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For the first time, we have the truth about what's going on on the ground in Ukraine. Things don't seem to be going well for Russia. So what is their plan? That and so much more on today's show with Glenn Beck.
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Hey, great show for you today. We talk a little bit about what's really going on on the ground
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in Ukraine. For the first time, I feel like we have the truth because it's hard to tell
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what's propaganda and what's not. Things don't seem to be going well for Russia. So what is
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I have hesitated on telling you what things are what's actually going on down on the ground
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in Ukraine. We didn't really talk about that last week because I'm not sure who to believe. I think
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our press is so skewed and I know the Russians so skewed. So what is the truth? Well, we have
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Jason Buttrell with us who has some sources on the ground of Ukraine, mainly because we've done so
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much work on Ukraine in the in the last couple of in the last couple of years that we we know some
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people and he's got also some other contacts as well. Tell me what's going on, Jason.
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Fairly catastrophic. I won't say catastrophic. It was a very bad weekend for the Russian military
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and it's been a just a bad invasion period. A lot of the reports that you hit on it is you can't
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trust a lot of the stuff you see from both sides. Both sides. Good or bad. But all evidence now is
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showing that Russia probably expected this to be a 72 hour time frame. The initial troops that Russia
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sent in, there were paratroopers, which are basically glorified riot police. And that fits along.
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And they were decimated. Most of them were decimated on entering into the country. I don't have actual
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casualty counts on either side. Right. Because they're so widely, you know, wildly skewed on both
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sides. Probably look at what each side is saying and then take a middle number and that's probably
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what it was. But even that number is not good for Russia. But a lot of the equipment that's getting
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either destroyed or captured, they also have riot equipment like shields, batons, stuff like that.
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So Russia clearly thought this was, hey, three days maximum will go in. The population will
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capitulate or turn to us. And this will turn into more of an occupation without firing many shots.
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Very wrong. Multiple aircraft were shot down this weekend. That just caps off, you know, over the past,
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you know, week and a half. Several aircraft, helicopters, fixed wing aircraft have been shot
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down on the Russian side. For the most part, their operations are stalling on the ground because they
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don't have the logistical capability at the moment to take care of anything. They don't have fuel,
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they don't have food, water, things like that are very scarce on the ground, which shows that they
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were just completely unprepared. This is not a good invasion, which, you know, you might want to say,
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okay, that's a great thing. But if you look at Russian strategy, if you look at Aleppo, the siege of
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Aleppo, if you look at the siege of Grozny during the second, you know, Chechen war, when these things
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stall, they move to severe bombing, indiscriminate bombing, cluster bombing of big population.
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They've been doing, we think, the cluster bombing in the cities already. They were doing that last
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week, which you don't do. That's, isn't that against the Geneva Convention?
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Yes, but the Russians do it, and they get away with it.
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So now they, the news is this morning that they have circled all of these cities or a lot of the
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big cities in Ukraine. That is what they do right before they just start just bombing the snot out of
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cities, isn't it? Yeah. Historically speaking. Yes. And then, and they haven't really completed
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encircling many of these. It appears that way. And a lot of people have reported and showing these
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large clusters of Ukraine that are under Russian control. And that's not entirely the truth from
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what I'm seeing. Russia has pushed further, pushed into Ukraine. They're on major roadways,
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but they're not really occupying the surrounding territory. For one of the reasons right now is
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it's very, very, this is, you know, rainy. It's very muddy. It's very, it's hard to move some of
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these vehicles across this land. Again, it doesn't seem like they were prepared for that, the Russians.
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Um, so even the territory that they have, it's not exactly what I would call an occupation. You
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know, it's like, they're not really occupying those areas. We're seeing the Russians move now
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in force really. And, and having to have some sort of, uh, offense and defense, they don't seem very
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impressive. Oh no. Um, most of them appear, they don't seem like a professional soldiers to me. Right.
