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On this episode of the podcast, we talk about how much the U.S. borrows from other countries, what is real and what isn t, and why we need to have new traditions. We also talk to author Carol Roth about her new book, "You Will Own Nothing," which is a companion book to her new novel, "Dark Future." And we have a special guest on the show this week, the man responsible for some of the most iconic movies you ve ever seen.
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Hey, great podcast today. We start with, hey, how healthy are we? If we're going to go into a war,
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how healthy are we? You know, do we have enough bullets? Do we have the country behind it?
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Do we have our strategic oil reserves? How about money to be able to fight a war? We show you how
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much the United States is borrowing every single day and what it means to you and your family.
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Then we also talked to Carol Roth, the author of a book that just came out today,
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You Will Own Nothing. It's a great companion book with my book that is Dark Future. Really,
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they were written kind of together. We worked hand in hand on what are you going to cover that I can't
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cover, et cetera, et cetera. It's a great companion book. Dark Future is my book. Her book is You Will
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Own Nothing. Then we talked politics and we kind of ended up in a very philosophical place on what is
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I think one of the problems we have with America is a lack of storytelling. We're telling our history
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in dates and then we're telling our future in movies and we're doing it in a way where it's
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not credible. I mean, this is why I wrote the book Dark Future, which pick up your copy now,
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wherever books are sold. It has, I don't even know, a thousand, two thousand footnotes in it
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because people need to understand that this is real, not science fiction. And I'm up on the ranch
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at the Standing Rock Ranch and every year I am holding a symposium here at the ranch with the Inspired
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Arts League. And we have some of the best artists in America. I mean, Jeremy Lipking and Albin
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Veselka and Adrian Stein and Quang Ho and all of these people from all over the country and the
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world coming here. And we learn story, how to tell stories because people, you know, when you went into
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the churches in the medieval days, that's what the stained glass windows were for. People couldn't
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read. And so they would look and they would learn the story through art. We have a guy who is here
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who's teaching us this week and he is, he's the guy responsible for the design of some of the best
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movies you've ever seen far as, you know, um, animated movies, Aladdin, beauty and the beast,
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little mermaid. He did all of, you know, a lot of these movies. And then he went on to work with
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Marvel to problem solve for Marvel. The problem is, uh, we have lost our story entirely and it's being
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replaced right now. That's what the book dark future is about the great narrative. It's being
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replaced with a new story and new traditions. Remember what Michelle Obama said? We'll have to
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have new traditions. Well, we do, uh, Pat is here to talk to us about, uh, what this month is
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celebrating, which of course I know Pat, because you're not a hater, you've already been making a
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big deal out of it in this new tradition. It's of course, July is of course, you know, I'd never
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insult, uh, you know, the listeners to the show by speaking it out loud, something they already know
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so well, you know, wow. Really? Yeah. Wow. That's how holy it is to you. Yes, exactly. That is good.
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In a way I now feel bad for even at, because we have said the name because we obviously are so in
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tune with this. So in tune. And now I feel like our listeners are going to be, they're going to be
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sick of us repeating the name of what we're celebrating this week, which is Glenn, of course
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month, Glenn, uh, handicapped pride month. Definitely not a hand. What, what, what's the last
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year they used handicapped in one of these names? Like 1840, maybe? It is, uh, of course, as we all
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know, disability pride month. Yes, of course. Disability. Of course. Yeah. Pride month. I was, I
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wish. You're proud of your disability. Well, yes. And you actually got it right, Pat. Of course,
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you're, as you mentioned, you're an expert on this. Yeah. But I actually at first thought,
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are we celebrating like another version of pride month for disabled people? Do they get their own
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like the one-legged lesbian? Right. Is that right? Okay. Is this her month? But no, no,
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her month. It's just celebrating people generally who have disabilities. So they're taking pride
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in these disabilities. Okay. Okay. I, of course, we all know. We all know. Again. Yeah. I've got
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my tree up. I've had my tree up since May. I get so excited about this. Do you decorate yours
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with prosthetics like I do? Cause it, uh, well, no, that's a good idea. I just take all the toy
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soldiers and break a leg or an arm off. Okay. Uh, and, uh, so I mean, I can't even believe how
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many different months there are. We went over this when one day you were out, Glenn, and we went
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through the whole calendar and that was LGBTQQIA two plus two plus, which I guess would not include
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disability. No. Pride month. No, of course not. No. That's right. Unless you're gay or bi or two
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spirited, then you would be in that group if you were that and disabled. Right. But now I think it's
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a little unfair because if you're gay and disabled, you get two months. What if, well, I think you should
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get three, honestly. I mean, shouldn't August be disability pride pride month? Oh, I'm just
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throwing it out there. It seems like we should embrace this. It probably will be next year. Next
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year. Yeah. It probably will be. Okay. All right. It really is incredible. Um, I don't know how we got
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here. I slowly, but surely steadily. And we ignored too many things. You know? Yeah. It's like, how does
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somebody, uh, go bankrupt very slowly and then all at once? Yeah. Uh, we didn't notice the very slowly
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part and, uh, we're noticing the all at once part, which is, which is so good as we're here on the eve
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of not only another very special, uh, pride month, but also on the eve of world war two, I think are three.
