Social Credit Scores Are Coming HERE | Guests: Eric Bolling, Craig Strazzeri, & John Solomon | 8⧸27⧸19
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Summary
Struggling with the heat in Dallas, Texas? What do you do in the summer in the scorching Texas heat? What s going on in the rest of the world, and is China becoming a true police state or "police state"?
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welcome back stew thank you glenn i'm glad to be here are you no really i am not yeah i didn't
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think so i didn't i was lying thank you for you i wish you where were you where did you go what
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did you do uh the dallas fort worth metroplex wow yeah it was beautiful i hear it is exotic
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oh it was 147 degrees oh yeah oh beautiful you just lay out in the sun and just bake oh i sure
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did yeah it was wonderful yeah yeah and i was basically mainly around here we had some stuff
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going on uh work on the house and such so oh nothing better yeah oh that's it's called a vacation
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you know you got the cruise coming up uh next next spring yeah sure you could do that yeah but what
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about staying at home in 147 degree heat while work's going on at the house yeah that's great
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what if you could like fix the roof oh you know what last last summer we had somebody fix our roof
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and it was in in the middle of summer and i'm looking at those guys i just can i just hose you
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guys down up there can i constantly run no the water's too hot i mean it's crazy all right back
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in a second great show coming up man was assaulted outside a portland bar for wearing a make america
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great again hat two people have been arrested court orders idaho to pay for a sex offenders trans
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surgery thank you the governor of idaho said no i don't think so no i'm not going to do it
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a ton of email on my comments about 5g oh and silicon valley is building a chinese style social credit
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system for us you know this is great we start there in one minute this is the glenbeck program
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somewhere in america within the sound of my voice there's a man with a whistle around his neck
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he's aching to hear its shrill call one more time he walks the sidelines of a dew-covered gridiron
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his tekova's boots making a fine firm noise time was he took these boys to state almost every year
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and every time it was almost as satisfying as if he had managed to go himself back into the old days
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those boys stood for something immortal in their game just as these tekova's boots stand for something
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immortal in him they're not just part of his life they're part of his frontier they're part of the
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game you know tekova's boots kind of root you they they speak of real character they're made from the
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most exotic leathers available they're handcrafted by world-class boot makers takes 200 steps to make
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a pair of tekova's boots and yet their boots cost about half of what a similar boot will cost you
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elsewhere you should check out not only their selection of boots but all the other fine
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leather and clothing products that they make you can find your pair at tekova's.com slash back
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that's t-e-c-o-v-a-s dot com slash back tekova's western wear for your frontier
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okay for anybody who hasn't been paying attention i want to explain the chinese social credit system
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since 2014 in china the social credit system um is it has been implemented and is evolving into
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a single nationwide point system for all chinese citizens and it is akin to a financial credit score
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it follows you everywhere there is no place to hide from the cameras it is evolved now into you have
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to have a certain app on your phone and they monitor you you every day you take a um you take this app
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you open it up and you have to kind of take a test about what the great leader is doing today
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and he you know it gives you all the news of what the great leader is doing and what the communists
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are doing that is so good for you then you have to take a test if you don't open that app every day
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your social credit goes down if you're not taking that test your social credit goes down
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they track you and feed you everything that they want to feed you and you must consume it
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if you jaywalk across the street your social credit goes down if you are if you speak ill about the
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country your social credit goes down if you are talking to someone who has a low social credit score
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your social credit goes down it is uh it is horrible what is happening in china it is becoming a true
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police state orwellian 1984 and it aims to punish for any kind of transgression that can include
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membership in or support for the falun gong or the or tibetan buddhism if you haven't paid your debt if
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you have excessive video gaming criticizing the government late payments failing to sweep the
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sidewalk in front of your store or house smoking or playing loud music on trains jaywalking anything
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that is unacceptable by the chinese government it also awards points for charitable donations even
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taking one's own parents to the doctor and the punishments are harsh there are bans on leaving the
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country bans on using public transportation so in other words uh sorry all of a sudden you get to
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the bus and your phone says offender not enough social credit you have to walk you're not taking
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a bus you can't check into certain hotels you will immediately not be hired for any high visibility job
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if you have spoken out against the government you have posted something that shouldn't have been posted
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your children will be pulled out of the private school and may not even make it into a public school
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it can result in slower internet connections and also uh social stigmatization um because you are
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you are now registered on a public social blacklist your your face actually goes up on billboards
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electronic billboards in your neighborhood and anyone who interacts with you their social credit goes down
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they brag that they can keep people locked in their house just because they won't they won't be able
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to go anywhere it is authoritarianism gamified now i've told you for a while
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if google and silicon valley is helping them do these things what makes you think that they won't do the same
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here well they are there are now 40 or so pilot projects operated by local governments at least six
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run by tech giants now beijing is is doing this china is doing this they have two nationwide lists
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one called the black list the other one is the red list that's kind of like a a white list here
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uh the chinese government shares its list with all technology platforms
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um they uh they give you every month a social credit and that social credit uh is determines the rest of
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your life now some chinese people are unaware that this even exists at this point because they haven't
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gotten it all to the entire country but their goal is china 2020 to have the entire country on this
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surveys done by the government show that 80 percent of the chinese citizens that are surveyed
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strongly approve of the social credit system of course they do you're tracking them
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now if you are disturbed by any of this let me tell you what's going on now in america the new york
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state department of financial services announced earlier this year that life insurance companies can
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base premiums on what they find in your social media posts if you have an instagram picture showing
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you teasing a grizzly bear at yellowstone with a martini in a hand and a bucket of cheese fries in the
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other you're going to pay a higher rate however if you are doing yoga you're going to pay a lower rate
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anything that shows you're healthy and wise you're going to get a lower rate anything that shows you that
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you are doing anything at all dangerous you're going to get a higher rate now that seems kind of
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reasonable it's like well you know i have i have insurance uh on me i can't go to a war zone i can't
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fly a plane uh i can't go cliff you know climbing all the stuff i'm never gonna do i'm fine with they
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were like you can't do these things anymore and i'm like does that include jumping out of a perfectly
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good airplane with a parachute and they're like yeah and i'm like good check that one off my list
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so you don't have a problem with it per se unless you do those things if you are somebody that is
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into adventure sports you better tell the truth or you're going to pay a very high penalty now there's
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also something called a patron scan so the insurance companies are kind of like well i think that's
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probably okay you say you don't smoke and then you're seen smoking on facebook that's probably
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okay but now now we have patron scan this company sells three products kiosk desktop and handheld
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systems and what it is is designed to help bar and restaurant owners manage customers patron scan
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is a subsidiary of the canadian software company a biometric company it's now on sale in the united
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states canada australia and the united kingdom and it helps spot fake idea ids but it also tracks
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troublemakers so when you arrive at let's say a patron scan uh using bar what they do is they ask
