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Today on the show, we talk about the highway protests that have been going on lately to prove global warming is a thing. If you sit in the middle of the road, people get on your side, and we examine the logic of that particular approach.
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welcome to the podcast today pat and stew in for glenn we talk about the highway protests that
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have been going on lately to prove global warming is a thing i guess if you sit in the middle of the
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road people get uh on your side and we go we we examine the logic of that particular approach
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is nuclear power a potential option is fossil fuel no way too many people killed way too many
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no that's not really well we'll get into that on the show uh today we also have uh gavin newsom
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is back in the news we'll talk about him and his obvious angling to try to be president of the
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united states and the control of the senate how's that gonna go in 2022 we get into that as well
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pat and stew thanks for joining us on the glenbeck program uh there was a bunch of people that got in
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the way of traffic again this is a tactic that uh i absolutely love i think it's great that people just
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sit in the middle of the freeways you know it's not wonderful when they when they break the law and
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just show you how committed they are to their cause and it just makes you friendly toward their cause yeah
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that's me too that's exactly how i feel yeah i always feel like you know wow that's great i wasn't
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going to support them in their fight against global warming and then i was like wait a minute you've
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ruined my day yeah now i'm gonna support you now i love your cause my kid is stranded yeah i can't i
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can't pick them up and they're stranded wherever they are there's like sitting outside a baseball field
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somewhere just sad looking at puppy eyes and waiting for mommy or daddy to show up and no one's coming
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because you've blocked my path i love your cause now well yeah you wouldn't be so selfish as to say
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you should be allowed to go through here oh you know of course not that would be wrong i hope even
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if you have extenuating circumstances right and even if it's really extreme yeah and there's a guy
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here who is trying to tell him i've got extenuating circumstances i could go to jail check check this out
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if i don't make my job okay his parole will be revoked if he doesn't make it to his job
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and he'll be back in jail one lane i'm asking one lane one lane let me just get through here
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this is on the beltway in washington dc uh my gosh
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this poor guy i mean i don't know what he did but did he be on parole i mean maybe he's not the
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most sympathetic character but this poor guy just wants to not go back to jail yeah yeah but even if
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all right so police show up and and do arrest the protesters but they also arrest him right so
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that he it doesn't even work out he no this is this is this is your story of the day as all other
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stories of the day and in a very sad way yep it's just amazing pat you know i don't understand it like
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you know i i will say i watch that footage and every time i've watched it i watch it several times now
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and every time i watch it i just think to myself i would not have been able to control myself in
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that situation no way i would not i would have done something stupid i'm not on parole no you know
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and i would have been more pissed than he is yeah i mean he kind of pushes one of them that's about
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as far as he goes he takes their banners uh and he pushes one of them he crumpled them up too he
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crumpled up the banners some of them he might have actually destroyed it isn't exactly effective
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in a long line of traffic only the first the first cars are going to see it you know right really
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they're going to see it they're going to see it for a very long time true but it's not really
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effective here you are you know climate change protesters you're upset about climate change so
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you cause thousands of cars to idle on the freeway altogether because that's really good for the
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environment so that's a really it's a good move it really helps your cause i i don't understand this
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first it's illegal to sit in a roadway like that you're on the capital beltway which is one of the
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busiest freeways in the country and you're holding up all these people and i don't care if they are
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under a time crunch or not you shouldn't be doing it and they should be immediately arrested every
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time this happens or dragged to one side of the of the road and then traffic just proceeds you know
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this is exactly why a lot of states have passed the law that you can safely or carefully drive through
