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00:00:18.960 Holy cow, we had some amazing news coming today from the president

00:00:22.940 that what we talked about on Wednesday, and I'm like,

00:00:25.800 look, I didn't prepare this, but I think you should do this.

00:00:28.440 He announces today he is writing up a legal framework right now so farmers and ranchers can butcher their own cattle, they can produce their own product.

00:00:44.960 They don't have to go to one of these big processing plants, which breaks the back of these four big processing plants, which is the cause of most of our problems for our meat producers here in America.

00:00:58.440 an amazing thing. And it all came from you in this audience. We also talk about flock cameras,

00:01:03.580 the fight for the West, and why it was such good news that the Fed in Philadelphia came out with

00:01:13.400 their manufacturing outlook. And according to the people who run factories say, it's better than

00:01:20.160 ever. The highest since 1983 and the biggest one-month jump in history. And I explain why

00:01:28.640 that is so important to you and your life on today's podcast.

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00:01:50.160 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

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00:02:27.940 uh welcome to lake america oh it did frighten me a little bit when he said now all we need is an

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00:02:45.460 gulf america okay i got it i got it i got it it's you know america with him is a little like gold

00:02:53.520 you know everything doesn't have to be gold and everything doesn't have to be named america but

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00:03:08.940 Okay, you can also get our t-shirt there that says, been here before, we've been here before.

00:03:18.600 Because the more you know history, the more I learn about history, the more I realize we have been here before.

00:03:23.980 And I want to talk to you about flock cameras, but we have been here before, believe it or not.

00:03:30.820 And I know I'm talking about cameras, so it's going to seem a little weird, but hear me out.

00:03:34.100 1761 old courthouse in boston a lawyer named james otis he stands up and he argues for five hours

00:03:43.760 against a piece of paper i mean there wasn't a lot going on you know the paper was called a writ

00:03:49.760 of assistance it was a search warrant and it was a strange one because it didn't name a suspect

00:03:56.020 it didn't name a house it didn't describe a crime it authorized a customs offer officer to enter

00:04:03.440 any building, any house, any business,

00:04:06.740 break open any chest,

00:04:08.960 search any drawer, any closet,

00:04:11.460 anything he wants for smuggled goods.

00:04:14.380 And the search warrant did not expire.

00:04:18.840 It's the writ of assistance.

00:04:20.640 We later call them general warrants, okay?

00:04:23.460 And it was good for the life of the king

00:04:26.920 plus six months.

00:04:30.800 Otis loses the case,

00:04:32.040 But sitting in the room taking notes was a young lawyer nobody had ever heard of yet named John Adams.

00:04:38.980 A half century later, he wrote that then and there in that room, the child of independence was born and it was born on general warrants.

00:04:54.980 That's what it became known as a general warrant.

00:04:58.500 You can't just put a warrant out and say,

00:05:01.240 you know, generally, we're going to just look at all cars.

00:05:04.580 We're just going to look at all houses.

00:05:06.080 You can't do that, okay?

00:05:08.000 And they weren't arguing that searches were wrong.

00:05:10.660 They were arguing about one specific feature.

00:05:14.200 General, the general warrant, the generality of all of it.

00:05:18.360 A warrant that names a man and a house is an accusation,

00:05:22.320 and accusations can be answered.

00:05:23.900 A warrant that names no one is not an accusation at all.

00:05:29.140 It's a standing condition.

00:05:32.020 It doesn't say you're suspected.

00:05:34.580 It says everyone here is available for suspicion.

00:05:40.060 That distinction is the reason we have the Fourth Amendment.

00:05:44.540 And it is the entire fight that's happening in American towns right now.

00:05:48.460 This week, two suburbs in Phoenix pulled the plug on their license plate cameras.

00:05:53.680 Good.

00:05:55.260 Tempe turned off every one of them and canceled their $80,000 contract with Flock.

00:06:01.620 Three hours later, Cave Creek not only canceled, but physically removed the equipment.

00:06:07.260 By Wednesday, the count of cities that had canceled or rejected these cameras was over 90.

00:06:14.540 The company is Flock.

00:06:17.560 More than 120,000 cameras across 49 states.

00:06:22.020 If I'm looking, if I own shares at stock, if I'm on the board of Flock, I'm thinking to myself, got to get out of this one quickly.

00:06:30.220 Because here's what they do.

