Where Putin’s Evil Ideas Came From | Guests: Benjamin Teitelbaum & David Sacks | 2⧸23⧸22
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There is no room to compromise. Stand up straight and hold the line. It's a new day, and it's time to rise. Glenn Beck is back with a new segment on the Glenn Beck Program on The Glenn Beck Show.
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It is something that I have been talking about internally and occasionally here on the program,
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but it is time for you to really understand this.
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An expert on that coming up in hour number three.
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The FBI seized her family assets without any charges.
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Glenn, I heard you mention my family this morning on your show.
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I wanted to write and say thank you for noticing our story, which is almost unbelievable.
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Two years ago, Amazon accused my husband of a crime called honest services fraud.
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Although we now know that Amazon lawyers met with the DOJ 87 times in effect to persuade the government to charge my husband with a crime,
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Nonetheless, the government seized our money via civil forfeiture in May 2020.
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I'm a trained litigator turned an entrepreneur, and this experience has been stunning at every turn.
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We just saw it this week, and it is horrifying.
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I didn't really even know that civil forfeiture existed before this happened to my family.
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It is one of those things that everybody thinks it can't happen to them until it does,
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So my husband worked at Amazon Web Services for seven years.
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Amazon Web Services is a division of Amazon that really builds the Internet.
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So the Internet lives in these big warehouses with server racks, and people buy what are
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called instances on those server racks, and that's Amazon Web Services, and it generates
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And in fact, some of their biggest clients, or maybe their biggest client, is the government.
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AWS serves the National Security Agency, the CIA, the FBI, to the tune of billions of dollars
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He helped Amazon Web Services find real estate to build these data centers.
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And he left AWS in 2019, and on April 2nd of 2020, we got a knock on our door around 6.45
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We lived in Seattle at the time, and it was the FBI.
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And that was the first time that we learned that a couple months prior, Amazon had accused
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my husband of a crime called private sector honest services fraud, which is depriving your
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private sector employer of your honest services.
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I mean, it's hard to prove in the private sector.
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In the public sector, it's usually bribery, or you're leaving out information.
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You're profiting on a relationship without telling the other side.
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I mean, it's usually used in the public sector.
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Where you have a politician who, they say, took a bribe to pass a bill.
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I believe it's pretty rarely used in the private sector.
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They charged Skilling, the CEO of Enron, with private sector honest services fraud, and that
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I think the bounds of private sector honest services fraud, even the statute, they're very
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They're treated differently all over the country.
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But Amazon had never approached my husband about their allegations.
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So, you know, we've actually never seen the allegations.
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So we don't know exactly what Amazon said to the government, but what we understand...
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For years, we had all of our money taken, and we have no idea what Amazon said happened.
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Well, I mean, don't you have a right to face your accuser?
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I mean, you can't know why the government took your money?
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So, you know, my husband has never been charged with a crime.
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So he doesn't have a right to face his accuser because he's never been charged by the Department
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Now, when they took the money via civil forfeiture, the way it is meant to work is if they take
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your money via civil forfeiture and then they do not indict you with a crime, the government
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has to file a civil lawsuit against your bank account.
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Now, the government did that here, but then immediately after they filed that civil lawsuit,
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they asked the court to stay, which means to pause the civil lawsuit, because they said,
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well, we can't possibly litigate this because we have a secret criminal investigation.
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We were in a cycle for years where we could see the allegations.
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We couldn't even cite the allegations because we didn't know what they were.
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And I will say, you know, I have learned through this experience, which has impacted my husband's
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I'm just his wife, but it's impacted my career in an immeasurable way as well.
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Now, in America, I very much feel that you are guilty when accused unless and until you
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can prove yourself innocent, and you have to pay to do that.
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And I think that's something we really need to consider about our process.
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And I think the other thing, Glenn, that's completely horrifying about this, this is an
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allegation made by a private company about private contracts related to private employment
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If I'm Amy that owns a hardware store, can I walk into the DOJ and say, I believe my
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employee did X, Y, or Z, and the DOJ will jump?
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You know, what I know to be true is that Amazon has an incredibly close relationship to
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the Department of Justice and to our intelligence community.
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They, I mean, they took, how much did they take from you?
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Now, they took most of that from our lawyer's client trust account.
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We had sent money to our attorneys to pay for legal fees.
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And the government went into our lawyer's bank account and took it.
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But our lawyers had already billed a significant, had billed us, had billed against those funds.
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And so they repaid our lawyers what they had already billed.
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And then we, you know, my husband and I are in our 40s.
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And so my husband was able to keep working until the allegations became very public.
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So, you know, we were able to keep earning money.
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We sold our house, which we had worked very hard for the down payment for and where we had planned to raise our four little girls.
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And we borrowed some money from our friends and family.
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Is there anybody that is talking to you about suing Amazon?
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You know, I think there are a lot of people out there who think we have a lot of causes of action against Amazon.
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I can actually tell you, Glenn, that we did sue Amazon, or my husband, rather, sued Amazon in Washington State Court.
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So one thing that Amazon did that I haven't mentioned is after Amazon had been lobbying for criminal charges for many months and no indictment or charges had ensued,
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but Amazon knew the government had seized our money, then Amazon sued my husband in federal court in Virginia.
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So after they couldn't get the DOJ to bring charges, but after they knew that we had no money, they sued him, which is very cruel.
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And I think it's a complete manipulation of the criminal system.
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So that case, so Amazon sued my husband, and then they didn't move their case forward for years.
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They let it sit there until another defendant in the lawsuit forced Amazon into discovery.
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So we are now in discovery, which is, you know, Glenn, as we're sharing facts about the allegations.
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And our depositions of the Amazon executives, my husband's depositions, my husband's depositions of the Amazon executives who accused him of these crimes will begin next week, actually.
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And, you know, these real estate transactions at issue were approved by very senior level, the highest level at Amazon.
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And so there'll be some interesting depositions, I think, where my husband can finally face his accusers and understand what happened.
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But circling back to this lawsuit in Virginia, Amazon made my husband sign an employment contract that said that they would litigate any disputes in Washington State, where my husband lived, where my husband worked, where Amazon is headquartered.
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But Amazon threw it out the window and sued him in Virginia because that was where they were seeking criminal charges.
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If anything, if anybody litigates on any of my contracts, it is here in Texas.
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Frankly, I think that Amazon thinks they're so big and they have so much money that no one can go up against them.
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I truly believe Amazon thought, you know, Glenn, 97 percent of people accused of a federal crime plead guilty because it's terrifying,
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because they can't afford to defend themselves, because perhaps the government will use civil forfeiture against them.
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Perhaps they will, you know, lobby any other number of threats.
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And so I believe I believe when Amazon accused my husband of a crime, they just believed that would be that and that they would never have to prove any facts.
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Because if you plead guilty, you don't have to the accusers don't have to prove anything.
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They don't have to actually explain what happened.
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So I believe that was Amazon's bet when they started this.
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It's a good bet, not because of the truth, but because 97 percent of people plead guilty when accused.
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And Amazon is represented by a former federal prosecutor who worked in the district in Virginia where they're seeking charges.
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And I can imagine that that former federal prosecutor perhaps knows current prosecutors in Virginia and could call them up and ask for some help.
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But so we sued we my husband sued Amazon in Washington state for breaching the employment contract.
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And he won. The judge in Washington state said, you know, I learned the first year of law school that if you want to breach a contract, you can.
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But that doesn't mean you're not going to pay for it. Right.
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But I think, you know, there there are other causes of action that I think my husband will have against Amazon.
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Well, we would love your help. You know, we're waging this battle still against Amazon in civil court.
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It's costing an enormous amount of money because Amazon is fighting discovery for the lawsuit that they brought.
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And so we have we're raising money at a Web site called Nelson's fight Amazon dot com.
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And we would love your help. And we'd also just love help in civil forfeiture reform.