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I think that is, man, I feel warm inside. I feel like 7,000 degrees warm inside, but, uh, just
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really, it's really special. Well, I go back to last week and this, the original story that Kamala
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Harris told about the two frogs, you know, cause that nobody's heard that and it really resonated
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with me. Did she write that? Was that an original piece of writing? She wrote that I think just last
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week. Yeah. Uh, good heavens. I've missed the Kamala Harris. Oh, you missed the, how did I miss it?
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Oh man. Oh yeah. Apparently Glenn, if you put one frog in a pot of water and you slowly turn up
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the heat, that frog's just going to stay in there and enjoy it until he dies. But the other frog,
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if you put the frog in the water and then turn it up really high, really fast, that frog will jump
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out of the pot. Wow. And that's what happened to us, right? We were the first frog.
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Huh? Um, I don't think that's actually true. It isn't true. No, it isn't. Yeah. So, uh,
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both frogs will jump out of the pot. It's a nice fairy tale. Yeah. Again, again, a very nice fairy tale
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given to us by, uh, Kamala Harris. Now, I don't know if you saw this, but, um, if Biden were to drop out,
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there is a three way, this is how bad it is for the Democrats. There's a three way tie. 18% of
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Democratic voters would say, I'm with Kamala Harris. Okay. The V that you think the sitting VP would
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have 75% of the vote, right? That should think. Eight. And it's 18, which I thought was high.
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18. Second, second is Hillary Clinton at 15. Oh my gosh. Third is Bernie Sanders at 12.
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Yeah. The Democrats are in good shape, aren't they? Yeah. The best, the best part about this poll
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is, is the face made by Gavin Newsom. Oh yeah. I love it. I love the idea of this guy sitting there
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opening up this poll and realizing he's not even in the top three because you know what? He really
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thinks he's in the top three. He thinks he's number one by a mile. He does. And he's not. Well,
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well, you also have, uh, those receiving at least 4% California governor, Gavin Newsom, uh, Pete
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Buddha judge, Robert F. Kennedy, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Stacey Abrams.
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I mean, you can pick any of those and I'd be happy. You know what I mean? Oh my gosh. They really do
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have a path. Oh my gosh. They do. They don't know, but they have nothing. Is AOC even old enough now?
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Yes. She turns 35 in October. Okay. I didn't think she was currently. She isn't currently.
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In October she is. She would qualify for it because she turns, I think it's, I think it's
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October. You were such, you were such an ageist. You're going on that old dusty document and you
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have to be at least 35. What an ageist you are. I'm so sick of it. I know she could just identify
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as 38, you know, why not? We were changing everything else. By the way, before we get to
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Stacey Abrams, let's remember that Biden is still in the race, but he's facing two foes. One is Robert
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F. Kennedy Jr. And the other that doesn't get a lot of talk is self-help author Marianne Williamson.
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And she'll cuddle, she'll cuddle with Putin and it'll be, I mean, the war will be over. She'll
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be like, let me just, let's hug it out. Let's hug it out. Can I make a potentially unpopular
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point with the audience for a moment here? Have we come to the point that we've oversold
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how well RFK Jr. is doing in this race? Like, I understand that there's a lot of people on
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the right who have this affinity, this sudden affinity for RFK Jr. I don't, don't. Oh, I don't.