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these blockades even when they're in the road and they won't move you can sort of drive through
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them and not face prosecution missouri had a law like that i think oklahoma several other places have
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uh proposed legislation and passed legislation that it is not illegal to drive through them
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they'll move uh believe me i think if you start if you drive through there there are they going to
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continue to just sit there well it's because you maybe i doubt it i think my plan would be
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uh i would stand up and i would say guys what i'm about to do is put my car into drive
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then i'm going to duck my head under this uh under the dashboard here and i'm not going to see what's
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coming up i'm going to duck my head and it's going to roll forward and if you're in front of it
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you're going to get hit i'm not even going to see it happen but you're going to get hit that is what
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is about to occur judge your own risk and then start the engine well that's the thing and then
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anytime anybody does this and they start to drive slowly through a group like this they start screaming
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bloody murder like you're trying to literally trying to murder them i'm sorry you're the one that's in
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the road this is not where you're supposed to be i don't know if you're aware of that it's a really
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terrible tactic it's a really hate it it's a terrible tactic and it does nothing for you
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except people piss people off no one no one is sitting back there and saying you know what i've
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reconsidered my uh position on fossil fuels yeah because they're sitting in a freeway it must be
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really important it must be really important be important i'm not going to do fossil fuels i
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remember this happened in houston when you when you lived down there do you remember this did yes i do
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remember this it it was the uh seiu protest uh for the janitors who cleaned the buildings downtown
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and so the downtown janitors group uh i don't remember what they called themselves but they
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brought in a that's a good enough name yeah i think it's downtown janitors group i like it they
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brought in a ton of people from chicago from seiu headquarters and then imported the people imported
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them to houston and then in in big intersections uh they they would drive into the intersection and
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then dumped garbage in the middle of it i guess symbolic that okay here's the stuff we cleaned up
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last night and now it's in the middle of the road without us this will never get cleaned up that
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type of thing and that did not endear me to their plight no i'm telling you so they would block major
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inner intersections with garbage yeah huge piles of it because they dump a whole bunch of it and then
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you were like darn it give these guys a raise no that's not what happened that is not how it
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happened no no it tended to upset me and make me a bit irritable and not friendly to their cause
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actually so and out of spite you just wind up like i like if that happened to me and i'm driving and i
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was sitting there in that traffic for all that time i would even with the cost of gas being five dollars
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a gallon intentionally rev my engine at every stoplight for the next month just to hurt the
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environment now that's might not be sane and also it doesn't really hurt the environment but right it
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just symbolically to annoy them i would do it yeah and i would never i would be much less likely to go
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along with their cause after that i i no question i wouldn't want to even consider it because i wouldn't
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want to reward them i don't understand how they think that helps it doesn't it doesn't not to mention
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that their cause is ridiculous bat crap crazy yes it really is and i'm reading uh alex epstein's new
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book great book uh fossil future right now which is about you know maybe we should consider i don't
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know using more fossil fuels not less maybe actually you know we'll make the world a lot better if we use
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more and he makes the case and it's i it's i think it's really hard to pick apart which is why the left
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does not engage with it that you know there there can occasionally be you know some things about
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fossil fuels that are negative uh however the good totally overwhelms that right and it's and it is a
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unique ability uh to to create that good you know we talk about okay well we can we can make solar power
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we can make wind power and obviously there's tons of problems with that and the cost and all the things
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we've talked about a million times but also they don't even start to address major portions of
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the our our energy needs really they just produce electricity so like you know when you're talking
