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Glenn and Stu argue about the cost of a special that Glenn did on his YouTube channel. Greg Abbott declares an invasion at the southern border, and NBC reporter M.E.A.M. has been suspended.
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I don't. Hey, Stu. Hi, Glenn. How are ya? How are you? Oh, she's, he's whining because
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I don't like it that we don't have a commercial for the podcast today. I do. The audience
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loves that. I know, but I, you know, as you know, I'm just an evil capitalist. You are.
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You really are. That's me. That's totally me. He's got a problem with the special that
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I'm doing tonight. I do have a problem with it because you're doing it and it cost a fortune.
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It did. You know, I've seen, I've seen how much you spent on it and I, and I would, I would advise
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spending less. Right. And it's commercial free. It's commercial. Yeah. So, and you can watch it
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on my YouTube page. This is the Glenn Beck economic formula. If you, whenever you hear him criticizing
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the Democrats, remember this, uh, spend a lot, don't put any commercials in it and then give
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it away for free. Those three things, a little intersection there is what this special is.
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So I hope you enjoy it. It's going to bankrupt us. It's a really important special. I really
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have a hard time charging for things because I grew up in radio and commercials pay the
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loan. Right. And I have a hard time. But you could have put commercials on the special.
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You chose not to. No, because there's too much information. It was already a two hour special.
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Commercials. It would be like two hours in one minute. It's too long. No, I don't think
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it is. All right. So anyway, you can find that special tonight, uh, at blaze tv.com.
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Yeah. Okay. Anyway, uh, that's tonight. Here's today's podcast.
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This is the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you have, uh, joined us today. Thank you so
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much for, uh, for listening. There's a couple of things going on today that we, we want to
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tell you about. Greg Abbott has declared an invasion at the Southern border. Thank you,
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Greg, for actually standing up. This is the leadership from, uh, Texas. I was expecting,
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um, there's a couple of other things we got to get into the M of the NBC reporter that
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has been suspended. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, unless you're looking at
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a, a country that no longer values the truth, uh, from their reporters. This guy was covered
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with documents. He asked the question. It was a recorded piece. So it went through editors
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and sensors and everybody else before it got on the air. Why has he been disappeared? It sends a
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really frightening message and makes it more and more important that we have places and outlets,
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uh, like the daily wire or the blaze. I invite you, I want you to get the best value for your dollar.
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So I want you to explore all of them. I think you'll come back to the blaze and see that what
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we offer is, uh, well worth your budget, uh, and well worth, uh, the gosh, what is it? Like $5 a month,
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uh, that you'd be paying. We would invite you to join us tonight. Now, this is not going to be on
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blaze TV. I don't know why exactly. This won't be on blaze TV's YouTube page. This is going to be
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on my YouTube page. Uh, and I think that the speculation is, is that my page will reach more
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people, uh, because I think they have shut down the blaze reach, uh, quite a bit, uh, more than they have
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mine. So tonight, if you don't have a, have a subscription, the Wednesday night special is on
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it because the questions from the audience get a little, um, dicey and, um, and we wanted to make
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sure that nothing was edited out. So instead of running that and then risking losing our platform at,
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uh, YouTube, we have, oh, we've decided to edit that portion out and come to the blaze and watch
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it on blaze TV. Blaze TV is offering, uh, a, the biggest discount we have ever offered. It is so
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get $30 off your year's subscription. That's 30% off. Now I played this, um, a couple of days ago,
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but we had such huge reaction. But when you see this special tonight, this is only one of the cases
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that we're covering. These are all people that are under attack from the government or from the
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policies that we are following now. And one of the most important things is the right to your
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children. Well, there's a guy who has been fighting his ex-wife now over his son that she claims is a
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daughter. This kind of stuff is happening and can happen to you. This is one of the more egregious
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cases. I think, uh, we cover it. And then we have the experts talk to you about what do you do if
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you're in this situation? This is the story from Jeff Younger about he and his two sons.
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That moment, the doctor places your newborn into your arms, your entire world changes.
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I'll do everything in my power to keep you safe. I'll fight for you every single day.
