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00:00:08.120 Well, it's Wednesday, and a really, really interesting podcast for you today.

00:00:14.540 Really exciting.

00:00:15.560 Today we start with China and their social score, but it's happening here in America. 0.61

00:00:20.600 A little announcement from Microsoft and MasterCard that I think you want to be aware of.

00:00:26.920 Also, Andrew Wilcow stopped by from the new Blaze TV.

00:00:30.940 Also, Lauren Chen.

00:00:32.160 She is the roving millennial. 1.00

00:00:34.380 It's rare that you meet somebody as well-rounded and as smart as she is.

00:00:39.300 She is really somebody that you need to meet if you haven't listened to her or heard anybody interview her yet.

00:00:47.500 We run the whole thing from the universities to Saudi Arabia and, you know,

00:00:52.860 putting Khashoggi into a blender and making a milkshake for the prince of Saudi Arabia.

00:00:58.880 All on today's podcast.

00:01:07.860 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:02:16.160 Do you remember the scene in the Terminator where the machine versus the human war starts with a gigantic thermonuclear fireball?

00:02:24.580 I love that.

00:02:26.320 That was great.

00:02:27.460 Artificial intelligence is coming, whether we like it or not.

00:02:30.620 And it's either going to be started with a giant fireball, you know, something terrified or something terrifying or something completely awesome.

00:02:39.280 I'm not sure which one.

00:02:40.800 And it's not only me that doesn't know.

00:02:43.660 It's the developers that don't know.

00:02:45.960 Because AI is going to be, it's described as alien thinking.

00:02:52.100 We have no idea how it's going to think.

00:02:55.040 And if you want to know, read a little bit about how AI is learning how to play Go and is beating all of the Go champions, which is one of the hardest games to play.

00:03:04.700 It's beating all of the champions.

00:03:07.520 And at first they thought that it was cheating.

00:03:10.440 No, it just thinks completely differently.

00:03:13.440 It's like an alien life form.

00:03:16.040 Oh, and those are always great when they're really, really powerful.

00:03:19.240 All we know is that there is currently an all-out race to see who the first is going to be to create AI.

00:03:29.940 That doesn't seem good.

00:03:32.440 Now, looking at the possible threats of AI, you know, catastrophic Terminator, I'll be back.

00:03:39.700 I don't think that's Hollywood.

00:03:43.080 I don't think that's going to be.

00:03:44.160 However, in the very near future, an algorithm-controlled economic meltdown might ultimately take place, you know, instead of the Terminator, it could be a thermonuclear explosion of money.

00:04:00.640 Now, it's not sexy.

00:04:02.820 It's not going to draw any action stars.

00:04:04.780 But this rise of the machine could level our country and our world.

00:04:08.960 And you saw a little bit of it yesterday.

00:04:11.500 It could bring the entire world to its knees.

00:04:15.400 The Dow yesterday took another hit, plunging nearly 800 points.

00:04:21.720 Now, it's kind of funny when the market takes a beating.

00:04:24.620 If you flip on the news, what are you going to find?

00:04:27.600 You look at the Internet, what do you find?

00:04:30.000 You'll have an unlimited number of people saying, well, we're looking into what happened.

00:04:34.320 We're not exactly sure what happened.

00:04:36.440 I think it was interest rates, definitely interest rates.

00:04:38.780 Oh, I believe it was the Trump administration or what they're doing with China.

00:04:43.720 Oh, no, I believe it's the money supply.

00:04:46.760 Purchase power.

00:04:48.080 Okay, okay, all right.

00:04:50.200 Unicorns playing basketball.

00:04:51.780 I got it.

00:04:52.360 I got it.

00:04:53.020 I got it.

00:04:55.080 Nobody really knows, right? 1.00

00:04:57.660 And most likely, it's a combination of things, including those damn unicorns. 0.99

00:05:02.800 But here's what I want you to take. 0.99

00:05:05.440 There is something coming.

00:05:08.860 Glenn Beck, gloom and doom.

00:05:10.880 No, no, no, no.

00:05:12.140 It's a recession.

00:05:13.180 They happen.

00:05:14.180 It's a cycle.

00:05:15.380 Everything in life is a cycle.

00:05:17.220 And we are way overdue for a recession.

00:05:20.880 So it is coming, whether it's tomorrow or four years from now.

00:05:24.500 The longer it waits, the deeper it will be.

00:05:28.080 But we're already like two or three years beyond the point where we should have had a recession.

00:05:32.820 Okay?

00:05:33.680 This time when it comes, I think it's going to be bad.

00:05:37.180 I'm not sure how it's going to come, when it's going to come, but it is going to come.

00:05:42.560 But the artificial intelligence algorithms controlling the markets isn't going off of looks and feels.

00:05:52.200 It's not going off and saying, oh, this could be bad.

00:05:55.260 Oh, I don't know.

00:05:56.260 I feel like it's good.

00:05:57.540 No, no.

00:05:58.560 It's only crunching the numbers in a very cold and calculated way.

00:06:04.020 It doesn't get emotional.

00:06:06.120 You know, like the hero in the Terminator.

00:06:09.940 It can't be reasoned with.

00:06:11.480 It can't be bargained with. 1.00

00:06:12.780 You just have to kill it. 1.00

00:06:14.880 Okay? 1.00

00:06:16.140 This is just an algorithm that is reacting as it was programmed to do.

00:06:23.020 And look what it's learned along the way.

00:06:26.580 AI algorithms now control over 80% of the U.S. stock market.

00:06:31.440 80%.

00:06:32.620 That means men and women are not really, you know, the ones that you always see after a day like yesterday.

00:06:38.860 You're bound to click online or see in a news report one of those pictures of all of the guys on Wall Street, you know, down on the trading floor with the shocked faces with their hand over their mouth like, oh, my gosh, this is the worst thing ever.

00:06:51.480 Or I, oh, my gosh, I think I'm going to jump out of a window.

00:06:54.180 You're going to see that.

00:06:55.800 Okay?

00:06:56.120 But those guys aren't really doing, they're only doing 20% of what happened.

00:07:00.220 80% is a machine.

00:07:01.820 The vast majority of trades are not happening by men and women rapidly handing, you know, giving hand signals, sell, sell, buy, buy, buy.

00:07:10.080 It's not happening.

00:07:12.240 It's all happening inside of a computer CPU.

00:07:14.620 And this is what the machine saw yesterday.

00:07:18.960 The algorithms have been programmed to look for certain triggers and then buy or sell accordingly.

00:07:24.180 One thing they've learned to take action on is when the odds of a potential recession materialize.

00:07:31.600 Something called the yield curve inversion.

00:07:34.160 When that happens, the algorithms see the odds of a recession go up and they kick in to sell.

00:07:41.000 Okay.

00:07:42.320 That occurred yesterday.

00:07:43.380 As short-term interest rates began trading above long-term interest rates, the two-year and five-year yields inverted.

00:07:54.180 Which often happens in times of economic weakness or recession.

00:08:00.200 The Dow lost 3% of its value because it did rebound a bit.

00:08:05.220 And all of it happened based off of a small indicator that artificial intelligence algorithms diagnosed in milliseconds

00:08:12.020 and begin reacting to.

00:08:14.520 So everybody, all the humans still ask now, like, I'm not sure what happened.

00:08:18.880 Were the unicorns involved again?

