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Bill O'Reilly joins the show to talk about the latest cyber attack on the U.S. Energy grid, the impact on the economy, and the possible link between the cyber attack and the attack on our infrastructure.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today we get started with Glenn yelling about something that I think will
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Killing the Mob. It's one, of course, you do not want to miss. He goes through all of that
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So we have the oil pipeline, the gas pipeline that has been shut down. It is the gas pipeline
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that serves major U.S. airports, including Atlantis-Hartsfield-Jackson, which is the busiest
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passenger by traffic anywhere. This provides Jet-A fuel, it provides gas, and it also provides
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diesel. This was hacked last Friday. It was hacked by a group, Darkside. Darkside is in Russia.
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We know that. We don't have ties directly to the Kremlin. However, you don't do things like
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this without Putin's understanding or permission. You would never, never attack. Do you think
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they're going to, you think they're going to attack China? You think they're going to go
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after an ally? Of course not. That's why Darkside never attacks former Soviet states.
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So we know that it was at least a Russian gang. We don't have ties to Putin himself,
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but we know the attack came from Russia. We know who these people are.
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Here is what the White House said yesterday about the pipeline ransom. Listen to this.
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We know that victims of cyber attacks often face a very difficult situation, and they have to just
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balance often the cost-benefit when they have no choice with regard to paying a ransom. Colonial is
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a private company, and we'll defer information regarding their decision on paying a ransom to them.
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Would the administration offer any advice on whether or not to pay a ransom?
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So typically that is a private sector decision, and the administration has not offered further advice
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at this time. Given the rise in ransomware, that is one area we're definitely looking at now to say
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what should be the government's approach to ransomware actors and to ransoms overall.
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In the original episodes of 24, what was the one thing Kiefer Sutherland always said?
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The United States doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
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We all know that. We all know that. This is critical infrastructure. Now, let me give you
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a reason why I think that all of this is being let play out. I think the Biden administration is
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moving at a geriatric pace for a reason. It makes it so much easier to nationalize everything.
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It makes it so much easier when everybody is screaming about gas. They didn't create the
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problem, but they will exploit the problem. What did what was his response yesterday?
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His response yesterday is, well, this is, you know, covered in the stimulus package. This is why I need
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to have that, uh, you know, 2.2 trillion dollar infrastructure. Really? Is that it?
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I'm telling you, I got up this morning and I was looking at the news, what's happening in Israel,
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what's happening all around the world, what is happening in our own country with our own economy.
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And I thought you couldn't plan this any better. You really couldn't. And I don't mean that,
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you know, gee, it's, it just couldn't be planned any better. I mean, they did a really good job.
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They did a really good job. You cannot convince me that this is all just inept people. They're not that
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many inept people. And yes, I've been to target.
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I, I, I, this is going to affect the airports. It's going to affect the gas stations.
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It's going to affect prices. Well, gee, no big deal. The gas stations all along the East Coast are now
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beginning to run out of fuel. This is America's biggest petroleum pipeline and they can't get it
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back online because of Russian hackers. If the United States of America cannot, we have such, uh,
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weak defenses that they cannot protect our private businesses from terrorists. And that's exactly what
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they are terrorists from Russia. Then what the hell good is the federal government? What is the reason
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we have government? We have government to protect our rights. We have a government to protect our property,
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to protect our, our way of life. It's like the police. We have the police because we can't police
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everything ourselves. We have the government because there were certain things we can't do by
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ourselves. One of them is stopping cyber terrorism from Russia. Oh, this is a private sector. Is it?
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That's weird because you would think that the pharmaceutical companies would be a private
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sector thing too, but you had no problem marching in there and saying, I want to take the patents.
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North Carolina has declared a state of emergency.
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Today's emergency declaration will help North Carolina prepare for any potential
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motor vehicle fuel supply interruptions across the state and ensure motorists
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are able to have access to fuel. This is according to the governor.
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This is the fourth day yesterday, day five today of the largest oil pipeline or gasoline pipeline,
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fuel pipeline in the East Coast. I don't know if the president knows that, but that's where
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most people in America live. Meanwhile, they keep denying inflation. Last week, I told you that
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Costco and Kroger, among other brands began the process of serving size optimization.
