On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck sits down with none other than Jeff Bezos to discuss the Amazon CEO's new venture into space, the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, and why he's the greatest in the world.
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00:18:38.540Isn't it crazy that we have reusable rockets now?
00:18:44.080I mean, I've never used to say, I mean, I bet, I mean, Florida, the coast of Florida has just got a bunch of rockets washing up on the beach now.
00:18:55.460I mean, because they would all fall back into the ocean.
00:18:58.040Remember the two big, what was those, Morton, what was it, Morton, I can't remember the name of it.
00:27:41.420I mean, it's just like yoga, only it's strengthening and flexibility and, you know, supposed to make you leaner and taller and it's awesome.
00:28:03.900It's the most intense, like, I don't know, you know, you're like, you know, do the gladfish or whatever and do it for, you know, 20 minutes.
00:28:17.400And it is so strenuous at the same time.
00:33:42.080You've never seen anything like this before.
00:33:44.160But when it hits intermission about halfway through, he realizes that COVID and the isolation is going to keep going.
00:33:54.100At the beginning of the video, it's kind of light because he's like, it's, you know, it's going to be over soon.
00:33:58.500And then six months into it, he's still making the video and he's, he is realizing, are we ever going to leave lockdown?
00:34:08.880But his, especially in the second half, his discoveries of what's real and what's not are phenomenal.
00:34:21.800I really, I so want to play some of the stuff on the air because the commentary about where we are, you're watching, you're watching this guy in one of the most real performances you've ever seen.
00:34:37.240And while he has kind of a breakdown on screen, I don't think that that's the real breakdown.
00:34:43.780I think that is him reenacting the breakdown, but the breakdown, you know, is real.
00:34:49.720Um, and, uh, he is coming to the understanding that the internet and, and what, what's going on in the world right now is blowing us apart.
00:35:06.080And he, he's just so clear while he is losing his mind.
00:35:15.220And he's so clear on what the problems are.
00:35:20.440And I doubt we agree on things, um, except the diagnosis of the problem.
00:36:14.840I mean, here he's, he's, A, his music is beautiful, but then he's saying goodbye, I'll meet you, I'll meet you outside, I'll meet you on the street, but we're never coming back, we're never coming back together, I'll be on the other side of the street.
00:36:34.480It is such a brilliant piece of work, and last night when I was watching it, I was overwhelmed with the feeling that it was almost like dropping a pin, you know when you drop a pin on a map, on the timeline.
00:36:53.400This guy, I mean, in that song it talks about, you know, you say it's ending, but it's already over, and nothing you can do to change it, and it's, it is such a weird, dystopian almost piece, but it's real.
00:37:22.260And I felt like it was dropping a pin in the timeline.
00:37:25.220I feel like this special would be or should be looked at possibly in the future as the first real sign in mass culture that the collective knew.
00:37:43.940And, uh, cause I said to my daughter about halfway through, I said, what, what do you think of this?
00:37:50.900She said, well, it's funny, but it's all true.
00:38:18.760His name is Bo Burnham, uh, and it is a, uh, it's a special called Inside, and you can find it on Netflix.
00:38:29.460It is, uh, just warning if you are somebody that is offended by language, and, uh, it is very edgy, very edgy, uh, for anybody who is not used to the, you know, culture as it is today.
00:38:44.100Um, but it, it is, watch it all the way through.
00:42:43.860I'm not sure if I should bring our next guest on.
00:42:49.140Um, not only is he using Facebook to build a business empire, according to NPR, and a dangerous one, according to NPR.
00:42:59.180I found something else out about Ben Shapiro, and I just looked at Stu, and I said, I don't, I don't know what to do with the information other than Ben's been a friend of mine for a long time, so I think I have to just bring it up, you know.
01:01:41.400Tell me the thing that you're most concerned about and the thing that we can actually make an impact on.
01:01:52.700So right now, the thing that I'm most concerned about is the wokeification of corporations, the use of business to cram down particular viewpoints on the rest of the American public inside your business place, threatening you with firing if you don't post the proper black square or the proper gay pride message.
01:02:10.180If that continues, then we are going to completely bifurcate as a country.
01:02:13.680And it is an area where we can successfully push back in the same way that a lot of people have pushed back in the educational sphere.
01:02:18.560All it really requires is for you to politically unionize with some of your friends, because it really is like a very core group of radical leftists who renormalize these institutions by taking advantage of people not wanting to cause controversy or have HR issues.