00:08:21.480 No.

00:08:22.680 In milliseconds.

00:08:24.040 Fear the algorithm saw something.

00:08:27.100 Never fear the machines.

00:08:30.400 Fear the programming.

00:08:32.740 Fear the goal.

00:08:34.840 Because it will never miss the goal.

00:08:38.360 You see, back in 1929, and every time we have a major sell-off, what happens?

00:08:45.140 People get involved.

00:08:47.060 And people are like, okay, we've got to bolster the market.

00:08:50.140 We've got to send a signal of feeling that it's going to be great.

00:08:54.720 The algorithms don't care about your feelings.

00:08:57.800 Now, what happens when a much larger event happens?

00:09:03.740 80% of our stock market fate is in the hands of machine learning.

00:09:08.980 And I think this is a good thing.

00:09:11.860 You just need to be prepared for it.

00:09:16.440 Because, you know, and it's going to be hard because, you know, James Cameron is not working on a script to show you how this one ends.

00:09:24.220 Since we started with the rise of the machines, I thought I would take you to a couple of other things.

00:09:39.500 Remember, my theory is that the dark parts of the world, like China, are going to go right into 1984. 1.00

00:09:50.100 In case you don't know, George Orwell wrote 1984.

00:09:52.840 1984, it's really kind of a book based on, now this is in contention, but if you read it, you're like, yeah, it seems pretty good.

00:10:01.660 A book came out in 1922 called We.

00:10:04.840 And it's kind of like Anthem, but it's really more like 1984.

00:10:12.300 And We is about a state that just takes over everything.

00:10:16.160 And you will comply.

00:10:18.240 So George Orwell, in the 1930s, wrote 1984 about a society that is the anti-America and could monitor absolutely everything.

00:10:32.520 And so you dare not step out of line.

00:10:34.500 Well, that's China and their social credit system. 0.85

00:10:36.740 They're watching everything.

00:10:38.540 And you're not going anywhere.

00:10:40.520 You're not doing anything based on your social scores.

00:10:43.400 It's truly frightening.

00:10:46.340 However, that's not coming here.

00:10:49.460 There was another book that was written.

00:10:52.060 And this one by Huxley.

00:10:53.520 And this one was called Brave New World.

00:10:55.500 And back when I was in school, we used to have to read these things called books. 0.98

00:11:01.380 And we liked them because we didn't have any of those little fancy boxes that you could keep in your pocket and watch all those damn TV shows on them. 0.92

00:11:13.040 So we would read these books. 0.93

00:11:17.140 And the debate has always been, is it going to be 1984 or Brave New World?

00:11:21.920 You kids nowadays, you watch shows like, you know, that movie that everybody saw, I think, The Island.

00:11:33.340 No, no, nobody saw that, Grandpa.

00:11:35.140 Nobody saw that.

00:11:36.800 Well, it's the same thing.

00:11:38.920 It's got some of those young'uns in that movie, half naked the whole time. 1.00

00:11:45.240 The debate was, is it going to be a utopia that we're all just taking so many drugs and everything is presented in such a happy way through consumerism that we just all embrace it?

00:12:05.020 And then before you know it, we're all trapped.

00:12:07.160 Or is it going to be a hostile takeover of a state where they just build a prison and you know they're building a prison?

00:12:16.140 Okay, well, that's what's happening in China.

00:12:17.900 They're building a prison and everybody in China knows they're building a prison.

00:12:21.800 We all know they're building a prison.

00:12:23.380 Why?

00:12:23.620 Because they've just built 1,400 prisons.

00:12:26.940 They built 1,400 concentration camps where as many as 2 million people have already been disappeared in the middle of the night.

00:12:35.400 Okay, we don't have those.

00:12:39.240 Of course not.

00:12:40.680 We're doing everything for your protection.

00:12:43.500 Brave new world.

00:12:45.580 A brave new world.

00:12:47.000 We are embracing it because it just makes sense.

00:12:50.700 Right?

00:12:51.720 Let me give you two things.

00:12:54.680 There was an announcement yesterday.

00:12:57.500 This comes from MasterCard News.

00:12:59.900 Yes, that credit card company is going to help you out along with our friends at Microsoft.

00:13:08.360 Now, this is a story completely unrelated to a story that just also came out that Microsoft has just said that they will give the United States government access to all of their new technology.

00:13:23.180 Well, that's how wonderfully American of them.

00:13:31.940 Isn't that great?

00:13:33.360 America is going to be able to have access to all of Microsoft's programs.

00:13:40.560 That is so patriotic.

00:13:42.220 I listen.

00:13:43.880 I think I can hear a jet flying in formation across the stadium now.

00:13:48.720 Oh, it chokes me up.

00:13:50.340 It's so patriotic.

00:13:51.260 Since when did Microsoft become so patriotic?

00:13:56.240 Okay.

00:13:56.740 Anyway, a question to be answered later, and it definitely has nothing to do with this announcement.

00:14:02.620 From MasterCard News.

00:14:04.620 Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

00:14:05.900 Voting, driving, applying for a job, renting a home, getting married, boarding a plane.

00:14:14.440 What do all these things have in common?

00:14:17.860 Well, MasterCard knows you need to prove your identity.

00:14:20.420 So, in partnership with Microsoft, we are working to create a universally recognized digital identity.

00:14:31.300 Oh, that's fantastic.

00:14:32.720 Oh, so I won't need any kind of ID.

00:14:37.020 Of course, I never will need any ID when I go in to vote, because that's just racist.

00:14:43.320 Well, if I ever need an ID, my credit card company and Microsoft dismiss the story about giving access to the government.

00:14:52.380 Um, they're going to just create this digital ID for me, and they will know everything about everything.

00:15:01.200 Oh, thank goodness.

00:15:02.640 It's going to be so easy.

00:15:04.040 Here, take another pill.

00:15:05.480 It's going to be so easy.

00:15:08.400 Thank you, MasterCard.

00:15:10.560 Thank you, Bill Gates.

00:15:12.820 That's fantastic.

00:15:13.840 Now, if we could just have Common Core that makes absolutely no sense at all, but does monitor the retinal scans of my children and is constantly watching their eyes so they can track their heartbeat and their blood pressure

00:15:31.320 and see where they are really not interested and see where they might disagree with a teacher, just so we can make that teacher a better teacher.

00:15:42.200 Oh, and we can also categorize them so we know very young when we know exactly you should be a gymnast.

00:15:49.920 Come.

00:15:50.640 Come.

00:15:51.180 The state will take you to be a gymnast.

00:15:53.560 I'm sure it's not going to work out that way.

00:15:55.900 That's only evil China. 0.99

00:15:58.280 This is a happy place.

00:16:01.320 If this doesn't, if this doesn't appear to be the exact same social score system without the government involved and without anybody saying, oh, by the way, we're going to have a social score.

00:16:19.300 This is the same system they're implementing in China with guns.

00:16:24.680 We're doing it and saying, oh, my gosh, MasterCard, you've just made my life so easy.

00:16:32.220 Thank you for that.

00:16:34.640 Now, in a completely unrelated story out of the state of New York, there is a new bill being proposed in the statehouse of New York, but it's common sense gun control.

00:16:49.020 It would require a firearm, a would-be firearm purchaser, to turn over three years of your social media history.

00:16:59.840 Oh.

