The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Vivek Ramaswamy & Eric July ｜ 7⧸20⧸22

00:00:00.000 Hey, great show today. We had Eric July, who is challenging Marvel and challenging them in a big

00:00:06.600 way. You know, people are not into the woke superheroes, I guess. We talked to him about

00:00:14.480 that. Also, Vivek Rameshwamy was on talking about ESG, BlackRock, and what is happening to our

00:00:21.280 energy sector. Really important. We had the first badge of merit, and we also spent just a little

00:00:29.800 time on the possible climate emergency order that the President and the White House have been

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00:01:49.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program. This national emergency thing really bothers me, and it's

00:02:13.120 shocking to me how many things that we have talked about in the past are here now, and the national

00:02:22.320 emergency thing is something that, like in the last four weeks, I had a whole show on it and saying,

00:02:27.920 this is what's coming next. And while for yesterday, they thought for a while he was going to declare

00:02:35.120 a national emergency today, but the White House has said, don't look for it today, but it could be

00:02:42.200 coming next week. That's terrifying. That should chill you to the bone. It's one of those things

00:02:48.160 that I said four weeks ago. If they declare a national health or climate emergency, run for the

00:02:55.240 hills. Run for the hills.

00:02:56.820 It was interesting to see the squad, too, just blatantly wearing those green bandanas like you

00:03:01.520 were talking about, which shows their affiliation with the communist, the revolutionary communist

00:03:06.600 party in America. But the thing is, they don't care anymore. They think they're too far down the

00:03:11.880 road that we can do anything about it. And as you started saying, I think in about 2009, they're just

00:03:18.440 going to show themselves because they're proud of who they are and what they are. They love it, and they

00:03:22.660 can't wait to tell you what they're doing and who they are and what they are. And so if we don't do

00:03:29.580 anything about it now, this is all going to be on us because they're just outright saying it, showing

00:03:35.260 it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Let me let me go through. And this is so incredible

00:03:43.140 because we are dealing with people who want to destroy our constitution, want to reset absolutely

00:03:50.140 everything. And they are so close to doing it. A national emergency. The president doesn't have

00:03:57.860 to explain in great detail. He can just declare the national emergency because of climate. And then

00:04:06.980 he has to outline to Congress some of the things that he wants to do. But nobody can stop him

00:04:15.060 unless it's the Supreme Court. So we have these when we talked about this maybe six months ago,

00:04:22.860 they're called P ads or PEDS, presidential executive, no presidential emergency directives.

00:04:32.680 And these are secret even from Congress. Congress doesn't even know what they are. They are

00:04:39.480 presidential directives. When a president comes in, he says, what are the possible emergencies that

00:04:46.760 could happen that I won't have time to respond on? And they'll say, you know, a nuclear war with

00:04:54.480 Russia. Okay, so there's a P ad. And these P ads are executive emergency orders that are remain unsigned.

00:05:05.960 So Congress doesn't know what they are, because they're not in effect. So this was the big worry

00:05:12.680 of the left, that President Trump had all of these P ads already done. And all he'd have to do is sign

00:05:19.640 them and you can move quickly. So the president right now, they are working on one of those P ads,

00:05:27.500 an emergency directive that would give the president 140 special powers. And and let me just give you a

00:05:37.820 scenario here. And this is this is from let me see who's who printed this. This is from the Atlantic

00:05:46.000 back in 2019. They were worried about the the president doing a national emergency claims of

00:05:57.500 emergency or necessity cannot legitimize martial law until they can presented with this ambiguity.

00:06:05.100 Presidents have explored the outer limits of their constitutional emergency authority in a series of

00:06:09.760 directors directives known as the presidential emergency action documents or P ads, which originated

00:06:16.340 as part of the Eisenhower administration to ensure continuity of government in the wake of a Soviet

00:06:22.500 nuclear attack. They are draft executive orders, proclamations and messages to Congress that are

00:06:28.060 prepared in advance of anticipated emergency. P ads are closely guarded within the government. No one

00:06:34.640 has ever not one has ever been publicly released or leaked. Their contents have occasionally been

00:06:41.380 described in public sources, including FBI memorandums where they were attained through Freedom of

00:06:46.480 Information Act, as well as agency manuals in court documents. According to these sources,

00:06:52.480 P ads drafted from the 1950s through the 1970s would authorize not only martial law, but the suspension of

00:06:59.160 habeas corpus by the executive branch, the revocation of America's passports, the roundup and detention of

00:07:07.000 subversives identified in an FBI security index that contained more than 10,000 names. Now, this is what was in

00:07:15.340 there in the 1970s that we know. Can you imagine the list of enemies? Can you imagine the list of enemies to the

