The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Dan Crenshaw & Ryan Anderson ｜ 2⧸25⧸21

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00:01:26.140 Pleased to have a very rare appearance on this program, Congressman Dan Crenshaw. Dan, how are you, sir?

00:01:33.100 Good, how are you doing? Well, thanks for having me on. It doesn't have to be rare.

00:01:35.860 You know, we can we can do it more often. I just think it's hard to get the schedule right.

00:01:40.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm not. I'm not implying anything. I'm just grateful that you're you're on.

00:01:45.500 It is rare to have you on. And I really appreciate it because I want to talk to you almost every day because you're one of the guys who I think really gets it.

00:01:53.680 And and and is standing for the things that we need to stand for.

00:01:58.700 And there are very few people left that I think people on the right trust.

00:02:04.220 And you're one of them. So, Dan, let me ask you a couple of questions.

00:02:08.500 I want to get into Texas here in a second.

00:02:10.900 But there's two stories that boggle my mind that I think you're uniquely qualified to talk about.

00:02:17.180 One is this story from military dot com today.

00:02:21.480 The Navy is making all sailors reaffirm the oath to the Constitution in the extremism stand down.

00:02:29.300 I find this incredibly insulting.

00:02:34.080 Can you comment on this?

00:02:37.140 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:02:39.360 I don't know if coronavirus is. I just got something in my throat.

00:02:41.460 I haven't heard that story, but it's it's concerning.

00:02:45.340 Look, I on the one hand, I'd love for sailors and Marines and and soldiers to reaffirm the oath of the Constitution every morning.

00:02:53.340 I agree. And pledge their allegiance as well.

00:02:55.380 Why not? Yep.

00:02:56.760 But this pretense is is concerning.

00:02:59.200 And it's clearly it's so obviously and clearly politically motivated.

00:03:03.760 And so what's what's just for the viewers, I think, are aware of this.

00:03:07.740 Let's back up a second.

00:03:08.700 I think the premise of this is that, well, we had a lot of veterans on January 6th at the Capitol.

00:03:14.920 Right. That's the premise of all this nonsense.

00:03:17.500 But that just mathematically, that's that's not a good indication of where active duty military standard or where correct and more broadly.

00:03:25.900 Right. Just because there's a lot of people here does not mean that a large proportion of those people are indeed extremists or bad people.

00:03:33.600 Correct. And and and wait a second.

00:03:35.940 I thought we were against that kind of profiling.

00:03:38.040 Right. I thought that was against the very liberal values that supposedly the left stands for.

00:03:43.580 But Glenn, you know, very well, the left is not liberal.

00:03:46.780 The left is very anti liberal.

00:03:48.080 And I think as conservatives, we've got to say that more often.

00:03:50.580 Yes. They have become genuinely authoritarian.

00:03:54.020 Progressivism is not in sync with liberalism.

00:03:56.900 All right. There's a big difference between an Alan Dershowitz liberal and and a Democrat Party progressive.

00:04:03.100 They're totally different. Totally different.

00:04:04.580 One other question, because I don't understand this.

00:04:10.240 Democrats have asked Biden to surrender the keys on the nuclear launches.

00:04:13.860 What they're doing is they're trying to take away the president's sole authority to launch nuclear weapons because they say it could just happen too fast.

00:04:22.560 And they want him to be forced into some sort of a committee before anything is launched.

00:04:31.020 So he wouldn't have the the nuclear football keys.

00:04:34.120 It would be with a committee.

00:04:36.380 What the hell is that?

00:04:39.840 It's extremely concerning.

00:04:41.840 Look, I mean, and it's from my point of view, your point of view, I'm sure it's hard.

00:04:46.200 It is hard to actually assess what you trust less.

00:04:48.680 A Biden who can't finish sentences very well or a crazy Democrat Party.

00:04:54.460 But but in the end, you don't it's pretty obvious what they're doing.

00:04:57.080 And Nancy Pelosi laid the groundwork for this even before Biden took office, talking about invoking the 25th Amendment. 0.53

00:05:03.720 It was pretty obvious she wasn't even talking about Trump.

00:05:05.980 So, look, I think they obviously know that he has cognitive issues.

00:05:10.460 But the good news for America is that Biden's demeanor and general disposition is not to go just go launch nuclear bombs.

00:05:20.000 No, you know, I'll say a lot of things about the guy, but I don't think that's what his plan is.

00:05:24.860 And so this this feels a little bit disingenuous.

00:05:27.520 And I also feel like I mean, if he woke up one day and he was, you know, suddenly temporarily insane and he said, let's launch the missiles.

00:05:38.640 There's there are people and systems in place to stop that madness.

00:05:44.400 All right.

00:05:45.700 He doesn't have it under his bed.

00:05:47.260 All right.

00:05:47.420 It's not like in his bathroom.

00:05:48.740 Right.

00:05:49.260 It's not like, oops, push the wrong button.

00:05:53.220 I meant to hit the I want more Coke button.

00:05:55.560 All right.

00:05:57.940 Let's talk a little bit about what happened in Texas, because it is it's insane on what's being said about the Texas grid and the Texas not being green, et cetera, et cetera.

00:06:11.620 Part of the problem is, is that we are green.

00:06:15.140 We lead the country in wind power now.

00:06:18.900 Right.

00:06:19.840 So this is a bit complex and I'm going to distill it as much as possible.

00:06:23.620 One thing that conservatives did right off the bat, you know, jumping on the means, which is what we do.

00:06:30.160 And it's fun.

