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Join us as we discuss the Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortion, the slippery slope, and the future of the Civil Rights movement. Join us as our special guest, Jack Carr, joins us to talk about his views on abortion and the "slippery slope."
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great show today uh really good show we talk about all the important issues including that
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whole thing apparently that happened uh in the supreme court on abortion stew and i would both
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like to know i mean this is really putting women out to you know to travel to another state i mean
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you might have to take a 45 minute airplane ride to kill your child we're just wondering
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how many abortions does the average person get i mean because i mean being put out once
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you know maybe not that big of a problem anyway we'll get into that and so much more
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including our special guest jack carr who war games uh russia america and the ukraine all on today's
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oh my goodness could we just play a couple of holy cow here's cnn
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on the slippery slope and i cannot believe that i'm sitting here jim in the year of 2022
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a right that i was born into a society that had that my mother had that my grandmother had that my
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great-grandmother's in her lifetime had that the stroke of a pen someone can simply say a fundamental
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right that is within a zone of privacy that the court has said should be hands-off for the government
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can you stop for just a second two i am sitting here i can't believe i'm sitting here in 1865
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you know and a right that i had to own property in fact my my grandfather had my great-grandfather had
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i mean we've owned these slaves for generations they've been part of our family's wealth let's put
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it that way and it's one thing in the 1860s 1870 imagine in 1915 right it's been a you know i i mean
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gosh that's 50 years after i don't know maybe that's uh if it was wrong well then you would
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overturn it if it's not then you don't 50 years after that's kind of the way this works you know
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i can't believe that i live in a country where where we've had separate you know movie theaters
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and drinking fountains we've had them say you know my grandfather my great-grandfather and now
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we're just gonna change that i i can't believe that right to separate but equal
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is going away and i remember all of these people on the left back in the 70s saying you know this
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law had been this way all this time states could manage their own uh access to abortion for the
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entire country's history until 1973 and all of a sudden now we're gonna change it that's crazy
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that's crazy this is such a dumb argument okay so she goes on to say what's next can be taken away
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there are a lot of things now on the chopping block and steve you spoke about an earthquake
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well a familiar phrase the slippery slope in the supreme court that which you do in one area could
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extend to others well fundamental rights include interstate travel include stop interstate travel
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yeah anytime at any moment at any moment i was thinking just the other day i don't know if we're
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going to be able to go from texas to oklahoma can we do that will they just put barriers up on all of
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the interstates and you know look interstate travel has been a really divisive 50 50 political issue
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forever forever you know people like the republicans don't want you to cross lines of states i mean a
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small number of people are going to say no interstate travel and that's i mean i'm telling you
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that and the the divorce that has been wanted by clarence thomas to get out of his marriage with his
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white wife that he's going to overturn he just doesn't want to tell jimmy he doesn't he's been
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looking to well she's white you know what white people that are very bad people are bad i don't
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know if you know this i know and so obviously that's the way he's going to get try to get out
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of it he doesn't want to he doesn't want to tell her he doesn't want to be married anymore he's going
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to rule the supreme court to make it illegal so now so now the slippery slope it's coming and you know
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this was from a boob on on cnn this one is the boob in the white house listen to joe biden radical
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decisions if this decision holds it's really quite a radical decision um and again the underlying
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premise and again i've not had a chance to thoroughly join to the report the decision so
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definitely comment on it anyway yeah basically says all the decisions related to your private life
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no who you marry no that's not what it says decide to conceive a child or not whether or not
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even child stop stop i can't take it well a lot of people are against birth right those people that
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were overturning the abortion rights do not want children to be born right or something how many
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times have you walked into a church where they're like you come to us if you're thinking about having
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a child we'll tell you whether you can have a child or not it's just like those religious people
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every sunday every sunday every sunday that's how the message starts i don't know about you i mean
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look at my church they spend about half the service telling us we have to get a hall pass from them
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to have children that's the way it works at church all the time now um he said here he he didn't
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read um the um uh the decision which probably he should have before he um before he talked about it
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because in it it says this only applies to this particular thing roe versus wade it only applies
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to this so the slippery slope idea whoops that's uh that's out there um by the way i love this idea
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that just five people are going to make the decision for the rest of us five people are going to make the
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decision for the rest of us you know if those five people are following the constitution which is
