The Glenn Beck Program - August 10, 2020


Best of The Program | Guests: Dr. Richard Bartlett & Harvey Rosenfield | 8⧸10⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

167.2529

Word Count

6,879

Sentence Count

5

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

On today's show, we look into the Deep State, the Deep state, and the deep state's deep state tactics to destroy the Trump campaign. Glenn examines the tactics and tactics used to defeat Donald Trump and how they are being used in order to delegitimize his presidential campaign.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast today we look into the deep state what is actually going on there glenn
00:00:04.680 has all the background information and a lot of stuff that was said on the show uh before
00:00:10.300 it's turning out to uh be accurate we'll get into the details there uh we find out from cnn as well
00:00:16.440 that apparently no one's ever seen anything like talk radio this time around they've never seen
00:00:21.240 people so critical of joe biden and there's no equivalent on the uh other side there's no one
00:00:27.200 who's just like criticizing donald trump over every little thing that he does that does not
00:00:30.920 exist we'll uh get into that um new stuff on covid19 and hydroxychloroquine is in today's show
00:00:37.740 elan omar she's we're at the point now you can read the story on the blaze but it looks like all of
00:00:43.460 this stuff has kind of come come through as least as close as we can possibly track it there's not
00:00:47.680 much more we could do on the journalist uh journalistic side you kind of now need to go to
00:00:52.020 the legal side of this particular equation and what is going on with the economy how much money
00:00:57.780 are we pumping into this thing and how long will it continue all of that on today's program you can
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00:01:28.300 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
00:01:38.600 let's let's talk a little bit about
00:01:44.660 uh brian stelter uh i know he's going to be he's going to be talked about on every talk show
00:01:53.640 in america today yeah if you don't know who he is congratulations you shouldn't and i hate to even
00:02:01.300 bring this up because it's it seems self-serving or it uh it's like well of course but this is an
00:02:10.580 example of somebody that is so self-unaware he he must not even see his reflection in mirrors
00:02:20.400 yeah he must be invisible to himself yes uh i want you to listen to what he said on rely was it
00:02:28.940 reliable sources is that what he does or what's the name of the reliable it is on reliable sources
00:02:35.560 on cnn with brian stelter listen to this when you see um entire media companies essentially exist
00:02:43.360 to tear down joe biden is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down trump
00:02:47.640 there really isn't and you know what i would say it's it's really a diet of this type of information
00:02:56.320 that a lot of these voters are getting a lot of the voters that i talk to i can uh you know when i
00:03:01.300 interview them i do hear uh them saying a lot of the talking points that sound very familiar from
00:03:05.980 some of these shows which i try to listen to when i'm out on the campaign trail or when i'm at home
00:03:10.620 you know watching tv you know you can you can hear these uh these comments being echoed uh by voters
00:03:16.160 that's one of the most mind-numbing uh questions and answers of all time it proves a brian stelter
00:03:25.620 doesn't even watch his own network nor his own show otherwise he wouldn't be asking that question
00:03:31.300 all right so any other network is similar to fox news that would that would uh uh that would bash
00:03:38.840 trump the way uh fox bashes biden are you credible kidding me it's not even close we you guys we we
00:03:47.580 haven't sarah can you go to the daily wire and see their story on brian stelter and and pull up the
00:03:53.900 clip that that uh uh ben shapiro uh pulled it because it is it's even more outrageous than this
00:04:03.460 it really is more outrageous than this i thought this was the clip that we had where he opens it up
00:04:08.980 and he starts to talk about how you know there is i want to tell you uh something that psychiatrists
00:04:16.420 psychologists uh and political scientists have now pointed out there is a a condition to where people
00:04:26.080 um hate the other candidate so much that they hate those people more than the truth itself and i thought
00:04:38.240 oh he's he's gonna do an expose on cnn in the mainstream media uh and he said and this
00:04:46.360 this is what's going on it's unbelievable you will not believe what's happening on talk radio
00:04:50.940 this is a uh a center of hate that is just poured out over the nation every day it's unbelievable oh my
00:05:00.120 gosh absolutely unbelievable uh and it's it's it's i i heard this this morning and i thought this is
