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00:00:00.000 So what'd you get out of the podcast today?

00:00:02.560 Because it was, it was all phone calls.

00:00:05.140 I mean, we hit some of the things that are in the news, but all phone calls.

00:00:10.980 I learned that the founder of MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com is a sustainable farmer.

00:00:17.080 And then may I just ask you from the Netherlands, did she, did she also say that she was helping

00:00:26.920 homeless sheep?

00:00:27.780 Yes, I believe there was a homeless sheep element.

00:00:31.480 That was an adventure.

00:00:32.620 That call was an adventure.

00:00:33.760 I would never knew where that was going to end.

00:00:35.360 I had no idea where that was going to go.

00:00:37.620 That was a winding, winding tale that she spellbound the audience with that you don't want to miss.

00:00:43.740 I get it.

00:00:44.120 I was also interested to hear, you know, there's some of the primary stuff going on, how the

00:00:48.740 audience can get split between candidates.

00:00:50.820 But the overwhelming tone I get from people is they don't want this.

00:00:54.360 They don't want the back and forth.

00:00:55.840 They don't want the hatred between candidates in the primary.

00:00:59.700 They want to be able to pick based on the merit of the situation and not based on everyone

00:01:04.900 lighting each other on fire.

00:01:06.360 Yeah.

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00:02:42.640 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:50.140 Seeing what happened in Hawaii just a few weeks ago and East Palestine a few months ago.

00:02:56.380 Do you trust the government?

00:02:58.560 He said, I think Maui is a total catastrophe.

00:03:01.000 What happened there?

00:03:01.740 I don't think we have all the answers to that.

00:03:04.720 I think we should have all the answers to that.

00:03:07.160 But it's interesting how incurious our corporate media is about what happened in Maui.

00:03:12.620 I mean, I don't see them interviewing parents who can't find their kids and people we know.

00:03:17.840 There's a lot of people missing.

00:03:20.480 So that was a total disaster.

00:03:22.820 I mean, really heartbreaking to hear some of the stories, even though they're not being publicized.

00:03:27.000 So he's he goes on to talk about how bad things are in in Maui and how different things are in Florida.

00:03:37.440 He said in Florida, we're so fine tuned that local governments, in some respects, pay even more play.

00:03:46.180 I'm sorry, play even more important roles than the state government does.

00:03:50.260 This is the way it is supposed to be.

00:03:52.860 I don't understand.

00:03:55.120 This is the way everything is supposed to be.

00:03:58.200 You're not the most power.

00:04:00.460 The quickest response should come from the the the locals, the cities, then then the state, then the government.

00:04:09.440 But meanwhile, we have we have something else going on.

00:04:18.340 We have homeless people in Wyoming speaking out about the homeless problem in his city.

00:04:28.240 Claiming they destroyed a motel and left hundreds of pounds of poop in the streets and the sidewalk.

00:04:34.400 This is from Casper, Wyoming, 200 people, homeless residing there, have created a mess.

00:04:45.240 Stu, listen, listen to this.

00:04:47.860 Is this a homeless problem?

00:04:50.320 Is this truly a homeless problem?

00:04:52.560 The mayor says it's like nothing I've ever seen.

00:04:55.180 It's third world country stuff happening in Casper. 0.99

00:04:58.320 He and the city staffers had to clean up 500 pounds of poop downtown.

00:05:07.040 He said the homeless population stay in nearby parks or sleep in their cars.

00:05:13.320 He said in in addition to defecating on the streets, they have destroyed a vacant motel.

00:05:20.100 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.

00:05:29.880 Pictures show that this is just horrible.

00:05:33.160 Trash littered poop on the floors, furniture scattered.

00:05:36.780 The city has condemned the property and now it's been boarded up by the bank.

00:05:40.860 They destroyed everything.

00:05:42.520 That's not a homeless problem.

00:05:44.440 We have had homeless problems before.

00:05:46.600 Are you saying are you questioning whether it's homeless people or whether it's a problem?

00:05:50.880 Is this an ideal situation for you?

00:05:53.720 No, I think there's something else that is going on besides.

00:05:57.480 I mean, I'm sorry.

00:05:59.600 The home we've lived with homelessness before.

00:06:02.220 We've had bad homelessness problems before.

00:06:07.060 Why all of a sudden is everyone pooping in the streets?

00:06:11.400 Why is it that they feel they can go into homes or to, you know, motels and just destroy them?

00:06:19.520 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.

00:06:28.700 I think so.

00:06:30.600 And they start burning cities to the ground and very few of them see any repercussions from that.

00:06:35.760 It seems like it's all sort of connected.