00:17:01.220 Well, that seems reasonable because we always do say, gee, if you just watched what they said online, you'd know they were a kook. 1.00

00:17:10.260 A three-year review of social media profiles would give an easy profile of a person who is not suitable to hold or possess a firearm.

00:17:22.000 This according to a New York State senator in proposed legislation.

00:17:27.460 Applicants to purchase a gun would be required to turn over their social media passwords to accounts like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram.

00:17:38.740 And they would have to allow police to see a year's worth of all of their searches.

00:17:44.820 A year's worth of searches on Google and Yahoo and Bing.

00:17:49.440 Oh, they haven't gotten Jeeves yet.

00:17:51.220 As well as anyone renewing their permit for a pistol would also be subject to this investigation.

00:17:59.100 So every couple of years, you could have the government come in and say, we need to look at your social, turn over all your passwords.

00:18:07.060 Now, I'm only bringing this up because I think it seems a little clunky.

00:18:11.240 Why would I have to turn over all of my passwords when I could just partner with Google and they could tell everybody who I am?

00:18:22.480 After all, Google is doing that in China.

00:18:25.520 And why turn over my passwords?

00:18:28.320 Why have any kind of investigative body looking into who I associate with and everything else

00:18:37.460 when Microsoft and MasterCard will know where I've been, who I visited, how I spend my money?

00:18:44.520 This doesn't sound like the Chinese thing at all.

00:18:49.760 Go back to sleep, America.

00:18:51.620 We're fine.

00:18:52.760 Hey, I know.

00:18:54.480 Let's talk about what Trump tweeted today.

00:18:57.120 Because that's so much more important.

00:19:01.480 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:07.460 Why was global warming so huge in the early zeros?

00:19:15.880 Okay.

00:19:16.600 And then after about 2008, it just kind of went away.

00:19:21.100 And then 2010, 2012, nobody's talking about it.

00:19:25.300 All of the wicked predictions of if we don't do something by this date in 2012, it's too late.

00:19:33.980 And it all just dissipated and went away.

00:19:37.980 And then all of a sudden, it is, there's, everybody is saying, this is, we are running out of time.

00:19:45.560 This is the worst thing.

00:19:47.040 Humanity, all humanity will be gone if we don't do something right now.

00:19:51.460 Yeah, it's back and it's worse than it's ever been.

00:19:53.760 Why?

00:19:54.020 Um, I, I, because I, I think because they lost some momentum maybe after 2008 when there weren't as many frequent, more intense hurricanes and tornadoes.

00:20:06.960 And a lot of the predictions weren't coming through and there was the pause in the warming and maybe it was harder to sell.

00:20:15.400 Try this on for size.

00:20:16.680 You know how China is, is building a cage right now for the Chinese people, okay? 1.00

00:20:23.700 For the Muslims, Christians. 0.88

00:20:25.520 Yeah, for everybody.

00:20:26.680 I mean, the whole society, China is going to be a cage by 2020. 0.94

00:20:31.080 Um, uh, this is the largest transfer of wealth ever in the history of mankind.

00:20:39.340 Already it's been happening, but even more so with global warming.

00:20:43.760 It's just a giant transfer of wealth and while there is wealth, transfer it and build the cage that the French people are now feeling. 0.98

00:20:52.760 They're now feeling, look, the people who are being hurt are the little people, not the big guys.

00:20:56.920 Big guys are fine.

00:20:58.400 It's the little people.

00:21:00.220 So take the money while there's money to be had, build the cage under the global warming thing.

00:21:07.100 I mean, I think, I think global leadership is afraid of their own, they're afraid of their own people.

00:21:13.880 Yeah, it's, it's possible.

00:21:14.880 And, and I think that the global warming, the green is the new red.

00:21:19.120 I mean, it's the communism of, of this particular generation and it's the way they're, they're getting communism done in a lot of different places.

00:21:27.540 And they just said, the, the UN climate chief just said, we're going to have to completely transform our economies and our societies in order to stop the global warming catastrophe.

00:21:40.000 Well, what is that?

00:21:41.460 You're going to, so you're going to transform the free market into what?

00:21:45.260 Socialism, communism.

00:21:46.400 Yeah.

00:21:46.880 The green technology that's going to replace the free market system.

00:21:50.740 And look, the free market system has done more to help global warming than any communist.

00:21:56.920 Look at China. 0.88

00:21:57.620 It's a mess.

00:21:58.840 Yeah.

00:21:59.060 And even, even all of the solar panels that the government paid for, all those guys are out of business.

00:22:04.340 The vault, the vault was setting people on fire.

00:22:08.560 Yeah.

00:22:08.680 They're shutting it down next year.

00:22:09.740 Yet Tesla, even though Tesla was a bailout or, you know, got government money, still it's, it's a private idea, not, not done by, you know, a giant corporation in bed with the global warming stuff.

00:22:25.320 It was new technology that I think just what he did, he let all of those plans out online.

00:22:34.480 He more than paid for it by saying, I'm not taking any patent, take it, take it.

00:22:41.920 But you, you, you look at the Tesla.

00:22:44.600 Now the Tesla, everybody says, Oh, it's green.

00:22:47.080 It's green.

00:22:47.420 It's green.

00:22:47.880 No, the new cars that are being built now, gasoline engine cars have in the end, less emissions than even a Tesla because you're still plugging it in and it's a coal fire plant.

00:23:02.760 Right.

00:23:03.240 And on top of it, the emissions that it takes to make those cars as compared to what we're now using to make a regular gasoline engine.

00:23:11.560 It's actually worse for the economy.

00:23:13.620 Yeah.

00:23:13.720 Not to mention the batteries and what happens with those afterwards.

00:23:17.160 Right.

00:23:17.640 It's their environmental disasters.

00:23:20.680 And it's interesting to me too.

00:23:21.960 You mentioned the French.

00:23:23.040 These people have been conditioned far more than America has to be accepting of things like a carbon tax.

00:23:29.720 And look how they responded to it when it actually came down the line and they were actually given a carbon tax.

00:23:36.100 They set the country on fire.

00:23:38.260 They rise up and start burning the place down to the ground because they don't want to pay a carbon tax.

00:23:45.640 And this only makes Donald Trump stronger.

00:23:48.860 Oh, I think so.

00:23:49.500 I mean, the comment he had yesterday was right.

00:23:52.400 Oh, it looks like the people of France agree with me more than you.

00:23:55.120 Yep.

00:23:55.500 He got out of the club.

00:23:57.100 You know?

00:23:57.780 Yes.

00:23:58.900 Yeah.

00:23:59.140 And then the UN summit is emitting.

00:24:04.560 I mean, this just shows how these people don't even, they don't even respect or believe their own nonsense. 0.79

00:24:11.460 No.

00:24:11.660 When the climate industry gets together and they start emitting more CO2 than 8,200 American homes combined in a year for this one-week conference,

00:24:24.640 and that doesn't include the thousands of people flying to get there.

00:24:28.240 That just includes at the summit itself after they're already there.

00:24:33.120 And how many of them have flown in on private jets?

00:24:35.620 It's all air travel.

00:24:37.520 All of them.

00:24:38.220 All of them.

00:24:39.300 So it's more, it is more CO2 than 8,200 American homes give off in a year.

00:24:49.200 And we're supposed to believe that you believe this is catastrophic?

