The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 233 ｜ You Have a TRACKER in Your Pocket Sending Data to the Deep State ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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00:00:35.960 Who does Iran want to be as the next president of the United States? 0.94

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00:04:08.440 Welcome to the program, Eric.

00:04:10.240 Nice to have you here.

00:04:11.180 Nice to be here.

00:04:12.060 You, and in doing the research and homework on you, I could spend hours just exploring different avenues of your life.

00:04:19.860 But I want to start with maybe some of the things early in life.

00:04:25.200 First of all, your father is one of those guys who you're like, well, why didn't I think of that?

00:04:30.740 He had the patent for the lighted visor in your car, right?

00:04:36.700 Still have that patent or is that patent worn out?

00:04:38.980 I think it's probably worn out, but they still make a lot of them.

00:04:41.540 Yeah, and he's also a guy who, I think it's in Holland, Michigan, back in the 80s, was like, why are we plowing the streets all the time with snow, right?

00:04:53.280 Yeah, Holland, Michigan is right in the coastal area of Lake Michigan.

00:04:57.580 So you get a massive amount of lake effect snow.

00:05:00.140 And my dad figured, well, why don't we use the waste heat coming off the coal-fired power plant, and instead of it dumping back into the lake with thermal pollution, to pump that heat through the streets.

00:05:13.680 So, yes, whenever it snows in Holland, Michigan, a little switch turns, and the water gets diverted, and the streets are heated to just above melting point, and you have no snow accumulation.

00:05:25.300 It's unbelievable.

00:05:26.360 I mean, it should be done.

00:05:27.740 And very green.

00:05:28.440 Right, but he could never get the city to do it, right?

00:05:33.280 No, he did it with his own money.

00:05:34.500 And they laughed at him, and he, you know, he got the last laugh.

00:05:38.380 Wow, amazing.

00:05:40.160 But, you know, so the company developed the die-cast machine and the lighted sun visor, but he also had some other maybe not great ideas, but I think it speaks to you have to be a wildcatter at heart. 0.97

00:05:55.320 You have to be willing to try and fail, because he also, the same motion of a die-cast machine, he developed a machine which would automatically take the bone out of a ham.

00:06:04.100 Wow.

00:06:04.460 And he said, you want to have a hard sales experience, take that to a union factory to take away all those union jobs.

00:06:14.600 Right.

00:06:14.740 And a propeller-driven snowmobile, and...

00:06:18.380 What was the problem with that one, other than, you know, people falling off the back end of the prop?

00:06:22.180 Yes, that's a downside.

00:06:24.280 All right, yeah.

00:06:25.520 Yeah, even a sock light, which would go on, because he had a terrible time figuring out if he had brown socks or black socks.

00:06:30.260 So, again, he had a very inventive mind that never really stopped. 0.80

00:06:33.840 Crazy.

00:06:34.380 And he had the courage to try.

00:06:38.040 So, was that his main gig, inventor?

00:06:40.100 I mean, what was his...

00:06:41.700 He loved to build and create, and really started from scratch.

00:06:47.840 So, what was that like to grow up in that household with a dad like that?

00:06:54.100 How did that shape you?

00:06:55.760 So, didn't want to disappoint him, and growing up in a town where it was 30,000 people and 5,000 people in the town worked for my dad.

00:07:11.040 So, yeah, you kind of go around with that name on your back, and you didn't want to screw that up.

00:07:17.080 It's interesting, because my kids kind of had that same thing, and we've talked about it several times.

00:07:22.920 They're like, Dad, you know, because I was like, why don't you go out and, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:07:27.820 And they're like, Dad, because we're your son or daughter, and we don't want to do anything that's going to end up in the papers.

00:07:35.640 That's kind of a hard thing to...

00:07:38.060 Yeah, but...

00:07:39.100 Where you're afraid to make mistakes, because you don't want to harm the family name.

00:07:46.080 Well, I've made plenty of mistakes, but to keep going and learn and adjust, I guess as a kid, I wanted to try to make the most of whatever I was blessed with, education-wise and all the rest.

00:08:04.880 And with education, you went to... you started the Naval Academy.

00:08:09.360 I did.

00:08:10.060 And then you transferred to Hill State.

00:08:11.860 Just after three semesters, I love the Navy, but not so much the Academy, because even then, the Academy was getting woke and politically correct already back in the 80s.

00:08:20.980 Because you imagine America, you know, as crazy as a university has gotten, imagine one run by the federal government.

00:08:28.260 And that was very much the case.

00:08:29.900 So, like, what was the beginning that you saw?

00:08:31.580 Double standards on admissions and grading and even placement of people in units.

00:08:42.160 And I believe the military should be an absolutely equal opportunity on everything.

00:08:48.140 Who's the best?

00:08:48.780 But vigorously, viciously merit-based.

00:08:52.080 Yeah.

00:08:52.360 Because it is literally life and death matter.

00:08:55.500 And when you... when we have, the military has deviated from that, and that's a much bigger problem set that would probably take more time than we have.

00:09:04.520 Yeah.

00:09:04.720 How did you... how did you find Hillsdale?

00:09:07.460 I mean, what was your experience like?

00:09:09.500 It was really excellent.

00:09:12.000 I shifted.

00:09:13.400 I left the Academy in mid-December and rolled into Hillsdale two weeks later.

00:09:17.620 And it was also at a unique time taking political science classes.

00:09:24.620 And I actually had, for one of my main professors, was a guy who was a law school classmate of Mikhail Gorbachev.

00:09:30.160 Oh, my God.

00:09:30.680 As the Soviet Union is collapsing.

00:09:32.400 Wow.

00:09:32.540 So, he's reading the Soviet newspapers, et cetera, in real time and interpreting it to the class.

00:09:38.160 It was fantastic and a really good economic education.

00:09:41.000 You were against communism at an early age.

00:09:45.180 Didn't you have an experience when you were like seven in Berlin?

00:09:48.080 Yes.

00:09:48.900 What was that?

00:09:49.720 Well, my dad was invited to the Soviet Union because they wanted to buy die-cast machines from him.

00:09:56.420 Wow.

00:09:56.800 And so, he went, and he did not like the experience at all, the surveillance and just the control of it all.

00:10:03.400 And so, he wanted the rest of the family to do that.

00:10:06.360 And so, we actually road tripped in a Chevy van across Eastern Europe, 1976.

00:10:13.060 I spent my seventh birthday in Berlin.

00:10:16.180 And so, even as a seven-year-old.

00:10:17.200 East or West?

00:10:18.300 Both.

00:10:19.020 Wow.

00:10:19.540 Drove in through the Czech Republic or Czechoslovakia.

00:10:21.980 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:23.120 And so, even as a seven-year-old, seeing the guns and the dogs and the tank traps and the minefields,

00:10:29.140 Ochtung-minen signs everywhere, you can kind of figure out that this barrier, keeping people in,

00:10:36.440 is not such a great look for communism.

00:10:38.560 And I remember the only color that you could see was the big red star on a lot of the buildings.

00:10:43.680 Yeah.

00:10:43.900 Even parts of Poland now still have that kind of depressing, kind of gray.

00:10:47.920 Yeah, that dingy, it's from burning all that bad coal.

00:10:51.520 Yeah.

00:10:51.660 So, you wanted to serve, you became a Navy SEAL?

00:10:58.400 I went to the academy, planned to be a pilot.

00:11:01.280 Okay.

00:11:01.440 Because I, again, my dad had aviation in the business, and so I was kind of exposed to that.

00:11:07.280 And I loved flying.

00:11:08.700 Went to the academy with that plan.

00:11:10.520 But when I was there, I remember the two SEAL liaisons came down and gave a presentation the spring of plebe year.

00:11:18.580 And they said, if you want to join us for a PT, for a workout, come to this field, 5.30 the next morning.

00:11:24.320 So, I showed up and they said, today, we're just going to run a mile.

00:11:29.140 Get a partner.

00:11:30.180 Put them on your shoulders.

00:11:31.920 Wow.

00:11:32.040 And I was hooked.

00:11:32.900 And so, I really.

00:11:34.020 Yeah, that would hook me.

00:11:35.720 I left with, I left the academy with the plan of going back in through ROTC or OCS or something to be a SEAL.

00:11:45.200 Because I wanted to serve.

00:11:46.580 And that was a really good experience.

00:11:48.100 And when were you, when were you in?

00:11:51.360 92 through 96.

00:11:53.240 So, that's right before, right after.

00:11:56.620 Haiti, a little bit of Bosnia, Serbia.

00:11:58.840 Right after the Gulf War then.

00:12:00.460 Correct.

00:12:00.940 And you went, and didn't you serve with, you were an intern maybe at George H.W. Bush's?

00:12:06.180 I was, between my junior and senior year, I took a year off.

00:12:09.200 And I was a White House intern.

00:12:11.400 And that was also a real eye-opening experience.

00:12:13.780 Because you kind of get this image of, I'm going to work at the White House.

00:12:17.640 And I think it was going to be a collection of altruistic patriots. 0.70

00:12:20.960 And it was kind of a pit of snakes.

00:12:22.460 And I did about six months there and then six months on Capitol Hill.

00:12:26.600 And that thoroughly vaccinated me from any desire of working in Washington.

00:12:31.300 Yeah, my son went out for, I don't know, two weeks.

00:12:37.080 And he was working, you know, trying to set some political things up.

00:12:42.440 He was just interning with somebody.

00:12:43.840 And he called me up three days into it.

00:12:45.900 I never want to be a part of this.

00:12:48.320 I never want to be a part of politics.

00:12:50.700 He said, it is ugly.

00:12:52.160 And it is.

