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Glenn and Sean talk about the solar eclipse and the conspiracy theories that surround it. Plus, a call-in question about whether or not you should look at the sun with your bare eyes. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on Fox News Radio.
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Stu, I think the expert we talked to today about the solar eclipse said it best when he said, some people should look directly at the sun.
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I've been reading about some of the things that people believe about the solar eclipse.
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If you're not wearing black, if you're outside and the solar eclipse happened and you're wearing
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black, your baby will be born with a birthmark.
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Now, I've got birthmarks on me, and I don't think I was born in an eclipse, but I could
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Because if they open their eyes and they look at the sun, they're not going to have the
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Oh, I was thinking about just generally speaking.
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Yeah, I guess it is good to keep your babies away from open windows.
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So, a lot of people are freaking out about this.
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Is that because we're freaked out about everything else?
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And I'm going to, I don't want to, I'm a doctor, okay?
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And the moon and the earth and the sun, we kind of rotate around, you know?
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We go around the sun and the moon goes around us.
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And occasionally, the moon blocks the sun from our vantage point.
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I'm just following the, I'm just following the science, man.
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How do you not know the truth that occasionally the sun needs to recharge?
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But, I mean, I didn't think anybody still believed the whole moon-sun thing.
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Oh, they're all just having the perfect distance away to cover the sun exactly.
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Okay, now, the Navajos believe that the sun and moon are mating, which-
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Uh, so, uh, the eclipse is just the moon and the sun mating.
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Can we stop with all of this sex in front of our children?
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I would like to ban the eclipse today because I find it wholly inappropriate.
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It's when the moon finally moves away from the sun, there's a birth of a new era.
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Now, the Taos people, the Taos Pueblo of New Mexico, they believe you need to stay indoors, keep your babies from the windows.
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The Cherokees say the eclipse means a giant frog in the sky is trying to eat the sun.
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You know that, so that's why you have to go outside and make big noise with drums, whistles, or just your voice to scare away the frog.
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Now, an astronomer at the Frankel Institute, he says, you know, this is all nonsense.
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It's part of the clockwork of the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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However, Stephanie Renee, with two E's and an accent grande, she's known as the Vibe Mistress.
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She's the Vibe Mistress of the Soul Sanctuary, which is a non-profit arts education foundation.
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Because, damn it, she should not have to pay taxes, okay?
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She says, because she studies astrology, this is a new beginning and marks a radical change.
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She said, it's a radical movement moving forward in your own individual energy.
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There is like, I don't know how to describe it.
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You know how you have butterflies in your stomach?
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I feel like I have anarchists in my stomach right now.
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There is some kind of radical movement that's building inside of me.
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I just hope before the moon and the sun, mate, that I can crap them all out.
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Anyway, she says, this is happening this time with Mercury.
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This means that we are, because Mercury is in retrograde, this means we have to double and triple check what you think, what you say, and what you do.
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Now, even if Mercury wasn't in retrograde, which it is, and I'm not mocking it, I think that's a good safety tip for all of us, especially now.
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We should, again, double and triple check what you say, what you think, and what you do.
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I wouldn't have gotten it if Mercury wasn't in retrograde.
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I wouldn't even, but Mercury is in retrograde on the day of the eclipse, so that's when we, in fact, people should be careful about making major purchases.
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Purchases, I'm glad she caught me, because I was going to make a major purchase of something today, I don't even know what, but I was just, I got up this morning, maybe it's the anarchists in my stomach that are building up this radical movement inside of me that I'm like, I got to go buy something, and I got to go buy something big, and I'm not even going to read the contract.
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But Mercury is in retrograde, so I'm going to think twice, and then again, a third time about doing that.
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Don't make any major purchases, don't sign any contracts, and there should be a high level of caution.
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She also says it's significant that this eclipse is happening as the skies enter the astrological sign of Aries, and we all know what that means.
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It means that you have all this Aries energy, right?
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It's pushing you forward, you know, in eclipse.
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At the same time, Mercury in retrograde is telling you to slow down, but Aries is saying, speed up.
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So you are fighting right now, speed up, slow down.
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Do I buy something that's ridiculously expensive without reading a contract today or not?
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But all you have to do is check, double check, triple check.