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You don't, Glenn, because, you know, he basically threatened your life in front of thousands of
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people. So I can understand why you might not be coming along for that one. He accused you of
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treason and said you should be treated like a traitor along with Rush Limbaugh. And this is over
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climate change, right? Over climate change. But I would like to say it's overstated. He said thousands
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of people. It was on CNN. So it was maybe a couple of hundred people. No, it was at a big
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live event. He said it on stage at a massive live event where there were a lot of people
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who saw it. Wow. And like, I get that, like, as I've said it, the fact that RFK Jr. is hitting
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20% is a crazy, crazy thing. It shouldn't happen. And it shows how, one, there's a lot of name
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recognition for RFK Jr. Two, he probably is connecting with some people in the Democratic Party.
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Three, Joe Biden's really, really bad. So there's a point to make there that he's hitting 20%.
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However, I will say, everyone says this, that he's hitting 20%. That one poll where he hit
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20% was two months ago. He's now had two months of polling where he has not hit 20%.
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He is behind. What does he hit? Let me see. I'll bring it up here in a second.
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And if, let's see, Democratic nomination. He has not hit 20% in two months. He's been
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hitting between eight and eight, 15. Oh, man. And we joke, a lot of people will sit here
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and say, oh, well, Ron DeSantis is a total disaster. He's 30 and 40 points behind. There
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hasn't been a poll where RFK Jr. has been within 40 points at all. I mean, it's been
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months, at least, since we've seen that. In addition, the Marianne Williamson thing is
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interesting, right? Marianne Williamson, we can all agree, is a zilch of a candidate,
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right? Like, she's not a real candidate. Yes. She is nothing, right? Like, no offense to
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her, but, like, she does not have a constituency. She is just basically nothing. Let me give you
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a couple of polls here. Like, the Yahoo News poll from, this is from June 20th, uh, Biden
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67, Williamson 4, Kennedy 8. Like, okay, he's four points ahead of Marianne Williamson in
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this poll, sure. Right? Like, okay. Some polls, some polls he's up by 10. Some polls he's up
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by, you know, like, he's up by 11. He's up by 7. He's up by 12 over her. But, like, that
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is the difference between any, you could throw any name on there, and they're gonna
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get the 7% in one of these polls. And he's getting 12. He's getting 17. He's getting
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15. Like, I'm not saying it's nothing, right? He, and he's shown, like, some ability
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to, to connect to the right and to the center, which is impressive, right? There's
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some things he's doing. He's crazy. But let's not overstate this. He's not, he's not
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competitive in this race at all. No. He's losing by 40 and 50 points in every
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single poll. But that's only because, once you get Marianne Williamson to drop
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out, you know, then that thing is a juggernaut.
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I wanted to bring Carol Roth on today. She is the author of a new book, comes out
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today, You Will Own Nothing. It is a great companion book for my book, A Dark Future.
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Here, if you go and you buy one of them, you'll see these two items most
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bought together. Because I'm showing you the, the mechanics of the machine.
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And Carol, it takes not only the mechanics of the machine, but she takes it and now
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lays it out for what your life is, what it's going to look like, how it's going to
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come down, and, and more importantly, what to do about it. Hi, Carol. How are you?
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Hi, Glenn. I'm doing well. And again, congratulations on Dark Future. And I do
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love seeing that every time you go to one of those online sites, and they say,
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these books are frequently brought together. Dark Future, You Will Own Nothing,
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because we've been strategizing on this together and talking about it for like
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So, Carol, let me, let me, I want to just take you through the chapters of your book,
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because it starts with socially unacceptable and social credit scores. And there are so
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many people that don't know about social credit scores, or when they hear it, they're like,
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that's crazy. That's not going to happen here. It is happening here. So take me through chapter
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one, just highlights. Yeah. So with chapter one, we really kind of see what's happening
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with social credit. And I would, I would offer that there are sort of three phases. One is cancel
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culture, where it's really, you know, kind of people going after your social standing, which is the way
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that you get opportunities. They go after your jobs, which is obviously your income. And in some
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cases, they go after your business. And that gets kind of formalized into a sort of hybrid,
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loose social credit system, you know, maybe the state's involved, but you know, they haven't kind
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of formalized a number grading system. And then you get to what China has, which is a full graded system,
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although it's still developing and it's sort of on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis. So if you think
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about what happened during COVID, if you were wrong, think, if you were the ones who weren't
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wearing masks, and you're not taking a vaccine, people were coming at you, whether it was your
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neighbor, or in some cases, the state, you couldn't go to a restaurant, you, you know, in some cases,
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or they took a picture of you and put it on social media that you weren't wearing a mask, they were
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calling your employer. If you think about what the Biden executive orders, you in some places couldn't
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have a job or just the threat to businesses from the state that this executive order came down,
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well, we're not really in it and required, but boy, we don't want to take that heat. So we feel
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the pressure, even though there isn't sort of that formal mandate to us. And then we actually saw the
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taking of assets, right? We saw businesses, particularly small businesses being shut down,
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again, not based on data and science, but based on political clout and connections.