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For Jeff, that moment arrived times two when his twin boys, James and Jude, were born.
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And from the start, Jeff loved being a dad. I was the stay-at-home parent for them. I've
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raised them since they were the youngest children. And, uh, we were very close and had a super tight
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bond right up until the courts took them away from me. Everything changed when the boys were
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two years old. Jeff's then-wife began telling James that timeouts were only for little boys.
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The monsters only eat boys. You better not be a boy.
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Scaring them in these little timeouts. And when I put my foot down and stopped that,
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she filed for divorce almost immediately. She's a pediatrician. And, uh, using her connections with
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licensed care providers, she was able to get psychologists to basically force me out of my
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house. And that's when the situation escalated again. Jeff, who then still had 50-50 custody,
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took this video of James when he was only three years old. You're a boy, right? No. I'm a girl.
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She puts dresses on you? Oh, wow. And what else does she do?
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She buys my headbands. Uh-huh. And she, and, and she gets me hair clips. Oh, hair clips? Okay.
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She enrolled him in school as a girl under a fake girl's name. She started to, uh, claim that I
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couldn't cut my son's hair and that I couldn't use male pronouns. And she went to court to try to
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force me to use male pronouns at home to stop presenting him to the world as a boy.
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This evening, there's a decision to share in a volatile custody case involving a seven-year-old's
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gender. This case has taken on a life of its own. The central question being, should a seven-year-old
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live as a boy or as a girl? The custody battles continued, but Jeff's ex-wife used her connections
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with psychologists to force her hand. His 50-50 custody soon became every other weekend
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only. This hurt the relationship between me and my sons tremendously. And my sons were very
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sad about it and cried about it all the time. So James, now 10, has lived his short life in
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a whirlwind of confusion. So there was a time when, uh, every authority figure in my son's
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life except me was telling him he was a girl. His teacher at school, the principal, the police
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officer at school, the librarian was telling him he was a girl, the lunch lady was telling
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him he was a girl. His, uh, brother, although he didn't want to, was forced to use his girl's
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name. But there's one part of James' story that makes it even more tragic. And here's the
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important thing to know about my case. My son has never presented as a girl to me. He only
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presents as a girl when he's with his mother. So my approach was just very simple, to show
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my son how great it is to be a man. So we just did all the things that, that I did as a boy.
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We hunted rabbits, we tracked animals, we did hikes, we didn't, we didn't need to worry about,
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we were able to tough everything out. And my, my son flourished under these conditions.
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On the weekends, Jeff shared with his sons his love for boxing. You know, he didn't think he
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could make it through those first workouts, you know, and, and he, he saw that we could tough it
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out together. We would get down there and do our, our one hour of floor work, working on our abs,
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working on our core, and we could do all that together. In a boxing gym, everybody that does the
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work gets respect. And they enjoyed that. They were treated like young men. Their time together
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shaped James immensely. Became to understand themselves as in command of their world,
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And this eventually culminated in my son refusing to wear a dress at his mother's home
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because he likes being a man. He told the court appointed counselor that he wanted to be a boy
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and want to go to school as a boy. The court ordered counselor, she said, well, this, this child is saying
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he wants to be a boy. That must be because the father's making him say that. And on that basis,
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she recommended that the court take the children away from him because my son asked to be a boy.
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The boy's mother moved them to California. And Jeff says she's already beginning a full
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transformation for James. He last saw them over a year ago. But Jeff's battle is far from over. In
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fact, quite the opposite is true. But I assure you, I will not stop fighting for my son under any
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conditions. We say, save James, save thousands of children. So we don't forget those other children.
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All right. He's fighting for more than just his son. He's fighting for James, but also for all the
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other kids whose parents just won't speak up. And in my daily prayers, I always remember the other
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children and their parents who either can't or won't fight for them. Save James.