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I mean, I see why she's not paying taxes, don't you?
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I mean, I might be more fascinated in the fact that people flew from all over the country
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to come see this happen and it's going to be cloudy.
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I've heard a lot of this path is going to wind up with clouds, which is rough.
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So here in Dallas, I read that some people have been, you know, staying at the Ritz-Carlton
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You can come to my house for an additional $10,000 and have mac and cheese.
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So you're going to charge more, but you're also going to provide mac and cheese.
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So if you're here for the Eclipse and you feel like a sucker, just spend $10,000.
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Come over, have mac and cheese with me, and you won't feel like a sucker anymore.
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Are you, is this something you'll go out in the parking lot today and like observe?
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And I remember standing in the parking lot awkwardly in 2017, but I really don't remember
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And I don't remember thinking it was such a big deal.
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But before 2017, the last time I guess it happened was in 1979.
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If, if we survive today, if we survive today, it'll be, you know, 2044 or whatever, long
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after our death, you know, and it'll be a lot hotter than, because you know, global warming.
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So the earth has gravitational pull on the moon, right?
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Well, the earth and the moon are going to have an extra gravitational pull on the sun today.
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It'll just like, it just could go, come at us and then back.
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But it could come right at us today, which would be bad for North America.
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If you're in, if you're listening to us in Asia, you're good.
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But North America could be gone from the earth.
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Now your, your analysis is going to be put in the next article about all the stupid theories.
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Is it because we're living in such chaos right now that people are, because I've never heard
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Because I, someone was pointing out that, you know, back in the day, this is when they
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Like, I think if I was just in the middle of like, you know, you didn't have any, you
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didn't have any satellites, you didn't, you know, any of this stuff, all of a sudden
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the whole earth went dark in the middle of the day.
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Like, yeah, I think that's actually a pretty reasonable summary of what might be coming.
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Imagine if you didn't know that this is the way things happen.
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And even today, if we wouldn't have talked about it in advance, if we didn't know in
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advance, they were just like, oh yeah, it was eclipse.
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A lot of people would be like, what the hell just happened?
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I feel like there's still stuff that's like this too.
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Like, I feel like there's still things in this world that we don't have any understanding
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And like in 50 years, people are gonna be like, imagine these idiots didn't even, like a tornado
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There's gotta be some way to know when tornadoes around the corner.
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And yet we just kind of stand there and all is, holy crap, here it comes!
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Hey, let's put our cameras outside and we'll film it until it's like a-
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Then we'll go, oh crap, I should have gone into a basement.
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What would you give to be able to undo some of the mistakes of the past?
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But we also can help try to make up for mistakes.
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We can try to help others make better decisions.
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We, there are far-reaching consequences for the abortion industry in this country.
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They've rescued over 280,000 babies through love, compassion, and free ultrasounds.
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They offer assistance to the mom for up to two years after the baby is born.
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Just the ultrasound, which is free and $28 from people like you and me pay for it.
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Because they take care of the moms for two years after the baby is born.
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And they introduce her to the baby the first day she walks in.
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So, what do you know about what's happening in Brazil, Stu?
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When the whole world is on fire, knowing the problems of one individual country is always a little bit difficult.
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But it does seem like there is an issue with Bolsonaro.
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And what they were trying to do leading up to their most recent election.
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So, this was a really critical election for not just Brazil, but it was also for, you know, all of the World Economic Forum people.
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The White House was very involved in this election because it went from a conservative Trump kind of guy to a socialist.
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And what happened was Bolsonaro said, wait a minute, it's too close.
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He's still talking about how bad the elections were.
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And our CIA last year told senior Brazilian officials that President Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country's voting system.
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So, we now know that the CIA was involved in the election and just saying, hey, this has got to be fair and on the up and up.
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So, there's also the information, a third person in Washington familiar with the matter confirmed that a delegation led by Burns, William Burns, he's the CIA director, had told top Bolsonaro aides the president should stop undermining the confidence in Brazil's voting system.
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Source was not certain whether the CIA director himself had voiced the message.
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They would not go into what's discussed with the CIA, et cetera, et cetera.
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Now, there is a judge, and I'm going to give you all of this information tomorrow.
