The elites have arrived in Davos, and conspiracy theories thrive online. When some of the world s wealthiest and most influential figures gather at the World Economic Forum s annual meeting, we have misinformation about how charitable and wonderful this group really is.
00:04:26.280All right, so let me just give you this.
00:04:28.700Let me give you this story from the Associated Press.
00:04:31.180When some of the world's wealthiest and most influential figures gather at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting last year,
00:04:39.040sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems.
00:04:46.340But an entirely different narrative played out on the Internet where social media users claimed leaders wanted to force the population to eat insects instead of meat in the name of saving the environment.
00:05:00.240Oh, by the way, I should point this out.
00:05:03.560In a completely unrelated story, I just saw this.
00:05:08.980I was doing some research on another story in Canada.
00:05:12.160And I came across, you can find it, CanadianManufacturing.com.
00:14:59.740The study, which spans nine paragraphs, was based on a bunch of hodgepodge different data and methodologies spanning various years and countries.
00:15:11.120And, really, nobody can really make sense of it.
00:15:15.520The experts at Yale University say, yeah, it's a little more than questionable the way they put this together.
00:16:16.880And the executives, Chinese leader Xi Jinping's vice president, right-hand man, Wang Kisan.
00:16:24.680And they have deep participation in China's economic reforms and development.
00:16:32.540And their goal is to serve the nation.
00:16:35.060Rocky Mountain Institute also sits on China Clean Transportation Partnership, a Chinese green energy nonprofit whose founding members include China's National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport.
00:16:47.600So, they, you know, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:16:51.540They're deeply in bed with communist China.
00:16:54.420And, you know, who wins if the United States gets off of oil and gas and China doesn't?
00:19:26.700So, the good news is we have made huge, huge inroads in stopping ESG in the country.
00:19:42.560And we're doing it through the states.
00:19:45.380However, we are finding more and more Republicans after they've been courted by the big banks.
00:19:52.680It's, you know, gee, well, I mean, I'm not saying it's quid pro quo, but we are looking for good candidates to back.
00:20:01.280And the big banks are coming in to all of the state representatives and senators, and they're all saying, you know, this is crazy, this ESG thing.
00:20:11.600So, now, Republicans and Democrats are telling our teams that are meeting with legislatures all over the country that it doesn't affect the average person.
00:25:10.420You are actually, I wanted to have you on because you have introduced legislation prohibiting the tracking of guns and ammo purchases via debit and credit card transactions.
00:25:22.820And this is something that the administration is working on, and they're working on it through the banking sector.
00:25:33.160Yes, Glenn, and, you know, this is going to sound very similar to what we've heard on the fossil fuel side as it relates to ESG.
00:25:44.460But this would be the S, the social part of ESG.
00:25:48.260So I've introduced what's called the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.
00:25:54.140And let me give just a little bit of background here just so people understand how this came about.
00:26:00.200So in September last year, 28 members of Congress, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, sent public letters to the largest credit card companies and also to the financial institutions out there that deal with them, the banks.
00:26:19.740And what they asked for is a new merchant category code, NCC.
00:26:25.040And this is how they code all different transactions.
00:26:27.000But what they wanted specifically is an NCC code in place to track purchases of guns and ammunition.
00:26:36.440And now they were very upfront about why they want this.
00:26:39.960This is a backdoor national gun registry.
00:26:44.080The liberals have wanted this forever.
00:26:48.200They can't achieve it at the ballot box.
00:26:50.440So now they're using the financial services sector to be able to achieve that goal.
00:26:55.920So what we've done here in West Virginia is introduce this bill, and it's going to do four separate things here.
00:27:04.520One, any financial institution that's under our jurisdiction is going to be prohibited from sharing any information as it relates to purchases of guns and ammunition.
00:27:17.880Secondly, any financial institution in the state of West Virginia that operates here is going to be prohibited from utilizing a firearms code to engage in discriminatory conduct, right, that would say, all right, we're not going to work with this gun shop or merchant, or we're going to deny credit card transactions for people that want to buy guns and ammunition.
00:27:40.520Thirdly, and this is important, it's going to create a civil action, it is going to create a cause of action for people who have had their Second Amendment rights violated by these woke financial institutions to be able to sue for damages.
