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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Media Manipulation | Allen Jackson Now | April 20, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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It's a common question i hear these days.
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Why are things moving so quickly,
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And why has so much of what i was used to?
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Changed? well, the question is right on point.
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Things are moving quickly.
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And yes, a lot has changed.
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Much of it for the better,
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But some of it disconcerting and sometimes even dangerous.
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In our society, we get a lot of points for productivity.
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We multitask at a breathtaking pace,
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Which may be effective at work.
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Or if you're juggling three kids with a spouse away at work.
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But on another level, it's head
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Spinning and can make you vulnerable
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To people with the wrong intentions
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Or to those who know how to manipulate information.
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Information that can be used to take you
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In the wrong direction
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Before you even know that you're headed there.
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Think about advertising, for example.
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Estimates are that we notice at least 100 ads every day.
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We might even act on ten of them.
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But put that in the context of this next number.
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We're exposed to between 4 and 10,000 ads every day.
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The logo on the coffee mug, the billboard, the flood of ads.
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It's around everything we see on our phones.
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So imagine what happens when someone who knows
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How to manipulate data starts
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Using that exposure for propaganda to brainwash us,
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Especially when we're now functioning within the
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Context of the rat race we find ourselves in every day.
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Well, the answer is people get manipulated into doing things
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That they wouldn't do on their own.
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An entire society can be drawn into a dangerous
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And evil direction,
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And the best way to prevent it from happening
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Is to become aware that it's happening and then shut it down.
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Well, there's a
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Strategy that's been in play in our nation for decades.
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It's the ascendancy of globalism and the diminishment
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Of nationalism,
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The worldview that's held globalism up and the values
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That guide their decisions.
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Well, they're not in sync with the biblical worldview.
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And if you want to promote the globalist worldview,
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The effect is you must diminish your other allegiances.
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We've seen the push for globalism
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And the diminishment of america
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Play out on how the media and d.c.
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Influential framed the war in iran.
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There's a difference to me
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Between the war in iraq and the war in iran.
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When we went into iraq, saddam hussein's regime was exposed
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As a paper tiger.
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Within ten days, we were in baghdad
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And the country was in a complete shambles.
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But when we attacked iran,
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It was clear
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That the radical islamic regime was equipped and intent
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On inflicting
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A tremendous amount of damage with their missiles, drones,
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Their production facilities.
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They weren't a paper tiger.
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It's taken the u.s.
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And israel weeks of continuous bombing
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Just to begin to neutralize them.
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Iran was a real threat.
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They fully intended to use their capabilities
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To bring destruction on innocent lives,
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Including utilizing their terror proxies, hezbollah, hamas
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And the houthis.
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Using common sense.
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It's easy to see that the u.s.
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And israel have done the world a favor.
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President trump
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Had the courage to go in and dismantle the threat.
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This administration should be celebrated,
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But hardly anyone in the media
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Is going to celebrate what trump does.
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The hypocrisy in the messaging.
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It's evident when we had one protester killed in minnesota.
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The media lost its mind.
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I'm sorry for the loss of any life,
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But the messaging we've been listening to, it's bizarre.
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Meanwhile, the ayatollahs regime that killed 40,000
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Of their own citizens in the streets
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In one week, 40,000 innocent civilians
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And the media treated it like a hiccup.
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It barely got reported.
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Yet the media wanted cities to burn for that
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One protester who was combative toward ice agents.
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The mainstream media is not doing a good job
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Informing the american people.
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Their efforts are focused on shaping opinion
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So they can maintain their narrative.
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It's dishonest
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If the people really understood the brutality of islam,
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There would be a different national response
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To this entire conflict.
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Islam is not peaceful.
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Women are not treated well. children
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Don't have opportunities that we take for granted.
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Unfortunately, we're not willing to say those things typically.
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The reality is the globalist agenda.
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It needs the cooperation of the muslim world
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In order to have access to their petroleum.
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Therefore, the globalist agenda
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Won't call out the violence of islam,
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But they'll call out, in their words,
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The violent threat of practicing christians.
