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00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast today pat and stew in for glenn we talk about the highway protests that

00:00:05.200 have been going on lately to prove global warming is a thing i guess if you sit in the middle of the

00:00:09.420 road people get uh on your side and we go we we examine the logic of that particular approach

00:00:16.020 is nuclear power a potential option is fossil fuel no way too many people killed way too many

00:00:23.100 no that's not really well we'll get into that on the show uh today we also have uh gavin newsom

00:00:28.560 is back in the news we'll talk about him and his obvious angling to try to be president of the

00:00:33.920 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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00:02:36.900 pat and stew thanks for joining us on the glenbeck program uh there was a bunch of people that got in

00:02:46.900 the way of traffic again this is a tactic that uh i absolutely love i think it's great that people just

00:02:52.700 sit in the middle of the freeways you know it's not wonderful when they when they break the law and

00:02:58.580 just show you how committed they are to their cause and it just makes you friendly toward their cause yeah

00:03:02.680 that's me too that's exactly how i feel yeah i always feel like you know wow that's great i wasn't

00:03:07.100 going to support them in their fight against global warming and then i was like wait a minute you've

00:03:11.040 ruined my day yeah now i'm gonna support you now i love your cause my kid is stranded yeah i can't i

00:03:16.980 can't pick them up and they're stranded wherever they are there's like sitting outside a baseball field

00:03:21.900 somewhere just sad looking at puppy eyes and waiting for mommy or daddy to show up and no one's coming

00:03:27.000 because you've blocked my path i love your cause now well yeah you wouldn't be so selfish as to say

00:03:33.500 you should be allowed to go through here oh you know of course not that would be wrong i hope even

00:03:38.220 if you have extenuating circumstances right and even if it's really extreme yeah and there's a guy

00:03:43.300 here who is trying to tell him i've got extenuating circumstances i could go to jail check check this out

00:03:50.300 if i don't make my job okay his parole will be revoked if he doesn't make it to his job

00:04:04.760 and he'll be back in jail one lane i'm asking one lane one lane let me just get through here

00:04:14.300 this is on the beltway in washington dc uh my gosh

00:04:21.100 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

00:04:30.120 most sympathetic character but this poor guy just wants to not go back to jail yeah yeah but even if

00:04:38.580 all right so police show up and and do arrest the protesters but they also arrest him right so

00:04:47.660 that he it doesn't even work out he no this is this is this is your story of the day as all other

00:04:52.940 stories of the day and in a very sad way yep it's just amazing pat you know i don't understand it like

00:05:00.980 you know i i will say i watch that footage and every time i've watched it i watch it several times now

00:05:05.900 and every time i watch it i just think to myself i would not have been able to control myself in

00:05:10.200 that situation no way i would not i would have done something stupid i'm not on parole no you know 0.56

00:05:15.860 and i would have been more pissed than he is yeah i mean he kind of pushes one of them that's about 0.68

00:05:20.880 as far as he goes he takes their banners uh and he pushes one of them he crumpled them up too he

00:05:25.640 crumpled up the banners some of them he might have actually destroyed it isn't exactly effective

00:05:30.700 in a long line of traffic only the first the first cars are going to see it you know right really

00:05:35.540 they're going to see it they're going to see it for a very long time true but it's not really

00:05:39.520 effective here you are you know climate change protesters you're upset about climate change so

00:05:46.340 you cause thousands of cars to idle on the freeway altogether because that's really good for the

00:05:53.660 environment so that's a really it's a good move it really helps your cause i i don't understand this

00:05:59.080 first it's illegal to sit in a roadway like that you're on the capital beltway which is one of the

00:06:05.460 busiest freeways in the country and you're holding up all these people and i don't care if they are 1.00

00:06:11.640 under a time crunch or not you shouldn't be doing it and they should be immediately arrested every

00:06:16.860 time this happens or dragged to one side of the of the road and then traffic just proceeds you know

00:06:24.100 this is exactly why a lot of states have passed the law that you can safely or carefully drive through

00:06:30.640 these blockades even when they're in the road and they won't move you can sort of drive through

00:06:36.280 them and not face prosecution missouri had a law like that i think oklahoma several other places have

00:06:43.700 uh proposed legislation and passed legislation that it is not illegal to drive through them

00:06:49.580 they'll move uh believe me i think if you start if you drive through there there are they going to

00:06:55.540 continue to just sit there well it's because you maybe i doubt it i think my plan would be

00:07:02.000 uh i would stand up and i would say guys what i'm about to do is put my car into drive

