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Government collusion to PUNISH free speech was WORSE than we thought?

It has been a "disturbing day" for freedom of speech, Glenn says. After exposing a Biden administration plan to control the internet, Glenn speaks with RealClearInvestigations editor at large Benjamin Weingarten, who has been investigating federal collusion with private actors to police speech. The scheme went as far as to deem Glenn a super-spreader of misinformation for warning about a well-documented leftist plan to influence the 2020 election using "color revolution" tactics. Weingarten exposes the "censorship-to-criminalization pipeline" that this "Censorship Industrial Complex" has built and what it would mean if it's allowed to continue targeting dissent.

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GLENN: Benjamin, Ben.

BEN: Glenn, thanks for having me.

GLENN: You bet. Boy, what a disturbing day on -- on freedom of speech, quite frankly. You have been doing investigation. And it's come out in dribs and drabs here and there. But you hit some things that I think is so important.

This report where I'm a super spreader of misinformation during the last election.

Is there something more nefarious, than just smearing me and TheBlaze TV?

BEN: Yeah. Well, you were in good company with dozens upon dozens, if not hundreds of other Americans ranging from the former president of the United States. Who was, actually, targeted for censorship.

Not only by this, quote, unquote, public/private partnership, that I'm sure we will talk about.

But actually, by subordinate in an executive agency, alongside journalists and everyday Americans, who had their social media posts in 2020 surveilled, en masse, to the tune of hundreds of millions of tweets looked at by people who probably don't share your politics.

And then, had masses of that content flagged to the social media companies.

To suppress that content.

And this public/private partnership was hatched in conjunction actually by interns who were working at a federal agency, in the national security apparatus. And this is the tip of the iceberg, I think.

To a censorship industrial complex, as it's been called or a public/private censorship regime. And what we've reported at Real Clear investigations, are new details about the inner workings of this so-called public/private partnership.

Who specifically was targeted by it? Which speech was targeted?

Namely, protected core political speech in this First Amendment assault. And then how intimately involved government agencies themselves were, in getting social media companies to censor Americans again, en masse, on election administration and election outcomes.

The purest political speech, protected First Amendment speech that there is.

GLENN: What's amazing to me is that in this particular narrative, that they were squashing, of mine.

I was warning in September. I did with it shows. In September and October about Colour Revolution, and how the playbook, literally the playbook from the Democrats, we had the copy of it.

I mean, I showed you the pages of it. Was -- was putting together what amounted to the same strategy as our State Department's Colour Revolution. Should Donald Trump win the election.

And I warned the president. I warned the people. Look for these things.

It wasn't to -- it wasn't to start a Colour Revolution. It wasn't to overthrow the government.

It was a warning that people were planning to destabilize the government, through some of these organizations. And it was their own plan.

How did that become a super spreader of disinformation?

BEN: Well, the national security apparatus, and its apparent cutouts and forced multipliers, doing business as academics or research entities or think tanks, have taken this idea. And put on steroids that wrong think, disfavored speech, about virtually anything of significance.

Itself, could pose a threat to our election system, to our public health infrastructure, to our financial services infrastructure, to virtually anything the government can conceive of.

And so if you propagate speech, that they deem to be delegitimizing, or undermining, quote, unquote, our democracy, that poses a threat to our democracy.

And that is why, I vote to not only be suppressed by the social media companies, that is by the digital media square, by what has become federally deputized speech beliefs, but you can actually go to jail for it.

And we have the perfect example of this, in the case of, I'm sure you're familiar with of Douglas Mackey, who puts out a tweet in 2016. Which says, text your number to vote for Hillary Clinton, to this number. #I'mwithher.

And it's clearly a satirical post.

Well, the Feds prosecuted him for the suppression of voting rights. Because somebody might have texted their number there to vote for her, not realizing, that it wasn't actually a vote.

Douglass Mackey was just sentenced a couple weeks ago, to seven months in jail for that satirical tweet.

And, by the way, that same law, is being hung around the neck of Donald Trump and the January 6th case. So there is a censorship to criminalization pipeline that's been built. And it's all premised on the idea, that if Americans hold ideas, that our ruling regime doesn't like. It possess a threat to that regime.

They'll say it possess a threat to democracy, and that it incites a domestic violence extremism.

And so there's a national security or pubic health. Or protecting of our critical infrastructure, justification for the censorship.

