Glenn Beck's take on a controversial piece of art, "Flag No. 2," a collage of an American flag and an engraving of a striped sock, created by a German artist in protest of immigration detention of immigrant children at the border.
00:05:01.500The only reason why the First Amendment is being used, quote, against you is because the only speech that needs protecting is the speech that the majority doesn't like.
00:05:13.840Now, you're not the majority by any stretch of the imagination, but you are the majority in the universities, in the media and in the in government.
00:05:25.800Now, you have some ability to make us feel like we are in the minority.
00:05:34.060You're calling all the shots and writing all the rules.
00:05:39.920That's the only reason why the First Amendment now is coming into play, because when you were going to court to defend your right to speak, you were defending a crucifix in urine.
00:05:52.900We're going to court to say, I don't have to say those things.
00:06:28.740What do you think the what do you think the response would be if a conservative art collective stained a rainbow flag and called it an art project and raised it on a flagpole at a public university?
00:07:00.760If conservatives and libertarians want to be political on campus, apparently all you have to do is do it under the guise of art.
00:07:12.020Apparently, that's the way you get it done.
00:07:15.880You know, I think the win here is just to totally remain calm.
00:07:33.280The win here is the the the things that are going on are so ridiculous that all you have to do is just remain calm the whole time.
00:07:44.960For instance, I could be really upset at the at the whole idea that I've been called and smeared and and really run through the mud as a conspiracy theorist because one of the conspiracies was that I debunked the FEMA camps.
00:08:05.080OK, now that's never that's you never read all of that.
00:08:09.120You just read conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck, who talked about FEMA camps.
00:15:02.680Well, at least in the place that counts, cares about the soccer cup, whatever it is.
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00:16:09.980So the year that I was made defender of Israel and given that award by Benjamin Netanyahu is the year that I was also called an anti-Semite for discussing the facts, the facts that George Soros manipulates world markets and is working to manipulate the governments of the world.
00:16:38.860There was also the fact that he was made to go out with Nazis and and and show up at the home of Jews and invite them to leave their homes.
00:17:13.840So he writes a story in New York magazine that says that Donald Trump is a sleeper spy for the former Soviet Union.
00:17:25.780The KGB turned him in 1987 on his first trip to Russia.
00:17:29.100Now, he says this is most likely not true, but he feels that and so does Chris Hayes, that we have to look at these low probability, high impact theories and just to prepare because, you know, we all thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win and she didn't.
00:32:13.020And anyone, the, remember that someone just wouldn't obey the Starbucks rules, the rules, you got to buy something, anything to, you have to be a customer to use the bathroom and to stay here.
00:32:33.060And that was so offensive that the Starbucks chain shut down for a day.
00:32:43.020Here's this little juice bar that I'm sure nothing's going to happen because it's I'm sure it's local and it's in Austin and it's in the progressive little, you know, neo Marxist neighborhood and they're not going to do anything about it.
00:33:02.400In fact, they will wear this as a badge of honor and he will become a superstar.
00:33:06.920He'll become the barista at this juice bar and no lesson will be learned.
00:33:14.560And we'll probably see him on Stephen Colbert and he'll be a little celebrity for 15, 20 minutes.
00:34:37.940If you're not getting a great sleep, you know, by by night 40, send it back and they come and pick it up and they refund every single penny without a question asked.
00:35:08.280So I am I'm very curious as to why the media, even on the right, are are not following a story about a massive free speech lawsuit that the government just lost to Cody Wilson and and SAF.
00:35:31.100Now, what this is, is Cody Wilson was on our program, I don't know, five years ago.
00:35:38.240And you know him from this quote and, you know, in whose conception, under what paradigm, you know, I'm just resisting.
00:36:09.140Do you have the right to put basic schematics up of a gun in 3D printed form so you can download it to a 3D printer and print and make your own guns?
00:36:25.920The court decided, yes, that is freedom of speech.
00:36:31.140So now he can continue to post these things.
00:36:35.160Also, they admitted that the AR-15 is a modern sporting rifle and the government was forced to say that this is not a weapon of war.
00:37:49.400Cody Wilson is the founder and I believe CEO of Defense Distributed.
00:37:55.580This is a company that makes digital files that lets anyone print 3D untraceable guns.
00:38:02.540He is also in the business of making the actual printers.
00:38:07.820And I have purchased one of these guns.
00:38:10.540We have it in our collection for our museum because I think this is an important step.
00:38:16.100One of the very first 3D printed guns.