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The government should not be able to take money and call it a crime without affording someone the ability to fight back.
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So anything you can share, let us know next week, will you?
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As you see how our government has changed and changed dramatically and the way things
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are moving in all over the world, it is important now more than ever that you get the truth.
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The New York Times just released something that I can't believe I read.
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First of all, oil traders are betting on an Iran deal.
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Apparently, we're very close to a deal with Iran where they'll be able to sell their oil.
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Understanding the rise of gas prices in the U.S.
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This is what they want you to believe the cause of your gas prices going up is.
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American consumers have seen the constant cost of gasoline going up, along with many other
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Gas prices have gone up in part because of fluctuations in supply and demand.
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Demand for oil fell early in the pandemic, so oil-producing nations cut production.
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But over the past year, demand for oil recovered far faster than production was restored.
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The price of crude oil is only one element driving up the gas price, right?
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Compliance with renewable fuel standards can contribute to the cost.
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The price of ethanol has increased and labor shortages in the trucking industry.
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Other types of fuels, including natural gas and coal, are also growing more expensive.
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Natural gas has shot up more than 150%, threatening to raise prices of food, chemicals, plastic goods,
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And then there's this, the U.S. response to combat soaring prices and their effects on inflation.
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President Biden has ordered a release of oil from the nation's emergency stockpile.
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He also asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible illegal contact by oil and gas companies.
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The closing down of oil pipelines, the closing down of drilling, the closing down of gas and oil.
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I want to, it's important that you know the facts so you can tell your friends, because that's the garbage they're getting if they're reading the mainstream media.
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It feels to me like the mainstream media has completely doubled down.
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When Canada can say no bail and possibly a 10-year charge for the woman who helped organize the trucker convoy.
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She's charged with commissioning or encouraging mischief.
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And that apparently is a 10-year prison sentence.
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But the Antifa member that took his car and ran it into people at the trucker's site that wanted to kill people, he's out on bail.
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Things are changing, and they're changing rapidly.
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Now, I've told you before about the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset, but there was something called the Great Narrative.
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And they asked writers from all over the world to come to Dubai and write the Great Narrative.
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And one of the writers in Substack has reviewed it, and it's so concise, I want to read it here.
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In recognizing the end of COVID mania, the Great Narrative is attempting to remind to keep us on the edge.
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It's a grand call to take sweeping action to fight the climate emergency via Klaus Schwab's credentialed elite.
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It relentlessly hammers home the apparent necessity of taking dramatic, tyrannical measures to intervene in the climate.
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And by intervening in the climate, he means radically reorienting every nation on Earth by imposing a totalitarian global governance order.
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I'm telling you, people, this is coming, and it's coming faster than you can imagine.
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According to Schwab, the world must rapidly be transformed according to the designs of the technocratic elite.
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And we must adopt the ideas and policy preferences of 50 handpicked narrators interviewed for his book,
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who he describes as global thinkers and public intellectuals.
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Schwab describes the Great Narrative as a book that goes beyond the realm of theory and serves as a call to action.
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We, quoting, we adopt the view that as they recover from the pandemic and embark on a path to radical and accelerated change,
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radical and accelerated change, our societies and economies should be attuned to the needs of our global commons.
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He entertains a variety of ideologies and political perspectives.
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There is one group of people who are to be dismissed whole cloth.
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That group is individuals and groups that don't buy into the climate narrative.
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Schwab cannot hide his disdain for these rogue actors, who he notes, with disgust, are largely located in the United States.
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According to Schwab, the enemies of his New World Order include nationalists, populists, individualists, and those who support free markets.
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This is the guy who's bringing you the Great Reset.
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Schwab describes this cohort of supposed evildoers as conspiracy theorists who are responsible for all the world's ills.
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These individuals prop up, quote, anti-science movements that prolong the waning of COVID-19 pandemic.
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He writes, adding that his group is, quote, this group is hindering both public health and more fundamentally our ability to move forward in unison, end quote.
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He says, the eye needs to be kept on the prize and there is no time to waste climate action, quoting sustainability, inclusivity, global cooperation, health and well-being are the most important issues to address in our times.
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Quote, not moving right away and decisively would render our biosphere so hostile as to derail global economic growth and further endangering political and social stability.
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One page after another, the World Economic Forum chief showcases the climate agenda.
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Climate change is the, quote, greatest collective action problem we've ever been confronted with.
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Humanity has never faced an endeavor more complex, ambitious and far reaching than arresting the collapse of our ecosystem and stabilizing the climate, end quote.
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Klaus also shows off his unbelievable God complex as he frequently reminds the reader of his apparent, apparent, unlimited technocratic faculties.
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He routinely reveals that he believes his group of colleagues have deity like powers and that once they unite their overall expertise, these technocrats once in charge of all of us can bring about unprecedented happiness and order.
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He considers, quote, inequality, particularly on the financial side.
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But rather than create opportunity for the masses, he prefers a system of state control, which would, in his view, quote, reduce demonstrations and local unrest.
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Schwab and his co-author advocate for a new social contract and propose a variety of solutions that will help bring the climate agenda forward.
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He advocates for the consolidation of global central banks around climate action, acknowledging this transition period may be brutal to some.
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They advocate for the harnessing of economic productivity through nature-based solutions.
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They discuss the advent of the bio-economy or targeted destruction of reliable energy while forcing people to eat alternate food protein sources, i.e. beans and bugs.
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Another solution is that of climate engineering.
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I am not making this up, such as blocking out the sun in an attempt to manipulate global temperatures.
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If you don't know about it, please get my book, The Great Reset.
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Should be on bookshelves again this week, if not next week.
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Uh, Amazon is taking orders again so you can order it and get it shipped to your house.
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You can also get the, uh, audio book wherever you get your audio books.
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And also, uh, you can get the first chapter for free if you go to glennsnewbook.com.
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Um, so if you want to get started, that kind of paints the picture as to what the outcomes
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When all this stuff goes through, what the world looks like, if all of this stuff happens,
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uh, and it gives you, uh, uh, it sets the table pretty well for all the information that
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Why would banks be fighting so hard to keep ESG if it wasn't ever going to be mandated by
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Why when states are starting to mount a defense against this and saying you cannot use ESG
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to make any loans, you can use, you know, any kind of metrics you want when it comes to
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finances, what is their job, how much money they make it, but you cannot look at their
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And banks are saying, we're not going to, you've got to stop this regulation.
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Why it's telling you, you can do business as usual.
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If you're not going to use it, why are you fighting it so hard?
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First of all, this is driving me out of my mind that the media is now saying, Donald Trump
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I've said before, I think the Great Reset will be studied for decades afterwards.
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In 100 years from now, they will look back and go, that was genius.
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Donald Trump is not saying, yeah, I'm glad he took it.
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He has just taken two of these by walking in and saying, I'm a peacemaker.
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what would make the Russian oligarch Putin smart?
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Colleagues and Russian experts who challenge his thinking?
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Or has he had any valuable learning experiences anywhere else in the world?
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I mean, look, he's using, he's strategically doing this.
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But he's put himself in a position now that if his goal at the beginning of this was just to get these two regions,
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But if he wanted to just get a win here and embarrass the West, he could stop right now.
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So, I'm going to give you a deeper look on Putin and what is happening all around the world, including America.
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With a guy I've talked to now for over a year, I think he's one of the only guys that truly gets what's going on over there and here in America.
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You want to understand what Putin is doing, learn Novo Russia will explain after the news at the top of the hour.
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Normally, I would say, warning, just from the book,
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and that he's a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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However, I've talked to Benjamin several times over the last,
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I think it's the last year, maybe it's been longer than that.
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He is watching something and very concerned about something that I am concerned about,
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and that is the influence of traditionalism as really defined by Alexander Dugan,
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a very, very dangerous guy who is actually calling for Armageddon.
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He actually believes that that's the thing that's going to solve all of our problems.
