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00:21:45.480You know, George Washington talked about words, not sorry, deeds, not words.
00:21:51.740That deeds were so much more important than words.
00:21:54.900And as a guy who has spent his whole life doing nothing more than babbling a bunch of words, deeds have really started to hit me as the only thing that really counts.
00:22:13.800So we talk about problems all the time, but I want to introduce you to some people that actually are solutions to problems.
00:22:20.300There is a there's a husband and wife coalition, if you will, that is currently in Syria, and they were just a few miles away from the the targets of the U.S. bombing and our retaliation response to Syria and to Russia a few weeks ago.
00:22:39.080And their partners of Mercury One and right before the bombing happened, they knew they were in the line of fire.
00:22:45.960And they said, we're just a few miles away from the bombing.
00:23:12.420And Jeremy met a little girl who was dying of a heart defect.
00:23:16.660And there were all of these kids that were in the same situation to where they could not they had no access to any kind of medical care.
00:23:26.500Thousands of people waiting in line for surgeries that their country could no longer provide.
00:23:30.540That's when they started this organization called the Preemptive Love Coalition.
00:23:35.080And over the next several years, they've done life-saving medical care for thousands of children and hands-on training for medical staff in the countries.
00:24:00.540You know, I guess it depends on what you're comparing it to.
00:24:05.180I mean, in many ways, it feels like we're out of the fire.
00:24:08.820But that's actually when the hard work begins.
00:24:11.440Now the media has largely packed up and moved on.
00:24:14.900And people aren't talking about Iraq anymore.
00:24:16.600And what we have is just a whole lot of destruction after years of war and fighting ISIS and thousands of people, tens of thousands of people still needing to put their lives back together.
00:24:26.500So, you know, it's not all day chaos every day in areas where we are working like it has been over recent years.
00:24:35.280But we still have grave concerns for the people here and what it means to help them get back on their own two feet.
00:24:41.600How concerned are the people in Iraq about what's happening with Iran and Israel now?
00:24:47.880I mean, that looks like that could become a hot war.
00:24:54.920You know, anytime we start talking about entire countries worth of people, we do best to take the time to be nuanced.
00:25:04.060You know, I've got people here who who would be, you know, fully on the side of Iran.
00:25:09.140And then we've got all kinds of friends who would be deathly afraid of Iran and kind of every stripe in between.
00:25:14.720So you were down on the streets after the retaliation and you saw the same thing.
00:25:21.660You saw people cheering that Assad had shot down all of the missiles, which wasn't true.
00:25:30.880And you also saw friends and neighbors and people doing the opposite, saying, thank God for Donald Trump.
00:25:39.140Yeah, our team in Syria has really seen all kinds of various reactions.
00:25:43.400It really just depends on maybe what part of the country you're in, what it could depend on ideology and on what you've been through, what you've lived through and how that shapes your worldview.
00:25:54.980What did you what did your team find it at DOMA?
00:25:58.080Nobody's really been allowed in that region with the chemical attack.
00:26:03.940Did you guys get close enough to the chemical attack to be able to see the results of that and and to verify that that actually did happen?
00:26:13.200Well, look, we don't have the expertise to make a definitive claim, you know, about whether or not chemical attacks happen.
00:26:21.080That's just we simply don't have those skills.
00:26:22.780But but but but but there but there were people there.
00:26:28.840I mean, some people are claiming that that was just all like a, you know, a Photoshop kind of event that that there was no attack there even.
00:26:37.540Well, if I'm being honest, I'll have to say I still know plenty of people who share that perspective as well.
00:27:58.100But but how I respond to the person in front of me, whether they are friend or foe, doesn't necessarily matter.
00:28:06.420The variance in between how I should regard them is kind of leveled by the simple fact that I regard them as human,
00:28:14.680that I regard to reduce them to animal or monster, that I refuse to to fail to regard them as being made in the image of God.
00:28:23.900And and it helps me look inside myself and realize that I've got the propensity for the same kind of evil in me.
00:28:29.480And there's just a couple of things in my life that I would live through or things that could go wrong, sort of a but for the grace of God, there go I kind of thing that I have the capacity for this stuff in me, too.
00:28:41.260And it helps humble me and keep us pushing forward into these scary situations.
00:28:45.640How do you how do you reconcile that with the with the face of evil like ISIS?
00:28:51.520Oh, I absolutely believe there's evil.
00:28:53.920I believe ISIS has committed a lot of evil.