00:38:20.400If you if you if you ever handle it, you would have no idea that this is I've handed it to people before who are gun people and said, tell me about this gun.
00:39:19.900But basically, you know, in the 80s, in the 80s, they came up with these this idea that the Internet would allow, if not outright political anarchy, at least a virtual form, which would mean like we get things like Bitcoin and we get things like WikiLeaks and these these liquid markets of information that no government or set of governments could really prevent.
00:39:41.980You know, the creation of the such economies.
00:39:44.480I mean, the people demanded it and the frictionless flows of information would allow them.
00:39:48.860I simply claimed back in the day that, you know, liquid information and guns would be a part of that.
00:39:54.380So it's kind of I get I keep getting called a radical these days.
00:39:58.380But, you know, when the Department of Justice comes out and says what you're doing is constitutional or they come out and say Brett Kavanaugh is some type of extremist for following the letter of the law.
00:40:08.640You know, it's funny how like the shoes switch feet these days.
00:40:14.380I mean, I I'm I am having a difficult time backing the government on what they claimed.
00:40:21.580This was the Obama administration that went after you, but having a hard time with this.
00:40:28.040However, if because of the world we're living in, there's no way that you're ever going to put the genie back in the bottle of 3D printed, everything is just a part of our lives or will be soon.
00:40:41.220However, you know, it is kind of a frightening thing that we should actually discuss because anybody can print anything.
00:40:49.680And now, if you're afraid of everybody, that's, you know, that's a that's a problem with society.
00:40:54.760Could you just real quick free market anarchists?
00:46:50.200I think what made America, what changed people and changed the world was the patent or the copyright.
00:47:00.420It allowed the average person to dream and create and then change their status.
00:47:07.060I think that your view is that's all gone anyway and is going to be posted online and you'll be able to print whatever you wanted.
00:47:15.540But do you think that helps the progress of man, if you will?
00:47:28.260Well, I think the older – well, I agree with your assessment that giving people monopolies helps them out.
00:47:35.060So it's really like the post-war distortions of IP that are objectionable to me.
00:47:41.060You know, life of the author plus 70 years on these copyrights and things.
00:47:44.580You know, if we're going to have a set of intellectual property, let's make it truly useful for the commons.
00:47:51.320Let's give people truly limited monopolies in their lifetimes, less than their lifetimes, you know, so that people can begin to benefit from other people's work.
00:47:59.880I'm okay with having compromises on these positions.
00:48:02.640But my idealist position is that I think society on net would probably be better without strong patent and strong copyright laws.
00:48:10.300But, irony of ironies, the way I won this lawsuit is that the State Department came in and gave me a monopoly to publish these files.
00:48:20.160So, you know, what are you going to do?
00:48:29.640It's funny, like, yes, but I don't think they're going to penalize anyone else for doing it.
00:48:37.960And importantly, you know, because of my position, I'm not going to use that monopoly to be anti-competitive.
00:48:44.240I'm just saying, hey, come to my website, share the stuff here.
00:48:46.760And then when I share it and put it up, anyone can use it again.
00:48:49.840And, you know, so it's kind of a trick, and I don't think most people even need to understand that.
00:48:53.880But it is ironic that a guy who says, hey, we shouldn't give IP protections to people ends up winning with something like an IP protection.
00:49:04.340I want to – can you hold for a minute, Cody?
00:49:08.000I want to come back, and I want to talk to you.
00:49:09.620You were named Wired Magazine's 15 most dangerous people in the world.
00:49:15.960And a lot has happened in your life since we spoke about five years ago.
00:49:22.080And I'd just kind of like to recap some of those and hear your point of view of, A, what is it like to be named one of the 15 most dangerous people in the world when we come back?
00:49:33.060All right, I want to talk to you a little bit about the Palm Beach Research cryptocurrency course that we've put together for our audience.
00:49:41.400Feedback's been really, really remarkable.
00:49:43.940Tika Tiwari was in the studios a few weeks ago, and we decided that we should do an in-depth show for anybody who's interested in cryptos and want to learn more.
00:49:53.780I'm not an expert on this by any stretch of the imagination, but I do own cryptocurrency.
00:49:58.080I wish I would have bought it a lot earlier.
00:50:00.120And I don't know how this whole thing is going to shake out, but I think that cryptocurrency is part of our future, a big part of our future.
00:50:09.060I'll be hosting a special Thursday, July 19th.
00:52:40.940Or, I mean, you have, with cryptocurrency, I can't figure out where you are really, because you wanted to be on the board of Bitcoin to destroy Bitcoin.
