The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Peter Gietl | 1/11/24

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

Glenn plays the trailer for the new Blaze Originals documentary "The Real Story of Colony Ridge," which exposes an unincorporated area in Houston that is overrun by illegal immigrants. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joins to explain how the new budget proposal is setting up Republicans for failure and why conservatives should hold the line on border security. Peter Gietl, managing editor for Blaze Media's Return, joins to discuss the horrors that pornography has delved into.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What a weird 24 hours. Yeah. Like all of these huge stories, including the private. Minister of Poland talking about how two politicians went to the presidential palace there, and they were arrested. And the president had already pardoned them and everything else. And he said, for the first time since communism, we have political prisoners. And then Canada, the reporter that was arrested on the street for, what was it, attacking a police officer? And the video was there, that's not what happened at all.

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That's Patriotmobile.com slash Beck. You're listening to. the best of the Glenn Beck program. It's Thursday. Maybe later we can go through some of this polling on the border, Glenn, because it's a huge vulnerability for Biden going into this election. Huge. Catastrophe.

45% say it's a crisis. Crisis. I am surprised it's that low. When they're kicking people out of their schools. Oh my gosh. In, what is that, New York, right? Yeah, Brooklyn. In fact, do we have the video of that?

It is, it's astounding. Play the video of that. Of them being ejected. Here we go. There's a mom. That's a mom. Are you yelling? I mean, I doubt, incomprehensive.

I doubt this mom. Taking all my kids. Yeah. I doubt this mom was, you know, a diehard voter one way or another. I mean, there's going to be a lot of, it might be. But yeah, who knows? their moms first and their kids are being kept out of school and told they got to go someplace else because all of these migrants are coming at, not migrants, I'm sorry, illegal aliens coming in,

and they're just taking the schools. What the hell is happening? It's legitimately shocking. It's also 2,000 people you know nothing about. You don't know if these are criminals, our felons, are mass murderers, and they just moved into this neighborhood, 2000 at once. It's incredible. It's an unconscionable story.

Wait until you see this documentary on Blaze TV, on Colony Ridge, the new documentary with me and Jason Butrell. On right now, you can watch it at blazTV.com slash Glenn. If you're not a subscriber, you'll need to subscribe. Use Colony Ridge and you'll save 30 bucks or 30% off your Blaze TV. membership, Blaze TV Plus. This documentary is for Blaze TV people only. It is

really amazing, truly amazing. And we can only make these things because of you. And try to find the real story. And the real story on this has been missed by almost everybody. The real story on Colony Ridge. Yeah. It's been missed by everybody.

and we expose it because it was so when you actually go down and you're trying to find the truth it's not what you heard and it's not necessarily you know what the development says either those are polar opposites of each other of each other

so what is the real truth and what's the real story and you'll see that tonight on the documentary blazTV.com slash glen use the promo code colony ridge but this does not, this is the fastest growing development in Texas. This is going to be everywhere, and you'll understand why tonight.

I mean, everywhere. Aren't they selling like 200 lots a day or something ridiculous? It's out of control what's going on. Yeah, it's crazy. It's going to be the biggest city in the southeast or southwest pretty soon. Oh, I mean, it is 30 minutes outside of Houston. Yeah. And it's already, what, 70,000 people?

Well, you'll find out tonight. That's what some people say. That's what some people say. You'll see tonight. It's pretty amazing. And you know where we got the official number? The schools. Oh, they'd know.

Yeah, they'd know. All right, anyway. It's poor people living in the shadows. I don't know what your deal is with them. But just here to make a better life for themselves. Just a bunch of families coming in, wanting a better life. The word I would use is not emergency. I would say it's invasion.

Yeah. Well, that's the word that people agree with most now. They just did a study on that, a survey. And rather than a crisis, they're saying it's an invasion. The American people are starting to wake up to it. I don't know if they're awake enough to elect a new leader who's going to do something about this, but I sure hope so. Well, Mike Lee is on today because Mike Lee is saying no budget, no border, no budget. No border, no budget.

That's the way it should be. That's what Chip Roy is saying. You know, they torpedoed, 12 of them torpedoed the budget yesterday in the house. Because it included nothing on the border. Nothing on the border. Laffable. I mean, this charade we went through with throwing McCarthy out as if it was going to make some difference. And then the exact same deal comes back.