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about heavy machinery how you getting that done you know i know i know elon musk has a couple of
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prototypes out there for long hauling uh with electric vehicles maybe eventually that comes across i
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wouldn't put i wouldn't put anything past elon musk you know the guy's pretty smart and seems to be
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able to accomplish a lot of amazing things and maybe one day that technology will be real but as
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of right now heavy duty transportation is fossil fuels full stop there's no way to do it without
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fossil fuels you need them and and and he pointed out a prediction that i had forgotten about pat
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a prediction from al gore uh and and a need from a demand from al gore in 2008 i think it was
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that we are completely off of fossil fuels by 2018
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and i thought i sat back and i thought what so in 10 years he wanted to be completely off fossil
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fuels at no point did he try to get the actual reasoning behind that or how you would do that
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it was obviously impossible i mean look at this we're at we've increased our fossil fuel usage since
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then and we're not at zero i will tell you that and just think of now how absurd it is i mean you
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had you could have never predicted someone like elon musk would come along right a guy who was willing
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to throw vast amounts of his fortune at a problem he really cared about and risk losing billions of
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dollars right he just did it because he really cared about it and was able to innovate faster than
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any of these major car companies could i mean you could have never predicted or depended on someone
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like that coming along to advance in electric cars and even with that advancement we're still not even
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remotely close i think it's three percent of our energy comes from renewable uh from solar and wind
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now three percent if you combine solar and wind together yeah i think if you do solar wind and
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hydroelectric it's like five yeah and hydro is you know again another thing the left fights against
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all the time yeah i it just seems quite clear they don't what it's not about the carbon you know
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it's about there's this idea that you want to sort of de-industrialize this country yeah they fight
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against hydro and nuclear which are both clean renewable sources and they won't have anything to
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do with either one of them you know and i'm skeptical that solar or wind could ever do the types of
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things we need from for our power supply skeptical even if the the technology improved to some level
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where it was capable of doing a lot more the left would complain about that too did you see the car
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company in i don't know sweden or fitz switzerland or somewhere where the they they have it run on solar
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power they built solar panels into the car it's 245 000 just the 245 245 what's the lease price on
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that uh you know probably about 80 000 a month that's not a very good lease i'm just gonna say
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100 000 down and only pay 20 000 a month wow yeah it's up to you i'm in but not only not only did it
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cost an extraordinary amount of money but it also got you i believe 40 miles on a charge
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oh yeah yeah so how sweet is that very sweet okay so you could almost get to working back
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one day before you had to fire it back up with the sun that isn't shining by the time you get home
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really and so what do you do with it it's so impractical we're just not there we're not there
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yet where you can say all right let's turn this over and uh let's cut back on our fossil fuels
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and i think you and i both agree that if we were there i'd be fine with that i don't have any i don't
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care loyalty to a fossil fuels i don't work for exxon mobile i mean i do recognize that they've
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turned you know the world into a we now have like civilization largely because of fossil fuels so i do
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give them i have a lot of affinity for fossil fuels i don't i look at them as an overall massively
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on the positive side of the ledger it's and it's not close however if some other technology like
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nuclear makes an argument here right there's there's a possibility for for nuclear i think
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uh being a real player in in in the in the world of especially electricity generation and i think there's
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an exciting future there for nuclear it's you know it but again it's opposed by the left it's opposed
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they hate it you can always tell a serious environmentalist from from one of these idiots
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that's going to sit in the middle of a highway when you ask them about nuclear if they won't embrace
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nuclear you know they're not serious about it now you you might i think i could still make the
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argument that it's not it should not be our highest priority to go to zero carbon like that's not