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That's basically what they're saying is we're going to charge you the same price, but get you,
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give you less. Paper towel rolls instead of being 235 sheets is 212 sheets. Your package of mac and
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cheese still provides four servings, but now instead of 12 ounces per serving, it's 10.1 ounces.
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Kirkland, the brand of whole salted cashews used to be 22 ounces, still in the same plastic container,
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now 20 ounces of nuts. The rest is air. This is the first thing that happens in inflation. Serving sizes go
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down. It's been going on for generations. The only other thing you can do is, you know, reduce the
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product or raise your prices. Well, nobody wants to raise their prices, but actually because instead of
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paying 10% more for those cashews, you're just getting 10% less, but you're paying the same price.
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So it's, it's the same thing. It's just a trick. Is anybody else sick of tricks? Is anybody else just
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searching for somebody to be honest? God, I'm so sick and tired of having to try to figure out what
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everything means because everybody's trying to bamboozle you or trick you. Did you see what was in,
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I'm going to talk about this next hour. Did you see the, the left Democrats seem to believe
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Americans are so gullible, gullible and stupefied that friendly reporters can openly quote the left
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gloating about how they lie, steal and cheat to get power. Time magazine article crowing about domestic
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domestic Democrats, uh, Democrats successful conspiracy to rig the 2020 election through
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aggressive lawsuits, complaints to corporate media, the ability to deploy rioters. Remember that
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time magazine quoted them, talked about a conspiracy, a whole group of people that had conspired together,
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the corporations and everybody else. Now, New York magazine yesterday, it's out with an article
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quoting delicate Democrats celebrating their successes at lying to Americans about the true
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goals of the president, their conspiracy elected. The author claims a person close to the white house told
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her at his hundred day mark, Biden is the most liberal president we've ever had. And the public
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thinks he's a moderate. That's a winning strategy to me. They're willing to accept that you're going to
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write this piece so long as they know that swing voters in Colorado aren't going to read it. That's a quote.
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I am so sick and tired. You want to change the country, then tell us what you want to change it to.
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Stop telling me that you're not a Marxist only later to reveal that you are a Marxist and Marxism is great.
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You smeared me. You smeared me. You did everything you could to destroy me and my family for years.
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Now, the powers that be are lying to you about inflation. Why is inflation so bad?
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Because inflation screws you. It screws the guy down at the bottom. It screws the business owner that is
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just trying to make it. It doesn't screw the banks. It doesn't screw big business. They're getting bailouts
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all the time. In the end, it really screws the little guy. Anybody who has played the game
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the way it's supposed to be? You pay your taxes. You save your money. You went to school. You worked
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hard at your job. All of these things that are now in jeopardy because you might not believe in critical
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theory. I'm sorry. I don't think all white people are racist. I also don't think black people can't be
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You play by the rules. You put your money in the bank. Your money, because they are printing money,
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money is worth less. Yes, it says a dollar. I've got a hundred dollars in the bank. But if inflation
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is 10%, you actually only have 90 cents in the bank.
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The way they are running, the way they are running, and this is not my estimate, the way they are
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running, experts believe that your $100 will be worth $52 in just a couple of years.
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I'll tell you what it looks like. You want to know what it looks like? Look at Columbia right now.
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The pipeline is still down. The White House has said that we should, uh, that's a private sector
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thing. So whether they pay the ransom or not is really up to them. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you for that help.
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Is that an issue to you? I mean, you don't think the government should have a little more guidance on?
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It is weird that like this is one of the things that happens often, not only by private companies,
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but also by, you know, city governments and state governments that
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get hacked and they just literally just pay criminals to get their information back.
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What do we, what do we practice? What are we paying the federal government? Why are we paying taxes if
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they won't protect us from outside forces? And that their job seems like it to me outside forces.
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Yeah, it does to me. And we don't seem to take any of these things seriously after they happen. You
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know, you have hacks from sometimes state actors that we don't do anything about. We have, I mean,
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we have a very serious possibility that a global pandemic was caused by a communist government, uh,
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and cover it by the way of still, still not unsealed the research files from, uh,
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right. The Wuhan Institute of Virology so that people around the world can check them out and
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see if maybe this was the cause still haven't done it or a year later still haven't done it. No one
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seems to care. No one seems to do much of anything about it. And, uh, it's going to continue to happen
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unless we hold these people responsible. We're busy working on equity right now. That should,
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we should be laser focused on equity because that's what everybody's looking for.
