The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program with Dr. Robert Epstein I 10/8/18

Episode Date: October 8, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. Well, it's Monday. Welcome to the podcast. We have a good, good show for you today. It kind of took a left turn there about halfway through where it was like, I think this is a horror movie. Yeah. It was like, what was that movie with George Clooney, the vampire one?
Starting point is 00:00:22 Remember that? Donned a dusk? No, I miss the George Cloose. It started off like it was like a normal like buddy movie and then it just turned into this real vampire horror thing like halfway through it was really twisted yeah it's kind of how today's show went yeah it uh we in this in the second hour of today's full broadcast uh we had robert epstein on he is a he's a guy who was the head psychiatrist at psychology or psychiatry today and uh um you know from harvard has all kind i mean a butt list of of uh titles behind his name he also voted for hillary clinton and
Starting point is 00:01:01 And in the 2016 election, he did a study of 2,000 Americans who just, they monitored their Google searches when it came to politics. They found that Google was shifting their searches and stacking them in favor of Hillary Clinton. The first 10 were pro Hillary Clinton for everybody, no matter who you were voting for. It's not the way it's supposed to work. he has some serious warnings about Google that you have to hear. We talked about that. What we've learned from the Kavanaugh thing as well? You know,
Starting point is 00:01:39 what is the standard we're supposed to have here? Because it seems like they're now saying that they want to get more ruthless, ruthless with the way that they, that's their lesson they've learned here. Yeah, well, they have to become more ruthless. I don't know where you go from here.
Starting point is 00:01:54 And we try to explore that ground and I don't know, I honestly don't know. Well, I got a couple of ideas from Genghis Khan. And we'll get into that. Also, don't forget, we are coming to a city near you. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm going to do some political strategizing for the left. I've got a few governmental programs that they perhaps haven't thought of.
Starting point is 00:02:14 That, you know, hey, if you want to spend money, I'll show you how to spend money. Also some slogans. And we're going to have a lot of laughs. And also go through some things on how to win this nightmarish war. And it's not about getting more ruthless. It is about standing and knowing exactly what you're standing for. Okay, today's podcast. You can find, by the way, the tickets at glenbeck.com slash tour.
Starting point is 00:02:43 Here's the podcast for today. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. It's Monday, October 8th. Hello, America. Time to ask yourself a question. Are we a country with a rule of? law or do we just love this mob rule thing? Do we believe in the presumption of innocence or guilty as accused? That is the precipice we appear to be standing on right now. Anybody who said that,
Starting point is 00:03:18 you know, oh, I will never go over the cliff. We're over the cliff. This is it. It's the moment to decide. Yes, Judge Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed and sworn into the Supreme Court. But if you think things are going to get better, I think you have an extremely rude awakening coming. The left successfully weaponized the mob to storm the offices of the Senate in the thousands. There were over 300 arrests made. They chased senators into elevators. They screamed at them. They released private information on the internet so more of the mob could follow them to their homes and call their phones.
Starting point is 00:03:59 They yelled, they jeered at Ted Cruz and his wife while on a date at a restaurant. They even sent Cory Gardner's wife a text message depicting a decapitation. They nearly ruined Kavanaugh and his family's life. They wanted to destroy him. Don't believe me. How about this from the writer, the writer of the Colbert Show? quote, whatever happens, I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life. This is all based on what?
Starting point is 00:04:42 An allegation that did not have evidence. Now, you can believe her. Many people do. Many people believe him. This is what we know as a he said, she said case. We choose as Americans not to involve ourselves in he said, she said cases because we're not God. Ask every single one of these people in private. There is no way they would be doing this if they or someone in their family, or I hate to say it,
Starting point is 00:05:26 but somebody on their side of the aisle was being accused. None of them. but this is where we're at. We're at the beginning of the race. Unfortunately, not the end. Today, it's accusations of sexual assault. Tomorrow it will be something else. Mark my words, we are going to see it all.
Starting point is 00:05:51 It's going to get more brutal and more vicious. And the further it goes, the worse it will get. Politico wrote an article yesterday called, quote, Democrats fear they're the wet rag party. Kavanaugh's victory leaves many on the left saying it's time to get mad and even, end quote. Democrats. And I'm not talking about the party. I'm not talking about the people in Washington.
Starting point is 00:06:20 And I'm not talking about the people who are in their little 501 C3 groups. I'm asking regular Democrats. I'm asking all Americans. Is this the kind of country you want? The article continues, quote, after failing to stop Kavanaugh's confirmation, Democrats wonder if it's time to be more ruthless, end quote. More ruthless?
Starting point is 00:06:58 Do I dare ask how we could become more ruthless than what we've seen? in the past month. Democrats have already accused a man of gang rape and serial sexual assault. They have said that he's a blackout drunk. This political article is just one of a blitzkrieg of other similar articles pushed out over the weekend. They sound exactly like the mob that has been harassing and doxing senators last week. They're echoing the mob charges that Republicans somehow pulled off this giant scam.
Starting point is 00:07:41 Ultimately, they're helping pave the way for mob rule. The man was accused of rape and sexual assault. There was nothing credible to back up that claim. So what are we to do? They expect a system where pilot washes his hands and lays the face, of life or death in the hands of the bloodthirsty crowd. We're in for a populist battle. The radical left versus whatever remains of the sane
Starting point is 00:08:16 in both the Democrat and GOP parties. This is only the beginning. America, please, hold your place. Remember what your mothers and your fathers taught you the difference between right and wrong. We are not a nation of chaos. We are not a nation of mob rule. We are not a nation of burning things down and beating people in the streets.
Starting point is 00:08:53 That's not who we've ever been. But every generation has to answer that for themselves. Is this who you want to be? It's Monday, October 8th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Stu, are you building guillotine yet? I'm working on it. Oh, man, it would be great if we just had some guillotine.