00:06:40.600 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. 0.97

00:06:53.720 Woman gets into the face of another female concert gore screams. 1.00

00:06:57.760 F you, you don't cut in front of me. 0.99

00:07:00.000 Then they start shoving each other and then they one pushes them the other one in to a porta potty and. 0.65

00:07:09.400 Oh, boy.

00:07:10.360 And then it just it just gets worse.

00:07:14.700 What's happening to society.

00:07:19.140 I'll give you.

00:07:21.180 What some people.

00:07:23.320 Are saying is happening.

00:07:27.060 Concert goers.

00:07:28.060 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.

00:07:42.700 The first truly post pandemic summer has shown the bad behaviors unleashed during the stress of covid and they're not slowing down.

00:07:51.700 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.

00:08:06.240 Mental health experts told Axios, though factors, other factors are also at play.

00:08:11.840 The pandemic changed us for the first time in anyone's lifetime.

00:08:18.080 It was like every man and woman for himself. 0.87

00:08:20.700 We were fighting over toilet paper.

00:08:23.060 It broke life as we knew it.

00:08:25.820 I don't buy that.

00:08:27.460 I don't buy that.

00:08:28.820 We were fighting over toilet paper.

00:08:31.240 I guess some were for a while, but that happens all the time.

00:08:37.180 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.

00:08:45.220 That's not what broke us.

00:08:46.640 I do think there was a unique level of stress put on the population by shutting it down for six to nine months.

00:08:54.180 Yes, but that's not fighting over toilet paper. 1.00

00:08:58.260 Right.

00:08:58.540 That's that's true.

00:09:00.680 That was part of it.

00:09:02.120 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.

00:09:08.220 They were all at home.

00:09:09.260 They're all sitting at home until they started burning cities to the ground.

00:09:11.840 It was like the two the two phases.

00:09:13.660 You know, we were having a conversation about this with some friends.

00:09:16.120 We had some friends over the other day and we were all talking about what happened to us.

00:09:20.980 There was something that I would have never predicted.

00:09:24.880 I would think that we would all want to go back to work and everything else.

00:09:29.120 All of a sudden, because of pandemic, nobody wanted to go back to work.

00:09:33.500 Everybody's like, I'm not going to work.

00:09:35.660 Why?

00:09:36.900 What happened?

00:09:37.980 Everybody is rude to each other.

00:09:40.600 I don't think that I think that has more to do with social media than anything else.

00:09:46.560 Everybody's, you know, taking pictures of themselves and their food.

00:09:49.760 And, you know, I was watching some some people taking selfies.

00:09:55.300 They were up on the big screen at my son's football game and I'm watching them on the big screen.

00:10:00.540 And there's these women and they're taking pictures, selfies of themselves as a group.

00:10:05.980 OK.

00:10:06.560 And they're all smiling.

00:10:08.220 OK.

00:10:09.060 And then as soon as the picture is taken, they all just like.

00:10:13.780 Yeah.

00:10:14.320 Right.

00:10:14.640 Because that's the real state.

00:10:15.920 That's the real state.

00:10:16.880 Yeah.

00:10:17.540 I see that all the time.

00:10:18.420 You see it all the time.

00:10:19.460 Even with the kids.

00:10:20.400 I've noticed that with my kids.

00:10:22.020 My wife is quite the picture taker on, you know, Instagram and all these other things.

00:10:26.580 Loves taking pictures of the kids.

00:10:27.820 And they've developed that thing where they smile at the camera.

00:10:31.380 And then as soon as the picture is over, they just go back to normal state.

00:10:34.000 It's like a totally different thing.

00:10:35.360 It's not at all capturing reality.

00:10:37.520 Not at all.

00:10:38.340 Yeah.

00:10:39.440 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.

00:10:47.520 Right.

00:10:47.980 Like we're in that situation where people now growing up, I guess I'd be now going to probably voting age right now.

00:10:55.440 Have been pictures, have had pictures taken of them basically their entire life constantly.

00:11:02.140 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.

00:11:18.900 I don't know that probably is going to screw us all up really badly.

00:11:23.860 You know why I think that there's road rage.

00:11:26.220 I think our cars became.

00:11:29.600 So great.

00:11:31.660 Our own, you know, really great sound system in it.

00:11:36.140 They're, you know, big.

00:11:38.060 You're you're in air conditioning.

00:11:40.480 You you're driving around, especially these SUVs.

00:11:44.200 You're driving around your house.

00:11:47.120 It's your space.

00:11:49.360 And somebody else who's in front of you or beside you is all of a sudden interrupting you in your space.

00:11:55.900 There's no shared feeling of traveling.

