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You know, has anybody watched the movie 1984 George Orwell lately?

I mean, here's a, have you watched Game of Thrones?

Remember that scene?

I think it was in the first or second season where they strapped the rat cage to the guy's chest.

It was like, hey, tell us where it is.

I don't know what you're talking about.

And the rat burrowed his way through the person.

Remember that?

Yeah, that's kind of an old-timey version of 1984.

A vision of a world with an authoritarian government that controlled every aspect of its citizens' lives.

It was a brutal surveillance state.

It not only suppressed free speech, but it was in the business of actually changing the meaning of words.

It was called New Speak.

And Orwell's...

Orwell's fictional country was based on the anti-America, the exact polar opposite or negative of America.

A reality our Constitution specifically protects us from,

but also a world that Orwell knew was very possible under the European system.

Take a look around you.

Everything in this modern evolving and technological world.

The trend is toward Orwell, not freedom.

I won't mention places like Russia, as things like oppression, surveillance,

censorship is what they expect from their government.

But what is happening in the UK now is downright scary.

People like Tommy Robinson, he's getting arrested in the street for filming iPhone videos of Muslim rape gangs as they are going into the courtroom.

Back in the summer when people gathered around the hospital to protest the killing of another baby, the euthanization of a baby, the UK police announced that they would be monitoring Facebook and social media for anything critical of the government's medical decision.

I don't think it gets any more George Orwell than that, does it?

Now they've announced that if you live in the UK and you use the phrase, bringing home the bacon,

or the phrase, don't put all your eggs in one basket, That's going to be banned as well.

Apparently, it's offensive to vegans who don't bring home the bacon and Muslims who don't like bacon.

An academic in the UK wrote recently with a need to do away with such offensive language.

And as ridiculous as it sounds, they're going to do it.

But this is the world of relativism.

where there is no right or wrong.

Whether you can speak or not is all dependent on who is in charge of what is politically correct.

Whether something is right or wrong is relative to whatever random person or group thinks is right or wrong.

And you better hope that that group that thinks you're wrong never gets into power.

Free speech is a God-given right.

But it may not be relative.

to an authoritarian oppressive police state.

And that's what's coming our way.

It can never happen here, right?

We're protected under the Constitution.

We have a right to free speech.

Not if you talk to most college students.

I'd like to argue that even

though the government is limited in what it can do to us, we're already giving up our rights freely and we're not even realizing it.

See, we're not doing 1984.

We're doing brave new world.

Those were the two competing visions.

One was done through happy pills and

in advertisements, and the other was through just this authoritarian state that would strap a rat cage to your face.

Well, they're both being done.

One's being done in China and one's being done here.

Is there a difference between banning a saying like bringing home the bacon and the current discriminant re-platforming or de-platforming going on with companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple?

The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, spoke yesterday about how he he feels about deplatforming and free speech.

Listen.

I believe the most sacred thing that each of us is given is our judgment,

our morality,

our own innate desire to separate right from wrong.

Choosing to set that responsibility aside at a moment of trial is a sin.

So he was talking about deplatforming and how not silencing voices is a sin.

No, remaining silent in the face of evil is evil itself.

Not silencing someone else.

Tim Cook's words, a sin, not mine.

It's a sin if they don't restrict free speech.

Now, these are the words that I would expect coming from, you know, the leaders of China or Russia, not from a CEO living in the freest nation on the planet, or what used to be.

Last December, Tim Cook spoke in China and told the Assembly that China's vision for the internet is, quote, a vision that we at Apple share.

Are you kidding me?

China's view of the internet is ultimate censorship.

It is a tool for

propagandists to fuel the police state.

This is the future of Silicon Valley, and it's the future that they foresee for us.

Orwell's nightmare could not be completed under our Constitution.

The government can't take away our rights as they do in places in the UK or in China.

That's why the corporations will do it.

The government doesn't have to.

We're giving our freedom of speech away

freely to the overlords at Facebook, Google, and Apple.

It's Tuesday, December 4th.

You are listening to the Glenbeck program.

We welcome to the program Mr.

Andrew Heaton, who is new and joining us from the Blaze and has his own podcast.

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Welcome, Andrew.

Thank you, Glenn.

Thank you for having me.

Good morning to you.

Yeah, so I know you're a libertarian, and you and I disagree disagree on several things,

but we like each other and we agree on most things, wouldn't you say?

Sure.

Yeah.

How are you feeling about the whole freedom of speech thing that's happening not only in England and China, but also here now in a different way?

I think that there's two things that are worth looking at.

There's two sides to it.

There's the legal side of it, which in the United States, we're pretty good legally in terms of freedom of speech.

That's not so much under assault.

But there is a culture of of freedom of speech, which I do think is problematic.

We're seeing that on college campuses.

We're seeing that in general where you're going to get in trouble if you say a particular thing and we're kind of tightening the bandwidth of what we can discuss.

And that I'm very much concerned about.

Yeah, everybody is, I mean, if you are in college and you are taught that you have a right to silence someone, you're going to be the next generation that will change the rules.

Have you had Greg Lukianoff on your show before?

Yeah, yeah.

I'm having him on Friday.

He wrote a book called The Coddling of the American Mind.

Oh, yeah.

And I was reading through it.

And it was great.

And one of the things I want to talk to him about, and the book seems to get into, is we're both in media, and so it's difficult for me to determine, see, on college campuses,

are college campuses more opposed to freedom of speech now, or are we just talking about it more?

And the book would indicate that

quantitatively, it is, in fact, they're disinviting more people.

Oh, yeah.

It seems to kind of kick off around 2013, and he's got some interesting theories as to why that is.

But

I'm a libertarian.

I'm more emphatically a comedian.

And I would say, as a comedian, I think the two places that we should actually have freedom of.

Comedy's dead.

Comedy's dead.

Oh, nuts.

So I should have become a gardener?

No, I mean, but listen, comedy dead.

You watch television now.

Nobody's trying to do comedy.

There's a few people.

Everybody's going for claptor, not laughter.

That's true.

There's a lot of that.

They just want everybody to go, oh, yes, that's right.

Yeah, I would say political satire for sure is in a slump right now.

Slump.

It is in a slump.

Yes.

There's a, yeah, it's turning blue.

It's got rig mortis lump.

It's, you know, and it's funny too, because it's not, when I tell people I do comedy, they go,

you must love the Trump years.

And I'm like, no, no, this is not.

I mean, for one thing, from just a, from a practical standpoint, in terms of making jokes, you want to be able to heighten.

And so if

President Trump is like, I don't know, trying to hit Rosie O'Donnell with golf balls from a battleship, and that's like the actual headline of the day, like that's what he kicked his morning off with, I can't go from there.

There's nowhere for me to go.

And so it's not easy.

It's tough right now.

Let me bring you back to China here for a second.

Chinese journalist Liu Hu

was

a guy who's always had trouble with the authorities.

He had been exposing corruption and wrongdoing in the government for a long time.

He's used to being hassled.

He's used to government fined.

He's used to apologies that he has to make, forced apologies.

Nevertheless, he continued in doing what he was doing.

He persisted.

He persisted.

Nevertheless, he persisted.

He persisted.

Until one day

in 2017, when he logged on to a travel site and he couldn't book a flight anywhere because the site said he was not qualified.

Then later, he tried to buy a house.

What a surprise.

He wasn't qualified.

High-speed train.

Nope.

Alone.

Uh-uh.

And there was nothing he could do about it.

He couldn't shop at any store that he wanted to go into.

He was basically shut off from absolutely everything.

And there's now 7.5 million people on this list, the dishonest persons subject to enforcement list.

This is all part of their their social credit score.

And

China monitors absolutely everything their citizens do and think their political opinions their shopping patterns their travel history their internet friends all of it

now imagine

a world here in America where you could no longer be able to buy or sell or open a bank account get a loan use public transportation or get a job

Imagine a world in China they are putting surveillance cameras up in the schools so they can constantly monitor students.

Now, listen to this.

The surveillance cameras took data on the individual facial expressions and eyes and used that information to create a running score on each student in class.

If a score reached a predetermined point, the system triggered an alert, teachers were expected to take action to talk to the student perceived to be disengaged or overly moody.

Now, this sounds like crazy dystopian stuff that only China would do.

May I remind you that that is exactly how Bill Gates

designed and described Common Core, that every child would have a screen in front of them with a camera monitoring their eyes.

So they could see the blood pressure in their eyes.

They could see everything and engage, see when the student was engaged, when they weren't engaged, except this was for the teacher's benefit this wasn't for the student this was and he said over time we'll be able to use that data to be able to figure out who slots into what job so they can be fast track by the fifth grade we can find out you know what he's uh he's really gonna be good at construction work and so he'll go fast track on construction work now this sounds I guess to some people like Utopia.

To me, it sounds exactly like China.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Oh, gosh, what did I want to?

I'm still figuring that out, but about 15 different things.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a scientist.

And then when I was in high school, I figured I would either be

a politician, an actor, or a priest, which in Oklahoma you can do simultaneously.

You can be all three if you live in Blanchard County.

So I was looking into that.

I'm with you on China.

