcher places.
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So I don't have to ship my cow in Idaho to Denver and sell it in Denver.
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I can have the butcher there in my own local market, butcher it, and I can sell it to the
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The one thing we should be learning from COVID that nobody is talking about.
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We get too much stuff from China, don't you think?
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By the way, it was very nice that Nancy Pelosi and the president are buying up and giving away
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I hope you know how they work because all of the directions are in Chinese.
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We've just looked for someone else to tell us what the right thing to do is.
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We are the people that we say this is the right thing to do.
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We've stopped believing that we can, that we even, that we even know the difference between
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Yeah, see that guy who's wearing the bikini swimsuit on the swim team that seems to have
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a lot of junk where women don't have junk and he's huge, muscular.
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They can physically be hurt if it's a physical sport, but they also, hey girl, give up on
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You don't even understand what racism is because you're telling me I should judge people based
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You can get all of your scholarly think tanks and professors together and you can make up
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I'm not saying that to make a make somebody feel bad.
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I'm just telling you that's the truth and I'm not going to live in America anymore because
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If you happen to be listening to me and you're with your parents right now, I want you to
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really listen and it may not mean anything to you now, but it will when you get older and
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I want you to remember that you were with your parent when you heard it and your parent
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What you're living in is some sort of fun house distorted mirror of America.
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This doesn't reflect any reality of who we were and who we are and most importantly, who
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you will become the one who decides that is you, no matter who tells you, no matter how
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many times people tell you, oh, well, you can't do that.
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You're not, you're too privileged or you're not privileged enough.
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And then when we get Washington and we get the white house and the Congress, then we're
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going to, we'll get them and we'll change it back.
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Just believe in the power of decency and goodness.
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Capitalism is you getting up in the morning and going, I got a great idea.
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You know, I really hate doing this because it's such a pain in the ass.
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I just came up with a way so I don't have to do it or it's a much easier thing to do
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And then the job of the government is to protect your idea to make sure it remains your idea and isn't given to Google because they have more money and bigger attorneys.
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No matter who they can hire, no matter how much they have.
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Make sure Russia, China doesn't come in and take all of our stuff.
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I just don't want people stealing my stuff and that includes my right.
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The other job, make sure your idea remains your idea.
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The rest of it is up to you and the rest of the community.
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And as soon, mark my words, you'll remember this someday.
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As soon as this country decides, and it's only going to take about 20%.
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As soon as this country decides, get the hell out of my way.
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As soon as 20% of this country decides, America will magically reappear.
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I am so thrilled to have back into the studio, Dr. Robert Epstein, or Epstein,
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who is the senior researcher, research psychologist that we have had on several times,
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who looks at Google and YouTube and everything else on manipulation and refresh us.
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The last time we talked, it was in the run up to the election.
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And you said, if we can do this, we can find out if this manipulation is happening.
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And I don't remember how much we raised, but you got enough money to do the research.
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Your viewers, your listeners, your people, okay, I don't know who these people are, but they're amazing.
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Because they stepped up and they gave donations, more than 7,000 of them gave donations of between $1 and $300,000.
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And we got the money that we needed to set up the largest tracking system to track big tech and see what they're showing real voters, literally real voters.
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We had 1,735 field agents in swing counties in the swing states.
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And with their permission, we were basically capturing what they saw on their screens.
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We had an equal mix of liberals, conservatives, moderates, and we preserved a massive amount of information that is normally lost forever.
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We preserved 1.5 million political ephemeral experiences in these swing counties, in these swing states, content going to real register.
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These are all registered voters whose identities we kept secret so that these companies never knew who they were.
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And over 3 million web pages, and we've spent the last year analyzing the data, but, and we found incredible bias, all that stuff, but also something truly amazing happened.
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And this is, honestly, Glenn, I smile when I come in here because this is you and your people who did this.
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On October 30th, right before the election in 2020, we were seeing such dramatic results, which I'd be happy to share, of course.
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That we decided, and we've never done this before, even though the election is, you know, not for a few days, we went public with some of our initial findings.
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And I shared them with my contact in Senator Cruz's office, and the next thing that happened was, November 5th, two days after the election, three U.S. senators sent an extremely threatening letter, two-page letter, to the CEO of Google, saying,
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Epstein's work shows, you did this, and this, and this, and this, and this, you know, and, you know, please explain this.
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That is the first time ever anyone has gotten a big test.
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Well, what this says is, what this says, this is a lesson here.
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No laws or regulations are ever, ever going to constrain these companies.
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And we don't even have leaders, by the way, who are capable of passing such a law.
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I mean, you know, there are a few people here and there.
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But not only that, even if they did pass laws, you can't keep up with tech.
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But you know what we learned from this process, thanks to you?
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We learned that monitoring systems, monitoring systems, tracking them, doing to them what they do to us and our kids 24 hours a day, tracking them gets them to back off.
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They have to back off because we're exposing them.
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And we have massive amounts of data that they can't deny.
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So this is the solution to protecting our democracy, protecting our kids, protecting our own minds from manipulation by these tech companies.
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Today's Google and tomorrow's Google is we have to set up a large scale, permanent monitoring system that is self-sustaining.
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Because I don't care who's running Google or any of these tech companies.
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It's got to be, you know, all that bureaucracy, which is you've got to make sure that this monitoring system is run fairly.
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I would personally would not trust the U.S. government to run it.
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So, you know, because then whoever's in power would control the monitoring.
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There are such organizations out there, believe it or not.
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I mean, you know, there aren't that many, but there are some.
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If you go to mygoogleresearch.com, you're going to find all of the research you've updated just for this audience.