00:28:57.020I believe the force that was in Duma before the Jaisal Islam Islamic army, as they call themselves, have have committed tremendous acts of evil.
00:29:07.440So it's certainly not about denying that or turning a face from that or creating a kind of moral equivalency against that.
00:29:17.100It's it's more about who I'm trying to be, who we're trying to become than it is about reducing ourselves to.
00:29:24.200Yeah, well, they did this or they did that.
00:29:28.220I believe that people should be brought to justice.
00:29:30.960I believe there's consequences to actions that that we do.
00:29:34.140I believe that the state has to be involved in some of this stuff.
00:29:38.040But, you know, for our part as a humanitarian coalition of peacemakers, we're just trying to press into the front lines.
00:29:47.180We're trying to get there first when the bombs are still falling or as soon thereafter as we can and trying to show up on the scene with love, because I think that the military solutions absolutely have to be in this equation.
00:30:15.340And I appreciate your partnership and all that you're doing.
00:30:18.280I know that you're feeding thousands of people every single day, just, I think, what, about 400 people alone were inside the area of the latest supposed atrocity, the chemical attacks.
00:30:37.400And I appreciate all of the risk you and your team are taking and your partnership with Mercury One.
00:30:44.360If you'd like to find out more, you can go to preemptivelove.org, preemptivelove.org.
00:30:50.560The people who are actually not talking about it, but actually walking the walk and the nazarenefund.org.
00:34:19.520News from Dunderfirmeline Sheriff Court.
00:34:28.020A man ended up behind bars after being found in Dunder Mifflin Street with an offensive weapon.
00:34:39.540Scott Walker is 39 years old at the James Bank Hostel.
00:34:44.440James Street, he appeared from custody at Dunder Mifflin Sheriff's Court.
00:34:53.120He did admit on Saturday in Appling Crescent, a public place, that he was in possession of an object which had a blade or was sharply pointed.
00:35:06.960I have to remember, we're now starting to confiscate all weapons, like knives and knives.
00:35:19.960And he had a blade that was sharply pointed, namely a potato peeler.
00:35:28.960A defense solicitor, Selina McKay, said her client suffers from significant learning difficulties, which have been lifelong.
00:35:42.020And he had absolutely no idea that a potato peeler was a dangerous weapon.
00:35:49.060But in all fairness, neither did this reporter.
00:35:54.460This has been another highly intoxicating episode of Drunk News.
00:44:56.680We cannot have a free society if the press is afraid of challenging those who are in power or dare I say, the press is in bed with those who are in power.
00:45:15.420We have no shot of freedom because there will be no one holding anyone responsible.
00:45:21.580We are weaponizing the press, both left and right, because the left will defend absolutely anything.
00:45:31.400The right will defend their side on absolutely anything.
00:46:15.540Well, let me start with why it's World Press Freedom Day.
00:46:18.580World Press Freedom Day is one of those strange UN-declared days.
00:46:23.180And what happened was in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was this brief period of consensus where everyone agreed free press is important.
00:46:33.400It holds the powerful to accountable to account it creates more representative and democratic societies.
00:46:42.060And we need to support a free press around the world.
00:46:44.660And so in that brief period, all the countries of the world came together and declared World Press Freedom Day.
00:46:53.700So we defend this basic right around the world.
00:46:55.960We defend the rights of journalists, particularly those working in repressive and dangerous societies, to report the news without fear of reprisal.
00:47:05.140Journalists shouldn't be killed for reporting the news.
00:47:31.900We believe that journalists have to be able to report the news, that government shouldn't be able to determine what's news and what's not news,
00:47:38.620that terrorists and criminals shouldn't be able to determine what's news and what's not news.
00:47:43.060And so we defend the rights of journalists everywhere.
00:47:45.740So tell me what's happening to the right of free press around the world.
00:47:57.100We're seeing, first of all, last year we recorded a record number of journalists jailed around the world, 262 journalists in jail around the world.
00:49:06.040Joel, you know, I'm very concerned about what's happening in America and in Russia.
00:49:13.140And I think we're finding the same kinds of things in the last 10 years that we're at the very infant stages that we now find in Russia.
00:49:24.380And people don't understand how dangerous it is to be a journalist in Russia.
00:49:30.360It sure is dangerous to be a journalist in Russia.
00:49:32.940I mean, it's a place where, you know, a journalist recently who did some critical investigative reporting recently, quote-unquote, fell out of a window in Russia.
00:49:43.080So, you know, that's what happens to you in Russia if you get too close to power.
00:49:48.400But, you know, the thing is that we've actually seen a decline in journalists being killed in Russia.
