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Hello, America.

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It's Monday.

My researchers have been scouring the internet and the dark web looking for those who are calling for violence.

We're having a hard time finding anything but a couple of crackpots.

I mean, I know it's what crackpots do, but

the violence that is being

predicted, we can't find evidence of anywhere.

We'll get into that.

And of course, Martin Luther King.

It's Martin Luther King Day in 60 seconds.

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We will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual.

Free at last, free at last.

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

Now is the time

to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice

to the solid rock of brotherhood.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

And I've seen

the promised land.

I may not get there with you,

but I want you to know the night

that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Dr.

Martin Luther King has been shot and wounded, possibly critically wounded, in Memphis, Tennessee this evening.

Dr.

Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in Memphis in an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed young white man seen running from the seat in the seat.

For centuries, man's freedom has been crushed, contained, or at best discouraged, and sometimes in subtle ways.

In the days of Solomon, he decried that man could learn too much, that one shouldn't dig too deeply nor read too often, saying that too much reading led to the weariness of the flesh, that the search for knowledge is where Adam and Eve went wrong, thus proving that learning leads to man's downfall or his sin.

St.

Paul centuries later said basically the same thing in 1500 Francis Bacon wrote to the king trying to convince him that man could never learn too much that knowledge could not somehow also contain the serpent yet free thought continued to be squashed Immanuel Kant the man who first described the Milky Way as a collection of suns in the fashion that we now know it, wrote in 1760, There are many things that I believe that I shall never say, but I shall never say the things that I do not believe.

The courage to speak one's mind.

In 1760, our most precious freedom, the freedom of thought, had not yet been born.

Yet, just a few years later, on the other side of the globe, sat a man alone in a hotel room, his wife dying in bed hundreds of miles miles away from him, as he scratched words on paper.

We find these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights given to them by their creator, among them life, liberty, and property.

It was later changed to the pursuit of happiness to make sure the slave trade would finally come to an end.

I'm not if we really understand the impact of those words.

Man has never been as free to think as man is now.

The Chinese dissidents didn't make a Statue of Liberty in Tiananmen Square out of happenstance.

Americans changed the world.

Our freedom of thought allowed men to discover electricity, the light bulb, the car, the phone, the motion picture, the radio, the television, the computer, to put a man on the moon.

These men will be first to orbit the Earth, I cannot tell you.

And a spacecraft on Mars.

It was in the American century that the theory of relativity was conceived, leading Einstein to say, the thing that strikes me about America is the joyous, positive attitude to life.

The smile on the faces of the people is one of the greatest assets of the American.

He's friendly, self-confident, optimistic, and without envy.

The American lives more for his goals, for the future.

Life for him is always becoming,

never being.

His emphasis is laid on the we and never the I.

So today, as we are free to celebrate, relax, think, read, say anything, ask yourself this.

Are we still more about the goals for the future?

Is life for us always about becoming and never being?

And are we still part of the we and not the I?

You know, when Jefferson first wrote those words, they were words of treason and certain execution.

But today they are free to echo throughout the land as words of the American spirit and our hope.

That we do hold these truths to to be self-evident.

That all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And in support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Our founders changed the world with those few words.

And over 200 years later, a black preacher from the South, Dr.

Martin Luther King, helped make sure that the promise of liberty was real for all Americans.

Free at last.

Free at last.

Free at last.

Free at last.

Thank God Almighty.

Thank God Almighty.

We are free at last.

We We are free at last.

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Every year we revisit that.

And this year,

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As far as the conservative purge goes, they're looking for new ways to exploit that.

We're looking at that today.

They are now looking at podcasts.

Apparently, podcasts are the next target.

Not to mention, they're going after cable networks to get them to drop Newsmax, OAN,

even Fox News in some cases.

So there's a bunch going on with that today, and we're following that.

25,000 troops are now inside Washington, D.C., standing by to protect Joe Biden's inauguration.

That is two Army divisions.

Two

Two Army divisions to protect a few city blocks.

And people aren't really allowed to be on those couple of city blocks in the first place.

Joe Biden is going to take the oath with only air present to hear it and 25,000 military troops.

All of this is due to an ABC report that the FBI has sent a memo regarding a massive uprising of far-right armed protesters protesters that planned to descend on every state capitol in Washington, D.C.

on Wednesday.

So far, no one is commenting on this mass uprising, which we found to be odd.

So I instructed my group to go find something on this event.

They have spent the weekend scouring the internet, scouring even the dark web and all the social alternative social media sites for answers.

And there seems to be a black hole on this.

There is nothing on the dark web, there is nothing on Telegram.

It is completely silent.

It appears, at least from our research, that the threat came from a group called the Boogaloo Movement, a collection of far-right libertarian anarchists and even some leftists.

They're all over the place.

They started to show up on Sunday for these protests in places like Virginia, Michigan, and Ohio.

Their numbers were a little overwhelming.

At each location, you could count the numbers on one hand.

Two here, three in this state.

Is this the mass

the mass armed uprising?

Please be careful this week.

Don't get involved in any kind of talk or any kind of

anything.

Maybe there's something we don't know, but Is all of this being done for optics?

Is this about vilifying and shutting anyone at all down that happens to be right of center?

That actually might be a,

I mean, that might even be a better, a better outcome or a better reason than these people are actually going to do something.

I don't think so, but I hope to God not.

If you see something, say something.

We're in dangerous waters, and the left wants absolute compliance.

George Orwell, I think, would be shocked at what happened.

In fact, he described it to a T.

Listen to this.

This is from 1984.

The ideal set up by the party was something huge, terrible, and glittering.

All thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting 300 million people, all with the same face.

I want to tell you some stories today.

I want to take you back and learn not only about Martin Luther King,

but some of our heroes in

the Age of Enlightenment,

the beginnings of our country.

Last year, the left did the unthinkable.

They tried to convince us that Martin Luther King had approved the riots over the summer.

They took one of his quotes out of context.

Riots are the voice of the unheard, said Martin Luther King.

And people used that over the summer to justify the riots.

And they're completely, I believe, intentionally missing the point.

They're taking King's statement out of context.

They're disingenuous.

Because he did not support riots.

He denounced them.

But he understood the psychology of rioting and more than anything else he wanted to give a voice to the voiceless.

Here's the comment he made in 1966.

I think we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.

And what is it that America has failed to hear?

It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

So this is how many summers like this one do you imagine that we can expect?

Well, I would say this, we don't have long.

The mood of the Negro community now

is one of urgency, one of saying that we aren't going to wait, that we've got to have our freedom.

We've waited too long.

So that I would say that every summer we are going to have this kind of vigorous protest.

My hope is that it will be nonviolent.

I would hope that we can avoid riots because riots are self-defeating and socially destructive.

That's what Martin Luther King actually said.

He's not saying riots are the solution.

He's saying they're a tragic symptom of a bad society.

Now listen to this carefully because this is all repeating itself.

And for those on the left, they need to learn from their own history.

They know this.

Why are they ignoring it?

He says it's a symptom of a society where people feel voiceless and alone.

Strategic violence and upheaval is a part of America.

In some ways, it's why we're an independent nation, free of tyranny, but not really.

They didn't use violence.

1773, they say the Boston Tea Party.

That was not violent.

That was not violent.