Yeah. A lot of the people who were responsible for that, I haven't heard word one from, by the way. No. But, I mean, it was just a waste of time. I don't care about McCarthy. I don't care. And I don't think Johnson's the worst guy in the world or anything. But like, there's no change here.

This is the same thing. They're in this. They're restrained the same way. They can't do anything. They fail over and over again when they have power. I mean, it's pathetic. Who's best equipped, do you think, after everything we've seen so far in this campaign, to do something substantial on the border?

To finally, would it be Trump? Would it be DeSantis? I think it would be. Nikki Haley. I mean, who do you have the most faith in? To do something on the border? Yeah. I think Trump and DeSantis are side by side.

Yeah, me too. The Vake's pretty strong on, from what I've heard of. Right, but I don't know if he would have the muscle. I think he would make a decent vice president because I think he could explain things. He could be out on the road, be a bully pulpit. He's a bulldog, too. I mean, he's a bulldog. You've seen him with the press over the past few weeks, especially in grave.

Very, very good. You know, look, there's a, it's so weird. I think people are so polarized on Vivek. And it's like, I don't know. I mean, he's got something to offer. I really do think that. I mean, he is, he's just super smart. He's super smart.

He's very good. I mean, he really does, you've mentioned this before in Oakland with Vivek as a potential Trump VP type of candidate. And it's like, you know, I mean, you could see it. You know, he's a, he sort of has a younger, more, certainly a different approach, let's say, a more well-spoken

and sort of refined approach than Trump, but he's the bulldog in the same way. And like, what you might point out as issues with Vivek if you're looking at him

generally, like, you know, occasionally he does go down certain roads. He's had some odd comments on, you know, 9-11, for example, that might cause a normal

candidate problems. That's not going to cause Donald Trump any problems. Okay, hang on. Doesn't care at all. I'd be like, oh, yeah. Whatever.

Whatever. But a lot of them ask. You're going to on 9-11. There are many conspiracies about 9-11. Steel doesn't melt comes to mind. Sure. Then how do you make it into a beam? How do they shape it so well?

Right. But, you know, World Trade Center number seven collapsing later that day is really the conspiracy theory. There's a hundred million conspiracy theories. I don't, you know, I don't embrace any of them. But still, like, you know, I think if you talk to Vivek, he's not saying, well, it's Will World Trade Center 7? He's saying like, okay, well, they lie to us about Saudi Arabia's involvement. He's not like.

I agree with that. I wish he'd clear that out, though. He makes it sound like he's Alex Jones on the issue and he's, I don't think he is. And then you might think that because he brings Alex Jones on his podcast and then goes on Alex Jones's a podcast. Who am I? Again, I think that he has something to offer. But like his vulnerabilities as a candidate, the places he's, you know, weak or questionable as a lead candidate are. are all issues that Donald Trump could roll through without even thinking about it on a Tuesday afternoon.

Yes. Like, none of those problems that Vivek might present to a Nikki Haley, he hasn't present any of those problems to Donald Trump. Oh, no. Donald Trump will be like, oh, yeah, well, actually, I think it was a conspiracy. It wasn't. He'll, like, outdo Vivek on all those things. I saw George Bush plant the explosives. He's not. He's a care. He'll go whatever.

So, like, you know, it's an interesting fit because, you know, Vivek would be able to go on all these shows and just constantly roll over media people attacking Trump. And if that's a job, you'd think Trump would really like to have a bulldog. You know, Pence was a different pick. Pence was like, hey, a lot of, you know, evangelical people don't trust me right now in 2016. I need someone who will give me that credibility. And Pence filled that role and basically didn't, you know, never disagreed with him for four years.

I mean, I know everyone talks about January 6th, but like before January 6th, Pence was very subservient. to Donald Trump basically the entire time. And like, I don't know, you watch Vivek on stage, he's almost doing that already. Right? He literally said, while running for president in a debate, that Donald Trump was the best president of his lifetime. And it's like, if you believe that, let him run against him. Let's get him be president. We don't need you if we have him still.

But, you know, Vivek has a number two in that role. There's something to it. However, let's play the game of you need all of the Republicans. That would lead me to believe if Nikki Haley does well in Iowa, if she comes in second in Iowa and, you know, you leave DeSantis kind of in the dust, I think DeSantis could be done. If DeSantis finishes third, he's toast, right?

