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00:00:00.000 today's broadcast is fantastic it's that's why it's graded f um all right is that that it i'm

00:00:09.840 not sure okay anyway um great show today we uh yes i went to a billy eilish concert oh my gosh

00:00:18.040 you have to hear this story i want footage uh it's available but uh you don't want to see me

00:00:24.340 no no that's a good point that's a good point um also we talk about uh ronda santis and the kick-ass

00:00:32.040 job he's doing in florida pardon my french it's technically not french but pardon it anyway um

00:00:39.300 and what he should do with with disney remember i'm a big disney fan i hate them and we talk about

00:00:46.680 the history of the power that disney has did you know they don't have to call the environmental

00:00:52.620 protection agency they don't have any epa rules they don't have to worry about you know government

00:00:58.680 regulations on buildings and excuse me what no building inspectors no they have their own

00:01:05.300 mouse building inspectors fascinating we also talked to a governor a republican governor pushing back

00:01:10.500 against other republicans who are trying uh to get a bunch of money from a covid bill that doesn't

00:01:18.400 he ended this is governor ricketts in uh nebraska he ended the emergency and the republicans are

00:01:26.080 overriding his veto of taking covid money which they don't need what's wrong with you republicans

00:01:35.820 in nebraska call your senator if you're in nebraska your state senator all this and more on today's podcast

00:01:42.780 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

00:01:54.560 my disinterest in awards shows continues uh unabated uh however there are a couple of things that

00:02:05.460 are kind of interesting about the grammys that happened last night uh zelensky

00:02:11.100 uh appeared and i think that is really interesting there was a big push for him uh to be on the

00:02:18.060 oscars and he didn't respond or anything else and i think he knows americans hate the oscars

00:02:25.400 and he didn't want to be a part of that hollywood crowd i'll bet you that's maybe i mean i don't know

00:02:30.940 how much we love our musicians more no but i think it's more popular it doesn't have the backlash that

00:02:37.140 the uh the oscars has it's probably true and it certainly would have been overshadowed by what

00:02:41.520 why the the whole will smith situation the oscars anyway so that wouldn't work out even even what

00:02:46.420 happened louis ck got a grammy i think this is way more fascinating than anything that's happened in

00:02:52.040 any of these awards yeah i think it's bigger than again he got he got uh you know off the front page

00:02:58.280 zelensky because louis ck a he did an album right uh and he was nominated for a grammy i didn't know

00:03:06.120 that he was it was cool to be louis ck again no i i don't think it is that's what i think is the

00:03:11.260 most fascinating part about this uh is he released an album on his own website none of the streaming

00:03:16.940 like nowhere else you could find it you could only find it on his website wow and uh wow yeah just on

00:03:23.340 his own unannounced just released it and so it comes out and there's no buzz about it because

00:03:29.420 there's no sales yeah i mean sales for him yeah but nothing he's not climbing a chart or anything

00:03:34.920 there's no way to verify its existence or power yeah and louis ck is a guy who was caught up in the

00:03:42.400 me too you know thing that happened but has not at least in my mind had the moment where people step

00:03:49.840 back and say yeah maybe we reacted poorly to that maybe maybe we overreact like aziz ansari is another

00:03:55.440 comedian he got caught up in the me too thing was sort of canceled for a time and then people sort of

00:04:01.660 step back and said wait a minute like we there's we don't have anything on this guy this is crazy

00:04:06.200 he shouldn't be canceled and then he was back on netflix again right like there was that process where

00:04:11.420 everyone said okay that one was we went too far on that one a little bit that did not happen with

00:04:16.960 louis ck now louis ck i think was um an example of i don't think he acted like a good guy i think he's

00:04:25.640 very creepy a little weird yeah but never was was even accused of doing something that he did not

00:04:33.480 have consent to do on it was just weird it was like we he was weird he was doing stuff to himself

00:04:38.740 in other people's presence after he asked for consent and the claim was that these women felt as if

00:04:45.980 they couldn't say no so they said yes and state so i don't i don't know any female comedian that 1.00

00:04:52.180 would have a problem going you're gonna what no if you yeah right so i mean i've always thought that

00:04:59.300 louis ck thing you know was a little strange the way it was handled but that's not like the mainstream

00:05:04.060 view not use the way it was handled yeah thank you and so he releases this album and somehow not