In many cases, they had the attention and even compliance of

the ship's captain.

They went in, they didn't kill anybody, they didn't beat anybody up, they dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor.

And it was an act of political defiance because, if you want to piss off an Englishman, you take away his tea and crumpets.

Or the fact that they were giving a massive tax on tea and America couldn't do its own tea.

So we don't want your tea.

We don't want your tea.

In our

Constitution, it says, we the people, in order to form a more perfect nation,

to establish justice and to ensure domestic tranquility,

to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, to establish this Constitution.

They ground it in the promise of the words, a well-regulated militia being necessary to secure a free state.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

But needless violence has no place in civilized silence, in a society.

So, what is needless violence?

Well, we're seeing needless violence that has caused more needless violence.

What happened over the summer

was kind of an endorsement of needless violence.

And now everybody's upset because some, I believe, radicals on the other side decide they're going to go in and march on the Capitol.

King was heavily influenced by Henry David Thoreau.

And I want to talk to you about Thoreau because I learned a lot in my research for this.

Two years after MLK said, a riot is the language of the unheard, two long years on April 4th, 1968, from the balcony of a room at the Lorain Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, a white supremacist aimed a Remington 760

at Martin Luther King and fired.

That night, Bobby Kennedy gave one of the most astonishing speeches on the back of a flatbed truck.

He told a largely black audience who did not know about the killing of Martin Luther King this.

We will have difficult times.

We've had difficult times in the past,

but we will have difficult times in the future.

It is not the end of violence.

It is not the end of lawlessness.

And it's not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together,

want to improve the quality of our life,

and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

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It's an amazing speech, an amazing speech.

By the way, 63 days later,

a deranged man who wanted the Palestinians to be free shot and killed Bobby Kennedy.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to Monday.

It's Martin Luther King Day,

which seems like it's more important than ever this year.

Yeah, we've been playing that Martin Luther King essay since, what, 2000?

2001, something like that.

And every year, it's always seemed like this kind of faraway thing to have to worry about.

Does seem a little bit different this year, though.

You think?

I mean, it's

it's

it's crazy what's just going on every single day.

Let me just give you some of the highlights.

Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation, podcasts.

Now they're saying that podcasts are not as easy

for

the algorithms to spot hate speech.

And so they got to do something because these podcasts are promoting hate speech.

Let me give you the next one.

They're letting them say whatever they want on these podcasts.

You can't have that.

You can't have that.

Former Facebook official calls for Verizon, ATT, and others to de-platform OAN and Newsmax.

I mean, you want to talk about creating a problem.

You silence people.

This is not what Americans do.

This is just not what we do.

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Facebook announces a temporary ban on ads for weapon accessories and protective equipment.

Manchin now says removing Hawley and Cruz with 14th Amendment should be a consideration.

By the way, Lowe's hotels have canceled Senator Josh Hawley's Florida fundraiser.

And the President of Mexico compares social media censorship in the U.S.

to the Spanish Inquisition.

I mean,

where are we headed?

The answer is not any place good.

Not any place good.

Feds over the weekend arrested a hardcore leftist who planned an attack on a pro-Trump demonstration at the Florida Capitol.

It's not going to matter who started it.

It's not going to matter.

Unfortunately, with 300 million people,

you're going to have lunatics.

You're going to have lunatics.

I mean, we voted a lot of lunatics into office, and I think both sides could admit to that.

What are we doing?

The majority of Americans now say other Americans are a problem.

54% of those surveyed said that other people people in America pose the largest threat to the nation, beating out economic forces, the natural world, disasters, viruses, and foreign threats.

Other Americans

51% of Americans surveyed said that political violence would increase in the next few years.

Only 18% said it would

decrease.

The survey followed the violent riot on January 6th.

71% of Americans say the U.S.

democracy today is threatened, while only 29% say

it is secure.

Poll also indicated Americans were cautiously optimistic about President-elect Joe Biden taking office.

51% said that the coronavirus would get better once he took office, compared to 22% that said it would get worse.

48% said the world would have greater respect for the United States, compared to 34% who said the opposite.

Poll also showed that the pandemic is still America's top concern, 47% saying Biden's top priority should be the coronavirus.

21% said his top priority should be the economy.

10% said it should be political divisions.

59% of us said that the vaccine distribution in their respective states was moving too slowly.

42% said Biden's biggest challenge once taking office would be to overcome the political divisions in the country.

A figure that was reflected later in the poll: 5% of Trump voters said that they held a favorable view of Biden voters,

while only 4% of Biden voters said the same thing for Trump voters.

How are we going to come together

when 96%

of those who voted for Biden hate the other half,

and

95%

of Trump voters say the same thing about Biden voters.

Where do you go?

There is no coming together in that environment.

It can't be.

Right.

That used to be, it used to be that one of our strengths, I think, as a country was that you were able to deal with people even when you thought they were idiots.

It doesn't seem to be that that's a thing anymore.

At least on the left.

I mean, I see, look, I'll grant you the numbers you just gave are are the same

so uh you know basically uh the polling i'm i'm going with anecdotal evidence perhaps uh over uh polling here but allow me to at least attempt it because how many times have we talked to people on the left who

uh who say a version of the same thing which is When I say something that is out of step with the left, they try to murder me online.

When I say something that is out of step with the right, they want to hear about it, they want to debate it, they want to tell me I'm wrong, but they don't despise me.

Not universally true on either side, but yes, that's what we hear from people.

A lot, though.

Yeah, a lot of people are.

A lot of people, and people, not even necessarily people that just come to us because you might think, well, maybe they're a little more friendly to the right, but even people just speaking, you know, there's that whole group of people who are maybe opposed to wokeness, right, for example, but generally are left-wingers, right?

You did an interview with Eric, was it Eric Weinstein last week?

Yeah, yeah.

And he's in a group,

I would kind of consider him part of that group, right?

He's definitely a leftist.

I mean, definitely someone who's on the left, but you know, just maybe doesn't think that all opposing speech should be destroyed.

In fact, the exact opposite.

Right.

He wants more speech.

He's a guy who believes in that.

But we've seen this over and over again.

People

who have to deal with the left,

the second they step out one little step out of line, they are the ultimate.

He talked about that

at great length on the podcast about how

the left is just destroying him and destroying him because he's willing to go on shows like mine.

Just go on.

Just go on.

Just say things that you don't agree with.

You guys disagreed a decent amount.

A big amount.

Did you listen to the whole thing?

I only heard clips of it.

It is.

It's

really, really good.

This guy, I think,

has

pretty much

the

story down of how we got here.

Pretty close.

Pretty close.

He's missing some of the things that, you know, he disagrees with me on progressives and Howard Zinn, and we disagree a lot, but he has the general arc right.

And

it's not going away until we understand it.

We talked about it in the podcast.

It's available for Blay subscribers.

It's also available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast.

It came out this Saturday.

And

it is an interesting discussion because we both agree on the major principles.

And that is freedom of speech, everything in the Bill of Rights.

You got the Bill of Rights.

I'm with you.

I'm with you.

And that's kind of where he is.

And we disagree on almost everything else.

But it is fascinating to hear how because he speaks out, he's dead to them.

He was a source for the New York Times.

He did editorials for everybody.