Starting point is 00:09:26 You know, our carpentry skills have really gone downhill. They really have. That's really been a big problem with us. If people would have listened to Mike Rowe a little more before they clubbed him to death in the streets, we'd be able to have nicely built guillotine. I'm fascinated at the path to being more. ruthless than accusations of gang rape. Do we go to accusations of genocide? Do we say the next possible Supreme Court justice was responsible for the Hutu Tootsie slaughter from in Rwanda?
Starting point is 00:09:54 Is that the direction that we go? No, I just think we just based on this allegation, I just think we have our own Hutu Tootsie slaughter. And then we blame the next Supreme Court justice for it. I don't know. This is incredible to see what has happened here. And it's you really understand the concept of projection. For years and years and years, we were told by the media how evil the Tea Party was and how they wanted to, they were going to harass people they didn't agree with in the streets. And this shows how crazy they are. They're going to get violent.
Starting point is 00:10:28 They're going to make threats. They're unhinged. All of these things, we now see the second the left has any challenge to its political power. They're all doing all of those things. And they're really doing them. They're not just fake accusations on CNN. You know, and I mean, everything to the point of, this is a little bit off topic, but remember the old, the good old days when Glenn Beck was in the Doom Room?
Starting point is 00:10:58 And Glenn Beck was this apocalyptic no-nothing that just came after you with all these, these predictions of doom and all the terrible things that were going to happen to you to scare you into watching for longer. Remember that? When you remember that, take a look at the New York Times, who is talking about global warming today, as if we are all dead tomorrow. They commissioned a photo shoot with a crying little boy kneeling next to the corpse of some, and skeleton of some endangered animal that is now no longer able to survive. the apocalyptic nature of their coverage of a 0.9 degrees Celsius temperature rise over 100 years outshines anything you ever said about ISIS.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Well, I did like the fact that we've reset the clock. We now have 12 years. We now have 12 years. Remember when we had the big countdown here? For years they had said we have until this date. Okay, well, we counted down to that date. and they said it will no longer be able to reverse anything. Irreversible.
Starting point is 00:12:07 It's irreversible after this date. Well, they've moved the date. Now it's 12 years in the future. Of course they do. So they've got another 12 years. How do you raise money off over, you know, something that's already happened? It's already reversible.
Starting point is 00:12:19 I, this is what happens when you, you no longer have anything to point to. where you no longer have, you no longer have a standard. A standard is a flag. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, in the air to show people that we're fighting who we were, what we were. That's what those banners were for.
Starting point is 00:13:01 That's what the flag is for. It's a standard. Advance the standard. What is our standard now? We have chased God out of the square. That's fine. That's fine. If that's what America chooses, that's I and my family, we have chosen a different path.
Starting point is 00:13:23 But as of today in America, you can still do that. But I just ask anyone who wanted to chase our standard out of the public. square. Who are you replacing it with? Where are we progressing to? You're now calling for for more radical ways to fight Donald Trump and the Republicans. What could you possibly do? There were 300 arrests over the weekend. 300. You are threatening people. You are showing up at their houses. You're tracking them at restaurants when they're on dates. You're hurling insults. The, well, I was going to say the only thing you haven't done is assassinate, but the left
Starting point is 00:14:21 tried to do that. And the media yawned. Could I just ask, as the crowd is gathering and starting to go over this cliff, may I just ask, Stop for a second. Stop. Where does this end? Where are you going? What is your standard? As we chased our heroes first all out. We chased them all out. There are no heroes. Is Abraham Lincoln even a hero? We know our founders aren't. Who are our heroes? Who are they? our standard what we based everything in Western society on is being demolished the rule of law but the first rule of law were the basic 10 commandments
Starting point is 00:15:27 you don't lie about your neighbor you don't make things up you don't steal you don't hurt you don't kill the other part of the Judeo-Christian stands standard. First, it's Moses. The other one is Jesus. And I'm not talking about the church Jesus. I'm talking about the real Jesus. I'm talking about the one that never hurt a fly. That no matter how bad things got, he remained peaceful. That was our standard. You know, the one who said forgiveness, Democrats, what's your standard? Who are you aiming to be? Who are you teaching your children to be?
Starting point is 00:16:35 Republicans, I ask you the same question. Who are you teaching your children to be? When the articles include that the Democrats are angry and it's time to get mad and to get even, vengeance doesn't belong to man. Vengeance is bad as much as much as I think Brett Kavanaugh would like to go on the court and be vindictive. And see the Democrats bring something for him and say, you know what, I actually agree with the Democrats on this one. But no, if he did that, we should all be abhorred.
Starting point is 00:17:51 We should call for his impeachment if he did that. And I would stand with you. Who is bringing the nation together? What leader? What leader is calling for peace and reconciliation? Where is that voice? I say to my audience and anyone who has been with me for a long time, this is the moment.
Starting point is 00:18:32 This is the beginning of the time that I told you would come. This is the time that you have the ability to save the Republic. It doesn't take a lot of people. Courage is contagious. You must begin to stand with peace and forgiveness. It does not mean surrender what you believe. But somebody has to tell the crowd, stop. You've gone insane.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Don't go that direction. Pretty intense news for you today, but we'll all get through it together. And we're also, I want to remind you that we're going to be out for some laughs as well. We're going out on the book tour. It starts October 25th, San Antonio, the 26th, Houston. Then the 27th of this month in Dallas. Then we go to Richmond, Hershey, Pennsylvania. We go to Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Evansville, Indiana, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tampa,
Starting point is 00:19:53 and Orlando, Florida. I was really worried for a while there. We wouldn't have any material because the world is such a serious and insensible place. But this Kavanaugh thing, I think, has made me, it's pushed me over the edge that we're going to be able to pull off this show. Yeah, I think there might be some things to joke about, to poke fun at. And, of course, are very serious points. We're going to be helping out the 2020 candidates for the Republican Party. We'll be picking them for the Democratic Party. Democratic Party, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:21 And we'll be picking them and also giving them, you know, some helpful tips on, you know, maybe even some slogans. Some messaging options. I think it'll be important how to handle that campaign. It's your answer to preview, I think. And how to out-socialist the other socialist on the party. Yeah. Other things that you can promise. You don't want to miss it.