00:06:31.380 They photograph the back of your car, the plate, the make, the color, the time, the location, and then they just put it in a database that police can search.

00:06:40.980 Sometimes across state lines.

00:06:42.360 I don't know.

00:06:42.780 I don't know what we're looking for.

00:06:43.660 What are we looking for?

00:06:44.960 I don't know.

00:06:45.440 I'm looking for my girlfriend, my ex-girlfriend, or my wife. 1.00

00:06:48.780 I know she's cheating on me.

00:06:50.320 That's what it's turning into. 1.00

00:06:52.020 And it'll only get worse from there.

00:06:54.920 Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that more than 50 law enforcement officers

00:06:59.780 have been accused, charged, or convicted of using these systems for unauthorized purposes.

00:07:06.380 Like, she's a hot woman, where's she going?

00:07:09.000 Not kidding.

00:07:10.340 Oh my gosh, I sounded like, I just sounded like Joe Biden.

00:07:13.840 Not kidding, no joke. 0.99

00:07:15.240 Anyway, these are officers using these flock cameras to track women down.

00:07:21.440 they used to date or want to date.

00:07:24.420 Officers with legitimate logins using the system

00:07:27.380 exactly the way it was built to be used

00:07:29.860 for reasons nobody ever authorized.

00:07:33.260 General warrant, I can do whatever I want.

00:07:35.340 I can get in here.

00:07:36.740 And by the way, that's not a bug in the technology.

00:07:39.640 That's the writ of assistance

00:07:41.660 arriving on schedule 265 years later.

00:07:45.920 That's what our country was built against.

00:07:49.840 you know you build a search that names nobody and covers everybody and never expires and you

00:07:57.560 you have not built a tool you've built a cage and a standing condition and standing conditions

00:08:04.600 get used by whoever is standing there okay now let me give you some encouragement here because

00:08:12.240 look how this is stop who's stopping this who's stopping this and i find this genuinely encouraging

00:08:17.340 on wednesday the governor of florida ron desantis came out and said the spread of these readers is

00:08:24.860 out of control we're going to have a surveillance state and it's not happening in florida and he

00:08:29.940 said while making it clear he wants police to have real tools that ain't gonna that's not going to

00:08:35.220 stand in florida the same day senator holly of missouri opened an investigation into the flock

00:08:41.000 network the towns that got their first flagstaff cambridge massachusetts cambridge eugene oregon

00:08:48.820 santa cruz california the aclu has been running a campaign on it for a year

00:08:54.460 wait i just i have a hard time processing this i just want to make sure i have this right a

00:09:01.200 republican governor a republican senator and four of the most progressive city councils in america

00:09:05.800 all arriving at the same conclusion from opposite ends of the country and opposite ends of the

00:09:10.640 argument, why am I encouraged? Because there's no party for this. There is something older than

00:09:19.800 a party. It's the plain human objection to being watched by someone who cannot tell you why. And

00:09:29.660 by the way, being watched by somebody is also cruel and unusual punishment. Where do you find

00:09:34.680 that one in the bill of rights the idea of a panopticon it was a prison it was a round prison

00:09:44.080 and the guards would sit in the center and all of the all of the cells went around in a circle

00:09:50.060 and so the guards they could just keep turning around and staying in place and just turning

00:09:54.800 around and they would see everyone in their cell and they could see everything that was going on

00:09:59.340 that was deemed cruel and unusual punishment, like 200 years ago.

00:10:04.620 Why? Because it is not normal or natural, and it is not healthy.

00:10:09.640 It is cruel and unusual punishment to be viewed and looked at and monitored 24-7.

00:10:17.860 Okay?

00:10:18.820 So, let me tell you the other side of this, because the cameras are working.

00:10:25.240 They find stolen cars.

00:10:26.540 They find abducted children.

00:10:29.340 There are police chiefs right now who can name a specific person who is alive today because a plate hit, came back in 11 minutes.

00:10:37.840 Turning the cameras off is not free, and anybody who is cheering this should be willing to say out loud that, okay, but I'm accepting this cost.

00:10:46.640 I don't think we should cheer.

00:10:47.600 I think we should say that's a good move for these reasons, and yet here is the cost.

00:10:52.940 Some crimes are not going to be solved, and some of them are going to be terrible crimes.

00:10:57.680 Are you willing to make that trade?

00:11:00.520 Because that's a real trade and it deserves a real answer.

00:11:04.540 And the answer is the same one Otis gave and John Adams gave.

