The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Dave McCormick & Jeffrey Tucker | 11/4/24

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

The internet exploded when news broke that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation raided the house of Mark Longo and took his pet squirrel of seven years, a viral sensation known as Pea...nut, along with a raccoon named Fred, and euthanized them. Glenn and Stu discuss the politicization of this issue and the Left advocating for the government to have the power to kill your pets for no reason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:24 Peanut the Squirrel. Also, Dave McCormick joins the program running to unseat. Bob Casey. for Pennsylvania's Senate seat. We talk also to in the full version of the program, Selena Zito, who puts her money where her mouth is on today's program. How's this election going to turn out?
Starting point is 00:00:44 And Jeffrey Tucker is on to talk about the real-time censorship patent on the Internet archive and how trustworthy the lost info might be if it's ever able to be recovered. You don't want to miss it. Oh, Roseanne Barr is also on the full show. worth the download to go and get out and vote tomorrow if you haven't already but here is the best of the program in 60 let me tell you about silver silver is on the rise just as of january 2024 which is when i started talking to you about lear capital the price of silver just since january of this year has gone up by 39 percent this is unprecedented now why well they think he could go up
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Starting point is 00:02:17 You're listening to the best of the gold. We just learned that they have euthanized peanut. And the raccoon as well. And the raccoon as well. I am so sorry. This is, this must be really difficult for you. It not only tears my family apart, but peanut was the cornerstone of our nonprofit animal rescue. And 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer.
Starting point is 00:02:59 I was sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast. or lunch, I was sitting, sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status, then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to go through every cabinet, nook and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon. They got a search warrant? They got a search warrant. Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel in a raccoon. And then they took them and came.
Starting point is 00:03:40 killed them. Why did they go through all that to get a search warrant for an animal that had been with you very safely and the world witnessed this for seven years? Why now suddenly did they show up with a search warrant and take these animals? We have a clue. We don't know who made the complaints. Again, Peanut was an indoor squirrel not harming anybody. He's been with us for seven years. Not a single complaint was ever filed for this animal. We had him for seven and a half. years, he became the world's most famous squirrel. We weren't hiding him by any means. He was all over TikTok. He became the first squirrel on TikTok to ever hit a million followers. He did every new station around the world. He's helped people. He's helped kids gather joy. And then we started a non-profit
Starting point is 00:04:28 animal rescue called Peanuts Freedom Farm to help animals like Peanut fight a good fight when they're in a neglected case or they're sitting in a slaughter auction. And he was the cornerstone of our life and our organization. We used his platform to help raise money for the 300 animals we have at our sanctuary. Chapter 1. Propaganda Wars by Glenn Beck. Welcome to Clown World. I rest my case, Your Honor. What the hell is that? Now, do I feel bad for them? Yes, I really feel bad for it. Do I think this is the weaponization of government? Yes. Some anonymous person made a complaint, apparently said he might have rabies. The person came in without the, you know, permission of the people and grabbed him and he
Starting point is 00:05:27 bit him. Of course he did. My dog might bite you too if you were aggressive to my family. What the hell is this? Now, I don't know about you, but I suspect Karen. That's who I suspect. All Karens should be investigated today. And let me make this promise if Donald Trump is elected. Oh, all the Karens will be investigated and probably put in a camp someplace. They're already building it.
Starting point is 00:06:04 You know they are. This is an insane story. Insane. And it is so bizarre. when you're talking about the actual content of what occurred here, you're talking about a squirrel and a raccoon living as a pet, all of that. It is also one of the most egregious abuses of government power I can ever remember.
Starting point is 00:06:27 It's like one of those things similar to like women's sports where we talk about the transgender issue. There's a million different things that are really important about the transgender issue. Women's sports is not probably number one. The fact that a lot of medals get taken away, it's dramatic. I have kids. I have a girl who this might happen to. So it's concerning, but it's not the most serious part. It's the part, though, that brings it home, like the most.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Moms and dads are like, wait a minute, my daughter's going to get hit in the face with a volleyball at 120 miles an hour. What are we talking about here? Right. Right. This is kind of, in a weird way, sort of the same. It is. You don't think about it. It's a squirrel being killed.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Like, they get run over nine trillion times a day. Can you stop just holding up the squirrel? squirrel while you forget Fred the raccoon. I know. He's getting the shaft on this one. He's getting the shaft. Poor Fred. But I mean, like, do you, if they will do this to a family that is, has documented all
Starting point is 00:07:27 of this, millions and millions of people follow this. They see the squirrel is this most little adorable thing, like jumping around on its owners. And like, it's, it's crazy. The fact they would do this, knowing how visible it was. Just shows that they don't care. You think they care about you? These people have millions and millions of people watching their daily life with this. They took the squirrel and murdered it for no reason at all.
