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Summary
In this episode, Glenn and Stu talk about a new book by Peter Schweitzer called "Profiles in Corruption" and how it paints a picture of Joe Biden s brother, Frank Biden, as being the real estate magnate of Costa Rica.
Transcript
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Hello, America. Today's a really good, funny, funny show that I don't think you're going to want to miss a second of it.
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Bernie Sanders is Larry David. I put the candidates for the Democrats in and framed them as the Republicans in 2016.
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And, you know, who's Ted Cruz? And who is Bernie Sanders on our side in 2016?
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Also, we talked a little bit about the V.I. the V.A. rally, the rally in Virginia.
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Bloomberg, if you had fifty four million dollars, a billion dollars, would you be asking people for votes in Iowa?
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Because Stu and I would be ghosting that. You don't want to miss a second of today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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By the way, there is a new book out called Profiles in Corruption by Peter Schweitzer.
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It's a 300 page book and the last 104 pages is all fine print footnotes.
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I mean, this thing is so well documented. Let me give you one of the stories.
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An extensive overlap in Frank Biden's dealings and Obama Biden.
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In their foreign policy in Central America has just been exposed in this book.
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Frank Biden first set his sights on on Central America back in 2009 as the Obama administration began to repair the U.S. relationship with Costa Rica.
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I know we've been laying awake at night going, how's our relationship with Costa Rica?
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When President Obama entered the White House, he set out to mend fences in the region in hopes of inaugurating a new era of global cooperation.
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Leading that charge on that front was Joe Biden, who has longstanding ties to the region from his tenure leading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Costa Rica? I mean, you're leading the Foreign Senate Relations Committee and Costa Rica is even on your radar?
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Shortly after the new administration took office, Frank Biden began scouting real estate opportunities in Costa Rica.
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A lawyer by training, Frank was undeterred by his complete lack of background in international development.
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This is such a common thread in the Biden story, isn't it?
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It's people doing things overseas with no experience and no prospect for success.
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Right. Because they're Americans, they have the can-do Biden spirit.
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When you open up your lunchbox, you're like, I got a Frank in there.
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Well, actually, no, he doesn't get the job done, but he's in there swinging.
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Shortly after the new administration took office, Frank Biden began scouting real estate opportunities in Costa Rica.
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Uh, Schweitzer notes, despite the professional and personal handicaps, business opportunities somehow were plentiful, plentiful for Frank, especially after his brother paid a visit to the country.
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Just months after Vice President Joe Biden's visit in August, Costa Rica News announced a new multilateral partnership to reform real estate in Latin America.
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The head of this, Frank Biden, and a developer named Craig Williamson.
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Uh, they, they have a newly planned resort is what it said.
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The venture officially sold to investors as, uh, and the public as an opportunity to protect Costa Rica's breathtaking beauty amounted to a little more than decimating the country's natural wilderness to build a luxurious resort for wealthy foreigners.
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In real terms, Frank's dream was to build in the jungles of Costa Rica, thousands of homes, a world-class golf course, casinos, and an anti-aging center.
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The Costa Rica government was, uh, eager to cooperate with the vice president's brother.
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His business that he just started in this development, his first thing, his business only benefited from, uh, $54 million of your tax money.
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So, I don't know what anybody is really having a problem with.
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And, you know, a lot of times you're going to give loans to people who have no experience in the industry that they're jumping into.
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So he did the, you know, golf course thing and that failed.
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But then he got right back up at the plate and he's like, you know what Jamaica needs?
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And, uh, I'm sure somebody in his life went, Frank, you know, you don't know anything about solar power.
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And they're like, yeah, but you didn't know anything about the Costa Rica golf course development and lost all of that guaranteed money from the U.S. taxpayers.
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Uh, and I don't know if you're a really good bet.
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I mean, somehow or another, you talked me into it because I really believed in you that you were going to make this and we were going to pay these American taxpayers back and you failed to do that.
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I don't know if solar power is the right way to go.
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Somehow or another, Frank convinced his brother for another $6.5 million in taxpayer-backed loans.
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And we all know how that solar company is doing today.