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that doesn't you know it's it's ridiculous i mean it's just essentially an another attempt it's an
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attempt at man-made climate change it's like we you were saying we had man-made climate change so
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let's implement another kind of man-made climate change we'll adjust everything about it and try to
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change the climate by man again i mean this seems to be an idiotic pursuit but if you're going to go
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down that road obviously nuclear would be the way you'd go and they don't even address it they don't
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want anything to do with it and it shows they're not serious about it
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it just it gets more incomprehensible every single time really apparently an officer had the
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shooter in his sights and couldn't get the okay to fire i didn't really realize we had rules of
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engagement like that for police officers when you see somebody who has a a rifle heading into an
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elementary school seems like you take the shot doesn't it well especially after the guy's already
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shot at people right you know yes that's true i think he had taken random shots at people outside
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the school yeah he came he got in the car accident he got out people ran over to help him and he
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started shooting at them that's how this whole thing started so he'd already fired the weapon
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multiple times and you're right i don't understand why you would need approval over something like
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that could have been shot before he enters the building and avoid all of this tragedy it really
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is just it's sickening i don't understand how each of these things happened along the way uh from law
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enforcement you know we're huge supporters of law 100 yeah 100 i mean i i the the but this is
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incomprehensible it is incomprehensible it does seem like it's going down every single decision that was
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made seems wrong was you know worse and worse and there's all sorts of miscommunication they
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think that maybe the request wasn't heard they didn't hear it seems really strange yeah all the
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stuff seems difficult to understand or believe and the fact that they spent multiple days saying how
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great they were is really a frustrating part of this right the initial response i mean they told
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the governor here greg abbott hey these guys are heroes they're fantastic you got to praise him
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he comes out in the first press conference and does that basically he's like hey it looks like
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they they really minimize this and now he's furious about it because you know what he was told was
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because it looked bad yeah yeah yeah the opening press conference was really inaccurate yeah i mean
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i don't think it was his fault no it wasn't but greg abbott's fault yeah uh it's just that
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they didn't do anything right it seems i mean everything they could have done they didn't do
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uh and i mean this was completely avoidable yeah i guess you know i guess you're right i think it's
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really hard to stop these things and i think the idea that you can compass common sense gun legislation
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and you're going to stop mass shootings is idiotic right it is it is it is it is it's almost
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incomprehensive incomprehensible how dumb it is it doesn't make any sense even if you passed even
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if you pass common sense gun reform and you were right that the reason why they the reason why these
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things happen is because there's so many guns in this country now none of this is actually true but
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even if you did it all you'd be doing is slowing the new purchases of firearms there's still be all
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these guns out there so and you probably honestly wouldn't slow the purchase of new firearms what
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happened when they banned ar-15s and and quote unquote assault rifles back in the day which was
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94 to 2004 if i'm not mistaken um what what wound up happening was of course no effect on homicide rates
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as the reports from the government clearly stated there was no effect they what they did see is a few
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shootings that may have occurred with assault rifles quote unquote uh wound up happening with
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handguns so that was the big savings there you wound up getting shot by a handgun instead of an ar-15
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and you wound up dying anyway that was essentially what the government found if there was any effect
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at all they said it was almost impossible to detect any effect whatsoever well wait a minute but you're
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talking about an ar-15 which was created for the sole purpose of killing people as opposed to a handgun
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right right which is created massage for yes yes massage or door stops a lot of a lot of the
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handguns are used as a doorstop that's the main creation right the main reason for their use so but