There's no way to come back. It's a close third, you know, if it's like one or two points away. I mean, you're in Iowa. what he's put all of his resources there. If he finishes third, I think so too. Other than Trump is in a gulag, right? They take Trump off the ballot somehow. You know, something like that, you might say, okay, he's playing for second.

If it was him versus Nikki Haley, all polling of Republicans shows he would beat Nikki Haley easily. But the question is when when given the three-way choice here with Trump and Haley and DeSantis, the dissentists, people who like DeSantis, are more likely to vote for Trump. If Trump isn't there, DeSantis may say, okay, well, I have a path forward. You know, I mean, again, we have to take these things seriously because, you know, the entire U.S. government seems to be aligned to try to destroy Donald Trump. So you have to think of what happens as a secondary choice here.

And so DeSantis might see a path forward there. But in a traditional primary, if all, he has spent all of his resources in Iowa, if he finishes third, there's a new poll today that shows him in third, by the way. if that is true, and that is, and it's hard to believe, but if that is true, he's got to be toast, right? Like, if you spend all of this time, all of these resources on Iowa and you finish third behind Nikki Haley in a state that's like Iowa, that's catastrophic for this campaign. This is where that really cold, cold front could help DeSantis. Yeah. Because his people are going to be hopefully motivated.

If he's behind Nikki Haley, uh, they, be either they'll either give up or they'll be motivated to get out to the caucus and really caucus for him and be strong. He's got the best organization, I think, in the entire state. I talked to Steve Dase yesterday who kind of outlined that same idea. I think Donald Trump has a pretty strong. I've heard that he is killing it on the ground. I mean, look, that poll that I mentioned that has DeSantis in third place also has Trump over 50%. The weather could definitely play a part in this, though. But it's going to be like 15 here. How cold is it going to be an, I Iowa. 15 below.

Yeah. Really cold. Really cold. And if you're a Trump voter and you're thinking like he's up by 30, why am I really going to? That could really hurt him. That could really throw it into chaos. Really hurt him. All right. Back in just a minute. Thank you, Pat. Pat Gray from Pat Gray unleashed only on Blaze TV. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Yesterday, Mike Lee went on a rant on X.

I wish Senate GOP leaders would admit that Biden already has the power to stop the border surge but refuses to do so. And two, passing new laws, paying $106 billion as the price of admission won't change that. When this effort fails, Biden will blame the GOP for the surge. By not including Speaker Johnson in these border security negotiations to give him what he needs, Senate ours are setting up GOP to get blamed for the border. Why exclude the House Speaker in this? This gives Biden and the Democrats a massive win. Biden will. Biden will never enforce the law and Dem AGs will litigate it to death and ensure that none of it takes effect. Those advocating for this deal, including members of both parties, are setting Republicans

up for failure. Nothing that's in this deal, which we still haven't seen, but we've been described, it's been described to us in broad terms, would stop the current surge and the border and some of its provisions might as well, might make the surge far worse. No one believes this can pass the House because it's got serious problems. So why are we setting up Republicans. Perhaps the firm has now ousted Speaker Johnson and renamed it as the law firm of Schumer, McConnell, and Jeffries. If so, that speaks well of Speaker Johnson. Mike Lee is here to talk about this. Hi, Mike. Good to be with you. Good to be with you, Senator. You give me a little bit of hope because

I've been wondering about Speaker Johnson. You're saying, now that he's cut out of this in the Senate, and that might mean that he's actually a good guy? Yeah, it appears to me that Speaker Johnson, who I met with this morning, has not been in the look on this at all. It appears to me also that Speaker Johnson knows that this has no realistic hope of going anywhere in the House, and I believe Speaker Johnson also understands that President Biden has the authority

to address the border crisis in a meaningful way to get the numbers down low the way they were before President Trump left office. But President Biden refuses to do so. And one of the dangerous things about this game is that by setting this up, we're almost taking accountability away from President Biden by buying into the narrative and implicitly furthering the narrative that says, that this whole border crisis, the humanitarian crisis unfolding there, the rule of law chaos, the invasion of the United States of America by people from all over the world, including not just

from Latin America, but from places like, oh, I don't know, Afghanistan and Syria. China. China. All kinds of places. Yemen. This is occurring for want of adequate legislation, for a lack of adequate federal law. It is not. Look, Glenn, the bottom line is this all started and it all gets perpetuated through our asylum laws. And our asylum laws at the outset are discretionary. They're written in May language rather than shall language. They contemplate that when someone comes in, crosses our border without documentation,

they want to apply for asylum. They do so. They're supposed to be incarcerated until their claim can be a general. And if and only if they're deemed eligible for it, then they're admitted. Most of them are not, by the way. But what these guys are doing, they're saying, well, we ran out of bed space. We don't have enough time or people and enough beds to process all them and hold them. So what we're going to do is just release them into the interior of the country.