China is freaky.

And

I think you kicked off the show with this comparison between Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984, which I think is great, by the way.

A lot of the time we only talk about 84, we don't talk about

Aldous Huxley.

And we've been in the Aldous Huxley realm.

We still are.

Yeah.

I think it's happening at the same time.

We've been arguing which one was going to happen.

But

they're both happening.

You have to sell it one way to us and another way to the Chinese.

They're so afraid right now.

They accept the cameras.

They're so afraid of saying anything now, they're all just saying oh no this is great in china in china yeah that was um so i right before i came over here and started working at the blaze i was in uh i was in china this summer for the china international stand-up comedy festival in shanghai and uh i got to uh i got to finals by the way which is pretty good for a guy that doesn't speak mandarin

but uh they they were very clear like you cannot say anything about tibet taiwan tiananmen square or any existing member of government whether it's good or bad and and they were and i i didn't because it would have got the comedy club in a a lot of trouble, and I don't know what would have happened to them.

I think they would have been canceled, like they would have shut the club down.

I don't know.

But you could sense that.

The interesting thing was, if I brought up something about genders or something, you know, men and women are different, I could tell that the audience was a little, I was less worried about angering someone there than places I've been in America on a social level.

But when it got to anything political, even remotely, like at one point I mentioned that I couldn't access my email because they've outlawed Google over there.

They don't have Google, they don't have Gmail, they don't have Facebook, they only have one government-monitored app for all social media media so that they can.

Well, until Google started helping them.

Now it's

now.

They're now over there.

But when I was there, it wasn't there.

And I mentioned that, and you could hear everyone in the room just go

and get very uncomfortable for fear of what was going to happen next.

But

that is a kind of...

I don't know what you'd call it, a prosperous totalitarian state or an increasingly prosperous totalitarian state.

Like the Soviet Union fell apart, right?

And Gorbachev, who I like because he was a death knell to the Soviet Union, had sort of banked on them being able to open up with freedom and let that happen.

And it fell apart.

China has gone the other way, where they're like, well, we're going to give you some market freedom, but we're going to keep this tight, tight, tight grip on all civil liberties.

We're going to keep this tight grip on censorship and everything else.

You need to be in favor of the state at all times.

Well, they are not going to be able to

be able to reverse that.

Now, I mean, I don't know how the Chinese people get out of this now.

It would be real tough.

Are you following?

I imagine you're following the stuff happening with Uyghurs in Western China?

Two million.

Yeah.

Two million in 1,300 prison camps now.

Yeah.

They're actively in basically

concentration camps.

And they're documented with biometrics.

I mean, like, there are people talking about how, and this isn't, I need to stress, this is stuff like from the BBC.

And I mean, this isn't like, I'm not reading French stuff.

This is folks that are

very well documented that are being cataloged by the government.

And there's all sorts of things.

There is French stuff about organ transplants and stuff that we can get into.

into, but the actual well I want to tell you.

Did you hear about the guy?

We're going to take a quick break because I have to take a break.

Did you hear about the guy that

I think it was last week or two weeks ago that said he I think you brought the story to the news and why it matters.

The guy who said he made a clone or no, gene splicing.

That's what it was.

Oh yeah, that was the first designer baby.

Yeah.

That was in China.

Although I will say the Chinese government was opposed to it.

Yeah.

So, but that did happen over there and I think that's coming.

Do you know what happened to him?

Nope.

Oh.

Okay, I'll give that to you next.

Oh, nice.

Okay.

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There's a couple of things that I want to share with you.

First of all, we were talking about China earlier and the police state that has becoming, and we coupled it with Tim Cook and the wonderful things.

He says that it's a sin

not to deplatform people with

bad opinions.

That is in Leviticus, Glenn.

Is it?

Do you read it?

It's Leviticus subparagraph four.

Really, I see.

I didn't know that.

It says you're supposed to be platform people.

Because, you know,

there's rumors that there might have been like 15 commandments.

Either that or it was a Mel Brooks movie, and he dropped the third.

I saw that documentary.

Yes, it was a good remake.

And so maybe it was on, maybe it was like number 14 on the Ten Commandments.

But

there was a story that you brought to the table on the world, the news and Why It Matters last week about a scientist who claims to have made a designer baby.

Yes.

And what happened there was

you've got different types of genetic modification that are currently going on.

So right now something that's legal and happening presently in the United States and most westernized countries is you will, if you're doing in vitro fertilization, you'll have maybe eight viable embryos and they'll go, well, this particular embryo has Down syndrome.

And so you most people won't choose that.

So there's kind of a process of elimination.

That's what already is on the table right now.

What he did was he went went in and found a gene that is

thought to control the protein by which the HIV virus enters, and he preemptively removed this gene.

So it's not like there was a fundamental flaw with the embryos of these twins that were there.

There wasn't an existing problem that he was getting rid of.

He was basically trying to preemptively soup up the kids to give them a

harder time contracting HIV.

So this is, it's low-level stuff, but we have crossed that threshold into we are now actively, proactively modifying people as opposed to just trying to change things that might be.

So I'm going to get into this here in a second.

But first, let me tell you what happened in the science.

Let me give you an update.

And so the last I heard, I'll say,

there was massive, and I'm kind of like, I'm very optimistic about transhumanism, and I think we should be living on Mars with three heads and things.

So I'm all in favor of this stuff.

I want to have a robot wife.

I got my program.

I want to have taste buds installed all down my throat so I could feel the food the whole time.

I think that would be great.

So I'm in favor of the budget.

So the taste buds would make you taste it all the way down.

Which I'm cool.

That sounds great.

I would love that.

I would like that even in my stomach.

It's stomach lined with taste buds.

It'd be great.

But yeah, so I'm all in favor of this stuff.

He did have a very strong backlash from the scientific community and from the bioethical community

and from most

countries, many of which have signed on to a...

There's some sort of anti-genetic engineering.

No three-headed baby thing.

Yeah, and China was one of the signatories of that.

So China had also swung against him, and he'd been kicked out of his university in southern China for three years.

This is the last I heard.

Well, he gave a speech to talk about this, you know, just what, a week ago, two weeks ago, and he hasn't been seen since.

And the Chinese said, we definitely have not detained him.

He didn't go to a Saudi Arabian concert, did he?

Don't do that, guys.

If you get invited to a seat, you're like, oh, I bet that's a fun cocktail party.

Don't go.

Yeah, I don't know if you speak, you don't speak Mandarin, so I don't know if we definitely don't have him.

Translates to, yeah, oh, yeah, we're yeah, but I do think that I think that China will probably be the one that pushes that envelope because I think it will.

China, like, you know, there's the American dream, which is everybody has, you know, everybody gets a fair shot.

And, like, you know, I leave a better life than my kids are, and all these different things.

The China dream is China is amazing, and it's much more collective in its mindset, and it's much more statist in its mindset.

And so, I would not be surprised if within the next 10 years, it's like, ah, well, there's, you know, we found a gene that helps math.

We're going to make this, you know, more available.

And

absolutely.

And they will do it.

And they will

become the master race.

And isn't that?

I mean, then Andrew Heaton's three-headed Martian babies sound a lot better in American England.

Right.

Now we want those kids with extra taste buds.

But

don't you, what do you think you do for that?

Because somebody's going to do that.

Somebody will do that.

And I don't want to be able to augment like that.

I want to be able to live free and

be natural.

You know, I don't want weaknesses taken.

I think this,

you know, we're at the point because you grew up religious, right?

I did, yeah.

Yeah.

So you grew up, I'm sure, talking about, you know, the end of times, the mark of the beast, and all that stuff.

Glad I'm from Oklahoma.

The Left Behind series is foreign policy in Oklahoma.

It's like, we're, we're, all right, all right.

So I remember as a kid talking about things like, you know, they're going to be able to, you know,

do anything with you and change, you know, change and make you into superhuman, et cetera, et cetera.

And I remember people always saying,

God will stop us before we can do that.

You never heard that?

That God will stop us before we cross any kind of real line.

I have, yeah, I've heard that in terms of like, like we might cover this story later in terms of climate change and things like that.

There's sort of a hard line there.

And

I don't think that.

I think that based on all prior evidence, God will let us mess up a lot of things

before he steps in.

So I don't like this idea that we're kind of on a kid leash.

No, I don't think so either.

I don't think so either.

I interpret that, however, as

no, God's not going to stop you.

He's just going to, you'll just die out.

You'll just, because can't you think?

And we don't have any idea.

For instance, they're talking about now ridding the world of mosquitoes.

Did you see this story?

Great.

Sounds it, doesn't it?

Yes.

Sign me up.

Where do I send the money?

I think it was Google or Alphabet.

It's come up with something that they can now put into the male mosquito, which stops them from reproducing or whatever.

80%.

They've tried it in a couple of places.

Mosquitoes have gone down 80% in one trial.

We live in Texas, Glenn.

No, no, I'm very well aware.

I hate mosquitoes.

However, it talked about how this is going to be very lucrative and how it will save so many people and blah, blah, blah.

But the last line was:

however,

the

biological effects of removing an entire species like the mosquito, we have not studied to definitely know the ramifications.