Starting point is 00:07:57 In the most visible way possible, they will not care about what your little complaint is. Let me just point out, for no reason possible? No reason. Okay. Let me just quote. Jen, early voter, Rubin from the Washington Post. Oh, God. Quote, the maga squirrel deserved to die.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Now, I think this is both an absolutely ridiculous clown world story, but I also think it is a microcosm of everything this election is about. Everything. You know, they call Donald Trump vengeful. They're going to get the maga squirrel and kill him. These people with peace in their hearts, these animal lovers, the ones who just love the planet, take an innocent squirrel that if he had a maga hat on, I can guarantee you, he didn't know what the hat was. Not that he didn't know it was a maga hat.
Starting point is 00:09:11 He didn't even know it was a hat. and they kill him. This is nuts. Is that a squirrel joke? You got a squirrel joke? You just said it. Is it nuts? You said this is nuts,
Starting point is 00:09:28 that's the ultimate squirrel joke. You made it and didn't even realize it. I really am shocked by this, though. Like, I don't know. Do you get, I don't know, it's funny because I don't, we're the, did the people who, the parents, The parents of the squirrel, are there politics known at all? Like, are they?
Starting point is 00:09:51 I don't know. I have no idea. She deleted this post because she started to get hammered for it. Okay. But Jen Rubin, Washington Post, she seems to know it was a maga squirrel. I haven't asked the squirrels in my area who they're for. So there's no little teeny squirrel signs that I've seen for Trump around any of the tree. that I have in my house. I have heard that particular squirrel peanut supports lower corporate
Starting point is 00:10:19 income taxes. So I am concerned. But like it became a political issue. Everything is political. But not because as far as I know, these were like big Maga people who had a squirrel. It's because the people who want your squirrel to live are conservatives. The people who don't want the government to have the power to invade your home and take your pets and murder them for no reason that's now a political issue because the left wants the government
Starting point is 00:10:52 to have that power. They do. They want them to be able to do that and they might say well I love my pet what are you talking about. I'm voting for Kamala Harris and I love my pet. It doesn't matter. What you're advocating for is the power of the government to be able to do this stuff to you. And you believe that it will never do it
Starting point is 00:11:10 to you. I got news for you. I got news for Selfish, by the way. Incredibly selfish. And you don't care about anybody else because you don't think it might happen to you. That's not, that is an incredibly selfish instinct. You know, like, but you have that already. Who did I see over the weekend talk about, you know, people wonder how people just in Germany just went full-fledged Nazi? And he said, look, look what happened with COVID?
Starting point is 00:11:42 He's like, I'll bet you at least 30% of our population couldn't wait to turn a neighbor in because it signaled their virtue. Not first among them, Tim Walls, by the way. Yeah. Put a hot line up. Put a hot line up. Report your neighbors if they're not handling an illness the way you want them to. That's unbelievable. This man might be vice president of the United States after he did that.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Just that. forget the fact that he allowed cities to burn to the ground and all the other crap he's been doing. Well, this time, this time they're not taking any chances. They have put the National Guard on standby in Seattle, Washington, Portland, and Washington, D.C. You know, all those deeply red areas. A lot of tiki tortures, parades going on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're worried about all the Trump supporters.
Starting point is 00:12:41 there, you know? Well, Jesse Simolette was one of the first that allowed, that let us know that Maga country isn't exactly where we think it is. Sometimes it's downtown Chicago. Sometimes it's Portland. Right. That's Maga country for you. Well, we have infiltrated all those areas with the squirrels.
Starting point is 00:13:01 So, and they are pissed. All right, no matter what it is to get you out of bed in the morning. Who would have thought the day before the election? We'd be talking about a squirrel. This isn't the lead story. We're talking about a squirrel. And like it's so perfect to like in the meme of like what's distracting you. Squirrel!
Starting point is 00:13:21 Like it's actually coming true. Real life. Oh man. It's going to be a tough couple days. Couple weeks, couple months. Chapter one. Chapter one in propaganda wars available everywhere. You buy books now.