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Yes. Not equality. That's for sure. I don't want equality. I don't want equality. I want equity,
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which is something totally different and brand spanking new, uh, in case you haven't been following
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this. Have you seen the Disney thing? Did you look into that at all, Glenn, uh, over the past couple
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of days? I didn't look into it cause it'll make my eyes bleed. I know about it, the Disney training,
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but I did kind of make my eyes bleed. I thought about you a little bit and the eye bleeding here. And I
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thought about how much to torture you over this, because I know you, you love, and you hate Disney.
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You have a, you have a love hate relationship there. I love Walt Disney. I love what he stood for. I
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love what he built. I love how he built it. Uh, uh, I love the ideals, the original principles of
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Disney. I despise them now, despise them. Well, this is going to help you probably down this road,
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because they've started a brand new, uh, brand new, uh, program for their employees.
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And it's called reimagine tomorrow because you're probably imagining tomorrow right now as white
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person, as like, you are a racist and you don't like black people and you're hoping to go back to
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those good old days of slavery. But what can Disney do to help me reimagine a place where white people
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are not in charge and, and where white people don't, you know, uh, milk their advantage to keep
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people in, in chains. You know, I'm glad you asked that. And I'd like to get your reaction to some of
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these things, Glenn, to see how you feel about that. Sure, sure, sure. One module of the program,
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of the program is called allyship for race consciousness. The company tells employees that
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they must take ownership of educating themselves about structural anti-black racism, and they should
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not rely on their black colleagues to educate them because it is emotionally taxing.
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Oh, I can imagine how emotionally taxing it is. White people are not emotionally,
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emotionally taxed at all right now. We are just living the sweet dream.
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And the document goes on to basically say, instead of, like, so you're not, we're supposed to have a
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conversation about race, right? That's what we're always told. But not with people of color. But
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don't talk to people of color about their opinions on it because that is going to tax them emotionally.
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Yes. Instead, you should go, as the document advises, you should go talk to, or go read
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things from black journalists and writers who can inform you about this, which again, to my eye,
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and I know as a man with white privilege, I don't have any role in this conversation, but
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sure. But to my eye, picking your journalists based on their skin color is racism. Is it not?
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Excuse me. May I quote? Ha ha. Racist. Oh, yeah. It's a great cartoon. Thank you. Yeah.
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By the way, we should point out, this is from Christopher Rufo, who's done an incredible job.
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I mean, one man wrecking crew. It is one man. It is.
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In destroying and exposing so many times in internal documents like this from schools and companies
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across the country. I think he's going to be joining us later this week to talk about this.
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Disney recommends that employees atone for their racism by challenging colorblind ideologies
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and rhetoric. I can't take it. Such as- I can't take it.
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All lives matter. I don't see color. And, of course, white people must listen with empathy
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to black colleagues and not question or debate black colleagues' lived experience. Now, Glenn,
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correct me if I'm wrong here. I'm just- Yes. I'm just thinking here for a second. First of all,
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I thought the utopian vision, utopian, we may never get there, but utopian vision
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of Martin Luther King was a colorblind society. So now that we must challenge colorblind ideologies
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and rhetoric such as, I don't see color. I mean, they are disclosing of Martin Luther King.
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Yes, of course they are, because they believe the opposite of Martin Luther King.
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Because Martin Luther King was saying, America, live up to your principles and your values and
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your ideals. What they're saying now is all of those ideals, all of those principles are
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garbage. And the only way to fight racism is with racism. So two can play that game. That's
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what they're saying. Two can play that game. And we're going to get the one up on you and we're
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going to crush you into the dirt. This, this is, you know, I'll show you this in action tomorrow,
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tomorrow night on our special, uh, nine o'clock. It happens. You can, you can watch it a billion
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places, watch it at blaze TV, watch it on YouTube. Um, by the way, you're going to have to go seek
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it out on YouTube, but they're some reason or another, it's, it's hard to find any of the videos
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of mine on YouTube being spread around anymore, but, uh, you can just go to YouTube and watch it
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there for free. You can get it as a blaze TV, but we're going to show you this happening
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in real time. They're just a little ahead of us, one country, and we'll show you the truth
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on that. By the way, Stu, I brought in the Disneyland prospectus. Yeah. Okay. So this is
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the actual prospectus that was typed out originally by Walt's secretary at his dictation over a weekend.
