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00:00:00.000 Hey, it's going to be a great podcast today. You don't want to miss it. We have an announcement on

00:00:03.820 end of the story that goes behind what happened in Afghanistan this weekend. There's some really

00:00:10.260 great things that happened because of the Nazarene Fund, and it is just the beginning,

00:00:14.760 hopefully, as we just don't know, minute to minute. Also, we talk a little bit about the

00:00:20.320 economy. We talk to you about tomorrow's episode, which has Donald Trump first time ever on my

00:00:27.300 program ever, and I've known him since the mid-2000s, and we were going back, and we're

00:00:32.860 like, no, he's never been on. That happens on tomorrow's podcast, but a lot here, including

00:00:38.620 look at the economy, all on today's podcast.

00:00:49.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:00:57.300 So, I never thought I would be a guy that would be negotiating with prime ministers and

00:01:09.280 talking to people about what is the cost of human life. I mean, literally, what is the

00:01:17.620 cost of this human life?

00:01:20.500 You wouldn't have foreseen that when we were playing Britney Spears records?

00:01:23.540 No, I didn't see it. I didn't see it.

00:01:25.820 That's weird, because I thought this was inevitable back then.

00:01:28.700 Yeah, a lot of people saw this one coming, and it has been, I talked to somebody else who

00:01:35.500 is involved in this in her own way, Emily Miller. I talked to her this weekend, and she's having

00:01:45.200 a difficult time because she's seeing all of the, she gets all of these, you know, emails

00:01:51.280 and passports and everything. Can you help get me out? And, and she, we had a long conversation

00:01:57.640 about how people like us are not equipped to, to see the names and the stories of thousands

00:02:05.080 of people and know they may not get out. And, and we're like, no, just get them out. How do

00:02:12.340 we get them out? And once you get into it, it's extraordinarily difficult, especially when

00:02:18.860 the most powerful nation on earth is blocking you every step of the way. And this, this state

00:02:27.440 department has blocked us. Now it's my understanding that, uh, the state department helped at the last

00:02:37.620 minute on, uh, one of these planes. I gotta be really careful. Um, but I'm talking historically,

00:02:46.060 they have blocked us every single step of the way. Uzbekistan, as I just told you a minute ago, 1.00

00:02:54.200 we had that ready to go and we had, I believe it would have been clearly, you know, what we had

00:03:02.940 planned. I think that would be clearly by far the largest private airlift in human history. Um,

00:03:12.080 it was astounding and it was ready. It was literally within three hours to go. And the ambassador

00:03:20.460 from, um, the United States to Uzbekistan said, you can't let that happen. You can't let these planes

00:03:29.260 land. And so they called it off giving no reason for that. Nope, nope, nope. Uh, no reason. Uh, and

00:03:37.620 it's really difficult to find countries to even let a plane land. If you don't have the state department's

00:03:45.340 approval because the state department has to say in so many words, but this happens all the time.

00:03:51.200 This is a regular thing that happens. Um, every military plane, everything needs this kind of

00:03:57.520 permission. And, uh, it just basically says we vouch for the people running this plane and that it's not

00:04:04.480 human trafficking and it's, it's good. Well, they wouldn't give us any of those clearances. And when

00:04:10.420 they would give us clearances, we would get them and they'd be expired. So your plane can take off at

00:04:16.640 eight o'clock. We would get it at 9 PM and we'd be, well, what do you, it's expired. Oh crap. Did we get

00:04:27.000 that too late? Oh shoot. That's the, that's the, that's the good, happy parts of working with the

00:04:34.520 state department. The others are just clear blocks. So we had this all planned and then they blocked us

00:04:43.900 and now how do we get them out? So we had another plan, um, and we were blocked on that. So we wrote

00:04:52.860 to the ambassador of Pakistan. I never expected to get a letter back from, I mean, when I was told

00:05:00.840 Glenn, um, you, you really, you're the guy who should write this. I'm like, okay, I don't know

00:05:05.500 really much about Pakistan. I don't know anything. I'm probably not the guy to be doing this. Uh,

00:05:12.780 yeah, no, he'll take a letter from you. Does he know I'm kind of a clown and really don't have a, 0.86

00:05:19.920 he'll take it from you. So I wrote the letter that I just posted a few minutes ago. And in a few 0.66

00:05:26.300 minutes I will post the letter, uh, I got back and, uh, he pledged his support and everybody was

00:05:37.460 celebrating. I was like, well, okay. I mean, right. Everything's good. Right. Right. I'm just,

00:05:44.660 I don't fit in the room, honestly, with all these people. And, um, and, uh, they said, well,

00:05:50.860 let's see what he can do. So the last two weeks he has been moving mountains and I think to personal