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Starting point is 00:15:16 Tomorrow, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. That's our first sign of how things are going to be going. And Dave McCormick is running for the Senate in Pennsylvania. He is running against Casey, who is a dream come true. Dave is a Bronze Star recipient. He went to West Point. was the CEO of free markets, a successful tech startup. And he's now running for Senate.
Starting point is 00:15:51 God only knows why, but, you know, he's been to war, so it won't be much different. And Dave is joining us now. Hi, Dave. Hey, Glenn, how are you? I'm really good. I'm really good. How are you feeling today? You know, I feel great.
Starting point is 00:16:05 I mean, at Homestretch, this was always going to be a super tight race. but what's happening is it feels like there's a momentum shift. And, you know, in my race, it's really a choice between change and the status quo. Yeah. And a guy who is at me, in my case, a seven-generation Pennsylvania, as you said, grew up in rural Pennsylvania, went to West Point, Ranger School, 82nd Airborne Division, and combat torn Iraq, and then ran a business in Pennsylvania against the guy that's been in elected office 30 years, comes from a famous political family.
Starting point is 00:16:39 It's been a weak leader when the bullets start flying. He ducks, and he votes 98.6% of the time with Biden Harris. And so if people want the status quo, I tell him on the campaign trail, vote Casey. If you want change, that's what I'm running for to bring about change and hopefully work with President Trump and in the White House to put forward a common sense agenda to get our economy back on track and make ourselves energy dominant, which will be because of Pennsylvania's natural gas. and secure the border and stop this scourge of fentanyl. And so I think, you know, three quarters of Pennsylvaniaers think that we're heading in the wrong direction, which is why I think President Trump will prevail, and I think I will too. You know, because your slogan is time for a change.
Starting point is 00:17:25 And I really think, Dave, that this is, that is coming. You know, one way or another, deep change is coming. If she wins, I think we are no longer the constitutional. Republican for years that we are now. And Donald Trump made some mistakes in his first term, but he's learned from them, and he has gotten uber sharp on everything. He knows what he's doing. And he's talking about profound change.
Starting point is 00:17:55 What I don't understand is how people see Kamala as an agent of change. You know, I think it's it's wearing off here in Pennsylvania. I think Pennsylvania may be the one place where the Democrats would have been wiser to put Joe Biden forward because Biden had a claim to Pennsylvania. He had campaigned here. He knew every union leader, every county commissioner. But Kamala Harrison, her own words, in her own words in the last three or four years, wants to ban fracking, transition energy workers, mandatory buybacks of your guns,
Starting point is 00:18:30 legalization of illegal immigrants, federal benefits for them, defund the police, eliminate private health care insurance. I mean, this is a radical agenda. that's completely out of touch with Pennsylvania. And the more Pennsylvanians see that, the more that they're coming to the conclusion that we need the strength and common sense policies of President Trump. But it's also a Bob Casey thing. Because if God forbid Kamala Harris is in there,
Starting point is 00:18:56 Bob Casey is a sure vote. And, you know, somebody said this to me the other day, Glenn, which really struck a negative chord with me. But somebody said, are you running for the Bob Casey seat? and I said, I'm not running for the Bob Casey. This isn't an entitlement because his name's Casey. You know, you get to earn this seat every single day, every election, and he's failed people across our great Commonwealth.
Starting point is 00:19:23 And that's why I think you're seeing the movement in the polls. What everybody would say is that there's a huge push in my direction, in my race, but also President Trump's picked up some steam here as well. And I think we're going to see that tomorrow. How do you feel about the security of the election? You know, I feel two things at the same time. I feel like there's been an enormous effort. Thousands of people will be at election site, 7,000 observers, 500 lawyers.
Starting point is 00:19:53 I think there's a lot of vigilance, but we have to be vigilant because we've already seen cases where they're trying to suppress the voting in Bucks County by, you know, ending early voting early. We've seen what looks to be fraudulent. registrations in Lancaster County, which the district attorney there is prosecuting. So I think we've got a lot of focus, a lot of resources on it, which should give us some comfort. But I also think that we've got to play whackamole and be extremely vigilant to make sure any indication of cheating or fraud is dealt with immediately. And so I'm paranoid about it, but I also feel like we're very focused.