Starting point is 00:20:40 It's a night of fun. Addicted to Outrage. Go to glenbeck.com slash tour and get your tickets now addicted to outrage. Okay. You ready for this one? Mm-hmm. Now, the question that I asked at the beginning of the hour was, is this who we are?
Starting point is 00:21:00 Is this what you want? Where are we headed? A website allegedly run by University of Washington students allows individuals, to publicly accuse people of sexual assault without any evidence. The website titled Make Them Scared UW was first registered in November of last year, but launched in late September of this year by University of Washington students. The Daily UW Campus newspaper reports that the list of accused rapist and sexual assault perpetrators has grown substantially on the site and the last. last weeks because of the Brett Kavanaugh scandal. Meanwhile, one student named on the Make Them Scared UW told the college fix that none of
Starting point is 00:21:52 these accusations are true. According to the FAQ page on the website, Make Them Scared UW is a communal rape list. Intended to be an online hub for anyone who wants to expose the names of their attackers and harassers. and to fill a gap left by inadequate treatment of these cases by formal institutions. One of our sites' moderators will review your submission, verify your contact information, and after receiving your confirmation, publish the information you provided us, minus your personal identifying information.
Starting point is 00:22:33 Of course. We do not have the ability to determine whether of the accused party is guilty or innocent of the accused act. So please take all the names listed with a grain of salt. Oh, I'm sure that's what's going to happen. The college fix managed to contact one student on the list, a young man who was identified as attending the University of Washington, student denied having sexually assaulted his accuser,
Starting point is 00:22:58 quote, I was investigated by my school's office and found there was insufficient evidence of what she was accusing me of. Now, why would that matter? We have to believe the witness. Yes, I mean, they did an investigation and they couldn't find enough evidence, but is that really what we care about? What about the poor accuser? He said, the allegation stems from a knight which he and his accuser both were pretty drunk, after which he performed on her and then attempted to initiate intercourse. You seem pretty comfortable with this.
Starting point is 00:23:38 I'm very uncomfortable. His accuser said no, at which point he backed off. This girl gave the investigator all at my school, literally everything, all of our Facebook messages, our Snapchat messages. She saved all of them, text messages, and even my Reddit account. And I was deemed to be so not a threat to her that the investigator didn't even care if I was in the same class with her. That didn't stop. make them scared putting his name on the rapist list. Ask if the school was aware if the website was run by students at the University of Washington.
Starting point is 00:24:19 The official said, we don't know for certain. Asked if false allegations on the site made or posted by students or affiliates of the university would be treated as harassment under school policy. The school said, if the university receives a complaint that an individual was being harassed or bullied by a student, we would investigate it in the same matter as we would any other case. So being listed on a website as a rapist isn't being bullied? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Like listening to this podcast, if you're not a subscriber, become one now on iTunes. But while you're there, do us a favor and rate the show. I just have warned you,
Starting point is 00:25:06 we're going to be way out of our league here for a little while. Robert Epstein is the author, editor, and longtime psychology researcher and professor, distinguished scientists who is passionate about educating the public about advances in mental health and behavioral sciences. The former editor-in-chief of psychology today, he is now the senior research psychologist of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and contributing editor for scientific American mind. He is the founder and director emeritus of Cambridge Center for behavioral studies in Massachusetts. He's also the author of 15 books,
Starting point is 00:25:46 rookie, and received his PhD in psychology from Harvard University. Doctor, welcome to the program run by a high school graduate. But I did get my diploma. How are you, sir? I'm very good, Glenn, and it's an honor to be on your show. Thank you. It is good to talk to you.
Starting point is 00:26:10 I wish it was on happier circumstances. First of all, could I just ask you? I don't know if you heard that story about Kanye West, the people now saying that he is mentally ill for having his own point of view. Agree or disagree. This is a disturbing trend, is it not? Well, he, I mean, you know, people in the mental health professions are forbidden, strictly forbidden from
Starting point is 00:26:40 from diagnosing from a distance. So I'm not going to say he's, but, you know, he does say some extreme things that actually, you know, angers even some of his closest friends. No,
Starting point is 00:26:51 I mean, he's been, no, no, don't get me wrong. I don't, I'm not saying that he's a stable guy. I'm just saying that now to say,
Starting point is 00:27:01 based on what you think politically, that you are mentally ill, is a, is a, is a real problem. Well, I think, you know, we've been doing that to each other for, you know, hundreds of years. It has to do with a two-party system. And as you know well, George Washington, John Adams, and, you know, others of the founding fathers.
Starting point is 00:27:23 But they were vehemently opposed to having a party system because, you know, it's divisive. It just makes people crazy. It's just gotten worse and worse and worse. Okay. Let me talk to you about what you're on for. And that is, you're in a documentary that I found last week, and I really was fascinated by what you brought to the documentary. The documentary is called The Creepy Line. It's not out yet, but it's coming out soon, the creepyline.com.
Starting point is 00:27:54 And you are a, you're a guy who was a Hillary supporter. And you decided to see if Google was being fair with their, with their news? Is that correct? During the last... Search results. Search results. And what did you find?
