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How far will the left go to shut down voices and rights that it disagrees with?

I'll explore that and a whole lot more with one of the world's leading experts on economic warfare and financial terrorism.

Coming up in one minute, my conversation with Kevin Freeman.

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So, Stu, if you're a robber and you're thinking about breaking into my house, what's the first thing you do?

I probably check to see if you have an alarm system.

No.

First thing you do is you bring some big meat for my dog because that's my first alarm system.

Okay.

You're a different case, I suppose.

Then, then, then you look for the guard and you like

and you take him out.

Then you look for the alarm system.

See, what I've done is

I send messages.

Don't even approach the door.

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First, I want to jump into my conversation with financial expert and host of the Blaze TV's economic war room, Kevin Freeman.

We are now entering a time where there is an economic war on speech, on religion, on guns.

And when I brought this up three years ago and said, this is how they're going to fight guns, they're going to fight it economically.

They're going to go through the banks.

Don't worry about the Constitution.

They'll go through the banks.

They're doing that now with guns and speech and everything.

They'll go through amendments three, four, five, six.

But they're going after the Bill of Rights.

They are.

They are.

For control.

And so to your point on guns,

there was something called Operation Chokepoint.

And recently, American Banker magazine, representing the American Banker Association, admitted, yes, Operation Chokepoint was real.

The FDIC really was encouraging banks to close accounts of gun sellers.

It was illegal, and we have 900 pages of testimony that prove that it was illegal.

When did that happen?

Wouldn't the American Bankers Association say, or when did that happen?

When was Chokepoint?

ChokePoint was under the Obama administration.

And they literally, through the FDIC, they were encouraging.

all right, so you're a bank and you work with the FDIC.

You just want to get through your review as quickly as possible.

And the FDIC says, by the way, we think that those companies that sell guns, they're a little shady.

It's going to make it a little harder for us to do the review if you're doing business with them.

If you want to just stop doing business and close the accounts, you can do that.

And so banks did.

If you don't have a gun seller, if you don't have the ability to buy a gun from a reputable licensed dealer following the Second Amendment rights,

how do you get a weapon legally?

Well, you get it through a private transaction, which they're trying to ban.

You get it through a gun show, which they're trying to ban.

So, this was a methodology, and it was purposed, and it was said in the American Banker article, it said they were doing it based on their partisan beliefs or based on their predetermined, what they thought was right and wrong, their moral beliefs.

So, that's Operation Chokepoint.

Now, about a year ago, Andrew Ross-Sorkin, who is New York Times columnist, he is also the co-host of Squawkbox on CNBC.

Every morning I see him and I see Joe Kernan, and Joe Kernan represents the conservative side, and Andrew Ross-Sorkin represents the pleasant progressive side.

And he's very pleasant about it, and he always makes good arguments, even though I disagree almost.

He wrote an article in the New York Times that said government will not be able to solve the gun problem because we have this pesky Second Amendment.

But you banks can do it.

PayPal, you can do it.

All of the finance companies have more power than government, and he's openly encouraged them to start canceling the PayPal accounts, the bank accounts, and so forth.

And it's not just with guns, they're now doing it to people in my business.

They are silencing us one by one,

and

people are not seeing it.

You had Robert Spencer on podcasts here, didn't you?

Yeah.

He was targeted.

I know he was.

He was targeted.

It's Alec Jones and Robert Spencer, and they're going systematically across anyone who's speaking something contrary to what we find or deem acceptable.

And you wonder, why are these people, why aren't they on the air?

Why are they being silenced?

Well, they aren't able to earn a living.

They can't even get a bank account.

Well, we just saw

a few weeks ago that the paperwork has now come out, and so now we actually know the numbers.

But when we were saying Facebook is crushing conservatives, the algorithm was changed, and it changed the traffic by 70%

to conservative websites.

I mean, we're,

you know, when the Germans rounded up the Jews, they put them in ghettos.

Live your Jewish life.

You can do whatever you want.

We're building a wall around you.

Well, nobody saw them.

Nobody heard them.

No matter how loud they shouted, it just went into a brick wall around there, and then they could liquidate them.

Aren't we doing that virtually?

We are.

And we cover a lot of this in the economic war room.

So

by controlling and silencing people or changing the algorithms or the search results output,

I think it's Dr.

Robert Epstein.

He was published in USA Today.

He said, I'm a Hillary Clinton supporter.

I'm still supporter today, but here's the fact.

The page results produced by Google had the potential to swing the election, probably move independence by 10 points.

Which means that had they not done that, I wonder what President Trump might have won by.

I think that there are a lot of people who didn't vote for President Trump, but they voted against Hillary Clinton.

And when you do surveys of Christians throughout the South and you're you're asking, why did you vote for this guy?

Because he's got this bad history here and he's with this porn star and all this.

Why did you vote for him?

They always say, because she hates us.

And everybody knew who the she hates us was.

But they were silencing free speech, manipulating elections, and they're doing it with search results.

And that is a silencing of free speech.

And in my mind, it's election fraud.

It's nudge.

It's nudge.

It's what Cass Sunstein talked about.

All you have to do is just nudge people.

Just alter the search results just a little bit here and a little bit there.

And all of a sudden, you're on a different path.

And that's what we're...

That's when you talked about before, don't we kind of commonly agree?

And you say, don't we kind of I think we commonly do, but they've been nudged more than maybe we've been nudged.

And so there are people that may not be that far from us, but they've been nudged, and that dividing wall has been built between us.

When we look at the issue with guns, we see what's happening here.

And people tend to forget Venezuelans had guns up until 2012.

They took the guns from the citizens in 2012.

That's when you can get away with literally murder.

As we record this,

Maduro is still in.

He had just taken

Jorge Ramos

as a reporter and held him captive.

Reports are showing that things are getting much, much worse there.

Russia is now saying

we're going to go to war in Venezuela.

America is going to go to war in Venezuela.

Nobody is reporting the fact that Chinese have a warship off the coast of Venezuela, right next to ours.

What's happening in Venezuela, do you think?

Well, we've sent in aid, right?

And the Western nations have sent in aid, and they shot people trying to get it.

We're seeing the natural result of a true socialist revolution.

It looks good for a while, and everybody celebrated it, and you had Michael Moore, and everybody came out and said, look at how good this is.

And then you run out of other people's money.

They nationalized stuff.

They ran out.

I mean, it's the natural outcome of a socialist revolution.

It has to always go to dictatorship, and it ends with the haves and the have-nots, the worst of which is where you have Hugo Chavez's daughter sporting around the world with $3 or $4 billion.

How does the communist dictator's daughter inherit $3 to $4 billion?

How does a bus driver?

A bus driver, that's what people loved about Maduro.

He was one of the people.

He was a bus driver.

He wasn't rich.

Now look at him.

Now look at him.

They're flying bricks of gold that he claims are his

out of the country.

What happens?

Well,

let's start here.

President wanted to build a wall, says it's a national emergency.

It's no more of a national emergency today than it was.

10 years ago.

However, I think on the horizon, I don't know, are you following what's happening in Mexico with

the oil pipelines and how they shut it down and now gas lines are everywhere?

They shut down the pipeline, said we're going to start trucking everything.

Trucking isn't

effective,

at least the way, you know, going back to that, that's why they built that pipeline.

That's a terribly inefficient way to move.

It's horrible.

It's a horrible thing.

And there's a shortage of truck drivers in the West anyway.

So

you've got all these problems down in Mexico just from that one thing.

You have a president who will not

recognize

anyone but Maduro.

He's one of the few of Western countries that won't recognize him outside of Cuba.

If he is instituting the policies that

you know, Chavez or Maduro were, it's already a thugocracy.

Is it that hard for people to think maybe we would have a huge Colombian-style crisis on our hands, on our border?

Aaron Powell, you know, this is as they're on the precipice of potential economic greatness as a nation, because the Mexican people are phenomenal, smart, hardworking people, and China is collapsing as the low-cost producer.

We have an agreement with Mexico.

They could be the next producer, manufacturer, or whatever for the United States, the wages and so forth.

They're on the precipice of this, and yet they have,

from the thugocracy, from the drug cartel control,

from the fact that we don't have a wall and we have porous and open borders.

I mean, if we had a wall, Mexico would benefit because the drug cartels wouldn't get the massive amounts of money.

They're on the precipice of something really great if they could get their act together.

I mean, mean, that's where we are at so many areas of life.

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It could be really great or really terrible.

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I'm talking with Kevin Freeman, host of Blaze TV's Economic War Room.

In this part, we discuss publishers versus platforms and how to solve the Facebook problem.

Let's take a break from the doom and gloom and go to the really good stuff.

What explain to people, I don't think people understand.

When I say 2030, you will not recognize life as we know it.