00:11:09.540 Nobody is saying an officer can't search.

00:11:12.380 We're saying search, the search has to name someone.

00:11:17.220 Get a warrant on a plate.

00:11:19.560 Keep the data for days instead of a month.

00:11:22.620 Make every officer attach a case number to every query

00:11:25.660 So the system knows the difference between an investigation and a man looking up his ex-girlfriend.

00:11:32.100 Flock itself, now under pressure, has now proposed most of that.

00:11:36.660 Shorter retention, required case codes, automatic suspension for abnormal searches, all of that stuff.

00:11:42.180 It tells you those safeguards were always possible.

00:11:45.540 They just weren't put in because, you know, they weren't profitable until 90 City started unplugging the boxes.

00:11:52.380 now the panopticon here's the important part not built by congress there wasn't a vote there was

00:12:02.100 no national debate this is the way our country is supposed to work but we have to start getting

00:12:11.880 engaged because this was sold city by city in eighty thousand dollar increments at meetings

00:12:18.440 on a Tuesday night that maybe 11 people attended

00:12:21.400 on a consent agenda between a rezoning request

00:12:26.340 and a discussion about some culvert.

00:12:29.540 Nobody wanted to go to that meeting.

00:12:31.160 And then all of a sudden,

00:12:31.920 this flock camera thing was tucked in there,

00:12:33.820 which means it came down the same way.

00:12:36.460 It's coming down the same way over and over again,

00:12:39.400 90 cities, and James Otis lost his case.

00:12:43.160 The Ritz stayed legal.

00:12:44.720 He never got a ruling.

00:12:45.980 He never got vindication,

00:12:47.140 and he died before the Constitution was written.

00:12:49.560 But a young man in the back of the room heard the argument

00:12:53.180 and 30 years later, he and his friends

00:12:55.780 wrote it into the Supreme Law of the United States of America

00:12:59.220 where it sits today in 28 words about warrants

00:13:02.720 that have to describe the place to be searched

00:13:05.800 and the person to be seized, okay?

00:13:08.900 Somebody in your town is at that meeting on Tuesday night.

00:13:12.580 somebody in your town

00:13:16.260 is going to be at that meeting on Tuesday night

00:13:18.140 and they're going to make the decision

00:13:20.060 or they're going to be the John Adams

00:13:24.060 that is sitting in the room

00:13:24.940 and changes things later down the road.

00:13:27.140 Be that somebody in the room.

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00:14:49.600 Okay, I know that so many people, and perhaps you, are struggling with inflation and rent and

00:14:57.560 mortgage rates and electricity rates and food costs and crime. And oh, gosh. And if you're in

00:15:03.760 your 20s or 30s, you're looking at America and you're like, okay, I don't think any of the

00:15:07.760 promises that I ever heard growing up are real. It's not the land of opportunity. And in some

00:15:14.280 ways you're not wrong because today's American capitalism is not a free market. We have gutted

00:15:22.500 ourselves from the free market. We have gutted ourselves from our history, from our principles,

00:15:28.000 everything and then comes along guy donald trump and he's like it's a new golden age and he says

00:15:35.020 that i'm thinking do you mean we're going to gild everything gold because i mean i think give him

00:15:41.140 enough time and everything will be won't be the white house anymore it'll be the gold house and

00:15:44.720 it'll just it's beautiful nobody thought we could have that much gold well okay and i uh and i named

00:15:52.300 the fountain the fountain of america in the backyard i got it i got it i got it so we're

00:15:57.840 seeing things and we're struggling and you're struggling at the gas pump and you're seeing

00:16:03.780 him do things like name lake of america from lake ontario and you're like what what is happening

00:16:09.160 what is happening let me tell you what's happening the new world order that was promised by bush one

00:16:15.540 and Bush too, you know, the globalist new world order, looks like we don't want it.

00:16:22.220 And the reason why we don't want it is because we're seeing that America has to go down the

00:16:27.020 crapper if globalism is to work. And every president that we have had in recent memory

00:16:33.140 has been working towards that and simply managing our decline. Trump is the first guy to come in and

00:16:40.300 go, we're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. We're going to have a new golden era.

00:16:44.880 We're going to have a great age for America into the 21st century.

00:16:48.480 And so he's not just reshaping America.

00:16:51.060 He is reshaping the world.