00:24:53.420 There's no way you act this way if it's catastrophic.

00:24:56.320 No, when you say this is catastrophic, you set an example.

00:25:00.380 You don't go to the beach.

00:25:02.200 You don't go.

00:25:02.840 You do this on the internet.

00:25:03.860 You do it on the internet.

00:25:05.060 You now have holographic virtual reality.

00:25:07.760 You could go to Facebook and say, hey, I want virtual reality conferences.

00:25:11.700 And everyone can plug in Facebook or Oculus or whoever.

00:25:15.620 They would love that.

00:25:16.920 Hey, the whole world can watch.

00:25:18.620 You can all be there.

00:25:19.800 It's going to be the first big global summit, but everyone is invited and you have to spend

00:25:24.800 nothing.

00:25:26.020 You're not catering events.

00:25:27.140 You're not flying people in.

00:25:29.020 Nope.

00:25:29.220 You're not doing hotels.

00:25:31.040 You're not doing any of that.

00:25:31.960 You're not driving.

00:25:32.380 You're not driving from the hotel to the conference.

00:25:35.240 Right.

00:25:35.460 You can do it in the comfort of your own office right now.

00:25:37.980 You can watch it.

00:25:38.640 You can participate.

00:25:39.320 And if you really believed that we're on the verge of catastrophe, isn't that how you'd

00:25:43.700 be acting?

00:25:44.340 I would.

00:25:45.300 If I really believed that the planet is on the brink of complete disaster, there's no

00:25:49.500 way I'm doing a conference like this that burns that kind of CO2.

00:25:52.460 No way. 0.90

00:25:53.720 So, complete hypocrisy. 0.92

00:25:56.540 It's a total, to me, that's the scam. 0.95

00:26:00.520 Because they know better.

00:26:01.640 They know that this is not where they say it is.

00:26:04.440 So, but again, I go back to why.

00:26:06.640 Why is this happening now?

00:26:10.160 Because you can see how unpopular it is.

00:26:14.660 It doesn't take a genius to figure out.

00:26:18.760 If I start raising taxes and I start hurting the economy with a plan like this, the people

00:26:24.840 are going to rise up.

00:26:26.920 So, why when you are already struggling as a Democratic Party or whatever, and all around

00:26:32.900 the world, as you're already struggling, why is it that they continue to push forward

00:26:38.660 with this?

00:26:39.840 Money.

00:26:40.780 Right?

00:26:41.180 I mean, it's always money, isn't it?

00:26:42.800 Money and power.

00:26:45.020 But with a very short...

00:26:46.220 Al Gore is going to be a climate billionaire.

00:26:49.040 Very shortly.

00:26:49.920 Correct.

00:26:50.320 But there are those who are on the front lines, the politicians, the political parties all

00:26:56.800 around the world, that have to win elections.

00:26:59.500 At some point, you've got to say, we're not going to win an election next time.

00:27:03.960 So, our money is being cut off.

00:27:06.960 There's got to be...

00:27:07.920 There's more to this.

00:27:10.780 Because human just survival instincts for the politicians and the parties start to kick

00:27:19.280 in.

00:27:20.260 You know what?

00:27:20.780 No, let's not talk about that.

00:27:22.340 Let's not talk about that.

00:27:23.920 Social Security.

00:27:24.660 I want to cut your Social Security.

00:27:26.440 GOP.

00:27:27.060 Forever.

00:27:27.580 No, we're not talking about that.

00:27:28.880 No, no, no.

00:27:29.440 Your Social Security is safe.

00:27:30.800 Why?

00:27:31.140 Third rail.

00:27:32.900 This is being shown as a third rail all around the world.

00:27:36.160 You touch this in Europe. 1.00

00:27:38.360 You're dead. 0.99

00:27:40.100 They'll rise up against you. 1.00

00:27:41.620 They'll set your country on fire.

00:27:42.960 Because it doesn't work.

00:27:44.620 The people don't want it.

00:27:46.080 Brexit.

00:27:47.360 You don't think the people are going to rise up?

00:27:50.680 They voted.

00:27:51.660 Get out.

00:27:52.280 Get out of the EU.

00:27:54.040 They're giving them two options.

00:27:55.800 You can get out.

00:27:57.460 But you're not really your own country.

00:28:01.060 You can't do anything with anybody else.

00:28:03.380 What?

00:28:04.020 Or you can be like Sweden and Switzerland.

00:28:07.060 And you can trade with Mexico freely.

00:28:09.280 But not the United States.

00:28:12.320 Not even.

00:28:12.800 What?

00:28:14.580 You don't think the people of Europe and of the UK, when they see this, when they can't get out.

00:28:22.660 Okay.

00:28:22.940 You can get out of the EU.

00:28:24.180 But you still have to take all the immigrants we tell you to. 1.00

00:28:28.400 Excuse me?

00:28:30.360 You don't think that they're going to rise up?

00:28:33.040 These guys, the politicians, are either so brain dead and so far away from the people, which is possible. 0.95

00:28:42.700 But we are entering a let them eat cake moment to where I don't think that was, you know, oh, piss on the poor. 0.98

00:28:51.040 Let them eat cake.

00:28:51.940 There was so.

00:28:52.900 First of all, she never said it.

00:28:54.060 But if it was, what it meant was she was surrounded by cake.

00:28:59.860 She was surrounded by food.

00:29:01.700 They don't have any bread.

00:29:02.840 Well, let them eat cake.

00:29:04.260 There's plenty of cake.

00:29:06.160 Right.

00:29:06.800 That's how out of touch.

00:29:08.560 And we're back into that position.

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00:30:29.300 Mr. Andrew Wilkow is joining us now.

00:30:33.660 Andrew was one of our founding talents at the Blaze TV.

00:30:39.520 I think, Andrew, when you were there, it was GBTV, was it not?

00:30:42.740 Yeah, well, I was a guest.

00:30:43.820 First, I joined Real News after the name was changed to the Blaze and then shortly after

00:30:50.020 being a panelist on the Blaze, you guys elevated me to my own program and I became part of the

00:30:55.820 primetime lineup.

00:30:56.620 So, yes, yes, yes.

00:30:58.680 I was part of the original circle of people.

00:31:02.220 Yeah, because we had a setup for you up in New York and everything and we're thrilled that you're back.

00:31:09.220 You left and joined CRTV and been doing a bang-up job on CRTV and now you're back into the fold and

00:31:16.480 something that is, you know, bigger and better and I think, you know, there was a story, you will

00:31:23.060 appreciate this, Andrew, there's a story, I think, in Vanity Fair about how Vox and all of these,

00:31:29.480 all these big media companies, Vice, all of these internet companies, they just couldn't make a go

00:31:34.900 of it and they're all, they're all shutting down because nobody will merge and it's a lot tougher to

00:31:41.720 do internet stuff than we thought, you think?

00:31:45.720 Yeah, no, look, I said this when you joined me yesterday that, you know, people thought you were

00:31:51.880 crazy to leave a major, you know, national network with all of the bells and whistles and,

00:31:57.740 and, and, and resources and I remember I said it to you then, I said it to you yesterday,

00:32:02.280 I'll say it to you now, I thought you were crazy too, but I wanted to be part of it.

00:32:05.880 I was like, this man is out of his mind and whatever he's doing, that's where I'm going.

