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00:00:00.000Nikki Haley quits, the UN makes a catastrophic prediction regarding global warming, and President Trump goes after Taylor Swift, much to my producer's great dismay.
00:00:15.000Well, after the laughter and revelry of all the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, it turns out that today is indeed a sad day because two icons, two icons were lost to us.
00:00:25.000Nikki Haley, for me, you know, and Ambassador Nikki Haley, for me, she resigned today.
00:00:29.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:00:30.000And Taylor Swift came in for some harsh critiques from President Trump, much to my producer Senya's dismay.
00:00:53.000Movement has come pretty far from being crowdfunded kids working out of a living room.
00:00:57.000In the past year, they've not only introduced a ton of new watch collections for men and women, they've also expanded sunglasses and fashion-forward bracelets for her.
00:02:12.000If I have to take a break to go cry in the corner and just rock myself and eat ice cream, that might be happening a little bit later in the show.
00:02:30.000You know, I said I am such a lucky girl to have been able to lead the state that raised me and to serve a country I love so very much.
00:02:39.000It has really been a blessing and I want to thank you for that.
00:02:43.000Now Nikki Haley was indeed a badass in her job as the UN ambassador.
00:02:47.000She basically spent every day going and yelling at despots, which was, and she was great at it.
00:02:52.000I mean, she would go in and she would talk about how the United States was exceptional and America was a unique place and our allies like Israel were worth supporting and how the UN was basically the most isley of the international institutional
00:03:24.000Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do.
00:03:28.000They know that if we say we're going to do something, we follow it through, and the President proved that.
00:03:32.000Whether it was with the chemical weapons in Syria, whether it's with NATO saying that other countries have to pay their share, I mean, whether it's the trade deals, which have been amazing, they get that the President means business.
00:03:44.000Okay, so there are a bunch of rumors about what's going to happen next.
00:03:47.000People suggesting that Nikki Haley is going to take Senator Lindsey Graham's spot.
00:03:51.000Lindsey Graham is going to become the U.N.
00:04:09.000And Lindsey Graham would actually make a terrific U.N.
00:04:11.000ambassador because it would be full-time Lindsey Graham 2.0.
00:04:14.000That's all that he would do all day long would be Lindsey Graham 2.0 and just yell at people, which would be amazing.
00:04:19.000But unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen.
00:04:21.000There's some rumors that maybe it'll be Dina Powell, who was a former member of the administration, or maybe it'll be Rick Grenell, who would be terrific.
00:04:28.000He's our current ambassador to Germany.
00:04:30.000I really doubt that they're going to call him back from Germany to make him UN ambassador.
00:05:21.000The United Nations put out a report, and this is getting all sorts of press on the left, and so I think it's worth going through in detail.
00:05:29.000It is an institution that is replete with the interests of a lot of very, very bad nations who have interests that are not quite American interests.
00:05:38.000But one area where the UN actually has done some research, one area where science is supposed to take the leading role,
00:05:44.000Is with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
00:05:50.000And it is a report all about the supposed higher risk from climate change, even with a lower level of climate change.
00:05:57.000So we were told for many years that over the course of the next century, we were going to get to 3 to 4 degrees Celsius climate change across the planet.
00:06:06.000That was going to be the average climate change.
00:06:08.000And then it turns out that this new report basically says that we are warming less fast than the UN thought we were.
00:06:17.000So the UN keeps giving these 10-year windows, saying in 10 years, we're really going to have blown it.
00:06:21.000In five years, we're going to have blown it.
00:06:23.000In three years, we're going to have blown it.
00:06:24.000Well, now the new report, this should be the headline today.
00:06:27.000The new report basically suggests sort of the opposite, that this is in chapter two of this new report.
00:06:36.000The key quote says, quote, There is high agreement across various lines of evidence assessed in the report that the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2 degrees Celsius would be larger than the estimates at the time of the AR5.
00:06:47.000The AR5 is the last big study they did.
00:06:49.000That was back in, I believe, 2013, 2014.
00:06:52.000What that means, in non-science speak, is that it turns out that our carbon emissions have been lower than they thought they were when they first made their estimate, which means that the climate is warming at slightly a lower rate than they thought it would be at this point.
00:07:06.000So the estimated date for hitting 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming?
00:07:11.000It's actually, it's been pushed out further now.
00:07:13.000They were saying that we were going to hit that in three, four years.
00:07:15.000Now they're saying we're going to hit that in ten years.
00:07:19.000The reason that this creates some skepticism among folks is not because people don't necessarily believe in climate change at all, as though the climate is not changing.
00:07:28.000It does raise questions as to the sensitivity of the climate to human-produced carbon emissions, human-produced greenhouse gases.
00:07:36.000Skepticism, I think, is warranted with regard to some of the more outrageous claims that are being made by UN members and radical leftists, who do indeed, many of them, have an alternative agenda.
00:07:46.000And I'm not just saying they have an alternative agenda, they're basically saying so.
00:07:48.000There's a guy named Eric Holthaus, who is a meteorologist and a visiting scholar at UMN-ION.
00:07:55.000I'm not sure, the University of Minnesota, I suppose?
00:07:58.000And he actually calls for an end to capitalism in order to fight climate change.
00:08:04.000Now, there are a lot of folks on the right
00:08:06.000Who have been suggesting for a long time that was actually the agenda here.
00:08:08.000That all of the worry, the extreme worry about climate change, was really designed to hamper America's economy and the world.
00:08:14.000And the evidence for this was actually present, right?
00:08:16.000There was evidence that, for example, the Paris Accords, which were demands on the United States that we were supposed to radically shift how we did business, while other countries made empty promises about how they did business.
00:08:27.000China suggested, for example, that they were committed to reducing greenhouse gases after peaking in 2030.
00:08:33.000Well, American studies already showed that China was planning on peaking its greenhouse gases in 2030, so they promised to do something they're already going to do.
00:08:41.000India promised that they were going to gradually lower greenhouse gas emissions at some point in the future.
00:08:48.000And so a lot of folks in the United States were saying, well, why are we committing ourselves to attempts and targets when the world's greatest emitters and polluters are not actually tying themselves to anything of substance here?
00:09:01.000Eric Holthaus, he says this, I mean, if you're looking for something to do.
00:09:15.000So the idea is that we have to get rid of capitalism completely.
00:09:18.000Where is he getting this from in the report?
00:09:20.000Well, there's a section in Chapter 4 of this UN report that says, Estimates suggest that in addition to climate-friendly allocation of public investments, that'd be like building levees and ensuring that there's infrastructure,
00:09:42.000A potential redirection of five to ten percent of annual capital revenues is necessary.
00:09:47.000So basically the entire profit margin should be redirected as the UN suggests that it should be redirected.
00:09:54.000Now, there are several problems with this report.
00:09:57.000The first problem is the way that it's actually reported by the mainstream media.
00:09:59.000So the way that the New York Times reports this is that it's a landmark report from the UN Scientific Panel on Climate Change, painting a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought.
00:10:21.000In fact, the only thing that really changed is that they said that their forecast for doom has actually been pushed out a few more years.
00:10:26.000But the way the New York Times covers this is that everyone is going to die at 1.5 degrees Celsius change by 2040 as opposed to 2 degrees Celsius change by 2040.
00:10:37.000The report issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that it describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040, a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.
00:10:51.000When the New York Times says that, what they want you to picture is the day after tomorrow, that movie with Dennis Quaid, where suddenly a giant tsunami just washes through New York City and sets the whole place under ice for a thousand years.
00:11:01.000And global warming is responsible for the rise in the sea levels, and everyone dies, and it's catastrophic, it's deep impacts, except with climate.
00:11:09.000The problem is that that's not really true.
00:11:10.000All of this climate change is going to happen over the course of the next century.
00:11:14.000Human beings are pretty good and adaptable.
00:11:16.000When it comes to adapting over time to threats that present themselves over time.
00:11:20.000Climate has been changing across the world for the last century and a half, really since 1880, 1870.
00:11:26.000And human beings have been migrating and moving and developing new technologies to deal with all of that.
00:11:30.000And the same will hold true in the future as well.
00:11:32.000Now I'm going to talk a little bit more about the UN report in just a second.
00:11:37.000But first, let's talk about how you can save some money on your postage.
00:11:41.000Okay, so every time you go to the post office, it costs you money to actually get in the car and drive to the post office.
00:11:45.000It costs you time because you have to get in the car and go to the post office.
00:12:44.000So according to Bill Hare, who's author of previous IPCC reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a non-profit organization, they're a left-leaning one, we were not aware of this just a few years ago.
00:12:54.000It's quite a shock and quite concerning.
00:12:56.000So this is the first report commissioned by world leaders under the Paris Agreement, which again is that 2015 pact that people supposedly signed but really made no real commitment to keep.
00:13:06.000And Trump said this is a waste of time and pulled us
00:13:08.000There are significant problems, I should mention, in climate change modeling.
00:13:11.000None of the models that have been put forth so far actually
00:13:30.000reflect the level of climate change that's been occurring, virtually all of them overshoot the mark.
00:13:34.000And that's because climate is actually very difficult to predict.
00:13:37.000There are a lot of factors that are involved in climate.
00:13:39.000Now, how much of climate change is caused by human activity?
00:13:51.000He says that he thinks it's about 50%, but certainly our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions leads to climate change.
00:13:58.000The question is really not whether that's happening, it's to what extent, and also what the economic damage is from such climate change, what the human damage is from such climate change.
00:14:08.000So the New York Times is playing this up as much as humanly possible.
00:14:29.000For example, the report says that heavy taxes or prices on carbon dioxide emissions, perhaps as high as $27,000 per ton by 2100 would be required.
00:14:39.000That's a $40 per gallon tax on carbon.
00:14:44.000Every time you go to the pump and you buy 10 gallons of gas, you'd now be paying $400 in tax in order to meet that $27,000 per ton number.
00:14:54.000The Obama administration had suggested $50 per ton, and that was considered high at the time.
00:15:00.000All of this is to say that these estimates are wildly overstated in terms of the amount of damage that they are likely to do.
00:15:07.000The reason that I say that is because of the report itself.
00:15:10.000The way that these things get reported in the media is that there is virtual certainty in the scientific community that this stuff is going to happen.
00:15:16.000The problem is that virtual scientific consensus doesn't actually exist on a lot of key issues.
00:15:22.000So, for example, as I pointed out this morning,
00:15:26.000There are significant questions in the report about the level of confidence in specific predictions.
00:15:32.000So in just a second, I'm going to talk about those specific predictions.
00:15:36.000So here's what you need to know about the IPCC.
00:15:38.000So the IPCC makes two types of predictions in this report.
00:15:42.000The first type of prediction is that two degrees of global warming will be worse than 1.5 degrees of global warming Celsius.
00:15:56.000I mean, seems like more global warming would be worse than less global warming.
00:15:59.000That seems like the assumption that we're going on.
00:16:02.000Then they get to the actual specific predictions.
00:16:05.000And with those, virtually every specific prediction they make about the amount of damage that's going to be done to the world climate based on 1.5 degrees Celsius of change,
00:16:14.000Virtually all of their predictions are couched in terms of medium confidence.
00:16:18.000Medium confidence according to the IPCC, at least according to a 2007 report where they defined the terms.
00:16:23.000It's the only place I could see them defining the terms.
00:16:39.000In the first chapter, well in the summary rather, in the summary of findings for the IPCC report, it says of the 105,000 species studied, 6% of insects, 8% of plants, 4% of vertebrates are projected to lose over half their climatically determined geographic range for global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with 18% of insects, 16% of plants, and 8% of vertebrates for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius.
00:17:05.000So basically, everything is going to double.
00:17:11.000And then for insects, triple with 2 degrees Celsius of change versus 1.5 degrees Celsius of change.
00:17:16.000But that is expressed in medium confidence.
00:17:19.000OK, so there's a 50-50 shot there, right?
00:17:22.000Are you willing to bet the future of the world economy and leave billions of people in poverty in developing nations on a 50-50 bet that they are right about the spread of insect-restricted areas?
00:17:37.000I mean, really, is that a bet that you're willing to make?
00:17:40.000Because now you're taking a virtual certainty that hundreds of millions of people will live in poverty, in increased conditions of poverty, and you're betting that against the 50-50 possibility that some bugs will have less space to live.
00:17:51.000Or that 16% of plants will lose half their climatically determined geographic range.
00:17:57.000Now, that's a serious consideration, but I think that there's also the possibility that, number one, the scientists are wrong, and number two, there's the possibility that technology tends to
00:18:07.000Actually manifest itself in different ways that when you see serious economic, serious environmental problems, technology is a good way of mitigating against that.
00:18:16.000In fact, there's a good case we made the global warming because it's a greenhouse effect has acted kind of like a greenhouse.
00:18:21.000What you've seen is an increased greening in certain parts of the globe, specifically because of global warming.
00:18:26.000And that's sort of a repeated thing in this IPCC report.
00:18:29.000The more specific they get, the lower their confidence level.
00:18:32.000So, for example, they say, approximately 4% of the global terrestrial land area is projected to undergo a transformation of ecosystems from one type to another at 1 degree Celsius of global warming.
00:18:44.000Compared to 13% at 2°C of global warming.
00:18:48.000So, if it's 2°C global warming, 13% of the entire global terrestrial land area is going to be transformed in terms of ecosystem.
00:18:55.000But again, they say that with medium confidence.
00:18:57.000So, what they say with full confidence is that 2°C is worse than 1.5°C.
00:19:01.000What they say with medium confidence, meaning half-half, is that this change will be really, really dramatic.
00:19:08.000That's basically the case that they are making.
00:19:10.000Now, when I say all of this, folks on the left immediately say, well, you're a climate change denier.
00:19:14.000Again, I'm not denying climate change is taking place.
00:19:16.000I'm asking what the actual impact of climate change will be, and two, what measures will be necessary in order to curb said climate change.
00:19:25.000So, I want to take another story that's in the news today because it's sort of astonishing.
00:19:51.000Finally, we're rewarding someone in economics who takes global warming seriously.
00:19:56.000But there is a serious problem with this particular take on William Nordhaus and Romer, the guy who he won a Nobel Prize in economics with.
00:20:04.000It turns out that their arguments actually undercut some of the arguments being made by the same folks who are promoting them and promoting this IPCC report.
00:20:20.000I'm looking at you, nodding right there.
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00:21:19.000Okay, so as I say, a lot of folks on the left very excited about William Nordhaus actually winning a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the economics of climate change.
00:22:08.000The actual number is the optimal temperature increase where we have to act is when there is a climate change of 4.1 degrees, which is about 2.3 degrees Celsius.
00:22:19.000Okay, so higher than anything the IPCC is talking about.
00:22:23.000In fact, his model is called Dice, and there is a 2013 model version that he posted in an Excel table.
00:22:29.000The key data here is that he estimated a cost in the year 2100 of 4% of global GDP, which is the equivalent of reducing annual growth over the century from about 2.27% to 2.22%, or postponing the prosperity of 2100 until 2103.
00:22:40.000So, if the worst-case scenarios hit, he is talking about a cost in the year 2100 of 4% of GDP.
00:22:58.000In August, he actually published an updated discussion of this model.
00:23:02.000I talked to Oren Kast this morning, who's an expert on this stuff over at Manhattan Institute, does wonderful work.
00:23:06.000Like me, I think he's what you would call Luke Warmer, meaning that he believes that global warming is happening, but he's skeptical of a lot of the answers that are being given for how to curb it.
00:23:15.000According to Orrin, Nordhaus published a discussion of his latest model in the American Economic Journal in which he argued that holding warming below 2.5 degrees Celsius is implausible and not cost effective.
00:23:28.000In other words, we've already hit 1.5 degrees Celsius.
00:23:30.000We've probably already hit 2 degrees Celsius.
00:23:43.000He says the international target for climate change with a limit of 2 degrees Celsius appears to be infeasible with reasonably accessible technologies even with very ambitious abatement strategies.
00:23:54.000So in other words, the person that the left is now celebrating for winning the Nobel Prize in economics because it's a slap at Trump doesn't agree with them and doesn't agree with the IPCC on the sort of action that is necessary in order to avoid catastrophe.
00:24:07.000So that's pretty... It's a pretty important thing to know, you would think, but the media is not covering any of that stuff.
00:24:12.000Instead, they're just going with the fully alarmist idea that we are on the brink of disaster and we're all going to die.
00:24:18.000The IPCC report, by the way, makes a bunch of political statements.
00:24:21.000Many of them are uncalled for, including they go after nuclear energy.
00:24:24.000So if you actually did want to curb carbon emissions, if you actually did want to prevent global warming by curbing greenhouse gases, presumably you'd be in favor of nuclear power.
00:24:32.000But, the IPCC authors, because they are politically of the left, oppose nuclear energy.
00:25:21.000All of this seems, frankly, like an attempt to avoid the reality, which is that we have to make economic decisions based on possibilities and probabilities, that you don't get to destroy capitalism wholesale just because you don't like capitalism.
00:25:36.000And when you hear people saying wild things about how the cities are going to be underwater and millions of people are going to die and all the rest,
00:25:44.000Just remember that there is an agenda backing some of these folks.
00:25:47.000And that the alarmist predictions of folks like Al Gore have not, in fact, come true.
00:25:51.000That doesn't mean we shouldn't take global warming seriously.
00:27:00.000And we keep hearing this about the increase of hurricanes and tornadoes, even though there's been no actual increase in the number of hurricanes or tornadoes.
00:27:07.000We keep hearing this about the supposed outsized impact of hurricanes and tornadoes, even though, for example, in Bangladesh, which just experienced a pretty significant hurricane a couple of... within the last year, about 4,000 people died.
00:27:19.000In the 1990s, there was a similar-sized hurricane.
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00:33:10.000There are no more moderates in the Democratic Party.
00:33:12.000There was a meme that was going around among Republicans for quite a while in which the Democrats have this tendency, folks on the left have this tendency, where they say things like, what we really need is we need celebrities to sound off on X. Why is Taylor Swift remaining silent in the face of X political issue?
00:33:29.000Why, Taylor Swift, why don't you have a comment on Brett Kavanaugh?
00:33:33.000Taylor Swift, why don't you have a comment on climate change?
00:33:36.000Taylor Swift, why don't you have a comment on this local dog catchers race in Tennessee?
00:33:41.000It became a meme because the left demands fealty from its celebrities.
00:34:05.000And it doesn't matter how many times I tell Senya that Taylor Swift is not, in fact, the world's most genius lyricist, that Taylor Swift is no Cole Porter, that, in fact, when she says we are never, ever, ever getting back together, together and ever don't rhyme.
00:34:18.000This morning, Senya informed me that they do rhyme because they both end in ER, to which Colton quite aptly replied, so does the word murder.
00:34:25.000But it does not rhyme with you together or ever, which is 100% true.
00:34:29.000And also, Senya should know that since I have heard there's a rumor going around the office that Senya is in fact a serial killer.
00:34:35.000In any case, Taylor Swift has finally broken her silence and it turns out just like everyone else in Hollywood and the music industry, she is a person of the left.
00:34:45.000Which I actually put out on Instagram, quote, I'm writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on November 6th, in which I'll be voting in the state of Tennessee.
00:34:51.000In the past, I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now.
00:34:59.000I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country.
00:35:06.000I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, because this is the big defining moral issue in Hollywood, even though we all agree that people should be treated
00:35:14.000With respect and honor in the United States and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is wrong.
00:35:20.000I believe that systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening, and prevalent.
00:35:25.000So this is Taylor Swift's basically her kind of torture note from the malice left.
00:35:35.000Well, President Trump has his doubts as well, so Taylor Swift finally came out
00:36:00.000With the typical left view that everybody always knew she had.
00:36:03.000And no one's really that upset about it except for Senya.
00:36:05.000The left wants people on the right to be upset, but I don't actually care what Taylor Swift has to say about politics, because as I've said one million times, I don't really care about what most celebrities have to say about politics.
00:36:14.000In any case, President Trump, I think, had the final word on the matter.
00:36:17.000Here was President Trump's opinion of Taylor Swift.
00:36:20.000A sentence no sentient human being ever thought would be read into our political lexicon.
00:36:26.000When George Washington founded the country, I'm sure he was thinking,
00:36:30.000When will we have a president who is a reality TV star commenting on a pop star's opinions of a Tennessee Senate race regarding LGBTQ rights?
00:37:45.000Remember we were told that the right was super dangerous in 2016?
00:37:48.000And then it turns out the left supports Antifa?
00:37:50.000Yeah, well, they're doing the same thing with regard to Trump doing normal things in the White House.
00:37:54.000He introduced Brett Kavanaugh and did what I think is correct.
00:37:57.000He apologized to Brett Kavanaugh for what Brett Kavanaugh just had to go through for the only for simple partisan political reasons.
00:38:03.000Here's President Trump getting it correct.
00:38:06.000On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure.
00:38:20.000A man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
00:38:29.000Okay, so President Trump is correct about all that stuff.
00:38:32.000It turns out that independents didn't like how Kavanaugh was handled by Democrats either.
00:38:35.000By a 28-point margin, independents were not particularly fond of how Democrats handled all of that.
00:38:41.000But that's not going to stop the Democrats from doubling down.
00:38:43.000Here's an MSNBC legal panelist yesterday talking about how Brett Kavanaugh is going to issue in, and I kid you not, he's going to usher in a thousand-year Reich, just like the Nazis.
00:38:58.000If this reign that they now have control over all three branches of government, we're going to see if this reign lasts for 30 days, or two years, or a thousand year reich!
00:39:09.000Because that is how, that is what these people have set themselves up for, and it's simply a question of whether or not the Democrats are going to join the battle and meet them at the polls.
00:39:20.000It's a thousand-year Reich now, because Brett Kavanaugh isn't just a gang rapist, he's also a Nazi.
00:39:25.000That's exciting news that we've found out about.
00:39:27.000And my favorite part of this particular segment, by the way, was Noah Rothman, a guy with whom I'm friends, he's on MSNBC, writes for Commentary magazine, and he started trying to explain why Roe v. Wade was not settled law, and he was then accused of mansplaining on MSNBC, because this is how far we've come as a country.
00:39:45.000He's not interested in overturning rules.
00:40:39.000But don't worry, the media have really got their stuff together.
00:40:42.000They're not they're not out of their minds in any way.
00:40:44.000So, for example, when the president of the United States says that the left has decided to engage in a form of mobocracy, Jim Acosta, and find you somebody who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta over on CNN, he says, well, President Trump knows about mobs.
00:41:02.000You know, there's talk of mob rule and so on.
00:41:05.000I mean, Brooke, have you been to a Trump rally?
00:41:08.000I mean, you know, you do hear rhetoric at those rallies that would conjure up images of a mob.
00:41:14.000Go back to the 2016 campaign when the president said as a candidate that he would like to punch protesters in the face and so on.
00:41:21.000And so perhaps the president knows what mob rule and mob tactics look like because he encourages them himself.
00:41:28.000Okay, well, so do Democrats, because it turns out that people like Kamala Harris, who is a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2020, she is now urging Democrats, clearly, to use anger to take back power.
00:41:39.000This is what Democrats are now going to do.
00:41:40.000They are actually encouraging anger and rage as a form of political currency.
00:41:46.000Let this last week, and in all that we have experienced in terms of our frustrations and our anger,
00:41:56.000And our sadness, let's use this week to give us all that extra energy that we know we have.
00:42:05.000To remember that the bottom line is that they may have the power right now, but we need to take it back.
00:43:42.000And at that point, it's somewhat insurmountable.
00:43:45.000Do we then revert to quantitative easing again?
00:43:48.000Who knows, but it's certainly a possibility.
00:43:50.000And if the currency begins inflating, obviously it's one of the reasons that you'd want to hedge your bets with some investment in precious metals.
00:43:56.000What does that mean in terms of the stock market?
00:43:58.000Because right now the stock market is going great guns.
00:44:01.000I have a lot of money in the stock market.
00:44:02.000I'm sure a lot of our listeners have a lot of money in the stock market.
00:45:03.000Morgan said a couple of years ago, within three years, they felt 92 percent chance it corrects.
00:45:09.000That gives us about a year from today, and I'm of the mind, certainly.
00:45:13.000We're looking at money flows now out of the Dow Jones.
00:45:17.000Big institutions are starting to bail.
00:45:20.000Typically, that's a sign that correction is to follow.
00:45:23.000The big question that a lot of folks have when they look at precious metals investing is, of course, how much of my money should I put in precious metals?
00:45:28.000Because when people hear precious metals investing, they think that folks are encouraging them to take every dollar they have, put it in gold bars and shove it in their basement.
00:45:34.000And that obviously is not a great strategy.
00:45:37.000I'm diversified, meaning I have some of my money in precious metals.
00:45:39.000What do you think is the proper way to think about this?
00:45:41.000Well, first of all, I think you hit the nail on the head.
00:45:43.000I mean, you certainly don't take everything you have and put it into precious metals or really anything, quite frankly.
00:45:50.000Look, I think for an individual thinking about it, the first thing you have to consider is your own comfort level, right?
00:47:15.000Actually, in and around the time of the 2008 crash, I started to
00:47:22.000Think about what would be good moving forward, what sort of climate we were heading in, and ultimately it led me to Birch Gold Group and to the United States.
00:47:30.000Well, as I've said before, Birch Gold Group, they're the folks that I trust with Precious Metals Investing.
00:47:33.000They do have that A-plus rating with the Better Business Bureau.
00:47:35.000They do have the five-star ratings from an enormous number of clients.
00:47:39.000And I know they're giving away comprehensive 16-page free kits when you go and check out birchgold.com.
00:48:04.000Well, sometimes that means that it's the calm before the storm and it's worthwhile being diversified.
00:48:09.000It's worthwhile making sure that you have
00:48:11.000Enough in the bank to ensure that should things change on the stock market front, that you are insured against possible change in the future.
00:48:58.000And it is all about the discovery, investigation, and prosecution of an abortion doctor who was killing babies after they were out of the womb and was responsible for the death of women he was operating on inside his clinic.
00:49:49.000You'll be the prosecutor who went after reproductive rights, and you'll be a racist to boot.
00:49:55.000You've got a lot of folk who'd like to see abortion outlawed.
00:49:59.000And this is not going to be the case that gives them an excuse.
00:50:03.000Prosecution has offered you a plea bargain, Dr. Gosnell.
00:50:06.000The movie's well worth watching, and it's, you know, the only movie that's ever been made really on the abortion topic in a serious way, so...
00:50:14.000Or at least in a mainstream kind of crime thriller way.
00:50:16.000But this happens to be a true story as well.
00:50:18.000My good friend Zoe Rachel is in this as well.
00:50:19.000So I have a lot of friends in this movie.
00:50:21.000So, you know, take my review with a grain of salt, but then go see the movie because it is worth seeing.
00:50:25.000And we should also support conservative entertainment when it gets made.
00:50:28.000Other things that I like to say, one more thing that I like since, you know, it is a sad day with Nikki Haley going, I have to do some things I like to to make myself feel a little bit better about life.
00:50:37.000So one of the people who won a Nobel Prize this week is a guy known as Dr. Miracle.
00:50:43.000He's a gynecologist named Dr. Dennis Mukwege, and he's been mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:50:48.000And this year he was awarded the prize along with Nadia Murad, who is a member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, who was taken captive by ISIS members and held as a sex slave for three months before escaping her captors.
00:50:59.000Dr. Mukheje opened a hospital called Panzi Hospital in 1999, and he wanted to improve the maternal mortality rates in the capital of Eastern Congo, where about 1 in 100 women died during childbirth.
