The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： James O’Keefe ｜ 1⧸24⧸22

00:00:00.000 Another great show today.

00:00:02.260 We address all of it.

00:00:04.880 We've been here before is a really important segment of the program.

00:00:09.700 We also have James O'Keefe on talking about muckrakers and our responsibility as Americans.

00:00:18.040 Also, Bitcoin, inflation, the Fed, the Treasury, and the economy.

00:00:24.660 All on today's podcast.

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00:00:46.660 Here's the show.

00:00:47.180 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:58.580 Sunday, Monday, happy days.

00:01:05.240 Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days.

00:01:07.720 Thursday, Friday, happy days.

00:01:10.200 The weekend counts.

00:01:11.480 My cycle hunts.

00:01:12.740 Ready to race to you.

00:01:15.040 We've been here before.

00:01:17.340 I remember the 1970s.

00:01:19.480 I remember Welcome Back, Cotter.

00:01:21.800 Happy days.

00:01:22.680 And the seemingly endless summers where our only instructions from our parents were to

00:01:27.400 be home before dark.

00:01:29.560 The sound of the screen door slamming shut as we ran to play with our friends.

00:01:35.960 It was very different from the violent 60s.

00:01:40.160 You know, the love decade.

00:01:44.140 For years, the 1960s has bothered me personally.

00:01:48.500 I always thought it was an incredibly selfish age.

00:01:52.700 While it said it cared about others, most of it, it seemed to me, was only about getting

00:01:57.120 high and sleeping with whomever or whatever you wanted.

00:01:59.960 No rules to me always seemed like no responsibilities, dude.

00:02:06.440 It always seemed to me as an angry and arrogant generation with really no respect for what came

00:02:14.660 before because it just knew better.

00:02:17.080 That was wrong.

00:02:18.640 That was old.

00:02:19.480 We just know better.

00:02:21.740 We're going to change things and to hell with the rest of everyone else.

00:02:29.100 The assassinations, the bombings, the riots eventually grew old.

00:02:34.860 Eventually, you run out of mud to roll around in.

00:02:39.320 But as always, the truth is somewhere in between the extremes.

00:02:43.700 There were real problems with race, politics, love, war, and blind loyalty.

00:02:52.040 In the 1960s, it was an era of assassinations.

00:02:56.160 Kennedy.

00:02:56.940 From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m.

00:03:04.000 Martin Luther King was killed.

00:03:06.140 Malcolm X was killed.

00:03:07.480 And finally, at the end of the decade, RFK Jr. was killed.

00:03:12.560 And who stepped in?

00:03:14.660 Johnson, a racist, ended up crafting the Great Society and became the civil rights icon?

00:03:21.520 How did that happen somehow without question?

00:03:26.620 As his policymaker said he would fight and win the war on poverty, his actions actually enslaved, not freed people.

00:03:34.800 In fact, people of all races now are getting caught into the slavery trap of this government.

00:03:41.000 And then, the answer to that was Nixon.

00:03:46.500 I want to say this to the television audience.

00:03:48.360 I made my mistakes.

00:03:49.600 Nixon was the answer for the other side. 0.72

00:03:52.200 And as we know many times, the other side is just as bad.

00:03:56.920 Because we fight over the two parties, we become tribal, and we fight blindly for things, and people that we would never really fight for, if we hadn't been convinced the other side was the enemy.

00:04:13.760 The 1960s, I think, was just an abomination.

00:04:19.100 And then the 70s came.

00:04:21.200 Was that any better?

00:04:23.280 Things changed.

00:04:24.280 In the 1970s, they kind of changed.

00:04:27.180 I mean, we weren't killing each other in the streets and burning our cities down.

00:04:30.520 But we went into a different place.

00:04:33.320 Things were still changing and bubbling under the surface.

00:04:37.660 Roles of men and women were changing.

00:04:40.800 Parents changed.

00:04:43.000 America was changing.

00:04:44.560 We had gas lines in cold winters with no heating oil, inflation.

00:04:49.080 American factories closed.

00:04:50.680 It seemed no one could get a job and hope was a thing of a past.

00:04:56.560 I remember the symbol of American might and know-how.

00:05:00.180 The big American car.

00:05:02.580 It had become a boat.

00:05:04.900 It was a joke.

00:05:07.840 Our military had become a joke.

00:05:10.040 And soon, we all seemingly all felt America would be a joke if it wasn't already.

00:05:20.140 New York City was a crime-ridden hellhole.

00:05:23.980 And the generation after the hippies left home,

00:05:28.000 my generation was the first generation that had to have all their candy checked for razor blades or poison.

00:05:33.320 And it was then that a movie came out.

00:05:43.040 It was Saturday Night Fever.

00:05:46.960 It's a pretty bad movie, honestly.

