The Glenn Beck Program - August 31, 2018


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Beto O'Rourke is the Democratic challenger to Ted Cruz in the Senate race in Texas and the left is out in droves to support him. Is he running for re-election or is he headed for a presidential run in 2020? Glenn and Pat discuss that and much more.

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00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, On Demand.
00:00:06.100 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program podcast.
00:00:08.880 Jeffy, along with Pat Gray, filled in today.
00:00:10.960 And we've covered some ground today on the broadcast.
00:00:13.300 Yeah, the first man movie, not including the American flag on the moon.
00:00:19.140 The whole thing's about the moon landing.
00:00:21.400 I don't want to get angry about that.
00:00:22.460 And one of the first things was planting the flag, and they ignored that because it transcends all borders and countries.
00:00:29.300 Of course.
00:00:30.240 So, to get into that, we also talked global warming, which is out of control.
00:00:37.640 Something has to be done.
00:00:38.960 Something has to be done.
00:00:40.260 And what are we going to do about it?
00:00:42.240 We'll find out from Al Gore.
00:00:43.960 There's a big boycott going on, I guess, with In-N-Out Burgers.
00:00:47.800 We talked about that a little bit, and we talked a little bit about Trump altism.
00:00:53.880 I mean, is that actually a real thing?
00:00:56.580 It is for one person.
00:00:57.780 Yeah.
00:00:58.600 Oh, yeah.
00:00:59.300 Ron DeSantis.
00:01:00.620 And you'll hear his ad.
00:01:03.000 All that and more is coming up on the podcast.
00:01:11.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:17.120 It's Friday, August 31st.
00:01:19.460 The Beto hype machine is in full, full operation right now.
00:01:26.960 Not only are they trying to say that Beto O'Rourke, who is the challenger that's taking on Ted Cruz for his Senate seat in November, not only are they saying that he's only one point behind Ted Cruz.
00:01:39.080 Now they're talking about him for a potential run for the presidency in 2020.
00:01:45.820 I mean, I mean, it's just getting ridiculous.
00:01:49.560 Come on.
00:01:50.420 Okay.
00:01:51.000 Can we calm down a little bit?
00:01:53.460 A huge article from Vanity Fair.
00:01:56.960 It seems like Iowa in 2007.
00:02:00.160 Is Beto O'Rourke the left's Obama-like answer to Trump in 2020?
00:02:04.860 They want him to be.
00:02:05.700 No.
00:02:06.180 No, he's not.
00:02:07.020 They want him to be, though.
00:02:08.820 That's why all the money's pouring in.
00:02:11.040 I think people are going to be really surprised when they find out this guy is white. 0.78
00:02:15.860 I think they're going to be pissed.
00:02:20.100 Wait, you're not Hispanic?
00:02:21.920 Where did Beto come from?
00:02:23.720 Well, a culturally appropriated Hispanic nickname.
00:02:27.900 Well, it's a nickname.
00:02:29.180 Mm-hmm.
00:02:29.860 It is.
00:02:30.260 It's a Hispanic nickname for Robert Francis O'Rourke, a guy who couldn't get any whiter.
00:02:38.780 Or more Irish. 0.93
00:02:40.460 That's so good.
00:02:41.800 They're making it such a big deal out of him.
00:02:44.940 The article mentions how he's visited all 254 Texas counties in his Toyota Tundra.
00:02:52.140 They followed him around like little lap dogs.
00:02:54.740 He does these running town halls where he runs and then stops, and they all gather together on the lawn,
00:03:04.040 and he does a town hall, and then they start running some more.
00:03:08.120 So the guy can jog.
00:03:11.220 Wow.
00:03:12.940 That's the one I want in the Senate then.
00:03:15.300 Or maybe even the office of the presidency if he can jog and then do a speech?
00:03:21.560 Right.
00:03:22.260 Not that I could do that.
00:03:23.280 It's just that I'm not sure that qualifies the guy for office.
00:03:26.480 But they're in love with him.
00:03:29.600 The left, the media, is just head over heels in love with Beto O'Rourke.
00:03:36.200 This cannot happen.
00:03:37.280 It can't.
00:03:37.980 Not in the state of Texas.
00:03:39.360 That's what I'm hoping.
00:03:40.640 This cannot happen in the state of Texas.
00:03:42.680 I mean, according to this latest poll, he's one point behind.
00:03:46.240 I tend to doubt that a little bit, especially because they used registered voters for that poll, not likely voters.
00:03:53.120 And that could change it dramatically.
00:03:55.720 If you eliminate those who, you know, they might be registered, but they're likely not going to vote.
00:04:01.760 But I think Ted probably has, you know, he's got to be up by more than a point.
00:04:08.600 I don't know what it is.
00:04:09.800 I sure hope so.
00:04:10.620 I don't know what it is.
00:04:11.220 I hope that's right.
00:04:12.480 I think in the end, he maybe wins by 10.
00:04:15.640 I hope.
00:04:16.980 Yes.
00:04:17.300 But again, I also.
00:04:19.240 I would like to say even maybe more.