01:02:30.300And so if you can be loud and proud on the other side and outnumber those folks, then you really can get your institution to just go back to kind of weapons down, no politics in the workplace, which would be, I think, the best available outcome there.
01:02:41.120Any doubt in your mind that the giant corporations are using the Great Reset or headed that way, and they're using the Marxists as fuel, that they'll eat the Marxists when all is said and done?
01:02:58.600You know, I think that they think they'll eat the Marxists, but we'll find out.
01:03:03.000I mean, a lot of the corporations thought, you know, that in the early days of the Russian Revolution, that things would end up well for them.
01:03:10.820A lot of the corporations thought in the early days of the Nazis that things would end up great for them, not so much.
01:03:15.320So it turns out that when you get in bed with the government and with people who love government, you shouldn't be surprised when you get screwed.
01:03:21.220So I think a lot of these people think they're in control, but they are not, I think.
01:03:25.300Ben Shapiro, great work at The Daily Wire.
01:04:15.540ESG scores are coming, and they are coming to you, which is going to mean that it is going to get harder and harder for you, your company, to get business loans unless you fall into line.
01:07:51.280Well, what we found is there's a sizable amount of the public believes that parents need to teach their own opinions regardless of what the school does.
01:08:10.840But there's also a significant amount of people who see this as kind of a call to action to either get their kids out of public school or to actively take over these school boards.
01:08:23.600So I found this interesting because you look at Republicans, and it was about 38 percent said if CRT is being taught in their child's school, they need to remove their children from school.
01:08:46.220But what I found interesting beyond that was 20 percent of liberals said the same thing and 22 percent of independents.
01:08:56.980So you're looking, you know, 25, 28 percent of all Americans, no matter what you vote for, about 25 percent of all Americans believe that you should take your child out of public school if it is being taught.
01:09:13.840I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.
01:09:17.560Well, and when you add to it the number of people who say you fight it by taking over the school boards, now you start talking about a majority.
01:09:29.620And that's the key factor is that either get your kids out of the school or take over the school boards.
01:09:36.360But the parents want a school that is accountable to what they believe, and they either get that by picking the school, whether it's parochial or private or charter school or homeschooling, or they get it by getting involved in controlling the school board elections.
01:09:54.020But parents won't say so in what's being taught to their children.
01:09:56.740So you did this in conjunction with Convention of States, which is an organization that I completely agree with, having a new constitutional convention.
01:10:10.000But this one shows that, let me just go through some of the numbers.
01:10:15.180Fifty one percent of American voters say parents opposed to critical race theory should take action.
01:10:20.360Twenty-seven percent of American voters say parents who oppose critical race theory should remove their children from public school if CRT becomes a part of children's curriculum.
01:10:30.840Twenty-four percent say American voters and parents who oppose critical race should run candidates and work to take control of the local school boards if CRT becomes part of the children's curriculum.
01:10:43.980Twenty-nine percent say they should teach their views at home without interfering at school if CRT becomes a part of children's curriculum.
01:10:54.400That one I don't even understand in seeing that critical race theory teaches if you don't believe this stuff, you're an enemy to, you know, goodness and sunshine and candy, free candy for everybody.
01:11:14.840How would the kids even process that if they're being taught the exact opposite at home when the teacher is saying, if you don't buy into any of this, you're a hate monger, you're trouble?
01:11:27.760Well, I think this reflects a couple of things.
01:11:32.040One of our successes is based on the fact that, you know, we are pretty good at giving what people really think when they're very hesitant to give their genuine opinion.
01:11:44.680And I would tell you, and what I saw in looking at other answers people gave who answered that, that group is a mix of people who are hesitant because they, you know, they don't want to express an opinion.
01:11:57.800And a lot of those people oppose critical race theory, but a lot of them are conservative folks who oppose a lot of things that are being taught in school.
01:12:07.440And they're used to teaching in something different at home, but some of them just don't want to verbalize their opinion.
01:12:12.680I mean, we see this in every single survey, and that's one of the things we've specialized is kind of getting to what the survey tells me is that there's a very small percentage of people who actually are in favor of it.
01:12:28.600And that's why we do want to run the traditional, if you're opposed or in favor of it, poll, because frankly, people are very hesitant to give you a straight answer there.
01:12:38.000But I would tell you of that 29%, you're probably looking at 10 or 15 who oppose it, but are used to opposing a lot of things taught in secular public schools and just already teach their kids that, you know, worry about the math and science that let us teach everything else.
01:12:56.780So what does that tell us about the commitment and the fervor, if you will, of this being different, of parents saying, you know, I've taken it for a long time, but no more.