00:12:53.240 And I think Churchill had it right.

00:12:55.460 He said, in war you die once, but in politics you can die every day.

00:12:59.040 That's exactly right.

00:13:00.320 Exactly right.

00:13:01.640 So, when did you start Blackwater?

00:13:06.660 And what was the idea at first?

00:13:09.800 I had planned.

00:13:10.900 And so, another family policy was that you did not come and work in the family business.

00:13:17.180 You had to go do something else first.

00:13:19.120 And I had, honestly, I had no desire to join my dad's business.

00:13:22.560 I didn't, wasn't interested in it at all.

00:13:26.180 I wanted to be in the military.

00:13:27.520 I wanted to be a commando.

00:13:29.440 And I was planning to do 10 to 12 years in the SEAL teams because those are kind of the

00:13:35.180 good years to be a SEAL officer.

00:13:36.380 You get to operate with the men.

00:13:38.260 And my father died in 95.

00:13:46.060 And then I had a deployment.

00:13:48.080 And when I came back from deployment, found my wife was diagnosed with cancer.

00:13:52.040 She's at 29.

00:13:54.460 At 29.

00:13:55.880 Yeah.

00:13:57.440 And so, I got out.

00:14:00.080 But, you know, SEAL teams have been using private facilities since the 1970s.

00:14:04.240 And, but no one had done anything on an industrial scale.

00:14:06.960 Big one.

00:14:07.320 And I wanted to do something local so that the guys could train and still make it home

00:14:12.880 in time for dinner.

00:14:13.940 Because like the year before I deployed, we were gone training 10 out of 12 months, which

00:14:19.760 is hard to have a work-life family balance.

00:14:22.800 Correct.

00:14:24.220 And so, getting out of the Navy earlier than I planned to, building Blackwater became my

00:14:33.040 goal because I wanted to stay connected to the SEAL teams.

00:14:35.460 And so, that's how it worked.

00:14:36.720 And it really started as a, as a training operation, which is what the teams needed.

00:14:43.080 But at the same time, I took over, so we sold the big mothership, the company of my dad that

00:14:49.320 made automotive parts, but the machinery business was smaller.

00:14:52.680 It was 250 employees.

00:14:54.500 And I took that over and took it through a lean transition, really based on the Toyota

00:15:00.140 production system to get more efficient.

00:15:01.740 And so, doing that at the same time, really guided, one guided the other, to make Blackwater

00:15:08.640 into a integrated, efficient contractor.

00:15:11.940 Because what does a military do?

00:15:13.300 It recruits, vets, equips, trains, deploys, supports people.

00:15:18.340 And how do you do that as efficiently as possible?

00:15:21.200 Which the government doesn't do.

00:15:23.860 And that's tying back to the Hillsdale Austrian economics education.

00:15:27.460 The most essential piece of information the market needs is price.

00:15:33.220 Because price tells you how much something is valued.

00:15:36.540 And that's literally what, that's the problem with the military.

00:15:39.680 That's the problem with government.

00:15:40.800 They have no appreciation for what price is.

00:15:43.340 And if you can't value it, then you have, then you use an infinite amount of it.

00:15:47.500 I just heard Elon Musk say, when he was approached by the government with SpaceX,

00:15:51.840 he said they didn't care about price.

00:15:54.560 Yeah.

00:15:55.780 I mean, I don't even understand that world.

00:15:57.460 It's not their money.

00:16:00.520 He's like, well, surely you will want it for cheaper.

00:16:04.720 And he's like, they don't care.

00:16:06.000 But look what led to the destruction of the Soviet Union, the collapse.

00:16:10.120 I know.

00:16:10.540 They had no information of what price is, so you can't value it.

00:16:13.980 Whether you have too much grain, not enough grain, too many truck tires, whatever it is,

00:16:20.140 that's the problem with government.

00:16:21.320 So let me go back to Blackwater, because I'm really torn on this, because you guys have never lost somebody you were protecting, right?

00:16:29.500 Nope.

00:16:29.780 You are very, very efficient.

00:16:32.660 But the idea of, because you'd like to privatize the military, wouldn't you?

00:16:37.560 No, I think there are many roles that should remain the sole purview of government, active duty forces to do.

00:16:47.480 But I would say there's a lot of the support, training, equipping.

00:16:51.980 A lot of those things can be outsourced competitively to bring pricing reality to the market.

00:16:59.180 And I'll give a simple example.

00:17:01.000 We bid for a, it's called vertical replenishment, which is basically embarking our helicopters on board a supply ship to fly from the supply ship to warships at sea.

00:17:12.740 And we showed up to do that job with two helicopters and eight guys.

00:17:16.860 The Navy showed up to do it with two helicopters and 35 guys.

00:17:20.320 Oh my gosh.

00:17:21.300 And for every 35 they had deployed, they had another 70 back stateside waiting to deploy, training, whatever else.

00:17:27.560 So very simple to see who's going to do that cheaper.

00:17:32.240 Because those eight people, I had to pay very well.

00:17:34.920 They're highly experienced.

00:17:36.620 The 35 plus 70, the admiral that choose to have that many numbers, he didn't have to pay for them.

00:17:44.400 And so letting a lot of those things be bid out competitively.

00:17:47.640 And that's why Musk is crushing all, because he's the only real private operator operating in space.

00:17:55.880 He knows what his cost is.

00:17:57.080 And he said, well, we're going to make it a thousand times cheaper to put a payload in orbit.

00:18:01.140 Okay.

00:18:01.680 And he's done it.

00:18:02.560 So can that happen with the military?

00:18:06.040 Well, let me finish.

00:18:06.820 I'm sorry.

00:18:07.160 Let me finish my thought on this.

00:18:08.840 I'm concerned about, you know, people only pay attention to the military industrial complex part of Eisenhower's speech.

00:18:19.820 They don't listen to the, oh, and the universities will be an industrial complex. 0.92

00:18:25.820 Everything that partners with the government becomes a machine that it's just heroin for the government.

00:18:35.960 It's a machine of grift and corruption.

00:18:38.720 Yeah.

00:18:38.740 Awful.

00:18:39.120 Yeah.

00:18:39.740 And that's problematic and why our republic has so many problems.

00:18:43.480 Right.

00:18:43.800 So how do we balance that to where we don't add to the military industrial complex to where we've privatized so much that there's the incentive of, hey, let's go to war some more.

00:18:58.700 Let's make some more stuff.

00:19:00.640 Very fair concern and criticism.

00:19:03.580 We used to have five or sorry, 100 plus major defense contractors.

00:19:07.700 The Clinton administration consolidated it down to five, and so you get even more cartel behavior when you're overconsolidated.

00:19:15.620 It's an antitrust situation.

00:19:19.980 I would say one of the things that drives the disease is Congress appropriates way too much money on defense, on all things spending,

00:19:31.100 goes to defense contractors who spends the big five, spend and pay, well, they pay for about a brigade's worth, thousands of lobbyists and lawyers to infest Washington, D.C.

00:19:46.340 to encourage Congress with money to spend more on the program.

00:19:50.060 So it's a very unhealthy cycle that has to be broken.

00:19:53.400 How do you break it?

00:19:54.020 I would cap or prevent spending.

00:20:03.040 Look, first of all, veto defense bills.

00:20:06.160 Actually, an executive that would enforce fiscal discipline, that we have to make a decision between guns versus butter, not just both and,

00:20:15.740 because with a reserve currency where you can spend an infinite amount, that's why we have $35 trillion in debt.

00:20:21.340 We're going to either get control of that ourselves and have a painful landing, or we're going to completely ignore it and have an absolute blow-up Weimar Republic disaster. 0.89

00:20:35.300 Based on our previous record, option two is probably going to be the way we do it.

00:20:41.320 Which is really frightening.

00:20:42.960 Yeah.

00:20:43.940 I mean, Donald Trump believes in debt, I think a little bit more than I do.

00:20:49.300 I believe in healthy debt, if it's going to help you grow.

00:20:51.940 We haven't bought anything that I know of that has made America more competitive for, you know, if you're investing in things.

00:21:01.360 When you see politicians saying, oh, we're investing in this program.

00:21:04.320 No.

00:21:04.900 They're not.

00:21:05.580 Not at all.

00:21:06.380 So do you foresee either of the candidates being disciplined on things like this?

00:21:13.740 I truly hope there is enough new leadership, enough new blood in the Senate, in the House, to actually force that.

00:21:21.940 And it's ultimately the people that have to get in their members' face to say, no, we're not spending so much.

00:21:28.640 How much trouble are we in?

00:21:29.940 I've heard we've depleted everything that we had and given it all to Ukraine.

00:21:35.040 How much trouble are we actually in?

00:21:37.340 Our defense industrial base is extremely anemic.

00:21:43.040 When you think about what America's main contribution to World War II was, Soviets lost 22 million.

00:21:52.200 While the U.S. was still messing around in North Africa in 1943, the Soviets erased 800,000 Germans from the German order of battle at Stalingrad alone.

00:22:07.280 Now, they killed a million two of their own people doing that.

00:22:10.160 Right.

00:22:10.640 In the European theater of operations, we lost 250,000 just by comparison.

00:22:14.920 But America's main contribution in World War II was industrial might.

00:22:20.080 Made it possible for the Russians to go from Moscow all the way to Berlin with like 600,000 trucks. 0.60

00:22:29.960 We don't have anything like that today.

00:22:32.720 And so we delude ourselves in thinking that we have all that we need to go peer-to-peer. 0.97

00:22:39.140 And we have a lot of people that make decisions that don't have to live with the consequences, which is why stumbling into a really dumb war in Ukraine, which is an absolute loser. 0.94

00:22:50.820 All we're doing is grinding up the next generations of Ukrainian youth that have zero chance. 1.00

00:22:56.640 And giving their farmland to places like Black Rock, et cetera, et cetera.