Starting point is 00:28:16 Well, I had already found years before that. I'd been studying search results, and I had already found that when search results favor one candidate, or one cause, for that matter, that shifts opinions, and it shifts votes. And, I mean, dramatically so. I can shift voting preferences among undecided voters by 20% or more easily and by up to 80% in some demographic groups. Okay, so wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, explain how that works.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Sure. Well, we're bombarded, as you know, by all kinds of information, all kinds of media sources. You know, people ranting and raving on the radio and television and newspapers. magazines, all that stuff is competitive, and people are very wary about it. You know, their bias detectors are kind of always working, you know, even when they listen to their favorite commentator, they're still kind of, you know, you see the human hand, you know, and everyone knows humans are kind of, all right. And it's helpful.
Starting point is 00:29:24 But when people are using, it turns out, my research shows, other research shows, when people are using something like a Google search engine, they turn off the bias detectors. They automatically become very trusting because they think this is an algorithm, not that they know what an algorithm is, but this is an algorithm and I can trust it because it's subjective and impartial. So that when Google answers your question about anything, what tends to happen is that people trust what's higher up in the list.
Starting point is 00:29:56 They think that the algorithm has very carefully and objectively selected, and it must be true. So if you favor one candidate or one cause or one company or whatever it may be, one product, in search results, people tend to believe whatsoever closest to the top. And what I showed in a series of randomized controlled experiments, that we've now done with four national elections involving more than 10,000 people, I've shown over and over and over again that by favoring one candidate
Starting point is 00:30:35 you can shift in a country like ours millions of votes with no one having the slightest idea that they are being manipulated and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to track. So that is scary. It is.
Starting point is 00:30:52 You lay this out in the creepy line about how Google has really stripped itself of all ads and everything else. So it looks totally clean and neutral and without an agenda. And then how they have, you know, when you first did it, I think one of the tests you did, you did it where you were clear with an agenda. Then you added one that might go in the other direction. And then you added two search. results that would go in the other direction. And you got it to a point to where Google is, to where
Starting point is 00:31:32 you don't have any idea you're being manipulated. Correct. You have absolutely no idea. So when we did this in a national study in the U.S., almost no one was aware that they were seeing biased or search results that favor one candidate. This really creepy thing there was that the very, very few people who could spot the bias, they shifted even farther in the direction of the bias. So, you know, being able to spot the bias does not protect you. We did a big national study in India right in the middle of their election there in 2014. 99.5% of people in the study could see no bias whatsoever. They couldn't see the favoritism. And yet we're still getting these big shifts in their voting preferences. So, you know, this is, this is unprecedented in human
Starting point is 00:32:29 history. This is, this is just, this is an ability to shift people's thinking and behavior worldwide. It's not just in the U.S. because Google is, you know, used for, you know, 90% of all searches conducted throughout the world. And, you know, and in it was, they have the ability to shift people's thinking, behavior, votes, purchases, attitudes, beliefs around the world, they are doing so 24-7 without people knowing and without leaving a paper trail. Because when you're showing someone's search results, that's not like a news story that just stays there for people to look at. It's generated just for you on the fly at that moment, disappears, gone forever, stored nowhere. Would you, is it an overstatement to say whether it's, you know, Wilson and Bernays in World War I or, you know, Gerbil's World War II, that this is the system that they would have dreamt of for propaganda.
Starting point is 00:33:39 It goes beyond their wildest dreams, because it's not just the search results. I just published a big article called 10 ways big tech can shift millions of votes in the November elections without anyone knowing. Now, the one we're talking about, which is called the search engine manipulation effect or seam, SEME, that's just one of 10 ways that I've identified over the years and that I've been studying. I'm studying seven of them at the moment. that these big tech companies have to shift votes and that are unprecedented in human history. They've never existed before. And some of these effects that I've discovered
Starting point is 00:34:31 are among the biggest ever discovered in the behavioral sciences. And there is... And there is no doubt in your mind that Google is engaging in this. Well, in 2016, early 2016, working in secret, I developed a system for actually monitoring what people were seeing while they were using the Google, Bing, and Yahoo search engines that was election-related. So it's as if we were looking over people's shoulders. It's called a monitoring system, as it was the first ever created.
Starting point is 00:35:07 And so we actually monitored for more than five months before the election in November, 2016. and we found a systematic bias in search results favoring Hillary Clinton, whom I favored, by the way, as you mentioned, in all 10 search positions on the first page of search results. Now, that's pretty blatant. That's pretty extreme. Wow. Of course, these leaks that we've seen recently from Google, you know, they tell us that, yeah, people at Google have a very, strong political preferences and that they act on them. And I don't think we should be surprised
Starting point is 00:35:48 that we found that. And of course, now I'm working with business partners and academic colleagues on three continents to try to scale up monitoring systems like that. So for the first time, we'll actually be able to see what these companies are showing people all throughout the U.S. and ultimately throughout the world. And we'll, I think, be able to make these companies accountable to the public at some point. I wish we, well, I wish we could be fully up and running in time for the midterms. And at this point, I'd say that's not going to happen. But we will definitely be there for 2020 and beyond.
Starting point is 00:36:29 And we're looking at more than elections because there are lots of ways in which these companies are playing with us that people are just completely unaware of. And speaking of which, Glenn. Uh-oh. Am I in trouble? Well, kind of. Yes, kind of. I have good news and bad news for you.
Starting point is 00:36:52 Okay. Can we start with the bad news? All right. No, let's say that. All right. The good news, I mean, the good news is that glenbeck.com, right? Yeah. And your email service that you use is you're not sharing information.