01:13:09.380Does that show a weakening of the will?
01:13:14.700I think it's strengthening, one, because school board elections, especially in states and districts that do not have them during the regular election cycle, are notoriously low attendance elections.
01:13:28.440And I don't think there are going to be any low attendance school board elections in the near future.
01:13:33.080This has awakened people on a lot of fronts.
01:13:39.120We hear movements about trying to get school board elections moved onto the regular ballot.
01:13:43.920We hear people talk about making the school board elections partisan so that they'll face the same voters the same day and be held accountable within a party structure.
01:13:53.800But, I mean, to me, this says parents that have choices and can afford choices are going to use them, and there's a sizable amount who are going to impact those school board elections.
01:14:04.320And for the 24 percent who say go win the school board elections, I believe there's probably a working majority, if those people are active, to vote based on a more traditional candidate.
01:14:18.840I mean, we saw – to me, this all started last summer, and this is something we encapsulated and we talked about was as much as people were troubled by the violence and the statutes being torn down and everything, what we keep getting from people was what bothered them more was that it didn't seem to bother their children.
01:14:38.780We kept getting that, people telling us that, that all this stuff and, you know, people trying to tear down Andrew Jackson's statue in front of the White House, it didn't seem to bother their kids.
01:14:50.980And, you know, with COVID, people are seeing what their kids are hearing, and there's just all of a sudden this rebellion, I mean, rebellion in that we can't just leave this up to the government.
01:15:02.680You know, the same government that people don't trust is teaching your kids.
01:15:07.200Robert, one of the things you've done really well with your polling and you've made people aware of is that people don't answer polls honestly.
01:15:14.800They don't always say what they really think.
01:15:21.220I mean, I know it goes back to – people refer back to the 80s, the Bradley effect in Los Angeles.
01:15:27.120Is this something that people are really changing the way that they answer polls, and is that effect getting more pronounced?
01:15:33.840Yes, and just simply, you know, I grew up in South Carolina, and I always remember we're in the media market for North Carolina hearing that whatever Jesse Helms' numbers are, if he's only down before, he's going to win.
01:15:49.140I mean, so, you know, we always call it the Helms factor.
01:15:51.040It was the Bradley effect for the California race.
01:15:52.860But that had a very specific tone to it about very specific things people not want to be judged or racist.
01:16:01.820But since then, with Trump, we saw the effect in 16.
01:16:07.620But by 2020, with cancel culture and people being docked and, you know, people being attacked, it has gone underwater.
01:16:14.220The first thing is it is very hard to get people who are conservatives to participate in a poll to begin with.
01:16:20.200It is one of the fundamental reasons so many got it wrong in 2020.
01:16:24.280They were under-sampling Republicans because they were hard to get to participate in the polls to begin with.
01:16:29.760Then the Republicans who were willing to participate in polls, more willing, tended to be the very small silver of never-Trump Republicans.
01:16:37.940So they're waiting up their Republican participation to meet their goals, and then they're overblowing the never-Trump Republicans.
01:16:46.140And so no wonder their polls are so far off.
01:16:48.140You had to start by saying, hey, I've got to get the people I have to get.
01:16:52.300Waiting is one of the things that is the biggest problem in polling because people get a small sample of a group, and maybe they needed 30%, and they only got 22.
01:17:01.660Well, if you're going to wait it up, you better have it on the – you better nail it because you could be distorting a flawed sample to begin with.
01:17:11.380So we always shoot for not having to do very much waiting in the end because we want to get it right the first time.
01:17:16.400So what is the difference between you and them?
01:17:36.260We say sometimes that you first have to figure out whether their goal is to reflect the election or their goal is to affect the election, and I think there's an even division on that.
01:17:46.940But the other problem is these ridiculous short – I mean, long surveys and small samples.
01:17:55.320I mean, do you know somebody who's got time to answer 35 questions on a Tuesday night?
01:18:00.960And then they're going to call those people, and they're only going to call 600, 700, say it represents an entire state.
01:18:08.040Their margin of error is going to be through the roof.
01:18:09.520And then what you get is people who care too much about issues.
01:18:14.380The kind of person who will answer 35 questions on a Tuesday night cares too much about politics on the left or the right, or God forbid they're just bored, you have got to get to average working people.
01:18:26.820We believe in quick surveys that are less than nine questions and less than three minutes to take.
01:18:33.040And so get it in and give out, because if I don't represent people who think about politics rarely, I'm not going to get the mainstream of American thought.
01:18:43.260Robert, we have only like one more minute.