00:32:09.900 So anyway, so it's great to be in the family together.

00:32:12.760 Let's, let's talk a little bit about the news.

00:32:15.940 A couple of things come to mind.

00:32:17.320 Let's, let's start with Joe Biden and, and the, the elections that are coming in 2020.

00:32:23.700 And I would, I, as much as I'd like to hear you talk about the Democrats, feel free if

00:32:28.000 you want to, I would like to hear what your thoughts are on the GOP.

00:32:31.600 If you're going to run on a record, you kind of have to have one.

00:32:35.420 You and I toured this country together with FreedomWorks and we went, we went to bat for

00:32:43.240 Dr. Greg Brannon, Matt Bevin, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, you name it.

00:32:49.800 We traverse the country for these, these conservatives who believe in the bill of rights and the

00:32:56.620 constitution, limited government, all that stuff that we talk about all the time.

00:33:00.520 Every single GOP member ran on cutting taxes, cutting the budget, repealing Obamacare, securing

00:33:07.180 the border.

00:33:07.900 Then once they got power, they turned around to people like us and said, well, hold on.

00:33:13.040 We have to be pragmatic.

00:33:14.520 You're going to have to give us some time.

00:33:16.140 And my first thought was the Democrats never do that to their base.

00:33:19.200 They may order their response to demands of activists.

00:33:23.060 You start with a takeover of a, of healthcare and you end up at transgender bathrooms, but 1.00

00:33:27.400 they get there.

00:33:28.240 This Republican leadership delivered on nothing.

00:33:31.840 Yes, they cut taxes.

00:33:33.240 That was nice.

00:33:34.260 Thank you for letting us keep it.

00:33:35.460 It wasn't, honestly, it wasn't, it wasn't stunning.

00:33:39.200 You know, that's not Trump's fault.

00:33:40.880 He would have signed anything.

00:33:42.480 Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't something where we could say, oh my God, for the, you know,

00:33:47.820 eight years of hard work, starting with the Tea Party.

00:33:50.400 We've got this fundamental transformation of, of the tax code.

00:33:53.980 We're going to have a flat tax and the states are going to pick up what they need to run 1.00

00:33:57.060 what they want at the state level.

00:33:58.540 We, we got, we got some money in our pocket, but they spent more than the Democrats ever

00:34:02.940 did.

00:34:03.200 They didn't fund the border wall.

00:34:05.100 Whether you agree with it or not, they all ran on it.

00:34:06.960 They, they, the, the Democrats, the Democrats eventually will deliver on their promises

00:34:11.420 for their base.

00:34:12.220 Whereas the Republicans tell us to sit down and be quiet until the next time they need

00:34:16.740 our programs, our audiences, and the, and the activists in the base of the party to deliver

00:34:21.260 them victories.

00:34:22.340 Imagine Andrew, if, um, Donald Trump weren't president, it was Hillary, uh, and the caravan

00:34:29.960 came to our gate, they would have opened the borders, even though right now she is across 0.89

00:34:36.500 the, you know, across the ocean and she's in Europe and she's like, oh boy, that immigration 1.00

00:34:40.780 thing, boy, that, that didn't work out well.

00:34:42.580 That was probably a mistake.

00:34:44.080 Probably.

00:34:45.260 Yeah.

00:34:46.120 Uh, and they would, they're going to do the same thing.

00:34:48.440 If we don't get real lasting security and the GOP, they have a few more weeks to do it.

00:34:55.340 They've now punted the, they aren't going to, they're not going to, they aren't going

00:34:59.120 to, you know, they're not going to, they're not going to, they could, why would they do

00:35:02.320 something the lame duck they didn't, they didn't do when they had, when the iron was 0.94

00:35:06.600 hot?

00:35:06.940 What, what, what's their motivation at this point?

00:35:10.780 I don't know, to not be terrible human beings.

00:35:14.460 Do you remember me sitting on set with you in Texas and you said to me something to the

00:35:19.560 effect of talk me down from the ledge on Mitt Romney?

00:35:21.620 And I said, he's not a communist.

00:35:23.500 Right.

00:35:24.180 That was all I could, that was all I could give you was he's not the communist.

00:35:27.700 Yeah, I know.

00:35:28.020 And I had that.

00:35:28.720 I had that as well.

00:35:30.780 That was kind of where I was.

00:35:33.540 You know what's sad about the, about the, about the migrant crisis is that this is something 1.00

00:35:39.020 that nobody talks about, especially in Democrat circles that we sent for the last year available

00:35:43.660 $297 million to Guatemala, 127 million to Honduras.

00:35:47.780 And we're doing those packages almost annually.

00:35:50.240 If you look up on USAID's website, it's actually a very good website for a government site.

00:35:54.700 Not $297 million to veterans, not $297 million to failing school districts, not $297 million

00:36:01.040 for our own infrastructure, beloved infrastructure, to these other countries.

00:36:04.400 And we're being told they're fleeing poverty and violence.

00:36:07.560 Well, the USAID website breaks down almost to the dollar how much we spend on infrastructure,

00:36:13.200 how much we spend on healthcare, education, civil society, governance, law enforcement.

00:36:17.320 And I have not heard any credible voice in the Congress, Republican or Democrat, the president's

00:36:23.000 mentioned it, but not in Congress, of, hey, why are we sending the money there if the people

00:36:27.520 are coming here?

00:36:28.660 If we've sent the money to comfort them, to better them, to improve their lot in life

00:36:33.840 there, why are the people coming here?

00:36:35.900 And my only conclusion is, it's a win-win for these governments.

00:36:39.220 We send them the money, they send us the people, they keep the money, don't have to spend it

00:36:42.820 on the people.

00:36:43.460 They come here, we give them healthcare, we find them a job, we give them education.

00:36:47.820 It's a win-win if you're the government of Honduras.

00:36:50.560 I completely agree with you.

00:36:53.060 And I would, if I were Donald Trump, and I'm really disappointed that we haven't done this,

00:36:58.540 I would cut off every dime.

00:36:59.880 Look, I'll help you, but you are not to send your people here. 1.00

00:37:04.900 As far as Mexico is concerned, they allowed that caravan to continue to go.

00:37:09.540 They were breaking Mexican laws. 0.69

00:37:11.680 They still are.

00:37:13.140 Turn that caravan around.

00:37:14.860 And I don't know why we haven't gotten tough and just said, okay, guys, we shouldn't be dealing

00:37:19.980 with this.

00:37:20.480 This is your problem.

00:37:21.760 Mexico, you let them come through your country. 0.73

00:37:24.640 Honduras, you don't get a dime from us.

00:37:26.580 You're not going to stop people.

00:37:28.500 Well, we're cutting you off.

00:37:31.320 But when we talk about the generosity of America, we can argue back and forth about foreign aid.

00:37:36.380 But haven't we done, what is it that we haven't done for the people of these countries?

00:37:41.540 This is so, you know, we can separate the European question about migration.

00:37:47.600 We have been giving these countries, these people that we see that are desperate, that

00:37:52.060 are following voices, that are telling them, and you know what's really sick, Glenn?

00:37:55.680 And I know you know this.

00:37:56.680 This is the worst epidemic of Alinsky, Cloward, Piven, whatever you want to call it.

00:38:02.880 These poor people are just the only person that benefits from community organizing is 1.00

00:38:08.880 the organizer.