But what it's really dressing up is quashing of dissent, and chilling of dissenters.

GLENN: So, Ben, where are we headed?

I'm looking at all the stuff with Islamophobia. Where they're trying to convince the American people, it's Islamophobia, that's the trouble.

When we all know that it's anti-Semitism that is growing through the roof right now. And a real danger to our way of life.

And, you know, they didn't say anything, when they were trying to tear the gates don't even of the White House. And if you think, they couldn't get past that gate. They wouldn't have gone in and done all kinds of damage to the White House.

You're fooling yourself.

The White House didn't do anything about that. Nothing.

If they control all speech, and they can silence people like you or like me, when we're talking about the true nature of Hamas, and they decide that we're a problem, because we're spreading. By telling the truth. Islamophobia. They wipe us out.

And you got -- you got no protection for the Jews or anyone else, that they decide is on the wrong side.

BEN: You can apply this to basically any aspect of speech, that might not comport with what authorized opinions are, according to our ruling elites.

There's a very telling quote from Director of CISA, which is this DHS subagency, Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency.

It's a mouthful, but which is devoted to protecting our critical infrastructure. And the director of that subagency, which helped spearhead and was the tip of the spear of the national security state's efforts to surveil and censor speech directly and by proxy.

She has said that our most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure.

Translation: Mind control is an imperative of the national security apparatus. And it's going to engage in a whole society effort, to ensure the American mind is controlled.

Now, on this much more narrow point that you are making, and it's such an important one.

This -- this elevation of Islamophobia, which, by the way, Islamophobia is now being raised as the issue of our time, in response to the slaughter of Jews.

At a level of an equivalent of 50,000 Americans, with atrocities on par with, if not more disgusting with than what occurred during the Holocaust.

They're leveraging the slaughter of Jews to silence criticism of the administration and its partners in the Middle East.

Because let's not forget, of course, the entire Biden administration, policy towards the Middle East, which is really just a third term of the Obama-Biden administration, was to make Iran the strong horse.

Flood its coffers with millions of dollars. Not impose sanctions on it.

Let it build up Hezbollah, Hamas, its other proxies, and make it the dominant power, while putting the screws to Israel. So the Biden administration has blood on its hands, in the slaughter of Americans and Israelis in Israel.

And now they want to use Islamophobia as a way to shut up dissent that points to the disastrous consequences of their policies.

That's certainly a part of it. More broadly, if you look at what Islam says about speech, and you use Islamophobia as a pretext to shut people up, who want to speak freely and openly, honestly, about Islam and Islamic supremacism. It's basically imposing -- it's an attempt to impose Islamic speech codes on Americans. It's just totally anathema, antithetical to our system.

And what it points to, our ruling elites just cannot tolerate any form of dissent.

They had a near death experience with Donald Trump. They had a near death experience with Brexit. And they can't allow the people to think for themselves, speak for themselves.

They have to constrain us, and shut us up.

Using ever more disturbing and Orwellian Chinese Communist Party-style modus operandi to shut us up.

GLENN: So, Ben, I have about 45 seconds.

Who is taking this seriously? And is anybody working to dismantle this?

BEN: So Republicans in the House primarily, and some in the Senate as well.

Have tried to put forth legislation. To, first they did oversight to expose this regime, and second, they put forth legislation to try and freeze federal speech police from engaging with the social media companies, to shut up largely conservative Americans and dissenters on Covidian orthodoxy and a slew of other issues.

Beyond that, there's a massive Supreme Court case. It was called Missouri v. Biden. Now Mercy v. Missouri.

That is the preeminent case, going before the court, next term.

Where the Supremes are going to rule on whether federal agencies, including the Biden White House, violated our First Amendment rights.

To colluding, coercing, cajoling the social media companies to censor wrong thinkers.

And another question the plaintiffs, in the case have asked the court it take off, is whether or not these third party cutouts as well, should be barred from working with the feds to mass surveil and flag for suppression and censorship our speech.

So the legislative and judicial avenues are open. We'll see what happens.

GLENN: Ben, thank you so much.

Benjamin Weingarten, Federalist senior contributor and Real Clear Investigations editor-at-large. Appreciate it, Ben. God bless.

BEN: Thanks for having me, Glenn. Appreciate it.

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Rich elites WHINE about Trump's tax cuts?!