00:49:52.340And that's because it's become so – that the fear has so pervaded the Russian media that we're not seeing that kind of aggressive investigative reporting.
00:50:01.740That's actually a really bad thing for all of us here who care about news around the world because there's just less accountability, less probing reporting, less information, frankly.
00:50:10.920Joel, I – in watching and reading both sides, I read, you know, conservative stuff and I read liberal stuff.
00:50:20.280And I am somebody who enjoys reading things that I don't agree with.
00:50:25.720And I have noticed here in America that both sides are hearing things from their own echo chamber.
00:50:34.560And there is truth that both sides are not aware of.
00:51:13.780I think we have to reaffirm our faith in the First Amendment.
00:51:17.300I mean, that's really what – at the heart of our political culture is the First Amendment and the idea that the news media and all media is just an expression of this fundamental right of people expressing their ideas.
00:51:34.980But, you know, fundamentally, we need to – what we're losing in our media culture and in our political culture is this sort of tolerance for dissenting views and an openness.
00:51:47.380And that's happening at a global level.
00:51:49.480So, Joel, how are you going to do that when you have universities now that should be the bastion of all free thought, having riots, you know, or counseling sessions after somebody with an opposite opinion shows up on campus?
00:52:06.320Well, comedians won't even go play college campuses now.
00:52:09.240I think it's like 51 percent or 47 percent of college-age students say that there are a lot of limits to the First Amendment.
00:52:20.300Well, look, we are a global press freedom organization.
00:52:25.180My fundamental concern is with ensuring that journalists in places like Afghanistan and Mexico and Russia can continue to do their job.
00:52:34.980I want the U.S. to be a beacon of press freedom, of these values and these tolerance.
00:52:40.960And whenever we fall down, it has a ripple effect around the world.
00:53:32.940And when we fall down, when we don't uphold our own values, it has an impact on our society.
00:53:38.740But it is an even more profound impact, which we may not be aware of, in societies around the world that are battling repression and violence.
00:53:45.360In the days of FISA and everything that is going on in the world, there is nothing, nothing more important than the freedom to speak and the freedom to report on the news without being shut down.
00:54:03.220Joel Simon from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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00:58:28.760There's a polonium attack from years ago, the same type of thing.
00:58:32.220It was, why would you do it and allow it to be basically traceable to Russia?
00:58:37.300You do it so everyone knows that when you oppose Russia, this could happen to you.
00:58:42.180If they're willing to be that brazen with someone much, you know, more well-known than you, well, of course, they're going to kill you off.
01:07:34.200The guy, he's at Evergreen State University, says something that's mildly out of step with the left's current new positioning on gender, which is consistent with our scientific understanding for hundreds of years, thousands of years, millions of years.
01:07:50.180And he is attacked and brutalized because of that.
01:08:01.220And the point is, you become better when you come up against another person who's well-reasoned and make us a point, even if, at times, they don't have the backup for it.
01:08:14.400You know, like, I think that was one of the things that I thought was interesting that Kanye West said, which was like, you know what?
01:10:32.020When you show me your vitriolic rants against the government invented AIDS to kill black people and your rants on George Bush just hates black people.
01:10:48.380You can then have some credibility to say, look, it's the same kind of rant and the same kind of reaction from all of my esteemed colleagues.
01:11:23.560It's only white people that you should be afraid of.
01:11:26.500And if you remember, we have a very clear example of someone prominent saying in a political context, the AIDS was created to kill black people.
01:11:36.360And when when when Republicans brought up Jeremiah Wright, hey, here's a guy who not not was that some rapper, this is a guy who was the spiritual leader of the next president of the United States.
01:11:49.620When that was brought up, it was it was attacked as if you couldn't even acknowledge that someone in his circle believed that I believe, Stu, that at one point we had the research that showed that it was Van Jones and his color of change organization.
01:12:06.360That was in with Kanye West to help promote that thought.
01:12:11.340Yeah, if I remember correctly, they were selling T-shirts that said Bush.
01:12:37.880They love to uphold color of change is this great organization.
01:12:42.660Weren't they speaking directly to the racists of the left and the black movement, the ultra nationalist or the ultra racists that want a separate country for black people?
01:12:58.460Well, and again, we were we were really critical of Jeremiah, right, for saying those things back then.
01:13:03.320But now that Kanye West is on our side, are we critical of Kanye West saying the AIDS thing?
01:15:16.220We'll give you that coming up in just a few minutes.
