Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Gov. Pete Ricketts ｜ 4⧸4⧸22
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My disinterest in awards shows continues unabated, however, however there are a couple of things that happened last night that are pretty interesting, including a comedian who was nominated for a grammy and an album that was released on his own website, and a man who was accused of soliciting consent to do something that he did not have to do.
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today's broadcast is fantastic it's that's why it's graded f um all right is that that it i'm
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not sure okay anyway um great show today we uh yes i went to a billy eilish concert oh my gosh
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you have to hear this story i want footage uh it's available but uh you don't want to see me
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no no that's a good point that's a good point um also we talk about uh ronda santis and the kick-ass
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job he's doing in florida pardon my french it's technically not french but pardon it anyway um
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and what he should do with with disney remember i'm a big disney fan i hate them and we talk about
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the history of the power that disney has did you know they don't have to call the environmental
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protection agency they don't have any epa rules they don't have to worry about you know government
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regulations on buildings and excuse me what no building inspectors no they have their own
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mouse building inspectors fascinating we also talked to a governor a republican governor pushing back
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against other republicans who are trying uh to get a bunch of money from a covid bill that doesn't
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he ended this is governor ricketts in uh nebraska he ended the emergency and the republicans are
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overriding his veto of taking covid money which they don't need what's wrong with you republicans
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in nebraska call your senator if you're in nebraska your state senator all this and more on today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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my disinterest in awards shows continues uh unabated uh however there are a couple of things that
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are kind of interesting about the grammys that happened last night uh zelensky
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uh appeared and i think that is really interesting there was a big push for him uh to be on the
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oscars and he didn't respond or anything else and i think he knows americans hate the oscars
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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
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how much we love our musicians more no but i think it's more popular it doesn't have the backlash that
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the uh the oscars has it's probably true and it certainly would have been overshadowed by what
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why the the whole will smith situation the oscars anyway so that wouldn't work out even even what
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happened louis ck got a grammy i think this is way more fascinating than anything that's happened in
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any of these awards yeah i think it's bigger than again he got he got uh you know off the front page
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zelensky because louis ck a he did an album right uh and he was nominated for a grammy i didn't know
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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
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most fascinating part about this uh is he released an album on his own website none of the streaming
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like nowhere else you could find it you could only find it on his website wow and uh wow yeah just on
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his own unannounced just released it and so it comes out and there's no buzz about it because
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there's no sales yeah i mean sales for him yeah but nothing he's not climbing a chart or anything
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there's no way to verify its existence or power yeah and louis ck is a guy who was caught up in the
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me too you know thing that happened but has not at least in my mind had the moment where people step
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back and say yeah maybe we reacted poorly to that maybe maybe we overreact like aziz ansari is another
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comedian he got caught up in the me too thing was sort of canceled for a time and then people sort of
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step back and said wait a minute like we there's we don't have anything on this guy this is crazy
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he shouldn't be canceled and then he was back on netflix again right like there was that process where
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everyone said okay that one was we went too far on that one a little bit that did not happen with
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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
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very creepy a little weird yeah but never was was even accused of doing something that he did not
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have consent to do on it was just weird it was like we he was weird he was doing stuff to himself
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in other people's presence after he asked for consent and the claim was that these women felt as if
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they couldn't say no so they said yes and state so i don't i don't know any female comedian that
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would have a problem going you're gonna what no if you yeah right so i mean i've always thought that
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louis ck thing you know was a little strange the way it was handled but that's not like the mainstream
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view not use the way it was handled yeah thank you and so he releases this album and somehow not
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only gets nominated for a grammy but wins yeah wins best comedy album that shows white guys just
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don't pay for their crimes and of course that's what everyone's reaction is which is bizarre because
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aziz ansari who is not white got right back on netflix a few months later right after his allegations
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uh as far as i know bill cosby did a lot more than any of these people he's out of prison
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so i don't know i will tell you what's what's crazy is uh uh i think this is happening just because
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so many people are just done with it they won't say it out loud but i think they're just done with
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it maybe you're right but these are like grammy voters this isn't right i think they're done with
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it they won't say out loud it's a secret palette you think i don't think you would have won uh grammy
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if everybody had to raise their hand i think you're totally right on that i totally right and and and if
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you have not heard i mean look louis ck was always very talented it's a really funny album i mean it's
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really really a good special and i'm it deserves to win i mean it was really good but it i'm shocked
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did the guy did the guy who did what was it inside what was his name oh yes he didn't win
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i don't know that was even real was he nominated for that that was a bo burnham right yeah yeah
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that was brilliant i remember there was some weirdness about where he was nominated he would
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like he wasn't nominated in best comedy album for some reason like our best comedy musical album i don't
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know there was something like that because they they looked at they talked about it because of
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it's a lot of songs yeah one uh in case you haven't seen it uh did billy eilish win anything