00:53:07.960Bitcoin is, you know, I started taking Bitcoin in 2012 to help with my project, and that was probably the single best decision I ever made.
00:54:31.700On its principle, on technical principle alone.
00:54:34.680But there's also a beautiful community of people developing around it and all kinds of institutional tie-ins that are just almost in the offing.
00:54:42.220And, look, I think it's going to, it's here to stay, at least in concept, but even I believe that Bitcoin itself is the innovation.
00:55:33.740Yeah, well, I mean, one, I'm not a computer scientist, but with, like, my background in philosophy of science and other things, I actually believe it's a more than a difficult problem to create a general intelligence.
00:55:47.040Intelligence is associated with all kinds of things that aren't just raw logics and logic gateways.
00:55:53.460And, you know, even with these neural networks and stuff, we're seeing interesting effects, but we're not seeing the creation of anything like consciousness, which, you know, requires understanding of mysteries that are beyond, you know, technical understanding.
00:56:07.300So, speaking of mysteries beyond understanding, we have played this clip from you probably a thousand times since we've met.
00:56:49.700Cody, I am thrilled to talk to you and thrilled to see who you're turning into.
00:56:55.500You're wicked smart, you always have been, but you seem to have been tempered and have a very thoughtful outlook, which is needed at this time, and yet you are still swinging for the fences, and I think it's great.
00:57:29.200Remember that song, Our House in the Middle of the Street?
00:57:32.340It was like in the 80s, and I remember I was a kid when that came out, and I used to think that someone had a house built in the middle of the street, and what a terrible idea that was because a car could crash into it.
00:57:41.700There's all sorts of terrible things that could happen.
00:57:44.180If you have a bad real estate agent, who knows?
00:58:59.400He's meeting with his PR firm, and they're going through a mock situation and trying to teach him how to avoid future controversies.
00:59:14.260Because you remember, Papa John's was in the news because they jettisoned the NFL because they said they made it all about politics and not about football.
01:00:30.400First of all, I don't know if that is true.
01:00:33.420And if it is, you're living in a different Indiana than I know of.
01:00:38.160And in what context, in what context would that be appropriate?
01:00:45.080If you're discussing the history of racism and why we are where we are, and you're trying to make the point of, here's how bad it was, and so that's why it's so important that we fix that and don't use these words.
01:01:12.260So, what you do is you have PR people, and they just fire relentless questions at you, trying to get you to crack or to say the wrong thing.
01:12:49.060Uh, after the, uh, broadcast today, we're getting a lot of, uh, questions in on, uh, cryptocurrencies.
01:12:58.620And I'm going to be talking a little bit about that today, right after the show on Facebook Live.
01:13:03.880Uh, join me right after this radio show.
01:13:06.140So about an hour and five minutes, if you are, uh, if you are on, uh, real time with us, you can, uh, join us there.
01:13:14.360I'm going to answer some of the questions from the audience and give you some, uh, information that I think you're going to want to have.
01:13:19.240If you're interested in cryptocurrencies, that is happening today, right after hour three on Facebook Live.
01:13:25.740Also today on, uh, my television show at five, we're just taking open questions and open lines, uh, on the show.
01:13:34.260So it's just me and you on the telephone and, uh, you can call in advance.
01:13:40.740Is this the, is the radio number is the number that you would call?
01:13:44.360Yeah, so it would be eight at eight, seven to seven B E C K. Uh, that is going to happen at 5 p.m. Eastern live.
01:13:52.360And I'm not sure if it's also on Facebook, but I know it's, uh, uh, on the blaze TV.
01:13:58.160Uh, but if I, I think you might want to check, uh, Facebook live, we might also take some Facebook questions today and do it there.
01:14:05.560But I'd love to talk to you at eight at eight, seven to seven B E C K.
01:14:08.620You should probably call about 15 minutes early just to be able to get in, uh, because, uh, we're going to start taking phone calls right at the top of the program.
01:14:17.620Uh, program 5 p.m. Eastern, uh, on the Olympic program on the blaze TV.
01:14:24.160By the way, we're talking about, uh, Papa John's founder, John Schnatter, who, while trying to prevent some sort of PR snafu, uh, created a massive PR snafu.
01:14:52.580Here's the, they're brainstorming on how to not be, you know, you know, you're in a session trying to see how to handle the press and you screw up and somebody leaves the room and calls the press and says, boy, this is really bad.