01:18:56.420On the other hand, though, that's allowing these polls, not necessarily yours, because yours are doing it, going about it a different way.
01:19:03.200But these polls that often shape the media narrative are being utilized against all of these candidates because these Republicans are not participating as often.
01:19:13.480Should conservatives participate more often in these polls?
01:19:18.340I think conservatives should listen to the name of the company.
01:19:22.140They want to go check it out, just like they do with us.
01:21:15.780Coming up after the news at the top of the hour, we're going to go into the lies, the misleading facts, the things that the Biden administration said they've got to stop by partnering with social media.
01:21:32.860It's an interesting thing because a lot of what has caused this situation has been the lies and the misleading statements and the fabrication of stories by the mainstream media that the White House wants to ignore.
01:23:48.020I want to talk to you about misinformation and how almost everything that we are dealing with now that is a problem is coming from misinformation.
01:23:58.560But not misinformation from the right, not misinformation from a group or this group or that group, unless that group is the Democratic Party.
01:24:14.280And I want to make this case and just use common sense.
01:24:32.620The Consumer Price Index reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics most widely used measure of inflation in the United States.
01:24:39.800The most recent report released on July 13th showed we saw just now the largest one month change since June of 2008 and the largest 12 month increase since August of 2008.
01:27:43.760Is it intentional or is it an accident?
01:27:48.940Well, we've been heading down this road for a long time because people didn't know.
01:27:55.780People didn't know who to trust, but there wasn't a way to actually go and get information elsewhere.
01:28:02.860The Internet has changed absolutely everything.
01:28:07.460And so now we can get different information.
01:28:10.560We can get real information and we can get bogus information.
01:28:14.380And when when the officials are not in line with the American people, and that doesn't mean that we don't agree or we we don't ever disagree.
01:28:30.640When people hear a an excuse, for instance, you're going to the store and you're paying 11 percent more for milk than you were just a couple of months ago.
01:28:39.600And then you hear the president say there is no inflation.
01:29:11.340And so you lose the trust of all of the institutions because you figure out they they're lying to you now and they've been probably lying to you for a long time, which opens up all of the doors of now.
01:33:07.320And if you think that makes me a radical, let me reverse the scenario.
01:33:11.960If Donald Trump said exactly the same thing, do you think the other side would believe it?
01:33:20.040See, the problem is we're losing faith in our institutions, but then everything has become politicized that.
01:33:29.800The exact same thing can be done by one president and half the country thinks it's OK and the other half thinks they should go to jail for it.
01:33:42.460And then the D is switched to an R or vice versa.
01:33:47.680And all of a sudden, the entire population switches because we're not talking about principles anymore.
01:34:41.980Why are we having problems right now with thinking that Nazis are coming to get us?
01:34:49.420Well, the misinformation about neo-Nazis.
01:34:53.380Biden launched his presidential campaign in April 2019 by claiming that President Donald Trump had referred to the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as very fine people.
01:37:50.200If the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine, would you take it?
01:37:53.160Only if it was completely transparent that other experts in the country could look at it.
01:37:59.280Only if we knew all of what went into it.
01:38:02.520If Donald Trump can't give answers and the administration can't give answers to these three questions, the American people should not have confidence.
01:38:09.420But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
01:38:59.880I mean, it's the biggest trial in human history, and we are just trying it on people.
01:39:05.500But we were in a situation where we needed the vaccine and it seems to be working, seems to be good.
01:39:14.320Now they are coming after people who have these questions.
01:39:18.520When they're not being transparent, they are not saying to people, just look at it, just look at it, and you decide, and let's have a debate.
01:39:54.120And nobody will know for 10 years, but I don't think there's any chips in it or anything else.
01:40:00.040So take it, especially if you're vulnerable.
01:40:04.360They say that that is dangerous misinformation.
01:40:08.480And it's coming from the political right.
01:40:12.300Well, when you find out that the people who are not getting vaccinated are African Americans and Hispanics, that's where the lion's share is.
01:40:26.640When you hear that, are Hispanics and African Americans, are they suddenly listening to the Daily Wire and to Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro?
01:43:46.080And almost everything that is happening in our world today is happening because the government has violated the Bill of Rights, and they have lied and caused these problems.
01:44:00.200How about the misinformation about China's threat to the U.S.?
01:44:07.020During the campaign, they're not a threat.
01:44:09.280They're, you know, Trump banning was hysterical xenophobia when you couldn't go to, when you couldn't go to China.
01:44:18.700How does he have any credibility on China now?
01:44:22.600The misinformation on the military debts, the misinformation about the economic reopenings, the misinformation about Trump and Lafayette Square, the Hunter Biden laptop.
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01:46:17.460I want to play again for you the voices of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden during the campaign and what they were saying about a vaccine if it was released, you know, before January of last year.
01:46:38.440So let's just say there is a vaccine that is approved and even distributed before the election.
01:47:21.160If the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine, would you take it?
01:47:24.420Only if it was completely transparent that other experts in the country could look at it.
01:47:29.520Only if we knew all of what went into it.
01:47:32.680If Donald Trump can't give answers and the administration can't give answers to these three questions, the American people should not have confidence.
01:47:39.980But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.
01:48:01.660We should all be cheering for something that is going to help the American people.
01:48:08.400But if you noticed, that doesn't happen.
01:48:11.200So when they say that they are going to crack down on people with misinformation about the coronavirus medication, the vaccine, shouldn't we start with what they said?
01:48:27.460Shouldn't we be questioning how they have any credibility on take this vaccine when they themselves planted the seeds of doubt?
01:48:39.960And they had the most significant action that has stopped people from getting vaccinated from the beginning.
01:48:47.340Give this stat because people don't know this and it is it's phenomenal.
01:48:52.240The absolute peak of vaccine distribution in this country on average was 3.384 million doses that occurred on April 13th of this year.
01:49:01.700Also occurring on April 13th of this year was the government pausing the Johnson and Johnson vaccine on the exact day of the exact peak.
01:49:13.680And since then, not only I mean, they totally destroyed the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and the usage there with that pause, which is somewhat to be expected.
01:49:24.240But also the same thing, people became overall more hesitant for from vaccines.
01:49:29.380And they tried to push these polls out there immediately afterwards and said, oh, well, people actually think it's a good thing.
01:49:34.200If you pause a vaccine, they think people are they must be really on top of it.
01:49:38.180Well, the actions are totally disproving that nonsense the government was pushing out at the time.
01:49:45.160By the way, the result we should point out at the end of it was nothing, nothing, not even a warning, nothing.
01:49:51.000The rare the side effect was so rare they didn't even put a full warning on the vaccine.
01:49:56.480But all of that came with a result of now all three vaccines that have been approved for use here in the United States have declined ever since.
01:50:06.180And now we're at about five hundred and twenty one thousand doses a day that day.
01:50:10.400That decision by not me, not RFK Jr., not Fox News, but the U.S.
01:50:17.080government. That is the thing that has changed the tide here.
01:50:21.000Eventually demand would have run out anyway, obviously, naturally.
01:50:23.840But I mean, when you're at three and four million doses a day, a few more weeks of that puts them put their own administration way past their goals.
01:50:34.220All of those things that they're complaining about now, you wouldn't need to worry about people who are, I guess, listening to too much of RFK Jr.
01:52:28.900They're protesting the latest measure by the by the Macron administration to push people to get vaccinated to curb the infections by the Delta variant.
01:54:18.140You're not going to get anybody in corporate America or corporate globally to throw China under the bus because they all are in bed with China.
01:55:55.560There's no problem with using that terminology where he is saying that Donald Trump was going to overthrow the government and that's why people were there.
01:56:08.920They weren't there to overthrow the government.
01:56:13.100And if you really cared, you'd be talking to me about Antifa.
01:56:16.380If you had any credibility, you would have not told me to deny the reality that I saw with my own eyes all across the country all summer long.
01:56:27.040Where people were actually saying defund the police, all police are murderers, and this is systematic racism, and America needs to be overthrown.
01:56:38.780That was a revolution that they were trying to start.
01:56:48.980Everything that is happening, all problems that are happening in the United States and in the world right now, is because the answers that we are given don't make sense.
01:58:15.020Because everything has become about politics.
01:58:18.900When a country takes everything and makes everything about politics, it has no chance of survival unless the people unplug from the system.
01:58:33.860Unless the people say, I'm not playing that game.
01:58:37.680I don't, I'm sorry, you want me to stand up and just tolerate you telling me that all white people are inherently racist and there's nothing you can do about it.
01:58:51.860And you have to become anti-racist, which is not the same as Martin Luther King.
01:58:56.900Anti-racism means I have to be racist to stop racists.
01:59:47.840If you are a person who has dealt with regular or severe pain, there's a way out of it.
01:59:55.440Have you ever had that moment, maybe when you're standing in front of the bathroom mirror, buttoning the sleeves of your shirt in the morning, where you stop and smile and think, wow, it was just a few months ago.