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have you ever played monopoly and somebody's like no the person who goes second when they go around
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each time they get seven hundred dollars when they pass go and you're like no that's not what the
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rules say rules those are outdated those were made in 1900 that's what they say what don't listen to
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the manufacturer of monopoly what do they know they couldn't have foreseen our game okay that's as long
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as we're all playing by the same rules when those five people or nine people when they speak
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we may not like it but that is law now they can make bad laws i mean not actually sorry they should
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not make any laws they can say this one's constitutional or this one is not and then they can change that if
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it's based on bad law but you have to have the argument and if you didn't read the first draft which i
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don't even know if it's going to become law if that first draft stands it all logically is put out
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and it is also they use the words of liberal icons who have said this law doesn't work because of this
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this and this you have to do it the right way okay that that's all this law is and by the way i can't
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believe majority hang on just a second what this law did in the first place 30 states said no abortion
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now other states were moving towards liberalizing their laws on abortion but what did they do
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these nine people decided they're going to take away all of the discussion they're going to force people
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to do what they say has to be done okay because why because why because they're all talking about the
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majority no see this is a representative republic we hire people this is the way it should work
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we hire people with our votes to go and represent us in a world where this works they actually
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listen to the people and they enact the things that the people want that's congress then the senate
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is supposed to pay attention to their states which they don't anymore because progressives destroyed
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it but they're supposed to say no wait a minute hang on that might be good for new york but that's not
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good for texas or that may be great in texas but that's not right for california that is supposed to be
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a speed bump then the president is has the ability to veto something not because it's popular or unpopular
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he has a right to veto things according to our monopoly rule book he can veto if he finds it
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unconstitutional if he says this is unconstitutional no i'm not signing this then what happens it goes to the
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supreme court and the supreme court is made entirely for one reason what is that reason why do we have a
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supreme court it's not to make laws in fact its number one job its main purpose is to make sure that any laws
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that are enacted by the majority do not inflict damage on the minority so what their job is see the bill of
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rights is not majority rules that's what the supreme court is supposed to do their main job is make sure
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that the bill of rights is not violated and they have failed us many times i.e. slavery yeah i mean like
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you know they talk about this with speech all the time where like the most popular most important speech
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to protect is the unpopular speech no one's going to stop you from saying something that 80 percent of
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people agree with it's the thing that one percent of people agree correct and it's the same thing with
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the court as its basic function it's easy to get things through when 60 and 70 and 80 percent of
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people agree with it it's that thing that is still constitutional is still a right protected by uh by our
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founding documents in our country that's the thing that they need to stand up for you look at this
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first amendment why does the first amendment exist because people are going to say things that other
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people don't like and it is only through opposition and debate that we can actually come to any
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consensus the press they knew the press would take on the government it should take on the government
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and ask questions the powerful don't want to answer that's why it's protected your right to petition
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and assemble with people to question the powerful are you noticing things the the right for religion
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because the state in other countries said this is the official religion and so that had all the power
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and it put all other religions out so the first amendment what is that about that is making sure that the
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minority or the smaller power is on equal footing and the government and the majority power cannot take
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these people out the second amendment got news for you it's not for hunting otherwise maybe there would
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have been croquet yeah we have the right to a croquet set it's not about hunting it's not about sports
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it's about the minority being able to have enough power to be able to keep in check the powerful
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if they are violating rights and violating the declaration of independence its proposal of what we are
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and the rules and laws in our little constitution monopoly game it's so you the little guy has the power
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power over the king same thing with all of it it is for minority protection that's what makes us
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different that's why you don't want a democracy because a democracy will fall into the hands of a bunch of
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right-wing extremists left-wing extremists and once they have power they can do things like set up a board for speech
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to be able to say which speech is acceptable which questions are acceptable who's acceptable what behavior is
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acceptable acceptable what the supreme court did yesterday was very clear it did not ban abortion
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it didn't what it did was return the power to the people these five people what did this say
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that these five people these nine people this is what it said these these people us should not be making the
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decision on something so personal that is not in the constitution that is up to the people