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Save thousands. So tonight you will see this and you will hear from the dad who we recorded this on
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Saturday night with a live studio audience. And when he started to speak, he said something right
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off the beginning that was, I mean, powerful, really powerful. He got a standing ovation after he said
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this. He works three jobs to be able to afford the lawsuits. He is he's it's an incredible story,
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an incredible story you don't want to miss. This is just one of the four. And the special tonight
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is called targets of tyranny. This is all about what do you do when the government comes for your kids
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or the police try to seize your property or your money or the feds show up at your door or the ATF
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comes and says, we just want to take a look at your guns. This is really an important special.
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Uh, it is commercial free and you can watch about 80% of it live on youtube.com slash Glenn Beck.
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Uh, the last, uh, the last segment you've watched about 90 minutes commercial free. And the last
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and we appreciate your support, uh, especially on something like this, some people, I saw a couple
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of comments, people saying, well, this is, if this information is so important, why, why are you
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charging people for it? And that's well, well, first of all, you're, you're not, but second of all,
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shouldn't you be because we spent a lot of money on this? Shouldn't you put it behind the,
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like the paywall for subscribers? I mean, I, I mean, I don't want to do is the, Stu is the
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Andy Biggs was first elected to serve the people of Arizona, Arizona's fifth district in 2016. He
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currently serves on the house oversight and reform committee and the house judiciary committee,
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where he is the ranking member of the subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security. Uh,
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he also served as the chairman of the house freedom caucus. He is current co-chair of border
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security caucus, vice chair of the congressional Western caucus and co-founder of the bipartisan war
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powers caucus. We have a lot to talk about with Andy Biggs who is, uh, is running for house
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leadership. Andy, welcome to the program. Glenn, good to be with you. Thanks for having me. Uh,
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it is, it is great to, uh, have you. Where do we even start? Um, how is, what is your path or
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anybody's path to the speaker of the house when you have to get 218 votes? Well, you know, in a thin
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majority, like we were going to have, it may be as big as five seats might be as few as three. Uh,
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it's a tough path for anybody. Uh, I think Kevin's kind of polarizing. I, I don't know that most of
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my colleagues would think that, but 36 people voted against him yesterday. Um, which means he's
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got a, uh, a lot of meat on the bone. Right. Uh, and then I'm, I'm apparently polarizing as well,
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but the point was, uh, somebody had to stand up and say, look, no more change to status quo. So
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what's going to happen is there's going to be a lot of, uh, internal family discussion,
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if I can put it that way between now and January 3rd. And, and I suspect if it's not me and it's
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not Kevin, you'll get a, uh, basically a, a consensus candidate that'll come out where people
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will say better this guy or this lady than, than Biggs or McCarthy. So is this, how is this
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going to help us shape the party into a more vigorous, uh, do something party before something
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party? Well, that is my goal. And that's one of my reasons that I felt I had to stand up against
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Kevin because you, I think this internal discussion will help invigorate whoever's coming in to
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understand you're going to have to fight. You're going to have to use all the tools, all the leverage
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points to stop Biden and also keep the promises we made to the American people. And, and so I reached
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out and talked to some of my more liberal, uh, Republican friends and they, they want to come
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to the table too. And we will find things that believe it or not, that we agree on, believe it or
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not, virtually every member of this conference, except for some squishy middle people, not on both
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ends. We want a border wall on both ends. We want to, uh, fix title nine. So you can go after,
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uh, uh, the men in locker room thing and, and both ends. We want to fix this place. So we can at least
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offer an appropriations process to start bringing down spending to get our, our budget in balance.
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Uh, you know, you have some right in the squishy middle that just want to not really do anything.
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And I think we're going to invigorate them that way to go in. Well, I will tell you, um, doing
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nothing was Mitch McConnell's. Well, actually he did more than nothing. He, uh, he actually, um,
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ran campaign ads and spent money against Republicans. Um, but, uh, you know, doing nothing and we just
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can't be the Democrats that, that doesn't work. That doesn't work. We need a fresh vision for
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America. Yeah, I agree. And, and, and, and, you know, Glenn, I'm a big believer that when the other
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side views you as political enemies, which they do, and then we have to treat them and use the
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same tools they've used against us. Why in the world would Kevin back down from impeaching Alejandro
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Mayorkas, who in my mind has committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors and has made this country
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a far less safe country than it should be and is attacking our very sovereignty. And he did,
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he backed off of that. Well, as soon as he did that, I said, well, I've got to step in. Somebody's
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got to step in because we cannot go any longer down that path. And right now, Glenn, I'll tell you,
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I know that there's probably around 10, 15 people who've indicated they will never support Mr. McCarthy.