Starting point is 00:37:15 You're not sharing your emails with Google. Now, interesting, and that's in New York Times, the Times of London, the Economist, Wired Magazine, Slate, and I could go on and on and on. They share all of their emails all the time with Google and other sensitive documents, too. And so reporters, when they're doing, you know, very, sensitive investigations on something. They're sharing everything constantly with Google. And I wrote a piece about that was in the Daily Caller a couple of months ago.
Starting point is 00:37:48 Good news is you don't do that. Yeah, okay. Let's end it there for just a second. Okay. So, excuse me. So you were just about to give me more good news. Well, no, the good news is, again, you do not share your emails with Google. I don't like a lot of major news organizations like the New York.
Starting point is 00:38:09 Times and the Boston Globe they do. But bad news is that glenbeck.com uses Google Analytics. And so what that means is everyone who has ever visited your website is tracked. Every single thing they do on your website is tracked by Google. So here's a problem as a business owner. Google Analytics are the best. How do you, how do you, how do you, how do you do business without Google? at times. That's always the thing that gets you in the end.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Yeah. Well, sure, but you know, you know, this is this convenience thing over and over, and their products are so good. But you don't realize that these aren't real products. They're just surveillance platforms. That's the only reason they run them. Every single service they provide is just another surveillance platform. I do have a little bit more good news, though, which is that film that you mentioned, the creepy line. Yes. When, when you, when you Who had one of my new very good friends, Peter Schweitzer, on your show recently. He's one who really got that film running. Sure, it wasn't available, but now, as of right now, it is available both on Amazon
Starting point is 00:39:29 and on iTunes for rental or sale, and it really is a fabulous film. And don't Google it. Just go to the creepyline.com. When you came out about some of this stuff, and again, you were a Hillary supporter. When you came out about this, you were blocked by Google for a time. Were you not? Well, when my research first hit the news in the Washington Post, you know, I found that starting the next day, I couldn't access any Google products. I couldn't even access Google.com.
Starting point is 00:40:02 So I have these amazing screenshots that they're just shocking to people because you can't. even imagine not being able to access Google. Yeah. But I have screenshots showing, getting these timeouts saying, no, you know, you can't get there. Sorry. That's amazing. Okay. Let's go through some of the effects that you are monitoring.
Starting point is 00:40:26 We have about about a minute here. So why don't you just take one of them on? You say there, what? Let's see, 7.10. Is there 10 of these that you're following? They're 10 altogether. Okay. Ten altogether.
Starting point is 00:40:38 Okay, so let's take on one real quick. Begin. Very good. Okay, here we go. This is called SSE or the search suggestion effect. When you start to type a search term into the Google search bar, you are being manipulated from the very first character that you type. So if you type A, depending on your history and other things,
Starting point is 00:40:58 chances are you'll get Amazon right away. Those are flashing suggestions at you. And Amazon, it turns out, is Google's biggest advertiser, paying them $300 million a year, and Google sends more traffic to Amazon than any other single source. But beyond that, we've learned through our experiments that Google can use search suggestions that they're flashing at you to turn a 50-50 vote among a 50-50 split among undecided voters into a 90-10 split with no one having any idea they're being manipulated.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Is it too much to say we're at mind control or the threshold of mind control, doctor? Well, we've been there for a long time. There's no question about it. There's literally right now more than 2.5 billion people, soon to be over 4 billion, whose thoughts and purchases and beliefs and attitudes and voting preferences are affected dramatically. every single day by some manipulations that big tech companies are perpetrating on them.
Starting point is 00:42:17 And that's happening now. So that's already going full steam. It's just getting worse every day. So I just, I want to reset that you did a study during the last presidential election. You are a Hillary Clinton supporter, but you're a truth teller. and you were doing a study on Google search results and found that they were trying to manipulate it in favor of Hillary Clinton. Now, you say that's only one way.
Starting point is 00:42:48 We then have the search suggestion effect. Now, target messaging effect. What is the targeted messaging? Sure, targeted messaging, TME, we call that, is these are all things that we study and that we're quantifying and, you know, very precisely. But targeted messaging effect is really scary. This means that if a company, this would primarily be Facebook, but other companies too,
Starting point is 00:43:15 but if a company like Facebook on Election Day, so let's go back to November 2016, if that morning Mark Zuckerberg had chosen to just, you know, hit the energy and send out, go out and vote, reminders, mainly to something, supporters of Hillary Clinton or exclusively, either way. First of all, no one would know that that was even occurring. No one would know it was going to some people and not others. But if it went just to supporters of Hillary Clinton, that would have given her that day an additional 450,000 votes. Now, I don't think he did that because, you know, he was very overconfident, you know, as were Democrats,
Starting point is 00:44:03 I'm not a Democrat, I'm a moderate and independent, but the point is everyone thought Hillary was going to win, so I'm pretty sure he didn't do that. But the point is we know from Facebook's own published data that just sending out that kind of reminder selectively, dramatically, dramatically shifts votes. And think about it, no one knows if something like that is happening. In fact, if it's happening every single day, there were targeted messages going out to some people but not others.
Starting point is 00:44:38 And, of course, isn't that what targeted advertising is all about? But you see, targeted advertising, though, is competitive. But I'm talking about what happens if the platform itself does something. That's not competitive. It's completely invisible and it's not competitive. So, I mean, this is so dangerous. And it is, I mean, it's everything that a sci-fi, you know, writer has envisioned forever. And, I mean, can, especially when we get to artificial intelligence, couldn't a system like Google be used to identify unstable individuals and wind them up?
Starting point is 00:45:25 Oh, yes. they can they in fact they know who's unstable they know who's undecided they know who is republican and who is gay and you name it they know far more about us i mean unstable i mean unstable mentally yeah yeah yeah oh no you're absolutely right they have literally unprecedented power uh to shift people yes shift unstable people shift anybody uh And they know they have this power. One of the leaks from Google was a little internal film there, eight-minute film called The Selfish Ledger.