01:15:18.580I also want to play this piece with Dave Rubin where he is warning.
01:15:23.320He is a former progressive that has kind of opened his eyes and is part of this free thought movement that is really kind of taking and starting a grass fire in California.
01:15:35.800I hate to use that phrase in California, but he is warning his fellow progressives.
01:15:53.180I mean, if there's someone that's watching this right now that is a hardcore progressive that's going,
01:15:57.280man, I hate Prager and Rubin and this is all nonsense, guess what?
01:16:00.740If you have any spark of individualism in you, if you have any, anything about you that's interesting or different, they will come to destroy that too.
01:16:18.340Kanye is living that right now and everyone will live that unless we start to recognize differences and celebrate and protect those differences,
01:16:33.360especially those differences that make us uncomfortable.
01:16:59.300Well, some not surprising news, unless you haven't been paying attention.
01:17:05.680New York has now weaponized the regulatory powers against the NRA.
01:17:11.820This is something that I, I warned you about.
01:17:14.480Uh, and I believe it was Citigroup, which was the first financial institution that started to fall into line.
01:17:21.360The next one was Bank of America, Stu.
01:17:24.760Do you, do you remember, uh, where they just stops?
01:17:27.600They started saying, I'm, we're not going to offer any financial services to any gun manufacturers that make military assault rifles, uh, and, uh, high capacity magazines.
01:17:39.440And I warned you, there is an effort underfoot.
01:17:43.680Well, Cuomo has just, uh, outlined a directive to the financial regulators, and he is pressuring them to break ties with the NRA.
01:17:56.440I'm going to quote from the directive.
01:17:58.500I am directing the Department of Financial Services to urge insurers and bankers statewide.
01:18:05.780Well, good thing there's no big banks in New York.
01:18:08.660And bankers statewide to determine whether any relationship they may have with the NRA or similar organizations sends the wrong message to their clients and their communities who often look to them for guidance and support.
01:18:23.780Uh, the, uh, the Department of Financial Services, this is the one that regulates the banking and insurance industries in New York.
01:18:30.900Uh, he continued, the department urge or encourages its chartered and licensed financial institutions to continue evaluating and managing their risks, including reputational risks that may arise from their dealings with the NRA or similar gun promotion organizations.
01:18:51.760Huh, as well as continued assessment of compliance with their own codes of social responsibility.
01:19:00.840The department encourages regulated institutions to review any relationship they may have with the NRA or any similar gun promotion organization and to take prompt actions to manage these risks and promote public health and safety.
01:19:18.080What is a, what is a, what is a fascistic regime?
01:20:37.620You know, I, I am, I'm really excited about this, uh, that there are some really brave people that are willing to stand up and buck the system and, and not say I'm right.
01:20:52.600Just say, you know, we should think about this a little more broadly and we should, we should maybe notice that maybe as we're fighting for freedom, we're actually fighting for, for totalitarianism.
01:21:07.600And there is this group of people, this intellectual dark web of people that are standing up in their own place and saying, Hey, wait a minute.
01:21:15.700I just like to throw out another opinion.
01:21:17.440And I saw one on, uh, Prager university, uh, and it is a video called, uh, what's this a greater leap of faith, God or the multiverse.
01:21:30.680He is, um, uh, the professor of physics at the university of California, San Diego.
01:21:36.380He is also the author of a new book, losing the Nobel prize, which we have to talk to him about, but I wanted to get him on and, and just have him.
01:21:45.260Here's a guy who is a professor of physics to explain the multiverse, which is an unproven theory and how it relates to people who believe in God.
01:21:57.440Welcome to the, uh, uh, program, Brian.
01:22:00.600Yeah, it's great to be here with you, Glenn.
01:22:09.240So there's a, um, a boiling roiling, uh, controversy that's pervading the normally stayed academic world of cosmology of all things.
01:22:18.320And it, it actually is rekindling a debate that's really gone on for millennia, which is, you know, how did our universe come to be?
01:22:26.180How do we come to find ourselves as, as conscious beings in a universe that we can attempt to understand?
01:22:31.540And for millennia, uh, there was no support for the Genesis one, one narrative that suggested that the, you know, the big bang or the origin of the universe, uh, began at a single point in time.
01:22:44.160Even if you didn't believe it was created by a creator, there was still no evidence that the universe came, you know, had a, had a birthday, shall we say.
01:22:51.380And until 1965, when astronomers were using a special kind of telescope, uh, that's an ancestor to the types of telescopes that, that my group and my students and I build today, that saw heat left over from the big bang.