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And that means that we have to find somebody else who will fight the fight.
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Okay. So what should the Republican agenda be in Congress? What, what are some of the ideas that
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you and your friends are kicking around that you're like, this, this is the top 10 got to do this.
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Yeah. You, you, you've got to, you have to fix the appropriations process to slow the inflation,
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uh, fueling government that we have. Hang on, hang on just a sec. Let me explain that
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to the best of my ability. Um, uh, we have to have a budget and then it goes to appropriations
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and they say, you get this amount, this department gets this amount, et cetera, et cetera. Right now
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with a continuing resolution, we don't get any of that. We haven't since 2008. What makes you think
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you can get it to appropriations to be able to start carving this money out?
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You just, we have to enforce it. You have to lead and say, we expect you to get this done.
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And there are ways to do it. Like you could, if you really wanted to streamline it, you would say
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every authorizing committee, in other words, every committee. So if you're on judiciary,
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you'd say, you're going to have the appropriations, uh, line items within a subcommittee on that
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committee, working with the appropriations committee, and you're going to get this thing
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done by March, March 31st. And then we go through and we, and we negotiate that out and you start
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working on a, uh, uh, line by line budget, a line item budget, true line item budget, a zero based budget.
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And that's, you can do that. And, but as long as we, we basically, uh, mess around and not do that,
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I think, I think Kay Granger, who is the appropriations chair, I think she's frustrated
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beyond belief. I think the budget committee guys are frustrated. You can get this done
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with great leadership. Uh, and I think you get it through the Senate.
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Once it gets through the Senate, uh, who knows? Cause you got the Democrats going to be in control
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of the Senate again, and they're going to blow everything up. Uh, that's just right. Well,
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it's important to at least try. Okay. So appropriations next, next border fence and border
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security. You can get all of those types of things through here. And part of it is you do it through
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the appropriations process, by the way, but you build a border fence. It's a standalone bill. Don't,
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don't put it in this big conglomeration of immigration crap that, that some people like
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this part, some do it straight up transparency. So that's another aspect that we do to change
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the way we operate. And we do a lot more standalone, single, uh, single budget bill,
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you know, single item bills. That's the way it should be. Yeah, that's the way it should be.
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So everybody can see what's in there. You, you do the title nine thing. You do the,
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they bring back the Keystone pipeline. You do that as leverage with, with a must pass bill you do in
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the NDAA bill. You leverage that bill to get rid of VAX mandates and bring back these men and women
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who we spent millions of dollars training. And they're, they, they love this country. They're
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loyal to this country. You bring them back. You can do all of that, those things, um, uh,
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with our normal process. If, if you've got the leadership, you, you streamline through your
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budgetary process. Again, things like permitting exploration, development, extraction of American
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oil and gas. Um, how about water there for the last two years, there's been no hearing,
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maybe the last four years, no hearings on water, which is in a West in the Western United States is
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in a crisis level. So you bring that back. I mean, these are things we can do, um, when
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you unite, I don't know, the Tuesday group problem solvers together with the freedom caucus. And
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So tell me at the same time, cause what I, if, if, you know, if I had a voice, uh, and I
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was King of the Congress, I would say you pass everything as fast as you possibly can. You go
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in there with an agenda. You have everything all done. You work on it. Starting now, late at night,
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you introduce it, you pass it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Come what may, if it doesn't go past
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the Senate, fine, but at least we've done our job and then investigate and, and, uh, finish this with
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Hunter Biden, finish this with, um, uh, uh, COVID. We don't even know where it came from. That's
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bull crap. Yeah. Are we going to investigate these people? I'm told we are. I'm on, I'm on the two
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committees that do the investigations. We've already had, we've been actually meeting for a month and a
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half or two talking about, uh, uh, preservation letters. We've sent out preservation letters. We've
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done all the preliminary work to be ready to go. Uh, judiciary, uh, did a thousand page, um, uh,
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report on the politicization of the FBI and DOJ. Thank you. All of those have to be done,
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but you know, if we, if we think we're going to just take off between now and then, which we're
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going to, because the, because we, that's the way Congress works, that's a problem. We should be
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doing everything I'm talking about when you're talking about now, right now, right now, right now,
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you know, look, I, Orson Wells is a, is a hero of mine. Um, he stopped me a lot of things from his
00:26:35.020
life to do and not to do. One of the best stories of Orson Wells is he had a contract with RKO and it
00:26:44.880
was this enormous contract. He was bluffing. He had no idea what movie he was going to make.