00:07:08.520 then i'm going to duck my head under this uh under the dashboard here and i'm not going to see what's

00:07:16.140 coming up i'm going to duck my head and it's going to roll forward and if you're in front of it

00:07:21.240 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

00:07:26.060 is about to occur judge your own risk and then start the engine well that's the thing and then

00:07:32.980 anytime anybody does this and they start to drive slowly through a group like this they start screaming

00:07:39.900 bloody murder like you're trying to literally trying to murder them i'm sorry you're the one that's in 0.77

00:07:46.260 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

00:07:50.700 terrible tactic it's a really hate it it's a terrible tactic and it does nothing for you

00:07:57.520 except people piss people off no one no one is sitting back there and saying you know what i've

00:08:02.020 reconsidered my uh position on fossil fuels yeah because they're sitting in a freeway it must be

00:08:06.360 really important it must be really important be important i'm not going to do fossil fuels i

00:08:09.580 remember this happened in houston when you when you lived down there do you remember this did yes i do

00:08:13.940 remember this it it was the uh seiu protest uh for the janitors who cleaned the buildings downtown

00:08:20.740 and so the downtown janitors group uh i don't remember what they called themselves but they

00:08:28.220 brought in a that's a good enough name yeah i think it's downtown janitors group i like it they

00:08:33.500 brought in a ton of people from chicago from seiu headquarters and then imported the people imported

00:08:38.880 them to houston and then in in big intersections uh they they would drive into the intersection and

00:08:46.560 then dumped garbage in the middle of it i guess symbolic that okay here's the stuff we cleaned up

00:08:52.680 last night and now it's in the middle of the road without us this will never get cleaned up that

00:08:56.980 type of thing and that did not endear me to their plight no i'm telling you so they would block major

00:09:02.680 inner intersections with garbage yeah huge piles of it because they dump a whole bunch of it and then

00:09:07.820 you were like darn it give these guys a raise no that's not what happened that is not how it

00:09:12.920 happened no no it tended to upset me and make me a bit irritable and not friendly to their cause 0.92

00:09:20.820 actually so and out of spite you just wind up like i like if that happened to me and i'm driving and i

00:09:27.720 was sitting there in that traffic for all that time i would even with the cost of gas being five dollars

00:09:33.660 a gallon intentionally rev my engine at every stoplight for the next month just to hurt the

00:09:39.820 environment now that's might not be sane and also it doesn't really hurt the environment but right it

00:09:44.900 just symbolically to annoy them i would do it yeah and i would never i would be much less likely to go

00:09:51.360 along with their cause after that i i no question i wouldn't want to even consider it because i wouldn't

00:09:55.260 want to reward them i don't understand how they think that helps it doesn't it doesn't not to mention

00:10:01.560 that their cause is ridiculous bat crap crazy yes it really is and i'm reading uh alex epstein's new

00:10:09.480 book great book uh fossil future right now which is about you know maybe we should consider i don't

00:10:15.680 know using more fossil fuels not less maybe actually you know we'll make the world a lot better if we use

00:10:21.760 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

00:10:27.340 does not engage with it that you know there there can occasionally be you know some things about

00:10:32.940 fossil fuels that are negative uh however the good totally overwhelms that right and it's and it is a

00:10:39.920 unique ability uh to to create that good you know we talk about okay well we can we can make solar power

00:10:47.180 we can make wind power and obviously there's tons of problems with that and the cost and all the things

00:10:51.220 we've talked about a million times but also they don't even start to address major portions of

00:10:58.840 the our our energy needs really they just produce electricity so like you know when you're talking

00:11:04.640 about heavy machinery how you getting that done you know i know i know elon musk has a couple of

00:11:10.660 prototypes out there for long hauling uh with electric vehicles maybe eventually that comes across i

00:11:16.880 wouldn't put i wouldn't put anything past elon musk you know the guy's pretty smart and seems to be

00:11:20.640 able to accomplish a lot of amazing things and maybe one day that technology will be real but as

00:11:24.300 of right now heavy duty transportation is fossil fuels full stop there's no way to do it without

00:11:31.140 fossil fuels you need them and and and he pointed out a prediction that i had forgotten about pat

00:11:38.480 a prediction from al gore uh and and a need from a demand from al gore in 2008 i think it was

00:11:45.300 that we are completely off of fossil fuels by 2018

00:11:51.500 and i thought i sat back and i thought what so in 10 years he wanted to be completely off fossil

00:11:59.220 fuels at no point did he try to get the actual reasoning behind that or how you would do that

00:12:05.280 it was obviously impossible i mean look at this we're at we've increased our fossil fuel usage since