00:06:31.020 But we put up all these pictures of frozen wind turbines because it's funny.

00:06:35.960 But that's not exactly why the grid went down.

00:06:39.700 And so it gave the left an opportunity to build a straw man argument against the right.

00:06:43.600 And they say, well, that's not really what happened.

00:06:45.620 And they're sort of correct.

00:06:47.060 But what did happen is, over time, a huge overinvestment in renewable energy and a huge underinvestment in baseload power.

00:06:54.660 And baseload power means things that can turn on quick and power the grid reliably.

00:07:00.440 And those things, there's only three of them, coal, nuclear and gas.

00:07:04.060 Correct.

00:07:04.880 In Texas, we have underinvested in coal dramatically.

00:07:08.700 A lot of our coal plants have been replaced by natural gas because it's cheaper.

00:07:12.240 So this is generally market driven.

00:07:14.740 Nuclear is expensive.

00:07:16.520 I wish there was more of it because it is the only carbon free energy that is reliable.

00:07:20.800 But we only have about four nuclear plants in Texas.

00:07:23.840 And we haven't really built many new gas plants either.

00:07:26.700 All the new gas plants are generally replacing coal plants.

00:07:28.980 And we've had massive population increases in Texas, massive, 20 percent, but still the best place to live.

00:07:35.400 Right.

00:07:36.080 So when you don't have enough baseload power, you're not investing enough in it.

00:07:40.420 You're investing a ton in renewable energy because it makes you feel good.

00:07:43.460 It makes you feel green.

00:07:44.900 But that renewable energy never works, never works when you need it the most.

00:07:50.380 It certainly doesn't work when there's no wind.

00:07:52.380 It certainly doesn't work when there's no sun and an extreme weather that that tends to be the case.

00:07:56.460 So, yes, it you know, wind did go down dramatically.

00:07:59.780 I mean, you know, at its best, wind can provide quite a bit of energy for the Texas grid.

00:08:04.120 But that's at its best.

00:08:05.300 And you can't rely on that.

00:08:06.660 Right.

00:08:06.920 So the left is building the straw man argument saying, no, no, no, it's fossil fuels that fail.

00:08:11.720 And the question you have to ask them back is compared to what?

00:08:15.780 Really compared to what compared to renewables?

00:08:18.100 Because renewables won't work.

00:08:19.620 Well, that's just a fact.

00:08:20.760 They don't work in good weather sometimes, let alone bad weather.

00:08:23.840 Their own selling from their own documents, wind power at most can provide 40 percent capacity at any given time.

00:08:36.400 At most, it just averages out the wind stops.

00:08:40.160 And so all of the energy that is being produced stops.

00:08:44.560 So by their own estimates, it's 40 percent reliable for capacity.

00:08:50.060 Yeah, and in practice, it's much less.

00:08:53.320 You know, on average, it's actually extremely, it's still very high, about 18 percent.

00:08:56.940 But that's on average.

00:08:58.040 Sometimes it's zero, zero percent.

00:09:00.680 And that's the thing.

00:09:01.740 Like when you're designing an energy grid, you have to plan for what is 100 percent look like on a given day.

00:09:08.180 Right.

00:09:08.360 Then you also have to then you also have to plan for what is 150 percent look like?

00:09:12.480 Like if the whole state freezes because it's a once in a century freeze.

00:09:15.660 Correct.

00:09:15.960 And that's basically what happened.

00:09:17.540 We needed about 150 percent more.

00:09:19.260 And over time, because we haven't invested in fossil fuels because, you know, green energy and such.

00:09:24.080 Again, I'm not against solar and wind.

00:09:26.880 But when you but it is pretty obvious from a policy perspective that if you listen too much to the Democrats and take too many notes from them and take too many notes from California and you overinvest in these things and you federally subsidize it.

00:09:38.520 And the other thing that people don't know about Texas, we do prioritize electrons coming from wind.

00:09:43.920 So wind always gets to make a profit, but gas doesn't.

00:09:46.700 And nuclear certainly doesn't.

00:09:47.880 Nuclear often operates at a loss.

00:09:50.040 One other thing we do in Texas, which maybe we should look at, is we don't.

00:09:53.480 This keeps our prices lower.

00:09:55.080 But what we don't do is pay a capacity fee to plants that can generate capacity immediately and on demand.

00:10:02.140 So all the other states do that.

00:10:03.620 We don't do that in Texas.

00:10:04.520 It keeps our prices lower, but it also might discourage investment from these baseload capacity power plants, which, again, the left loves, but it's not good policy.

00:10:15.880 So take me here, because I think the problem is exactly the problem we went through in 2008 with the banks.

00:10:24.800 There was a policy.

00:10:26.160 They wanted everybody to own houses.

00:10:27.920 So the feds made it easy for loans to be had that shouldn't have been taken out, and they were pushing a policy.

00:10:38.500 And so everybody indulged, and then it broke.

00:10:41.080 This is the same thing that's happening in Texas.

00:10:43.700 The federal subsidies for wind power make it much more economical to build those.

00:10:52.780 And so the people who are, you know, building and in this industry, they're like, I could get all this free money from the government for doing this.

00:11:00.380 Let's just build this.

00:11:02.180 I mean, isn't the subsidy a big problem?

00:11:06.940 It is.

00:11:07.640 I mean, I don't like these subsidies.

00:11:09.660 You know, one response Republicans have is say, okay, how about at least we make the subsidies technology neutral so that they can at least go to nuclear?

00:11:17.920 You know, here's a statistic for you.