It's going to be completely different

just from technology and what it's going to do for disease and healthcare, all the good things that are coming.

Tell me what you see as good things that are possible now if we would just get our crap together.

Well, science is expanding.

I'm a board member of a biotechnology company that's working on liver disease, and we've completed a phase two trial.

Over the next 10 years, our health care can improve dramatically from things that we're learning and continuing to advance in science.

If we can, as a nation, get a rack together on the free speech issue, which I think is maybe the most important one.

And by the way,

there is a ⁇ Louis Gomert came in the Economic War Room and gave it a real good suggestion.

He's got a bill that would, I think, solve the Facebook problem and Facebook control problem.

What is it?

Basically, we gave Facebook and all social media a pass and said, by congressional mandate, you all are not going to be subject to lawsuits

because you're just an interplay of, you're like a telephone company, and people pick up the phone and they call and we can't hold you accountable for what people say on your phone.

They've violated that.

So if you want to be the phone company and not be subject to suit from people that are on here, then fine, but you can't throttle, you can't use the algorithms, you can't do that.

It's the platform versus publisher.

I know this because of the blaze.

I'm a publisher, meaning I have a say who's on and off the platform.

I have a say on we're going to publish this, we're not going to publish this.

So I'm held responsible.

Somebody sues us because someone is making the decision.

But Google, YouTube, YouTube, Facebook, all of them said, no, no, no, we're a platform.

We're not going to have a say.

It's run by the people.

And now they're having a say.

Editorial.

Correct.

So now they're getting the protection from the government in places that no one should have protection from the government unless you are completely Switzerland.

You are neutral on what is being published.

Oh, well, it's being used over here for bad things.

Oh, well, well, I'm a platform.

So he's introducing a bill to stop this?

He is.

If you are a publisher and not a platform, if you're doing the editorial and the throttling, then you have no government protections from suit.

I think it's a brilliant answer.

If we could get that adopted, then free speech happens, that changes election trajectory, it changes so many things, and that which we have in common can be brought back together.

If we don't adopt something like that, we'll just continue the balkanization.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: And I keep looking at the things that we agree on.

There's so much.

There's so much that we agree on, and yet we're not allowed to agree on it.

For instance, the border.

I don't want an entire wall across the whole border.

I want it where it makes sense.

And I want, you know, censors or surveillance of some sort where that makes sense.

You don't just put a wall up across the whole border, but it's got to make sense.

And

the left just will not give in.

They're just telling us this is hyperbole, this is ridiculous.

Just looking at the opioid deaths,

our heroin and low-grade opioid come across the border.

The high-grade opioids come from China.

Yeah, China.

And as I was thinking about that the other day, I realized,

wait a minute,

isn't that what the opium wars were about with England and China?

Didn't the English know that if they went to India and bought up a bunch of opium and sold it across their border, it would weaken them from the inside?

China knew what was happening and said to England, stop doing this to us.

But that's what they were doing.

Isn't that what China's doing to us right now?

Yeah.

The whole thing.

But keep in mind, while they're doing it, we're also passing marijuana laws.

You can use whatever you want.

So this is a serious problem.

It's an addiction problem that our nation has.

And it is a, I want to tune out and not tune in.

We're trying to fill that emptiness or whatever with

whether it's fentanyl or opioids or marijuana or whatever.

It's a problem.

So we, on the border thing, though, we just had a guest in.

His name is Phil Midkiff.

He's got Blue Servo.

And we opened the show on Economic War.

And we opened with the idea that 10 years ago, the Democrats, Paul Krugman and Barack Obama, we had quotes, you know, you've seen the YouTubes on them

where they were stronger on the border than they are today.

It's all political.

Again, I think that problem is solved if you allow a free and fair exchange of speech.

I think people will see the logic and see and understand it.

So I think Gohmert's solution has an immigration implication.

It has an implication for just about every issue we face.

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One of my goals on the Glenn Beck podcast is to have in-depth conversations with people that I don't necessarily agree with.

My guest this half hour, Greg Lukianoff, is probably somebody that maybe I disagree here and there on things, but we have strong common ground and an alarm about the massive attack on free speech that is plaguing the nation.

Lukianoff is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and last year he co-wrote a New York Times best-selling book with Jonathan

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For now, let's get to the boogeyman of hate speech, Google, and the right to be forgotten.

My conversation with Greg Lukianoff.

You know, I obviously was not for Barack Obama.

And I get into, people on the right are like, how could you possibly say this?

Barack Obama made me a better man.

He absolutely made me a better man.

I am glad in some ways that Barack Obama was there

because

he threw me up against the wall and challenged what I thought I knew.

I had to...

I learned about anti-colonialism.

I learned about the progressive era.

I learned about the Constitution deeply.

I've learned so much.

Same with Donald Trump.

You know, we can either look at this as a bad experience or a good experience that you learn from.

You know,

learn from it.

Learn from it.

But are we?

Yeah.

I mean, I have a very expansive

view of freedom of speech that comes down very simply to it's important to know what people really think, period.

And

I say this, and people, they're kind of like,

because a lot of the way people try to challenge freedom of speech is by saying, well, what if they have terrible ideas?

It's like, do you think you're safer for not knowing those terrible ideas?

Do you think that, and also, I'd want to live, if my kids were, we were living next door to somebody who was a real racist,

I don't want him saying all the politically correct things.

I want him, I want my son going over there and coming dad.

Dad, you know, he was just saying, good,

great, we know who he is.

Don't go there anymore.

You know what I mean?

I talk about censorship as being

a little blue, but like taking Xanax for syphilis,

where essentially you're just taking something that makes you feel better, but you're just getting sicker by the minute.

And

it takes a little bit of looking at things a little bit more sometimes, like an anthropologist.

Oh, yeah.

So I went on Smir Connors' show, and

I was there to talk about why, to talk about the disinvitation of Steve Bannon from the New Yorker Festival.

And, you know, a lot lot of celebrities got up in arms that they were going to do an interview with with Steve Bannon at the New Yorker Festival of Ideas.

And I was there to say...

Festival of what?

Of ideas.

Okay.

Yeah, ideas.

And I was there, you know, of course, with my First Amendment technical hat on.

I'm like, well, of course, the New Yorker can invite whomever it wants.

But with my marketplace of ideas, sort of like knowing what people really think hat on, I was like, okay.

And

the responses I got on Twitter were the funniest.

People were like, so you're saying you would have honored an interview with someone from ISIS?

And I'm like,

I would love to hear it.

That would be one of the most interesting interviews you can imagine.

You stare into the face of evil.

That's great.

And then the other stream that people were going for was, but now he's irrelevant.

And I'm like, he was arguably the second most powerful person in the White House like two weeks ago.

You're kidding.

And now he's talking to all these groups in Europe.

So it is this, you know, we talk about this,

me and Pamela Perezki.

She was our chief researcher for the book.

And John, we talk about moral pollution a lot.

Basically, just the idea that once you get super tribal,

it becomes this much more kind of superstitious idea that if I'm in the presence of, if I shake the hands of, if I'm anywhere near, you know, the bad, the bad man, it's somehow like it's going to rub off on you like some kind of evil pox.

I think one of the most vile voices out there is Louis Farrakhan.

I'm glad I can hear exactly what Louis Farrakhan is saying.

I don't want him silenced.

You know, you could invite him to your Brimfa, and he'd be like, oh, my God.

I thought you were a great guy.

I had no idea.

Right.

Are you,

let me just take a quick

offshoot here.

How concerned are you about

the growth of

Google with its algorithms now being taught

what to recognize hate speech?

Yeah.

I mean, what hate speech is, at first I don't believe in hate speech, but what hate speech is to one person is not hate speech to the other person.

Right.

What, are you concerned about the loss?

I mean, the colossal overnight loss of, I would call it a digital ghettoization.

Yeah.

Hate speech has always been kind of the boogeyman that you have to deal with when you're dealing with free speech on campus.

And the first thing you have to explain is there's a whole generation of students who largely believe that hate speech is protected.

Sorry, it's unprotected speech.

They think it's a special category of unprotected speech.

And that's just not true.

It's too vague, it's too broad, it wouldn't fit any of the First Amendment analyses.

But then you have

institutions like Google, you know, who I've always had a great deal of respect for, but then you look at cases like what happened to James DeMoore, you know, who wrote something that was,

you know, I think height wrote about it, saying it was, you know,

wasn't perfectly right on everything, but it was also a dispassive

argument of what the stats say about gender differences, including preference.

For some reason, like the taboo around saying that men and women might actually be drawn to different fields.

Is that really the end of the world?

But anyway.

But yeah, the idea of

a handful of institutions having so much power over what we can read and what we

scares me.