00:05:09.260 the seeds that are now being planted to get rid of talk radio if joe biden wins we're gone we're gone
00:05:18.060 because we're just nothing but hate mongers we have escaped this this eye of death the eye of moloch
00:05:26.020 if you will because donald trump has has taken all the oxygen out of the room as soon as donald trump
00:05:33.360 is no longer there it's talk radio again is going to be the big boogeyman i really just can't imagine
00:05:40.320 the level it's incomprehensible to me that you'd think what they describe is going on i mean like
00:05:47.240 for i think honestly joe biden has had the easiest road of any candidate in my lifetime from the right
00:05:54.340 about the only thing we've we've pointed out is that he might be going senile he's like oh and
00:05:59.960 we've expressed actual concern over it wait wait wait wait wait we have not lobbed hatred and not
00:06:06.780 at all we have we have actually lobbed facts against him we can't get anybody to be uh interested in the
00:06:15.340 dealings in china or the dealings in ukraine you can't get anybody interested in that nobody is
00:06:22.100 interested everybody to everybody just feels sad uh about joe biden and quite honestly i think we
00:06:29.800 worry about who's really going to be running the country and they would be saying that too if they
00:06:35.460 just weren't in bed uh with the democratic party right they would absolutely be saying the same thing
00:06:41.980 uh can somebody question him on whether he's all there because it looks as though he's sliding
00:06:49.820 any reasonable person would say that and and democrats obviously see that as well they just
00:06:54.400 don't like trump and this is what it's been it's been all an election about trump biden has skated from
00:06:59.880 almost all criticism we yeah we've done shit we've done shows months ago about about his corruption in
00:07:06.860 china and ukraine and you're right glenn it's hard to get people interested in it i mean uh we i just we
00:07:12.800 did a thing on studios america about biden's eulogizing a kkk member right like why that hasn't been
00:07:19.640 all over conservative media how is it possible in the middle of this moment that that in this close
00:07:24.960 to an election that hasn't been out there we barely even talked about his policies yeah barely awful
00:07:29.700 yeah well you were just pat was just talking about what was it four trillion dollars trillion dollars
00:07:33.260 yeah and tax increases is what he's proposing four trillion dollars has that been even talked about
00:07:38.060 this guy's faced almost no scrutiny the only scrutiny he's received is his age and how old he is and i
00:07:44.200 think that's been general to be fair split between laughing at how pathetic he is when he's on stage
00:07:49.840 and screwing up all the time and feeling legitimately like this doesn't feel right somebody should stop
00:07:55.860 this it's like weekend at bernie's like not even in a joking way but like in a i actually feel like
00:08:00.240 worried about his his health way and worried about the country but really i think it's the human emotion
00:08:07.560 of man i feel bad for him you see the slipping that nobody in his family nobody who loves him
00:08:14.760 is going to pull him out and say enough of this stop it he's given his whole life you don't need to
00:08:21.480 have him go out this way uh i mean it's it's remarkable what what is uh what's happening and you
00:08:29.220 know you know stew you said i think he's in your lifetime i'm trying to think of a democratic
00:08:34.760 president or candidate that has gotten an easier pass i mean even bill clinton had to finally answer
00:08:43.500 questions during the first campaign uh i would say the pat you would know i think it's jimmy carter
00:08:52.520 who got a pass i think yeah yeah yeah the last one that really didn't get you know uh crucified i think
00:09:02.280 jimmy carter the thing was really this guy i mean nobody hated him no it's just that the economy was
00:09:09.700 in such a sad state of affairs that no i mean at the end for him at the end yeah different than in
00:09:15.720 the end yeah i'm thinking 76 76 nobody yeah he got nobody yeah there wasn't a hatred for him and i
00:09:24.780 would say the same thing that's that is probably one of trump's biggest obstacles here is that there's
00:09:28.660 just no passion against joe biden the passion is either for trump or against trump there's no
00:09:34.380 passion for on either side really of biden where with clinton he had legitimate passion people couldn't
00:09:40.840 stand her they couldn't stand barack obama they couldn't stand al gore like i think it goes all the
00:09:46.120 way back to preceding talk radio i mean you point out carter it's before really talk radio is any force
00:09:52.260 in this country oh yeah i mean you have to go way before it no one has ever seen anything like this
00:09:57.500 and for them to make that point at this time when cnn is essentially a network that runs non-stop anti-trump