Starting point is 00:20:31 And, you know, this is one of the areas where President Trump's campaign and mine have been very coordinated, Michael Wattley, who, who's the chairman of the RNC, has made Pennsylvania ground zero for his efforts. So, listen, let's talk about tomorrow or on Wednesday, but I feel like we're pretty focused on it. We're talking to Dave McCormick. He's running for Senate in the state of Pennsylvania. Dave, Kamala Harris has said that she is not now against banning fracking. She's turned that around, apparently. Although she made a big speech over the weekend outlining the most expansive green,
Starting point is 00:21:07 energy, you know, global warming agenda. And she's bragging about that to her supporters. Where is Casey on all of this? And do you believe either of them? Yeah, listen, I think it's, I think it's both deceptive and disgraceful. And I've talked a lot about this on the campaign trail. You know, for your listeners, if they went to my website, Dave McCormick, PA.com, they'll see, I've laid out all my positions on energy and what we need to do and everything else. But, but two points. Number one, we should not trust them on this because Kamala Harris has had a long history of being for eliminating fossil fuel consumption in general. And Bob Casey has voted time and again for the Frack Act, which essentially puts a
Starting point is 00:21:49 huge burden on fracking companies. He's supported the closing down of the Keystone Pipeline. He's been absolutely in favor of all these restrictions on natural gas, the EPA mandate, which is going to create much more demand for electric vehicles at the expense of combustion engines. But the most important thing to take away here is you don't actually have to ban fracking. What you do is you put all sorts of red tape and regulations. You increase the liabilities. You make it harder and harder for private sector to invest. That's what they're doing. And so, you know, this whole conversation about ban or not ban, what we should be talking about is how we not just have fracons. And so, you know, this whole conversation about, but we double, triple, quadruple the amount of fracking taking place in Pennsylvania
Starting point is 00:22:39 because it's critical to our economic wellbeing, it's critical to our national security. And here's the irony, but it's critical to the environment. That natural clean gas exported around the world will be the best thing we could ever do to reduce carbon emissions. So sorry to go on so long, but that's, that is really an area where I think the Democrats are completely out to lunch. And Bob Casey is a rubber stamp vote for all this. extreme green agenda.
Starting point is 00:23:06 So we have one candidate, you know, talking about green agenda, which will change everything. The other candidate has now floated, Donald Trump has floated even no taxes, no income tax. The things that he is advocating for are massive, just massive change. And in my view, pretty good. Are you prepared to fight those funds? fights in the Senate? Yeah, I really am. I'm prepared. I mean, I think, and I say this all the time, I think we can't have incrementalism. We can't have incrementalism in terms of dealing with our energy industry or in terms of our economy and spending cuts we need to do to bring this terrible
Starting point is 00:23:55 inflation in place. So the economy of Biden-Harrison Casey has been devastating for working families in Pennsylvania, 60% of the families of Pennsylvania live paycheck to paycheck, and prices have gone up by more than 20% and wages haven't kept up. So we got to get rid of all incrementalism in terms of getting our country back on track. And I'm going to fight those battles for a number of reasons. I deeply believe we need to do this to save our country. But, you know, I'm not doing this to become a career politician. I've term limited myself, which many people said I should not do. But I'm going to do this for two terms if I'm honored enough to get the opportunity. I'm not going there to make small changes.
Starting point is 00:24:39 I'm going there to shake things up. I agree with a lot of the things President Trump has said in his agenda that he's laid out very specifically. Kamala Harris has not laid out an agenda at all. Donald Trump has done so. And the place where I think we need the most dramatic change is the border. And I'm going to say something here, God, which has got to. me into some trouble, but I really believe it. We not only need to secure the border,
Starting point is 00:25:05 you know, finish the wall, go through the process of getting the illegal immigrants back across the border to their home countries. I think we need to designate the cartels as terrorist organizations, day one, and go across the border with our drones, with our military, destroy the manufacturing facilities, destroy the distribution facilities. This scourge of fentanyl has killed 116,000 Americans last year. And to put that in perspective, as a guy who has served in the military, we lost 58,000 men and women in Vietnam killed in action in eight years. So last year in America, we had two Vietnams because of the cartels invading our country with fentanyl, killing our innocent young people who don't even know they're taking fentanyl. So that's the kind of
Starting point is 00:25:58 tough, dramatic leadership I think we need. And I think President Trump's going to bring that. Now, I'll be with him when he does. Dave, thank you very much. This is Dave McCormick. He is running for Senate in Pennsylvania. You can find him at Dave McCormick, PA.com. Dave McCormick, PA.com. You can also follow him on Twitter. Best of luck to you tomorrow, Dave. Thank you. Hey, thanks. Thanks for having me. Have a great day. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. World be like if all of a sudden you went into the library, we were a country based in books, try to think back with me, old timer, and all the books were suddenly gone. And then a month later, they're put back on the shelf and they open the library, but you're not sure they put all the books back.
