00:00:00.000Hello, and welcome to the Friday podcast. We have things started right off the bat with Bill O'Reilly going over the week. He's got some interesting things to say about not only the week, but the future of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party and Donald Trump that you don't want to miss.
00:00:15.460Also, we talked to the deputy prime minister of Poland. They are very concerned about freedom of speech being lost to these American tech companies. They're trying now to put some new regulations on them. I don't like them for America, but the rest of the world is calling out and saying, hey, can you guys stop with this?
00:00:37.920Also, Aaron Watson stops by, country artist. All of his CDs and albums go to number one without any radio airplay. It's one of the most incredible stories since probably Johnny Cash, who got very little airplay. But he gets none, none whatsoever, and still has huge hits.
00:01:00.840We talked to him about the American soul, and also a sneak peek of this weekend's podcast that you don't want to miss with Jason Whitlock. And you can get that if you're a Blaze subscriber, you get it right now. If not, on Saturday around three o'clock in the afternoon, it will download and be ready for you to listen to Jason Whitlock's podcast. You don't want to miss it.
00:01:22.900You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:37.640Goodness, we're starting the show with the author of Killing Crazy Horse, that bestselling book, that whole series of killing people. You're kidding me. And he is the guy, the no spin news.
00:01:51.600He's that same guy, Bill O'Reilly. Welcome to the program from Bill O'Reilly dot com.
00:01:57.100Thank you, Beck. How are you doing today?
00:01:58.860Well, you know, it's been an interesting week.
00:04:00.080Because if you look at what Biden has prioritized in his first two days, it's all 100 percent based on Washington Post and New York Times editorials.
00:04:23.800Number one, shouldn't be any in inhibitions for anyone in the world to come in to the United States and not do the paperwork and not follow the rules.
00:04:37.040So, Bill, you have you have done this job for many, many years.
00:04:41.960You have seen many administrations back and forth.
00:04:44.840Is this the first one that has done something this large without a carrot to the other side?
00:04:52.900Sure, because they believe they have a mandate to correct the Trump administration.
00:05:01.300And what gives them the feeling of this mandate with Congress and everything being so close?
00:05:10.100They're basically saying, look, we have an opportunity now to put a progressive agenda onto the American people that we hope is going to be, you know, a long, long time.
00:07:34.680But if you run down the checklist, the big one is let as many people into the country who are living overseas as possible, because if you do that, then Democrats will never again lose an election ever, because eventually all these people will be given citizenship.
00:07:55.500And that was one of the first executive orders is, all right, they're going to get the DACA and a pathway eight years.
00:08:02.540I'll draw this legislation up and we'll pass it.
00:08:04.740Eleven million, eleven million people maybe made citizens in the next one hundred days and stopping or pausing deportations for a hundred days.
00:09:16.580But, but if you look at the subtext, everything that Biden is doing is designed to take more money away from the American workers.
00:09:30.960So I have to tell you, Bill, when you say the economy gets a bump, I think the big business, the banks and everything else, they're going to get a big bump.
00:09:39.660The banks have already said if Biden does his taxes, we're just going to increase the the interest rate on loans.
00:09:51.460The the ones and you see it with two things that Biden has done this week.
00:09:55.880The Keystone pipeline, 11,000 job just gone.
00:10:01.040The second thing that he has done is he just went and to his cabinet and said, I want you to look at the regulations that strengthen our agenda and play to our agenda.
00:12:00.480But people are going to start to see that they're not as well off under progressive principles as they were under the free market Trump principles.
00:12:27.660But this $15 an hour wage that Bernie Sanders is pushing through.
00:12:33.160If if we make that a national wage, $15 an hour decimated Seattle, just decimated it.
00:12:43.740And you will see the people at the bottom of the ladder lose even more jobs.
00:12:49.460But they'll gain more benefits, entitlements already today, this morning, Biden assigned executive order increasing food stamps.
00:13:01.280So the people will be laid off and they will be because the robots are coming to the fast foods and all of that.