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And I guess in a way he's right, but I don't think the way he's trying to pull it together.
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Glenn, it's a pleasure to be with you this morning.
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I know we've talked about doing this show for a long time,
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and we may have to cut this into two shows and then maybe even a podcast as well.
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But I want you to, let's start with Putin's speech and what he said that I think only a few people really can pick up on
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that know who Alexander Dugan is and what his plan is.
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So tell me what we learned from Putin's speech.
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If you listen, and good morning again, Glenn, it's a pleasure to be with you.
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If you listen to that whole speech, you could come away from it thinking that this was all about kind of dry policy decision-making on his part.
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He spends a lot of time talking about the economy of Ukraine,
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spends a lot of time talking about the history of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party,
00:48:22.060
some of the policy decisions that he thinks that they made wrong and need to be corrected.
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But at the very beginning of that speech, he said something almost in passing that, yes,
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would, I think, go by unnoticed for a lot of listeners.
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He said that Ukrainians and Russians have a spiritual bond between the two of them.
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And that tells me, and it should tell a lot of observers, that Putin is thinking in two ways,
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There is this, again, this dry, almost technical policy-based discussion and motivation.
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He's trying to push to the Russian people to say, well, we have to do this because NATO is going to come to our borders.
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The other piece, though, is that Russia has a sort of spiritual mandate to collect its lost children
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and to unite itself with the populations around the world that are its natural kin.
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That is what stands out to me as I hear this, and that is what also makes this particular situation
00:49:35.320
that we're dealing with today actually about something far much bigger and much more intractable, I would say, as well.
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Okay, so let's talk about Dugan and just define traditionalism.
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This is something that if you read the fourth political theory, there are times that you will read it and go,
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yeah, I kind of agree with that, because I think this is what Brexit is about.
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I think this is what some Americans all over the world, people are feeling like, hey, you know, I'm French,
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and, you know, I think France is pretty great, and I'd like to be French, and I'm not embarrassed about France.
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It's this feeling that we are being told that our traditions and our country is not good,
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That part of his definition of traditionalism is, I think, something that connects with people all around the world.
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And sometimes, you know, when we're exploring ideas, details matter.
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You can have a sort of doctrine that is appealing in a lot of senses, but a small detail can turn into something sinister.
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So when Putin is referring to the spiritual mandates of Russia, that connects him with a prominent Russian philosopher,
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kind of a mysterious mandate, and a political operative named Alexander Dugan.
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He has associated himself with a philosophy called traditionalism or the traditional school.
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It asserts that time does not move in linear fashion.
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That is to say, we're not necessarily progressing forward in a clear direction.
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And most of the time, society is degrading, save for one moment when there's an apocalyptic explosion and destruction of the social world,
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It's that last piece, Glenn, that is so key here.
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Because when you look at history in the way that these traditionalists do, there can be justification for Armageddon, as you put it, for destruction, mass destruction.
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As a sort of prelude to a golden age, a utopia that we're going to be reborn into.
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That is what is paired with this, I'd say, small-t traditionalism that you were referring to earlier.
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People wanting to preserve and conserve values and identities that matter to them.
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This apocalyptic aspect of the ideology is what is distinguishing this way of thinking.
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I will tell you that Ben and I have talked off the air, and I've wanted to do this show for a while,
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but I have waited until I think people are in the right frame of mind to understand it.
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I think this is one of the most critical things that we can learn about, especially those of us on the right.
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Because this is how you will know if there is a troublemaker in your midst.
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Because a lot of people will hear some of this stuff and go, yeah, that's me too.
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And they have a different vision of the future.
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So please listen to what we're talking about here.
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But let me stay in Russia for just a couple of more minutes.
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This is Dugan's way of describing these eastern territories in Ukraine
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that are breaking off, apparently, and have been recognized as independent states,
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Dugan has been referring to them as new Russia, as a new expansion.
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And Putin in the past has borrowed that language from this renegade philosopher
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I mean, Crimea was really a Dugan plan, wasn't it?
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I mean, it was one small piece of a Dugan plan.
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I can, to catch your listeners up, Dugan, after the fall of the Soviet Union,
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this philosopher, after the Soviet Union fell apart, he wanted to see not the revival
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of communism and the communist state, but a Russian nationalism that would expand
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almost to the exact boundaries of the former Soviet Union,
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but do so not carrying this secular ideology, but instead a really fanatical Russian nationalism
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And all of those states that started to move out of the Russian sphere, Georgia, the Baltics,
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Ukraine, all of those, in his mind, were targets to be brought back in.
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And it was imperative that Russia do it forcefully, decisively, to establish a boundary
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for American and liberal democratic ideology in the world.
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It was important for him to set a boundary there to show that liberalism, that democracy,
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lowercase l, liberalism, was not the fate of the whole world.
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But in fact, those territories needed to imagine a different future for themselves,
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a future that returned, in his mind, to their roots, rather than looked forward to a different future.
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And it is the same kind of thing, in a way, that Hitler used faith of people.
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But Dugan is using faith, and that's why that spiritual element,
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because the Ukraine plays a very important part for Eastern Orthodox Christianity, right?
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It is the spiritual, I don't know, center for that, isn't it?
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It's also a sort of mythological center for the origins of the Russian ethnicity and state as well.
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Which is even worse, because that's exactly what Hitler was doing with all of the other religions.
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He was tying, he was just tying all these myths together.
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Yes, you know, you look at the union of religion and nationalism,
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and that you start to find yourself in a place where your state acts as though it has a divine mandate.
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It's not surprising, and what perhaps surprised your listeners,
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given what we're saying here, that one of Dugan's ideal states in the world today is Iran.
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Iran, because there you have a union of state power with religious authority,
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and the ability, really the justification for anyone in that state to question the actions of the government
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is shackled, because if you do that, you are questioning a religious authority that's not allowed to be questioned.
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So this is all, all this goes to a celebration of authoritarianism and a way to equip the power of the state
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or a demagogue with greater cultural, in addition to military and economic and political power.
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All right, I want to talk about the fourth political theory, if you can define what it is.
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I also want to do one more thing, a stop on Putin.
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Does he, is he the lunar Putin or the solar Putin, which we'll understand?
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We are with Benjamin Teitelbaum, the author of War for Eternity.
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He is a guy who I have talked to several times.
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I think there's about three of us, Ben, that are watching and understand the importance of Alexander Dugan.
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Everybody I talk to, I think there's one other guy that I know, that we all look at each other and go,
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So, yeah, this is a challenge, Glenn, to explain.
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But if, when Alexander Dugan speaks about a fourth political theory, he's speaking about an alternative to the other three made Western ideologies that fought throughout the last century.
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That is to say, liberalism being one, lowercase l, it's, you know, when Americans hear liberalism, you think Democratic Party.
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But we're really just talking about free market, democracy, rights of individual rule of law.
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And communism being a second one and fascism being a third.
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Dugan's belief was was that communism and liberalism in World War Two combined forces to kill the third political theory, fascism.
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And then liberalism, the first political theory allowed communism to die of old age, essentially with the with the Soviet Union.
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But Dugan wants to see an alternative to all all of these, one that you might say fuses elements of the second and the third of communism and fascism.
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In his mind, the danger of liberalism and the lower lowercase l liberal democratic world is is its rampant individualism and its contempt for history, its its devotion to progress and the belief that really our roots are something to be overcome and escaped.
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And also its will toward globalization and building larger, larger and larger communities.
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What he wants to see is a world that is shrunken, basically, in its scope and where the identity of your group or your tribe becomes the primary object of political activism.
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That is to say, not the individual as in liberalism, not the class as in communism and not the race, per se, as in fascism, but a slightly, let's say, related concept, which is the ethnos or the or small community or the tribe to see a society that works on preserving those differences.
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That's that's that's what a fourth political theory should be doing, and it should be, in his mind, opposed to progress, opposed to development and certainly opposed to any any larger state like the United States operating on the global sphere.