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Uh, but it was, it was only in the end, it was only a $47.5 million loan.
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I want to know, cause you just kind of described an extensive vetting process for these projects.
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Um, do you really think that much vetting went on?
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Cause we know with Hunter Biden, what the only vetting that went on was, I hope you know
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Well, that's because there's one question that Joe Biden asked Hunter Biden.
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That's because he didn't feel he had to, because I hope you know what you're doing.
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You seen your, your uncle Frank, you know what I mean?
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Uh, and, uh, and I hope you know what you're doing.
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Cause look at your washed out, you know, probably on the road to be an alcoholic, you know, uh,
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Who's just lost $54 million of taxpayer money right into his book.
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Is Frank's history as, um, problematic as a Hunter's history is though?
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I don't know if he's ever knocked up a hooker while he was with his, uh, brother's widow
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I don't know if that runs in the family that close, but seemingly wild success does.
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When, when I say success, I mean, they walk out with a lot of money, right?
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Of course the businesses fail, the important things, right?
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So it's good that all the, the Biden family is doing so well.
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It's the day, you know, they're going to have, we're going to get to hear a lot about voting on amendments to see what kind of evidence can be put into the trial.
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And then tomorrow, they're going to start talking, they're going to start the trial, supposedly, and they're going to do two sessions of 12 hours.
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And so they're going to end every night at like 1 a.m.
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Yeah, why start, you know, why start when people are awake?
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Well, this is the complaint of the Democrats who claim that the reason they're doing it this way is to bury much of the evidence after everyone's asleep, which I don't know.
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I mean, the arguments are going to go on long into the evening, and most people probably aren't going to tune into them.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't find it to be all that interesting.
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I mean, look, this is a blatantly partisan thing.
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And the founders were smart enough to set the bar high enough in the Senate that it was almost impossible to get a conviction.
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I mean, there's never been one in U.S. history.
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So we make a big deal about impeachment because it's generally speaking rare.
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To get 50% of the House to vote on something is no big parlor trick.
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Look, let me give you the most compelling argument to pay attention to this as possible.
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Okay, so let me give you the comparison in real life.
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We don't know how long your grandma's going to be with us.
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Because she might not be with us very much longer.
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We don't know how much longer this republic is going to last.
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You should be there when it takes its last gasps.
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Yeah, and if we make it through, hey, you saw a bit of history.
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In fact, no one has ever seen the American Republic act like this before.
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I mean, the founders talked about this as being eventually it will be a partisan process and it will go through this.
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But that's why there's 67 votes needed in the Senate.
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I mean, listen to Chuck Schumer talk about this.
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I mean, Schumer's like, look, eventually if you go after Bill Clinton, the Democrats are going to come back and just do this for pure partisan reasons.
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Remember, the vast right-wing conspiracy took hold because they've been after this President Bill Clinton since even before he was elected.
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Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
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So, Pat, so the rally yesterday, the piles of dead bodies.
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Here's the montage of what the press said about this rally and what was coming to Virginia.
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Right now, thousands of gun rights activists, white nationalists, militia groups all swarming the Virginia state capitol.
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There are a lot of people nervous about what's going to happen.
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Several hate groups, supposedly some white nationalists.
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This entire rally stands in opposition to the meaning of this day.
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How concerned are you that there might be some people in this crowd that may want to get violent?
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There is real concern there about what the intention is behind this.
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There's a lot of concern about the potential for violence.
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Tensions high in Virginia may cause violence there.
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Northam clearly trying to avoid another Charlottesville.
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Could see a repeat of what we saw in 2017 in Charlottesville.
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Men walk through the Capitol in Virginia carrying weapons of war.
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Look, those threats which caused the governor to call for a state of emergency have simply not emerged.
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The police very clear in saying that they have not had a single arrest during this rally.
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But then at the end, they did do that one report where they're like, hey.
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You know what's crazy is the reports were not a single arrest.
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The police were not out in force because I think the police knew.
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White supremacists brought trash bags and cleaned up after themselves.
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That's just like those Nazis to try to trick you into thinking that they're not litterbugs.
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I was shocked at the number of Nazi armbands yesterday.
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And then when Adolf Hitler got up and he started, I thought the guy was dead.
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They all pretend like they all say, oh, I was against the Nazis.
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And so they're denying all of that stuff every single day.
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So these Nazis had guns, even though they don't appear to be Nazis, they speak out against
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Their silence, their silence, their silent support of Nazis.
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That's where the media basically is at this point.
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Everybody knows that dog whistle that they blew yesterday.
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And I will say, it was nice to see the media a year after the Covington incident really
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They're not going to hype things that aren't real.
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In fact, you'll have to pay millions of dollars in lawsuits.
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And who was the one that came out immediately and went, hey, these weren't all your races.
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That's a nice little explanation for why they would have done that.
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I feel like it's more like enter Sandman when CNN's looking at it.
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This is, I mean, it is a pretty amazing development.
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I mean, a year ago, here they are trashing this kid who's standing in his place.
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And it was just, I will say, the Washington Post was worse than CNN.
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There were a couple of organizations that actually went further than CNN.
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The ones that didn't say a thing during that whole Sandman thing.
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They were like pretending like, hey, I don't think this is fair.
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Invisible Nazis have got to be one of the worst things in the world.
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Because you wouldn't even know they were there.
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The concentration camps that these people are not building right now.
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That's worse than actual building Nazi concentration camps.
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Because that just means they're due to build more Nazi concentration camps.
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Do you believe all those people who were armed to the teeth?
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And it shows that, gosh, you could actually have a gun and not shoot somebody with it.
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You could have a weapon of war, a .50 caliber machine gun.
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But, well, the good news is they don't have to cover this.
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Now they can move right on to the impeachment trial.
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These just radical extremists that are trying to take the country back.
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They're trying to take it back from the orange man.
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There's nothing worse than an orange man in a White House.
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Now, do you think the Senate will vote to do the witnesses?
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I do think that there's a chance that they vote yes.
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Romney's not even the one they're talking about.
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They're talking about Murkowski and Collins and Amar Alexander.
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If you don't have Romney in that, I don't think he's been saying he's going to.
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Other than just generally speaking, Romney speak.
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He has not been outspoken and saying, I'm going to.
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Because he sold us out and then sold himself out on top of it.
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I want to show you that what we're seeing is, yes, it is a comedy TV show.
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What we're seeing happening on the Democratic side is a comedy TV show.
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This is a internal video from the New York Times editorial board with Bernie Sanders speaking
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to the editorial board on why they should endorse him, because this is who he is.
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And I come from a different background than a lot of other people who run the country.
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If you have your birthday, I'm not going to call you up to congratulate you so you love
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And I take that as a little bit of a criticism, self-criticism.
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I've been amazed at how many people respond to, happy birthday, oh, Bernie, thanks so much
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You know, I try to stay focused on the important issues facing working families in this country.
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I want you to play that audio again, and Sarah, watch for my cue on when to start it, and it'll
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Look, I don't tolerate bulls**t terribly well, and I come from a different background
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than a lot of other people who run the country.
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If you have your birthday, I'm not going to call you up to congratulate you so you love
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And I take that as a little bit of a criticism, self-criticism.
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I've been amazed at how many people respond to, happy birthday, oh, Bernie, thanks so much
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You can't write that unless you're Larry David.
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And he's just as, like, frustrated and miserable.
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They want somebody who speaks to the American people, just says it like it is, their version
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They want their own Donald Trump that can box people out, you know, punch them in the
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face, get them to shut up and sit down, that can wield power like Donald Trump does.
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So let's look, as I was looking at the Democratic field the other day, and I started thinking,
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How can we possibly relate to the people that are on the, you know, on the stage?
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So I thought, what is it that they are actually, what is it that they're actually looking for?
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They have Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Michael
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Bloomberg, also still in the race, Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer.
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Well, you're forgetting about Michael Bennett, Tulsi Gabbard, John Delaney, and Deval Patrick.
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But let's just take, let's just take the ones that they have.
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What they're doing is what the Republicans were doing in 2016.