00:10:06.240 stories absolutely they accused him of peeing on hookers in russia i mean they ran that story as if it
00:10:15.440 was a real i mean but i mean it's it's right it's and it's not even just these big ones where they
00:10:20.020 also said you know that he was insane and the the it was a 13th amendment needed to be uh implemented
00:10:26.060 to take him out of office is it no 20 20 23rd 20 23rd 20 i don't know i'm getting whatever it is
00:10:31.800 whatever it is whatever one of this i'm getting them all confused the point being though that that's
00:10:35.440 what they've done that and these big splash stories that conservatives have noticed but watch
00:10:39.780 their coverage on a routine basis every single story comes back to this guy they are completely
00:10:46.520 obsessed with him completely obsessed watch what i dare you because no one's done it in the past
00:10:52.560 few years watch one episode of the aaron burnett show it is all she talks about all the time she's
00:11:02.520 completely obsessed with this man and every show on cnn replicates this idea if it's a story about
00:11:11.220 schools it goes back to trump if it's a story about the economy it goes back to trump there's
00:11:15.160 nothing 19 it certainly goes back to trump every single part i mean they'll they will recite the
00:11:21.120 four or five things donald trump said in february and march where he kind of was dismissive
00:11:25.180 no no no one in their audience knows that nancy pelosi said the same stuff no one in their audience
00:11:31.000 knows that andrew cuomo and bill de blasio stuff in some cases no right yeah no one ever talks about
00:11:37.220 that on the network they talk about trump doing it they are completely overwhelmed with him yes they
00:11:43.500 can't do anything else on the network i've never seen anything like it yeah it's gone so far that
00:11:49.060 they won't even recognize the chicago murder rate is the highest it's been since like 1992
00:11:55.880 uh it is last july they broke all records the biggest deadliest month since 1992 and only slightly
00:12:08.960 more deadly than june 1992 it's the since floyd's death some of the most violent days in the 20 years of
00:12:20.860 official data so no you won't talk about that and if you do it's trump it's trump they have got they've
00:12:29.160 come to such an extreme position to where they won't even condemn violence there was a story in the new
00:12:36.200 york times uh this weekend about the protesters in uh in um uh antifa and the riots in portland
00:12:48.360 and i've never seen anything like it i mean literally never seen anything like it it was like
00:12:52.980 a fashion show spread it had these people um in their regular everyday life uh you know a guy sitting
00:13:01.160 on a lawnmower and then the next picture is him all in his antifa gear and it was showing you see these
00:13:09.700 are just normal people they didn't do that with a tea party who were sitting around making signs with
00:13:15.940 with glitter with their kids at a kitchen table but they are they are doing it uh with antifa and
00:13:24.700 people who are radicals who want to destroy the western way of life it's it's it's nuts yeah it's
00:13:32.960 absolutely nuts and on that on the trump part of this that portland was under siege for weeks and
00:13:38.400 weeks and months and they never talked about it at all it wasn't until trump got involved by sending
00:13:44.500 in federal troops that they got interested in the story because they could blame trump for it
00:13:49.140 remember they kept saying their coverage on that was not that they were trying to light a federal
00:13:53.580 building on fire for weeks and weeks and weeks no it was caused by cameras because he sent troops
00:13:59.000 there and they said you know what he said troops there and that made it worse yeah like it's the
00:14:02.260 only thing that interests them about the news is donald trump's relationship to it they're selling
00:14:07.380 this as portland is always always been protests in portland that's just the way of life in portland
00:14:15.360 is it is it because ask the people of downtown portland the business leaders of downtown portland
00:14:21.760 they've had enough and they supported these guys they've had enough and it's happening in city after city
00:14:29.700 after city businesses are leaving i'm telling you california is is economically going to collapse it's going to
00:14:38.680 collapse because they're hastening their ending by chasing so many people out of the state do you know
00:14:46.320 that they're now newsom is now um uh saying that he may go after people who uh homeschool or tutor their
00:14:56.520 kids at home that he may he may he may actually ban that and go after you if you're trying to teach
00:15:05.480 your own kids at home it is it is insane what's going on and of course brian stelter is on top of
00:15:14.320 all of it because that's just the way he rolls this is the best of the glenbeck program
00:15:22.920 if you live in texas you may know uh rick perry appointed him to the newly formed texas health