00:23:01.980 I mean, we are.

00:23:02.560 Yeah, well, at the end of the day, it's going to be owned by the Russians because they should have taken a deal in 2022 already. 0.90

00:23:10.760 Yep.

00:23:12.040 But now the Russians, I think, can go all the way to the Dnieper River. 0.97

00:23:17.220 And, yeah, it's a bad situation.

00:23:20.360 Really bad.

00:23:22.060 There are so many bad calls from this administration.

00:23:26.400 But let me stay on some of the things that are actually happening, like the Ukraine war.

00:23:31.940 Have you read Annie Jacobson's book, Nuclear War?

00:23:34.720 No, I haven't.

00:23:35.360 Oh, you should.

00:23:36.400 It's terrifying.

00:23:37.540 It's absolutely terrifying.

00:23:38.660 She just takes it minute by minute what decisions have to be made from, let's say, North Korea's launch, what happens in the first 30 seconds, what happens in the first minute.

00:23:50.740 Half the book is the first seven minutes to where the president has to make the decision.

00:23:55.860 I will commit to you.

00:23:56.760 I'll read that.

00:23:57.200 Yeah, it's amazing.

00:23:58.800 And that's assuming your comms works.

00:24:00.820 Yeah.

00:24:01.160 Oh, yeah.

00:24:01.500 No, no, no.

00:24:02.020 Yeah, I mean.

00:24:02.500 That it's not hacked.

00:24:03.000 It is.

00:24:03.640 That it's up to date.

00:24:04.900 Yeah.

00:24:05.240 That somebody did the software update, that whatever.

00:24:07.840 Yeah, it is so clear.

00:24:11.500 No one is prepared to make those decisions like that.

00:24:16.000 No one is prepared to have everything run smoothly.

00:24:19.440 And by a simple wrong call, we blow everybody up.

00:24:27.780 Everybody blows up.

00:24:28.560 Oh, yeah.

00:24:28.840 Okay.

00:24:29.420 It's insanity.

00:24:31.220 Gorbachev and Reagan were right.

00:24:33.340 It can't be fought because there's no way to win.

00:24:37.720 No, it really is mutually assured destruction.

00:24:39.540 Right.

00:24:40.100 How close do you think we are to, I mean, I hadn't thought about nuclear war since the wall came down.

00:24:47.300 I thought we were past that insanity.

00:24:49.080 I, well, the fact that the Russians are winning means they're, I would say, less likely to push towards a nuclear exchange for now. 1.00

00:25:02.540 But we're so stupid right now. 1.00

00:25:05.420 Agree. 1.00

00:25:06.220 Agree.

00:25:06.740 And using NATO origin weapons to attack targets deep in Russia.

00:25:11.420 You know, put it from a flip the tables.

00:25:15.200 Imagine if Russia announced that Mexico was joining a Russian alliance and they were going to have Russian trainers, even Russian troops, and a lot of Russian weapon systems staged in Tijuana.

00:25:30.620 Yeah.

00:25:30.880 And Nueva León.

00:25:32.120 Yeah.

00:25:32.360 And Monterey.

00:25:35.160 Has that become a red line for us?

00:25:37.220 Yeah.

00:25:37.420 Hell yeah, it is.

00:25:38.200 Yeah.

00:25:39.100 And that's what we're doing.

00:25:40.200 And we promised we never would do that.

00:25:41.740 I mean, it's so easy to understand what their red line is and why, you know, they would have a problem with it.

00:25:48.900 Because we would, too.

00:25:50.880 Because they lost 22 million people in World War II.

00:25:55.200 Right.

00:25:55.620 And they look back and they look out and say, there are more unfriendly troops on the Russian border now than at any time since, what, May of 1941.

00:26:04.980 That's a problem for them.

00:26:06.080 And if someone was flying drones from Tijuana to Los Angeles and blowing up buildings in Los Angeles with drones that they supplied, we would go out of our mind.

00:26:20.920 We would absolutely pummel them.

00:26:23.100 Yep. 0.99

00:26:23.580 Absolutely.

00:26:24.940 Okay.

00:26:25.180 So, Trump has said that he thinks he can end that before January 20th.

00:26:34.880 If elected, he can solve that.

00:26:36.500 Do you believe that?

00:26:38.080 I think he has certainly more credibility as a negotiator and as a statesman than certainly the Biden-Harris team.

00:26:45.580 Do you understand?

00:26:46.760 And I've looked for, since Reagan, and Reagan had it somewhat.

00:26:55.260 Donald Trump absolutely has that cowboy twitchy eye.

00:26:59.820 Yeah, exactly.

00:27:01.040 I think it's good to go into a negotiation and not be exactly, for your opponent to not be exactly sure what your position or what you're willing to do.

00:27:08.700 To have them walk away from the table and go, I think that guy, he might just do that.

00:27:14.020 You know what I mean?

00:27:14.880 That's really good.

00:27:17.140 They claim now that he's weak because he likes these dictators.

00:27:24.000 No, I think he understands these dictators.

00:27:27.100 I think he, I mean, he looks at it as a businessman.

00:27:30.480 He wants to negotiate.

00:27:31.360 Oh, I've seen you before.

00:27:32.680 Right.

00:27:33.180 Yeah.

00:27:34.480 And because of the way he's negotiated before for even Trump Tower.

00:27:38.500 Oh, he's, he's, I'm going to pull the pin on this grenade and just leave it here on your table, if that's okay.

00:27:45.380 And look, I think it's very important to have serious people in those roles to interact with your opponents.

00:27:51.240 Yes.

00:27:51.720 Who did the Biden administration send to negotiate with Putin before they invaded?

00:27:58.380 They sent Wendy Sherman, the deputy or the assistant secretary of state.

00:28:03.300 Nice lady. 1.00

00:28:04.140 She was a social worker before she's a woman who testified in front of Congress. 0.97

00:28:09.320 Right.

00:28:09.800 And she was like, she couldn't, you know, who would you, who, who would you think should replace the leadership of Hamas?

00:28:18.060 And she hadn't even thought that through.

00:28:20.720 Yeah.

00:28:21.520 Again, she's sending serious people to interact because countries don't have good relations.

00:28:28.020 Yeah.

00:28:28.340 People do, or people have to respect the people sitting on the opposite side of the table.

00:28:31.900 I remember, and I remember, I was told the story of after Reagan was elected, 1980, you have a bunch of American hostages been held for over a year plus.

00:28:43.820 A failed rescue attempt, a, a true embarrassment of America.

00:28:49.280 And Reagan sent Richard Allen to tell the mullahs what was going to happen.

00:28:53.800 And Dick Allen goes with his very large hands and very large Scotch Irish jaw. 0.76

00:28:59.360 And he said, if the hostages are not released by the time the president makes it from the Capitol to the White House, we're going to turn you into the Stone Age.

00:29:07.880 Simple message sent.

00:29:09.180 And sure enough, the hostages were out and flying out by the time Reagan made it to the White House.

00:29:14.700 So, uh, you don't believe this new history of this, that Carter did all of it.

00:29:22.560 Reagan sent people in to slow it down until.

00:29:26.200 No way.

00:29:26.720 Okay.

00:29:27.440 No way.

00:29:29.180 I didn't either, but, um. 0.99

00:29:31.540 No, the only thing I would say, because Carter got his butt kicked, I mean, everywhere in Afghanistan. 0.96

00:29:41.020 Not as bad as Biden, but yes. 0.98

00:29:42.720 True.

00:29:43.100 Yeah.

00:29:43.640 Carter should be happy.

00:29:45.120 The best birthday, best hundredth birthday present is that he's not the worst president in the last century.

00:29:49.880 Yeah.

00:29:51.220 Carter got his butt kicked, but he at least signed a couple of covert action findings to actually go back at the Soviet Union, which weren't really acted upon until Reagan took office. 0.90

00:30:00.500 But the whole thing about the hostages, no, that was, the mullahs were laughing at the Carter team. 0.93

00:30:07.040 Let's just finish up on a couple of things with war.

00:30:10.860 Israel and Iran.

00:30:13.420 I mean, this is so crazy.

00:30:16.140 We had a peace deal.

00:30:17.920 We had the Middle East coming together.

00:30:20.480 Now we've driven the Soviet Union into the arms of China, Russia, and Iran. 0.92

00:30:26.140 Yeah, look, the strategic goal of the United States and our policy was to keep German industry away from combining with Russian resources. 0.65

00:30:35.420 And now we've stumbled into pushing Russian resources into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, not an alliance that is in any way good for the West. 0.54

00:30:45.480 What the Israelis have done, I think they, obviously a massive screw up of their security services, that it's very dangerous to assume that what your enemy has done in the past is what they'll do in the future. 0.71

00:31:00.040 They won't adapt.

00:31:00.960 And to be way too reliant on signals intelligence.

00:31:05.940 But I think the Israelis definitely messed up in Gaza. 1.00

00:31:08.860 They blundered into the fight that Hamas wanted to have.

00:31:12.040 They had 300 miles of tunnels built where they're storing weapons, using them for maneuver, hostages.

00:31:18.200 And obviously the amount of civilian casualties and carnage that that kind of urban combat causes is bad.

00:31:27.280 I tried to give them a better option.

00:31:28.460 I brought the best of Texas to Israel, the very best horizontal drilling technology, literally the same guys that do the drilling for Exxon and for SpaceX.