He's, I mean, he was a big source for people because

he's pretty much a genius.

and

is a big defender of, you know, what he would call liberal or progressive policies now

because he disagrees with shutting everybody up he disagrees with wokeness he's a pariah an absolute pariah dead to them you can't you can't run a country like that you can't

i mean you can't run a life like that you're going to end up with no friends You're going to end up with nobody at your side except those who, you know, are just just as angry, bitter, and as destructive as you are.

And in the end, when there's nobody else to destroy, you'll destroy each other because that's your M.O.

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So there are 10

pretty intense executive orders that are coming on day one

that

I think are very, very uniting.

He's going to cancel the

oil pipeline.

He's the Keystone.

He's going to cancel, or sorry, he's going to rejoin the Paris Accords.

So we got that going for us.

He is extending the eviction freeze.

Okay.

I mean, I don't think extending the eviction freeze is the right answer.

I mean, what are these people going to do?

So they're going to get evicted later?

What are these people going to do?

They don't have jobs.

How are they going to pay all of that money back?

He says he's got his COVID relief package,

which

he says is going to give millions to the American people.

Oh, really?

350 million?

And you're going to give millions to us?

No, no, no.

That package should probably be a little bigger.

Wasn't the entire package $1.9 trillion?

Just the $1.9 trillion.

$1.9 trillion.

$3.9 trillion.

No.

Or $8.9 trillion.

Just $1.9 trillion.

Do you remember when it used to be controversial when we had $700 billion

stimulus packages?

Now it's $2 trillion.

Nobody even bats an eye.

He's saying that he's going to require mask wearing on all federal land and all federal buildings.

He is

going to impose a broader mandate

on

COVID.

He's going to introduce the 100-day masking challenge.

He's saying by executive order on day number one or two, he will grant 11 million

illegals amnesty and make them citizens.

He is going to put an end to the travel ban

from dangerous countries.

He is joining the Paris Accords,

roughly a dozen actions on his first day to make the government function for the people.

He is also going to strengthen by American provisions and, through executive order, mandate a $15

minimum wage.

Again, not for everybody, but just what he can control is the way he keeps saying that, which is an interesting thing.

I mean, the mask mandate is

ridiculous.

You know, we spent so much time talking about mask mandates over the past year.

And, you know, I spent some time last year in Florida, which has no mask mandate.

And if you listen to anybody in Texas, especially on the right, all they will tell you is Greg Abbott is the worst human being on earth because he has a mask mandate.

I mean, again, like I look at Texas as relatively very pro-freedom on these things, but they do have a mask mandate here.

Now, is he enforcing a mask mandate?

That's a totally different question.

I doubt they've handed out one state fine for this mask mandate.

I'm still guaranteed they didn't.

It is the, yeah, and it is the, but it is still the obsession of tons of people around.

Because it's Texas.

And because it's Texas, right?

Yeah.

But I went to Florida, which has no mask mandate.

It is exactly the same as here.

Of course it is.

Exactly the same.

Every chain restaurant still requires you to wear your mask on the way from the door to the table because they don't want to get sued, just like they do here.

Everybody, you know, 90% of places want you to wear their masks.

And then there's some that don't really care, just like here.

Yeah.

You just walk in and do whatever you want.

Right.

Now, it's up to you whether you wear these masks in these situations, but we've seen almost no difference in mandate after mandate after mandate after mandate from the government.

We've seen almost no difference in the way that people actually act.

And we are strangely seeing a difference between, for instance, California and Florida.

Have you found any reasons for that that you can, I mean, how is how is the capital of the lockdown

doing worse than Florida?

Well, again, I, a lot, no, there's a lot of different factors that go into this stuff, but a big part of this is that people do what they do.

You're right.

They don't listen to all these mandates.

We keep talking about all these mandates constantly, and it's this constant focus of everybody's attention.

But in reality, people just generally do what they do.

They don't listen to the mandates.

They don't do those things.

So it's not, you can't judge an outbreak and judge it by whether there's a mandate or not because people aren't listening to these mandates.

They're going to live their lives as the American.

It's still, people do what they do.

They do what they do.

And it seems to be more effective.

Seems to be more effective, at least between Florida and California.

Sure.

Welcome to the Glen Beck program.

It's Monday, Martin Luther King Day.

CNN this weekend has said the Capitol rioters are more concerning than ISIS.

The Facebook executive that has left Facebook says that really we can do better censoring than this.

And

CBS News had the hard-hitting news of Kamala's fashion choice.

choice.

Meanwhile, we have 25,000 troops inside of Washington, D.C.

That's the size of two Army divisions.

They're just getting ready for something that I pray never comes.

The violence surrounding the inauguration.

25,000 troops to something that really no American is supposed to attend.

We begin in 60 seconds.

Yeah, I know.

Gosh, Carl Wren, he is just so.

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There is a

there's a poster that was put out for the coming together at all of the 50 capitals and bring your guns.

It's the refuse to be silenced poster.

End federal corruption, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Well, I saw this last week and I thought, that's not a poster a conservative designed.

I mean, I'm into design,

I know it quite well, and I also know what, generally speaking, conservatives are capable of.

And as far as art,

you know, and politics.

And I also know that this isn't conservatives.

These are people who are like, bring your guns to the Capitol.

That is a distant cry from conservatives.

So their art was just a little crazy.

And it has the Statue of Liberty,

and then it says, refuse to be silenced.

Demand your freedoms and the end of corruption.

And

it's also strangely colored red and yellow, you know, the cover of the colors of of the Soviet or the Chinese flag.

Well, my research department went on it and

they brought me

the poster of Black Civics,

Election Night Watch Party, Black Civics, Be the Power, Politics in Black,

live at Facebook, blah, blah, blah.

It's exactly the same poster.

So I don't know which poster,

I know which one came first.

I don't know who stole the poster or if it's the black civics people or people that knew about that that decided, ah, we're going to set the right up.

I don't know, but something is wrong.

And as I told you last hour, and we'll go into more tomorrow, we can't find anything, even on the dark web, we can't find anything about organizing violence from QAnon, from the, you know, the Nazis, the Uber.

We can't find anything.

Doesn't mean it's not there.

It just means we've spent three days looking and we haven't found it.

If you know of something, please let us know so we can alert you.

It's important that you know what's being planned and you condemn it if it is any kind of violence.

But 25,000 troops are now in Washington stationed for the inauguration.

And may I suggest that on Wednesday,

instead of

finding yourself angry or whatever, serve other people.

Even if it is making dinner for somebody that is in need down the street or in your church or have the kids go mow somebody else's lawn.

I know it's winter, so blow the snow.

It's always lawn mowing season in Texas.

Blow the snow off of somebody's walkway or whatever it is,

serve.

And may I suggest that the churches get together and fast and pray for the safety of everyone involved in the inauguration.

It's a very dangerous day because

when you look at the left, the left learned nonviolence from Martin Luther King, but they're rejecting Martin Luther King now.

And this summer was not nonviolent at all.

Radical leftists, radical Marxists are really who's running a lot of this.

And the ends justify the means, and we can never become those people.

But it's interesting to me how the left says they're for all of these great things, but they're not, and they run away from things.

I want to talk to you about a complicated guy, really complicated.

You're probably not going to agree with some of his beliefs.

You certainly will agree with others.

Some people will like his ideas, but whatever.

The political ambiguity of this guy is part of the reason he's not a household name.

