The Glenn Beck Program - The Internet’s Future Under Biden | Guest: Ajit Pai | 1/25/21

Episode Date: January 25, 2021

Las Vegas-area schools are partially reopening after a surge in suicides and mental health issues, and Glenn gets personal about how this is the bigger pandemic. President Biden takes a bleak tone on the coronavirus. Amazon wants to hold a big union vote in person, not by mail. Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai joins to discuss the health of the internet, 5G, net neutrality, and big tech censorship. Israeli researchers may have found a cure for some forms of blindness. Sen. Rand Paul reamed George Stephanopoulos for his bias concerning the 2020 election. The Biden administration’s new energy policies are causing an outcry. American Airlines is tightening its rules on what emotional support animals are allowed to fly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll of the pandemic lockdown. He felt disconnected, said the mother of a 14-year-old freshman in Las Vegas who expressed suicidal thoughts. He felt left behind. The reminder of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nevada, have come in droves since schools shut their doors in March, an early warning system that monitor students' mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to distant officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives. Now they're going back to school, Clark County.

They've decided this is worse than the COVID pandemic. We have got to get these kids back in class. I don't want to go into details. But in the last two months, my family has experienced a serious suicide attempt. And there is nothing more frightening. I can't imagine it's not right. for a parent to survive their child. And I don't want to live without any of them.

There's so many of us that don't have any idea what to do. I'm a survivor of suicide from my mother. We had another suicide in our family when I was probably about 30. This is different. I believe those were from biology, genetics. This is because our children don't, don't know what to do. They don't have friends.

Take yourself back to when you were 16. What were you doing when you were 16? When you were a teenager, it was your stand-by-me years. It was the time when your friends got together and they went out and they did stuff, even just going for walks outside. We used to just like a bunch of hoodlums. Just walk our neighborhood. Screw around.

Talk. Discover. Talk about your feelings. Talk about girls. They're not doing that now. Imagine taking the prime years of your life and just having it gone. Our children have developed high anxiety. Our children are losing their skills to be able to relate to one another.

We don't really even look at one another anymore. We don't, we can't, it's un, it's, it's, it's not part of our human experience to talk to people for months on end wearing masks. The Academy of Pediatrics reported that as of December 3rd, children accounted for slightly more than 0% of all COVID-19 cases, even fewer deaths, about point. point 11% 1.11% in 160 total. There are still 15 states with zero reported child deaths. They don't even catch it as often. They account for less than 2% of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases globally. Even here in America, the nation with the highest infection rates, that number is the same, 2%.

And when they do catch it, the overwhelming majority of them experience either no symptoms or mild symptoms. Another recent study found that compared to the flu, children play a minimal role in spreading COVID-19, and most children who contract it actually get it from their parents. So children rarely catch it. They almost never die, and they don't spread it. Yet according from the data from the CDC, the rate of children visiting emergency rooms has skyrocketed. The number of five to 11-year-olds is 25% higher. The rate of 12 to 17-year-olds going to the emergency room is 31% higher. Why?

That number is due to mental health reasons. I'm going to publish this monologue at glenbeck.com. I have 11 studies. We stop posting them at 11, according to a ton of stories and studies during the pandemic. Children of all ages had high rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic. symptoms as expected in the aftermath of any disaster. The reality is unequivocal. The lockdowns and the quarantines are bad for our children.

Do you know there's a study out now that shows that our children, our children are going to be years behind now? My son goes back to class today. He is, he loved. class was doing great last year. Things were finally on track. And he and his friends, they talk on the phone. They spoke last night. They don't want to go back. But they don't also want to stay home. It's totally changed everything. The reason why he doesn't want to go back is because the last time he went back before somebody had COVID,

this was in December. The last time he went back, there were like four kids in the class, and they were in these plastic bubbles. He said, I couldn't understand the teacher because she was wearing a mask. I had to wear a mask. We couldn't go anywhere. We had to stay in the room.

We couldn't even go for lunch. We couldn't sit together. That's not healthy. What are we doing to our stuff? One study found children of all age groups showed more clinging, inattention, and irritability. Three to six-year-olds were more likely to manifest clinginess and fear that family members might contract the infection. Six to 18-year-olds were more likely to show inattention and persistent inquiry. Another study found that in many households, children who end up staying indoors

become restless and in some cases violent. I know kids that don't want to be. I know kids that don't want to go outside anymore. They just don't want to go outside any or. My son told me this this weekend, I don't want to leave the house. My daughter's anxiety of being around people has gone through the roof. What, what are we doing? What are we doing to our children? You know, you know the truth. You know the truth about how children contracted, and if you don't, I'm posting this study. 85% of parents have noticed negative changes in their children's emotions and behavior since the pandemic. In England, deaths by suicide among children increased after the first lockdown.

In Holland, a study found that young people reported significant increase in severe anxiety in sleeping problems. Does anybody else have a problem with their kids up at 3 o'clock in the morning? overwhelmingly the research overwhelmingly concludes that children should remain in school you are going to be the one that solves this you are going to be the one that is going to go to the school board to the school you are going to say enough is enough enough enough if there is a teacher that is old and infirm

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And it's true. Every time I read the news, every time I come into work, my blood pressure just shoots through the roof. I've got to find some Zen way of telling you about all the stuff that's going on. I can't. You used to have this problem solved back in the day with your friend Jack. Oh, Dr. Daniels? Dr. Daniels?

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Don't drink. At least not yet. Save it up. At some point, you're going to have teenagers and the world's going to come undone. It might come undone now, but it's not your problem, really. Don't drink.

Don't drink. Save all of those blackouts. Save those times in a bar going, I don't know. I mean, how does this affect me? Save those moments. Biden now says there's nothing the U.S. can do to counteract COVID in the next several months. Wait.

Hold on. I don't understand what he means by that. Does he mean that we are going to have deaths over the next several months? I mean, yes, that's true, right? We know these things get in the pipeline when you're having a couple hundred thousand cases a day. Yeah, there's nothing we can do. You can certainly decrease the amount of them, though. To get to zero?

Yes, there's nothing we can do. No, there's nothing we can do. No, he says there's nothing we can do. There's nothing the U.S. do can do to counteract COVID in the next several months. Isn't he specifically doing a 100-day mask challenge? What is the purpose of this if you can't? Well, you got the mask challenge.

So you got the mask challenge. And he's got that lofty goal of 100 million vaccinations. in a hundred days. The problem is we're now doing, what was it? Friday we did 1.6? Yeah, we're now ahead of that pace. Yeah.

So, I mean, it's a lofty gold. He'll see if he can cut it down. He's going to slow the rate of vaccination. I mean, it's not. By the way, Gretchen Whitmer eases restaurant restrictions right after the inauguration. So we had that going for us. Now, wait a minute.

The president, the new president is saying, there's nothing we can do. I'm sorry, but you've lost. your loved one. Meanwhile, right after he's elected, Whitmer? The king of the lockdowns, really. I mean, outside of maybe,

maybe Gavin Newsome, I mean, I mean, well, Gavin is even doing it too. Gavin is now coming out and today he's supposed to say, you know what? These restrictions, we're going to lift them. We're going to lift them. We're going to lift them. As of today, California is supposed to get that.

Wait, Wade, you, hold it. I haven't looked at California specifically here in a little while, but I mean, they have not exactly been in a low point as far as transmission goes. No, no, no. Lately. But he's saying it's time. It's time to open these things up. Are you kidding me? Same thing with New York.