00:07:25.700 climate? How many people do you know on radio that have been called enemies of the climate, that they're climate

00:07:35.900 deniers and these people should be put in jail? If the president issues an executive order on emergency action, it gives him

00:07:44.680 the power to be able to arrest those people and hold them without habeas corpus. So you don't have a judge

00:07:53.860 involved. You don't have a trial, no hearing involved in that. So they talk about this and they say, let me give you

00:08:01.640 this scenario from the Atlantic. Trump's inflammatory tweets provoke predictable saber rattling from Iranian 0.92

00:08:08.320 leaders. He responds by threatening preemptive military strikes. Some Defense Department officials

00:08:14.480 have misgivings, but others have been waiting for such an opportunity. As Iran's statement grow more

00:08:20.500 warlock, more warlike, Iranophobia takes hold among the American public. Now just take Iran out and replace 0.94

00:08:29.500 it with Russia. Take Trump out and replace it with Biden. It's exactly what's going on right now.

00:08:36.280 Proclaiming the threat of war, Trump invokes Section 706 of the Communications Act to assume government

00:08:44.360 control over Internet traffic inside the United States in order to prevent the spread of Iranian 1.00

00:08:51.060 disinformation and propaganda. Now, we already know the Department of Homeland Security is saying

00:08:59.960 that there are many sources of propaganda, mis, dis, and malinformation. We know they're tracking it

00:09:10.000 right now. And we also know that their point of view is not necessarily your point of view.

00:09:17.040 You don't think they would do this? It's a climate emergency.

00:09:20.700 He also declares a national emergency under EPA, authorizing the Treasury Department to freeze the

00:09:30.180 assets of any person or organization suspected of supporting Iran's activities against the United

00:09:37.960 States. We've seen this happen in Canada. Wielding the authority confirmed by these laws, the government

00:09:47.820 shuts down several left-leaning websites and domestic civil society organizations based on government

00:09:56.360 determinations classified, of course, that they are subject to Iranian influence. Now, they already have

00:10:03.520 this scenario. The difference between, I think, conservatives and Marxists is Marxists will warn you about

00:10:16.400 fascism, but will not warn you about communism, where I will tell you, yeah, there are fascists out there.

00:10:26.760 There are people on the far, far, far, far right that I think they're so far right that they're actually

00:10:31.980 left like a circle. But, you know, if you want to claim that fascists are on the right, fine.

00:10:37.880 Fascists are on the right. Great. Yes, they exist. And I do believe there are people on the right that

00:10:44.540 wouldn't mind seizing power, but it's few and far between and would not have regular American support.

00:10:54.400 The left, however, that is the Democratic Party. It is no longer the Democratic Party. They are beholden

00:11:02.960 to the Marxist communist left, as evidenced by the green bandanas around their necks.

00:11:10.300 Okay, so they don't see it from their own side, but they do see the same problem that we see.

00:11:20.440 If you think Donald Trump can do it, why do you suppose that Joe Biden wouldn't do it?

00:11:28.980 When the climate emergency is, I can't get Congress to do what I want them to do.

00:11:35.640 When the health emergency is, I can't get Congress and I can't get the Supreme Court to do what I want

00:11:43.700 to do. That's not the definition of emergency. That's the definition of you suck at politics,

00:11:52.120 or you're out of step with the American people, or the Constitution. 0.96

00:11:57.380 Protests erupt. Go ahead. Go ahead. It's pretty amazing, too, what we're okay with when it's our

00:12:07.160 party in power. Like, under George W. Bush, if you remember, at the beginning, we were all for the

00:12:14.600 Patriot Act. Now, it turned out years later, we realized that that was stupid, and we shouldn't 0.99

00:12:21.200 have been for it, but we were because it was our guy. You know, I'm sure it was the same thing with 0.98

00:12:27.800 the Alien and Sedition Act under John Adams back in 1800. You're okay because he's your guy.

00:12:37.740 Yeah, and that's the problem. We can't have a guy. It's why I've never asked you to trust me.

00:12:43.220 I've never asked you to trust me on anything. I've always said, do your own homework and root

00:12:48.700 them in principles. It's why the 9-12 project was different than the Tea Party. The 9-12 project

00:12:56.360 was rooted in principles and values. That's where your loyalty needs to be. Not to me, not to anybody

00:13:04.180 else. You can't just follow someone blinding and say, he's my guy. Loyalty is important. You know,

00:13:12.820 you don't just sell people out. But if they are breaking the values and the principles that you

00:13:21.600 hold dear, you need to call them on it. You need to call them on it. One more thing on this.