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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
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brother uh i think they're amazing he produces all the music right he's a big producer and he's also a
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songwriter and singer himself and i like him better than than her but um man i went uh i flew to phoenix
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this uh uh weekend with my daughter uh my older my uh second oldest daughter hannah and she's a big
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fan i'm a big fan and so we we went i this is a bizarre scene glenn back you went to billy eilish
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in yeah in vegas no phoenix yeah yeah yeah okay i just want to imagine that crowd was there anyone
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taking video of you at the no at oh i i want some 20 year old to recognize you and turn around and take
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video of this and post it on the internet it would have been fantastic no i i mean hannah hannah took
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video i mean we could post that uh but it was uh it was interesting what first of all all these people
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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
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all right just like others better yeah oh yeah no and you know what the reason why i started listening
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to it is because my son got in the car and uh he said uh have you heard this song dad this is what
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all the really uh dark goth girls are listening to in school and i'm like you got a lot of those
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and uh and so i listened to it and i'm like this is about suicide this is really this is not good
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and then so i started really listening and i listened to her lyrics and then i started doing
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my homework on it she's actually and she proved me to be absolutely right it's one of the best
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concerts i've ever been to it's up with michael buble she has the same effect on her audience that
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michael buble has i've never been to any show any show where the spotlight 40 to 60 percent of the time
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is not on the artist okay she's singing but even the jumbotrons there were grainy because it was so
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dark on her it she does not make it about her uh which is weird to see the lights are up on the
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audience a good portion of the time and i've never been to a concert where every song everyone is
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standing the entire time unless she says sit down everyone's standing and they're all singing at the top
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of their lungs i mean you heard the audience almost at parody with her it was bizarre i i wouldn't like
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i go to a concert to hear the artist me too not the audience me too and hannah said the same thing
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beforehand i said i'm gonna be really pissed if i'm just hearing all these people who can't sing
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but it became a really cool experience very very different um and her message her and and i knew this
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i became a fan of hers when i started reading about her and her brother and how they work
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she is she's dark he's light wasn't there serious depression with her serious depression um and she
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she writes about the things that she experiences um a to get it out of her system and to conquer it
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it's the way she kind of conquers things but also she writes and sings about them because she knows
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other girls are going through the same thing and so like the the first song was was i don't know it
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might have been a i want to off myself or whatever uh it was a really dark song um with dark imagery
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and right out of all of this she says you know these nightmares are not true these are we all have them
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we all have these kinds of thoughts and fears and we have to listen to each other and be there for
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one another and that's what tonight's all about this concert all of you i always want i don't care who
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you're sitting next to but we're here for each other and it was a really cool experience and very
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different than anything people my age are used to and i thought it was great thought it was really good
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did you throw your underwear up on stage i did yeah i did cover the whole stage draped over the
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entire drum set including the drummer it was weird wow i'm at the age where i have i have a nine and a
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ten year old and i listen to a decent amount of kids bop yeah now kids bop if you don't know is
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you know it's a long series of albums you know 30 albums or something where they do the biggest hits
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of the year and it's usually kids singing them um now it is all kids singing them um and and so
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but they're safe they're safe so they take songs that have very bad lyrics and they change them
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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
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it's the applebee's song the country applebee's song you know what i'm talking about uh bougie like
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applebee's uh okay huge huge huge huge song i can't believe i'm the only person in the world that's
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ever heard this in this room it's amazing but anyway they talk about natty's meaning like you
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know beer natty ice you know uh right and they change it to soda so it's like bougie like soda which
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again i don't know why soda yeah you know we're listening to this kids bop and all of a sudden they
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get to i had a dream by billy eilish which is literally a song about killing yourself right like
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she's the whole song is the entire the entire all the lyrics it could include like the bridge right
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it's about like when she jumps off a bridge if i remember right you tell me i'm wrong glenn
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she goes she jumps off a bridge and she has a dream about it and she thought it was a nightmare
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because she was killing herself and then she realized that's actually what i wanted in the
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end anyway is to be dead basically what happens and it turns around it only turns around in the
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lyrics so do you know the do you know the story behind the song it's amazing yes i heard the whole
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there's a whole podcast out about this uh which is really interesting and i i happened to listen to
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it at one point and the story is fascinating and it winds up obviously in a in a happy place she
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she didn't land uh obviously because she's still alive and doing concerts for glenn beck and his
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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
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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
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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
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don't think you need that okay i think though if you listen if you've never heard this song which
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apparently in this room no one's heard any songs uh but if if if you've never heard if you've never
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heard this song it's it's not quite obvious it's not like hey i went to the bridge and killed