00:05:09.920 only gets nominated for a grammy but wins yeah wins best comedy album that shows white guys just 0.80

00:05:16.220 don't pay for their crimes and of course that's what everyone's reaction is which is bizarre because

00:05:20.280 aziz ansari who is not white got right back on netflix a few months later right after his allegations

00:05:25.860 uh as far as i know bill cosby did a lot more than any of these people he's out of prison

00:05:30.800 so i don't know i will tell you what's what's crazy is uh uh i think this is happening just because

00:05:37.460 so many people are just done with it they won't say it out loud but i think they're just done with

00:05:42.680 it maybe you're right but these are like grammy voters this isn't right i think they're done with 0.91

00:05:48.160 it they won't say out loud it's a secret palette you think i don't think you would have won uh grammy

00:05:53.640 if everybody had to raise their hand i think you're totally right on that i totally right and and and if

00:05:58.700 you have not heard i mean look louis ck was always very talented it's a really funny album i mean it's

00:06:03.400 really really a good special and i'm it deserves to win i mean it was really good but it i'm shocked

00:06:10.640 did the guy did the guy who did what was it inside what was his name oh yes he didn't win

00:06:18.260 i don't know that was even real was he nominated for that that was a bo burnham right yeah yeah

00:06:22.940 that was brilliant i remember there was some weirdness about where he was nominated he would

00:06:27.400 like he wasn't nominated in best comedy album for some reason like our best comedy musical album i don't

00:06:32.940 know there was something like that because they they looked at they talked about it because of

00:06:36.020 it's a lot of songs yeah one uh in case you haven't seen it uh did billy eilish win anything

00:06:41.100 i don't know you i mean she won your heart i i think well no i i'm a fan of billy eilish and her

00:06:48.100 brother uh i think they're amazing he produces all the music right he's a big producer and he's also a

00:06:54.320 songwriter and singer himself and i like him better than than her but um man i went uh i flew to phoenix

00:07:02.360 this uh uh weekend with my daughter uh my older my uh second oldest daughter hannah and she's a big

00:07:09.660 fan i'm a big fan and so we we went i this is a bizarre scene glenn back you went to billy eilish

00:07:16.960 in yeah in vegas no phoenix yeah yeah yeah okay i just want to imagine that crowd was there anyone

00:07:24.180 taking video of you at the no at oh i i want some 20 year old to recognize you and turn around and take

00:07:30.200 video of this and post it on the internet it would have been fantastic no i i mean hannah hannah took

00:07:34.960 video i mean we could post that uh but it was uh it was interesting what first of all all these people

00:07:42.000 and i can't i kind of sense in this from you you hate billy eilish no i don't hate her oh okay no

00:07:46.640 all right just like others better yeah oh yeah no and you know what the reason why i started listening

00:07:53.080 to it is because my son got in the car and uh he said uh have you heard this song dad this is what

00:08:01.080 all the really uh dark goth girls are listening to in school and i'm like you got a lot of those 1.00

00:08:07.340 and uh and so i listened to it and i'm like this is about suicide this is really this is not good

00:08:14.380 and then so i started really listening and i listened to her lyrics and then i started doing

00:08:18.680 my homework on it she's actually and she proved me to be absolutely right it's one of the best

00:08:24.740 concerts i've ever been to it's up with michael buble she has the same effect on her audience that

00:08:31.300 michael buble has i've never been to any show any show where the spotlight 40 to 60 percent of the time

00:08:41.320 is not on the artist okay she's singing but even the jumbotrons there were grainy because it was so

00:08:48.060 dark on her it she does not make it about her uh which is weird to see the lights are up on the

00:08:55.980 audience a good portion of the time and i've never been to a concert where every song everyone is

00:09:04.780 standing the entire time unless she says sit down everyone's standing and they're all singing at the top

00:09:11.960 of their lungs i mean you heard the audience almost at parody with her it was bizarre i i wouldn't like

00:09:20.160 i go to a concert to hear the artist me too not the audience me too and hannah said the same thing

00:09:27.220 beforehand i said i'm gonna be really pissed if i'm just hearing all these people who can't sing 0.94

00:09:31.000 but it became a really cool experience very very different um and her message her and and i knew this

00:09:39.960 i became a fan of hers when i started reading about her and her brother and how they work

00:09:44.000 she is she's dark he's light wasn't there serious depression with her serious depression um and she