00:27:57.640And lastly, any financial institution that has violated this bill, violated this act, will be prohibited from the bidding process on any contracts with the state of West Virginia moving forward.
00:28:12.960So this is, and you know, we've talked about the S, what are we going to do on the S?
00:28:18.140They are now taking the fight to us, we are responding, and this is all about the Great Reset, total control of our lives, they're going to control with the environmental side how we power our lives, right, they're now getting rid of the gas, they want to get rid of gas stove tops, and now they're going to control our guns and ammunition.
00:28:40.840And here's one of the scariest things about this, you're going to have financial institutions, credit card companies, banks, have the sole discretion to decide when something is, let's say, suspicious activity.
00:28:55.800Okay, I bought too much ammunition this month, or I bought too many firearms this month.
00:29:01.180They're going to then decide to flag that for the feds or law enforcement.
00:32:13.440Well, I mean, this is an ATF regulation, my understanding, that they've been working on now for a while as it relates to collapsible stocks.
00:32:20.180I mean, this is – you know, Washington constantly is doing this, okay, we're going to put this regulation and this rule in place, and then when we come in, we're going to repeal the rule.
00:32:29.840These are the types of things that the new Republican majority in Congress and the people who are going to be running in 2024 so we can retake the Senate need to be talking about.
00:32:41.500Back to your point, in Florida and West Virginia, these are the things we talk about.
00:33:22.260By the way, we're going to have more on this particular issue on tomorrow's program, just to figure out exactly what we're required now to do.
00:33:31.560Riley Moore, West Virginia State Treasurer, please keep us up to date on this passing or running into any kind of trouble there in West Virginia.
00:36:50.060Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, here from Texas, has introduced a bill criminalizing conspiracy to commit white supremacy.
00:37:08.480Harmeet Dillon, who should be our next head of the GOP, said,
00:37:14.260Sheila Jackson Lee just introduced a bill that would make it a federal crime for white people and white people only to criticize mass immigration or say anything that she claims would vilify a non-white person or group.
00:37:28.940What could possibly go wrong with something like that?
00:37:36.060It was done by the Daily Wire, and it was on my interview with Richard Dreyfuss.
00:37:40.460And it is so important that you at least read this story, but I would say listen to this podcast and share it with a friend that you think is on the other side.
00:37:52.380Richard Dreyfuss talks about, you know, he was a communist.
00:37:56.000He was a communist and still disagrees with a lot of stuff, and I disagree with a lot of stuff he says.
00:38:03.620Dreyfuss joined Beck in an interview to discuss his book, One Thought Scares Me.
00:38:07.780We teach our children what we wish them to know.
00:38:11.000We don't teach our children what we don't wish them to know.
00:38:15.620He said he gave up acting only for something he loved as much, which was saving his country.
00:38:25.660I loved my job of acting since I was nine years old, and I left it for something I love just as much, saving my country.
00:38:35.280And I firmly believe if we don't revive the study of civics, we will be dead before 2050.
00:38:42.920We'll have the same name, but it will be a nightmare.
00:38:47.460I've led such a blessed life, and I gave it up for a blessed life.
00:38:53.620He said, it infuriates me that people don't understand what this place means, Dreyfuss added, his voice breaking.
00:39:02.920He actually broke down and cried at this point.
00:39:04.980What an advance on human progress this country is all about, and how quickly we can seem to abandon it without even a second thought.
00:39:13.820He said that one of the things he was concerned about was the attitude people had about opposing views.
00:39:23.460They don't know that opposing views are entwined and threaded through the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and what we show the world we believe in.
00:39:33.840You know, there's a very simple thing.
00:39:35.540It's these documents that tell the world who we are and why we are.
00:39:42.540And we say, because the work's in progress, they'll tell us who we want to be when we grow up.
00:39:56.260If you haven't bought his book, you should.
00:40:00.700One Thought Scares Me by Richard Dreyfuss.
00:40:03.500He's talking about civics, and you're not going to agree with everything in the book, but he's talking about how we must teach our kids about the Bill of Rights, how we must teach our kids the Constitution.
00:40:20.080You know, most people don't even know what the three branches of government is.
00:40:25.140They don't know why we have the three branches.
00:40:28.920They don't have any idea why all authority can't go to one branch or another, the checks and balances.