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I mean, what, what, I mean, what happened to the mighty Soviet army? Right. I mean, it almost seems
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like MacArthur was right. If it's, if this is what, if this is the capability we should just gone
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through and then gotten, gotten this over with from the beginning right after World War II. Russia
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hasn't fought a war like this. Um, if you look at the United States, we've been fighting a war like
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this for over 20 years. Um, and it's very complicated. Combined arms, when you combine artillery,
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troops on the ground, you know, aircraft in the air, it's complicated. Uh, the United States military
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is the best in the world at it. Um, so I don't know if they just expected, Hey, we'll just adopt
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these tactics and go in and it'll be done. Um, but clearly this is the evidence that they're not
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very capable at this kind of warfare. So what does this mean? What do you think that you put Putin
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into a corner? What do you think that means? Yeah. Um, not good for the people of Ukraine. Um,
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what you're looking at is if you want to compare it to what it's going to look at, look at what they
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did in Aleppo, look at what they did. The world will stand for that. I, I, yes, because, you know,
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they say, well, what about Syria? Syria, it is nothing about race or anything else. It is about
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the Middle East has always been on fire. It's, it's a dumpster fire and you never know how to help or
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if it will help. You're always on the wrong side. I mean, it's, that's why America didn't look at
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Syria. America barely looked at, uh, at the, the Christians in the area, you know, I mean,
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we just didn't do anything to help the Christians in the area. So it's not because of a religion or a
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race. It's because it's a dumpster fire. Yeah. This has been a stable Westernized country,
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completely corrupt, but a stable Westernized country. So yeah, we are looking at it. And I
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don't think that the, the world will stand for him just shelling shit cities. No, we were talking
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off air, Stu, you mentioned that, you know, where's the Russian air force been on this? And
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I think a big reason why he hasn't probably bombed, uh, the heck out of some of these cities
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with his massive air force is because the world will not stand for this happening to, you know,
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a more Western, uh, European country. Uh, when he just unleashes, like he did in Aleppo or Grozny,
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uh, when cluster bombs are hitting Kyiv, that's when the world is going to be like, okay,
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you've gone far enough. The question then is how far does the West get involved here?
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Which gets scary. Let me, uh, let me play cut to this over the weekend. This is, um, uh, Blinken.
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What more can the United States do here? If for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member
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wants to send fighter jets, does that get a green light from the U S or are you afraid that that will
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escalate tension? No, that, that, that gets a green light. In fact, we're talking, uh, with, uh,
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our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill, uh, their needs. If
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in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to, to the Ukrainians, uh, what could we do? How
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can we help to make sure that, uh, they get something to backfill the planes that they're
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handing over to, to the Ukrainians? We're in very active discussions with them about that. Look,
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I've been in, in, in Europe for the last couple of days working closely as always with our allies
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and partners at NATO, uh, the European union, uh, the G seven countries, and all of us together
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are continuing to take steps to increase the pressure, uh, on Russia through, uh, additional
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sanctions, all of which are very actively under discussion and will be implemented in the, uh,
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in the coming days, as well as, uh, taking further steps to give the Ukrainians, um, what they need to
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defend themselves against the Russian aggression. Okay. So this seems like a good thing.
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Explain how scary that is. Well, NATO supplied fighter jets that, that, that's kind of another
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level right there. Um, coming from Poland, they are, uh, old, I think it was mid mid 29s that
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they're considering remember in top gun and mid 28s. That was like, that was in the eighties.
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Um, so, um, but yeah, so, but this is still an escalation and it's got the earmarks of your
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typical cold war, you know, battle, whether it's the U S and Vietnam, the Chinese and the
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Soviets wouldn't get involved, but they would supply Russians to the Vietnamese. Um, very
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similar North Korea, same thing. Um, this is how, and, and, and, and Afghanistan went that
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one out too. Um, but this is a major regression and it's got all the, you know, the, the symptoms
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or, or the, uh, you know, the same things that happened during the cold war. Now, the question
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now is, um, you know, like during Vietnam, we knew this was going on. United States wasn't
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on the verge of collapse, how Russia can't sustain this, right? They, they cannot, um,
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continue to let all these, uh, weapons go into Ukraine, embarrassing Putin while at the
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same time, uh, you know, an economic, uh, you know, WMD is now being unleashed on Russia.
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So he's going to have civil, um, problems. These people are going to rise up. We're not going
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to see that probably because tick tock, you know, all these Russian media outlets, Facebook,
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Twitter are now shut off in Russia, which is a tragedy really. Um, but we're not going
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to see how they're reacting, but they're not going to react well.