00:04:20.440 I'm pretty invested in this because I pledged to eat my underwear if Beto O'Rourke beats Ted Cruz.
00:04:27.960 Really?
00:04:28.380 Yes.
00:04:28.880 Huh.
00:04:29.080 He was up by, I don't know, 14 or 15 at the time.
00:04:32.500 Plus, that was before.
00:04:33.440 I mean, Beto had still been, you know, they were getting behind him as the big push, but that was a little bit before.
00:04:39.600 And I'm not making excuses for you, and you still will step up to the plate with your bet.
00:04:44.700 But that was a little bit before the big Beto push.
00:04:48.380 Yeah.
00:04:48.820 And, boy, I mean, they have just, they love this guy.
00:04:52.800 And it's.
00:04:53.300 Yeah, he's getting all kinds of money from out of state.
00:04:55.500 Yeah.
00:04:55.580 All kinds of California money, for whatever reason, they're just in love with him.
00:05:00.600 Beto, beto, beto, beto.
00:05:01.280 Oh, yeah.
00:05:01.580 And Ted Cruz.
00:05:02.260 Yeah.
00:05:03.040 I know.
00:05:04.280 Ted Cruz is the U.S.
00:05:05.640 Senator, by the way.
00:05:07.360 Oh, by the way.
00:05:07.900 Bigger name on the line.
00:05:09.220 And, by the way, it did not appropriate any culture.
00:05:12.580 That's right.
00:05:14.120 Right.
00:05:15.000 If he did have a Hispanic nickname, it'd be okay. 1.00
00:05:17.780 He's not appropriating it.
00:05:19.140 Thank you.
00:05:20.220 It's just, it's kind of agonizing.
00:05:23.020 And, you know, Ted is taking some time off.
00:05:26.360 He's not even going back to Washington this week for some of the votes.
00:05:32.220 He's missing something because it's, the campaign is so important right now.
00:05:36.100 He's actually campaigning right now and making sure that he shores up his base here.
00:05:40.540 And I think, you know, there might be a problem with some complacency in Texas.
00:05:45.160 We just, you know, you think, ah, it's Ted Cruz.
00:05:47.580 He doesn't, he's not going to, he's not going to lose that.
00:05:49.720 He's fine.
00:05:50.480 I don't need to donate.
00:05:51.580 He doesn't need that money because, well, Beto has outraised him two to one.
00:05:56.700 Two to one in this campaign.
00:05:58.400 It's unbelievable.
00:05:59.960 That's, that's a big chunk of change.
00:06:02.520 Yeah, it really is.
00:06:03.740 And, and again, I think it's in part because of complacency.
00:06:07.100 We've also talked about the Trump thing.
00:06:09.560 You know, he angered Trump fans at the Republican convention because he didn't endorse him.
00:06:14.740 And then for those of us who kind of admired that because he stuck to his guns, two weeks later, he did.
00:06:20.860 And so then we were a little hacked off.
00:06:23.140 Right.
00:06:24.740 But it's time to get over all that because it's a little scary.
00:06:31.000 He's talked about as well the campaign when he was first running for Senate where they had held their money back.
00:06:40.660 He used the phrase, kept his powder dry until it got closer and then spent the money on, you know, promoting the campaign.
00:06:48.580 So, you know, we're in the, you know, we're in the final drive, the final, the final, final turn heading into November.
00:06:55.040 So maybe that's what he's doing now too, as well as, is, you know, making that push.
00:06:59.740 But it does feel, and I say feel because I don't know for sure, but it does feel like Ted needs to get a move on.
00:07:07.740 Yeah, it does.
00:07:08.600 And I think he feels that too.
00:07:09.980 I think there's a sense of urgency now in the campaign and with the Cruz people.
00:07:16.980 And, you know, tomorrow's the first day of September.
00:07:19.980 So it's time.
00:07:23.180 It's time to start paying attention to this.
00:07:25.800 It's time to start telling your conservative friends to get out and vote and make sure that we don't let this fall by the wayside and lose Ted Cruz in the Senate.
00:07:35.780 That would be, it'd be unbelievable.
00:07:37.780 I know, you know, I know it's Democrats eating their own, but, you know, that's the same thing that kind of happened in New York with Cortez, right?
00:07:43.660 I mean, he was, he was just like, I'm not going to lose.
00:07:46.760 I've been here forever.
00:07:47.600 I'm fine.
00:07:48.220 Yeah.
00:07:48.360 And he kind of took it easy.
00:07:49.340 Right.
00:07:49.640 And she, she hit the pavement, man.
00:07:51.580 She was out there getting the press and it paid off.
00:07:54.280 Right.
00:07:54.700 Well, she's from, you know, she's Jenny from the block, essentially.
00:07:58.120 She's right.
00:07:58.940 She's from the hood, except she wasn't.
00:08:02.700 No, but she, but, you know, that 40 minute drive from the Bronx every day from the Bronx, where she lived to the school where they enrolled her 40 minutes away every day. 0.91
00:08:14.920 Well, except that's, she didn't live in the Bronx that whole time.
00:08:20.160 She lived near the school.