00:11:20.480 Solar gets 250 times more subsidies than nuclear does.

00:11:24.280 Wind gets about 160 times more subsidies than nuclear does.

00:11:27.720 This makes no sense.

00:11:28.900 Look, I'm very pro-nuclear.

00:11:30.180 I am too.

00:11:31.000 It's expensive.

00:11:31.640 But if we're going to believe that we actually have to reduce emissions rapidly, then why are they against nuclear?

00:11:38.080 Right?

00:11:38.240 It makes me question their intent and their motivations, because it makes me think it's really not about the carbon reductions.

00:11:42.920 Because if you really care about carbon reductions, your number one goal would be to export as much clean natural gas as possible to dirty coal-burning countries like China and India, and you'd be investing in nuclear.

00:11:54.340 We wouldn't have to put a $90 trillion price tag on it, because we would be able to build at scale.

00:12:00.340 We would be able to invest in American nuclear.

00:12:02.320 We could build nuclear around the world.

00:12:03.880 That could be instead of China and Russia doing it.

00:12:06.160 And by the way, that means they also gain a foothold into nuclear capabilities in developing countries, which is really not a good thing.

00:12:11.740 So there's a national security aspect of this in the sense that America wants to be controlling the nuclear energy around the world.

00:12:19.800 There's a clean energy aspect to this.

00:12:21.480 There's a reliability aspect to this.

00:12:23.400 You're never going to get rid of fossil fuels.

00:12:25.420 But coal, nuclear, these are the most reliable things in really, really bad weather.

00:12:29.800 It's why a lot of northern states still have coal.

00:12:32.140 Not going to escape that.

00:12:33.080 And I think that the lesson from Texas is there's definitely a ceiling to how much renewables you can have on the grid.

00:12:38.500 But it's not necessarily true that if you just keep building more wind, it's terrible for the grid.

00:12:44.360 But it is true that if you also simultaneously underinvest in baseload power.

00:12:49.080 Yep.

00:12:50.040 So there's a floor to that.

00:12:51.640 So there's a floor to that.

00:12:52.480 And there's probably a ceiling to renewables.

00:12:54.260 If you keep building renewables, it just becomes a waste of money at a certain point.

00:12:58.460 We're talking to Congressman Dan Crenshaw.

00:13:01.320 You are in Congress, so you see what's coming our way.

00:13:05.920 The things the Biden administration is doing and Congress is proposing with the Green New Deal, et cetera, et cetera.

00:13:14.180 This is all about changing every aspect of our life.

00:13:21.260 It's all about control and power.

00:13:23.980 And I don't mean that in the electricity sort of way.

00:13:28.060 And it's terrifying when you look into the way that corporations are now starting to incorporate what are called ESGs, environmental, social justice, and governmental standards, which are a little terrifying when you understand the scope of what that means to the average person.

00:13:49.080 Yeah, so a lot's taken.

00:13:53.040 I think the quickest way to boil all this down is there's quite a different disposition on the left and the right.

00:13:59.860 You have to boil all of our policy differences down to the psychological disposition.

00:14:04.300 And on the left, that disposition is this.

00:14:07.260 We want to change the nature of man.

00:14:09.320 And we believe we can.

00:14:10.400 We believe we can use the forces of government and the forces of institutions to fundamentally change you.

00:14:17.420 And we'll keep fighting for that revolution no matter what.

00:14:20.620 We're not really sure where that revolution goes.

00:14:22.180 This is where it all falls apart because utopianism is, well, it's nowhere.

00:14:26.200 I mean, it literally means nowhere in Greek because it can't exist.

00:14:29.820 And you'll kill yourself trying to get there.

00:14:32.380 The right has a different disposition, a far more humble disposition that, look, there's about the best we can do with governance.

00:14:38.680 You cannot change the nature of man, but you can provide a good system and structural incentives and disincentives to get the best outcomes.

00:14:46.620 So that's a fundamental difference that does not change.

00:14:50.640 It's almost like people are born that way.

00:14:52.940 This is where all of this nonsense comes from.

00:14:55.440 They're always looking for ways to thwart it.

00:14:59.080 We're always trying to point out to people, look, I know this feels good.

00:15:02.120 I know this feels like they're promising utopia, but we promise you that the path to hell is paved with good intentions.

00:15:10.620 And this turns out to be true every single time.

00:15:12.740 And last week is another indication of that.

00:15:16.860 Dan, I want you to know I'm going to be making a call today, and you're probably going to hate that I say this,

00:15:24.240 but I'm going to be making a call today after the program.

00:15:26.860 For the very first time since last week, a name has come to me that I need to pass on to Premier Radio Networks on a replacement for Rush Limbaugh.

00:15:36.680 I think you could replace Rush Limbaugh.

00:15:39.580 That answer was so clear and explaining a very complex thing.

00:15:46.580 This is why we would like you to be on the show.

00:15:48.600 Doesn't he already have a job?

00:15:49.640 No, he already has a job, but maybe you can do it.

00:15:52.800 I have a podcast, too.

00:15:55.120 I have a podcast.

00:15:56.500 There you go.

00:15:58.320 What's the name of your podcast?

00:16:00.900 Hold These Truths.

00:16:02.180 Hold These Truths.

00:16:03.020 Okay, Dan, thank you.

00:16:04.960 We'll talk again.

00:16:05.740 I appreciate the compliment, Glenn.

00:16:06.740 Appreciate it.

00:16:07.300 I appreciate the compliment.