00:05:49.740 But it's a time capsule.

00:05:51.800 It's a marker in space-time.

00:05:54.280 And it wasn't really about the music.

00:05:57.600 It reflected the era.

00:06:00.380 It reflected what was happening at our dinner tables.

00:06:03.880 Every time you mention Frank Jr., you've got to cross yourself.

00:06:06.480 He's a priest, ain't he?

00:06:07.980 Father Frank Jr., your brother.

00:06:10.340 Your mother doesn't have too much to cross the shop about these things. 0.95

00:06:13.900 You're so jealous of Frank Jr. 0.99

00:06:15.560 Oh, shut up, will you? 0.99

00:06:17.540 What are you doing? 1.00

00:06:19.900 And the shirt, wash the shirt, stupid. 1.00

00:06:21.660 All right, come on. 1.00

00:06:24.200 Manager, manager.

00:06:25.380 Go ahead.

00:06:25.860 Eat, eat.

00:06:26.380 I've got more pork chops, more spaghetti.

00:06:28.380 What do you mean you've got more pork chops?

00:06:30.080 I'm out of work.

00:06:31.020 Yeah, well, as long as we've got a dollar left, we eat good in this house.

00:06:33.340 What?

00:06:33.660 Yeah, I might even get a job myself.

00:06:35.340 I can't, you will.

00:06:37.020 25 years in construction work, I've always brought him a paycheck.

00:06:41.180 What, six, seven months I'm out of work?

00:06:44.220 And all of a sudden, what?

00:06:45.820 You're hitting me.

00:06:47.060 I'm talking back.

00:06:48.040 All right, all right.

00:06:48.480 Talking about getting a job and hitting me.

00:06:49.860 All right, all right.

00:06:50.060 No hitting, no slapping at the dinner table, okay?

00:06:51.560 That's the rule, hmm?

00:06:52.900 I knew it was the one I was hitting.

00:06:55.780 You never hit me before.

00:06:57.540 Never.

00:06:58.640 Not in front of kids.

00:07:06.840 One pork chop.

00:07:08.000 One.

00:07:08.300 Hey, Frank.

00:07:10.140 It's disgusting.

00:07:11.120 Why is it sick?

00:07:12.700 We just washed the hair.

00:07:16.540 Even all the way down to the sounds of church bells ringing in the neighborhood behind.

00:07:22.380 The tension between mom and dad over money, over job, over roles.

00:07:27.320 And the kid pulling more and more inside of himself.

00:07:30.280 Hey, watch the hair as the family and seemingly the whole world was crumbling.

00:07:35.000 The movie also shows us a time where we knew things.

00:07:40.860 We talked to each other.

00:07:42.420 We told each other stories.

00:07:44.260 Yes, believe it or not, we spoke to one another.

00:07:48.000 There were no cell phones and there was no Google.

00:07:51.560 Do you know how tall that bridge is?

00:07:54.540 That bridge, that tower right there goes up 690 feet.

00:07:58.780 They got 40 million cars going across there a year.

00:08:02.700 127,000 tons of steel is involved in that.

00:08:07.840 The concrete there, they got almost three quarter million yards of concrete.

00:08:13.300 That's right.

00:08:14.520 The center span right there is 4,260 feet.

00:08:18.380 Many of us, at least my age, have been here before.

00:08:24.340 We know these times.

00:08:27.480 Hard times made us.

00:08:30.920 Perhaps we become the parents now in the movie.

00:08:34.320 And we forget that we were once actually the kids that could actually see a way out.

00:08:39.960 That were seemingly just worried about our hair.

00:08:43.440 But not really.

00:08:46.440 We were the kids that felt hope.

00:08:49.620 Only then to have someone in our life blow that flame out.

00:08:53.960 We were once there.

00:09:01.280 Oof.

00:09:03.280 And we're here again.

00:09:06.620 But this time, this time, we know how the story ends.

00:09:11.960 This time, my generation is old enough and strong enough to tell the hippies,

00:09:17.020 we've had enough.

00:09:18.600 I've never expressed this out loud before.

00:09:24.560 But I've always had a problem with the 60s.

00:09:26.820 I've always had a problem with the hippie era.

00:09:29.580 And it comes from someplace very personal.

00:09:31.900 It comes from my childhood.

00:09:35.060 It's time to tell the hippies, knock it off.

00:09:39.660 You've had your fun.

00:09:41.520 You set yourself free and you found yourself.

00:09:44.540 You had your sexual liberation.

00:09:47.960 And the rest of us have paid the bill. 0.85

00:09:51.240 We have cured the diseases.

00:09:53.620 We were there to pick up the pieces of our destroyed families after you left.

00:09:59.660 You gathered the kindling for the bonfire of the vanities.