00:12:01.200 It's like I'm just in my house traveling.

00:12:03.720 You have everything that you need.

00:12:08.480 Some cars even have refrigerators.

00:12:11.960 I mean, wow.

00:12:14.260 I mean, how how thirsty are you all the time or don't you?

00:12:18.780 This sounds awesome.

00:12:19.760 Don't you disparage it?

00:12:21.020 Why aren't there?

00:12:22.460 My car is really my question.

00:12:25.640 I like I mean, I think these are positive developments mostly, but it does.

00:12:30.160 I mean, I don't think that you had a shared sense of community while you were driving in your 1968 Oldsmobile.

00:12:35.820 I don't know.

00:12:36.660 I don't know.

00:12:37.360 I just I don't understand what's happening to us.

00:12:40.960 I really don't understand the pandemic thing.

00:12:44.000 I can understand how we have stopped listening to each other.

00:12:48.140 It's social media.

00:12:49.360 I can understand how we all just think we're in our own movie.

00:12:53.980 It's social media.

00:12:55.260 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.

00:13:03.660 It's it's not even it's like a different version.

00:13:06.300 It's not exactly faking it.

00:13:07.760 You know, sometimes some people are doing that, right?

00:13:09.500 Like if you've ever seen those accounts that that document influencers out in the wild.

00:13:14.040 Have you ever seen this before?

00:13:15.040 No. 1.00

00:13:15.280 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. 0.99

00:13:24.360 It's so satisfying because all their pictures, of course, look perfect. 1.00

00:13:28.180 But watching them set up for the pictures and watching video of them try to set up, they just look like complete morons. 0.99

00:13:34.340 And it's so satisfying to look at. 1.00

00:13:36.500 They are morons. 1.00

00:13:37.500 Well, of course, I guess we all are at some level, honestly, at this point. 1.00

00:13:41.100 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.

00:13:53.260 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.

00:14:05.740 What do you want to say here?

00:14:06.640 It was maybe three or four months.

00:14:08.260 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.

00:14:26.780 And we saw a society that all of a sudden was like, well, rule of law is not really that important to us.

00:14:33.500 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.

00:14:41.220 We're going to kind of shrug our shoulders at that.

00:14:44.300 And everyone can pretty much go home and we'll say, well, yeah, but racism like that is like those two things together.

00:14:51.200 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.

00:15:01.560 But I don't know that we've paid the full price for it yet.

00:15:04.240 I. Oh, no, no.

00:15:05.200 You don't think?

00:15:05.800 No, we have.

00:15:06.680 Oh, let's.

00:15:07.280 Yeah.

00:15:07.440 We're great.

00:15:08.240 I was hoping you'd give some optimism.

00:15:09.740 I thought we were on the other opposite sides here.

00:15:11.840 No, I do feel like we just, you know, economically, we're starting to see something on this, you know, the deficit exploding again.

00:15:17.800 We're in peacetime.

00:15:18.920 This is, quote unquote, peacetime, right?

00:15:20.360 Yes, we kind of are in a proxy war with Russia.

00:15:22.460 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.

00:15:30.900 The pandemic went up.

00:15:32.020 We all know that war times it goes up.

00:15:34.180 There are there are certain circumstances where it explodes.

00:15:36.340 Then it comes back down in peacetime.

00:15:38.240 Well, here we are with biodynamics and full flow where we're everything's we're told everything's wonderful by the president.

00:15:46.520 The spending, it was supposed to be a trillion dollars over, you know, what we had.

00:15:52.720 Yeah.

00:15:53.060 Spending a trillion dollars more than we actually took in.

00:15:55.940 It is now two trillion.

00:15:59.080 Double.

00:15:59.680 Double.

00:16:00.120 It's doubling in peacetime.

00:16:02.240 And this doesn't even include what's going to happen with the interest on the debt over a period of time.

00:16:07.740 If these rates stay where they are or go up.

00:16:10.900 Oh, I mean, we are really we are really we're we're face planting in a lot of these areas.

00:16:17.640 Let's go to the audience and see if you have something else.

00:16:20.520 Tell us about your face.

00:16:21.620 Yeah.

00:16:22.000 What are you what are you thinking?

00:16:23.820 How are you feeling?

00:16:24.820 Eight at eight, seven, two, seven, B.E.C.K.

00:16:26.600 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:33.760 We just had somebody on who wanted to know about RFK.

00:16:38.800 And, you know, when it comes to the Republicans, I don't want to tell you what to do, who to vote for.

00:16:48.120 You're smart enough to figure that out.

00:16:49.720 And I trust the American people.

00:16:51.200 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.