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We just needed to do so much homework on this because I have not been following it.
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So, there is a Supreme Court judge that has taken a whole buttload of power, and he is starting to say, you know, basically January 6th.
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They've scooped up, I think, about 2,000 people, and now he's starting to say, monitor this person, monitor this person, monitor this person.
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And he went this weekend to all of social media and said, you've got to give us all the information on these people, or we shut you down.
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Elon Musk said, no, I think freedom is, and they said, you will be out.
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And he said, I think my principles are worth more than the money I'd make in Brazil.
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So, it's almost a carbon copy of what's happening here in America, but I don't know who's on the good side, bad side down there.
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It could look very much like what happened here, but not be what happened here.
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However, there is something that really bothers me, and that is there was somebody that was involved down there.
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But just a few years ago, in an interview with the BBC Brazil, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs stated,
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What needs to happen in Brazil are free and fair elections using institutional structures that have served Brazilians well in the past.
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Who was our Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs that was involving herself in the elections in Brazil?
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She has been a regular topic on our TV show for quite some time.
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She is the career State Department official that was caught in a leaked call seemingly orchestrating the Ukrainian internal politics in the wake of their revolution.
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She was like, yeah, but this is the one the State Department wants, yada, yada, yada.
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And she was seen manipulating their system to get who they wanted in power over there.
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So, we also showed you video of her handing out sandwiches and food at the Maiden Revolution.
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What people maybe don't remember is that the State Department gave their people in Ukraine, they held classes on how to do a revolution, paid for by your tax dollars.
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So, this was a color revolution, and she orchestrated it.
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She's been around for a very, very, very long time.
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Now, this doesn't, that's not the State Department's job.
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That's supposed to be the CIA's job, and I don't want the CIA meddling in people's elections.
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This war in Ukraine that is getting worse and worse, and that Biden is walking right into, it all stems from us meddling in their election in 2013 and 2014.
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It sounds, honestly, like what we have now in power in the United States.
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She was the deputy director for foreign Soviet Union affairs.
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She is, I mean, I'm not saying that revolution follows her and war follows her, you know, wherever she goes, but I'm not saying that either.
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She was under Dick Cheney when, you know, when he was picking fights with the Soviet Union.
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2013, she went back to her beat in Eastern Europe just in time for the Ukrainian color revolution.
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And she has been handing out the dollars over there, and she was involved to some degree, I don't know how much yet, with the election in Brazil.
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This election, as I have said in the past, is so important to the left.
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They know that if they don't win these elections, all these important elections,
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if this thing turns around on them, they lose everything that they have done.
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This is make or break the same for them as it is for those who like freedom.
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In 2022, Bolsonaro accused of hatching a plan to overturn his election defeat.
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And one of the guys that Bolsonaro said he was going to arrest was this judge.
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Weeks later, Bolsonaro supporters stormed the country's capital, flooding Congress, presidential palace, blah, blah, blah.
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We remember that senior military commanders published last month, implicated Bolsonaro.
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One of the leading figures on this ongoing conflict has been this judge, Alexander de Morales.
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He's the president of the Superior Electoral Court and a Supreme Court justice.
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He sought to clamp down on the claims spread online by supporters of Bolsonaro that the election was unjustly stolen from him.
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You know, I don't know how you get away with this.
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I don't know how you have a free country if one party can say every election since 2000 has been stolen.
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I don't you don't have a you don't have freedom.
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No, not to mention that while they are attacking one party for saying it, the Republicans, Democrats are also saying that this one is probably going to get stolen in the future.
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Like they're they're preemptively saying it's going to be stolen by Donald Trump.
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So Elon Musk is calling this guy, you know, the Darth Vader of Brazil kind of looks like Darth Vader, quite honestly.
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Um, but he will not block certain accounts on X.
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I don't know if I don't know how you block that.
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I mean, Elon Musk has got to be able to get away.
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I guess I guess if you just had a VPN, you could still get X and you could still see it.
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But the judge now is is blocking, uh, everything that Elon Musk is going to do.
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And they're investigating Elon Musk, you know, calling, uh, calling for his arrest as well.
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And, uh, you know, I, I think like Elon Musk, you can be critical of him on a lot of things, but he's pretty, pretty good on this stuff.