00:31:40.620 To drill from inside Israel into Gaza, flood all the tunnels, basically turn Gaza into a duck impoundment. 0.94

00:31:50.280 Oh my gosh.

00:31:51.120 So you can take away the arms caches, take away their maneuver, and flush all the hostages to the surface because they don't want dead hostages either because they can't negotiate with dead hostages.

00:32:01.600 And they didn't do it.

00:32:02.960 And I think they were blocked ultimately by the Pentagon, which is really too bad.

00:32:06.300 Because the Gaza operation would have been finished months ago if they flooded everything and taken away that maneuver. 0.95

00:32:15.400 Because I think the Pentagon is incapable of thinking unconventionally, and they resort to the same playbook.

00:32:22.580 And dropping bombs in heavily civilian areas in Gaza is a bad look for the civilians.

00:32:27.520 It's bad for the civilians, and it's ultimately bad for the IDF.

00:32:32.740 So what do you think?

00:32:33.300 Who can complain about water?

00:32:34.260 No.

00:32:35.040 I mean, that would have been brilliant.

00:32:37.980 Oh, Glenn, Glenn, we had turbine-driven pumps, 12,000 horsepower, 60,000 gallons a minute.

00:32:45.280 Oh my gosh.

00:32:46.640 Yeah.

00:32:46.980 That would have been epic.

00:32:48.380 I mean, it really would have been epic.

00:32:49.880 It would have been like diverting a biblical river into Gaza. 0.94

00:32:52.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:53.300 It also would have been a little bit more, and I don't know how you feel about this, like the beepers and the cell phones.

00:33:01.620 Oh, fantastic.

00:33:02.420 Brilliant, right?

00:33:03.140 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:33:04.420 Mega compliments to them.

00:33:05.820 They got that one right.

00:33:07.020 How did they?

00:33:08.040 I mean, that is quite an operation.

00:33:10.480 I'm jealous that they did that, because our CIA should be doing that, should be capable of that.

00:33:15.580 For what we spend, 30-some billion dollars in the intelligence community, we should have operations like that once a quarter, at least.

00:33:24.040 But when you have a hyper-thick bureaucracy that is risk-averse and no one wants to be the wildcatter to try difficult, dangerous things, you get continued failure.

00:33:38.380 I think that idea, though, came from lifetimes of being the target, and the world will wipe you out one way or another.

00:33:48.780 Hey, why don't we think out of the box?

00:33:51.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:52.280 Let's not play the game like everybody else, because our opponent doesn't play the game like everybody else.

00:33:56.640 But that's what you pay an intelligence community to be the out-of-the-box thinkers.

00:34:00.960 So, let's go to Iran.

00:34:06.360 Iran, now an ally of China.

00:34:10.700 Russia, looks like Saudi Arabia might be coming in.

00:34:14.480 And we've been saying since maybe 2005, they're just weeks away from having a bomb.

00:34:24.340 I don't believe that anymore.

00:34:25.920 I mean, I know they have the cascading centrifuges to be able to make it.

00:34:35.100 I just don't know if they have it or they don't, but I can't believe they're just a couple of weeks from having it.

00:34:42.000 But I think because the mullahs are religious zealots that are kind of the, you know, more dangerous type that would love to hasten the return of the promised one. 1.00

00:34:58.540 With the hidden imam. 0.58

00:34:59.660 With the hidden imam. 0.58

00:35:01.460 I think there are those in Iran when they say—

00:35:06.340 They're willing to clack it off if they've got it.

00:35:07.800 They're willing to—yeah, they are willing to—they don't care.

00:35:10.760 It'll cause chaos, which will bring the promised one back.

00:35:13.420 And so, those guys scare me.

00:35:16.220 Who's actually in charge and what do you think they have and how much of a danger are they just first to the Middle East? 1.00

00:35:26.040 And then I want to talk about our relationship that seems to be happening.

00:35:31.280 Iran, with a known nuke, obviously changes the dynamic because they would use that as a sledgehammer over everyone's heads. 1.00

00:35:39.040 After using one or just saying they have one?

00:35:42.820 Or having a visible test somewhere.

00:35:45.440 Okay.

00:35:47.380 And who knows?

00:35:48.620 Maybe they bought one from the Pakistanis. 1.00

00:35:50.360 Yes.

00:35:50.620 Maybe they bought one from AQ Khan, right? 1.00

00:35:52.960 The guy who gave the nuke deck to the PACs in the first place.

00:35:57.140 So, them with a nuke changes everything.

00:36:01.860 Their surrogate war, which they've been using in Lebanon and Iraq and Yemen and other places, they're pretty good at that. 1.00

00:36:13.080 And they cause a lot of pain and a lot of mayhem.

00:36:15.260 But their regime is extremely unpopular in Iran.

00:36:19.540 And I think the Israelis missed the opportunity. 0.95

00:36:22.400 Great work on the pagers and the walkie-talkies.

00:36:26.200 You know, two years ago, there was the Women Life Freedom Protests.

00:36:29.420 We had millions of people, women and kids, in the streets protesting because they didn't want to have to wear a nebaya or a job to listen to rock and roll music and drink Coca-Cola.

00:36:40.420 And a missed opportunity to use that to really push out the regime because it is exceedingly unpopular.

00:36:49.340 And really, only the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force and the Besiege are the only elements that they keep a forcible control with.

00:36:59.000 If they had provided the means of the people to get rid of those, in Iran, under some kind of a secular or pluralistic government, it would be amazing. 0.99

00:37:08.760 Amazing.

00:37:09.140 They're good people.

00:37:10.420 But when you look at the central role that Persia has played in the Middle East, and even the pluralism of Zoroastrianism and all those things long before Islam even arrived, because you have smart people, hardworking people, lots of natural resources, and 90 million of them, it would drag the Middle East in a very developed direction of freedom. 0.89

00:37:38.060 But first of all, I want to come back to helping the people on the streets.

00:37:46.560 We continue to miss our opportunity on that, as does everybody else.

00:37:51.260 But can Israel strike inside of Iran and not hurt the people, just hurt the regime? 0.73

00:38:01.280 They've certainly degraded their nuclear scientist population. 0.99

00:38:05.280 Them trying to do deep strikes on the nuclear program, that's hard.

00:38:11.140 That's a hard logistic thing to do with refueling and having aircraft heavy enough to carry a very deep penetration bomb.

00:38:18.300 Because what did the Iranians do? 1.00

00:38:20.120 They just went deeper and deeper and deeper under more and more concrete.

00:38:23.420 So they could hit the oil infrastructure, which really hurts the people and their ability to survive.

00:38:28.380 So I'd say, predictably, my prediction would be they smack any element of regime power, whether it's the state security headquarters, the besieged, the IRGC, those kind of targets.

00:38:41.820 So, let me switch here to us.

00:38:48.540 Somebody in the DOD, the Pentagon, leaked confidential files.

00:38:58.860 Highly confidential.

00:38:59.820 Yeah.

00:39:00.700 Explain, first of all, what was released.

00:39:02.820 And then I want to talk to you about, we seem to have an administration and people whose loyalties seem to be with some of our biggest enemies.

00:39:17.640 And I think some of those people are coming from the highest levels of this administration.

00:39:23.900 I think it's exceedingly dangerous to have anyone of any mixed loyalty in any position of responsibility and authority, and especially with a high security clearance. 1.00

00:39:35.360 The person in question was the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations.

00:39:41.540 So that's effectively, you have a secretary of the army for the army, secretary of the navy for the navy.

00:39:46.680 The ASD Solick is the secretary for all special operations.

00:39:50.580 And so they would see any of that kind of plans and intentions, targets.

00:39:56.960 And supposedly that was leaked on a telegram channel to the Iranians.

00:40:01.960 Really bad.

00:40:03.380 Exceedingly bad.

00:40:04.360 And so...

00:40:05.300 Let's stop.

00:40:06.160 What does that do to our relationship with Israel?

00:40:09.680 That explains exactly why they didn't give any foreknowledge of the pager operation.

00:40:14.520 Correct.

00:40:14.920 Or of the strike that took out Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.

00:40:20.820 Or because when the United States has become that leaky and that unreliable of a partner, then that makes people hunker down and say, no one's coming.

00:40:32.260 It's up to us.

00:40:32.900 Yeah.

00:40:33.160 And they got to solve it by themselves.

00:40:34.220 Why haven't we firmly identified the leaker yet?

00:40:41.060 Why have some of these others who have...

00:40:43.680 Maybe those counterintelligence assets are chasing pissed off parents from school boards yet.

00:40:52.440 That can't be it.

00:40:55.420 Well.

00:40:58.540 What is our relationship in the administration with Iran?

00:41:02.500 We had a pallet of cash.

00:41:05.880 I don't know if you've ever seen the...

00:41:07.420 Multiple pallets.

00:41:08.080 Yeah.

00:41:08.560 The money that we printed during Second World War for the Middle East and for Hawaii.

00:41:16.780 Have you ever seen these?

00:41:17.440 No, I haven't.

00:41:18.380 So I have a couple of them in the museum next door.

00:41:21.400 They have the seal of the treasury.

00:41:24.640 One is brown and I think the other one is purple.

00:41:27.900 Okay.

00:41:28.320 The purple was shipped over to Hawaii.

00:41:31.060 The brown was shipped to the Middle East and we flew all that cash in, but we marked it so if it ever fell into the wrong hands, we could say, if you see a purple seal, it's no longer good.

00:41:46.480 You see a brown seal, it's no longer good.

00:41:48.780 Interesting.

00:41:49.920 We just flew pallets of cash to the biggest terrorist organization without marking it, without...

00:42:00.680 We'd know how they were spending that cash if it had been marked.

00:42:05.620 Sure.