00:06:01.020 risk to himself, and I've done some homework on this guy. He is the number two cricket player in

00:06:07.400 the world. He was educated in Cambridge, um, and saw what his country was doing and saw that his

00:06:15.960 country was a military run country and said it really shouldn't be run by the military. And he's

00:06:22.460 trying to balance things out and trying to change, uh, Pakistan. At least that's my understanding. 1.00

00:06:30.520 And if you have a different understanding, don't tell me. Okay. Uh, anyway, so that is, uh, that's my

00:06:37.720 understanding of, of who he is. And, but he has to balance because some of the people are deeply,

00:06:45.940 deeply in bed, not just with the old Taliban, the new Taliban and the new Taliban is with ISIS and

00:06:53.760 bad. And, and so there's all kinds of influences. And, you know, that country is really important

00:06:59.380 that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands because they have nukes. And I do believe that he understands

00:07:05.660 that. And I do believe that he's trying, um, we're not going to agree on everything, um, by any stretch,

00:07:12.000 but all I want to say about him is thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for what you've

00:07:18.880 done. If it wasn't for the Pakistani prime minister, none of these planes would be taking 1.00

00:07:25.920 off today. None of them. Uh, they're even letting us use their airspace. Um, we were kind of going

00:07:33.820 to cut some corners and then the state department, uh, strangely told Iran about it. Uh, and so we

00:07:42.600 couldn't do, we couldn't cut any corners or do anything. Uh, and we actually had to then figure

00:07:48.880 out once he got permission, we had to figure out where can we land this plane? So we reached out to

00:07:55.640 our friends in Georgia and Georgia is a great country that they get the whole communism and everything 0.92

00:08:02.380 else. And they said, we'll take the planes. So we had to fly him to, uh, Georgia and you can't fly

00:08:10.600 cam air is the official airline from Afghanistan. It can't land in Western countries. Um, and so you

00:08:18.820 can't get permission to land that plane in Western countries. So we had to go someplace. So we had to get

00:08:23.860 them on the ground in the middle of the night in Georgia. Then we asked the government of,

00:08:30.580 of, um, Ukraine. Can you help us get Ukrainian airlines to, to loan us a plane and pick these

00:08:41.480 guys up? So the Ukrainians were involved getting a second plane, which then took this one group to 0.98

00:08:50.300 Portugal where Portugal had been prepared by the FIFA people, the soccer people, because the girls,

00:08:59.760 we don't have, it's, it's sketchy right now. I am not sure exactly how many girls. Uh, I mean,

00:09:07.280 I have the name, I have the, the, uh, manifest, but it's 32 of the, uh, FIFA female athletes and their

00:09:15.420 families. Uh, and we're not sure if everyone got out at this point, I was told they did, but then I was

00:09:23.000 told this morning, maybe not. I, I, I'm not sure. Um, but that's how we got them. That's how we got

00:09:31.000 them out. And I want you to read my letter. I just posted it on Instagram and Twitter. I want you to

00:09:37.920 read that because you'll understand there's much, much, much more to this story. This is one plane

00:09:45.960 that we are talking about that got out this weekend. What if you told the state department,

00:09:50.800 you're only evacuating Guatemalans from Afghanistan. They would let us fly them right 1.00

00:09:57.020 directly into the United States right here, right here. If I had Haitians, I could fly them into 1.00

00:10:02.600 Oklahoma. Yes. Okay. Yes. I mean, I found it so ironic that the state department and the United

00:10:10.000 States government and this white house have blocked us for weeks to get not only these girls out, but 1.00

00:10:17.580 also Americans. And there's some news coming on Americans. Um, but, uh, they've blocked us over

00:10:24.980 and over again. And then while I'm on the phone with this, I look up at the TV and I see these giant

00:10:29.800 gray tails picking up people on our border. What? And they're flying them where, what? I mean,

00:10:36.960 I can't believe it. They're, I, they're taking off every 30 minutes for the next 72 hours. Wow.

00:10:44.540 That's my, wow. That sounds like a, yeah, that sounds familiar. Yeah. Is it really every 30 minutes?

00:10:52.080 Yes. There's some for 72 hours. Yes. Wow. I wonder where they got that plan. Yeah. I would,

00:10:57.660 I'd like to know as well. Oh my gosh. There's some question as to Haiti trying to block some of the 0.80

00:11:03.640 flights, which is really, yeah. Well, we don't want them back. Like, yeah. Okay. We're kind of,

00:11:08.380 I don't know if anyone's been following the news. We've had some of our issues of our own recently

00:11:12.400 and don't necessarily need an additional 15,000 people who have not been checked or we don't know

00:11:20.280 the health status or whatever else is going on. We're currently blocking our prime minister from

00:11:26.200 leaving the country. Cause we think he might've killed the last one. Uh, so that's not a problem.