00:15:33.280 disparities task force uh and it was an advisory body uh blah blah blah blah blah he was also asked
00:15:40.000 to remain on the task force for seven years received a meritorious service award from the
00:15:45.060 texas department of health and human services his peers have elected him to serve as the county medical
00:15:51.880 society president for four consecutive terms he served for 20 years at the local cbs uh medical
00:15:59.000 expert i mean the guy is well known uh and well credentialed i don't know what they're going to do to
00:16:05.980 him uh now because he says that he has found something that he thinks everyone should try if you have
00:16:14.280 uh a um the symptoms of of covid so i wanted to give you what i was taking and i wanted to talk to
00:16:23.740 uh dr bartlett so if you are feeling anything uh like it's coming on you can ask your doctor about this
00:16:31.620 welcome dr bartlett how are you glenn i'm doing great thanks i'm honored to be with you
00:16:37.020 well thank you very much and thank you for the uh kind consultations and advice uh that i know you've
00:16:45.100 given my doctor um is it possible that uh with everybody in my family i mean i've got immune
00:16:52.620 disorder everything else i should have been the first one to get it um but as soon as as soon as
00:16:58.860 anybody in the family started to get things and i started to feel uh down at all i started the flight
00:17:07.280 of medication that you have recommended and i didn't get it is it possible that i was going to
00:17:15.940 get covid and didn't because of this or no bottom bottom line glenn is that the testing has false
00:17:23.020 negatives and false positives that have been proven over and over and i've had personal experiences of
00:17:29.840 taking care of patients who initially test negative and i'm treating them and they're getting better
00:17:35.760 and then later they get a test after being treated for 11 days and their 90 of their symptoms are gone
00:17:42.400 and it's positive well they they probably had it all along and we're seeing this over and over again
00:17:48.700 where three people in the family have the same symptoms that started at the same time
00:17:52.920 two tests positive one test negative they all have it is symptomatology is what is the term where you
00:18:01.040 look at the big picture you you use common sense you use medic good medical judgment with your training
00:18:07.520 and and you treat the patient you don't treat the test treating the test is killing people but i want
00:18:14.300 to tell you uh this strategy that came to me it was a was when i was looking for a stop gap measure
00:18:21.860 that would help me save someone's life as an emergency room doctor because i also work in the
00:18:26.340 emergency room and back in march uh we were told there was nothing to do wait until they have
00:18:32.060 severe symptoms as a matter of fact they should not be helped at all if they have mild to moderate
00:18:36.280 symptoms wait till they have severe symptoms so me being an er doctor and thinking what am i going
00:18:41.980 to do if someone comes in the emergency room with with their loved ones and they say i can't breathe
00:18:48.060 because this is a respiratory inflammatory disease covet is that causes people to have
00:18:54.000 trouble breathing and breathing is really important yeah i teach advanced problems you know that seems
00:19:00.500 intuitive but people seem you have uh leaders right now i don't know how they became leaders but
00:19:08.680 they're talking about waves and curves how about medicine science facts airway breathing circulation the
00:19:17.140 abcs of cpr of advanced trauma life support of advanced cardiac life support breathing is
00:19:23.820 fundamental and uh when someone can't breathe this is what they look like they many times their lips are
00:19:30.520 blue you can see the panic in their eyes you hear the panic in their voice they might be confused
00:19:35.780 because they're low on oxygen and um some people can tolerate that better than others but we know
00:19:42.780 that the comorbidities that are having trouble with covet and dying are the people who have uh they have
00:19:49.520 diabetes they have they've smoked for 50 years uh they have a heart disease and so they they're
00:19:56.640 reserved and being able to handle low oxygen is less than someone else and the and the dangerous they
00:20:02.740 could die and so uh besides that it's not just an inconvenience what about empathy what about
00:20:10.760 alleviating human suffering there's a place for that still in medicine and just as a human we don't
00:20:16.780 want to see other humans suffer but uh there are some common sense practical proven medical things
00:20:25.400 that we can do and so we know this is an inflammatory disease how about an anti-inflammatory medicine
00:20:31.720 it's a respiratory problem in the lungs is where the inflammation is how about putting the anti-inflammatory