00:10:04.680 You were raising kids in what you say was the era of greed, the 1980s.

00:10:11.060 But it wasn't me that was the yuppie.

00:10:14.540 It was your generation that was the yuppie, not mine, and certainly not our parents.

00:10:21.120 It was your generation that fought against the U.S. in Vietnam and the Cold War.

00:10:27.600 You were the ones saying that Reagan is a warmonger and he's going to get us all vaporized.

00:10:32.740 You went on with your life, but it was my generation as a kid that woke up with night terrors night after night about being vaporized because of your political propaganda.

00:10:45.800 I got news for you.

00:10:51.440 It wasn't our parents that arrogantly said we could have it all.

00:10:55.980 It was your generation.

00:10:58.680 It was you and your generation.

00:11:03.360 You brought us the Clinton years where we could have it all. 0.96

00:11:07.140 Pets.com.

00:11:08.220 You got to get in.

00:11:09.620 Crash.

00:11:11.580 You brought us the Obama years.

00:11:14.580 Hey, get this loan.

00:11:15.960 Everyone can have a loan.

00:11:17.400 Everyone should have a house.

00:11:18.900 Crash.

00:11:19.460 You brought us these times because weak men bring hard times.

00:11:31.560 Here you are now way past your prime.

00:11:35.420 And you will not retire from so-called public service.

00:11:40.680 Do you know this is the oldest by far the oldest generation to ever serve in Congress and the White House by far.

00:11:51.040 We have people who don't even understand how a phone works.

00:11:58.980 And why is that?

00:12:00.620 Are they serving because they're living longer?

00:12:04.020 No.

00:12:05.420 No.

00:12:06.840 It's because they are the hippie generation.

00:12:09.440 They are the generation that I and others my age have lived in the shadow of the whole time.

00:12:14.660 The hippie generation. 0.83

00:12:16.140 The generation that has been arrogant and greedy and all about themselves the entire time. 0.75

00:12:23.640 It's why they're all getting rich in Congress.

00:12:26.520 It's why they're all staying in Congress. 1.00

00:12:29.260 They're arrogant and greedy. 1.00

00:12:31.340 They always have been and always will be. 0.75

00:12:33.740 Now I want to make sure that I'm not making just a total blanket statement of all those who grew up in the 60s because many live through those times and learned from their mistakes.

00:12:47.620 Some did not.

00:12:49.700 I have two messages today.

00:12:56.500 First one to the hippies.

00:13:01.980 You've had your fun.

00:13:04.040 You've made your wealth.

00:13:06.680 You have become everything you said you despised when you were a kid.

00:13:14.000 You are the man.

00:13:16.560 You are the ones keeping the regular person down.

00:13:20.960 You're the ones kicking the door behind you closed.

00:13:24.680 My generation has always lived in your reckless shadow.

00:13:32.960 We've been the only ones left to clean up your mess.

00:13:39.580 And I feel at times that nothing really has changed.

00:13:42.920 You still get away with it.

00:13:45.260 And it's my generation that pays the price.

00:13:47.720 We were the latchkey kids, not you.

00:13:53.220 We were the ones with a broken family, not you.

00:14:00.280 But I'd like to ask you nicely.

00:14:03.060 Stop.

00:14:04.500 You're the ones preaching.

00:14:06.100 When is enough enough?

00:14:08.640 When is enough enough, Nancy Pelosi?

00:14:11.580 When is enough enough, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden?

00:14:22.540 When is enough enough?

00:14:25.540 Go away.

00:14:26.980 Retire.

00:14:28.080 It is time to give other people a chance.

00:14:31.040 And perhaps it's too late for my generation to have the turn.

00:14:34.680 But you will not do to my kids and the next generation what you have done to my generation.

00:14:40.480 And then you blame it on us.

00:14:43.580 You always blame it on someone else. 0.91

00:14:46.920 While everyone else has to clean up your mess or live in your pigsty that you left behind.

00:14:57.740 I'm tired of it.

00:15:00.860 And now it's not just about me and my generation.

00:15:05.320 It feels personal because I've been dealing with it since as long as I can remember.

00:15:23.140 But it's actually about protecting our kids.

00:15:26.780 Here's the second message.

00:15:32.420 For all of those who are not part of that arrogant hippie generation that never learned their lesson.

00:15:38.880 You're not alone.

00:15:41.000 Especially those who are millennials.

00:15:44.720 I'm the last year of the boomer.

00:15:47.440 And I've always related to millennials more than boomers.

00:15:50.080 Because it is the boomer generation, on the most part, that has caused all of this mess. 1.00

00:15:58.000 I want you to know you're not alone.

00:16:02.960 If you are 15 or 45, you are not insignificant.

00:16:12.640 Nor do they have all of the power, all of the answers, or all of the tools.