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Our neighbors to the north, if you were part of that trucker freedom convoy, you saw your bank
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account being seized. And we're seeing it, you know, across, you know, being deplatformed,
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we're seeing collusion with the state. So this idea that, you know, that social credit is just about,
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you know, quashing your right to speech, there's a huge financial tie there as well. And really
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trying to manipulate people's behaviors, you know, whether you're Joe Rogan or Dave Chappelle,
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or, you know, just a person on the street, trying to manipulate that based on what a small group of
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people are saying is moral and right. So you say this leads us to a new financial world order,
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but you say it's coming in two parts. And the first one is about debt.
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Yeah, so the whole concept of a new financial world order, a new world order,
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sounds very conspiratorial. And one of the things that I wanted to do with this book
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is take the conspiracy theory out of it. Because, you know, it's very easy for people to say,
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oh, you know, new world order, that sounds tinfoil hatty, I'm going to dismiss it. But as you wrote
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also in your book, and I cover it, and you will own nothing, all you need to do is go to the White
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House's website, you look at the speech that Joe Biden gave to the business roundtable, March 21st,
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2022, and he walks through this. New financial world orders happen on a regular basis. We're about
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80 years into ours being at the center of the financial universe. But before us, it was the British,
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and before the British, it was the Dutch. And so this is something that if you are elite and well
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connected, you already know. And so Joe Biden says this, he says, you know, it's going to every
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three or four generations, there's a new financial order, and there's going to be a new world order
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out there, and we've got to lead it. And I'm pretty sure when he's talking to the business roundtable,
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he's talking to those business elite, probably not me and you, Glenn, and probably not the people
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who are listening here today. Exactly right. Yeah. So if you're these people,
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and you're seeing that the global financial stakes are shifting, do you just kind of sit back and hope
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everything works out for you? Or do you jockey to try to make sure that you and your cronies
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stay on top, retain your wealth and retain your power? I don't think it's at all conspiratorial. I
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think anybody with a brain would say, of course, you're going to try and do those kinds of things.
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And it's not necessarily, hang on just a second, I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's not just,
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we expect that to be true. When 2008 came along, in 2006, I was talking to the guys that were all in
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Wall Street and financial sectors, and I said, guys, this doesn't work. And they would all fall
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back and say, Glenn, there's too much money at stake. All of the big thinkers are making sure
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that everything is taken care of. Well, we expected that. That's what their excuse was.
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You don't understand the system. And there's too much money at stake. There's too much money at stake.
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And so all of the big players, they know that. And what are we going to do to protect it? So it doesn't
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have to be nefarious. In this case, I think it is. But it doesn't have to be nefarious. It's logical
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that they would do that. It very much is. And it's a very much a rhyme of history. It's that
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famous saying that's attributed to Mark Twain, that history doesn't repeat itself, but it often
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does rhyme. And so you can kind of see these cycles. And lots of thinkers who are very well
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regarded will talk to you about these historical cycles. So when you look at this new financial
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world order, one of the things that occurs to me is that major economies don't get sort of taken over
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by the outside. They really implode from within. And you can go all the way back to Rome from this,
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right? This is all an internal undoing that maybe there's a catalyst at the end. But it goes from
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basically where you have stable money to having way too much debt and excesses. And then you have to
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let your military lapse and all these kinds of things. And so that's really where this first part
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of the new financial world order is, is all the things that we have done internally to put ourselves
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in this position, whether it's having public debt to GDP of 125 percent, which even the IMF
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has said is unstable. The Treasury has said is unstable. The CBO has said it's unstable. So that does not
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sound very conspiracy theory to me, whether it's the Biden administration weaponizing the dollar
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when they decided to freeze Russia's reserve assets after they invaded Ukraine. The fact that the Fed
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has not kept the dollar stable on the international stage. Oh, by the way, they haven't kept it stable
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at home either, which is an amazing feat. Usually it's one or the other. So all these kinds of things
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move us, you know, in that cycle that we have at that being at the center of the financial universe,
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all of these things move us further to the edge. And we're all seeing the repercussions. We're seeing
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some of the de-dollarization already. We're seeing the BRICS countries come out and say we're trying to
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have a new currency. We know the impact of the debt load. We've seen the inflation. Again, none of all of
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this is very well documented. And so really important and center to you will owe nothing
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was me going in and, you know, almost every paragraph has a little note on it where you can
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find the information. And if I had a choice, by the way, of where to source the information,
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I went to the corporate press because it's much harder for somebody who's trying to say this is a
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conspiracy theory to say what I point out. This was in the Washington Post and Reuters, whatever.