Almost certainly be cascade effects from that.

I mean, like, for one thing, bats are probably going to be more skinny.

So, if you want a bunch of skinny bats flying around, which I do, I think American bats are slovenly and obese.

They go over the video games they're playing.

I think we need it.

Have you ever lived around bats?

Like lots of bats?

Not yet.

I'm sure at some point.

I'll go under a bridge.

So I...

Wait, what?

I just did say, you know, I'm only 34.

I've got another.

You've got your bat section on your life to it.

So I live up in Idaho for, you know, for the summers and stuff.

And we have bats everywhere up there,

at least at my ranch.

And they'll crawl into the smallest of spaces, okay, to keep warm.

And we heard this

on the walls.

We're like, oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, this isn't good.

So we went out and we took the siding off of that wall.

We opened one piece of siding and Rafe still remembers this as the greatest day of his life.

It was the scene from Batman where they just, whoa, and the whole entire wall was full of bats.

So you say to me, it's probably really good insulation.

for your house.

I bet you saved on energy.

Yeah, I mean, the collective beating heart is a little disturbing when you're going to sleep.

Is that the refrigerator?

No, it's a hundred bats preparing to draw blood on our farm.

Just because we can do things, I don't know if we should do things.

Maybe we should sit around and talk about it a little bit more.

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Did you hear about the substitute teacher?

Yes, I did.

That has told the first grade students that Santa is not real.

First of all, kids, not true.

Don't listen to this crazy person.

That's Pennsylvania right there.

Was that Montville, Pennsylvania?

Yes, no, New Jersey.

Oh, it was New Jersey.

Okay, so a substitute teacher.

Pennsylvania, New Jersey.

Substitute teacher for first grade students told the kids that Santa isn't real,

then went on and said,

parents just buy presents and put them under the tree.

Oh, I wish that were true.

And

reindeer can't fly.

Elves are not real.

And the elf on the shelf is just a pretend doll that your parents move around.

This has covered a lot of ground in that

third-grade math class.

What exactly?

This is first grade.

First grade?

Oh, first grade.

What?

I mean, that doesn't sound like a teacher having a bad day.

That sounds like an angry teacher.

Can I tell you about the time that I think I almost got fired?

And I'm going to make this G-rated.

Okay.

But

I was in my colorful career.

I was a substitute teacher in the Deer Creek School District in Edmond, Oklahoma.

And I.

They'll take anybody.

Yeah,

I subbed between, I think first grade was the youngest I did and up through high school.

And when I was subbing

first grade one day, a kid came up and he went, Mr.

H, Bobby said the C word.

And I went, oh no, Bobby, do not say the C word.

You shouldn't.

Yeah, he said crap.

Oh, yes.

Don't say crap, children.

But I was about to like gather the come here, children.

Here's a word I never want you to say.

Here's what it means.

Don't say this word, the C word that I'm about to utter.

And I like that.

I was so close to getting fired from that job, I think, if that had happened.

So, but you, you also, did you not tell children about being eaten by yes.

I, yeah, well, multiple things.

So, like most

substitute teaching, a lot of the time, the teachers don't want you to, they don't want you to continue their lesson a lot of the time because they want to do that, right?

So, they're kind of giving you, a lot of the time, they're giving you busy work.

And so, for high school students, I could do that.

I would roll in and go, look, don't do anything that gets you in trouble or gets me in trouble.

One of you needs to play chess with me.

As long as we do that, I'm not going to make you do this ridiculous worksheet.

You can just go on your phones or whatever.

But yeah, with the...

So you were making sure us as parents were getting our money's worth.

Yeah, okay.

You know, I could smell the busy word.

And I'd make them do the busy work, but they usually give me like an optional worksheet.

But with elementary school students, you know, we'd have something to do, and we'd get through it, and then I'd go, okay.

If we get through this worksheet, the rest of the day will be Velociraptor Awareness Day.

And we would.

And like the kids would go, they'd get on Wikipedia.

Apparently, Velociraptors are basically large, angry chickens, is what we learned in real life.

They were feathered and they were about knee-high.

You wouldn't want to tangle with one, but they're not as depicted in Jurassic Park.

That's from the research that I commissioned for you.

Really?

So

they were not rip you apart.

They were not anatomically accurate.

Yeah, really.

Yeah.

They were not as nasty as that.

They really were just.

I'm not, well, I mean, like, a honey badger is not that big, but I wouldn't tangle with a honey badger.

So it's possible that a velociraptor was really nasty.

It's just that the kind of like man-sized Velociraptor, that wasn't okay.

So they might have been smaller, vicious, and looked looked like a chicken.

Yes,

I think they were super angry chickens.

And I would also do, I would like for fifth graders, I would go, okay, you know, we're done with the work.

Let's do a

middle exercise.

What do we do if zombies attack?

And I would really gear it up to like, what do we do if there's a flood?

What do we do if there's a fire?

And then like, okay, zombies attack.

What do we do?

And, you know, got those kids to start thinking about that.

I actually think this is a good teacher.

Thank you.

I mean,

I think our teachers are so trapped in the box that they have to do it a certain way.

They have to follow this.

No, a good teacher is somebody who makes it theirs, you know?

And,

you know, if you're going to use Santa as an example, that's great.

Don't go there.

But, you know, use Santa as an example.

Or if you use motivation for, you know, Velociraptor Awareness Day, I think that's great stuff.

The kids were jazzed.

I would also, when we were walking to the computer room, I'd say, okay, you have to be quiet, but I want every kid to act like a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

So there'd just be this line.

I think this is what got me in trouble with other teachers, As you see a line of children in various stages of weird, angry faces all walking in dead silence.

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It's affecting 44 million borrowers in the U.S.

This is outrageous and bone-crunching.

There's also the cultural effect

that college is having, the indoctrination of young people are being subjected to.

More and more powerful people now are starting to recognize that college is an institution that has real problems.

Last Friday, Peter Thiel gave a keynote speech at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Collegiate Network Editors Conference.

Wow, that's a mouthful.

He told a room full of students, quote, universities today are as corrupt as the Catholic Church of 500 years ago.

He's exactly right.

And I don't know.

I don't know how the universities don't see that they have become the Catholic Church.

And anyone who has a different idea is Galileo.

He says, at some point, If it's 100 to zero, you start to suspect that you're in North Korea.

Does the unanimity mean that you've gotten the truth?

Or does it mean that you're in a totalitarian state?

We have this illusion that all sorts of important decisions have been decided.

He added, we are not on the losing side of history.

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The lawsuit he led against Gawker helped topple their empire.

And he also created the Teal Fellowship, which gives $100,000 to young people who want to build

new things instead of sitting in a classroom.

The idea that we're losing on the losing side is a form of psychological warfare, he said.

And he's right.

We're not on the losing side, not in the slightest.

We're on the up and up.

Things are going to get worse for the old institutions and better for the people.

It's Tuesday, December 4th.

You are listening to the Glembeck program.

We're truly thrilled to announce yesterday the

merger of CR-TV and the Blaze, now the Blaze TV.

And one of our hosts is Ben Ferguson, host of the Ferguson Files,

a millennial who has a lot of important things to say and to be heard.

Welcome to the program, Ben.

How are you?

Nice to be with you, man.

It's always a pleasure to chat with you.

We finally get to work together, which I'm really excited about.

And

I feel like we've worked together for years because we've always been on the same radio station

where I've been working, whether it's in San Antonio or Memphis or Dallas.

And it's nice to actually get to work with you on this new venture, which is going to be awesome.

Well, it was funny because you were here, and we were talking about hiring you for some things, and at the same time, CRTV reached out.

What you didn't know, you were deciding between the two of us, what you didn't know, we were both kind of talking to each other, going, you take him, we'll take you.

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One way or another, we're all going to be working together, man.

So it's

good to have you.

Good to have you.

And I'm pleased to be working in the same company with you.

So, Ben, let's talk.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

I was just going to say it's going to be a lot of fun.

I mean, there's so many different people that I've heard from that have just been talking about how they're loving the fact that they can get raw and real content without spin from people on their real passions in life.

And that's the thing that I've enjoyed the most and why I hope a lot of people that are listening will take a look at what has been built now into something that's a massive platform.

So come on and join us.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

I couldn't believe CNN actually led the story yesterday with one of the biggest mergers in conservative media history.

And it is.

I don't think people understand how much talent is here and that we're still looking to partner with more people.

And

I think we're going to build a platform where these voices are safe and

also we're going to save America a lot of money here because it's $9.99 where if you had subscriptions to both, you were already paying $20.

Now you're paying $10,

and that's without any kind of discounts.

So, Ben,

go ahead.

I'm sorry.

No, I was just going to say, I've always thought that we're always stronger together.

And when the more conservative voices work together instead of competing against one another or trying to say, oh, I'm better than so-and-so,

I got into this business, as you know, when I was really young.

I started radio when I was 12.

And I always looked up to to you and to others in the business as not competitors but as you know being at the forefront and talking about this and and I think that's one of the cool things that's happened with this younger generation of conservatives I mean I say younger I'm now 3 you know seven gosh I'm getting old Glenn which means you're really getting old I just want to know thank you thank you for that yeah But there's a lot of younger people now that we're not as competitive.