00:20:37.760 medicine to the source of the problem in the lungs with a inhaled inhaled steroid a nebulizer treatment
00:20:46.280 of budesonide which has been out for 25 years which is being used by millions of americans every day
00:20:53.500 that are healthy to protect them from getting sick and so that was the strategy that i've been using
00:20:59.160 and it's working so the busetanide is is something that you looked at and said why are we giving
00:21:07.200 steroids in a tablet form we should be we should be getting that steroid directly into the lungs
00:21:13.840 uh and it is if you get it early enough it stops the correct me if i'm wrong the cytokine
00:21:22.480 uh storms that happen uh and because we know that that is a big problem with this the the our immune
00:21:30.640 system goes into a storm and then it just spirals out of control so if you're saying wait wait wait
00:21:38.180 you you're in the middle of the storm so this logic of waiting until someone is in distress and then
00:21:46.440 helping them has never been employed successfully in american health care forever we don't use that
00:21:53.640 against the top three killers heart attack stroke and cancer let's just say if someone called 9-1-1
00:21:59.220 and they said i have slurred speech and i'm 65 years old and um i smoked for 50 years and all my family
00:22:08.840 has strokes you won't have the 9-1-1 dispatcher say well maybe you're overtired call us when you
00:22:16.360 have severe symptoms that's ridiculous and i would never recommend that that's bad medicine
00:22:21.700 but with this disease we have a situation where the strategy that's been pushed on the american public
00:22:29.080 is if you have mild to moderate symptoms wait until you got severe symptoms uh and then seek help but
00:22:36.260 you know even when people have severe symptoms because by and large people comply with what they're
00:22:41.460 told they have severe symptoms they're short of breath they go to the emergency room
00:22:45.460 and many times they're told uh take tylenol yes you tested positive and yes you feel miserable
00:22:52.200 but you're not sick enough yet go home take tylenol and tough it out and when you get sicker
00:22:57.780 come back that would be like uh a real situation that i took care of a one-year-old who swallowed a
00:23:03.920 quarter and the family brought the kid to the er where i was working i'm the one and the child is not in
00:23:10.820 immediate distress but on the x-ray i see a quarter uh lodged in the throat i could this this is how
00:23:19.160 ridiculous things have gotten i it would be like you don't give a one-year-old tylenol they can't
00:23:24.860 swallow it'd be like me handing them a blankie uh with uh with a little unicorn on it and saying
00:23:31.080 take this child home wrap it in the blankie and sing its favorite song and keep it comfortable
00:23:37.280 until you have severe symptoms it's ridiculous logic uh we need to take care of people early
00:23:44.460 and and avoid uh the things that are even more dangerous like intubating a patient which can so
00:23:51.460 and put them on a ventilator what are you seeing as far as results on this oh uh oh if you catch this
00:24:02.460 early i'm having uh you can i have one patient who uh with the first treatment that's the only
00:24:10.220 treatment he needed because he was within hours of his fever chills body aches uh he had just been
00:24:15.680 on a plane with with another person behind him that was covid positive and he was concerned and
00:24:21.240 and rightfully so it it turned out to be covid but one breathing treatment stopped all the symptoms
00:24:27.720 and i've had other patients who were sick for well one patient that has uh two kinds of lymphoma
00:24:33.560 cancer in the blood she just received radiation a month before and she's on chemotherapy currently for
00:24:39.920 the cancer and for five days she was flat on on her back in bed with a non-stop fever couldn't sleep
00:24:46.160 and she calls me on a friday says my granddaughter tested positive i heard you on the radio which
00:24:51.220 please help me and so on that friday i call in the breathing treatments and the medicine she takes
00:24:55.780 her first treatment sleeps all night long for the first time in five days she's her fever breaks
00:25:01.020 over the weekend she recovers she's able to teach an eight-hour day of music lessons via skype to her
00:25:08.040 kids on monday and then she tests negative uh twice after having becoming symptom free and so that's what i
00:25:16.220 see the people are telling me many times i hear it very often while they're getting their breathing
00:25:21.180 treatment with budesonide many times they tell me my chest pain is going away my shortness of breath is
00:25:27.480 going away during the treatment i feel much better right after the treatment and this is not a medicine
00:25:32.960 that i invented i'm not looking for new new patients i'm not making any money off of this this costs three
00:25:39.060 dollars for a breathing treatment it's something you can i recommend people being treated early