00:26:50.140
Um, and he goes in and RKO has no access to him, his actors, the script, nothing. And once they've
00:27:00.180
signed it, RKO wants to get onto that set and they want control of the movie, whatever movie he's
00:27:05.320
making, which turns out to be citizen Kane, right? He knew that if he failed, and this is the way you
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should look at the American people, he knew if he ran behind schedule for one minute, RKO would come
00:27:20.980
in and supervise everything. So he took his people like right now, he took his people for a week or
00:27:28.920
two weeks prior to them ever getting on the set, cameramen, everybody. And he invited them to his
00:27:35.580
house and said, let's mock film these scenes. So the first day RKO was there and they were waiting
00:27:43.120
for him to fail and get behind because he's never made a movie behind before. They had somebody
00:27:47.780
standing at the door. So when the bell rang at the end of the day, they could get a sheet and see how
00:27:53.640
far they were. When the guy came back to, um, uh, Selznick and said, and Selznick looked at him and said,
00:28:00.420
am I on the set yet? Have you gotten me on the set? How far behind are they? He said, I'm sorry,
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sir, but he's five days ahead. That's what you guys need to do. You need to work right now, right now.
00:28:17.120
We may not have another Christmas or Thanksgiving a couple of years from now. If you guys won't work
00:28:22.400
through Thanksgiving and Christmas. I, I agree with you a hundred percent. Look, I would just tell
00:28:28.900
you, uh, there's, this is important for everybody to understand. Congress will only work for eight to
00:28:37.440
10 months in this next year. And I, and I, and I say that it's, it's one of the hugest, biggest flaws
00:28:44.880
of Congress, because you're moving it to a presidential election, presidential cycle. And the
00:28:51.300
house of representatives is in a two year election cycle. We will, whatever we don't get done in
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August or September of next year, there will be hardly anything that happens the following year
00:29:03.040
because you guys better. I'm telling you, Andy, this is, this is it. The American people are done
00:29:08.180
with you guys. They're done with Republicans. Absolutely. Done. Well, they, and they, they have every
00:29:13.460
right to be. And if we don't get something meaningful done and move the ball forward,
00:29:18.280
let's say, because we're dealing with demographic majorities in the Senate and the presidency,
00:29:23.640
let's say we can't get all of our, our, our stuff done. We should at least get our bills done,
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not performance art. Glenn, it just cannot be performance. It has to be substantive. Correct. And,
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and, and we have got to move the ball forward or otherwise we will fail to lead,
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lead, lay down the foundation for 2024. And if we fail to lay, lay the foundation down,
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we'll lose 2024, which means we will lose this country irrevocably.
00:29:52.060
Andy, I appreciate it. God bless. I'd love to have you back on again. And I, I, I thank you for
00:29:58.220
the trouble that you are probably in with all of the, you know, I'm a bit, I'm in a bit of a hot
00:30:05.180
soup there, Glenn. Yeah. And I'm glad that you are. Thank you so much, Andy, for doing the hard work.