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So you can hear that and say, wow, I see pieces of that from both the right and the left, and, you know, I see a new world order being shaped like that, except he wants to destroy anything global.
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He also wants to destroy the United States, and I think there are some others that would like to do that, and they are using some of those tactics.
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He sees the United States, any pathway toward realizing this goal has to, in his mind, go through the destruction of the United States, at least if U.S. global hegemonic power, occasionally he'll say that if the United States were firmly contained within its own borders and its ideals never, never spread anyplace else throughout the world,
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then perhaps we could coexist. But it's about containing U.S. power.
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Okay, 45 seconds before the break. Tell me, is he, is Putin operating, do you think, in Ukraine more under that, or on just a, you know, quick business capitalist, I just want money and I'm going to get those ports?
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I tell you, I think the way that he has been speaking recently makes it seem like the business-like estimation of Ukraine is more of a facade and excuse to do what he wants to do, which is expand this Russian state.
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Okay, good. That's good news. Now, we're going to turn to America. Really important that you listen with an open mind on this. Next.
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I don't come to this segment lightly and this segment is really for adults and I'm probably going to have to have Ben on again to go through all of this.
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But just as in the way I say that the Great Reset has nothing to do with capitalism, it is set out to destroy capitalism, they use the word capitalism, stakeholder capitalism.
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That is a ruse. That is to get people who are not paying attention or haven't done deep work on what stakeholder capitalism is to just go along with it and think, oh, yeah, they're like me.
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But they're not. Today, there's a big thing in the news that Donald Trump loves Putin.
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He's just he just said he was a genius. Well, I have to tell you, I think he is, too.
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He believes he is a genius chess player and he is working the system and he knows how to work things.
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That doesn't mean you love him or you're rooting for him.
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There is traditionalism that when I say that word, ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of this audience has in their mind what I always had lowercase traditionalism.
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Donald Trump, I don't believe, knows anything about traditionalism.
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One of his former advisers and a guy that Trump kicked out, Steve Bannon, knows everything about it.
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I've talked to Ben Teitelbaum several times about Steve Bannon and about uppercase traditionalism, which comes from this crazy guy in Russia.
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They'll hear Ben and talk about traditional values, et cetera, et cetera, and they will associate it with something else.
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I think if some of the ideas that we're talking about, people would be excused, I think, for associating them with with much more familiar, let's say, conservative right wing values in the U.S.
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Let's let's say a new opposition to internationalism and international interventionism.
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Even the 10th Amendment could be a traditional value that uppercase traditionalist would would be for break it up into a smaller group.
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You have to imagine, instead, to see what is distinct about these ideas that we're focusing on here, Glenn, you have to imagine all those principles driven to an extreme that you never imagined.
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You have to think about, yeah, not just states' rights, but perhaps even breaking up states into smaller groups and completely eliminating the federal government altogether.
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Having no coordination between different parts of the United States, having absolutely no international presence whatsoever, taking no thought for for our position in the world.
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It might seem like it's just a matter of degree, but some some of these differences, some of these details are so important that we're speaking about entirely different animal altogether.
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Yeah, because, again, your book is called War for Eternity, and this is played on a spiritual level.
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And he actually calls for the end of the world as we know it.
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I mean, I don't think there's much difference between his philosophy and the philosophy of those who call themselves Twelvers that believe that they can hasten the return of the promised one by creating chaos.
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There's not there's not much of a difference between the two of them there.
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And it's in this instance, we're talking about someone who we're talking about figures who have power, who are so foreign to our ways of thinking that we might not recognize it.
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Glenn, when I came on your show this morning, you're sending you to the conservative audience.
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I'm coming from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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There's got to be so many differences between us.
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But it you realize how much we probably share with each other.
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Hey, Ben, do you like do you like the Bill of Rights?
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That's really our political our political unum.
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If if you will fight for my freedom of speech, I'll fight for your freedom of speech.
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And I think we better get to that union pretty quickly here.
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And I'm sure that we even if we look at it in slightly different ways, we also believe in the rights and the dignity of the individual.
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You know, it might be thought of differently, but that that simple principle that can seem kind of boring, I think, in our conversation, because we all actually agree on it, that is contested by people with a lot of power.
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And and and they also some of these figures do not believe that our idea can exist in the world on its own.
01:11:31.780
They see it as a sort of parasite that if it exists here, it will potentially spread everywhere.
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And therefore, it has to be contained and fought back on all possible fronts.
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That is what we are potentially dealing with in Russia, especially for if we have a less business like and a more ideological Putin at the helm.
01:11:52.020
Tell me a little bit about the fourth political theory.
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He he he he talks about modernity and really the he wants to take us back to a time before we were modern.
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That means a time when we did not necessarily look to the future as as as a way to improve our lives.
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And really that improvement of society was not in itself a self-evident value looks to a time when we would not value the contributions of the individual, value free and rational thinking, not value democracy as as a potentially a new political model that could and ought to shape the societies that we live in.
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All of those features also not think globally, not think about our relationships with with others and not also and this is key, I think, for a lot of Christians, not think about universality of values.
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One of the messages of Christianity, of course, has been the the universal salvation for humanity, that that God's salvation is equally available and equally relevant to all human beings on this planet.
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That's that's that's underlying evangelical impulse, of course, that in the eyes of these traditionalists is an inherently modern intrusion or element or seed in Christianity that has to be resisted.
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And that we need instead to be closing ourselves off, not thinking globally, not thinking universally, not thinking individualistically or in terms of progress at all.
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That's that's modernity to these thinkers and what what needs to be fought against.
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When when when you said that the fourth political theory is something that really combines the strengths of Nazism and communism, I'm trying to think what those strengths were beside totalitarianism, just brutal.
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We I mean, we see the overwhelming force of the state, but for for these thinkers, what the state tends to represent, it's not just some powerful despot.
01:14:19.680
Instead, it is a manifestation of of the collective and that opposite the individual.
01:14:26.820
Let's say that that your political life, your cultural, your social life needs to all be oriented around the collective.
01:14:33.540
And whereas communism focused, focused, focused its efforts on on class communities, on, you know, who how much material wealth you have or do not have in your relationship to production for for the fourth political theory, it is about religious slash cultural communities.
01:14:54.220
And there may not be a proper public consideration for individual will and divergence on an individual level.
01:15:01.580
So that's that's where we see these things fitting together.
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We'll have to look at our schedules and see when we can do it.
01:15:10.740
But, you know, as early as tomorrow, but next week, I would like you to show this in action because people will say, as I know, because I've heard it, they don't he's this is a crazy crackpot theory from a guy in Russia.
01:15:33.700
And it infects all kinds of movements, um, all over the world that are legitimate people saying, you know, I want to be English.
01:15:46.340
I just I want to be English and I'll be part of Europe.