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So visa and MasterCard over the weekend said, they're not going to process anything in Russia,
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which Russia immediately turned to China and they said, fine, we'll, we'll use their, you
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know, visa or MasterCard. Um, but this is targeting the civilians, which we've, we've never,
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ever, ever, ever, ever done before. It was sanctions. We always say we are targeting the
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regime. We're targeting the country. We don't target the individuals. My understanding too,
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is that the cards will work. Russian issued visas will work inside of Russia. So they can
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still buy basic supplies with these cards. They just can't buy anything international.
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So it is, it's remarkable, uh, to me that nobody is noticing the number of companies that are
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involved in this. This has never been seen before. And everybody is saying this is great and screaming
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for, you know, the oil to be shut off from, uh, from, uh, Russia. But could I just point out,
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we don't have the oil. If we want it to shut off, we need to say, open up our own oil and gas
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resources. We can't afford to shut this off. Well, it's only 10%. Okay. You want another 10% on top?
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This is, this is death for the United States. We are right now negotiating with Iran and Venezuela.
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Amazing. Why would we enrich those two countries? Look, I, I know the global warming bull crap. I know
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all of these people are like, Oh, well, the planet's going to die. Well, you know what?
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I know the radicals, the real radicals believe that we should just, we need to shut down more than
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we did at COVID-19. That's death for millions of people all around the world. Literally that will
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mean millions will die all around the world. We cannot shut down all of our fossil fuels at this
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point. Can't do it. I would understand if the president who disagrees with me came out and said,
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look for the next nine months or however long this thing drags on, we are going to open our pipelines.
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We are going to, uh, fund our, uh, you know, the exons of the world. We are going to start going back
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and taking the natural gas out and shipping it. We're doing it because we have to, or we'll kill
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the nation. Now I'm going back and I'm shutting it all off again in whenever nine months, whatever it
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is, people would understand that reasonable people. The only people that wouldn't understand it are the
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Marxist that want to destroy us anyway. It makes no sense. None. Why would we be enriching Venezuela
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and Iran instead of taking care of business ourself? That should be the number one call.
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I want the oil to stop from Russia, but I want the oil to be replaced with American oil and gas
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period. All right. Friday, I was concerned Saturday when I got up because Friday, I was concerned
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because the state department said Americans should consider leaving Russia. Okay. All right.
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If I were in Russia, I'd probably go, you know what? I think it's about time. Uh, however, Saturday
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they said the state department said all Americans should immediately leave Russia. I don't know.
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That was kind of concerning because you don't just higgledy piggledy throw that one out. There's a lot
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of Americans working in Russia, right? Including WNBA players. Right. And you don't, you don't just say,
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Hey, by the way, you should leave right now and upend everybody's lives without real reason. That's
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usually the last thing that happens before a country goes to war. Then Saturday afternoon,
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they talked about, uh, reinstalling the red phone, the hotline. Now for those who didn't grow up in the,
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uh, in the time period I did, the hotline was there on the president's desk and the desk of whoever
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was running things in Moscow. So it's a direct line from Putin to Biden. So if something happens
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in the fog of war, before you launch, you call and say, was that a mistake? Or did you just escalate?
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Cause I got my finger on the button right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We did not mean
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to do that. That shooting down on that plane was a mistake. Okay. It's the last fail safe. It is the
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last line of defense before a nuclear missile launch. It's a little terrifying to say, you know what,
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get that old phone, get it out. Do we still have it? I think it's in the Smithsonian. You bring it in
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here. I mean, that's a little terrifying. Is it just me? So Jason, do you see this getting worse,
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better? You say that they, they weren't prepared for this. They're getting, they're having heavy
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losses. Blinken said there's very little sign of any kind of negotiations. So what, so what does it
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get worse or better from here? I wish I had the answer. I don't see it's definitely going to get
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worse. Uh, Putin cannot afford to look weak on the national stage or in his, you know,
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in his own country or, or, or abroad, especially in his own country. So he's going to push to get
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some kind of agreement where he's going to say, look, I can, I won, but then they, they also took
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a win there as well. I think that he'll still try and say, before I commence bombardment of these
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cities and pull a Grozny, um, this is what we want. And I think that they've, he's already kind of
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hinted that he wants them to change their constitution, which would probably say we
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will not join the EU. We will not, uh, join NATO, which they don't belong in either by the way.