00:30:09.680
Thank you. God bless. Thanks, Glenn. Congressman from Arizona, Andy Biggs. Uh, he is talking to us
00:30:15.860
about the, who, who is going to be the next speaker of the house and hopefully it will not be Kevin
00:30:21.900
McCarthy. And they're voting right now, I believe maybe at nine 30 or 10 30, uh, Eastern time,
00:30:29.460
they are voting, uh, for Mitch McConnell. Are they going to delay the vote or have the vote today?
00:30:37.100
If they have the vote today, most likely Mitch McConnell will win. If they delay it, they'll
00:30:42.260
have time to get people riled up. I hear it was quite the mess in the Senate yesterday.
00:30:49.560
And Rick Scott said he was going to run, right? I mean, he is, he, I mean, that's funny because,
00:30:53.860
you know, we were talking about that what a few weeks ago and I hadn't heard it anywhere.
00:30:57.600
And now it looks like he's actually going to do it. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck
00:31:04.960
program. Okay. So Sam Bankman freed. He was the digital guru who, uh, pledged to spend as much
00:31:17.620
as a billion dollars in support of democratic candidates. Now he's under a federal investigation.
00:31:25.180
Oh, I bet he is. So what did he do? And, uh, who are his friends? Well, Bankman freed SBF is what
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they call him. SBF. The next Warren Buffett is what they also called him, uh, donated to president
00:31:46.260
Joe Biden's campaign and other democratically aligned entities in 2020, $5.7 million.
00:31:53.340
$40 million is the amount he donated to political candidates and committees during the 22 election
00:32:01.780
cycle, vast majority or Democrats, $40 million. His net worth as a election day was 16 billion,
00:32:14.260
600 million. His estimated net worth today, zero.
00:32:19.140
Now I just want to see if you find any kind of connection here. Free beacon did a great story on
00:32:30.460
this. Um, so you have, you have SBF. Then you also have Harvey Weinstein. He donated almost $600,000
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to democratic candidates and committees since 2000. He had fundraisers for Hillary for Barack Obama.
00:32:50.500
Yeah. He's now in jail and on trial for even more rapes. He'll be in jail to the day he dies.
00:32:59.220
Then you have Jeffrey Epstein who donated more than $150,000 to democratic candidates and committees
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in turn, including $10,000 contribution as recently as 2018.
00:33:24.300
Bill Clinton was one of his good friends and then he hung himself in air quotes in his jail cell in 2019.
00:33:32.580
Okay. Then you have Ed Buck, long time liberal, liberal activists donated more than half a billion dollars
00:33:41.200
to democratic candidates and committee. He was sentenced in April to 30 years in prison for
00:33:47.120
luring young men to his home, sexually assaulting them. And at least two cases,
00:33:52.940
injecting them with a fatal dose of methamphetamine. Oh,
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he was described as a violent, dangerous, sexual predator who exploited vulnerable victims,
00:34:04.600
men who were drug dependent and often without homes to feed an obsession that led to death and misery.
00:34:10.280
That's Ed Buck. He's another one of the big campaign donors, Bernie Madoff. Oh, he was the best $200,000
00:34:20.100
to the Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.
00:34:26.780
He defrauded people of $65 billion, the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
00:34:34.480
He died. He had a 150 year prison sentence. He died in 2021.
00:34:40.620
He went to jail in 2009. So Sam Bankman freed is not the first.
00:34:45.640
So what is it about these guys that attract them to the Democrats?
00:34:56.360
Well, one, if you are in with the Democrats, generally speaking, you can hide out there forever.
00:35:06.600
But there's something else. It's called effective altruism.
00:35:10.180
FTX, this scandal may rip the mask off the left and something that most people don't know.
00:35:19.740
What we see is apathy and lust, piles of dark money and the bizarre habits of atheist leftists.
00:35:27.560
The billionaire and CEO, the so-called philanthropist, Sam Bankman freed, is vaguely creepy.
00:35:43.380
Mushy, lacking all masculinity, boring, hedonistic, and obsessed with doing good,
00:35:50.540
even if it means committing crimes that result in enormous pain for many people.
00:35:56.640
Now, most of us cannot imagine how people just commit evil so nonchalantly.