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It's much harder for them to dismiss it. So, Carol, let's talk a little bit about debt.
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The numbers are so big that nobody thinks that anything's going to happen to this. They don't
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even begin to understand. And when we have huge debt like this, and let's say we go to war,
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we don't have the money to pay for the war. And when everyone's in debt and that bubble starts to
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burst, all kinds of bad things follow. What's going to happen to our debt? How do you explain
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borrowing $5.1 billion every day? What that means?
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I mean, it's so staggering. No wonder people can't get their head wrapped around it. And I blame
00:25:06.540
some of these people who are in the MMT area. That stands for Modern Monetary Theory. I call it a name
00:25:14.260
that I heard elsewhere called Magic Money Tree. Because the idea is that if you own a printing
00:25:20.020
press, you can never default on your debt because you can print more money, which I guess is true in
00:25:26.500
theory. But it just absolutely obliterates the value of the dollar. And I think what so many people
00:25:33.500
forget is that money is just a proxy. It's a proxy for the fruits of your labor, for productivity.
00:25:40.980
It's a convenience so that we no longer have to trade and go, oh, well, I have an egg and you're
00:25:46.600
a doctor and someone else needs a cow and how do we all sort this out? It's a proxy. But it's a proxy
00:25:52.380
for that productivity. So if you print more dollars and there's no additional productivity,
00:25:57.200
then you debase everything, at least on a one-to-one basis, I would venture to say that
00:26:03.900
with compounding, it's actually a worse scenario. And we saw this over the past few years when
00:26:10.100
everybody wanted stimulus checks. They said, oh, you know, I need my Donnie dollars and I need my
00:26:15.140
Biden bucks here. Give me my thousand dollars. Give me my twelve hundred dollars. And there were
00:26:19.600
people like you and me standing up going, no, don't do this. This is a trick. You're going to end up
00:26:24.060
spending seven to ten thousand dollars for the rest of your life. But most people don't understand
00:26:29.400
that. So when you see that the debt levels going up, there are a couple of things that are happening
00:26:35.300
concurrently. One is that, you know, we no longer have these central banks around the world who want
00:26:42.620
to buy that debt. And if you think about what happened during COVID is who came in to buy that
00:26:49.800
debt. It wasn't other central banks. And for a large part, it wasn't your traditional investors.
00:26:55.140
It was the Federal Reserve. Again, which is just a collection of private banks, all the banks,
00:27:04.420
the biggest ones that are all in trouble borrowing money from the Fed. The Fed is it's just the it's
00:27:13.240
those banks. And they they elect people to go sit in and give monetary policy for the United States
00:27:23.140
as a private institution. So if you think the banks are unstable, they're the ones printing the money
00:27:31.120
and giving it to us. That doesn't sound good. No. And they're they're making up when you think of a
00:27:37.940
printer, you actually think of like a physical money printer. This is just an entry. It's like
00:27:41.620
basically going into your bank account and being like, oh, let's just put a million dollars in
00:27:47.140
there. And we'll go shopping. If you and I did that, it would be fraud. When the Fed does it,
00:27:52.720
it's monetary policy. I'm not sure how that sort of puts together. You talk about this in the
00:27:59.280
incredible shrinking dollar. This is chapter four. And I want you to go over the reason why
00:28:06.380
this isn't insanity this time, or so they say, is that we have entered a new modern era where technology
00:28:17.360
will control inflation so we can print as much as we want. And yeah, it'll cause inflation. But we have
00:28:25.400
the technology now to keep that under control. And that technology is just monitoring what every
00:28:32.600
single person does, wants and spends, correct? Yes. So this is sort of, you know, one of the big
00:28:39.880
pieces that we have is that because there is so much pressure on the Fed and the government with
00:28:47.440
these debts that they're going to be desperate and they're going to be looking at any any ways that
00:28:52.180
they can get themselves out of it. You own nothing. You will own nothing. Carol Roth's new book,
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The Best of the Glenn Beck Program. Let me start here because the Washington Examiner
00:29:04.200
ranked all of the candidates that were in Iowa with us. And I think they rated them exactly the
00:29:14.260
same we did. They said, Tim Scott, unfortunately for Scott, the interview with Carlson highlighted the
00:29:19.420
South Carolina senator's least appealing side, his tendency to joke his way out of difficult situations.