01:23:05.600And this was sort of incontrovertible evidence that the universe originated in a fiery, uh, almost explosion-like event, unlike anything ever witnessed before or since.
01:23:16.640And before that time, there was literally no physical evidence for an origin event.
01:23:22.720And so people just naturally believed the universe had been around forever.
01:23:25.480This was the so-called steady state theory, which was, you know, held not only by, you know, atheists and non-believers, it was held by everybody, including, uh, Einstein and Newton, who were, you know, devoutly, Newton was devoutly religious, as you know.
01:23:38.860And so the, the question as to what evidence people that had belief in a singular origin had, there was no evidence for them.
01:23:46.720And yet they believed, and they did so on the basis of faith, and then that's fine.
01:23:50.480But at least they admitted it was faith, and they didn't say that, well, we have evidence for that.
01:23:54.600Nowadays, there's a notion that the universe is not only, uh, had a beginning, but it, uh, it is not only the only universe.
01:24:02.740And in order to explain the peculiar features of our universe and the improbability of existence of conscious entities such as ourselves, many of my erudite colleagues have proposed a model which is every bit as revolutionary as the Big Bang, you know, might have sounded, uh, 55 years ago.
01:24:20.900And this is that the universe that we inhabit is not the only universe.
01:24:24.280And it is a, the best way I've heard it described is if you, you know, you're giving your kids a bath, and there's all these soap bubbles in the corner of the bathtub, and you kind of pick that up.
01:24:35.420They're all connected to each other, but you can't pass from one bubble to the other, or they'll pop.
01:24:40.840But they are just a big collection of, of bubbles, and they're more and less, and they kind of come into existence and form new bubbles.
01:24:48.460And that's what it really is, and each bubble is its own separate universe.
01:24:54.300We're just one of those bubbles in that big handful.
01:24:58.780And it's a natural, you know, phenomena that people will have a tendency to be biased towards and, you know, something that would make sense to them.
01:25:06.560And in this case, what's unusual to me is that the scenario that you described is perfectly reasonable from a physicist's point of view.
01:25:13.940But you at least have to admit that there's currently no evidence for such a proposition.
01:25:19.280And the point that is made in the Prager University video is that when the secular scientist is confronted with the question of whether or not to believe in God, as 70% of the most prestigious academy of sciences in the world, the National Academy of Sciences in America, they declare themselves not to be agnostic, but to be atheist.
01:25:38.040And in that sense, you have to wonder, why are they so quick to believe a theory for which there's no hard, physical, tangible, scientific method, provable evidence?
01:25:47.940And I claim that in some cases, some of my colleagues are doing so in such a way as to bolster their, you know, their preconceived biases of secularism.
01:26:00.880People can be a conscientious, you know, atheist, and that's fine.
01:26:04.320But I think to say that you're a scientist and you believe in the scientific method and religious believers in the faithful like us, that we are somehow foolish because we believe in something on the basis of faith when they have just as much faith.
01:26:18.480You know, I say it takes a fair amount of faith to be an atheist.
01:26:22.100And I think it – I really do think it does.
01:26:24.640I mean, intelligent design makes sense to me.
01:26:28.320I mean, quantum physics makes no sense to me, but I believe quantum physics is probably on the right – I mean, I have no idea when it breaks down.
01:26:42.600It doesn't seem to make sense, but that's because everything else breaks down.
01:26:47.500So having a multiverse where there's all these different kinds of options out there and we're playing out every single option seems like science fiction, but I don't know.
01:27:13.960So what always tickles me is that my brilliant colleagues, my brilliant atheists – and I say this with all honesty – I have utmost respect for my colleagues.
01:27:21.980Even if they are secular, we get along great and we can have a wonderful conversation over a glass of a beverage of our choice.
01:27:28.380But when we do so, I think it's important to realize that they're not subject matter experts when it comes to religion.
01:27:35.480And most of them, if they ever did practice religion, probably gave it up when they were about 13 or so.
01:27:41.860And so they're left with a 13-year-old's understanding of this immense, immense thing.
01:27:48.020You know, I know you've written a lot of books, and that's wonderful, and I just wrote my first, and that's the only one I may ever write.
01:27:54.700But, you know, what they say, you know, I'd trade – and I'm sure you believe this – you know, if you could trade, you know, one reader 100 years from now for 100 readers tomorrow, you would do that in a second.
01:28:05.780Because it would mean your ideas are timeless.