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what happened was pat and this this makes a lot of sense let's say you got a couple thousand dollars
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you're running it wanted to drop on an ar-15 and let's say they get banned you can't buy an ar-15
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for two thousand dollars what are you gonna do with that 2k my guess is you're gonna buy two three four
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handguns how many guns are you gonna buy for that 2k you're gonna wind up spent and that's what
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happened of course the amount of guns in the country increased dramatically over this period
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where they banned ar-15s they you know it's just it this stuff doesn't make doesn't work any sense
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and you look how impossible it is to stop these events here's here's illinois with all these all the
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the gun love uh anti-gun utopia of illinois where they've passed every one of these laws uh they
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they first tried to come out and do what they always do well other states nearby have loose gun
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laws and a lot of times we don't have any evidence to back this up but a lot of times people are buying
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them in like indiana and coming across the border with them and then they're committing their crimes
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because that's what gang members do all the time pat they go you know guys let's drive to indiana
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to acquire some weapons now let's not take them in criminal actions or borrow them from other
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criminals let's go to a real gun store in indiana get our background checked because that's gonna
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really be helpful that's not what happens and they tried that initially then they found out ah crap he
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bought it in illinois so they bought all these guns in illinois uh he was over 21 i think he actually
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i think he purchased it technically before he turned 21 but he could have purchased it
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because he was 20 i think he was above you know he was past the age he could have bought at 21 even if
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you changed the limits he still would have been able to acquire these weapons and uh he went through
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this whole process he they had the red flag opportunities everything was there all the all the tools you
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could have possibly needed and still he bought these guns and still he did these things in the uvalde
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situation you can't i don't think you can stop him from going to that school uh with that gun
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it's it's just really difficult to do this as i pointed out the other day there's 150 000 schools
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in this country 150 000 of them they all go to school 180 days a year hundreds of students go to each
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one it's really difficult to pick up that one kid who's going to do something like this but when
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the police happen to be there and they happen to have a scope pointed at the guy with the gun in the
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sights about to walk into the school yes you could have prevented this one pull the trigger the trigger
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do it and you know what no one's going you know that i think they're aware that they're they're
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terrified right every time they shoot uh every time they take the wrong action if god forbid they make
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a mistake god forbid they do something that's not so crystal clear we see what happened uh the other
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day the other shooting that we talked about with police where they shot a guy who had fired their
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weapon at them while out of a moving car and everyone's in the street protesting the cops over it
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yeah so i can understand why they're hesitant but in this situation it seemed like they should have
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done the right thing but the guy goes in there were so many opportunities you know the door to
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the classroom he was in wasn't even locked we find out that information because initially we thought it
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was locked and so they tried the door handle and it was locked and they couldn't get in and so they
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couldn't figure out how to get in do i break it down with a battering ram do i get a key from a
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janitor and in fact that we heard he they got a key from a janitor no they didn't even need one
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it was open that's what's so shady about this look the police look obviously understood a lot went wrong
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here immediately and instead of taking responsibility for it and saying and i think there were officers
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that are we're going to find out did do the right thing here and say uh to the media hey guys uh what
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they're telling you is not true i think we're going to find out there there were some real heroes in that
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in that group that that wound up going to the media behind the scenes and telling them what really
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went on here because i think the leadership there decided how do we cover this how do we how do we
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make this look like it was not as bad as it was and you know in the moment you can understand some of
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the decisions you can kind of come up with some rationale for i i don't understand what the rationale for