00:16:20.000 And we need you.

00:16:24.140 Many in my generation get it.

00:16:26.780 And we're fed up.

00:16:28.600 And we'll protect you.

00:16:30.820 We'll help you stand.

00:16:33.080 Because we know the people very closely.

00:16:35.740 We're closely acquainted with those people.

00:16:39.920 We get it.

00:16:40.720 We need you to right the wrongs of the arrogant.

00:16:46.360 And for any of us who really remember Saturday Night Fever, those days of the 1970s.

00:16:53.940 I just want to remind you.

00:16:57.180 Disco came to an end.

00:17:00.160 It was a quick and disastrous demise.

00:17:05.080 It involved steamrollers rolling over these records.

00:17:08.920 America turned the page.

00:17:13.840 And it happened quickly.

00:17:15.860 It seems all we had to do was remember who we really are.

00:17:20.980 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:28.120 The founder and CEO of Project Veritas and the author of a new book, American Muckraker, James O'Keefe, joins us now.

00:17:52.560 Hi, James.

00:17:52.980 How are you?

00:17:53.380 Hi, Glenn.

00:17:55.080 And great quotes you've selected there on the intro.

00:17:57.840 Well, I think you're right on target.

00:18:01.360 This is where America needs to be.

00:18:05.080 I've been looking at the words of Eisenhower going into D-Day.

00:18:10.520 The eyes of the world are upon us.

00:18:12.620 And it is the time to either stand up and be counted or kneel down.

00:18:20.260 Well, that's why I say I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

00:18:24.340 This book, American Muckraker, I talk about the problems in journalism and the crisis of conscience that we as citizens face because we all suffer.

00:18:33.620 In fact, the first chapter of this book is called Suffering.

00:18:35.920 And people might be asking, why is James O'Keefe writing about that theme?

00:18:40.180 Well, it's because, you know, people that blow the whistle on these institutions, a lot of the people come to us inside of these different departments.

00:18:46.620 They do struggle and suffer.

00:18:48.100 And I've personally struggled and felt pain enduring the defamation and the lawsuits and even the incarceration and most recently FBI raids against me.

00:18:59.140 But, you know, I think in life we all suffer.

00:19:01.560 It's just a question of do you want to follow your conscience or not?

00:19:04.660 And I think it's better to follow your conscience and expose what's what's going on.

00:19:08.560 So I'm trying to create a movement of these people to do this.

00:19:12.140 And this book is kind of a handbook.

00:19:14.540 American Muckraker is a handbook on how to do journalism living in clown world.

00:19:18.600 Explain what Muckraker means because it's an old timey, you know, early 20th century word.

00:19:23.300 Yeah, it's from it's from about 100 years ago, 120 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt, in this passage, Pilgrim's Progress, he talked about the man with the muckrake.

00:19:35.400 And what I define it is basically a journalism who does a journalist who does expose reporting, making public what powerful people want kept private for the wrong reasons.

00:19:47.020 And I distinguish a muckraker from a corporate journalist because many of the people in corporate journalism merely represent they act as representatives for those in power.

00:19:57.840 They relate to us what they're told.

00:20:00.540 And, of course, you have to be skeptical of what you're told.

00:20:03.280 You have to question what you're told.

00:20:05.260 You can't just act in symbiosis with people in pharmaceutical companies and the government.

00:20:10.700 When did we stop thinking that journalism is printing something that someone else doesn't want printed and exchange that for public relations?

00:20:22.720 Well, the second chapter of this book, I call it medium, and I do my best job of trying to tell the story in one chapter of the history of all media.

00:20:32.300 I don't think there was a particular point in space and time.

00:20:35.240 I think it's gotten horrifically bad in the last two decades, mainly because of the consolidation of tech and the decimation of the country's newspapers.

00:20:47.380 Lack of integrity in newsrooms.

00:20:49.740 Bosses are not willing to do investigative reporting because investigative reporting is extremely expensive.

00:20:55.280 Some of our investigations at Project Veritas cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to do.

00:21:00.220 You can't generate a profit doing it.

00:21:02.340 There's no profit in this sort of work.

00:21:03.960 In fact, you usually get sued into oblivion, and most bosses settle lawsuits.

00:21:09.380 I don't.

00:21:10.200 We've never lost a lawsuit, but it's cost us an arm and a leg.

00:21:13.580 So I actually traced it to economics in the 1990s.

00:21:16.840 ABC got sued by Food Lion Grocery for that undercover investigation.

00:21:21.380 But journalists have been acting as ombudsmen since the time of FDR when he was in his wheelchair or JFK.

00:21:27.640 So it's a long story, but I try to tell people how to break through it.

00:21:32.780 Can I just switch to the news that you're involved in?

00:21:37.120 You were raided by the FBI in November because they said you had Ashley Biden's diary.