00:16:53.540 And I know this to be true because I have had conversations with several prime ministers in the last four months, private conversations, and all of them have said, I know exactly what he's doing and I know where the power is going.

00:17:07.060 And they didn't say it like it was necessarily a good thing.

00:17:10.260 They just know what he's doing.

00:17:11.920 But unfortunately, too many Americans don't.

00:17:14.880 Everything that was set up after World War II from 1945, it's over.

00:17:19.380 Okay, it's over. 0.88

00:17:20.280 That order is over.

00:17:22.500 It hasn't worked out well. 0.92

00:17:24.100 And then it changed to, okay, let's just keep taking from America and then we can manage their decline.

00:17:32.600 So here's the latest piece of the puzzle that I've been trying to show you on what he's creating.

00:17:38.460 Wednesday night, Axios reported that the United States is now negotiating an ownership stake.

00:17:44.880 not a lease, an ownership stake in the Venezuela oil fields.

00:17:51.420 More than a dozen producing fields

00:17:53.860 was something like 90 billion barrels of proven reserves underneath the soil.

00:18:01.120 America currently holds about 48 billion.

00:18:04.280 If that deal is signed, American oil reserves more than double in an afternoon.

00:18:09.800 yesterday caracas began asking you know what maybe we should just leave opec wait what what

00:18:18.920 what this is going to matter while you're standing at the gas pump okay the national average today

00:18:25.120 is four dollars and nine cents that's not because of demand because demand is soft

00:18:30.780 that's all happening because of a strip of water 30 miles wide between iran and oman

00:18:35.860 Before the war

00:18:38.340 About 20 million barrels a day

00:18:40.280 Were moving through the Strait of Hormuz

00:18:41.860 About a fifth of all of the oil in the world

00:18:44.820 Was moving through there

00:18:46.300 Today I don't really know

00:18:48.720 It could be a trickle

00:18:49.680 It could be half of that

00:18:50.620 I don't even know

00:18:51.560 But the world is losing roughly 8 million barrels

00:18:55.260 Every single day

00:18:56.520 That it stays that way

00:18:58.120 Our strategic petroleum reserve

00:19:01.040 Our oil reserve

00:19:01.840 Is at the lowest level in 40 years

00:19:03.620 Dangerously low

00:19:05.100 we cannot take any more out that's why you have the four dollar a gallon and people are pissed

00:19:10.620 and they're like what is trump doing i'll tell you what he's doing one and he might not be right

00:19:16.360 i think he is but he might not be right i'm not saying it's going to work out this way

00:19:20.860 that's yet to be seen but this is the strategy one waterway one regime one man over in the gulf

00:19:29.440 deciding how much oil the world gets this week.

00:19:32.940 Not workable.

00:19:35.080 Venezuela is not on that waterway.

00:19:37.660 Venezuela is a five-day tanker run to Texas.

00:19:41.660 Now, I want you to know, this is an old idea.

00:19:43.800 Last minute try it was Winston Churchill.

00:19:46.140 1913, Royal Navy was running on British coal.

00:19:49.980 And Churchill saw that, you know,

00:19:51.980 coal ships are really not the future.

00:19:53.680 We need oil.

00:19:55.220 Oil ships were faster.

00:19:56.760 Britain didn't have any oil.

00:19:58.020 So he told parliament that no one country, no one route, no one field could they be dependent on, that for safety and certainty, they needed the oil that had some variety and was in various places, and we needed to be part of that.

00:20:15.900 So in the summer of 1914, just weeks before the world caught fire, the British government bought 51% of a nearly bankrupt company that was drilling in Persia.

00:20:27.220 That company became BP, British Petroleum, okay?

00:20:31.840 The fleet now had fuel through two world wars, and it was coming from Persia.

00:20:37.240 It also bought Britain the Shah, and in 1979, the regime that is squeezing the straits this morning. 0.79

00:20:46.660 Hold that thought because I'm going to come back to it, okay?

00:20:49.140 If this deal in Venezuela closes, something much larger than a gas price is happening here.

00:20:54.900 And I don't think most people have caught it yet.

00:20:57.880 I want you to start looking at maps instead of the news.

00:21:01.700 When you hear the news, look at a map.

00:21:04.900 The United States is already the largest oil and gas producer on Earth.

00:21:09.360 Canada holds the third largest proven reserves and sends the overwhelming majority of its crude to the U.S.

00:21:16.880 Currently, I mean, there is that whole Lake of America thing going on.