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There was a chance to have a new party and a new direction.
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And if you look at all of the players here, you will see that the same players just on the opposite side were in 2016, except for one.
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If he was Jeb Bush's age, he might have a chance, but he's the same guy.
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Bernie Sanders, they hope, in some ways, is Donald Trump, because they're just looking for somebody that can beat him.
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But he's more Ron Paul, because he had that big following that only cared about Ron Paul.
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In fact, they wanted to burn the rest of the situation down.
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You know, the party can go burn itself to the ground.
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And because they're ideologues, they just have, you know, Mao's little red book.
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Elizabeth Warren, like Ron Paul, was too extreme for some people.
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But they like the fact that he was constitutional and, you know, he believed in all of these things, yada, yada, yada.
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You wanted somebody that was more, you know, wonky or, you know, just could operate in the system without burning it down.
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Like you're casting the movie of the Republican primary with the Democratic candidates.
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Because they kind of have, there's an equivalence.
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And they're certainly ideologically on the opposite ends.
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But Ted Cruz was Ron Paul, except he wasn't going to burn the system down.
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I'm not really comfortable, but I think he's kind of like Marco Rubio.
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But you look at him, he's like, ah, he should win.
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Now, I kind of thought Rubio could be Kamala Harris.
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Buttigieg is the closest thing I think you have to Rubio.
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And I don't think I have, I don't have anybody clear cut for Buttigieg.
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You know, may not, everybody on the other side is not going to agree with.
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But somewhat palatable to the other side at times.
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And somebody who's just like, can we just talk facts and figures here for just a second?
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Can we just be rational human beings for a minute?
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Kind of like a John Kasich, where you're kind of like, eh.
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But I went back and forth with John Kasich, because I think, in a way, it could be Tulsi Gabbard.
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Because they perceive her the way we perceive John Kasich.
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But Kasich was much more of a party, you know, figure.
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Yeah, because Klobuchar, too, is one that occasionally seems palatable to the other side,
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You know, Kasich was the one candidate that the Democrats would say they wanted out of
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And probably Republicans might say the same thing about Klobuchar.
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I mean, we talked to Mike Lee when he was in here.
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And we said, hey, what do you think, who is, of the Democrats that are running that you
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work with, who is the closest to the Constitution?
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Gabbard is, I think, likable in different ways in that she's standing up against the Democrats.
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I think that's the main reason people like her.
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Her policies are just not even remotely close to what a Republican would want.
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There are some people on the right who are like her anti-intervention sort of policies.
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So there's some alignment there, which there's not really any alignment.
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See, this is not fair to say, you know, oh, well, who's the closest to the Constitution
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You know, that's like having me, Tim Tebow, and a wino.
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I don't know, probably Tebow because he's in shape.
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But I think the idea is that occasionally, Klobuchar could, in theory, say something
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That's the only standard we're talking about here.
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And I think the left would say the same thing about Kasich, right?
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Kasich was a very boring, generic Republican that would say things that kind of felt good
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to the mainstream media, which is why he was the nice guy, right?
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And they do say that about Klobuchar when she's not, you know, pelting employees with
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As long as you don't work for her, she's very nice.
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And as warm as those winters, she's grown accustomed to.
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Yeah, because he's totally kind of from out of the, not a normal Republican, right?
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He came from a totally different background as Gabbard did.
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And I think, didn't he have some strange background or uncommon background?
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They both kind of had a little bit of attention, but never really made a serious run.
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Now, Tom Steyer, I put into the category of Chris Christie, if power was money in his state,
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you know, and if, because the only difference, Aaron, this one feels like a reach to me.
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You know, no matter what they act like, you know in your heart, there's a lot of corruption
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So you look at Chris Christie, and you might be like, ah, it's funny, and look at the fat
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And you know there's a little corruption going on there, maybe a lot.
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He can write, you know, the little T's to remind him to tell the truth.
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Nobody has to draw a T on their hand to remind them to tell the truth.
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I wake up every day and write, don't be Satan, on the back of my hand, just to remind myself.
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I get up every morning after I remind her, don't be Satan.