00:36:03.920
You know, they're just like, yeah, whatever, let alone with the smugness of someone who thinks they're morally superior.
00:36:12.580
So it makes sense that this arrogance is based on the ideas of leftist intellectuals,
00:36:18.860
a trendy movement that you probably haven't heard of, effective altruism,
00:36:29.800
The World Economic Forum has used many of its ideas.
00:36:34.520
One of the creators of effective altruism is a philosopher.
00:36:48.940
McCaskill actually worked for Sam Bankman freed.
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According to the New York Times, he was one of the five people from the charitable vehicle known as the FTX Future Fund,
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who jointly announced their resignation on Thursday.
00:37:12.280
In his book, Doing Good Better, McCaskill lists the steps to effective altruism.
00:37:21.000
In a weird twist, the book mentions a study about the crowds at Tea Party rallies and how the weather affected the crowd side.
00:37:31.240
Does a larger audience make a significant political difference in the effects of the events?
00:37:37.020
The study concluded, yes, each person makes a difference, which I think I agree with, but that's about as far as I'll go with this movement.
00:37:45.460
Like the World Economic Forum, effective altruism is obsessed with climate change.
00:37:51.560
They're obsessed with fair trade and green living, but that's not enough to stop climate change.
00:37:59.980
They want us to eat less meat, thus we eat bugs.
00:38:04.300
Like Klaus Schwab, McCaskill thinks that we need radical change to common sense.
00:38:12.100
He believes people should earn to give, make as much money as possible, and then give it away to people who would need it.
00:38:18.480
He argues that it's pointless to boycott sweatshops because, what, the workers then are going to make more money and they only end up doing worse someplace else.
00:38:30.400
Instead, he says wealthy Americans should donate a chunk of their salary to people who know better, and they can help the world.
00:38:42.340
McCaskill writes, advocacy also has the potentially high payoff, as one could influence the behavior of many thousands of people and help influence debates around particular policies.
00:38:55.960
Though this is particularly difficult to quantify, one could become an effective advocate through journalism or by pursuing an early career in academia and then moving on to become a public intellectual.
00:39:08.020
We see this, that that is what journalism now is.
00:39:13.140
He co-founded the effective altruism movement with, oh, one of my favorites, Peter Singer.
00:39:21.060
If you know anything about Peter Singer, you're running for the hills.
00:39:32.380
He sees animal farming and medical testing as a form of racism.
00:39:47.520
He said that killing a newborn baby up to the age of two is never equivalent to killing a person.
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He advocates for most forms of euthanasia as long as the person consents.
00:40:06.920
Disability rights activists usually protest his events because he believes that disability is a valid excuse for euthanasia.
00:40:15.100
Oddly, oddly, a guy who is pretty much, you know, doing the same thing they did in Germany.
00:40:21.820
He opposes the death penalty and he's an atheist, yet he also blames God for evil.
00:40:30.740
He's Jewish with three of his grandparents dying in the Holocaust, yet he's pro-Palestinian.
00:40:39.540
It should be no surprise that Singer is an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum.
00:40:46.280
Klaus Schwab mentions him several times in his book, The Great Narrative.
00:40:49.920
So the Great Reset is a perfect example of doing good better, because the foundation of all these ideas is utilitarianism.
00:41:08.340
Yeah, a philosophy that most sane people have rejected is just a thought experiment.
00:41:17.480
It's an attempt to satisfy human needs without the obstacle of God-given rights.
00:41:26.100
That's the goal, to satisfy human needs without the obstacle of God-given rights.
00:41:40.400
A trolley is coming down and it approaches a fork in one direction.
00:41:45.040
The other direction, a dozen people are tied to the track.
00:41:47.460
You have to choose which direction to turn the train.
00:41:50.560
And in utilitarianism, you sacrifice the single person, right?
00:42:00.320
Murder, stealing, assault, violence of any kind can be justified by utilitarianism.
00:42:18.240
Utilitarianism is a secular alternative to Christianity and it goes hand in hand with hedonism.
00:42:35.920
Its focus is collectivism and the greatest happiness principle, the greatest happiness for
00:42:42.880
It considers happiness and pain, more happiness, less pain.