00:16:08.520 Quite the compliment coming from you.

00:16:10.100 I really appreciate it.

00:16:11.040 You bet.

00:16:11.240 Great being on with you.

00:16:12.040 You bet.

00:16:12.380 Bye-bye.

00:16:15.360 This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.

00:16:18.200 I want to explain the world that you're living in, not the world that we think we're living in,

00:16:30.640 because the changes have already happened and the things we have to stop saying.

00:16:35.300 I can't believe that.

00:16:37.200 The reason why we're saying that is because we think we're living in a world that was operating the way it used to.

00:16:44.720 It's not.

00:16:45.620 So, stop being shocked by things.

00:16:48.980 Stop being pissed off by things.

00:16:51.780 And instead, start to look at things as they really are.

00:16:55.560 Because if we look at them as they really are, we can logically deal with it.

00:17:02.780 And we can also stop it and stop playing the game.

00:17:07.620 There are two industries I told you about, media and government, that are losing their power.

00:17:16.080 But there are other industries that have lost their credibility.

00:17:20.780 There is really pretty much all big business.

00:17:24.600 When we say, when people say, oh, I trust business, they don't mean big business.

00:17:28.660 They don't mean GE.

00:17:29.600 They mean the business down the street, the people that they think are more like them because they know them.

00:17:37.320 You trust the business people in your own town.

00:17:40.740 But if I ask you, do you trust, do you trust your local, locally run, not connected at all with any other big bank?

00:17:50.500 Do you trust that bank?

00:17:52.560 Most people would say, yeah.

00:17:55.380 If you explain to them, they're completely disconnected from anybody else.

00:17:59.360 This is a locally owned and operated bank.

00:18:01.840 Yes, I trust them.

00:18:03.060 Do you trust, do you trust Citibank, Bank of America?

00:18:06.380 Nope.

00:18:06.840 So these industries are in trouble and they're in trouble with trust because of something I told you would happen a few years ago,

00:18:16.300 which would be the beginning of the reset, or I called it the new world order, the trust implosion.

00:18:25.720 When people no longer trust, well, we don't trust the media.

00:18:30.100 We don't trust government.

00:18:31.180 We don't now trust the government's doctors.

00:18:33.420 We don't trust their preventions.

00:18:37.960 Some people don't even trust their vaccines.

00:18:40.460 And that goes two ways.

00:18:41.680 Don't tell me that I have to trust the vaccine.

00:18:43.880 When you told me if Donald Trump was in charge, you wouldn't trust it.

00:18:48.620 You wouldn't take it.

00:18:49.760 So don't tell me that I'm some kind of denier.

00:18:53.340 I was skeptical of it when Donald Trump was in office.

00:18:56.960 I'm skeptical of it now.

00:18:59.240 It seems to be working.

00:19:02.060 That's good.

00:19:03.420 Okay, but don't try to jam it down my throat because the more you try to jam something down people's throat, the more they push back.

00:19:11.980 All right, and it's certainly, I mean, I've had to have a scope down into my lungs once.

00:19:21.740 You haven't lived until you've done that.

00:19:25.980 Holy cow. 0.89

00:19:27.120 It's worse than you think.

00:19:29.240 It's the only thing a doctor has ever said to me.

00:19:30.920 This is really going to set your whole body on fire, and you will do everything to make this stop, and you won't be able to control it.

00:19:42.460 I'm just telling you, we're going to hold you down, and you just focus on this person's eyes and listen to what they're saying.

00:19:51.780 It was the longest 30 seconds of my life because some foreign object is in your lungs, and your body says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and you fight against it.

00:20:04.960 What do they do?

00:20:07.460 He was there.

00:20:08.520 It's almost over.

00:20:09.520 It's almost over.

00:20:10.700 Relax.

00:20:11.320 I'm just counting.

00:20:12.500 We're at 15 seconds.

00:20:14.060 You're almost done.

00:20:15.220 We're at 20 seconds.

00:20:16.700 You have 10 seconds left.

00:20:18.180 Five, four.

00:20:19.780 Calming.

00:20:20.300 If you're jamming something down my throat, and you're saying, and you're a bad person, and you know what?

00:20:26.640 This might last longer.

00:20:27.780 It might be worse than you think.

00:20:29.380 I might leave it in there longer.

00:20:31.480 You're not going to.

00:20:32.600 You're going to fight.

00:20:34.160 You're going to fight.

00:20:36.440 And that's what big everything is doing.

00:20:42.100 They are doing all of the things not to calm you down.

00:20:45.740 They're doing all the things to push every button you have in you.

00:20:51.260 So why?

00:20:53.460 Why would they do that?

00:20:56.700 First, let's understand people.

00:20:58.880 Have you ever been to a local zoning board meeting and tried to, you know, I have a friend who tried to question a school.

00:21:07.100 Little teeny, little teeny neighborhood, all big trees, no two-story houses, nothing.

00:21:15.940 Just a small little neighborhood.

00:21:17.960 And they had a small little elementary school.

00:21:19.700 And the elementary school had a lot of land.

00:21:23.080 So they decided they're going to build a new elementary school.

00:21:26.180 Well, this thing is like two or three stories tall.

00:21:29.280 It completely decimates this neighborhood.

00:21:32.660 Why didn't you just make a bigger?

00:21:34.360 Why didn't you just add on to the school?

00:21:37.180 And it would have fit on the property.

00:21:39.180 It would be fine.

00:21:40.320 Why are you doing that?

00:21:42.560 Because they can.