01:15:16.080I just want you to just, just take a guess, just a guess, wild guess.
01:15:20.260I'm not going to hold you to it, but take a guess on what NARAL, the pro-choice America group, would think about the potential Supreme Court justice of Brett Kavanaugh.
01:15:42.340We'll be damned if we're going to let five men, including some frat boy named Brett, strip us of our hardworking bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.
01:15:53.380Just so you know, damned and men are both in all caps for one row versus Wade was also decided by damned men.
01:21:57.980The idea that he went, he goes to Moscow in 87, is cultivated as a Russian intelligence asset, and is this sort of like sleeper cell for decades sounds nuts.
01:22:09.020It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories.
01:22:16.660So, first of all, the piece acknowledges that that is probably not true, but it might be.
01:22:22.660And one of the reasons I wrote this is you need to take seriously some of these low-probability, high-impact scenarios.
01:22:28.740You know, before the election, sort of everyone heard that Hillary Clinton had about an 80% chance of winning.
01:22:34.460So, he's saying that it's probably not true, but it might be.
01:22:40.940So, we exposed today that, and I think you need to let Chris Hayes know this, just, you know, tweet MSNBC, Chris Hayes, and let him know that, you know, we believe low-probability, but high-impact, that Donald Trump is a moon baby.
01:22:59.480And that he was brought back on Apollo 11.
01:23:04.860I mean, can you prove that it didn't happen?
01:34:06.740That's grounds for impeachment right there of a Supreme Court justice.
01:34:11.420Not if you're progressive because you want the court, just the reason why the FDR wanted the court.
01:34:16.280He wanted the court packed with a bunch of people who had his opinion that would allow the government to do whatever it is it had to do to right the wrongs of the past, which is not what the government is supposed to do.
01:34:28.660The government was established to protect the rights of all.
01:34:36.880And that's what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights actually protects.
01:34:40.580And those guardians, those nine men and women, are supposed to stand as sentinels at those gates and not let anything harm those rights for anybody.
01:34:55.880I'll show you what they did with Ginsburg.
01:40:40.240If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed, you know it's going to be, oh, I don't know, 53, 47-ish, maybe, 52, 48, maybe 50, 50, and Pence has to decide?
01:41:30.000Yeah, so I think the school was okay with him, right?
01:41:32.980Ah, we write today as Yale law students, alumni, and educators, ashamed of our alma mater.
01:41:41.460Within an hour of Donald Trump's announcement that he would nominate Brett Kavanaugh, YLS 90, to the Supreme Court, the law school published a press release boasting of the alumnus' accomplishment.
01:41:54.080Is there anything more important to Yale Law School than its proximity to power and prestige?
01:41:58.700Judge Kavanaugh's nomination presents an emergency for democratic life, for our safety, for our freedom, and for the future of our country.
01:42:12.700His nomination is not an interesting intellectual exercise to be debated among classmates or scholars in seminar.
01:42:20.920Support for Judge Kavanaugh is not apolitical.
01:42:25.160Since his campaign launched, Trump has repeatedly promised to appoint justices that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
01:42:31.000Without overturning that decision would endanger the lives of countless people who need or may need abortions, including many who signed this letter.
01:42:41.840The judge employed similar spurious reasoning in 2015 dissents against arguing that the ACA's contraceptive mandate violated the rights of religious organizations, even though those organizations were granted an accommodation that allowed them to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage.
01:43:00.100Judge Kavanaugh would also rubber stamp for President Trump's fraud and abuse.
01:43:06.620As part of his assault on the administrative state, based not in law, as he claims, but on policy preference, Judge Kavanaugh has undermined attempts to protect the environment and regulate predatory lenders and for-profit colleges.
01:43:23.820Judge Kavanaugh has consistently protected the interests of powerful institutions and disregarded the rights of the vulnerable.
01:43:30.500Now is the time for moral courage, for which Yale Law School comes at so little cost.
01:43:38.060Perhaps you as an institution and as individuals will benefit less from Judge Kavanaugh's ascendant power if you withhold your support.
01:43:46.560Perhaps Judge Kavanaugh will be less likely to hire your favorite students.
01:43:51.080But people will die if he is confirmed.
01:43:56.280We hope you agree your sacrifice would be worth it.
01:43:59.860Please use your authority and platform to expose the stakes of this moment and the threat that Judge Kavanaugh poses.
01:44:07.700Well, I don't think the Yale students would far enough.
01:44:09.960Terry McAuliffe, the former governor of Virginia, said Kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades.