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Summary
On this episode of the Glenbeck Program, Glenbeck talks about inflation and what it means and why it's bad. He also talks about the latest in the latest news from around the world and gives you some of his favorite conspiracy theories.
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what you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
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hello america and welcome to the glenbeck program we're glad you're here boy what a weekend of miss
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diss and mal information let's start with president biden make no mistake inflation is largely the
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fault of putin i love you know the republicans biden's gas pipeline by by biden said he's going to
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stop the keystone pipeline and i did and that's the reason price went up folks let's get something
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straight here yeah the keystone pipeline was two years away and been two percent finished
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give me a break yeah okay we're giving you a giving you a break okay um so inflation was caused
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by vladimir putin not our spending i'm sick of this stuff we have to talk about it because the american
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people think the reason for inflation is government spending more money simply not true
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huh it's not true it's not true well what is true um well you could listen to the people who have been
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lying to you from the very beginning or you can listen to some reason we're going to give you some
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reason and we're going to show you what people that actually know what's going on are warning about
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there's a couple of things that are going on that you should know about first of all russia has bombarded
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a ukrainian military range near the polish border killing 35 um russia has also requested military
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and economic assistance from china this is according to the u.s that's really good that's really good
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news uh china and russia are beginning to form their alliance and in that alliance north korea
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uh and uh iran and i believe eventually saudi arabia uh and and maybe maybe if we're really lucky
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india pakistan will go that way uh and you will have an axis and allied power i would bet that most of
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africa goes their way as well so now china has said no no no we russian calling us for help we don't even
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know what you're talking about that we've quote we've never even heard of that uh-huh also this
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weekend um iran launched 12 missiles uh and uh those 12 missiles landed all around a u.s consulate now
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the good news is the consulate wasn't damaged nobody was killed but they launched 12 ballistic missiles
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against our consulate and they said well you know hey this is you know something to do with uh
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those those jews darn those jews they sent their masad in and they killed a couple of people of ours
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okay so what do we have to do with that why are you bombing the streets around the consulate not killing
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anyone i personally think this is yet another test uh of the united states can we do this
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while we're in nuclear negotiations with iran and will they still sit at the table this is another
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test of our president his resolve and what he's willing to take so now let me get to the let me get to
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the big news this weekend we are edging closer and closer to a world war uh and we're already in a
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world war when it comes to the dollar this is really critical this is one of those trip wires for me uh
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i have been trying to come up with trip wires of when i say to my family okay all right everybody in
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the car you know we're going underground what are the trip wires that i'm looking for one of them
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is a spreading of this war if this war starts to spread into other countries that's a big trip wire
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for me that says we are now headed towards a world war uh a world war three and it's going to get
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serious a serious attack on our power grid is another one and a serious a grid um a serious uh attack
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on the u.s dollar when you start to see china and russia coming together and putting together a
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an alternative to the petrodollar you have a real problem now this might take me a while to explain
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this but i i want to i want to show you where we've been what the dollar why everybody has the
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world's reserve currency as the u.s dollar breton woods and then i want to tell you what happened this
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weekend because a major trip wire was was crossed uh so the the the petrodollar is why we have
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our dollar our greenback in the banks of almost every foreign country in fact i think every foreign
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country if you want to buy oil especially from opec it must be purchased in u.s dollars why do
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you think hillary clinton said we came we saw we killed him remember that she was laughing about
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the death of qaddafi we were involved in that death absolutely he was dragged in the streets by his own
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people but we weakened him why did this happen why did qadda why did the united states want qaddafi
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out of there we were all saying this is destabilizing the middle east what are you doing
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we did it because he said he was going to start taking euros for libyan oil okay no you're not no
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you're not we have a deal with opec in saudi arabia you can sell oil we'll provide you arms and everything
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else and we'll buy your oil and we'll continue to buy your oil but you only sell oil in u.s dollars
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so that means anytime a country wants to buy oil from opec they have to take their dollar
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buy u.s dollars buy the oil okay so you can't buy oil outside of a u.s dollar that's why everybody
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has the u.s dollar it's oil makes the world go around it's not gold it's oil so if somebody starts
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to come off of our dollar and starts buying oil with something else other than the u.s dollar
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we usually kill them or we isolate them or we depose them we do something so that doesn't happen
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why because if these countries that hold all of these dollars 80 percent of all printed money
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is overseas so if this the dollar which is held in all of these central banks and all of these banks
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all over the world if they start selling those dollars and those treasuries all of that money
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rushes back here to the united states what does that mean well if 80 percent of our money is being held
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in banks and it starts to rush back here it means out of control inflation if you think inflation is
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bad we're talking hyperinflation it will mean a dollar collapse you just won't be worth anything
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so we don't want to do anything that upsets the petrodollar thing yet what happens to the petrodollar
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if we stop buying gas and oil and we tell the whole world you got to be green
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hmm has anybody just thought of that even if you care about the planet and you think it's the most
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important thing and people should eat rocks and who cares if they live or die you should care about
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the petrodollar is anyone pegging it to something else because we got off of gold
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now one more thing you need to know the history of how we got here
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breton woods happened right after it's a town in where is it uh new hampshire i think breton woods
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the whole world got together after world war ii
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because we had all of the gold because europe needed to get all kinds of things you know armaments
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and tanks and everything else they didn't have any money and so we were just like you know what
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send us your gold send us your gold we'll send you the tanks and the airplanes and everything else just
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send us your gold so we had all of the gold for the whole world in fort knox that's why we said
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we'll be the gold standard we'll never break the gold standard you just take our money you can buy
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oil with it it's the only currency you can buy oil with and we're on the gold standard 1972 comes along
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and that's when breton woods 2 happens and that's when uh the united states says by the way you know
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what we want war and the great society so we're coming off of the dollar standard or the gold standard
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but we'll never ever really abuse it and here's the good news we're going to become consumers
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right now we've made refrigerators and televisions and cars and everything else that the world is buying
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but now because we want the war and we want uh a great society we're going to come off that
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and we're going to now stop making those things ship our jobs overseas and we'll buy your products
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so we'll become a consumer nation and you'll be able to get rich just hang on to our dollar
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that's breton woods 2 we are now approaching breton woods 3 and the world will change as much as it did
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in world war ii this is something that unless you lived through world war ii you have not seen
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anything like what is coming here's what happened over the weekend well let me take one minute and
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then i'll come back and tell you what happened over the weekend it's a tripwire at least for me
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american financing nmls 182334 www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org all right the fed is meeting uh this week and it is
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going to greatly influence where rates go and how quickly they change we're looking at 40 year highs
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right now without considering all the global uncertainty that's going on right now all this
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volatility all this inflation if they want to get it under control there are only two ways to do it
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demand destruction which is happening uh that means making things so expensive that nobody can afford it
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uh and the other way to do it is to raise interest rates and that's what they're talking about
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all right uh zoldan poz uh pozar he is i don't know how to say his name is pozar or pozar um he is
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one of wall street's most respected people he's at credit suisse in switzerland and uh has worked
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for wall street banks for a very very long time he is a guy when he speaks people start to listen
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well i've been watching him lately and really listening to what he's he's saying because he's
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the only one that's really kind of warning of things i think with real credibility this is what
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happened this weekend china's central bank is uniquely placed to backstop a global commodities
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crisis sparked by sanctions imposed in response to russia's invasion of ukraine potentially paving
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the way for a much stronger uh won um in a note published on monday zoltan pozar a global head of
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the bank's short-term interest rate strategy said the unfolding crisis in ukraine could lead to a
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perfect storm in which commodities could weaken the euro dollar system contribute to inflation in
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western economies and threaten financial stability now listen to this this crisis that we're facing
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now quoting is unlike anything we have seen since president nixon took the u.s dollar off of gold in
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1971 and it was the end of the era of commodity-based money when the crisis and war is over the u.s dollar
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will be much weaker and the chinese dollar much stronger because it will be based on a basket of
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commodities russia's invasion the biggest attack on european states since world war ii has created 1.7
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million refugees fear of a wider conflict in the west and led to a raft of sanctions on moscow the
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conflict have driven surges uh in global commodity prices pushing nickel prices to a record high and
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oil to a 14-year peak russia has warned a ban on russian oil imports could jolt the cost of a barrel to
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three hundred dollars listen to this russian commodities today are like subprime collateralized
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debt obligations anybody who was uh had any kind of money at all in 2008 when i say cdo's your blood
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runs cold because that's what the real problem was where every bank needed to be bailed out so russian
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commodities today are like subprime collateralized debt obligations were in 2008 conversely non-russian
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commodities are like u.s treasury securities were back in 2008 one collapsing in price and the other
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you're surging in price with margin calls on both sides regardless which side you are on western central
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banks held back by sanctions imposed by their own governments will not be able to provide support
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such as emergency liquidity needed to close the market gaps so here's what's happening in a nutshell
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a replay of 2008 so here is here's the problem china started selling our treasuries
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okay those are our loans those are held in dollars trillions of dollars they started selling our treasuries
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to fund vessel leasing and the purchase of cheap russian commodities they're trying to control
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control inflation in china which is also leading to commodity sources so what they're doing is they're buying
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gold they're buying oil they're buying all these commodities wheat anything they can buy they're buying real
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stuff and they're buying it from russia which will prop russia up but they're also now introducing their
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digital dollar that is going to compete against our petrodollar and they will have something that is
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backed by something real which we don't have this is what is this is what is happening and you would think
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well what's gonna what's gonna cause people to switch over to the dollar well this is what's going to
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get everybody to switch over the dollar the freezing of russia's currency reserves
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here's the big question that big people are asking wait a minute is money really money is cash really cash if i
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put my money in a central bank or i put my money in these big banks it's supposed to be safe
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but if any country could just say oh you know what you don't have a savings account anymore oh you know
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what you're you can't do banking services anymore they're asking themselves is money even worth money
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now this should make cryptocurrency go through the roof because it's decentralized no one is able to stop
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it so that should make everything go up through the roof but china has banned cryptocurrency because they
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want their own cryptocurrency and the united states is trying to ban cryptocurrency because they want their
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own cryptocurrency you're going to see china russia india pakistan uh maybe saudi arabia and other countries
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start to sell their dollars sell their treasuries sell their reserves start buying commodities through
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china and russia and using the digital dollar from china that will mean higher inflation here and a dollar
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that we are we backing it on it anything could we back it up on our oil reserves anything real and if so
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this should tell you something about the great reset oh they'd never take our bank account really
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because that's what countries are saying now about the western sanctions wait a minute can they just take
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my money too can they just shut me down if countries are asking it you should ask it the glenn back
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yeah yeah welcome to the uh glenn beck program there's a couple of things first of all let's
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welcome mr pat gray hello thank you great to be here yeah yeah is it it is it is you wouldn't
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want to be any place else nowhere else not at home if i could choose one place to be at this moment it
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would be right right here yeah not not at disney no not uh paris some exotic vacation nope not even
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at home in bed no right here no that is great isn't it that's the kind of dedication you get
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from pat gray from pat gray unleashed uh he's got a passion for being here um pat how are you i'm good
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good what what was on your mind today what is it that you've seen that there's no trouble in the world
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there is no trouble very excited about the fact that everything's been fixed except for the things
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putin keeps screwing up yeah oh you're pissing me off everything would be perfect if it weren't for
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him yeah we'd have a great economy yeah gas prices would be incredibly low you could buy a house for
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a dollar 98 it's it's a putin oh i know dang it i know i hate him for that could we play americans
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don't understand what we're doing clip please never forget what we've accomplished together yeah
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so far yeah and by the way the american people just trying to stay above water don't understand
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this yeah they don't you tell them what the american recovery act was they look at you like what are you
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talking about right yeah so stupid they are so stupid they're so stupid so stupid they don't
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understand that putin has caused inflation right can i tell you something it is simply not true
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about government spending listen to this when we're having this discussion it's important to
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dispel some of those who say well it's the government spending no it isn't her too the government spending
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is doing the exact reverse reducing the national debt it is not inflationary government spending is
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reducing the national yes debt okay look at look at how bizarre look at are you not you're married yes
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my wife is married to me you're married to lisa lisa and i have a lot of things in common for instance
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honey we're saving money by spending this money i've heard that yes we're saving money by spending this
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money right now yes and who doesn't know the basic principle when you're in debt if you go out
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and put more things on the credit card you're actually not adding to debt you're making things better
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don't think that through i mean that's what she's saying that is what she's saying
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we're not adding to debt how are you not adding to debt well what we did with the money we spent
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was buy counterfeit money machines and now we're counterfeiting money and paying off debt
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all right there you go good well they're already kind of doing it it's called fiat currency but
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that's a different story um here's uh the president he gets a little testy cut three please
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so i'm sick of this stuff we have to talk about it because american people think the reason for
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inflation is government spending more money simply not true simply not true how now the treasury secretary
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of the obama administration larry summers said it was true one of their lead economists firman also
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said that was uh it was true uh-huh but i and obviously every conservative uh economist says this
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as well but it's just simply not true it's simple just because he says it he's sick of it too
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yes have you noticed that he seems a little angry a lot of the time yeah or a lot angry a lot of the time
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yeah or a lot angry uh just off the off the cuff just kind of like hey i like i like chocolate ice cream
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it's not true that i don't like vanilla ice cream yeah i mean it's it's he goes
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from zero to 60 in a heartbeat there's a little bit of the uh old man yells at cloud thing going on
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you know it's like there's something it's not normal he seems to burst into no real visceral
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anger out of nowhere it is normal it is normal for a super old guy who's losing cognitive functions
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yes that is super normal we've all seen that in our family yeah yeah i guess that's true in that
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situation that's true and it's but it's it's scary it's not normal for a president yeah no yeah like you
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think about how he's losing it in front of crowds and at the press who has done nothing but coddle him
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through this president i know he's mad at them imagine what he's like behind closed doors
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i've heard that he is um angry at the drop of a hat a lot i bet he is well his presidency is is
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going down the drain it's it can't i don't know how you salvage it at this point and he is pissed
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off that people are noticing and yet they are talking this weekend that he is seriously thinking
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he's going to run i know that's for re-election insane and no no no that's not insane here's what's
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insane the head-to-head polls between him and trump it's a dead heat yeah are you
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what i mean look i my wife says this to me all the time speaking of my wife and she's always like how
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can like i don't understand how could anyone even think this would be close and how is it possible
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and it's like well we all sat here and complained for four years about the media turning donald trump
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into satan right well that has an effect i mean donald trump is gonna if he runs when it seems like he
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will he's gonna he's got the nomination locked up pretty much on his side uh in the primary but he's
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going to face this same treatment and multiple years of him being turned into satan by the media
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it's not going to be a cakewalk for donald trump if he runs i mean they have we all sat here and day
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by day to lose this catalog no we can't how bad the media was against him and complained about it and
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said it was unfair and it was but it was real and it occurred yeah and they're going to go back and
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reverse themselves completely to anything negative that that that joe biden is has done all the
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whatever they're already trying to do it in real time yeah it's going to be a lot it's kind of i
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mean and it's their groundwork is already done it's going to be a challenge i mean president trump if he
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runs it's gonna it's not going to be a cakewalk it's going to be hard and he's going to get he's
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going to have that same awful treatment from the media he's going to have to overcome and we've seen
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how difficult that is even for donald trump who's very good at dealing with the media so i would you
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know i know this is never going to happen but i would love love to see president trump uh endorse
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de santis and then take the role from nancy pelosi no speaker of the house thing oh my gosh can you
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imagine he would tear it apart the speaker of the house he doesn't have to be in congress to be
00:31:42.920
all he has to do is the ruling party needs to say we would like him speaker of the house and i mean
00:31:49.620
they could pick me do that too don't you think they'd do that if he wanted it if he wanted it i
00:31:54.580
don't know that he'd want it can you imagine i mean because then he is actually responsible for
00:32:00.480
all of the investigations he would be responsible for yeah we're gonna do a little investigation on
00:32:07.140
hunter biden we're gonna look into that one oh my god we're gonna we're gonna do a little
00:32:11.700
investigation uh into uh uh into the democrats that were here uh and doing my impeachment we're
00:32:19.860
just gonna look into that he could approve he wouldn't be on the the uh the committees well it
00:32:27.560
might be uh but he would be the one who would say we're doing it can you imagine because that may be a
00:32:36.540
more important role because if you want to clean out the hornet's nest you have to do it through
00:32:43.540
congress you have to do it for the president could sign all kinds of executive orders and do you know
00:32:49.660
what this and that but that doesn't last and if the president wants to fire clean house at the state
00:32:56.740
department all of you out he can't do that without congress if he is the speaker of the house
00:33:05.320
and ron de santis is the president i think you have a one-two punch i mean this is a bit of a fantasy
00:33:15.420
league we're playing here but uh it would be interesting i don't think i don't think trump would
00:33:19.900
have as much interest in that role you've had presidents go back and be in congress if it's good
00:33:26.520
enough for you know john quincy adams if john quincy adams was willing to do it and john quincy
00:33:34.260
adams in the end is the reason why we got rid of slavery he tried and tried and tried and tried and
00:33:40.080
tried and then he saw this upcomer you know that just came to congress and he was like you get it and
00:33:45.680
he he uh tutored that young congressman on how to stop slavery and that young congressman became the
00:33:53.940
first republican president abraham lincoln i don't know i think it might be good it's a you know it's
00:34:01.160
not a joke to be in congress it is now no because congress isn't doing anything we we send all these
00:34:08.900
representatives and it's really only schumer and mcconnell and pelosi uh and maybe mccarthy that
00:34:17.140
are getting together in the rooms and like yeah we're gonna do this and then just send it to
00:34:21.380
everybody to rubber stamp that's the problem it would be fascinating to see yeah by the way have
00:34:27.060
you seen all of the things that are in the uh the spending bill that uh we didn't know about
00:34:32.240
because nobody read the all stuff that's cutting inflation i'll tell you that
00:34:35.200
yeah yeah people just don't understand it why don't you get it it's cutting inflation
00:34:40.800
and there wouldn't be any if it weren't for putin yes damn putin don't like that guy i hate him
00:34:54.640
so you really think that it's not printing of money oh it's putin
00:35:05.140
that's but it was starting that's an absolute lie i'm sick of it but he started before the
00:35:10.640
invasion there was a putin what don't you understand about putin when i scream his name
00:35:20.660
fair point ah i think i get it now yeah i think the american people thank you very much pat
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you know she was speaking at the dnc uh winter convention or meeting uh this last weekend and i don't
00:37:44.760
know if you saw her speech but it was electrifying she's really good i mean she's really good at this
00:37:50.340
yeah and she was laying out the strategy uh for the dnc for the next election and uh i think
00:37:58.800
i mean i just want you to listen to the crowd listen to what she has to say because that's one thing
00:38:03.440
but listen to the crowd's reaction they love it here she is at the dnc convention
00:38:10.380
our task is to show people that in many ways they got what they ordered
00:38:36.780
that is what kind of strategy is that your job is to make them forget it
00:38:41.660
your job is to come out and say we swear the last two years hasn't happened
00:38:48.260
i will tell you uh that's the most honest thing i've heard a democrat say in a long time
00:39:12.740
she went on to say that the u.s is committed to helping refugees
00:39:16.320
but some on the right said that this was humiliating
00:39:19.000
did you have a problem with any of the way she handled this uh ladies uh
00:39:24.840
that i personally think if she was a guy they would never say it because they also made fun of hillary's laugh
00:39:29.940
but i don't see them making fun of pence's laugh or any of the other guys
00:39:34.000
what it is is that they constantly question the qualifications of black women
00:39:37.880
and that's why people are saying that she's unprepared
00:39:40.340
oh i disagree i think she's a very accomplished woman
00:40:01.360
in the country and i i think this is just much ado about nothing
00:40:12.500
this road i mean did you hear what she just said
00:40:22.600
she couldn't even get to the border of this country
00:40:50.500
google i would just like to put it in your records
00:41:25.160
i hear you have to buy another bag of rough greens
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uh yes we've got a new dog coming into the family
00:41:39.020
are saying they're not going to get another dog
00:41:54.420
yes and that's what happened basically this weekend
00:42:54.620
what you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
01:08:32.040
long time now retired from military service but
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paused for a second a little while ago just what
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economically and globally he's he was winning he
01:09:12.180
good uh geoeconomic position and uh and then he
01:09:21.940
uh it just doesn't really make sense to someone
01:09:27.300
thinker and made decisions uh all his decisions I
01:09:32.620
oil and politically and people around the world
01:09:34.280
said you know Putin's not a good guy but he always
01:09:37.020
makes calculated strategic decisions and we're just
01:09:39.540
not seeing that right now so we're seeing this weekend
01:09:42.220
the U.S. said that he asked China for military help or
01:09:47.000
at least supplies um I'm hearing that he's going to get
01:09:50.940
more vicious I do you have any sense that being
01:09:55.580
there what's coming is this ending is this getting
01:09:59.420
worse what's your feel it's going to my feel is is in
01:10:04.200
and look it's not just from my experience I'm here on
01:10:07.280
the ground with people the smartest minds and special
01:10:11.000
operations community I'm here I'm meeting with the
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highest level of uh from all different governments of
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the world intelligence agencies and things like that
01:10:22.540
it's going to get worse it's not going to get better
01:10:25.400
if you watch what he's doing right now uh you know towns like
01:10:29.140
Kiev he's uh he he's a Khabib he's he's surrounding these
01:10:34.580
towns uh holding destroying infrastructure roads bridges
01:10:39.100
uh rails any egress routes out uh inside these cities while the
01:10:44.020
Russians are holding out a perimeter they have the ability to get
01:10:46.440
resupplied but those inside can't so medicine medicine like uh it's
01:10:51.180
something as simple as insulin is is it is a death is that's a death that's as
01:10:55.340
deadly as a as a nuclear weapon to someone with uh with diabetes right
01:10:59.340
all these uh met a lot of children's hospitals have no medicine no medical aid
01:11:03.300
no supplies water pot of uh potable water is gone now so they're starving
01:11:09.040
them out and and not only starving them out at night it's going to get you know
01:11:12.280
15 degrees so you get people freezing to death particularly the people
01:11:15.100
trying to evacuate the women and children trying to evacuate
01:11:17.060
all right so so what is it you guys are doing on the ground and how can we help
01:11:21.720
so one of the things that we're doing uh you know a lot of a lot of great ngos
01:11:29.900
food in uh medicine in what we're doing specifically is we know that the
01:11:34.920
cellular network is going to fail um and and you know our experience in not
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only special operations but some of our teammates are some of the world's best
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precision recovery precision rescue experts and we know that the
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most crucial thing is that communication so we're building
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communications infrastructure uh to make sure that everyone in all these
01:11:53.280
cities around ukraine have the ability to communicate to us with us so when a
01:11:56.940
sailor network goes down we can still rescue them we can still move supplies
01:11:59.840
to them and we can still communicate with them so that's our priority mission
01:12:02.640
right now is doing that and then tying that communications network and
01:12:07.500
infrastructure to the ability about to rescue move medicine forward move uh
01:12:12.000
medical aid forward and then provide some ambulatory services to be able to move
01:12:15.560
people uh from places like kaviv to a safer place or to a medical station so
01:12:21.700
that's the kind of thing that me and my team are doing and we're doing that
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through save our allies and we need all the support we can i know thank you glenn
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because uh you may not even be aware i think you are but you guys just made a
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donation to save our allies so i thank you for that because we can't do it
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without yeah people like you well i i have to tell you chad we're big fans of uh of
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yours and save our allies we know what you what you do uh and how important it is and
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we are proud to stand with you and stand behind you you just let us know what you
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need if you want to make a donation and be a part of of saving ukraine and saving the
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people literally saving the people uh you can give now to save our allies.org that's save our
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save our allies it's save our allies.org chad stay safe
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always always glenn thank you so much god bless you thank you mighty mighty oaks foundation and
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save our allies i can't recommend them highly enough they are chad is a remarkable guy uh and
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they've been you know mighty oaks foundations works with um veterans to save their lives because of
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suicide rate is just outrageous and uh he's a guy who contemplated it himself and uh somebody saved
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his life and uh started mighty oaks and now save our allies and these are these are ex-military guys
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that go in they know how to help and they're not shooting anyone they're getting and rescuing people
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really really amazing yeah so just awesome organization awesome dude yep all right back in just a minute
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01:16:47.540
the tripwires that i have put out for myself uh that says okay we're one step we're one major step
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closer and that tripwire was sprung over the weekend i tell you all about it and if you missed it
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it's hour one of today's podcast also wednesday night special this week um i know it feels like
01:17:09.960
we're shifting gears um because we're not going to be talking about ukraine or gas prices or inflation
01:17:15.340
or whatever this week's episode is black lives matter why would we do this well the left has multiple
01:17:25.620
plates spinning and uh they're doing it to transform america and the blm plate is very much plugged into
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the social category of esg esg is going to change our lives if the great reset has its way do you remember
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when these corporations were dumping tens of millions of dollars into blm why did they believe it
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no it was part of the great reset well what happened to all of that money for two years we've
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been told there's really nothing more important than racism in america and blm has been at the
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forefront of that movement breaking in donations to change racist america but it looks as though
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it wasn't on the up and up i know this will come as a shock but it is directly connected with the power
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structure of the democratic party where's the money for blm blm scam exposed money mansions and
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marxism that's wednesday night at 9 p.m eastern only on blaze tv.com utter lunacy utter lunacy um let me
01:18:36.400
give you another example of utter lunacy i just tweeted this out from at stew does america uh clay
01:18:41.680
travis posted the video of this but kairi irving basketball player i'm just to walk you through this in
01:18:48.200
case you don't know he's the covid guy right yeah ass guy he was uh well he refused to get vaccinated
01:18:53.380
right okay that's something like 90 some odd percent of nba players are vaccinated he was one of
01:18:57.760
the big stars that that held out on this right and he decided he wasn't going to play and he plays for
01:19:03.040
brooklyn so you know highest peak of covid restrictions in new york city of course so he is
01:19:10.280
not allowed to play in new york city still while uh unvaccinated this is the beginning of the year
01:19:16.900
okay yeah so that comes out and the at first the team says okay well then you can't be on this team
01:19:21.820
they hold him out eventually possibly uh related to some injury situations they had on the team
01:19:27.940
they decided to say hey you know what you can play on the road because he was always eligible to play
01:19:32.660
on the road in other states and other cities this is just a new york state restriction or new york city
01:19:36.580
restriction that would not allow him to play indoors unvaccinated so he started playing for the road
01:19:43.280
games now however a bunch of the restrictions have been lifted in new york city so we are now at a state
01:19:50.920
of affairs where it is allowed for him to attend the game as a fan and sit in the crowd unvaccinated
01:19:59.660
with no mask around 30 000 screaming fans however not on the floor actually play in the game that's
01:20:08.080
insanity where he'd be one of 10 people on a giant nba court this is when you know a country is crumbling
01:20:14.860
apart when it makes no sense when the laws make no sense no sense there's no look there has never been
01:20:23.900
science that would dictate that a player at you know 28 years old in the prime of his physical
01:20:31.720
condition was ever really going to be affected by this anyway certainly such a minor risk you can't
01:20:37.680
possibly contemplate it around other players in the same circumstances but okay all the craziness that
01:20:46.300
has happened you could maybe make an argument i don't even know what the argument would be
01:20:50.060
but maybe you make the argument that it was this a sensible thing at one point i wouldn't make that
01:20:54.840
argument but maybe some would this is completely insane there's video of him walking around in the
01:20:59.220
crowd he's sitting in the same stadium as his team and he can't walk out on the court in a he's instead
01:21:06.620
surrounded in closer quarters with thousands of fans rather than being on the court around in shape
01:21:14.360
athletes that are not affected by this at all it's complete lunacy it's impossible to overstate it
01:21:21.860
can i ask another sports question yes i don't understand yes tom brady says there's unfinished business to do
01:21:28.960
i don't what i mean apparently he did retire right he did retire he he said he announced it he announced
01:21:38.500
someone bought a his last football uh for five hundred thousand dollars and i demand my money back
01:21:44.940
i would demand my money how could you though it's just a private uh i don't know maybe he could get
01:21:49.960
they could get it back but yeah he's he's he's coming back apparently being married to giselle not all it's
01:21:54.360
cracked up to be uh a little bit too much so in other words maybe she's like you know what i can't have him
01:22:01.500
under my feet all the time or he's like uh i there's all sorts of limited amount of time
01:22:09.160
is great yeah it's amazing though i mean what do you mean unfinished business what more can you have
01:22:14.020
you already have all the good things of life 10 times over can you stop taking all the good
01:22:18.740
experiences from all other men in the united states is he a free agent he's gonna go back to tampa
01:22:23.940
going back he's already saying that back to tampa bay so they're gonna be you know title contenders
01:22:27.720
again with him coming back at what 45 44 now it's crazy it really is amazing crazy and the
01:22:35.280
the whole off season has been insane and it's gonna get a lot crazier because free agency starts in two
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he is one of my favorite historians he is one of my favorite thriller writers he's had 12
01:25:02.160
previous uh best-selling uh thrillers number one best-selling thrillers and he is also one of the
01:25:10.040
most interesting people i know brad melzer has a new book called the lightning rod he's in studio
01:25:17.600
buckle up it is always fun to have brad melzer in studio he joins us in 60 seconds
01:25:24.720
whenever possible it is nice to pass on lessons that you learned in life to other people so maybe
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they don't have to go through all the crap that you went through to learn it in the first place
01:25:38.800
one area where it is specifically true in my life is selling a house i've done a lot of it uh mainly
01:25:48.200
because i'm in radio and whenever the uh economy would take a downturn i'd get fired and then i'd sell
01:25:54.960
my house at the worst possible time i was just i i mean i didn't i don't know how to find a real
01:26:00.040
estate agent do you i'm just like do you know a real estate agent yeah i know bob uh he's a cousin
01:26:07.380
of mine or yeah i know somebody that sold a friend's house they seem pretty good and then you
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just go with them that's not the way to hire somebody for the biggest investment of your life
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real estate agents i trust.com real estate agents i trust.com author of the lightning rod brad melzer
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how are you sir i'm good it's so good to be back in person yeah so you are uh you're one of my
01:26:52.640
favorite people um let's start with uh let's start with a book and then i have a surprise for
01:26:57.960
you oh i'm ready for surprise okay so so here's the book uh i always start you know with my great
01:27:02.600
fears i think that's what you when you write a thriller you got to start with your fears right
01:27:06.200
and so the opening scene has a character handing his car keys over to a valet at a fancy restaurant
01:27:13.240
valet takes the car rather than park in the car he hits a little gps button on the steering wheel
01:27:18.500
says the magic words go home now the car plots a route to the man's house the valet is gonna
01:27:24.000
have the car keys he's got the man's house keys he's gonna break in this is a robbery
01:27:28.500
but as he steps into the man's house give that no no i'm telling you but no this is the key part
01:27:33.480
as he steps into the man's house the valet sees another man waiting with a gun this is not a robbery
01:27:39.300
at all this is a trap and when his body goes to our hero zig zig finds something hidden on it that
01:27:45.540
leads to one of the government's most closely guarded secrets now i just ruined chapter one
01:27:49.580
of the lightning rod oh yeah but you just sold a lot of books but chapter one is um you know
01:27:54.260
and there's only two chapters in the book right now no they yeah no there's chapter two right
01:27:59.360
the funny thing was i was at an event yesterday in florida my nephew raised his hand my nephew's
01:28:03.440
like eight years old and he said uncle brad what's chapter two and i was like oh i got my nephew now so
01:28:08.100
that was good but the lightning rod opens with that and then obviously the action takes off from there
01:28:11.480
so what is the closely guarded secret so let's talk about that that's the key part
01:28:15.420
you know my listen i love the plot i love the murder mystery i love that you have great characters
01:28:19.580
that everyone loves and we get to bring back but the fun of this is always the research i've taken
01:28:23.980
readers as you know i've been on your show talking about the secret tunnels below the white house we've
01:28:27.960
done the hidden labyrinth below the capital this was the one i got for this when i spoke to the
01:28:31.820
government there's a couple of them actually and the u.s government has i did not know this
01:28:36.920
almost a dozen uh secret warehouses hidden all across the country and they're there to deal with
01:28:44.040
bioterror attacks whether it's anthrax whether it's smallpox or anything else and if there's an
01:28:49.980
attack in texas in new york in california idaho anywhere in between they will have within hours
01:28:56.160
what they call a push package of antidotes right to your doorstep and i'm like you're telling me the
01:29:01.980
government has secret warehouses all across the country no one knows what's inside them no one knows
01:29:06.760
what they have inside no one can go in them you better believe i want to go in them right i'm like i want
01:29:12.280
to go in that right now so i i thankfully they they took me in um what you see when you're reading
01:29:17.860
the lightning rod you're turning the pages you're trying to guess the mystery the final section of
01:29:22.780
the book takes place in the warehouses the final scene of the book and what you see in those
01:29:26.400
warehouses i did not make up what you see in there is really there and it's amazing it's like it's like
01:29:32.040
tell us are you well i'll tell you you know it's like a costco for the end of the world
01:29:35.340
they're massive warehouses i mean they're like five costcos so instead of being like a you know in
01:29:40.740
costco or bj is a giant jar of mayonnaise and you know bug boxes cereal there's obviously they have
01:29:46.720
everything from um you know things to deal with uh radiation poisoning they have iodine tablets they
01:29:53.240
have uh everything you can imagine from amphetamines to uh they have cobra venom god knows what cobra
01:30:00.220
venom does like you're you're going down these aisles the one thing they all have in common though
01:30:04.180
which i love is they all have giant the only thing that they all every warehouse has is a giant
01:30:10.120
american flag and make it say and and what's great about it is this started and you're going to love
01:30:15.980
this little history lesson for it is the back when nuclear war was the great threat in the cold war
01:30:21.180
they decided to commission and figure out how are we going to keep the president alive how do we make
01:30:26.400
if there's a nuclear war how do we get them to live and they they create a secret commission called
01:30:30.820
operation high point and high point is designed to figure it's a big beginning of the continuity of
01:30:35.960
government so they make mount weather and all these places where dick cheney went in 9 11 and
01:30:41.020
where you know just outside of dc it's where the senators go it's where the president goes it's
01:30:46.020
where the top staff goes so the government can run but they also commission in michigan is operation
01:30:51.160
low point and that's to discuss what happens to the rest of us what happens if there's a nuclear war
01:30:56.380
to everyone else in america they make a whole plan they study it they say mail carts are going to turn
01:31:01.180
into hearses and carry bodies rather than letters they have giant plans for everybody and the one
01:31:06.480
thing they finally realize this is all true you think i'm making it up i can see your face no it's
01:31:10.220
all true right i know it is all you can look it up just google it and um and the thing that's so
01:31:15.140
incredible we'd look under operation low point operation low point operation high point you will
01:31:19.780
see it um and i literally you can see this all in the lightning rod the whole history is in is in the
01:31:23.600
thriller because obviously i said all the warehouses but one of the thing that's really amazing to me
01:31:27.960
is they study all of this and you know what they finally figure out glenn none of it's going to
01:31:33.540
work none of it's going to work if there's a nuclear war it doesn't matter for you that's why
01:31:37.380
we don't hide under our desks anymore they were like we're all going to die that's what's going to
01:31:41.000
happen and it and basically it goes away they kind of figure like we're not going to do this anymore
01:31:45.220
we do have mount weather still we do have secret locations for the president we do have all those
01:31:49.540
but for the rest of us we're in trouble until this one guy stephen bice in the 90s
01:31:55.620
a government employee has an idea and he says you know the threat today is not nuclear war the
01:32:02.160
threat today is bioterrorism that's what we got to worry about so we should probably have like a
01:32:06.700
warehouse somewhere that houses all the stuff to deal with whatever comes out whether it's hantavirus
01:32:11.380
whether it's anything you and for the first time in like i feel like in recent memory the government
01:32:18.000
listens to a good idea and says we should do it this is the most positive thing i've heard from our
01:32:24.900
government i bring some good for you today right i bring a good idea from 40 you know 30 years ago
01:32:29.880
and in the 90s they basically say we should do that and they do and they build not just one
01:32:35.380
but many of these secret warehouses and they pack them full of disaster materials when anthrax hit after
01:32:42.220
9-11 in dc and in new york i know you remember that the reason it didn't get out everywhere is because
01:32:48.360
this is who dealt with it they had push packages within hours to new york and dc
01:32:52.860
my wife was working in the u.s capital at the time she was nine months pregnant with my son at the
01:32:59.040
time and i remember they opened that first thing of anthrax powder and going oh my god my kid my
01:33:04.100
unborn child is there my wife is there and that's who dealt with it it was what became the strategic
01:33:09.640
national storehouse stockpile which is now all over the country so did you read um this weekend
01:33:15.340
about switzerland what happened switzerland has uh fallout shelters oh i did read this that are going
01:33:22.640
crazy yeah every citizen they've had it for a long time they almost stopped uh requiring them by law
01:33:29.660
after the wall fell and they thought you know what let's just keep it so every house that is built
01:33:35.000
every apartment building every office building has um has a fallout shelter in it or you have to pay
01:33:43.460
a part of your taxes to be part of the closest fallout shelter well this this last week they
01:33:50.440
decided to activate all of those things again and they said go into your fallout shelter now and report
01:33:59.840
on what you have because there are certain things that every citizen has to have in their fallout
01:34:05.040
shelter and it's water and food and everything else and i thought i mean there's a country that has
01:34:11.060
prepared and i'm i'm actually glad to see we know we that the great thing is is no one we have we
01:34:17.120
actually for once now obviously in covid everyone's i'm sure thinking right now what happened in covid
01:34:22.540
right i started researching the lightning rod as a book five years ago this all those the warehouses
01:34:28.960
at that point they're just it's an asterisk in the government no one cares about so i go in it's fine
01:34:33.340
they take me to the headquarters the command center i see where everything's taken care of
01:34:37.440
then covid hits they call my sources i'm like is this you guys they're like this is us so what
01:34:43.060
happened right what happened is and it's so easy to monday morning quarterback and say this but
01:34:47.360
from trump to obama to bush they've been warned for administration after administration listen there
01:34:53.200
could be there's a likely chance that we could have this kind of natural virus occur like this
01:34:57.440
but everyone bet on the wrong thing and and i hate to say it but you know trump doubled down on it
01:35:02.720
you can't know the future no one could predict what was going to happen but they believed that
01:35:07.420
the only thing that was going to attack us was a foreign government so we were perfectly and still
01:35:11.960
prepared for that if there's anything like that we're ready they could have never prepared for
01:35:16.640
anything like this but this is where all the ventilators are this is where all the masks are
01:35:21.220
this is where that's where they were coming from at the beginning of the pandemic no one knew what the
01:35:24.980
name of it was they just were appearing from the quote-unquote government but it was these secret
01:35:28.780
warehouses that the government has stockpiled with stuff so this is all about i'm i'm fascinated you
01:35:35.540
know me i love your writing and i always try to read books before you're you're on i just haven't
01:35:41.460
had time to read it yet so this is one of the secrets one of the secrets of course i bring more so
01:35:47.060
okay hang on just a second let me take a quick break and then we'll come back with secret number two
01:35:50.880
and then a surprise for brad as well uh ralph waldo emerson once wrote the desire for gold
01:35:57.140
is not for gold it's not for the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff it is the means of
01:36:04.500
freedom and benefit owning gold is not about at least for me it is not about owning luxuries it's
01:36:12.200
not about anything i have told you for a long time i don't buy it as an investment even though as an
01:36:17.800
investment it's been very good um i buy it as a hedge against insanity when the world goes insane
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in the end they always return to gold have you seen what china and russia are doing this weekend
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china was talking about their new digital dollar and it's backed in oil and going to be backed in
01:36:38.340
commodities like wheat and gold they just purchased i think 220 000 tons of gold they're going to be
01:36:47.280
backed in gold when when countries are starting to look and go wait a minute you're meaning the central
01:36:53.380
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the author of the book the lightning rod it is out today it's a thriller by brad melzer
01:37:56.040
that i love your books because they always they always are accurate and things that i just never
01:38:04.800
knew about and usually about american history because you and i are brothers from another
01:38:09.340
mother on that always always so listen my love of this one i do a lot of work with the uso
01:38:14.260
and i've been the uso has asked me as a thriller writer to go and and tell stories to our troops
01:38:19.660
all around the world i've been to kuwait omar qatar qatar turkey cuba you name it i've been to military
01:38:26.260
bases reading to our troops and i'll tell you uh that was there i first heard and came on radar dover
01:38:33.280
air force base and you know dover even if you don't know the name of it dover is where when our
01:38:37.800
service members die in service to the country their bodies come back to dover and those coffins with
01:38:44.040
the flag on top that's where you see everyone saluting that's dover and that's also where the
01:38:48.800
president's plane is of course and and what's amazing about dover is the morticians who work there
01:38:54.360
will spend such care on our fallen troops they'll spend 12 hours rewiring someone's jaw
01:39:00.180
smoothing it over with clay so a family can see their son one last time rebuilding someone's hand
01:39:06.260
from scratch because a mother says i want to hold my son's hand one last time these are the best of
01:39:10.680
the best of us working on the best of the best of us that's the hero of the lightning rob is a hero
01:39:15.240
named zig who's a mortician at dover and that's where the body comes to but what i love about dover
01:39:20.180
and the history lesson i have is this is that when the space shuttle exploded the astronauts
01:39:25.980
bodies were brought back to dover when 9-11 happened all the pentagon victims bodies went
01:39:31.160
to dover i didn't know wait oh yeah i didn't know that they found bodies they did find bodies that
01:39:36.020
came back i had no idea it's incredible and it's called mass fatalities they all go to dover so even
01:39:41.720
our all of our spies our cia spies all around the world our 007s their bodies go to dover too which
01:39:49.100
means dover's a place filled with secrets so that's one of my heroes in the book i'm like oh we're going
01:39:53.460
into dover and we're going to see what that's like and then the other one another history lesson
01:39:57.100
for that i found that i was with the u.s military and they took me to a warehouse that is it's right
01:40:03.680
out of something you're going to love because it's a warehouse filled with art i'm like why does the
01:40:08.420
army have all this art and they don't just have art painted by service members that's where adolf
01:40:13.680
hitler's art is they took me to the room with all of hitler's art that he painted like why does the
01:40:18.840
military have all this art in one place was he a good painter uh he thought he was
01:40:23.420
very very flat the thing that is very flat and the great part is is you see a giant hole punched
01:40:31.700
in his face because he puts himself up on a horse our service members when they took the art of that
01:40:36.580
painting we have the painting i saw it myself oh my god and there was a punched hole in it where a
01:40:42.660
service member just basically either kicked it or punched through it and the hole they never repaired
01:40:46.620
which is beautiful it's breathtaking so i'm like why does the military have all this art they
01:40:52.480
explained to me that since world war one this is true the u.s military has had an actual painter
01:40:57.220
on staff that paints disasters as they happen so whether it's storming the beaches of normandy
01:41:03.560
whether it's vietnam whether it's 9-11 they've got someone painting it as it happens and i said
01:41:09.320
you're telling me everyone's racing in with guns blazing and you've got someone racing with paint
01:41:13.980
brushes in their pockets that guy's crazy i gotta meet him i want to meet him right and they said
01:41:18.280
you mean her you want to meet her it was a woman was our current artist in residence so that's the
01:41:24.600
other hero of this book zig and nola a mortician at dover and this painter are the heroes and they
01:41:30.540
obviously are both based on the reality of me being able to pull apart this world that no one ever
01:41:34.820
gets to see where does the painter sit the painter sits actually where this warehouse is in port
01:41:42.340
valoir in virginia but the where they really sit is wherever they want they can go they have
01:41:48.160
unlimited access to go if 9-11 happens they want to paint 9-11 you go to 9-11 when when the 13 service
01:41:55.100
members came back from afghanistan you want to go there you go there get selected that's you got to
01:42:00.540
be a good painter it's literally a contest that's the thing is you literally submit your paintings
01:42:04.700
and the military says they pick one painter who is selected by the military to be our person
01:42:09.780
amy brown was the woman who it was i named my character nola brown after her to honor her
01:42:14.460
and they have a new one now they keep going over and over through history and the fun part is for me
01:42:19.300
is of course finding out their secrets so i went to the government and i said how do you possibly i
01:42:24.760
went to my friend who works as a high level security guy in one of the great security agencies
01:42:28.760
we used to work there i said how do i communicate with my friend glenn when everyone's watching all our
01:42:34.360
emails how do we any of us communicate when everyone can see what we write and he said to me
01:42:38.860
listen the moment you hit send on your email i don't care if you use signal i don't care if you
01:42:44.400
use whatsapp anyone who wants a crack will find a way to crack he said here's what you're going to do
01:42:49.240
here's the trick brad he said i put this in the lightning rod he says you take a hotmail account you
01:42:55.580
open the account you write an email do not hit send what you're going to do is hit save draft yep
01:43:00.880
now i give glenn the sign into my email you come in my email you open up the save draft you write
01:43:06.020
back whatever you want you don't hit send you hit save draft now you and i are having a secret
01:43:09.880
conversation we've never put a thing into cyberspace which is a great idea until until general
01:43:15.600
petraeus the former head of the cia used that trick that's in my book the lightning rod to cheat
01:43:21.420
on his wife with his mistress and i said to my buddy i said oh my gosh i need a new trick he just
01:43:25.740
used the trick you gave me i gotta get a new trick so he what he gave me in the book
01:43:29.880
you'll see something called black house now here's the here's the history that you're going
01:43:34.920
to love we all know the white house of course is the white house 1600 pennsylvania avenue when
01:43:40.560
richard nixon famously recorded himself and his staff without telling anybody every staffer in the
01:43:48.040
white house realized oh my gosh all of our stuff could be recorded so what do they start doing they
01:43:53.380
all start figuring out where can we have a private conversation in this place if everything's being
01:43:57.020
recorded that's not called white house that's called black house and black house moves generation
01:44:02.600
by generation okay it is just a code name that someone gave me right and it's basically george
01:44:08.380
stephanopoulos supposedly did it during the clinton era in a gym dick cheney maybe he sat in his you
01:44:13.620
know homemade man size safe and had kind of god knows where he did his but every there's always a
01:44:19.340
place in the white house where all the staff knows this is where we can sit and have a private
01:44:23.360
conversation you will see in this book what black house really is and the trick he gave me i did not
01:44:29.460
make up it's an incredible one from the government you'll see it in the lightning rod i mean if you
01:44:34.040
don't want to read this book now you're dead you're dead you're no listen james patterson said you can
01:44:39.560
see the things on the back james patterson said that it was my his favorite book by brad melzer so far
01:44:45.520
and the guy who created reacher said that nola brown our hero like was like the girl with the dragon
01:44:51.640
tattoo one of the best modern creations of fiction it took those two things i tell you that simply for
01:44:56.300
one reason i finally impressed my wife she does not she doesn't care about anything i write but my
01:45:02.200
god the fact that james patterson loved the lightning rod that i'm waiting for that moment with my wife
01:45:07.020
i am waiting for that moment she finally was like finally brad you did some good yeah all right back
01:45:11.780
with brad melzer i have a surprise for him on history when we come back
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01:47:11.520
sounds tremendous the lightning rod uh and uh he's also the author of children's books he's been in
01:47:19.200
signing children's books for stew's children yes we put them to work yeah because stew's children
01:47:24.220
have all of the the whole collection and they're huge fans and you told them something can you talk
01:47:30.900
about it i can talk about let's talk about it for sure so so you know i launched these books on your
01:47:35.680
show right we did i wanted my kids to have better heroes to look up to i was tired of the garbage that
01:47:41.160
they're being fed on instagram and online every day and i said we did i am amelia erhart i am abraham
01:47:46.760
lincoln i am rosa parks albert einstein i said my son loves sports i'm like forget a millionaire
01:47:51.000
athlete meet this one i wrote i am jackie robinson for him yeah my son who loves legos we did uh and
01:47:57.560
creativity i did i am walt disney i am jim henson and my daughter loves our dog i said okay fine i'm
01:48:03.460
going to teach you what you can do with a love of science here's i am jane goodall it's our one our
01:48:07.380
number one selling book so we've done our newest ones are i am muhammad ali the teacher it's always
01:48:11.660
the moral lesson is always on the back of the book so on the back of i am malala yusuf sai it says
01:48:16.720
i will i know that education we can all soar on the back of i am muhammad ali it says i i will
01:48:22.580
always fight for what i believe i want my sons to have that lesson i want my daughter to have that
01:48:28.180
lesson always fight for what you believe it's a beautiful lesson and i found out a few months
01:48:33.480
back that our books i am rosa parks and i am martin luther king jr had gotten banned in york
01:48:39.560
pennsylvania in york county pennsylvania it had none to do with the content of the books at all they were
01:48:44.900
200 books that were considered really good for talking to kids about race and we were of course
01:48:50.160
on it which was really sweet and the school board said listen we want to read these books before we
01:48:56.000
give them the kids which is a good idea you should read the books before you give them the kids
01:48:59.180
but the school board the fast one that they pulled was is they said we're freezing these books until we
01:49:03.900
read them a year went by they still hadn't read them so our books a sesame street book about race
01:49:09.460
malala's book a book about hidden figures the women who helped in nasa all of these wonderful
01:49:14.760
books got banned so i get a call from my friends at fox news i get a call from cnn i get a call from
01:49:21.820
msnbc all of them going this is ridiculous you got to come on this is absurd when cnn and fox news and
01:49:28.860
msnbc agree yeah you know you know there's something right yeah there's so i go to the school board
01:49:33.800
meeting and i read my favorite line from i am rosa parks which your kids just brought in to me to
01:49:39.780
sign their copy it's their favorite book yeah they said it was their favorite book which shows what a
01:49:43.800
man you are incredible you and your wife are doing an incredible job and i read this line
01:49:47.360
it's always yeah no maybe not stew but yeah his wife clearly and uh and i read this line my favorite
01:49:53.340
line from i am rosa parks to the school board to their faces it says i am not a famous business
01:49:57.380
person i am not a famous politician i'm just an ordinary person but i'm also proof there's no such
01:50:02.200
thing as an ordinary person and i said i just want you to know that's what you're denying these kids
01:50:06.380
here and i thought i'd save the day and then all these kids start speaking about the books these are
01:50:11.920
the best books how could dare you ban them we want them back in our schools and the teachers start
01:50:17.380
talking about them the parents start talking about them i realized i don't even need to be there
01:50:21.320
by the time we're done the school board apologizes and undoes the ban and obviously the books are now
01:50:27.320
there we got 5 000 copies of books that were on that ban list donated to the school board to the
01:50:33.600
area there are only 5 000 kids in the school district now i am rosa parks is being taught
01:50:38.440
there in the school they have so many copies but i look through history glenn and i was like why are
01:50:44.080
we suddenly in 2022 still fighting book bans yeah right and i look back through history to find what's
01:50:50.860
the first book that was banned by our country as a whole and you know what it was it was historians
01:50:55.640
tend to agree it's harriet beecher stowe's classic uncle tom's cabin why was it banned right it's
01:51:01.360
banned because slave owners at the time did not want the idea that slavery was bad to be out in
01:51:06.160
the culture they slave owners didn't want any abolitionist ideas out in the culture they were
01:51:10.960
like they're going to indoctrinate our children and that word is what we're seeing right now used
01:51:15.480
over and over again they're going to indoctrinate our children and and what's interesting especially
01:51:19.440
with that rosa parks book none of us want our children indoctrinated and if you ask americans
01:51:24.520
you want them to indoctrinate your children 90 percent of people say of course not no one would
01:51:28.420
want whatever politics your side you're on no one would want that if you ask people do you want us
01:51:34.260
to have a sensitive age-appropriate conversation about race so we could get along better as a
01:51:39.120
culture 90 percent of americans will say of course and i just caution everyone out there don't take
01:51:45.100
the bait and the fear-mongering and instead actually say what are we doing here with these books
01:51:49.520
what why are we why do we have books about rosa parks and dr king out there what do they serve
01:51:54.200
our kids and to me if you're cheering while books are being pulled from the library you're on the
01:51:58.840
wrong side of history it will you will always be revealed whether it was banning shakespeare whether
01:52:03.380
it was banning uh huckleberry finn whether it's banning you know alice in wonderland or the i am
01:52:10.080
series the ordinary people change the world series you will you will eventually be revealed for what you
01:52:13.960
are and i just i am thankful that cooler has prevailed and i am rosa parks and i am martin
01:52:18.720
luther king jr and now back in the curriculum so in each of these books why do you put superman in
01:52:23.880
i put superman in for one reason you know the the series is called the ordinary people change the
01:52:29.080
world series and i love superman you love superman we obviously you helped me save the house where
01:52:33.120
superman was created but i put superman in because the most important part of the story is not superman to
01:52:37.780
me the most important part of the story is clark kent why because we're all clark kent we all know what
01:52:43.100
it's like to be boring and ordinary and wish we could do something beyond ourselves and that's
01:52:48.040
the lesson of these books is we never talk the books are never about when you're famous
01:52:52.040
it's always when they're kids so you see what abraham lincoln's like as a boy you see and i am
01:52:57.180
george washington what george washington was like as a boy and you of course you see him become president
01:53:00.980
and i am muhammad ali in the new one there's a scene when muhammad ali is a little boy he goes to
01:53:06.180
a restaurant in his neighborhood and he wants to be served they say you can't be served here because
01:53:09.940
you're black and he starts crying he's devastated as a little boy and then he wins the gold medal
01:53:15.460
for the olympics as a young man he's like i just won for the united states of america i won the gold
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medal in boxing he goes back he's so excited that he goes back to the same restaurant that once served
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me says now they'll certainly serve me he wears the gold medal into the restaurant to go be served
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again says that when they see this medal around my neck they're gonna serve me and he sits down in
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the booth and he says he orders a cheeseburger and a milkshake and they said we're still not serving