And if they start actually policing hate speech, I get worried that the work that I do, where we're, you know, and I always have to be clear, 99 out of 100 cases that we're dealing with are more like the guy getting in trouble for reading a book or for, you know, cracking a joke that

anybody off campus would be like, I don't even understand what was offensive about that is going to get in trouble.

Meanwhile, though, I do have some sympathy for Google and for Facebook because they're being pushed towards this by some really idiotic laws coming out of the European Union.

You know about this whole right to be forgotten thing, right?

Right.

Right to be forgotten.

Forgotten?

Yeah.

Is this like transgender naming?

No, no, no.

Okay.

This is much, much worse than that.

That is

the European,

one of the European courts

issued a decision talking about

individuals have a right to be forgotten.

And

there was a law passed that tried to

make this law, a controlling law for the entire EU that put it on Google.

If someone came to you and said, that article about me is old and irrelevant, so you have to remove it or face a huge fine.

Yeah,

face a huge fine unless Google, for some reason, decides to actually put up a fight to keep it.

So it's like it's all downside for Google.

Subsequent decisions say that it can't just be for Google Europe.

It has to be for Google for the entire world.

And it comes from this kind of ridiculous idea that, you know, like if, you know, so what, you know, so what if I murdered someone 20 years ago, I have a right to be forgotten,

to be forgotten.

And it's just so, it's among numerous dunderheaded laws that I see

coming out of Europe that are actually having spillover effects to the whole rest of the world.

So in some ways, you know, I am worried about the internal politics of Google, but I'm also worried about how

different governments are sort of taking advantage of every opportunity to limit them.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: That's the thing I love about our Constitution.

you don't have a right to be forgotten.

Yep.

You know, 18th Amendment is still, is it the 18th?

Was prohibition?

No, yeah, 18 is still there.

Yep.

The 21st repeals it.

Yep.

But that scar is still there, so you learn.

Yeah.

You know, perhaps you read it all and you go, hey, we did that once before.

Yeah.

Let me take,

let's go through the three bad ideas.

Oh, sure, sure, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So basically, there was a certain point where we were studying a...

Wait, wait.

I'm sorry.

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You were talking and I thought, well, the argument that I keep hearing on free speech is, well, you can still yell fire.

You can't yell fire.

Is that what that

did that play a role in that at all?

I wasn't there for the original deciding of the name, but both of the founders bring it up all the time.

I think it might have occurred 15 seconds after they.

Right.

Because one of the founders is Harvey Silverglate, who's a big First Amendment attorney.

And every First Amendment attorney in the whole country, every time you say, you can't shout fire in a crowded theater, we're like, oh, God, that again.

Answer it so everybody knows how to answer that question the right way.

The problem is it takes like an hour and a half to explain all the reasons why that's wrong.

Go to Popat.

Go to Popat's website.

He has videos on why this is so wrong.

There's like 15 different reasons why.

And also, people misquote it.

It's falsely shouting fire.

It's before Oliver Wendell Holmes became good on freedom of speech.

Rosencranz and Guildenstern are dead shouted fire in a crowded theater every single night out of tens of thousands.

It has no legal meaning other than generally for people to show that they don't actually know the law very well.

That's great.

That's great.

So, yeah, but it's amazing.

Like,

we joke that every time, every time someone invokes that, a First Amendment lawyer dies somewhere.

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.

Exactly.

You know, the great thing is, you know, when you talk about people's identity being stolen, it's never going to happen to you.

It kind of happened to me just the other day.

No.

I got a $448 bill from a smoker's lounge.

Sorry about that.

I don't smoke.

I do.

I also was not in Miami.

Well, I was at a lounge.

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No.

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You're listening to just a little part of my podcast conversation with Greg Lukianoff.

He is the co-author of the New York best-selling book called The Coddling of the American Mind.

In this segment, Lukianoff walks us through three of the worst possible pieces of advice that you could give to younger generations.

Okay, so three bad ideas.

Three bad ideas.

So part of the idea of the book was

to kind of recreate sort of what we did in the original article.

And basically saying it's as if we are giving a generation of people, of kids, of younger people, the worst possible advice you could ever imagine.

So

we create this situation of going up to this supposedly wise man,

and he tells us

three pieces of what he thinks are wisdom.

What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.

Always trust your feelings.

And life is a battle between good people and evil people.

And we do this as kind of a joke in the beginning of it.

And it's me and John going, that's like, those are like the worst ideas we've ever heard in our entire life.

And so the first one, what does it kill you, makes you weaker, is obviously a play on Nietzsche.

What does it kill you makes you stronger?

And of course, we recognize it's like, yes, there are things that are short of killing you that can still leave you in worse shape.

But it stands for a great truth, which is

both, so we tried to make all the great untruths things that were both

bad in terms of modern psychology, what modern psychology would tell you, and bad in terms of resilient ancient wisdom, which is surprisingly coherent on a number of issues.

issues.

One of them is that people need challenge.

You're going to see that in practically every culture.

It would be absurd to say people don't need challenge.

But what we see on campuses that we dub safetyism is, and also for parents these days, you know, K through 12,

this idea that kind of like there's no

limit to how safe you can be.

And they also expand that into that weird kind of definition of safety that means like emotionally unperturbed.

So

the concept creeps in two different directions, that there's no amount of physical safety that's too much or it comes with no bad side.

And by the way, let's add an emotional safety too.

And of course, you know, what we talk about in the book is Nassim Taleb's idea of anti-fragility.

Human beings aren't,

we're not fragile and we're not.

merely resilient.

We're actually creatures that need stressors.

We need to be challenged or we atrophy and die or we grow healthy and strong.

You know, probably best represented by astronauts.

If you

send them up into no gravity, their joints start decaying really quickly.

But on the other hand,

if you run every day and you lift a little bit of weight, it's amazing how much you can improve.

I think it's interesting.

They're doing studies now on

what they think the effects will be on living on Mars.

And they believe that after, I think it's 20 years of living on Mars, that you actually won't be able to mate with an earthling because you will no longer be technically what we call human.

Wow.

So you actually you're changing.

And I think it's interesting that

part of being human is having the pull and the drag on you.

Absolutely.

And so what we see with this obsession of safety is that there wasn't really meaningful pushback saying that, listen, we can take this too far.

It can actually be harmful.

But of course it can be harmful.

It's just the same way we tell people, you know, you don't overcome phobias by, you know, bubble-wrapping the world from your phobia.

So that's great truth number one.

The second one I actually like because it sounds so darn romantic,

which is

your feelings are always right.

And every, you know, a lot of, not every, but, you know, movies and sci-fi and a lot of stuff that I love does a lot of times have a, I have this idea of your feelings are always right.

And in in one sense, it is correct to say that your feelings are always telling you something, just it's not always what you think it is.

Susan David

has this great quote where she used to take me paragraphs to say that.

You run into that where you feel like you took a book to explain something and someone gets it down to like a pithy phrase.

She says, feelings are information, not directions.

Why you're angry, why you're jealous,

why you're guilty.

Without interrogating those things, we could be way off off base on where they're actually coming from and what they're trying to tell us.

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I did a show recently on the difference between disinformation and misinformation.

Fascinating topic.

Right.

Yeah.

Can you explain the difference between the two?

I mean, one is one,

disinformation is when it is planted

into what you think is a credible source.

Right.

Okay.

If it comes from Pravda, you're like, oh, it's Pravda.

But if it comes from the New York Times,

then it's disinformation.

In a way,

Google is

engaged and Facebook, knowingly or not, in a disinformation campaign.

Yes, I think that you could certainly classify that.

And I think the issue becomes,

why are they doing this and how are they doing this?

You asked earlier about Zuckerberg Zuckerberg and your interaction with him.

I don't know that Mark Zuckerberg, I'm not suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg is sitting around saying, how can we deal with conservatives on Facebook?

I don't think so either.

But the problem is there are lots of people employed by Facebook who maybe they're in their mid-20s.

Maybe they were woke

on campus and they are now involved in the news feed.

I mean, we had a

Facebook employee who was involved with their trending section that came out a couple of years ago who who said, Oh, yeah, we sunk conservative stories and we boosted liberal stories.

So, I don't think it's a question of the executives of these companies, you know, in kind of a James Bond villain moment saying, here's how we're going to rule the universe.

I think it's a question of they've created these powerful companies and they've created a culture within these companies that, for all the talk of tolerance, is actually very intolerant.

And it reflects in the product that they are producing.

so did you did you touch on it all i have a a document from a meeting with media matters on

inauguration day

it was a meeting that happened with far-left donors with media matters on the election day in florida oh not on election day on on uh inauguration day

and they said here's where we went wrong

and here's what we're going to do.

And it talks

in that document about how they are going to go to Facebook and Google, and they are going to advise.

Right.

Okay.

And in that document, it says, we have already been given access

to all of the raw data

in real time.