00:21:43.400 Can you give us a quick synopsis of this and what the latest is with your fight against the New York Times?

00:21:51.080 Well, a source transmitted me the diary, a document of the diary, and I tried to corroborate it.

00:22:00.020 I tried to authenticate it.

00:22:01.400 I was fairly certain the diary belonged to Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden.

00:22:06.260 Most people don't realize Joe Biden has a daughter named Ashley Biden.

00:22:08.640 I thought it was hers, but wasn't certain, so I chose not to publish it.

00:22:14.180 This was in October of 2020.

00:22:17.960 Fast forward a year, a federal agent shoved up my home with a search warrant.

00:22:22.380 They put me in handcuffs, threw me against my hallway wall, raided my home, and took my two iPhones, just my iPhones, not my laptop or anything else.

00:22:30.700 Very unusual, by the way, and particularly aggressive to do it against a journalist.

00:22:36.180 On the search warrant, it said, accessory after the fact and misprison of a felony.

00:22:42.240 Now, these are crimes that they are, I guess, looking for, but I have not been charged with anything.

00:22:48.080 But to even do this to a reporter, accessory after the fact is completely unconstitutional.

00:22:54.240 The Supreme Court of the United States, in a case called Bartnicki v. Bopper, protects the right of a journalist to receive a document, even if that document was stolen by a third party, so long as the journalist had nothing to do with the theft of the document.

00:23:09.360 I didn't think the thing was stolen.

00:23:10.900 I assumed it wasn't.

00:23:12.720 And it seems that it's coming out now it wasn't.

00:23:15.260 But, Glenn, this was a horrible and egregious violation of my rights.

00:23:19.020 And, of course, what's even more egregious is that within moments of me being out of handcuffs, I got a text message from the New York Times national security reporter who somehow had got access to this information and knew the subject of the grand jury subpoena.

00:23:33.200 So this is what we're talking about in this book.

00:23:35.280 It's also just the nature of our circumstances these days when the government teams up with media, which teams up with pharmaceutical companies, which teams up with the executive branch of government.

00:23:44.080 It's really unjust.

00:23:46.120 So how do you fight it, James?

00:23:47.680 I mean, I know what you're doing, and I really, truly hope that you win and you just take the whole system apart.

00:23:57.960 But how does the average person deal with this?

00:24:02.100 What do we do?

00:24:04.200 Well, that's what most people are very cynical.

00:24:06.980 I would say the majority of people are at least afraid.

00:24:10.100 And the first thing we do is we have to tail as old as time, stop the fear.

00:24:14.800 And yes, we're nothing, and we're not, you know, they have tremendous power.

00:24:19.520 But I argue in this book, throughout the book, that's part because we give them that power, right?

00:24:25.580 We're not alone.

00:24:27.180 And there's a lot of good people in the government.

00:24:29.100 Just two weeks ago, we broke a story inside the Department of Defense.

00:24:32.560 There are whistleblowers.

00:24:33.600 There are people who see the truth, but they're afraid to lose their pension or be persecuted or be defamed.

00:24:40.420 So we've got to stop wanting approval from these people.

00:24:43.540 We've got to stop worrying about losing our Twitter account and Instagram.

00:24:47.740 We have to do the right thing no matter what.

00:24:50.220 And Veritas has this whole whistleblower program.

00:24:52.900 We've raised people half a million dollars every time they blow the whistle.

00:24:56.180 There's life after whistleblowing now.

00:24:58.380 And I think that's the future.

00:24:59.600 I think it's a mass movement of truth-tellers that bring reality, cinema verite, that the images are more powerful than their ability to manipulate words in a newspaper.

00:25:11.240 I really believe that.

00:25:12.840 You talk about tyranny, and you say Muckraker's natural enemy is a tyrant.

00:25:17.460 But I don't know if we – I don't know if Americans really understand tyranny.

00:25:22.480 What does it look like to you?

00:25:23.780 I think it looks like the scene in 1984, which I've reread multiple times, and I encourage everyone else to do it.

00:25:32.120 And I cite it throughout this book when the protagonist, Winston, is being interrogated by the tyrant O'Brien.

00:25:38.820 And O'Brien is saying to Winston, 2 plus 2 equals 5.

00:25:42.660 And Winston says in return, no, no, 2 plus 2 equals 4.

00:25:46.080 Everything inside of myself says it equals 4.

00:25:48.700 And O'Brien is torturing him.

00:25:50.620 And finally, Winston relents from the pressure and says, okay, 2 plus 2 is whatever you want it to be.

00:25:57.360 And it's a very important moment because the reality – there's only one truth.

00:26:01.380 There's only one reality.

00:26:02.240 You're not entitled to multiple realities in this life.