00:17:12.840 I hear him speaking and when it comes to COVID and I agree with him to completely out of control.

00:17:20.740 When I hear him talk about the Justice Department and the FBI completely out of control, I agree with him.

00:17:27.900 And then there's something else that is new in American politics.

00:17:33.140 He's bucking the system and they are trying to fight against him.

00:17:37.960 The the left is treating him a little bit like they treat Donald Trump.

00:17:46.720 And so you see who his enemies are and that they don't want him.

00:17:52.220 And you're like, OK, maybe he's somebody I should look at.

00:17:55.740 And maybe he is somebody you should look at.

00:17:57.880 I think you should look at all of them.

00:17:59.520 But look deeply.

00:18:00.920 Look past those kinds of things.

00:18:04.140 You know, the we're in a we're in a place right now where people feel so persecuted that they are willing to.

00:18:18.060 They're willing to step up.

00:18:19.480 Let's take Donald Trump, for instance.

00:18:24.000 I don't think there's anybody who has been more investigated in the history of the world than Donald Trump.

00:18:31.600 Every agency, every spy agency, you know, every FBI, Interpol, you know, in every major country, they have investigated Donald Trump.

00:18:46.620 They've looked at everything.

00:18:49.160 Much of the world didn't want Donald Trump to be president because of the W.E.F. and all of the plans.

00:18:56.440 And he's an American first kind of guy.

00:18:58.540 So, you know, they investigated him.

00:19:03.400 This is the best they can come up with.

00:19:06.380 To me, I find that shocking.

00:19:08.300 I really do.

00:19:09.320 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.

00:19:19.180 You talk to legal experts and they're like, the best thing they have here is he put those documents in his bathroom.

00:19:25.680 I mean, that's crazy.

00:19:28.500 OK, let's say that that's what we're worried about.

00:19:32.580 That's the big thing.

00:19:33.640 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.

00:19:46.180 Usually that's because, you know, we're going to do a little work here.

00:19:50.180 You know what I'm saying?

00:19:51.540 None of that.

00:19:52.440 None of that.

00:19:53.920 So what do they do?

00:19:56.000 They keep trying to cover their own tracks and keep trying to accuse him of different things.

00:20:04.920 They can never get the goods on him.

00:20:07.540 The media completely goes nuts.

00:20:09.940 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.

00:20:23.320 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.

00:20:37.540 Let the people decide.

00:20:39.020 There's an election coming.

00:20:41.100 Let the people decide.

00:20:43.320 They for people who talk about democracy as much as the left does, they don't trust the voters.

00:20:50.820 They'll make the decision for you.

00:20:55.160 And so I think a lot of support comes from I mean, I feel this way.

00:20:59.640 Donald Trump has done a lot for the country.

00:21:03.020 He doesn't have to.

00:21:04.540 And he's he's going through all of this because he stood up for some of the things that I agree with.

00:21:15.060 And this is a real injustice.

00:21:17.800 And I think a lot of people feel like this is an injustice.

00:21:22.240 I might be able to correct with my vote because people feel like they can't do anything.

00:21:30.380 That is fine.

00:21:32.460 As long as you have more than that to vote for.

00:21:37.500 And with Donald Trump, you can find many things.

00:21:40.160 With RFK, you kind of feel the same way, not to the extent of Donald Trump.

00:21:48.620 But make sure you're looking into the whole picture.

00:21:52.440 Don't be ruled by your emotion.

00:21:56.700 You never make a good choice when you're ruled by emotion, especially fear or anger.

00:22:02.520 Let me go to Brad on line four.

00:22:06.600 Hello, Brad.

00:22:08.480 Hello, Glenn and Stu.

00:22:09.820 Good morning.

00:22:10.620 How are you?

00:22:11.980 Great.

00:22:12.720 Thank you.

00:22:13.120 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,

00:22:21.780 specifically the western part of the United States, including California, Oregon, Washington, et cetera.

00:22:29.600 And what we found and experienced was the American people are fantastic.

00:22:34.640 We found friendly, helpful, unbelievable people along the way, not to mention the beautiful scenery that this country offers.

00:22:46.100 But it renewed my confidence in the American people and love for them.

00:22:51.540 So I would encourage you to anybody who has the opportunity to go do that.

00:22:55.980 It's only when you get to the large cities that you see the despair and the destruction.

00:23:03.920 Brad, thank you.

00:23:04.440 I wish we had kind of an electoral college for states because our states are being dragged down by these cities.

00:23:15.820 Everybody's living in the cities.

00:23:17.200 And it's the same problem that they tried to solve with the electoral college and did solve it with electoral college.