01:28:08.380And in the case of something like, you know, Stephen Hawking, the late, great Stephen Hawking, who wrote a book, A Brief History of Time, that book, you know, I hope it's not relevant in 100 years.
01:28:18.640Because I hope that we've made tremendous scientific progress.
01:28:21.620But if you look at the Bible, the Bible had to speak 30 centuries ago, and it has to speak 30 centuries from now.
01:28:28.620And so when people – and my colleagues, brilliant, you know, men and women – when they reject it because, you know, and they erect a straw man and burn it down, that's the problem that I have with them.
01:28:38.300And that they're so willing to accept the lack of evidence for something in which, you know, really may never be provable.
01:28:43.920Not even – has no evidence now, but may not be physically impossible to prove.
01:28:48.080It's a little bit nervous and nerve-wracking for me.
01:28:50.540Brian Keating, he is the author of a new book, Losing the Nobel Prize.
01:28:55.220And I want to talk to him about that book because it's interesting to see how the inner workings of science and the pursuit of the Nobel Prize.
01:29:08.200We'll continue our conversation here in just a second.
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01:30:49.840So today, there's a lot of talk of the possibility of President Trump winning a peace prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, because hostages have been released in North Korea.
01:31:01.100Looks like we're on the right track for peace there.
01:31:02.920A lot of people are poo-pooing this, but he's already accomplished more than Barack Obama did when he got a Nobel Peace Prize for his hopes and aspirations,
01:31:12.480which I think was kind of a low point for the Nobel Prize, but who am I to judge?
01:31:18.400Brian Keating has just written a book called Losing the Nobel Prize.
01:31:23.160This is a story of actual science and what the award was actually deemed to promote, and it starts with something that you created with your team called BICEP.
01:34:46.180This is dust in our galaxy that was produced from the death explosion of a star called a supernova.
01:34:51.320And what's so poetic about it is, you know, just like the Bible accounts, you know, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
01:34:59.540So the dust that, you know, the Bible poetically and metaphorically speaks of as being the formation of human beings is actually true.
01:35:07.100So there's actually flowing through your veins, your listeners' veins right now, is stardust.
01:35:10.980And it's stardust that was created in the beginning of time when the universe, or not in the beginning of time,
01:35:16.380when our galaxy produced a star that exploded and spewed forth this iron that now is the hemoglobin inside of your blood.
01:35:23.920So in our bodies flows dust, and in the cosmos flows too, and this dust obscured the signal that we were looking for.
01:35:30.440So we eventually, embarrassingly, had to retract our discovery, and our Nobel dreams literally turned to dust.
01:35:36.260And so your concern about the Nobel Prize is that it's become what?
01:35:43.860It's become very politicized, become very vaunted as societies, not just science's ultimate accolade, but on all of society.
01:35:51.380There's nothing as prestigious as a Nobel Prize, which is why there's so much controversy, you know, heaven forbid, that Donald Trump would win a Nobel Prize.
01:35:58.920You know, he would join the likes of, you know, Yasser Arafat and all these other great men.
01:36:06.880So, you know, I would advise him not to hold his breath, because I doubt it's likely.
01:36:11.120I was asked to nominate the winners of the Nobel Prize two years ago.
01:36:14.460And when I did so, I found out a whole bunch of scary things that the Nobel Prize committee was doing that were really sullying the literal Nobel vision of Alfred Nobel.
01:36:25.340And so I set out, in part, the book is written, not only to describe the way that my team lost our own Nobel Prize, but that parts of the Nobel Prize, and maybe even the Nobel Prize itself, needs to be lost.
01:36:36.320That's what it's doing to science and society.
01:37:39.500Well, a head tax is for any company that makes over $20 million a year and not in profit, but in sales, that they generate $20 million or more.
01:38:48.780Well, you remember when we used to have a studio, one right across the street from Philadelphia, and they had a tax, a city wage tax in Philadelphia, and we built it on the other side of the road in Bella Kinwood.
01:39:03.540And you look, at least back when we were there, you could drive down that road, and one side of the street had basically no businesses, and the other side of the street had tons and tons of businesses.
01:39:11.940Because everyone chose to build their business on the other side of the street and give all the business and all the tax revenue that would come in to Bella Kinwood.
01:40:17.840This proposal has caused Amazon to halt construction of a huge project in downtown Seattle.
01:40:27.360Amazon's vice president said, quote, I can confirm that the pending pending the outcome of the head tax vote by city council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is reevaluating the options to sublease all of the space in our recently leased Rainier Square building.
01:40:49.380More than 45,000 people in Seattle are employed by Amazon.