Despite the fact that he was Martin Luther King's closest friend and confidant, he literally shaped King's take on civil disobedience.

Not only did he organize and speak at the March on Washington, but he also played a crucial role in the formation of I Have a Dream speech.

He introduced King.

He said,

a social movement has to be based on the collective needs of the people at this time, regardless of color, color, creed, or race.

His name was Bayard Ruslin.

He was black.

He was openly gay.

He was a Quaker.

He was a lifelong socialist and an unabashed pacifist.

He's one of the reasons why people said, you know, Martin Luther King was surrounded by radicals.

He was pretty radical, but he was a pacifist and he was a Quaker.

And he was a staunch critic of identity politics and reparations and infirmative action.

Oh, and he supported Israel.

He's a black guy, a radical.

So half of the country doesn't know him because, well, he's a socialist.

And so nobody wanted to talk about him because that wasn't uniting at all.

The other half didn't want to talk about him.

The left didn't want to talk about him because he's against identity politics.

He'd be against everything that is happening today.

He's widely considered by scholars as the second most important figure in the civil rights movement here in America, right after MLK.

A decade before Rosa Parks was arrested,

he did it.

He stood up in a bus.

He was arrested 24 times in his life.

Two presidents loved him.

President Barack Obama

gave him the posthumous Medal of Freedom

and Ronald Reagan.

Think of that.

Ronald Reagan praised him for his moral courage.

Now,

a large reason why he's excluded from the history books is that he criticized so many of the left sacred cows.

He disliked the hostility of identity politics.

His rallying cry was humanity over racial politics.

He opposed reparations, the quotas-based

affirmative action.

He argued against blackface minstrel shows.

He once said, you know what?

Let us be enraged about injustice,

but let's not be destroyed by it.

Even in the socialist leanings, he saw the world not through the lens of race, but class.

He was, after all, a socialist.

He's most likely responsible for coining the term white liberal syndrome.

Do you know what that is?

That's when white people who are liberals condescend to black people and they secretly consider them inferior

and they see themselves as saviors.

You mean the entire democratic platform?

Is that what you're referring to?

Yeah, pretty much.

Okay, pretty much.

Pretty much.

He said, if we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society.

This is the hypocrisy that the right feels right now.

You can't say violence is okay all summer long and then say violence is wrong.

We've been saying violence is wrong then and violence is wrong now.

You can't say, hey, we want to be treated fairly and equitably and then say, oh, and by the way,

we're not going to give any kind of federal funds to white guys that own business.

Well, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Aren't we all in this together?

Now, you will see an article or a video or something, you know, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, PBS, but most of the time, you will only see him talk about his leftist beliefs and causes, and he's now being reframed as an LGBT hero.

You know, I don't think he'd have a problem with that at all, but that's why is that the only part of him that we're talking about?

And that's a rhetorical question, I know.

In the late 1960s, he veered towards conservatism.

New York Times described him in a profile as, quote, a strategist without a movement.

He had a movement because he was a movement.

It's just not a movement that fits neatly into the left versus right dynamic.

He had been branded Uncle Tom, especially when he spoke out against anti-Semitism

or when he spoke out because he disagreed with some of the black activists.

But this guy was an amazing guy that helped change our nation.

And on Martin Luther King Day, it's worth spending just a few minutes learning about what he really did and believed.

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Boy, I tell you,

this guy's fascinating.

Bayard Rustin.

He wrote poetry, played football.

He was raised by his grandparents, the ninth of 12 children.

You believe that.

He was a member of the NAACP, and W.E.B.

Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson were frequent guests at his house.

And when he was growing up, these things all all made an impact.

He said later, my activism did not spring from being black.

The racial injustice that was present in the country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

This is what the left is leaving out now, the oneness of the human family.

They leave it out in their expectations for COVID.

They just think that they have to force everybody to do it instead of making a good case to the American people.

And the American people will do it because we're not bad people.

We don't want to kill each other.

Now, there are some dopes out there that might do this or that, but for the most part, we are one family.

Throughout college, he was arrested over and over again.

He did sit-ins and marches, and one for the communists and one for the Quakers.

In 1941, he met President Roosevelt in the Oval Office.

Politely, yet confidently, Ruskin told Roosevelt that if he didn't desegregate the military, Ruskin would lead a march on the Capitol.

And that's when we got Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act, banning discrimination in the military.

By the way,

we didn't have segregation in the military until Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the military, and then it took this guy meeting with FDR to say,

can you please stop this?

He also led a movement to desegregate interstate bus travel.

In 1942, he got on a bus in Louisville, headed for Nashville.

He talked about what it was like.

He said,

I was going by the second seat to go to the rear, and a white child reached out for the ring of my necktie and pulled it.

And his mother said, Don't touch an N-word.

He thought about that the whole time.

And

here is this child that was innocent and didn't have any of that hatred and was being taught that hatred and probably was taught that blacks like to sit in the back of the bus.

And it bothered him.

Just outside of Nashville, police stopped the bus.

He was arrested, beaten, and hauled to the police station, but not charged with anything.

Why did they stop it?

Because he sat right behind the white person.

He didn't go to the back of the bus.

He wanted that kid to know, we don't like sitting in the back, and we're not different than you.

This is way, way, this is 19, what is it, 1942?

This is way before anybody else.

He grew to dislike anti-war activism.

especially the kind in Vietnam War.

He was repulsed by activists who cheered for America's defeat.

He was deeply disturbed by the prospect of Vietnam's people coming under the thumb of a totalitarian regime.

He said the Soviet model, the Chinese model are wrong.

He said the people on my side who are willing to work with communists and Maoists in the name of peace are politically naive at best.

Where is this guy now?

Where is this guy now?

I disagree with a lot of what he believes, but a lot of what he believes, he still believes in America.

He had reason not to.

Still believes in America, can really look at the situation and go, no, these are bad guys, doesn't believe in violence, believes in freedom.

It's amazing.

He was the chief organizer of the March on Washington for jobs and Freedom, and that's the I Have a Dream speech.

Shortly after four young black girls were killed in a bombing at the Baptist Street Church in Birmingham, a reminder of what happens when you peacefully speak out, it's usually met with extreme violence.

But his I Have a Dream speech changed things,

and the bombing was followed by the Civil Rights Act of 1954.

He saw the rise of the black power movement, not a fan.

He disliked identity politics, found it counterintuitive, divisive, alienated.

Is anyone on the left listening to him?

It's alienating and divisive.

He came to despise communism and, you know, he became,

you know,

he's not a guy that the left liked.

They scrubbed him largely from the civil rights movement.

1987, he was rushed to the emergency room of Lenox Hill Hospital, complaining of abdominal pain.

The next day, he went into cardiac arrest and died.

It's only in the last 15 years since Obama that they've reintroduced him to the American people.

But they reintroduced him as just an icon of the LGBT movement.

He was never active or involved in any way with gay rights activism until the very end of his life.

And he used to say, if both sides hate you, you must be doing something wrong.

But

nonviolent tactics, constitutional means, democratic procedures, and a respect for human personality and a belief of all people being one

is what I stand for.

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I have to tell you, I found my favorite exercise article of all times.

Four seconds of intense intervals repeated until they amount to a minute of total exertion led to rapid improvements in strength and fitness in middle-aged and older adults.

Four

seconds.