It's more about, okay, how can we work together?

How can we help one another out?

How can we get the message out there?

I'll give you a great example.

This morning I was getting ready for the Ferguson file and I was looking at what the Democratic National Committee chairman had to say on MSNBC and he said that dreamers are every bit Americans as my three U.S.

born kids.

And it's just not true.

I don't hate dreamers.

I think there needs to be some sort of pathway for some people that were brought here against their will, at no choice of their own, with parents.

I have compassion for people that were brought here at a young age, and it was not their choice.

Their parents did it.

But to come out there and say that a non-American citizen is the same as an American citizen, and this is the platform that the chairman of the DNC is doing, and not just that, he also said, I think it's an economic imperative.

To allow illegal immigrants into this country, implying that somehow America cannot make it without illegals.

You look at this message, and it's resonating with a lot of younger people who say, Yeah, you know what?

Maybe we are too prideful as Americans.

Maybe we are too boisterous as Americans.

Maybe we think too much of ourselves.

Maybe we don't need to be this, we are better than other people.

We need to be more kumbaya, and being an American is almost a shameful thing, and that's the new message of the Democratic National Committee.

And they're going to be trying to implement this for the next two years in Washington, in the House, and they're going to tell you that without these illegal immigrants, without the DREAMers, our economy

will blow up.

And I'm looking at this going, okay, you have unemployment rates at historical lows of my lifetime.

You have all-time lows among Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans

with unemployment numbers.

We've got millions of people off of food stamps in this country.

Don't look at me at the same time and tell me that our economy is going to be destroyed if I don't give you illegal immigrant labor in this country.

That is just a false narrative.

So, Ben,

how is it that the Democrats think that they can say to now Europe, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, going over and saying to Europe, wow, this mass immigration thing that we were all for, yeah, that really screwed you guys up.

That was a really bad thing.

You shouldn't have done that.

How are they saying that at the very same time they're telling us we should be doing what Europe did.

Right.

It's do as I say, not as I do.

It's this.

And I think what it really comes back down to is Democrats understand that this is not about what's good for our economy.

This is about finding people that you can get to vote for you who will be dependent on the government.

And the stronger the American economy is, I think the worse off it is for Democrats because the Democratic platform and what they have to offer is one that says to you, you cannot do it without us, the government.

You cannot survive without the government.

You cannot go to college without the government.

You can't get a loan without the government.

You can't buy a house without the government.

Without us, you cannot succeed.

When you have Americans that are employed, that are making money, that are paying their own bills,

that are living what I would refer to as the actual American dream, it hurts the Democratic Party.

How do you go out there and campaign against you have a great job and your kids are getting a good education and you're saving for retirement?

It's very very hard to do when what you're offering is despair and desperation relief.

That's why Jesse Jackson, in a minute when he said it, said that, you know, it's an honor to be a food stamp president to Barack Obama when he had so many people on food stamps.

They believe that because without having people dependent on them, they lose voters.

And they've seen that.

And so now they're saying, okay.

How do we get new voters to vote for us when an economy is doing well?

The easiest way to do it is to import voters who you can then say, I just gave you something.

I gave you citizenship.

I gave you food stamps.

I gave you government aid.

Those evil Republicans didn't want you here.

They treated you like you were evil people, which, again, as a conservative, I don't blame any person for trying to come to America.

I believe that America is the greatest country in the world.

I don't blame anyone that's in Venezuela or Honduras or Mexico for wanting to come into America.

All I'm asking is to do the same thing that you demand of me when I come visit your country or if I want to come live in your country.

Do it the legal and the responsible way.

And what the Democratic Party has said this morning, and this is the chairman saying this, he's saying to the American people, it's an economic imperative to let these people in.

We will not survive without them.

He also said it's a moral imperative.

And again, this false equivalency, where his words, dreamers are every bit Americans as my three U.S.-born kids.

That is not a fact.

It's not actual.

It's not reality.

It's wrong.

But when you you can grab the 40 and undercrowd in this country and get them to believe this and also feel shame for living in a great country or being prideful in the laws that have made this country great, you can change all this in one generation.

And the majority of my friends are leaning towards the Democratic Party.

They don't like the Republican Party, and it's terrifying.

Let me ask you this, Ben.

If you look at what's happening right now, you have the climate change crowd, 80% of Europe buys into it.

80% of France buys into it and think they have to do something.

However, once the state starts to impose the taxes that are going to be required, you have riots and they're starting to spread all over Europe.

France is practically a war zone.

You have mass immigration over in Europe.

When you see this, it's caused all kinds of violence all over and

really the beginnings of a loss of country.

You couple that with massive spending, and you see the collapse of Europe, you see the collapse of Venezuela, Marxist principles don't work.

You're seeing those things.

When you put all of these together, are the people who are still saying, no, I'm telling you, socialism will work, and we need mass immigration, we need to open our borders, and

we need these high taxes on climate change, because it'll be fine,

are they just just slipped into some utopian dream world or

or do they do they know this would collapse?

Yeah, I think it goes back to that issue of it all sounds great until it actually is implemented.

I mean, let's just go back to France.

You know, people, I even saw people kind of mocking in the media, you know, that people died over a gasoline tax in France.

And the question I say is, well, were these people willing to die over a gas tax?

No.

The people that died were willing to die over a government that had inflicted decades of policies that put the government ahead of the people.

That's why three people died.

It was not because of a simple tax increase.

That's not why they died.

It wasn't because of a diesel tax increase of 16%,

which is what the Yellow Vest movement, you know, basically is about.

But it's much bigger than that.

These people were willing to risk their lives because they they lived under a government that put the government first, the citizens second, and they were starting to hurt, and it was hurting the poorest, which, by the way, they sold these policies that was going to help the poorest the most.

But when you start running out of other people's money, when you start having an economy that can't keep up with the demands of the government spending, you then get what we have now seen blow up in France, where you have three that have dead, you have 263 plus that are injured, and many more arrested.

And now the president's trying to do anything he can to get this back under control.

And look at what he also did here.

He didn't say I'm not going to have the tax increase.

What he said was, is I'll put a six-month moratorium on it, hoping that the people that got organized, that started rioting, will go back to their lives, and then they can slip it right back in.

They have no intention in France or any of these other countries to basically truly change the way they're doing business.

What France has said is, okay, we'll freeze this tax hike until you guys focus on something else.

We'll freeze it long enough that you protesters will go home, that your yellow vest will somehow disappear in your closet, and then we can go back to doing exactly what we did before.

And I say this to not just the people of France, I say to the people of America.

Let's hope the politicians actually listen to the people and not go back to their old ways.

I do think they're going to go back to their old ways.

But what I will say is, is this is where we better pay attention and stand up to our government and make it clear that you're taking too much from us.

You're spending too much of our money.

I mean, I think the biggest issue facing my, is going to be in my lifetime outside of national security and terrorism, is going to be our trillion-dollar deficits.

At some point, that note, you're going to have to pay it off.

The government has record

amounts of tax dollars they're bringing in.

while also spending more.

There's never enough money that the government in this country, and I believe in any other country, will ever get in from its citizens that they say, we don't need any more.

It will never happen because governments inherently, I believe,

are evil in the sense that they always want more for their projects and they don't put the citizens first.

And that includes our government.

Ben Ferguson from the Ben Ferguson Show and the Ferguson file, now on Blaze TV.

Always good to talk to you, Ben.

Best of luck and good to be working in the same company, finally.

Hey, man, thanks for having me.

It's always a pleasure to chat with you and look forward to doing a lot more.

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Something's Off with Andrew Heaton.

Kind of a funny look at the news of the day and some of the other things.

Welcome.

And I have, as you can see, pushed Stu out of the co-pilot chair.

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this has been a house of cards scenario I've been planning for a couple of years now.

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All right.

Okay.

All right.

Andrew,

we have a few things to talk about.

I want to talk to you about climate change

and what's happening over in Europe.

First of all, where do you stand on climate change?

I think it's happening.

I think we're contributing to it.

I would like everybody to sit down and come up with solutions to it.

This is something I think is lacking right now from discourse is

where

just we're kind of arguing about whether it's happening or not.

And there's just a lot of like, you called me this, they called me that going on.

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I think that the whole thing would benefit from having everybody sit down.

There's a lot of things that would benefit from a free market environmentalist perspective.

Free market.

Yeah.

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As long as it's free market.

Yeah.

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I don't know how you want to say it, but yeah, there's no way to do this.

The government coming in and having

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We'll get into that when we come back.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

You know, I think that this week is the first week that I can say

the

chalkboard that I hit for over

a year at Fox before I left

that the Arab Spring would lead to the destabilization of the Middle East.

It would create a caliphate.

It would cause chaos and spread to Europe, which would destabilize Europe.

The right and the left extremes would begin to work together, not as if they're calling each other and planning things together.

They'll just see a mutual opportunity to take Europe and it would spread to the U.S.

I think we're done with that chalkboard.