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Um, so Ukraine definitely could, you know, capitulate on that. The probably the areas
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where they might not capitulate on is recognizing Crimea and Eastern Ukraine as a Russian or
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separate. You think he's going to stop with that though? I mean, this is with this attack,
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I, I, that's where I thought he was going initially, but you think he'd fall back to that
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position at this point? I think that I, I think that he'll have no choice. Eventually he can't
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occupy Ukraine, doesn't have the forces and his troops don't have the capability. Um, just seeing
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what I've seen, they probably don't also have the will. Yeah. What am I doing? Why am I here?
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Many of them didn't even know what they were doing. Yeah. All right. Back in just a second. Thank you so
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much, Jason. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for listening.
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We welcome, uh, Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed. Hello, Pat. Hello, Glenn. How are you?
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Ah, never perfect. Really? Pretty much perfect. Wow. That is amazing. And you'd think you running
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a company with cost of inflation, right? You know, driving to and fro work. Exactly. Yeah.
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And yet everything's perfect. Yeah. Huh. You haven't seen any impact on your cookie company.
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Oh, almost none. No, no, no, no. Ingredients are cheaper than ever. Yeah. Yeah. So I went to Costco
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on Friday night. That was our date night. That was our date night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, you know,
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I just went and I bought, bought lots of things, you know, and, um, it was fun. It actually turned out
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to kind of be fun. Uh, the guys who are checking out, uh, Tanya and I and all of the people in the line
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behind us were having a guessing game on how much is that going to cost because we got butter and
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meat, lots of butter and meat and, uh, and, uh, adjust butter and meat. No, no, no. We got a bunch
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of other things, but that was like, I mean, how do you, that's like gold. It's like gold now. I mean,
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picking up the meat, I'm like, honey, I, I mean, I'm starting to like vegetarianism. It is crazy.
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You know, she, we were at the cash register and it was like, is that a bug we could eat?
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Let's look at that bug over there on the floor. Uh, it is just, it's insane. Yeah. And the,
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the average person now, so I can't even say this. It's not an average person. The person who makes
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a hundred thousand dollars a year, the average $100,000 a year earner is now living paycheck to
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paycheck. Since seeing that's double what the average person and household makes, ah,
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you got some problems. Yeah. Yeah. You, uh, it might surprise you to know that butter goes into
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some of the cookies that we've, we make really. Yeah. It doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah. A lot
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of butter. Yeah. So yeah, the prices have gone through the roof. It's crazy through the roof. It is
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crazy. And you know, everything I've been thinking about, uh, you know, all of everybody that works
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here, uh, and thinking, you know, everybody is under stress. So how do you give everybody a raise
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for inflation? Well, then you'd have to raise the price of the blaze subscription and that hurts
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people. And then they have to get her. I mean, it's just, it's, it's the inflation spiral. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. And the good news is we do have some friends around the world that will help us out,
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right? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Iran, uh, is, is going to help us out really because we're trying to get
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rid of the, we're trying to ban the Russian oil. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's got to be replaced by
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something somewhere. Right. And we're not going to, we, for some reason we can't, we can't drill our
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own. Well, we can't figure that one out. Can't figure it out. Not since Trump anyway,
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Trump figured it out, but Biden can't. Yeah. And so we're turning to good, close, personal
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friends like Iran. Iran. So how's that negotiation going? It's going pretty well. According to one of
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the, the, uh, lead negotiator for the Iranians, he had, uh, he had good things to say about the
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negotiation. Really? Yeah, he did. Do we have it? Here it is. I think we do. Yeah. Iranian colleagues
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are fighting for Iranian nuclear, Iranian nuclear, national interests look like lions. Indeed. I'm very
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serious. They fight for every comma, every word. Every word. Uh, and as a rule, as a rule,
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quite successfully, quite successfully. I must recognize that. Uh, do you think that this could
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be a good deal for Iran? Because there have been different arguments inside. I'm, I'm, I'm
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absolutely sincere. I'm sincere in this regard. Iran got much more than it could expect. Oh, wow.