A leftist millionaire is furious over President Trump’s tax cuts because it will … SAVE her money?! Glenn Beck gives her a newsflash: She can give that money to whatever charity she wants! Or, thanks to PayPal and Venmo, she can now give it straight to the government. Plus, Glenn reviews the latest example of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani acting like a communist.


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The ONLY WAY to win STUPID arguments

Anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.” This stupidity, Glenn Beck argues, is exactly what we’re seeing in American politics right now: not intellectual stupidity, but moral failure, a willful surrender of independent thought that allows groupthink to take over. So, Glenn shares the only way we can win these stupid arguments …


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RELEASE the Epstein Files … with a caveat

Glenn Beck wants EVERYTHING in the Epstein Files to be released … BUT with a caveat. Glenn warns that America will have massive problems if the files are released and people don’t actually READ the report. If we only listen to X posts and the media, we can be easily manipulated.

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GLENN: Somebody asked me. Might have been you, Stu. Said, why do you think they're putting up a stink about releasing the files?

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: I can guarantee you, that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files.

STU: You said that at the very beginning.

GLENN: Years ago.

STU: Even with that -- more recently when Elon came out with his tweet. And we all said, of course, he's in the files. He was friends with this guy for a long time, but before people knew.

GLENN: Right, and he broke up with him, if you will.

STU: Before his initial arrest.

GLENN: Right, before the initial arrest. And he broke up with him, because it's like, hey, you treat women like crap. Okay. So, yeah.

He is in the filing. I can almost guarantee it. So why wouldn't you want that out?

For the same reason he's saying, you know, there's a lot of people in here, whose names are going to be involved, who may not have done anything.
That's not just protecting him. You know what that is? That's a comment on us. Because here's my stance on this. The whole thing should be released.
Every bit of it should be released. However, there is a competing argument in my own mind that says, not responsible enough for that. What do I mean by that?

This system of our government is wholly inadequate for an immoral and non-religious society.

And I don't mean, well, our society has got to go to church.

I mean, you have to have the underpinnings of things like the Ten Commandments.

Don't lie!

Don't cheat. Don't steal.

Don't smear your neighbor. We don't do any of those things. Okay?

We can't even do ten simple laws. Okay?

And they're all good safety tips. I don't know occasion if I renamed all of these things.

If I didn't use the religious context, every American would say, yeah. Well, that's a good thing.

Hey. You shouldn't worship your car.

Yeah. That's a good thing. You know, you shouldn't -- you shouldn't look at the image of somebody, and go, that's -- that's who I serve.
That's my God. No! That is a bad thing.

Don't cheat on your spouse. Don't lie.

Honor your mom and dad. All of these things, we would all agree, we can't do that as a society! We can't even agree on eight of the ten!
So how are you going to remain free? Let me bring this back to the Epstein file.

All of this information should be public. It should be out there. There should be no secrets.

Unless it is in our national interests.

And I don't mean, well, it could go badly for the CIA.

Good!

Let it go badly for the CIA. If they did something wrong, or they were doing something nefarious. Or they were doing something that the American people just wouldn't like. I want that exposed.

Okay?

But are we responsible enough to have all of the information?

I contend, no!

That doesn't make me say. I'm still saying, release it all!

But I'm telling you, the consequences will be ugly.

STU: It could be a mess.

GLENN: A mess.

STU: That's okay. Probably.

Because we're talking about -- if there's information in there, that the American people need.

GLENN: I think we are approaching a place to where it's -- it's not just a mess.

And here's why I say that.

STU: What do you mean?

GLENN: So you get all this information. How is this information going to be used?

Of course, Donald Trump's name is in there.

Is Donald Trump -- did he -- was he messing around with young girls?

No. No.

STU: Is there even an accusation.

I mean, there's a lot of things they accused Donald Trump of.

GLENN: Not that.

STU: Is this even an accusation that he was interested in underage girls?

GLENN: No. No. No.

And all they're saying is, he's in the file.

Well, there will be a lot of people in the file. Okay?

A lot of people in the file.

And some of them might be guilty.

Some of them, you -- I worry, because I want to know their names. But I want to hear, why were you with him?

Oh, it was before you knew.

Oh, it was this or that. You were getting money as a scientist, for your thing. From him. Okay.