00:13:30.360 The Atlantic goes on and says, this is the scenario under Trump. Protests erupt. On Twitter, Trump calls

00:13:37.000 the protesters traitors and suggests in capital letters that they could use a good beating when

00:13:43.000 the counter protesters oblige, which would not happen, would not happen because that's not what

00:13:49.280 the right does. Trump blames the original protesters for sparking the violent confrontation and deploys

00:13:55.220 the Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard in several states. Do you not see with what

00:14:01.960 they're setting up with January 6th? Do you not see that this is this is their scenario? They say it

00:14:09.940 was coming with Donald Trump, but this is their playbook using the presidential alert system first

00:14:15.380 tested on October 2018. The president sends a text message to every American cell phone warning that

00:14:22.660 there is a risk of violence at polling stations and that troops will be deployed as necessary to keep

00:14:28.020 voter. Some members of opposition groups are frightened and they stay at home on election

00:14:33.460 day. Other people simply can't find accurate information online about voting would turn out

00:14:38.840 at historic lows. A president who is facing impeachment just months earlier handily wins

00:14:45.480 reelection and marks his victory by renewing the state of emergency. Now, gosh, why shouldn't we fear

00:14:56.260 that this could be happening with this president when he's saying it's going to declare a climate

00:15:04.740 emergency and a health emergency? Warning, warning to all Democrats and all Republicans, any president

00:15:16.100 who is talking the way this president is, and that includes Donald Trump warning, that's very, very,

00:15:26.240 dangerous. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for

00:15:34.620 listening. Vivek, my friend, how are you, sir? Good to talk to you, Glenn. How are you? I'm very,

00:15:48.660 very, very good. You are a guy who I think one of the few that actually really gets ESG and the

00:15:57.040 Great Reset believes and understands how dangerous it is and is working to educate people and also

00:16:05.880 help us beat it. Let me start with what's happening with ESG and BlackRock. Is BlackRock's downturn

00:16:17.620 in their profits? Is this something that is caused by ESG or is this just the downturn of the market

00:16:27.160 that everybody is feeling? Well, the answer to that question, Glenn, is it is both of those things,

00:16:33.700 in part because BlackRock is contributing to the downturn in the market that everyone is feeling

00:16:38.940 because of ESG. So I'll explain to you how that works, where this is the largest asset manager in the

00:16:44.760 world managing over $10 trillion, around $10 trillion. It's about half the US GDP in the hands

00:16:50.900 of one firm. And if you add Vanguard and State Street to the list, the top three, they manage

00:16:55.520 more than the US GDP. And what they do is they're aggregating the money of everyday citizens. Probably

00:17:01.460 most people listening to this program, actually, probably you and me included. We don't know it

00:17:05.740 through our 401k accounts, through pension fund accounts, et cetera. And what they do is they use that

00:17:11.580 money to advocate for these ESG policies in corporate America, climate change plans, emissions

00:17:18.740 caps, diversity, equity, inclusion, quota systems for race and gender on boards, et cetera. They use

00:17:25.340 our money to advocate for those principles in corporate America that makes companies less

00:17:30.840 successful. And as we've seen this year, has actually contributed to stock market declines as well,

00:17:37.280 in my opinion. And the ESG specific funds this year, Glenn, have actually underperformed the broader

00:17:44.040 market as a whole, even though the broader market as a whole has already done badly enough. And I think

00:17:49.120 a big part of why the broader market has done badly is in part because of the demands of these ESG

00:17:55.140 linked asset managers. But the ESG specific funds have done even worse. So the answer to your question

00:18:01.120 is, is there a downturn because of the broader market? Or is it because of the failures of ESG?

00:18:06.100 The answer is both, because part of the reason the broader market is turning down is exactly

00:18:11.080 because of some of these toxic policies that cause companies to focus on these orthogonal social

00:18:17.760 agendas. So let me ask you if because this I'm not an investor. I really I mean, I should never be

00:18:28.400 around money. I'm horrible at investing. However, it's it would be my feeling that if you are in a

00:18:38.240 place to where oil is as scarce as it is, if we didn't have ESG, wouldn't the the energy market

00:18:48.320 be the place to put your money? Or is that just a Glenn Beck? You know, you know, it's not just Glenn

00:18:55.800 Beck. It's Warren Buffett quietly starting to behave this way to Glenn. So you might give yourself a little

00:19:00.640 bit more credit than you just did. But it's actually if you think about it, you know, this is the potential

00:19:07.580 moment for US energy to really shine and rise to the occasion, not just as an investment proposition, but as a

00:19:13.960 proposition to meet the needs of Americans at a time when there's a massive supply demand imbalance. Right. I mean,

00:19:21.420 you remember that as recently as 2018, the US was the world's largest producer of energy, how quickly

00:19:30.060 things have changed now with the US president groveling in front of foreign dictators around the

00:19:36.340 world, begging them to produce more oil that the US could be producing instead. And now I know the Biden

00:19:42.740 administration is trying to walk this back. I think a lot of ESG managers like BlackRock are trying to

00:19:47.260 walk this back and say, well, we don't really want to end fossil fuel production. Actually, you know,

00:19:52.840 he's just making he's making good on a campaign promise. In September of 2019, on the campaign

00:19:59.160 trail, I'm quoting him exactly. Here's what President Biden, then candidate Biden said, I guarantee you,

00:20:06.380 we're going to end fossil fuels, end quote. That was a campaign promise that he's now delivering on.