00:38:09.900 Barack Obama's got a $65 million book deal, and the South Side of Chicago is the South Side

00:38:14.900 of Chicago.

00:38:15.300 These people are being used by people who are furthering their own political agenda and

00:38:21.720 credibility, and it's sick.

00:38:23.620 It is sickening to watch the images of women carrying children looking for an end to this, 1.00

00:38:31.440 and they're being led by people who know darn well this is not how you file an asylum claim.

00:38:36.820 This is not how you immigrate. 0.99

00:38:38.520 This is not how it's done.

00:38:39.720 They have to know. 1.00

00:38:40.720 These people are rotten, and they're evil. 0.87

00:38:44.160 Tell me your take quickly on Mueller, what we found out yesterday about Flynn, and what 0.97

00:38:49.100 next year looks like.

00:38:51.720 Well, for a guy that allegedly colluded with the Russian government, you know, having calls

00:38:56.820 with Sergey Kislyak as the incoming national security advisor over certain global sanctions,

00:39:02.300 if that is the root of collusion with Russia, no jail time sounds pretty good for a guy who's

00:39:08.720 such a rogue agent, and by the way, why aren't we looking at Claire McCaskill's very tight

00:39:14.140 relationship with Sergey Kislyak?

00:39:16.060 If business in Russia, the Moscow Tower, is some smoke and fire of criminality, why aren't

00:39:22.600 the Podestas, and by virtue of that Clinton, who took $500,000 to go speak to Putin's bank,

00:39:28.200 why is this?

00:39:29.440 Look, if you want to have a sense of law and order and fairness and say, we have to make

00:39:34.260 sure our political class is on the up and up, you can't say it's okay when they do it.

00:39:39.040 You can't say that we're going to ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton was deleting emails.

00:39:43.920 We're going to ignore the fact she was destroying devices and evidence.

00:39:47.040 We're going to ignore the fact that people got their eyes on classified information like

00:39:51.580 Anthony Weiner, and we're going to say, but, you know, somebody wanted to go to Trump

00:39:56.740 Tower and meet with Don Jr. to lobby over the Majitsky Act.

00:40:00.220 That's it.

00:40:00.780 The president, he has to be impeached.

00:40:03.740 Yeah, it's, and I think this is what people are missing, because they immediately, you

00:40:08.200 say that, and people on the left will immediately jump to, oh, that's whataboutism.

00:40:12.820 No, it's really not, you know, but it is basic fairness, which I thought the left was all

00:40:21.140 about.

00:40:21.720 You can't say, I'm going to apply the law this time, but not last time, or not the next

00:40:27.120 time.

00:40:27.620 It has to be blind.

00:40:29.300 Justice must be blind.

00:40:31.380 And I think that's all that the American people want is just, can we just apply these things

00:40:37.120 equally?

00:40:37.620 And it's so, it's so ironic to me that people are coming to our border who are fleeing chaos

00:40:45.000 in their own, uh, own countries.

00:40:47.080 They say they're flying, fleeing it because they can't work.

00:40:49.880 They can't have a job and they have no chance because there is no equal justice system.

00:40:55.680 And they're coming here.

00:40:58.380 They're asking us to break the law, which would create what they had.

00:41:03.300 And on top of it, we are allowing both sides, Democrats and Republicans.

00:41:07.640 We are allowing our country to become, uh, uh, a, uh, a klepocracy where it's, it's just 0.99

00:41:16.620 the thieves that are running it.

00:41:18.460 I got something you're going to love and it's going to scare you at the same time.

00:41:21.460 I know you're a big fan of investigative journalism and documentary and journalism.

00:41:26.920 Uh, this is a first for me.

00:41:28.580 And we did this, we produced this before we even knew that there was going to be a coming

00:41:33.620 together of the CRTV and blaze universe.

00:41:36.200 Tell me about this, this documentary that you did investigative journalism.

00:41:40.760 Yeah, it's a first for me.

00:41:42.560 Um, we sent a camera crew down to the border and we interviewed, um, former law enforcement

00:41:51.220 officials, many of whom we had to obscure and what they will tell you.

00:41:56.300 And this is what's really frightening.

00:41:57.540 And it, it starts at the border and it goes to small towns throughout the Midwest.

00:42:02.400 The documentary series, two particle cartel in the mid, in the heartland cartel in the

00:42:06.720 heartland shows how Hezbollah and Hamas have gotten into an unholy alliance with the human 0.97

00:42:13.980 smuggling and drug cartels.

00:42:16.320 The, the terrorist organizations have found the border so porous and profit to be made to

00:42:23.980 be sent back for their activities in the middle East and some, even in the United States that

00:42:28.620 they've entered into this agreement where the terrorist organizations are teaching the

00:42:32.780 cartels about explosives, weapons, providing weapons.

00:42:36.800 They are in, they are wholly involved now in the drug trade and the human smuggling trade

00:42:43.000 at the border.

00:42:44.140 And this is making its way to small towns where small town police departments with their budgets

00:42:49.840 and limited resources are not able to keep up with the influx of gang activity.

00:42:55.440 And you are going to be shocked when you hear some of these people think of it like this,

00:42:59.940 Glenn, and your audience can really think about it like this.

00:43:03.140 Try to imagine how drugs get into prisons.

00:43:06.980 Try to imagine the kind of things that we know go on in the prison system under the watch

00:43:12.300 of the, the, the guards, the warden, the state, what have you put that on steroids, that there

00:43:18.600 are people on the border on our side as well, that we think are the good guys that are making

00:43:24.380 money by enabling this unholy alliance between Hamas, Hezbollah, MS-13, Los Zetas, you name

00:43:32.580 it.

00:43:32.860 All right.

00:43:33.040 They have found, yes.

00:43:34.360 So I'm sorry to cut you off.

00:43:35.720 I just have to go to the break.

00:43:36.900 Um, uh, cartel in the heartland.

00:43:40.040 Yes.

00:43:40.360 Two part series.

00:43:41.300 First part airs tomorrow.

00:43:43.320 Okay.

00:43:43.960 On Blaze TV.

00:43:44.700 Uh, Blaze TV cartland, uh, cartel in the heartland.

00:43:47.800 And you can find that now, uh, at, uh, blaze tv.com.

00:43:51.820 First, uh, episode airs tomorrow.

00:43:54.200 Andrew, thank you very much.

00:43:55.520 If I can get it in advance, I'll watch it and maybe we can have you on, uh, as well later

00:43:59.320 this week.

00:43:59.780 So I can, I can, uh, uh, comment on it.

00:44:02.280 Cartel in the, in the heartland on blaze tv.com slash Beck.

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00:44:11.560 Glenn Beck.

00:44:16.200 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:44:24.180 Lauren Chen.

00:44:25.360 She is the roaming millennial, a host of roaming millennial uncensored. 0.51

00:44:29.400 She is somebody that has about 20 million views on YouTube, uh, hundreds of thousands

00:44:35.920 of followers, uh, she has also been on Fox news, the daily wire, rebel media, Prager U,

00:44:40.660 the Rubin report.

00:44:41.740 She was born in Canada, raised in Hong Kong, still lives in Canada, and now is truly a very,

00:44:48.740 uh, a, a very smart voice for freedom.

00:44:53.560 And Lauren, I have to, first of all, welcome.

00:44:55.940 Thank you so much for having me.