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you for id they scan it the company maintains a list of objectionable customers designed to protect
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venues from people who have previously had a problem in any bar fighting sexual assault
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drugs theft theft or any other bad behavior but the bad behavior that list is up to each restaurant
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so if you go into some restaurant with a maga hat can you be put on this scan now if you are banned in
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one bar you will be banned in all bars that use this system and that's in australia the united states the
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united kingdom no matter where you go you are known as someone who can't go into the bar
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now the kind of behavior all up to the individual bar the owners of each bar can ignore the bands if they
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want the data of non-offending customers is deleted in 90 days so even if you're not doing something wrong
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they're still holding all your information for 90 days uh the they keep a private list that are not
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shared with other bars if they want but if you are a bad customer it can be kept for five years
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um they do have uh an appeals process but it's up to the company whether they listen to it or not
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uber and airbnb we all know that when you get into an uber if the driver has written something bad about
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you you're probably not going to get into another uber if you have somebody who who didn't like you can
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say whatever you're going to not be able to use uber airbnb is now the same and that is a private
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list so if you are in a an airbnb and think about how big airbnb is now if you're in an airbnb and the
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owner didn't like something or said you did something even if you didn't do it they can alert airbnb
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it's kept confidential you have no right to see what your accuser is telling you and you are banned
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from all airbnb whatsapp also developing for communications a new uh social credit score
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for example you can be banned on whatsapp if too many other users block you you can also get banned for
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selling uh for sending spam threatening messages trying to hack or reverse engineer the whatsapp
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app or using the service with an unauthorized app now this is small potatoes in the united states but
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not for the rest of the world because in many parts of the world this is the main form of communication
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not being allowed to use whatsapp in some countries is like not being able to use a telephone in america
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now here's the problem nobody likes anti-social violent rude unhealthy reckless people we got it
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so what's wrong with this technology as i have said before what is now being built completely changes our
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system we have always had protections of the first and second amendment we've had protections of privacy
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supposedly under the constitution we don't anymore first amendment freedom of speech nope uh how about
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freedom of assembly nope freedom of of of assembly with people that you choose nope it's not protected
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freedom of religion no uh they they're banning christian ads now just because they're christian
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that doesn't sound like a good thing i mean that's protected by the constitution not really
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uh second amendment nope anybody can say no no guns here and they don't have to do anything about it
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they can pressure banks now to say don't do business with the gun manufacturers or the gun businesses or
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people who have a gun don't do business with them we're going to cancel their their financial services
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totally fine because it's a private company don't quarter soldiers in the house well the nsa is already
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doing it but so is so is google so is amazon they're listening to your conversation there is no such thing as
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privacy anymore and no law can stop these things because they're private companies they can do whatever
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they want in china they're doing it by force because the government china is going this way
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just as orwell predicted in 1984 but just as brave new world predicted huxley said it would come with a big
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happy face on it it would come through service and and it would be great and you'd want this service
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both of those i remember a time within the last 10 years people were saying oh looks like huxley was
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right orwell was wrong no they were both right one 1984 fits the east huxley applies to us in the west
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so uh eric bowling sat down with mike pence yesterday we're going to get a recap from him in just a few
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minutes also uh coming up in about 15 minutes we have uh uh the people that are arguing in front of
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the supreme court today uh about prager being banned from or or shadow banned uh on with google
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this is a really important supreme court case we'll talk to him uh just before he goes into the courtroom
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here in a few minutes to argue the case in front of the supreme court so yesterday uh we talked a little
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bit about 5g and john bolt who is one of my favorite employees and i just love working with him
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um he he is the guy who reads you know most of the email that comes in and he hates it when i talk about
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how much i hate cats because all of the cat lovers write in and he's like glenn you just wrecked my day
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so i apologize uh but i do really hate cats anyway um he said the only thing that has come close to
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rivaling it is what i said yesterday about 5g 5g there is no evidence that 5g causes cancer none zero zip
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it is most likely i believe uh it's just as likely if not more likely that this is a rumor that was
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started by china or russia to shake americans off the track you have to understand
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if if it if we don't uh do 5g if we fall behind things are going to change dramatically i believe
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we lose our superpower status almost overnight silicon valley will collapse on itself invention
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american ingenuity gone because it will if you miss this train it will be like being in the second
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grade and in a year everyone else that was with you in the second grade is now in the 12th grade
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and you're not even sure that you are going to be able to make it to the third grade it is really
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really a huge deal uh and we can get into more of that probably on tomorrow's show but what i do want
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to say is i did some more research and yesterday i told you it doesn't cause cancer i want you to know
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that i was wrong doing more research i found that it does cause cancer but only in the heads of cats
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and so i i urge you now even more strongly to make sure that we all have 5g because you'll have high
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speed internet and cat cancer and if you disagree make sure you're right in uh because john loves
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loves these emails uh so and and i you know i think it's fair that 5g would kill all the cats
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who you really are christmas stories with glenn beck available at glennbeck.com all the tickets
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december 7th in salt lake city cats are not welcome welcome to the program fellow uh blaze co-worker
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uh eric bowling who is heard on the blaze yeah do we get minimum have they raised the minimum wage yet
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no they haven't told me that i'm no i'm i'm a long way from making a uh 15 an hour and that's why i'm
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voting for uh bernie sanders um so uh you met yesterday with the vice president tell me about
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it so um yeah real interesting there's a faith and freedom conference um i guess a fundraiser
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that jeff duncan was putting on in south carolina and uh i had the opportunity they said you want to
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you want a little exclusive one-on-one with the vice president i said absolutely i drove i live in
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charleston now so i drove up to greenville and um i got a few i got like 12 minutes with the vice
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president one-on-one exclusive and it was fantastic because you know i'm driving up there and i'm
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thinking i i there's so much going on right now there's so much going on in trump world do i do this
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um how how how much you know as you know glenn you get someone that you've who's doing kind of
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you know reaching out to you doing your favor doing a one-on-one exclusive how hard do you press
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the gas i said you know what there's too much happening right now i gotta go full throttle and
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i did i asked them the important stuff i asked them what's what's the stuff with nikki haley
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you know the ambassador tweeting that calm down everyone we're we're good friends with with the
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vice president i said yeah yes and point blank is nikki haley vying to be the vice president in 2020
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you know and then i said has the president told you you are his running mate in 2020 i mean
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those are questions i think he wasn't expecting me to ask but yeah but i will tell you this i because
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i floated the theory uh among friends um uh at the white house and i have said you know i have nothing
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against mike pence i really like mike pence and i think mike pence was a uh one of the reasons why
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donald trump was elected because he was able to galvanize the religious right um and and make
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people feel comfortable with uh with donald trump however uh i think having nikki haley on the ticket