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Iran got much more than it could expect. Yeah. Much more, much more. And he goes on to reemphasize
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that point multiple times. Wow. That they got much more than they could expect from the United
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States. And I believe it. Who doesn't believe that? Constant weakness. I believe that. Constant
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weakness. Constant weakness. That's the entire presidency. Constant incompetence in everything
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they do. Now hang on just a second. We're also sending people down to, uh, to Venezuela and
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we're trying to, uh, trying to get some Venezuelan oil up here. That'll be good. Won't that be
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good? That'll be really, really good. And, uh, another good, close personal friend. Yes. Yes. And
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then, uh, today Biden is thinking about sending some people to fly out to Saudi Arabia to, I mean,
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look at what we're doing. It's not like we're desperate. We have it. We could supply the whole
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world with the oil. We have it. We have cleaner oil than the rest of the world.
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And just won't use it. Nope. Won't use it. Uh, America, you have to, you have to call your
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congressman and your Senator. Stop this nonsense of telling them to, uh, uh, shut down the Russian
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oil. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not unless we drill our own oil and gas here.
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We have to provide the rest of the world. We're not going to Iran and to Venezuela and to Saudi
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Arabia. What is wrong with this administration? Well, we know, we know, we know it's run by
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Marxists who don't have, don't have America's no best interest at heart. Yeah. No. By the way,
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did you hear about Brittany, Brittany Griner? Yeah. Uh, essentially being held captive in Russia.
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Yeah. Now, do you believe, do you know anything about her? She apparently was a big basketball
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player. Okay. She was like an MVP of the WNBA, wasn't she? She's like a big deal. She's big. Yeah.
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So she was in Russia. She was at the airport coming out and they playing in a Russian league,
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by the way, wondering why she's in Russia right now. She's a spy. Anyway, uh, no, um, she's, uh,
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she was over in Russia. She was coming out over the weekend, uh, when the state department said
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every American should leave immediately. She was at the airport. She had, I think already gone
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through security and then she was stopped. You have it on, on tape. You can see it. They stop
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her. They go through one of her purses or luggage and they found a, a vape, uh, what do you call it?
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Pipe. And apparently it had hashish, hashish oil in it. Did it? Don't know. We don't know. Don't
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know. Uh, certainly it wouldn't matter if it did or not from the Russians. No, no, they could just say
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it does. And she could be now in a Russian prison for 10 years, 10 years for that. Yeah. It's scary.
00:24:28.540
And I, I wish her well, and I hope this doesn't turn into a, I hope she's not spending 10 years
00:24:35.580
in a, I mean, unless she, you know, if she was guilty of this, I mean, I guess you just,
00:24:42.100
you got to obey the law. Yeah. I would say that's still, is that a 10 year offense? No,
00:24:46.420
it's not a 10. No, it is not. No, but I will, but I, but I also, I'd just like to point out,
00:24:51.560
she was one that would not, uh, walk out onto the court, uh, for a year, uh, if the national
00:24:58.360
anthem was being played. And I'm, I'm bet, I'm betting she would stand up for the national
00:25:03.260
anthem at this point. You know what I mean? You would hope so. Looking for anyone with a flag
00:25:07.480
on their arm or their lapel to come in and help her. It's amazing how that works. Yeah, it is.
00:25:12.940
Isn't it though? Cause you, you do think when that happens, yeah, why don't you try somebody
00:25:18.380
else's, uh, justice system, justice system and see how that works. And I don't wish this
00:25:23.200
on her and I'm not, I'm not gleeful about it. I'm just, let's not take, uh, for granted
00:25:28.500
what we do have still here in America. Uh, and there's no way, I mean, it used to be that
00:25:35.980
the American passport was a golden ticket. You, you, nobody was stopping an American citizen
00:25:41.940
because we had, um, you know, we had some power and some clout in the world and you didn't
00:25:50.300
mess with Americans. Now it doesn't matter because we're a clown show. We're not a clown
00:25:55.400
country, but we're a clown show. We are run by clowns and everybody knows that. Yeah.
00:26:02.540
I mean, yeah. And they're taking advantage of us because of that. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:26:06.540
What the clowns or the other countries? No, the other countries. Well, the clowns are too.
00:26:10.400
Yeah. That's true. The clowns are trying to convince us that we all should, we all have
00:26:14.260
been wearing clown shoes and have clown noses. And we're like, I mean, does anybody else feel
00:26:18.840
like it is the emperor's new clothes where we're all sitting here going, no, that's not
00:26:24.060
right. No, no, no, you shouldn't be doing that. And everybody stands around going, Oh,
00:26:30.320
look at what they're doing. Isn't that great? Look at what we're doing. I mean, look at this.