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though is for some for an officer to have to ask permission to take that shot bizarre that's
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incomprehensible it's really bizarre on the other hand we have this situation where a hero citizen
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um actually saw something and said something like we're always told to do and it prevented it
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another tragedy on the 4th of july it's just so weird that there were these uh two would-be
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attackers that were planning another massacre in richmond virginia but fortunately there was a
00:26:20.040
resident who overheard a conversation between the two of them went to police and police were able to
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apprehend the two men who had two rifles a handgun and 223 rounds of ammunition so
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who knows how big a tragedy that could have happened and yet it was prevented um
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it's the sad truth about this is it's that is just really hard to do it is hard think of what are the
00:26:48.460
odds of them you know this one person overhearing this conversation and thankfully coming forward
00:26:52.320
with that information but it's really really really hard to prevent this stuff you know if you're
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going to have gatherings of people there's always going to be some psycho that that is out there
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trying to do something bad and the good thing is there's not a lot of them but the the bad thing
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about there not being a lot of them is it's really hard to make a difference it's hard to minimize these
00:27:15.040
things it really is you you could do your best to try to to go after uh you know these people when you
00:27:22.160
hear these rumors of uh you know when they're making videos about potential threats and and
00:27:29.000
fetishizing shooters and and things like this we've seen this trail of behavior but like we also live
00:27:35.740
in a country and this is a good thing that does not just arrest people when they say things that
00:27:40.620
sound bad you know we we live in a country where we don't go we're not supposed to go through
00:27:46.740
everybody's private communications and and arrest them all their bad things and arrest them before
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they've committed crimes yeah it's just not you know i don't know if there's a if there's a level
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of you know i i don't know what the answer is here honestly because it's such this is the this is
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the thing that the media doesn't want to admit the reason why it's really difficult to deal with
00:28:06.680
is because it's a really small problem i know it feels like it's a big problem we we talked about
00:28:11.520
this the other day off the air pat we went through they say what are those 309 mass shootings or
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something big headline on drudge three uh the fourth of july shooting was the nation's 309th
00:28:21.840
now such shooting don't need to convince you that that's nonsense because you know it's nonsense there
00:28:27.280
have not been 309 mass shootings unless you can you consider every you come up with the most ridiculous
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wide definition we all know what mass shootings are when we say it it comes from the non-profit gun
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violence archives right yeah so you're saying that's inaccurate i am going to say that that is
00:28:43.600
wow not necessarily that they're look people get shot uh in gangs all the time and if you shoot
00:28:49.820
two people in a gang they count it you know as as a mass shooting that's not what we're talking about
00:28:54.660
right we know what a mass shooting is this crime of spectacle right this thing where you're going
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out trying to get attention trying to kill as many people as possible randomly usually we count three
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of them this year yeah not 309 three three three and by the way they've all happened in the past seven
00:29:09.440
weeks so it's really on our minds right now but this entire year there have been three what i would
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consider the traditional definition of a mass shooting that's uh uvalde is the july 4th and uh buffalo
00:29:23.560
right those three i think really do qualify like for example the next next on the list for for the amount
00:29:30.000
of people dead was as was a terrible terrible story but you tell me if this fits your definition
00:29:36.640
of a mass shooting a guy is in prison he escapes prison acquires a gun goes to a campsite where a
00:29:46.080
camp a family is camping and kills everybody in the family at a campsite now that's bad escaped
00:29:52.800
to prison i mean terrible unthinkable tragedy as this i think it was the grandfather of these kids
00:29:58.980
was was just out there like trying to have a a great weekend with his kids camping alone in the
00:30:04.840
middle of the wilderness and gets uh you know really sad and gets killed that's not that's not
00:30:09.920
what we would consider a mass shooting no it's an escaped prisoner like i how do you blame gun laws for
00:30:15.920
that one i believe he was not able to own a gun in prison so i i don't think any any anything would
00:30:21.280
have been prevented by common sense gun reform on that one you know a lot of this stuff is there's
00:30:26.660
another a shootout between two gangs in the middle of the inner city again not at all what we would
00:30:33.500
think about when we think of a mass shooting by that definition there have been three of them this
00:30:38.680
year three is more than zero which is the goal but stopping three incidents in a in a country of 330
00:30:46.520
million people man that is a tough tough task it is and you're talking about a few dozen people
00:30:56.240
every year die from these mass shootings that is terrible and we want it to be zero but like
00:31:02.280
it is really hard in a country of 330 million people to take 30 30 deaths and turn it to zero
00:31:09.780
that's a very difficult task 888-727-BECK more patents do for glenn coming up
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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pat and stew for glenn this week uh wnba star britney greiner pleaded guilty today in a russian