01:40:55.120The city hopes to raise $75 million annually with a new tax in order to provide affordable housing and additional services for the homeless.
01:41:03.820Roughly 585 businesses would face this targeted tax.
01:41:07.240city council member Shashma Shwant, which I swear to you is I think the only way I can pronounce, I think that, I just, I think it sounds like a, maybe a Muppet name, but I think it's Shashma Shwant.
01:41:22.640Shashma Shwant Shwant Showant Shwant Shwant Shwant the first name is a little more difficult, but you could go Shashma or Shashma there's probably like 3 or 4 of those letters are silent.
01:41:37.780So anyway, she said that the council meeting on Wednesday in response to Amazon's move that it was critical that we not accept this extortion.
01:41:48.240she referred to the tax as pocket change for these businesses and added that amazon is perfectly
01:41:55.860capable of paying that paying double or even four times that amount now why in the hell would you
01:42:07.640ever you mean i mean at least with woodrow wilson with the income tax he said it'll never be over
01:42:13.540seven percent these people are saying they can afford it even four times the amount if they take
01:42:20.760this tax now you think they're going to stop at 526 per employee another council person in support
01:42:30.380of the proposal mark uh michael brian said i understand amazon doesn't like it i'm sure
01:42:37.520they'd love to go to a city that has no taxes and maybe they'll find that place oh my gosh if i were
01:42:45.200amazon if i were jeff bezos today i would say pack your crap and let's go and here's why the arrogance
01:42:55.940of seattle it's a city that is supposed to do right by its people you have one of the biggest employers
01:43:07.320in all of your city and you're saying pack your crap and get out i remember rainier square i grew up
01:43:16.060there there wasn't always seattle wasn't always seattle is the place that has the first skid row
01:43:25.480i remember my mother taking me to pike uh pike place market when they were thinking about tearing it down
01:43:32.640because it was an eyesore and i remember my mother and my family being pariahs because we thought you
01:43:39.360know the city could you know do something private industry could do something and make things a lot
01:43:44.380better if you just let private industry do something she used to tell me all the time do you can you
01:43:51.360imagine what this place would be like i mean here i am i'm like eight years old she's walking around
01:43:55.600skid row and pike place market when it was full of thieves and killers still kind of is but in a
01:44:03.300different way anyway uh and she had that vision seattle don't get so arrogant to think that you can't
01:44:12.980collapse you start doing this to companies you're going to find a ghost town yeah they will find think
01:44:20.360of this you know what they're doing they're calculating well they've got all that money they've
01:44:24.300already started construction on their new thing well let me think and wouldn't that also be pocket
01:44:30.180change to amazon especially when that is a one-time expense let's say they have 20 million let's say
01:44:37.980they have 40 million into it why not walk away i could lose 40 million now or i could lose a minimum
01:44:47.640of 40 million over the next two years in this tax and they got me once we move in we're there
01:44:55.560once we build everything out what do you say we lose the 40 million now we just walk away let's go
01:45:01.220find a place if i were jeff bezos seattle would be done done today if they pass this yeah if they pass
01:45:09.220this because i mean but i have to tell you as a business owner i might not even i might not for that
01:45:13.920because they could pass that at any time next year and this is the thing it's when you move all of
01:45:19.200these jobs in when you move you build these facilities you're making a commitment to the town
01:45:23.900you're making a commitment to the city and if i especially if you have the power of bezos and amazon
01:45:29.000you see what they're doing around the country with talking you know the way they're shopping around
01:45:33.380their next facility you almost want to guarantee that this stuff's not going to happen after you move
01:45:38.640in they suckered them into starting to build this uh facility and then right after they start
01:45:46.900construction and they're in the middle of doing it and they're spending all this money they say oh by
01:45:50.420the way we're going to charge you a lot more what other business is that okay if you go you can't buy
01:45:55.720a car and you've been driving it around for a month and all of a sudden they say by the way that
01:45:58.760you know the payment's going to be you know three hundred dollars more sorry okay that's insanity
01:46:03.780it's it's completely unfair to a business trying to do uh do something good for the community right
01:46:11.180i mean you you think they look at the way these cities they hate rich people yeah look at the way
01:46:16.460the cities around the country are recruiting amazon they're bending over backwards in ways that
01:46:20.440probably aren't right either to lure them into their cities yeah but stew you could see the mountain
01:46:26.560today it's so beautiful today yeah it's beautiful and you can see the mountain maybe 25
01:46:33.340days a year the rest of the time it's depressing and rainy i mean highest suicide rate in the states