00:21:20.360 So, Guyana has gone from nothing to one of the fastest growing oil provinces in the world in under a decade.

00:21:28.200 Brazil is a major producer in getting bigger.

00:21:30.960 Argentina is sitting on one of the greatest shale plays outside of North America.

00:21:36.840 You add Venezuela's 300 billion barrels, the largest proven reserve anywhere on the planet,

00:21:43.300 And now the Western Hemisphere stops being a customer of the world's energy market and becomes the center of gravity. 0.95

00:21:51.920 Who cares about the Middle East? 0.92

00:21:55.680 Now keep going because oil is only the first column of what he's doing.

00:22:00.260 Canada has the uranium and the potash.

00:22:03.400 So these two things, potash and uranium, currently they have given that to China.

00:22:11.900 That's why he's being so tough on them.

00:22:14.560 Look, you've got to cut your alliance to China. 0.94

00:22:17.660 Are you on their side? 0.97

00:22:19.240 Are you going to be part of the Western Hemisphere?

00:22:21.880 Okay, Chile and Argentina have Bolivia and lithium and Chile, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia

00:22:30.940 have lithium.

00:22:32.860 Brazil has iron and rare earth.

00:22:36.560 The hemisphere can feed itself.

00:22:38.720 We're the largest agricultural exporting region in all of Earth, okay?

00:22:46.180 Brazil and Argentina cover most of what we don't.

00:22:49.980 Fresh water, Lake of America, the Great Lakes, the Amazon Basin.

00:22:57.140 Shipping, we have our own canal back,

00:22:59.280 which is why the administration went over and reclaimed the leverage.

00:23:02.540 It was exactly for this reason, okay?

00:23:05.120 We also have a continent's worth of manufacturing capacity in Mexico that a decade ago was drifting towards China.

00:23:12.660 It's back there.

00:23:13.480 And ours, as I told you yesterday, the manufacturing outlook in America is higher than it has been since 1983.

00:23:23.980 Jobs and manufacturing coming back to America.

00:23:27.060 So we have energy, food, water, minerals, sea lanes, factories, and not one of those things requires anyone's permission to cross an ocean.

00:23:37.100 This is the Donro Doctrine, okay?

00:23:39.760 This is the whole play, and it's not a slogan.

00:23:43.020 It's subtraction.

00:23:45.080 Every one of those columns is a place where somebody currently holds a card over us, and the Donro Doctrine, he's going in and he's going, yep, we're going to take that card from you.

00:23:56.220 We have that card now, okay?

00:23:58.500 Think about what that does. 0.92

00:24:00.600 Iran's entire strategic weight in the world is that straight.

00:24:06.020 Even if this doesn't work because of what we've done, by end of 2027, they are building pipelines that they have said they were going to build forever. 0.72

00:24:14.760 And everybody knew they weren't going to build them because nobody does anything until they're forced to.

00:24:19.060 By 2027, pipelines that are now being built over Amman are now going to completely erase the meaning of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:24:30.720 That'll be, I think it's 40 or 60 percent by 2027.

00:24:34.380 By 2028, it'll be like 80 percent. 0.95

00:24:37.040 A hemisphere that fuels itself makes the MOAs and any regional nuisance just that, 0.86

00:24:50.160 a regional nuisance and not a global lever. 0.81

00:24:54.720 Russia's leverage over Europe was never tanks.

00:24:58.420 It was gas, gas that they needed in January.

00:25:03.040 OPEC's power was never the oil in the ground.

00:25:06.280 It was that we needed to ask them for the oil in the ground.

00:25:09.940 China, China has spent 20 years building ports and mines and rail lines in South America

00:25:14.780 precisely because they know they're the ones that they need to import everything from. 0.60

00:25:21.640 Every barrel, every mine that comes into American anchored hemisphere 0.64

00:25:25.860 is one that doesn't go into theirs.

00:25:28.380 And this is a president who has decided America cannot be the guarantor of every region on earth

00:25:34.740 simultaneously we're not going to be able to do that and now if he's right that does mean the 0.58

00:25:41.540 globe splits into neighborhoods china is going to run its neighborhood europe will have to decide

00:25:47.660 what it wants to be and live with the answer and it'll be europe's decision not something we pay 0.74

00:25:52.200 for with our sons and our treasury it's their decision now that is a much colder world than

00:25:58.680 when we were promised in 1991 you know and i don't say that happily i just i just tell you that's not

00:26:03.960 This is the world that showed up, and you got to deal with the world as it is.