In fact, we're going to buy them a plane ticket. And they can board that plane without a driver's license or a passport or anything else. We'll just fly them into the country. And we'll tell them, have fun. We'll probably contact you for your. immigration hearing, which may be 10 or 12 years down the road, and within 180 days, we'll give you a work permit. That is not what the law requires. Much of that is not even what the law allows. What they could and should do is say that because there is no affirmative right to asylum

by anybody coming into this country about documentation, there's no affirmative right that we have to recognize. The president and Secretary Mayorkas should say, once we're no longer able to process all of them, we're going to stop even considering asylum applications for people who cross our borders without documentation and thereafter seek asylum. We should be turning them around right away. This whole negotiation presupposes that this is, you know, somehow based on a lack of adequate federal legislation. Sure, some of our laws are messed up and need to be fine-tuned. That's not the problem here. The problem is that President Biden defiantly refuses to enforce him. He You say that this law, if passed, might even make things worse.

How? Well, there are elements of it that might make things better, but there are elements of it that might turn up the electromagnetic pull for illegal migrants. For example, there are provisions that would eliminate the 180-day waiting period between the time someone else and is released from the initial screening into the interior of the country. They have to wait 180 days between that moment at the moment they get their work permit. this would turn that down to zero days. They would get it immediately after they're released from the initial screening period.

So that's a thing. Number two, while it would give a new Title 42-like authority to the president to shut down the border in ways that we can't get ascertained, because we haven't seen Bill Tech's. They won't let us see it because they're still negotiating it. I don't know why that means we can't see it, but whatever, they're negotiating that. It sounds great that, you know, once we've achieved 5,000 migrant encounters a day, and we're several times of that right now, that the president would have authority in unspecified ways to sort of shut down the whole process of the border, a process by which people entering by land without documentation could be brought in.

But then it says it can do that for only 14 consecutive days, and initially for a maximum of 275 days per year, ratcheting down over two or three years after that to a total of 180 days. Well, just what that does, Glenn, that allows El Chapo's successors and interests and other like-minded international criminal cartels to game the system to calendar around when they'll bring in these some controlled waves of illegal immigration. This will just guarantee that they will be able to have free reign because the president won't be able to shut it all down. Okay. So, Mike, you know, the budget thing, I have been watching you and thank you for being one of the good guys.

And no border, no budget. That should be a mantra all around the country. No border, no budget. But the Republicans are going to shoot themselves. The Mitch McConnell's are going to do it again. They're going to say, oh, my gosh, this is horrible. You know, we're going to shut down the government because of these extreme Republicans who, Everyone knows that the border is a crisis. Everyone knows that. And I don't know why the GOP is acting the way they do. I don't know if they're in bed just for themselves or big business or whatever. But if you've got the Mitch McConnell's and the machinery of the GOP not standing behind no border, no budget, it's just going to be a nightmare again.

It will, just as it is a nightmare now. So, yeah, we need a simple demand, a simple demand, is secure the border or shut it down. Now, there's some flexibility in what the it is, whether that's the whole government or the Department of Homeland Security or the White House toilet paper budget. I don't know. But regardless, there needs to be some consequence, something, someone, somewhere needs to be defunded directly as a result of, the refusal to enforce the border. And it is willful and it is politically motivated. They need to face consequences from that by the Congress. Remember, you can't really pass any spending legislation without going through the Republican-controlled House.

You can't even pass any spending legislation separate and apart from the Republican-controlled House without getting at least nine votes from Republicans in the Senate and the Senate. in addition to the 51 Democrats. So if Republicans really wanted to hold them to this, we could impose some consequence, whether that's shutting down DHS for a while

until they get their act together until they enforce the border, or much more broadly. I'm agnostic as to what exactly ought to be defunded during that period, but we've gotta defund something is we can't pretend this is business as usual. We cannot, must not reward them for inviting an invasion

and acting as if nothing has to change as a result of that. Mike, thanks for flying the flag and trying to keep the Republic safe. I appreciate it. Can I ask you a quick question on the Donald Trump lawsuits? Yes. I mean, is the Supreme Court going to rule that this is unconstitutional? I mean, how can you keep somebody off a ballot quoting the Constitution if the guy has never even been

charged with insurrection? Yeah, that seems really problematic to me. Problematic on many levels, including and especially the fact that not one person, certainly not Donald Trump, has even been charged with much less convicted of the crime of insurrection. Donald Trump hasn't been convicted of anything close to that. He hasn't been convicted of anything, in fact. And so this is an act of lawlessness. There are some other more technical, less intuitive reasons in there.