But it wasn't about underage girls. As a society, we will not read the Epstein report.

We won't.

STU: No. Of course not. Right?

We won't read it. It doesn't matter if it's ten pages! The vast majority will not read it. What they will do is they will go to Twitter and X. And they will look for what name is in there.

And somebody will say, Donald Trump. And you know what you know this means? He was diddling with little girls.

And that will just become their opinion, not based on fact, not based on anything.

Except, somebody who has ill will on anyone or is just as stupid as the rest of the public.

Yesterday, this -- last week, this file came out from Tulsi Gabbard. And what do you say this is, Stu?

One hundred fifty pages, maybe. One hundred pages?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Okay. My staff read it. We read it. You know why?

Because you weren't going to read it. And my job is to make it easier for you to understand what is going on.

My job really is not to tell you, what is going on.

I'm -- my job is actually to try to give you perspective on why it's happening, and what it means.

But because nobody -- and I'm not dissing you. This is a very, well-read audience.

In many cases, more well-read on some things than we are.

But generally speaking, the American people don't read.

They don't read these reports.

This one came out yesterday, and what is this?

20 pages, maybe?

And this thing is unbelievable. Because there were only five copies of it.

This was the -- they categorized the highest level of top secret outside of a nuclear weapon in our codes.

Okay. This was in the most top -- this was like the knock list, at the CIA.

Five copies, all in one -- in one safe. Where the most confidential CIA stuff is kept.

And it was released yesterday.

And it's not 30 years old.

It's four!

Did you read it? Did anyone actually -- I contend, very few reporters, very few talking heads on cable TV even read these.

STU: Yeah. And, by the way, it's not an unreasonable expectation for a population to have a media that is going to inform them properly about very lengthy government documents.

GLENN: Correct. Correct.

But once you have seen that that media is not reliable.

And everybody knows that now.

You may not find me reliable.

But the person who doesn't find me reliable, also probably doesn't find CNN reliable.

They might go, well, they're a little better than he is.

But they -- they don't trust anybody.

And they shouldn't.

At this point, you shouldn't trust anybody.

Which means, you have to know it for yourself. So when you're looking at the Epstein files. You're looking at these files.

These files, everyone should care about. Because this shows. This -- it's not new. Some of it is!

But very little of it is new.

It's just authentication that what has been said, all these years, by people like me, is accurate!

And you wouldn't have fought about its accuracy, if it didn't matter.

But you fought -- he didn't know what he was talking about. That's a conspiracy theory. He has to be shut down. Get him off Facebook. Take him off Twitter.

He can't say these things. Why would you say that if it didn't matter? Now you not only that know those things are true, but you now see a pattern of behavior. It's like looking at one murder, and then another murder, and then another murder.

Okay. We've got three murderers, on the loose now.

And then all of a sudden, you realize, wait a minute. Not only did those murders happen, it was the same guy. Now you have a serial killer.

Is a serial killer more -- a higher priority than just one murderer?

Yeah.

Yeah. It is. Because they are -- they are killing people -- I don't know. Out of the love of it. Out of their distorted.

It's not a crime of passion. It becomes something really, really sick.

This is a serial killer.

You now have not just one offs. You see, this is a pattern.

This group has been doing this from the beginning. You know what I said, you know, if they can get away with this. They will keep doing it.

This shows, they got away with it, for so long.

By 2016. They just, they don't care anymore.

They don't care anymore.

But how many people are reading this?

What they'll do is they'll listen to people like me, or people like CNN, and they'll say, oh, well. I heard Jake Tapper talk about it.

It means nothing.

Well, now, Jake Tapper might not mean -- let me leave you with a better example. I really like Andy McCarthy.

I really like him.

I read his work.

STU: It's great.

GLENN: I believe -- I believe his opinion is valid. I don't think it's right.

But I think it's valid.

And I read his work. And I thought, okay.

Wait a minute. If Andy McCarthy is saying this. I really need to examine what he's saying. And see where I disagree with him.

And as I went in, I was prepared to change my mind, if I thought Andy was right.

Now, he might in the end, be right.

But I don't think so.

Because what he is saying is, a lot of this stuff is old news.

Yes, Andy, it is. But it's now a grand conspiracy. You have to look at the through-line.

You're not looking at the one-off events.

You're looking at two things.

One, it's now been verified at the highest sources in writing.