01:15:49.240
and it infects those uh movements and uh the media has it all wrong they're just they're
01:15:57.200
demonizing everybody and they don't know which are the good guys and which are the bad guys so
01:16:04.020
can you come back and show it in action uh broad and here absolutely absolutely i would i would be
01:16:12.220
happy to glenn it's it's a part of the reason the challenge of this topic is that we have to ask
01:16:17.320
viewers to to hold a couple ideas in their heads at the same time i know your viewers can do that
01:16:22.640
i'm very very sorry that the mainstream media doesn't always allow that but we have to see room
01:16:27.060
for criticism of of globalism and for let's say american expansionism with our military and the
01:16:35.440
fact that uh completely closing ourselves off and regressing is not a good idea yeah and i think it's
01:16:44.920
also i i think the bigger hurdle for our audience may be uh capital t and lower t traditionalism
01:16:52.120
that's where i think most people will get confused um because it plays right in i mean i know i i've
01:16:59.660
read the book and the first few pages i because i knew who he was i was letting myself experience
01:17:07.220
it as a reader and noticing when i was going yeah i agree with that yeah i agree with that
01:17:12.660
but it's not what he means it to be uh and that's the secret so ben thank you very much
01:17:20.980
we'll we'll talk again soon benjamin teitelbaum the author of war for eternity we appreciate him
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they think it's because of russia no that has a part to do with it but the bigger part is the
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policies of this administration that shut everything down on day one yeah not to mention a told i mean
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think gosh look at all the stuff they're accusing of with the russia thing for example oh well russia
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you know he's he was calling him a genius i mean you read you read you look at this in context and it's
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it's like how i would talk about tom brady right like yeah he's yeah he's really he's the greatest
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quarterback of all time i can't stand him but he's the greatest quarterback like there's a grudging
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respect for the way he's plays chess as you pointed it out um i don't think donald trump has a begrudging
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respect for putin as a player he looks at putin and is like that guy gets it done i don't agree with
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him and he wouldn't have gotten it done if i were playing against him but he's a great player of the
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game yeah you know that's how you would look at someone you give them you have to there has to be
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a level of respect you give a an adversary that if you don't understand that they're good at playing
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this game you wind up playing it like joe biden is playing it exactly right biden's stance here was
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he doesn't want me to be president putin doesn't want me to be president because he knows i'll go toe to
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from the truth he was thrilled to see joe biden elected yeah i mean come on and it's it's there is
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i read an article a couple of days ago about the social credit system arriving in canada and can
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quickly his name is david sachs he's the founding coo of paypal he joins me in 60 seconds
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david sacks it is an honor and a privilege to have you on the program thank you sir
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yeah great to be here thanks glenn um so let's let's talk a little bit about um uh the social
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credit system people i think see this in canada i i don't know how people aren't all up in arms on
01:27:04.780
what's going on um but they may still think that that well it can't happen here can we talk about
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what's happening right well it's already it's already happening here uh you know last year i
01:27:17.400
wrote this piece for very wise about uh that financial platform would be the next wave of
01:27:22.840
online censorship i mean i was worrying about this last year because paypal
01:27:26.520
today i helped found you know but we sold many years ago it's now under new management
01:27:31.140
um they are working with partisan left-wing groups like the adl and the spLC to define lists
01:27:37.580
of individuals and groups who they deem to have you know extremist or unacceptable views
01:27:41.880
and they're denied access to uh paypal accounts and there are other financial institutions who are
01:27:47.940
following suit uh the collective effect of which is to shut people out of the financial system
01:27:52.580
and if you think it's bad to deny people the right to free speech and to participate
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in the online marketplace of ideas how much worse is it to provide them access to the new economy to
01:28:03.520
the way that they can buy food and medicine and other products for their families uh you know it is
01:28:09.580
really a very severe form of punishment and social control and you know that is what we're talking
01:28:16.860
about we talk about a social credit system we're talking about a system that you know sort of pretends
01:28:22.540
to allow political dissent doesn't just send you to the gulag but it conditions your ability to access
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the economy that and the benefits society it conditions that on having the correct views on
01:28:34.380
having the acceptable views and you know what did justin trudeau do he declared right out of the gate
01:28:40.960
that these protesters had unacceptable views and then he proceeded to uh freeze their bank accounts
01:28:46.720
and to shut off anybody who might contribute to them that is really terrifying the way the way he said
01:28:54.480
you know we're gonna we're gonna shut down their accounts we're gonna close the off ramps for
01:28:59.140
bitcoin it's not only them but it's anybody who donated to them or quote helped them that's right
01:29:07.840
that anybody anybody anybody who was quote indirectly directly or indirectly involved in the protest
01:29:14.460
was now subject to this this law in the you know this emergencies act that he invoked uh without
01:29:22.020
really proper basis and you know anyone who you know quote unquote provided property to help facilitate
01:29:28.940
the protest could now be swept up in the dragon head and so it's not just if you're say you know one of
01:29:34.280
the organizers of the protest but if you're you know a little old grandma somewhere and you want to
01:29:39.880
contribute 25 dollars so that you know a trucker really a poor destitute trucker can buy a hot meal
01:29:46.840
or some fuel to keep themselves from freezing at night if that's your intent making that donation
01:29:51.460
you can still be swept up in this and you can have your bank account frozen and one of the you know
01:29:56.400
incredible things about it is not just this unprecedented extension of aiding and abetting liability but
01:30:01.340
also that it's retroactive that you know grandma who made the contribution at the time she did it was
01:30:06.880
completely illegal and yet under this order she can now have her account frozen as punishment and so
01:30:14.320
what what is the point of this it is to signal and there's going to be a chilling effect in the future
01:30:19.240
that even if you make a completely lawful donation to a political cause if that if justin true doesn't
01:30:26.280
like that cause if he thinks there are quote-unquote unacceptable views that he has the power that he can
01:30:31.020
invoke the power at some point in the future to freeze your bank account even though what you did is legal
01:30:35.440
today that is the precedent they've created and i think the result of that must be a chilling effect
01:30:40.920
on political defense oh big time they're they're um you know also including insurance companies i mean
01:30:47.600
he took their license away their license to do business their trucks away their insurance away uh and
01:30:54.760
their uh their banking having them debanked and then said even when this is over banks might want to
01:31:03.240
consider not doing uh business with these people so basically i mean they're lepers
01:31:09.460
absolutely yes absolutely i mean they're really creating a case of of untouchables there in canada i
01:31:18.220
mean like you said they're they're towing their trucks or confiscating them the mayor of ontario even
01:31:23.000
said let's sell off these trucks we've seized them now sell them off we're going to use them to pay our
01:31:27.740
bills uh they want to give these guys a criminal record so they can never work again they've taken away
01:31:32.460
their insurance they've taken away the regulatory licenses and then on top of that because anybody
01:31:37.740
who helps them who contributes to them can themselves now be frozen no one's going to want to help them
01:31:44.080
so what what happens to those people david what happens to them you cut people's you cut people's um
01:31:52.680
money off you how do you survive they're they're creating a a group of destitute and desperate people
01:32:03.840
and you have to wonder for what i mean the covid pandemic is is on the way and it's at an end
01:32:11.420
even as justin trudeau was invoking these emergency powers the you know a number of the provinces were
01:32:17.600
ending covid mandates they got the message he never got the message it's this extreme intolerance
01:32:22.640
i you know i i have news for you though david i i don't you know even if it was waning i mean i
01:32:28.700
watched um occupy wall street i was in new york during occupy wall street as long as you're not
01:32:34.520