It's a little demanding for my taste, but I'm interested.

It is.

It became less of my favorite when I saw you had to repeat them for a minute.

Yeah, that's 15 four-second periods,

which is a lot.

Yeah.

And then I don't know if you read the whole article, Glenn.

I was disturbed.

No, I don't like to read the whole article.

I usually read the headlines, but I clicked on this and read the first paragraph.

You're like the Twitter thing where they're like, do you want to read this before you retweet it?

Nope, I'm good.

No, I want to retweet it blind.

Yeah.

Because I want to believe what I think it says.

Yes.

That's what I want.

But it says says basically the rapid improvement from the four-second exercise intervals

allowed these people to exercise more.

No, no, no, no, no.

The improvement was additional exercise, which sounds like the opposite of an improvement.

No, no, it's the last thing I want.

That last part has not been verified.

It's in the article.

Are you a doctor, man?

Well, no, I'm a doctor.

So four seconds of exercise once a day.

Not the minute thing.

Four seconds

once a day.

That's all you need.

That's all you need.

It is embarrassing.

It's going to read, when I die, people are going to go, and he was gay.

He was all for eating meat.

He was fat and out of shape and he never liked exercise.

And I'll be like, yep, that was me.

Have you read my obituary for you?

I don't understand.

I don't even know how.

The Federal Communications Commission has come out with a public notice that I think is interesting.

This is.

Wait, when did

Ajit Pai already leave?

He is.

I know he's leaving.

He's definitely leaving.

He might have left last week, which would kind of explain this.

Did he leave?

Did you know?

Okay.

Seeing you fine.

This came out over the weekend.

Warning.

Amateur and personal radio service licensees and operators may not use radio equipment equipment to commit or facilitate criminal acts.

I think we pretty much have that.

I mean, don't we?

I mean, I've cut that one down.

Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission issues this enforcement advisory to remind those who hold a license in the amateur radio service as well as the personal radio service that the Commission prohibits the use of radios in those services to commit or facilitate criminal acts.

What?

I'm shocked by this.

I've been planning over ham radio a bank robbery for like the last four months.

And now, now they tell me I can't do that?

Is this America or what?

Man.

By the way, he steps down next week.

So, actually, this week.

So, yeah, this was written last week.

So, he steps down this week, as many Trump officials, of course, will.

And I'm really,

really,

really sad.

He is a great FCC commissioner.

Yeah, really the best.

And the most, really the only notable one.

I mean, what he did against

the

net neutrality movement.

Yeah, is, I mean, he's the best one, I think, since I don't even remember his name, since Reagan, when Reagan deregulated the FCC and said, oh,

you can have opinions on radio.

Yes, conservatives can talk.

That gave way to Rush Limbaugh.

Yeah.

And it's hard to imagine being

more wrong than the people who were warning about net neutrality were.

I mean, net neutrality went away.

They said the internet as we know it would go away.

And in some ways, I guess that was true in that it's become much faster.

So the internet that we knew back then, we would all complain about today.

My wife has been asking me about 5G, and she's like, so what's the difference in 5G?

And I'm like,

huge?

Is it widely distributed at this point?

No.

I have a little phone, which is 5G, and I'm not noticing anything.

If it will say 5G, if it says 5G, and you're connected to a real 5G network, you will notice instant load.

My theory is 5G, the entire network, is just the little 5G that pops up on your phone.

Like, it's the exact same phone, and now it just says 5G.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's kind of how I feel.

That's the company I'd run.

You know what I mean?

Like, I got 5G, you know what I was like, oh, I'm releasing 6G today.

Who cares?

No one knows what these terms mean.

So, you know, 5G, the pipe of 4G, what we have now, the

information pipeline on 4G, is the size, I'm just using this as an example, the size of a garden hose.

So all of the information you're looking for on the internet is going through that and the size of a garden hose.

That's currently what we're all using.

5G is a slight upgrade.

It goes from a garden hose

to the chunnel.

That's more than a slight upgrade.

more than a slight upgrade so it is it when it is fully enacted it is lightning fast.

It is

return

And it's there query back

So you're searching for something you don't wait.

There's no waiting with 5G Now I'm gonna be a little pissed when it doesn't type it in for me before I even think about what I'm looking for.

Well, Gmail is doing that now.

When you type in an email in Gmail, it just finishes your sentences, which you think, like, gosh, that is number one, that's wrong.

I mean, like, people should be able to form their own thoughts.

And number two, I mean, how lazy you have to be?

You don't want to finish your own sentence.

And then when you're in the moment and it gives you the end of the sentence, which is kind of close to what you were going for, you just press tab and then you're done.

And see, I mean, it's just

hard to defeat.

Here is the

problem.

Gmail is learning all of this stuff because while they don't ever read your mail, algorithms do to see how people write and yada, yada, yada.

But remember, it's also Google that is searching for critical race theory and those people who like it and those people who don't like it.

So they can shape you to have a better understanding of critical race theory.

Anyone who has a Gmail account right now, you're a moron.

But if you just press tab, it just finishes the sentence for you.

Speaking of morons, the CNN boss,

Jeff Zucker, and this is going to come as a surprise to you, Stu.

It's going to come as a surprise.

Has closed down CNN Airport News.

Actually, I am

sort of surprised about that because they had a monopoly on this.

Yeah, because they were providing the televisions.

They were doing everything for it so that you could have CNN airport news.

As soon as television.

That's the only time anyone ever watched CNN.

Yeah, headline news.

We were known as, you know, if you were in an airport and you were trapped, 100% viewership.

But now, if you go to airports, now it's usually on football.

If you're flying on the weekends, it's on football.

It's on something else.

It could be, I've seen all channels on it.

You just don't see headline news anymore.

People also have these fancy devices they carry around that play video.

They're called phones.

Oh, I haven't heard of them.

Yeah, and so they can just watch whatever they want now.

They don't have to be stuck watching, you know, Wolf Blitzer or whatever else is on.

Well, Jeff Zucker says

the steep decline in airport traffic because of COVID is why they had to shutter this thing.

And he said, having to say goodbye to

such a beloved brand

is not easy.

And most of us have a story to tell about which airport we were at when we first learned a major news event from CNN headline news.

I don't have a story.

Do you have a story?

I don't have a story.

I don't have a story either.

No,

it's a sad,

sad day.

There's been many stories where people tried and fought intellectually.

Do I watch CNN airport TV or do I just commit suicide?

And the people have been on the borderline of that at airports for years.

That's why Kvorkin exists.

Because he was like, are you sick?

No.

What do you mean?

What's happening?

I'm trapped in an airport watching CNN airport news.

And he's like, I'll be there with the drugs.

So

it did create a lot of cultural icons.

Kvorkian is one of them.

Let me give you one more story that really,

really bothers me.

A plan to save the earth.

Funded by tech guru Bill Gates is quietly moving forward.

Now, what do you think this might be?

You know, he's in the climate change movement, Agenda 2030.

Sure.

What could it be?

It's quietly moving forward.

I'm sure it's just a wonderful thing to save the planet, right?

I mean, that's sure.

What could go wrong?

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

He is

quietly funding a

project to

dim the sun's rays.

Isn't this Montgomery Burns also funding this?

I believe it is.

Plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun's rays.

You know what?

I am also a little disturbed by the Chinese move

to

create another moon.