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This is what he brought to the banks and said, uh, I want to build a theme park. Nobody knew what a
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theme park was. Uh, they turned him down. He was asking for $18 million to build Disneyland. Can
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you imagine that? This is the Disneyland story. I want you to see, are they living up to any of these
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ideals? The idea of Disney of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find
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happiness and knowledge. Okay. You could say critical race theory in a very twisted, absolutely,
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uh, polar opposite of Walt Disney sort of way. You could say, Oh yeah, we're just giving knowledge.
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Yes. It'll be a place for parents and children to share pleasant times in one another's company,
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a place for teachers and pupils to discover greater ways of understanding and education.
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Here, the older generation can recapture the nostalgia of the days gone by and the younger
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generation can savor the challenge of the future. Here will be the wonders of nature and man for all to
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see and understand. Disneyland will be based upon and dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, the hard
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facts that have created America. And it will be uniquely equipped to dramatize these dreams and
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facts and send them forth as a source of courage and inspiration to all the world. So if America was
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built on slavery, you better damn well tear Disney apart because it was dedicated to the ideals,
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the facts, and the dreams that created America. So if you're saying that slavery, tear the damn park
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Uh, Disneyland will be something of a fair, an exhibition, a playground, a community center,
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a museum of living facts, a showplace of beauty and magic. It will be filled with the accomplishments,
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the joys and hopes of the world we live in. And it will remind us and show us how to make these
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wonders part of our own lives. That was Walt's dream. That's what he built. That's not what any
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Disney park represents today. If they are teaching their people, they have already allowed people to
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grow their hair any way they want mustache. You could have tattoos. I know this seems like a really small
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thing, but why was Disneyland so successful? Why did Walt Disney build a berm, a wall around Disney?
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It wasn't just to keep people from sneaking into the park for free. Why did he build a giant berm
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around that whole thing? He built it so you could enter a fantasy world. You could enter a world where the
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current world of stress, the current world of problems would disappear. So would Walt want people with
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tats on their face? No. Why? Because people view tats different ways. He wanted everything as clean and
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as generic as possible with all of the employees. He wanted people to represent the best of mankind
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You want to take your vacation at a place that you're already so concerned is going to bankrupt
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your family? I mean, if you were the federal government, you'd be borrowing from your great
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grandchildren to be able to go to Disney. You're already stressed out about that. You want to go into
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a place that now is preaching to you what you should be instead of the hard facts, the ideals, and the
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principles of this country that created the greatest country, the greatest flash of freedom in all
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mankind? I don't think so. I don't think so. Sorry, Walt. I think now it's time for all of us to go back and
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sit on that bench that had gum on it at the carnival where you took your kids every Sunday and thought
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there's got to be a better way. Not anymore. They've destroyed it.
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Alcatraz Penitentiary, 945 AM. Al Capone has let his guard down.
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It's shortly after breakfast as the man nicknamed Scarface works his shift, mopping the prison shower
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room. This guy once wore expensive suits and diamonds, but now displays the standard Alcatraz
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uniform of a blue chambray shirt, trousers, belt, and shoes. Capone is 37. He's the former head of a
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notorious Chicago crime syndicate that earned profits of more than a hundred million dollars annually.
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That's about 18 billion dollars in modern currency. He lived without fear of arrest. He paid off the
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judges, police, and politicians to ensure his freedom. And while he was once the most feared mob boss in
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America, reputed to have killed more than 30 human beings, he's now just another inmate in this escape-proof
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prison on a windy island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Capone knows he has enemies here
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at Alcatraz. He has a reputation among the inmates for seeking special treatment from the warden.
