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Glenn Beck calls in from all over the country to talk about what's going on in the world, from the Netherlands to Hawaii to Florida, the homeless are everywhere, and the government is doing nothing about it. Glenn also talks about how the government should be doing more to help the homeless.
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I mean, we hit some of the things that are in the news, but all phone calls.
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I learned that the founder of MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com is a sustainable farmer.
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And then may I just ask you from the Netherlands, did she, did she also say that she was helping
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Yes, I believe there was a homeless sheep element.
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I would never knew where that was going to end.
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That was a winding, winding tale that she spellbound the audience with that you don't want to miss.
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I was also interested to hear, you know, there's some of the primary stuff going on, how the
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But the overwhelming tone I get from people is they don't want this.
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They don't want the hatred between candidates in the primary.
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They want to be able to pick based on the merit of the situation and not based on everyone
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Seeing what happened in Hawaii just a few weeks ago and East Palestine a few months ago.
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I think we should have all the answers to that.
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But it's interesting how incurious our corporate media is about what happened in Maui.
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I mean, I don't see them interviewing parents who can't find their kids and people we know.
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I mean, really heartbreaking to hear some of the stories, even though they're not being publicized.
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So he's he goes on to talk about how bad things are in in Maui and how different things are in Florida.
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He said in Florida, we're so fine tuned that local governments, in some respects, pay even more play.
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I'm sorry, play even more important roles than the state government does.
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The quickest response should come from the the the locals, the cities, then then the state, then the government.
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But meanwhile, we have we have something else going on.
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We have homeless people in Wyoming speaking out about the homeless problem in his city.
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Claiming they destroyed a motel and left hundreds of pounds of poop in the streets and the sidewalk.
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This is from Casper, Wyoming, 200 people, homeless residing there, have created a mess.
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The mayor says it's like nothing I've ever seen.
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It's third world country stuff happening in Casper.
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He and the city staffers had to clean up 500 pounds of poop downtown.
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He said the homeless population stay in nearby parks or sleep in their cars.
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He said in in addition to defecating on the streets, they have destroyed a vacant motel.
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Now, Nell says that's the mayor, says that they've been squatting in the former Econo Lodge motel in Casper and caused millions of dollars in damages.
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Trash littered poop on the floors, furniture scattered.
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The city has condemned the property and now it's been boarded up by the bank.
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Are you saying are you questioning whether it's homeless people or whether it's a problem?
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No, I think there's something else that is going on besides.
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Why all of a sudden is everyone pooping in the streets?
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Why is it that they feel they can go into homes or to, you know, motels and just destroy them?
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It seems to me to be connected to another problem that we're having where people in unison run into stores and just start grabbing things.
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And they start burning cities to the ground and very few of them see any repercussions from that.
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A viral video caught the moment that several women engaged in a vicious cat fight in and around porta potties at a Morgan Wallen concert in Pittsburgh.
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Woman gets into the face of another female concert gore screams.
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Then they start shoving each other and then they one pushes them the other one in to a porta potty and.
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This is from Axios concert goers throwing things at performers, people talking on their cell phones through movies, tourists defacing historic landmarks in pursuit of the perfect selfie.
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The first truly post pandemic summer has shown the bad behaviors unleashed during the stress of covid and they're not slowing down.
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A mix of worsening mental health and decaying societal connections, both exacerbated by the pandemic, may be driving this trend in rude behavior that could extend far beyond covid's upheaval.
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Mental health experts told Axios, though factors, other factors are also at play.
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The pandemic changed us for the first time in anyone's lifetime.
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I guess some were for a while, but that happens all the time.
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You mean as far as every whenever there's a tragedy or like a there's a snowstorm or a natural disaster that happens all the time.
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I do think there was a unique level of stress put on the population by shutting it down for six to nine months.
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Yes, but that's not fighting over toilet paper.
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Maybe it was, you know, one of the things people talked about a lot, but I didn't I mean, people weren't fighting over anything.
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They're all sitting at home until they started burning cities to the ground.
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You know, we were having a conversation about this with some friends.
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We had some friends over the other day and we were all talking about what happened to us.
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There was something that I would have never predicted.
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I would think that we would all want to go back to work and everything else.
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All of a sudden, because of pandemic, nobody wanted to go back to work.
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I don't think that I think that has more to do with social media than anything else.
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Everybody's, you know, taking pictures of themselves and their food.
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And, you know, I was watching some some people taking selfies.
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They were up on the big screen at my son's football game and I'm watching them on the big screen.
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And there's these women and they're taking pictures, selfies of themselves as a group.
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And then as soon as the picture is taken, they all just like.
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My wife is quite the picture taker on, you know, Instagram and all these other things.
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And they've developed that thing where they smile at the camera.
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And then as soon as the picture is over, they just go back to normal state.