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We will send you a digital copy of this book, which I just gave you, which is my congressional testimony from 2019.
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And in fact, that is dated yesterday, January 20th.
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And I updated it with all our new findings from the presidential election 2020, from the Georgia elections, and some of our latest research.
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We've done breakthrough research in the past year that eclipses everything we've ever done before.
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We have, at this moment in time, 12 scientific papers under review and four that are in press.
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So, I mean, we have all kinds of new discoveries.
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The senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.
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He's also the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today magazine, a PhD of Harvard University, 15 books on artificial intelligence, yada, yada, yada.
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There's two kinds of things that we've learned over the past, especially over the past year and a half.
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I've been doing all this stuff now for over nine years.
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But last year and a half has just been a windfall.
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So, in 2020, in the presidential election, the days leading up to the presidential election, we found, as we found in previous elections, considerable liberal bias.
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A considerable liberal bias on Google search results, possibly sufficient to have shifted more than 6 million votes with no one knowing that it was being done.
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And except for our monitoring, with no paper trail for authorities to trace.
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So, how would 6 million people have their minds changed?
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Because, if you go back in time, at some point in time, 20% or more of voters are undecided.
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And depending on the election, in fact, that percentage can be much higher.
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But if you assume 20% a few months before, and if you assume that Google is stacking the deck on those search results, people trust what's higher.
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And if they put content that's higher, that favors one candidate, say Joe Biden, and that makes another candidate look terrible, like Donald Trump, people, the undecided people, those are influenced by that.
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You can shift up to 80% of undecided voters after just one search if you have biased search results.
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By the way, we even know why now people have that trust.
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Because about 86% of the searches that people do online are for simple facts.
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I should know that because I'm in Texas right now.
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The point is that most of what people search for is for simple facts.
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So over and over again, we're like rats in a Skinner box.
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We're being trained what's at the top is best, what's at the top is truer.
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We've done experiments to prove this, by the way.
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And so if you are a company like Google and you have a strong political bias, whether it's conscious or unconscious, it doesn't matter.
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If you put algorithms out there that boost one candidate or boost one cause, that has no effect on the people with extreme views.
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You know, people are committed to one position or another.
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But it has an enormous effect on people who are undecided, uncommitted, really trying to make up their minds.
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They trust what Google shows them at the top of that list.
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I just did a podcast yesterday with the FCC commissioner, and we were talking about AI and search results and everything else.
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And how frightening this is when these companies have so much knowledge about you as an individual.
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There comes a time, and I think we might be there, where you don't know if you have free will.
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You don't know if you made that decision or you were kind of pushed and moved gently, slowly into that decision.
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I know because I've been doing experiments on this for over nine years.
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Because I know for sure, because it's not just search results, that's a big one, but search suggestions that are flashed at you as you start to type a search term.
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I can prove it to you if you have a phone here.
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You are being manipulated from the very first character that you type into the search bar on Google.
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So these search suggestions that they're flashing at you, those aren't to help you.
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We've shown in experiments, just by fiddling around with search suggestions, we can turn among undecided voters a 50-50 split into nearly a 90-10 split.
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Just by manipulating search suggestions, and no one has the slightest idea that they're being manipulated.
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Well, that's the most, I mean, that's what people are looking for when it has an A.
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Well, as it happens, though, call it a coincidence that Amazon happens to be Google's largest advertiser, and Google is the largest single source of traffic to Amazon that there is.
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What that tells you is if you're going to start a company, make sure the name does not begin with G.
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I will say, too, how many people are going to Google.com to search for the word Google?
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I feel like there's a limited amount of people who would go to Google.com to search for Google.
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Okay, but it's not just the search suggestions.
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It's those answer boxes now that they show you all the time.
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Okay, we have incredible new research just on the answer boxes.
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The answer box alone, it stops people from looking down at the search results.
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It's so funny because it does the opposite to me.
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These answer boxes will come up and I'll be like, well, who the hell are you to tell?
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The average person, I don't think, reacts that way.
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No, people are lazy and people are trusting, especially of Google.
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The answer box alone can produce a 38% shift in the opinions and thinking of people who
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are undecided and not just on election issues, but on anything.
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I've hardly got going here because take that a step further.
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He sounded, excuse me, but he sounded a little like Vassini there, didn't he, for the Princess
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Now we call this new effect the answer bot effect because what else gives you just the
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Well, your phone, your iPad, these devices that are called personal assistants.
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All of these personal assistants, like Amazon's Alexa, like the Google Home device, which they
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try to have you put in every single room in your house.
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And when you ask a question, it only gives you one answer.
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And now we have shown in controlled experiments that with one single question and answer sequence,
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we can produce more than a 40% shift in the voting preferences of a group of undecided voters.
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And if we give them the same kind of biased answer over and over again, we can produce
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over a 65% shift in the voting preferences of undecided voters.
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And none of this, if it wasn't for your research and, you know, this audience raising the money
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to be able to track it, none of this would have been provable.
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So how do they do that without leaving a trail?
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Well, the algorithm has to be, I mean, proprietary, but it's, the algorithm is worthless.
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You can't use the algorithm to go back in time and find out what ephemeral stuff they
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And that is why there was a leak from, of Google emails to the Wall Street Journal.
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And one of the, the email said, it's one Googler talking to other Googlers.
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And it said, how can we use ephemeral experiences to change people's views about Trump's travel
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They know that ephemeral experiences, except for what I do, cannot be tracked.
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You want the full report on what, you know, you want to talk about a rigged election, as
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Just go to mygoogleresearch.com, mygoogleresearch.com.
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You'll get a free PDF of the, of the, of the booklet, Google's Triple Threat to Democracy,