00:43:26.560The AP wants you to know that's not true.
00:43:29.700In fact, the World Economic Forum, the managing director last August, said this whole conspiracy of us trying to make sure that nobody has anything started as a screenshot called from the internet by an anonymous anti-Semitic account on the image boards of 4chan.
00:43:50.980Own nothing, own nothing, own nothing, you'll be happy.
00:43:53.840That was the Jew World Order 2030, said the Post, and that's, all the extremists picked that up.
00:44:00.280That's weird because, um, that's not true.
00:44:04.180But that's from the World Economic Forum.
00:44:06.720The guy who brought this to my attention was Michael Schellenberger.
00:44:12.180He's, um, he calls it a grift and a cult.
00:44:18.040We're going to talk to him in 60 seconds.
00:44:21.500One of the hardest lessons in life is that stability is a luxury in this world.
00:44:27.280It's not always there for the enjoying, and I think you know that right now.
00:44:30.920Wheels kind of coming off of the cart right now.
00:44:33.920Please, I urge you to prepare yourself for impact.
00:46:26.500I mean, you know there's been just dozens, I mean hundreds of articles saying there's these conspiracy theories about this thing called the World Economic Forum.
00:46:37.740The conspiracy theories claim that the World Economic Forum wants a great reset, that they want you to eat insects rather than meat, and that they don't want you to own anything or have any privacy, and that you'll be happier if you do that.
00:46:53.040Okay, those are all supposedly conspiracy theories.
00:46:55.260Well, my colleague, Isabella Kaminska, who actually used to work at Financial Times, which is a great fan of the World Economic Forum, and she'd been investigating them for almost a decade, and I both just published a piece where all of those things are not only true, the great reset insects as the new meat and owning nothing and having no privacy, those are not only true things.
00:47:20.060They're actually from the World Economic Forum's Davos Summit itself, and from the website.
00:47:26.060They say they want transparency, but they've actually deleted a number of those things.
00:47:31.900They say they want more, they want to know our financial information.
00:47:37.180Okay, that's like part of what gets promoted at these conferences.
00:47:39.820Like, we should know what's in your bank account, and we should probably be able to control it, too, as we saw in Canada with the truckers.
00:47:46.960That comes in handy if you're trying to, you know, move away from a democratic system to an authoritarian one.
00:47:54.760So, they want that, too, but then when we say, well, how do you invest your money, they wouldn't tell us.
00:48:06.160Are you familiar with Switzerland's banking laws?
00:48:08.700Yes, I think, well, maybe Klausch might not have, but I think his father was clear about the Swiss banking laws.
00:48:18.400Like, you know, his father ran a Swiss company in Germany during World War II, during the Holocaust.
00:48:26.660Historians who have looked into this said that, indeed, he did use forced labor, you know, Jewish labor during the Holocaust, during World War II.
00:49:13.920You own the company, but the country, the authoritarian leadership, tells you exactly what you're going to make, when you're going to make it, how to do it, and you get to keep your country.
00:49:26.640It's exactly what's happening in China.
00:50:40.660And when my wife asked her father about the insect eating, he said, you know, we were poor and starving, you know, during the war.
00:50:47.600So insect eating, the idea that insect eating is sort of something that noble Asians and Africans do is nonsense.
00:50:57.260And so it really does come out, and they say it very clearly in promoting insect eating, that they don't want you to eat meat.
00:51:04.100So then if you go and report that, what it is, they come out and say that it's a conspiracy theory.
00:51:10.360But when you go check on their own website, that's what they say.
00:51:14.040And it's basically all the things that you've been writing about.
00:51:16.380I mean, I think ultimately you and Russell Brand and the other major critics of the World Economic Forum are proven correct in what we discovered.
00:51:26.680And not only that, but I think it's going to ultimately destroy the organization.
00:51:31.580Most world leaders, I think in part because of this heavy backlash against World Economic Forum, did not go.
00:51:38.880Only the German chancellor went, and he has to go to every one of these events to suck up to world leaders and other people and sheiks and stuff because he needs oil and gas.
00:51:47.500But other world leaders don't want to go because they know it's bad for their PR.
00:51:54.020And you saw Elon Musk responded to me on Twitter, you know, saying, yeah, it seems like it, you know, while everybody would support dialogue, it's a creepy event.