Some of the language used in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, specifically references some offices, not the presidency, indicating that it does not apply to President Trump. But in any event, for three or four independent reasons, I will be shocked if the Supreme Court does anything other than over, other than overturn the Colorado Supreme Court, which acted lawlessly and in a pretty shameless political maneuver. I will not be surprised at all if the decision is either unanimous or near unanimous. It would have to be. And they're going to have to ask them because otherwise

this is going to cause absolute chaos. And you may see this metastasize throughout the country. So the court likes to be deliberative So this will require them to act more quickly than they normally do But I think they will I suspect that within a few weeks of argument You may see the opinion of the court released Well, it's already too late in Denver or in Colorado It's already too late

They've already printed the ballots And his name is not on it And there are states now saying, oh, you want to play that game? Two can play that game I mean this is we have constitutional crisis after constitutional crisis, and I don't hear anyone calling it that. And it needs to be. What it is.

Well, because it is a constitutional crisis. I've issued, I made some tweets about that one over the holidays on my base, my leave account, that explains some of the reasons why this thing is so out of control. I even wrote a rudimentary song about Sheena. Sheena Bellows, the Secretary of State in Maine, reached the same decision. The song, which I've released to no one, is called It's to the tune of Sheena is a punk rocker by the Ramones,

and it's something along the lines of Sheena is a woke Marxist, but we'll leave that one for a different day. Mike Lee, rewriting the Ramones. Fantastic. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate it. Thanks so much, Glenn. God bless. Remember this phrase.

No border, no budget. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Mr. Giedel, he is the managing editor for Return for Blaze Media. He is also a tech journalist, magazine editor, essayist. He covers human stories in the digital age from crypto to AI to transhumanism. He lives in Colorado. Hello, Peter, how are you? I'm doing really well.

Thank you so much for having me on today. By the way, big fan. Love your writing. You just did something on virtual sex, one of the essays, and it was unbelievable and unbelievably spot on. So, big fan. Thank you very much. That's very kind.

Researching that story was tough talking to a lot of, young men who were dealing with an addiction. Yeah. Addiction right now. It's, uh, it was, it was tough. But, uh, yeah, it's, it's crazy what's happening in that space and where society is going, um, with pornography. Uh, so tell me, you're at the consumer electronic show. What, what is the feeling there on what's new, exciting, spooky?

What, what's happening? Um, well, it's, I mean, you, you know, consumer electronic show, it always is rolling out. some of the coolest new tech we'll see in the year. You know, they've rolled out the VCR and home video game systems in the past. I'm seeing a lot of AI everything. They're trying to integrate artificial intelligence, large language models, with every conceivable type of technology and gadget. Now, I mean, most of these things are, okay, do you need AI for your toilet?

Probably not. But I think we're definitely going to see some products that break through and are utilizing this technology in ways that will have transformative effects on society. Like what? You know, there's a lot of integrations coming of, you know, there's forward-facing consumer products like a chat GPT that people are using. and, you know, sometimes it's silly stuff like making photos. But I think there's a lot in the background of, like, you know, companies that are creating AI that could do a lot of contract work that a lot of lawyers do now. How far away are we from a personal assistant that is really good? In my opinion, we're very close.

We're, there's some products here already that are utilizing AI to basically interact. with your apps. So instead of researching best flights, you know, if you're trying to go to New York City for vacation, you can just tell the AI to find the app and book your plane. And it just does it with one touch. So I think it's, it's very reasonable to think in within 18 months, we're going to see an assistant that's very competent and is taking away a lot of menial tasks away from a person. Have you seen the doll Moxie yet? Unfortunately, it is burned in my brain.

Terrifying, right? Terrifying. Okay, so this is a doll for children. It's a robot doll for children. Explain. Yeah, so I wrote about this in a diary on return. And it was in the Amazon, like, home of the future. So, you know, it's got all kinds of creepy Amazon Alexa integrated tech where your bed is watching you at night.