00:23:25.140 They just didn't understand cities the way we have cities today.

00:23:29.080 We had all these farmers out there. 0.98

00:23:31.300 So we we had people in the countryside.

00:23:34.300 They had to be.

00:23:34.920 But once we had the Industrial Revolution, things changed and now cities are controlling our states.

00:23:40.740 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.

00:23:56.560 And their voices need to be me be heard.

00:24:00.180 I will say another thing.

00:24:06.400 I remember driving in my grandfather's old Chevy.

00:24:13.740 And my grandfather was a jovial kind of guy.

00:24:16.800 I always thought he was Santa Claus, white hair, blue eyes.

00:24:20.160 He looked like Spencer Tracy.

00:24:24.580 And he was magical.

00:24:28.700 And he could tell stories.

00:24:32.020 And it was always a great time with my grandfather.

00:24:36.660 We're driving a truck.

00:24:38.660 We're coming over a bridge.

00:24:42.220 And my grandfather got really quiet.

00:24:44.140 I've told the story before.

00:24:46.140 He looked over at a farm.

00:24:48.000 And he said, you know, just before the war, there was this great Japanese family that lived there.

00:25:06.820 Oh, OK.

00:25:09.080 And my grandfather's eyes welled up.

00:25:12.020 And they moved away and they never came back.

00:25:18.200 Well, they didn't move away.

00:25:19.560 I didn't know this as a kid.

00:25:20.720 They didn't move away.

00:25:21.960 They were taken to an internment camp.

00:25:28.060 It was the first time I ever saw that kind of emotion from my grandfather.

00:25:34.000 The American people are good.

00:25:35.820 But the American people can be led into disastrous thinking if they're hungry or they're afraid.

00:25:44.840 America's about to become hungry.

00:25:47.640 And we're already afraid.

00:25:52.420 Fear does not come from any place good.

00:25:57.000 Fear does not come from God.

00:25:58.840 He may warn you, but he's not threatening you.

00:26:11.640 Until we get a handle on.

00:26:14.900 On true principles.

00:26:18.240 I agree.

00:26:19.940 Americans are great.

00:26:22.380 They're good.

00:26:23.460 They're they they they know the difference, generally speaking, from right and wrong all across the country.

00:26:31.040 Families are families.

00:26:34.400 I found this in Israel.

00:26:37.200 Palestinians, when you talk to them as individuals, they want peace as much as the Israelis do when you talk to them as individuals.

00:26:45.540 But when you get the governments involved.

00:26:48.560 That all goes to hell.

00:26:49.940 But they're both good people, good families.

00:27:01.080 We have to first decide who we are.

00:27:05.960 A was this nation founded on correct, eternal principles.

00:27:12.860 B, do our mistakes outweigh the good things?

00:27:21.700 Are they are the mistakes fixable?

00:27:24.820 Three, is it worth saving?

00:27:27.560 Answer those questions.

00:27:29.600 Start there.

00:27:31.340 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:34.080 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.

00:27:46.780 And it says this, you are good, but it's not enough just to be good.

00:27:55.180 You must be good for something.

00:27:57.700 You must contribute good to the world.

00:28:00.600 The world must be a better place for your presence.

00:28:04.180 And the good that is in you must spread to others in this world filled with so many problems.

00:28:10.480 So constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference.

00:28:21.680 You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.

00:28:30.400 Gordon B. Hinkley said that.

00:28:32.600 I like the ending of that.

00:28:39.720 You can and you must speak with a strong voice while still being good.

00:28:50.420 Let me go to Sean in Virginia.

00:28:52.220 Hello, Sean.

00:28:54.420 Hey, Glenn.

00:28:55.140 Thanks for taking my call.

00:28:56.280 You bet.

00:28:56.520 I got a story for you of thank you to you and then also an answer to a question.

00:29:02.600 A few weeks ago, you asked if we should stay and fight in our local area or if we should move.

00:29:07.700 So we were in Colorado, just north of Denver, and I saw kind of the writing on the wall, what was happening during COVID.

00:29:14.540 There was a lot of changes we didn't agree with.

00:29:16.420 So I was listening to you.

00:29:17.900 My father had introduced me to you.

00:29:19.780 And I was listening to you and kind of paying attention to what you were saying.

00:29:24.420 And it led us, my wife and I, to prayer.

00:29:26.740 And we prayed really hard about it.

00:29:28.120 We decided we were going to move.

00:29:30.160 I'm from Pennsylvania originally.

00:29:32.400 And we were going to move back to the East Coast.

00:29:35.660 So we were looking at Tennessee.

00:29:37.440 God kept shutting doors in Tennessee.