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He, he, you know, the F you money thing is somewhat real here.
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He's like, I, he really does believe this stuff.
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And I think that's what Americans like about him is that he goes his own way.
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Um, you know, and if somebody doesn't like it, go pound sand and anybody who's going to bully him.
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I mean, every time there's two people I know hate bullies, Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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And you could say, well, Donald Trump, he's a bully.
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Well, you can say the same thing about Elon Musk.
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However, they both don't like being told what to do and they don't, and they will never bow the knee to somebody who tries to force them.
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That used to be the thing that we loved about people that you just not, they're not going to bend the knee.
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I don't know, honestly, how I feel about Elon Musk.
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I think he is fantastic and has given the Republic more time to survive and, and possibly even win.
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He is standing up for freedom of speech, which I absolutely love.
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There's things I like and things I don't, obviously.
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I mean, the global warming stuff, you know, Tesla was built in a large place with a lot of money from the government.
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There's plenty that I, that I'm questioning on him, but I think overall he's a pretty positive influence.
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I think he, the things he's done and are around the corner with things like Neuralink.
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I mean, who knows where that goes of really, I think overall a really positive influence on the world, but has his flaws.
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He's not like, you know, you build up these things and they get into movies and you tell these like wonderful biographies of a person and everything's positive.
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And you think of this person as a statue, just like we talk about with all the figures in DC, they all had flaws.
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He's, he, I mean, I don't think working for him would be a delight.
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I, you know, he treats his workers in ways that I, I would not want to be, I would not want to be treated.
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I mean, can you imagine, you can imagine my perspective.
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I mean, like, you'd think that's the worst possible experience, but.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Uh, we are honored to have, uh, one of the, uh, leading cosmologists on, uh, and, uh, uh, and, and he doesn't usually come on radio, but, uh, Flip Jehibowitz is with us now to tell us what we can expect from, uh, from the solar eclipse flip.
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Glenn, thanks so much for having me on the program.
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Uh, can you, can you go, can you go into some of your credentials and, uh, where you work?
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Because of the, of course, if you're going on with the solar eclipse, there's a, there's a, there's an issue of privacy that I would like to keep at the forefront.
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Are you, are you concerned that maybe people's privacy?
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That's not, personally why I asked you to call me an obviously fake name for a scientist.
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That's why, that's why I requested you to call me Flip Jehibowitz.
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Could we please, could you stop beating around the bush?
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So a lot of people want to talk about that today.
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It's, it's an understandable situation when the moon orbits the earth and moves between
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It obscures the light from the sun, partially or wholly, depending on our vantage point on
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This alignment is a, uh, it's a precise occurrence.
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Cause it sounds like you're just reading it, like maybe off, like something offline, like
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Well, I'm trying to give people the factual information.
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I've heard some of your, your, your ramblings this morning.
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Um, and I, I don't think that's helpful on a day like today.
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The alignment of, of all of these celestial, um, items are of course governed by the laws
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And this, this provides, are you, are you, I've got, I've got, I've got, I just, I really
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I just really wanted to know what, what to expect from, from today's, uh, eclipse.
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Well, don't get too scientific, but I mean, give us the, you know, give us a really good,
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You know how like during the day, normally it's light.
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It's going to get dark for a couple of minutes there.
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Dark, you know, but like not at five or six PM.
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That's why people are flying from all over the world.
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Cause it's like, you know how the thing that you experience every day, like it's dark,
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that's going to happen for like four minutes at another part of the day.
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So like, you know, you know, like when you're in a room and you, the lights are on.
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But for four minutes and, and the light, which, well,
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you know, you ever, you ever have a room with a dimmer?
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But like only in one part of the world and only for four minutes at a time.
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So could I compare it to, for instance, this weekend, my, uh, I was reading and my son came
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and he was, he was standing behind me, but he was blocking the light and I, I could still
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see the book, but I couldn't read it cause he was blocking the lights.
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But if you have a, if you have like a, if you're reading on a computer, it won't matter
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But if you're reading a book, like could be kind of like harder to read for a couple
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You know, shadows, you know how like you see shadows on the ground.
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Like they might have a little crescent shape to them.