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myself it's a little more artistic you know barely a little bit like you wouldn't necessarily
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hear i had a dream i thought it was a nightmare but it turned out to be good it sounds like it could
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be anything there are parts of it though that i think are are specific to suicide but yeah
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might go over kids heads i don't think yeah i don't think most kids would necessarily notice
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it at nine or ten years old but like do you need a kid's bop version of a suicide song
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doesn't seem like it it seems like that when you just skip and do whatever other tunes i don't
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know suicide is because it has become a thing i mean it has it is really the last couple years
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yeah the suicide rate in this country you know i i went on instagram i posted something and just
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hannah and i screwed around and said that i was in phoenix for the billy eilish concert
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oh my gosh my instagram posts were all like she's from the devil she's really oh yeah yeah
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really serious uh backlash on it and i thought you know you should you should read uh about her not
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not just take the songs yeah uh for what they're saying but what the message is behind the songs i
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what i like about her i like her brother better i mean you know i don't mean it that way but i mean
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he's he's really positive he's got a new album out called optimist it's one of the better albums i've
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heard uh in a long long time he's great and his lyrics are all very philosophical and positive
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and that's where you get the balance she had a dream i thought it was a nightmare he's the one
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that said no no you're safe you're safe that's hold her out yeah he pulled her out and that song
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is the split between the two and why she's so intent on making people know this isn't normal to feel this
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way do you think you have to have people that tell you you're okay do you think it when she looked
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out in the audience and saw you she reconsidered i this is the best of the glenn beck program
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i want to introduce you to a governor that you should know he's from nebraska his name is pete
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ricketts and he's joining us now because he is actually trying to veto federal funding uh that he
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says will make people more reliant on the government i tend to agree with him on this but he's a republican
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who's fighting the republicans who are going to override his veto when you hear this story
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i hope if you're in nebraska you will call your uh your uh legislator and say enough is enough
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welcome governor how are you sir i'm doing great glenn thanks very much for having me on you bet
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so tell me the situation this is this is about the the money that was going to help people pay rent
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because of covid right right exactly so this is the emergency rental assistance program was about
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a 25 billion dollar program and you know when we have emergencies we recognize we need extra assistance
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you know first of all nebraskans always take care of their neighbors we saw that in the floods we had
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in 2019 and through this pandemic and so we have an emergency we ask for extra assistance but we also
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at some point have to recognize that the emergency is over and we don't need the money for the
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assistance anymore and that's what's happening right now you know i ended the emergency for the
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pandemic last june here in nebraska good for you and um so we just don't have a justification for
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taking this money it's supposed to be tied to paying for people's uh people who are impacted by
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covid and you know we do this for floods we do it for tornadoes we ask for emergency assistance but
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we don't ask for the money if we don't have an emergency and right now we don't have an emergency
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we've got the lowest unemployment rate in the united states and lowest in state history
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we've got more people employed today 16 000 more people employed today than we did pre-pandemic
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more people in manufacturing since 2008 and frankly none of the non-profits who are asking
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for this money have ever been able to show me that somehow things today are different from 2019
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so we just don't have a justification for taking this money and now of course the second round of
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this emergency rental assistance program is not even tied to covid you can just pay people's rent
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well that's big government socialism right we don't want to just pay people's rent that's not
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who we are in this country and certainly not in nebraska uh and yet i've got a legislature who is
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trying to who's passed a bill which i vetoed that is trying to force me to take this additional
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federal money and the veto override will be tomorrow tuesday april 5th and so i'm encouraging people to
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reach out to their state center and tell them don't take this big government socialism program
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so what is the republican excuse for this because you have if i'm not mistaken you have about 40 percent
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of all the money from the first round still sitting there waiting to be used so if people need to have a
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bailout you know on their rent because of covid uh find it kind of hard to believe at this point but
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if you did all right you got 40 percent of the money you got last time so what is their excuse
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as republicans yeah i know you're exactly right we we've we've used uh actually we've only used
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about 40 percent of the money so we still have plenty of money left through the end of the year
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you know you can apply in september it'll take you through december and i don't think anybody's
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thinking this emergency is going to last longer than that in fact our hospitalizations are the lowest
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we've had since uh maybe july of last year and so their excuse when they say this is like well
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it's free federal money and of course it's not free federal money right it's not free we pay that
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it's not taxpayer dollars right yeah and they're like well what if some other state gets it i'm
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like well first of all when we have emergencies like floods or tornadoes we ask for money if we
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need it but if we don't have an emergency we don't ask for the money if another state has a tornado
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they ask for the money so this is not we're not an emergency we shouldn't be asking for this money
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it's just wrong and then of course they're like well if we don't take the money somebody else will get
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it just means that somebody else is going to be paying people to stay home that's bad for them
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right if if you're paying people's rent and all the other benefits we've we've doled out here and