00:44:57.160 Uh, I, I have to start with this.

00:44:59.560 What is it with Canada? 0.93

00:45:01.480 All of the intellectuals are like bailing our ass out. 0.94

00:45:05.060 Well, you know, it's funny because if you look at, I guess, conservative figures right 0.95

00:45:08.440 now, a disproportionate amount of them are Canadian.

00:45:10.880 So on the one hand, that's kind of cool.

00:45:12.220 But on the other, I think it's like that right now because things have gotten so bad in Canada,

00:45:16.760 just so off the rails that there's been like a reactionary movement.

00:45:20.540 Um, I hope that the States doesn't get to that point.

00:45:24.260 And so I'm like, what is it?

00:45:25.460 Well, because I've always thought Canada was off the rails and so, you know, and, and Americans,

00:45:29.600 nothing about nothing against Canada.

00:45:31.860 I love Canada.

00:45:32.600 I grew up, I grew up about 40 miles. 0.99

00:45:35.240 I have good Canadian friends, you know, all that crap. 1.00

00:45:38.020 Um, but I've always thought Canada was off the rails. 0.99

00:45:41.640 Yeah.

00:45:41.900 What is happening now that you think maybe Americans don't really understand?

00:45:47.560 Right.

00:45:47.820 So for the longest time in Canada, we've had that whole universal healthcare, socialized

00:45:51.560 medicine thing.

00:45:52.560 Um, but it's, it's going even further than that now, because right now we have someone

00:45:56.480 like Justin Trudeau in power and, you know, places like Ontario, they're actually legislating

00:46:01.240 things like gender identity as protected for children.

00:46:04.160 Right.

00:46:04.660 Which means that if you're a parent and your daughter or son decides that, I don't know,

00:46:09.660 they're omni gender or whatever the new trendy thing is these days, uh, you could potentially,

00:46:14.040 um, have your parental rights in danger for not recognizing that.

00:46:18.700 So, and not to mention the, the fact that now not only do we have this whole political

00:46:23.040 correctness that has just infested our government, but combine that with the refugee crisis that's 1.00

00:46:28.520 going on in Europe, Canada isn't Sweden or Germany right now by any means.

00:46:32.280 But again, with someone like Trudeau in power, we're, we're seeing those same kinds of challenges

00:46:36.640 that Europe has been seeing.

00:46:37.820 Is there anything about you growing up in Hong Kong that, uh, helps you see the world differently?

00:46:44.600 I think so.

00:46:45.260 I mean, Hong Kong has an interesting history.

00:46:47.440 If, if you know about the, uh, the, the British ruling it for a hundred years and then going

00:46:51.600 back to China.

00:46:52.400 And it's funny because I, I grew up in Hong Kong when it was currently a colonial power.

00:46:57.740 I mean, between Hong Kong and Canada, it's kind of like I'm British adjacent, I guess.

00:47:01.540 Yes.

00:47:01.740 Um, but since then, every time I go back when, you know, the Chinese, they took things over 1.00

00:47:07.100 again, it's, there's more and more encroachment of freedoms that I think a lot of Hong Kong

00:47:11.420 people took for granted, especially during the nineties, um, things like religious freedom,

00:47:15.640 freedom of the press.

00:47:16.620 And I think that for Canadians and Americans may not have ever been something that they

00:47:22.060 need to be consciously aware of.

00:47:23.380 But when you come from a background where there's actually political upheaval currently going on

00:47:27.340 in a very big way, I think it just makes you a lot more cautious of government

00:47:30.600 power.

00:47:30.960 So what is it that you have to say that has connected with 20 million people?

00:47:36.540 What is it that you think, um, people are saying, yes, finally somebody saying that,

00:47:44.080 you know, I asked myself that question a lot, um, shocks me still, but, uh, I think people,

00:47:50.400 a lot of them.

00:47:51.020 And what's interesting is that on YouTube, which is where I started off, my audience isn't

00:47:56.380 entirely conservative.

00:47:57.460 I have a lot of people on the left who are listening to me.

00:47:59.800 That's good.

00:48:00.380 Yeah.

00:48:00.700 And I think, I think it's great.

00:48:01.940 And I get a lot of people saying, Hey, I don't agree with you, but I appreciate your

00:48:04.580 perspective, which is amazing.

00:48:05.620 And we need more people listening in on people they don't agree with.

00:48:08.740 But I think what people are interested in is the fact that I'm not trying to demonize

00:48:12.880 anybody.

00:48:13.200 I don't hate anybody.

00:48:14.660 I don't think of myself as an unreasonable person.

00:48:16.920 And I'm just trying to call out what I see as unreasonableness in the world that is masquerading

00:48:21.400 as civility, as tolerance, as acceptance or whatever they're calling it nowadays when

00:48:27.120 it's, it's really the opposite.

00:48:28.320 Are you concerned at all about de-platforming?

00:48:31.400 Yeah.

00:48:32.000 As someone who started off on YouTube, that's, that's been something I can't remember not

00:48:36.280 being concerned about, whether that's, you know, being flagged, demonetized, just kicked

00:48:40.580 off the platform entirely.

00:48:41.580 But hey, that's why I'm so thankful that conservative media platforms like, like this

00:48:46.100 exists because it's, it's necessary.

00:48:47.720 And I have people who are wanting to get started in commentary or writing, ask me, um, for some

00:48:54.360 advice.

00:48:54.760 And the number one thing I could tell them is that to not put your basket in any one platform

00:48:59.500 because it could be taken away at any point, especially if you're someone who says anything

00:49:03.820 unpopular in regard to gender, immigration, anything like that.

00:49:07.160 That's the thing that, you know, the press and some people try to make this a merger between

00:49:11.740 CRTV and, and the blaze TV about, you know, about me or Mark or money or whatever.

00:49:18.280 It's not, it's really truly about just like-minded people all across the conservative spectrum

00:49:24.940 coming together and saying, I don't, I, I want to be in a pack because if we don't, if

00:49:31.960 we don't hang together, we'll hang separately.

00:49:33.940 They'll just pick us off one by one.

00:49:35.920 Uh, and I, I think that's really important.

00:49:38.560 Right.

00:49:38.640 And what's, I mean, I, I'm excited about this as someone who not only produces conservative

00:49:42.600 media, but also watches a heck of a lot of it.

00:49:44.720 I like the idea of having everything in one place.

00:49:47.360 And I think if you're a subscriber, it's, it's kind of hard to say, Hey, I want this

00:49:51.920 show and I want this show, but I only have this many dollars per month to buy like 30

00:49:55.600 different subscriptions.

00:49:56.380 Um, but what's been interesting to me, like you've mentioned is that people are framing this

00:50:00.960 as an echo chamber.

00:50:02.160 And I think if you think that between like yourself, uh, Crowder, Gavin McInnis, that that's an echo

00:50:07.920 chamber of everyone thinking the same thing.

00:50:09.340 You just haven't been watching.

00:50:10.260 You haven't.

00:50:10.940 You haven't.

00:50:11.500 No.

00:50:11.880 They just, they take everything that disagrees, uh, that, you know, uh, you know, we should

00:50:18.560 have open borders and, and America is a bad place and just anything outside of that,

00:50:24.260 they just say it's all crazy.

00:50:26.240 Yeah.

00:50:26.360 All right wing extremists.