It's been, what, nine years, eight years, but I think we're done.

I think that now has all been fulfilled.

And you're seeing the destabilization and the right and the left working together now in Europe.

And Jason Buttrell is with us, and

he can give us the update on what we covered yesterday at 5 o'clock on the Blaze TV.

Yeah, and just to talk about numbers,

this floors me.

Emmanuel Macron's updated approval rating is now 25%.

Okay, now you brought something up.

And I forgot that I even said this.

But when Macron was

elected, I had said, you have hardcore communists and hardcore fascists.

And

the people voted, I don't remember what the percentage was, it was a huge percent.

Over 40%.

Over 40% voted for those two.

And so they wanted hardcore solutions.

And then Macron gets in, and he's kind of just milquetoast nobody and is just another empty suit of politician and

a media kind of circus.

And he wasn't going to do anything really meaningful except keep the status quo.

And I said at the time, that's a recipe for disaster.

And always, when we talk about this, always think about how this applies in the parallels to the United States.

Macron on the left would be the Clintons, the establishment.

He would be Jeb Bush on the right.

Something that you know nothing is going to come of this.

It's going to be everything that we've had for the past decade plus.

This is French vanilla.

This is French vanilla.

Yes.

Yes.

Exactly right.

So that I'm going to play the

when I was watching the

French election, I was worried about the extreme right and the rise of populism in France.

So I was rooting for Macron.

And it sounds like.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I was too, but it wasn't going to solve anything.

Gotcha.

Okay, so this is.

Because you're at a tipping point.

And America has reached this to some degree.

It is the same thing that's happening over in Europe, that is happening over here, that gave us Donald Trump.

And that is a media and a political ruling class that is asking you to deny reality.

Islamicists, there's no such thing as Islamicists.

That's fine.

Everything is fine.

Their culture is even better than ours.

No, no, excuse me.

It's not.

It's not.

Islam, not a problem.

Muslims, not a problem.

Islamists, that's a problem.

And there is a difference.

And you can't tell me that the people who are marching in the streets of the UK saying death to the police and down with the UK, who are just new immigrants from Pakistan, is a good thing.

That's not a good thing.

And so you're asked to deny reality.

The media is going right along with it.

Meanwhile, the people in power are getting richer and richer and more and more powerful, and they're completely disengaged from the streets.

So what do they do?

Because they don't have an American understanding of the right, which is small government, they only really have the government has to tell us what to do.

So it's going to go fascist or communist one way or another.

They get this milquetoasty guy in between who is kind of a progressive.

Well, they're done with that.

The French people are done with that.

So it's only a matter of time before he's out.

And that's what we were looking at.

We were like, if almost half your country voted for far-right or far-left politicians and they put in French vanilla, then what are they going to do when you get more vanilla over the next four-plus years?

That's only going to grow those bases.

It's only going to grow.

And that's what you would have seen here.

You know what I mean?

So we weren't really worried about Macron.

We were worried about what comes next.

And so just

a really quick, the update today on the protest situation.

So Macron and the Prime Minister of France called the organizers

for this movement to come together today, which this meeting already happened.

And if they would, he would suspend this fuel tax by six months.

So that was his offer.

That got them to the negotiating table.

Apparently, whatever happened once they were in that room did not satisfy them.

And so they all left and said, okay, it's on for next Saturday, and it's going to be worse than last weekend, which was by far the worst since these have happened since it began on November 17th.

So

these organizers have been kind of hard to track down.

For one, it seemed kind of very unorganized, and now everyone is jumping and piling on.

It's been a dogpile of people wanting to jump in on this movement.

This is the right and the left come together.

It's not that they're working together.

They're just seizing the opportunity of unrest.

Exactly right.

And so you've got Maureen Le Pen with the National Front.

Bad guys.

We don't want them.

They should not have represented.

They should not have been at CPAC.

It was absolutely distressing.

They were ridiculous.

An outrage.

She was.

Why were

French right-wingers at CPAC?

Thank you.

Marion Le Pen, the new it girl for the CPAC.

Because of

Bannon.

Oh, good.

Because of Bannon.

That was a huge mistake.

So National Front, Maureen Le Pen people are there.

The new far left,

the man that was the other candidate that got 40% of the vote, his name is Jean-Luc Melanchone, Trotskyist because of the colours.

I mean, he's far left by French standards, right?

Yeah,

far left by Lenin standards, I would say.

He has also got his people out there, and they're all jumping in.

Now, the main organizers, which I'll reveal in a second,

they're like, these guys need to get out of here.

These guys are actually threatening the people that started this movement.

They're threatening their families.

They're threatening to do bodily harm to them because they want to take this movement over.

Now, the people that started this, it all started actually with a woman that has been dubbed the Madonna of Yellow Vest, which I thought was pretty good.

That is a pretty good title.

Not meaning the singer, but meaning the Virgin Mary.

Never mind.

I was impressed.

I thought this was a marriage.

She's not wearing brass cones.

Karaoke or something.

Yeah, I was looking forward to seeing pictures.

She's an interesting, strange kind of character in this.

She is a

court.

She's an accordion-playing psychotherapist.

that is

that is the french flag is it not isn't it

right like a smoking mime playing an accordion on a couch yep exactly um she i i went all the way back into her beginning she wasn't all that political back in the day she just took pictures of her family and you know and i mean she was not really political at all so just all of a sudden out of nowhere in october she does this viral video and the movement she started, which now she doesn't even want to take ownership of, and the people that have come with her don't want to take ownership ownership of because this has become like a,

you know, kind of like how the right has started to rise up now, how they're getting violent.

It's turning into that.

In Europe.

Right.

Yes.

They're like, whoa, whoa, we didn't mean for it to be this.

If you're doing this, don't show up.

So now they didn't even want to come to the table today because we don't want to claim ownership for this group.

We don't know what to do, but they ended up basically being forced into, because

the French president was like, look, who do we talk to?

Yeah, I was going to say, because there's not a negotiation.

This isn't a union protest, right?

No.

This is just sort of a mass,

spontaneous protest.

So who would you talk to?

Started with a video on Facebook that now has over 10 million views.

She did this video in October, and she was protesting.

And this is where

you guys are having a discussion a little bit about climate change and all that stuff off air.

And I wanted to save this for this.

I tried to get my brother to say, look, I understand there's something going on with the climate.

I don't think it's as, I know it's not as bad as what they say it is.

but just think about who

you know will gain from a lot of the initiatives they want they want to do.

Anytime you have the government that wants to get involved,

there's some gain going on.

In my opinion, you cannot trust them whatsoever.

I'm personally for a total free market resolution to it.

And just let I think technological advance is going to happen.

It is.

Let it happen.

You can't stop it.

It's going to change.

Talk to Ray Kurzweil and talk to really any of these futurists.

Energy is going to completely change in 10 years.

I mean, mean,

talking about this stuff now, you know, and a carbon tax and everything else, in 10 years, we may not even need any kind of fossil fuel.

That's when it's, it's just, you know, when, when, when solar panels become the size of a, an envelope that can power your house and the battery is changed, you're done.

You're done.

I can't stand it when you guys out-free market me.

I'm usually the free market lunatic in the room, and you guys might actually do it to me.

I see, we were talking a little bit off air about this.

I do think climate change is happening.

I think it is disconcerting, and I think we should be doing things actively for it, right?

Which is why I wish that conservatives and libertarians would sit at that table more frequently and talk about their assessment of it and what solutions they have.

May I say, here's why I think, because if you say climate change is happening, you automatically then open up the door to, okay, well, we have to do something.

Well, wait a minute.

Climate change is happening, but climate change is always happening.

It's always changing.

So there is a cycle of the Earth.

I don't know what that cycle is.

Now,

all of the predictions that they made with the hockey stick and everything else, as CO2 goes up, so will that, that's been proven wrong in the last 15 years.

It's not happening.

Now they say it's on a pause, but why didn't you tell us there could be a pause?

They didn't even know.

So is it a pause?

Maybe it's a pause.

Maybe it's not a pause.

Maybe you're wrong in that.

So I believe that climate change is happening.

I also believe man can hurt the earth and the atmosphere.

That only makes sense.

Look at China.

Look what we're doing, what they're doing to the seas and the air in China.

I don't want to live like that.

I don't think anybody wants to live like that.

That's an out-of-control government.

Then look at the United States and what we were and what we are now.

We're leading the world in this already through free market principles.

The more we in

we surpassed the Kyoto Protocol, which was a big thing when I was in high school, is that we hadn't signed on to the Kyoto Protocol.

We've surpassed it.

We've surpassed the golden net.

It's through fracking, which is where one of the things where I'd like conservatives and libertarians to step up.

Because as a result of not sitting at the table and discussing solutions to this, there's a lot of things that are just completely unchecked in terms of...

But

they won't listen about fracking.

I mean, look, every time you come up with something, you know the cleanest energy in the world?

Nuclear.

Nuclear.

Which, again, is something where I think that

the conservative libertarian solution should be, or part of it, should be, look, we do think this is happening.

We should be doing stuff about it.

And one of the things that's hamstringing us right now is these very stringent, very anti-nuclear regulations, which keeps us from exploring this other energy sector and reducing.