00:08:22.060 So.
00:08:22.180 Big, big new movie coming out.
00:08:34.640 You've probably heard about it.
00:08:35.640 First man.
00:08:36.520 It's about the first man on, on the moon, uh, Neil Armstrong.
00:08:40.360 So it's getting rave reviews.
00:08:43.380 The trailer looks great.
00:08:45.060 Yeah.
00:08:45.420 It looks like it looks really good.
00:08:47.100 It makes you want to see the movie.
00:08:49.040 Ryan Gosling.
00:08:50.160 I, I, I like him as an actor.
00:08:52.200 Um, and he's, he's, I think, did he also direct this?
00:08:55.760 He stars in it and I, he did not direct it.
00:08:58.320 No, I don't think so.
00:09:00.120 Um, did he executive produce it or something?
00:09:03.780 Because he's talking like he had something to do with this particular decision that we're taking issue with.
00:09:09.960 They, I, I hate it when they do this kind of stuff because then it puts you in that quandary of, well, I don't want to support that.
00:09:17.760 But, but I don't want to miss the movie.
00:09:21.720 It's just a matter of, you know, which, which is the more driving force to me.
00:09:26.400 Do I want to want to see first man more than I'm angry about them not planning the American flag on the moon in the movie?
00:09:33.960 So they skipped that whole event.
00:09:37.560 You know, when, uh, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, one of the things they did, one of the first things they did was to plant the American flag.
00:09:47.080 That wasn't a sign that America claims the moon for our own.
00:09:51.280 No, in fact, we made a point about that.
00:09:53.020 We, it just meant we did this.
00:09:55.360 We were here.
00:09:55.800 Okay.
00:09:56.260 We set out to do this in a decade and we did it.
00:10:00.860 And it's, it's, uh, quite an achievement and nobody else has ever done it to this day.
00:10:09.760 Here we are almost 50 years later and it's still never been done again.
00:10:15.480 Right.
00:10:16.240 Except by us over and over until we got tired of it.
00:10:19.040 We just got, kind of got bored.
00:10:20.500 We're like, okay, we've been there, done that.
00:10:22.600 Yeah, well, we found out.
00:10:25.900 I mean, Armstrong even said later that they, the, the United Nations tried to hone in on, uh, putting their flag up.
00:10:32.260 You know, and they, they could, when the United Nations gets to the moon, why go ahead and plant the UN flag.
00:10:38.580 That'd be great.
00:10:39.960 But that's when we decided that it was going to be our flag, but we weren't going to, uh, make any territorial claim.
00:10:45.760 Right.
00:10:46.200 Yes.
00:10:46.600 So if you want to go to the moon, go.
00:10:48.320 Exactly.
00:10:48.780 You want to put your flag up there?
00:10:49.620 Go ahead.
00:10:49.860 You can do it.
00:10:50.160 But as soon as, um, as soon as Mexico is able to get to the moon, they can plant the Mexican flag on the moon. 0.75
00:10:55.780 I don't care.
00:10:56.460 Well, Pat, I mean, let's not get ridiculous.
00:10:59.860 If any, but, but seriously, if any other country were to have done this, how we would, we would not be having an argument over whether their flag was going to be in the movie.
00:11:11.520 No, it'd be in the movie.
00:11:12.860 Absolutely.
00:11:13.320 A hundred percent.
00:11:13.840 If it was the Soviet union that beat us there, the Soviet union flag would be planted in this movie.
00:11:19.340 I'm a hundred percent believe that.
00:11:21.960 So is it just something though, that maybe they just, uh, didn't focus on?
00:11:28.360 They, it just wasn't part of their story.
00:11:30.380 No, this was a conscious decision not to plant the American flag on the moon in this movie.
00:11:36.960 Um, Ryan Gosling said, I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement.
00:11:46.580 And that's how we chose to view it.
00:11:49.440 Uh, I also think Neil was extremely humble.
00:11:52.680 Well, that that's true, but so what?
00:11:55.040 Uh, as were many of these astronauts and time and time again, he, he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.
00:12:04.640 You mean the 400,000 Americans who made it possible?
00:12:10.040 Yeah.
00:12:10.680 It, it, it wasn't 400,000 Soviets or Chinese or French.
00:12:15.980 It was 400,000 Americans.
00:12:19.540 And even if it did transcend countries and borders, as Ryan likes to call it, um, okay, good.
00:12:28.300 Yes, it did.
00:12:29.260 Great.
00:12:29.920 And I know that Neil Armstrong, uh, it was still an American achievement.
00:12:33.260 You know, didn't see himself as an American hero, Ryan.
00:12:36.800 No, he just saw himself as an American.
00:12:38.880 Thank you.
00:12:39.760 I don't think he did consider himself a hero, but he, I think he did consider himself an American.
00:12:45.080 Absolutely.
00:12:45.780 He even, he said that, uh, look, my job was to get the flag there.
00:12:49.260 You know, I left the, I left the debate over what flag was going to be there to, uh, you know, he, I think he is what was smarter minds or whatever it was.