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here in the state of nebraska now we're either we've either distributed or in the process of
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distributing over 21 billion dollars you're paying people to stay home and i've had landlords contact
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me to tell me like they see the people that are in these programs and they're they're by and large
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a lot of people who could be working and that's the problem is if we're paying people to stay home they
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will and that's what we need to get people back to work these programs are corrosive they teach people to be
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relying on government especially without even related to being uh covid related anymore yeah i i understood
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you know when the government was putting people out of business and then telling people you you know you
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don't have to pay rent uh okay what about the landlords and you know what about i didn't have a
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job because i didn't have a business because you told me to close down at that point i understood it
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especially however um in your case where there are more people employed than there were prior to
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the pandemic you seem to be on the right track one of the few places that are really on the right track
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i know wanted help wanted signs are everywhere here in texas and it's not because we're growing jobs
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faster than we're importing people it's that there are too many people that just have decided not to go
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back to work or that those jobs are beneath them this is very un-american have you asked those
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republicans uh where their principles are well that's part of the problem isn't it when i talked
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to some of these republicans about this they're like well i'll take that into consideration
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consideration yeah i know i know it's like hey guys this is about principles like we as republicans
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stand for of course we help people when they're in need but if we're not in need we don't just dole
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out government money to people that's not who we are but unfortunately many times you get so many
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uh folks who get elected that don't have fundamental principles and so they kind of blow in the wind
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whichever the you know the trend is you know whatever the du jour of the day you know the
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policy yeah the buddies are all trying to get to do you know you got all these lobbyists in
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our capital building telling them you got to take the money and that's part of the problem
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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
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unemployment rate but uh there are more people in nebraska employed than pre uh pandemic because
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they're you know they've recalculated the way that we look at our unemployment now they just stop
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counting those people who could be working but aren't um so what are you doing to get it to 2.1
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well first of all we never shut down we never had a statewide mask mandate we never did vaccine
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mandates we slowed the spread of the virus while letting people live a more normal life so that
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we were able to keep our mortality rates down keep kids in schools keep people in their jobs
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and that momentum helped to carry us through this pandemic and like i said i ended the emergency last
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june on a pandemic so we're actually pretty much back to normal now which is why we don't need
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additional programs to pay for people's rent we're back to normal here uh there you know there's always
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been people who have been impacted by different circumstances that need help with their rent and
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we should work to help those people but a big government program like this where it's another
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you know 120 million dollars coming into our state that would just basically teach people to stay home
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that's not what we need that's not how we're going to get people back to work uh we need to engage
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people get them back into the workforce you know here in nebraska we do have the highest workforce
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participation rate the highest employment to population per capita ratio so nebraskans do like
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to work but we need more people back in the workforce and paying them to stay home is not going to do it
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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
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that i always loved from the depression was hoover hoover there was a a big storm i think it was here in
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texas a big storm uh that went on and he decided to uh dispatch the feds to help and uh the the county
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turned them around at the at the uh the county line they blow the people not the police the people
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block the road and turn the trucks around and said we don't need any help we're fine here
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sent the trucks back home congress wanted to pass for all this support um it was uh uh it it failed
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and the american people actually raised more money than what the bailout would have been we are in a
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time now where people are just expecting everything we're living in a in a a time where everybody feels
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they're entitled to something i am glad to see the state where my grandmother uh uh lived and my mother
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was born in i am glad to see that you are uh uh holding up the work ethic and the ethics that made america
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truly the the breadbasket of the world well thanks and you know nebraskans do they take care of each
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other that's what we should continue to do is look to take care of folks in our local communities
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and not ask for federal money when we don't have a federal emergency we're supposed to be taking care
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of ourselves that's always been the strength of our country going back to alexis and toqueville he
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commented on that you know in the 1830s that's the strength of america so a lot of people who
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aren't in your state would go oh it's a politician he's probably running you're not your your term
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term limited out now what's correct what's next for you well first thing i'm going to do is go on
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vacation with my wife yeah i want to stay married yeah yeah and then uh i want to stay involved in
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politics and public policy i just don't know what that looks like right now okay good for you thank
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you very much governor i appreciate it all right hey well thanks a lot glenn thanks for having me on
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governor pete ricketts from nebraska isn't that amazing call call your uh senators um if you live
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in nebraska and tell them okay enough is enough do we have some principles here well other states are
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going to get it if just say this if everybody was jumping off a bridge would you jump off the bridge
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do i need to be your mother for the love of the best of the glenn beck program
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elon musk he did a couple of things that i love he acquired almost 10 percent of twitter it makes him