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If you're a christian to the globalist,
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You're a great threat.
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Here's an example.
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A newly resurfaced covid era interview
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With the wife of california governor gavin newsom.
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It's gone viral for her claim that evangelicals are,
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Quote, pulling us back as a country.
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During the interview, jennifer newsom took aim at folks
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She called the far right, which for her included christians.
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Mrs. newsom said, quote,
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They're living in this evangelical conservative silo
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That ultimately is just pulling us back as a country
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To a time and a place where we don't deserve to be,
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And we're not going to be one, by the way, jennifer newsom,
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She might take offense to me calling her mrs.
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Newsom
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Because, according to her
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Official biography on the state of california's website,
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She prefers the title first partner over first lady.
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These are her words.
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It sends a signal of inclusivity,
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Recognizing that one day there will be a woman
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Or an lgbtq plus governor of california.
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Well, as christians, no matter what label they put on us,
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We can't let ourselves be bullied.
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph.
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It's for good people to do nothing.
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We have to take our place in the arena, speak truth
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And not worry about the pushback.
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We have an assignment to bring
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A biblical worldview forward wherever we go.
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It's often said that the first step toward solving
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A problem is just recognizing that there is one.
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Well, tonight
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We have a guest who knows exactly how to spot it,
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And he knows exactly what to do when you see it.
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And here it
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Is, the nationally syndicated anchor and author buck sexton.
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He'll be joining us with his wisdom
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Right after this short break.
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Help is on the way. stay right where you are.
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Help is on the way. stay right where you are.
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Well.
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Welcome back.
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Tonight i have the great pleasure
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Of introducing buck sexton.
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It's his first time on our show
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And we're delighted to have him.
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You can hear him every day on the three hour radio show
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That he shares with clay travis.
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It airs in that same place
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Where you used to hear rush limbaugh.
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What you may not have known is that before he was on the air,
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Buck was a cia officer and a counterterrorism expert.
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Well, now he's sharing that knowledge
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In a very insightful new book
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That goes to the core of what we're all
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Trying to understand these days
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How to recognize truth from fiction
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And, equally important, how to spot manipulative
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Messaging created to brainwash people into these new
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Bizarre political and social media movements.
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Now i've got the book right here.
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It's called manufacturing delusion.
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The left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda
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Against you. thank you for joining us, buck
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Allen.
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Thanks for having me.
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The book is fascinating.
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Are you pleased with it?
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Yeah.
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I've been, really overwhelmed and gratified by the response.
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I mean, look, it's no secret.
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Anybody who
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Follows the publishing industry these days will tell you it's.
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It's not easy to get people to read books about politics
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That don't have the name trump on the front cover.
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And while i am an ardent trump supporter,
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I wanted to tackle something that was in my immediate
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Area of expertise.
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So here's what this book does.
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Here's what manufacturing delusion sets out to do.
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What is happening to these people in our country
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Who seem to believe things that are just manifestly false?
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I would even go so far as to say,
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Believe things that are crazy.
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There's just no way that it could possibly be true.
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For example, i'll give you a couple of examples. right?
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You can look at people who believe that we are facing
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A climate apocalypse, and that is the term
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That they will use a climate apocalypse,
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That if we don't have co2 control
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By some international body, preferably the u.n.
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Or something else, if we don't bring down
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Our emissions, we're all going to die.
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I mean that as in a species.
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Now, of course,
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We all are going to die, but that's a separate conversation.
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They mean that human species will go extinct.
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That's crazy.
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There's not any evidence for this.
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This is bizarre.
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During covid, we saw a lot of this.
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People who thought that two masks,
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Five masks, maybe ten masks would protect them
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From the virus. the whole thing was absurd.
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During the black lives matter riots of the george floyd
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Era, there were, a large number, i think was about 30%
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Of democrats who believe that thousands of black men
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Are killed by police every year in this country,
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Who are innocent?
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They are unarmed. they are innocent.
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And the police are not punished for this.
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That's insane.