00:11:32.560 Is it? No, maybe not our best time for new visitors. You know, I don't think these people

00:11:37.680 are, do you think that they fly to Mexico or these people that have already fled their country and were

00:11:44.640 living? Yeah. They believe it's a mix. They, they believe, you know, they're like, Oh, well,

00:11:48.600 many of them may be Haitians, uh, that had previously settled in Venezuela. I'm like, Oh, 1.00

00:11:53.260 great. Well, that makes it way better. Much better. Yeah. They got a little Venezuelan 1.00

00:11:58.560 influence before heading to our border. And now they're living under a bridge in Texas.

00:12:04.280 A beautiful bridge. A beautiful bridge. Oh, you don't know property at that underneath

00:12:08.240 that bridge. It's worth dollars. Oh my gosh. It's almost worth dollars. It's hard. It's hard

00:12:14.560 to get property there, especially, especially this time of year. Yeah. Very hard to get property

00:12:18.940 there. And they said, they did say that many of them were leaving and crossing the

00:12:23.240 Rio Grande back into Mexico. Oh, sure. Sure. Sure. Oh yeah. Going back and forth. And

00:12:27.780 then they would just come back across. And it's like, yeah, I don't, maybe, maybe if

00:12:31.800 they leave, we don't let them cross again. Yeah. I mean, we know where they are. Well, 1.00

00:12:36.660 I've seen it. Maybe just an idea. Maybe when they leave, it's like a concert, no re-entry.

00:12:44.200 You gotta have a stamp to get back in on your hand. Did you see the video with the Haitians 1.00

00:12:51.080 running up? Wait, wait, before we get to that, may I just ask, do you think that there were

00:12:55.620 any Haitians that may have been living in like Panama that once they said they were going

00:13:00.560 back to Haiti, everybody on the plane, they were like, no, no, no, no. We're going back

00:13:04.140 to Panama. Go back to Panama. I mean, there had to be a lot that were like, I don't want to 1.00

00:13:08.820 go to Haiti. No, no, no. You don't know what Haiti's like. I lived there for a while.

00:13:13.820 We don't want to go back. No. There's so many of them running up. There's, there's a video

00:13:18.840 of a bunch of Haitians crossing the Rio Grande and border patrol agents on horseback trying

00:13:25.020 to stop them. And there's just so many of them that compared to the border agents that

00:13:29.300 there's, they just overwhelm the system and there's no way you can stop. Wow. Overwhelm.

00:13:33.580 That's the other plan that I've heard before. Where did I hear overwhelm the system?

00:13:40.240 Doesn't sound familiar. That's weird. And I have to, I have to thank the great governor

00:13:45.000 of our state for putting every state. I, I, I was driving just to the grocery store at

00:13:50.220 170 miles an hour because there ain't a cop anywhere to be found on the highways of Texas

00:13:56.320 because they're all down on the border. I don't know if you saw those. Oh yeah.

00:14:00.180 Pictures aligned, but they, it was the state that protected our nation, not the U S government

00:14:07.220 because they won't do it. They won't do it. And so it was the state. Yes. You're welcome.

00:14:11.880 America. Our tax dollars went to protect all of America, not just our state. It's insane

00:14:19.920 what's going on. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:28.080 Real quick thing. I want to talk to you a little bit about what we announced, um, through the

00:14:42.640 Nazarene fund and mercury one. We are thrilled to say that, uh, the, the FIFA athletes that,

00:14:52.820 um, have been talked about in the news. Uh, and these are, these are some of them young, uh,

00:15:00.900 girls, real young teenage girls. Uh, they have been marked for, um, brides and we have been worried

00:15:09.720 about them for a very, very long time. Uh, we had them in safe houses for the last, I think two or

00:15:16.320 three weeks and, um, getting all of them to move and their families to move at once and not be a

00:15:25.840 crowd. We can no longer move buses to the airport. We can't do certain things now, um, that alert

00:15:33.000 people. So we had to get them, you know, from their safe house, moving them at the right time,

00:15:38.300 getting past the Taliban checkpoints, enabling them to get onto the flights and out of the country.