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I'm, I'm gathering that this is not a, a, a big deal to you in the science world.
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No, this is, this is a, it's really annoying time for scientists.
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Like we, we get calls from idiots like you to explain to them the difference between
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We're like, Hey, you know, light got me different than that for a couple of minutes.
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And then we have to like, I was just playing it over and over and over again.
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I get the eclipse, but there's a lot of people that are, you know, a little concerned
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Don't, uh, put your baby on the roof to face the eclipse.
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Don't put your infant on the peak of your roof during the eclipse.
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So, you know, yeah, that's the, do you look at the last lecture results?
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We have to tell people to keep their infants off the peak of the roof.
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Other times it's fine for you, Glenn, it's fine.
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You never know when you'll see something interesting.
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But for regular people, don't stare, don't stare at the eclipse.
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And, you know, if you're, don't, just try not to gawk.
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What happens if you were, let's say, you traveled a great distance to see this, you spent a lot of money staying at a hotel and now it's cloudy.
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Is there a way to see the eclipse, you know, through the clouds?
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That was just a question that I'm sure a lot of people are asking themselves today that spent a lot of money traveling to places.
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Oh, yeah, get on your hovercraft and go above them?
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I was telling people, hey, you know, I'm only going to have to do this once.
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I'm going to have to tell people to not stare at the sun and put infants on the roof.
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Well, I, you know, I was around for the 2017 and it was a little bit cloudy.
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Yeah, they're going to put their, you know what, here's something that's going to happen.
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If, if there's, if there's no clouds, a bunch of idiots are going to point their phones at it, thinking that's like a really good idea.
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If you turn on the flashlight, would you get the surface of the moon to light up a bit?
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So what time should everybody turn their flashlight of their phone off?
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Here's the thing people don't realize, and this is for you specifically, Glenn, make sure that the, the, the light you're going to think, oh, I should point that at the moon.
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It might, it might hurt, but that's just that it'll go away right after the eclipse.
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That's the only pain you'll feel during the eclipse.
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So any sharp objects you have, you can just jam into your eyes.
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Uh, thank you again so much for being on the program.
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Boy, he sounded a little, uh, he sounded a little terse, didn't he?
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They've been answering these questions probably a lot.
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So, well, you know, there's a lot of people out there that aren't as smart as, you know,
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some of the intellectuals like Flip or, uh, you know, there's a, there was a, there was
00:39:40.600
a, a big meeting of black mayors, the black mayor coalition on crime.
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And, um, and there were a couple of really, I mean, like Flip, uh, could just see things
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Um, and, uh, one of them was the mayor of St. Louis, which of course, you know, has long
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held the record of one of the cities with the highest violent crime rates.
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Uh, and then the, um, the mayor of Memphis who also lives in a very dangerous, uh, city.
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And while they were meeting on this coalition of crime, uh, the, uh, St. Louis mayor, uh,
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suggested that in, instead of, you know, arresting a bunch of people that quote, the city should
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hold business owners accountable for crimes committed on their present, uh, premises and
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So if there's crime, they hold the business where the crime occurred.
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So in other words, somebody breaks into your house, you should be held responsible for the
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They said, we have a lot of violence around convenience stores and gas stations.
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How can we hold these business owners accountable and bring down crime?
00:41:12.720
Because, because I mean, you know, convenience stores, they're like a magnet for crime, you
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What if they made it more difficult for patrons?
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Well, I mean, here's one of the things I would do on, and I mean this sincerely in, uh,
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in, uh, either Memphis or St. Louis, uh, if I owned the convenience store there, I'd say,
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Uh, what I do is causing crime, uh, and that is providing a good or service to the community.
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So I'm going to fight crime by moving to another city.
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But then of course, uh, you are creating food deserts.
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And then I have to be held responsible for that.
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But the good news shouldn't be held responsible to be clear.
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The mayors should be completely exonerated from any responsibility that they might.
00:42:13.580
Some people, you know, there are racists out there who will say that mayors, uh, in
00:42:17.760
these cities should be held responsible for their performance as the mayor of a city.
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Those people are watching the solar eclipse today without, uh, without glasses and they
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So it's a way to make crime, uh, go away at least for one sense.
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Now we just have to work on the other five senses.