00:12:56.400 But the, uh, uh, you know, but the deal was, is that it was our flag because we decided that, uh, no United Nations, it wasn't you that did this.
00:13:05.200 It was us.
00:13:06.260 And we won't claim the moon.
00:13:07.860 If you want to go there, you can go there, but we're putting our flag there.
00:13:10.960 And how proud at the time, I mean, this is just, this absolutely.
00:13:15.480 It's agonizing.
00:13:16.340 It really, really makes me angry.
00:13:17.620 Yeah.
00:13:18.540 I mean, one of the proudest moments in the country that we've tried to relive how many times.
00:13:24.300 It's one of mankind's biggest achievements and it was done by Americans and it was done after the vision was laid out for us by JFK.
00:13:31.980 And he said, in the next decade, we will do this and we will do it because not because it's easy, but because it's hard and they got it done.
00:13:38.600 And, uh, it, it cost a lot to get it done.
00:13:41.940 Yes, it did.
00:13:42.380 Both in blood and treasure.
00:13:44.340 And so to rewrite history, when you do the, the movie about it is ridiculous.
00:13:53.920 It's insulting.
00:13:55.480 It is insulting.
00:13:56.280 And, uh, it's disappointing because I, you know, I've been hearing about this movie.
00:14:01.740 I know.
00:14:02.160 We played the trailer.
00:14:02.740 It looked great.
00:14:04.000 I really want to see this movie and I hate supporting this kind of crap, but you know, everybody's going to go to it anyway.
00:14:12.840 Everybody's going to go to it anyway.
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00:14:37.360 Craig in Ohio.
00:14:38.500 Hi, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:40.680 Hello guys.
00:14:41.540 Hey, I wanted to, uh, bring up a point of, you know, what I saw Trump do this past election.
00:14:47.300 Um, I saw him mobilize a lot of Democrats, in my opinion, to vote for him.
00:14:52.360 I see him mobilizing, uh, the Hispanic base, the African American base over to the Republican side, but where the Democrats are now becoming democratic socialists.
00:15:02.720 I feel the old conservative mantra, the old Republican mantra, we also need to morph, right?
00:15:09.120 So I feel if we lose the house this November, it will be because for instance, a lot of Democrats in Ohio that voted for Trump aren't ready to vote for, uh, Steve Shabbat.
00:15:19.520 Who's been in Congress, you know, 20 plus years has the old, um, almost the old, uh, you know, things about him where Harry's probably anti gay marriage is anti this, anti this.
00:15:30.660 I feel that that skin needs to be shed almost. 0.98
00:15:34.020 And Trump's started us down that path.
00:15:35.960 I think there's a lot of people that traditionally voted Democrat that are ready to brace conservative ideas, but just not all of them.
00:15:44.700 And I think we need to, um, change the party fundamentally a little bit.
00:15:48.260 I'm a millennial myself, always been Democrat, or excuse me, voted a Republican, but there's things Republican party.
00:15:55.000 And we heard more about it under, uh, Obama than we do Trump, but for instance, gay marriage, I personally don't care. 0.62
00:16:00.860 My friends don't care whether two guys, two women want to marry each other. 0.70
00:16:04.600 We just don't, it's not important to us.
00:16:06.640 We want to raise our kids.
00:16:08.000 We want to be raised, you know, we want to be left alone.
00:16:10.040 We want everybody to be able to live their lives.
00:16:11.860 That's the point though, right?
00:16:12.700 We want to be left alone.
00:16:14.320 Stay out of our lives.
00:16:16.520 Correct.
00:16:17.420 Now that's not to say, Hey, we're ready for, um, you know, everybody to be able to use whatever bathroom they want.
00:16:23.300 And I don't think that's what people want, but I think, uh, the Republican party as a whole needs to reexamine themselves.
00:16:29.160 And say, Hey, maybe some of the old hardline stances, we need to embrace these Democrats.
00:16:34.700 Now, um, you know, my father's a teamster, a 30 year teamster.
00:16:38.440 He now votes Republican because of Trump and some of the new ideas, but we need to re embrace these Democrats that are fed up with that socialist title.
00:16:46.940 And really, I think we can gain back control of the country for a long, long time and not even have to worry about losing the house in a November election.
00:16:53.960 Um, if that makes sense.
00:16:55.860 Yeah.
00:16:56.040 I mean, I, I understand what you're saying.
00:16:57.840 Yeah.
00:16:58.200 Um, appreciate it.
00:16:59.220 Thanks, Craig.
00:16:59.940 Um, I, I think the party to a certain extent has already embraced Trumpism and, and that includes a lot of what you're, what you outlined.
00:17:09.960 Um, I, you know, as far as, as far as the same sex marriage thing, yeah, that horse left the barn. 0.65
00:17:15.600 So, I mean, there's no sense in even talking about it really right now, because it's over.
00:17:20.360 That debate's over.
00:17:21.580 Supreme court ruled on that.
00:17:22.680 Um, I, I, I don't know if you want to make it an issue to try to reverse that trend.
00:17:27.700 Um, that would be, that would be a tough battle.