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And that's something that's interesting because it's it's this, you know, this generation of kids are the first ones that really have ever had to deal with that.
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Like we're in that situation where people now growing up, I guess I'd be now going to probably voting age right now.
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Have been pictures, have had pictures taken of them basically their entire life constantly.
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And with a phone, with a phone and they have popped up and smiled and then they've stopped and they've they've developed essentially an innate sense of when to show that they're happy and when to go back to reality.
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I don't know that probably is going to screw us all up really badly.
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Our own, you know, really great sound system in it.
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You you're driving around, especially these SUVs.
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And somebody else who's in front of you or beside you is all of a sudden interrupting you in your space.
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I mean, how how thirsty are you all the time or don't you?
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I like I mean, I think these are positive developments mostly, but it does.
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I mean, I don't think that you had a shared sense of community while you were driving in your 1968 Oldsmobile.
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I just I don't understand what's happening to us.
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I can understand how we have stopped listening to each other.
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I can understand how we all just think we're in our own movie.
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You know, you're constantly taking pictures of yourself and your food and where you're at and and you're faking all of it.
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It's it's not even it's like a different version.
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You know, sometimes some people are doing that, right?
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Like if you've ever seen those accounts that that document influencers out in the wild.
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I think it's a great trend where you just see someone else taking a picture of the influencer trying to get the perfect shot and they just look like idiots.
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It's so satisfying because all their pictures, of course, look perfect.
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But watching them set up for the pictures and watching video of them try to set up, they just look like complete morons.
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Well, of course, I guess we all are at some level, honestly, at this point.
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But I do think I I don't know, maybe we're a little different on this one in that I kind of feel like we never have fully paid the price for anything for it.
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Well, for anything, for for anything, but for what happened in the pandemic, like the fact that we just shut the country down largely for I don't know.
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Some places it was 18 months or more, you know, doing that to a group of people and then throwing in there what I think one of the first effects of the post pandemic period was the rage that manifested after George Floyd.
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And we saw a society that all of a sudden was like, well, rule of law is not really that important to us.
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If you have the right opinion, you know, you want to go burn down a city, you want to you want to you want to enter a police station and take it over.
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We're going to kind of shrug our shoulders at that.
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And everyone can pretty much go home and we'll say, well, yeah, but racism like that is like those two things together.
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Really put us into a weird place and just, you know, economically and societally like we have we've paid a heavy price for that, I think.
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But I don't know that we've paid the full price for it yet.
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I thought we were on the other opposite sides here.
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No, I do feel like we just, you know, economically, we're starting to see something on this, you know, the deficit exploding again.
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Yes, we kind of are in a proxy war with Russia.
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But other than that, this should be a time where our deficits are going down and have gone down in every other similar period throughout history.
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There are there are certain circumstances where it explodes.
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Well, here we are with biodynamics and full flow where we're everything's we're told everything's wonderful by the president.
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The spending, it was supposed to be a trillion dollars over, you know, what we had.
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Spending a trillion dollars more than we actually took in.
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And this doesn't even include what's going to happen with the interest on the debt over a period of time.
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Oh, I mean, we are really we are really we're we're face planting in a lot of these areas.
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Let's go to the audience and see if you have something else.
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We just had somebody on who wanted to know about RFK.
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And, you know, when it comes to the Republicans, I don't want to tell you what to do, who to vote for.
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I have been wrong too many times and but when it comes to RFK Jr., I would urge you to think about what attracts you to him, because what is attracting you to him, I would imagine is the same kind of stuff that attracts me to him.
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I hear him speaking and when it comes to COVID and I agree with him to completely out of control.
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When I hear him talk about the Justice Department and the FBI completely out of control, I agree with him.
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And then there's something else that is new in American politics.
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He's bucking the system and they are trying to fight against him.
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The the left is treating him a little bit like they treat Donald Trump.
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And so you see who his enemies are and that they don't want him.
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And you're like, OK, maybe he's somebody I should look at.
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You know, the we're in a we're in a place right now where people feel so persecuted that they are willing to.
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I don't think there's anybody who has been more investigated in the history of the world than Donald Trump.
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Every agency, every spy agency, you know, every FBI, Interpol, you know, in every major country, they have investigated Donald Trump.
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Much of the world didn't want Donald Trump to be president because of the W.E.F. and all of the plans.
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I find that shocking for a guy who is in international business at the level that he is at, that this is what you can come up with.
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You talk to legal experts and they're like, the best thing they have here is he put those documents in his bathroom.
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OK, let's say that that's what we're worried about.
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Honestly, I would have thought that there was, you know, some sort of corruption just because he's a New York businessman that builds buildings quickly in New York.
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Usually that's because, you know, we're going to do a little work here.
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They keep trying to cover their own tracks and keep trying to accuse him of different things.