00:20:13.080 But he has multiple tools to deliver on it. Because normally, the way constitutionally you

00:20:17.600 would deliver on that campaign promise is that you would get a law passed through Congress. Well,

00:20:22.300 he doesn't have the political support to do that. The American people haven't given Congress the

00:20:26.120 political support to do that. Joe Manchin won't even stand in the way of doing what won't even

00:20:29.940 allow that to happen. And so what are they doing now? They're resorting to other means like

00:20:35.580 executive action through the climate change emergency. We'll see, we'll hear more about what that

00:20:39.860 means. They're doing it through the private sector, deputizing their cronies like BlackRock,

00:20:45.080 many of whose alumni, by the way, work in the Biden administration, but large private sector

00:20:49.080 actors, they do favors for them in return for those private actors, doing through the back door,

00:20:55.360 what government could not get done through the front door through Congress, the constitutionally

00:20:59.920 ordained way for actually passing laws. So he's delivering on that campaign promise,

00:21:04.300 but doing it through the back door in ways that I think would make our founding fathers shudder

00:21:09.300 if they actually knew the way the government was treating the private sector and using the

00:21:14.880 invisible fist of government instead of the invisible hand of the market to actually reach

00:21:19.100 these outcomes. So one more question on food now. Would food be the same thing? Because

00:21:29.020 we have the ability, we have the property, the land, we have the farmers, we have the history of being

00:21:38.540 the world's breadbasket. If it wasn't for ESG, wouldn't this be the time that farming would be the best

00:21:48.500 kind of investment where you would, we would be selling our wheat and our food all over the world.

00:21:54.900 We would literally be feeding the world if it wasn't for ESG. Am I wrong on that?

00:22:00.860 At a time when there's real demand and need for it as well. So the way I look at it going is these

00:22:06.140 are all part of the same categories because energy is upstream of food production as well, right? It

00:22:11.680 takes energy to transport food, to be able to export food, to be able to produce food, to be able to put

00:22:16.940 the ingredients together. So I agree with you. I kind of look at energy as even more fundamental because

00:22:22.800 it's upstream of nearly every other sector and nearly every other production means. But the thing for people

00:22:28.480 to understand here is that this is damage that's been done in the last few years by the merger of public

00:22:37.320 power and private power. So that's what makes it so hard to find a source because on one hand, Biden can say

00:22:42.500 this isn't my fault. This is just the decisions of the private sector that stopped drilling for oil, that stopped

00:22:48.800 drilling for natural, that stopped fracking for natural gas. We didn't do that. There was no policy

00:22:53.280 you could point to. But actually, the reason why they're doing it is because of the ESG movement in

00:22:58.640 the private sector that this administration and the modern left supports through the back door.

00:23:04.420 And so that's kind of how they're able to really trick the public through this jujitsu move, saying

00:23:08.920 that, oh, this isn't the private, this isn't us passing laws to do this. We're just seeing the private

00:23:14.660 sector underinvest in oil and gas. That's what they say when gas prices are high, when in fact they

00:23:19.620 were responsible for causing it. That's what people need to wake up to. All right. So they are not

00:23:25.720 talking to the American people about this. They're blaming the private sector. And that usually means

00:23:31.160 the investors and the companies. But the investors are not necessarily a part of this. A lot of us are

00:23:37.820 invested in these companies. There are 401k, et cetera, et cetera. And we're not telling the companies to do

00:23:44.300 this. Do the companies want to do this? Or is it based just on the pressure from places like Black 1.00

00:23:52.320 Rock who have a lot of those shares because we've we run our money through Black Rock for our 401ks?

00:24:01.360 It's really the latter, Glenn. I'm telling you. So the U.S. energy sector, this the potential of U.S.

00:24:07.840 energy to be able to supply not only America's needs, but the global needs is is staggering. And this

00:24:13.800 isn't just a policy failure. It's an American travesty when those same companies have been

00:24:18.420 hamstrung from being able to do their jobs. Now, most people choose to choose to work in the energy

00:24:23.600 industry, for example, work in the energy industry because they want to be part of that solution.