00:21:45.380 Because they can.

00:21:46.580 If you've ever been to a local school board or you've ever been to a city council meeting or a zoning board and you disagree with them, how do they treat you? 0.99

00:21:56.500 They treat you like garbage. 0.95

00:21:59.120 Because people get a little bit of power and they like to wield it. 0.98

00:22:08.500 Imagine what it feels like to have a lot of power.

00:22:11.740 Now imagine what people are willing to do when they think that power is going away.

00:22:19.000 Well, how is it going away?

00:22:20.980 Why is it going away?

00:22:22.300 Because of extremists?

00:22:24.640 No.

00:22:25.180 Most of it is going away because of technology.

00:22:30.260 Because we now can speak to one another.

00:22:35.500 Instantaneously.

00:22:36.420 And it's not just speaking.

00:22:38.380 I can see the pictures.

00:22:40.200 I don't need Walter Cronkite to talk to me about what was happening in Tiananmen Square.

00:22:46.940 I saw it on television, but they still had to carry it or it didn't happen.

00:22:52.480 Now, I can see what's happening in Hong Kong and I question, why aren't they covering this?

00:23:01.560 I can see what's happening on the streets with Antifa or at the Capitol and wonder, why aren't they covering this?

00:23:10.380 Or why are they covering it this way?

00:23:13.080 Because I have information that I never had before.

00:23:17.220 When you have information, information is power.

00:23:26.820 Knowledge is power.

00:23:30.620 If you have knowledge, please don't talk to me about what the labor unions are doing to our school children. 0.79

00:23:38.600 Please.

00:23:39.580 There's a million reasons that's going on.

00:23:42.060 None of them are good for the children.

00:23:44.360 None of them are good for children.

00:23:46.040 So don't try to hide behind my children.

00:23:48.240 And I do believe that there is some, some that actually are up at the top that believe that, you know what?

00:23:55.680 OK, so we're we're setting people back.

00:23:59.580 We're setting these kids.

00:24:01.160 There's a four.

00:24:02.040 I think it's a four percent increase of those who will not who will drop out of school just because of the covid thing.

00:24:10.740 And that's the least of our worries.

00:24:13.840 Four percent.

00:24:15.340 Look at suicides.

00:24:16.980 I think there's some that think, you know what?

00:24:20.580 It's going to be good because they can't think already.

00:24:25.660 Knowledge.

00:24:27.340 Is power.

00:24:29.040 Information is power.

00:24:30.460 So you have media that has had to give up their power.

00:24:35.920 Wait a minute.

00:24:36.320 I'll tell you what's important.

00:24:38.580 Don't tell me.

00:24:41.440 That's being challenged.

00:24:42.940 Government is being challenged.

00:24:44.240 Wait a minute.

00:24:44.600 I can see what you said.

00:24:46.320 And now I can see crystal clear in real time what you just voted on, what you just did, who you're hanging out with, what you actually do.

00:24:56.880 And that's not in the right direction.

00:25:00.360 We know it now because we can see it and we see it not in words.

00:25:08.020 We see it in pictures.

00:25:09.140 There's nothing more powerful than a picture.

00:25:13.800 Or the spoken word when the speaker knows exactly what words to choose.

00:25:23.320 Pictures appeal to everyone.

00:25:26.880 Pictures lead to revolution.

00:25:34.800 The industrial revolution.

00:25:39.540 Well, it was revolutionary.

00:25:43.300 But it didn't entail a revolution.

00:25:46.240 But it should have.

00:25:47.860 Usually when the world goes through a revolution like this, you'll have things like the European Spring, which was caused by Karl Marx.

00:26:01.100 It's the birth of the labor unions and the birth of communism because of the industrial revolution.

00:26:09.100 They wanted revolution.

00:26:09.600 They wanted revolution.

00:26:12.060 They saw it as the opportunity to overthrow everything that stood in their way.

00:26:17.060 The same thing is happening right now.

00:26:22.380 Corporations.

00:26:23.200 Where do they get their credibility?

00:26:25.700 They get their credibility from you.

00:26:30.680 Well, not really.

00:26:32.060 They used to get it from advertising.

00:26:34.020 In the media.

00:26:38.060 But that's not what gives them credibility anymore.

00:26:40.640 And in fact, the more we learn about corporations, the less we like about them.

00:26:44.580 Because we find out they're in bed corrupts corruptly so with government.

00:26:52.180 They're in trouble.

00:26:53.240 They need somebody to be able to cap you, to stop you from communicating, stop you from putting pictures up or ideas up or saying things.

00:27:08.440 Because it's not just about you saying them.

00:27:11.240 It's about you hitting critical mass and being able to change the world.

00:27:15.960 One man can change the world.

00:27:18.180 I believe that.

00:27:20.140 They don't.

00:27:23.240 They don't believe that you can change the world by yourself.

00:27:29.880 And they think that because they've empowered you to connect with other people.

00:27:35.420 Oh my gosh, what have we done?

00:27:37.840 We've given the power of information to people.

00:27:40.920 They can research themselves and they have as much power as I do at the New York Times.

00:27:48.420 I said this probably 10 years ago.

00:27:50.580 When I got into this, I had to work really hard to get this position to be able to gain an audience.

00:27:57.420 It doesn't come with an audience.

00:27:58.960 You have to grow the audience.

00:28:02.160 I could have said that to you and you wouldn't have ever understood necessarily what that meant.

00:28:06.680 You do now because my audience, for the first time in human history, the audience has an audience.