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Now, Adam Schiff is now talking about using the 14th Amendment, which the 14th Amendment means if you have been involved in sedition, that you can't serve.
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So they if they can't put him in jail, they're now talking about painting him as someone engaged in sedition instead of just letting the people decide.
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They for people who talk about democracy as much as the left does, they don't trust the voters.
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And so I think a lot of support comes from I mean, I feel this way.
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And he's he's going through all of this because he stood up for some of the things that I agree with.
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And I think a lot of people feel like this is an injustice.
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I might be able to correct with my vote because people feel like they can't do anything.
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As long as you have more than that to vote for.
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And with Donald Trump, you can find many things.
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With RFK, you kind of feel the same way, not to the extent of Donald Trump.
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But make sure you're looking into the whole picture.
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You never make a good choice when you're ruled by emotion, especially fear or anger.
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Hey, I wanted to call and share an experience that my wife and I recently had in taking an RV motorhome trip through these United States,
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specifically the western part of the United States, including California, Oregon, Washington, et cetera.
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And what we found and experienced was the American people are fantastic.
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We found friendly, helpful, unbelievable people along the way, not to mention the beautiful scenery that this country offers.
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But it renewed my confidence in the American people and love for them.
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So I would encourage you to anybody who has the opportunity to go do that.
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It's only when you get to the large cities that you see the despair and the destruction.
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I wish we had kind of an electoral college for states because our states are being dragged down by these cities.
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And it's the same problem that they tried to solve with the electoral college and did solve it with electoral college.
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They just didn't understand cities the way we have cities today.
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But once we had the Industrial Revolution, things changed and now cities are controlling our states.
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And that's really not a healthy thing because they they go a different direction entirely and don't reflect the suburbs or the or, you know, for for sure, the farmlands of America.
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I remember driving in my grandfather's old Chevy.
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I always thought he was Santa Claus, white hair, blue eyes.
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And it was always a great time with my grandfather.
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And he said, you know, just before the war, there was this great Japanese family that lived there.
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It was the first time I ever saw that kind of emotion from my grandfather.
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But the American people can be led into disastrous thinking if they're hungry or they're afraid.
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They're they they they know the difference, generally speaking, from right and wrong all across the country.
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Palestinians, when you talk to them as individuals, they want peace as much as the Israelis do when you talk to them as individuals.
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A was this nation founded on correct, eternal principles.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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You know, I have something up in my in my studio that my daughter gave me, and it is a quote from one of my favorite people.
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And it says this, you are good, but it's not enough just to be good.
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The world must be a better place for your presence.
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And the good that is in you must spread to others in this world filled with so many problems.
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So constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference.
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You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.
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You can and you must speak with a strong voice while still being good.
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I got a story for you of thank you to you and then also an answer to a question.
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A few weeks ago, you asked if we should stay and fight in our local area or if we should move.
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So we were in Colorado, just north of Denver, and I saw kind of the writing on the wall, what was happening during COVID.
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There was a lot of changes we didn't agree with.
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And I was listening to you and kind of paying attention to what you were saying.
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And we were going to move back to the East Coast.
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And we ended up, this was after the election of Winston Sears and Governor Youngkin.
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We ended up in Virginia, in central Virginia, in the middle of the country, the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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So that is one thing that we felt like if we were going to move, we're going to stay and fight where we move to.
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But we're going to be in a place where we feel comfortable that we can stay and fight.
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The story of thanks happens with, because of you leading us to prayer to be able to let us move,
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my father actually passed away four months after we moved.
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And because we moved, we were only three hours away from the hospital that we were able to go visit him.
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So because of the way that you spoke into what you were speaking, let us just go to a different area,
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And we were also able to be with my father if he passed away, which is totally unexpected.
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And it's my opinion, as far as the question goes, that if you're not in an area you want to be,
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then move to an area and stick it out and fight it there.
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Because like I said, a tenth of an acre we didn't feel comfortable on,
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but 20 acres we feel very comfortable in staying where we are to be able to provide for ourselves.
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I mean, I'm not because I think I know what you mean, but I'm uncomfortable having it on the air,
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You know, somebody comes across your property and tries to take things or whatever,
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Uh, so you might want to consider because of the world, the way it is today,
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I feel comfortable on my 20 acres to stand my ground.
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Um, by the way, the, do you know, the number one state people are moving from?
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Uh, Illinois, California, New Jersey, Michigan.
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Those are the top states, not even New York, top states for outbound in 2022.
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Cuomo killed most of the New York residents, so they can't move anywhere.
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I mean, that was, you know, anyway, all five have a democratic governor.
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Now the inbound states, top five, Arizona, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
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What story could be told from that information?
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You could say, well, maybe people like warmer weather.
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But what's your other piece of analysis to that?
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Because it's interesting how this keeps happening over and over and over again.