00:13:08.300So, Bill, let me let me ask you this question.
00:13:10.280I thought of this today when talking about this very thing where we're just reversing what happened four years ago.
00:13:17.900And when Trump came in, he reversed what Obama did.
00:13:20.840We can't live like this every four years or eight years.
00:13:25.040We have got to decide if we are a socialist country or a free market and a free people or a people that just do what the the autocrats tell us to do.
00:13:37.940Can we go on as a country going back and forth like this?
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00:17:06.720And these anonymous moderators decide what is disputed publicly, what is discussed publicly.
00:17:17.140And we started to draft a bill on free speech on social media.
00:17:24.600We finished drafting that bill on December.
00:17:27.900And we are aware that some kind of big tech are enforced right now in Germany and in France.
00:17:37.420But their approach is to force social media to delete some content.
00:17:43.000But our approach is to prevent the legal content from being censored.
00:17:49.040And we finished drafting our bill on December.
00:17:54.300And last week and last weeks we saw this big dispute in the U.S. regarding banning Donald Trump, President Donald Trump.
00:18:06.040And many publishers, many politicians right now are interested in our concept because we saw that freedom of speech is in danger and we want to protect it.
00:18:20.180So we're talking now to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Poland about free speech.
00:18:27.720You know, in doing my work on history, Poland is a country that just gets walked on over and over and over again through history.
00:18:38.700If you just look at World War II, you're the gateway to Europe or the gateway to Russia.
00:18:44.500And the saddest tales, I think, come from these great freedom fighters who were fighting the Nazis only then to be occupied by the communists who did much of the same thing.
00:18:59.940So we don't have that here in America.
00:19:02.780In America, we don't have a history of somebody telling us what to do.
00:19:07.580And we're, I would say, a little soft, but we're very soft.
00:19:12.640We are very fat and we don't, we just don't think it could happen here in America.
00:19:19.240Tell us what you're seeing and is there a historic context that makes Poland more aware of the value of being able to say whatever it is you want to say?
00:19:34.320You know, our history is rich on the events where we saw censorship.
00:19:44.880In 18th century, Poland was stolen away by free countries and both were under slaves of Germany, Russia and Habsburg, Austria.
00:20:03.540And in 20th century, like you said, we were under communist power.
00:20:11.960And my parents remember the censorship even in the 80s of communist regime.
00:20:21.320We in Poland are very careful about freedom of speech.
00:20:26.500We think we are cheering freedom of speech because in some time we cannot free speak of our minds.
00:20:39.940I can give you a nice historical example of censorship on history because you mentioned that Poland was occupied by German Nazis.
00:20:52.380And today we have a decision of Facebook which banned an advertisement, a campaign by Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
00:21:06.360And this institute wanted to present the history of a ghetto for children, Polish children in Łódź.
00:21:14.940Where they were like, it was like a concentration camp and many of them died there.
00:21:24.700And Facebook banned this material to be promoted as a part of showing Polish history.
00:21:31.360And we see that there is a problem with censorship.
00:21:35.420There are many dangers in big tech companies which we should face.
00:21:45.420We should try to regulate because in history we have many innovations like railways, like phones.
00:21:55.640And at the beginning it was a private, only private organization.
00:22:03.260But when the moment when these devices were used by everyone in our lives, these companies create monopause.
00:22:14.140And this monopause in some way started to be regulated by the state because every citizen must be protected.
00:22:23.220The rights of every one of us should be protected.
00:22:26.200And it is very important to be protected to preserve democracy itself.
00:22:30.940So that's why we decided one year ago to start drafting this kind of bill.
00:22:38.320And now we are trying to adopt this law.
00:22:41.100So the difference here in the debate we're having right now is you're seeing Silicon Valley as a monopoly, a cartel, I think, is what you've actually described it as.
00:22:51.340And so the government, what your proposal is, what you're moving towards, is the government has to decide what speech is hate speech and which is not.
00:23:04.080That concerns many of us and concerns me here in America for our system because I don't want the government to decide what free speech is.