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court to drug charges that carry up to 10 years in prison according to reuters and a russian state
00:31:52.040
media report now because she here's what she's accused of hashish oil in her luggage in her vape
00:32:00.720
cartridges uh okay that's a 10 year prison problem in russia no in russia i guess um does she really
00:32:12.840
have it in her suitcase i don't know my my certainly my first instinct is to believe that the the russian
00:32:18.360
government just they were retaliated against us right there that's what angry at us felt like in
00:32:23.900
the beginning and we've seen that happen obviously many times over the years she her statement was
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interesting she said i'd like to plead guilty your honor but there was no intent i didn't want to break
00:32:32.780
the law she said in court so it makes me think that maybe she either didn't realize that it was illegal
00:32:39.360
and she actually did have it or you know it could just be that's her excuse there's some speculation
00:32:45.520
that this is a precursor to a deal being made with america that she will be released but she needs to
00:32:53.580
that's true guilty first yeah maybe that's maybe that is the deal they made she also said i'd like
00:32:58.680
to give my testimony later i need time to prepare well you you've had like three months have you not
00:33:05.320
it seems like the one thing she would have time is to prepare her testimony yeah but uh but it's
00:33:10.960
you know she needs to be brought back to the united states and i can't believe they let this linger
00:33:16.140
all this time again if donald trump were in office i don't think this would be an issue i think
00:33:22.520
she'd be here by now oh i think she would have been here a long time ago honestly the war probably
00:33:27.460
doesn't start so that's true we can reverse a lot of the negative effects we've seen over the past
00:33:32.540
few months yeah but i think it's funny because the media is like well you know if this was tom brady
00:33:39.300
then we'd really be upset about it and you know what it would be first of all if it was tom brady
00:33:46.560
specifically tom brady as an eagles fan i don't know how upset i would be but uh but it would be a
00:33:52.500
much bigger deal but it would be it's true it would be if it was lebron james it'd be a much
00:33:57.140
bigger deal yeah it's not my favorite example either i know i would how about this uh kevin
00:34:02.600
durant okay he seems to be great and i like kevin durant so there you go kevin durant
00:34:07.100
steph curry steph curry if steph curry was over there it would be a long time ago the biggest
00:34:13.720
international incident in the world and the of course the the the implied thing there is that
00:34:19.680
we care about men and we don't care about women no we care about people who are super famous
00:34:24.000
if it was serena williams i think people would be more up in arms right like it would be a huge huge
00:34:29.880
deal not that many people know who britney grinder is i mean she's a famous female basketball player
00:34:34.940
but i don't know who the best pinochle player is in the united states and if it was the most famous
00:34:41.840
pinochle player in the united states i don't are you comparing women's in w nba basketball
00:34:49.700
to pinochle you know i know it's unfair to the pinochle people i'm just trying to come up with some
00:34:55.820
some you know like i i don't know what what the best lacrosse player in the country i don't i don't
00:35:01.020
follow lacrosse at all i had heard britney grinder's name i don't even know why i think was she like one
00:35:06.100
of the first people who maybe dunked in the w nba maybe maybe i saw eight foot seven or something
00:35:10.600
she's very tall i don't even know why i know her name i don't watch w nba basketball i don't care
00:35:15.560
about w nba basketball and that's why people aren't as up in arms as if it was tom brady or lebron james
00:35:21.940
or steph curry that's why yeah it's not because it's a it's a woman it's it's that's just a ridiculous
00:35:27.920
it's it's just because people don't really follow and don't really know who she is that's why
00:35:31.780
it's interesting that she wrote a letter to biden earlier this week urging his administration to
00:35:37.040
help her and other american detainees she said i realize she's cutting him some slack here which
00:35:43.300
he doesn't deserve no i realize you're dealing with so much but please don't forget about me and the
00:35:50.140
other american detainees please do all you can do to bring us home if this was trump and he had
00:35:56.220
ignored this situation like biden has oh my gosh that would not have been the tenor of or the tone
00:36:04.420
of her letter and she brings up i think a really important point here which is we know her name
00:36:10.160
but there are other american detainees and we don't know their name and what's the what's the reason for
00:36:14.340
that is because she's famous and they're not right yes we should be fighting for britney griner to come
00:36:20.080
by back because she's an american citizen and particularly assuming if she didn't do this but even if
00:36:25.800
she did it does seem like pretty clear retaliation at some level we should be trying to get her home
00:36:31.500
because we care about american citizens whether they're famous or not it's got nothing to do with
00:36:35.180
whether she's a good basketball player or whether you know what if she was the worst player in the
00:36:39.440
wmba that happened to be over there we should still be trying it's got nothing to do with her being a
00:36:44.280
celebrity if she worked at walmart as a greeter we should be fighting to get her out and many of these
00:36:48.780
other people that are detained are those those types of people i mean we just got one one of them back
00:36:53.820
uh relatively recently in a in a swap and that's right and like we should be always working on
00:37:00.720
that and i will say that was one thing that trump focused a lot of his attention on him he was he was
00:37:05.220
working that the those back channels a lot and was successful and getting a lot of people who we kind
00:37:11.880
of had left for dead i think as a society it just for that we're never going to get them back and was
00:37:16.900
able to get a bunch of them i mean we the north korean uh situation was was a big example of that but it
00:37:22.520
happened multiple times during his presidency he spent a lot of time thinking about that and i
00:37:27.320
think that's part of the reason why if you want to believe the best motivations here it's part of
00:37:31.740
the reason why the media hasn't gone too too crazy on this and that you don't the best thing might not
00:37:38.580
be everybody constantly talking about her being over there for the back channel stuff to work my guess