I mean, Cuomo was doing the same thing saying, hey, we need to open these things up. And it's like, well, have you looked at your state at all? Have you, because I mean, we are, I mean, it's kind of, I guess it's maybe come down a little bit. Who are doing to? Of course, I look at my state, and it's a... This. You know, I'm the mobster that is brilliant, and at the same time,

complete idiot. So, this is out of control. Lock it down. I think we should put more people in nursing homes. To be able to kill more, you know, grandmas and grip. But at the same time, open it up. We can't do this anymore. Governor Cuomo, you again have rejected the release of the information.

That has been, multiple lawsuits have been filed to get the information about how many people are. You were calling me some sort of Italian slur name there? I think that's what I heard. America's dumbest mobster. Oh my God, she's just. I mean, he's the one who's like, leave the gun. Take the canoli. No, wait.

Take the canoli. Leave the gun. No, wait. Leave the canoli. Wait. I don't know what to do here. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Well, you should make decisions maybe a little faster.

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Hello, Glenn. How are you? Oh, perfect. Just, I mean. So perfect. You know, I'm so glad the media said over the weekend, CNN, was talking about how Joe Biden, what he's doing is just boring. I mean, he's just not doing anything. He's just not doing anything that's exciting or, you know, controversial.

Right. Like, they're just 19 boring executive orders so far. Exactly. And they're all like, hey, maybe he should order more paper clips. Yeah. You know, none of them. And who cares about paper clips? Right.

Except for the fact that none of them are about paper clips. They're about things like the border. Right. Right. Right. Well, just release all, all people that ICE has in custody. Yeah. All of them.

No big deal. Yeah. Just all of them. Yeah. It's not like he's releasing. Well, he is releasing all of them. Yes, he is. But he's not releasing more than all of them.

No. That would be controversial. Yes, but this isn't. This isn't. Nope. He's also inspired caravans again. So we got, yes. We have that going on.

We had one of 8,000 last week that was broken up a little bit. We have another one of 3,000 that launched again like yesterday. That's great. That's only, that's great. You know, 11,000 people that are headed. I think it's wonderful. Hey, by the way, did you hear that Jeff Bezos and Amazon, little upset? Yeah, I did hear this.

Yeah, little upset. They're trying to unionize Amazon, and he doesn't like that. I mean, when you got a corporation like Amazon, that's working well, why not throw a little bit of the postal service in there with it? You know what I mean? Let's get a couple of really good unions in there. So Amazon has just filed with the National Labor Relations Board because the unions said what we're going to do, because it's so huge, instead of having a meeting where everybody votes,

what we'll do is we'll have mail-in ballots. And Bezos doesn't like that because he says mail-in voting, there's too much of a risk of fraud by the labor unions. Yeah, the only way it can be valid and fair is to have an in-person voting system. Right. Well, not only that. Not only that. He said, the concerns about election security run particularly high because we don't have a reliable electronic signature platform. Hmm. Hmm.

Mm. Mm. So Amazon doesn't have that. No. Hmm. That's interesting. That's a, sorry, throw that in. I mean, again, some of the stuff gets out of where the election was, you know, crazy.

But the one, they keep saying, like, We check the signatures. It's like I buy things every day and they supposedly check the signatures. Like they don't even look at my signature when I sign a credit card receipt for thousands of dollars. They don't even care. Like they check the signatures. I mean, I'm not saying they don't go through a check, but like how reliable is that check? I have literally signed it Mickey Mouse at times.

I really have. I signed one Jesus at one point. Just to see. Just to see. Nope. I just, I actually signed it. Jesus McCool. Nothing.

Nothing. I sent my kid up there the other day to buy lunch with my credit card and they gave it to him. Like, he's not, he didn't get the credit card. He's nine. They don't care. No one cares. He's on his cell phone, American Express. I know.

I know. I wrote the check. I don't know why it's not there for last month's payment. I just need lunch today. Tim Matheson. For some reason. Now, Tim Matheson is the guy. Remember, do you know who he is?

Yeah. He's the guy from National Lampoon's Animal House. Animal House. Yeah, right. He was otter in that. Right. And what he's been doing since is. Oh, it's terrific stuff.

Right. Whatever it is. So anyway, I've seen all of his film. Yeah. Oh. So he tweeted out, so wonderful to have a first lady with class and heart and can speak English. Oh.

Yeah. Melania Trump. What a dummy. She only speaks five languages. Oh, what I'm a idiot. She's only fluent in five. And no class.

You see her out sitting on the washer and dryer that she put on the back porch of the White House sitting there with a crop top. and she's sitting there just drinking a Budweiser. And I thought, could we get some class? Wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it? But no. No, no.

You got a supermodel in the White House and they hated her guts for four years for no apparent reason whatsoever. Is there any first lady that had more class than Melania Trump? Not that I can think of. She was always classy. I think Jackie O would be the only one that I could think of that was in her catatom. Yeah. Jackie O had real class. But, you know, I was at the White House and I'm in the Rose Garden. Remember when she redid the Rose Garden? Yeah. Yeah. And what did they say? They said she ruined it. It was ridiculous. It was terrible. Do you know what she did? Because I was standing in the Rose Garden. It is beautiful. You know what she did? No, not exactly. Yeah. She restored it to the exact plan of Jackie O. They had changed it since. Wow. So all she did was, like, I think Jackie O had the right plan and they restored

it to the Jackie O plan and that was classless. Unbelievable. I mean, it's just unbelievable. I just but the class of Dr. Jill Biden. Wow, now that yeah.

Yeah, it's amazing. San Francisco hotels are being used to house homeless people. And there's a new executive order that has just been signed by Joe Biden. It's so boring. I shouldn't even read it to you.

Under the order, certain kinds of emergency housing for the homeless are eligible to be fully reimbursed through September. Now, not sure if this executive order, if this emergency will fit this executive order, but I'm getting. guessing it does. So now we are going to be paying for the hotel rooms of the homeless in San Francisco.

I have to ask you, do you have a line anywhere? Do you have a line on taxes where it's just like, okay, okay, no. Because I almost feel like that's taxation without representation because I'm paying for programs in California. I don't get any representation in California. Why am I paying for policies that I vehemently disagree with in California? California should have to pay their own bill. I don't live in California for a reason.

I live in Texas for a reason. You know, Texas brought home all of its own gold. We have our own gold reserve now. We finally got it out of the Federal Reserve. It took us five years, but we got it. And now we have all of our own gold reserves. I did that for a reason because Texas knew this ain't going to last. Is Texas, why does Texas have to pay for the nonsense in California?

Is it just me? Because I feel this way about why am I? If they're using federal funds, then no, that's, I mean, that's completely wrong. This is why Madison did not want this to be the outcome, right? where we just send a bunch of money to the federal government and it distributes it all over the country. Correct. The opposite of the model. Right. And they're doing it in California. They're going to do it with, and if it's executive order, do I really have representation there? Because they're spending money through executive order. It's supposed to go through Congress.

But even if it does go through Congress, I don't have any representation in. California? Who's the one going to hold the budget for us? Who's going to be the one that holds the feet to the fire? Who's going to make sure that California has some austerity instead of just continuing to spend money? I mean, I just think we are setting ourselves up for massive problems. Because when New York fails, which it will, when Illinois fails, which it will, I have no problem helping a neighbor. But not the neighbors who have been living it up. Not the neighbors who are like, you guys are so stupid.

Party! Why would I help them? I think New York will probably be fine because I just imagine the sales of the poster that Andrew Cuomo made celebrating what a good job he did on coronavirus. Those are probably selling so much that he can just pay off all the budget problems with that. And or his book. Yeah. Just either one.

book about what a great job he did with the coronavirus that was released just as they went to the highest peak they've had since the beginning of the crisis. By the way, speaking of more problems, 7,000 National Guardsmen are going to remain in Washington through mid-March now. Seven thousand. So, D.C. is essentially an occupied city then. That's good. I guess. I guess. That's great. That's great. That's what they said Trump wanted to do to Portland, make it an occupied city. Now we have 7,000 National Guardmen and DeSantis is calling them back. He's like, you're not keeping any of my National Guard in March. I mean, I understand that like maybe the next day they don't leave because that would be kind of an obvious cue to everyone if there was going to be a problem.

But mid-March, I mean, what's the limiting, what's the limiting argument here? At some, why would you send them home in mid-March? Then the people are going to come in April, right? Like, there's no limiting principle here to stop this. So DeSantis is pulling the troops back. So is Texas. Yeah, they're going to lose. All the red states are going to be like, no, we're not going to.

We're not an everlasting occupying force in Washington, D.C. Yeah, and they're making them sleep in parking garages now. They moved them out of the marbled floors of the Capitol building and put them in a parking garage. No, they said that they National Guard asked for that. A bull crap. I'd say that's bull. No, they said that they wanted. We want to sleep in a parking garage.

It's more comfortable for them. We'd hate to be in a hotel. Put us in a parking garage. I mean, please. We don't want to go to a hotel. That's for the homeless. Right. We'd rather sleep in the garage.

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And we're going to talk to him about the future of broadcast, the future of the internet, and what he sees coming down the pike that we should be paying attention to. He's coming up in just a few minutes on freedom of speech. Here's a question that I have for you. what does the what does freedom of speech guarantee freedom of speech the first amendment freedom of speech freedom to petition your government right what what does that mean where do you draw the line on that for instance there's a story man charged in capital riot barred from commenting about matters related to the u.s government online he's a guy who lives in Kentucky. He allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol.

And he's been told he can no longer make any comments about the breach or the U.S. government online. I don't see how that's possible under the First Amendment. Now, he was released. No, he was released on bond. This is the court ruling. Yeah. Which barred him from using the internet or anything else to talk about the government. or any kind of rallies like this.

Yeah, like, I don't think that's possible. Like, when you have, every once in a while, there'll be a case where, like, a guy is selling shady supplements that he says do things that it doesn't do, that they don't do. And he'll get in trouble for that, get sued. And part of the punishment will be he can no longer operate in the arena of selling supplements, right?

However, these guys, without fail, go on to write books about supplements because you can't stop them from talking. It's a free speech issue. It's a first amendment. This is free speech specifically about questioning your government. And I don't like any of his speech. I mean, you know, he was like, we got to start a revolution.

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It's an honor to have Ajit Pie on with us again. Former FCC chairman. Ajit, how are you? Is he there? Ajit. My gosh, they've silenced him already. Hey, Glenn. How are you? There you are.

Thank you for having me on. You bet. How are you, sir? Pretty good. good, hope you're doing well also on this Monday morning. So you were the chairman of the FCC. Before that, you were the commissioner at the FCC. You were appointed then by Barack Obama and approved unanimously by the Senate.

So everybody agreed that you were a good guy that could get the job done. You've done some amazing things. I believe that you and when you were at the FCC, those involved, with you, save the internet from net neutrality. Tell me about the health of the internet and where we are today because of those challenges before we look to the future. Well, the internet in terms of its infrastructure is stronger than ever. And this is remarkable when you consider that when we made our decision to repeal these heavy-handed net neutrality regulations back in 2017, the left was catarwaling about how this was the death of the internet as we know it.

That was according to Bernie Sanders. Others said the internet would slow down to one word per time. Others said that you'd have to pay $15 per month just to be able to tweet. All these things have fallen by the wayside. Speeds are now twice as fast as they were back in 2017. Internet infrastructure has been built out so that millions more Americans have access. Obviously, it's a much different environment than those hyperbolic predictions would have suggested. And to me, at least, the proof in the pudding has been during the pandemic.

Our internet infrastructure has held up despite the increase in traffic, whereas in Europe, which still has these net neutrality regulations, they had to go hat in hand to companies like Netflix and YouTube and beg them to throttle content because they don't have the infrastructure that's necessary to sustain these loads. So we made the right decision, and I'm glad we did. So are you still hearing the voices where those forces still out there for net neutrality and to bring some of these regulations back? And if so, why? You know, I'd say we still hear them all the time. Whenever I'm on social media, I see it. And it's incredible. I think it's more of a religious issue with some folks on the left.

And what does that mean? What do you mean by that? Because what I mean by religious issue is there is literally no set of evidence you can ever provide to these people to persuade them that there's not a problem. You know, look at the last three years without these net neutrality regulations. We haven't seen any kind of market failure. We haven't seen broadband providers, fraudulent or blocking content.

Nonetheless, they say that these rules are absolutely vital, and the Internet's about to die. Meanwhile, these very same advocates are going to the tech giants and telling them, we want you to censor content that we don't like. And so the hypocrisy of these advocates is just stunning. It's just, as I said, there's literally no evidence we could provide in terms of faster speeds, more infrastructure, open Internet, all that kind of stuff that would persuade that.

And so it's not a reason policy debate anymore, at least in some quarters at least. It's much more of a issue of religion. Do you believe or do you not? And that's unfortunate because after all we're making policy here. We're not putting our finger in the wind. The hypocrisy is overwhelming. But as you mentioned, there's no evidence you can present. But the evidence is there, right?

Like the speeds have gone up dramatically since they promised they would slow down to a trickle. Yeah, and that's the incredible thing. The speed is the most objective one. There's a group called Ucla, O-O-K-L-A. The independent company, they do their own assessments of speeds. They were the ones who were saying, hey, the speeds are tracking upward and upward. And I kept pointing this out to some of our critics, and they would say, well, the speeds were going up anyway, and so you didn't have the responsibility for that.

And I said, no, if you look at the February 28th, I think it is, 2018, the entire Senate Democratic caucus put this out on Twitter. if we lose net neutrality, you'll get the internet one word at a time. And so I said, look, that is objectively false. There's just no debate about this. This internet did not slow down. And nonetheless, there's still some folks who say, no, it's still at risk. Broadband providers are going to start censoring content any day now. And it's always the sort of boogeyman that's right around the corner that we have to regulate against,

as opposed to the concrete problems that we can see on the internet, which is not any type of stuff. like this, it's more that people in rural areas don't have access or people in urban areas can't afford access. And those are the types of problems we need to be addressing, not this phantom of net neutrality, which to me at least is a solution that won't work and to address a problem that simply doesn't exist. It is, 5G has been described to me as 4G being the size of a garden hose and 5G being the size of a channel for all of the information. I know my wife just, I don't remember where she was, but she used real 5G. And she, I mean, she never comments on speed unless it's really, really slow. And she said to me, oh my gosh, Glenn, you can't imagine how fast it was.

It was just like load. Load, load, load. It was just there every time. Go ahead. Can you describe 5G and what it will mean and how far we are away? from that really being everywhere? I'm really excited about 5G, this next generation of wireless connectivity. And unlike some of the predecessor transitions we've had,

you know, 1G to 2G, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 5G is going to be a leap. Partly because of the speeds, you mentioned that, you know, 100 times faster speeds than 4G, a much more responsive network so that when you click on the link, it'll come up almost immediately. But it's more of the fact that this technology will underlie all kinds of different industries. health care, for example, if you want to do a telehealth visit with your doctor, much higher resolution video, much lower latency, as they call it, so you can immediately see what the

doctor is looking at and all that kind of thing. It's going to be tremendous. If 5G with doctors means because the latency goes from, what, 100 milliseconds to down under 10, which means in some cases you might be able to actually do surgery on the other side of the world with 5G. Exactly right. That is the future that's within grasp. And if you think about all these low latency applications from telehealth to gaming to you name it, that's a really big deal.

So I'm really excited about the work that the FCC did over the last four years to help that potential become a reality here in the United States. So I just bought a refrigerator the other day. And it said Bluetooth enabled. And I'm like, I don't want my refrigerator. to be Bluetooth enabled. The amount of information that is going to be going out of our homes now with 5G, because 5G allows everything to be smart, a smart item.

Are you concerned at all about privacy and just the use of all of this information on the American people? Absolutely. And this is why many years ago I called on Congress to, come up with legislation on the federal level to establish rules of the road for privacy in the digital world. We don't have that right now. And so what you see is some states like California taking the lead and essentially regulating on their own within that state. Or you see Europe implementing very strong privacy regulations and essentially multinational companies like Google and Facebook abide by those same restrictions in the U.S. just as they would in Europe because you can't have different privacy protections across the world.

world. So I think right now it would be great for Congress to sit down and put on the page some of those basic privacy protections. But the other issue related to privacy is security, Glenn. I mean, as you know, as everything gets connected, the network is only going to be strong as its most vulnerable point. And we're talking about 5G and security. There are companies like Huawei and ZTE, other companies in this space that could look to compromise some of our networks for their own gain, whether it's economic espionage or inserting malware or even more than that. insidiously the Chinese Communist Party looking to compromise security of networks to gain insights on where our national security is vulnerable.

Well, people would say that blockchain is going to be really important for our security, but when we're at, you know, what is it, 56-cubit quantum computing, even blockchain is vulnerable, isn't it? I mean, now that we're getting into quantum computer computing so fast, how are we going to be able to keep things secure? That's a really good question, and that's part of the reason why a few months ago, before I left, I asked the FCC to organize a forum around quantum computing to understand what this future looks like.

And I don't pretend to have the answer to your question, but I do think it's important for the U.S. government to start thinking about quantum and AI and machine learning and some of these blockchain, these next-generation technologies. It might seem futuristic, Oh, it's here. The future can become the presence a lot quicker than people think. One more question on privacy before we move on.

Has anyone suggested that all of my information belongs to me? It's mine. And if I decide to sell it, then I will make that decision. And I'd make my decision on what parts of it I'd be willing to sell. This would not only throttle these giant companies that are truly getting rich off of the backs of all of us through metadata and now really amazingly detailed data on each of us, but it would also return our privacy. It would punish the Googles of the world financially by taking that incentive away from them, but they could buy it from it, us, which would also be something that the American people could make money on. Is anybody suggesting that?

Suggestion in some courts. In fact, I think there might be some legislative proposals floating around Congress along those lines. So I think that's one of the things that people instinctively get is that the property right they might have, so to speak, in their own data, is something that should be vindicated. Now, on the other hand, there's some who've raised some questions about that. For example, if you're walking along a road and you have a smart network, transportation network that is monitoring how traffic is going so that they can avoid hitting pedestrians and the like. Is that your data? Does it also involve some public safety issues?

I mean, there's some sort of gray areas there, but I do think there's a lot to sort out in this. What is your data? Who owns it? How should it be used? These are the kinds of things that Congress needs to speak to. We don't have a framework right now for understanding that, and we need one desperately. look at the bottom of my Alexa and I see that it has an FCC license

on it and I wonder if in some ways this isn't and I know this sounds ridiculous but hear me out a violation of the third amendment which is the government can't you know quarter soldiers in your home I feel

as though the government isn't but if they start to collude more and more with these companies they kind of are aren't they quartering people not the government but these companies, aren't they kind of quartering people in our home if they are constantly going and listening to us and gathering information? I didn't thought about that, Angle. I will say, though, just as you know, the SEC logo you see on the bottom, we're not licensing them.

All we do is essentially authorize their equipment to say any device in the United States that emits or receives radio frequency or RF. We have a responsibility to okay it, so we actually don't license those particular devices. directly, but I do think it's interesting that a lot of us rely on these devices that you pick up a lot of our conversations and they've delivered a lot of value, but I think some people also have the concern, you know, what are they looking into everything? And so, that's one of the things, too, that it's just a new world. This didn't exist when I was a kid, needless to say, when you were inside the confines of your home, that was sort of this impregnable fortress, so to speak, your own thoughts and data. So it's a much more complicated world.

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We don't necessarily have a right to an audience on someone's private website. As someone who's a conservative and is very scared of a federal intrusion on the internet, I am worried about this sort of new idea from the right where there's a big debate going on, whether the government should step. in and do something to these big tech companies. Where do you stand on that? Well, where I stand is what I've said for many years, which is that these tech giants increasingly are running social platforms that have become the new public square. And to the extent that some are either obstructed or prevented from speaking in that square, I think it's important for people to understand how are these decisions being made, who is making these decisions and why. And I think the past couple of months have only illustrated the fact we don't have.

have any insight here. And for me, at least as a consumer, I don't care whether it's a network operator, like you're an internet service provider, or a content company, like a tech platform. I just want to know, am I able to speak or not? Am I able to read what I want or not? And if I want to understand the rules of the road, and I think that's kind of lack of transparency is what's frustrating a lot of people. Nobody knows what's inside the black box. So here's the deal. I've done broadcast for 45 years. I know what the rules are. I know what the FCC says. I know it's acceptable and not because the rules are very, very clear. Always have been. When we get blocked or we get dinged by some of these high tech companies, we usually don't know why. And so I can't, I can't make sure

that we're in compliance if I don't know what it means to be in compliance. Exactly right. And that's why some of the decisions seem to be made as they go along. I pointed this out last summer when I asked on Twitter, why is the Supreme Leader of Iran allowed to tweet out threats, especially author urging the destruction of the, as he called it, the Zionist state and all of this nonsense, whereas other people are not allowed to say things, which are clearly not as far as that. Don't go as far as that. And I think it just goes back to, you know, like I said, in November 2017, I gave a speech where I said, if you were really concerned about a free and open Internet, what you need to be worried about is not net neutrality. It's the question of how these tech

platforms operate free from any transparency requirements whatsoever. And I think people on the left and the right now, I would think agree with that. Ajit, people, I've never seen this before. People in this industry, both radio and online, are extraordinarily concerned about losing our place, our platform. our ability to broadcast or even narrowcast. I want to talk to you about the future and what we should be concerned about. Who are the new players if you know anything about them? And what we should be doing.

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FCC chairman and commissioner, former commissioner as well of the FCC. He was appointed by Barack Obama. He served under Donald Trump and I think he is phenomenal on freedom of speech and regulation being minimal,

let the free market work things out. Thank you, first of all, for everything that you've done, Ajeep, to keep the internet free and to keep our voices intact. I want to talk to you about something that is really disturbing. Now, this is from Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. So she's on the left. She said this weekend, it is so dangerous. this is an issue that Democrats, Republicans, and independents,

libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don't have to guess about where this goes or how it ends. When you have people like former CIA director, John Brennan, openly talking about how he has spoken with or heard from employees or nominees in the Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for types of movements similar to the insurgencies they've seen overseas that in his words,

make up this unholy alliance of religious extremist, racist, bigots. He lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians. It's dangerous because of our civil liberties. It will mean that who could be scooped up tomorrow? We don't know. I am very concerned about the freedom of speech on broadcast. radio and the freedom of speech for those of us, not just the average man, but also those of us who they're talking about deprogramming or licensing to be able to have a podcast.

It's an unfortunate time for those of us who cherish free speech in the First Amendment. And that's part of the reason why I've been so steadfast in my defense of it, because I do think a defining feature of our democracy is that any faction, that happens to be in power should not have the ability to define who is allowed into the public square and who is not. And I think that's a basic American democracy over the decades. I may disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it. I think that understanding has become frayed. And I think the First Amendment is even more important when we have a tribalistic political culture like we have now, because we don't want your ability to speak

to depend on whether you or not you are in favor with those in power. So I don't know what particular information Mr. Brennan was relying on when he made those assessments. But I'll just simply say as a general matter, the First Amendment is important for all of us, even when we disagree with the message we might be hearing over the airwaves. Are you concerned that the next FCC commissioner and chairman will erode some of these freedoms for radio. Are we in radio

in a safe zone or not? So, I mean, I did everything I could over the last four years, last eight, as I served at the FCC, to make sure that radio had the ability to thrive into the next century. It's the oldest communications medium

addressing the mass market that we've got. It's older than the FCC itself. And to me, at least, I think it is one of the important forums for discussion of these types of issues. So I hope that the next FCC will embrace that. I'm a little more worried about what people will think on the digital side of things, you know, over the Internet and the like, where, as I said, you have non-neutrality advocates demanding certain types of regulations, but then, on the other hand, demanding censorship on

the Internet, which seems inconsistent with that. But hopefully radio can continue to be one of the places where we do still embrace that First Amendment value that all of us cherish. Do you know anything about the people that are coming in behind you? Yes, I served with all the four of the current commissioners who are there, including the acting chair. So, you know, I do think they have a shared commitment to public service, to the public interest. You know, they, I think they believe in the First Amendment just as much as I do. So hopefully they will stick by that. Yeah, that's been a bipartisan tradition at the FCC.

And I think the most dangerous thing would be for us to get back into the game of approving licenses or doling out favors based on whether we agree with the political views of the would-be license. And that's just not what the FCC should be doing. It should be a market-based objective decision, not trying to look into a crowd and pick out your friends. I want to read a story to you and just ask you your opinion on this. And I warn you that I find what this man did and said to be disgusting and despicable. But there's a sentence that had just been handed down that I cannot believe is, constitutional.

A federal judge has ordered a Kentucky man who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this month not to make any comments about the breach or the U.S. government online. Damon Michael Beckley, who was arrested by the FBI in Cub Run last week, was released on conditional bond, which barred him from using the Internet to post about the rally, the Capitol Riot rally, or matters related. to the U.S. government. He was also prohibited from attending any rallies, protest, or demonstrations, and he must be now monitored by GPS.

He said things online, like Vice President Pence. My name is Damon Michael Beckley. I don't appreciate this one bit, the situation you caused here, sir. We're not putting up with this tyrannical rule. If we've got to come back here and start a revolution and take all these traders out, which should be done, then we will. I don't agree with that. I think that's abhorrent speech.

But isn't this as a federal judge telling him he can't speak about the government or voice his opinion about the government online? Isn't that a violation of the Constitution? And isn't there any protection for him? Well, I certainly share your assessment of the comments themselves. This is an area of the law that's pretty well developed and one that I'm unfortunately not as knowledgeable about, about whether or not judges can restrain the speech in this way. So I probably had to defer until I had chance to, you know, read a brief, study up on that area of the law a little better. I know that this is something that has occurred in a number of cases.

And, yeah, I'd want to express more informed opinion after reading all that stuff. Tell me, before we let you go, tell me the thing that keeps you up at night, and tell me the thing that you see over the horizon that really excites you. Well, in terms of what keeps me up at night, it is the security of our networks. I spent a lot of time over the last four years here domestically, making sure the FCC did everything we could to secure our networks against national security threats from the outside. In particular, I've been very outspoken about the Chinese Communist Party's determination to dominate the world through technology and, in particular, to lead in 5G. And that's something I think we should all be worried about. Hang on just a second.

People don't believe me when I say there is a big. building, I think it's in Beijing, dedicated. All it is is the Communist Party. It's their platform of hackers. And they are hacking in and trying to hack into our Pentagon. I can't remember. It's some ungodly number of like 70,000 attempts a day or something like that. I mean, they, they have groups of people that this is their job to hack into our infrastructure. Is true or not? that we've heard similar reports and I think that's part of the concern and not only that

they've demonstrated that they are willing to export their any democratic values when it comes to things like the NBA or Taiwanese flag emojis or the like imagine what they would be willing to do if they had access to our telecom networks that is a serious threat indeed so

why explain that for people who don't understand that well so imagine if we had all these 5G networks built in the United States Everyone was using them on everything from smartphones to connected refrigerators to your cars to military installations. And let's say some of that equipment was built by the companies like Huawei and ZTE, which are themselves subject to Chinese Communist Party rule. So what if the Chinese Communist Party said, you know what,

we just want to see exactly how American consumers are using broadband. Let's see how broadband around military installations is being deployed, and whether we can get insights into things like troop movements or missile placements. I mean, all these kinds of things would be simply one request away from the Chinese government to Huawei and ZTE, and we would have no way of ever knowing that those requests had been made and that our networks have been compromised. And I think that is the risk. And that's why I've been so outspoken about the fact that I'm very bullish on 5G's potential, but we also need to think about security as a forethought as opposed to an afterthought. Once we've installed these networks, it's too late. You just can't put that genie back in the bottle.

So we need to be very careful about this threat and not have a rosy-eyed view of the reality of the situation. Final question for you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, didn't you give the – well, you ask him a final question, then I want to hear his optimistic thing. Okay. Well, I was just going to ask – my passwords are all set to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Should I change any of them? Yeah, I would definitely urge you to change that. Don't change it to password either.

That's the one that I think is probably not as well-advised. Mine's password zero. One, two, three, four, five. Oh, that's really good. Anyway, tell me what you're excited about. Tell me, tell me what's on the horizon that you say people don't understand how game-changing in a positive way this could be. I think what I'm really excited about is just the new influx of broadband-based technologies. You know, when I got into this business, broadband essentially meant telephone lines being souped up with PSL to deliver relatively slow service.

Now at the end of my tenure at the FCC, we've authorized low-earth-orbit satellites, companies like SpaceX, to deploy broadband from space at a really high speed. We've also encouraged electric utilities to get into this business since they have a deep footprint across rural America. We've had a huge influx of spectrum, thanks to our decisions that allow fixed wireless companies to enter the space. I guess what I'm trying to say is all of these different technologies are finally being unleashed through the power of the market to deliver connectivity to American citizens. And to me, at least Broadman is more important than never. And I'm really excited to see how all these companies using all these technologies are able to innovate for the benefit of consumers. It's going to be a really exciting decade to come in that regard. Are you at all concerned?

I mean, I was going to ask you what's next for you, but you were appointed by Obama, but you actually served also under Donald Trump. And they're going after anybody that serve with Donald Trump. You concerned about your future and what's next for you? No, we had the privilege of being an independent agency, and I led in that spirit. I kept all the political nonsense in Washington at arm's length to the extent I could and do the best I could. And I think, you know, a lot of the issues, they didn't have a partisan chain at all. For example, establishing 9-8-8 is a three-digit number for suicide prevention and mental health,

making sure people's disabilities had access to technology. I mean, the bulk of our work was pretty non-partisan. So as for what the next adventure is, I'll have to wait and see. One of the things I've found in my career is that it's just such an amazing country that you just work hard and you try to be in the right place at the right time and something will present itself to you. So I'm so grateful for the privilege of having the chance to serve and look forward to the next adventure being just as intellectually stimulating and rewarding. Jeet, I would love to do a long-form interview with you on our podcast. I've got a lot of questions on security and technology that is. coming. I would love to pick your brain. So if you

have time some point, I'd love to have you as a podcast cat. Well, sounds good. Let's love to talk about it. Let's figure out what work. And again, thank you for your service. You've been great at the FCC. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, I can't say enough how much I appreciate the kind of words, Glenn. I really appreciate the support from everybody out there in the country. Thank you. God bless. Ajit Pai. He was now leaving the FCC as the FCC chairperson. Now, I don't know about you, but I like having power at my fingertips.

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I told you last summer, I think, and said that we would find out early next year about a study that was being done in Israel that could cure blindness. Now, there's several reasons people go blind, but one is because their cornea just blows out. the cornea blindness looks like it's at an end i told you about this story from a company in israel last summer and they were putting the a artificial cornea into a man who is 78 years old he hasn't seen for forever because the film just grows over it's not glaucoma it's a cornea thing um and they said we just have to replace and And then we'll see. They took the bandages off and he can see crystal clear again.

Artificial corneas. When you were blind from this before, you needed a cornea donor. So you were on a waiting list, just like a kidney and everything else. No more. No more. That's a third of the people in the world that are blind are blind because of this. third. That's incredible. And it's over now.

That is great news. Really great news. That is great news. It comes from Israel. Yeah. I'm watching with, I'm fascinated by the, by Israel right now because they're essentially running a giant human experiment and human experiments on Jews. The history of that is not particularly good. But it is in Jerusalem or it's in Israel. It's not in Germany. Right. Yes. Okay. Good. Good. They've got about over 40% of their population vaccinated already for COVID. Over 40. percent of the population. We're at six percent right now. So we're going to see... A smaller population.

Right, but the point is, though, if it works, we're going to see it work there before we go down the road. And the opposite, if for some reason it doesn't work out as expected, we're going to see it there first. By the way, if you want to know about the cornyas, it's corneet.com. Hello, America. There's a lot of news to cover, including impeachment. We go there in 60 seconds. Yeah. And it is. You know, I'm a doctor. You a doctor?

I'm not a doctor, Glenn. I'm a doctor of humanities. So I studied for years and years all about, you know what it's like to be a human and I can treat any human condition. Can't do it on lions or dogs or anything else. But when it comes to humanities, I am. That's you. So cars have a lot to do with humans, you know. And so let me talk a little bit about car repairs.

I mean, who built the car? Humans. Right. Humans build the car, they drive the cars, they repair the cars, they charge you through the nose to repair the car sometime. And as a doctor, that's wrong. So let me prescribe something for you, okay? Car shield. Also, I'm an expert in because run by people, a bunch of good people.

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This election was not stolen. Do you accept that fact? And Rand said, well, I would say there's debate or whether or not there was fraud, and whether it occurred. We've never had any presentation in court where we actually looked at the evidence. Most of the cases were thrown out for lack of standing, which is a procedural way of not actually hearing the question. There were several states in which the law was changed by the Secretary of State and not the state legislature. To me, those are clearly unconstitutional, and I think there's still a chance that those actually do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court. Courts traditionally and historically don't like to hear election questions, but yes, were there people who voted twice?

Were there dead people who voted? Were there illegal aliens who voted? See, I told you they were going to come out about the UFOs. He's just saying this, like, it's no big deal. Legal aliens voted. Of course they're illegal. They're from another planet. We need voter ID like crazy.

And yes, we should get to the bottom of it. I'll give you an example in my state. We had a Democratic Secretary of State. She refused even under a federal order to purge the roles of illegal voters. We got a Republican Secretary of State, and he purged the roles. This is when Stephanopoulos said, I got to stop you there. No election is perfect. But there were 86 challenges filed by the Trump administration and his allies in court.

All were dismissed. Every state certified their results. And then they talked over each other for a while. And Paul said, George, where you make a mistake is that people coming in from the liberal side like you, you immediately say everything's a lie. Instead of saying there are two sides to everything. Historically, what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you would interview someone else who said there wasn't. But now you just insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a lie. I think this is the root of the problem.

These journalists have deemed themselves to be arbiters of the truth. And the truth is, it may not have changed the election, but there were enough regularities that we should look into it, not to change the outcome of the election at this point. There's nothing in the Constitution that would allow that, but to make sure that all of the other elections that are coming don't have the same kind of problem. And I love the fact that Jeff Bezos is now against mail-in voting when it is in regards to his company receiving ballots through the mail

on whether or not it should be unionized or not. he says the signature verification isn't strong enough. Really, Jeff? Because that's not what the Washington Post said when we were talking about the election of a president. But this is the real problem is it's one side or the other and it's one side that says the other is wrong always. Well, that's not true. That's just not true. In this case, in particular, there is a.

There is a possibility that there was enough to sway the election. There's also the possibility that there wasn't enough to steal the election. But we don't know which it is. And more importantly, I just want to know where the flaws were so we don't make them again. And I think, too, one of the biggest parts of this is making sure the rules are set up in a way that are fair and that people can trust. you know, you know, it's like you could make the argument that last year LeBron James stole the championship. Now I wouldn't make this argument, of course. I'm, I'm an objective person and I have nothing to do. You have the, there's no evidence. If you have tape ready to pull up, I'm saying I don't like LeBron James, go ahead and do it.

But you obviously don't have that tape ready. I mean, you have the I hate LeBron James.com. Well, yeah, but that's that that's just, you know, I'm just, I'm just, uh, you print T-shirts and Mugs. Investments. Well, yeah, that's separately. But like the rule, because of COVID, right, they changed the rules of the NBA, which was to give an old player who was playing a lot of minutes and a very important part

of the team a three-month break in the middle of the season to relax and get his energy up for a playoff rod. Is that a stolen championship? No. But did that those rule changes really benefit LeBron James? Of course. So the same thing, you know, you could argue here. A lot of these.

changes were made before the election. LeBron James is worse than Hitler. Oh, well, they're not got to get an argument for me on that one. No, well, okay, maybe, maybe technically. But again, you know, you know, potatoes, potatoes.

But what I was, I can't. Yes, I don't like LeBron James. My point, though, is that, like, some of these changes happened before the election took place. And those changes in the rules gave an advantage to Joe Biden. That's different than saying that, like, dominion voting machines.

we're changing votes on the fly. That's saying that like, these rules need to be put out in a way that make it fair for everybody and that both sides can trust the results. Right. Obviously, COVID is a weird circumstance. Everybody knows that this was a strange year for an election for every other thing that happened during the year. But going forward, we don't have to act as if we're on a panic footing all the time.

For instance, we didn't know if anybody was ever going to be able to even go to the polls. Yeah. because of COVID. You know, back in the summer, like, we may be locked in the house and not be able to do it. What do we do? Mail in voting. Now, I saw that as a scam, but, you know, other people felt that that was really reasonable to do. Yeah.

Well, we should make sure now that we have time. That never happens again. It's a bad idea from a mass scale. Correct. I do believe that if you have a reason to, I mean, like, I'll get an example that we've used many times, especially when we were in New York. we were doing election coverage all day. From the morning I woke up,

I'd be on a train at 6 o'clock in the morning, and I didn't come home until the next morning. Like, you know, usually I had to stay in New York that night. So I had no chance to vote in my own state on the day of the election. Does that mean that I don't get a vote? No. Like, no, absentee voting makes sense.

If you have a reason to not be able to vote that day, honestly, I think, even if you just don't want to vote that way, you probably can. However, it should be something that you're requesting and going through a process that's legitimate. Not this sort of like, we're just going to mail everybody, you know, a ballot or a ballot

request form and change the choice architecture. That's why the left likes this so much. It basically means, like, well, these people who barely pay attention to the election and are fringe voters because they don't actually know anything about the topics can vote from their own living room with no effort. That's what they want because they want people who don't think about these things to win the election for them. And if that's the way your state wants to operate, then it should go through the legislature right now, make those changes and make sure that it is, it's verifiable, that it is

strong. I mean, Washington State has done this for a long time, but it took them 10 years to get the security right. Let's not just all go, oh, well, we did it last time. We can do it this time. Let me switch topics. What you're saying here is we all have to play by the same rules. You can't change them in the middle of the game. Well, is that what's happening with the impeachment trial? John Roberts, Chief Justice John Roberts, shockingly has said he's not going to go to the impeachment trial. Now, according to the Constitution,

the chief justice must preside at the impeachment trial. Well, he says he's not going to go because he said, It is, let me see, an illegitimate procedure. All right. So he's not going. Now the Senate, the Democrats are saying, well, he's not going because we're not inviting him. Wait, the Constitution says, you have to have the chief justice sit as the judge. He plays no role other than the administering of rules.

So will this be a legitimate process? if the Democrats don't invite or if the chief justice says, no, I'm not going because this isn't legitimate. I'm there to remove a president. I'm not there to judge somebody who isn't president anymore. So which is it? Now, we all know why this is being done. This is being done, one, as the Democrats are so good. at something the Republicans never understand, and that is smoke screens.

They had the greatest smokescreen going for them in my lifetime. It was called Donald Trump's thumb and his Twitter. Okay? That was the greatest smokescreen ever. Everybody was talking about what he was tweeting every day. You should have been doing stuff like, you know, passing freedom for everybody. acts. You should have been passing things in Congress, but they didn't. They did nothing. The Democrats don't make that mistake. So the reason why this is going through the Senate is a, it's very popular

with Democrats, nine out of ten Democrats want him impeached, one out of every ten Republicans want President Trump impeached. But that shouldn't matter. It should be about, the Constitution. But more importantly, the more we talk about Donald Trump, the less we talk about things that are actually happening, the things that they are doing on climate change, et cetera, et cetera. Massive changes are being made right now. So that's why they're doing it. And they also want to make sure that, you know, presidents when they leave office, you kind of look back. I mean, we even said this. We joked about it. Barack Obama, when he, he's, he was in office.

Those days don't come back. You know what I mean? Whatever you're hating at the time, over, you know, a period of four to eight years, you start to pine for those days. And you think the Trump era was bad. Wait until 2024.

Let's just say Trump decides not to run. Whoever does run, they will say is worse than Trump. They will find the things, you know, at least Donald Trump did criminal justice reform. I mean, this guy is a, this conservative crazy person. They did it when Giuliani ran.

They were like, they were against Bush the whole time. And then Giuliani ran. They're like, Giuliani's even worse than Bush. Like, Giuliani agrees with you on half of this stuff. Remember, like, this guy was known as a moderate in New York City. And they were like, he's worse than Bush. No matter who the new guy is, Romney, oh, this Mitt Romney, he is a, he's a Hellion. Is he really?

Is he Mitt Romney? Oh, he likes it. He's a killer. He's a killer. Oh my gosh. Is he really? And you're also, you're also, not only are we going to grow more fond because that's what happens, but also because the economy, I mean, Joe Biden came out today and said, the economy is worse than we thought.

Worse than we thought it's just, it's getting worse and worse every day. I'm not sure how long it's going to take us to turn this around. Well, it's going to get worse with all the things that you're doing. For instance, he has said that he wants global warming to, take precedent over everything. So now he's talking about taxing you for how many miles you drive. So you drive to and fro work. They want to know how many miles you drive and that will add up over the years and you will get a tax every year on the amount of time you spend in your car. Well, that's going to help. That's not going to take money out of people's pockets that they could

spend or they could build their life with. That's going to help. He also has stopped. He also has stop the Trump order to slash the price of insulin and epipin. Do you remember when that was such an outrage? Okay. And he orders to look into the social cost on all of the regulations for climate pollution and everything else. What is the social cost? So we used to have a way that you would have to pay for it if you're going to make a new regulation and you had to look at the cost to the economy. Well, they've changed that now to the

social cost. If you think the economy is going to get better, I think you're sadly mistaken. And that's why they want him impeached. So he can't come back and run. The other thing that verifies this, I'll tell you, in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Goldline. They are offering a huge promotion right now on self-directed IRA acquisitions for Redmond. retirement accounts before the dollar really starts to nosedive and it's only a matter of time. We are printing too much money. I want you to call and find out about Goldline. Find out about how you can protect your long-term retirement portfolio with physical precious metals.

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We've got how many caravans coming out that we know of two right now. Two we know of, yeah. Thousands of people in each. And that's going to be, that's going to get worse and worse. Incentives matter. You're telling people to come to the border because we will not deport you for at least 100 days. So now why would you want to make sure that you impeach Donald Trump? Well, there's a backup plan to that.

and that is the 14th Amendment. And the 14th Amendment was put in for the Civil War, that you couldn't run for office if you had led an insurrection. So, in other words, if you were in the Confederacy, you couldn't run in the Union. You couldn't run in the United States of America because you tried to destroy America. Now, think of the history of that.

They are now saying that you can't run. run for president. Well, now, wait a minute, wait a minute. Bill Ayers. He never ran for president, but he's been trying to destroy. Bernardine Dorn, trying to destroy the United States of America, Antifa. The one who said, I am Antifa that ran for office lost, but ran for office in Portland. They openly state they're against the government of the United States.

we don't enact this you know it's the 14th it was civil war times so now because he gave a speech to where he didn't incite but he didn't also say hey don't do these things that's going to bar him from being president

here's why they care about this so much they care about this so much to make sure that he can't run for president ever again because they know how bad things are going to be. And they also know Americans might start looking fondly

on those good old days of Donald Trump. Because if the economy is an absolute wreck, the one thing everyone knows, half the country won't admit, but everyone knows, we had the strongest, the best economy in the history of the United States. and it worked for minorities. It was working in record numbers for the poor and minorities.

That's something that you just don't throw out. We did, but they're afraid when they've screwed things up horribly, this guy could march right back into the Oval Office, be carried on the shoulders of Americans back into office because they'll be tired. of the economic destruction that I fear is coming our way. More in a minute. So let me tell you about my pillow.

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She had a small business. She made these mittens. And now because of coronavirus and all the shutdowns, she's out of the mitten business. You're kidding. It's not because it hasn't anything to do with this meme. Like she sold so many or? No, no, no. She's out of business.

She can't make the mittens anymore. So freaking depressing. What are we going to laugh at without those mittens? Well, I can still laugh at Bernie Sanders generally, but the mittens helped. The mittens helped a lot. An awful lot. He looks so cold and frigid. The funny thing is he was indoors.

It was 81 degrees. He was just that old. You see the picture of him, the meme with him on the beach with Chris Christie? Yeah. I just love it. New York has lost a million jobs due to COVID. 19. Good luck getting that thing back. Now we have new things that I think are just wonderful. Biden has put a pause on oil and this is starting to concern states like New Mexico.

In Albuquerque, President Biden's 60-day moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits is prompting widespread concerns in New Mexico where spending on education and other program hinges on the industry's success. Top Republicans in the state as well as local leaders in communities that border the most productive regions in the U.S. right there in New Mexico say that any moves to make permanent the suspension would be economically devastating for the state. Half of New Mexico's production happens on federal land and amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars of royalties every single year.

congressional members from several other Western states are also raising concerns, saying the ripple effects on the moratorium will hurt small businesses already struggling because of the pandemic. You know what you need to do. The West and the Attorney Generals in the West need to get together and demand their land is returned. Their land was taken from them when the government pushed out West, and they seized a lot of these lands, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada. If you look at what the United States government owns as far as land goes, east of the Mississippi, it's a very small amount of land.

Once you start going west of the Mississippi and the farther you go near the Rockies, it's almost all federal land in some states. and they have been told by the Supreme Court twice that that land belongs to the states and needs to be returned. But when the government is the policeman as well, what do you do? Twice this has gone through the Supreme Court and two times the federal government has been told, return the land. states should have this land. States should be making these decisions on what they want to do. And I'm telling you, I think this is, I think this is going to become more and more.

Let me give you this story. I think this is part of the correction. American Airlines will no longer permit emotional support animals on flights, forcing owners to pay extra if they wish to be accompanied by their pets. The airline said Tuesday that train service. dogs will be the only animals allowed in the cabin without an additional charge. The ban will begin Monday, blah, blah, blah. The decision to ban emotional support animals will likely be followed by other airlines

in the near future. The animals outside of service dogs will only permit it to fly in the cargo hold or cage that fits underneath the seat in the cabin, and they will collect a fee of a minimum of $125 for these pets to travel on the plane. What is this story really about? Would they want more money to be able to know? No. Have you flown recently?

Yeah, yeah, a couple times. It's like flying in the San Diego Zoo. It's like, let's take the zoo with us. Now, I fly with Uno. Uno is a protection animal. And so we fly with Uno. And we had to go through all kinds of hoops and legal stuff. and he's got to wear a, you know, a tag on him that he's a service animal and a protection animal.

I'm sitting next to, I swear to you, I am looking for a cockatoo to be sitting next to me and crapping on my shoulder at some point. Okay. And emotional support cockatoo? Yes. Everyone is bringing their pet. And I think it's kind of funny myself because we saw this coming. You know, when the person had the donkey as the emotional support donkey. I'm not making this up and put it in their aisle with them,

an emotional support donkey. I thought this is hysterical. Keep it coming. I want snakes and all kinds of stuff. Oh, I don't want snakes on a plane. I've heard bad things. That's true. That documentary that came out was really.

It was riveting. Yeah, riveting is truly frightening. But this is the market correcting itself. Okay, okay, okay. We thought people would be reasoned. reasonable. I don't know why they thought that. And we realize that in today's world, anything goes.

And so I guess we're just going to have to regulate a little bit and charge you because that's a tarantula. And I'm sorry, it can't be on the plane with you on your chest, no matter if you have to pet it or not. No. I mean, that's what this is. And I'm not necessarily saying I like this. this is showing that there is a correction coming. Here's another example.

There are many states now, Montana, Tennessee, and Utah are now running through their state houses open carry laws. They are saying they're pushing for concealed carried guns without a permit and open carry. So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You can conceal your gun. You have a concealed carry permit. You don't need the permit. What? This is the states starting to react to the federal government and saying, you know what?

You're going in the wrong direction. And we're going to strengthen the laws here to make sure that everybody is very clear where we stand on guns. This is just fortifying. Yeah, no snakes on this plane. That's what's happening. And that's a really good thing. And every state in the union that you live in that's not freaking California, you need to get to your state legislatures and act right now.

They should be pulling the 1619 project out. They should be passing a law in your city and in your state. and you're going to get a lot of heat and pushback for it. I know of a city here in Texas that is just being dragged through the mud because they're like, none of this critical race theory crap in our schools. You're not teaching it to our kids. And boy, oh boy, they're being dragged through the mud right now because of it. Just keep standing.

Just keep standing. And bring it to your state level and your local level. they've got to be you've you've got to right now organize in your local community and your state to make sure the 1619 project is not in your schools to make sure that critical race theory is not being taught in your schools in any form you have to make sure that your state is shoring up its election rules right now if your state did something smarmy you're going to have a hard time because most likely you're you're being run by smarmy people, but if your state like Texas, they fought and fought and fought and fought and fought in the courts. I think they should be looking at those things right now. Make your voting rules absolutely bulletproof. People should be forming groups now in all states to stop mail-in voting unless there is

signature verification and all kinds of verification, I think personally stop all mail-in voting except for absentee. Any of this voting where we just send out ballots, that's all we do. I think that should all stop. But if you request a ballot for absentee, you should be able to get it. But we have to shore up our voting. Everything that you can do in your state to shore up the Second Amendment and the First Amendment. The First Amendment is going to your freedom in your church is already under attack.

And you know this. We think it's because of COVID. When they started saying you can't do these things, why? Because they are destroying your habits. They're destroying your traditions. Barack knows to do this, we're going to have to change our traditions. Well, that's what's happening. But the attacks are going to come.

They're going to be much more direct, much more direct. You have to do everything you can to shore up your state and local community and your home. You need to start preparing for a time where you are the leader that thinks this way, that you are the one who can lead others to safety because you work hard on your credibility. You don't say crazy things. You just do what's right. And you stand. You will, if you are peaceful, kind, and generous to people who disagree with you,

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Though kids cannot be that sick and that cute. Now, that's an absolute lie. These kids are absolutely real. So it wouldn't be a fun conspiracy for the Shriners or the kids. But it would be at least something you'd be like, that's crazy. Yeah, like going storming the Capitol over the Shriners kids being. People are so serious now about their conspiracy. theory. There was a time where conspiracy theories were like more whimsical and fun.

Like, like, even like you go, I think people believe them in sort of a, it was a good little bit of entertainment and kind of like the moon thing. Like the moon thing. Like, ah, you know what, you know, we never, we never landed on the moon. Let's argue about it. It'll be fun. Yeah. And it was like a harmless thing to argue about. Right. Because who cares, you know, if you don't, if you're not correct on that, right? People weren't storming buildings. They weren't showing up at senators' houses. Correct. You know, there was none of that. But they are. But they are. But they. But But that is turned into series because the people who really believe them are, like, is like growing. And it's becoming this thing that is anti-government now.

Before it was like, we didn't go to the moon. Dude, here's the photo. Here's the guy who went. I just had him on the show. You know, you had stuff like that. But now it's, now you don't believe anything. Well, have you heard this theory that Britney Spears is being held hostage? Oh, by her dad or something.

Right? Like, yeah, her management or her something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's in her house and she's sending signals through her, her Instagram videos. This is a great one. About whether she's, like someone said. You know why this is a great one? Why?

Because nobody really cares if it's true. I mean, I'm sure. I mean, Brittany would. But nobody else does. I mean, it's like Britney Spears, who really cares. But there are a lot of people who seem to care. But it's at least fun. I mean, it's the least fun because there doesn't seem to be any.

societal statement. It doesn't seem to be any divisive, like, like, the thing I liked about conspiracy theories back in the day where you could argue about him and still, and passionately, and still like the other person. Like, Jeffrey believes every conspiracy theory. Oh, of course he does, yes.

Now, I never liked Jeffrey, obviously. So there's never a moment where we argued about it and liked each other. But, like, there was, he will come up and with a dead straight face, argue basically any conspiracy. theory to you. It was like the guy who used to work for us years and years and years ago, who was Clinton, the communist. He wasn't really a communist. He kind

of was. He kind of was, but he was more of just like, yeah, I'd just like to say those things to get people stoked up. There's a little bit of that in there, right? But he was like, he was a nice guy. We liked talking to him, and he wasn't going to kill anybody, and he wasn't going to burn the city down. He was never going to overthrow the

government for his communism. Right, right. He's like, he's a lazy communist. He's a lazy communist. That's what we need. More lazy conspiracy theorists. People who kind of want to joke about it at parties, but not necessarily, you know, light anything on fire over it. Like the lizard.

The lizard one, that's great. All the people in Washington are lizard people. I love that one. Wasn't there someone recently that? Because it's true. Hmm? What? They took it too seriously?

I think there was a lizard person, the protester, up in the Capitol. This is the Glenn Back program.