00:15:44.600 We want to thank a delivery fund, which was responsible for communicating with the girls

00:15:49.720 and finalizing all their paperwork because they eventually ended up in Portugal. Um, I think

00:15:55.940 either last night or early this morning. Um, but because of you, because of you, uh, we were able

00:16:05.840 to have the on the ground force through the Nazarene fund to ensure all of the pieces were in place

00:16:10.920 and made it happen. The two people that were critical in this were you and believe it or not,

00:16:18.520 the prime minister of, uh, Pakistan. Yeah. I, I wrote him a letter not expecting to get,

00:16:27.040 uh, any kind of, it really any kind of response. I mean, who's going to respond to,

00:16:33.160 to my letter? Um, but, uh, they did. And I was truly, um, humbled by his response. I'm going to

00:16:44.140 give you his response here in, in just a second. And, and more than his response, what he did,

00:16:51.180 um, to make that something that is much more, much, much more than, uh, than words. Uh, he was

00:17:01.380 truly, truly a remarkable, uh, partner on this who had the humanitarian side, um, the whole time.

00:17:12.060 Um, let me, let me read his response to my letter. I'm going to post it here in just a second. Um,

00:17:19.600 but I got back, this is on September 9th. We were pretty desperate and no one would help us. No one

00:17:30.200 would help us. Um, Uzbekistan, they tried to help us. And then the Washington ambassador,

00:17:39.440 the U S ambassador from Washington to Uzbekistan blocked all of our flights. They were absolutely

00:17:46.900 incredible up until the U S ambassador got involved. And we had to get Georgia involved.

00:17:53.420 We had to get, uh, the Ukrainians, which I'm very popular. I hear in Ukraine, if the Ukrainians,

00:17:59.340 uh, involved and then Portugal, but it was the prime minister of Pakistan. And I just want to read

00:18:06.220 to you what part of what he wrote to me. He said, Glenn, I'm writing, uh, to thank you for your

00:18:11.060 extremely moving letter dated six September, 2021. Your views represent the best of our faiths,

00:18:17.460 both in terms of highlighting the humanity and compassion represented by them. As you are aware,

00:18:23.280 the Holy Quran specifically references. If anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole

00:18:28.600 of, uh, uh, the whole of humanity. Pakistan wishes the world to see the compassion of the Muslims

00:18:34.740 and non-Muslims that constitute the fabric of our beloved nation, irrespective of philosophical or 1.00

00:18:41.420 political divisions. Our roles as leaders should always be to ensure that our actions benefit all

00:18:47.840 people that rely on them on us to keep them safe. I will confirm that my government will make every

00:18:54.620 effort possible to help you in this humanitarian mission. Uh, I hope that your initiative will show

00:19:01.880 the world how we can bridge religious and cultural divides in order to work in making world a safer

00:19:07.080 place. So he was, you know, as they said about Ebenezer Scrooge, he was better than his word. Um,

00:19:15.860 he worked tirelessly. And I mean, he got so sick of hearing from us. His office was like,

00:19:23.740 okay, stop calling. Okay. Stop calling. We're like, yeah, I know, but we really needed to stop calling.

00:19:28.880 I think he regretted doing business with, with Glenn Beck, um, because we were, we were, come on guys,

00:19:35.300 we got to get him on the phone. Is he doing this? And yes, he was doing a lot, a lot. Um, he is

00:19:42.820 responsible for moving those people, um, to safety. And there are more than what we're talking about and

00:19:52.700 operations are still going on, but he is getting, um, heat internally, I believe. And he, this is all

00:20:02.600 me just speculating. And I saw, it was really weird because, um, when we finally let the United States

00:20:11.560 government know, uh, that this was happening, um, um, others had reached out, uh, to other people and

00:20:21.500 they could never get anything to happen. Um, and, uh, I think they, I think they, I, I just thought I

00:20:31.360 found the timing of the attack on Pakistan and its prime minister from CNN last week. Interesting.

00:20:38.600 I just found the timing interesting, especially if you knew what was happening behind the scenes,

00:20:44.880 but that's just me. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that, um, the humanitarian effort

00:20:55.420 that the prime minister of Pakistan, uh, has done will save men, women, and children, the innocent

00:21:03.740 victims that are suffering. Um, all of the people, uh, that are getting out, uh, with the Nazarene fund

00:21:12.380 on this particular operation couldn't have been done. We reached out to almost every political leader

00:21:18.340 and very few have answered the call. Very few. Uh, most countries have answered the call. And then when

00:21:26.440 the United States said, don't work with them, they have said, we can't, we can't work with you. We don't

00:21:31.300 want to, but, uh, prime minister, um, Imran Khan, uh, did it without hesitation. And we are really,

00:21:42.500 really grateful, especially since we don't have the same religion. We don't agree on different things.