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with donald trump with no offense to mike pence uh i think would be very advantageous for the president
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uh this time around yeah i i agree i think he uh he couldn't lose with either one um i think you're
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probably right that maybe you know you check another box with with nikki haley the you know
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trump you know let's be honest he's i believe he's going to win with a wider margin than last time but
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a lot of it's going to come down to the suburbs and and you know the female vote and nikki haley
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certainly uh firm up that but i did you either way but i think it's an easier ride with with a
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with a female vice president i know that i i mean i know when you have 12 minutes you probably have
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four questions maybe if the person wants to wants to talk um did you get into the economy at all and
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the trade war is are they do you get the sense that they are very well aware that if the economy turns
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this president's going to have a real uphill battle yeah so so yes and that that's where i started
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because you know like i had said at the time the president was flying back from the g7 and i said
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that we were in the midst of a trade war china we've had conflicting comments coming out one from
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the president one from stephanie grisham his comms director another one from the president again
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i said look are we are we prepared the president said he's prepared to continue to raise tariffs on
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china infinitum if they don't if they don't relent and play ball and he says we are and i said well
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i said miss oh you know in all honesty mr vice president i'm i'm against tariffs and i love a
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lot of things that you guys are doing but tariffs is not one of the things i like i said but it seems
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to be working i said is this is this president trump's idea or is this steve mnuchin talking in
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his ear with larry kudlow in the other ear you know playing hardball with china or is this coming
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from the president he said he laughed he said eric as you know and i've known the president for 15 years
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as you know the president for a long time he has a lot of smart people around him but he everything
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he does just comes directly from the president so he did he weighed in on that and he's ready to play
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hardball with china but i also said well in that case can i ask you this what's this idea about nuking
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hurricanes and he he laughed again he said oh you know that that that didn't happen all right all
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right so when does this uh interview air we're gonna put it up live tonight um they tell me it's
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going to be up around 7 p.m on the on the blades uh platform like usual you know my show usually
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comes out around 7 p.m on tuesday wednesday thursday so that will come out tonight you know it's
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it's really fascinating because i got into some of the i asked him what's what's the what's the
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greenland uh idea what's that all about he really explained it in a way that i hadn't ever thought
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like it became you know when i went into it thinking you know trump sees it as uh you know
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a real you know high profile real estate buy and and maybe some sort of you know what was the
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motivation i went through it is it security is it financial yeah um and he really broke it down and
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it made a ton of yeah i mean donald trump the press has made fun of donald trump on this one
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nobody should we've had three or four presidents that have wanted to buy greenland and it is always
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gone sideways but it actually is a very wise move if somebody could get it done eric we'll watch for
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that tonight only on blaze tv if you are not a subscriber please subscribe and support the talent
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that is trying to find the answers for you um you know we we are a good solid team
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and uh and voices that are across the spectrum of the conservative movement but we are all doing
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our very best to get you the truth eric does america you can't spell america without eric in the middle
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now thanks eric we're gonna go to the steps of the supreme court in just about four minutes
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stand by for that there's a huge case going into oral arguments today about uh google and can they
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ban and shadow ban uh things like prager university now maybe you didn't notice that girl from
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accounting looking at you until a few days ago but you sure do now you know the one i mean she's got
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the long lashes and the dark brown eyes you've been so comfortable in your ex-chair that all you could
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focus on lately was work but i can see it in your eyes now you're smitten my friend but i have both
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good and bad news for you good news is she likes you a lot bad news is it's not really you it's your
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we go to uh craig straziri who is um uh the cmo with prager university prager uh has been going
00:32:19.860
through trouble with google they are they are starting their lawsuit against google today ninth
00:32:26.900
circuit court i thought it was the supreme court but it's not there yet it's ninth circuit court
00:32:31.000
which is a crazy courtroom welcome craig how are you i'm great thank you go ahead thank you for having
00:32:38.360
me sure so as you're getting ready to go in and and and present the oral arguments tell me tell the
00:32:44.280
listeners first exactly what you are you're fighting yeah so google and youtube as you know
00:32:52.240
they are a giant corporation that has a lot of power and control and can control what people see
00:32:57.920
and so over the past few years uh the problem has only continued to get worse and so there are now over
00:33:03.000
200 prager you videos that are being restricted and get this glenn five of the videos that dennis
00:33:08.540
prager does on the 10 commandments are being restricted so they don't even hide their bias at this
00:33:12.960
point it's it's uh really unfortunate so our case uh our case is really centered around this argument
00:33:18.880
about a public forum the distinction between a public forum and a publisher and so a public forum
00:33:25.000
which could be a physical location or it could be a website is a place where the business invites
00:33:30.480
someone to come on excuse me sorry the business invites the public to come and use their platform
00:33:36.560
for speech so youtube says anyone can come on here and give us their opinion but then they turn around
00:33:42.180
censor us for their political viewpoint so uh that's the basis of our of our lawsuit what do you think
00:33:48.400
the odds are of winning because this this doesn't just affect you that affects really anybody who is
00:33:54.260
being uh shadow banned uh and it is in my opinion critical that you win this if you lose this uh and
00:34:03.640
i'm guessing you will in the ninth circuit court of appeals because they're insane um but if if you do lose
00:34:10.380
this this this is a very bad blow to freedom of speech these corporations will have no restrictions
00:34:21.540
no that's right that's exactly right and the ninth circuit is crazy and and if we lose it we're in big trouble
00:34:28.440
it's getting more and more scary and if they have the power to to control what people see and just
00:34:33.660
restrict content that they disagree with uh then this is this is really scary and most of america
00:34:38.860
doesn't even know this is going on because the mainstream media has completely ignored this issue
00:34:42.420
well they're they're doing things like for instance they they are banning uh prager university
00:34:48.500
um as you said 200 different videos dennis is the best voice ever on the ten commandments i mean his
00:34:57.620
books on you know his books on the old testament and his his uh his videos on the ten commandments
00:35:04.360
there's just nobody even close to him there's nothing uh that is you know political partisan
00:35:11.500
that is going on with that this is just an anti-religious uh bias that they have
00:35:18.120
yeah exactly i mean it clearly shows that they're targeting us for our identity and uh i'm sure your
00:35:25.280
your listeners may be aware that project veritas just had a couple google whistleblowers come out you
00:35:30.380
know one of them mentioned that you guys you and your show is on a blacklist but they've also
00:35:34.520
mentioned that prager you has been targeted their own employees are coming out and admitting that
00:35:38.960
they're targeting conservatives and like you said dennis's message and the ten commandments are so
00:35:43.200
mainstream uh that it's really getting to be absurd at this point their own employees are admitting it yet
00:35:48.200
they they continue to go in front of congress and they continue to say that they're politically
00:35:52.140
neutral which is which is obviously a lie so what is your what is your attack i mean what is the
00:35:57.900
you know you're going up against google has who has more money and power than god at this point
00:36:03.520
um what is your strategy well this is a classic case of david and goliath and one one reason i'm
00:36:11.060
really proud to work and represent prager you is that we're fighters dennis always says that courage
00:36:16.500
uh with our goodness without courage is is useless so we're very courageous at prager you and we're
00:36:21.420
we're really fighting for freedom of speech not just for prager you but for all americans so
00:36:25.180
uh this is a very important case and there's going to be a lot of supporters there today at the
00:36:29.440
courthouse for prager you which is very exciting a lot of people recognize how important this case is
00:36:34.520
and so uh yes the ninth circuit is crazy but we're going to take this as far and as long as we need
00:36:39.120
to all the way up to the supreme court uh to keep fighting well the good news is if you're um turned
00:36:44.540
down by the ninth circuit court they are the most overturned court in the country i mean if they say
00:36:50.700
if they say the sky is blue i'll swear to you that it's red because they're wrong almost every time
00:36:55.980
that is true yeah all right craig best of luck uh anything that we can do to help
00:37:02.360
yes i would encourage your listeners to please go to prager you.com we have a petition against
00:37:07.540
youtube that 600 000 people have already signed um if they're so willing and generous that we are
00:37:12.440
a non-profit and any donation will help us keep spreading public awareness on this issue
00:37:16.380
um so we got to keep fighting and i appreciate you having me on you bet thanks craig appreciate it
00:37:21.220
there is there are only a handful of things that i believe are godsends and things that will
00:37:30.980
actually help save the country um operation oh you are the underground railroad the saving of of
00:37:40.060
children uh in the sex slave racket 40 million slaves around the world that the nazarene fund i think is
00:37:51.760
critical and um and prager university is another one it is i just don't think that there's anybody that
00:38:01.520
reaches as many people especially young people as prager university i mean they are up to i think
00:38:09.440