00:09:52.600 she writes about the things that she experiences um a to get it out of her system and to conquer it

00:10:00.740 it's the way she kind of conquers things but also she writes and sings about them because she knows

00:10:05.700 other girls are going through the same thing and so like the the first song was was i don't know it

00:10:13.920 might have been a i want to off myself or whatever uh it was a really dark song um with dark imagery

00:10:22.100 and right out of all of this she says you know these nightmares are not true these are we all have them

00:10:30.920 we all have these kinds of thoughts and fears and we have to listen to each other and be there for

00:10:36.720 one another and that's what tonight's all about this concert all of you i always want i don't care who

00:10:43.520 you're sitting next to but we're here for each other and it was a really cool experience and very

00:10:51.120 different than anything people my age are used to and i thought it was great thought it was really good

00:10:56.900 did you throw your underwear up on stage i did yeah i did cover the whole stage draped over the

00:11:03.280 entire drum set including the drummer it was weird wow i'm at the age where i have i have a nine and a

00:11:12.060 ten year old and i listen to a decent amount of kids bop yeah now kids bop if you don't know is

00:11:18.060 you know it's a long series of albums you know 30 albums or something where they do the biggest hits

00:11:24.460 of the year and it's usually kids singing them um now it is all kids singing them um and and so

00:11:31.140 but they're safe they're safe so they take songs that have very bad lyrics and they change them

00:11:37.320 like i was listening to one the other day and and it's a song i think they're it's it's country song

00:11:41.940 it's the applebee's song the country applebee's song you know what i'm talking about uh bougie like 0.98

00:11:47.080 applebee's uh okay huge huge huge huge song i can't believe i'm the only person in the world that's

00:11:51.380 ever heard this in this room it's amazing but anyway they talk about natty's meaning like you

00:11:55.660 know beer natty ice you know uh right and they change it to soda so it's like bougie like soda which

00:12:02.420 again i don't know why soda yeah you know we're listening to this kids bop and all of a sudden they

00:12:08.760 get to i had a dream by billy eilish which is literally a song about killing yourself right like

00:12:15.420 she's the whole song is the entire the entire all the lyrics it could include like the bridge right

00:12:22.440 it's about like when she jumps off a bridge if i remember right you tell me i'm wrong glenn

00:12:28.700 she goes she jumps off a bridge and she has a dream about it and she thought it was a nightmare

00:12:36.040 because she was killing herself and then she realized that's actually what i wanted in the

00:12:39.120 end anyway is to be dead basically what happens and it turns around it only turns around in the

00:12:45.060 lyrics so do you know the do you know the story behind the song it's amazing yes i heard the whole

00:12:49.340 there's a whole podcast out about this uh which is really interesting and i i happened to listen to

00:12:54.120 it at one point and the story is fascinating and it winds up obviously in a in a happy place she

00:12:59.580 she didn't land uh obviously because she's still alive and doing concerts for glenn beck and his

00:13:04.340 underwear so this is she didn't die that's the good news i guess uh but i don't know if if you need

00:13:11.380 to have a kid's mom version so what do the lyrics say what do you mean what do the lyrics on the kid's

00:13:17.840 side i mean when i was listening to it i didn't see much change at all you can't don't think no i

00:13:23.400 don't think you need that okay i think though if you listen if you've never heard this song which

00:13:28.320 apparently in this room no one's heard any songs uh but if if if you've never heard if you've never

00:13:33.520 heard this song it's it's not quite obvious it's not like hey i went to the bridge and killed

00:13:39.360 myself it's a little more artistic you know barely a little bit like you wouldn't necessarily

00:13:45.540 hear i had a dream i thought it was a nightmare but it turned out to be good it sounds like it could

00:13:49.820 be anything there are parts of it though that i think are are specific to suicide but yeah

00:13:55.560 might go over kids heads i don't think yeah i don't think most kids would necessarily notice

00:13:59.320 it at nine or ten years old but like do you need a kid's bop version of a suicide song

00:14:03.960 doesn't seem like it it seems like that when you just skip and do whatever other tunes i don't

00:14:07.960 know suicide is because it has become a thing i mean it has it is really the last couple years

00:14:14.980 yeah the suicide rate in this country you know i i went on instagram i posted something and just

00:14:20.980 hannah and i screwed around and said that i was in phoenix for the billy eilish concert