00:42:49.160
Its rule is by elites who know better than you do.
00:42:58.400
You can see this leftist idea of equity, of outcome, affirmative action, inclusion at all
00:43:17.740
It is the gospel of a world turned upside down and inside out.
00:43:23.380
It is a ministry of pudgy billionaires devoted to annihilation.
00:43:35.860
I mean, it's a pretty negative take on effective altruism.
00:43:38.760
And I would agree that there are problems with it and not a lot, not everything is to
00:43:45.940
A lot of the people who practice it are nuts and that's part of the problem.
00:43:49.560
But like, you know, some of the points you mentioned, he, one of the philosophies is instead
00:43:54.980
of dedicating your life to, you know, I don't know.
00:44:01.940
You use capitalism and you earn money and then you choose who to give it to.
00:44:10.300
I mean, I, so I, I don't think it's like, I think the way that the left uses effective
00:44:17.880
And a lot of it's because, well, first of all, Sam Bankman-Fried was just seemingly fraud,
00:44:22.840
you know, defrauding people to get this money to give away.
00:44:33.160
But again, like, you know, using capitalism to do good is something that you have been
00:44:39.000
doing for long before they called it effective altruism.
00:44:41.340
The difference is that that is not effective altruism.
00:44:50.300
And that's, that's, I think the problem with, with some people who practice it.
00:44:55.760
It's why it explains why they don't really have a problem with him and the Democratic
00:45:03.580
They knew they knew it wasn't hard to justify the means and justify the means.
00:45:09.520
You can be in bed with anyone as long as they are furthering your goals.
00:45:13.740
There is a utilitarian bent that is sometimes disturbing, but we also could use at times more
00:45:18.760
utilitarianism when you're talking about taking your money and giving it to things that not
00:45:25.060
just feel good or give you the warmest feeling inside, but that, that actually do the most
00:45:31.720
I mean, you, there's a version of this where you can, and I, I, I think you largely agree
00:45:37.480
with, with a good version of this because I've seen you in action.
00:45:41.680
You give away a lot of your money to causes that you believe in and you don't do it just
00:45:52.100
You're, you're, you're doing it in a way that you hope does the most possible good with those
00:45:57.700
And I think that's, that's a, an admirable thing to do with your, with your charitable
00:46:02.560
I think it's kind of goes back to that old, uh, you know, that old conversation about
00:46:07.720
you passed a homeless person in the streets who's drinking alcohol and, and, and, and
00:46:13.760
Do you give the money to them or do you give the money to the homeless shelter where they
00:46:20.760
And I've, you know, we've talked about it before at some point, if you feel led to do
00:46:23.900
it, to give it to the directly to that person, maybe that is the right thing to do.
00:46:27.400
But also if no one, if everyone gives it to the homeless people on the, on the street
00:46:30.920
drinking alcohol and none to the homeless shelter, the problem never gets solved.
00:46:34.680
And I don't know that the problem ever gets solved with homeless shelters either.
00:46:38.120
But the point is, you know, doing, being responsible with your money when you give it away to charity
00:46:43.920
is really important looking at how those, the charities spend their money really important.
00:46:49.480
Um, you know, so I think there is a level there of trying to do the most good with your
00:46:55.400
That is, I think a positive aspect of effective altruism that is, is embedded in there.
00:47:00.700
And I think an increased focus on that by people would probably be positive.
00:47:05.020
That being said, eating bugs is not what I'm talking about.
00:47:09.340
And, and the, the problem here is too, is if you are, if you are, um, in effective altruism,
00:47:17.740
uh, the way he saw it, you create things to make money to pull off and quote, do good.
00:47:26.340
And that's so when it starts to go awry, you'll cut corners any way you have to, you, you,
00:47:33.200
I think do what you love money is a side benefit.
00:47:43.020
Then take that in, invest in things, but do first what you love and what, and, and what
00:47:49.820
you are doing to make money, not tying it directly to the charity that has to come after, or you
00:47:58.460
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