00:42:07.120 What is wrong with us?

00:42:08.920 What is the...

00:42:09.780 I fail to understand any way other than we're on the wrong side.

00:42:16.020 It's typical of a bloated government that has gotten used to a, not just used to, completely embracing a culture of no accountability.

00:42:27.180 Whether it's a secret service that doesn't protect presidential candidates, to a military that fails to deliver victories against goat herders in Afghanistan or against insurgents in Iraq or, you know, 0.95

00:42:40.760 the first thing you learn when you join the Navy is the mission of the Navy, power projection, sea control, choke point control.

00:42:49.680 The U.S. Navy has been defeated in Yemen.

00:42:52.180 We've allowed an Iranian surrogate with Iranian weapons to shut off one of the world's major shipping ways, completely in contravention to any kind of credibility of the U.S. Navy. 0.95

00:43:04.540 So we have setback after setback and no one, no one has been fired, not for Afghanistan, not for losing Iraq.

00:43:12.720 And yes, we have lost Iraq because every significant decision in Iraq is made in Tehran. 0.90

00:43:18.700 It's not made in Baghdad. 0.98

00:43:19.700 So all that blood and treasure for nothing.

00:43:25.180 If you're a veteran over the last 25 years, you have a right to be pissed off.

00:43:30.860 Oh, yeah.

00:43:31.620 However, I have a new theory on this because I have wondered what the hell was that?

00:43:36.880 What was loss of life for if they just pissed it away at the end?

00:43:40.960 What was all that for?

00:43:42.480 I know you were there, but I was there in Asheville as well.

00:43:48.840 And that's all former service people.

00:43:52.760 It's all veterans that were running those things.

00:43:55.040 Yeah.

00:43:55.120 I think they're if we hit real times of trouble, we have the men and women, the same people that show up will always show up, will always show up, will always show up.

00:44:07.340 So that is it's actually kind of good because we have these people all over all over the world now or all over the country now with a lot of experience.

00:44:17.400 Yeah.

00:44:18.600 Who's our biggest foe?

00:44:21.420 Chinese Communist Party.

00:44:22.460 If you think about even their neighbors, right, Vietnam is very ornery, but not being cynicized, not being absorbed into the Borg of that Chinese Communist Party.

00:44:38.920 When you imagine a society that has a social credit score where they score you on not making any politically offensive statements or public or private or digitally, and they prevent you from buying a train or bus ticket or from moving or from going to school or from banking just off of that.

00:45:00.000 Many aspects of what the woke culture is trying to impose in the United States, there's direct correlation when you see even the the echoes of the cultural revolution of the late 60s and 70s see that in the woke culture here in America.

00:45:16.480 That's our main enemy.

00:45:18.360 And they, unlike the Soviet Union, have a significantly more powerful economy with a no kidding, very large manufacturing base. 0.73

00:45:26.020 They have had some setbacks in the last couple of years.

00:45:29.960 They were truly scared of Donald Trump as a president because of the tariffs and the trade control that he actually pushed back because they were like the neighbor that kept moving their fence into your yard.

00:45:42.180 Right.

00:45:42.660 Six inches a year.

00:45:43.720 Right.

00:45:43.960 And Trump is the first one that came along ever and said, hey, get the hell back on your side of the line.

00:45:48.600 Um, so they were truly concerned about that.

00:45:52.380 But the the now Xi has made himself basically a dictator for life because usually they would stay for 10 years.

00:45:58.100 And now he's in his fifth third term and will be forever because he's removed any other obstacles to his rule.

00:46:06.540 Um, and the the anti-corruption campaign has really crushed the entrepreneur class.

00:46:11.980 If you think of like a Jack Ma, who's a true unicorn, he was an English, like a high school English teacher and he builds Alibaba massive online portal doing everything.

00:46:22.940 And then gone, he disappears and he resurfaces what a year later, lecturing in a kindergarten or elementary school in rural China.

00:46:33.120 And they said he'd embraced supervision.

00:46:35.620 How Orwellian is that?

00:46:37.080 And so they've done that to many of their very big entrepreneurs.

00:46:40.940 And so their economy is hurting.

00:46:42.980 So they have a very, uh, expensive military that they built a lot of industrial capability, drones and missiles and all the rest.

00:46:51.680 And you have every general that's around Xi Jinping has bought that position as, as politically compromised as many of our flag officers are.

00:47:02.920 Uh, it's worse in China, much worse because they bought those positions because it's a corruption thing.

00:47:08.420 But all of them are saying, yeah, yeah, we can take Taiwan, put us in coach, let us use our new shiny stuff.

00:47:14.880 It's a, it's a very, very dangerous mix.

00:47:16.940 Um, if we happen to elect, uh, Kamala Harris and we continue with this weakness and policy, I cannot imagine that people like Xi Jinping and, uh, and all of our enemies around the world aren't just salivating for that opportunity.

00:47:35.180 Yeah, look, they, they smell the weakness and you see the amount of, um, of setbacks that we're having everywhere.

00:47:42.680 Like I said, in Yemen, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in, uh, throughout Africa, right?

00:47:46.820 You get pushed out by, by jihadis out of, um, bases in the Sahel.

00:47:51.600 There's not one place the U S military can point to to say, yes, there was an insurgency and we finished it.

00:47:56.360 We put that fire out, not one.

00:47:59.040 Uh, they keep saying the left, keep saying that, uh, Putin and China, uh, Iran, they all want Donald Trump to win.

00:48:14.400 Can you find a way to that in a credible way?

00:48:18.060 I, I cannot.

00:48:19.560 Why would they, why would they want someone that would actually stand up to their increasing, uh, I would say bellicose activity, uh, running.

00:48:29.040 I mean, look, the Russian economy is doing fine.

00:48:33.060 Russian ruble is doing fine.

00:48:35.940 The, um, yeah, we haven't hurt them.

00:48:38.720 No, no, the overuse of sanctions, uh, and we dilute ourselves and we're really in the end screwing our own economy.

00:48:46.900 Yeah.

00:48:47.840 Um, which is, you know, that whole thing was world economic forum, kind of one Oh one, uh, those sanctions.

00:48:56.260 I mean, that's, that's the, you know, when McDonald's said, we're no, no, no, we're not going to shut down.

00:49:01.680 We have too much there.

00:49:02.520 And then all the banks and everything called them.

00:49:04.620 And two days later, they're like, we are on board.

00:49:06.900 We're shutting all of McDonald's down.

00:49:09.120 That tells you there's another game being played.

00:49:11.620 And it's a public private partnership with, uh, stakeholders that are, you're going to play ball or you're not going to have a ball.

00:49:21.920 Yeah.

00:49:22.620 But, but ultimately, um, military victories drive diplomatic breakthroughs.

00:49:28.000 Mm-hmm and, uh, the Russian bear is still hungry and it's gnawing away and in a, in a war of attrition size matters.

00:49:38.180 And it's, um, Ukraine is now at the point that they're losing more every day than they're able to recruit every day.

00:49:46.980 Um, it's a really bad inflection point.

00:49:53.860 You look at all the threats on the horizon.

00:49:58.120 And then I think of what Lincoln said about, you know, society that is built on freedom.

00:50:05.200 Uh, if it would ever go down, it would have to be done by suicide.

00:50:09.140 Um, um, Donald Trump this week has been getting a lot of heat because, uh, you know, he, he used the words, the enemy within and the left is trying to say there is no enemy within, which doesn't make sense.

00:50:28.020 If you listen to their own rhetoric, I guess we would be the enemy within, um, is China a bigger threat than the enemy within?

00:50:38.260 And how would you describe the enemy within if it exists?

00:50:42.800 Well, when you join the military, you swear to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:50:51.300 So already someone had actually thought about domestic threats to the constitution.

00:50:56.140 Um, we should not discount covert action by the Chinese, by the Confucius Institutes, by the United Front Works program.

00:51:08.260 By the thousand talents program.

00:51:09.880 They're doing all that for collection and for influence, influence on universities, stealing technology, uh, dirty money, right?

00:51:20.580 Do not discount the amount of dirty money that can flow into Democrat coffers from abroad.

00:51:26.180 Look at how much, look at how much of the Dems are outspending billion dollars, billion dollars.

00:51:33.220 How does that happen?

00:51:34.020 Kamala Harris has rallies and they're bussing in 60 to 80% of all the attendees.

00:51:38.980 And you can trace that from the cell phone ad IDs of who's showing up from the same cities for all these different rallies.

00:51:46.140 Come on.

00:51:46.940 So, um, the, their ability to manipulate and to message and, and when you, and you combine that with a really corrupted education system, which is become slovenly pro-government, anti-freedom, uh, all the talking points that would be more aligned with a CCP.

00:52:08.620 Right.

00:52:09.260 Anti-family.

00:52:10.280 Mao's little book.

00:52:11.080 Mm-hmm.

00:52:11.560 That's, that's, that's a problem.

00:52:14.560 That's the enemy.

00:52:15.100 Now, I don't despair when I see all that because I also read a lot of history and my favorite book is, uh, one called To Dare and To Conquer.

00:52:25.780 And it is about all the way back in history of a few picked men and sometimes women that have unbelievable outcomes against insurmountable odds, saving the day, redirecting history.

00:52:39.460 And so I know a lot of those kinds of people and I know they have unbelievable bravery and innovation and all the rest, and they love this Republic and they are not going to let it go down.

00:52:53.520 Would you put Donald Trump in that category?

00:52:55.800 Donald Trump is a magnificent presidential candidate, not a perfect, we're electing a president, not a Messiah.

00:53:05.220 I know.