00:51:12.000But their first patient hadn't come to deliver a baby.
00:51:15.000She'd been raped with extreme violence.
00:51:17.000So the doctor started working on rape cases.
00:51:19.000He's treated tens of thousands of women for rape since opening Panzi Hospital.
00:51:23.000Those survivors who range in age from toddlers to seniors.
00:51:49.000Humanitarian circles for years, but it's about time that he won a Nobel Peace Prize because that actually is something well worth celebrating.
00:52:36.000It is worth noting that the state of Virginia was one of the most populous states in the Union when the United States was originally formulated.
00:52:44.000They weren't necessarily in love with the idea of an Electoral College specifically because of that, right?
00:52:48.000James Madison didn't actually want a Senate because he felt like we should be represented by population because he was from the state of Virginia.
00:52:54.000The Electoral College is not about the shadow of slave power.
00:52:58.000It's thanks to the Electoral College that Abraham Lincoln was president, is the truth.
00:53:02.000Because Abraham Lincoln did not win a majority of the vote in 1860.
00:54:15.000Okay, our offices are actually quite nice.
00:54:18.000And then, he starts talking about the Positive America Bros, and they're just, they're the greatest.
00:54:23.000The Positive America Bros, they are just awesome.
00:54:25.000My favorite part of this story is, he asked me about the Crooked Media guys, and I said, and I've invited them on the show, I disagree with everything they say, this is a direct quote, but I think they're good at what they do.
00:54:35.000And Tommy Veeder, who drove a van down by the river until he worked for Obama, he said, his response to me saying these guys are good at what they do even though I disagree with them was, please tell baby Steve Bannon I say hello.
00:54:48.000Which makes no sense at all, considering that the number one critic of Steve Bannon for years was a guy who happens to be talking to you right now.
00:54:55.000So that's a bizarre statement, but it just shows the kind of nastiness that folks on the left engage in when they feel like engaging in it.
00:55:01.000But there's so much of this story that's actually kind of funny.
00:55:08.000On his show, Shapiro reads ads from a sponsor that sells a three-month emergency food supply plus seed packets for when things finally go south.
00:55:15.000Pod Save America shows for a company that delivers fresh ingredients to your doorstep so that you can cook yourself a single healthy meal, lentils and quinoa dressed in tahini perhaps, as the world burns.
00:55:24.000Notice which sponsor they chose to highlight for us?
00:55:26.000Like, listen, I'm proud of all of our sponsors.
00:55:28.000All of our sponsors are things that folks on our staff have tried, they're things that
00:55:33.000Okay, so I'm not ashamed of any of our sponsors, but it's just dishonest to suggest that we are selling survival supplies, while Pod Save America is selling Blue Apron, because you know who advertises on our program?
00:55:50.000America, through the crooked lens, is a grand experiment, ever more perfect and expansive, but endangered by ancient prejudices, persistent injustices, and a despotic dunce in the White House.
00:56:00.000That's their take on crooked media, right?
00:56:03.000America through the Shapiro lens is civilization's greatest triumph, a beacon of liberty and opportunity that is under assault from an evil self-victimizing cabal of leftist baby killers.
00:57:09.000And then I like when he says that we have about 55 employees and then we have three other podcasts all hosted by conservative men.
00:57:18.000Right, because we're a conservative company.
00:57:20.000Turns out, how many conservatives are working over a Podsafe America?
00:57:23.000You know, we actually have a, I would guarantee you, we have a much more diverse group of people who work for us than the Podsafe bros have.
00:57:32.000There are folks in our office who I'm sure voted for a Democrat in the last election.
00:57:35.000There are folks in our office who didn't vote at all in the last election.
00:57:39.000How many non-democratic activists are working with folks over at Pod Save America?
00:57:44.000So, you know, overall, I think the article is not bad.
00:57:49.000I don't want to exaggerate, but I'm just noting kind of the subtle bias that infuses a huge amount of media coverage when it comes to this particular area.
00:57:58.000And noting that that does have an impact on how people how people read.
00:58:02.000OK, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.