00:52:04.740But didn't he just say it seemed boring?
00:52:07.640I thought that was an odd statement for him to make.
00:52:14.220You know, I mean, I think, look, I think part of the thing we discovered as well is that this is also how they rip you off.
00:52:20.940This is the grift part of it is that when you and I buy, you know, stocks or people have pensions and retirement funds that are buying stocks, they're not getting the early stock or the early investment money.
00:52:35.160That's the stuff that gets traded at Davos.
00:52:38.660So in the front house, they talk about we love the environment and racial equality.
00:53:13.740But it is also a bid for global domination in the sense that they want to take hold of the economy, and they're doing that.
00:53:21.660I mean, the energy economy at this point in Europe and heavily in the United States is overwhelmingly controlled by governments because they put so many subsidies in it that they're basically controlling.
00:53:31.060And now because they've made electricity unreliable in the United States, they're going to have to create yet another set of subsidies just to pay somebody to try to keep power plants operating when the sun is not shining, the wind is not blowing.
00:53:47.040It may be that in the future, because you and Russell have so demonized the World Economic Forum so successfully, it may be like something else.
00:53:56.140But definitely global elites are constantly trying to take advantage of ordinary retirement-holding citizens with their stocks and bonds and whatever.
00:54:36.640That is, you don't own anything, because the king owns it, or one of his lords.
00:54:42.440You're not going to invent anything, because you don't get anything from it.
00:54:46.180You're not going to improve your life, because you can't.
00:54:48.640You can't improve your station ever, because you can't own anything.
00:54:54.300I mean, it's right back to the feudal system.
00:54:58.900In the meeting, Klaus Schwab opened up yesterday, and he said, we have to master the future.
00:55:07.320And what he was talking about was there are so many crises that are going on right now that they have to master them and use them to push us into this new world.
00:56:01.640I mean, I think the one thing that's proven, that you've proven, and Russell Brand have proven, and others have proven,
00:56:07.580is that World Economic Forum, when you actually learn what it's promoting, is wildly unpopular.
00:56:12.540That's why the change in the media environment, you know, and it starts, of course, with radio, but the internet really takes it to another level,
00:56:21.600means that the old regime struggles constantly.
00:56:26.100So why are they always talking about disinformation?
00:56:28.900It's because people like us are out here explaining that actually, that is what they want.
00:56:35.100They want the bugs, the not owning anything, and a move to low energy living.
00:56:41.240Great Reset, remember, was always just like, we're going to stop using fossil fuels and nuclear and reliable energy,
00:56:47.900and we're going to use unreliable solar and wind, and only whenever that is possible because of the weather.
00:56:56.300And fundamentally, the organization is about what they call sustainability, what I think we would call basically making everybody much poorer,
00:57:06.680you know, returning to a kind of a miseration that we had before the Industrial Revolution,
00:57:12.780before we had reliable energy sources and energy-dense fuels.
00:57:17.520So, yeah, it's a pretty, and all I can say is that you're right, I totally agree.
00:57:22.380In other words, there's a fight going on between those of us that think that individuals and families and nations should be able to determine their own identity
00:57:33.960and a group of other people that think it should be worked out by the supposedly smart elites, yeah,
00:57:41.080working out of think tanks and UN meetings and business conferences.
00:57:45.420And, you know, Elon, you know, he's a complicated person, and I've gotten to know him a little bit,
00:57:49.840but, I mean, what I would say is I think he's seen the dark side of that hyper-woke-ism,
00:57:55.860and his purchase of Twitter is maybe the most significant thing he's done because he's basically said
00:58:01.960ordinary people should be on an equal platform to communicate as elites,
00:58:06.460and we should stop censoring ordinary folks because the elites demand it.
00:58:12.680Michael Schellenberger, thank you for everything that you do.
00:58:16.200Appreciate it. Always great to have you on. God bless.
00:58:18.900Great to be with you, Glenn. Thanks so much.
00:58:20.680Michael Schellenberger, he is the author of San Francisco.
00:58:24.660If you haven't read his work, he's not a conservative.
00:58:28.760He's just common sense and was at one point the friend of the earth from Time magazine.