01:46:42.380oh why do you think that is because you can never see the beauty because it's always cloudy and rainy
01:46:48.120that's why it's a great place to live seattle is one of the most beautiful cities naturally the most
01:46:57.340beautiful city i think in america it is fantastic but i'm sorry i i'm not i gotta run a business i have
01:47:06.720responsibility to my shareholders i have a responsibility to the teachers fund all of you
01:47:15.360socialist teachers your retirement that's all in a fund and i can guarantee you it is highly invested
01:47:23.140in amazon so are all you socialist teachers willing to take a hit to your retirement fund
01:47:31.800you might have to work a few years longer because they're going to pay this huge tax because they
01:47:38.400can afford it now that'll hurt their stock price but they're being responsible are you happy about this
01:47:45.100with your retirement fund think it through yeah seattle is really going after business with the
01:47:52.220passion of a serial killer they are meticulous they're methodical they're picking apart any any
01:47:58.500reason to do business in the city yeah well they're just so far left they are just so far left
01:48:04.640listen to this one i think we're at the place of now shove and almost to shoot okay remember first you
01:48:12.780have to you know you try to convince then you nudge then you have to then you shout then you have to shove
01:48:20.140then you shoot that's the progression of progress when you're when your ideas don't make sense and don't
01:48:29.380meet the market's needs listen to this afl-cio now demands that people never use the self-serve
01:48:37.400checkout a growing concern across the globe that automation will lead us to a dystopian future
01:48:42.920with robots becoming ubiquitous on every aspect of our life the marketplace will be filled with cheap
01:48:49.000goods but the consuming population can't acquire them because they don't have a job it's a legitimate
01:48:53.940worry for millions of people especially when you see the countless videos and news articles about a
01:48:58.100robot flipping hamburgers etc etc and one of the latest doom and gloom alarmist in wisconsin chapter
01:49:04.440is the afl-cio which is griping about self-service checkouts it's not convenient for me to help
01:49:12.800corporations fire workers they just raise their profits i stand in line when the lines backed up
01:49:18.640the store calls for more cashiers to the front if we keep doing it they'll need to hire more people
01:49:23.680never ever use self-checkout okay well this is the beginning of another prediction
01:49:32.320that i have said because jobs are going to be lost progressives you know the ones who embrace
01:49:41.920the future are going to turn on the future they're going to turn on the things that make your life
01:49:51.040easier make your life faster make your life better like i don't know let's think of a couple of
01:49:57.620things self-checkout or amazon and they'll demonize them because well they're taking away jobs those
01:50:07.380jobs are never coming back they're not coming back and we have to get a grip on that right now we have
01:50:15.040to stop demonizing china and stop demonizing uh silicon valley and progress that is like going back
01:50:24.720into time these progressives are the people that would have been saying you're going to put the
01:50:30.680horse and buggy business out of business we we've got to swear allegiance to the horse and buggy business
01:50:36.600that don't ever buy a car i'm telling you right now because all these jobs will be lost don't you get
01:50:43.580a cotton gin don't you do it all those jobs will be lost all those slaves will then be free to do
01:50:53.880other things well what will they do well you know they'll turn on us so you better keep them busy
01:50:59.480don't buy a cotton gin any of this sound progressive to you progressives always stand in the way of
01:51:11.160freedom of thought and freedom to progress to the next exciting place afl cio don't use checkout
01:51:22.120why because they're not taking you forward seattle better do a tax because they can afford it they
01:51:31.240can afford four times that tax and besides amazon it's going to eventually kill a lot of jobs
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01:53:10.360glenn beck you know the afl-cio this is you know asking people don't use self-checkout because it's
01:53:32.600gonna it's gonna hurt jobs do you know who that is that's not a crazy idea to the left do you remember
01:53:38.960when the president said it's these kiosks and these atm machines they're cutting out jobs oh obama
01:53:44.460yeah right making your life easier having society progress having a business make progress making it
01:53:54.760easier letting the free market work it out and say you know what i think if we put a kiosk up everybody
01:54:00.520would like our airline better because there's no lines and progressive saying no no no no no don't do
01:54:06.240that that's evil it's true i mean i think you know there's a lot of reasons why trump beat hillary
01:54:11.920clinton but hillary clinton taking a stand against things like uber was an underreported one yes i mean
01:54:17.000this is the future people are excited about it they love it and progressives are going to become the
01:54:22.060anti-future people mark my word they are going to be the one that turns on science and turns on technology