00:21:49.580 He just did what was right and wanted people to know that. Um, it wanted to know, I want you to know

00:21:58.280 who he is. I can't vouch for anything other than this. He has been exceptional at not saying,

00:22:08.420 uh, we can't rescue this person. We can't rescue that. He just like, who's there. Let's get them

00:22:14.140 on a plane. Let's get them out of there. That's great. And it's something that I think we would

00:22:19.080 expect from, we're supposed to expect from, uh, everybody, right? Like whether you agree or not,

00:22:26.100 you're supposed to, we're all supposed to respect human life. And, and we're seeing how many people

00:22:31.620 out there do not hit that basic requirement. And it's really good to see that there are some people

00:22:36.360 who do care because it doesn't seem, I feel it can definitely get to that point where it feels like

00:22:41.200 nobody does. And it's, it's nice to see that, that there are those people out there.

00:22:46.020 Well, I will tell you this. I'll work with anybody that wants to save lives.

00:22:50.440 Yeah. Uh, I'll work with anyone we've worked with, we've worked with, um, we've worked with people

00:22:56.180 that would never ever want my, uh, their name said by me in a positive way on this show. And without

00:23:02.720 hesitation, we work because every life is valuable. This is the way he worked. Um, and, um, he has

00:23:12.420 gotten the, he has gotten the people in Afghanistan that have the power to allow us to do these first

00:23:20.800 two flights, um, and more hopefully coming. I'm looking forward to his continued cooperation to

00:23:28.740 make sure that we continue our common goal. Um, but, uh, thank you. Thank you very much sincerely

00:23:37.880 to prime minister Khan, uh, and the people of Pakistan for making this happen.

00:23:43.100 Such an interesting thing. I mean, I, I don't know if people can hear it in your voice, but it's,

00:23:48.100 it's so hard because there's so many things that you're not able to speak about, uh, in real time.

00:23:54.960 Um, that, you know, you know who I thought of this weekend when I went to the white house

00:23:59.900 and I said, Mr. President, George W. Bush, he was not stuttering. He wasn't confusing words. He

00:24:06.740 wasn't doing anything. And I said, where is this guy? No offense, Mr. President, but this is the guy

00:24:12.640 that America needs to hear from. And he got a little testy with me and he said, uh, you have

00:24:18.140 no idea what it's like to be the president. You can't, I can't, I have a hundred different things

00:24:23.180 I'm processing and a hundred different relationships and I can't say this and I can't say that.

00:24:27.720 And I realized that job is so difficult if you care to do it right. And you're in the middle of

00:24:34.480 complex negotiations and everything else. You have to be very careful with your words.

00:24:41.400 And, uh, uh, yesterday, my gosh, just to tweet something was literally like an hour and a half

00:24:51.200 of just everybody freaking out and screaming. And it was like, you can't say that. I'm like,

00:24:55.980 okay, all right, stop, stop, stop. Oh, it must be impossible. It's impossible.

00:25:02.680 I was reading that Josh Rogan book, uh, chaos under heaven. And they have the story of

00:25:06.920 president Trump comes into office and people are calling them. Congratulations. You've won the

00:25:11.880 presidency. Another call comes in, picks it up. Hey, thanks. Thanks so much. Uh, it was the head

00:25:17.400 of Taiwan. Now, apparently that's, you know, I mean, we know the relationship between China and

00:25:22.760 Taiwan, but specifically a president taking a call from the Taiwanese leadership is such a big deal to

00:25:29.660 China. Now, I don't know. You like, you're new in the office. Someone calls a world leader,

00:25:35.200 like, you know, an average person's just going to take that call. Now, this is something,

00:25:39.240 obviously some of his aides should have got before it actually happened. But the point is though,

00:25:43.800 that's just a basic one, right? Like think of how many, when you're in the middle of a negotiation,

00:25:48.680 when you're in the middle of, of, of all these internal discussions that people aren't privy to,

00:25:53.960 especially if the state department isn't with the president. See, that's the problem. The problem

00:26:00.260 is the state department is just doing their own thing. I have a story about the state department

00:26:05.060 that I'll be sharing soon. Um, you have a lot of those that shows that they are their own entity.

00:26:10.880 They don't care. They do not care what anyone says they will do what they want to do. And it's

00:26:18.260 completely out of control, completely out of control. And, uh, when you imagine being the

00:26:25.340 president of the United States and having a general that, uh, yeah, I got a friend and I just called

00:26:30.840 him. Don't worry. We got, we got this. We'll let you know. Okay. So you have a general sabotaging

00:26:37.000 the president there. So now the Chinese don't know, do I listen to this guy? Do I not listen to this guy? 0.99

00:26:43.800 Does this have power? Does he not have power? And I just went through that in a very, very,

00:26:49.460 very small way. What, who is, who's really running the show? What's really happening? Yada,

00:26:55.780 yada, yada. Um, I'm not the president. And, uh, so really it doesn't matter what this clown says.