And fracking, and that's a very good example because the fracking revolution happened and it was bred out of competition.

So it was bred out of competition.

So it was when the Saudis started pumping ridiculous amounts of oil, or I'm sorry,

lowered their oil output to basically drive them out of business.

They did for about a year or so.

And then they were forced to evolve.

They were forced to do it or they were just going to go under.

And if you look at all of the money the government has spent on electric cars, on solar panel industries, all those things, those all went by the wayside because that doesn't work.

But the free market, when there's competition, it always, always works.

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We're talking to Jason Batrillo, who's

our head researcher here at the Glenbeck program and has been following all of the foreign affairs and following a lot of the

I hate to use the word, prediction, forecast, if you will, of what I think is coming.

And we've been watching these riots now in Europe, and he's been tracking down the organizers.

So we have this one woman who is kind of the

leader, but not really.

She just kind of started this.

She's a famous French person and did a YouTube video and it caught on.

And that's where this came from.

Came out of nowhere, yeah.

Jacqueline Marade, the Madonna of the Yellow Vest, she kind of represented these these middle class

Frenchmen from

the suburbs of the bigger cities.

So give me, because I only have about a minute, give me some of the other organizers now.

So the people that are jumping on with her, there's one guy, there's three main ones.

There's another guy named Eric Druet, who is also,

he's similar to Jaclyn, I think.

He's not very, really, really hardcore, but he has talked about Islamization, immigration, high taxes, all that stuff.

Another guy named Christophe Chalincone, I'm probably butchering the name, but he's one of the more like, he's more political than the others.

You look back through his feed and he's always talking about

what is his bend, left or right?

It looks like right.

Looks like right.

It looks like right.

Okay.

So those three, they're the ones that have been all over the media.

They're the ones that are showing up to all the discussions with the government.

The thing is, though, that like this last guy, Christophe Chalincone, he represents more of the guys guys that are jumping on from the right.

They're the ones that can kind of more sling towards like Marine Le Pen national, you know, and national front.

These are the people that are starting to dogpile.

We're going to continue to watch what's happening in France because what happens in France is going to spread to Europe and then it will jump over here and we'll have more in a minute.

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Tika Tiwari was on this program a few months ago, and he made a very bold prediction.

And I said, don't do it, Tinka, don't do it.

And he said, cryptocurrency, Bitcoin in particular, is going to be at 40,000 by the end of the year.

It's kind of gone in the opposite direction.

When he said that it was maybe 7,000, it is now today at 3,900.

I have talked to him, I called him and I was like, so Tika,

what's the deal?

And I want you to hear his answer because

I think it's logical.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I think it's totally logical.

Tika, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Glenn, I'm great.

Thanks for having me here.

And thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk about really two things today.

One, my Bitcoin $40,000 prediction, what's going on with Bitcoin right now, and two, why the selling is not over.

And I want to explain what's behind that.

Because

I've set a price to where I want to buy more Bitcoin.

I don't know if that makes me a double sucker,

but I'd like to hear what you think the low price or when you think it's going to start to hit towards bottom.

Okay, the first thing I want to talk about, though, is Bitcoin 40K.

So whenever I'm asked a question, I will always tell somebody what I truly believe,

even if it could come back to make me look foolish later.

I hate it when people talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Well, maybe it'll do this, maybe it'll do that.

I want to know what you believe, and then so I can make up my own mind.

You said to me,

you said to me the night you made this prediction, I said, off air, I said, Tika, what are you doing?

Don't do that.

And you said, Glenn, I have to because that's what what my analysis says.

So I'm just telling you what the facts tell me.

You can believe it or not.

Right.

Because every fundamental reason that I forecasted behind my projection of Bitcoin 40K came true.

I said a major endowment would buy Bitcoin.

On October 5th, David Swenson of the $30 billion Yale endowment bought into crypto.

Then Harvard and Stanford followed him.

I said Wall Street would open up their trading platforms and provide custody for crypto.

Now Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, the owners of the New York Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ have all announced plans to start trading Bitcoin.

Northern Trust is creating a custody product, and even State Street, America's largest custodian, is getting active in the States.

So, what's the piece I got wrong, right?

So, all the fundamental research that said, okay, all these new players are coming into space, everything that I predicted came true.

But the one piece that I got wrong that I'm absolutely willing to own 100%

is I got the investor sentiment piece wrong.

I misunderstood just how bad investor sentiment was.

The market does not believe anything but bad news right now.

It's just taking this stance of, well, okay, yeah, Fidelity, okay, great.

Let's see it actually happen.

Now, all of these things are actually happening.

The last time, Glenn, I saw such a disconnect between the fundamentals and investor sentiment was an Apple Computer back in 2003.

Back in 2003, everybody thought Apple Computer was going out of business.

They had the hottest product in the world, the iPod.

They said they were going to open it up to the PC realm.

Nobody believed them.

The stock actually dropped 40% that year.

It wasn't until 2004 when they actually

opened it up to the PC realm and their sales started going gangbusters that Apple stock started taking off.

So

again, I was

going to take to change the investor sentiment.

We're going to have to see this new platform by BACT, which is ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, that has to launch.

That's going to be launching on July 24th.

We're going to have to see Fidelity launch their custody product and actually integrate Bitcoin Trading into their desktop platform.

That's going to launch between Q1 and Q2.

TD Ameritrade has said that they're going to add Bitcoin trading to their platform.

We're going to have to actually see it, right?

The market is taking the stance of we need to see this happen.

So that's, but the good news is all of that is going to happen.

Within Q1 and Q2 of 2019, all of those institutions are coming into the space.

Not a single one of these institutions has said, oh, you know, we don't like the way Bitcoin's trading.

We're pulling out.

In fact, NASDAQ just said, we don't care Bitcoin's going down.

We're moving full ahead with our Bitcoin products.

Fidelity has said the same thing.

TD Ameritrade has said the same thing.

Not a single institution in the space has backtracked on their plans to open up their trading platforms to Bitcoin buyers.

And that, to me, is the news that we have to look at because the news that's dominating the market right now is all this forced selling of Bitcoin and Ethereum that's happening because ICOs are coming under the regulatory magnifying glass of the SEC.

The SEC is

I apologize for jumping in, but I do have a question I'm burning to ask you.

I'm Andrew Heaton.

I'm the delightful funny man that's accompanying Glenn today.

Hey, Andrew.

Something that I want to ask someone that knows cryptocurrency very well about is why it's not being adopted in places like Venezuela.

Because one of the selling points of cryptocurrencies, as I understand it, is that it's inflation-proof.

And

if the government decides to implode a currency to inflate away the debt,

your value would not be lost.

But

I don't see any stories of mass adoption of cryptocurrency in Venezuela.

Why isn't that happening?

Oh, it is happening.

That's how people are living.

People are living.

They're taking Bitcoin and buying gift cards on Amazon, ordering goods on Amazon, and that's how they're surviving.

There's the two top currencies in Venezuela right now are Bitcoin and another one called Dash.

In fact, there's more than 22,000 people, 22,000 businesses now just using cryptocurrency down there because you can't use cash.

It's completely worthless.

At one point, they were literally, I read a story about how shopkeeps were weighing piles of money instead of counting it.

They would weigh it by the pound or probably by the

kilometer or whatever that kilo.

The kilo, yes.

Yes.

But to talk to you about the price action, right now, if you remember back in 08 and 09, we had all that forced margin selling, right?

So you had great companies like American Express trading below $10, which is ridiculous.

Nobody wants to sell American Express at $9,

but they had to because they had margin calls.

This is in 2008.

2008, 2009.

So we're seeing something similar right now happen with Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Thousands of companies raised money, and there were only two ways to do it.

You had to raise it in either Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Well, now the SEC saying, well, all of you guys broke the law.

You're actually securities.

Now we're going to find you and you're going to have to give money back to your investors.

So there's this huge rush of where the lawyers are saying, look, guys, you've got to raise cash and you've got to do it right now.

And so there's this massive forced liquidation of Bitcoin and massive forced liquidation of Ethereum.

Now, how long does that last?

Probably a few weeks more, Glenn.

That's not a one, two, three thing and done.

So that's why I say, let's take a step back.

let's get this forced selling out of the way, and then I think the dust will settle here probably in about a week or two.

So

I kind of said that I would, in my own head, when I

saw it start to fall, that I would reinvest some money in it if it if it hit

3,900.

It just hit 3,900.

And I thought I will make the same kind of investment in Bitcoin that I made

at first

if it hits 3,000.

Do you think it could hit 3,000?

Yeah, I think on a panic low, we could go 2,500, no problem.

Wow.

On a panic low.

Yeah, because this is panic selling.

Listen, when I went to 08, 09, I couldn't conceive that a stock like JP Morgan could drop 80%,

or a stock like Amazon could drop 66%, or Amex could drop close to 90%.

But when you have forced selling,

logic goes out the window.

Finance goes out the window.

It's just blind panic.

And that's what we're in the middle of right now in this market.

So

you've got to look at the market and you've got to say, okay, where are we?

And we're in this panic selling.