00:50:27.880 Right.

00:50:28.020 We have people who are, you know, rah, rah, GOP kind of, you know, and then libertarians

00:50:35.600 we have the entire spectrum and, and I, I'm, I'm hoping that, uh, that we can be an example

00:50:44.160 of all these different voices coming together.

00:50:46.420 And when we have differences, just coming on each other's show and saying, Hey dude, I have

00:50:52.160 a problem with this.

00:50:53.220 Can you explain or help me?

00:50:55.080 And we may still disagree, but we don't have to kill each other over it.

00:50:59.280 Right. 0.67

00:50:59.320 We don't have to call each other Nazis and racist, sexist.

00:51:02.340 Right.

00:51:03.120 Yeah.

00:51:03.800 So tell me, tell me what keeps you, uh, up at night that you think if more people could

00:51:09.800 just, if they just be aware of this, or if they could just, you know, thread the needle

00:51:14.560 through this, what is it?

00:51:17.100 Well, when I was in college, I studied political science and for the longest time, I thought

00:51:22.040 everything revolved around policy.

00:51:24.020 And it's funny because I was small government minded, but I was still in the mindset that

00:51:27.700 of, Oh, if government were this specific way, then society would be perfect.

00:51:31.280 It happened that the way I thought government should be was small, limited and pro freedom,

00:51:35.660 but I was still very reliant on outside forces being able to dictate how good society is.

00:51:40.680 The older that I've gotten, the more I've realized that policy is of course important.

00:51:45.160 I will, I will never say that it's not, but at the same time, I, as I get older, I think

00:51:50.920 that if more people were to, I guess, check themselves, their own personal lives.

00:51:56.100 Um, and for me, that's very, very largely, um, Christianity.

00:52:00.080 If we were to be more engaged with that and how we behave with our family members, our friends,

00:52:04.920 strangers, all of these questions about politics, it's not that they wouldn't matter, but they

00:52:09.000 would be a lot less important, right?

00:52:10.900 I mean, if, if people, for example, um, had healthy family lives, then the question of

00:52:16.420 child poverty would be less important, right?

00:52:18.300 If, if people had, um, I guess more opportunities because they embrace their own education and

00:52:24.600 the value of hard work, then things like welfare would be less of an issue.

00:52:27.740 Not that they wouldn't matter, but we wouldn't be, I guess it wouldn't be a make or break issue.

00:52:31.940 And so, well, if you don't self-regulate, somebody has to do it for you.

00:52:35.120 Right. And Dennis Prager talks about this a lot, where if you have small government,

00:52:39.080 you kind of need a big God, right? You need something to, I guess, motivate you,

00:52:43.700 something that you care about, something you're passionate about.

00:52:45.780 Otherwise it's just, it's, it's anarchy. And I think Jordan Peterson, um, you know, he's,

00:52:51.280 he's not a Christian, but he's someone who is at least trying to talk about the need for

00:52:55.800 self-improvement and the value of that. And people are responding to it in a big way.

00:52:59.940 I think millennials get a bad name. I think they get a bad rap. Um, and I don't know, maybe,

00:53:05.940 maybe they are all what everybody says. I, I haven't met them. Um, I have met some,

00:53:11.440 but I've met those same people in my generation. I mean, that's normal. Um, tell me who the millennial

00:53:18.260 generation is in your opinion.

00:53:20.620 Um, in my opinion, we're, we're well-educated. Uh, you know, a lot of us have degrees. We're

00:53:25.580 entrepreneurial, uh, which is something that's interesting because as much as we tend towards

00:53:30.140 socialism, which absolutely millennials do, uh, we're also, I guess, more of a self-starting

00:53:35.760 generation than previous generations. It's not that we're that great, but through technology,

00:53:39.600 we just have the greater means to do it.

00:53:41.140 This is the thing I can't understand about millennials, because when I got into radio, 1.00

00:53:45.540 it's been 45 years, I had to go to the FCC and take a test to be able to know how to operate

00:53:53.960 a transmitter. Okay. I had to take a test. Then I had to go to a corporation, get a job.

00:53:59.560 You know, there were very few jobs, blah, blah, blah. You don't have to do any of that stuff now.

00:54:03.200 And you don't even have to go on radio. You can do it from your own home with your own stuff. You

00:54:07.920 can be heard more than any other time. You want to be a band in my generation. You had to wait for

00:54:13.600 the record scout to come to the bar that you were playing. You don't even need that anymore.

00:54:18.260 How is it this generation who is more free to do things because of the internet than any other

00:54:25.520 generation ever in the history of mankind is still saying, but I want more government?

00:54:31.460 Well, I think it's kind of a paradox. We're so used to this freedom because we have so much freedom,

00:54:36.300 whether that's, you know, racially in terms of gender, we're just a very free, very egalitarian

00:54:41.320 generation. And I think that's almost made us complacent because we're so used to having things

00:54:45.860 so great, so amazing. Not that there haven't been, I guess, economic, you know, recessions

00:54:51.220 associated with our generation coming to the workforce, which there have been, but we're so

00:54:55.460 used to everything going our way that we almost can't imagine a way that it's not working out.

00:55:00.560 So I think, you know, when someone my age looks at something like healthcare in the U.S., which,

00:55:05.200 you know, as much as liberals like to say Republicans or the right or whatever think the American

00:55:10.740 healthcare system is currently great, I've never heard a single person on the right say,

00:55:14.540 yeah, this is, we're good. This is how it should be. But in any case, they look at something like

00:55:19.100 that and think, oh, well, this is kind of not working. So let's just go for full on socialism,

00:55:22.940 right? Why not? Because they don't, they don't understand that. No, like things can get significantly

00:55:27.360 worse. This is like, if you think this is awful, you have not seen anything.

00:55:32.320 That kills me because it's almost like you've never traveled anywhere else before in your life.

00:55:39.280 You know, when we look at our problems today, are you kidding me? You know, the number one cause of

00:55:46.280 death, what, 120 years ago for women was fire. It would burn to death. I mean, we don't even have 1.00

00:55:54.200 that. I don't think that's even on the top thousand ways to die for women today. 1.00

00:55:58.220 Yeah, for sure. I mean, people who complain about things like microaggressions or man spreading,

00:56:03.580 all those things. Like anytime I hear someone just mention those words, what, what I think of is

00:56:08.320 just privilege, like definitely class privilege. If you're, if that's what you're worried about,

00:56:13.380 then I'm sorry, you've had a pretty nice life. And also it's just, it's so, I mean, this is a word

00:56:17.860 that's been overused, but Eurocentric, like if that's your problems, that's, that's such a first

00:56:22.340 world problem. And it's almost kind of, it's a sign of how well we've come as a society, ironically,

00:56:28.260 that now this is what we're concerned about.

00:56:29.980 It really is. It shows how, how fat we are. Really it is. You have like, you know, you're so

00:56:36.620 you're, you don't have enough to do, you don't have to go out and, and, uh, you know, go find your

00:56:43.720 own food, build your own fire, build your own house, you know, you know, hitch the wagon with

00:56:50.020 the horses to go into the town. I mean, you have so much time. You're like, you know what? I was

00:56:55.180 really offended by something that somebody said. And I think I should put a group together and we

00:57:01.200 should all, we should start a hashtag group. Oh my gosh. The Blaze Radio Network. On demand.

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