00:17:30.700 And so, yeah, maybe you leave that alone, but there's a lot of things that, um, that Trump believes that I don't necessarily want to adopt, uh, in the Republican party.
00:17:42.840 And so, uh, I, I, I'm not sure I'm, uh, I'm on board with changing the fundamental platform of what the Republican party should stand for or once stood for.
00:17:54.540 It doesn't really stand for that anymore.
00:17:56.460 It seems to me because everybody's given up on their principles, right?
00:18:00.060 We just give in.
00:18:00.720 Yes.
00:18:01.580 We just caved.
00:18:02.700 And, um, and so, you know, if you have certain beliefs religiously, there, there is a reason for the beliefs that, that people have and, and the things that we fight for.
00:18:13.580 Uh, and so a lot of those have just been, have just been flushed down the toilet in the, in the Trump age.
00:18:22.280 And it's not about those principles anymore.
00:18:24.880 It's about what Trump believes.
00:18:29.840 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:18:36.980 I'm more concerned about the principles than I am whether or not Trump supports them.
00:18:43.580 And I, I guess I'm alone on that because I mean, as we played earlier, listen to this DeSantis ad.
00:18:50.700 Everyone knows my husband, Ron DeSantis is endorsed by president Trump, but he's also an amazing dad.
00:18:56.640 Ron loves playing with the kids.
00:18:58.580 Build the wall.
00:18:59.780 He reads stories.
00:19:01.200 Then Mr. Trump said, you're fired.
00:19:04.340 I love that part.
00:19:05.680 He's teaching Madison to talk.
00:19:07.420 Make America great again.
00:19:09.760 People say Ron's all Trump, but he is so much more.
00:19:14.560 Bigly.
00:19:15.060 Is he?
00:19:15.560 So good.
00:19:16.640 I just thought you should know.
00:19:18.220 So embarrassing is what that is.
00:19:20.300 So, so embarrassing.
00:19:22.620 What you got, Florida?
00:19:24.360 What you got?
00:19:25.520 What, uh, is it better than The Socialist?
00:19:28.080 Yes.
00:19:29.320 Yes.
00:19:30.460 Yes, he is.
00:19:32.000 Uh, would I vote for DeSantis over Gillum?
00:19:35.800 Yes.
00:19:36.660 Yeah.
00:19:37.180 I don't even know what he stands for though.
00:19:39.460 I mean, you know.
00:19:41.160 Well, he believes, he believes in a lot of things bigly.
00:19:44.360 He, he believes in the cult of Trump.
00:19:47.240 And is that enough for, for people?
00:19:50.400 It would certainly, it certainly pushed him into that, into that slot.
00:19:54.100 Yeah.
00:19:54.440 Where he's at.
00:19:55.060 I mean, Adam Putnam, Adam Putnam was winning until Trump, uh, rubber stamped, uh, DeSantis.
00:20:01.380 Yeah.
00:20:01.740 So.
00:20:02.260 Yeah.
00:20:02.480 It's amazing.
00:20:03.660 It's just amazing.
00:20:04.620 So do we want a big tent party?
00:20:06.800 Yeah, I guess if you, as long as you don't have to compromise your principles, uh, do we
00:20:11.720 want Democrats to be comfortable voting Republican?
00:20:14.260 Well, yeah.
00:20:15.400 Unless you have to compromise your principles.
00:20:21.160 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:20:25.060 You know, some would call it.
00:20:29.880 Yes.
00:20:30.360 When the government takes it from you and gives it to somebody else.
00:20:33.680 That's charity, right?
00:20:35.320 It's, it's beautiful.
00:20:36.420 Yeah.
00:20:36.620 And that's what Jesus wanted.
00:20:38.600 Remember when he said Rome should take your money and give it to somebody else.
00:20:42.260 Remember that?
00:20:42.980 All those, uh, sermons.
00:20:45.020 I read that on a burger wrap or something.
00:20:50.520 Uh, all right.
00:20:51.640 Michael in Colorado.
00:20:53.040 Hi, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeff.
00:20:55.180 Hi.
00:20:56.300 How are you guys doing?
00:20:57.180 Good.
00:20:57.500 All right.
00:20:57.940 Uh, just wanted to kind of circle back around and readdress the, uh, the climate change.
00:21:03.440 And I wanted to ask you guys a direct question before I say what I have to say.
00:21:08.560 All right.
00:21:08.900 You really don't think that climate change is real?
00:21:11.980 Uh, do I think man caused climate change is real?
00:21:15.060 No, that wasn't the question.
00:21:16.020 No, I do not.
00:21:16.640 Do I think the government, the, uh, the planet maybe warmed 0.9 degrees in the last hundred
00:21:22.980 years?
00:21:23.540 Yes.
00:21:24.940 Okay.
00:21:25.660 Do I think that's a, do I think that's cataclysmic?
00:21:28.980 No.
00:21:29.760 Do I believe that's on humans?
00:21:32.080 No.
00:21:32.520 Okay.
00:21:34.580 All right.
00:21:35.240 Uh, if you want to have the conversation, you have to first accept the viewpoint of the
00:21:42.380 other side and find out what that's about.