00:26:10.220 And in that world, the question stops being, can we hold everything and becomes, is our side self-sufficient?

00:26:18.640 We learned this in COVID.

00:26:20.060 All of us did.

00:26:21.200 Are we self-sufficient?

00:26:22.320 That's what he's building, and that takes time.

00:26:25.600 Reference the monologue I gave yesterday on the boulevards in France that completely changed Paris, completely changed it.

00:26:33.640 in 19 years. But because it was so hard for 19 years, Marxism took root, and then you got the

00:26:42.580 Paris communes. So we've been here before. That's why I'm trying to explain this to you, because

00:26:47.320 if you don't know what's going on, you don't know what we're building, all you're feeling is the pain.

00:26:54.140 And then you go to a Marxist for the answer. But a hemisphere that grows its own food,

00:26:59.520 digs for its own metals, pumps its own fuel,

00:27:03.560 builds its own goods,

00:27:05.000 is a hemisphere that no one can strangle to death.

00:27:08.660 You can't embargo it.

00:27:10.280 You can't close a strait on it.

00:27:12.160 You can't starve it into a vote for the UN.

00:27:18.020 And for each of our families,

00:27:19.860 that's the difference between a war 8,000 miles away

00:27:22.740 being a tragedy and a war 8,000 miles away

00:27:25.320 being a mortgage payment.

00:27:26.480 it's a diesel price that doesn't set the cost of every apple in every store

00:27:32.140 it's the manufacturing that comes home because the energy that runs the furnace is cheap and

00:27:38.080 it's ours it's a 22 year old getting a job in a refinery in louisiana instead of a rifle in

00:27:44.280 the persian gulf this is what i told you about the boulevards in paris yesterday and how it

00:27:51.080 transformed the nation in 19 years but also led to marxism in the paris communes and the communist

00:27:57.360 result or revolts this is going to take time because reserves are not production venezuela

00:28:04.560 pumps about a million barrels a day today it pumped three and a half million in the 90s and

00:28:09.200 then the communists took over or the socialists getting back there is a decade of work and

00:28:14.780 hundreds of billions of dollars in a country whose pipelines and refineries were run into

00:28:19.440 the ground by socialism. Nothing signed today changes the sign at your corner gas station next

00:28:25.740 month. And anybody telling you that is lying to you. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck

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00:29:58.980 so we had some really good news that i haven't heard a lot of people celebrate

00:30:15.760 uh and that is the the philadelphia feds manufacturing survey showed that american

00:30:21.180 factories are having their strongest current conditions in more than five years and what is

00:30:26.180 even better is that the manufacturer expectations. So you're building factories. How do you feel

00:30:34.980 business is going to be here in a short while? What are you seeing as the outlook? It is the

00:30:41.460 highest level since the beginning of the Reagan boom in 1983 when we started building things

00:30:47.760 again and we started having a boom again. We got out of the doldrums of the Carter years.

00:30:52.720 it is also the one the biggest one month jump in recorded history so manufacturing is feeling good

00:31:01.240 and that is why the president keeps touting this number and saying you know 18 18 trillion dollars

00:31:06.980 have been brought into the united states because he's talking about building factories and it's

00:31:11.900 something that most people just roll their eyes yeah i got it i got it 18 trillion dollars have

00:31:16.980 come in biggest investment in american history blah blah blah blah blah and they don't care

00:31:20.920 because they're not going to feel that one for 5, 10, 15 years down the road.

00:31:26.880 But it will make a huge difference.

00:31:30.400 And here's where it matters.

00:31:33.120 In 2014, the United States, we decided to restart the production of the Patriot missile.

00:31:41.300 And when we did that, we all of a sudden discovered, oh, crap, we can't do that.

00:31:47.660 Why?

00:31:48.220 We had money. 0.78

00:31:50.480 Politics were in line.

00:31:53.120 Because one of the parts is a gyroscope.

00:31:58.160 And America had, listen to this, lost the ability to make the gyroscope.

00:32:05.120 The knowledge was gone.

00:32:07.260 The line was gone.

00:32:09.180 The people who had built it in the past were gone.

00:32:12.120 So we had to go to China, I'm sorry, to Japan and ask them, can you build this gyroscope for us?

00:32:19.320 So Japan's government approved the export and Japanese gyroscopes went into American missiles.