00:24:28.240 But what's happened in the last four or five years is that these large shareholders like Black Rock

00:24:33.180 have imposed constraints on these companies. I'll give you a very specific example.

00:24:37.320 Exxon, by the way, was the largest company in the world as recently as 2013.

00:24:41.060 It's the largest U.S. energy company. Black Rock voted in favor of putting three

00:24:46.400 dissident directors, three new directors that they put on the board of directors of Exxon

00:24:51.300 to adjust its climate change strategy. And before Black Rock put those voted for those

00:24:57.700 directors to join Exxon's board, Exxon had a business plan to increase oil production 25 percent

00:25:03.220 between 2020 and 2025. After they put those new directors on Exxon's board,

00:25:08.020 they revised their business plan to reduce oil production 20 percent over those same five

00:25:13.880 years. Wow. That's a clear that that's a clear before and after. Now, imagine today how much

00:25:19.640 more successful the American energy industry would be. Exxon would be as a company. How much lower gas

00:25:24.920 prices would be if American oil companies were actually producing more oil, which was their prior

00:25:30.200 business plan before Black Rock and Vanguard and State Street to vote in favor of these new directors on

00:25:36.300 the board say, no, that need doesn't match your climate change plans that we want to see you

00:25:39.940 implement. Now you need to reduce oil production. This is the travesty, Glenn. It's the fraud of our

00:25:44.720 time where Americans are paying for five dollar gas at the pump with one hand, not knowing that their

00:25:50.960 own 401k accounts and their own pension fund accounts and brokerage accounts are actually subsidizing the

00:25:56.840 very ESG agenda that gives them five dollar gas in the first place. And I think that once people start

00:26:02.900 to see that with clear eyes, the good news is we find our way to a better way forward to say that

00:26:07.340 we're not going to let someone else abuse my money, abuse my savings to be able to send messages to

00:26:12.800 the U.S. energy industry that I absolutely don't want to be delivering to the U.S. energy industry.

00:26:17.100 Well, that is that I want them to make great products. That's actually what's what I think the

00:26:21.140 next step in this battle looks like. We have a ton of states now that are looking to move their money

00:26:28.000 and, you know, all of the pension funds and everything else. We have a lot of states that

00:26:32.640 want to do that. We have a lot of people that want to do that. But I'm assuming this is what

00:26:37.120 you're working on. You I think you told us last time you were on that you were going to start

00:26:43.900 something and go right after BlackRock. And well, this is that is that happening? This is why that I

00:26:50.440 started strive earlier this year, creating a firm to compete head on versus BlackRock, because these are

00:26:56.300 problems Glenn created in the market that need to be solved through the market. And so that's where

00:27:02.240 I started strive. And we're going to take these guys head on. And I've learned a lot over the last

00:27:07.560 few months, even about how broken that pension fund system at the state level really is. And this

00:27:15.360 isn't even a Republican or Democrat issue. You know, we talk about a lot of people talk about the deep

00:27:19.620 state and the federal government. I think it exists at the state level. I think it exists in corporate

00:27:23.680 America, what I call deep corporate. But these are institutionalized, bureaucratized actors that,

00:27:30.620 you know, BlackRock and State Street and Vanguard, they've mastered this system over the last 10 to 20

00:27:35.820 years. And it's an ossified system that in absence of everyday citizens speaking up and demanding change,

00:27:43.400 you're going to have a mid-level bureaucrat who's going to happily sit and collect his paycheck without 0.97

00:27:48.660 wanting to be bothered. That's going to say, well, this is what I've done. And I don't get paid

00:27:53.100 anymore if I serve my citizens or not. So leave me alone. You know, I'm overstating the case,

00:27:59.140 but only by a little bit, which is exactly how many of these mid-level bureaucrats at the state

00:28:04.100 level think and even communicate. And I think that at the end of the day, the right answer is going to

00:28:10.140 come from everyday citizens demanding change, kind of like what you saw in a small scale of the school

00:28:15.320 boards last year, parents taking educational control back into their own hands, not leaving it to

00:28:20.640 some sort of bureaucratized school board and saying that it's your job to educate my children. No, 0.99

00:28:24.600 they're my children. And I have a say in how they're educated. It's the equivalent. I think,

00:28:29.800 I think, I think bottom up, you know, it's a sort of a positive revolution of sorts that we need to

00:28:34.020 see that actually take every day to say that this is my hard-earned savings. I'm going to take control.

00:28:38.700 It's just like, it's my kids. It's my money. It's not your money, a pension bureaucrat. And it's

00:28:42.460 definitely not your money, BlackRock. That's what we're going to have to see.