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What they have in common, those are all great states that people will move to with their crapping
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voting and they'll say, I want to get away from Illinois and they'll come there and then
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they'll start voting for the same people that wrecked their state.
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And so these would be the, is that what they have in common?
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That's because I think what happens is people, no one wants to blame themselves, right?
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No one wants to blame themselves for problems that happen around them.
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So I think what, with a lot of people is they vote a certain way.
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They decide to move to a better place, but they don't blame their votes for those problems.
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They instead say, well, it's, uh, it's the economy.
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Oh, well, it's that, well, you know, the industries that built this,
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this economy are no longer the, the industries that are successful.
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Um, there is a hundred different excuses you can come up with,
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but the one you're skipping is the most important one.
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You know, a lot of the reason why people move, why Tennessee of all the states in that region,
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there's other states in that region that you could pick that have similar weather and similar,
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It's a big part of the reason why you'd want to go there, right?
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There's a lot to love about Tennessee, but that's one thing you really like.
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So you saying that Illinois with 12.9 in taxes.
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Now, New York City is the top of the list of cities where they're,
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And, and think of how this problem is growing right now for these states.
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People will leave these blue states with high tax rates.
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They'll go to, uh, to red states with lower ones.
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They've left France when they raise taxes like that.
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But that was before everybody was working at home.
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Like, there were reasons you had to stay in New York.
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So, in a poll of New Yorkers, not New York City, all across New York.
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What percentage says they're planning to leave in the next five years?
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Planning to leave in the next five years out of the entire population of the whole state,
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I mean, it's, I would normally guess very low, right?
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Almost 30% are saying they're ready to get out of there.
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I gotta tell you, it's one of the reasons why I am for, like, you know, we should really
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kind of gather together, because these people are going to come and wreck our states.
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They're going to come and they're going to vote for all the same progressive things that
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they've always voted for that wreck their states.
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Yeah, that we were, they, people really need to be informed why these problems happen.
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Not just that the problem exists, but that why they happened.
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Either that, or we all move to California, and then we vote in common sense policies.
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If all of us moved to California, we'd have all the beachfront, all the forests, all the
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great vineyards, and the, you know, the land for farms and everything, and I don't think
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I just, I have a feeling we wouldn't have the homeless problem.
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In the last hour, you said that we tend to respond instead of making our own way.
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And I thought that was really profound, and that resonated with me, because I am a conservative
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I teach my students practical sustainability, but I think that-
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That means reducing resource use, saving money, reducing waste, finding the most innovative
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And my students in their capstones, they do real world capstones with real businesses,
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So I think we need to make our own way instead of responding with the environment and with
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I want us to stop responding and find good conservative solutions and common ground, because we Americans
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So what is the best way to get this message out?
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Well, I have to tell you, I think it is so common sense to the conservative that they don't really
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understand that that's not common sense to a lot of people.
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You know, common sense implies that it's common, and it's really not, especially when it comes
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When our back is against the wall, we're usually at our best.
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But we have somehow or another perverted this, and I think it's all due to politics.
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We've perverted this, and we've decided to just all grab on to one solution, because it's
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the state solution and science says, when I think the average person is totally cool with
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solar panels, wind power, everything else, if it worked, but it doesn't work yet.
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It might in the future, but it doesn't work yet.
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And I think because of the politics involved with it, you have global warming.
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This is why they're screaming that we have 10 years to live, because they've got to get
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people just to be so afraid that they don't think.
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Because if it's a 100-year problem, which it is, just quantum computing will solve many
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And if you really cared, you would be going for nuclear power, and you'd be making hydrogen
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I mean, the answers are simple, which leads you to believe that no one's really looking
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And so I think that trying to get people to stop living in fear and start looking at truth,
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I mean, that's, I mean, I think that's the only way we make a difference.
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And I think there's a, there is something to be said about constantly being on defense
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I think the environment is one of them, where a lot of times conservatives are just like,
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well, we don't think fossil fuels are that bad of a problem.
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I think one of the, the candidate who I think is speaking most clearly and effectively on
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this right now is Vivek Ramaswamy, who addresses this really well.
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And it's important to understand that if we can kind of change the framing of this, constantly
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the environmental debate is about human impact.
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What is the human impact of our policies, where the debate should be about human flourishing?
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How do we, how do we make the lives of human beings more, you know, extended and, and, and
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happy and bountiful and, and how do we, how do we make this whole situation better for
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Not how do we make it less bad for the earth, which is like, you know, you know, it's a,
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it's a rock floating through space here, but it's not, it's not person.
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It's not, they try to make it into this mother earth.
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Like, yes, it's important that we sustain the, you know, the environment and we, we
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Because we want our children to be able to breathe and drink clean things.
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And, and, and, and I think that, I think that's clear when you look at conservative, for
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instance, hunters, they are the best, uh, at wildlife preservation and everything else.