00:27:04.360 Um, but what's really incredible to me is that if you have the, if you have the military 0.71

00:27:11.260 that is having side conversations and the, the state department also having side, uh, conversations

00:27:19.780 and they disagree with the president, how does the president do anything? I mean, it's,

00:27:27.600 it's such a clash and both of those guys can destroy the president as we have seen.

00:27:35.060 It's, it, it's not what America, this is not the system that we think it is. This is,

00:27:43.020 this is a very different system because we have allowed these agencies to grow out of control.

00:27:49.200 I mean, I would like to say the house and the Senate, you know, are a shadow of themselves,

00:27:55.420 but that is an insult to all shadows. Uh, sorry, I apologize to all shadows for saying that

00:28:03.200 because the shadows are like, come on, man, we're not that worthless. They are, these guys are that

00:28:11.060 worthless. It's a rubber stamp and, uh, and it's got to change. It's got to change, but I just want 0.98

00:28:20.640 to say one thing on this. Everyone said that you couldn't do it. Everyone for the last three weeks

00:28:26.840 have been saying, we can't help. We can't get them out. We can't get Americans out. As you will see 1.00

00:28:34.120 in the coming days, all of that is a lie. And if we would have believed them, these people, and in

00:28:41.200 particular today, uh, these, uh, 30, is it 32 female athletes, they'd be probably being raped. 1.00

00:28:51.920 If they lost their hiding place, if it wasn't for you, they wouldn't have had a hiding place. 0.97

00:28:57.220 Um, they'd be raped over and over and over again, several times a day. 0.95

00:29:02.960 It is truly because of you, because you didn't listen to a government saying, no, you can't. 0.90

00:29:10.840 And it brings me great joy to say that that is a lie because the truth is, yes, we can.

00:29:21.920 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

00:29:35.060 So, Stu, um, may I just suggest that, uh, and I, I just think this is kind of important,

00:29:43.640 uh, to wrap your head, uh, clearly in, in duct tape and, uh, oh yeah, see the air sirens have gone on.

00:29:51.920 Yeah. The locals have heard that we are going to talk about Nancy Pelosi and actually play some audio.

00:29:58.500 Um, and your head just might explode. So you were warned in advance. Here is Nancy Pelosi, uh, on, uh,

00:30:08.420 our economy.

00:30:09.580 In America, uh, capitalism, uh, is our system. It is our economic system, but it has not served

00:30:17.740 our economy as well as it should stop just for a second. Still, uh, that seems like a crazy blanket

00:30:25.000 statement to me. I'd like to believe it was true. I'd like it to be true. Yeah. I'd like it to be true.

00:30:31.620 So I, it hasn't served, uh, our country well and served all of our purposes up, you know,

00:30:38.480 you're right on that. It hasn't done everything, but it has created some pretty sweet spots all

00:30:47.460 around the world, not just in America. Uh, it's been responsible for the greatest human achievement,

00:30:52.860 uh, in our, in our, in our species history. I'm not something it's done over the past. Let's say

00:30:59.080 20 years. Yeah. That's crazy. Ripped billions of people out of poverty around the world. Uh,

00:31:04.860 you know, it is basically changed what we used to have into modern civilization. Yeah. So other than

00:31:11.940 that, other than that, other than, other than cooking with fire and reading, if you could afford

00:31:18.480 a book by candlelight, America kind of changed the world. You know, we did a few little things here

00:31:24.940 and there, and now we don't have to cook our food over a fire unless, unless you're part of the new

00:31:32.440 immigration program from the Biden administration. You can cook anything under that bridge now. Um,

00:31:39.680 so she goes on here, here she is on a, the capitalism system. What to do is not depart from

00:31:45.900 that, but to improve it and to make sure that it serves, uh, uh, Adam Smith wrote two books.

00:31:52.680 Can you go back just a little bit? Cause I don't want you to miss this part. Uh, she said,

00:31:58.440 we don't want to, uh, change capital or we don't want to destroy capitalism. We just want to change it

00:32:04.400 for the better. Have you heard any of the, uh, serious, I mean, as a people, have we had that

00:32:11.140 serious discussion? Have we, I mean, I've heard a lot of, you know, slogans, you know, Hey, tax the

00:32:17.580 rich, blah, blah, blah. But have we had the slogan of, Hey, we're going to lift the engine up on this

00:32:23.140 economic, uh, lift, lift the hood up on this economic engine. And we're just going to change

00:32:28.160 some things, you know, tune it. Okay. But we're going to change some things. I don't know if it

00:32:36.640 was my car. I'd say, wait, wait, hang on. Just saying what, what, what exactly are you going to