00:14:24.900 oh my gosh my instagram posts were all like she's from the devil she's really oh yeah yeah

00:14:34.240 really serious uh backlash on it and i thought you know you should you should read uh about her not

00:14:42.740 not just take the songs yeah uh for what they're saying but what the message is behind the songs i

00:14:49.160 what i like about her i like her brother better i mean you know i don't mean it that way but i mean

00:14:54.760 he's he's really positive he's got a new album out called optimist it's one of the better albums i've

00:15:02.640 heard uh in a long long time he's great and his lyrics are all very philosophical and positive

00:15:09.660 and that's where you get the balance she had a dream i thought it was a nightmare he's the one

00:15:16.440 that said no no you're safe you're safe that's hold her out yeah he pulled her out and that song

00:15:21.320 is the split between the two and why she's so intent on making people know this isn't normal to feel this

00:15:30.120 way do you think you have to have people that tell you you're okay do you think it when she looked

00:15:36.240 out in the audience and saw you she reconsidered i this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:15:47.360 and we really want to thank you for listening

00:15:49.320 i want to introduce you to a governor that you should know he's from nebraska his name is pete

00:16:03.540 ricketts and he's joining us now because he is actually trying to veto federal funding uh that he

00:16:12.780 says will make people more reliant on the government i tend to agree with him on this but he's a republican

00:16:18.420 who's fighting the republicans who are going to override his veto when you hear this story

00:16:25.120 i hope if you're in nebraska you will call your uh your uh legislator and say enough is enough

00:16:33.260 welcome governor how are you sir i'm doing great glenn thanks very much for having me on you bet

00:16:38.560 so tell me the situation this is this is about the the money that was going to help people pay rent

00:16:46.400 because of covid right right exactly so this is the emergency rental assistance program was about

00:16:51.500 a 25 billion dollar program and you know when we have emergencies we recognize we need extra assistance

00:16:58.380 you know first of all nebraskans always take care of their neighbors we saw that in the floods we had

00:17:02.460 in 2019 and through this pandemic and so we have an emergency we ask for extra assistance but we also

00:17:09.300 at some point have to recognize that the emergency is over and we don't need the money for the

00:17:15.640 assistance anymore and that's what's happening right now you know i ended the emergency for the

00:17:20.000 pandemic last june here in nebraska good for you and um so we just don't have a justification for

00:17:25.600 taking this money it's supposed to be tied to paying for people's uh people who are impacted by

00:17:30.400 covid and you know we do this for floods we do it for tornadoes we ask for emergency assistance but

00:17:35.640 we don't ask for the money if we don't have an emergency and right now we don't have an emergency

00:17:40.020 we've got the lowest unemployment rate in the united states and lowest in state history

00:17:43.940 we've got more people employed today 16 000 more people employed today than we did pre-pandemic

00:17:50.040 more people in manufacturing since 2008 and frankly none of the non-profits who are asking

00:17:56.380 for this money have ever been able to show me that somehow things today are different from 2019

00:18:01.660 so we just don't have a justification for taking this money and now of course the second round of

00:18:06.460 this emergency rental assistance program is not even tied to covid you can just pay people's rent

00:18:11.200 well that's big government socialism right we don't want to just pay people's rent that's not

00:18:15.360 who we are in this country and certainly not in nebraska uh and yet i've got a legislature who is

00:18:20.300 trying to who's passed a bill which i vetoed that is trying to force me to take this additional

00:18:25.100 federal money and the veto override will be tomorrow tuesday april 5th and so i'm encouraging people to

00:18:30.720 reach out to their state center and tell them don't take this big government socialism program

00:18:34.300 so what is the republican excuse for this because you have if i'm not mistaken you have about 40 percent

00:18:41.420 of all the money from the first round still sitting there waiting to be used so if people need to have a

00:18:50.120 bailout you know on their rent because of covid uh find it kind of hard to believe at this point but

00:18:55.720 if you did all right you got 40 percent of the money you got last time so what is their excuse

00:19:02.580 as republicans yeah i know you're exactly right we we've we've used uh actually we've only used

00:19:08.880 about 40 percent of the money so we still have plenty of money left through the end of the year

00:19:11.980 you know you can apply in september it'll take you through december and i don't think anybody's

00:19:16.420 thinking this emergency is going to last longer than that in fact our hospitalizations are the lowest