00:28:45.080 Vivek, earlier this week, I came back from vacation and I said the most important story

00:28:51.940 since I've been gone was the Sri Lanka overthrow of the government and kicking out of the president

00:28:59.040 because the World Economic Forum said this is the model. And there was a story up at wef.org

00:29:09.080 that said the headline was how we're going to make Sri Lanka rich by 2025. So they implemented

00:29:16.860 all of this stuff. They did everything the World Economic Forum said to do. And I talked about it

00:29:23.540 and read that story on the air. By the time I got off the air, the World Economic Forum had taken that

00:29:29.400 story off of their website. But do you agree that Sri Lanka is the example that we should all be looking

00:29:36.840 at saying they're the ones who did it and look how it turned out? I think it's a great example.

00:29:44.120 Unfortunately, Glenn, I would love to say it is the example. Unfortunately, we're seeing more and more

00:29:48.340 examples by the day. I mean, look, look what's happening in Ghana. Look what's happening in the

00:29:53.480 Netherlands. Look at what's happening in the United States and Canada at a smaller scale. We have an

00:29:58.220 energy supply shortage that we just talked about in this country. But you're right, Sri Lanka is a great

00:30:02.480 example to see what happens when these toxic philosophies are taken to their logical extent.

00:30:09.060 And, you know, I think that this is a transnational issue, Glenn. It is a transpartisan issue.

00:30:13.540 Goes beyond partisan boundaries, national boundaries. It is a global monarchy. And it's going to take a

00:30:18.920 revolution to fight. I agree. You're exactly right. Vivek, thank you so much. Be a part of that

00:30:25.860 revolution. Because we're in one, whether you like it or not. And we don't need to pick up

00:30:32.460 our guns. We need to inform ourselves and inform our neighbors. Knowledge. Knowledge is power.

00:30:44.460 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:46.600 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. You know, the thing I love about the host on Blaze TV is they all own their own shows. I own my show. And Pat owns his. Eric July owns his. And so you attract entrepreneurs.

00:31:14.700 And Eric July is an entrepreneur, man. I can't tell you, Eric, how happy I am for you. When I first saw the news that you were putting out a comic book and you were crowdfunding and you were looking for a million dollars and you hit that in the first 24 hours.

00:31:33.840 And now you're almost up to three million dollars. I have to tell you, God bless America. You you are sending. I'm guessing. I'm guessing. I don't know because I don't know the comic world. But if I'm sitting there at Marvel, as I'm looking at things like how badly Thor did and Disney, how bad their numbers are starting to look.

00:31:59.840 And DC, which just always sucks. I I'm thinking we we should probably not go so deep into the woke front. Have you seen what Ripaverse is doing?

00:32:11.220 This has been just an incredible experience. And I've been talking about the state of the comic book industry for a very long time.

00:32:18.800 And for us to put this out and to get the reception that we got, it just reassures kind of everything it was that I was saying.

00:32:27.040 And that is that people still want this stuff. They might be going out to try to, let's say, import, let's say someone else's material like the Japanese with manga because the American stuff sucks right now so much.

00:32:41.860 But this proved that, hey, people still want this stuff. They're still enthusiastic about it.

00:32:48.040 They just don't want any of the nonsense that's tied certainly to the American comic book industry right now.

00:32:53.600 So this has just been insane in the sense that it just reassures everything that I've been talking about for a while.

00:33:00.580 And Eric, the the best example of this, I think, is the latest Thor, which is just laden with wokeness.

00:33:09.360 Every every every relationship in the movie just about is a gay relationship. 0.60

00:33:15.520 And then they then they throw in the thing where the two gay men have a biological baby together. 0.55

00:33:23.740 And so they're even doing things that don't make any sense just to bend over backward and and pander to the LGBTQ committee, which which is fine if you want to do that. 0.76

00:33:36.480 I mean, I don't I don't care about the sexuality of the characters.

00:33:39.540 It's just I don't want that jam down my throat.

00:33:42.260 I just want an enjoyable movie and an enjoyable comic book, which is what you're doing, essentially.

00:33:48.900 Exactly. I mean, that's really all people want.

00:33:51.080 It's not about not seeing black characters or even, you know, whatever sexuality or whatever. 0.81

00:33:56.760 But when you're beating your audience over the head with it and it's clearly become just a vanity project for all of these people to write their own goofy stories.

00:34:04.480 And oftentimes they don't make sense for those characters that they wrote.

00:34:08.500 You know, I talked about this in and our kind of opening kind of trailer where I discuss like, hey, you've seen your characters that you love be bastardized.

00:34:15.620 And that's the fundamental issue. They're not creating new characters or something.