their billionth view uh and they have just swept the internet and they're watched all over the world
00:38:17.400
and it's really important work if you can support them and that's either financially or just through
00:38:23.600
a prayer today would be helpful prager university yeah things like their uh their video on the electoral
00:38:31.320
college like it's something like that that is like one of the only things standing in the way
00:38:36.060
of younger people just getting on the national popular vote bandwagon when it's actually explained
00:38:41.460
which never happens in the media uh people understand it pretty easily but it takes four
00:38:47.540
or five minutes and is that is that is something that you know the media will actually dedicate to
00:38:52.360
an important topic like this no you know yesterday i did uh a special hour hour number two this week
00:38:59.060
or at least for the next i think two or three days uh is going to be about the economy
00:39:03.780
and all the things that you need to know today the truth about recessions recessions are good
00:39:11.080
and bad for the politician and will explain uh the truth about recessions that nobody really ever
00:39:20.260
explains anymore we've completely gone off the deep end on on this um and it's because of the fed
00:39:26.220
yesterday we explained i had so much mail yesterday and people came in uh to my office yesterday and they
00:39:33.000
were like glenn thank you for that monologue on how important america is we gave you some stats
00:39:40.140
yesterday about how the sovereign funds from almost all of the countries around the world are all
00:39:48.840
investing in our stock market and in our bonds because it's the only return we are the last one that is
00:39:56.380
offering real returns and you can't make money anyplace else if if we fail if we falter the entire world
00:40:07.900
falters if we get off of the free market which elizabeth warren will do the entire world goes to hell
00:40:18.700
and that's not hyperbole if we fail economically everything goes to hell in a handbasket and by the
00:40:29.640
way the poll that came out yesterday i've been waiting to ask you about it and it came out yesterday
00:40:34.580
that's a that's a real poll isn't it the monmouth poll yeah showing a three-way tie basically at the top
00:40:40.720
yes absolutely one of the highest rated pollsters there is now it's one poll um there's only been one
00:40:45.860
another one that's shown a result like this that one was a little bit shaky but this one is a plus
00:40:51.180
yeah i'm an a plus rated pollster i mean elizabeth warren could be our next president you're listening
00:40:58.040
we have um we have an hour on the economy yesterday we told you why america's economy
00:41:15.840
was so important uh today we talk about recessions they're good for economies they're bad for people
00:41:24.680
and presidents and uh you'll learn the nasty secret about recessions that the media will never tell you
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program all this week
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in this time period i'm going to be talking to you about the economy what's coming what you need to know
00:42:06.760
explaining things that maybe the mainstream media just can't find time to explain yesterday i explained
00:42:14.760
why china is so dangerous playing playing uh some sort of uh chicken with china is not necessarily a
00:42:25.020
very good idea they have a trump card no pun intended and i told you about that yesterday also whose fault
00:42:32.120
is it if the economy goes down if you didn't hear it yesterday please go back to the podcast and
00:42:39.620
listen to it today we're going to talk to you about recessions what are they well they're good for
00:42:48.840
economies they're just painful for people and very bad for presidents we begin there in one minute
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recessions good for economies harsh on people bad for presidents now i don't want to sound like bill
00:44:53.100
maher and i don't want to step into his quagmire of sounding like i'm wishing or supportive of a
00:44:58.120
recession striking the u.s economy let me start by emphatically stating i neither hope for a recession
00:45:06.320
nor am i forecasting one to occur now soon next year or at any particular time we're off the charts
00:45:15.940
on on recessions so no one knows mar has gotten himself into trouble because he's openly wishing for
00:45:24.980
the economy to crash into recession despite the fact that it will be devastating to millions of
00:45:30.760
americans who will lose their jobs many of them will lose their homes or their businesses he believes
00:45:37.120
that he we should have a recession uh between now and november 2020 because trump will lose his
00:45:43.040
re-election bid and that would make it worth it even though other people are suffering now that's easy
00:45:48.740
for a guy who's worth over a hundred million dollars to say but let me say i pray every day that we do not
00:45:56.160
experience a recession because unlike maher i'd really rather not see any american whether i agree
00:46:04.500
or disagree with them suffer an economic downturn uh and also because when it comes to the re-election
00:46:12.340
of donald trump i think bill maher is right about that if a recession happens and the economy goes off
00:46:18.780
the wet rails he will be blamed first term presidents are really susceptible to recessions
00:46:26.860
dooming their chances at serving a second term and trump has attached much of his presidency and his
00:46:34.540
campaign performance of the u.s economy if you're taking credit for everything you're going to get
00:46:41.640
blamed for everything as well but first before we really get into this let me explain so we're on the
00:46:49.080
same page for today's purposes i'm discussing the textbook definition of an economic recession
00:46:56.840
that's two or more quarters of declining gross domestic products six months or more where the total
00:47:04.160
financial output of the united states is shrinking now historically speaking the united
00:47:11.360
states experiences a recession about every seven years remember that number every seven years we
00:47:18.820
have a recession it's going to come into play later and you're going to be i think it's a piece a puzzle
00:47:25.440
piece that falls in and you're like oh my gosh now we're currently sitting at 10 years since the last
00:47:31.960
recession the great recession followed you know that followed the 2007 2008 financial crisis it's been 10 years
00:47:38.760
now this represents the period we're in now the longest period of financial expansion in all of u.s history
00:47:48.980
that should tell you something so in a way we are way overdue for our next recession already
00:47:58.980
you know but that's you know like saying los angeles oh they're overdue for a major earthquake because
00:48:04.400
they hadn't had one in a while you know it makes for you know great headlines and everybody wants to
00:48:09.000
read it but it's not science now there's a great misconception about recessions and this comes from
00:48:17.180
the progressive movement around the turn of the century it's all really due because of politicians
00:48:23.700
in part because the media and in part because of our general tendency toward finding escapes scapegoat
00:48:31.360
when something quote goes wrong end quote but here's the counterintuitive truth
00:48:39.820
you might need duct tape to wrap around your head so your head doesn't explode when i say this to you
00:48:48.180
just because a recession occurs it doesn't necessarily in fact it usually does not mean anything has gone
00:48:59.220
quote wrong end quote in a healthy functional market economy recessions are normal they're natural
00:49:09.280
and a healthy process of the business cycle now that's hard to say i'm a small business owner i am also a rancher
00:49:20.160
i have a farm i know what farmers are going through right now we're going through it i am a business
00:49:28.560
small business owner i know what it is like i know homes can be foreclosed on by banks families are
00:49:36.460
evicted during recessions life savings can be wiped out farmers lose their land ranchers are forced to
00:49:43.940
sell their herds small business owners are forced to cut back on workers have to lay people off or they
00:49:50.200
lose their business so i have been through that process myself it is painful it is emotional and it has
00:49:58.300
a real world impact nobody wants to go through that nobody wants to see anybody else go through that
00:50:05.520
it's a hard time but that is the trap everything is supposed to be easy well life is not naturally easy
00:50:19.520
when something is truly easy when something is truly easy all the time it goes against nature
00:50:25.100
a financial downturn can negatively impact many people so we attend we tend to automatically think of
00:50:34.540
them as bad things and so we look for ways to stop them that's natural but it's wrong because it is
00:50:45.400
going against the natural force to stop them we invent organizations like the federal reserve
00:50:52.000
that was created to stop the so-called boom and bust cycles that we were you know you know in great pain
00:51:01.300
from we had boom and bust cycles we had depressions that would last a year everybody would lose everything
00:51:08.240
and then it would start back up and everything would be good for seven to ten years and then it got bad
00:51:14.220
so what we did is we invented the federal reserve did it work no no two years after the federal reserve
00:51:22.620
was formed the u.s experienced an economic depression 1920 i think it was then 12 years later the stock
00:51:31.480
market suffered the worst crash ever america entered the great depression and we've had a dozen
00:51:37.800
recessions since then in fact since the creation of the federal reserve system both the frequency and the severity
00:51:45.520
of u.s recessions has increased not decreased and you're going to understand why in a minute
00:51:52.960
to stop a recession we create national job programs we enact government infrastructure spending programs
00:52:02.520
we bail out banks we bail out auto auto manufacturing entire industries the fed pumps trillions of dollars
00:52:11.760
into the economy by buying bad mortgages government bonds stocks and failing pension funds yet each recession
00:52:26.700
let me take a quick break and then i'm going to come back and tell you exactly why we shouldn't be
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continuing part two on our week-long series on the economy and things that you need to
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know and understand if you're going to weather the storms that are ahead
00:54:53.000
um i want you to imagine for a minute that there is no federal reserve yay there's no legal authority
00:55:00.960
for the government to bail out any person or any industry we just have a simple truly free market
00:55:08.360
economy now in this world that you're imagining now during periods of economic expansion investments
00:55:16.300
get made people are inventing things they launch new businesses they speculate by investing in
00:55:22.980
stocks banks loan money to entrepreneurs people buy new cars new phones tvs jet skis they take out
00:55:30.360
loans to build an addition to their home things are expanding and things are good however the bank
00:55:37.980
can't you know make every investment that the bank is making by giving loans a great investment
00:55:46.140
people can't do that people have really good ideas for businesses maybe their timing is off
00:55:52.920
maybe they misread the market maybe it's a crappy idea but businesses fail not every investment
00:56:00.740
gets that gets made is equally wise or good not every product that is launched or business idea has the
00:56:07.680
same market value investments whether made to launch a new business or in a given stock eventually
00:56:15.300
either work out or they don't the smarter wiser wiser wiser or luckier investment goes up in value and there's a payout
00:56:26.000
the foolish risky or just unlucky investment lose values and goes bad this is not necessarily anybody's fault
00:56:35.900
sometimes it is sometimes it's not you could have an entire society of very well-intentioned hardworking and
00:56:42.300
perfectly moral people and this will occur because not every idea meets with success
00:56:49.460
so some investments work out some don't and when the bad or the unlucky investments go bad
00:56:57.120
they have to get flushed out of the system and the capital and the energy in which has been allocated to
00:57:03.740
that unproductive investment has to be redeployed to new hopefully more productive ones
00:57:09.560
so the small business owner who opened a restaurant that just didn't end up being as popular
00:57:15.620
uh as they hoped has to close the doors the homemakers whose handcraft handmade crafts are
00:57:23.720
not selling on etsy has to close down her website the company who invested billions of dollars trying to
00:57:30.920
invent the perpetual motion machine has failed and now has to lay off all of its employees and close their