00:19:20.820 we've had since uh maybe july of last year and so their excuse when they say this is like well

00:19:27.220 it's free federal money and of course it's not free federal money right it's not free we pay that

00:19:31.500 it's not taxpayer dollars right yeah and they're like well what if some other state gets it i'm

00:19:35.840 like well first of all when we have emergencies like floods or tornadoes we ask for money if we

00:19:41.100 need it but if we don't have an emergency we don't ask for the money if another state has a tornado

00:19:45.620 they ask for the money so this is not we're not an emergency we shouldn't be asking for this money

00:19:50.820 it's just wrong and then of course they're like well if we don't take the money somebody else will get

00:19:55.380 it just means that somebody else is going to be paying people to stay home that's bad for them

00:20:00.260 right if if you're paying people's rent and all the other benefits we've we've doled out here and

00:20:05.000 here in the state of nebraska now we're either we've either distributed or in the process of

00:20:08.920 distributing over 21 billion dollars you're paying people to stay home and i've had landlords contact

00:20:15.260 me to tell me like they see the people that are in these programs and they're they're by and large

00:20:19.400 a lot of people who could be working and that's the problem is if we're paying people to stay home they

00:20:23.860 will and that's what we need to get people back to work these programs are corrosive they teach people to be

00:20:29.020 relying on government especially without even related to being uh covid related anymore yeah i i understood

00:20:34.860 you know when the government was putting people out of business and then telling people you you know you

00:20:39.540 don't have to pay rent uh okay what about the landlords and you know what about i didn't have a

00:20:45.400 job because i didn't have a business because you told me to close down at that point i understood it

00:20:50.480 especially however um in your case where there are more people employed than there were prior to

00:20:58.860 the pandemic you seem to be on the right track one of the few places that are really on the right track

00:21:04.880 i know wanted help wanted signs are everywhere here in texas and it's not because we're growing jobs

00:21:11.580 faster than we're importing people it's that there are too many people that just have decided not to go

00:21:16.920 back to work or that those jobs are beneath them this is very un-american have you asked those

00:21:22.380 republicans uh where their principles are well that's part of the problem isn't it when i talked

00:21:29.300 to some of these republicans about this they're like well i'll take that into consideration

00:21:32.780 consideration yeah i know i know it's like hey guys this is about principles like we as republicans

00:21:40.240 stand for of course we help people when they're in need but if we're not in need we don't just dole

00:21:46.120 out government money to people that's not who we are but unfortunately many times you get so many

00:21:50.940 uh folks who get elected that don't have fundamental principles and so they kind of blow in the wind

00:21:55.880 whichever the you know the trend is you know whatever the du jour of the day you know the

00:22:01.820 policy yeah the buddies are all trying to get to do you know you got all these lobbyists in

00:22:06.440 our capital building telling them you got to take the money and that's part of the problem

00:22:10.300 so may i ask you i just looked up your unemployment rate it is 2.1 and i don't want to just go off the

00:22:18.120 unemployment rate but uh there are more people in nebraska employed than pre uh pandemic because

00:22:27.060 they're you know they've recalculated the way that we look at our unemployment now they just stop

00:22:31.340 counting those people who could be working but aren't um so what are you doing to get it to 2.1

00:22:37.960 well first of all we never shut down we never had a statewide mask mandate we never did vaccine

00:22:43.280 mandates we slowed the spread of the virus while letting people live a more normal life so that

00:22:48.800 we were able to keep our mortality rates down keep kids in schools keep people in their jobs

00:22:52.800 and that momentum helped to carry us through this pandemic and like i said i ended the emergency last

00:22:57.800 june on a pandemic so we're actually pretty much back to normal now which is why we don't need

00:23:03.700 additional programs to pay for people's rent we're back to normal here uh there you know there's always

00:23:09.020 been people who have been impacted by different circumstances that need help with their rent and

00:23:14.200 we should work to help those people but a big government program like this where it's another

00:23:19.300 you know 120 million dollars coming into our state that would just basically teach people to stay home

00:23:25.160 that's not what we need that's not how we're going to get people back to work uh we need to engage

00:23:29.700 people get them back into the workforce you know here in nebraska we do have the highest workforce

00:23:33.640 participation rate the highest employment to population per capita ratio so nebraskans do like 0.99