00:26:34.440
It's amazing because you, you know, you, the Ukrainians, God bless them are sitting there
00:26:39.480
saying, Hey, can you guys help us out more? Can you do X, Y, and Z? Do you realize what you're
00:26:44.020
asking for? We're going to make things much worse with this group of people trying to fix the
00:26:47.960
situation. Oh my God. All we're going to do is screw up your life more. Like if Ronald Reagan
00:26:52.540
was president, I have some understanding and faith that maybe we would be able to navigate almost
00:26:58.960
impossible waters with Joe Biden as president. Yeah. I mean, we might as well, we might as well
00:27:05.320
completely just give up. You know, I mean, it, it, he is, he is the incompetence on every single
00:27:12.640
aspect of foreign policy since he took office is incomprehensible. I mean, your book, the great
00:27:18.300
reset goes into why a lot of this stuff is going on that maybe it's not just incompetence. And that's
00:27:23.420
the only thing that explains it. You couldn't just be this bad all the time. You could not. I mean,
00:27:29.840
I would like, you're, you're an odds guy. You don't know any odds makers that you, we could call and
00:27:35.060
say, let's just look at the policies of this administration. Give me the odds that they're
00:27:41.380
this wrong, this stupid, that every single thing turns against the United States of America. What
00:27:49.920
are the odds? Yeah. I'd love billion to one. We've said many times on the air, what would you do
00:27:55.700
differently if you were trying to destroy the country? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I can't
00:28:01.300
think of anything. Nothing. I mean, they've done a beautiful job of it. I would get involved in
00:28:05.920
Ukraine. That's the one thing I would do. Get involved in Ukraine. Yeah. Which they still may do.
00:28:10.860
Who knows? Jeez. Please tell your congressman and senator. No, no, no.
00:28:25.700
Let me tell you a completely made up story. A completely hypothetical, a cautionary tale about
00:28:43.440
a man named Tom, who now his family thinks he's a complete lunatic. Tom, let's say, is a loyal
00:28:54.040
listener of this program. He's read the Great Reset. He studied the WEF website. He even tried a
00:29:01.460
built bar. That's Tom. At first, he thought, ah, this guy, he's overreacting, collapse of the West,
00:29:09.660
whatever. Then he started to do his own research. Now Tom is wide awake and he wants to make sure his
00:29:18.860
family is ready because he feels responsible for their protection. Boy, can anyone relate?
00:29:28.740
Well, his wife, Lacey, might love Tom, but is not really like Tom. Might have been one day before
00:29:39.120
they started pumping out kids. Now they've got three kids under five. And Lacey, Tom's wife,
00:29:45.900
she's at home with the kids all day. She just wants to have an adult conversation from time to time.
00:29:52.580
She also has an elderly mother. So she's got a lot of responsibility, too. She rarely has a moment
00:30:00.140
to breathe. Nonetheless, study ESG scores not high on Lacey's list. The kids were screaming over the
00:30:09.860
radio when Tom years ago said, you should listen to Glenn Beck. She would just like quiet in the
00:30:16.720
house from time to time. Her mother always forgets to put on her hearing aids and then turns the TV up
00:30:24.720
to, uh, was it 10 on the, about 6 million. One day after listening to my show recently, Tom decided it
00:30:35.540
was time for the family to start preparing, but he knew he and his wife needed to make the decision
00:30:42.120
together. Way to go, Tom. So last week, Tom decided to his, to approach his wife in the kitchen. She was
00:30:53.140
making lunch. She has a three-year-old that was bumbling and babbling relentlessly under her feet. And she
00:31:00.440
hadn't slept much the night before because the baby, baby kept waking up. They had guests arriving
00:31:06.160
for a weekend stay in less than an hour, but Lacey had spent the morning helping her mother, trying to
00:31:11.780
find her heart medicine. So the house was still a mess. And Tom thought, you know what? Now is the right
00:31:18.120
time. I have no time to waste. Tom decided now is the time to talk to Lacey. The collapse of the West
00:31:28.860
is right around the corner. Tom bellowed to his wife, to which she replied,
00:31:35.320
you have been listening too much to Glenn Beck. Everything is fine. Tom stunned,
00:31:42.020
eked out a series of breathless words punctuated by rapid and indiscernible arm movements,
00:31:49.000
world economic forum, digital currency, Dugan, the oil. And then he went to the Glenn Beck standby.