Starting point is 00:26:55 You're not sure what happened to any of those books. You're not sure if any of those books were changed. How could you trust history? Well, we're in a digital age now, and there is something that I don't really understand that's been going on for the last few weeks. It's archive.org. On October 8th, the servers were hit with a denial of service attack, and it took down the service but also led to catastrophic failure. this is the way people go back and say, okay, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:27:32 Is that what they really said? Wait, they believe that now, but what did they say back in, you know, 2016, 2020, last week? Remember how everything was changed on Kamala Harris overnight? They just started changing. You've lost now the ability to go back and see what does the original story say. Now, is this done? just a, I don't know, a coincidence, a really, really bad coincidence?
Starting point is 00:28:06 Because there's some other things that have changed that look like if it is, it's a pretty big and bad coincidence. Jeffrey Tucker is where he's the founder and president, Brownstone Institute. Jeffrey, how are you? Good. And Glenn, thank you for describing this problem so well. You have away with metaphors. I don't think I understand the depth and I've read up on it a bit this weekend and it seems like some people are saying it's no big deal it's going to be fixed. Other people are saying, no, no, no, this is a really big deal. Well, I got a communication from the company itself that said there's no big deal.
Starting point is 00:28:47 We have been, from the 8th of October, we've been mirroring the entire internet. It's just that we can't make it live yet because we're not quite stable. And my initial feeling was, oh, good, okay. But, but, you know, we've all lost trust in basically everything. So I decided to respond to the guy, and I said, I said, well, I guess I'm a little confused. If you have been mirroring since mirroring all the interests since the age, but why can't you make that at least alive in? in a read-only mode.
Starting point is 00:29:28 And I didn't get an answer. So I feel like I might be onto something. And I still smell a rat here. First of all, there is the issue of timing. I mean, they have been involved in mirroring websites since the browser was invented in 1995. And I can see on Archive.org now websites that I built in 1995. 1996.
Starting point is 00:29:57 They're there. And all, and this is thing, you know, consistently mirroring the, the internet since, since that time until, of all things, you know, 30 days before what many people consider to be the most momentous election in modern times. And suddenly, DDoS attack hits the site and they stop. and here we are now and people kept thinking
Starting point is 00:30:28 it's a temporary glitch but they kept the company kept saying no well it was worse than we thought and we're working really hard oh now here's a read only version so you can't
Starting point is 00:30:41 so it's not real time but you can read all the archives well I went to the site I'm not sure if I was the first one to notice this but I think I was the first one to really sound the along arm that nothing is available since October 8th. And so we don't know.
Starting point is 00:31:01 And just keep in mind, so they mirror prominent websites several times a day, sometimes four or five times a day, so that you can tell the difference between the morning headline and the afternoon headline. And I've used this tool quite frequently to discover, for example, all the Kakamami edicts issued by the CDC,
Starting point is 00:31:23 from 2020 that they deleted, you know, a year later. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to, I found it was the CDC that imposed the rent moratorium, push for all the filtration systems that later turned out to be a huge waste of time, all the crazy, craze plexiglass stuff that, right, best doomed the world. Another thing, Glenn, that they, that they did, and I think this was on March 12, 2020, was urge the entire country to, in the language of a mandate, you know, you can never tell in those days what was required and what wasn't, but in the language of a mandate, mail in ballots, okay? So in other words, sending our election systems, you know, the very core of what it means to be
Starting point is 00:32:14 a democratic society, into dramatic upheaval in ways that everyone knew, would lead to massive fraud. So that happened on March 12th. Was it with the permission of the Trump administration? I doubt it. But in any case, after the election, that November, that instruction went away. So it's only thanks to Archive.org that we know this.
Starting point is 00:32:39 Another example is the World Health Organization for a period of, I would say, a fortnight, completely changed this definition of herd immunity to exclude natural immunity. Right. They said that you can only obtain herd immunity through pharmaceutical products. Right. I mean, yeah. So, then they change back again.