00:21:45.220 And, and it doesn't seem to me that the right is taking, well, most of the right is taking
00:21:52.240 any of the conversation very seriously in the first place.
00:21:55.900 Why not change to renewable?
00:21:58.400 It's going to be expensive.
00:21:59.940 We know that, you know, but the ocean levels are rising.
00:22:03.740 The ice caps are melting.
00:22:05.380 We see this as something that is going to be detrimental to human life on the planet.
00:22:09.680 This kind of stuff, this has happened throughout the course of, of the planet.
00:22:15.220 Uh, I mean, the ice caps melt, then they reform, uh, the sea levels rise, then they fall.
00:22:21.900 And this is part of the natural process of the, of the planet.
00:22:25.980 It's, it's happened forever.
00:22:28.260 We, we accelerate that by utilizing the resources of this planet in the way that we do.
00:22:33.840 Well, I don't believe that.
00:22:35.540 I don't believe that.
00:22:36.820 I'm not saying that he's a smart guy.
00:22:38.920 What he is, is a mouthpiece for a lot of really smart people that have put together the
00:22:44.480 data that he presents.
00:22:45.980 That's it.
00:22:47.280 He's a politician.
00:22:48.680 Yes.
00:22:49.060 He's not a guy that knows what the math is.
00:22:51.760 And do you know that out of the, uh, out of the, uh, out of the climate models that have
00:22:57.040 been put together for him, out of the 92 climate models, do you know how many of them
00:23:01.480 have been accurate in predicting temperature rise?
00:23:05.000 Zero?
00:23:05.480 Oh, I don't know that number.
00:23:06.740 None of them.
00:23:07.480 It's probably not.
00:23:08.100 It's, it's zero.
00:23:09.640 It is zero.
00:23:10.880 Zero.
00:23:11.680 It is zero.
00:23:13.280 I'm telling you what the number is.
00:23:15.080 It's zero.
00:23:16.560 So we're, why are being an accelerated?
00:23:18.980 Like I'm not even a scientist.
00:23:20.320 And I see spring coming later, fall coming later.
00:23:23.740 The cycle of the seasons is changing.
00:23:25.620 Uh, you need to move to Texas, my friend.
00:23:27.420 It's summer all freaking year round.
00:23:29.880 All year round.
00:23:31.160 See, has it always been?
00:23:32.960 Yes.
00:23:33.820 Yes, it has.
00:23:34.760 I don't know.
00:23:35.680 Yes, it has.
00:23:37.680 It's always summer in Colorado now too.
00:23:40.500 And that's not normal.
00:23:41.660 No, it is not always summer in Colorado.
00:23:44.260 Get out of here.
00:23:45.240 I mean, I lived on, I grew up in Montana.
00:23:48.400 That's the first year.
00:23:49.240 I grew up in Montana and it was cold and snowy some years and it was less than cold and snowy
00:23:55.740 some years.
00:23:56.460 It's just, it's a cycle.
00:23:58.240 It goes inside and it has much more to do with, uh, whether there's El Nino than climate
00:24:05.220 change.
00:24:06.300 It's, it's a cyclical climate that we have on this, on this planet.
00:24:11.880 And there's nothing you could do about it.
00:24:13.680 There's nothing you can do about it.
00:24:15.260 If you step back and look at the severity of that cycle, it is.
00:24:21.100 It's no more severe than it's ever been.
00:24:22.840 How many, where are the more frequent, more intense hurricanes?
00:24:25.760 Where are the more frequent, more intense tornadoes that Al Gore was talking about in
00:24:30.320 An Inconvenient Truth?
00:24:32.040 Didn't happen for 12 years after the movie.
00:24:34.820 12 years!
00:24:37.460 12 years!
00:24:39.180 The worst hurricanes that we've ever had in history have just happened.
00:24:44.160 Michael, that, no, that is not true.
00:24:46.380 A, that's not true.
00:24:47.820 B, it took 12 years for there to be any hurricane after Inconvenient Truth.
00:24:52.020 There hadn't been a major hurricane from 2005 all the way to last year when one finally
00:25:00.240 hit Houston.
00:25:02.080 Why didn't you talk about those years at all?
00:25:05.400 You didn't talk about those years.
00:25:07.340 Nobody did.
00:25:08.380 Why?
00:25:08.760 Because they were quiet and there was no neat reason to.
00:25:12.040 And, and it didn't fit the agenda.
00:25:13.660 It didn't fit the narrative for the climate change catastrophists.
00:25:17.200 They didn't want to talk about it.
00:25:18.760 So they didn't.
00:25:19.540 And then when the first major hurricane finally does hit, then it's cataclysmic climate change.
00:25:25.840 It's nonsense.
00:25:27.660 It's nonsense.
00:25:29.000 It's a hoax.
00:25:30.100 It's the biggest hoax in mankind's history.
00:25:33.360 The biggest hoax in history.
00:25:34.820 Exaggerating.
00:25:35.360 If they're exaggerating, then they're exaggerating.
00:25:38.320 And that's fine.
00:25:39.440 But.