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You don't, you know, unless you are Satan, I'm not Satan.
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He writes crosses on his hands, and then he lights them on fire.
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I mean, it's a little of a reach because Christie was, you know, a governor, and they're coming
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And both of them, you know, would close the bridge if they wanted to.
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I think Bloomberg's got a better chance of winning than George Pataki.
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Pataki might be a little more lovable, but they're the same kind of...
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Now, I cannot imagine, because I've watched others go through it.
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I mean, there is nothing that will talk you out of running for president faster than following
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somebody around the country who's running for president.
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Oh, it's not only just a hard life of, you know, waking up into cities you don't know
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where you're at and just nonstop over and over again.
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It's just so dishonest and dirty with the press and just awful.
00:38:17.540
I mean, just because you're going from city to city, but they're not like...
00:38:23.060
Like you're traveling back roads to little halls where you're talking to 40 people.
00:38:28.380
And you go and go and go, and you give the same speech over and over and over and over
00:38:35.200
If you mess up one little thing, it's all over the world.
00:38:42.880
You know, and you're going in and out of like every back room, and they've got like, you
00:38:47.320
know, three-day-old danishes, and that's what you're eating, and...
00:38:50.160
Yeah, there's nothing that will cure you from hotel food faster than going in the back
00:38:55.880
We do that all the time, and I can name the hotels that I still am comfortable eating at.
00:39:01.260
You walk through the back kitchens and the back hallways, and they are nasty.
00:39:07.240
And I will say a lot of these people are used to the kind of a nice life, right?
00:39:13.180
Remember, we stayed at the place where they had the pancake printer.
00:39:18.580
You just press a button and a pancake popped out.
00:39:26.140
It was a Holiday Inn Express, if I'm not really sure.
00:39:28.720
And legitimately, you just press the button, and in about 40 seconds, a pancake popped
00:39:42.040
So, it's a different life from these, you know, politicians that are used to nice hotels in
00:39:47.460
Washington, D.C., and they're traveling all over the country getting nice speeches and
00:39:52.660
You know, one thing I did notice that while you're on campaign is you do get to see America.
00:40:01.160
You know, that's the one thing that the Electoral College ensures.
00:40:08.800
They have to go out to places and spend a lot of time with people who would never be in their
00:40:18.440
Do you ever see Hillary Clinton at any state fair?
00:40:26.440
I don't think she'd allow her private jet to fly over one.
00:40:32.500
So, it requires them, because of the Electoral College, to go into places where they would
00:40:39.080
never, ever go and really have to spend time living the life that they live.
00:40:50.260
But it's not something that if I have Michael Bloomberg money, I'm interested in participating
00:41:04.520
You remember when a billion dollars meant something?
00:41:10.760
But he is, and by the way, his ad spending has taken a nosedive the last few days.
00:41:17.780
People are starting to wonder whether Steyer's decided, eh, maybe this is not going to happen.
00:41:23.060
You know, maybe my money is not going to be able to buy this election, which of course
00:41:26.260
is what conservatives have been saying forever.
00:41:29.760
Plus, he's out, he's totally outshined by Bloomberg anyway, on that front.
00:41:36.520
But Steyer's been actually going to these early states and trying to campaign, and that's
00:41:41.040
not something, even if I have Tom Steyer money that I'm interested in.
00:41:44.420
Now, if I've got Bloomberg money, there's no way I'm doing it.
00:41:48.220
Well, one way to get Bloomberg money is to be the president of the United States.
00:41:52.360
As soon as you're president of the United States, except for Donald Trump, you watch.
00:41:57.420
Donald Trump's not going to be out making all these speeches and, you know, giving all
00:42:09.440
I mean, look, do you remember when the Obamas were like, we still have student debt?
00:42:14.700
And then they're like, they just bought an 11 or $15 million house on Martha's Vineyard
00:42:23.360
Netflix is like, here, take a billion dollars to make documentaries or whatever they're doing
00:42:33.720
With Bloomberg money, though, you don't have to care about that.
00:42:36.200
You don't care what your life is like afterwards.