00:31:58.260
It's a trap. Thoroughly exhausted, Tom collapsed to the floor, staring blankly into space. Lacey looked
00:32:09.280
on in horror. Not now, honey. We have guests arriving. Tom collected himself and scuttled out of the
00:32:17.940
kitchen, cloaked in abject failure. And sweat. Okay, this is an example of what not to do. Now,
00:32:28.960
how do I know? Because while I'm not Tom, I, of course, said more than just World Economic Forum,
00:32:38.240
Digital Currency, Dugan Oil. It's a trap. I said more than that. A lot more. And I'm surprised that
00:32:48.780
some of the family members who don't listen to me all the time, but know that Uncle Glenn
00:32:55.840
kind of knows what's going on. And so they look to me for time to time for an update.
00:33:02.400
I decided to tell them everything. Not a good decision. So let me break it down on the things
00:33:19.080
that Tom and I have both learned. Some rules that maybe you should take when talking to your
00:33:26.920
family about. Pick the right time. Now, I'm not sure when that time is, because in a busy household,
00:33:38.940
it never seems to be the right time. But pick the right time. Half asleep? No. In-laws arriving in five
00:33:51.380
minutes? Five days? Five years? No. Not the right time. Baby's birthday party? Sure. A classic tale to
00:33:59.720
laugh about years to come. But have you lost your mind? You need to pick a low stress time where you
00:34:08.160
can really talk. Now, immediately, I think maybe a romantic weekend. No. No. Not a good time.
00:34:17.980
In couples counseling, they teach couples to employ the acronym HALT. H-A-L-T. HALT. Before you have
00:34:27.340
any serious conversation, HALT and ask yourself a few questions. Is she hungry? Don't do it.
00:34:38.260
Is she angry? Is she lonely? I just want some adult time. Or is she tired? Yeah. If one or more or all
00:34:57.340
of them apply, wrong time. Wrong time to talk. Now, here's my question for the counselor. What on earth
00:35:05.640
happened to you this weekend? Uh, it was not, it was not good. It was not good. Uh, this is an
00:35:12.180
amazing month. So yeah, it was not good. You tried to explain to your family the doom we all face in
00:35:21.860
some level of detail. No, no, no, no. And you picked the wrong time? No. Okay. So they're my family. So I
00:35:28.580
said, they said, what are you doing to prepare? And I told them what I'm doing to prepare. And they all
00:35:38.800
went, really? And I said, yeah, but I mean, it may not happen. And it may not happen right now. But
00:35:56.360
I think we should all be prepared and start thinking along these lines. Well, they didn't
00:36:06.880
hear the, it may not happen right now. And then they also went home and they saw, you know, the new
00:36:15.920
red phone being put on the desk of the Oval Office and with Putin. And, uh, and, uh, you know, the fact
00:36:22.860
that, uh, you know, we're at DEFCON 2 in, in, in Europe and, and the other, my favorite, uh, was,
00:36:30.180
uh, by the way, we're the state department. If you're an American citizen in Russia, run for your
00:36:35.360
lives, get out right now, right now, run for your lives. That's probably, that probably notched them
00:36:41.820
up a little bit in the panic scenario. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, that, that there's a lot to be
00:36:50.200
worried about. So I, so I went to them and said, look, look, look, look, I am sorry. Uh, because I
00:36:56.380
feel very alone in the family because I don't tell the family, uh, you know, I don't go home and do
00:37:04.740
all this. If they want to listen, they can listen. And, uh, and there's many things that I believe that
00:37:09.700
I shall never say that, but I shall never say the things that I do not believe. Uh, and so there's
00:37:15.420
lots of things that I, I don't say because I don't want, you don't want to live in my head.
00:37:21.560
You do not want to live in my head. It's a very dark and scary place. So, uh, and it causes a
00:37:30.680
problem with me. And I bet as a dad, if you feel the way I do, you might feel this way. You might feel
00:37:35.900
very, very alone because you're like, you know, everyone is depending on me. I'm trying to just to,
00:37:40.860
Hey, let's, yes, let's go out and, and, and, and just watch the kids play soccer this week.