00:12:10.300 then and we're not at zero i will tell you that and just think of now how absurd it is i mean you

00:12:17.560 had you could have never predicted someone like elon musk would come along right a guy who was willing

00:12:23.160 to throw vast amounts of his fortune at a problem he really cared about and risk losing billions of

00:12:30.380 dollars right he just did it because he really cared about it and was able to innovate faster than

00:12:35.580 any of these major car companies could i mean you could have never predicted or depended on someone

00:12:41.140 like that coming along to advance in electric cars and even with that advancement we're still not even

00:12:47.860 remotely close i think it's three percent of our energy comes from renewable uh from solar and wind

00:12:52.620 now three percent if you combine solar and wind together yeah i think if you do solar wind and

00:12:59.160 hydroelectric it's like five yeah and hydro is you know again another thing the left fights against

00:13:04.920 all the time yeah i it just seems quite clear they don't what it's not about the carbon you know

00:13:12.320 it's about there's this idea that you want to sort of de-industrialize this country yeah they fight

00:13:18.200 against hydro and nuclear which are both clean renewable sources and they won't have anything to

00:13:24.880 do with either one of them you know and i'm skeptical that solar or wind could ever do the types of

00:13:29.620 things we need from for our power supply skeptical even if the the technology improved to some level

00:13:36.620 where it was capable of doing a lot more the left would complain about that too did you see the car

00:13:43.200 company in i don't know sweden or fitz switzerland or somewhere where the they they have it run on solar

00:13:50.780 power they built solar panels into the car it's 245 000 just the 245 245 what's the lease price on

00:14:01.980 that uh you know probably about 80 000 a month that's not a very good lease i'm just gonna say

00:14:09.680 100 000 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

00:14:17.200 cost an extraordinary amount of money but it also got you i believe 40 miles on a charge

00:14:25.400 oh yeah yeah so how sweet is that very sweet okay so you could almost get to working back

00:14:32.000 one day before you had to fire it back up with the sun that isn't shining by the time you get home

00:14:39.120 really and so what do you do with it it's so impractical we're just not there we're not there

00:14:46.980 yet where you can say all right let's turn this over and uh let's cut back on our fossil fuels

00:14:52.460 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

00:14:58.940 care loyalty to a fossil fuels i don't work for exxon mobile i mean i do recognize that they've

00:15:05.180 turned you know the world into a we now have like civilization largely because of fossil fuels so i do

00:15:12.440 give them i have a lot of affinity for fossil fuels i don't i look at them as an overall massively

00:15:19.080 on the positive side of the ledger it's and it's not close however if some other technology like

00:15:25.760 nuclear makes an argument here right there's there's a possibility for for nuclear i think

00:15:30.500 uh being a real player in in in the in the world of especially electricity generation and i think there's

00:15:37.820 an exciting future there for nuclear it's you know it but again it's opposed by the left it's opposed 1.00

00:15:43.920 they hate it you can always tell a serious environmentalist from from one of these idiots 0.99

00:15:49.420 that's going to sit in the middle of a highway when you ask them about nuclear if they won't embrace 0.99

00:15:53.540 nuclear you know they're not serious about it now you you might i think i could still make the

00:15:58.280 argument that it's not it should not be our highest priority to go to zero carbon like that's not

00:16:02.880 that doesn't you know it's it's ridiculous i mean it's just essentially an another attempt it's an

00:16:08.540 attempt at man-made climate change it's like we you were saying we had man-made climate change so

00:16:14.600 let's implement another kind of man-made climate change we'll adjust everything about it and try to 0.97

00:16:20.060 change the climate by man again i mean this seems to be an idiotic pursuit but if you're going to go 0.94

00:16:26.280 down that road obviously nuclear would be the way you'd go and they don't even address it they don't 0.97

00:16:31.940 want anything to do with it and it shows they're not serious about it

00:16:34.740 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:16:42.180 found out something else about uvalde and it

00:17:01.920 it just it gets more incomprehensible every single time really apparently an officer had the

00:17:08.000 shooter in his sights and couldn't get the okay to fire i didn't really realize we had rules of

00:17:14.140 engagement like that for police officers when you see somebody who has a a rifle heading into an

00:17:21.020 elementary school seems like you take the shot doesn't it well especially after the guy's already

00:17:27.260 shot at people right you know yes that's true i think he had taken random shots at people outside

00:17:33.100 the school yeah he came he got in the car accident he got out people ran over to help him and he

00:17:37.660 started shooting at them that's how this whole thing started so he'd already fired the weapon