00:32:41.340 change? We're taking out these crazy spark plugs. We don't even know what they do, you know, sticking

00:32:47.920 up there and having to change them and stuff. We got to get rid of them. Okay. Do you have another

00:32:52.900 replacement for them? Cause if you do, I'm, I'm all in, I'm all in, but I'd like to see what you

00:32:57.940 want to change. We're going to get rid of this, uh, gasoline in this engine. Okay. What are you

00:33:06.220 going to replace it with? Well, batteries are dirty too. Now, you know, everybody was touting

00:33:10.260 that battery, but you know how much, you know how much it takes to make a battery. So we're not

00:33:14.640 using batteries. What are you going to use stuff? That's the way they talk to us stuff. We're just

00:33:25.100 going to get rid of all the police and replace it with something else. What more do you want?

00:33:31.520 I don't know. Maybe actual facts, but getting actual facts from them. Um, it's never quite

00:33:39.080 clear because they're morons when it comes to the economy. You can say safely, and I'm going 1.00

00:33:47.180 to give you the evidence. Nancy Pelosi is a complete and utter moron. Here's why. Listen. 1.00

00:33:57.920 Uh, uh, Adam Smith wrote two books. He wrote wealth of nations, and then he wrote another book about

00:34:03.460 principles and the rest about how he wrote wealth of nations. And then he wrote a book about

00:34:11.720 principles and all that. I, I mean, don't get me wrong. I think that was an eloquent way of,

00:34:18.600 of describing what he did. Um, uh, yeah, I should point out that actually he wrote that

00:34:24.500 principles and stuff book before wealth of nations, but only 17 years before Glenn.

00:34:31.020 Yeah. Um, but it was just the foundation of wealth of nations. So it probably shouldn't be dismissed as,

00:34:39.960 you know, on principles and stuff because it's those principles and stuff that, uh, make the wealth

00:34:46.740 of nations, but she already knows that. And we point out that the reason why she frames it that

00:34:52.540 way, at least in my view would be that she's trying to act as if he corrected himself. You know, he gave

00:34:59.160 you this vision for capitalism. And then he said, you know what, by the way, though, don't just do

00:35:04.180 this. You have to have principles too. That may have been the way she was told, uh, by us. I don't

00:35:10.620 think she has a clue on who Adam Smith really was. I'm giving her too much credit. You're giving her

00:35:15.440 way too much credit. But that's why the story works for her, right? If there was a guy who wrote a book

00:35:19.780 about capitalism that we all praised and then later on said, by the way, I was mistaken. I didn't point

00:35:24.140 out that you're supposed to be nice to each other and give away and have the government take all your

00:35:28.080 money. Right. Or whatever she believes is in the second book there. Um, you know, then you'd

00:35:33.700 understand, right? Sure. That perhaps, uh, that makes sense. This is, he set up, Hey, you have to

00:35:40.180 be the theory of moral sentiments. Yeah. It happens long before he sets that, that framework for what

00:35:46.480 later becomes what we understand as capitalism. He says, you cannot be an amoral people because the

00:35:54.140 invisible market of the hand, which he describes later in wealth of nations, that invisible hand

00:35:59.200 will reach up and choke you to death. If that's what the market is asking for, if it's asking for

00:36:06.680 bad things, it will produce bad things, but it's not the invisible hand jamming those things down your

00:36:14.000 throat. It's you asking for them because you are the market. So if you are moral, it will ask,

00:36:21.940 it will, it will demand moral things to be produced. But if you don't have a society that

00:36:28.900 has moral sentiments, it's going to be a really bad ride because it will be used against you and

00:36:34.360 it will come and choke you to death. We've been saying that for a long time. We all know that

00:36:40.180 it takes a moral people to have this much freedom. They've been saying, get out of here with all your

00:36:48.880 morality. You don't know what you're saying. Really? So let's listen to the expert Nancy Pelosi on

00:36:56.800 that, uh, principles and stuff. In an economy, in a society, you had to meet the needs of people.

00:37:04.940 He wasn't doing it really from compassion, but from practicality. Stop. That is absolutely not true.

00:37:12.000 Not true. If you know anything about moral sentiments and the wealth of nations, it is the greatest

00:37:21.300 charitable arm ever. Because if it is done with moral sentiments, people are thinking, how can I improve

00:37:30.060 the life of others? How can I make their life better? It's only when you have an amoral or immoral

00:37:39.040 society that they think, how can I make this iPhone addict children to it? That's not a moral idea, but a moral

00:37:50.760 society would say, how can we use this to help free people? Help them not to be enslaved, especially to a

00:38:00.660 giant corporation who is, through their algorithms, shaping, changing, and enslaving based on what we want

00:38:09.460 because we want to sell you more stuff.