00:34:19.140 They're taking the character that everybody knows and recognize like the Tim Drakes of the world and they just make them bisexual out of nowhere and weird stuff like that. 0.91

00:34:28.240 So that that this resonates with so many people because they have been assured that, OK, this is something new and fresh, but we don't have to go through that.

00:34:35.920 We're not going to be gas lit by by the companies themselves, the actors or the actresses or we're not.

00:34:43.120 That's not going to happen. And this is what people want.

00:34:45.320 So we just made it easy and just put the stuff out there.

00:34:49.220 I will tell you that, you know, you probably know this better than I do.

00:34:53.520 But the reason why we have superheroes is because of times like this, you know, back in World War Two, it was a it was such a powerful force that we didn't we felt small, insignificant and didn't know how to stop all of the problems.

00:35:12.960 So we came up with superheroes. Well, our problems are just as big.

00:35:17.920 But our superheroes now, the ones that they're ones that now that they're woke, they're not they're just part of the problem.

00:35:26.460 It's no longer an escape and it's no longer a a a powerful being that can supersede everything else and just be above all of it.

00:35:39.180 That that's the secret to a good comic character, isn't it?

00:35:42.260 Absolutely. And I talk about this, about acknowledging those sort of universal truths.

00:35:46.820 And that's where we got away from with the comic book industry right now.

00:35:50.760 What is just what is right? What is, you know, good?

00:35:54.480 What is bad? Like that stuff has gone completely out the window because a lot of folks are more obsessed with their individual social preferences and social agenda that they may have.

00:36:04.620 And it, of course, bleeds off into their work. So these people don't look like all these characters or say definitely the superheroes, the one that are supposed to be good.

00:36:13.680 They're more interested in using them as a vehicle to lecture them about election, their audience about stuff that they don't even care about.

00:36:20.540 And it's not about that character going around kicking butt, fighting off the evil that kind of goes out out of the realm of reality right now.

00:36:30.040 It's more about, hey, I want to use this character so you can accept my individual agenda.

00:36:35.440 And I'm going to use that character that you know and love to as a vehicle to really get this message out of there.

00:36:40.900 And it just makes for very, very bad art.

00:36:44.160 Yeah. So you tell me, because if again, if I were in this industry, I would see you selling 30,000 copies on day one as a disturbing trend for my company.

00:37:00.780 Two questions. Have you heard anything even through the grapevine from these companies or any reaction from these companies like Marvel?

00:37:10.480 A hundred percent. We know that's exactly what's happening is insiders that have already talked about this, about, hey, that's putting them on notice.

00:37:18.840 Disney's looking at it like, well, hey, this is something that is happening.

00:37:22.940 It's not to say that we're going to completely upend what it is that they're doing.

00:37:25.960 But, you know, you're saying that maybe junk, maybe a lot of what they're doing isn't as lucrative as what they anticipate.

00:37:33.460 So they see this guy who's been doing comic book commentary come in and make this amount of money, sell this amount of copies.

00:37:39.720 I mean, people need to understand the magnitude of this for those that don't like they would classify our book as a graphic novel, per se.

00:37:48.580 That's what they were called because of how big it is.

00:37:50.440 This first first book.

00:37:51.680 If you look at those sales in comparison to like the what's going to the North American comic book sales, we've already destroyed any book that they've put out that's in this genre.

00:38:01.520 Marvel, be it DC image, but we've destroyed anything that they put out all of 2021, of course, last year.

00:38:09.540 So it shows that, of course, this is a thirsty market here.

00:38:12.800 But we're doing something that they said could not happen.

00:38:15.900 You can't do original characters.

00:38:17.480 You have to race swap.

00:38:18.440 You have to sexuality swap because people already have these characters that they're tied to and they recognize. 0.56

00:38:22.860 And we show, no, you give them something interested that that they can be interested in, then they will certainly, you know, you'll reap the benefits.

00:38:30.720 Let's say that.

00:38:31.400 And that's what's happening right now.

00:38:32.500 So the next question is, people sometimes build businesses and they become very, very successful and a Facebook will come in and buy them and just absorb them sometimes to sit on them, sometimes to use them, but make it theirs.

00:38:52.260 Would you sell if they came to you and said, hey, we'll offer you whatever, would you sell?

00:38:58.760 They couldn't buy it for $100 million.

00:39:01.300 They couldn't buy it for $100 billion because if they're willing to pay for it that much, I can make that much myself.

00:39:06.740 So I look at it from a creative standpoint as well as a businessman.

00:39:12.960 The point of this whole thing that we're doing is that I looked at the industry.

00:39:17.340 I saw a problem with it, a fundamental issue with it, and I wanted to do things my sort of own way.