00:57:37.400
doors that's the normal cycle some things are good some things are bad no outside shock or stock market
00:57:46.060
crash was needed no yield curve inversion no war no drought or hurricane ivan there were no nefarious
00:57:53.600
actors or crooks like gordon gecko or bernie madoff it was just the natural business cycle of self
00:58:01.320
organizing systems coming back into balance and reallocating energy and resources from underperforming
00:58:08.860
activities to more productive ones it's how we grow and get better there's a setback we learn from it we get
00:58:17.980
better now let's go back to seven years why does every recession happen tend to occur every seven years
00:58:30.780
it's because the average business loan is five to seven years long so it's as simple as that don't let
00:58:43.220
any economists tell you anything different about two years into economic expansion money is lent out
00:58:50.780
in earnest by banks to entrepreneurs who start or expand their business some of those businesses fail
00:58:59.160
some succeed and because the average loan is about five years long the businesses that are failing tend to
00:59:07.560
start start not paying things back about six or seven years into the economic expansion so banks have to
00:59:16.580
write off those losses they lend less businesses lay people off the economy absorbs the cycle of higher
00:59:25.180
higher unemployment and financial slowdown as a recession it's a period usually less than a year where the
00:59:32.700
economy shrinks as bad investment bad debt and bad ideas flushed out of the system now the president of
00:59:41.580
bridgewater capital eats that's one of the world's largest head fund uh calls this part of the cycle the
00:59:47.160
de-leveraging phase unsound or unlucky investments have to be flushed out of the financial system
00:59:54.920
and then a new period of investments and economic expansion occurs now yes when a recession occurs
01:00:04.160
otherwise innocent people are negatively impacted sometimes severely the server at the restaurant they
01:00:11.020
didn't do anything to deserve being laid off she's gonna have to deal with not having a job not having
01:00:17.000
income her children are going to suffer everyone's going to suffer the auto worker whose bosses decide to
01:00:23.180
invest billions in that perpetual motion engine didn't make a bad decision it was the bosses that did
01:00:30.140
but they're going to be laid off they deserve our sympathy and i believe more importantly they deserve
01:00:37.760
our help and assistance but not through a federal system instead as a community as people with a social
01:00:49.760
contract that we have with our neighbors we help people the further we get away from farming the further
01:00:58.760
we get away from this truth you might be the best farmer but for some reason something went wrong
01:01:07.100
weather water whatever it is something went wrong and you have a failing crop the other farmers around
01:01:15.540
you know i'm going to help this person and they rally around and they help each other because they know
01:01:22.720
some year down the road they're going to need the help and it's a social contract it's what keeps our
01:01:29.780
farming community solid now instead of doing those things instead of understanding the natural and healthy
01:01:39.700
cycle that exists within a free market economy which rewards the best ideas with sustained overall growth
01:01:47.620
we try to create a centrally planned system that will provide for positive growth for everybody
01:01:54.780
no one will ever ever suffer it's going to be great for all businesses at all time
01:02:01.020
we tend to believe that somehow this politician or this central banker can prevent a recession from
01:02:09.620
ever occurring it's not possible if the government were in charge of everything then smart bureaucrats and
01:02:19.040
committees could decide on what ideas are good and bad what to build when this is the elizabeth
01:02:24.740
warren plan what consumers want need all by harvard trained economists who now live in georgetown and
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they are much smarter than ma and pa kettle in small town usa let me continue you will understand the free
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01:02:53.580
and you should not freak out instead we should actually freak out that the government is bailing
01:03:01.200
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01:03:08.160
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welcome to the program the glenn beck program i uh i'm talking about recessions today and it's
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important for you to understand this i'm trying to give you a week uh at this hour of of economic
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food to chew on because i believe between now and 2030 the world is going to be facing economic collapse
01:05:04.100
and even the strongest free market advocate when they're affected they're going to rush towards
01:05:11.180
socialism we if if this economy doesn't hold together um if donald trump loses this race god
01:05:21.540
help us all because you're going to have somebody like elizabeth warren and she is going to use
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the motherly we just need to take care of each other kind of thing and we will end the free market
01:05:34.860
it's part of her plan um so it's important that we all know what is right and why it's right
01:05:44.040
now recessions can be prevented they can be lessened with zero percent interest loans they
01:05:51.620
they can flood the market with with cheap money it doesn't usually help the lower class uh and middle
01:06:00.060
class doesn't really get rich it actually expands the distance between the poor and the wealthy
01:06:06.240
but financial mishaps can be prevented with government bailouts that's what we did in 08 poor investments
01:06:13.640
can be prevented with economic district planned you know by appointed committees financial cycles
01:06:21.240
can be prevented completely now listen to this by way of the modern monetary theory mmt and this is a
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new theory it's not it's a very old theory and it is it does not work it's magic um we'll get into this uh
01:06:40.880
later on this week but it is where governments simply print money they need at any time they determine
01:06:47.820
they need it and any level of money it is it's zimbabwe it is venezuela and it will end our way of life
01:06:57.500
and you have people in washington now discussing it as a brilliant new idea so you can do a lot of
01:07:06.260
things but what tends to occur when governments and central banks interfere with financial markets
01:07:11.080
is they make the recession much worse so the next recession you know becomes a depression
01:07:18.080
it wouldn't have happened that way if you would have let it just go and people pay for the mistakes that
01:07:24.720
they made it creates a distortion in our financial market by injecting policies and currency and false
01:07:32.620
demand where it would not have otherwise been it makes it impossible the deleveraging process
01:07:39.800
doesn't happen it doesn't flush the bad business ideas and investments out of the system and make
01:07:46.100
room for new better ideas the banks never had to pay for their mistakes and they are much worse today
01:07:52.900
even with all the new regulation than they were before 2008 now i want to show you the worst example
01:07:59.780
of a centrally planned and controlled economy and how it makes things worse it's china yesterday i told you
01:08:06.860
that their debt to gdp is running at 400 and what was it 87 um percent to gdp
01:08:17.820
what we're running at about 68 percent of gdp which means take 68 percent of everything that we have
01:08:29.800
made and sold and purchased for the year take 68 percent of that and just add that to our debt
01:08:37.100
they're at 400 and negative 488 87 percent they are centrally planned they have 13 special economic
01:08:48.020
zones each one has a committee to determine what to build what investments to make what resources to
01:08:54.600
and for years pundits the media people uh in banking they all talk about the chinese miracle
01:09:03.300
an unprecedented 22 years in a row of gdp growth at least on paper this is why they have ghost cities
01:09:14.400
entire gigantic cities with no one living in them according to merrill lynch more than 50 percent of
01:09:23.660
the companies in china are actually bankrupt 50 they are zombie companies they're kept alive not
01:09:31.440
because they're able to produce a profit or pay debts but because their debts are continually
01:09:36.740
refinanced by the central bank in a never-ending cycle of more debt to cover the bad investments
01:09:43.820
it's the very definition of good money after bad this is why as i told you yesterday they had to create
01:09:52.640
50 trillion dollars in new currency since 2014 50 trillion so you know all the currency in print from
01:10:00.720
all over the world today is 60 trillion so they almost they printed almost what every country in the world
01:10:09.240
has in in currency and half of that went into these zombie companies wow now what happens when bad
01:10:20.820
companies and poor investments aren't allowed to fail for political reasons
01:10:25.340
well one analogy is think of forest fires think of forest fire we we have this knee-jerk reaction
01:10:33.900
when a forest fire occurs oh no there's a fire something's gone wrong we've got to put it out
01:10:38.760
we've got to save the the forests well no now wait a minute hold it just a second the forest will grow
01:10:45.400
back it will grow back it is natural now if somebody is doing arson that's different but lightning is
01:10:53.780
natural we have more forest now than we've ever had because why we don't let them burn like it happened
01:11:05.000
in nature and we also plant an awful lot of trees we all know that it's settled science that fires are
01:11:13.880
a very important part of ecological the ecological cycle it helps keep the forest healthy
01:11:21.600
it also removes the older unhealthy and dead plants and converts them into a nutritional resource for the soil
01:11:30.920
and it allows a much healthier forest to grow our continued intervention into that natural cycle of forest fire
01:11:41.180
prevents the dead underbrush and the fallen trees from being removed this is why california has fire
01:11:48.280
after fire after fire the fire when when you do that the fire just rolls through it becomes an out of
01:11:59.440
control firestorm that destroys the entire forest and not just the dead and unhealthy underbrush
01:12:06.520
the credit cycle is the same it is the natural way for self-organizing markets to ensure that resources
01:12:14.960
are allocated to the healthiest and most productive ideas products and companies and when they go out
01:12:20.080
of business when people learn their lesson they pay the price for bad decisions it's painful just like a
01:12:26.660
forest fire is but it adds nutrients to the soil of the free market so it's good for economies
01:12:34.620
however if you interfere it's very bad a little spot fire pops up in the economy we extinguish it with
01:12:47.620
mountains of zero interest loans bailouts from government and investments we are we are making it much
01:12:55.280
much worse our economy is strewn now with overgrown companies and programs that simply grow the bubble
01:13:04.060
even bigger it's happening in the banking sector which brings us to presidents it is understandable that
01:13:13.560
politicians do not like recessions i don't want a recession and i'm telling you if the economy goes
01:13:19.860
to hell in a handbasket which many people are rooting for it means the president loses this and if he loses
01:13:28.260
this race we become a planned society without a free market during recessions everybody's looking for
01:13:37.780
somebody to blame because we think recessions are not natural that they're bad the president the most
01:13:44.540
visible politician he has the most authority and so he gets an you know outsized share of the blame when
01:13:52.640
quote something goes wrong and if you look at the presidency since world war ii every one-term president
01:13:59.740
had their first term marred by a recession ford carter bush one ford probably was doomed anyway because
01:14:07.860
of nixon but the trend holds before world war ii recessions also took their toll with you know the
01:14:16.060
with four one-term presidents suffering through a recession or depression during the first term
01:14:20.620
two others were assassinated and and fdr did break the mold uh but he was you know he elongated i think
01:14:29.400
the worst economy in u.s history and he sold the the uh people a line of lies that were were just that they
01:14:40.100
were lies they were not helping anyone they were elongating things and he did it out of compassion
01:14:46.360
which can be misplaced trump however i think is the most acute case of recession impacting re-election
01:14:56.900
chances that we've ever seen because he has built his presidency on the economy he has taken credit for