Yeah.

Peter, I don't think they'd give that to me or any organization that I know of.

No, they would not.

They would not.

And this is the problem.

I mean, the problem is the way that they are trying to deal with this is they're like, you know, we're being criticized by conservatives, so we'll go meet with conservatives.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, by the way.

I think that's a good thing.

But that's not really the issue.

The issue is not, you know, saying nice words.

The fundamental issue comes down to, you know, what is this company doing?

And the whole debate now that's arisen about fake news, I think is a huge problem because it's allowing essentially these liberal groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Media Matters to essentially say to Facebook and Google, no, no, no, we want you to engage in more censorship.

We want you to classify.

And Facebook would respond, well, but we have...

others we have i don't remember it's heritage foundation but we have we have others right that are doing it on the right i don't want that's either side that's exactly i don't want either side shut up.

Yeah.

It's it's the

problem that develops is that nasty word, cronyism.

And cronyism is a problem where you give concentrated power or you give special access or favors to certain people, and invariably it's going to be misused.

And this is really the question, I guess, Glenn, is does Facebook and does Google so much distrust the American people that they believe the American people are incapable of looking at a news story and saying, that's totally yes.

I'm not buying that.

And they don't.

They don't have confidence in the American people to do that.

They feel like they have to somehow be the arbitrators, and they don't.

So here's,

let's be clear.

Just a new study came out.

Goldfish, goldfish

have an intention span of nine seconds.

Americans have seven seconds.

Okay.

So let's be very clear.

We're not doing our job.

Okay.

And that has changed dramatically because of Facebook and all of the interaction that we do.

However,

because I was just asked this question.

Well, don't they have a responsibility?

Shouldn't they be?

No, they have a responsibility to be transparent and be a platform.

Correct.

Platform.

Correct.

I don't believe that you should censor anyone on a platform.

Right.

It's the battlefield of ideas.

To say that now, what people will say is, well, that's crazy because there's a lot of crazy people.

Yeah, there are.

There are.

Thomas Jefferson said, believe the people.

Trust the people.

The key to that sentence was,

comma,

they will usually get it wrong, but eventually

they'll get it right.

Right, right.

Exactly.

So we're going through this period right now.

The worst thing we can do is put a babysitter on top of us forever.

Yes.

We have to learn.

Fire is hot.

Yes.

No, you're exactly right.

And this is further evidence that I think they don't really understand the dynamics at work in the country today.

The dynamic at work in the country today is a rejection of sort of this elite view of how society should be organized.

It's one of the reasons why you have in financial markets, conservatives, people on the left don't trust the large banks.

They don't trust Wall Street.

It's a rejection of that.

It's the same reason conservatives, liberals, independents have a distrust of Washington, D.C.

It's not because they want tax policy to be slightly different.

It's they don't fundamentally trust them to reflect their interests and to look out for them.

And they also know that elites generally look down upon them.

So, you know, that my challenge to Silicon Valley is for all their talk of egalitarianism, for all their talk about we love democracy and everybody having a voice, do you really?

Do you really?

I mean, the point is, we all remember as a kid, I grew up outside of Seattle, Washington, and I remember going down to a place called Pioneer Square.

You probably went there too.

There were all kinds of people wandering around saying strange things.

Well, those people today may have blog sites and they're going to say some crazy stuff.

I didn't pay a lot of attention back then.

I'm not paying a lot of attention now.

And I have enough trust that most people aren't going to pay a lot of attention to them.

And that's, I think, what we have to embrace, because otherwise

we are going to have intellectual policemen that are trying to tell people, here's what you should think.

Here's what you should not think.

Not only that, but please don't even look in this direction.

You can't even look in this direction.

If you look in this direction, it might somehow infect you.

It's ridiculous.

The battlefield of ideas is such that the best ideas win.

And I happen to believe that the ideas of the American founding were the best ideas, and they are going to win.

And we ought to be confident in that.

And the kind of monitoring and everything else,

honestly, goes against almost every single

article in the Bill of Rights.

That's right.

Almost every single one is violated.

Now, it's not violated by the government,

but it is the same principle, especially the bigger they get.

Yes.

And that, by the way, goes on to what you were saying earlier about Huxley and Orwell.

You know, the traditional view is the government was going to use technology to control our lives.

It's really corporations now.

I've always, you know, I've always, always made fun of, you know, Blade Runner, the corporation.

Please shut up about the corporation.

It's the government.

No.

Right.

Right.

No.

We are now entering the time where the liberal concern about corporations

is actually accurate now.

Right.

You know?

Yeah.

And it's weird that they're so in love with Apple and Google because these are the guys you've been warning us about.

You know,

so

let me take you

kind of to that Orwell place, but first,

explain.

Gmail is free.

Google searches are free.

Right, right.

They are free, but they come at a high price.

No, I'm not paying anything.

Well, you're not paying anything in terms of monetary.

That's true.

They're free.

But the question is, what is going on?

Because all these servers, all this capacity is expensive.

So what Google is doing is they have a product here.

You're not buying it.

You are the product.

They're selling you.

You're selling you.

And they're selling all kinds of secrets about you.

And Gmail is a perfect example of this.

I used Gmail up until I started on this project.

And now I don't use Gmail anymore.

And what people have to realize about Gmail is they're scanning every email that comes in.

They're scanning it.

They know what's in it.

They are scanning every email that you send out.

And

if you draft an email, you know, you're upset with your cousin about something, you had a debate over Thanksgiving and you thought they were rude.

And you said, you know, cousin Chris, I think you're rude and you're terrible and you're this and that.

And you say, you know what?

That's really kind of nasty.

I shouldn't send it.

And that draft, they're scanning that draft.

I want to make it clear.

You're not saying the draft that you save and put into drafts.

Correct.

It's the keystrokes.

It's recording the keystrokes.

Even if you delete all of it,

it's still there.

All right.

What's important here is, again, to distinguish, when you say they're scanning, it doesn't mean they're reading it.

Correct.

Okay.

And why are they scanning it?

Well, they're scanning it because let's say you send an email to your friend.

Golly, I'm really tired of work.

I'd sure love to be on a beach in Mexico right now.

They're scanning it because they're scanning.

They're looking for beach in Mexico, and you're going to probably see ads on your Google feed for apartments or condos in Mexico.

And lo and behold, the next morning, someday you wake up and they say, Mr.

Sweitzer, I've already booked two tickets.

That's right.

Would you like to go to Mexico today?

I know you're tired and you've been thinking about it.

Right.

That's right.

And that's where it's headed.

And again, there are certain amazing conveniences that come with this.

I mean, you know, you use Google Maps.

There are all sorts of great benefits to that, to Google search.

The thing that people have to keep in mind, though, is it's not a one-way one-way street.

It's not just these wonderful good things they're doing for you.

It's the capacity they are developing to do things to you.

So when I say that they're scanning your Gmails, it's not that there's a person sitting in Silicon Valley saying, oh, look what Glenn just sent in Gmail.

Correct.

But they have the capacity to do that.

Yes.

And they have the capacity, if they don't like what you're doing, to shut you off from Gmail.

And Dr.

Jordan Peterson, we highlight him in the film.

That's exactly what happened to him.

He's a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, and he took a position against compelled speech, where there was a debate in Toronto about an ordinance that would require you to address somebody by their preferred gender.

Peterson's position was, I always address people by their preferred gender, but this is compelled speech.

You should not force people to do this.

He took this public position.

The next day, Glenn, he was shut out of his Gmail account.

He was shut out of his YouTube account.

Everything Google owned was shut down.

Now, you would think, why is this going on?

I think probably what happened is somebody connected with Google,

maybe mid-level, saw this, you know, is maybe in favor of this policy position and sort of in a juvenile way said, I don't like this guy.

We're going to sort of cut him off.

But Jordan Peterson lost his Gmail.

He lost his Google calendar.

The point being, you rely on these products.

It's going to give them an enormous capacity over your life.

And if they choose to, sometimes in an arbitrary way, they may just shut you out because they don't like a position that you've taken.

And the problem is, Google does not have a customer service department you can call to say, why did this happen?

They have no customer service department.

And they make clear, we can choose to do this to you anytime we want.

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Hey.

Tommy,

we're not doing a blindstock coming.

No, no, no, that's why.

I'm sitting in an ex-chair right now.

I thought you might want to know that.

You're sitting in an ex-chair.

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Really?

Yeah, Stu's a great guy.

How'd you know?

He's really not a

shapeliness of this chair.

I mean, what kind of body...

Does this guy work out?

Is that what he does?

No, he doesn't.

It seems like he must be a gymnast.

I'll tell you that.

How'd you get his chair in Florida?

Well, it's just he's such a great, generous guy.

He sent it to me, and I'll tell you, the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in.