And it.

Wait, what?

Yeah.

It will.

Isn't this the plot of Star Wars?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's the Death Star.

All right.

But this one is not the Death Star.

Okay.

This one will revolve in geosynchronous orbit.

So it will always be over China, or so they say.

And it's a giant moon reflector because at night it takes too much time

to actually

light a city.

So

it's going to look like the moon, but be very, very bright because it will be able to actually

grab the sun from the other side.

And then I don't know if they've ever done this with ants, but it doesn't work out real well.

And then that

moon will reflect sunlight on major cities in China, so they'll always be able to have bright light at night.

Always day?

I think that's a good idea.

Don't you want to live in a place where it's always sunny?

Because

aren't there areas like, you know, near the poles where you get kind of all day, day, all day?

You know, it's like,

don't people go insane in these environments?

No, I think it's the other way.

When it's dark, all night.

When it's night all night, that's when people start to, you know,

eat meat, you know, wear leather belts.

Off the live polar bear.

That's why.

Yeah.

It's not good.

It leads to a lot of depression and suicide,

which is coincidentally

also what happens when you don't let kids go to school.

And when you let them watch CNN airport TV.

Exactly right.

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So, this is some big news.

The FBI has just, or sorry, the CIA has just released their files on UFOs, all 700 pages of their files.

Wow.

All 700 pages.

It's aggressive.

Yeah.

They only had 700 pages in all of their files about UFOs.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, they all kind of go like this.

Several of the

files appear to reference an incident that happened at an Ohio Air Force base,

in which a possible UFO was sighted at Wright-Patterson back in 1978.

The reports refer to someone named Dr.

Leon Davidson, who made multiple requests for information about the matter and didn't appear to be getting any responses.

He's believed to be the same Dr.

Leon Davidson who studied UFOs for decades, beginning in 1949, according to Columbia University, which gifted a collection of the engineer's research on the subject after his death in 2007.

One of the 700 reports states, Redacted

received a letter from Davidson, redacted, in which Davidson asked if the redacted had been analyzed at Wright Field.

Well, did he?

Well, here's the thing.

Get his answer.

Redacted replied that the redacted was forward to proper authorities for evaluation and no information was available concerning the results.

Redacted then received a second letter dated March 19th from Davidson in which he said, since redacted is not in a position to make inquiries, he would like the address of the proper parties to make them to.

Redacted replied that he understood the proper address was Air Technical Intelligence, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Then the final memo is

redacted learned that Davidson made inquiries there.

They stalled him.

In May of that year, another report, these are the 700 pages.

What progress has been made?

This correspondence is more than a month old.

I'm afraid we no longer can procrastinate.

We add more fuel to the fire.

The fourth report indicates that the case is closed and they are to never respond to Davidson again.

So the most amazing part about that is redacted.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, well, because redacted had,

I mean, he handed Redacted right to him.

It's absolutely redacted.

It's incredible.

Thank you, CIN.

It's phenomenal what is now being said

openly on CNN and MSNBC.

I mean,

that now...

We've got to go to AT ⁇ T and tell them they've got to ban voices, voices like mine, voices like AON,

voices like Newsmax,

because they shouldn't be peddling in that.

Excuse me?

Can you even imagine having the gall and the guts to stand up and say, these cable companies should take off CNN?

Nobody should be peddling that.

No one has a right to listen to that.

Of course you have a right.

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I fear

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He's the founder and chief investment analyst for Brownstone Research.

He's the editor of Bleeding Edge.

He has also worked

at the executive level for some of the best technology companies in the world, Qualcomm,

NXP, Semiconductors, and Juniper Networks.

He's a very successful angel investor in early stage technologies and has this knack of being able to piece things together.

Welcome to the program, Jeff Brown.

How are you?

Happy New Year, Glenn.

Happy New Year to you.

And boy, isn't it a happy new year so far?

So far.

We're in for an interesting one.

Yeah, it is.

Let's start with the limiting of voices.

And

Facebook and

everyone from Facebook to CNN are saying we've got to limit these voices and snuff voices out.

Can you talk about that at all?

And

if you care to, the importance of not snuffing out voices.

And then how do we get around this?

What do we do?

What took place over the last few weeks is something that

the technology industry knew was possible, but never thought it would happen, actually.

The thought of banning or censoring people simply because they have different opinions.

or a different ideology

is

completely against everything, of course,

the U.S.

Constitution stands for.

So where are they?

Because they don't seem to be popping up and saying anything.

Well, you know,

what we're seeing now is that

technology companies are essentially running in fear.

They're concerned that they themselves will be banned if they don't censor and ban.

They'll lose many of their customers.

It will negatively damage their business.

And of course, they'll see an exodus of employees

who have this shared,

very progressive ideology, which obviously is opposed to anything different than what they believe in.

And so so many companies joined this in an effort to protect their business and protect their ability to employ

a large percentage of the technology community.

That's why this

is so unfortunate.

Of course, go ahead.

I was just going to say these companies, especially

the largest violators, of course, are the search companies like Google and the social media companies.

who have long been protected under Section 230, which basically

gives them immunity as long as they don't censor.

They won't be considered a publisher and therefore won't be liable for any content on their platforms.

And right now, the actions that they've taken

indicate that they believe that they should be able to censor and ban and still have immunity and not be considered a publisher.

But without any control of Congress or the White House or the Senate, that ain't happening now.

I mean, there's nothing to stop this.

this.

You know,

the conversation from the left has been, well, conservatives should just build their own internet.

Well, that's ridiculous.

That's ridiculous.

Can you give some perspective on what needs to be done if we were to

have to start from scratch?

Is it even possible?

It's not possible

to start from scratch, especially when we're talking about physical infrastructure.

I mean, so much of the fundamental foundational internet technology, of course, was funded by U.S.

taxpayers.

But it includes everything from

football field-sized server farms to fiber-optic cables and infrastructure to

the cable TV or fiber lines that ultimately run to our home.

The idea of rebuilding all of that

and having one network that allows censorship and another that protects freedom of speech

is just not realistic.

It's not economically realistic.

And I don't even think it's politically realistic.

So tell me,

how does this end?

Where are we headed with this?

What comes next?

Well, the lessons that we learned in December were that obviously Google and Apple, as they control essentially

99 plus percent of all smartphones, they can ban applications, smartphone applications, which is why an application like Parlor was taken down.

And then we saw cloud-based services like Google and Amazon, through its subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, could take down websites and just decide not to support applications.

Now, that's the bad news.

They have far too much control.

The real risk for us is if

the cable TV companies who act as internet service providers or the ATT and Verizons that might have fiber to the home or give us wireless connectivity to our phones, they can also censor websites.

For me, that's the big risk.

If they shut down

kind of the physical pipe of information and ban certain parts of the internet, then we lose lose our ability to communicate.

Would Elon Musk's satellite internet remedy that?

I was leading to that.

So yes,

I think

Musk is somebody that we could count on,

and he's been very vocal about this already.

So yes, the satellite network could and will work.

It's in fact

working in the United States right now and will launch in the next couple of months in the UK as well.

The problem with that is that it doesn't really scale.

So if we take the eighty plus

million Americans

who have a certain ideology

and we put them all on satellites, the network would fall over.

There's just not enough capacity.

We all couldn't use it at the same time.