00:17:42.620 multiple times and you're right i don't understand why you would need approval over something like

00:17:47.140 that could have been shot before he enters the building and avoid all of this tragedy it really

00:17:54.200 is just it's sickening i don't understand how each of these things happened along the way uh from law

00:18:01.860 enforcement you know we're huge supporters of law 100 yeah 100 i mean i i the the but this is

00:18:09.720 incomprehensible it is incomprehensible it does seem like it's going down every single decision that was

00:18:15.520 made seems wrong was you know worse and worse and there's all sorts of miscommunication they

00:18:20.100 think that maybe the request wasn't heard they didn't hear it seems really strange yeah all the

00:18:27.420 stuff seems difficult to understand or believe and the fact that they spent multiple days saying how

00:18:32.980 great they were is really a frustrating part of this right the initial response i mean they told

00:18:38.260 the governor here greg abbott hey these guys are heroes they're fantastic you got to praise him

00:18:43.440 he comes out in the first press conference and does that basically he's like hey it looks like

00:18:48.000 they they really minimize this and now he's furious about it because you know what he was told was

00:18:53.580 because it looked bad yeah yeah yeah the opening press conference was really inaccurate yeah i mean

00:19:00.260 i don't think it was his fault no it wasn't but greg abbott's fault yeah uh it's just that

00:19:05.420 they didn't do anything right it seems i mean everything they could have done they didn't do

00:19:10.640 uh and i mean this was completely avoidable yeah i guess you know i guess you're right i think it's

00:19:19.940 really hard to stop these things and i think the idea that you can compass common sense gun legislation 0.91

00:19:26.740 and you're going to stop mass shootings is idiotic right it is it is it is it is it's almost 0.98

00:19:34.040 incomprehensive incomprehensible how dumb it is it doesn't make any sense even if you passed even 0.99

00:19:42.000 if you pass common sense gun reform and you were right that the reason why they the reason why these

00:19:49.380 things happen is because there's so many guns in this country now none of this is actually true but

00:19:52.920 even if you did it all you'd be doing is slowing the new purchases of firearms there's still be all

00:19:58.220 these guns out there so and you probably honestly wouldn't slow the purchase of new firearms what

00:20:05.340 happened when they banned ar-15s and and quote unquote assault rifles back in the day which was

00:20:11.620 94 to 2004 if i'm not mistaken um what what wound up happening was of course no effect on homicide rates

00:20:18.560 as the reports from the government clearly stated there was no effect they what they did see is a few

00:20:24.120 shootings that may have occurred with assault rifles quote unquote uh wound up happening with

00:20:32.420 handguns so that was the big savings there you wound up getting shot by a handgun instead of an ar-15

00:20:37.560 and you wound up dying anyway that was essentially what the government found if there was any effect

00:20:43.360 at all they said it was almost impossible to detect any effect whatsoever well wait a minute but you're

00:20:47.880 talking about an ar-15 which was created for the sole purpose of killing people as opposed to a handgun

00:20:53.640 right right which is created massage for yes yes massage or door stops a lot of a lot of the 0.90

00:21:00.900 handguns are used as a doorstop that's the main creation right the main reason for their use so but

00:21:06.260 what happened was pat and this this makes a lot of sense let's say you got a couple thousand dollars

00:21:10.760 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 0.85

00:21:16.300 for two thousand dollars what are you gonna do with that 2k my guess is you're gonna buy two three four

00:21:22.340 handguns how many guns are you gonna buy for that 2k you're gonna wind up spent and that's what

00:21:27.840 happened of course the amount of guns in the country increased dramatically over this period

00:21:32.260 where they banned ar-15s they you know it's just it this stuff doesn't make doesn't work any sense

00:21:39.120 and you look how impossible it is to stop these events here's here's illinois with all these all the

00:21:44.960 the gun love uh anti-gun utopia of illinois where they've passed every one of these laws uh they

00:21:52.040 they first tried to come out and do what they always do well other states nearby have loose gun

00:21:58.700 laws and a lot of times we don't have any evidence to back this up but a lot of times people are buying

00:22:05.100 them in like indiana and coming across the border with them and then they're committing their crimes 1.00

00:22:10.160 because that's what gang members do all the time pat they go you know guys let's drive to indiana

00:22:15.440 to acquire some weapons now let's not take them in criminal actions or borrow them from other

00:22:20.960 criminals let's go to a real gun store in indiana get our background checked because that's gonna 0.98

00:22:25.960 really be helpful that's not what happens and they tried that initially then they found out ah crap he 0.82

00:22:30.820 bought it in illinois so they bought all these guns in illinois uh he was over 21 i think he actually