00:29:39.740 And we ended up, this was after the election of Winston Sears and Governor Youngkin.

00:29:45.460 Yeah.

00:29:45.720 We ended up in Virginia, in central Virginia, in the middle of the country, the Blue Ridge Mountains.

00:29:50.100 We were able to buy 20 acres here.

00:29:52.060 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.

00:29:57.160 But we're going to be in a place where we feel comfortable that we can stay and fight.

00:30:00.300 So move from a tenth of an acre to 20 acres.

00:30:02.780 Wow.

00:30:03.500 The story of thanks happens with, because of you leading us to prayer to be able to let us move,

00:30:09.520 my father actually passed away four months after we moved.

00:30:12.440 And because we moved, we were only three hours away from the hospital that we were able to go visit him.

00:30:18.860 Wow.

00:30:20.020 So because of the way that you spoke into what you were speaking, let us just go to a different area,

00:30:27.460 fight where we are standing now.

00:30:29.640 And we were also able to be with my father if he passed away, which is totally unexpected.

00:30:33.080 So thank you.

00:30:34.660 And it's my opinion, as far as the question goes, that if you're not in an area you want to be,

00:30:39.820 then move to an area and stick it out and fight it there.

00:30:42.100 Because like I said, a tenth of an acre we didn't feel comfortable on,

00:30:45.140 but 20 acres we feel very comfortable in staying where we are to be able to provide for ourselves.

00:30:49.780 Also fight.

00:30:50.840 Sean, thank you very much.

00:30:52.860 I appreciate it.

00:30:54.500 I'm uncomfortable.

00:30:55.280 I mean, I'm not because I think I know what you mean, but I'm uncomfortable having it on the air,

00:31:01.820 you know, stand and fight.

00:31:03.440 We are, we don't need more fighters.

00:31:07.140 We need more protectors.

00:31:09.580 You know, somebody comes across your property and tries to take things or whatever,

00:31:15.620 you have a right to stand your ground.

00:31:17.660 Uh, so you might want to consider because of the world, the way it is today,

00:31:23.440 I feel comfortable on my 20 acres to stand my ground.

00:31:27.940 Um, by the way, the, do you know, the number one state people are moving from?

00:31:34.260 You'd think California, right?

00:31:36.220 That would have been my pick.

00:31:37.360 Yes.

00:31:37.860 Yeah, it's not.

00:31:39.100 New York.

00:31:40.220 Nope.

00:31:41.140 Illinois.

00:31:41.720 Yes.

00:31:42.960 Illinois.

00:31:43.740 Bad.

00:31:43.980 Uh, Illinois, California, New Jersey, Michigan.

00:31:48.180 Pennsylvania.

00:31:49.100 Those are the top states, not even New York, top states for outbound in 2022.

00:31:55.940 Cuomo killed most of the New York residents, so they can't move anywhere.

00:31:58.640 Yeah.

00:31:58.920 I mean, that was, you know, anyway, all five have a democratic governor.

00:32:03.100 Now the inbound states, top five, Arizona, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

00:32:12.520 Huh?

00:32:13.620 It's weird.

00:32:14.480 What story could be told from that information?

00:32:19.000 I don't, I don't know.

00:32:20.080 I don't know.

00:32:20.840 You could say, well, maybe people like warmer weather.

00:32:23.340 Yeah. 0.94

00:32:23.540 California is known for its crappy weather.

00:32:25.800 Uh, that doesn't fit.

00:32:27.540 But what's your other piece of analysis to that?

00:32:29.940 Because it's interesting how this keeps happening over and over and over again.

00:32:33.760 And a lot of it has to do with the policies.

00:32:35.940 So here, well, here's what I was going to say.

00:32:38.120 What they have in common, those are all great states that people will move to with their crapping

00:32:44.980 voting and they'll say, I want to get away from Illinois and they'll come there and then 0.59

00:32:50.280 they'll start voting for the same people that wrecked their state.

00:32:54.200 And so these would be the, is that what they have in common?

00:32:57.160 All states to be wrecked by people. 1.00

00:32:58.880 Yes.

00:32:59.440 Coming soon.

00:33:01.080 It is fascinating though.

00:33:02.280 That's because I think what happens is people, no one wants to blame themselves, right?

00:33:06.780 No one wants to blame themselves for problems that happen around them.

00:33:09.420 You want to blame somebody else.

00:33:10.980 That's, that's natural.

00:33:12.320 So I think what, with a lot of people is they vote a certain way.

00:33:15.580 They get these policies.

00:33:16.580 It ruins their communities.

00:33:17.900 They hate their communities.