00:26:05.100 And they're trying to coerce us through shame and humiliation and the terrifying power of the press to believe that 2 plus 2 equals 5.

00:26:13.640 And I talk about that in a chapter called Power.

00:26:17.460 And it really – what changed for me was when I stopped seeking approval, when I no longer wanted to be liked by the New York Times is when I was free.

00:26:27.640 How true it is.

00:26:29.380 And it makes you more frightening.

00:26:31.280 When you don't care and they understand you don't care, that terrifies them.

00:26:38.000 Terrifies them because they have no power over you.

00:26:40.200 The name of the book is American Muckraker, Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century from the founder of Project Veritas, James O'Keefe.

00:26:50.200 James, thank you so much.

00:26:51.620 Best of luck.

00:26:52.180 Thank you, Glenn.

00:26:52.700 You bet.

00:26:57.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:27:09.120 I'm done.

00:27:10.200 With this question?

00:27:13.220 No, I'm done with COVID.

00:27:15.000 I'm done.

00:27:15.880 It's like I went so hard on COVID.

00:27:18.720 I sprayed the Pringles cans that I bought at the grocery store, stripped my clothes off because I thought COVID would be on my clothes.

00:27:26.420 Like, I did it all.

00:27:27.560 I watched Tiger King.

00:27:28.660 I got to the end of Spotify.

00:27:30.260 Like, we all did it, right?

00:27:33.140 No, no, we didn't all do it.

00:27:34.780 Well, here's the thing.

00:27:35.840 This is very wise with Bill Maher.

00:27:37.340 And then we were told, you get the vaccine.

00:27:40.720 You get the vaccine and you get back to normal.

00:27:43.200 And we haven't gotten back to normal.

00:27:46.960 And it's ridiculous at this point.

00:27:49.280 I know that so many of my liberal and progressive friends are with me on this. 0.51

00:27:54.220 And they do not want to say it out loud because they are scared to be called anti-vax or to be called science denial or to be smeared as a trumper. 0.79

00:28:03.700 I'm sorry, if you believe the science, you will look at the data that we did not have two years ago and you will find out that cloth masks do not do anything.

00:28:14.980 You will realize that you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic and carrying Omicron.

00:28:22.340 And you will realize, most importantly, that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.

00:28:30.140 The city of Flint, Michigan, which is 80 percent, I think, minority students, has just announced indefinite virtual schooling.

00:28:38.240 In the past two years, we've seen among young girls a 51 percent increase in self-harm.

00:28:44.280 People are killing themselves.

00:28:45.800 They are anxious.

00:28:46.660 They are depressed.

00:28:47.520 They are lonely.

00:28:48.920 That is why we need to end it more than any inconvenience that it's been to the rest of us.

00:28:53.240 I think this is what is sweeping the world right now.

00:28:58.100 And if, you know, we've said several times, what side of history are you going to be on, the right side or the wrong side?

00:29:03.720 Well, it's been debatable for at least maybe two years.

00:29:08.100 I think about a year it's been debatable which way this thing is going to play out, Wes.

00:29:13.380 Well, right now, if you are this big mask mandate, shut it all down kind of person, you really need to look at the facts.

00:29:21.740 You have to look at the facts.

00:29:23.140 Look at what's happening in England right now.

00:29:25.840 They're back open 100 percent and you're on the wrong side of history and it is going to be a massive moral failing.

00:29:34.840 And I think there's two things that are important about that clip and so many others that we've played recently where people like Barry Weiss, who's not conservative.

00:29:42.680 Yeah.

00:29:42.820 Bill Maher, who's certainly no conservative, is out there saying this is over and I'm done with it.

00:29:49.820 One is that where it's just like at one point in this situation, there was a real split between, I think, the left and the right.

00:29:57.820 The conservatives wanted to open things up and go and liberals generally wanted to lock down.

00:30:03.400 And that is just not the case anymore.

00:30:05.000 There are a lot of people who are Democrats, who are liberals, who are moderates, who want this over with, too, and are done with it.

00:30:13.280 Yes, you hear a lot from the, you know, Gavin Newsom's of the world.

00:30:17.520 You hear a lot from the, you know, Andrew Cuomo's and his his his clones around the country.

00:30:26.780 And you hear a lot of this stuff from the media.

00:30:28.980 But the truth is, at this point, the dynamic has changed.

00:30:32.860 We should recognize it as conservatives and we should not shun all the people who were on the other side.

00:30:38.520 Want to be on our side now.

00:30:39.780 Great.

00:30:40.380 Great.

00:30:40.840 Come on.

00:30:41.640 Every every small business owner knows you need liberals in your restaurants, too. 0.98

00:30:45.840 You need liberals in your stores. 1.00

00:30:47.880 You this is not this is not something where we can sit here and just say, oh, well, we're we were right.