00:25:45.700 in every disease including this life-threatening pandemic with a medicine that's cheap cost effective
00:25:52.380 they can sit on their couch watch netflix uh and uh for five minutes get a breathing treatment and get
00:25:59.520 relief from their shortness of breath and chest pain that seems like a good idea
00:26:02.600 it made all the difference to tanya i know um she was she would say that she would take the breathing treatment
00:26:12.060 she'd say oh my gosh i feel so much better uh and she took it i don't remember for how many days but she took it
00:26:17.800 for several days uh and it dramatically improved uh her breathing uh and like i said i started it the minute i started
00:26:27.660 feeling any kind of symptoms and i did it for three days i think as well four days and i haven't had
00:26:35.480 i haven't had any problems at all i mean it's been really really miraculous i want to talk to you a
00:26:41.940 little bit about what people should ask their doctor uh and and kind of go over what i uh what i did i think
00:26:49.360 it's pretty much the same thing that louie gohmert is uh is doing are you is he a patient of yours or
00:26:56.400 so uh louie uh i've he's reached out to me uh on my cell phone i've had the privilege of talking to
00:27:04.240 some amazing people who are real public servants including louie gohmert uh and so i've been shocked
00:27:10.940 many times at who's reaching out to me on my cell phone but uh i'm not his doctor uh he has doctors
00:27:17.980 that are taking care of doing excellent care but they're using the strategy that i have recommended and
00:27:23.320 if someone goes to covidsilverbullet.com covidsilverbullet.com you can download the pdf
00:27:29.240 which talks about you click on case study and that talks about glenn this would be interesting to you
00:27:35.540 i i picked two patients uh to highlight uh salient points in the in my care of covid patients and and to
00:27:43.340 uh to explain why i'm doing what i'm doing and one of those patients was the one that uh i described
00:27:49.660 that had initially a negative test and then later tested positive so it happens over and over again
00:27:54.720 this is not uncommon um and where and there's reasons why so you might want to look at that but
00:28:00.060 covidsilverbullet.com has the strategy that i'm using
00:28:03.440 this is the best of the glennbeck program
00:28:08.820 well some things now are being discovered and were written about by uh harvey rosenfeld uh from the
00:28:19.460 represent consumers and uh he has pulled a blanket off of this that is pretty ugly and i want him to go over
00:28:30.000 uh what he has uh found and what's really happening to our data because it's now being used to score you
00:28:36.220 harvey what does that even mean what it means is that a handful of firms uh deep in the shadows of the
00:28:43.580 uh online marketplace are taking this the vast quantity of data that all of our devices spew not
00:28:50.620 just our cell phones but even our tvs and refrigerators and our cars
00:28:55.020 taking taking all this data and turning it through algorithms into a score that determines whether
00:29:02.340 whether we're going to pay more than somebody else for the same product
00:29:06.280 uh at a hardware store uh whether we're going to get a job or get an apartment or get into this
00:29:13.180 college we want to get into it means that some people who are scored are considered crooks
00:29:19.280 because they return uh merchandise that doesn't work uh too often it means that people who some
00:29:26.660 people just are going to get really bad customer service if you have a low score these scores are
00:29:32.260 are developed by these shadowy firms nobody knows anything about the firms nobody knows anything about
00:29:37.600 the scores but they're purchased by some of the major retail uh brands and landlords and employers in
00:29:45.120 the united states and secretly applied to to each of us it's like it's like everybody knows about the credit
00:29:51.080 score but nobody knows about these secret surveillance scores this is really terrifying um a how did you
00:30:00.940 stumble across it and uh what do we do about it well represent consumers is a non-profit
00:30:09.260 organization that is looking at the future trying to figure out what it means for consumers
00:30:13.640 and it's very difficult to find information about it you know the wall street journal then uh the
00:30:19.540 washington post few other very few other papers in the country have uh reported on this so we we did
00:30:27.220 some research my colleague laura antonini and i did some research we we submitted a massive petition a
00:30:33.160 40 page report to the united states federal trade commission urging them to investigate it in 2019
00:30:39.840 they didn't do anything and uh we recently wrote a an op-ed in the washington post which is getting a lot
00:30:46.720 of attention the the point is that you can't unlike that your credit score which at least the law requires