00:33:18.840 They decide to move to a better place, but they don't blame their votes for those problems.

00:33:23.740 Nope.

00:33:24.280 They instead say, well, it's, uh, it's the economy.

00:33:28.120 Oh, well, it's that, well, you know, the industries that built this,

00:33:32.280 this economy are no longer the, the industries that are successful.

00:33:35.460 We need to go someplace else.

00:33:37.520 Um, there is a hundred different excuses you can come up with,

00:33:40.220 but the one you're skipping is the most important one.

00:33:42.840 You know, a lot of the reason why people move, why Tennessee of all the states in that region,

00:33:47.160 there's other states in that region that you could pick that have similar weather and similar,

00:33:50.480 oh, they don't have a state income tax.

00:33:52.780 It's a big part of the reason why you'd want to go there, right?

00:33:55.280 There's a lot to love about Tennessee, but that's one thing you really like.

00:33:58.040 Florida, same thing.

00:33:59.200 Texas, same thing, right?

00:34:01.020 I wonder why people go to these places.

00:34:03.300 So you saying that Illinois with 12.9 in taxes.

00:34:08.060 Suboptimal, Glenn.

00:34:08.880 Suboptimal.

00:34:09.240 Yes, 12.9 suboptimal.

00:34:11.220 Huh.

00:34:11.920 Now, New York City is the top of the list of cities where they're,

00:34:17.180 because that is about 12.5%.

00:34:18.980 Yeah.

00:34:20.000 Tax, uh, taxes.

00:34:21.360 That's, that's weird.

00:34:22.260 Right.

00:34:22.460 And, and think of how this problem is growing right now for these states.

00:34:26.140 We've always talked about this, right, Glenn?

00:34:27.660 People will leave these blue states with high tax rates.

00:34:30.600 They'll go to, uh, to red states with lower ones.

00:34:33.040 This has happened all across the world.

00:34:34.680 They've left France when they raise taxes like that.

00:34:37.120 But that was before everybody was working at home.

00:34:41.260 I know.

00:34:41.840 No one goes to the office anymore.

00:34:43.480 I know.

00:34:43.700 Like, there were reasons you had to stay in New York.

00:34:45.820 If you were in finance, you had to be there.

00:34:47.700 You don't have to be there anymore.

00:34:49.540 So, in a poll of New Yorkers, not New York City, all across New York.

00:34:54.200 Okay.

00:34:54.540 Okay.

00:34:55.820 What percentage says they're planning to leave in the next five years?

00:35:02.560 Planning to leave?

00:35:03.880 Planning to leave.

00:35:05.420 Not, I consider it, but planning to leave.

00:35:07.420 Planning to leave in the next five years out of the entire population of the whole state,

00:35:12.520 not just New York City.

00:35:14.600 I mean, it's, I would normally guess very low, right?

00:35:17.980 I would think it was, what, 10%, 5%?

00:35:20.740 Yeah, 5%.

00:35:21.600 That's, that's, that would be.

00:35:23.840 High for a state?

00:35:25.200 Yeah.

00:35:27.340 27%.

00:35:28.580 Almost 30% are saying they're ready to get out of there.

00:35:33.940 I gotta tell you, it's one of the reasons why I am for, like, you know, we should really

00:35:39.120 kind of gather together, because these people are going to come and wreck our states.

00:35:42.160 They're going to come and they're going to vote for all the same progressive things that

00:35:45.880 they've always voted for that wreck their states.

00:35:49.800 Yeah, that we were, they, people really need to be informed why these problems happen.

00:35:53.320 Not just that the problem exists, but that why they happened.

00:35:56.280 Either that, or we all move to California, and then we vote in common sense policies.

00:36:02.160 If all of us moved to California, we'd have all the beachfront, all the forests, all the

00:36:07.040 great vineyards, and the, you know, the land for farms and everything, and I don't think

00:36:14.020 we'd have the homeless problem.

00:36:15.320 I just, I have a feeling we wouldn't have the homeless problem.

00:36:18.400 Anyway, let me go to a Lynn in Florida.

00:36:20.520 Hello, Lynn.

00:36:22.940 Yes, hello.

00:36:24.260 I'm so grateful to have the chance to talk.

00:36:26.880 Thank you.

00:36:27.160 In the last hour, you said that we tend to respond instead of making our own way.

00:36:34.560 Yes.

00:36:34.860 And I thought that was really profound, and that resonated with me, because I am a conservative

00:36:40.640 sustainability management college professor.

00:36:44.260 You're the one.

00:36:46.360 I'm the one.

00:36:47.440 You once said I must be schizophrenic.

00:36:49.620 Yes.