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The warden is James Johnston, who has famously declared that his prisoners are entitled to food,
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clothing, shelter, and medical attention. Anything else you get is a privilege. It's known as rule number
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five in the inmate regulation handbook. It's the reason Warden Johnston constantly denies Capone's
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favors. But that doesn't stop Capone from trying. In one instance, he attempts to avoid the weight at
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a prison barbershop. Get to the back of the line, you bum, says a fellow inmate, James Lucas, a 22-year-old
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Texan known as a chronic hothead. Do you know who I am, punk? snarls Capone. Lucas grabs a pair of
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barber shears and presses the blade into Capone's jugular. Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball.
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And if you don't get to the back of the line, I'm going to know who you were.
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That's just the beginning of chapter five of Bill O'Reilly's new book called Killing the Mob. And
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Bill joins us now. Hi, Bill. How are you? Excellent read, Beck. Very good. I was riveted. I wrote it.
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I was riveted when you were reading it. Thank you very much. Tell the rest of the story because
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it's fascinating. He leaves the barbershop. And what happens to him? Well, he's beat up. And
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the guy who put the shears to his neck is after him. And he meets him in the shower with a razor
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and slices him pretty badly. And then Capone, that's it for his life. He deteriorates physically
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and mentally, gets out of Alcatraz, goes to Miami and dies in his early 40s, which is justice because
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what a horrible, horrible human being he is. But the reason that we've highlighted Capone in Killing
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the Mob is he's the template for organized crime today. So what he did was he elevated,
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we opened with Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, all those people, but he elevated criminality
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to an organized level in Chicago. And as you pointed out, took over everything. I mean,
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he bought the governor and the mayor and, you know, he'd do whatever he wanted to do.
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And then once that was successful in the money, as you pointed out, billions of dollars in bootleg
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alcohol in today's prices, once that was proven to be successful, then that's how the organized
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crime then grew in that template to organize, to come into cities, New York, Chicago, L.A.,
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Philadelphia, Boston, buy up everybody, bribe everybody, and take over the rackets.
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Uh, prohibition was repealed. Then they went in heavy to gambling, extortion, prostitution,
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vice, and the unions. So that's, that's how it all evolved. And Al Capone, a famous name,
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What, um, uh, why did Elliot Ness go in? If anybody saw the movie, The Untouchables, uh,
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it's just a great movie with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner. Um, but it's, it's clear that in
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Chicago, everybody has been paid off. Why was it that Hoover didn't go after and use the FBI to go
00:30:20.740
after these guys? Um, Hoover took over the FBI in the thirties, uh, and assassinated, literally the
00:30:28.500
FBI assassinated all the bank robbers. And it wasn't like, come out with your hands up. It was
00:30:34.540
the FBI catches you, they can pull a bullet right between your eyes. And that's what happened to all
00:30:38.980
of them, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, pretty boy Floyd, babyface Nelson. Um, Hoover was in charge
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of that. But then when it came to the Italian mobsters, Diego Hoover would not investigate,
00:30:52.400
would not put the FBI on their trail. Lucky Luciano, the first godfather in New York, his private
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papers say, and we have them, uh, they mob had something on Hoover, but doesn't say what now
00:31:06.220
everybody knew Diego Hoover loved the ponies. He was a gambler and he was gay. And so I do believe
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that the mob had something on Hoover and that's why he didn't investigate. So without Capone so out of
00:31:19.560
control, um, Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew that and was embarrassed that the federal government
00:31:27.860
couldn't control this guy. So he sent in a treasury department, that's Elliot Ness. That's the
00:31:33.440
untouchables. And they got Capone on income tax evasion. Which was not the, was that the plan
00:31:39.160
originally? The movie shows that that's the order to Elliot Ness was get them on anything you can get
00:31:43.900
them on. Okay. Get them on anything. All right. I mean, so the guy files an income tax, but Capone
00:31:49.900
files his income tax because he made $3,000 a year and he's right around in the best, you know, come on.
00:31:56.140
Right. So, and that's what the, that's what the drug people do today. But here, here's the ironic
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part about all this. So, uh, Capone goes down and then there's a TV show, the untouchables.