00:23:39.320 to work but we need more people back in the workforce and paying them to stay home is not going to do it 0.53

00:23:43.660 governor i have to tell you um this is the best story i've heard in a while the uh uh the uh the story

00:23:51.380 that i always loved from the depression was hoover hoover there was a a big storm i think it was here in

00:23:57.280 texas a big storm uh that went on and he decided to uh dispatch the feds to help and uh the the county

00:24:06.040 turned them around at the at the uh the county line they blow the people not the police the people

00:24:12.920 block the road and turn the trucks around and said we don't need any help we're fine here

00:24:17.780 sent the trucks back home congress wanted to pass for all this support um it was uh uh it it failed

00:24:26.020 and the american people actually raised more money than what the bailout would have been we are in a

00:24:32.660 time now where people are just expecting everything we're living in a in a a time where everybody feels

00:24:39.980 they're entitled to something i am glad to see the state where my grandmother uh uh lived and my mother

00:24:46.740 was born in i am glad to see that you are uh uh holding up the work ethic and the ethics that made america

00:24:54.880 truly the the breadbasket of the world well thanks and you know nebraskans do they take care of each 1.00

00:25:01.180 other that's what we should continue to do is look to take care of folks in our local communities

00:25:04.720 and not ask for federal money when we don't have a federal emergency we're supposed to be taking care

00:25:11.500 of ourselves that's always been the strength of our country going back to alexis and toqueville he

00:25:15.820 commented on that you know in the 1830s that's the strength of america so a lot of people who

00:25:20.860 aren't in your state would go oh it's a politician he's probably running you're not your your term

00:25:25.060 term limited out now what's correct what's next for you well first thing i'm going to do is go on

00:25:30.760 vacation with my wife yeah i want to stay married yeah yeah and then uh i want to stay involved in

00:25:36.000 politics and public policy i just don't know what that looks like right now okay good for you thank

00:25:40.520 you very much governor i appreciate it all right hey well thanks a lot glenn thanks for having me on

00:25:44.020 governor pete ricketts from nebraska isn't that amazing call call your uh senators um if you live

00:25:53.600 in nebraska and tell them okay enough is enough do we have some principles here well other states are

00:26:00.720 going to get it if just say this if everybody was jumping off a bridge would you jump off the bridge

00:26:06.660 do i need to be your mother for the love of the best of the glenn beck program

00:26:13.420 elon musk he did a couple of things that i love he acquired almost 10 percent of twitter it makes him

00:26:25.360 the largest stakeholder jack only has about two percent of the company now so far i believe this

00:26:32.080 is a silent partnership part i mean he he can do some things i guess to gain some seats on the board

00:26:38.520 and i wish you would elon please i mean and this is what he it is nine percent stake is what he

00:26:45.920 disclosed in a financial disclosure right so we don't know how much he has now could be more oh that's

00:26:52.780 what yeah that's what he bought yeah this is what he bought so far but he could be he could have been

00:26:57.020 acquiring it the whole time he seems to be pretty focused on twitter he seems to be critical of

00:27:04.140 twitter and he seems to be stepping up to the plate and you if you happen to be twitter you might not

00:27:10.440 want him stepping up to the plate oh please step up to the plate wouldn't it be nice to have somebody

00:27:15.840 that like elon musk is out there actually saying the truth and batting for you and i say this i mean i

00:27:24.120 look i don't agree with elon the guy is a global warming guy okay like not just a global warming guy

00:27:30.480 a guy who believes it so much he's building spaceships to get off the planet now i personally believe

00:27:38.560 that it is global warming plus what he sees coming in technology because he believes transhumanism

00:27:46.440 is coming and he believes that the human species will will not exist on earth by 2050 and so he believes

00:27:57.620 that the only chance of the humans actually being like we are now not not engineered but being like

00:28:06.540 we are now the only chance of survival is on another planet um but anyway well i mean that's the point

00:28:14.680 though and this is a guy who acts on what he believes it yep and he's living a yep an incredible

00:28:20.940 life he really is like ask or it he earned it i mean he made his own money i mean he took bailouts

00:28:28.400 or not bailouts but he took money uh during tarp uh which i didn't like was a tarp or was it he he got

00:28:34.560 a lot of the cash for clunkers or something uh the there's tons of incentives to buy electric cars

00:28:41.080 built into our economy he might have gone that early well yeah tesla gets a ton of that money