You have whistleblowers, at the time, writing saying, we can't do this.

We didn't have that information. You have on record now, Brennan saying, you don't know what I know. Well, what did you know? We have new information.

What new information?

Because none of it is quoted anywhere.

And he's never answered the question.

What new information?

Most importantly, you have the grand conspiracy line.

We are not going to save the country, unless we do our own homework. Then listen to people and say, let me start at the opposite ends. Let me start with Glenn Beck and CNN.

And let me see what both of them are saying. Okay.

I think they both agree on this one thing. So I know that's true. But I think Glenn is more right. Or CNN is more right on this.

And then you just keep narrowing it in. And all it does is not form your opinion. It helps verify for you what you think is right.

Or it changes your opinion, because you realize, I missed that.

I didn't understand that. So when we're looking at all of this stuff needs to be transparent. We need to know all of the information.

Yes, we do.

But we also are played, every single day by many times, the exact same actors, who do not have a good bone in their body.

They're trying to destroy us. They're trying to separate us and divide us.

And they have proven themselves to lie at any level, without thinking about you or the ramifications.

And we continue to listen to them, over and over and over again.

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How California's inevitable FUEL CRISIS could affect YOU

California Democrats have done it again! The state is scrambling to find a buyer for two local refineries which were driven away by the Democrats’ ridiculous policies. Glenn Beck explains how a gas shortage in California would affect the rest of the country.

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GLENN: Yeah. Let me talk to you a little bit about Democrats trying to find a buyer for a refinery. After they ran the refinery out of town, the California energy commission is reportedly actively seeking buyers to stop the closure of the Valero Refinery in Benicia, California.

Now, here's what happened: They're scrambling because they have driven all the refineries out of business in California.

They've got so much regulation, and more regulation coming.

They haven't built a new refinery in California, for decades he has

I think it's since the 1970s.

Now, this refinery is closing.

And the Phillips 66 refinery.

How many refineries are there in America? There's not a lot. The Phillips 66 Refinery is closing in -- at the end of this year. Valero is also closing. And they can't find a buyer!

Well, I wonder why, California. I mean, who would want to do that? Who would want to buy a refinery in California? Where they're constantly trying to put you out of business.

So you lose two refineries in California.

Who is going to make the gas?

Now, remember it's a special blend in California.

It's already $8 a gallon.

Because it has to be a special blend.

They have all of these things that are only for California.

So these refineries are making the special blend for California.

You lose two refineries. Two!
In the state of California. There's going to be a gas shortage everywhere else.

Why?

Because now it's going to go to the highest bidder.

Now they'll have to go out of state and say, to these other refineries, that are making our gas.

Can you make up for the loss of these two refineries?

Well, no. I'm providing gas for Texas, and Oklahoma. And New York.

And everything else. No, I can't. Look, we need gas. What would it cost?

Well, I mean, we could do it, but we will have to shut down for other customers. So, you know, I'm not going to charge you, the same I'm charging them.

You will see ten, 12-dollar a gallon gasoline, in California.

Because they will have to pay for it. They will have to pay for the refining, somewhere else.

And everybody else is at the top of their refinery.

Of their refining. So they have to put something offline. Which means, look, I'll do. I'll do a job for you.

You know, you need your house built. Well, I'm building this house over here.

And, I mean, I'm really. I have to take care of this house.

Yeah. What would it take for you, to build my house first?

Well, I mean, I don't know.

I've got to finish this one. I'll pay what it takes.

I have to have my house. That's what California is about to have to do.

I mean, what are you going to pay. And they still don't get it.

They still don't get it. They're still adding more EPA laws. More -- more laws about gasoline, in California.

And refining in California. Two refineries are about to shut down. And these people wonder why.

Oh, it's America. No, it's not.

No, it's not. I want you to -- if you happen to be under 30, I want you to listen to me, carefully.

Don't believe me, don't believe -- don't believe anybody.

Listen to yourself.

You have seen none of this works. And you have seen your older brothers and sisters, and they bought into all this crap that was taught in college. They bought into all of this stuff. And you see how empty it is for them.

Right?

You see it!

Be the exception. Because I believe the hero generation right now is between 12 and 30 years old.

These are the people that are going to change everything.

And I shouldn't design the country for you.

Because I'm going to be dead by the time this is fixed. I'll be dead.