Starting point is 00:46:08 You want to get creeped out. Watch that film. That's an internal film there. They're talking about their power to reshape humankind. I've seen it. It's terrifying. So before we, because we're going to run out of time, what do we do? Well, there's things that we can do at the individual level, especially for parents, which I am, and there are things that have to be done at a much higher level of governmental or organizational.
Starting point is 00:46:42 So at the individual level, you know, we can take some steps to protect our privacy and privacy of our kids. So I have an article very easy to find online that's called Seven Simple Steps Toward Online Privacy. You know, I can give your staff a link to it. Yeah, we'll send it out in our newsletter, which is not tracked by Google. Seven simple steps. Okay, we'll send that out today. Sign up for our newsletter if you don't have it, not tracked by Google. But we'll send that out today, and I'll also make it available at glenbeck.com.
Starting point is 00:47:17 Yeah, so there are some things that you can do. And one of the many things that's not on that list is you shouldn't be using Google Analytics, which glenbeck.com is using. So that's at the individual level. Now, at the organizational, governmental level, there's other things. You know. So hang on, but you shouldn't even be using a Google Chrome browser. But even if you go to, is it Microsoft browser that is powered by Google information?
Starting point is 00:47:51 I mean, there's, do you know what I'm talking about? No matter, no matter, yes, I do know, which I'm, and no matter where you go. Google is there. Google now pays Apple computers $9 billion a year to be the default search engine when people are using Safari, which is Apple browser. Google is paying Apple $9 billion. Next year they're supposed to pay them $12 billion to be the default search engine on Safari. This is for any Apple device at all. So Google is everywhere.
Starting point is 00:48:26 Where do you think Siri gets its answers from? It gets its answers from Google. Siri is, you know, Apple's personal assistant. So, I mean, I could go on and on and on. But at the institutional level, there are things that have to be done. One of them, which I'm helping to work on with people now, and we need money. So, you know, if you guys have money out there, you know, step up. But we are building monitoring systems.
Starting point is 00:48:54 It's basically with people's permission to look over people's shoulders and see what these companies are actually showing people, how they're manipulating people. I would love to be a part of that. How can people donate to that? Well, they can go to my googlelresearch.com. My googleresearch.com. That's a very simple way to donate. That supports the research that I do, but also that's helping to provide funds to build monitoring systems, which must exist. They don't exist.
Starting point is 00:49:28 I did build one in 2016, but we need large-scale permanent monitoring systems to keep all these creepy arrogant people under control. So I am very concerned about a big. AGI and ASI. And I'm concerned that in two ways, I feel as though we need some sort of a Manhattan project to make sure America is the one that gets it first. But on the other hand, I don't know who I trust to have it. I mean, you cannot put this genie back in the bottle. But when we hit AGI, we are in real trouble.
Starting point is 00:50:19 You have no idea. That's all I can say. Seriously, if you knew the stuff that I knew and you were looking every day at the numbers I look at, you wouldn't even get out of bed. Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to go back to bed now. I mean, I've read a lot about it. So what do you suggest?
Starting point is 00:50:45 What should we be, what should we be asking? I mean, Congress is just useless. Our government is just, they're not paying attention to this at all. and it's moving so rapidly by the time they would enact something, it will be too late. That is correct. So regulation in law is not going to help us too much because they just move too slowly. And tech moves extremely fast. So, you know, that doesn't mean we shouldn't, you know, contact our congressional representatives.
Starting point is 00:51:18 Correct. we should to try to keep the pressure on. I've been a speaker at meetings of the attorneys general, the state attorneys general, and those guys and those guys and those women can move, they can move fast. They can do things. So, you know, but beyond that, you know, you've got to start at the individual level. I mean, if you're using Gmail right now, that's insane. If you're using Chrome, that's insane.
Starting point is 00:51:46 If you're using an Android phone, that's all Google. You're nuts. You're crazy to use products because those are all just surveillance platforms. That's all they are. They're just gussied up surveillance platforms. They're just excuses Google has come up with for us to just tell them everything about ourselves. Do you know how much information Google has about you? No.
Starting point is 00:52:13 They have, just based on your age, which is I know roughly, they have the equivalent of about 3 million word pages of information about you. So, I mean, I guess I'm at the point to where you don't get up out of bed like you. I mean, so it's overwhelming. So what does that mean?
Starting point is 00:52:48 What, I mean, how do we, there's no way to get it back. Are you familiar with solid? Let me go here. Are you familiar with solid and inrupt? Yes.
Starting point is 00:53:00 Is there any chance that that is going to play a role in the future? Is that a pathway? It's hard to tell. I'm going to have to say probably not because it's very, very hard. You know, Google and Facebook in particular are so powerful and so embedded that you just, you can't really cut into them. People, people don't want to leave them. People are, you know, they, they love them. And so it's hard. You know, there, I know lots of people working on alternative kinds of, you know, services and, uh, and a lot of people are talking about blockchain and
Starting point is 00:53:40 so on. But I mean, the reality is, you know, we're talking about 90% of search around the world is done on Google. Uh, these two companies are serving right now more than 2.5 billion people that'll be past $4 billion within the next three years. They're just growing and growing and growing by weeks and bound. It's concerning what they're doing in China. I mean, I don't know how they sleep at night. Well, that's outrageous. That is absolutely outrageous because they're actually partnering with the Chinese government
Starting point is 00:54:14 to participate in the Chinese government's aggressive program to control all of its citizens. and Google is participating in that. I mean, literally making it easier and better, making that kind of system easier and better. That's outrageous. Doctor, I would love to fly you in and spend a couple of hours with you and have you on regularly to be able to monitor and help in any way that we can to get the word out. This is the thing that I think America and the world should be concentrating on and no one's talking about it.