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you and he takes the medal off and he says this medal is worthless to me unless we're all treated
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equally and that's not the bad part of america it's the best part of america yes that you can
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protest and you can try and change things and try and get equality and i know you know i love your
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love of civil rights and how you fought for it all these years um and what i love is that you get
01:53:59.540
to the back of that book and there's that lesson again right that lesson of fight for what you
01:54:03.640
believe and i love the fact you know we picked the muslim hero purposely because we were like
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we want to set the record straight we want to make sure that instead of spreading hate in this world
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that we spread some love and i love that our books have been used to kind of fight back against the
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cynicism that people use our books to build libraries of real heroes for their kids their
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grandkids their nieces their nephews so you have you have given me and the audience a great deal
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of thrills in our life either by reading your books or the stories that you tell and the things
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that you've allowed us i mean you allowed me to help with superman's house i mean that is just the
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coolest thing ever i told my son that you know hey we we helped say that and he's wait what i mean
01:54:49.640
it's really it's really cool you said to me at one point i'd give anything if i could just once
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wear superman's cape no you don't have it wait oh we're gonna have to have a conversation is this
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the one that was just sold yes it's it's the christopher reeve superman's cape is this from
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superman 3 you just bought this i just bought this you know who bid against you for it you you're
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looking at him i was bidding against you on that cape on that outfit oh i'd love you for it this is
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even better because i didn't have to pay for it and i get to see it can you take the cape off i
01:55:30.380
mean you have to be able to wear superman's i mean you i literally bid on that i can show you the
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bids i was going against one person we should have called each other we would have saved each other
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so much money i'm like who is this guy that just keeps racking it up that's me it was me
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unbelievable one person and one of the reasons why i was so dead set to get it was so i could
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he could let you wear superman's cape you and i are bidding this up if we just had a phone call
01:55:59.420
to each other we could have saved ourselves so much money okay this is spectacular the best day
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ever let me take let me take a break we get the cape off of his outfit and then brad melzer can wear
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superman's cape a dream of yours forever ever a very a very expensive dream apparently for you
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you have no idea how much this special moment has cost
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we're with brad melzer and uh apparently he was bidding on superman's cape as i was bidding on
01:58:01.700
superman's cape uh and this is bring it over to bring it over to brad so he can see it i know it
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says inside is the embroidered yeah christopher reeve uh it is true there it is and you have
01:58:15.080
you have always said to me oh i just would love to wear superman's cape i'm turn it the other way
01:58:20.220
this whole moment you got i was gonna say can you stand up i'm ready i'm ready okay okay he was a
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little taller than you i only might be a slight bit i met his daughter his daughter and i did an event
01:58:29.140
together really send this to christopher reeve's daughter okay oh yeah i don't want to i first
01:58:35.100
i have to tell you what's physically happening to my body right now because it's just you know
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those moments when you just say i'm having a permanent memory yeah i'm having a permanent
01:58:43.940
memory here this is this is christopher reeve's actual cape that the great part is is i never
01:58:51.800
the chills if you could see them in my body and here's the price tag that says glenn got screwed
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it doesn't look as good with a suit i was gonna say i don't think it matches but this is gonna be
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this is the dream i mean look at that look at that okay wait this is where i have to take my own camera
01:59:11.960
here give it to me i'll do you want me to take a picture we'll take it after we'll take it after but i
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need to say this thank you for this moment thank you also for paying for this moment my wife is so
01:59:22.900
much happier that you paid for this moment than that i paid for this moment because you know what
01:59:27.840
i'm gonna have a house now and so i know you i literally know you i don't know if i told you
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this this is my 25th year as a thriller writer i know you 25 years this and we've had some ridiculous
01:59:42.520
adventures together from cnn to fox to here to everything in between and i always think like
01:59:49.100
i'm gonna i'm gonna give you something good you win you win you win i thought i was gonna come in
01:59:54.800
you're gonna be like i'll do a solid we're gonna sell copies of the lightning rod you win yeah the
01:59:59.220
museum has wanted superman's outfit and cape for a long time because we're preserving culture and this
02:00:06.480
is such a huge piece but when i saw it all i thought of was right now this is all i'm gonna
02:00:12.600
help you get i'm gonna help you get a belt because i know guys who do the belt stuff and i can i'm
02:00:17.000
gonna connect you really oh yeah they have a real belt i don't or they they'll remake a belt for you
02:00:21.940
but they'll get you a proper these guys are like down to the stitching of the s they know how it's
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crazy isn't it and you know the thing about this the thing about the christopher reeve outfits
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is that there aren't that many you'd think there would be a lot of them but there aren't that many
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i actually know my friend mark miller owns one of the capes from superman one and there's just not
02:00:43.100
that many of them that are out there anymore um so when i saw this one i mean every auction place
02:00:48.520
knows if a superman kid comes in just call brad and they know and when it came in i got the call
02:00:54.020
and uh and again i'm so glad it was you i the other one that was for sale was the the original
02:01:01.080
superman uh what was his name yeah kirk kirk uh uh uh i can't anyway george george reeves sorry george
02:01:10.500
reeves and then there's kirk allen sorry so but it's black and white it was weird because it was
02:01:14.820
because they filmed it they filmed in black and white right make it crisper they used to make they
02:01:18.880
used to is it's gray and and i looked at it and you and i off the air just so we can say it again
02:01:23.300
we were talking about it and both of us had the same reaction which is it went for double the money but
02:01:27.500
both of us were like it's not as cool as the real one yeah like we want to see i mean that is the
02:01:31.700
real one it is the real one but it's but i want to see blue and red and yellow if you don't have a
02:01:35.960
red and yellow s it's not really a superman yeah um and then you know and and had a little tear in
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it so i you know i was the whole thing i remember thinking at the time look at him does he look like
02:01:47.020
a super by the way i just love that i'm doing the rest of this first one i look like lex luther
02:01:50.980
right you look like a super villain so now in a suit with a cape i just love that i'm doing the
02:01:56.320
rest of this interview wearing superman's cape yeah it just can't be the more surreal day of my life
02:02:01.620
that i mean you you can't make this yeah well brad it is always good to see you this is beyond good
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thank you so much for everything the name of his book is the lightning rod a ziganola novel um it is i
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have not read it yet i read every one of his books i think he is tremendous because you you
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tell history all the way through and you learn stuff i mean i just reading your books is like
02:02:29.060
the end scene of indiana jones the first movie that's the warehouse i was in when i was researching
02:02:34.280
the book i found the real one that the government has that's where they have hitler's paintings and
02:02:37.820
all the stuff they call it they literally call it the indiana jones warehouse in the government
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shut up i'm not joking it's not the they that's what they physically called
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the room where they have it because it's it's how big is it it's massive it's massive stacked in
02:02:50.360
boxes like that it's tons of crates with all the art and all there's actually also weaponry they have
02:02:55.980
a lot of world war ii uh guns and and uniforms and why do they have all of this stuff because uh
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they want to it's it they're on fort belvoir in virginia there is a museum that's there to preserve
02:03:08.860
american history and that's where the government's actually doing it they're taking all of their good
02:03:12.860
stuff and they took the art and that's where the artist in residence is based so when i was
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researching the lightning rod i was like wait a minute so i'm like indiana jones right now right
02:03:21.700
i was like looking for giant boulders to come chasing behind me that is so but it was but but
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i based that on the real thing and i love that people get to read the murder and the mystery and
02:03:29.940
figure out the ending but for me the fun is when you're turning those pages and you're learning
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something yeah that's the best so great brad melzer the lightning rod available everywhere as always
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brad thank you so much we will uh see you tomorrow on the radio god bless