00:28:46.420 because they're the only really the only electric car out there i don't think now you have to be

00:28:50.860 opposing it now he's been saying he doesn't want it because it comes with strings attached now you

00:28:55.540 have to be a union shop you have to be creating good union jobs and that's not them no it's such a

00:29:01.900 fascinating he's a this is one of the reasons why people are fascinated by him but he does not fall into

00:29:06.040 any easy category any easy category and you know he's been opposing one of the big things in this

00:29:12.320 one of these big biden bills i think it was build back better was a fortune to build an electric car

00:29:19.000 charging network across the country he's like we're already doing that we don't need your money for that

00:29:24.040 we're doing it already we we were we and you don't want him to do that because you can't control

00:29:29.900 that yeah uh yeah and you know we've talked a decent amount about the car industry over the

00:29:35.160 past few months and as people may note i'm now past seven months of ordering my car and still do

00:29:41.800 not have one i'm already looking for a gift for your 12 month anniversary it's gonna be it's gonna

00:29:46.260 be nice it's gonna be special i'm gonna bring candles in but there is you have the tesla chargers

00:29:51.220 which work on teslas and then you have other charger networks that are being built by other

00:29:57.000 companies like volkswagen is building a big one across the country but you see the locations of

00:30:00.880 them if you if you buy a car that is not a tesla that's an electric car and you want to use a fast

00:30:05.440 charger now you can charge it at your house but it takes a long time multiple days if you're just

00:30:09.560 plugging it into a normal outlet uh it is you can get it done overnight if you get special industrial

00:30:14.520 strength stuff installed into your house right but i mean that's what you do if you're gonna get it

00:30:18.900 you want to save money at the gas pump yeah you just get one of those big expensive superchargers

00:30:25.260 you know or you know if you can't afford it a lot of people can't don't worry your car will be

00:30:30.860 charged in three days but you have some place to go i hope not but it's true you can find tesla

00:30:39.340 chargers at malls and restaurants and all over the place gas stations movie theaters places you pull up

00:30:48.040 there's one place i take the kids to breakfast they've got two tesla chargers right out in front

00:30:52.580 of it for i mean they're rarely filled but still they're there they're there a lot of times they're

00:30:57.840 there in better parking spots than the handicapped spots oh yeah they're always in the front or close 1.00

00:31:03.000 to the front which is incredible yeah uh but that network is built out relatively widely depending on

00:31:08.520 where you live you look at the other one one of them's called electrify america which is i think

00:31:12.820 the volkswagen one and they're building it up and they have like fast chargers located like for the

00:31:17.660 dallas the fort worth area which is a big you know city huge city it's only on the like on the extended

00:31:25.880 exurbs right like if you're going from here to austin on the way out of dallas you can find a charger

00:31:34.100 right but that's it and there's one place there on the road you better stop there or you're gonna have

00:31:42.980 to plug in and wait for three days at somebody's house right you've got to stop right there if you're

00:31:47.260 not driving a tesla if you're driving a tesla well there's 15 000 places to go and they're building

00:31:51.940 that out you know you would think that maybe people would learn the lesson of uh a universal plug

00:31:58.240 how about how about everybody just makes the same plug i mean if i'm running a car company i'd be like

00:32:03.500 will i work on everybody else's plug oh there's there's already even outside of tesla there's two 0.94

00:32:09.060 different options that's stupid you look at the places some of these some of these charging stations

00:32:13.740 have to have three different kinds of quote-unquote pumps to be able to hook up to the three different 0.99

00:32:18.860 that is just so stupid i mean eventually it's i think it is going to unify behind something but 0.68

00:32:23.280 tesla wants it to be there so here's the here's the other thing fine fine whatever if you're volkswagen 0.99

00:32:29.200 make it like tesla you'll double the value you'll double the value anyway um uh another thing that

00:32:38.400 he tweeted this weekend let me see if i can find the exact uh verbiage uh the more i study it i don't

00:32:48.180 have it right in front of me hang on um i think he said the more i study it here it is

00:32:55.820 i'm increasingly convinced that corporate esg is the devil incarnate

00:33:04.100 now that's saying something that's not glenn beck saying that no that that's coming from a guy

00:33:11.100 who believes in global warming built an electric car company built a spaceship company right okay a