breaking the law or destroying property you you have a right to do that i never said we should sweep
01:32:41.400
those people up that's craziness that's craziness and i should be even stronger on the people i disagree
01:32:48.240
with i should fight for their right more than my right because who will fight for mine
01:32:53.940
exactly i mean this is absolutely about the right of of people to be able to engage in in speech and
01:33:02.960
political expression and to have the right to protest against their government and these were
01:33:07.440
almost entirely peaceful protests um there was no violence and yet trudeau instantly denounced all
01:33:14.800
the protesters as basically being terrorists you know uh what about terrorists yeah exactly which
01:33:21.020
allowed them to apply these anti-terrorist laws to you know to freeze their bank house the the most
01:33:28.180
extreme forms of um you know the most extreme powers that the government has which is to act on
01:33:34.620
terrorist threat were thereby invoked to really go after these ordinary you know working class men and
01:33:41.960
women we're talking to david sax he's the founding ce ceo of paypal and he is warning about the coming
01:33:50.280
social credit system uh that is in canada and do we have time to stop it here you know one of the
01:33:56.480
things david that i found um even as shocking is the fact that there was a hacker who went in hacked
01:34:07.560
took all of these names doxed everybody and the media published them and started humiliating them
01:34:16.320
uh and pilloring them in public that's right and it had real consequences there was a owner of a gelato
01:34:25.400
shop who was exposed as having made a small contribution to the protesters that they got so
01:34:31.000
many threats they had to shut down their shop there was a low-level government employee who donated
01:34:35.260
a hundred dollars she was fired from her job because of that so there's been real reprisals
01:34:39.960
based on that hack and you know i'm old enough to remember when social media cited as the reason
01:34:46.320
they wouldn't publish that they would suppress the hunter biden stories for the election that it came
01:34:50.200
from hacked material right where was that policy implemented today right um you know this was this
01:34:56.200
was illegally obtained material and the press has reported it so david you know i don't know if you're up
01:35:02.020
on esg but that is that's what um trudeau has done without the emergency order um if you fall out of line
01:35:12.500
with es or g uh you're going to be debanked um or you will start to uh feel the heat of the banking
01:35:22.400
and uh financial and insurance system uh how far away from this system are we to have a a true credit
01:35:32.860
score do you see this happening sooner rather than later and what do we do to stop it yeah well this
01:35:39.840
is my main concern is you know at the end of the day i'm not a canadian and you know i watch with
01:35:44.920
what's happening over there but ultimately it's going to be up to canadians to govern themselves what
01:35:49.380
what i'm mostly concerned about is the precedent that trudeau has set that progressives here in
01:35:55.560
america might look to and implement and let's identify the elements of the ingredients of this
01:36:01.080
toxic stew that already exists over here first of all you've got big tech companies like you know
01:36:06.120
my alma mater paypal have been freezing accounts based on you know working with partisan political
01:36:12.760
groups so you know to shut people out of the financial system that practice is already
01:36:16.740
taking place second you've got state of emergencies in states like california where i live where the
01:36:23.900
governor is still operating under a state of emergency he has invoked emergency powers that never seem to
01:36:28.700
end even though we just had a super bowl where 30 000 people were sitting you know elbow to elbow
01:36:33.660
without any masks on yet we're still in the state of emergency third we have recently the department
01:36:39.580
of homeland security has now defined misinformation about covid or the election to be a contributor
01:36:46.460
to the terrorist threat level so in other words misinformation in their view can contribute to
01:36:50.600
terrorism so we have now all the ingredients where you have politicians invoking fake state of
01:36:56.280
emergencies you've got big tech companies shunning people out of the political system and you've got this
01:37:01.120
very scary and dangerous redefinition of terrorism to effectively apply to domestic political dissent
01:37:07.620
so you have all the ingredients there that justin trudeau was able to seize on
01:37:12.560
all you're really lacking is the emergency necessary to invoke those powers um so that is what i'm afraid
01:37:20.100
of is i see all the precedents coming together but we have one thing in the united states that
01:37:24.520
canada doesn't have which is a rich constitutional tradition we have the protections under the
01:37:29.620
constitution and so i'm i'm hopeful that our stream court would protect us against um you know an
01:37:37.380
authoritarian attack on our liberties this way however there are many in our you know political
01:37:43.260
system who want to pack the stream court as it stands today and and what would happen if the
01:37:48.200
stream court were packed they would water down these rights and liberties and protections that we
01:37:52.020
have i think this is an issue that supersedes all others you know any political candidate who would
01:37:57.980
give support to packing the stream court should be instantly rejected i think by everybody across the
01:38:03.260
political spectrum and furthermore i would say you know uh biden has a scotus pick coming up the
01:38:09.080
republicans on the senate judiciary committee should make this topic number one what do they think
01:38:12.960
about the use of these authoritarian powers these fake state of emergencies let's hear from them
01:38:17.460
you know i don't think republicans will be able to stop the scotus pick but let's put them on the
01:38:21.680
record and um and discuss this issue there are there any other people that have this point of view
01:38:29.800
that is they're in your business they're in tech i mean it feels like uh as the average person it
01:38:37.300
feels like we are just up against this monolithic monster
01:38:41.940
yeah i mean glad it's uh it's rather scary i mean i'm definitely an outlier in the in the tech
01:38:49.940
industry you know i've been involved in the tech industry for over 20 years uh first as a founder now as
01:38:56.340
an investor and i can tell you that there are other people who do share to one degree or another
01:39:02.480
my concerns about civil liberties i mean i think it does extend across the political spectrum however
01:39:06.900
they definitely feel intimidated into silence um they believe that there will be reprisals for
01:39:12.660
speaking out and so i would say my i'm not alone in my views but there aren't too many people speaking
01:39:19.400
out and and that's that's pretty scary and not that you would care at this point but have you
01:39:24.560
have you paid a price for it um you know not that uh not that i can tell i mean i would say uh i mean
01:39:34.880
i'm gonna but but here's the thing was i'm at a stage in my career yeah where i don't have to worry
01:39:39.600
about it you know if i never made another time frankly i'd be fine so for me speaking out is the
01:39:45.480
most important thing and you know if it costs me some business that i don't know about then so be
01:39:50.840
it you know um but but so so far i've been i've been fine and you know what i'm trying to do i've
01:39:57.640
participated on this podcast called the all-in pod with a few friends in tech well you know one of the
01:40:02.940
main reasons why i've spoken out is to show people that you can speak out and and they should have a
01:40:07.800
little bit more courage in doing so um because i don't think the majority of people across you know
01:40:15.340
across the political spectrum want to see our civil liberties eroded this way i think it is a bipartisan
01:40:21.620
issue certainly for uh republicans independents and i'd say even many democrats but there is a
01:40:28.400
hard political left the sort of the progressive left that is driving all of this and one of the
01:40:35.140
reasons why they're successful at driving this is because moderates will not are too afraid to speak
01:40:39.560
out and oppose it yeah so i don't think there's a majority but they are driving the agenda because
01:40:45.220
no one will speak out against it and it's really a very hypocritical agenda because i mean these people
01:40:52.280
you look at trudeau his self-conception is completely at odds with the reality i mean he claims to be
01:40:57.660
saving democracy preserving democracy even as he is invoking you know authoritarian powers he claims to be
01:41:04.020
the defender of the little guy of the working class and the disadvantaged while you know crushing
01:41:09.420
these you know poor working class truck drivers under the sort of heel of of his government um you know
01:41:16.380
they claim to be on the side of diversity and tolerance while insisting that there's only one
01:41:22.000
acceptable point of view and you know censoring all the alternatives as misinformation so you know
01:41:28.080
these this this hard progressive left is completely hypocritical um i don't think most people support
01:41:34.880
it but they're kind of running unopposed right now because people are so afraid to speak out david thank
01:41:39.940
you for speaking out thank you for being on the program um i hope uh i hope we can have you on again
01:41:45.420
god bless you and and all the things that you're doing right now david sachs founding ceo of paypal
01:41:51.840
founder and general partner of craft ventures if you see what he has invested in uh he is on the
01:41:59.180
cutting edge and god bless him for speaking out wait he produced the movie thank you for smoking
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that's a great movie how did we not talk to him about that i don't know hopefully we'll have him
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so uh wow today has been a great uh program yeah i mean i think we've done enough i think we just