00:29:24.780
He had some non-answers and that really didn't go well for him, but they didn't, they didn't think
00:29:34.140
he was, they didn't think he destroyed himself. Where Asa Hutchinson, a mess. Mike Pence, another mess.
00:29:44.120
Nikki Haley, I think they had the same, same exact, you know, view on her. Tucker Carlson went easy on
00:29:52.740
her. He chose not to go after Haley in the way he went after Hutchinson and Pence and didn't press
00:29:57.360
her on some issues such as Ukraine. It allowed Haley to do things such as go off on a crowd-pleasing
00:30:02.700
and plausible reading of the White House cocaine situation. Then Vivek, the youngest, 37, the youngest
00:30:11.000
candidate with no governmental experience. Ramaswamy has made real inroads in the GOP race.
00:30:17.160
Then Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, was the last candidate to appear and he was the best. I think
00:30:24.400
that's exactly the way we rated all of the candidates. And this, this is from the Washington
00:30:30.320
Examiner. Yeah, I think that's a fair rating. I think just pure performance wise, I had Ramaswamy
00:30:37.400
slightly ahead of DeSantis. I think, you know, there's a difference between those two candidates
00:30:41.780
in that, you know, Ramaswamy has a lot more to gain, right? People don't really know. He's kind
00:30:46.460
of the first time, it's sort of the first time that a lot of people have ever seen him speak. So
00:30:51.980
I think he had more to gain there. Obviously, the profile of DeSantis is a lot more consistent with
00:30:59.320
someone who could actually win the nomination, where Ramaswamy is... You're not sure yet. Yeah,
00:31:05.080
I think if you think about this, this, the way this race has kind of spread out so far, you have
00:31:10.660
obviously Trump at number one and DeSantis at number two, and they have a huge group of people
00:31:15.640
that you expect at some point, someone's going to have a moment. If you think about the Pete
00:31:20.400
Buttigieg run in 2020, like it's a, it's a parallel that you could see Ramaswamy potentially hitting,
00:31:27.620
right? Where he's a really, you know, he's a good communicator. Can he get to 13, 14, 15% in these
00:31:33.460
polls? I think it's possible. Yeah. I think that's, that's legitimately possible. And that's
00:31:37.380
about what Buttigieg did. I'm hoping that he is a vice presidential candidate. And, you know,
00:31:46.040
I said earlier, I think that Ramaswamy will be the candidate that Donald Trump chooses. I have no
00:31:52.340
idea because Trump could choose anyone and, and, and blow this all to hell. But Ramaswamy is the kind of
00:32:02.140
guy that is a out of the box thinker. I think he would be deferential to Trump. The only problem
00:32:11.260
is, is that Donald Trump might think that he might be overshadowed, shadowed by Ramaswamy,
00:32:16.560
but I don't think Ramaswamy would, would do that. I think he would play a role, but he would be a very
00:32:23.180
good advisor to Trump. So yesterday, Ramaswamy released a list of people he would consider
00:32:30.020
nominating to the Supreme court. If he were elected president, two of the candidates, Ted Cruz and
00:32:36.920
Mike Lee. And I wish those were the only ones on his list. Um, because I'd like to see both of those
00:32:44.840
guys on the Supreme court and the next president could nominate, be responsible for two other
00:32:52.460
justices on the Supreme court. And one of them might be a replacement for Clarence Thomas.