00:32:06.680
That was, do you remember that back? Or were you too young for that? Oh, I do. I do. I do
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remember. I remember it in reruns. Robert Stack plays Elliot Ness and that's a Kevin Costner part
00:32:16.900
of the movie. All right. So it's the same thing. The untouchables go after Elliot, uh, go after
00:32:23.000
Al Capone, get them. And then the series is all Italian bad gangsters. Well, the real gangster,
00:32:29.180
the godfather of Chicago, Sam Giancana did not like that TV show in the fifties. The producer of the
00:32:36.540
show is Desi Arnaz. Lucy, I love Lucy. He produced it. All right. So Giancana hand delivers a letter
00:32:46.180
to Desi Arnaz says, Hey, knock off the Italians, make the bad guys other ethnicities. Whereupon
00:32:54.040
Desi Arnaz writes a wise guy note back to same Giancana saying, what do you want me to make them Jews?
00:32:59.560
That day, Giancana takes a contract out on Desi Arnaz and hires the assassin. We have
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it all in killing the mob. And I'm not going to tell you anymore because I want people to
00:33:11.520
read the book, but Desi Arnaz came with this close to having a bullet in the back of his
00:33:19.140
Yeah. And Desi Arnaz was a very powerful person in television. Most people just think of him as,
00:33:24.960
you know, Lucy's husband on I Love Lucy. He was the secret behind Lucille Ball's success.
00:33:32.700
He, I mean, it was he and Lucy through Desi Lou that did Star Trek and the Untouchables and a million
00:33:40.060
other shows that people know. And it went well. Yeah. Go ahead.
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Arnaz thought that he was, that he was invulnerable because he was so powerful, as you point out.
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But what Arnaz did not know was that the mob controlled much of Hollywood through a guy named
00:33:58.140
Sidney Korshak, who was not a mobster. He was a lawyer. And the movies that you, that we all saw
00:34:05.300
in the 50s and 60s, a lot of the TV shows, they were all paying organized crime money to produce
00:34:14.860
the shows because the organized crime controlled all the unions, the cameramen, the lighting,
00:34:20.560
the sound, and they could shut down a production in 10 minutes. And nobody knew it. Americans didn't
00:34:26.520
know that the mob was controlling the film industry and the mob could walk in and say,
00:34:32.220
we want you to put this guy in that part and we're going to take 15% of your gross. They did it all
00:34:42.880
So is who are the ones that really clean this up? You had Elliot Ness. What happened to him after
00:34:57.120
Yeah. Yeah. He, um, that was the apex of his career. And then he retired, um, and just didn't
00:35:08.580
Wow. Um, sad. And then who was the, go ahead, go ahead. No, I, I guess I can think of three
00:35:17.560
names. I can think of Elliot Ness. I can think of RFK and I can think of Rudy Giuliani as the
00:35:24.120
three guys that just were relentless. Were there more? No, because it, it had to be very, very,
00:35:33.780
uh, centralized. Organized crime was so powerful in this country between 1946 and 62, they controlled
00:35:45.280
Yeah. And that's what the base, the power base was, the unions to this day. Organized crime in
00:35:52.780
New York where I am controls many of the unions. And I have a thing in the United States of Trump
00:35:59.940
where Trump and I are discussing, if you want to build a building in New York, you got to deal with
00:36:05.060
the mob now, today, this very moment. Oh yeah. And we name all the names and all that. Bobby
00:36:11.000
Kennedy is the hero of the book because Bobby Kennedy came in as attorney general, defied his
00:36:16.060
own father who had mob ties, Joseph Kennedy. His brother was kind of punch his pilot, agnostic about
00:36:22.940
it. And Bobby Kennedy went after the mob with a ferocity never before seen at the federal level
00:36:28.100
and did them huge damage. And then what he did led to Rudy Giuliani on the RICO statutes and new
00:36:36.260
federal laws. And Giuliani hurt the mob bad in New York as a U S attorney in the Southern district.
00:36:42.320
We're talking to Bill O'Reilly about his new book. It is out today. You can get a copy wherever. Uh,
00:36:47.120
it is wildly successful already. A hundred thousand copies in, uh, in five days leading up to the
00:36:53.900
release of the book, uh, Bill O'Reilly killing the mob.