And you can talk to Alexa pumps its voice into your head through glasses. So, you know, standard Amazon stuff. But then I got to the Moxie and it's, I mean, you almost have to see it in person to really realize how creepy it is. but it's this small robot with this human-like face that's on a screen, but it's all integrated with chat GPC4, and it's designed to talk to children. And, I mean, if you go on YouTube, there's a lot of clips of it asking kids, very creepy, weird questions, and it was incredibly disconcerted. Yeah, but good news is it'll go up to the cloud and all of that information about

your child will be there forever, which is, and the good thing is you don't have to, you know, you don't have to raise your kid anymore. You can just rely on this robot to do it for you. Thank you, Amazon. That's great. What is the, what's the talk about central bank digital currencies and, you know, kind of the, we're going to make all of your problems disappear. Just give us everything you are. Absolutely. There's, You know, there's some talk of it. You know, a lot of people, it's hard to get them on record. You know, they express fears and concerns even with, you know, they work at these tech companies,

but obviously they don't want to go on record. You know, the CBDC, I would encourage your listeners to do some research. There's a great, we have some articles on return kind of summarizing in their own words, all the people who are advocating for this technology. So it's kind of this This sort of Damocles that's hanging over everything But one thing I'll say that I was noticing is there's a ton of companies That are harvesting biometric data

Your health things And then what they're doing with that technology Or with that information No one knows there's a There's a mirror Like a literal black mirror called a beer. It's by a company called Barakuta, B-Mind. And when you wake up in the morning, it will use technology to read your mood and what you're kind of thinking almost, and then, you know,

give you soothing music to make you feel better because the mirror can tell that you're having a bad depression or a bad day. And then, you know, again, they're harvesting all of this data. and what they're going to use it for and assuming that it's going to be tied in to digital health records and then into the CBDCs, to me, is not a big leap. I think that that's, it's really right around the corner. Yeah, I tell you, the digital IDs are truly between that and CBDC, it just shuts everything down. I mean, the total control of your life. Absolutely. I was just looking at the latest return.

You can just search for it. Just Google Return Blaze. And you'll see it. The ultimate guide to escaping the surveillance state. Possible, even? Is that possible? Very difficult, but there are some steps, you know, within that piece and other places online. There's things that you can start doing now to protect your digital identity, your privacy,

in your sovereignty. X seeks to disclose FBI surveillance request to users. Is another story. Tech leaders building a city in California. Not at all worried about public backlash or accusations of foreign ties, says the CEO. Let's see. Some of the other stories.

I mean, just really great. And your diary from CES, day one, AI, everything. Are you generally optimist? mystic as a human being, seeing all of this stuff, or not? I mean, I would say in general, I'm somebody who got into tech journalism because I actually generally love technology. And I think that there's some really cool and amazing things that we can create with this. I mean, I saw this company there, actually several companies, are creating kind of like haptic

feedback canes for blind children that will give them a signal. if there's someone in front of them just by kind of buzzing on their hand. And they were saying it's like really revolutionizing and helping, you know, blind children. So, you know, obviously there's a ton of technology that's beautiful and incredible and makes our lives better each day. But there are really some trends that are very concerning about just technocratic, monopolistic, giant company control, government control over your life.

And they're going to be wielding a lot of power with this information and this digital control. And I mean, you've talked about this in your books and on your show over the years. And we really have to be on guard about what's coming and, you know, try to resist it as much as we can. Because it is here. I mean, we are at, I think we've already taken our first step over the threshold into a lot of this tech that quickly can insoling. slave us in ways that you can't even imagine today. Peter? I mean, I think that...

No, go ahead. Finish. Oh, I was just, you know, I think that, you know, James Polos founded Return. He's the host of Zero Hour. And, you know, our goal is to try and hold on to our humanity in the digital age. And, you know, it's hard, but it's worthwhile. Peter Gatel, he is Blaze Media Managing Editor for Return. the tech magazine put out by Blaze.

You can get it if you're a Blaze TV plus subscriber. If you Google it, you're going to be able to find at least one of the later episodes, the latest episode, I think today, or the latest edition of it. Peter, thank you very much. Thank you very much. When you were pretty, you're having braced some have braced in the course of recreat, always in trying to negotiate and make sure of negotiating, the application to make sure.

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