00:32:56.580
And that if he's not replaced by a Mike Lee or a Ted Cruz, we're in trouble. We need somebody who
00:33:05.060
reads the constitution as it was written. Um, I, I personally, even if we had control of the Senate,
00:33:13.140
I would lose control of the Senate for those two. If they were both put onto the Supreme court,
00:33:18.960
I wouldn't care if we lost the Senate. Those two would be so important.
00:33:23.420
Yeah. Two seats of the Supreme court, I think would outweigh a, you know, a couple of years of
00:33:28.680
Senate control. Uh, I would agree with you on that for sure. Yeah. Especially with the Republican
00:33:33.240
president. Um, though, I mean, there are other good judges you could go to, I mean, but Mike Lee,
00:33:38.160
I mean, Mike Lee would be fantastic on the Supreme court. Mike Lee is, he is Mr. Supreme court and he's,
00:33:44.900
he's, I don't mean this in a bad way. Cause I love him and he's very funny in person. He is
00:33:49.900
really very funny in person, but he's, he's boring enough to be on the Supreme court.
00:33:56.160
You know what I mean? He's like, there's no, you're never going to see like, ah, Mike Lee
00:34:01.620
swinging, you know, with the transvestite. It doesn't happen with Mike. There's never going
00:34:08.440
to be a scandal with Mike Lee. I would agree. He'll just, his scandal will be, well, I, I read both
00:34:15.540
sides and I read the constitution and I think I have to side with we, the people that's as exciting
00:34:24.020
as it'll ever get. Yeah. And to me, that's the super bowl of excitement that I want from Mike Lee.
00:34:29.720
Yeah. Uh, I, I want to return to some boring politics every once in a while. Um, I like the,
00:34:34.880
I think I like though, the new thing with candidates letting their Supreme court picks out in advance.
00:34:42.780
I, I like it. I mean, Trump, it was the trailblazer here, uh, mainly because people didn't trust him
00:34:48.340
on this stuff. And he, he put this out. Now, of course he did wind up picking two of his three
00:34:54.100
justices that were not on his initial list, which I, I didn't like that. I don't like that,
00:34:59.140
but still, uh, he did. The first one was on the list and that's essentially all he really promised.
00:35:05.180
And, you know, I think you have the three Kavanaugh. I'm still a little, you know, uh, not so warm
00:35:11.360
about, but the other two I'm, I'm, I'm pretty okay with. I think he did a pretty good job there.
00:35:15.240
And certainly like, regardless of how these, these justices turned out, the fact that they got
00:35:20.420
Roe versus Wade overturned is so monumental that it's hard to ever be critical of this.
00:35:25.880
And I like the idea of like these candidates coming out and saying, here, I'm going to stay,
00:35:29.080
I'm going to, this is a statement of principles. And they talk about a budget is essentially a
00:35:33.280
statement of your principles, right? Where you really want to spend your money shows what you
00:35:36.940
actually care about. This falls into that same category. And I, I wish they all would do this.
00:35:41.920
I think that would be a really positive thing going forward. I think there's a change coming
00:35:46.320
though. I really do. I think we are on, if it's not this election, it will be the next election
00:35:52.220
where we are going to have a generational change. And, uh, you know, assuming that we have a country
00:35:58.920
or another election, uh, I think we'll finally get these damn hippies out of power. Okay. Archie.
00:36:08.820
Okay. Um, uh, there's another thing that he said yesterday and I love this. Um, he said, uh,
00:36:15.980
Biden's top focus appeared to be on diversity and race and gender. While I drew from diverse experiences,
00:36:21.840
current and formal federal judges and former solicitor general to us senators, my sole criteria
00:36:27.740
was to select candidates with an unwavering commitment to an originalist understanding of
00:36:32.900
the U S constitution who also understand the unique threats to Liberty in the 21st century,
00:36:37.580
including lurking state action. Our courts remain the last line of defense against the overreach
00:36:43.500
and weaponization of government as president. I will appoint judges who will protect the integrity
00:36:48.620
of our constitutional Republic. I love that. He also said, uh, that he was signing the women for
00:36:56.660
America's legislative action committees, presidential promise to American women. Have you even heard of
00:37:02.000
that? I looked it up today and I read it. I love this as president of the United States. I promised
00:37:10.320
to uphold the truth that women are exclusively female. Only women can get pregnant and bear children.