00:30:53.680 And let's punish you for being wrong.

00:30:55.100 Let's welcome these people in, because once we get people like Bill Maher and Barry Weiss and so many others in our group, the the tide is not going to be able to be stopped.

00:31:06.860 I think that's part of it.

00:31:07.800 The other thing that I think is important to to recognize from that clip is.

00:31:13.720 Listening to them talk about the restrictions and shutting down schools for indefinite online learning and vaccine cards and restrictions and mask mandates and all of these things.

00:31:28.980 Glad I live in Texas.

00:31:30.460 Yeah, that's exactly what I got.

00:31:32.340 Yeah, it's not constructed a two tiered society.

00:31:36.080 The stuff they're talking about to me sounds like a foreign land.

00:31:40.660 It does not affect my life personally at all.

00:31:45.560 I am concerned about it because I have fellow human beings who are being affected by it.

00:31:51.160 Yes.

00:31:51.340 But it does not affect my life at all.

00:31:54.760 I feel watching some of this stuff in the United States of America like I feel about a video about Ethiopia.

00:32:03.220 You know, it's like, oh, my gosh, these poor people are struggling.

00:32:05.820 But it doesn't feel like it affects me.

00:32:07.440 I know I can go to the store and get food whenever I want.

00:32:10.120 But I have empathy for people in other nations.

00:32:13.140 And I feel like that with inner city crime, where, like, you see these gang shootings going on all the time in bad areas of Chicago.

00:32:20.880 You know, I live in a suburb in Texas.

00:32:22.600 And, like, obviously, some of that could hit me. 0.94

00:32:25.120 I could go to a city and get shot.

00:32:27.160 And crime can spread. 0.98

00:32:28.820 Things happen.

00:32:29.640 You're not going to Chicago.

00:32:30.600 You're all right.

00:32:31.180 It's not an everyday concern for me.

00:32:34.480 But it is something you watch.

00:32:36.380 And you're right.

00:32:37.660 Empathy for the people affected by it.

00:32:39.000 That's what it feels like here.

00:32:39.980 The left and blue states have turned this country into a two-tiered society where I feel completely normal on an everyday basis.

00:32:49.540 If you're listening to me in New York, if you're listening in California, this may be a totally different situation in your life.

00:32:56.140 But it's been over a year, well over a year, where I have felt none of this.

00:33:03.840 Living in Texas, living in Florida, living in some of these southern states.

00:33:07.360 And you're seeing this now with the economy and the job numbers where hundreds of thousands of jobs are disappearing in every other region.

00:33:14.780 And they're all going to the south.

00:33:17.300 There is a reason for that.

00:33:19.600 It's happening in mass, mass numbers that maybe we've never seen before in the history of the United States.

00:33:25.920 Here's what I think really has to be understood.

00:33:28.480 I have been telling you for 20 years, there is going to come a time where we're going to have the industrial revolution that took 100 years.

00:33:39.460 It's going to happen in 10.

00:33:40.820 We're in it right now.

00:33:42.840 I've told you for 20 years, in the end, tech will be despised because tech is going to be seen as the enemy because it will be AI and robotics and everything else that take your job.

00:33:55.960 And people won't know what to do.

00:33:59.180 And you're going to have to retrain for jobs from every year to every five years in the future.

00:34:03.820 You will not have a long-term job.

00:34:06.840 And a lot of people, especially those who are my age and above, you don't retrain that quickly.

00:34:12.960 You know, you just don't.

00:34:13.660 It doesn't happen that way.

00:34:15.460 And so what do we do?

00:34:17.400 And tech, and I can tell you this because I have been, Stu, have I not been saying this since we met in the 90s?

00:34:23.320 Yeah, it's been a long time.

00:34:24.440 I know because I read futurists and futurists like Ray Kurzweil, you don't know if they're actually predicting the future or making the future at this point, okay?

00:34:35.700 Because they're all at Google and everything else.

00:34:37.880 And they have been talking about this for a very long time.

00:34:41.440 But you don't hear any politician talking about it.

00:34:43.760 You don't hear Google setting up big, huge training centers to retrain truck drivers who in six years, eight years, will probably lose their jobs because there will be automatic driving trucks.

00:34:56.820 It'll be the first impact on trucks and big, big jobs.

00:35:02.100 You don't see them talking about that, do you?

00:35:04.540 Do you see any of these big tech places?

00:35:06.080 They're not doing that.

00:35:06.820 Why?

00:35:07.120 They know that this is going to be one of the worst upheavals ever in the history of mankind.

00:35:14.920 You're going to have 100 years of change in 10 years.

00:35:20.420 They're worried because I read them.

00:35:22.420 I read their own white papers.

00:35:23.840 They're worried about revolutions.