00:30:53.620 you to um to be notified about there is no requirement in the law now with respect to how this information
00:31:02.280 is collected it can be inaccurate it could be unfairly biased against people you can't contest
00:31:09.080 your score we call them the secret surveillance scores you can't contest those scores uh you don't
00:31:15.260 even know who what the company is that's uh issuing the score all you know is that one day you might
00:31:20.280 try to return a product and they will tell you sorry you can't return it because you've been flagged
00:31:26.100 as a basically you've been flagged as a crook so so wait a minute how do we know these companies are
00:31:34.540 using it um somebody's got to be writing the check for it so why can't we find out who the company is
00:31:42.980 how how are they how are they linking up with other companies and i mean they're buying something
00:31:50.040 how come we can't find the seller okay so here's the here's the problem glenn here's here's what's
00:31:56.440 happening in our marketplace right now all of our devices are uh spewing torrents of our data that can
00:32:04.000 be the most intimate data i mean they know where we are they know what we're doing they know what our
00:32:08.920 preferences are they probably know something about you know uh our romantic interests they know about
00:32:14.780 our health all of this data is being collected and it's widely available on the internet
00:32:19.840 and and there are companies called data brokers that purchase it and collect it then they sell
00:32:26.340 our data to these companies that i mentioned deep in the recesses of the marketplace no you've never
00:32:32.280 heard of the names of some of these companies and they have engineers who don't do nothing but take all
00:32:37.260 that data and write algorithms that purport supposedly predict what we're how we're going to behave in the
00:32:45.200 future are we going to be a good quote good consumer or bad consumer those
00:32:49.700 scores are then marketed to companies retail uh clothing companies uh you know hardware hardware
00:32:58.460 chains uh uh colleges people who are you know a large corporations who are do a lot of hiring
00:33:06.900 those folks want to know whether we're going to be good for them so for example if some people may not
00:33:13.860 hire you because your your score shows that you have to commute too far or you may or that the
00:33:19.920 the score predicts that you won't stay at your job so the so the the market starts off and with all of
00:33:27.280 our data ends up in this single digit score that some company is applying to you and you don't know
00:33:33.220 it because there's no requirement that they disclose it to you you know i have to tell you this reminds me
00:33:38.300 a lot of what bill gates was trying to do uh with the eventual um implementation of of common core
00:33:45.980 he was looking for data to be able to say this person should be a gymnast this person should be a
00:33:53.580 mechanic this person should be a doctor and you'd gather all of this information over the years in
00:33:59.800 school and you would be able to point them uh in the right direction really from the first moment that
00:34:09.320 they start to give that data uh to the system and it it kind of takes away your uh you know your own
00:34:19.380 free will and i know that's something that's being debated now on whether we will have free will or not
00:34:25.500 because we'll be so manipulated it's not necessarily a problem that they collect this data and use this
00:34:32.880 data the problem is we can't get access to it i don't know right absolutely right it's it's uh there
00:34:43.900 are no laws that protect americans against the the collection and use of our data in any way so that the
00:34:51.640 at the end of the day this is a lot like as you point out i mean when i was a kid you know we had
00:34:57.280 to fill out a i remember taking a test that was supposedly going to an aptitude test to tell me
00:35:01.940 what i was going to be good at right now we've got these faceless engineers behind in some silicon
00:35:08.420 valley location or could they could be anywhere or overseas and they're programming these algorithms
00:35:13.720 that are supposed to predict with far greater accuracy our behavior as citizens as
00:35:21.580 consumers as taxpayers and as you probably know you know over in china they they have created
00:35:28.100 something called the social credit system where the government actually scores people on whether
00:35:33.720 they're loyal whether they follow directions whether they cross the street at on a red light i mean
00:35:40.820 that's in china they've taken this on behalf and turned it into a part of the autocratic dictatorship
00:35:47.060 that limits people's choices here here in the united states so far it's all about it's just about
00:35:53.480 commercial enterprise but this but obviously it's a threat so harvey i don't want to get into politics at