00:25:39.720 That's fine?
00:25:40.380 The fact.
00:25:41.040 So let's take it.
00:25:41.900 It's fine.
00:25:43.000 Every.
00:25:43.680 Both sides exaggerate to prove their point.
00:25:46.680 I'm not exaggerating.
00:25:47.660 What have I exaggerated?
00:25:50.180 You are.
00:25:50.600 What have I exaggerated?
00:25:53.360 Well, you can't say that zero scientific studies on climate change.
00:25:57.160 I can because it's true.
00:25:59.380 Look it up.
00:26:00.400 Look it up.
00:26:01.060 It has to be an exaggeration.
00:26:02.640 Look it up.
00:26:03.480 It's not an exaggeration.
00:26:05.320 And I know because you never hear that side of the argument.
00:26:07.580 How old are you, Michael?
00:26:08.760 You're, you're a millennial.
00:26:10.880 How old?
00:26:12.420 35.
00:26:13.000 35.
00:26:13.620 Okay.
00:26:14.380 So all you've heard your whole life is what you're telling me now.
00:26:19.160 Right?
00:26:19.680 I mean, you've been peppered with this in school.
00:26:23.100 You've been peppered with it throughout your young adult life.
00:26:25.920 And you just bought it because nobody sat you down and showed you the actual statistics on it.
00:26:31.340 No, I think that I've seen enough data and made my own informed decision to believe it.
00:26:37.540 Oh, I see.
00:26:38.140 Okay.
00:26:39.080 All right.
00:26:39.500 But you've never even heard that the climate models aren't...
00:26:42.020 I mean, where were you the last 12 years of no hurricanes, though?
00:26:45.740 Where were you then?
00:26:47.400 I mean, I...
00:26:48.720 There's a hurricane in Hawaii right now, isn't there?
00:26:51.660 No, it, it, it was a rain event, but it, uh...
00:26:55.280 It passed the islands.
00:26:56.040 It passed the islands.
00:26:57.340 So, but, uh, again...
00:26:59.780 Anyway.
00:27:00.520 Again, it has, there have been...
00:27:02.940 There have been hurricanes.
00:27:04.000 Hurricanes.
00:27:05.240 There have been, but from 2005 to 2017, there were no major hurricanes that, that made landfall
00:27:12.080 in the United States of America.
00:27:14.960 And...
00:27:15.480 Well, in the United States of America, what about that?
00:27:17.740 Well, that's what we were talking about in An Inconvenient Truth.
00:27:20.900 We were promised by Al Gore that they're going to be more frequent and more intense
00:27:24.020 because of Katrina.
00:27:25.520 So, the inference there is it's going to affect the United States.
00:27:28.800 Everything that he says at exact face value, nobody knows exactly when it's going to occur
00:27:34.700 or, or whatever.
00:27:37.020 The thing is...
00:27:38.400 Mm-hmm.
00:27:38.740 Okay.
00:27:39.080 The last thing I want to say is...
00:27:40.360 All right.
00:27:40.540 Okay, so the Paris, the Paris Agreement, everybody else is still sticking to that.
00:27:44.400 There must be something to that.
00:27:46.180 No, not necessarily.
00:27:47.180 In other countries' ideology that says, this is probably a good thing, I can see the benefit
00:27:55.860 of this, but we pull out because we want to keep burning coal like we were in the 1700s.
00:28:02.520 We can't move forward.
00:28:04.120 No, we are trying to move forward.
00:28:05.740 You mentioned renewables, and now you're back to them again when you first started your call.
00:28:10.820 We, there, no one is against renewables, but there, we don't have any renewables that are
00:28:16.660 as strong and as productive as what we're using already.
00:28:20.840 There's no...
00:28:22.840 And plus, with renewables being subsidized with our tax dollars...
00:28:29.520 25 to 1 over oil.
00:28:30.780 We can get renewables that actually create power.
00:28:34.540 We don't have to worry about the lights turning on and off when we come into the house, which
00:28:38.480 we all like, including you, I'm sure, like to come in the house and go, oh, I just hit the switch.
00:28:43.500 There's the light.
00:28:44.760 We have that in America because of coal and power that other countries don't have.
00:28:51.320 And we're not saying...
00:28:52.500 Appreciate the call, Michael, and appreciate talking to you, and I'm glad you called.
00:28:58.380 But I'm not saying that it should be coal anyway.
00:29:02.640 Nobody's talking about bringing coal back to the levels it once was.
00:29:07.580 It once was, no, but I think Trump was trying to bring it back.
00:29:09.480 It was mostly natural gas that has replaced a lot of the coal energy that we used to burn.
00:29:16.860 And nuclear power.
00:29:18.060 I mean, there's a million different things we can do.
00:29:20.360 Wind and solar just aren't ready to replace it yet.
00:29:23.180 Right.
00:29:24.340 When they are, great!
00:29:26.500 Wind and solar, Michael, if you're still listening, and hopefully you are,
00:29:30.800 account for about 5% of our energy.
00:29:34.600 About 5%.
00:29:35.420 That might be a little too high.