00:32:26.780 Nobody held a hearing about it.

00:32:29.240 You know, no anchor led a newscast with it.

00:32:32.780 I bet you, you didn't know that.

00:32:34.300 We can't make gyroscopes for our missiles.

00:32:37.740 this is how a nation loses the ability to make things and it's never by decision it's never with

00:32:45.740 a vote it's a plant that closes on a tuesday and the local newspaper runs you know 300 words about

00:32:52.000 the layoffs and the men who knew how to run the machine go get other jobs and 20 years later

00:32:57.240 somebody in a briefing room says the word gyroscope and everybody's like oh crap okay

00:33:04.120 Let me give you the list of the things we can no longer make.

00:33:08.380 Titanium sponge.

00:33:10.920 Sounds like some sort of a birth control device or something.

00:33:15.320 I don't know.

00:33:15.740 You clean pots and pans.

00:33:16.920 I don't know what it is, but apparently it's the raw metal form that you need before you can make anything out of titanium, okay?

00:33:24.640 We can't make it.

00:33:26.120 Jet engine rotating parts, aircraft structure, armor, missile bodies, submarine components.

00:33:32.960 You can't make them because we don't have the titanium sponge.

00:33:38.140 The United States Geological Survey reported that America produced no titanium sponge in 2025.

00:33:47.040 None.

00:33:48.360 That's not a good thing.

00:33:50.960 The last domestic plant closed in 2024.

00:33:54.780 There are two idled facilities sitting in Utah and one in Nevada.

00:33:58.580 One dark since 2020 and the other one dark since 2016.

00:34:02.960 Our sponge now comes from Japan and Kazakhstan. 0.99

00:34:10.600 Kazakhstan. 0.91

00:34:11.760 Is that the one that's like part of Russia?

00:34:15.220 I mean, really?

00:34:18.400 We're depending on, they can make that?

00:34:21.200 We can't?

00:34:23.320 You know we can't make penicillin in America anymore?

00:34:26.020 There was a plant in East Syracuse built in 1943, built for the war.

00:34:31.220 At its peak, it made up to 70% of our penicillin.

00:34:35.220 In 2004, it shut down penicillin production.

00:34:39.340 That was it.

00:34:39.960 That was the last one.

00:34:40.620 We haven't made any penicillin in this country since 2004.

00:34:44.000 We can't.

00:34:45.240 We have not made the active ingredient for penicillin in 22 years.

00:34:50.340 And in the past year, Merck closed a plant in rural Pennsylvania that made the ingredients

00:34:56.400 for the whole beta-lactam family.

00:35:01.580 Again, I don't, I mean,

00:35:03.140 does it have anything to do with titanium sponge?

00:35:05.200 Because I'm practically an expert on that.

00:35:07.160 These are the antibiotics that hold up surgery

00:35:10.540 and cancer care and the intensive care unit.

00:35:13.480 We can't make that stuff now.

00:35:16.640 There was a trade journal that said,

00:35:19.120 this is how quietly and incrementally

00:35:22.600 strategic manufacturing disappears

00:35:24.560 until rebuilding it costs more than anyone will pay.

00:35:29.980 We're there, gang.

00:35:32.660 Rare earth magnets,

00:35:35.540 small, brutally powerful magnets

00:35:38.220 with electric motors.

00:35:40.780 That's an MRI machine.

00:35:43.040 That's a missile guidance system.

00:35:45.140 We consumed roughly 48,000 metric tons of these in 2026.

00:35:51.880 domestic production under a thousand tons some estimates say only a few hundred tons were

00:36:00.240 actually available to buy the rest you know comes from a country that put two of our own producers

00:36:06.980 on its export blacklist in june this is not good so when you hear the economic outlook from the

00:36:15.740 manufacturing and they're like hey we're going to start building things celebrate because we've been

00:36:20.420 here before not in america but in the rest of the world let me tell you how that ended let me tell

00:36:26.800 you about a weapon that we still don't really understand nobody can make this anymore 1300 0.95

00:36:32.980 years ago constantinople last wall standing between the arab hordes and the whole of the

00:36:39.880 christian east fleet after fleet after fleet came and the city should have fallen but it didn't 1.00

00:36:47.200 because a refugee engineer came to the emperor 0.95

00:36:52.460 with a formula and it was a liquid

00:36:55.080 that you could pump through a bronze tube

00:36:57.680 mounted on the bow of the ship.