00:37:18.500
Only women can be mothers under my administration. The status and dignity of women and girls will not be
00:37:25.420
compromised in law or policy. There are two sexes. If you have XX chromosomes, you're a woman. If you
00:37:34.220
have XY chromosomes, you're a man, period. Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder. Affirming kids
00:37:40.800
confusion isn't compassion. It's cruelty. And that's the truth. That's what he tweeted out yesterday.
00:37:46.920
Donald Trump has also signed this. Can you imagine reading this to someone five years ago? They would
00:37:52.020
think you were nuts. Like it's like every single statement in that is blatantly obvious. Full stop.
00:37:59.520
Stu, we had, uh, a proclamation for the family that was, uh, released by my church in the 1990s.
00:38:10.740
And it was insane. We all looked at it and went, what, uh, I mean, what are they thinking? What,
00:38:17.280
what? And it specifically talked about the roles of men and women and gender and that gender is ordained
00:38:25.720
by God. And there is no changing of gender, all of this stuff. And we're like, what are they even
00:38:31.740
thinking? In 1995, they did that. Now it's kind of like, huh? That seems pretty smart. Almost prophetic.
00:38:41.300
Yeah. Well, yeah. If not prophetic, they saw that coming for sure. Yeah. It weren't. I mean, so you
00:38:47.840
look at just five years ago, eight years ago, and that's what I really, I would really like you to
00:38:54.040
talk to your friends who are lost in this and just say, look, we know each other. No offense. I am not
00:39:01.880
trying to change your mind. I want you to change my mind. Tell me the new information that you received
00:39:10.880
because I know you 10 years ago, you would have said, that's not true. So let's follow the science
00:39:18.560
here. What new information did you receive about how this affects children? Um, the suicide rate,
00:39:29.300
anything. Tell me the scientific evidence that has changed your mind. They won't be able to do it.
00:39:35.740
So wait, so, so if the science is on the other side, why did you change your mind? And what's
00:39:47.100
happened? Because you are a total, you're in a completely different in a position and a position
00:39:53.480
that you would have said 10 years ago was the position of someone who was nuts. How did you get
00:40:00.460
there? I think you're totally right. And you know what the answer of course is, it's like, I don't
00:40:06.860
know, Twitter politics. I don't, you know, it's something, it's something outside of science and
00:40:13.020
reality. And like, I almost feel uncomfortable calling this science. It's, it's like these truths
00:40:18.320
will be held as self, these are self-evident truths, right? This isn't even, you don't even have to go to
00:40:23.960
science. We all owe this inherently to be true. Um, you know, uh, but I'm, I'm, I'm only using that
00:40:32.020
sign, you know, tell me scientifically because of an argument. I don't want to get into your feelings
00:40:37.340
and everything else. Tell me, let's follow the science. Let's follow the science. Yet this
00:40:42.060
argument is entirely feelings. That's all it is. It has nothing to do with science. You know,
00:40:48.380
this is, uh, um, um, what's her face? Uh, Rachel Levine, uh, the, uh, very high ranking official in
00:40:55.920
our government who is transgender talking about, uh, about this, talking about how children should
00:41:01.300
have sex access to sex reassignment services. And, and, uh, Rachel says, quote, adolescence is hard
00:41:08.220
and puberty is hard. Okay. Yeah, that's true. What if you're going through the wrong puberty?
00:41:12.740
There's no such thing as the wrong puberty. That's not a, that's not a thing. What you're
00:41:19.840
talking about is not an actual thing. There's no wrong puberty. That's not, that's not a thing.
00:41:25.420
But then, uh, Rachel goes on to say, what if you inside feel that you are female, but now you're
00:41:33.660
going through a male puberty? And of course the answer to that question, right. The answer to that
00:41:39.100
question is your feelings are wrong. Your feelings are incorrect. That he's talking about a child
00:41:47.380
here. This does not mean the child is a bad person, but lots of people have feelings that do not align
00:41:54.900
with reality. And so the correction to that is to correct the feelings, not to correct the body,
00:42:02.180
to match your incorrect vibe. If you feel that you are a man, we don't correct the body to make you
00:42:10.900
feel that way. We instead work on you and your feelings so that you actually, uh, recognize
00:42:17.180
reality. Cause that's kind of important in our society. Glenn.