00:36:50.300 Wow.

00:36:50.660 I teach my students practical sustainability, but I think that-

00:36:56.100 Like what?

00:36:56.560 What does that mean?

00:36:57.660 What does that mean?

00:36:59.440 Well, that means not ESG.

00:37:01.060 That means reducing resource use, saving money, reducing waste, finding the most innovative

00:37:12.780 solutions that actually work.

00:37:14.980 Right.

00:37:15.540 So those are the kinds of things that we do.

00:37:18.960 And my students in their capstones, they do real world capstones with real businesses,

00:37:25.680 and they save them thousands of dollars.

00:37:28.320 So it's great.

00:37:29.160 It is.

00:37:29.660 It works.

00:37:30.320 Yeah.

00:37:30.760 So I think we need to make our own way instead of responding with the environment and with

00:37:38.300 social justice.

00:37:39.200 I want us to stop responding and find good conservative solutions and common ground, because we Americans

00:37:48.000 are the best at innovation.

00:37:50.860 So what is the best way to get this message out?

00:37:55.060 Well, I have to tell you, I think it is so common sense to the conservative that they don't really

00:38:05.840 understand that that's not common sense to a lot of people.

00:38:09.920 You know, common sense implies that it's common, and it's really not, especially when it comes

00:38:17.400 to things like what you're talking about.

00:38:21.180 We are very good at innovation.

00:38:24.980 When our back is against the wall, we're usually at our best.

00:38:29.040 But we have somehow or another perverted this, and I think it's all due to politics.

00:38:37.920 We've perverted this, and we've decided to just all grab on to one solution, because it's

00:38:46.120 the state solution and science says, when I think the average person is totally cool with

00:38:55.480 solar panels, wind power, everything else, if it worked, but it doesn't work yet.

00:39:04.240 It might in the future, but it doesn't work yet.

00:39:08.760 And I think because of the politics involved with it, you have global warming.

00:39:15.480 This is why they're screaming that we have 10 years to live, because they've got to get

00:39:20.460 people just to be so afraid that they don't think.

00:39:23.440 Because if it's a 100-year problem, which it is, just quantum computing will solve many

00:39:30.260 of these problems.

00:39:31.900 And that's right.

00:39:32.560 That's here now.

00:39:34.380 That's here now.

00:39:36.960 True.

00:39:37.900 Nuclear fusion is right on the cusp.

00:39:41.700 Nuclear power is the cleanest that we have.

00:39:45.380 And if you really cared, you would be going for nuclear power, and you'd be making hydrogen

00:39:51.420 at night when the power load is down.

00:39:55.160 I mean, the answers are simple, which leads you to believe that no one's really looking

00:40:00.720 for answers.

00:40:02.640 And so I think that trying to get people to stop living in fear and start looking at truth,

00:40:17.380 I mean, that's, I mean, I think that's the only way we make a difference.

00:40:21.960 I agree, too.

00:40:22.420 And I think there's a, there is something to be said about constantly being on defense

00:40:27.080 on so many issues.

00:40:28.440 I think the environment is one of them, where a lot of times conservatives are just like,

00:40:31.740 well, we don't think fossil fuels are that bad of a problem.

00:40:34.800 And that doesn't advance anything.

00:40:36.780 I think one of the, the candidate who I think is speaking most clearly and effectively on

00:40:41.260 this right now is Vivek Ramaswamy, who addresses this really well.

00:40:46.320 And it's important to understand that if we can kind of change the framing of this, constantly

00:40:51.200 the environmental debate is about human impact.

00:40:54.500 What is the human impact of our policies, where the debate should be about human flourishing?

00:41:00.120 How do we, how do we make the lives of human beings more, you know, extended and, and, and

00:41:11.360 happy and bountiful and, and how do we, how do we make this whole situation better for

00:41:17.620 people?

00:41:17.960 Not how do we make it less bad for the earth, which is like, you know, you know, it's a,

00:41:22.460 it's a rock floating through space here, but it's not, it's not person.

00:41:25.780 It's not, they try to make it into this mother earth.

00:41:28.500 It's not actually a mother, right?

00:41:30.500 Like, yes, it's important that we sustain the, you know, the environment and we, we

00:41:34.860 do all these things.

00:41:35.520 We want clean air.

00:41:36.140 We want clean water.

00:41:36.960 Why do we want those things?

00:41:37.980 Because we want our children to be able to breathe and drink clean things.

00:41:42.360 And, and, and, and I think that, I think that's clear when you look at conservative, for

00:41:47.080 instance, hunters, they are the best, uh, at wildlife preservation and everything else.

00:41:53.800 They care about the balance.

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