00:23:13.420That's not their role in under our Constitution with the Bill of Rights.
00:23:19.220Our Constitution says that they cannot do those things.
00:23:23.300Are you concerned at all after seeing decades of oppression in Poland from an out of control government?
00:23:30.680Are you concerned at all that that could be turned around against the Polish people if a bad government gets in?
00:23:38.280Our proposal is different than the similar proposals in Germany, France or even the European Commission because they presented also in December the project of Regulation Digital Services Act which obliged the big tech company to comply with European law.
00:23:59.860And our proposal is that the government may step in only if someone in Poland complains about being banned.
00:24:10.820So this decision of government is not about to order Facebook or Twitter or YouTube to delete your account or your content, but to restore it if the decision of big tech company is not complying with Polish law.
00:24:32.120So we want to protect freedom of speech in this mechanism.
00:24:35.540And thank you for this question because it's tricky if governments say, okay, okay, we are protecting freedom of speech and we decide which is what's legal and what is legal.
00:24:47.540And at the beginning in regulation, we want to protect even them from criticism of banning some stuff because you have some content which is illegal like, I don't know, pornography, terrorism, etc.
00:25:09.940And the government should be able to react.
00:25:13.940However, there is an area like freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, public discussions on crucial topics.
00:25:24.900And the government should protect your right to speak freely and our proposition is different because we want the government just to check if the ban given by big tech is in line with Polish law.
00:25:48.780So this kind of regulation could preserve some people, some users, which are banned on social media because, for example, hate speech and the government may say, no, it's not a hate speech.
00:26:08.520It's an opinion, which is maybe maybe hard, maybe controversial, but it is opinion.
00:26:17.580And this opinion is covered by freedom of speech preserved by Polish constitution.
00:26:23.200And this is the effect we want to make.
00:26:25.460Talking to the deputy prime minister of justice, member of parliament of Poland about the regulation of high tech over in in Poland, I thank you very much for your article in Newsweek and your your wake up plea to the United States and everything that you're doing for your country.
00:26:45.480I will tell you, I've I've been to Poland once.
00:26:51.520I have friends that go over quite a bit and they tell me I've I've wanted to go back just to witness this.
00:26:58.800They tell me that your youth, the millennials in Poland are wide awake and are are some of the best scholars on freedom and and and liberty that are in the in the world.
00:27:16.440And I find that exciting that that that your younger generation is appreciating what was so long and hard fought for by your parents and grandparents.
00:27:40.920The deputy prime minister of justice, member of parliament of Poland, Sebastian Kalata.
00:27:49.960You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:27:52.640You know, I I have a good friend that I just I just love because he is one of the few people that is a big star that is actually 100 percent real.
00:29:24.720It's we've talked about it a couple of years ago.
00:29:26.600And really so much of the advice you've given me with your independent status and the way you think really inspired me to to make music for my fans, make music for this country, music that makes the world a better place.
00:29:43.860Even if it's only in my little corner, just even if I'm only having a positive influence on my neighborhood or my community to do something that makes the world a better place.
00:29:55.300And I wanted to write a song where it's like, hey, you know what?
00:29:59.700This country has been through hard times before.
00:30:02.780This country has had its ups and downs and we need to stay positive.
00:30:10.420You know, I always tell people they're like, you know, when they're talking about what's going on in Washington, D.C., I was like, you know what?
00:30:16.820I'm trying to focus on what's going on in Taylor County right now.
00:30:20.040You know, it's like I want to make sure that I'm taking care of the people in my community.
00:30:24.200And I think this song, American Soul, I want it to be a song that I'm not trying to change the world.
00:30:33.200I just want to make music that that that puts a smile on the faces of my fans, but also gets them.
00:30:42.180When we're so surrounded with bad news all the time, kind of takes them back to.
00:34:27.360When I heard that, I heard something that I've really only heard Donald Trump try to relate to, and he did, which is the guy that nobody's listening to.