00:37:45.780
is there are diplomats trying to make this happen i don't think biden's done a good job with this or
00:37:50.540
anything else but i'm sure there are efforts going on to try to make this situation go away
00:37:55.580
and it may come to a good resolution here at some point but like constantly focusing attention on it
00:38:03.280
is probably pretty good for the unknown detaining it might not be so good for a well-known detaining
00:38:10.920
if you're caught with hashish oil at dfw uh what do you think the penalty would be i mean would they
00:38:19.160
you probably you might get arrested yeah it'd be a federal drug crime right 500 fine and they'd tell
00:38:25.040
you to go home maybe i mean you might do you might maybe i mean you know airports are always weird
00:38:30.900
right like 10 that year sentence like if you are in in line at a concert and you make some joke about
00:38:37.280
the security right yeah the security guard is going to be like dude that's not funny or all right
00:38:43.900
all right enough enough right that's the end of it if you're doing it at an airport we all know
00:38:48.340
you're probably going to be there for the next six hours in the back room and probably going to jail
00:38:53.080
yes so i mean i when you when it comes to airports people are a little you really shouldn't bring drugs
00:38:58.380
through airports that but that's it's a little safety tip for the audience oh really yeah if so it's
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your recommendation to leave the hashish oil at home that's not exactly my recommendation pat i i
00:39:10.020
might i might recommend and this is i don't want to be judgmental here you don't acquire the hashish
00:39:15.840
oil oh at all at any point at all yes like just live your life wow hashish free wow that's that would
00:39:23.900
be my my generalized recommendation but if coke to nose can that's totally fine you know it's fine don't
00:39:30.360
don't try to put that's totally fine anything coke to nose candy a little a little heroin here and
00:39:35.960
there totally fine totally fine to bring you on planes as far as i you can shoot up on planes now
00:39:41.060
now you can't you can't misgender the stewardess no uh who is get those pronouns correct steward please
00:39:48.500
uh you're gonna have some problems but uh heroin i'm pretty sure is okay on planes these days but be
00:39:53.400
careful with the hashish oil look it's it it is it's a situation where a lot of times rules are on
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the books in these countries that are adversarial to us and many times are not going to be applied
00:40:09.960
to the x the fullest extent of the law like you have hashish oil you're going through i don't know
00:40:15.560
does every russian citizen it might you know a lot of them probably do right russia's not exactly known
00:40:20.280
for their nuanced uh nuanced uh law enforcement it's not really the way that they roll but clearly
00:40:28.540
i think britney grinder is getting the worst of this because of the current situation definitely even
00:40:33.600
if she did do it which is highly questionable we don't know that at all right could it have been
00:40:40.680
planted not there at all not there all i think very definitely it could have but she did sort of
00:40:47.500
admit to it but again that could be part of the deal right that could be part of okay just admit
00:40:52.940
to being guilty and we'll send you home next week or whatever we all know it doesn't i hope that's
00:40:57.760
what it is it's not going to improve your situation to say these people are framing me that's not going
00:41:01.580
to help you you're already in russian prison like you don't want to necessarily inflame the situation
00:41:09.000
when you come home you say crane you probably don't want to scream that in the russian airport
00:41:13.940
either it's just like not bringing hashish oil on an airplane i would also say don't say long
00:41:19.400
live ukraine while you're in russian prison those are the two things i would say good safety tips
00:41:23.380
it's the only two tips i have for you today okay um here's uh another piece of breaking news boris
00:41:29.160
johnson has resigned as prime minister of great britain uh he's resigning but he is going to stay on
00:41:36.580
until they figure out who else it's going to be and that could be who knows he said october um
00:41:41.880
he originally was just going to try to ride this out and i i don't fully understand the parliamentary
00:41:48.480
system i mean this happens in israel like five times a year they have uh elections and they have
00:41:55.200
no confidence votes and then suddenly somebody's quitting and they have to do another election
00:42:00.620
for the fifth time in the last couple of years but uh britain has a sort of similar thing if people
00:42:07.200
don't like him i guess they have to step down i don't know it's a bizarre i almost wish that was
00:42:12.420
our system right now because can we turn that system on for like a week like a week you know just go back
00:42:18.540
to being a republic but just for a week yeah and wouldn't that be nice the accusation here is that i guess
00:42:25.000
one of his underlings had some sexual harassment issue in the past right and they i guess they found
00:42:31.920
out about it punished him he stuck around and then had a second incident yeah and they got rid of him
00:42:38.300
and when they asked boris johnson about it he he says he didn't remember the first incident i think
00:42:44.440
most people don't believe him they think he was just trying to hide it or cover it up and that's why
00:42:49.260
i guess his own party turned on him which means he has to step down there were some also some
00:42:54.040
allegations about parties during that pandemic a previous scandal that he survived deal because
00:42:59.620
for the people apparently he served well i mean look the gavin newsom thing was a big deal here
00:43:04.000
but the same thing happened as the gavin newsom thing like he got the heat for it a recall or a
00:43:09.780
no confidence vote and he survived but he's they both survived it uh in gavin newsom's case it's sad
00:43:15.440
that he survived it because very the people of california are forced to deal with that nonsense
00:43:20.520
and i will say this there's an increasing chance that we here in america are forced to deal with it
00:43:27.620
because gavin newsom quite clearly is angling to run in 2024 no question if the opportunity presents
00:43:35.460
itself and if this election this midterm goes as well for republicans as i hope it does
00:43:42.880
it's going to create an incredible amount of pressure on joe biden to not go for it in 2024
00:43:48.760
yeah i don't know i mean biden loves his power though i don't know that he sure does i don't
00:43:52.720
know that he'll fold to that pressure but it's possible