Really?

It is actually true.

And I sit here all the time.

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I'm talking with Peter Schweizer, best-selling author and producer of a new documentary called The Creepy Line.

So I've been asking the question of everybody who I think

is paying attention to Silicon Valley or is involved in Silicon Valley.

The answer comes back exactly the same way every time.

Because it's been a plea of mine.

I'll say to them,

this might sound crazy.

However, politicians are politicians.

Economies are economies.

They usually repeat the same mistakes, okay?

We are at an economy that I don't care who's in office, at some point it's going to crash.

It always does.

We are going to feel real pain.

And the longer this one goes, the deeper the pain is going to be.

We have politicians that tell us,

well, I'm going to bring those jobs back.

Okay.

Well, you have people in Silicon Valley right now that are not celebrating a 4 point whatever unemployment rate

because their entire job is to figure out how do we have a 100% unemployment rate.

Because that's the world of the future as they see it.

But no one is talking to people about this.

Bain Capital said about eight months ago, by 2030, the United States of America will have a 30% unemployment rate permanent.

And it will only go up from there because of the things Silicon Valley is doing.

So here's the scenario.

People start to lose jobs.

This starts to kick in around 2020.

People start to lose jobs.

They're not coming back.

The politicians have to blame somebody.

We're going to,

you know, I'm going to bring those jobs back.

I'm going to bring those jobs back.

At some point, the people say, no, those jobs aren't coming back.

They have to have another story.

It's them.

It's the people in Silicon Valley that are taking your livelihood away.

They have manipulated you.

They have, and it is torches to Silicon Valley.

Unless

the politician says,

how about we work together?

That's when Orwell happens.

Yeah.

Everyone, I have said, does that sound crazy?

Let's see if they respond the way you respond.

Does that sound crazy?

No, it sounds very realistic.

And if I were a titan of Silicon Valley with sort of their worldview, that's precisely what I would do.

And if I was part of what I call the permanent political class in Washington, Republicans or Democrats, doesn't make all that much difference.

That's exactly what I would do.

That's exactly what I would do.

And you will then have this, in a sense, unholy alliance between the political leadership and high-tech.

And, you know, we know who's going to get the short end of the stick when those two entities get together.

And that's going to be the American people.

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Two guys walk into a bar, an atheist and a devout Christian.

Now, at this point, you might be thinking, this joke isn't going to be very funny, or B, it's probably going to be very insulting and maybe even a little bit hostile.

But it was not hostile, and it was fun and funny.

My encounter with the Godfather, or as I like to call him, the Gad Father, one of the intellectual dark web's founding members.

I'm a puzzlement to many Christians because I like to go to different services.

I like to see how people are worshiping, and I just love it.

You should come to our synagogue.

I would love it.

Arabic Jews.

That's tribal.

That's yeah.

I love it.

That precedes Jesus by a few thousand years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, and I love it.

I've been all over the world.

I've, you know, been in Buddhist temples.

I've been in

the great synagogue and went on

Shabbat.

So love it.

Where I have a problem, and I think we

you probably have the same problem except in reverse, is

how

let me say it this way.

I think if we would just stop saying, no, I have the full picture.

I have the full picture.

Your picture is wrong.

And if we would all just shut up and sit our pictures pictures down on the table, they might snap into a puzzle and we'd see the whole picture.

You know what I mean?

But we can't do that.

For me to be right, you must be wrong.

It's a zero-sum game, absolutely.

And the people I respect, and I mean,

you are the

father, the grandfather of the intellectual dark web

or dark intellectual, yeah, dark web.

And

what I like about that is

you don't have to agree on everything.

You just have to be cool with other people

thinking differently.

And as a matter of fact, I think most of the people

who are part of that group actually disagree on quite a few very serious things.

I mean, Sam Harris and I are in perfect disagreement when it comes to Donald Trump.

He thinks he's ushering nuclear holocaust.

I don't.

So there are many, but what we do all share is a commitment to intellectual conversation, a disdain for intrusions against freedom of speech, a disdain for political correctness.

So that's sort of the bedrock on which all else can be built.

Except, and I want to get into your story, because you're not like this, I don't think.

Bill Maher, Sam Harris, they

talk about religious people like they are,

you know,

the scourge of the world.

And, you know,

I happen to agree.

I happen to agree with Gandhi.

You know, I love this Jesus of yours.

I just, I'm not such a big fan of his followers.

Right.

You know, they're good people and bad people in all of it.

There are good things that come out of it, bad things that come out of it.

I actually know a few good Muslims.

Now, they're the first to be killed by radical Islam.

But, you know, they say they're Muslim.

I believe that they, you know, follow the path of Islam as they define it.

Right.

And they're great.

And they tolerate me, and I tolerate them.

Right.

There are others, Christians, Jews, atheists, all of them, that just

demonize.

And that's the thing that sets, I think, sets you apart, at least in our interaction.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

With others.

Look,

I absolutely don't mind that people are very religious because I truly appreciate the functional utility of the religious mind.

I get that there are endless benefits that can come from being a believer.

What bothers me is when religion becomes intrusive.

You understand what I mean?

It could be intrusive in that you better.

There's the difference between Islam and an Islamist.

Right.

Although, although, just to be clear,

there is no codified way by which Islam is different from an Islamist.

An individual might decide to ignore the 73,000 tenets that are part of Islam.

There is no book of Islamism that is distinct from Islam.

Correct.

It's a lack of a reformation to codify.

Exactly right.

Yeah.

But there are those who are not Islamists in that they don't take seriously all the content of their book.

It's not that they're praying to a different book called Gentle, Sweet Islam.

Right.

So

from my perspective, for and it doesn't have to be as intrusive as when Islam comes in to try to kill everybody else if you try to make claim as a religious person in science you're being in my view intrusive stay in your lane right don't have the lack of epistemic humility to try to explain why that rock looks like it is four billion years old, but it's really young earth creationism.

Now you're being intrusive against the truth.

That pisses me off.

So I'm perfectly willing to tolerate

live everyone, including the most religious, as long as you don't intrude on other people's rights.

But the way I define intruding, wait, wait, wait.

Intrude on other people's rights.

Including truth.

Right.

The example that you used

and you said, stay in your lane.

If...

For instance, the guy who invented radar, I can't remember his name, but he was a weatherman.

And everybody in England, you know, that was in power, you know, they're very hierarchical.

No, yeah, you know, you're a weatherman.

You're a weatherman.

No, I'm telling you, this idea will work.

He created it.

He proved that it worked.

And then the government stepped in and said, okay, we're going to have real people work on this now.

Okay, I get it.

I get your analogy.

There is.

I don't mean stay in your lane in that I'm an elitist, only an intellectual should say this and not a common person.

To the contrary, I'm a professor of the people, as I always say.

Not at all.

What I'm saying is the epistemology of religion does not provide a workable framework for understanding natural laws.

That's not its domain.

Therefore, it shouldn't pretend that it could contribute to scientific truths.

Maybe it can help you understand how to behave or not.

We can debate that, and that's fine.

Maybe it has a place to play in terms of moral codes, and we can disagree or not with that.

But it doesn't,

there is no way to study natural mechanisms either through the epistemology of religion or the epistemology of science.

Science is the only game in town when it comes to studying natural phenomena.

You're not happy with that.

I think, no, no, no, no,

I think I agree with you.

The Bible is not a science book.

But it does make science claims.

It does make very clear scientific claims that

are disproven.

Anyone,

I think any thinking human being will look at the scriptures and say

what were they trying to explain in their language what were they what were they saying and you can look at the arc of the story and go okay the arc of the story I get

did God create in seven days that's ridiculous it's ridiculous now you could say his days are different than my days.

That's where the Olympic mental gymnastics start.

If you want to say that a book that is written 5,000 years ago, those guys had an idea of, you know what I mean?

But

Olympic gymnastics are not, you can look and say, okay, well, his days aren't the same as mine.

But science will tell me

how old this planet is and

the Big Bang.

I don't have a problem with the Big Bang.

Don't know if that's the way it happened.

Looks like it, but okay.

What I'm concerned about is what caused the Big Bang?

What happened a millisecond before the Big Bang?

But it's almost the last place now where God can hide, right?

You've heard of the God of the Gaps argument.

The God of the Gaps argument is basically whenever there is an explanatory gap in our scientific knowledge, that's where God goes to hide, right?

So there used to be a time when an eclipse was God, but now he can no longer hide there.

Then thunder was God.

Then he can't hide there.

That's a scientist.

There is nothing, there is nothing.

I don't believe.

I don't believe.

Boy, it's going to get me in so much trouble.

I don't believe that the waters parted.

Okay.

I do believe the Jewish oral tradition that the winds might have swept and swept the water to leave a path, but not like this.