00:42:41.580
He's the ninth richest man in the world already.
00:42:45.300
That's a different level than even a Tom Steyer, right?
00:42:50.400
All of a sudden, you wake up and you find out that you're related to Michael Bloomberg.
00:42:53.760
He just died of, you know, SARS or whatever, that Chinese thing.
00:43:01.920
I don't know how the Chinese keep getting sick.
00:43:07.280
There's a chicken and an egg issue here you might want to consider.
00:43:09.960
It's like, you're all wearing surgical masks all the time.
00:43:18.600
But anyway, you know, what do you do if you are, if he dies, he's your rich uncle, you're the only relative to Michael Bloomberg, and he's left you $54 billion.
00:43:32.060
You don't even call me to say I'm not coming in.
00:43:37.520
You never, I mean, you might see my face on television if I get unlucky.
00:43:49.440
Until you actually got the money, you would be coming in every day and you wouldn't tell a soul.
00:44:12.500
I mean, maybe I'd give you a call just to kind of laugh, you know.
00:44:30.420
Now, of course, my first call would not be to you or my wife or anybody else, but Jeffrey
00:44:35.360
And, of course, that would be immediately purchased for any price.
00:44:39.260
So I'm probably out about – I mean, it's valued at $3 billion.
00:44:46.840
He could sell to anybody for $3 billion, and he's not selling it.
00:44:50.540
But don't you have to go through the NFL thing?
00:44:55.880
They would hate you because you were – aren't you the guy who worked with Glenn Beck?
00:45:04.600
I'll spend a billion erasing you from the planet so no one knows I ever knew you.
00:45:15.340
There's a new apartment building where my radio studio was.
00:45:18.340
But, yeah, I mean, so if you own something that's worth $3 billion and you can sell it at any time, like, you have nice things, right?
00:45:27.260
You could sell those things for whatever their market value is.
00:45:30.460
You don't do that because you're valuing that thing more than the market does, right?
00:45:37.280
So, how much are you willing to pay for the Philadelphia Eagles?
00:45:39.440
Out of $54 billion, how much are you willing to give up?
00:45:43.800
Let's just say you're going to negotiate, but what is – what's it worth?
00:45:50.400
So, never pay more, not than what it's worth, never pay more than what it's worth and what it's worth to you.
00:46:01.640
I think he meant that that number should always be lower.
00:46:06.960
Because I think it's – certain things I would value more than others, right?
00:46:11.040
So, I would value the Philadelphia Eagles certainly more than almost anyone.
00:46:14.500
But he was talking about – he was talking about business.
00:46:18.660
Like, I asked him one time, when does a Gulfstream jet ever make sense economically?
00:46:32.640
Because my time with my family is more valuable than the money.
00:46:39.540
Like, I mean, there's never a way of – a vacation is worth paying for it.
00:46:50.560
So, you're buying a $2, $4, $6, $8 billion experience with the Eagles?
00:46:56.140
Well, first of all, it's going to generate lots of revenue.
00:47:00.660
I mean, you start getting north of $10 billion, I start getting a little nervous probably.
00:47:06.700
Don't tell Jeffrey Lurie this because if I do get the $54 billion, he's going to have a very good negotiating position.
00:47:18.440
I mean, first of all, I only need to get 51% of it.
00:47:21.180
So, I mean, I might even be able to – I might even be able to skimp a little.
00:47:24.100
I can't think of anything that I would pay a billion dollars for that would mean so much to me that I would – I mean, I would start – like, for instance, I could see myself starting a town, going out someplace, doing what Walt Disney did, what he tried to do with Epcot,
00:47:40.420
and say, Nevada, I want this property, and it's mine.
00:47:45.720
I can build whatever – none of your little rules, I'm going to build a capitalist, John Galt kind of town.
00:47:56.700
I could do that, but I can't think of a thing or an entity that I would want.
00:48:01.700
You wouldn't buy, you know, some Disney property that you want or –
00:48:07.940
They would never sell it to me, and it would be much more than $54 billion.
00:48:13.660
Maybe the Space Needle, only just to spite all of the people in Seattle that are crazy.