The panic selling doesn't last forever.

I think within a couple of weeks, everybody that had to sell, needed to sell, wanted to sell will be out.

But I still think there's probably a bit more downside ahead.

Tika, is this an app comparison that

the reason why we don't have self-driving cars right now is really not the technology of the car.

It's the 5G network.

It's we need to cure the latency problems, right?

And so

it would be like you saying, well, I've invested all this money in, you know, in self-driving cars and they can't do anything but, you know, lane assist.

Well, yeah, yeah, but there's other things that have to happen and then that technology is just going to explode because it's already it's it's it's ready it just needs the follow-up technology do you think that's a fair comparison I do think that's a fair comparison.

I think what we have to look at is we have to look at the greediest, smartest investors in the world, and that's Wall Street.

And the greediest, smartest investors in the world are running to this asset.

They are building the on-ramps to bring their investors and their investors' capital into this market, right?

They're not running away from it.

It's like the internet when you know when you had the first blow-up in the internet.

If everybody just stopped using the internet and the internet went dark, we could say, oh, well, that was just a fad and what's the point?

But that wasn't the case.

People kept building.

And that's exactly what's happening here.

within the blockchain cryptocurrency space.

And if you look at every product that is being built by Wall Street to be sold to their 500 million customers, they're all being built around Bitcoin.

And what's good for Bitcoin is good for the entire ecosystem.

So what I'm saying.

Go ahead.

What I'm saying is we've got to get through this forced selling, just like we had to go through 08 and 09.

And then we've got to go into 2019.

And we've got to let these big banks build this infrastructure into cryptocurrency.

And we will watch literally hundreds of billions of dollars of new money come into the space.

So it's unpleasant, absolutely unpleasant, but the worst thing you could do is just liquidate down here, and it would just be terrible timing to do that.

The sun will shine again.

One last question on this.

I've had people tell me, Glenn, Bitcoin will never work because it's too expensive to trade in and too slow.

Can you answer that?

Yes.

So the answer to that is what's called Layer 2 solution.

So that's called the Lightning Network.

And the Lightning Network allows you to trade using the Bitcoin network.

It reduces the feeds to almost zero and virtually limitless amounts of trades per second.

The other piece that I will say is that what will happen with Bitcoin is I think it will be used more for higher dollar transactions if you want to write directly to the Bitcoin blockchain.

So complaining that Bitcoin is slow and expensive is complaining it's like saying, you know, my Ferrari sucks because it can't haul firewood, right?

It's built for something very specific.

But again, the good news is layer two solutions are coming that will allow Bitcoin to scale.

Where if you want to buy Bitcoin, if you want to buy a cup of coffee with your Bitcoin, you'll be able to do that once layer two is live, which I would say we're probably about a year away.

So if you say that Bitcoin is going to be for major investments, you know, kind of like a gold reserve, if you will, what gives it its value?

What gives us its value is that it's completely tamper-proof and sensor resistant.

So you can't go in there and change the amount of Bitcoins that are going to exist.

You can't go in there and change the document.

Let's say you and I are two different countries and we create a document and we want to be able to prove that that document can't be tampered with.

We can take a hash of that document, which is basically a code, and write it into the Bitcoin blockchain.

And we can arrange it so the Bitcoin blockchain is constantly checking our document.

If our document, if one sentence, one line, one period gets changed, the hash will be different.

And it will say, hey, somebody's tampered with this document.

So being able to have tamper-proof documents, being able to move money without the need for a trusted third party, being able to move enormous amounts of money for fractions of a dollar

is valuable.

Being able to self-custody your money in a way that is portable in a way that gold isn't is incredibly valuable.

So I think that that value will continue to be realized as we move forward.

And I would remind you, Glenn, that this isn't our first rodeo with Bitcoin going down 80%.

This is the fifth, sixth time that it's experienced this kind of a pullback.

And one thing that I've always said, and I said it when we had our meeting together, is that

if you're going to get involved in crypto, you have to know that there'll be at least one or two times when your whole portfolio is down 80 or 85 percent.

That makes me feel like that.

That does, doesn't it?

Yeah.

I mean, I think all of this stuff makes sense.

And then plus two, I think like I'm I'm not a

this was kind of my first foray into investing outside of an index fund.

And the thing that strikes me is that it's so fast in the cycle.

Whereas normally I think you would kind of, you know, get into something and wait a while, whereas with this, it'll change week by week.

So I've been kind of impatient with it.

Yeah.

Go ahead, quickly.

I'll just want to say one quick thing here is that in the stock market, we get crashes like this maybe twice every hundred years.

In the crypto market, we get crashes like this every two to three years.

So it's very different.

Okay.

Tika Tiwari from theTruthaboutCryptocurrencies.com, TruthaboutCryptocurrencies.com.

He is also the educator on the SmartCryptoCourse.com, which is an advertiser on this program, but also something that we asked Tika

to put together for this audience so you can understand it.

SmartCryptoCourse.com.

Tika, thank you so much.

We'll talk again.

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Joseph, and because there are donkeys and camels, there will be people in donkeys and camel costumes on horseback for the nativity scene.

So Snuffy's off Route 44.

So, now Jesus is on horseback?

He's on a Shetland pony.

It's a toddler.

His name is Dylan.

And

he's on a Shetland pony.

Yeah.

It's a really great restaurant off Route 44.

Yeah, I did.

I'm obsessed with horses, though.

Yeah.

Now, so horse dog, do they make that out of horses?

No, I think it's just regular eggnog.

Egg dog.

I don't think you've been out there yet, but the deal with Snuffy's is it's a diner where all of the waiters are on horseback in the house.

So the horses are serving the food.

Yes, in effect, yeah.

The waiter's coming up to you on horseback in the dining.

You're at a booth.

You're just a regular guy, right?

Right, yeah.

And then a clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.

The horse comes up, and there's a guy, and that's their thing.

And they're not in the kitchen.

No, there's actually health sanitation laws that don't allow them to do that.

It's kind of a Y-shaped diner.

They have to put them in a stable.

Why the nativity scene on.

They're super into this horse motif, Glenn.

That's why they're all, you know,

anything you can think of involved in the nativity scene is on horseback, including.

There's a guy in a star costume.

He's on horseback.

On horseback.

I think it's in Appaloosa.

I don't know.

They gave me a rundown of the spreadsheet of all the different horses and things.

But yeah, the star is there.

Gabriel's on a horse.

Again, because they were donkey costumes.

The shepherds would be on a horse.

The shepherds were on a horse.

That would be them.

They would be cowboys.

Guys in donkey costumes with donkey masks, which I find horrifying.

They're on horses.

Very confusing for children.

Yeah, I was going to say it would be hard to explain to children why the donkey is riding the horse.

And it places sort of undue emphasis on horses, in my opinion, in the actual birth of Christ.

But this is, you know, it's their thing.

Because I don't believe there were any horses.

You'll have to take that up with stuffies.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you very very much, Andrew.

Appreciate it.

Stand by.

More on the news of the day when we come back.

Let me give you this story.

In Tennessee, a woman pleaded guilty to performing a sex act on a 16-year-old boy who played on her husband's football team.

She's now claiming that the acts were consensual and asking for the civil suit to be tossed.

She is in jail now.

She pleaded guilty to six counts of statutory rape.

She said that she and this high school kid had sex at least 11 times in her home and then in her car, and then she was sending him

videos.

I think I kissed a girl in high school.

That was the extent of...

I'm not saying this is good for the kid.

I'm just thinking I lived in a very different world.

I lived in a very different world as well.

The attorney is now saying that he was not a victim of sexual abuse, that he was allegedly a willing participant.

Now, if I said that about a 15 or 16 year old girl and a 29 year old boy, things would be different.

But apparently, you know,

this is fine to say about boys.

I think there's a whole Joe Rogan thing about this.

I think Joe Rogan's latest album, he has like six minutes of time dedicated to exploring this very issue.

And I think he kind of comes down on that position that it's like, nah, I'm not really worried about the guy, but if it were my daughter, I'd kill you.

Something like that.

I think that was his position.

I'd kill you if you did that to my son.

Okay.

I'd kill you.

I mean,

some 29-year-old coming in

and having sex with my son.

Here's what's weird:

the husband had no idea.

He's a high school coach.

Kid was having a hard time

and

friends with his son.

So he says, hey, you know what?

Why don't you guys just move into the house?

And so they did.

And then mom starts having sex with the one boy.

And

so then the dad doesn't know still, but there are other problems.

And he's like, you know what, guys, we just can't handle this.

You got to move out.

And the real problem here with

this kid's case is he apparently went back to lobby the coach and said, you know what, really, this is real hardship.

I mean, we'd love to, I mean, we'll behave ourselves.

We'd love to move back.

And of course, his loving wife said, you know what, honey, I think so.

I think that.

And then the sex continued.

Wow.

So,

you know, it's kind of a hard case.

Is there any word for the coach how that guy's doing?

He quit his job, but it says in the story, he still backs his wife.

Really?

Yeah.

What?

Into a garage, close the door, and

leave the engine on what?

It's

back your wife.