So I don't think that's a real good solution, but there is a solution.

In fact, there is

a very interesting

blockchain technology project called Handshake,

which provides us a glimpse of what that future could look like.

We can think of Handshake as

a highly secure

sensor-resistant

address book for the Internet.

It enables

us to have essentially peer-to-peer connections with any media site or website that we would want to.

It is disguised, it's masked so that an AT ⁇ T, Verizon, your cable company, wouldn't be able to block it because they wouldn't even know what the information is being sent to you.

And so the way we would access this, the way we do today, is through specialized web browsers that give us the ability to communicate using

this new kind of internet phone book

that's not controlled by any one centralized organization, which is what we have today, by the way.

There's an organization called ICAN that basically controls all of the

internet websites,

and the internet wouldn't work without it.

So, when you say specialized web browsers and Handshake, is Handshake available now?

It is.

It's a fairly new project.

Its big launch happened about six months ago, and its goal is to basically replace this centralized ICAN network.

So how do you browse?

How do you get on it?

And so if it doesn't use,

does it go on to the backbone of the old internet or is this a new internet?

It still connects connects over all the fiber optic cables and all the computer networks that transmit data.

It just has the ability to mask what's sent and which websites are being accessed.

So that's how it's sensor proof

and would solve this problem.

Now here's the bad news.

The bad news is it's not yet user-friendly.

You really have to be technologically savvy to use the technology.

But as I kind of started, this offers us a glimpse of a potential solution to what we've experienced over the last few weeks.

Isn't the guy who came up, they say, came up with the internet or the internet browser or I can't remember.

The WWW, that's what he did.

He came up with the World Wide Web.

Wasn't he working on something as well because he doesn't like the way this whole thing is worked out?

Yes, Tim Berners-Lee.

And he is in fact working on a very interesting project.

Now that's a little bit different, but it's equally as important as what Handshake is trying to solve.

He's working on a project that allows us to essentially

maintain all of our personal information

using blockchain technology.

And whenever we want to give some of that personal information to a company, an entity, a hospital, then we can grant permission for a set period of time.

It's a great structure.

It's a very interesting project, and it's something that desperately needs to happen in order to remove the control that companies like Twitter and Google and Facebook have over our lives.

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So, Jeff, I want to talk to you a little bit about Bitcoin.

And I know you started recommending it when it was like $240 a coin.

It's now, what, about $34,000, $35,000?

$35,000.

That's crazy.

What is the long-term future?

The one thing that has kept me back on Bitcoin, I mean, I invested in it, but the one thing that kept me from saying, let's just pour money into this, is this fear that the federal government is getting more and more controlling.

And

this has no control on your dollar.

I mean,

what you do is what you do, and the federal government doesn't control how many of them there are or anything else, but they're going to come in all around the world with some sort of a Fed coin, and the Federal Reserve will take over.

How likely is that, and what would it do to Bitcoin?

Well, I'm 100% certain that the U.S.

will launch its own Fed coin or its e-dollar or digital dollar.

It's to be be named.

And I would argue that it has already been laying the basic infrastructure through

a series of moves from the office of the Comptroller of the Currency

to really prepare the banking system, the financial institutions for this inevitability.

And what did they do?

Well, as a simple example,

last July, so they changed changed the rules allowing that national banks could actually become custodians of cryptocurrencies or digital assets.

That was a big move.

Not too many people realized that it happened.

And then if I think back to September,

they said that banks could provide services to the issuers of stablecoins.

So stablecoins are basically cryptocurrencies that are linked one-to-one to some form of other asset like the US dollar.

So one U.S.

dollar stablecoin equals one U.S.

dollar.

And that seems so ridiculous to say if

it's a stable dollar, if it's linked to currency.

Holy cow.

Funny, isn't it?

Yeah.

But the value of the stablecoin fluctuates in step with the fluctuations of the U.S.

dollar, for example.

So in September, the OCC allows the banks for holding these reserves, the reserves to back the stablecoins one-to-one.

And then,

just before Christmas, incredible, they they snuck out an interpretive letter that basically says that not only national banks, but federal savings associations can use public blockchains to store and validate payments.

They will allow banks to transact using stable coins.

And so

not Bitcoins.

Precisely, not Bitcoin.

It's an important distinction.

And the reason that stablecoins are significant is because they're essentially a representation of what an electronic dollar or digital dollar will look like, a Fed coin.

They'll function and look just like stable coins.

The difference is the Federal Reserve will have centralized control.

They will not be decentralized, and they will be able to print and produce as many of these digital dollars as their heart desires.

Which goes against everything that the Bitcoin represents and what is attractive to so many people that get into Bitcoin.

So, what do they do with Bitcoin?

I mean, do they put it out of business or what happens?

These assets

that obviously are seen to some as

a flight to safety, a flight against future

inflation, a store of value,

speculation in many cases, especially now, especially over the course of the last two months.

But they are potentially something that could be seen as a threat by a centralized government

who wants to make sure that they own that digital reserve currency status.

So I agree with you.

There is risk there.

And there is also risk in a currency like Bitcoin, and that if 51%

of the participants in the network are controlled by an entity or entities that are colluding with one another,

then the blockchain itself transactions can be rewritten.

They can be taken away.

Funds can be confiscated.

And my biggest concern here is that 65% of all of the Bitcoin network, the Bitcoin mining network, is in mainland China.

And more than 51% is controlled by just three Chinese companies.

And to me, that is a major risk for everyone.

So would you sell Bitcoin now?

At these levels, this is very, very speculative money.

So I am short-term bearish, but still long-term bullish on Bitcoin.

Thank you.

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We've got

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Jeff is a he's the founder and chief investment analyst for Brownstone Research.

He spent 25 years as a high technology executive.

He was working at the executive level at Qualcomm, NXP, Semiconductors, Juniper Networks.

He's a regular on the program, and I really, I really am fascinated every time we have him on because he knows a little bit about everything and a lot about most when it comes to technology.

Jeff, I want to push you a little bit

on a story that came out, and I don't even know the meaning of it.

And we don't need to get into the

explanation because we're not talking about beam me up, Scotty.

But

I believe it's the Fermi labs that have

transported digital

transportation

of information, digital information, from one place to another, no strings attached.

Well, except for the string theory.

And

the article that I read said that they believe this proves Einstein's theory of relativity incorrect because it moves faster than the speed of light.

Have you seen this story at all or know this story at all?

Yes, that and many others.

In fact,

this has been proven several times over the last five years.

And believe it or not, what Fermi Labs did wasn't even the greatest accomplishment.

Of course,

I loved Einstein's comments about this.

He called it spooky action at a distance.

Very scientific way for him to explain something very strange happening.

But what he was really referring to is this concept of quantum entanglement.

A very complex subject,

but the simple way to explain it is that if you have, you know, two quantum particles and they're close to each other,

they can become entangled with one another.

They become connected.

And then we can separate these two particles.

And if the state of one particle changes, the state in the entangled particle also changes instantaneously at a speed that's faster than that of light, which is precisely, to your point,

why this theory of relativity was wrong on this particular subject.

So, so, so, is

what is the application in the future for this?

Well,

there are some

obviously some very incredible potential applications.

If we wanted to have completely secure communications between two physical locations, let's say in the United States, maybe it's the bunker under the White House in some secret laboratory under a mountain.