Starting point is 00:33:05 So we can, we only, and I've discovered a lot of these things, but only by using Archive.org. So this is extremely important. As we speak, there are three weeks, three full weeks of the internet missing. Now, I have a little bit. of a coda here, before this interview was about to take place, I decided to check on the status of the real-time mirroring and where we stood and what was available in real-time, and I looked at Brownstone.org, our website, and I found that it's still not being mirrored. The latest copy
Starting point is 00:33:41 they have is from October 8th. But then I went to the New York Times, and boom, two instances of mirroring the site yesterday. Now, I have not had time to research how many other sites are being mirrored and which ones are not being mirrored. But let me just put it this way. How can you not smell a rat? You know, it's, it's, it's, it's looking pretty bad. So I can understand a longer term, uh, problem, uh, that, you know, we're just,
Starting point is 00:34:22 taking pages out of books in a library. And what are you talking about? That page never was there. I can understand that longer term. What do you think they're short term, if they are turning it back on? What would you think the short term advantage? What did they do?
Starting point is 00:34:41 Well, based on the evidence that I'm seeing now, it's only, you know, the sort of massively popular sort of regime-friendly publications that are being mirrored and others are not. And that would be consistent with the Biden-Harris administration's agenda for the internet, generally speaking, because in, I think it was about two years ago, they issued a thing called the Declaration on the future of the internet. Yes. That excluded the traditional, injunction that it should be a place of free expression and that there should be free speech on the internet. That's every declaration on the internet. Future always had that. They deleted that
Starting point is 00:35:40 and changed it into what they called a stakeholder model. And they mention, and by the way, they put all this in, you know, a fake calligraphy, you know, with a fancy pants. border, you know, as if to codify it into all of the human mind and all this gibberish. But the stakeholders they mention are the usual suspects. So major NGOs and nonprofits, universities, large companies, and government. Okay. So those are the stakeholders that are and control the content. Now, you read the declaration on the future of the internet, so it's clear that what they want is to turn the entire internet in some version of 1970s television, replacing 800 numbers with credit card fields. And that's it. So everything else is
Starting point is 00:36:39 slated for some kind of termination. And that includes Rumble and X, a substack, and probably your site and mine, and everybody else. And that's the long-term vision, getting from here to there is not going to be easy because the First Amendment stands in their way. So as a result of that, you have to find surreptitious methods of obtaining the same results incrementally. So one of those, and here again, call me a conspiracy terrorist if you want, one incremental part of the method would be to eliminate the mirroring of sites, the sites slated for termination in real time so that in effect you don't exist. Nothing I've posted since October 8th exists in the official internet archive. And that's probably true for you too.
Starting point is 00:37:34 Yeah. So we are not, we are our, our activities day to day, our writings are not being recorded by the internet's big engine. And and and and incidentally, yes, there are other alternatives to archive.org. But nothing. that mirrors the entire world by web in real time. All the other engines require sort of manual operation by users and are not in any sense comprehensive. So this is the only one, which is tragic. There should be hundreds and thousands of these,
Starting point is 00:38:09 but there's not Google can do it, but they stop their services of running real-time caching of websites last year, I think. So things are tightening up. And in my article with Debbie Laramon, we also chronicled the fascinating way in which internet search has changed. You've undoubtedly noticed this, I think, I think, I've got to Google now. And you don't get crowdsourced community curated content of credible sources. Right.
Starting point is 00:38:46 as fed. The old algorithms used to look at how much a site is linked into. And if people found it useful. That was the driving force. It was imperfect, but at least it was democratic. And you could cross-check that with a website called Alexa, which has been around since 1995. It was acquired by Amazon in 2000. and the idea of Alexa was that it had public rankings of web traffic. And a practical example of this. If there's a website that says,
Starting point is 00:39:25 Glenn Beck is a bad guy and you should have nothing to do with him, you might be slightly bugged by that, but then you could look up at Alexa and notice that this website is hardly ever seen by anybody, hardly ever used by anybody. Therefore, it would be unlocked, likely to be the spiders, the unlikely to, yeah,
Starting point is 00:39:45 so it would not have any kind of impact on the public mind, right? So you would dismiss it. Now, Glenn Beck is a jerk website, just started last week, can be gained to be the second, second research, the second link on Google under your name. And you don't know if this is a big website,
Starting point is 00:40:08 a small website, you know, some troll website started last week, or something read by 10 million people a day. You know, you wouldn't know. Because Amazon shut it down after buying it, they had it for a few years, and then they just shut it down. They didn't sell it.
Starting point is 00:40:23 They just went dark, which is unusual. Jeffrey, I'm, I'm out of time, but I would love to further this conversation with you and stay in touch with what is going on with the mirroring of all of the sites. I hope you're wrong, but I don't dismiss very much anymore because, you know, it's crazy. Jeffrey, thank you so much. You got it. Bye-bye. Brownstone.org.
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