It's going to be a very awkward Christmas, regardless of how the legal proceedings.

Oh, my gosh.

Really?

Not good.

Not good.

Graham Allen is joining us.

Graham Allen is one of the hosts on Blaze TV,

Rant Nation.

Hello, Graham.

How are you?

Hey, Glenn, thanks for having me.

It's good to talk to you again.

Good to talk to you.

Graham, tell me a little bit about yourself.

For people who don't know you, introduce yourself.

Well, for people who don't know me, I am a dumb redneck from Mississippi that somehow stumbled on into people's TVs and in their homes.

I think you're being a little, you're not a dumb redneck, but you are.

You are a redneck.

I am a redneck from Mississippi.

I'm a 12-year Army veteran, and

yeah, I created something called the Daily Rants and the Dear America brand that

a large group of Americans seem to identify with, and that led into the creation of Rant Nation.

And so we are a pro-america pro-second amendment pro-family values uh show and uh yeah uh things have been going good so far and i'm very very blessed to uh be talking to you right now so you know grant is one of these guys i don't know if this has happened to you yet you'll go into a town or something and there'll be this huge crowd lying around the block and you'll say whoa what's happening there who's there and they'll they'll give you a name they'll say oh well i that's so-and-so and you're like who the hell is that and you're like a huge internet sensation.

We have, it's a weird thing now because we used to have broadcast where everybody had to be a fan, you know, or at least if you had a big fan base, everybody knew your name.

Now, because of the internet, these guys like Graham can grow and have a huge fan base, but it's in their fan base.

And so you just walk by him in the grocery store and you're like, you have no idea.

He's a big deal.

He's a big deal.

I will be more respectful.

Well, I don't think he even wants you to address him.

That's what he asks.

I'll avoid eye contact.

Okay, good.

I love you to death, man.

Thank you.

So, Graham,

what we're looking at

this coming year and what we've seen this year,

what are the biggest things that keep you up at night that make you say, we really have to get a handle on this.

We have to talk about this.

I think that we have

the fact that we have democratic socialists even on ballots is probably something that should keep everybody up at night.

I think that we're

I don't know.

I think we're entering into a world where all we ever wanted was for our younger generations to get involved with

politics and voting and this.

But what's happened is we've got these highly impressionable minds that are just believing garbage that they hear on lies and fake news.

And so now we are actually, unfortunately, potentially having to have conversations of how do we combat young voters and what it is that they're trying to believe that America needs to change into.

And so I don't know.

It's kind of like this just unfortunate thing that all we ever wanted was for

18-year-olds and up to become active in our society and active in our country and vote and make a difference.

But unfortunately, it seems that a lot of our younger generations are believing the lies that socialism is a good thing.

Well,

I think it's coming apart more, I mean, at the seams on every front.

If you look at a new survey out of those under 38, how old are you?

I'm 34.

You're 34.

And, Graham, how old are you?

I turned 32 next month.

Okay.

So those under 38, you both fit in this.

About half of those surveyed believe the United States is both a racist and sexist nation.

Do you think that's true in the people you talk to in your age group?

Do I personally think that's true or do I think that is a widespread belief?

Widespread belief is a widespread belief.

Do you see it in your friends?

Yeah.

I lived in New York the last six years.

How about you, Graham?

Well, the answer for me would be no.

You know,

where I live, you know,

I can honestly say that I don't surround myself with people that are racist or that think that one skin color is superior to another.

And so no.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

I'm saying that they believe,

half of them believe that the United States is racist and sexist.

Well, I'd want to know who they're asking,

but yeah, I believe it.

I believe that there are groups of people or whoever it is that they are polling that does.

Yeah, I believe it.

There's also, I think it's interesting, you brought up democratic socialism a moment ago, Graham, which I am likewise horrified at the prospects of rearing its ugly head in the United States.

When they do these similar surveys,

it might have been from the one Glenn brought up, up, I don't know, but

they'll ask: capitalism tends to have a really low polling rate with millennials and younger, but free enterprise is weirdly good.

It's this odd thing where it's kind of this disjointed analysis where when you talk to younger people and you sort of describe, you know, do you like entrepreneurs?

Yes, entrepreneurs are good.

Okay.

Do you like socialism?

Yes, I like socialism as well.

So there's part of it's branding and part of it's just incoherence.

So this is a study that came from Nick Adams.

He is a friend of the show.

He's from Australia, wanted to come over here,

had a hard time getting a visa to come over here and live.

He wants to be a citizen.

He finally got in after years and years and years of trying.

And he's the one who commissioned this report because he does something called Flag,

where he's trying to remind America how great America really is because he's like, I lived on the other side of the planet and I could see it.

You guys aren't seeing it.

He continues, 46% of younger Americans do not believe that America is the greatest country in the world.

14% of millennials believe that America was never a great country and never will be.

48% of those under 38 think that America is more racist than other countries.

Have you traveled?

44% of younger Americans think former President Barack Obama had a bigger impact than George Washington.

That's a little frightening.

Yeah, that is.

You know, Glenn, if I could really quick, I want to touch on the main thing that stuck out to me is that America is not great and that it's never been great.

I think that what's happening right now is we're having a group of people that are taking actual words and meanings and definitions and changing it for themselves.

Is America perfect?

No.

Will America ever be perfect?

No.

Nothing ever will be.

But to sit there and say that America is not great,

you either are truly the result of the spoils that we have within our society, you know,

the blessings that we have on a day-to-day basis that you just truly don't understand, or you don't understand the difference between great and perfect.

And I think that that's what, I think that that's a huge issue that we're having these days is people are trying to act like,

you know, well,

America is not perfect.

Well, no, no, duh, nothing is perfect.

America, the idea of America is perfect.

The idea that so many many people can come together and be different and live under one title that is American, I mean, that idea is awesome, but it's never going to be 100% realized.

Maybe a more apt phrase would be, America's not Norway.

I find that a lot of the people that I talk to are just kind of bothered that we're not Northern Europe.

And then when you drill down and talk to them about it, they don't actually understand Northern Europe very well either.

They have no idea.

They know us.

They've got this, I mean, like, who is it?

The prime minister of Denmark came to America to remind America that it is a market economy because Bernie Sanders kept pointing to it as a beacon of socialism in the last election.

They literally flew over their leader to go, nope, we're a market economy.

We do have a big safety net.

We do have high taxes, but we have a market economy.

It's truly remarkable

how little we know and appreciate it.

And on your point, Graham, about being perfect,

I talk about it in my latest book, and

it's this idea that we have to dismiss the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution because they weren't doing it.

Well, tell me any group of people at any time who said we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And a government is instituted among men to protect those rights.

Tell me anybody, any group of people ever,

even the 12 apostles, who got that right.

This is only Jesus got that right.

This is an idea that is an, in, that is a, an aspirational idea saying this is what we're shooting for.

And if we ever got to the point where we're like, yeah, wow, look at us.

We got that done.

Then we would need another aspirational statement to say, okay, we can do better than that.

But we haven't done better than that.

Nobody's done better than that.

And at least it's our stated goal to be that way.

It's It's why I like Martin Luther King.

He was saying, don't tear this down.

Live up to the inspiration and

your vision for what this country could be.

Graham Allen, host of Rant Nation, now on theblazetv.com.

Thank you so much.

Good to talk to you, Graham.

Thanks for having me.

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So how fast can your life be turned upside down?

Pretty fast.

Last week we saw Alaska and the earthquake and how fast something can happen to you.

I mean, here are these Alaskans, they're minding their own business.

All of a sudden, what was it, a seven on the Richter scale?

The last one they had in 64, I mean, the last big one they had in 64 was a nine.

And they have these plates that are actually, one is sliding underneath the other.

And so it causes, that's what, that's why they have their mountains are so huge.

It just causes these things to just rise up out of the ground.

It's crazy.

If you haven't seen the pictures of Alaska, and by the way, Alaska, I'll have you know, we were on the plane, I think, over the weekend.

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Now,

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Something could happen in my life pretty easily.

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So how do you feel about, are you anti-Latinx?

I don't think so.

Although I was telling you,

I'm not opposed to updating my lexicon.

However, that one does confuse me because from what I understand, Spanish is a Roman-esque language.

So there's

gender, A's and O's and everything.

I mean, like, like, you know, cups and mugs and everything, everything is either a male or a female.

So, I'm, I, I don't know why that would become a gender-neutral one and what the rationale was behind it.

Well, it's white people saying that

I think it's it's it's really oppressive to say,

you know, to have gender, you know, specified.

That sounds about right to me.

That would not surprise me if

that were kind of foisted from.

It's got to come from a university that said, hey, you know what?

Letinks.

I like letting.

Man, those Bronx universities, you can't square a dead cat without hitting an academic in the brain.

That doesn't sound like something the mob would come up with.

Yeah, I tell you what, we're just going to call you.

Letinks.

I would love to visit Mob University.

Like a mafia-sponsored university would be fascinating.

I would definitely go to

the collapse.

I bet you would learn a lot.

I'd love to.

And you'd probably come out a little more American, you know what I'm saying?

Enough with these Latinx, eh?

Holy cow.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.