Starting point is 00:54:53 The world is being redesigned by a handful, and we're just not aware of it, and it's going to change overnight. Doctor, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Absolutely. You bet. It's been an honor, a true honor,
Starting point is 00:55:07 the left. The left believes they need to become more radical, and they need to turn things up a notch. Now, I don't know how you do that. I mean, now I did recommend, you know, guillotine. I guess they could start using guillotine. I do like the old, you know, Genghis Khan, take the leadership, roll them in carpets, and then just have horses trample them. But that might hurt a horse, you know, and the left would not want to do that.
Starting point is 00:55:42 So I guess you could get a smart car or, you know, a Chevy Volt. But then it's set on fire and then you'd die screaming. It could be a win-win there. Anyway, um, oh my gosh. Gosh, did you just threaten? Yeah. What are we talking about here? How do you turn this up, Pat?
Starting point is 00:56:02 How do you turn this up without violence? I think the only level up is revolution. Isn't it? That's about the only thing they haven't done so far. They're screaming in people's faces. They're showing up at restaurants and department stores and everywhere Mexican waters told them to. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:18 Homes. They're clawing at the door of the U.S. Supreme Court. it's they're threatening online yeah they're they're scaring people they're charging them with with crimes they didn't commit i mean i think we're all pretty sure he's not a gang rapist right we're all pretty sure even michael avonati knows that yeah i mean you know there were five people five people only one charge was ford ford was one the other four they weren't real now why do we say well no woman would do that. Well, no, you've got four people over here who did.
Starting point is 00:56:57 We have multiple huge stories of fake accusations of sexual assault that have happened over the past few months. So this happens all the time because women are people, right? Women are people and women do bad things just like men do bad things. Big story. I think it was in California of a high school kid who was accused by these high school girls. They called them the mean girls. Yeah, it was in the same city where the movie supposedly took place. And So these girls all got together because they didn't like this guy and decided to accuse him of sexual assault. He went through all kinds of hell over it. And after six months or a year, they finally admitted, no, we made that up.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Why? Because we didn't like to listen to him and I didn't like to look at him. Oh. Wow. Amazing. So did you hear the incredible stuff? Did you hear Make Them Scared? The website, Make Them Scared?
Starting point is 00:57:51 No, I haven't seen. is from the University of Washington. And it's a website where you can just, you know, put your allegation out about how you've been raped or whatever. You just include that person's name, you know, where they are, what class, et cetera, et cetera, and just we're going to make them scared. Wow. Yeah, by university students on the University of Washington campus.
Starting point is 00:58:16 I mean, what else? What else? I mean, this is the world. The left is. is increasingly embracing, legitimizing, and calling for. And what are the normal, civilized way to escalate a situation when you're not getting what you want, right?
Starting point is 00:58:36 You can do things like you can escalate your language. It's hard to escalate past gang rape accusations. It's kind of hard to go past that with your language. I guess you can go to murder. You can go to genocide. There's a couple other things. I guess you can accuse a Supreme Court justice of to get your way. Then you have like a...
Starting point is 00:58:51 They already... already say the United States is a genocidal country. Yeah, right. I mean, there's, there's no way you can increase the language against America or men. So then you can go to structural or procedural type of things. But, I mean, look what they did here. They pulled out every stop. They tried to get, they delayed and delayed and delayed.
Starting point is 00:59:08 They tried to get an FBI investigation. Then they said that wasn't enough. After seven. Yeah, he said seven FBI background. And with no evidence, absolutely zero. Thousands and thousands of people show up screaming, we believe, we believe the survivor. Well, survivor of what? Why?
Starting point is 00:59:23 I mean, until it's confirmed, she's not a survivor. Right. Like, I mean, at least to us, she may, if something happened to her and she's telling the truth about Kavanaugh, yes, she's a survivor to herself. But as a society, we have to judge it based on the facts. Right. And I don't condemn her. I don't wish ill towards her. Nothing.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Nothing. I don't know. I wasn't there. No. But we don't destroy either life. And there's got to be some evidence against the guy. It's not up to him to prove he didn't do it. No.
Starting point is 00:59:49 No, they don't need evidence. Can we play the audio of, this is me. This is me half listening. Somebody said to me, Glenn, you don't want to do this interview, blah, blah, blah. And I heard London. I thought I heard the BBC. And I was like, oh, yeah, because I thought they would be, you know, they would be detached from it. And so there would be a chance to actually have a decent conversation.
Starting point is 01:00:15 I sit down in the chair. I put in my headphones and I hear CNN International. And I'm like, oh, dear God. Did I say yes to CNN International? Yes. Oh, geez. And so we go on the air. You can imagine what CNN is saying on Friday.
Starting point is 01:00:31 But I want you to listen just to how this ends. I'm asking, look, may I suggest another reality here that maybe he wasn't an angry man? Maybe he had a right because people were accusing him of gang rape. she goes through all of these things she doesn't have an answer for any of them so she goes here now listen to this argument let me Glenn ask you about your tweets because this is how people express themselves
Starting point is 01:01:04 oftentimes and how you build sort of a picture of someone's opinions of okay so you can imagine Glenn Beck tweets it's got to be a bad one right right of course what and I'm thinking of myself what have I said recently about Kavanaugh that would be bad how could I man I've tried to be a peacemaker on this
Starting point is 01:01:26 listen to what she says opinions of someone's thoughts of their impressions on what's going on let me put up one of the tweets that I found interesting that you put out in the last few days um Americans are um I can't I can't read it guys you got to put it up there Americans are fair and I believe they see the pain on both sides and without evidence will not want to choose.