00:58:37.920He was like on the cover of Time magazine as the, you know, the best climate justice kind of guy.
01:11:21.440The Sunday Telegraph, I'm reading, spoken to leaders of members of the Satanic groups around the world who claim that the opportunities Satanism offers people to engage in activism and they campaign on issues such as gender sexuality is part of the appeal for younger members, particularly those who are less likely to declare themselves Christian.
01:11:49.100Christian, the guy who runs the global order of Satan, UK, he's an undertaker for a job.
01:12:03.540He says he has a 200% increase in membership over the last five years.
01:12:08.520He said, I wish I could claim that we could pat ourselves on the back and say, yeah, we've done our internal work here.
01:12:14.440I'm quoting we're successfully declining the number of Christians, but it's more complex than that.
01:12:22.780The decreasing popularity of traditional dogmatic religions and a movement towards self-identification and self-realization.
01:12:32.240He said this amongst younger people, they don't want to be identified as part of a prescriptive dogmatic religion.
01:12:39.380Instead, they want to identify with their own self-belief and their own self-realization, which is what Satanism offers.
01:12:49.480They are now turning away, he says, from incredibly outdated, very obviously stuffy views that are completely not in keeping with modern times.
01:13:10.600Those stuffy religious ideas that come from the Bible, they are not in line with contemporary ideas and contemporary living.
01:13:26.080And if you want an easy life where you will be accepted and things are going to be really peachy and swell for you for a while, and I emphasize for a while, as an alcoholic, I know how things, how taking the easy route and just not dealing with stuff, not dealing with reality, just have a drink.
01:13:52.800Like, you'll be, that'll all go away, you won't have to worry about it, for a while, and then it all comes crashing down on your head.
01:14:04.280If you, if you, uh, we don't know what our kids are faced with.
01:14:53.840I mean, you, we are not going to be able to protect our families in this society.
01:15:02.120And, uh, Christians, it's going to get really hard to be a Christian when say Satanists can say, oh, we're not, we're not really, I mean, we're not really Satanists.
01:15:19.120I mean, you know, Satanism is a young person's religion, you know, uh, and it's just a diversification.
01:16:17.700We get around, you know, we get together, do rituals in the forest and stuff, you know, uh, and, you know, we have a community bonding and meditation to give people the time to develop your own personal vision of yourself as Satan.
01:16:33.500But we don't mean, but we don't mean that literally.
01:16:42.500I, I, I, um, I want you to write to me and tell me how I can help you as a parent.
01:16:50.980Because as a parent, uh, my kids are, and I'm not Satanist and stuff like that, but, um, my kids are, are so lost right now.
01:17:07.880And Tanya and I would just feel like we are just, uh, uh, losers.
01:21:07.300And, you know, the things that now, you know, you're dealing with are things that you would have never thought you were going to deal with ever.
01:21:18.980And society is pushing one way and you're like, okay, how do I hold the ground here when I'm absolutely alone?
01:21:31.880How am I going to hold the ground here for our children and yet not do it in a way where society is going to pull them away from us even more because we believe certain things?
01:22:00.220If you're, you know, if you're going through tough times, give yourself a little more benefit of the doubt.
01:22:07.900These, this is really difficult to manage, but you got to be on it all the time because your family is a little island and it used to be you were safe.
01:22:22.060But now with all of the devices and social media, everything that's going on, it's just pouring into your house.
01:24:19.160Because everything is so unstable right now, you have to look for something that thrives when instability is around.
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01:26:16.660I'm like, you're telling me the Nazis tried to kill FDR, Stalin, and Churchill, the height of World War II, and you and I don't know about this story?
01:27:25.600And what I love is in the moments after, we always tell the story in America that, you know, we punched the Nazis in the jaw.
01:27:32.280We won, you know, we saved democracy for the world and that's the end.
01:27:36.160And that's a beautiful story, but that's the Hollywood version.
01:27:38.940It was much more complex and actually much more amazing for America to see what we had to do to get there.
01:27:43.620And what I love is when Pearl Harbor happens, we, of course, declare war against the Japanese, but they'd say to Adolf Hitler, stay out of it.
01:27:53.520His own advice is like, stay out of it.
01:29:55.080This meeting must take place of the big three.