Right.

Velikovsky theorized that maybe the

asteroid belt was from a, and he was wrong on all this, but maybe there was an

moon spun off, caused some gravitational pull, something came, made the water stand up.

I don't believe that, but at least it's a scientific way of looking for what is happening.

You know, faith,

people will say, well, that wasn't a miracle.

Well,

I don't know.

I think a CAT scan is.

I think that's a cat.

I think that's a miracle.

In any other time, that would have been called a miracle.

Now, we're just learning how to do things.

And what brought about the cat scan?

Science.

Yeah.

I have no problem.

Science, you know.

But by the way, if God comes and he says,

no,

two plus two equals five.

He's not God.

That's called postmodernism, by the way.

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And it's one of the reasons why I started doing podcasts every Saturday.

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The one you're about to hear is, I think, crucial.

Gad Sad, a guy I'm not supposed to like, and I'm a guy he's not supposed to like.

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He is an atheist and someone whose opinion I value greatly.

Here's part of of the conversation we had about religion and God.

Spoiler alert, no one gets insulted or hostile.

You said earlier God is a scientist.

I actually wrote an article where I argued that God is a Darwinist.

And let me make the argument here for you.

So there's a great paper written by a Darwinian historian.

So this is a historian who studies historical patterns using the evolutionary lens.

And she did a content analysis of the Old Testament.

So this is a way where you can study scientifically the Bible with an evolutionary lens.

And here's what she did.

So there's a lot of research that shows that with higher status, men have more access to women, right?

So the reason why men fight to other men for status is because the downstream consequences is I get more women, right?

And so what she wanted to do is test this exact idea by looking at characters in the Bible.

And so what she did is she coded each individual in the Bible, his rank.

So for example, he's a prophet, he's a king, he's a general, he's a slave, he's a farmer, and then counted the number of women, mates, that are associated to him.

And it was the exact prediction that you would expect from evolutionary theory.

With greater status of men in the Bible comes greater reproductive benefits.

And so therefore, I called that God is a Darwinist.

So again, the Bible does contain certain universal truths, certain evolutionary truths.

but those truths can exist, from my viewpoint, simply because they are a manifestation of human beings having written those things, not of a supernatural agent.

Last question on this, then I want to get to your history, but last thing on this

can we agree on

maybe two out of the four?

Ben Franklin was asked, what is the American religion?

And they were trying to trap him.

And

he said,

well, the American religion is that there is a God.

He's going to judge us.

So we should serve him.

And the best way to serve him

is by serving our fellow man.

If that's what religion did,

is it good?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is it good?

Yeah.

The only thing, though, is I would say, my God, is it more impressive for me to serve you without it being an exhortation from God?

Exactly.

In other words, if I am good to Glenn Beck simply because I am innately virtuous and I think it's the right thing to do without worrying whether a sky daddy is judging me or not, I'm more pure for that.

And it's more pure.

It's when you,

you know, people try to go baptize people.

I got to get you baptized in the faith.

Oh, would you stop?

So you're not baptized?

Yeah, I am baptized, but

I despise the push to get people into the waters of baptism.

I believe in this, et cetera, et cetera.

I believe what I do.

However, how about I just love somebody

with no ulterior motive?

I just want to love you.

Right.

Because anything else is crass.

Anything else does not come from what you do.

That's more impure because it has an ulterior motive.

Correct.

And that's what we were talking about.

God's not like up there going, you know, if we befriend this guy, then this guy will do that.

It's not going to, it doesn't work that way.

If there is a God, he's not doing that.

He's like,

can you guys, he is, come to me like a child.

He is very childlike.

Guys, just get along, right?

Love each other.

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This is the Glenbeck program.

No matter how you get your news today, whether it's from a newspaper or cable TV or a smartphone, there's not a whole lot to be optimistic about.

Most times, it can be downright discouraging.

I think what we need right now is a little old-time country perspective.

My conversation with Phil Robertson, he's about as old-time country as it gets.

It begins in one minute.

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back before customers at coffee shops got their information from actually talking to a person sitting across the table from them rather than ignoring them while scrolling through their Twitter mentions, things were a lot simpler.

There was wisdom in a good conversation.

A friend, a family member, or a pastor was usually the first to be consulted when advice was needed.

I thought we needed to get back to a little bit of that.

My podcast, available at Glenbeck.com or wherever you get your podcast, is a good mixture of modern-day technology and old-fashioned communication.

One-on-one, thoughtful, and practical application that you can actually use.

My recent conversation was with Phil Robertson, and it goes right to the heart of this concept.

Here's a small portion: As things become more and more insane in our world,

I thought of the poster that

Churchill put out in the Second World War.

Keep calm and carry on.

Right now, none of us are keeping calm.

We're all freaking out.

All we have to do is

keep calm and then do the things that you know are right.

Just pay no attention to that.

Just keep calm and carry on.

You're quoting some great scriptures.

Look, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, offer your body as living sacrifices holy and pleasing to God.

Offer your body.

That's 24-7.

Which is your spiritual worship.

Don't conform any longer to the pattern of the world.

You just mentioned the pattern of the world back.

It's insane.

If someone had told me that we would end up

by 2020 with the mischief and the sinful,

the murder

of their own children, they shoot up churches, concert.

You're like, what?

Jesus said, the devil is the father of lies.

Just look at the news media and what they keep

coming out of their mouth, and you're like,

and the scary part is,

I think they believe the lie.

Do too.

And it's not just

the news media.

It's the...

Jesus said the devil is behind the whole thing.

Yeah, it's advertising.

Think of the lies of, to sell somebody a product, I have to tell you you're not complete without this.

That's the biggest lie there is.

I know it.

That's why I haven't gotten into the cell phone and computer business.

I'm on the computer, but I never.

Look, there's different gifts.

Here's worship.

Love must be sincere, 24-7.

Hate what is evil, cling to what's good

all the time, 24-7.

Be devoted to one another and brotherly love all the time.

Honor one another above yourselves

all the time.

Don't be lagging in zeal.

Keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord, all the time.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction.

My prostate acted up here about two or three weeks ago.

You say, did you go down down on the ground?

I asked the Almighty to take it from me.

It took about a week or ten days.

I actually went to see a doctor for the first time in 50 years.

You say, patient in affliction, the last time I've been in the hospital is when a tick bit me and gave me rabbit fever.

You say, you haven't been back to a doctor since.

But I went the other day because the old prostate got to acting up.

You're like, was it rough?

Was it rough?

So look, patient in affliction, I weathered it.

Faithful in prayer.

Share with God's people who are in need.

Practice hospitality.

Have them over for a meal.

Bless those who persecute you.

That's why I told you,

don't curse them.

Bless them.

They're all right.

Bless and don't curse.

Rejoice with those who rejoice.

Mourn with those who mourn.

Live in harmony with one another.

Don't be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.

The poor, the downtrodden,

where they're rednecks, whatever.

Don't be conceited.

Don't repay anyone evil for evil.

This is worship.

This is how we worship.

Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.

You're like, be careful to do what is right no matter who's looking.

Do what is right.

Be careful to do what's right.

Heathen or not, do what's right before them.

Let them see that.

If it's possible, which is amazing, as far as it depends on you,

live at peace with everyone.

I live in a redneck neighborhood.

You say, you try to live at peace with them.

Yep.

They were stealing my fish,

the rednecks, back when I was fishing to survive before the duck call took off.

I had a lot of nets in the river, hook nets.

Catfish go in them.

Buffalo.

Buffalo, you get 30 cents a pound.

Catfish, you get 70.

I had all these nets out.

I had floats on them.

You could see them.

Everyone around there knew they were my nets.

I would notice that I'd hear an outboard.

Well, I trained myself to

go down there right quick and looking through the bushes.

And I'm looking over there.

And every once in a while, some of these guys would pull up on one of those floats

and they'd start coming up with it.

They're going to steal my fish.

What I did at first, I was young in the faith.

I took a shotgun with buckshot.

And I tore out there and I would

threaten them, scare the daylights out of them.

What are you doing stealing from me?

But they kept stealing.

I'd run that bunch off and three weeks later there's another bunch.

I read this text that where I'm reading now,

don't take revenge, my friends.

Leave room for God's wrath.

It's written, it's mine to avenge.

I will repay, says the Lord.

On the contrary, if your enemy's hungry, feed him.

If he's thirsty, give him something to drink.

I said,

young into faith, I said,

that won't work.

These rednecks,

if I'm good to them,

if I give them what they're trying to steal, you're telling me, Lord, they'll quit stealing?

I said, that won't work.

But it occurred to me back, I said, how would I know?

I've never tried it.

I'm just trying to spook them.

And these are dangerous people anyway.

Of course, you're in the South.

You eat Yankees.

Yeah.