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the largest stakeholder jack only has about two percent of the company now so far i believe this
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is a silent partnership part i mean he he can do some things i guess to gain some seats on the board
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and i wish you would elon please i mean and this is what he it is nine percent stake is what he
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disclosed in a financial disclosure right so we don't know how much he has now could be more oh that's
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what yeah that's what he bought yeah this is what he bought so far but he could be he could have been
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acquiring it the whole time he seems to be pretty focused on twitter he seems to be critical of
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twitter and he seems to be stepping up to the plate and you if you happen to be twitter you might not
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want him stepping up to the plate oh please step up to the plate wouldn't it be nice to have somebody
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that like elon musk is out there actually saying the truth and batting for you and i say this i mean i
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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
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that it is global warming plus what he sees coming in technology because he believes transhumanism
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is coming and he believes that the human species will will not exist on earth by 2050 and so he believes
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that the only chance of the humans actually being like we are now not not engineered but being like
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we are now the only chance of survival is on another planet um but anyway well i mean that's the point
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though and this is a guy who acts on what he believes it yep and he's living a yep an incredible
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life he really is like ask or it he earned it i mean he made his own money i mean he took bailouts
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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
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a lot of the cash for clunkers or something uh the there's tons of incentives to buy electric cars
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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
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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
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fascinating he's a this is one of the reasons why people are fascinated by him but he does not fall into
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any easy category any easy category and you know he's been opposing one of the big things in this
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one of these big biden bills i think it was build back better was a fortune to build an electric car
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charging network across the country he's like we're already doing that we don't need your money for that
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we're doing it already we we were we and you don't want him to do that because you can't control
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that yeah uh yeah and you know we've talked a decent amount about the car industry over the
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past few months and as people may note i'm now past seven months of ordering my car and still do
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not have one i'm already looking for a gift for your 12 month anniversary it's gonna be it's gonna
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be nice it's gonna be special i'm gonna bring candles in but there is you have the tesla chargers
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which work on teslas and then you have other charger networks that are being built by other
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companies like volkswagen is building a big one across the country but you see the locations of
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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
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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
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chargers at malls and restaurants and all over the place gas stations movie theaters places you pull up
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there's one place i take the kids to breakfast they've got two tesla chargers right out in front
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of it for i mean they're rarely filled but still they're there they're there a lot of times they're
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there in better parking spots than the handicapped spots oh yeah they're always in the front or close
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to the front which is incredible yeah uh but that network is built out relatively widely depending on
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where you live you look at the other one one of them's called electrify america which is i think
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the volkswagen one and they're building it up and they have like fast chargers located like for the
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dallas the fort worth area which is a big you know city huge city it's only on the like on the extended
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exurbs right like if you're going from here to austin on the way out of dallas you can find a charger
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right but that's it and there's one place there on the road you better stop there or you're gonna have
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to plug in and wait for three days at somebody's house right you've got to stop right there if you're
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not driving a tesla if you're driving a tesla well there's 15 000 places to go and they're building
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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
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will i work on everybody else's plug oh there's there's already even outside of tesla there's two
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different options that's stupid you look at the places some of these some of these charging stations
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have to have three different kinds of quote-unquote pumps to be able to hook up to the three different
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that is just so stupid i mean eventually it's i think it is going to unify behind something but
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tesla wants it to be there so here's the here's the other thing fine fine whatever if you're volkswagen
00:32:29.200
make it like tesla you'll double the value you'll double the value anyway um uh another thing that
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he tweeted this weekend let me see if i can find the exact uh verbiage uh the more i study it i don't
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have it right in front of me hang on um i think he said the more i study it here it is
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i'm increasingly convinced that corporate esg is the devil incarnate
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now that's saying something that's not glenn beck saying that no that that's coming from a guy
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who believes in global warming built an electric car company built a spaceship company right okay a
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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
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okay we got it but elon musk has such a wide reach universally yeah i get this from people all
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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that they're instituting the esg is not necessarily stopping at a menu they're implementing it in a way
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that they can't get capital if they do not hit the the requirements of this menu and so it's it's
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controlling the way that companies do business and that is the problem you know you're like how you can
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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
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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
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on the oil and gas industry um which uh the deduction they're getting rid of the deduction for intangible
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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
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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