00:36:00.300 all um with you but i you know that i'm a conservative and i always thought i have always thought
00:36:08.340 that those on the left and i don't mean the crazy marxist i mean just the people my neighbors that are
00:36:14.640 you know more liberal than i am that that thought that the corporations are going to take over the
00:36:20.820 world and everything else i am worried about our government uh and what it can quickly become
00:36:27.480 but i think i'm more worried about the corporations because they don't have any constitution to regulate
00:36:36.200 them so everything that they do they could sell it to the government give it to the government
00:36:42.300 they could just use it without the government even knowing or caring and we're caught in this little
00:36:49.380 game of theirs where they're trying to get us to do something buy something move somewhere do something
00:36:57.300 you know what i mean it's it's really we become puppets in a play that we don't think we're even in
00:37:05.040 well that's it it sounds a lot like the matrix doesn't it that movie it does it does
00:37:10.980 that's that's really the truth and and this issue transcends any kind of ideology all americans are united
00:37:18.160 against the notion that again that uh their information about them is being deployed like weapons against
00:37:28.100 them by people who we don't even know and and the impact can be very harsh returns it turns americans into
00:37:35.140 second-class citizens some americans who get low scores the uh and and it really it really is
00:37:42.300 inconsistent with what we think of as a free market because now every these scores treat every person
00:37:48.920 as if they were their own market and and the seller no longer has to sell to you if they don't like who
00:37:54.320 you are so uh harvey um how do we say stop our information from going there and what do we do to
00:38:07.600 stop this well i think you're you pointed out the first problem it's just there's we have to we have
00:38:14.380 to have regain control over our information and right now all most of the quote privacy reforms you hear
00:38:22.120 about are sort of stuck in this outdated uh 19th century contract law model well all they have to
00:38:29.260 do is disclose what they're doing to us and then we have to give consent to it but we all consent every
00:38:34.300 day when we buy something you know you click i agree and yes i know you're going to do that when you
00:38:39.080 when we go online to purchase something so there have to be basically our data should be treated like
00:38:44.340 our own personal property and and right it's worth a lot of money to other people
00:38:49.760 if people want to use it and we want to give it to them they have to pay for it they have to
00:38:54.740 actually give us yes money and pay for it so that's the first thing yes the second excuse me the second
00:39:01.180 thing is all about um using these secret surveillance scores we cannot allow a society to develop and it's
00:39:09.180 already well on the way to this that is based on engineers who we don't know drafting coding is the
00:39:17.400 word they use for these algorithms that actually judge us and eventually will use using artificial
00:39:24.420 intelligence these algorithms will be uh able to outthink us and and purport to be able to predict
00:39:33.220 what's going to happen to each of us and whether we're going to be good people or bad people and
00:39:38.020 that's got to be exposed and it's got to be stopped we have at least because it depends on it depends on
00:39:43.720 who's programming those algorithms it can also not only judge us but then it can also shape us to make
00:39:49.180 us into a better citizen whatever the algorithm decides uh that is one quick uh last question harvey
00:39:56.620 um the idea that oh this is just metadata uh there's there's no way to assign that all of that is over
00:40:04.160 because of how fast we can compute now right i mean they can tie everything directly to a citizen
00:40:11.000 no matter what no matter how big it is that's right they say it's all masked so nobody can figure
00:40:17.040 out who you are that's a lie they know how they know who you are they know what you're doing they
00:40:22.180 can connect all the dots the algorithms are help them do that amazing uh thank you for being on this
00:40:29.760 and would love to stay in touch with you uh harvey uh because i am very concerned about big tech and
00:40:37.760 what is happening with these companies they are out of control i'm not a guy that believes in uh
00:40:44.040 breaking things up but i don't know what to do with these companies this is the one place that i could
00:40:49.600 say the founders never thought of they never thought of a company becoming more powerful than the
00:40:56.380 government uh and it is very concerning so anything you need and anything you want to alert people to
00:41:03.220 please reach out we'll take advantage of that thank you very much for this opportunity thank you