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But there's a reason behind these insane beliefs.
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There's a reason why your neighbor believes crazy stuff.
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Like the russians helped trump hack into elections in 2016.
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Or, that men can become women,
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Which is another big one that we talk about in the book.
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And it goes to the origins
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Of mind control that totalitarian regimes
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Began perfecting about 100 years ago.
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And so i take you into that history
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And then into the play by play, if you will, the tactical
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How to guide of manipulation of the mind through mental
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Side brainwashing, identity construction,
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Isolation, forced phobia.
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These are all the ways in which not just individuals,
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But of course, the masses can go mad and are done so through
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Or become so rather through manipulation.
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You know, history has shown us how people like mao
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And stalin used a process called thought reform
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To move the public
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In the direction they wanted, in a direction
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That's not in their best interest.
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So it sounds like that's still happening.
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Oh, absolutely.
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In fact,
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I appreciate, by the way, you, alan, gurley, know your history
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Because you used the correct
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Term from the chinese, obviously, in translation.
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But thought reform is what the mao is called.
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Their very severe and pervasive
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Indoctrination, procedures.
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And in the book there's a whole chapter on this.
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Now, i call it brainwashing,
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Because that's the american term for chinese thought reform.
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Again, if you pick up a copy
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Of manufacturing delusion, you'll learn this history, too.
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Which is why i think people
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Have really found it worth their time.
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Not only am i telling you about the politics of today
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And explaining
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How people can believe so many of these crazy things,
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But also how we got here, how these tactics were honed
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By the most evil regimes
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With the worst human toll of all time.
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I'm talking about the nazis, of course.
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The the soviets, the communist chinese.
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You look at the last 100 years,
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They've done more evil in the world than anyone else,
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And they were using these tactics.
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Now, here's the jump. here's where it gets
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Really interesting, i think, for people.
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I mean, i'm not saying that what's going on in
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America is exactly the same or on the same scale of violence
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Or force as
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What was going on in china in the 1950s and 60s
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And during the cultural revolution.
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What i am saying is look at what they did though.
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Look at how thought reform, brainwashing.
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Same thing.
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Look at how it worked.
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False confession, for example,
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Confessing to things you know to be true.
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No. to be untrue.
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Debasing your own sense of reason
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That was central to what they did
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To prisoners in communist china
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To break them psychologically and emotionally
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And then remake them to believe whatever.
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What are we to think of these
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Meetings that begin with land acknowledgments in this country,
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Or why do people have to go around
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And beg forgiveness
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For not using the preferred pronoun,
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Or for dead naming someone who is, quote, trans?
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Why is it that we're forced to apologize
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For things for which no apology need to be given
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Because no wrong was done?
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That is straight out of the playbook.
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And that's just one example.
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But i'm looking at the tactical similarities.
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Not saying it's the same, but saying that there are processes.
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Same with cold indoctrination, by the way
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You look at cults, you look at maoism
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And you look at a college campus.
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Today,
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There is a
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Thread of how they do this that runs through all three.
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Well, for friends of
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Hamas and hezbollah who are here in this country.
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Is the brainwashing
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Strong enough to ignite their anger and evil
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Without a phone call or an email,
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But rather just by them watching the news?
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For example, the man in texas
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Who went on his solo killing spree.
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Oh, absolutely.
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In fact, this is where my previous line of work,
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My expertise, came in very handy in writing this book.
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I start off the book with, my first deployment
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With the central intelligence agency to nigeria decades ago,
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And it was looking at the very origins
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Of extremist brainwashing in this case, jihadist,
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You know, islamic extremist, but extremist brainwashing
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In northern nigeria.
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And that was a formative experience for me.
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I was just in my i was in my early 20s, you can imagine,
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I do not blend in particularly well.
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And, i was learning a lot in the process
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Of being in that part of the world and seeing how it was
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That money from the middle east was building these mosques
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And what the programs were of indoctrinated people.
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And that area became the wellspring, it became the,
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The recruiting ground for boko haram,
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A terrorist group that we now all know.