01:15:05.060
everything so stocks are up unemployment low gdp growth been solid every quarter top line metrics look good
01:15:13.420
he talks about it he says see what we're doing is good it makes him vulnerable to a downturn very
01:15:20.660
vulnerable especially in this where the media and everybody else is just not telling you the truth
01:15:25.920
he knows this and he's going to be keenly focused on the economy let's make sure it doesn't slip into
01:15:34.200
recession i think it'll cost he and his team are already advocating a fed cut for interest rates restart the
01:15:41.740
quantitative easing by just buying distressed assets like farmers that are losing their farms and we
01:15:50.320
should expect more of that over the next few months now here's some good news everybody in the fed they
01:15:59.260
are looking at they look at themselves like heroes they are uh they are um jesus neo from the matrix
01:16:08.620
uh you know and ben bernanke all rolled up into one they just they didn't learn anything from this
01:16:15.700
they think what they did was save the economy and in some ways they were right
01:16:20.460
the the federal reserve did reload uh do you did reload after the bailouts of 2009 central banks around
01:16:30.780
the world did not but we raised our interest rates off the zero percent level we got them up to
01:16:38.060
2.5 and we sold a lot of that bad debt until recently every time we sold it the market crashed
01:16:46.240
20 percent first in january then in april then october to christmas um and since then they haven't
01:16:52.980
deleveraged anything but they do have some ammo to stave off a recession at least for a while but it will
01:17:00.120
make the next one worse now here's what we can do we can prepare ourselves and our families our
01:17:09.340
businesses and our communities we can keep what we have in safe places we can make sure that we have
01:17:16.060
savings and it may mean that you sacrifice you know something you want today uh for you know so you
01:17:24.200
have something when it's raining outside you can pay off the debt where you can you can refinance in
01:17:32.220
uh um right now into a lower interest rate get those credit card debt get it down um get your interest
01:17:40.440
rate then the credit cards from 18 to 4 if you can cut back on all unnecessary expenses and i know this
01:17:49.940
sounds stupid but i think one of the reasons why we suffer so much today is because we have broken
01:17:57.600
our covenant as a covenant nation every single day we have chased god out of our schools out of our
01:18:04.880
churches many of them we don't have any rules anymore we don't believe in in truth anymore and we were
01:18:13.880
a covenant nation we have to start living the covenant we have to start behaving like god's people
01:18:23.920
which means we have to start serving each other more we have to start being decent more we have to
01:18:30.060
restrain the natural man in us and the biggest part of that is getting down on our knees humbling
01:18:39.860
ourself asking for forgiveness and praying for our country praying that what his will is is done
01:18:50.060
whether we like it or not whatever he deems is best for us that it's done and we accept it and that our
01:18:59.380
hearts are softened so we can help one another through whatever comes more tomorrow
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yeah congratulations to the republican governor of idaho brad little is his name
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um he was told by the three judges on the ninth circuit court of appeals that the state of idaho
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must pay a pay for the male to female gender reassignment surgery of an inmate sentenced to
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10 years in prison for sexually abusing a 15 year old boy um only attracted to boys i guess because
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he's actually a female and he wants to be reassigned as a female that's about uh a 20 to 30 thousand
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dollar surgery uh the governor said no i don't think the taxpayers are going to pay for that
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i agree 110 percent pain and suffering cruel and unusual punishment is what the court says
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i am happy i'm back thank you very much hillary because you vacationed at home it's not a vacation
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it was not a vacation did you do that by choice or did your wife make it was just a long weekend
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i had uh you know we had some work going on at the house what do you have going on in that we had
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some stuff like getting fixed and installed and then i've been like you know you know those things
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that build up on your lists of things to do i've got a whole i've been avoiding them now for about
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five years yes and i've got to take care of all of them now and it's like
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we live on the street that was built in like 2006 2007 2008 like all the houses on it so
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right before the housing collapse um and so all the houses that were built in that time frame
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yeah like within the last like two months have all replaced their roof and i'm like this is freaking
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coming to me isn't it oh yeah this is like and i we haven't had to do it yet we have any issues but
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like i'm what those are fun oh no i don't want to do that those are fun i don't want to do it all
01:22:45.800
right rob henderson is joining us next he wrote a great article in the new york post i read this
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weekend luxury beliefs are the latest status symbol for rich americans great points
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oh you know what lovey climate change everyone should have renewable energy
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why don't why doesn't everyone get renewable energy well maybe because uh most people can't afford it
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you know marriage is uh yeah you know monogamy is outdated and not good for society
01:23:39.620
of course i'm married but marriage isn't for everyone yet the rich their marriage rate is the
01:23:47.600
same as it was in 1960 everyone else is collapsing you know religion is really not good oh really is it
01:23:56.180
there's a great article from rob henderson i read it this weekend in the new york post
01:24:02.420
luxury beliefs they're the latest status symbol for rich americans just that is so true but when you hear
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so rob henderson writes in the new york post a former classmate from yale recently told me that
01:26:56.340
monogamy is kind of outdated not good for society so i asked her what her background is and if she
01:27:02.340
planned on marrying she said she comes from an affluent family works at a well-known technology
01:27:07.840
company and yes she personally intends to have a monogamous marriage but quickly added that marriage
01:27:13.180
shouldn't have to be for everyone but she was raised by a traditional family she planned on having a
01:27:19.080
traditional family but she maintained that traditional families are old-fashioned and society
01:27:24.160
should evolve beyond them i asked myself what could explain this welcome to the program rob henderson how
01:27:31.960
are you sir good glenn thanks for having me you bet i i really enjoyed your article um what explains
01:27:39.880
that and why is it a problem yeah well you know glenn i study social psychology and how people are
01:27:48.300
influenced by others as a phd student at cambridge and you know based on a lot of research it seems
01:27:53.560
that social status is a key driver in how people think and how how we behave and in fact you know
01:28:00.060
a lot of this research shows that you know respect and admiration from our peers contributes more to
01:28:05.300
our sense of well-being than even how much money we make and so this is sort of how i came up with
01:28:09.400
the idea of luxury beliefs and so this we experienced this sort of pleasure to or pressure to display
01:28:16.300
our status in new ways and you know one way we do this is by displaying you know sort of our prestige
01:28:22.760
our intelligence our education and you know we do this by coming up with sort of clever and bizarre
01:28:27.880
arguments you know and so one concern that i have is that you know the beliefs of the upper class
01:28:33.740
you know they continue to to change and update as people below them adopt these beliefs and so
01:28:39.960
their beliefs the upper class beliefs become more wild and more exotic and further distance themselves
01:28:44.440
from ordinary people they're sort of constantly updating their belief wardrobe so what is what
01:28:50.580
is is causing them to do that um and and because in the old days if you were rich you might have
01:28:59.940
lived a different lifestyle like the vanderbilts lived a different lifestyle but they didn't want to be
01:29:06.400
known as as um denigrating or or um tearing apart everyone else they wanted to be seen as the average
01:29:17.040
decent american what's happened yeah well i think uh you know two things might be going on one is that um
01:29:25.860
so sort of luxury goods and and having you know uh fancy uh items it's just these goods are becoming
01:29:33.000
more affordable so everyone can uh purchase them and another is that um it's it's maybe not so cool
01:29:41.360
to display your wealth with with material goods anymore um i think a lot of people maybe think it's
01:29:46.820
uh sort of tacky or it sort of um makes people feel bad to you know if i get to afford this item but
01:29:53.100
you don't get to have it and so both of those things simultaneously make material goods not so appealing
01:29:57.940
so a new way that the upper class can display their status is to have these sort of unusual
01:30:04.380
and in some cases even bizarre beliefs um and you know in many cases they hold these beliefs um with
01:30:12.460
good intentions they think that they're maybe doing the right thing but i think alongside that maybe more
01:30:18.600
kind-hearted motive is also this motive to sort of display their social class so give me a give me
01:30:26.240
some examples of luxury beliefs sure so one belief that i talk about in the new york post article is
01:30:34.600
the belief that all family structures are equal there's this sort of non-judgmental attitude that a
01:30:40.000
lot of you know educated people have um you know whether you're single parent or step parent or have a
01:30:45.920
you know polyamorous sort of situation with the parents um you know they're all equal but you know
01:30:52.100
the actual empirical evidence is clear that families with two married parents are you know the safest
01:30:57.300
and most beneficial for young children and you know often it's it's members of the upper class who
01:31:02.640
you know as you as you noted uh reading the article there that grew up with two married parents and
01:31:07.420
you know somehow these are the sort of you know on the uh of the belief that you know monogamy is
01:31:13.300
outdated or that you know marriage is some kind of uh you know an oppressive structure or that you
01:31:18.800
know all families are exactly the same um and i think this relaxed attitude about monogamy and
01:31:24.780
marriage it trickles down to the working class and the poor and you know as you said you know marriage
01:31:29.240
between or marriage rates between the upper class and lower class americans were actually quite similar
01:31:34.100
uh in the 1960s because there were strong social norms in place um and then affluent americans during
01:31:41.880
that time started expressing more skepticism about marriage and monogamy and this sort of trickled
01:31:48.140
down to the lower classes and eroded the social norms for for those people but for the upper classes
01:31:54.100
marriage rates actually remained roughly steady such that they're basically getting married at the
01:31:58.440
same rates today so why the disconnect why the people preaching it they say this do they not believe it
01:32:08.320
you know that's an interesting question about belief um i think that they many of them probably do
01:32:14.940
believe it on some level but i'm also not entirely sure how much belief actually matters i think that
01:32:21.420
this drive for social status is so strong that people can kind of convince themselves of you know
01:32:27.540
strange beliefs if it gives them the sort of respect and the admiration of their peers you know if it's
01:32:32.780
trendy and cool in the moment uh in one social group to say that you know