01:29:57.660And he comes to town, and the motorcade is moving through the center of the city, and everyone's craning their neck because they want to see the president of the United States.
01:30:15.720The real president, the real FDR, is ducked down and hiding in the back of a beat-up sedan, racing through the side streets because they're worried that there's a Nazi assassin who's about to kill him.
01:30:27.940I just ruined chapter one of the Nazi conspiracy for you, but that is chapter one.
01:30:38.620And when I found out that this was a Nazi—that this is a history book, I thought, okay, well, he's really good at history, but I really wanted a novel to escape.
01:30:48.460I get into the first chapter, and it's over for me.
01:30:51.500I'm just—I mean, you write it like a thriller.
01:30:54.540Well, that's the thing is, you know, for me, you know, I love these stories, but I don't want to read an encyclopedia entry.
01:31:00.800I don't want to read some boring things.
01:31:02.000And we all know FDR, and we all know Winston Churchill, and we all know Joseph Stalin.
01:31:07.760What I love are the people you don't know in this book.
01:31:09.940So there's a Nazi in there named Otto Skorzenny, and Otto Skorzenny gets the call from Adolf Hitler one day to come down to Adolf Hitler's secret headquarters, the Wolf's Lair.
01:31:20.880And you know you're in trouble when the word Lair is in the title, right?
01:31:58.560And he's gambling because he knows Adolf Hitler is from Austria.
01:32:01.620And he also knows that a true Austrian forever resents Italy because in World War I, they took a key piece of Italy and of Austria and never gave it back.
01:32:11.340So at that moment, Adolf Hitler turns to Otto Skorzenny and he's like, you're my guy.
01:32:21.080But he sends him on a secret mission that is so crazy and so wild that Josh mentioned, I'm a co-writer in the book, said that we need to put an actual photograph of this secret mission in the book.
01:32:31.180Because people will not believe this really happened.
01:36:13.200150,000 men stormed the beaches, a million more standing by in successive waves.
01:36:17.560And then this story becomes a footnote in history and gets lost until nerds like me dig it up and show you, look at this moment that we all forgot.
01:36:26.840It's almost like, do you remember when Rumsfeld on September 10th came out and said, like, there's $2 trillion of funding missing?
01:37:09.100It was just, it was a non-story because the next morning was 9-11.
01:37:12.840Well, the thing is, is there's always, to me, lost history is the best history, right?
01:37:17.240Because we know the stories that we hear and we tell over and over again.
01:37:19.900And the story of World War II is not just, you know, an amazing battle where millions of lives are at stake.
01:37:25.660It's also one of the few, maybe last times in the American government where we think that the government went in, we did the right thing, we saved the day for everyone, and everyone on every side of politics agrees.
01:37:43.260It's what makes America the best, right?
01:37:45.500It's the moment where we stand up to evil.
01:37:47.160And Josh and I, when we write these books, like when we did the Nazi conspiracy, we were like, okay, it's great to say that we have this amazing plot you've never heard of to kill FDR and Stalin and Churchill, but what's the book really about?
01:38:00.140What is this, you know, you and I know, our love of history is not just that we love dates and facts and obscure stuff.
01:38:04.160What we love, and you and I have been together a long time, decades now, is that it informs us about us today, right?
01:38:11.540When history tells us who we are today, and one of the things I remember is when Charlottesville happened, when we saw, and not thrown, you know, when Nazis were marching in Charlottesville, I'm not talking about throwing around the word Nazi the way it's thrown around today, but truly Nazis are marching there, and we're all wringing our hands and going, how does this happen in America?
01:38:28.060Why are we fighting Nazis in modern times?
01:38:32.400One of the things I didn't know is, and you see it early in the book, is back in World War II, there was a rally in Madison Square Garden, 20,000 Nazis in the heart of New York City who cheer, and they have a big giant banner of George Washington surrounded by swastikas, and the first speaker of the day says, if George Washington were alive today, he'd be friends with Adolf Hitler.
01:39:06.540It's not that long ago, and to me, the reason why we tell these stories is so, you know, to me, the American dream is not about just making money.
01:39:16.880It's about when you see someone being bullied, when you see someone being picked on, you use your voice and you say, enough.
01:39:24.440And over and over in time, you know, we see it, you know, Adolf Hitler, what he does is he says, those people are the cause of your problems.