00:48:23.300
They could – as long as I keep the elevator up at the top, they could never grapple up.
00:48:31.220
I'd put Crisco on the legs of the Space Needle.
00:48:38.560
And then I electrify the roof, and I electrify the little thing that goes around the Space Needle.
00:48:43.800
So if you're trying to skydive in, you're trying to – and you have to look at me all the time.
00:48:50.760
I'm in every picture you want because I have the Space Needle.
00:48:56.580
And so I'm there every time just pissing you off and maybe pissing on you from time to time.
00:49:06.820
Or is Acton Beck pissing on us from the Space Needle, which he just bought?
00:49:14.580
American Financing, NMLS, 1-8-2-3-3-4, www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org.
00:49:22.020
I like that idea so much I might – we should call American Financing.
00:49:25.980
How much down do I – how much down do I need to buy the Space Needle?
00:49:32.840
What kind of rate can I get on a $10 billion loan?
00:49:36.460
Now, there's no way for me to pay that back unless somehow or another I'm related to Michael Bloomberg and his only relative, and he decides to leave it to me.
00:49:45.120
And he inexplicably has SARS, which is a really weird thing for him to get today.
00:49:53.600
I think it was one of those viruses that was going around China for a while, wasn't it?
00:49:59.480
When I said it, I'm like, oh, God, I hope that wasn't one of those really bad –
00:50:03.440
It was pretty scary for – it was like the swine flu, remember, for like one year everyone was freaked out about it?
00:50:29.480
Do you remember when AIDS was first coming on the scene and there was a product called the AIDS Diet Plan?
00:50:44.480
And I remember when you saw AIDS and everybody was losing weight and they were just – it was just a horrible death.
00:50:50.960
I just remember thinking those people in that company are just like, good God, you couldn't have called it Butterfinger?
00:51:03.220
Definitely a secondary tragedy of the virus, but it was sad.
00:51:18.000
That would have been – see, that's my kind of investment.
00:51:20.860
I'd be like, just before AIDS was – I'd say, billion dollars.
00:51:25.260
This AIDS Diet Company, they got a bright, bright future.
00:51:31.100
They would announce the, you know, the actual disease of the same name.
00:52:02.020
I don't know if we could do this every day or maybe even more than once a year,
00:52:14.080
It might be every – you know, we'll find one and we save it for the presidential election years.
00:52:28.740
They make you go, you know, not everybody sucks.
00:52:45.940
Anyway, he purchased at the Habitat for Humanity Restore, he purchased a couch and an ottoman.
00:52:53.540
And he brought it home and it was just for his man cave and he was sitting in it and he was like really uncomfortable.
00:52:58.500
And he was, you know, saying, geez, man, this is – the ottoman is just really uncomfortable.
00:53:10.120
And so she found a zipper on it and she unzipped it and inside they discovered stacks of hundred dollar bills.
00:53:20.740
Now, it's not Michael Bloomberg money, but it's sweet money.
00:53:24.800
Now, I want to ask – remember, the name of this is Not All People Suck, but we know that most do.
00:53:32.280
So the first stop on the most do train is if you found $43,170 in a couch you just bought, possession nine-tenths of the law, this was a –
00:53:57.900
They supposedly went over it, you know, make sure it was good and they sold it to me.
00:54:15.800
Pocket the $43,000, but I think I'd probably get tempted and then eventually make a call to the place I bought it and say, hey.
00:54:22.420
Oh, see, I would be tempted to pocket the $43,000, but then I'd know I'd blow it all quickly, so I would actually make the call and set up a time to bring it to the bank.
00:54:37.480
I think I would be really tempted, but I couldn't live with myself.
00:54:45.800
Because, yeah, you'd wonder what the story was.
00:54:47.520
I will say I would definitely exploit it for the most attention and positive.
00:54:59.720
I want everybody to look at me, look at me, look at me.
00:55:03.360
I would change my license plate to look at me after doing this because I'd want everyone to know what a great person I was, and I would do it just for personal gain.
00:55:12.100
At the end of the day, I might as well just keep the money.