00:37:50.660
Let's do that. Cause it's gonna, I'm not stressed out or thinking about anything at all. I'm just
00:37:56.640
thinking about, let's have a good time. Okay. Who wants to go to shaky's pizza afterwards? I know I
00:38:02.600
do. All right. That's, that's the way I feel like I'm just faking all of the time. Oh yeah.
00:38:10.860
No, me thinking, what are you thinking, honey? Oh, nothing. I definitely wasn't thinking about
00:38:17.580
18 minutes before, you know, missiles would hit here and how we would possibly survive and get
00:38:21.700
out of ground zero. I'm not thinking about that. I'm just nothing. So when somebody says, no,
00:38:29.680
really uncle Glenn, tell me, Oh, I was glad to share the burden. Not a good idea. So I, what I said to
00:38:40.100
them is, you know, be prepared, just, just be prepared. Just here's what you need to do. And I
00:38:47.040
didn't tell them this at the time. I told them this yesterday when there was a big conference call
00:38:52.680
with the whole family. And many of them were like, uh, we can never let our, uh, you know, our wives
00:39:01.100
down to your house ever again. You're not allowed to call here. Stop. Uh, and so I talked to everybody
00:39:08.760
and I said, look, here's the thing. All of these things are true. All of these things are true,
00:39:13.320
but you cannot, you, there's only so much you can do. And the first thing that's going to happen,
00:39:18.720
and I explained this to them, uh, that Tanya and I, for the last week, we have been trying to make
00:39:25.900
some really big decisions on things. You can't make them all at once. You can't, you can't have that
00:39:33.680
big conversation even all at once. You have to break them down into bite sizes. And you'll think
00:39:40.660
like, I'm not making any progress because I haven't made any decisions. All last week, Tanya and I
00:39:46.940
tried to have one conversation about one item on our list. And it is so, it's so, it's hard to think
00:39:56.960
about these things. It's hard to think there's, there's no, Oh, you know what? Go to the, go to
00:40:02.980
the bookstore. Um, there's gotta be a self-help book on what to do. You know, if your country's
00:40:09.960
about to collapse, there's no self-help on that. There's nothing, there's no, there's nothing.
00:40:14.480
There are zombie apocalypse help self-help. Yeah. And maybe you can follow my, I mean, I might get
00:40:18.960
to a point where I'm like, Oh, zombie is involved. Eat me now. Um, but, uh, uh, it's hard.
00:40:26.100
So you just have to do the best you can. And all last week, Tanya and I, we haven't made a decision
00:40:32.500
yet, but we're closer because we had five or six nights, uh, of just having honestly five minute
00:40:41.820
conversations before all of it, but before both of us were like, I I'm exhausted. I can't even think
00:40:47.520
about it. I'm just, I just shut down. It's really hard because it evolves everything, everything.
00:40:54.760
So what you need to do is just the next right thing. And the next right thing would be on the
00:41:05.880
political side, call your state house, your Senate, your house of representatives, call your governor's
00:41:14.920
office and say, no ESG pass a bill. No ESG. You don't even have to do that. If you just,
00:41:24.660
if you're just concerned about you go to the store and every time you buy food, you know, this,
00:41:30.320
this is not doomsday. This is just inflation. Every time you buy something by two, if you can
00:41:37.840
and then store the second one. And then when you run out of the first one, don't use the second one,
00:41:46.400
go to the store and buy two again and store the second one there and just keep doing that until
00:41:55.540
you have, I mean, I don't know if you saw this, uh, was it Colgate? I think, I don't know. One of the
00:42:01.940
toothpaste. They're saying that it's going to be $10 a tube this summer, $10 a tube for toothpaste.
00:42:10.940
Okay. All right. Wow. Maybe we should buy some toothpaste as well. Just do the next right thing
00:42:19.280
and start knocking them off. You cannot approach this the way, I mean, I've spent 25 years doing
00:42:28.120
this. I've spent the last 20, almost 18 years, just no, well, actually since September 11th,
00:42:35.280
really about 20 years, just focused on what I think we're entering into now to bring people up to speed
00:42:43.900
is tough and you don't want to scare them. So don't invite me to any parties because I'll make