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call it a day and let the last half hour just be dead air yeah um uh today if you missed any of it
01:44:09.500
you've missed a ton uh go back and get the podcast we started with the uh woman who the doj just came
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in and just took all of their money as a family just took it all uh her her story of the last three
01:44:24.860
years is incredible and uh it is happening all over the country she'll tell you all about it that's
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hour number one uh hour number two of the podcast we talked about putin and what nobody knows uh and
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some of his language that was embedded into that rambling speech tells experts exactly what they
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need to know and you learned all about that and of course this hour now just a bunch of insurmountable
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problems that would just highlight a bunch of insurmountable life-changing society altering
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impossible uphill climbs i'll give you some good news next oh really yeah i'll give you some good
01:45:05.580
news there's another half hour of the show you're gonna put good news in it oh no that was good
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that was the good news i broke it earlier wow great no i actually have some good things going up
01:45:16.040
yeah yeah yeah i have a sweet tooth and uh sometimes that that little guy you know he thinks on his own
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it's like some people think you know downstairs and others think with their sweet tooth and that's
01:45:31.480
one that controls me i mean look at me is there any question of that uh you can be healthy and all that
01:45:38.140
boring stuff uh by eating low calorie low carb high protein high fiber candy bars
01:45:44.260
candy bars that's good news yeah uh well it's not really a candy bar they call it uh they call it a
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protein bar because it's healthy for you and everything else but it's made with real chocolate
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and they are delicious and they come in a variety of amazing flavors they've got some like a chocolate
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orange one that's coming back out oh really it's coming back out the rumor is it's coming out this
01:46:06.960
week again oh i love that one you can't that's everyone seems to love it and i don't i don't chocolate
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orange wouldn't strike me it's like fantastic delicious it's unbelievable and their puffs
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if you haven't tried their puffs yet you're missing out marshmallow coated in chocolate you're just
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mikayla gets who's uh one of our new um employees here uh somebody who i have um
01:46:58.580
kind of taken a personal interest in shepherding because she is really quite brilliant uh and um
01:47:05.600
just rock solid and she's 25 25 25 yeah that doesn't happen anyway um she unbeknownst to me
01:47:13.300
has been taking my advice and when i say go do these things uh and uh and she's tried to do them
01:47:21.440
and come up with a a few roadblocks so she wrote uh advice for dummies by a 25 year old who wanted to
01:47:29.160
follow glenn's advice but didn't know how uh she's here to kind of walk us through some of these
01:47:35.000
things yeah so i think i wrote this because i am perhaps for all of your great reset advice i am
01:47:44.340
perhaps the worst person to take most of it because most of it's financial and that's what confuses me
01:47:48.560
the most so i wanted to see if i can do it probably anyone can do it if you can put your mind to it and
01:47:55.160
i glenn i sit and listen to you and i try to take your advice because i want to make things better
01:48:01.860
i want to do the right thing but then there are so many things to do i find myself doing nothing
01:48:06.660
so i thought let me chip away at these things one at a time and see what can i do so the first thing
01:48:12.840
you did was first thing i did was switch to a local bank which we talked about last week but the
01:48:16.940
real first thing i had to do glenn is find out why i wanted to do any of this because glenn
01:48:21.160
back told me to wasn't sustainable good for you i had to figure out why do i personally want to do
01:48:26.200
this and that took me a while and i had to write it out for myself and say what is my motivation
01:48:29.700
because if not i'm going to hit walls and glenn beck isn't going to be talking to me constantly
01:48:33.980
and i had to know what do i want for my life so what was your why for getting and changing banks
01:48:39.040
for changing banks my why is when i saw what happened in canada i was finally that pushed me
01:48:45.560
over the edge i thought oh it's it could really happen they they froze their banks and then i looked
01:48:49.520
into wells fargo whose i was banking with i've been banked that was my only bank i've ever had
01:48:55.060
as well as fargo and i can bank really easily online with them and it's it's easy right i looked
01:48:59.100
at wells fargo and i googled wells fargo world economic forum whoa googled wells fargo esg whoa
01:49:06.220
yeah and they have it's full of even they say they want to have a net zero by 2030 right that's not
01:49:13.900
possible i know that's not possible which means i know that they're just towing a global line
01:49:17.620
that this is all virtue signaling and i don't want my money with those people so i had to switch
01:49:21.460
so how did you uh how did you find that uh that job that task how did i find that task yeah i found
01:49:32.000
that task to be simpler than the other tasks it was about the simplest task for me once i knew what
01:49:38.120
to look for i had to call the banks i talked about this last week that i had to call the banks and say
01:49:41.500
do you have a connection to a bigger bank do you have a connection to esg scores and that would take
01:49:46.600
some time but once i got through they were honest with me and i was able to find out bank by bank by
01:49:53.260
bank who can i actually bank with and i was lucky i found a couple that i can actually bank with so
01:49:57.740
you've put in your list talk with your family why because i have a husband and i i knew that if we
01:50:05.620
didn't want to do this together it wouldn't be sustainable good for you and i i think that there's
01:50:10.200
a lot of temptation when you feel i feel that i'm the information carrier of our family because i work
01:50:15.180
here and i listen to you every day and i feel that i am the glenn beck of my home they're bringing the
01:50:19.800
alarm the sounding the alarm i feel bad for everyone you're the insane person in your home
01:50:24.400
well and i think a lot of people listening probably are the glenn becks of their home and that that
01:50:29.400
might feel kind of isolating and it's good to have a team you want people who are all working together
01:50:33.360
if you go if you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together and i want to go far
01:50:38.600
not fast did you um did he agree with you right off the bat or did he was he like normal people
01:50:45.000
that's crazy well he didn't ever call me crazy he's very nice to me right did he ever say well
01:50:52.880
bless your heart yeah he definitely said prove it and that was useful good he said prove it he's like
01:50:58.700
what what's the real threat here i don't understand everything seems fine it looks fine show me and i had
01:51:03.880
to show him i couldn't just tell him the world's falling apart i'd say look here's the research i've
01:51:08.300
done it i printed it out i highlighted it and he wanted to know it for himself and once he did he
01:51:12.800
was on board and he's easier like i said great husband love him but so what was the next thing
01:51:19.340
you did calling my legislators and that was hard because well i used to be a secretary for a
01:51:24.800
legislator so i know that most of those calls get ignored so when i hear you say call your
01:51:29.840
legislator i know there's specific things you have to do when you go to call your legislator for
01:51:33.600
example i live in texas now and i went to see what is i wanted to talk about anti-esg legislation
01:51:40.260
for example i wanted texas to pass that first thing i had to do was look up what they have
01:51:44.760
because if you call and you don't know your information that's the first way to get ignored
01:51:47.640
so if you call and you're like hey um i want to know i want you to pass a anti-esg law well texas
01:51:53.440
could turn around and say we already passed one but they didn't really they passed one that just
01:51:57.100
protects certain industries yeah right but if you don't know that then you just say oh thanks
01:52:01.480
bye but you have to know so i called and they say hi i saw that in the past you have passed
01:52:08.100
an anti-esg legislation that only covered certain industries i'm interested in covering me and a
01:52:14.260
normal citizen what is the legislator going to do to support that and the thing that i also know is
01:52:21.340
you can't just call the one that you are zoned for you have to call the one who will be most
01:52:25.700
sympathetic to your cause and the one you are zoned for because if the one you are zoned for
01:52:30.400
is not going to there i know they will ignore your call they will ignore your call they will
01:52:36.920
ignore your email the best thing to do is either blitz them so they can't ignore it which i think
01:52:41.080
that the glenn beck listeners do very well is a blitz but if not you need to call the person you
01:52:45.920
think will be sympathetic to you how do you find that person well i was looking at all the local
01:52:50.720
legislators and i found somebody who was called like the the actionable conservative voice and i
01:52:56.560
thought okay we'll start here and you can see their voting you can see how they voted in the
01:53:00.280
past you can see what they run on at minimum doesn't mean that they will necessarily be who
01:53:03.780
they say they are but if they say i'm a far left leaning socialist probably calling them about
01:53:11.000
