I am listening now and it is very interesting. I am not a Beck fan or a Beck hater but what he is saying now is VERY interesting and I am inclined to believe that he is on to something. I used to watch him on Fox but he came off as a sobbing drama queen and I stopped watching long before he left.
Friend of mine who fits your description just emailed me that he, too, thinks Beck is onto something big here. Lord I hope he is. Having said that, your skepticism was defensible, something the Kool Aid cultists just could not accept.