00:38:14.620 It's not, he never wrote about, this is, you know what this is? Just make money.

00:38:21.520 That's not Adam Smith. That's not Adam Smith. That might be Nancy Pelosi. It might be the people in

00:38:29.660 Silicon Valley. It might be the people today at Coca-Cola, but it's not Adam Smith.

00:38:35.880 Gotta afford that Jenny's ice cream somehow. 0.72

00:38:37.900 I know, there's so much of it to be had in her freezer. Listen more.

00:38:42.060 Uh, so you cannot have a system where we, the, the success of some is springs from the exploitation

00:38:50.680 of the workers. That's top. And that's Karl Marx. That's Karl Marx. That's not Adam Smith. Moral

00:38:59.000 sentiments is not about some, uh, uh, some, uh, you know, buddy at the top exploiting their workers.

00:39:07.480 Uh, what was the words that she was just using? It comes right from Adam or it comes right from

00:39:12.560 Karl Marx. That's not what this is about. This is about can companies, can people, can the market,

00:39:21.160 can inventors, can business people have the moral sentiments to be able to help people and not make

00:39:31.280 it just about money. She's now turning this into see these giant corporations. 1.00

00:39:37.480 are just exploiting the people at the bottom. So we have to take money from them. That's where

00:39:43.000 she's going. So we have to take money from them to make it better. That just makes you part of the

00:39:49.320 system that is completely corrupt. All you're then going to do is take bribes from people to say,

00:39:57.360 oh, we're going to leave that company alone, but this company get them. You're just getting money.

00:40:02.600 That's all that is. You're just getting money. You're not giving it to the people. You're giving

00:40:07.560 40 cents on every dollar back to the people, please. And her criticism of this system is so 0.92

00:40:15.880 terrible. It's just awful. When you think about what has really occurred in the world, when Nancy

00:40:22.140 Pelosi turned 90 and that was, I think in 1970, uh, 56, 56, I have it here. 50. So she turned 104

00:40:30.060 years old in 1970. Yes. About 27% of the world lived in extreme poverty. 27, 27%. Write this down.

00:40:38.020 I'm remember I use common core. I have 27 units of something. Yes. That dropped, uh, into by 2006,

00:40:45.260 it had fallen by 80%. So we're down to about 5%. We're now below that, by the way, the biggest

00:40:51.080 drop, if you want to look at an era, by the way, would be the Reagan era. But I mean, let's not even

00:40:56.160 point that out at all. An 80% decline in the world's worst poverty since, you know, many in this audience

00:41:02.320 were children, right? Like that's in our lifetimes since 1990, since 1990, we have removed 17,000,

00:41:13.860 258 child deaths per day out of the world. Just since 1990. Remember, this is Bill Clinton

00:41:24.320 is president. No, I'm not talking about that. No, we're killing them before they can live

00:41:27.600 and starve to death. I'm talking about just making it to five years old, right? Born and 1.00

00:41:32.740 your lifespan less than five years old. We're eliminating thousands of deaths every day around

00:41:39.120 the world because of preventing disease, because of, um, uh, starvation, because of all these

00:41:45.020 things. Exploitation. No. Um, and we've now removed poverty out of, by, you know, 80% in,

00:41:53.680 in, uh, that rough timeframe that we're talking about. And when you ask people in the United

00:41:58.700 States, what has happened in their lifetime with poverty, 70% of them say it's gotten worse.

00:42:05.240 We have eliminated over 80% of extreme poverty in our lifetimes and 70% of the American people

00:42:14.060 think it's gotten worse. That is because of people like Nancy Pelosi.

00:42:19.180 What? Yes. That is who tell you all the time that things are getting worse. That is people

00:42:24.300 like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. Uh, I might as well throw in ISIS, uh, all of those 0.97

00:42:33.600 bad people trying to do an insurrection just this last Saturday. Were you blind man? Yeah, 0.99

00:42:40.640 no, I, I saw the four people standing out there on the Hill with the 812 reporters surrounding

00:42:45.920 them. This whole thing needs to be changed, but not changed because we love it. We love

00:42:50.940 it. That's who we are. We're just going to change it. We just have to remember that book

00:42:55.660 that Adam Smith wrote after he wrote the wealth of nations, right? Which is get that.

00:42:59.820 This doesn't really work at all. Um, unless you could get a big government to control everything

00:43:05.940 and take money, you know, through extortion or through taxes, which might be the same thing.

00:43:11.680 That book that he wrote, that was a couple of years after the principal book. Yeah. That

00:43:16.700 principal book. Yeah. Yeah. More in just a second.

00:43:19.020 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

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