01:32:37.540
polyamory is is is fine then people will just say that because they don't want to risk being
01:32:42.820
ostracized and outcast by you know their peers so so help me out on on one thing how did it become
01:32:51.560
a uh a luxury um to have some of these beliefs for instance all families are equal that really started
01:33:01.000
at least the way i see it either one of two ways um it either started as a you know deconstruction kind
01:33:09.460
of post-modernism plan uh and was planted to to destroy our society or it came from a place to where
01:33:19.680
nobody wants to nobody wants to harm or say things that makes the single mom uh you know or the mixed
01:33:28.320
family feel bad um and so you're like no you know you have a good you have a good marriage and you
01:33:35.600
have a you know or you have a good family and your family is mixed and so that's fine whatever
01:33:40.420
but we we can't seem to find it within ourselves to actually go the extra step and say nothing to do
01:33:50.540
with you but if there is a choice it's best that the family stays together i know this first i'm a
01:33:58.940
divorced guy and from my first marriage i have two children it would have been a lot better for them
01:34:06.240
if mom and dad were still together their life dramatically changed their scars and everything
01:34:11.980
else which is normal that doesn't make me a bad guy or you know or mom a bad guy a bad person it's just
01:34:19.960
that happens sometimes but we should be able to say yeah but that's the goal to get here how come we
01:34:28.880
don't say that how come that how come why is that gone yeah well i mean uh i think the the first
01:34:38.060
reason you you posited there about you know sort of post-modern deconstruction i think that that's
01:34:44.580
that's an example of sort of displaying one's intelligence and education you know you can only
01:34:50.080
learn an idea like that in an elite university or or at college right i mean you know ordinary people
01:34:55.900
um aren't spending their days reading about you know derrida or foucault or something like that
01:35:01.280
right um and and i think the second reason you said you know this this idea of like you know we
01:35:05.800
don't want to we don't want to make people feel bad um we don't want to judge people um
01:35:11.060
yeah i think there's this you know belief that you know they're they're downtrodden and we shouldn't
01:35:15.420
make others feel bad and we shouldn't um you know sort of elevate ourselves above them um by telling
01:35:20.860
them that certain things certain behaviors lead to better outcomes than others um so yeah i think on
01:35:25.800
the one hand it makes us feel good to have these you know sort of fancy beliefs about post-modernism
01:35:30.960
and then we also don't want to make others feel bad about their lifestyle choices
01:35:35.960
and a luxury belief would be um the one that uh maybe comes from you understanding post-modernism
01:35:45.180
and understanding uh or is it just at the level of i just don't want to be ostracized and this is what
01:35:52.640
my peers are saying because they went to college and were indoctrinated with this crap i think both of
01:36:00.000
those are are you know sort of key components of of luxury beliefs and you know the way that luxury
01:36:06.760
beliefs impose costs on others you know first you know they're the expression of luxury beliefs require
01:36:13.260
you know learning that sort of complicated vocabulary and then you know on the other hand uh the luxury
01:36:19.640
belief of it doesn't matter you know things are exactly the same i don't want to judge and yeah i think
01:36:25.420
that there's a there's sort of both of those components at work here um so that the outcome
01:36:32.380
is that the person expressing this belief is raising their status while also you know intentionally or
01:36:38.320
not creating harm for for people below them you you point something out that i think is so good in this
01:36:44.540
you talk about the um religion is irrational or harmful members of the upper class are likely to be
01:36:52.240
atheist or non-religious uh but they have resources and access to thrive without a unifying social
01:36:58.180
edifice of religion um tell me why the upper class is different than the lower class in this
01:37:06.440
you've talked about it in your article yeah i mean yeah a lot of members of the upper class seem to have
01:37:13.980
a sort of passe attitude towards religion that you know they're they're non-religious or you know
01:37:19.060
atheist or agnostic and they sort of approach religion from an intellectual standpoint um but they
01:37:26.160
also have you know in their own lives the upper classes tend to have resources and social connections
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to to thrive um without having to rely on their neighbors or their community you know the sort of
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people who who are around them and i think religion sort of provides that like unifying social
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um so that people can come together and have a reason to to care for one another um and i i think
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that yeah denigrating the importance of religion doesn't really harm the rich very much i think it
01:37:58.020
harms the poor you know lack of religion can give rise to sort of meaninglessness and feelings of
01:38:03.680
despair well whereas the rich they already have those resources they already have the access
01:38:08.080
and oftentimes they find their meaning through you know traveling the world or through unusual hobbies or
01:38:15.440
or even their work as you point out even their profession they might have a profession but most
01:38:20.960
people have a job and there's a huge difference right um yeah exactly most i i only have about uh 40
01:38:28.880
seconds left can you can you just tell me where are we in this trend i mean you know fashion clothing
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goes out of style are we at the beginning of this middle of this where are we yeah so it's interesting i
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think that um one one sign uh that we may be shifting trends here is the popularity of this
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article in of itself um you know i think that a lot of the things that i point out in that article
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used to be known as sort of conventional wisdom you know like a two-parent family is good for kids
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correct i'm not sure when that became you know sort of uh an edgy thing to say but a lot of people now
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seem to uh resonate with it and agree with it and i think we may be slowly turning the tide such that
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a lot of people are coming around back to um these more you know sort of typical conventional beliefs
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they don't feel the need to you know sort of jump on the bandwagon for the for the latest you know
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bizarre luxury belief i hope that you are right uh rob henderson thank you so much i appreciate it
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so i got an interesting uh email from somebody who i haven't talked to in probably six seven years
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um he is very well known i mean he's in the class i think of uh of a donald trump in a way that when
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you think of business people he would be one of the names that would pop up into your head
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like you know donald trump i say say you know famous business person donald trump uh this guy is is in
01:41:53.920
that category and he wrote to me um out of the blue uh obviously he was listening to the program
01:42:02.040
and he said glenn patrick byrne is insane and he said uh you don't don't put your trust in patrick
01:42:15.600
burn this is nuts it's he's nuts uh and uh and just don't believe him he's the overstock ceo until
01:42:25.000
recently right um you know patrick is is really quirky but so is this guy so is donald trump
01:42:35.420
people who are like that so is you know so is warren buffett he's quirky um these people tend to be
01:42:43.320
quirky but i don't i don't see this with patrick byrne uh as something i've i've heard patrick say
01:42:51.880
some crazy things like hey bitcoin's gonna be the future i know crazy right when he said it was
01:42:58.840
30 and now it's what 11 000 yeah that's crazy um sometimes you're right sometimes you're wrong but
01:43:05.720
this one makes sense to me i believe patrick on this do you you're talking about his um
01:43:13.220
claim that there was a deep state that was trying to uh the there's a there's a strain of fbi people
01:43:20.280
or justice department people not all of them that he was involved with that uh we're asking him to do
01:43:29.040
things that he didn't understand he's got a national security clearance uh and then once he saw the trump
01:43:34.920
investigation in this russia stuff he was like whoa this is all a setup and he mentioned it
01:43:42.860
recently because he's saying that bill barr is going to clean it up and you're going to know
01:43:48.420
about it soon and uh and whether he said that to make sure that bill barr and the justice department
01:43:56.280
kind of include some of these things or have to respond to it i don't know but i believe him and
01:44:03.200
john solomon he is the executive vice president of the hill he's an opinion contributor because he's
01:44:09.880
conservative uh but he is a great great investigative journalist we're going to talk to him about the
01:44:16.280
hillary clinton investigation which he's been following and i want to ask him about what does
01:44:21.000
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the man who previously worked at the associated press the washington post the washington times he
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is an award-winning investigative journalist and now the executive vice president at the hill his name
01:46:14.540
is john solomon he is somebody who actually is looking for the truth and i appreciate uh his work
01:46:22.200
and his willingness to come on the um on the program welcome john how are you ah good good to be with you glenn
01:46:29.880
yeah so uh tell me i i want to i want to talk to you about a couple of things first of all the fbi
01:46:37.440
seems to be investigating the clintons again well uh that is a good question the fbi should be
01:46:45.760
investigating the clintons again based on the fact that uh there was a discovery of some highly
01:46:50.220
classified evidence that the fbi never examined as part of its clinton email server investigation
01:46:56.600
it's remarkable we're three years uh past the close of that investigation that's a very controversial
01:47:02.340
closed down case james comey remember all the things that went on with that yeah uh we now we
01:47:07.280
learned three years later that there was this highly classified pile of documents very important
01:47:12.640
information information that the agents working the case themselves said was going to be important
01:47:17.600
to look at before they made a determination on hillary clinton's culpability and they never looked
01:47:23.360
at it they looked the other way somebody wouldn't allow them to look at that evidence and so three
01:47:27.280
years later thanks to some letters between senator grassley senators grassley and johnson and the
01:47:33.300
inspector general of the justice department michael horowitz we learned of the existence of these
01:47:37.480
documents and the fact that the fbi never looked at them and and what's frustrating is those senators
01:47:42.820
can't get an answer from the justice department and fbi it's the bar trump justice department has not
01:47:48.160
answered these senators about whether they're going to take a look at this evidence why do you suppose
01:47:52.780
that's happening it's a remarkable thing the inertia inside bureaucracy right and so uh there is
01:47:59.640
something in these documents that must be remarkably sensitive and perhaps may may cause pressure or
01:48:04.500
questions to reopen the case and uh it does not appear the fbi wants to go down that path but uh it isn't
01:48:11.220
fair to us in america and it is an equal justice system if you don't complete the job you started we
01:48:16.320
gave mrs clinton a pass during the 2016 election even though there was broad evidence that she
01:48:22.140
transmitted highly classified information on a private server she did not get prosecuted then and
01:48:27.140
we find out that a key piece of evidence wasn't examined that always makes us suspicious in the
01:48:32.580
american public so john it's not i'm not as concerned about the investigation in the clintons because
01:48:37.780
i think i know what you know i think i know what they are i am really concerned that we should be