We could have a series of entangled particles

where we separate them in these two physical locations and can have completely secure, impossible to hack communications between these two locations simply by changing the state of particles in one location, which would instantaneously result in the same state change in the other location.

And information can be transmitted that way, just like we transmit bits and bytes over the internet.

But there's no wires or anything, right?

There doesn't need to be.

And in fact, this

accomplishment that I alluded to actually took place back in 2015.

And get this:

China was able to demonstrate this phenomenon

between a satellite-based location in Tibet and a satellite in orbit

870 miles away, 1,400 kilometers.

So, last question on this.

So is the quantum theory now quantum fact?

Well, quantum entanglement is absolutely a fact.

Quantum teleportation is absolutely a fact.

They're both proven.

Now, to be fair, they're very hard to use at a practical level because very special conditions and environment need to be maintained to enable this phenomenon to happen and to send information.

But it clearly works.

And over the next few years, believe me, this is going to be an area of intense development, especially by centralized governments.

China and the U.S.

in particular

will be leading the way.

So

most people are not paying attention.

And I don't know if you remember Carl Sagan's last book, The Demon Haunted World, but I think these are the days he was predicting and showing.

And there seems to be some really big things that are happening that I'll read about in a small little article.

And I'll be like, shouldn't this be a big deal?

Shouldn't this be a big deal?

What are the things that are on the horizon that are game-changing, let's say in the next year?

Is there anything?

Yes,

by the way, I share those thoughts that you have every single day.

Right?

Because that's all I do.

But next year, literally the next 12 months, we will see the next major breakthrough in quantum computing.

We are going to see some extraordinary breakthroughs with

from genetic editing and also messenger RNA technologies, which

are

related.

We're going to see tremendous breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

What most people don't know is that the custom semiconductors, the hardware, have been manufactured to accelerate the development on the software side.

So we're going to see some incredible breakthroughs in 2021 on natural language processing and also the use of artificial intelligence to make new discoveries.

A simple example would be new molecular compounds or new drug discoveries by using this technology, this hardware and this software.

Go ahead.

I was also going to say We'll see an explosion of 5G wireless technology this year that will impact all of our lives as the networks continue to be built out.

We'll see a noticeable difference in terms of the quality of our

connections,

our internet connections, the speed.

There won't be delays.

Things will start to feel nearly instantaneous.

And that will touch all aspects of our lives, really.

The last thing I want to tell you, I mean, I've got a billion things, but I'm out of time after this.

I don't know if you've been following, because it seems like such a whack job thing, but it's not now

if you've been watching what's been coming out of the Pentagon over the last few years last like three especially

we are the Pentagon is now verifying that we are tracking

other worldly

ships

They are still studying to see if anybody has this technology, but the latest revelation from the Pentagon was that they were tracking some sort of a ship that came, was flying super fast and then stopped, went down into the ocean, under the ocean, and they were tracking it under the ocean at 400 knots.

Are you following any of this?

Because it seems kind of important.

It's remarkable.

These stories that are coming out are remarkable.

From a technology standpoint, none of it surprises me.

We've already identified thousands of habitable exoplanets in our own galaxy capable of supporting life.

So to me, it's common sense to think that other life exists.

Has it reached us yet?

I'm not sure.

I'm excited to find out.

But there's a big, very interesting book coming out in a few days from Avi Loab, who's the chair of astronomy at Harvard.

And his book is going to talk about that object, mysterious object,

O Muamua, that entered our own solar system, our inner solar system nonetheless, and its speed changed as it was coming through the solar system and then accelerated when it wanted to leave.

And they weren't explainable by simple orbital mechanics.

And so the theory is that there was some form of jet propulsion there to cause these changes in speed and attitude.

And so his whole book, which I'm excited to read, will be out in a few days, and

we'll see what he has to say.

I pre-ordered it because I'm fascinated by it as well,

because he's saying there's nothing natural that travels the way that thing traveled.

But I couldn't understand if he thought it was space junk, something that some other being or civilization or something had used and had jettisoned, or if it was

currently really active and probing.

A surveillance mechanism, correct.

Yeah.

Jeff, thank you so much.

I really appreciate it.

I do want to say, are there more people in Silicon Valley like you?

Because I used to talk to people at Facebook and Google

that were inside and they were like, we're libertarians.

We don't believe in the left or the right.

We're libertarians and we'll never let this stuff happen.

Are there still those people there?

Absolutely.

They exist and they exist in numbers, especially in the libertarian camp.

But right now, what I'm seeing is that they have to, they feel the need to signal virtue to the left, and it's really heartbreaking to see this happen.

But they exist, and

I hope they surface again.

Yeah, I do too.

Thank you so much, Jeff.

I appreciate it.

You're welcome.

Always good fun.

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Let me go through a couple of things.

First, let's play the video and audio of former Facebook executive on censoring a little

We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.

There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger daytime, a larger audience than daytime CNN, and they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views.

And so it's up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation.

And then we're going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem.

You know, these companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT ⁇ T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes.

This is, you know, allowing people to seek out information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces, I think is where we're going to have to go here.

This is exactly the reason I built the plays and exactly the reason we left cable news.

It was really hard for us to leave the cable companies and Dish in particular

because they had been good to us, et cetera, et

But I mean, there's just no future.

And

if you didn't put your eggs together and pick a side, you're going to be crushed.

And I worry about Newsmax and OAN because listen to what he's saying.

And this is, I think this is mainly being led by CNN.

They are trying to push this narrative of Newsmax and OAN being canceled by all of these these cable companies.

Yeah,

it's odd that they would have

they would go after

networks that are competing with them for viewers.

Yeah.

And that would be looked upon as this virtuous act.

Right.

And it's not just the cable news networks.

They're also the new ones podcasts.

You know, they've just let these podcasts just go out there and people are just listening to what they want to listen to.

And that's not the way this country is supposed to work.

We need to make sure that this is managed by somebody.

Because what if people believe things that CNN doesn't think are right?

That can't happen.

There's got to be some mechanism for somebody, you know, like them that they can say, oh, you know what?

This is this is good, but that's gone on far enough.

Yeah.

It's gone on far enough.

Here is Rick Grinnell.

He's the former DNI.

He's actually the first gay cabinet member that was appointed by Trump, but now we don't, of course, count him for some reason or another.

Here's what he said about Susan Rice.

Listen to this.

I think the reality is she's going to be running foreign policy, domestic policy.

She's probably extremely happy that Kamala Harris is going to be preoccupied with the Senate, trying to manage 50-50, being the 101st senator there, and won't have a lot of time to get into policy issues.

So I think you need to watch Susan Rice very closely.

She will be the shadow president.

And she was instrumental in Ukraine.

She was instrumental in almost everything

that Barack Obama was doing.

This is why I think Barack Obama waited so long to endorse

Joe Biden.

He wanted to make sure that Susan Rice was in there.

Because,

and, and, you know, there's this really

the left abandoned Obama because

he didn't go far enough.

This is a lesson that they learned.

Now, is Susan Rice a super radical or is she

more of a Clintonite as far as corruption and

we'll just kind of keep it going because everybody can get rich off of this?

I don't know which she is, but I think he's right that it is Susan Wright that is is Susan Rice that is going to be running much of the Biden administration.

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