00:53:05.900 Okay. 0.99

00:53:06.740 But the fact, cause I've had more than my, I would say more than the average amount of shit thrown at me by the government. 0.99

00:53:13.540 Mm-hmm. 0.97

00:53:13.800 And he's had a hundred X and the fact.

00:53:17.020 Never seen anything like it.

00:53:17.880 No.

00:53:18.160 With anyone in the world.

00:53:19.200 Exactly.

00:53:19.780 And the fact that he's that resilient and he just keeps going forward.

00:53:24.200 I, I absolutely commend the guy.

00:53:26.520 Yeah.

00:53:26.840 For that kind of a stiff neck.

00:53:29.220 Now, the question is, does he get it when he gets in?

00:53:34.980 I mean, he has seen the, the global states against the five eyes against him.

00:53:40.560 So, um, sure, if it, he definitely made some mistakes in personnel.

00:53:46.380 Yes.

00:53:46.680 The first go.

00:53:47.960 And I never think, I don't think he really ever controlled his national security apparatus.

00:53:51.560 No.

00:53:52.640 And if he has not learned his lesson at this point, then it's impossible for him to learn

00:53:57.180 that lesson.

00:53:57.560 So I think, I think he will hopefully do that.

00:54:01.900 Because look, uh, all these things are reformable, um, when you have minority tyranny of crazies 1.00

00:54:10.940 dragging us in the weird direction.

00:54:13.220 I think most of America is actually quite normal.

00:54:16.240 They know which bathroom to use.

00:54:17.860 Yes.

00:54:18.200 They, they want the normal things that actually made America successful and wealthy and free

00:54:23.360 in the process, regardless of what country they came from.

00:54:25.700 I think that's why Biden won because they sold him as, he's not crazy.

00:54:31.720 He's just, he's, he's a Democrat.

00:54:33.960 He's not anti-American.

00:54:35.820 We're going to return to normalcy.

00:54:38.120 Yeah.

00:54:38.540 And they didn't beard hard left.

00:54:41.220 Right.

00:54:42.360 And getting, look, a successful Trump presidency would be that the, the, the five counties around

00:54:51.340 Washington DC have a lower real estate value by the time it's done.

00:54:55.700 I told Donald Trump, I said, please, you're a real estate guy.

00:54:59.940 Say the ones that really have to worry are the people in the beltway area because they

00:55:07.580 should sell their houses now because they're going to be worthless soon.

00:55:12.280 You know, Glenn, 70% of the federal government is still doing remote work.

00:55:19.240 There's nonsense carryover from COVID.

00:55:21.700 So you have 70% of these bureaucrats in Washington, not showing up, not even showing up for work.

00:55:28.780 Simple baby.

00:55:29.740 Yeah.

00:55:30.340 Go on.

00:55:31.220 I want to bring your partner in for something.

00:55:33.960 And I have to, I have to state this or podcast.

00:55:36.760 Um, uh, Eric and his, uh, partner have created unplugged, which is a company that is a sponsor

00:55:44.140 of this program.

00:55:45.420 But, uh, I think I was one of the first people to buy one, wasn't it?

00:55:50.160 Yep.

00:55:50.320 Um, and they are fabulous, fabulous phones, uh, that provide security and privacy, privacy,

00:55:58.740 peace, sovereignty, peace of mind.

00:56:01.100 Uh, so come on in, come on in.

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00:57:25.400 Ryan Patterson.

00:57:26.920 How are you?

00:57:27.860 Good, Glenn.

00:57:28.380 Thanks for having us.

00:57:29.440 Yeah.

00:57:29.560 So I want to, I want to piggyback now before we fully go into this, I want to, um, piggyback

00:57:36.720 on what China is doing.

00:57:39.240 Um, and you said it, you know, we're kind of going in that direction.

00:57:43.220 I think that's actually the goal for the people in this, uh, for the enemy within is to, um,

00:57:52.300 mine us for everything.

00:57:54.460 And if the state is involved, uh, it becomes extraordinarily dangerous because I think right

00:58:02.580 now, and you probably would know, I think if I were in the CIA and I had access to Google,

00:58:07.780 which I imagine they do, um, I could say I need 25 people in Texas who are unstable, uh,

00:58:17.340 really don't like Donald Trump, have a gun, good shot, whatever I needed and develop a profile and

00:58:24.500 say, give me a list of those people.

00:58:26.640 I could probably have that in a couple of minutes.

00:58:29.340 Uh, and then I could say, now let's turn them into killers, um, Manchurian stuff, but you don't 1.00

00:58:39.760 need to bring them to Russia or they won't even know that they've been turned.

00:58:44.980 You know, we're kind of in this place where soon we'll free will could be a thing of the past where

00:58:52.800 you don't know if you made the decision or you were turned or, or, or at least, uh, nudged in one

00:58:58.740 direction.

00:58:59.100 Yes.

00:58:59.480 Right.

00:58:59.820 Yeah.

00:59:00.180 This whole, this whole problem.

00:59:02.540 Well, after nine 11, the advertising companies, which were collecting a lot of data to sell

00:59:09.040 advertising, started looking for needles in a stack of needles to try to find other people of the same

00:59:15.600 profile of the 19 that crashed into the world trade center. And that grew to a, it started an,

00:59:23.140 a insatiable appetite of government for data. Yeah. And then when you combine that with, um,

00:59:29.500 smartphones, which actively collect off of every app sitting on the phone to, um, to export that user

00:59:38.600 data, it's where we are today. It's really created an industry called surveillance capitalism.

00:59:42.680 Yeah. And it's terrifying because they know it. They know you better than you know, yourself,

00:59:48.480 your phone knows what you're going to do before it even clicks in your brain. Your phone knows what

00:59:53.860 you're about to click. It'll pause a thing in a right place. Um, but your phone is anticipating

00:59:58.320 what you're going to do before it even registers in your, in your head. Five years ago, I was walking

01:00:02.420 down the street in Los Angeles and we were talking as a group, we're walking down the street and I

01:00:06.520 don't know how this came up, but I said, uh, who was the King of Sweden, uh, back in like 43 or 39,

01:00:15.760 who was that? And we were going back and forth and guy takes his phone out and he goes to Google

01:00:21.820 and he put a W and it came up. Who was the King of Sweden in 1938 or whatever? He just stood around

01:00:30.860 because the microphone's listening. Oh my gosh, that is terrifying. And all the companies deny that

01:00:35.420 it's listening. Right. Um, but it's like, it has just come out. Like there was a, there was an

01:00:38.580 article a few months ago and somebody was selling like, we can provide you data to what the

01:00:45.420 conversations are happening in rooms that you're not in. Um, and it was about a week, your phone

01:00:50.500 sitting on your nightstand, listening to pillow talk with your spouse. I know. Whoa. I know. I think,

01:00:56.660 honestly, I've never been a fan of the third amendment of the bill of rights. I'm like, okay,

01:01:02.580 we're not going to quarter soldiers. They're quartering soldiers in our homes through this.

01:01:07.960 That point of that was you can't, the King can't send somebody into the home to go through your 0.89

01:01:12.980 papers, go through your information, listen to your conversations to try to find something on you.

01:01:18.420 That's what this is. And it's, it's worse than that because just a few months ago, Congress passed

01:01:23.960 the FISA. It wasn't just a reauthorization. It was a massive expansion, right? FISA is the foreign

01:01:30.380 intelligence surveillance act, but now big Washington expanded that so that any of this commercial data,

01:01:37.600 which belongs to the apps or the other phones, uh, the other handset guys, any federal agent can

01:01:45.540 demand that information on Glenn Beck with no warrant and not even with probable cause. So let's them do

01:01:52.860 a full digital fishing expedition on a mere whim. That is worse than Orwell. That's what it's worse

01:02:00.600 than George Orwell can even imagine. Uh, I remember 2003, somebody came into my office and you know,

01:02:07.120 this is, I was against five. I was for FISA until like for a week. And then I'm like, wait,

01:02:14.140 I think this is a real, real problem. Uh, and, and I remember somebody coming in and saying, look at the

01:02:22.260 technology that we have in a good way. They were saying, look how we can find terrorists. And, uh, they

01:02:30.280 had, uh, they, if they knew these people are terrorists in this house, they also knew all of their contacts and

01:02:37.940 where their contacts and allies lived. If their power usage went down, it automatically checked for

01:02:45.420 their friends to see if the power usage or the water usage had gone up. It also checked trains,

01:02:52.140 airplanes, every way of traveling to see where that person went. That's like 2003 or four.

01:02:59.180 It was, yeah. I worked for an agency called DARPA, um, a couple of times and I was there in 2003 to 2006.

01:03:06.520 And I remember some of the programs there. And look, I was a, I was a uniform wearing Marine at

01:03:10.180 the time we were still reeling from nine 11. Um, and I thought, yeah, this, this makes a lot of

01:03:16.780 sense. There are all these novel data sources. And if you put enough data sources together,

01:03:20.320 you can find some real insight. Um, the issue has become, we don't have to put them together

01:03:26.040 anymore. Like we carry them with us all the time, everywhere we go, every movement that we make.

01:03:34.340 And it's not just Apple and Google, right? Every application on your phone,

01:03:39.180 they're collecting data on you. The applications have trackers built into them. Every advertisement

01:03:43.520 that is delivered to your computer, phone, tablet has trackers in it and they track everything,

01:03:51.340 screen size. Because the Google and Apple phone are built to interact with those apps to harvest

01:03:57.100 and extract that data to know where you go, what you buy, who you call, what you browse.

01:04:01.880 That's why we did the unplugged phone, because it's the antithesis of that, because our operate,

01:04:08.160 it's our hardware, our operating system, which prevents those apps from putting their hooks in

01:04:13.900 and exporting any of that data. It's the only antidote to that kind of pervasive big brother,

01:04:22.320 big government, big tech surveillance.

01:04:24.520 Yeah. So this is, this is for public private partnerships. You're worried about private

01:04:30.940 companies getting your information and that information going to either them in the way

01:04:36.640 they want to use it or colluding with the government. But the government could hack into pretty much

01:04:42.800 anything, can't they?

01:04:44.160 They're pretty strong.

01:04:45.800 There's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's lots of pathways in.

01:04:47.660 Says the guy from DARPA.

01:04:48.580 Yeah. So the thing, the thing about this is the government doesn't have to collude with those

01:04:52.060 with Apple or Google.

01:04:54.040 They can just get it.

01:04:55.040 Yeah. This is, this is now right. The, all of this infrastructure was put in order to sell

01:04:59.240 advertisements, more targeted, better advertisements to get a better click-through rate of what you do.

01:05:03.680 Like I want to deliver the ad on your phone, Glenn, that I know you'll click in action.

01:05:07.940 And so that's what all of this data collection has been about. It's about selling advertisements.

01:05:11.160 And so now all of that data is sitting out there in about five or six different brokers

01:05:15.400 for purchase. And we know from not much, like a thousand bucks in a credit card.

01:05:22.140 You can, I mean, the things that you can, the things you can do, like we, I did it on my own

01:05:26.500 company headquarters and we wanted to see like, how precise can we get? And we had a small office

01:05:32.320 in a rural town in Virginia. It was in a historic home. We drew a little box around it and we said,

01:05:37.260 collect all the advertising IDs that come in and out of this office, uh, more than three times in

01:05:43.120 one week. And we're like, yeah, those are probably the employees. Like our, our customers don't come

01:05:46.040 by all that often. And then we said, okay, let's see where those phones have been for the last 90

01:05:51.040 days. Now let's follow those advertising IDs for the next 90 days. And you could find me, my VP,

01:06:00.120 my CTO, everybody in the company, you could figure out exactly who we were. If you knew one other

01:06:04.460 piece of information about us. So I saw something, I think it was from you guys, um, that you were

01:06:10.660 tracking, uh, some corporate people and, uh, the, somebody you were tracking, uh, used to pick up

01:06:20.680 their grandkids from schools, just you guys, grandkids from school, and then take them to

01:06:25.520 school occasionally. And you could see to the minute where they were every day. And if you have that

01:06:33.180 information, looking back, looking back five, looking back. And so, you know, right where the

01:06:37.160 down, down to even telling which side of the bed in the house they sleep on that phone, the unplugged

01:06:44.620 phone prevents that. Yeah. So make the case, let's start on a couple of things. My daughter, I said to

01:06:53.620 my wife, I want all of you to carry an up phone. And they're like, dad, the Apple phone is the cool

01:07:01.760 phone to have. And I'm like, I said to my daughter, this is the most dangerous. Somebody who knows you

01:07:09.960 and who you are, and she's a beautiful girl. They will know your pattern of where you're driving,

01:07:17.680 where you're stopping, where you're getting out of your car, all of that stuff. This is like,

01:07:23.700 this is like the biggest anti kidnapping.

01:07:27.100 Look, the average kid, by the time they reach the age of 13, has had 72 million data points

01:07:32.460 collected on them by big tech, by their own use of a phone. And even their parents posting

01:07:39.340 pictures, school posting pictures, whatever. The unplugged phone lets you be in the world,

01:07:45.180 but not of the world. So you can be, you can still communicate, you can still navigate,

01:07:50.440 you can still bank and book airplane tickets and check sports store, sports scores, but you control

01:07:57.060 the data and it is not being, you're not a sieve being exported and really exploited.

01:08:03.000 Yeah. And it's important, I think also for, for your listeners to realize that there's not one tool

01:08:07.800 that's going to solve all of these problems, right? You know, there's, there's this guy named

01:08:11.360 Palmer feel. He was hired by Meta to come in and do digital protection and on, on their platform.

01:08:20.440 And he posted a thing or was at a talk and talked about the fact that Instagram doesn't make

01:08:26.860 minors friends groups private at all. And the, the, the Nigerian gangs that are sex exploiting 1.00

01:08:35.840 our teenagers will go in, create a female avatar, send a sexy picture to a teenage boy. 0.84

01:08:43.980 Teenage boys will do what teenage boys do. They immediately capture all their friends group

01:08:48.240 and start extorting them. And dozens have, of teenagers have killed themselves in the last

01:08:53.100 six months. And Paul brought that out at a conference. And then the next day, Meta rescinded

01:09:00.200 his offer. And that young man is on a tear right now. Um, and there's a couple of things.

01:09:07.660 Wow. They didn't want to fix it. They fired him. They did. Francis Haugen's, uh, the, the Facebook

01:09:13.580 whistleblower. Same thing. Like she sat in that community, like in the team, leading the

01:09:19.700 team for protection and said, they're not interested. They're not interested in protecting

01:09:26.540 our kids. Why add revenue, add revenue.

01:09:32.500 Completely soulless. Feels that way. Yeah, it does. It does. Um, make the case to

01:09:46.200 a mom, my, my wife, man, she is, she is on her phone all the time. And she's like, she says to me,

01:09:54.720 I, you know how many things she, cause she's like the CEO of our family. There's house. Yeah. 1.00

01:09:59.560 Yeah. There's like, I couldn't do what I do without her. And she's like, do you know how many

01:10:03.340 things I'm managing? I'm constantly, people need to get in touch. And I said, you know, we used to

01:10:08.680 not have to do that. And she just gives me a dirty look. Tell me, tell me. I travel internationally

01:10:16.680 in every time zone you can imagine. And I am solely on unplugged. So it works. Cause there's no,

01:10:23.560 there's no, um, I haven't run into a single hitch where I'm like, ah, I got this phone. It's not like

01:10:32.300 that. It's, it's just not, uh, there are a few. And, and, you know, I wrote an, I wrote an article

01:10:37.840 talking about when I left the government, I was a Blackberry user and a windows machine guy. And

01:10:42.880 everybody in the tech sector that I worked in was, was an Apple user. And I'm like, oh, I've got to be

01:10:47.320 the cool guy now. And I went to Apple and it was the most painful transition. Like I, I remember giving back

01:10:52.580 my first iPhone. So like, I can't use it. Got a Blackberry again. Um, but it took about three

01:10:57.200 months and I got there. And then I was actually called out by a friend of mine who was out at

01:11:01.980 dinner, knew I'm the CEO of this company. And I was still carrying two phones. And he was like,

01:11:07.380 Ryan, come on. And I went home that day, ripped the SIM card out of my iPhone,

01:11:13.440 made my unplugged phone. Why did you, why did you carry two?

01:11:17.380 I was the things probably your wife deals with like all of my pictures from, you know, years and years

01:11:22.080 and years on my iPhone. Now we've got to figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. We can make the transition much

01:11:25.860 easier for contacts and pictures and all the rest and all the data. So it's, it's good. It's, it's,

01:11:30.380 it is. And I'm like Eric, I've only been on it for the last six months. Um, I also travel around

01:11:35.580 the world and I haven't lost contact with anybody. And I still manage for those who don't believe

01:11:41.620 that either data, you know, this is the thing with my wife. She's like, I know you're a target, 0.97

01:11:50.920 but I'm just a regular person. I'm like, well, first of all, you're married to me.

01:11:56.900 So if I'm a target, you're a target. But, uh, so many, I have so many friends that when I first came

01:12:05.360 out and said, what, what, what, what do you have Alexa in your house for? What are you doing? What 1.00

01:12:11.100 are you doing? Um, they just blow it off. Ah, I don't have anything to hide. Yeah. Or they got

01:12:18.000 everything anyway. Yeah. Can you make an argument? It's like a boiled frog. I will, I will not be

01:12:27.320 boiled. I'll give one very specific example, um, identity theft. So knowing where you've been,

01:12:34.940 knowing where you go, knowing who you're with would give a criminal organization, the ability to,

01:12:39.500 to voice verify into your bank account happened to me, uh, as a former Marine and government employee,

01:12:45.880 uh, my SF 86, the document that we put together for, to get a clearance was hacked by the Chinese 1.00

01:12:53.300 out of the database of the government who had protecting our data. Um, they had everything

01:12:58.580 everywhere I've lived. My brothers and they voice verified in, and in one day, $40,000 left

01:13:04.940 one of my accounts and I couldn't get the bank to shut it down. They're like, there might be somebody

01:13:10.580 else on the account or somebody else just voice verified in with the correct information. And I

01:13:14.900 said, I'm telling you, shut the account down. And so the amount of data, again, this is commercial

01:13:20.200 data that anybody with a credit card can buy. And if you don't think criminals have thought about how

01:13:24.600 to leverage it for, for that purpose, you're wrong. Not to mention, not to mention, um, highly

01:13:34.980 politicized federal agents run amok, right? Cause if you, if you give a jackass a gun to badge, 0.98

01:13:40.640 you get a bigger jackass. And, and that's my concern about the FISA expansion is the amount of data 0.97

01:13:47.900 that is collected in the commercial sphere that is now available to any government agent to go on a

01:13:53.140 fishing expedition because you went to a school board meeting, because you went to a political

01:13:58.120 rally, because you went to hear a gun, a contra by a gun, went to a gun show because you went and heard

01:14:04.100 a controversial sermon. And with all of the data points they have, and you don't have it, they,

01:14:12.760 they can pretty much, I think make a, maybe not a winnable case if it's on the facts, but they can