00:39:22.900 I took the, let's say, what people are doing like in a crowdfunding space.

00:39:26.680 I took it, made it my own kind of spin on it, giving people the visual numbers so they can see it and all of that, while also already having the work done.

00:39:36.460 I already paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure that I can make this happen, which is why we can get it to the audience relatively quick.

00:39:43.200 So if they came to me with a dollar amount, I could refuse it because this is the whole point.

00:39:49.820 I don't want to have to go through you guys.

00:39:51.580 I want to be able to show folks that we can do this in a far more decentralized way than what it was before.

00:39:59.080 Yeah, as a libertarian, philosophically, that's what I want.

00:40:02.280 I don't like the idea that there's these mega corporate entities, billion-dollar corporate entities that have control of all of these properties.

00:40:08.980 We have a direct, just with the internet and the technology alone, we have a direct line of sight with our audience.

00:40:14.920 We don't have to go through the old guard anymore, and that's probably what frustrates these guys more than anything if they write these hit pieces.

00:40:22.800 It's that we're seeing success, but we're also not going through them, so they can't give me enough money to take my property, not at all.

00:40:29.420 All right, so Eric, can you give us just a one-minute rundown of what the characters are, what's happening in book one?

00:40:40.860 Yeah, so Isom issue number one, it deals with a character by the name of Avery Seelman.

00:40:45.800 He had before been a hero of sorts.

00:40:49.120 He got his abilities, he started to be a hero, and there was an event that happened that, well, he decided to kind of walk away from it.

00:40:56.260 So this story, Isom issue number one, kind of takes place with him after he had already been a hero.

00:41:02.660 He's a regular blue-collar civilian kind of in Texas.

00:41:05.660 He has his own ranch.

00:41:06.600 He's doing his own thing.

00:41:08.200 And his sister, Altona, gives him a call and wants him to visit an old friend because there was another different friend, a family friend, that was interning with his sister.

00:41:17.840 And she's like, hey, can you go check it, check this out?

00:41:21.400 She was interning with us.

00:41:22.500 She's kind of gone missing, and last I heard, your old friend, Darren Fontaine, which is his name, has had some sort of relation with her.

00:41:31.540 Go look into it.

00:41:32.460 So even though he doesn't like being in the city, he's going to, for the sake of his sister, for the sake of this old friend, he's going to go check this out.

00:41:40.360 And, of course, he has kind of the longest day in his life meeting all these interesting characters that all of you guys are going to, of course, enjoy.

00:41:47.640 I know people are going to love it.

00:41:49.060 So I wanted to tell this story in the way that it is because I don't think there's a lot of Texas heroes that are out there.

00:41:54.680 And I was like, let's give it a shot.

00:41:56.100 So is it a superpower?

00:41:59.140 Yeah, he does have a superpower.

00:42:00.600 He does have superpowers.

00:42:01.960 People will find out exactly what those are in the book.

00:42:05.320 He does have certain abilities.

00:42:06.860 It's not as I know people are guessing.

00:42:08.440 That's the cool thing about comics.

00:42:09.920 Everybody has their theories and everything.

00:42:11.600 We're already seeing that.

00:42:12.720 But we did this in a very unique way.

00:42:15.580 Did he fall into toxic waste or was he bitten by a bat?

00:42:19.100 No, it wasn't bitten by an animal that gave him his powers or anything like that.

00:42:25.000 All right.

00:42:26.760 I can't wait to get it.

00:42:28.900 And I would like a first edition for our museum as well.

00:42:32.320 You got it.

00:42:32.440 I think this is going to be big.

00:42:35.240 And you already know that.

00:42:37.440 Where can you go to buy one?

00:42:40.220 Of course, Ripperverse.com.

00:42:42.280 You can go get the book.

00:42:43.900 You can go get a bunch of other items that we have.

00:42:46.800 A couple of different covers.

00:42:47.920 A few different covers, actually.

00:42:49.520 As well as different.

00:42:51.400 We got trading cards.

00:42:52.340 We got all kinds of merchandise items.

00:42:54.040 Shirts.

00:42:54.380 Everything.

00:42:54.880 Hats.

00:42:55.160 You can get all kinds of stuff that's associated with it over at Ripperverse.com.

00:43:00.240 I love it.

00:43:01.940 Ripperverse.

00:43:02.500 R-I-P-P-A-verse.com.

00:43:05.820 Eric, congratulations.

00:43:07.500 We'll talk to you again, my friend.

00:43:08.640 All right.

00:43:08.980 See you soon.

00:43:09.420 Bye-bye.

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The Glenn Beck Program - July 20, 2022

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Vivek Ramaswamy & Eric July ｜ 7⧸20⧸22

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