00:22:39.360 i think he purchased it technically before he turned 21 but he could have purchased it

00:22:44.360 because he was 20 i think he was above you know he was past the age he could have bought at 21 even if

00:22:49.620 you changed the limits he still would have been able to acquire these weapons and uh he went through

00:22:54.340 this whole process he they had the red flag opportunities everything was there all the all the tools you

00:23:02.260 could have possibly needed and still he bought these guns and still he did these things in the uvalde

00:23:07.440 situation you can't i don't think you can stop him from going to that school uh with that gun

00:23:15.080 it's it's just really difficult to do this as i pointed out the other day there's 150 000 schools

00:23:21.200 in this country 150 000 of them they all go to school 180 days a year hundreds of students go to each

00:23:28.680 one it's really difficult to pick up that one kid who's going to do something like this but when

00:23:35.940 the police happen to be there and they happen to have a scope pointed at the guy with the gun in the

00:23:45.000 sights about to walk into the school yes you could have prevented this one pull the trigger the trigger

00:23:49.920 do it and you know what no one's going you know that i think they're aware that they're they're

00:23:56.000 terrified right every time they shoot uh every time they take the wrong action if god forbid they make

00:24:02.660 a mistake god forbid they do something that's not so crystal clear we see what happened uh the other

00:24:10.200 day the other shooting that we talked about with police where they shot a guy who had fired their

00:24:14.760 weapon at them while out of a moving car and everyone's in the street protesting the cops over it

00:24:22.480 yeah so i can understand why they're hesitant but in this situation it seemed like they should have

00:24:28.040 done the right thing but the guy goes in there were so many opportunities you know the door to

00:24:34.040 the classroom he was in wasn't even locked we find out that information because initially we thought it

00:24:40.820 was locked and so they tried the door handle and it was locked and they couldn't get in and so they

00:24:45.180 couldn't figure out how to get in do i break it down with a battering ram do i get a key from a

00:24:52.260 janitor and in fact that we heard he they got a key from a janitor no they didn't even need one

00:24:58.020 it was open that's what's so shady about this look the police look obviously understood a lot went wrong

00:25:04.400 here immediately and instead of taking responsibility for it and saying and i think there were officers

00:25:10.940 that are we're going to find out did do the right thing here and say uh to the media hey guys uh what

00:25:17.380 they're telling you is not true i think we're going to find out there there were some real heroes in that

00:25:21.640 in that group that that wound up going to the media behind the scenes and telling them what really

00:25:28.820 went on here because i think the leadership there decided how do we cover this how do we how do we

00:25:35.460 make this look like it was not as bad as it was and you know in the moment you can understand some of

00:25:40.920 the decisions you can kind of come up with some rationale for i i don't understand what the rationale for

00:25:47.040 though is for some for an officer to have to ask permission to take that shot bizarre that's

00:25:52.360 incomprehensible it's really bizarre on the other hand we have this situation where a hero citizen

00:25:59.020 um actually saw something and said something like we're always told to do and it prevented it

00:26:04.680 another tragedy on the 4th of july it's just so weird that there were these uh two would-be

00:26:10.840 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

00:26:26.180 apprehend the two men who had two rifles a handgun and 223 rounds of ammunition so

00:26:34.180 who knows how big a tragedy that could have happened and yet it was prevented um

00:26:41.500 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

00:26:59.120 going to have gatherings of people there's always going to be some psycho that that is out there

00:27:04.340 trying to do something bad and the good thing is there's not a lot of them but the the bad thing

00:27:09.760 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

00:27:52.700 they've committed crimes yeah it's just not you know i don't know if there's a if there's a level

00:27:57.180 of you know i i don't know what the answer is here honestly because it's such this is the this is

00:28:03.520 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

00:28:15.600 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 0.96

00:28:27.280 have not been 309 mass shootings unless you can you consider every you come up with the most ridiculous

00:28:33.080 wide definition we all know what mass shootings are when we say it it comes from the non-profit gun

00:28:38.580 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

00:28:59.000 out trying to get attention trying to kill as many people as possible randomly usually we count three

00:29:03.720 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

00:29:14.220 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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00:31:25.360 pat and stew for glenn this week uh wnba star britney greiner pleaded guilty today in a russian

00:31:44.320 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 1.00

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 1.00

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

00:32:28.220 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 0.69

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 0.60

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.95

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 1.00

00:36:20.080 by back because she's an american citizen and particularly assuming if she didn't do this but even if 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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

00:39:03.680 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

00:40:01.880 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 1.00

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

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