00:33:17.860 spaceship company right he he believes it's the devil incarnate that's remarkable anybody

00:33:27.880 elon musk saying this will change the uh direction because elon musk there's a lot of people who you

00:33:37.380 know don't listen to me or don't like me or whatever that's definitely true okay all right

00:33:43.320 no it's definitely confirmed but elon musk check true is

00:33:47.160 okay we got it but elon musk has such a wide reach universally yeah i get this from people all

00:33:58.960 the time when we have events and stuff and people are walking around like we have the museum here or

00:34:02.940 something and we're talking to people who've been listening to the show for a long time and they

00:34:07.340 to convert it to this particular topic it's i've had to listen to through get through 25 segments

00:34:16.060 of glenn blathering on about esg scores and i never heard it from anybody else and then all

00:34:23.460 of a sudden everyone's talking about it and that is i think the case here you're seeing it with elon

00:34:28.740 musk you're seeing it if you read any financial publication they're talking about it all the time

00:34:32.600 now all the time um these things you know people try to say it was a conspiracy theory obviously it's

00:34:38.200 not it's something that is building in a big way is already taken over wall street and like i you

00:34:43.900 know like the the concept is somewhat understandable right like if you could if if they gave you an

00:34:49.680 option to invest in things that promoted the free market promoted individual rights i'd love it i would

00:34:56.000 be for that it's like you know what i don't like these algorithms that uh sort my news okay i'm not

00:35:04.700 against them i'd like to control it yeah i'd like less of this more of this let's give me a dashboard

00:35:12.200 so i can control it and find the setting for me you know what i mean so i don't have a problem with

00:35:18.760 that and if you wanted to do esg then could you do uh you know one on the constitution one on uh

00:35:30.300 values one on you know not having your son sell out to communist countries i mean i'm just saying

00:35:39.460 not as catchy as esg it's not but you know burisma would be out uh you know bank of china would be out

00:35:47.380 right the city of moscow i couldn't invest in you know if you if you wanted to have esg because this

00:35:55.200 this is the dumbest part of their argument this is only done for people a lot of people want to

00:36:01.140 invest that way yeah i know a lot of people that would like to not throw their money behind places 0.98

00:36:06.380 like disney but are you showing me all the ones all the companies that are so woke and are spending

00:36:14.480 tons of money verizon giving money to planned parenthood i'd like just a a fund called

00:36:24.820 b for babies you know hey these are all the companies that are not investing in killing

00:36:31.440 babies that would be great and you can pick whatever you wanted that's not what this is

00:36:38.260 right a menu of options is something i i think that is right it is a free market thing however the way

00:36:44.240 that they're instituting the esg is not necessarily stopping at a menu they're implementing it in a way

00:36:50.660 that they can't get capital if they do not hit the the requirements of this menu and so it's it's

00:36:55.820 controlling the way that companies do business and that is the problem you know you're like how you can

00:37:02.120 look at what has happened over the past couple of months and think that what we need to do is invest

00:37:06.880 less in fossil fuels is beyond me we absolutely should be investing more even even elon musk who is

00:37:14.520 again a not just a global warming believer but is completely insane in this belief yeah i mean he is

00:37:21.220 farther to the global warming alarmist side than almost anyone i know in the in the entire uh public

00:37:31.160 life he is literally that far he's done certainly more to not just step up and tweet about it not just

00:37:38.000 hashtag he's built multiple companies to address this he's risked his entire fortune to do this to

00:37:44.200 stop global warming and here is he he's saying things like hey we need to really up ramp up our

00:37:50.160 uh oil and gas correct drilling here in the united states because it only helps his company right but

00:37:56.200 it doesn't in the end yeah by the way uh the new budget uh from uh biden 11 different tax increases

00:38:02.600 on the oil and gas industry um which uh the deduction they're getting rid of the deduction for intangible

00:38:10.180 drilling costs which allows independent producers to immediately deduct business expenses related to

00:38:16.400 drilling such as labor site preparation repairs and service work uh 2014 by wood mckenzie consultant

00:38:22.760 repealing the the deduction for those would result in a 407 billion dollar reduction in investment

00:38:30.820 roughly 25 percent of the capital used by producers to continue investing in new projects

00:38:37.640 okay but but only 25 percent that's one of the taxes that he's putting on oil and gas plus your esg

00:38:47.980 nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

00:38:50.280 okay

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