Starting point is 01:01:51 If the Democrats cram this down, we're talking here about the, I imagine the Dr. Ford testimony. I believe Americans will rise up at the polls, but you're saying that we're being too partisan in the United States. But are Democrats not Americans? It seems like these two things are mutually exclusive. This is the problem.
Starting point is 01:02:11 This is the problem. This is the problem. Did I say Democrats are not Americans? You know, you should take. Take a breath before you just try to get a yet another ratings point. I mean, they may stop. They may stop. Good.
Starting point is 01:02:27 She needed a, she needed an Emmy. Or maybe, maybe she needed an Olympic medal for the gymnastics that she had to go through to find a fence there. Democrats. You know, we should just start to, we should start to be more clear, perhaps. But I'm glad she was worried about police. my language as opposed to all the other tweets that are happening on the left right now. Democrats, it's the party. I think the party has detached from the Democrats that I know.
Starting point is 01:03:03 They do not want to be a part of more radical, more dangerous kind of stuff. That's the party. That's not the actual person. So are Democrats not American? Are you kidding me? You got to stop tweeting that. The Democrats aren't American. Why?
Starting point is 01:03:23 We can judge you. You know, we can read a lot into what people write and we can judge you. Yeah, you mean the tweet that starts, I believe Americans are fair and they won't want to judge either side? Well, you heard her say that she couldn't see it. It almost seems like she had a pre-built intro. Here's something offensive. You said, guys, I can't see it. Oh, I think all Americans are fair.
Starting point is 01:03:43 She didn't find this. Anyway. Did you guys hear the vice? editor who talked about the protesters at these events. I thought this was fascinating, and it's not getting a ton of attention. It was on ABC's this week, Vice News, D.C. Bureau Chief Shauna Thomas talking about the protest. Listen. And we also saw people who were organized.
Starting point is 01:04:02 And that moment with Jeff Flake on the Hill, we talked to one woman who works for ultraviolet, who was paid. She helped steer people in the right ways to be able to confront centers. So there were paid. There were people who were paid by organizations like ultraviolet to, to, to, to, try to harness that energy in a way that would make the viral moments that we ended up seeing. Wait, wait, what? Wait, the demonstrators were paid to create fake viral moments? Sarah, could you play the first part of that CNN interview?
Starting point is 01:04:34 Because it's so great now. Play the first part of that CNN interview. CNN International. Let me, Glenn, ask you about your tweets because this is how. The other one. The other clip. because that I mean that's a that's vice that's vice
Starting point is 01:04:50 that's not a right left saying yes they were paid for people know that one thing is very clear there is a deep partisan divide in Washington right now it's permeating through a divided nation what needs to be done to change that
Starting point is 01:05:06 is a question or has it always been there it's just something that we're noticing more now because of social media and cable news perhaps media personality and political comments Glenn Beck has written extensively about this and his new book, Addicted to Outrage. He joins me now from Irving in Texas. Thanks for being with us.
Starting point is 01:05:26 You bet. One of the things you said is you acknowledge that some of the work you did on cable news contributed to this polarization. And I would love to have other voices join me, but so far I haven't had anybody. I think we're all responsible for what's happened to our country and to the Republic. and it is becoming more and more disturbing. I've spoken out about it over for the last five years. I have talked to members of press.
Starting point is 01:05:52 I've talked to people. And the only ones that seem to be interested are the people who are actually living day to day in the country. I think they are disgusted by this entire process. I think that many people, when they heard the charges, were open to listening. They did. They watched it. I know several people that watched last week. and gave Professor Ford
Starting point is 01:06:15 all the benefit of the doubt. Many people watched it that I know that were for Kavanaugh that said, I'm not sure now. I don't know. But they've really been discussed with... What's wrong with the process? She had allegations against Judge Kavanaugh. She aired them.
Starting point is 01:06:31 Then the committee heard from Kavanaugh. Those who don't support his nomination say, in fact, it was all rigged in his favor. That the FBI didn't talk to people who could have corroborated. by all protesting said, you know, I've heard the press ask over, I've heard the press ask over and over,
Starting point is 01:06:50 will this be good enough? Will this be good enough? For what? For people to not change their positions? And I don't say that just about the Democrats. I mean that about the Republicans too. There are people that it doesn't matter what the facts are. This was not a search for facts at all.
Starting point is 01:07:09 And the money outside of Washington that is being poor, into this to bring people into the streets, the vitriol behind all of this has really been remarkable. And if we don't You're saying this is coming from outside money, that these are not genuine
Starting point is 01:07:27 protesters who are called by what's going on. We believe that the voice of a woman is not being heard or believe. Let me ask the person. Stop. It's not what you're saying. That's just crazy. Vicer saying. They have the people What? That's, you're saying that. That's crazy.
Starting point is 01:07:45 It's not even convincing, like, outrage. No, it's, you know what? And she might even believe it. But that's how sheltered they are. That's how sheltered they are. They have absolutely no idea. I listen to the New York Times daily every morning. And it is hard to do.
Starting point is 01:08:06 And I listened to it this morning. And they were talking about how this whole process, how what the Republicans did, delegitimize the Supreme Court and how dangerous that is. I'm not kidding you within five minutes. Now, some Democrats say that they should delegitimize the Supreme Court because it's an outrageous right-wing organization now. Wait, what?
Starting point is 01:08:34 I thought de-legitimization was really bad. Now you're for it and you want to encourage people to do it? it's it's not a just it's just not about the truth insanely transparent yeah how do we fix it i don't know that's what pat's going to do coming up oh we're going to fix it today yeah yeah i've been holding back until now and uh today i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna release the answer okay good all right that answer is coming up in just a few minutes on pat gray unleashed now with answers and scrubbing bubbles Network
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