00:36:59.860 You could ignite it and you could spray

00:37:02.480 all of it across the water

00:37:03.940 and it would burn on the water.

00:37:07.160 It would stick to the hull

00:37:08.540 and it would burn everything down, okay? 0.99

00:37:11.240 It would stick to men

00:37:12.680 and men would jump from the boat into the water

00:37:16.800 and it would still burn in the water.

00:37:19.260 In fact, the sea caught fire.

00:37:21.260 Water made it worse.

00:37:23.560 They called it Greek fire.

00:37:25.260 Have you ever heard of Greek fire?

00:37:27.640 It twice saved that city and everything behind it. 0.74

00:37:31.820 And then the Byzantines understood exactly what they had. 0.61

00:37:34.660 So they guarded it

00:37:35.660 and they never wrote the whole formula down.

00:37:39.180 They said, don't, it can't be in the hands of one person.

00:37:41.400 Never write it down together, the whole thing.

00:37:43.120 And so they split the knowledge among a handful of families

00:37:46.500 and the imperial household.

00:37:49.260 So nobody had the whole key to Greek fire, okay?

00:37:53.400 The emperor left written instructions to his son. 0.97

00:37:56.280 If a foreigner ever asks you for the fire, 1.00

00:37:58.740 tell him an angel delivered it to the first Christian emperor 0.92

00:38:01.540 and the man who once tried to give it away was struck dead, okay? 0.62

00:38:07.820 So they protected it perfectly and they lost it.

00:38:14.400 Nobody exactly knows when.

00:38:16.660 There's no battle where it failed, no treaty where it was surrendered.

00:38:20.020 It just stopped being made.

00:38:22.560 The families died out, or the ingredients stopped arriving,

00:38:25.720 or a generation went by without needing it, and so nobody knew it.

00:38:29.280 And nobody had the formula. It was lost.

00:38:31.760 When the Crusaders finally came through the walls in 1204, the fire wasn't there.

00:38:36.560 To this day, we don't know how they did it.

00:38:39.940 Nobody knows the recipe.

00:38:41.320 It was the most feared weapon in the medieval world, and it just was gone.

00:38:48.720 Why?

00:38:50.360 Because the men who could make it stopped making it,

00:38:54.000 and no one noticed the day they lost it all, and it could never be made again.

00:39:01.340 So now back to that list I was giving, because I want you to hear this one differently.

00:39:05.820 The Government Accountability Office looked at the chemicals that go into solid rocket motors.

00:39:11.320 the propulsion in nearly every missile we own and it reported for one material used in the motor

00:39:20.100 insulation insulation a material nearly all defense department missile systems has there is no longer

00:39:28.080 any domestic supplier not not a not a fragile one not like one it's like oh well it's kind of iffy i

00:39:34.660 don't know if that plant's gonna make it no no no no no there's nobody that makes it in america

00:39:39.260 And it added to that another chemical needed to produce that material is no longer in production at all anywhere.

00:39:50.400 That kind of sounds like Greek fire.

00:39:54.380 Ships in 2023, China delivered almost 800 commercial vessels.

00:40:01.480 You know how many United States made?

00:40:03.500 Same time period?

00:40:05.220 Seven.

00:40:05.800 One Chinese state shipbuilder built more commercial tonnage in 2024 than the entire American shipbuilding industry has built since the end of the Second World War.

00:40:22.640 Today, two American yards build large, ocean-going commercial cargo ships.

00:40:27.480 Two.

00:40:28.920 That is from the country that launched a Liberty ship every few days.

00:40:33.000 transformers the refrigerator size things that make the entire electrical grid work

00:40:39.140 american utilities are now buying factory slots from turkey and south korea years in advance

00:40:47.600 sometimes without a project attached to it just to hold the place in line

00:40:52.040 we don't even make that we're going to turkey

00:40:55.280 now none of this was treason nobody sold us out every single one of these was a rational

00:41:02.700 business decision made by a competent executive who was right about the numbers

00:41:06.880 foreign competitors were cheaper the margins were thin the plant was old the shareholders were

00:41:12.400 owing a return multiply that by 10 000 quarterly earning calls over 30 years and you get a country

00:41:21.200 that can't make a gyroscope. 0.71

00:41:25.480 We didn't sell the fire.

00:41:26.860 We just let the family die out.

00:41:30.260 So what do we do?

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