It's your country. It's your future. It's your job.

So find truth.

You know -- you see your friends killing themselves. You see how empty everybody's life is.

You see how this is all falling apart. This is not capitalism's problem.

Capitalism -- we haven't done real, honest capitalism, like Wealth of Nations and moral sentiments.

We haven't done that in a while. This is captured capitalism. This is crony capitalism.

This is corrupt capitalism.

The free market. The free market works.

But what's happening is, you have these ruling classes. That are saying, nope.

I want it this way.

And you have dumb enough people to follow, and to not see, wait.

Those policies are putting me out of business. I mean, In-N-Out Burger.

Gone. Can't do business. It's a California company. Proudly Californian. Can't do business there anymore.

And you wonder why. It's not America's fault. It's not the Constitution's fault. It's your fault.

For voting that way, California. And these are the people like Gavin Newsom, I can guarantee you, they will not take responsibility. When gas is $12 a billion, they will be blaming it on somebody.

I mean, I wouldn't take had it their business as a refinery. Because I know, if I'm producing California fuel, at the top price, because I have to give up somebody else, and so they have to make it worth my while, I'm not going to take that. Because Gavin Newsom will say, you know who it is?

It's the Glenn Beck oil refinery that is charging us.

We have to go after him, because he's gouging us.

I'm not taking your -- no way. I'm not making anything for you.

Because you have no loyalty to the truth, at all.

You will not accept the fact that you put them out of business.

And now, when the people go, I can't afford 12-dollar a gallon gasoline.

You'll say, yeah. You know who is fault it is for him

That refinery with Glenn Beck in Texas.

They're just gouging our eyes. It's price gouging.

Get them!

No way.

You know this doesn't work.

You're smart enough to see what your brothers and sisters. And how miserable their life is.

They went to college.

I hope -- you know, I hope before you went to college. And you were indoctrinated.

But if you're watching your brothers and sisters go through college, and you see how they come back. And they're all screwed up.

And then you see them five years later, and they're empty inside. And they can't find a job.

And they don't have anything meaningful in their life.

You're finding meaning.

You're more conservative than I am.

You are finding God, at a time when God is lost, on most people.

And I'm not saying, finding church.

I'm saying finding God.

You know there's something spiritual out there, and you are searching for it. Don't listen to anyone.

Who is telling you, you're not good enough. Don't listen to anyone who is telling you, you don't get it.

Don't listen to anyone who says, the system is rigged against you!

Don't listen to anyone who says, vote for me, or your life is going to be a pile of dog crap. Only I can solve your problems. Don't listen to them. Don't.

The American dream was never about being rich.

It was about being free enough to make your own choices. Make your own choice. Carve it out. Your brothers and sisters. Who are slightly older than you. They've been convinced, they can't make it. You know what happens when you're convinced of something, and you keep saying it over and over again? It's not my fault.

I can't make it because of these guys. It becomes true.

What becomes true?

I can't make it. They'll never make it.

They'll never make it.

And I know this, because I grew up in a family that was really dysfunctional.

Alcoholics.

No one was successful in my -- in my family.

Nobody went to college in my family.

I didn't go to college in my family.

And believe me, I didn't get any special breaks. I worked my ass off. And I'm 13, 14, 15, 16 years old. And I'm sleeping on the conference room floor, on weekends, because I work six hours on, six hours off.

Six hours on. Six hours off.

From Friday afternoon, until 6:00 a.m. Monday.

And then go to school.

I worked my butt off.

But I knew if I worked hard, and if I could outthink everyone, that was in my business.

And I got a little lucky, I would be successful.

But it wasn't until my 30s, that I realized, no, it's not just that.

You have to be true to you.

You are special! Each one of us.

We're different.

We're born with what we need.

My first half of my career, I imitated.
I imitated. Because I couldn't do. So I imitated others. I took little ideas here and there.

And I pieced them together.

And I thought, that's a good idea.

That's a good idea.

And that worked to some extent, but until you realize, you are unique. You are the only one that can do you!

And in my case, you just don't care anymore, because you know what you're doing is not working. And so you just let go. I'm an alcoholic that lost everything. Believe me.

World is not stacked against -- you're stacked against yourself, when you listen to people who tell you, it can't be done.

You can't do it. System is rigged against you.

You'll defeat yourself every time.
Don't listen to those people.