So I said, well,

I'm going to try that, Lord.

I'm going to test you right here on this.

So the next bunch I catch, I tear out there with my motor.

I have my gun just in case my faith gets a little weak.

But it's not in my hands.

It's in the bottom of the boat.

I pull out there.

These guys look around and they're dropping my net in the river, acting like they were fishing.

I said, guys, it looks like

you've had trouble catching some fish and you decided to get mine and my nets.

I said, good times have come your way.

I'm going to give you the fish.

And they're looking at me and the look on their faces, they looked at each other.

I said, I'm going to give you what you...

I want you to have a fish fry.

How many are coming?

They said,

well,

let's see, there was my cousin, and I said, you know, you start frying fish, people will come out of the woodwork, kin folks you haven't seen in years.

I said, listen, I'm going to keep your boat right there.

I said, calm down now.

I'm not going to hurt you.

I said, I'm going to give you what you would try.

Let's see what you fixed to catch.

Well, I pulled the net up, had a lot of fish in it.

I'll put them in my boat.

I put the net back out.

I said, bring your boat over here.

They said, no, so we're just going to, I said, come on over here.

They were scared of me.

They were thinking, wait a minute, we're stealing from him.

He's given us what we were trying to steal.

He's crazy.

So look, they get their boat over and I start throwing fish over in their boat.

I said, when you think you have enough for the fish fry, you can say so.

And they told me one time, well, you know, I think that'd be enough, Mr.

Roger.

I said, no, let me give you a few more.

So I threw them some more.

I said, now,

you have what you wanted to steal.

I'm giving you what you were trying to steal.

I said, I do this for a living.

This is how I make money.

I said, I would appreciate it if you didn't steal from me.

I said, now listen, I live, see up there on a hill, that house on that hill?

Yeah.

I said, the next time you want a fish fry, if you can't catch any fish, just come see me and I'll give them to you.

All the way up and down the river for years after that, they all quit stealing from me.

What I didn't know was, young in the faith,

I appealed to their conscience, if they had one, and I wanted them to say,

good night.

The guy will give them to us.

I mean, the old guy gave us the fish we was trying to steal.

Can you believe that?

Well, once that goes around in the redneck circles, they say, we shouldn't fool with that old dude.

That's a good old dude.

God was right all along.

I just never had,

I was too weak to see it.

So I will tell you,

I find, I read the scriptures and I find answers to everything, everything that you're doing, just like you did with the fish.

I find answers everywhere in it.

And it's amazing because every time I try it, it works too.

Is there a problem

with people of faith in America today because

they profess they believe it, but then they don't do it.

The answer is, these are not enemies of yours.

They're enemies of mine.

I have the right for vengeance.

You don't.

I am commanding you to love them.

Remember, we're not wrestling against flesh and blood.

Right.

That's not what the battle is.

But we're wrestling with the rulers of this age, the authorities, the

princes of Dargas, the spirits of wickedness.

Our battle is with the evil one.

That's why, when I wrote that book, it says, the theft of America's soul, I'm putting it on the evil one.

The humans are just caught up in it.

Correct.

But

if they're delivered from Satan, they're ready to go.

But he's the problem.

So where are all the Christians that don't want to

that will say,

you know what, I have plenty.

Let me give you my fish.

Just don't steal from me.

They would say,

and I mean this for everybody, but I'm hearing it from Christians.

But I know everybody is this way.

They would say, that is weakness.

That will show weakness.

They're going to steal from you blind if you do that.

You can't do that.

You've got to show power and you got to stand up.

Yeah, yeah.

Let me show you another thing where they would do the same thing:

be angry,

but sin not.

Okay, so someone sins against you and you're angry.

You're good.

Anger is a healthy emotion.

However, vengeance is not.

That's right.

Be angry, but don't sin.

You're like, well, how could I be angry and not sin?

Well, if you lash back out verbally, they curse you, you start cursing them, and then you have a, and it escalates.

So we both are cursing each other.

You've no good, you know, two neighbors, one mowing the grass, one on the other side of the fence, and they're sitting there cursing each other.

You're like, you can't lash back physically.

You're sinning.

You have to keep your mouth shut.

You don't pick up something either and begin to beat them half to death with it or pull out your pistol and shoot them.

Be angry, but don't sin.

Okay, they sinned against you.

You don't retaliate verbally.

You don't retaliate physically.

You just walk away.

However, a lot of times when you walk away, you didn't sin, not yet, but you're bitter

because they cursed you.

You're like, they've still got their talons on you.

They're still causing you harm.

They're still controlling you because you're bitter about taking the cursing for no reason.

You say,

well, what's the way out of that mess?

What's the strong person to do?

Just forgive them.

don't be bitter don't lash out verbally don't lash out physically just forgive them and move on you say it looked who's the stronger person the one that can't take a cursing without cursing back that's weak you say pick up something because somebody cursed you and you're gonna beat them after death you say that's weak you're bitter for the next 20 years over what someone you're like they've controlled your life for 20 years you're still mad about what they did back

You see it all the time.

Or just forgive them and move on.

You say, forgive them.

There's the strong person.

So we just get it out of whack.

Since it's a day of interviews, I thought we'd do an interview with an actual thief.

What was your name again?

I should not give that out on the air.

You should not get it out on the air.

Okay.

Yeah, but you are a thief.

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I love Cheez-Its.

I always make sure I eat all the Cheez-Its and everything.

Right, right.

Secondarily, I want to make sure that they don't have an alarm system.

Because if you got Simply Safe or something, I'm out of there.

Right.

Out of there.

Love Cheez-Its.

I'll stay for Cheez-Its.

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Is that where Cheez-Its, the cops, it came from?

Cheez-It, it's the cops, or what?

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It's not from anywhere up in the northeast, are you?

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Thank you.

I'm talking to Phil Robertson, the granddaddy of Duck Dynasty.

Phil breaks it down as only Phil can break it down.

So

I think forgiveness is the

I think that's the first step.

I think the deeper step of it is

profound empathy.

I know I've been in situations where I've had to forgive and I could forgive.

And then I've been in situations that I've prayed a lot about that I knew I was going to have problems with.

And my whole heart

saw, felt their pain.

And all of a sudden, no matter what they said to me, I could just feel how much pain they were in.

And

it brings you to tears.

And that is

even more.

When you can, to say, I forgive you and mean it is hard.

Yep.

To feel the

human beings.

Very difficult for human beings to get that.

That's why the greatest commands of the Bible, love God and love your neighbor, you say,

in spite of the mistakes.

How many times, Lord, shall we forgiven?

Seven?

He said

seventy times seven.

Seventy times seven.

They like seventy times seven.

If Glenn Beck and Phil Robertson added up every violation

where they broke God's, one of his laws, if we added them all up,

you say

there would be probably thousands.

That's why Jesus said, you be forgiven to them 70 times 7.

Be ready to forgive.

Look how many sins I've forgiven of you.

So if you look at it like that, you say, whoa,

watch this.

Leave no debt remain outstanding.

Let no debt remain outstanding.

Pay your bills.

Except one debt we owe, Beck,

the continuing debt to love one another.

For he who loves his fellow man,

watch how this works, has fulfilled the law with all the don't do this, don't do that, don't lie, don't steal, don't curse, don't.

You're like,

how do you fulfill that?

Love your neighbor.

Watch.

The commandments do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet, and whatever other commandment there may be are summed up in this one rule.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love does no harm to its neighbor.

You're like,

I don't get up in the morning and say, I got to make sure that I don't steal somebody's money out of their bill fold.

I got to make sure that

I don't have any evil thoughts.

And I got to make sure that I don't lash out at that.

Just love them.

Just love them.

If you love them, you're certainly not going to shoot them.

If you love them, you say, you're not going to be unkind to them.

If you love them, you're not going to mess with their woman.

You love them too much.

She's your sister.

She's a fellow human being.

You say, love would take care of every bit of that.

But boy, is that a hard lesson.

A hard one.

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Her parents dropped out of school at a young age.

She lived in absolute poverty with no electricity and no running water.

But Carol Swain refused to be defined by all of that.

I sat down with Carol a little while ago for a podcast.

It's available at Glennbeck.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

And I was blown away by her story.

Former professor at Vanderbilt.

Her work has now been cited by two Supreme Court justices.

But here's the part of the conversation on race and immigration that was fascinating.

Look at how long the government was shut down and didn't seem to be a problem with most people.

There is a

contempt.

I mean, this border wall thing, I think the average American on the border wall says, look, I just want to know who's here.

I want to make sure MS-13 is not in my neighborhood.

I want to make sure that bad guys aren't here.

I want to make sure the good people that just want to make us better and want to become American can come through the front door, make that easier.

I'm fine with that, right?

But I just don't want people here.

The reason why they're demanding a wall is because they don't trust government.

They say, I want something permanent because you'll pass it, you won't build it.

And if you do build it,

you'll stop doing whatever it was you said you were going to do the minute we turn around.

That's why people want a wall.

So

we're looking at this

time

where

I think somebody like Donald Trump could say, you know what?

You know why this border wall

is in the mess that it is?

Because nobody in the Republican Party actually mean it when they tell you border wall.

Nobody in the Democratic Party actually mean it.

They were fighting for it 10 years ago.

Now it's immoral.

And I think he could make the case to both sides.

Well, I can say this has to stop.

My latest, most recent academic book is an edited debating immigration.

And it was released in August of last year.

So I've given a lot of thought to immigration.

Immigration has not been reformed since 1986, and we have done piecemeal.

And there's no incentive.

by either political party to make the reforms that we need.

And so we're talking border wall when immigration itself, the whole thing needs to be reformed.

And the wall, I believe, is needed because, I mean, there's another caravan coming from Honduras on its way to the U.S.

And

they do get across the fence.

And you may have seen the photograph of someone, they know how to drive cars.

They have tracks where they can

drive a car

over the fence, which means we need to make our fences better, but we definitely need something so that you just can't have thousands of people that just walk across the border or rush the border.

Or they are in one group whereas you're focused on the 2,000 when the 200 are a mile down walking across the border.

So I think the border wall, all of our attention is on that.

when it should be on comprehensive immigration reform.

And by comprehensive, I don't mean, you know, amnesty as a code word.

I mean comprehensive in that you look at the whole picture, legal as well as illegal immigration.

And it is impacting American citizens in adverse way, in adverse ways.

And the ones that are coming here are being released in Texas and cities,

they have to be housed somewhere.

That's housing that American citizens are not going to get

because they tend to,

in some cases, have more benefits, able to get more benefits from certain pots than American citizens that are struggling.

I find it insulting that the country that was built by immigrants, we're all immigrants one way or another, most of us are all immigrants one way or another at some point,

we saw the racism.

against the Chinese, against blacks, against the Irish, white, black, didn't matter.

If you were different, you were bad.

Right.

But we saw the America that it built, and it built a country

because

those people came here

wanting a promise.

To be Americans.

To be Americans.

I don't know, and I'm sure there are tons of them.

I shouldn't say tons.

Maybe 5% of the American population is somebody who's like, I don't want any of these foreigners here.

Maybe there are.

Maybe it's 10%.

I don't know.

But 90%

aren't like that.

Right.

If you come here and say, I can make you better, it's, it's to, to accuse conservatives or to accuse people who say, look, I need people to watch this border because there's bad things happening.

Right.

To say that they are racist somehow or xenophobic when

you're talking to a group of people who say,

Books and people are the same.

I want diversity.

I want a diversity of of ideas.

That's more important than skin color.

I want people coming in.

Right.

It makes us better.

I know, but as long as epithets can be used to intimidate people and silence them, then they'll be hurled.

And I think that

in some cases, the reaction should be to embrace the epithet, just laugh at it, and keep going with the conversation.

I thought

I I saw somebody.

I won't address who the two candidates are,

but I saw somebody,

and

they had such a natural sense of humor, just they were just natural, and a really natural, almost infectious laugh.

And somebody who didn't.

Right.

And one person is looking and saying, they're saying, oh, that person's going to, that person will do well against Donald Trump because they'll bash him.

The other person

is,

they're not talking about.

And I thought, if the other person runs against Donald Trump and Donald Trump does what Donald Trump does, and he, you know, he makes up a name for everybody and everything else,

if they are honest, if it's not, if it's their personality,

you are a kind, gentle, thoughtful woman.

There's no way you can't see that in you.

If this is the kind of person they are and they laugh and go, aha, yeah, that's me,

it could diffuse it and that could win.

That is a problem that we are all taking things

so seriously and we're getting so mad and stop calling me that.

It doesn't matter what they say.

It doesn't matter, does it?

Not to me.

Why?

Not to me.

I refuse to be silenced because America means a lot to me.

And I think about my children, my grandchildren.

and when I say my children, I'm not thinking just about my biological children.

I'm thinking about all of those thousands of students that I've taught over the years.

And it troubles me what I see taking place.

And it troubles me when I see racism against white people.

The argument is that, you know, that white people can't be victims of racism because

racism only applies to people that don't have power and all whites have privilege.

Well, that is really,

I'll say hogwash because I don't want to say the other word.

I think that

we need to stand for principles, and if the principle is non-discrimination on the base of race, gender,

national origin, then it includes everybody.

Non-discrimination has to be against every group.

And so it can't be one group that is safe to discriminate against, you know, that they have less rights.

I think that's a good question.

isn't this what King

really was talking about.

I think so.

I think so.

And we have lost his message.

I mean, he's out of vogue nowadays, and people would prefer to embrace other leaders that are more divisive.

And if we don't start to turn things around in America, I think that we will see our nation fall and maybe in our lifetimes.

If I had to ask you what the

thing that keeps you up at night, because we started with urgency,

you had a sense of purpose and a sense of urgency.

So if I said to you, Carol,

it's your last week, and this is your last interview,

and

you have a chance to talk to Americans, and they actually hear you,

what would your message be?

My message would be that we need to return to our Judeo-Christian values and principles.

I think that a lot of the confusion that we have in America, a lot of the violence and the hopelessness, has come as we have become increasingly secular.

I think that America is a nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles.

We had the civic religion, you know, that many people, they were not necessarily deeply religious, but there were certain values and principles that made us Americans.

We've lost that.

And if we don't regain our footing, you know, spiritually,

which ties into truth and knowledge, then I think we're doomed.

I want to talk to you about getting a VPN.

A lot of people don't know what a VPN is if you say it to them, but a VPN, you've seen it in every movie, you know, a spy or, you know, somebody is like trying to avoid, you know, the FBI or whatever, and they're like, treat that call, and they can't because it keeps jumping all around.

Over the map.

Yeah, all over the map.

That's what a VPN does.

And it stops, you know, you don't have to be a criminal to have it.

In fact, you really want it to stop things from like Google or Facebook.

Public Wi-Fi.

I mean,

I've been terrible with that in the past.

And I've had my information stolen recently where

they didn't have my credit card in their hands, but somehow they were charging stuff,

almost $10,000 worth of stuff they ran up on my card.

That could be because you were at some public Wi-Fi and you were just accessing your bank or something like that.

It's been a while since I was that much of a moron,

but it can happen, and it can happen very easily.

It happens all over the country.

You just don't even think about it.

You really don't even think about it.

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I'm talking to Carol Swain, one of the top academic minds today analyzing race and immigration.

Here's another part of the conversation from the Glenn Beck podcast where we talk about slavery and Christianity.

So let me play, let me just push back.

Let me play Devil's Act.

All right.

Play the average person that hears that, and they're like, oh, geez.

Well, those Judeo-Christian values

created slavery.

Those Judeo-Christian values were on display with fire hoses and dogs.

Those Judeo-Christian values have slaughtered people all over the world.

I would say that that is,

again, I mean, I can't find

a ladylike word to say what my reaction would normally be.

There were always Christians that fought for abolition, that protected the slaves and helped them, you know, get to freedom, that set up universities back in the 1800s.

And if you look at all the billions of dollars, the philanthropy that has come from white people throughout the ages.

Specifically Americans, I think.

No, I'm talking about Americans.

I'm talking about Americans.

You know, there have been universities going back to the 1800s that were educating blacks.

And there were universities in New England that never discriminated, and they were educating blacks.

And so a lot of the

positive things that have taken place in America, we have always been a nation that we eventually acknowledged our wrongs.

But even when those wrongs were there, there were always Christian people who were fighting for what's right.

And they,

and so for me, I'm glad that I'm an American

and

I'm a descendant of slaves on at least one side of my family.

I'm a descendant of slaves.

And when I look at divine providence, You know, we don't know why things happen the way they do, but I'm glad that my ancestors made it to America because I believe America is the greatest country in the world.

Blacks in America, whether they know it or not, are better off than blacks anywhere else in the world.

It's a blessing to be an American.

And so if I look at white people,

I see people that

have always tried to improve the lot of people around the world.

And they've sent missionaries.

I go to a church where wealthy white people work in the inner city ghetto, that they spend their time and their resources working among

in neighborhoods where

I am uncomfortable to go at times, but they're not.

And so

I just think that when you have secularism and a devaluation of human life that we see in abortion,

the fact that We don't value as Americans life at any stage.

We don't value the life of the unborn or the lives of the elderly or the lives of people that are born with some type of handicap.

I mean, that makes us, we know better than

the people doing, you know, Hitler, you know, and the Nazis, because a lot of what we do is very similar.

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