00:35:25.380 They're worried about violence and riots in the streets and governments being overthrown just because jobs.

00:35:32.640 And then they're also worried about suicides.

00:35:35.260 Where do you get your meaning if you don't work?

00:35:38.860 Nobody's talking about this.

00:35:41.040 And tech knows it.

00:35:43.140 Because tech is going to be causing it.

00:35:46.380 I've also told you beginning about 10 years ago, there is going to come a time when tech knows what tech knows.

00:35:53.300 And the government is going to start looking like, oh, they're going to come for us.

00:35:58.020 The people are going to come for us.

00:35:59.520 And the banks are going to go.

00:36:01.240 People are going to come for us.

00:36:02.360 And they will look to tech to protect them with the promise that the government and the banks and the new world order will protect tech when the jobs are gone.

00:36:14.920 That's the Great Reset, guys.

00:36:16.360 I just didn't know what it was called.

00:36:17.640 That's the Great Reset.

00:36:18.800 And that's what's really going on here.

00:36:20.940 The government is in trouble.

00:36:24.760 The press is in trouble.

00:36:27.080 That's why the press is working with the government.

00:36:28.920 We're all in this together, right?

00:36:31.200 Hoping that you're not going to figure it out.

00:36:34.560 Because there's three ways for this to end.

00:36:36.220 You catch on early enough, right now, and you stand up against it, and we throw these bums out, and we all talk to each other about the truth. 1.00

00:36:45.520 Our life is going to change.

00:36:46.980 How do we want it to change?

00:36:48.600 And how are we going to deal with this?

00:36:50.960 And we all become adults.

00:36:52.000 That's the right way to deal with it.

00:36:55.680 The other is, we all decide we're going to stay asleep, and we just let them steamroll over us, and we're in a virtual cage.

00:37:06.840 And when we wake up, there's nothing you can do about it, and you're just in that system.

00:37:10.640 Or, God forbid, the third one, and that is, we figure it out almost too late, and you got to fight for it, and then it just goes, but ugly.

00:37:27.500 I said this in 2009, I think, on Fox. 0.98

00:37:31.520 You think, you think you are using these people as useful idiots, meaning the people like at Occupy Wall Street at the time. 0.98

00:37:40.640 I said, but these people actually believe it. 1.00

00:37:42.600 You politicians don't.

00:37:44.860 You think you're using the global warming people, and you're telling them, we're going to fix the planet.

00:37:50.660 But when they figure out that this is nothing but a giant money-making scheme by the richest people and the richest corporations in the world, and you never meant it.

00:38:01.440 You were just looking for power and money, they will come to your studio and rip you out of the street, out of their seat, live on television, and beat you to death in the streets.

00:38:13.600 That's the worst case scenario.

00:38:16.940 And they all know it.

00:38:18.380 You cannot lie to billions of people, because we actually have skin in the game.

00:38:31.300 You're telling us, you're lying to us, telling us, don't worry, we got it, we got it, we got it.

00:38:36.260 But we're the ones that lose in the end.

00:38:38.220 And it's not just one country they're doing it to.

00:38:41.720 They're doing it to the entire Western world. 0.59

00:38:45.820 It's happening now to the people in Ukraine.

00:38:48.260 And what are we doing?

00:38:50.080 We helped cause that.

00:38:54.260 What are we doing?

00:38:55.140 The time to know about what is coming is right now.

00:39:05.160 The time to calmly, collectively, work together with all sides of the aisle, because the other side is waking up.

00:39:13.540 Wait a minute.

00:39:13.960 This is not what they said it is.

00:39:16.080 Why are they still doing this with COVID?

00:39:18.540 Why?

00:39:19.380 They're asking those questions.

00:39:21.620 You are asking questions.

00:39:23.340 Why is this happening?

00:39:24.420 The answer is the Great Reset.

00:39:28.460 Know it.

00:39:30.000 Share it with your friends.

00:39:32.640 The eyes of the world are upon us.

00:39:35.600 And only in America, only in America, can we actually publish this truth and get it out.

00:39:43.560 It's now up to you and your neighbors to learn it inside out.

00:39:49.280 And take the simple steps now.

00:39:51.620 Get your money out of these big banks and support your local, locally owned, locally run bank.

00:39:59.820 Get your state to pass ES, anti-ESG laws.

00:40:05.280 They're now happening in three states, Texas, West Virginia, and New Hampshire.

00:40:10.600 Support them and get them on the books in your own state.

00:40:14.040 The time to act is right now.

00:40:16.960 If you don't know what I'm talking about with the Great Reset, get the book, glennsnewbook.com, glennsnewbook.com.

00:40:24.540 It's called The Great Reset, Joe Biden and 21st Century Fascism.

00:40:29.040 Na-na-na-na-na.

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