00:55:13.840
I might just have my personal campaign would be who's better than me, and my license plate would just read, not you.
00:55:29.880
So Kirby buys this couch from this secondhand Habitat for Humanity thing, and you know the guys that are working there, they're getting rich.
00:55:43.500
He calls up and says, hey, you know that couch you sold me?
00:55:54.160
Now, you're working at the Habitat for Humanity place, and you know that most people suck, and you don't really see a future.
00:56:04.960
You know, you're working, selling used couches.
00:56:08.100
So what, second question, what do you do when somebody calls and says, hey, I have this $43,000, do you know who it belongs to?
00:56:18.620
Because you're opening up my mind to a lot of possibilities.
00:56:26.780
I will deliver it to the person, which, because I am only saying that because I know you're going to start a campaign of who's better than me, and your license plate is going to be not you.
00:56:36.900
So there's also, and we should explore this a little bit, too.
00:56:39.700
There's the thought that you call up the Habitat for Humanity, and you say, hey, I found an ottoman with $36,400 in it.
00:56:48.400
So Kirby passes two tests for people that don't suck.
00:56:51.460
Because he could easily have just said a lower number.
00:56:53.480
Although we could say there could have been a $50,000 in there, and he was only saying $41,000, so we don't know for sure.
00:57:02.120
And then the Habitat for Humanity person, I guess if you're working at Habitat for Humanity, you're probably more likely to be a good person.
00:57:11.720
You know, and then Habitat for Humanity is like, we've got to have somebody.
00:57:24.220
Okay, so the Habitat for Humanity person could have easily said, though, I know who it is.
00:57:43.040
And he said, was there anything in that couch of yours?
00:57:51.880
I think maybe there's a, I don't know, a dead heroin addict that, you know, was stuffed into the couch that I didn't know of.
00:58:01.700
You know, there's SARS, which just killed Michael Bloomberg, apparently.
00:58:06.260
And he left all of his money to some radio guy.
00:58:09.980
So I don't, you know, I'm thinking, wow, what's wrong?
00:58:13.460
I should train myself to think money might be in that couch.
00:58:20.340
Anybody says, hey, you know that chair or that couch or that picture frame that you sold me?
00:58:32.700
It was given to me by my great, great, great grandmother.
00:58:49.060
So let's just keep that in case some, in case anybody finds money or the Declaration of Independence.
00:58:54.520
It's behind something that you sold at a garage sale.
00:58:57.760
Just, they call and say, hey, what did you know about that?
00:59:16.820
If you didn't find it, I don't think we should talk about it.
00:59:24.520
When they call her, now she's the third person.
00:59:27.920
And she's like, well, that was my father's couch.
00:59:40.680
So all the way down the line, you go, well, that guy's dead.
00:59:47.660
They returned the $43,000 to the original woman.
00:59:53.180
He apparently was like, I don't trust the banks, which I agree with.
00:59:57.960
But I tell my children where the money is before I kick it.
01:00:02.380
And so apparently he put all of his money into the couch.
01:00:10.160
Either that or this story has a really bad ending that he was some like mob guy and he was keeping drug money in the couch.
01:00:18.500
Again, this title is not everyone doesn't suck.
01:00:26.040
First of all, if you're the daughter and you've donated this to Habitat for Humanity, isn't the right thing to do to donate the money to Habitat for Humanity?
01:00:51.600
And, you know, we wouldn't have helped you if you found, you know, SARS in it with a dead junkie.
01:01:04.920
Because the way this should end is they split it three ways.
01:01:09.240
Where, like, the guy who tuned it in gets a nice reward.
01:01:14.100
And the person who didn't even know she had the money gets a big chunk of extra money.
01:01:17.760
That's exactly what Solomon would say to those three.
01:01:27.020
And that's when somebody like me says, Solomon, no, no, no.
01:01:30.560
Guys, the right thing to do is give the money to me.
01:01:52.220
And I'm going to spend half of the money advertising what a horrible person he was.
01:01:55.660
So this is, depending on if you count me or not, this is three out of four or three out of five people aren't all bad.