01:48:46.500
investigating the entire justice department um i don't think that everybody in the fbi is dirty i
01:48:53.160
don't think everybody in the justice department is dirty but there are people apparently that are
01:48:59.080
dirty and will move things for political reasons and that is that's not america once we lose trust
01:49:07.480
in our justice system we become you know mexico or haiti or whatever right no it's so integral
01:49:16.000
and we always expect that whether you're democrat or republican white or black uh live in connecticut or
01:49:23.480
live in florida we're all going to be treated the same when the justice department looks at us and
01:49:27.420
over the last few years we've seen a really strong body evidence that people got treated differently
01:49:32.860
based on their political connections or their political affiliation and that troubles the
01:49:37.340
everyday american i go out when i'm out and about traveling in the real world people come up to you
01:49:41.500
and say you know it feels like there's two justice systems one today for the democrats and hillary
01:49:45.060
clinton and the other for republicans and everyday common man and i think that perception is deeply
01:49:51.100
troubling and and and and really cuts at the roots of our our great democracy and i think bill
01:49:56.780
barr has an enormous opportunity to fix this justice department put the people that are so good in it
01:50:02.360
they're 99 of them are amazing agents and investigators and lawyers get the one percent out and get this
01:50:08.600
house put back in order so that we can trust the uh the legal system do you believe bill barr is that guy
01:50:14.220
i think he is he certainly has uh the credentials to do it he has shown early on in the russian
01:50:20.600
investigation to talk candidly and honestly and not use the euphemisms in the bureaucratic
01:50:25.260
blarney that we heard earlier people using that job uh the real question will come down to will he
01:50:31.500
really identify the faults will he really punish people will there be real criminal prosecution
01:50:36.240
and uh the next three months are our telling point we're going to learn from the inspector general just
01:50:42.260
how bad the russia fisa was we're going to learn from john derm just how much spying went on on a
01:50:47.940
political campaign and then it will be in bill barr's corner to decide how who does he punish how does he
01:50:53.760
punish them how does he fix this how does he make sure this never happens to another presidential
01:50:58.360
candidate or another american ever again what does your gut tell you my gut tells me there will be a
01:51:05.700
lot of shaming there will be a really honest accounting like we got after 9-11 if you remember
01:51:10.340
all the mistakes that the fbi made failing to connect the dots before 9-11 there'll be a lot of
01:51:15.700
shaming a lot of honest discussion about what was wrong no more of these euphemisms and spin
01:51:20.600
jobs that we've gotten from the justice department and fbi i think the threshold for prosecuting a
01:51:26.160
former fbi agent or an fbi justice department official is very high in this because of the
01:51:32.280
natural inertia in the justice department i don't think that's right but i do think that it exists
01:51:37.120
uh and we'll we'll find out uh you know whether the justice department is serious if they they carry
01:51:43.480
out some prosecutions we know for 15 months now andy mccabe has been sitting there identified having
01:51:49.600
conduct uh created or committed criminality uh clearly lied just like we accused mike flynn just
01:51:55.980
like we've accused papadopoulos and in 15 months he hasn't been uh charged despite two trump attorney
01:52:01.560
generals so when you look at that case you have to wonder are they going to do it now the statute of
01:52:06.540
limitations is coming up on that and it's going to be judgment time pretty soon if andy mccabe gets
01:52:11.380
indicted for lying just like the other people in the russia case did then i think people will feel
01:52:15.780
feel justice is done if he walks this continuing question of two justice departments or two systems
01:52:21.420
of justice is going to persist and i don't think it's just one for the republicans and one for the
01:52:27.480
that's right for the democrats i think it is one for the privileged and then for the rest of everybody
01:52:33.200
else um that's a very good point um john talk to me about the article that you wrote uh a few days ago
01:52:40.700
the 10 declassified russian collusion revelations that could rock washington this fall yep so uh behind
01:52:48.520
the scenes there's been an apparatus that the president has been building hasn't unveiled it
01:52:52.360
yet but it's going to be a special office that's going to declassify and give us true visibility into
01:52:57.480
what really went on in the russia case from from the beginning origins all the way back to march when
01:53:02.040
george papadopoulos first met with an academic in rome all the way through the uh end of the muller
01:53:08.180
report okay hold on hold on hold on hold on sure is this a real office or is this a political office
01:53:15.080
this is a real office okay going to be empowered with the power of the presidency
01:53:19.100
and uh it's going to fulfill the very public statement that donald trump made that he was
01:53:24.940
going to declassify this information i think a lot of people thought when he gave the declassification
01:53:29.780
authority to bar that bar was going to do this sort of public relations declassification explain all
01:53:34.960
the documents he gave that the power to bar so that he could do his investigation if the cia fbi
01:53:40.000
didn't want to give up something he had the power to go get it declassified and look at it or share
01:53:44.280
it with prosecutors and fbi agents working on the case but for the public the president has always had
01:53:49.460
a a different idea in mind somebody that could tell a story explain it all in layman's terms help
01:53:54.740
us understand what happens so it never happens again that office is being set up and i would begin
01:53:59.700
to i believe that in mid-september forward we're going to see the documents be declassified that
01:54:04.960
we've been waiting for for more than two years i picked my 10 favorite that i know from all the
01:54:09.300
investigators i've talked to are the most transformational and uh and they they range from
01:54:14.740
statements that george papadopoulos and carter page made to fbi informants or on tape uh where they
01:54:21.440
were clearly expressing their innocence and that was not provided to the fisa court to uh you know really
01:54:27.100
basic information like what was in the fisa and what was excluded in the fisa we still don't know
01:54:31.900
what was in all those redacted pages there is a significant amount of very important information
01:54:37.160
that will really uh rankle washington in the fall when these documents uh get get public i'll give you
01:54:43.940
one fun one because it just teases the the imagination uh the house investigators that did the house
01:54:50.840
intelligence review they had 53 interviews of really key people most of the main players in the
01:54:55.480
investigation there's a revelation in one of those interviews that the democratic national
01:54:59.760
committee was in touch with the cia and you have to ask yourself the cia has no responsibility on
01:55:05.180
domestic soil the dnc is a political organization why were these two organizations talking and i think
01:55:10.980
when we get that answer we'll see just how big a dirty political trick the russia probe really was
01:55:16.000
holy cow all right um one more question i had somebody um a very well-known big business person
01:55:25.100
who wrote to me and said glenn patrick byrne is out of his mind insane uh and i know patrick he is
01:55:33.040
he is different he thinks differently he's a libertarian um but i don't think he's dishonest
01:55:40.120
uh have you looked into this stuff with patrick are you heard anymore what do you think
01:55:45.420
i have done a lot of reporting over the weekend after his cnn interview so what i've learned is that
01:55:50.700
the original material that my my old colleague sarah carter fantastic journalist one of the best in
01:55:55.720
the country reported early on about patrick byrne is spot on those are accurate uh facts and and that
01:56:02.540
her storyline is the accurate storyline of what byrne did and didn't do with the fbi and what was going
01:56:07.040
on there was some soft operation going on now how much he initiated it versus the fbi controlled him
01:56:13.440
is in dispute but i believe the justice department lawyers who interviewed burn a few months back found
01:56:19.360
him credible and that his timeline matched the other timelines of things that they're finding in
01:56:24.180
the ongoing investigation i think his more recent comments what i've been told by people who are in
01:56:29.060
the know of the evidence his more recent comments spinning a more elaborate conspiracy of multiple
01:56:34.520
people and the fbi controlling him i don't think those are going to pan out with the facts but i do
01:56:39.620
believe there was contact and exchange of information and the fbi might have been using him as a soft way
01:56:45.480
of probing this trump russia uh collusion theory which of course has fallen apart uh very clearly
01:56:51.580
before our eyes but i think it's those are the sort of revelations we're going to get in these
01:56:55.960
documents in the fall there were multiple efforts to probe monitor spy on the trump campaign and we
01:57:01.600
don't know them all we think we do but we don't i don't think we know 70 of what really went on in
01:57:06.520
this investigation yet this fall will be that opportunity for accounting boy oh boy i mean if
01:57:11.820
there's real if if people are actually looking for the truth and it is half of what i think it might be
01:57:19.380
uh we have a we have a a government or a justice department that is really out of control not all of them
01:57:28.200
just some there's a strain in there that is really out of control i agree i i talked to this senior
01:57:35.960
justice department official who has been in the game non-partisan been in the job 20 30 years and
01:57:41.040
he said things that he's seen have shocked his conscience and he said i thought i saw everything
01:57:45.340
in my 30 years i think people are beginning to realize that this was a political operation
01:57:50.460
conducted under the authority of the u.s intelligence community that's something we never envisioned as
01:57:55.580
america would happen and we have to expose it get it out there punish the bad guys and then it won't
01:58:01.300
happen again i think i think that's the the right recipe for solving what happened here i think so too
01:58:05.920
but i have i'm a different man than i was 20 years ago i wonder i wonder if anyone really will be
01:58:12.780
punished uh we have the same concern we'll have to wait and see yeah i think that's a real legitimate
01:58:17.960
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know of course she's she's a great gop person she's no she's so republican oh gosh so because they
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always say the conservative columnist she's not conservative on how are you even trying that at
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this point here she is listen to this jen rubin we should be doing is shunning these people shunning
02:01:29.280
shaming these people is a statement of moral indignation that these people are not fit for
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polite society i think any institution in university of virginia for example for a bit had a relationship
02:01:40.580
with mark short who is now back with the administration i think it's absolutely abhorrent
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that any institution of higher learning any um news organization or any or entertainment
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organization that has a news outlet would hire these people it's not only that trump has to lose
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but that all his enablers have to lose they have to we have to collectively in essence burn down the
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republican party um we have to level them because if there are survivors if there are people who
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weather this storm hang on just a second hang on so what she's saying here i've heard it before
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and i just want to point it out could could we play this audio same thing
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there will be no survivor no not yet my men are here i'm here but soon you will not be here
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yeah i mean we're gonna burn down and there will be no survivors
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no it's a credible no it's a it's a credible point of view uh if i disagree with you i should