00:28:14.580 How many people are addicted to the like button?

00:28:20.320 How many retweets did it get?

00:28:23.820 You're addicted to that.

00:28:25.760 There's no difference between that and somebody who has sold their soul for money or fame and will do anything to get that movie role or do anything to keep their job in media.

00:28:39.600 Everybody's selling their soul for likes and retweets.

00:28:47.100 That's the downside.

00:28:50.020 But the downside to them is that who allowed you to speak?

00:28:56.320 You notice nobody's saying, who made you judge and jury on what is hate speech and who needs to be silenced?

00:29:02.820 Nobody's saying that.

00:29:04.740 Who made you king?

00:29:08.500 Instead, they're saying to you.

00:29:12.180 Who gave you the right to say that?

00:29:15.620 Who gave you the right to disagree?

00:29:17.580 Why?

00:29:22.780 Because it benefits all of them in the end.

00:29:27.980 I'm only about a quarter through this.

00:29:30.260 We're going to have to pick this up.

00:29:32.020 But.

00:29:34.500 Understand, the world has changed.

00:29:38.600 Last night on my TV show, I started to outline.

00:29:42.540 I began a chalkboard last night.

00:29:44.440 That is going to end up, I think, being one of the best and most important chalkboards.

00:29:48.840 But you're going to have to pay attention all the way along.

00:29:52.340 I started it last night and I only added one little dot on this enormous chalkboard.

00:29:57.400 But you will understand how the world is working once you start to see it differently.

00:30:05.300 There are pressures that want control and it's government and corrupt capitalism and corporations.

00:30:14.440 The way they're going to get you into that is through climate change and social justice.

00:30:20.660 Because they got to play on your fears.

00:30:27.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:29.060 And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:30:30.760 I want to just tell you who my next guest is by just saying this.

00:30:43.760 He has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News.

00:30:49.840 His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal.

00:30:55.940 And his research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices in two Supreme Court cases.

00:31:03.860 He received his bachelor degree from Princeton and his doctoral degree from the University of Notre Dame.

00:31:10.420 Notre Dame.

00:31:11.940 Yeah, that's the problem, I guess.

00:31:14.020 He's a religious zealot.

00:31:15.860 Everything else was going fine until that Catholic university was introduced. 0.97

00:31:21.360 He is the author of the book When Harry Became Sally.

00:31:25.460 It came out a few years ago and was controversial at the time.

00:31:29.760 And then that blew over.

00:31:32.520 Amazon has just dropped it.

00:31:34.980 They will no longer sell it because they have deemed it a hate book.

00:31:39.800 And they said they are going to start culling through their libraries to see and make sure they're not selling books of hate.

00:31:47.800 The author of When Harry Became Sally, Ryan Anderson.

00:31:52.140 Hello, Ryan.

00:31:52.720 How are you?

00:31:54.080 Doing well.

00:31:54.840 Thanks for having me on.

00:31:56.120 So, first of all, when did you find out your book was being burned by Amazon?

00:32:02.080 You know, Sunday afternoon, someone who was trying to buy the book reached out to me and was like, it's no longer on Amazon.

00:32:10.040 I thought to myself, what are you talking about?

00:32:11.840 Like, it's been on Amazon for over three years now.

00:32:14.640 And so I, you know, pull up my Amazon app on my smartphone and it's not there.

00:32:19.280 And the Kindle book's not there.

00:32:20.840 The hardback's not there.

00:32:21.860 The paperback's not there.

00:32:22.960 The audio book's not there.

00:32:24.640 You can't even get a used copy.

00:32:25.920 I mean, they entirely scrubbed it from their website with no advance notice.

00:32:31.200 A publisher reached out immediately.

00:32:33.300 We only heard back from Amazon late Tuesday afternoon.

00:32:36.600 And all they all say is that it violates their content policy.

00:32:39.640 They won't tell us what aspects of the content policy.

00:32:42.080 They won't tell us which page, you know, which sentence, you know, where did the book hurt your feelings?

00:32:47.240 Nothing.

00:32:47.980 It's a black box.

00:32:50.340 So what are you going to do about that?

00:32:51.860 So right now we're, we're trying to raise as much publicity about this as possible to get people aware, having people contact Amazon out of the goodness of their heart.

00:33:04.560 They're going to state the book.

00:33:05.700 Probably not.

00:33:06.940 Yesterday, four senators, Senator Rubio, Lee, Hawley, and Braun sent a letter to Jeff Bezos asking for an explanation.

00:33:17.400 But beyond that, this is, you know, a downside of an entirely unregulated big tech industry where, you know, Amazon put out of business a lot of small and independent booksellers.

00:33:31.520 They gained this giant market prominence.

00:33:35.280 And now they can use their market power in ways that are destructive to, you know, readers, authors, publishers.

00:33:42.180 So, Ryan, did they, if you bought the book on Kindle, did they pull it from your library?

00:33:50.580 No, which is important.

00:33:52.000 They haven't done that.

00:33:53.240 You just, you just can no longer buy it on Kindle.

00:33:56.740 Right.

00:33:57.060 So if you already, if you've already purchased the book, you know, they're not going to take it back from you, whether it was a physical copy or an electric company.

00:34:03.240 Yeah.

00:34:03.620 Yet.

00:34:04.160 They have done that in the past.

00:34:07.820 Wow.

00:34:08.340 I wasn't even aware of that.

00:34:09.320 Yeah.

00:34:09.480 What is the, what was that book?

00:34:11.060 A million pieces.

00:34:12.320 It was the Oprah book of the year, a million little pieces or something.

00:34:16.960 And they said that it was plagiarism on part of it or something like that.

00:34:23.100 But they pulled it in the middle of the night without anybody knowing.

00:34:25.940 And it caused a real uproar because that's my book.

00:34:29.900 I, I paid for that.

00:34:31.260 How can you go into my Kindle app and take something I paid for?

00:34:34.960 And the user agreement allows them to do it.

00:34:37.420 Yeah.

00:34:37.540 Right.

00:34:37.800 So be careful.

00:34:40.000 Yeah.

00:34:40.260 Be careful.

00:34:40.900 Did they, did they issue refunds?

00:34:43.360 No, I don't remember.

00:34:45.080 I don't think so.

00:34:46.100 The user agreement almost reads like you're renting the book.

00:34:49.820 Right.

00:34:50.340 You know, it does.

00:34:51.220 Yeah, that's right.

00:34:52.100 Because we've talked to an attorney who said the biggest lawsuit, class action lawsuit should be against these, you know, Apple and Kindle who you're buying these titles from.

00:35:04.460 Says buy now. 0.76

00:35:05.220 Yeah, buy now.

00:35:06.620 Well, you're buying the title.

00:35:08.180 But if, if Disney decides to pull that title from the Amazon library, it disappears in your library.

00:35:15.500 And a lot of that has to do with rights issues more than, than, than this sort of thing, which is far more egregious.

00:35:21.820 Right.

00:35:22.160 You know, when you're, you're burning books.

00:35:24.180 I mean, this is something I thought we all united on.

00:35:26.440 This is a bad idea.

00:35:27.440 And I think they're getting away with it.

00:35:28.600 I'd love to hear your take on this.

00:35:29.780 I think they can get away with it, Ryan, because they don't actually have to stand in the parking lot and make an example of your book and burn it.

00:35:37.740 There's no, there's no visuals of anybody just hitting delete.

00:35:41.480 That's a great point.

00:35:44.120 You know, and the Babylon Bee had a great article about, you know, Amazon will now let you do a digital book burning.

00:35:49.860 And, and it's amazing when satire becomes reality.

00:35:53.440 I know.

00:35:53.880 To my mind, like this, this suggests that the, the conservative response of, well, it's a private business.

00:36:00.520 They can do whatever it wants.

00:36:01.640 Uh, that's true to a certain extent, but it's not always true, right?

00:36:06.860 And if it was like one brick and mortar store that wouldn't sell a book, fine, there are other brick and mortar stores.

00:36:12.520 But if all the brick and mortar stores got together and said, we're not going to sell a book, right?

00:36:17.000 That looks more like a monopoly, right?

00:36:19.380 And if one individual seller that has, someone told me, and I need to check to see if the stat is accurate, but, uh, someone had tweeted out 83% of all U S book sales are through Amazon.

00:36:30.660 I believe that if that's the case, when they drop a title, um, the impact of that, and it's a chilling effect, right?

00:36:38.180 Cause someone like me, I am prominent enough within the conservative world that, you know, you can book me as a guest.

00:36:43.620 You heard about this.

00:36:44.940 How many authors will have their books canceled that none of us will ever hear about?

00:36:49.960 Oh yeah.

00:36:50.280 How many titles?

00:36:51.520 And then for a publisher, how many publishers are going to say, ah, we just shouldn't even publish on that topic out of fear that Amazon will then drop the title.

00:36:59.740 So this has a chilling effect on the entire industry.

00:37:03.360 So tell me about the book and why it is so controversial.

00:37:09.260 Well, I think it's controversial precisely because it's not a bomb throwing book.

00:37:12.920 It's not a hate book.

00:37:13.940 It's a, you know, kind of like mild mannered, calm philosophy, science, medicine book, exposing all of the lies that are being told about gender dysphoria.

00:37:25.860 So I, I, I, I haven't read your book, but I talked to somebody who did and they said, it's actually a really loving book.

00:37:31.600 It, it, it approaches it, uh, in a way where it's like, these, these people are bad.

00:37:37.560 It's not that at all.

00:37:39.000 It's you're really compassionately talking about it.

00:37:43.720 Thank you.

00:37:44.400 I mean, I, I, that is exactly what I strove to do.

00:37:47.060 Yeah.

00:37:47.380 Like it was, it was three and a half years ago that I was, you know, finishing the book.

00:37:50.920 It was published three years ago.

00:37:52.180 And the idea was people with gender dysphoria, gender identity conflict, they are victims.

00:37:58.400 They are suffering.

00:37:59.300 They didn't choose to experience this and they're not faking it, but they are being disserved by the medical professional community that has bought into a woke ideology.

00:38:09.440 That's telling them that, you know, your path to happiness is puberty, blocking drugs, cross sex hormones, and a double mastectomy.

00:38:16.060 And that's not true.

00:38:17.360 And aren't the stats, don't the stats show that, um, after that's done a very high percentage of people with dysphoria go fall right back into depression and, and have problems because it, it didn't, it didn't cure what they thought it was going to cure.

00:38:36.760 That's exactly right.

00:38:38.020 And, and the book it's chapter and verse, you know, footnote after footnote after footnote of all of the studies that show that.

00:38:44.760 And since, I mean, the, and the book came out three years ago, since the book came out, there have only been more and more studies, uh, revealing this.

00:38:51.580 And I think that's precisely why it's so threatening, um, to the left, right?

00:38:56.600 They can't win on the merit, so they have to shut down the conversation.

00:39:00.760 So what, this is even more frightening than just book burning because this isn't, you know, they're pulling from the libraries now to kill a mockingbird.

00:39:10.300 That's insanity.

00:39:11.920 It's insanity.

00:39:12.960 Um, but this book is also about medicine.

00:39:19.020 This is about clinical studies about mental health and what you put into your body for physical health and mental health.

00:39:30.540 We cannot come to a place to where we can't disagree on something like medicine.

00:39:37.940 Remember medicine, not too many years ago was drilling holes in people's heads to relieve the spirits in their head because they had a headache.

00:39:49.440 So please, what are we doing?

00:39:52.920 This is a medical book.

00:39:55.080 Is it not?

00:39:55.660 Yeah, so, I mean, it's, there's several chapters about the medicine of this.

00:40:00.360 There's several chapters about the science.

00:40:02.000 There's several chapters about the philosophy and the law.

00:40:04.380 And what I would add to what you just said is that the saddest conversations I have had have been with parents who placed their children on cross-sex hormones, allowed their children to have surgery because the doctors told them that that's what was in the best interest of their child. 0.50

00:40:23.740 And then only a couple years later did they realize the mistake.

00:40:27.900 By limiting the sale of a book like this, we're limiting the ability of parents to inform themselves about what's actually in the best interest of their child.

00:40:36.420 And it means how many more children are going to go through these misguided procedures because they couldn't get all of the facts, right?

00:40:46.860 When you shut down a conversation like this, you do a digital book burning, there are going to be real life consequences.

00:40:52.820 Ryan, I hate to ask you this, but I have to because I haven't read your book.

00:40:56.480 Is there anything in it like, you know, pray the gay away? 1.00

00:41:01.640 Is there is there any is there anything like that in this book that would cause offense to, you know, people that people like me could go, oh, geez, why would you put that in there?

00:41:15.480 Nothing at all.

00:41:16.760 Nothing even remotely close.

00:41:18.200 And just so I mean, so our listeners know, the book was endorsed by the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, from a professor of psychology at NYU, from a professor of neuroscience at Boston University, professor of law at Harvard Law School, professor of philosophy at Princeton University.

00:41:36.300 Like this is not a fringe book.

00:41:37.840 This is not a conspiracy theory book, which says that if a book like this can be canceled from Amazon, no one's books are safe.

00:41:48.200 I do.

00:41:51.020 I will tell you that when I heard about this Monday, I immediately thought, how am I ever going to publish another book?

00:41:59.240 Because, you know, if I'm if I'm quoting stats and I'm quoting these things in my book and Amazon decides they don't agree with that and they think that's dangerous for whatever reason and they don't have to explain themselves.

00:42:13.780 What chance do I have of of putting books on Amazon?

00:42:20.600 It is.

00:42:21.820 Go ahead.

00:42:22.940 And that is what every book author and book publisher is now asking themselves.

00:42:29.920 And so you can see the chilling effect.

00:42:31.840 Again, if it was just like one local bookstore, you have some like left wing progressive bookstore that won't sell your book or my book.

00:42:38.680 No one would care because we can have a market.

00:42:40.940 But when the entity that controls the market starts censoring books, it will impact the entire book publishing, writing and reading process.

00:42:53.760 Ryan, how much of a factor is it that if you're going to write another book on a similar topic, there would be an incentive and a temptation to self edit before you released it?

00:43:05.720 Now, I think you probably at the end of the day, you're going to say what you want to say and, you know, Dan, the consequences.

00:43:10.820 But there's a chilling effect for people before these books even get out there.

00:43:15.640 I mean, it's editing our speech before the speech happens.

00:43:19.260 Yep.

00:43:19.700 I think what you're going to see is that authors are going to say that.

00:43:22.640 Let's say you're writing a book about political correctness.

00:43:24.960 And, you know, originally one of your chapters was going to be about transgender issues.

00:43:29.860 I think a lot of authors and publishers and agents are going to say, why don't we skip that chapter?

00:43:35.720 Oh, yeah.

00:43:36.180 That's that's the impact.

00:43:37.660 And this is also this has been happening on university campuses for a while.

00:43:40.960 The reason that I'm at a think tank and not at a university is the think tank provides me with the freedom to tell the truth on these issues in the way that I can't tell you the number of tenured professors who have privately, confidentially reached out to me to say, thank you for what you're saying.

00:43:57.280 I agree entirely.

00:43:58.580 But if I ever said it, I'm afraid I'd lose tenure.

00:44:02.400 This is unbelievable.

00:44:03.560 It's it's it's it's it's go ahead.

00:44:06.920 It's exporting the campus insanity that we've seen into the entire Amazon world and Amazon controls almost everything.

00:44:15.640 All right, Ryan, thank you so much.

00:44:17.280 If you wouldn't hold I wouldn't mind holding for just a couple of minutes.

00:44:20.920 I want to ask you something off the air.

00:44:22.840 Ryan Anderson.

00:44:24.400 The book is when Harry became Sally.

00:44:27.560 I would highly recommend that you write to Amazon and and Jeff Bezos and you send them an email.

00:44:36.300 But no, no better tweet at Jeff Bezos very kindly, very professionally.

00:44:43.600 Why was this book removed?

00:44:46.240 And when are you now starting to censor all books?

00:44:51.660 We need to know an answer.

00:44:53.740 And tweet Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

00:44:56.460 Somebody has to hold their feet to the fire or it will pass and they will learn a lesson that they can do anything.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 25, 2021

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