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Well, unfortunately, because of the horrific death toll.
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So that was early in my life,
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An experience and a manufacturing delusion.
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I tell some details about that mission, as well as missions,
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With the cia to iraq and to afghanistan, where,
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Of course, we also saw jihadist extremism.
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And then i was at the
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Nypd intelligence division, which did counterterrorism work,
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And that looked at exactly
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What you just asked allen, which is how is it that people
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Have this lone wolf phenomenon and this self radicalization
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In the west?
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Well, they go through these same processes that i outline
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In the book of, forced self isolation, even.
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And there's a whole explanation for how it is.
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How is it possible
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That you can be a person surrounded by people,
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But feel so deeply isolated that your psychology
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Is vulnerable to this kind of mind control?
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So manufacturing delusion?
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I explain that, and it gets to exactly what you ask,
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Which is how are these people,
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How is it that they would commit violence
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Against total strangers in the name of some ideology
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Or something going on on the other side of the world?
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It's because that's
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How powerful mind control techniques are when applied
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And when these narratives, in some cases more narrative,
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It's more propaganda, which is also a section
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In the book on its own propaganda.
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Sometimes they're so strong and the messaging is so powerful
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That that's all that's needed for someone to radicalize.
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And then jihadis,
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If you will, take the next steps to become a violent terrorist.
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Well, look,
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I don't want to give
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Away the entire book,
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But can you stay with us for another segment?
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Love to tackle anything you want.
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Well, if those of you watching
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When i add a comment or send a question,
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You can log on to aj now.com and tell me what you think.
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I'll be back with buck sexton in just a moment.
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But. we're back now with buck sexton.
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He and clay travers.
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They filled some big shoes that rush limbaugh left behind
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Broadcasting every afternoon across our country.
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Well, i'm assuming you hear it all day long.
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The people who love our president
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And then the naysayers,
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Even president trump has said that he could cure cancer,
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And they would still complain about what he's accomplished.
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How could our viewers figure out the truth
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And shake off the narratives that the legacy media
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Is peddling?
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Well, it's, of course, an ongoing process.
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And, in manufacturing delusion, which i have to tell you alone,
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My favorite part of the response to the book has been, wow,
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I knew you were a radio guy, but this is actually a good book.
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And i say, on the one hand, i'm gratified that people enjoy
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Reading it. on the other hand, i don't know.
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The surprise was something that i shouldn't
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Necessarily have expected, but fair enough as it is,
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Because it took a lot of research
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And i did write this myself, which i also like to know,
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Because there's a lot of ghostwriting
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That goes on in our industry, which is it's fine,
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It's lawful, it's legal and all that.
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But, i like to write my own stuff.
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So the book lays out in a lot of ways for people
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How it is to identify when someone is trying to use
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What's sometimes called, by the way,
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In psychological circles
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Or psychiatric circles, coercive persuasion.
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This is certainly in the context of cults.
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You know, there's a lot
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One of the things i try to do is lay out for people
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Because, yeah, your neighbor, your friend,
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Your coworker may say some some crazy stuff,
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And a lot of these terms can blend over into each other,
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Whether it's brainwashing.
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I introduce a term in the book that comes from a noted,
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Information warfare specialist in the second world
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War, worked against the nazis called mental side
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Or killing of the mind,
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Which is a
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Variation of of brainwashing, very similar to brainwashing.
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But these terms are all basically
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About the methods, the practices that people use
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To control your mind for the purpose of making people
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Believe and act on falsehood, which of course, is inherently
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Bad and and even demonic.
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And so that's why i think it's so important
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To understand the processes, because then you can see them
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Being used against you.
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And so when you're asking me, alan,
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How do we get people defense or defend it, if you will,
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Against these tactics?
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First thing is to recognize to know
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What's going on, be like, wait a second.
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This is when someone says that climate change
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Is the biggest national security threat we face.
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And you should not have children because of the co2 impact.
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This is something called forced phobia.