anti-esg will be a waste of your time yes yes got it got it um and you have the steps on and we
01:53:18.540
have this up is this up on glennbeck.com it is it's up on glennbeck.com okay so we have the script
01:53:22.520
and everything you need to know everything that she's learned in doing this uh we have it all at
01:53:27.380
glennbeck.com it is glennbeck's advice for dummies which i don't really like that but uh glennbeck's
01:53:34.320
advice for dummies uh on on how to do all of the things uh that we we talked to you about investments
01:53:40.940
you write as a young person i invested just in time for glenn's glenn to say it's time to divest
01:53:47.280
that is trouble here's my advice i believe i wrote that put me in a pickle yeah you did but
01:53:53.300
well i said my first time i met with my investor they said hello what are your goals i said i would
01:53:58.120
like to make money they said great how much i said as much as possible and they sent me on my way
01:54:03.180
and that was it right and now suddenly i come back to my invest my advisor and i say actually i have
01:54:09.320
a lot of moral stances now about my investments and this is coming out of left field because first i
01:54:13.660
just said as much money as you can possibly make me let's go and all my investments were black rock
01:54:17.940
and i had were they no idea i i first thing i had to do is say i wonder what i'm investing in anyway
01:54:23.320
because i just had one of those general things for young people that's kind of risky and i was like
01:54:27.180
can i have a copy of that and they're like sure they send it to me in the mail literally 75 say black
01:54:32.820
rock on it i go into sheer panic i'm like oh my gosh it's my fault i'm ruining the world it's me
01:54:37.820
it's my money i am the problem and i don't want to be that and i think a lot of people probably feel
01:54:42.580
the pressure to try to be part of the solution not part of the problem so i worked with my investor
01:54:45.840
and said look i don't know if i can know every single 30 different company in my portfolio all
01:54:51.960
their specific views but can we work together to know who i definitely don't want to invest in
01:54:55.900
that's where i started because picking individually every single company is almost it's not impossible
01:55:02.100
somebody out there's like it's not impossible i just did it and i think that's great but i started
01:55:05.680
with look i know i don't want to be in black rock let's start there let's pull out a black rock and
01:55:09.440
then they'll send me they'll say how about this one and i'll look it up and i'll be like okay
01:55:12.560
yay or nay and it's hard to be a purist it's hard to be perfect but we can't let wanting to be perfect
01:55:18.500
stop us from doing anything i will tell you just getting out of black rock is is huge they are using
01:55:24.000
our money to destroy us yeah uh and bring esg and that is a that's a really good first step is just
01:55:33.040
taking all your money out of black rock and every state should be doing that divest from black rock
01:55:38.860
as state any retirement fund any investment fund get out of black rock that will go a great
01:55:46.440
a long long way and you have to celebrate the baby steps otherwise it's easy to lose hope or lose
01:55:52.520
motivation so i feel that i was like okay i can't do everything and i could beat myself over the head
01:55:58.240
and be like but still your money's probably going somewhere bad like bad michaela that is not right
01:56:02.180
or i could say nice work michaela today you made a step you did something right and we have to
01:56:08.120
congratulate ourselves on these steps because those are not easy things to do and if we're constantly
01:56:12.500
looking at everything like there's so much more i could do that's true but we will lose our motivation
01:56:16.760
and we will lose our hope if we don't congratulate ourselves when we take these steps michaela thank you
01:56:20.980
so much for your work and you can find this all at glennbeck.com i will tell you that um uh we have
01:56:27.780
to start thinking um about each other as well i talked about this yesterday somewhat um we we need
01:56:35.940
to start talking about and thinking about others how can we help others because there's going to be a lot
01:56:43.540
of people that um are are way out of the loop on this and we can't just ignore them we have to bind
01:56:52.480
ourselves as communities and and help people that will come into our communities and need help when
01:56:58.780
things get really bad you need to be at a place where your community thinks like that and thinks like
01:57:05.300
you don't be the odd person out on this um get to those communities start thinking like a community
01:57:11.740
on on how you can and how you can help and as michaela just said you know you got to celebrate
01:57:17.780
the baby steps and they're not baby steps they're just do the next right thing that's all you have to
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welcome to the glenn back program we're talking about how to do all these things and it's very
01:59:15.260
difficult to do all these things there's a million different steps and it and it's difficult to get
01:59:20.280
down that road one of the we've talked about atomic habits before mainly because it was um beating you
01:59:26.120
in the bestseller list and i was torturing you about it but it's a fantastic book and and the way
01:59:32.040
one of the things one of the big innovations i think in it when you're thinking about habits and
01:59:36.600
this goes from everything from the way you eat to the you know whether you're going to go to the gym or
01:59:40.440
whatever is changing your approach to your habits in your life from a goal-based habit to a an identity
01:59:49.860
based so in other words a goal base would be i'm going to go to the gym every day goal base is like
01:59:55.160
i strive to get in shape i want to go to the gym every day and that's how we've always i think always
01:59:59.620
thought and his point is like you need to think of it as like i'm the type of person who goes to the
02:00:04.300
gym every day i never miss a workout i'm that guy i'm the gym rat that's me and if you think of it
02:00:09.460
that way it becomes part of your identity and your identity you're casting votes toward that
02:00:15.100
identity with every small action every day you show up you're casting a vote towards that person that
02:00:20.060
you want to be give me another example here's an example do you do i have any control over my life
02:00:26.240
at all like zero i mean i have no self-control no self-control correct the one and this and
02:00:31.200
many in this audience will know this i'm like america's own you know single conservative vegetarian
02:00:37.520
right the only habit i could tell you about that i'm actually successful with and i never mess up
02:00:43.780
is that i don't eat meat i just don't do it i've done it i can give you really don't even know why
02:00:48.560
really yeah i mean there's a long explanation but the bottom line is you know i that's who i am it's
02:00:54.420
the way i live my life i don't care if you live your life the same way but it's it's like the only
02:00:59.320
habit i can think of that i actually never mess up i do it every single day i never make a mistake
02:01:04.500
and that's because and that's because i'm a vegetarian it's like in my head part of my
02:01:09.640
identity it's who i am it's how i live life now i know uh like for you for example you are a
02:01:15.520
recovering alcoholic right that's part of your identity if someone asks you about alcohol you
02:01:20.240
don't say well i'm really trying to not drink you say no i'm sober i'm a recovering alcoholic and
02:01:26.100
it's part of your identity and you never mess up right um and it's if you think of it that way
02:01:33.060
and change the way like you're you're striving for like for example uh pushing back against uh you
02:01:39.080
know the great reset in the nesg there are things from day to day that you're not going to get there
02:01:44.560
in one day but every single time you take a small action to cast a vote toward the identity of making
02:01:52.420
sure that you're in line with your values that's a day that you're progressing towards the type of
02:01:57.320
person that you want to be not like some weird goal that eventually you'll achieve and be done
02:02:01.800
but it's an ongoing journey where you're constantly trying to make yourself into this
02:02:07.140
person that you wish to be so this is from atomic atomic habits habits which is you found really
02:02:12.520
enlightening yes i think it's it's a great book even though what you just said is i am a vegetarian
02:02:19.260
uh i am a recovering alcoholic and i've given you the i am speech a million times yeah but you're
02:02:26.500
first of all he's outselling you so uh he's obviously better we know no it is true though
02:02:33.280
if you change your thinking yeah to i am an american i am determined to be free i am free
02:02:42.400
uh you will change uh it just changes you almost fake it until you make it but it does change your
02:02:51.880
thinking and it creates what you say i am you know whatever follows i am you will be
02:02:59.240
yeah and uh it's also because you have made that speech and it's true i mean it's clearly true
02:03:05.000
there's more to it than just saying it right like one of the other you're right right right like
02:03:09.800
you don't rise to the level of your goals you fall to the level of your systems right so if you
02:03:15.160
don't have a system in place if you don't go through these things and do them if you're just
02:03:20.200
kind of depending on your willpower every day you're going to fail if you say i am rich every
02:03:24.540
day you're not going to be rich right you're not right right you you but you start thinking that way
02:03:29.800
you start moving in a different way yeah you start recognizing made under a an existing structure a
02:03:36.720
framework that helps you get through these things even on the bad days when you feel like you know
02:03:41.520
what i feel like going to the casino maybe you don't do that although that is a pathway to get rich
02:03:45.840
thank you very much for bringing something i've known my whole life and i've tried to teach you
02:03:49.800
my whole the last how many books you sell in there glenn you can't even get them in the stores