01:39:31.460He goes to those Germans who are suffering economically, those people are the cause of your problems.
01:39:48.900But we see it over and over through history, whether it's the black community, you see with, you know, the gay community, the immigrant community.
01:39:54.600There's always a group where someone will say, those people are the problem.
01:40:06.060And we have to say, when someone's being picked on, use your voice and say enough.
01:40:10.140Not just when it's your group being picked on, but any group that's being picked on, you've got to say no.
01:40:15.420We used to say, I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.
01:40:22.520All right, back in just a second, Legacy Box, we're halfway through now, the first month of the new year, already those new year's resolutions, probably starting to weigh down on you, like, have you even started?
01:40:34.800Here's one you can take off your list.
01:40:37.320Do you have a box somewhere, if you're like me, lots of boxes with family, you know, home movies and pictures and everything tucked away behind, you know, I don't know, old bowling trophies in the back of the closet.
01:40:48.880If you have been meaning to find a way to preserve those, those are disintegrating quickly.
01:40:55.840If you go back and look at them, you'll see the photographs are fading.
01:40:59.860Legacy Box makes checking this off your to-do list really easy.
01:41:03.120You just send the Legacy Box filled with the home movies and the photos and the slides or whatever, and you get back digital copies along with your originals, and it's all done here in America.
01:41:12.720But it's now in a format that is permanent.
01:41:37.020So I want to talk to you more a little bit about your book, The Nazi Conspiracy, and what do you think would have happened if they would have died?
01:41:54.340But because we always do a little bit of show and tell when you're here, I'm going to give you some choices.
01:49:04.860My favorite thing for Winston Churchill, just two quick thoughts, is I also love, and I have to, I haven't said this on anything that I've done, but you and I, so Winston Churchill's at the White House right after Pearl Harbor.
01:49:14.420I thought this was what you're going to call me on, is, and Winston Churchill always had a bath every day, because he used to like taking a bath.
01:49:20.920And FDR and his aide walk in on Winston Churchill, and he's buck naked.
01:49:27.380Which is not, of course, but Winston Churchill at that moment has the greatest comeback, as he says, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.
01:49:37.240And to me, that is the greatest line to ever say if you are ever caught naked anywhere.
01:49:41.740If the Nazi conspiracy gives you nothing else, it's the greatest line when you're caught naked.
01:49:46.260But, and to me, what I love is, you know, how do you find this stuff out?
01:49:51.000Like, we couldn't go to the National Archives for this, or go to the usual places we go to.
01:49:55.020We needed researchers who speak Russian, who speak German.
01:49:58.380And so, you know, the Nazis' top secret intelligence was on what they call the brown sheets.
01:50:03.100And you and I, we got to find a brown sheet, because the brown sheets were literally called out because they were printed on brown paper.
01:50:09.100And they used to be in a special zipper case.
01:50:11.920You had to destroy it after a month when you read it.
01:50:15.700It was like the Mission Impossible briefcase, but for Nazis.
01:50:18.460The only reason we were able to research this book is people like Joseph Goebbels, the head of propaganda for the Nazis, used to keep extensive diaries.
01:50:27.600And he stupidly used to write down what he saw on the brown sheets in his diaries.
01:50:31.460And through our translators, we were able to figure out, we all know the story of the Enigma machines.
01:50:35.820I know we've talked about them before, of course, cracking the Nazi codes.
01:50:38.780What I didn't know, Glenn, is they had cracked our codes.
01:50:41.420They had actually, according to his diaries, they had cracked our international cables between FDR and Churchill.
01:50:48.040They were listening to us the entire time.
01:56:42.900And I even thought, used to think that Batman, the inspiration for the costume came from Leonardo da Vinci's great bat wings and the flying wings.
01:56:51.020But sadly, when he originally created them, he had these purple gloves and these other things.
01:56:55.660It was Bill Finger who said, made up the name Bruce Wayne, gave him the identity, gave him the origin, gave him Gotham City, gave the bat signal.
01:57:03.460He made all the stuff you love, gave him the scallop cape.
01:57:07.140But we don't know what his inspiration was at all.
01:57:09.760I've never heard the Teddy Roosevelt one, but I'm going to tell you what I'm going to be doing this afternoon.