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This is from the fire hose of falsehood
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Continuing to push lies to make people so fearful
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That you can hijack the fear center of the brain
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And then replace it with an action
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That will drive them away from that fear.
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There's a chapter in the book
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In manufacturing delusion on that forced phobia, for example.
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So when you see what they're
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Trying to do, that's very important.
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That's very necessary. first step.
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But the other part of this i mentioned solzhenitsyn,
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The great dissident soviet writer of the 20th century, his,
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His mantra, his maxim to live not by lies.
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Any time someone is trying to get you to agree
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With the lie, to accept a lie, to be polite and lie,
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You should be on guard, because that's never a pathway
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That will lead you to right and righteous thinking.
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And so, in manufacturing delusion,
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I lay out for people how these things happen, but
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Also how it's going to become more complicated in the future,
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Which i think is one of the most important notes
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Some of the people actually find their favorite chapter
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In the book
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Is the final chapter,
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Where i start talking about the role
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That artificial intelligence is going to play on this.
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I mean, you know, this, allen,
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I have to check with my staff on radio.
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Sometimes i say, hold on is, guys, is this ai?
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A couple of years ago, it was obvious it was.
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This technology is getting better and better all the time.
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Voice, patterning, technology
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That can fake someone else's voice.
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Video fabrication.
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You want to talk about mind control.
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You don't think that in russia or in communist china,
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They're going to be using this stuff on a mass scale.
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They're already doing it.
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They're creating an alternate reality online.
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And on people's smartphones,
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Making them think entirely untrue things by the millions,
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By the tens of millions, so that they can control them.
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So i view this as the biggest threat that humanity faces.
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I say that at the start of the book
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And in manufacturing delusion, i really have a call to arms,
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If you will, for everybody to pay attention to this threat.
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Understand why it's so incredibly important
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To know when this is being done to you,
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And to be prepared for a future where there will
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Be more and more of this.
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One more quick question.
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You and clay reach a lot of people each day
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And across the past several years.
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Now there are many more news
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Outlets than there are, and dealing
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Far more truth in what's best for the country.
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They were there before trump took office,
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But now they're gaining viewers every month.
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So do you think the conservatives
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And people in the middle
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May gain enough of a voice
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In the next few years to drown out the lies?
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I don't think we'll ever drown out the lies,
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But i do think
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We are on a much more even battlefield of ideas
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Now than we have been in a long time.
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You know, rush limbaugh was really holding the line.
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And, you know, clay and i are honored to have taken,
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Up his mantle
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After his passing and try to continue at some level,
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Just the service, that's what i call it.
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Continue the service to his audience of patriots
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All across the country.
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And that's certainly what we try to do on clay and block.
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And i hope your audience, by the way,
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Will tune in on radio to check us out some time.
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We're on basically every station across the country
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From noon to three.
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We're in russia's time slot, but i would also say
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We have reached now a breakthrough because of elon
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Purchasing twitter.
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Now x they can't totally control the message online
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The way they could even 5 or 10 years ago.
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So we're gaining ground. alan.
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It's a much better information warfare environment here at home
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Than it has been in a long time.
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But as i say, in manufacturing collusion,
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Which everybody should go buy a copy of as soon as they can
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Because they'll learn all this stuff.
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You have to be always vigilant and always on guard,
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Because the ultimate control is control of your mind.
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And a lot of people are trying to achieve that every day.
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Well, before
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We go, here's the book manufacturing delusion
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How the left uses
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Brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against you.
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It'll help you understand what's happening,
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And you can hear a book every day
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In nearly every city across the country.
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So listen to the book and then tune in to aj now.
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But thanks for joining us today.
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Hey, alan, great to be with you. thanks so much.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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Just a quick reminder.
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If you ever miss a live broadcast,
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You can always go to aj. now.com.
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There's a full archive of our programs there.
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If you have a favorite, you can share it with a friend.
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Makes for some fun conversation helps spread the message.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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It's always good to remember god's moving in the earth.
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We want to be a part of that.
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Thank you and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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April 20, 2026 | 22:26

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