00:29:37.760 I think that's high.
00:29:38.260 I think that might be too high.
00:29:39.800 It's 4% or 5%.
00:29:41.120 It's somewhere in there.
00:29:41.920 If you combine the two, wind and solar.
00:29:44.960 But they're not sturdy enough.
00:29:47.360 So there's no renewable...
00:29:48.260 What I'm saying is there's no renewable energy ready to replace fossil fuels.
00:29:54.060 Now, when you have it, let me know.
00:29:55.660 I'm happy to embrace it.
00:29:57.860 We've got a generation of people that have been so indoctrinated with that,
00:30:00.900 that have been so convinced in the education system that they believe they see it every day.
00:30:12.360 I mean, is there anything different that is happening today than has ever happened?
00:30:19.040 We've always had fires.
00:30:21.420 We've always had heat.
00:30:22.820 We've always had cold.
00:30:23.860 We've always had snow.
00:30:24.720 We've always had drought.
00:30:25.740 Not like this, though.
00:30:26.060 We've always had rain.
00:30:27.060 We've always had all of these things.
00:30:28.760 Not like this.
00:30:30.020 Yes, like this.
00:30:31.220 Not like this, my friend.
00:30:32.000 It seems bad now because it's happening now.
00:30:35.540 You forgot what it was like when it happened before.
00:30:38.780 You mean like the floods that they call the 100-year floods?
00:30:42.600 Those kind of floods?
00:30:43.520 Yes, those kind of floods.
00:30:44.260 Stuff like that where it places, different places in the United States and around the world,
00:30:48.840 but specifically in the United States, where every 100 to 150 years, this particular area will flood.
00:30:56.960 Yes.
00:30:57.260 And then about 30 years into that 150 years, we decide, man, that's never going to flood there again.
00:31:03.860 We'll build there.
00:31:04.560 We'll start building all kinds of homes there.
00:31:06.060 We'll build businesses.
00:31:06.940 We'll build all kinds of stuff there.
00:31:08.040 Look, if something starts to happen, we can take care of it.
00:31:11.420 Nope.
00:31:12.400 Doesn't happen.
00:31:13.340 Oh, I remember when I was a kid, the Mississippi River used to flood all the time.
00:31:19.680 The Missouri River would flood people.
00:31:21.980 I mean, people got flooded all the time.
00:31:24.640 I remember hearing about the floods in the Midwest all the time.
00:31:28.020 Yeah, and when I was a kid in Michigan, my grandparents lived on the Cass River.
00:31:34.720 And every year, there were pictures of the water coming up to the back of the house,
00:31:38.600 coming up to maybe the back of the work shed, because their house was the second lot in from the river.
00:31:45.000 And so it would come up to the house.
00:31:46.700 And it would just, oh, yeah, came up to the back port steps this year.
00:31:49.860 Came up to just the back of the garage this year.
00:31:52.000 And then the 100-year flood comes, and it buries all the houses that they've built up to the second floor.
00:31:59.160 And it's not pretty, and it's ugly.
00:32:00.960 But now they say, well, maybe we shouldn't build there.
00:32:03.340 You think?
00:32:05.640 Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes.
00:32:09.640 You know, we've always had them.
00:32:11.780 Always had them.
00:32:12.560 And then we're told they're going to be more frequent and more severe, more intense, more frequent in 2005,
00:32:20.680 because we just came out of Katrina.
00:32:22.760 Everybody's, you know, sensitive to it.
00:32:24.980 Everybody's afraid of it.
00:32:26.560 We're told that 12 years go by, and we don't have a single major hurricane in the mainland.
00:32:33.780 And not one.
00:32:36.280 We have a couple of little ones, and even those were few and far between.
00:32:41.260 Yeah, and they bring up Sandy, too, which was not a hurricane.
00:32:45.080 Not a hurricane.
00:32:45.880 It was a tropical storm.
00:32:47.200 They continued to ram that one.
00:32:48.760 They continued to call it Hurricane Sandy.
00:32:51.160 Yeah.
00:32:51.380 Because it was a hurricane when it was out in the ocean.
00:32:54.180 Right.
00:32:54.480 But by the time it made landfall, not close to it.
00:32:56.520 It was not a hurricane.
00:32:57.240 Exactly.
00:32:59.080 So then last year, when Harvey pops up, it's global warming all of a sudden.
00:33:05.440 See?
00:33:06.000 Wait, what about the last 12 years?
00:33:08.580 Are you kidding me?
00:33:10.080 Those meant nothing?
00:33:12.640 And what do you mean the sea level rise?
00:33:15.080 Al Gore has said, and he's getting his experts facts on this.
00:33:22.400 Al Gore has claimed the sea level is going to rise 20 feet in the next 100 years.
00:33:30.060 Florida should be underwater by now.
00:33:31.260 It's just unbelievable.
00:33:33.140 And he's claiming victory when it floods in Miami for a day or two, and then it recedes.
00:33:38.020 Well, no, that's not what you were predicting.
00:33:40.460 That's not what you were predicting.
00:33:41.800 Not close.
00:33:42.480 Stop it.
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