01:14:21.020 make somebody look really guilty. Well, and they're not, yeah, they can. And they, they, and they use

01:14:26.880 this data to get the probable cause to then unleash the rest of the government, the people that can

01:14:32.440 hack, the people that can get a search warrant, the people that can enter your home. Right. So, so

01:14:36.300 this is commercial data that's, that's purchasable and, and they use it. They absolutely,

01:14:40.700 there's article after article where they, and they don't even have to purchase it anymore. Now they can

01:14:44.780 just demand it. Right. Right. They can tell them to demand it to do their own fishing expedition

01:14:49.640 on a whim. It is, and it's the antithesis of the constitution. And this, this, this phone

01:14:56.000 resulted from a rage call between myself and, uh, and a friend after the 2020 election, seeing they

01:15:02.640 were canceling certain voices and platforms and all the rest. And that's why we wanted our device

01:15:06.580 with our own hardware, our own store. I mean, we, heck, we even have a dating app for people that

01:15:12.640 are unvaccinated, which was thrown off the other guy's stores just because, uh, we believe in

01:15:18.680 freedom. And, and, uh, this would have prevented or not the government just going to the phone

01:15:26.680 companies and say, tell me everybody who was here on January 6th. Yeah. Prevented it. Well,

01:15:31.520 also, no ad ID. Yeah. The ad IDs are what they used. Right. So, you know, the government can

01:15:36.840 still go to AT&T and look at triangulation, but it's not the precision. I mean, if you're a murderer,

01:15:40.980 it's not the, it's not the precision that, that the ad IDs get. That Eric said, what side of the

01:15:46.000 house you're on? Which side of the house am I currently on? Am I in my office? Am I in my kitchen?

01:15:49.780 Why do they need to know that?

01:15:53.900 I don't know that they need to, but they can. The advertiser, advertisers do to figure out how to

01:15:57.960 push you car ads, clothing ads, movie, whatever it is they're pushing, but it is now, um, the,

01:16:06.660 the, the commercial industry give an inch and government's taking it to a mile of, of extremists.

01:16:12.820 I think when people look at the technology that we have right now, they only see the upside.

01:16:20.880 They just fail to believe that the government would do nefarious things, which I don't understand

01:16:32.040 anymore. I mean, I was naive once, but I'm not stupid. And look, this goes beyond whoever you're

01:16:38.720 voting for in November. Right. So I first learned about this danger and it was from my liberal friends

01:16:44.320 in San Francisco, in the tech space, after the Patriot Act came out, they were like, Oh boy,

01:16:48.520 like this is a slippery slope. We should be really careful. And that's what FISA is. And look,

01:16:53.700 you know, there are conservative groups and the electronic frontier foundation, which is not a

01:16:57.320 conservative group out of San Francisco saying this FISA thing is horrible for everybody. Cause again,

01:17:04.520 we've got Biden Harris. Now it might be Trump. There are people that are going to disagree with

01:17:08.260 that. And then all of a sudden, like if we start allowing our government, whichever party to

01:17:14.200 criminalize things that they can't see, but now they can, because of this data, it's really scary.

01:17:20.320 If you want to think about that whiplash, it's going to go every time the party changes.

01:17:22.880 It's antithetical to a free society.

01:17:23.960 I have to tell you, I have to tell you that, uh, my researchers came to me yesterday and they said,

01:17:31.380 Glenn, we, we can't find anything on Ryan. We, we, we, we, we, we, we can't find anything on Ryan.

01:17:37.300 And I said, well, somebody, I mean, everybody has a footprint and they're like, not an easy one.

01:17:44.120 Not, not, not, I mean, I think it's you and that kid from Pennsylvania that have no footprint.

01:17:53.460 Yours is reduced. Um, but he had none. And so I'm just, I'm wondering,

01:17:59.660 there's some purposefulness in that for sure. I mean, there's also people that have written things

01:18:04.180 about me that are out there. Yeah. Um, but I, I just, it's interesting because

01:18:09.720 you find everything, me, you find everything. I can find anything about anybody. You know,

01:18:16.480 this, you know, this, but you have, because you were in Silicon Valley and you saw all of this

01:18:23.340 stuff coming early, you have already done the things to protect yourself to where your footprint

01:18:28.040 is very low. There's a really funny story when my kids were still in high school. Um, and like

01:18:34.120 the Google map street view came out and like, you could dive in and like everybody was at school

01:18:38.740 and they were on their computer diving in and my daughter went in. And so there's a way you can go

01:18:43.560 in and like tell Google maps, this is my house. You may not show it. And it puts like this big green

01:18:48.820 curtain in front of your house. And cause I had seen it, I had seen the street view and there was

01:18:54.180 a picture of my son on a trampoline. He was upside down, just on a flip. You could see my dad's car in

01:18:59.140 the driveway. And I was like, Oh no, we were doing some work encounter, human trafficking.

01:19:04.180 My company was, my company was format formed around my kitchen table. And so my daughter

01:19:09.340 scrolling through and like, Oh, she's like, put my address in. And it comes up and it's this big

01:19:12.180 green cloud. And she goes, so is it true? I heard this from Tucker in, uh, the hallway. We, I was at

01:19:22.460 one of his events and we were talking and he said, Oh, you know, you know, Ryan? No, not really.

01:19:31.040 I mean, we met a company. I said to him the other day, uh, you know, you said to him, what are you,

01:19:37.720 what are you doing this weekend? And, uh, he had something, you know, normal. And he said, what are

01:19:42.520 you doing? Do you know this? He said, uh, Oh, I just spent the day. We, we took a helicopter

01:19:50.580 up and jumped out of the helicopter. Is it not you? No, that's not me. Really? That's

01:19:57.580 because that would have been me. That was you. Unbelievable. I've only jumped out of a

01:20:05.960 airplane. I mean, I don't care who did it. That's nuts. That's nuts. You just did that

01:20:11.640 for fun. Some Saturday. Um, it's, um, with your, one of your kids. Yeah. Yeah. Hanging

01:20:20.720 out with my son. Yeah. Yeah. That's the way my son and I hang out. Not, not ever. Yeah. Um,

01:20:27.560 thank you guys so much for what you do. I want to, before we leave, I want to ask you both

01:20:32.160 about Elon Musk. Um, God bless Elon Musk. Right. What a genius. Right. My great regret

01:20:41.240 is that I didn't meet him in the early two thousands when he was starting because BW was

01:20:45.540 cash flowing then imagined if I was Elon Musk business partner, what a dangerous combo that

01:20:50.200 would have been. Oh my gosh. I mean, and, and I think he, the, the, the, the, I have so much

01:20:58.200 respect for pushing through the bureaucracy and just getting it done. And he bets on himself,

01:21:03.940 you know, he was down to his last tranches of millions and he puts half on Tesla, half

01:21:12.120 on SpaceX. He's got enough money to do three rocket shots out of Johnson Atoll. The first

01:21:17.020 two blow up the third one nails it good on him. And, you know, I think with this last catch

01:21:24.100 of the, of the big booster rocket just from 10 days ago, hang on. Can you just tell people

01:21:31.080 who, you know, maybe grew or been growing up now, they're like, ah, we can do anything.

01:21:35.960 How difficult that is to do. That's like, I think NASA finally gave him the permission

01:21:40.700 thinking it was going to blow up really politics of it. Yeah. And the fact that they stuck the

01:21:44.920 landing just magnificent. And the other thing I love about him is, you know, Eric talked about

01:21:49.100 failing. Like the man is not afraid to fail. I know he's really not afraid to be exactly.

01:21:53.920 That is, I mean, he is as close to Nikolai Tesla. I hate Edison, hate him. He was a bad 0.94

01:21:59.900 guy, but Nikolai Tesla was truly a genius and was very much like Elon Musk, where he just

01:22:09.080 was doing it because he thought of it and like, why can't we do that? I don't think we've seen

01:22:17.520 anybody in that category in a hundred years. Have you? No. Nope. And what is it?

01:22:23.840 And you know what? It can, he can own that level of talent can only flourish in America

01:22:29.500 because we still have enough irreverence for authority to find a way through. He couldn't

01:22:36.720 do that. No. In the European Union. No. He couldn't do it in Africa or Asia because of

01:22:42.600 the supply chain, but he can do it in America. And that's what they're doing their best to

01:22:48.620 stop him. They are. They're trying now for sure. There's, there's, there's, there's no

01:22:52.760 reason somebody should have that much money should be that successful. That's so dangerous. That is

01:23:00.440 they jail him. They kill him. They take his companies down for whatever political reason 1.00

01:23:08.740 that, that is, to me, that represents the end of America. We talked about the Chinese 1.00

01:23:13.180 Communist Party smashing their entrepreneur class. Yes. Keeping control because the party

01:23:17.620 must be in control. That's exactly what the Democrat Party wants to do. 0.97

01:23:23.160 Wow. And a bunch of people are asking Elon to put together a secure phone, like people

01:23:27.580 are realizing it. And we're like, we got that. We got you. Like we have not spent a lot of money

01:23:32.040 doing this. It works. It's capable. It's flowing out into the public. It's, it's brilliant. It's

01:23:39.140 great. Yeah. It's great. We started delivering, we got 10,000 phones in May and we're pretty much

01:23:44.580 sold out of that. And we got another 10,000 arriving in two weeks. Good. Just in time for

01:23:49.620 Christmas. Good. Unplugged.com. I'm going to have to charge you now for that. Slash Flynn.

01:23:57.400 All right. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. God bless you. Cheers.

01:23:59.860 Thank you. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 26, 2024

Ep 233 ｜ You Have a TRACKER in Your Pocket Sending Data to the Deep State ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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