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themselves to decide it was empowering for the average person
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it's amazing how dumb americans have become because of our teachers unions and because of our media
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and quite honestly because of our political parties america you're an idiot now do you want to
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stop being an idiot then maybe you should educate yourself before you go on as president of the united
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states and say i didn't read it so maybe gay people can't get married anymore oh what a moron
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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all right um chelsea manning uh isn't chelsea manning if i if i have it right
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the chelsea is i can't remember his name before he claimed he was a woman
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um but payton payton no not payton manning i know enough to know that's not right you almost
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got it what was his name uh anyway i can't uh chelsea uh he's now chiming in because he claims
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to be a woman bradley manning bradley manning that name would that one seems like fake to me that
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one seems like no that's not his name eli it was eli anyway uh archie chelsea manning uh is now
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speaking out about abortion and the potential of the supreme court uh ruling and um he tweets
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yesterday for those of you who are just catching up if you're able to afford it and it's safe for you
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to do so you should consider arming yourselves then finding others to train with in teams learn how to
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to defend your community we may need these skills in the very near future huh now i don't know why
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this person that cannot have a baby they cannot carry a child because she's a he it's a dude dude
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so i don't know what right this white male has to chime in on abortion rights but i really want to focus
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on is is this allowed on twitter to be able to say hey get ready for a civil war and arm yourselves and
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start training uh and then the replies are is the implication here that overturning roe versus wade
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would incur civil war if so does someone have a broad brush stroke sense of how that chain of event
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might might unfold um yeah somebody does roe goes then the power of the 14th amendment goes the 14th
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goes so do several other human rights civil unrest follows wow uh okay i mean i've been to the secret
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meetings of all the white people we get together 7 30s tuesdays on denny's at denny's and um i've been to
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those meetings i have not heard the 14th amendment abolishment plan spoken out loud yeah they're not
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going to say that out loud not going to say it out they're going to order a grand slam yeah and then
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they're going and when they when they say grand slam they mean 14th amendment it's code it's a dog
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whistle all right it's a dog whistle um then uh carrie lee uh writes in i used to be opposed to the idea
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of owning firearms with no small part of being how much i felt i would be at risk of self-harm
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from the depression i had before transitioning wow that is that's really sad but now it doesn't seem
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like an extreme message which is terrifying yeah yeah think it think it i think it probably is now the
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left is online on twitter talking about arming themselves for a civil war interesting because it's
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happening on twitter before elon musk has said hey you should arm yourself and we should have a race
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riot so apparently the algorithm is okay with violence on twitter yet the media cannot handle
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elon musk elon musk buying twitter at all elon musk i guess he you know he misses the old south
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africa in the 80s he wants he wants that back reminds me of old bond movies where you know
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dr evil and guys like that or goldfinger we're going to take over the media uh i just my tummy
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meter says there's something just not coming about this if you get invited to something where there are
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no rules where there is total freedom for everybody do you actually want to go to that party
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can you stop or um yeah i i go to those parties all the time almost every party i go to does not
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send me a list of rules really yeah i go to parties and they're like well i mean there is one rule
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my wife gives it to me don't make anybody cry or want to kill themselves okay and you never live up
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and i never live up to that i break that every time but do you want to go to a party without rules
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yeah most people do most people do because we have common ethics now do i want to go to a party
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with anarchists well um depends on who the anarchist is you know um pendulet says he's an anarchist
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michael malice is an anarchist i don't mind going to a they both pretty fun at parties they'd be fun
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parties and i wouldn't feel in danger at all so so this of course mr potato head i'm sorry
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miz uh generic potato head is uh is is making once again just a stupid analogy how dumb
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are their viewers how dumb are the voters of the left because do they i mean they actually have to
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believe this stuff right i don't even think you're making a judgment there you're making a judgment
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based on the way they talk to their voters they must know they're idiots i i'm not i don't even have
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to look at the voters and say okay they must be idiots no what the way the left media speaks to
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their own voters shows you they must know they're idiots you know i can't tell you how many interviews
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i did with people in the media um you know that never got printed and they would ask why why the
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success why how did this happen and i'm like well i've been doing it for 30 years nobody noted nobody
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nobody in the media noticed because i wasn't doing it in new york uh there's there's number one
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two i don't treat my audience like they're imbeciles when i first got into television they
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all said you can't know that's too complex you can't do that people won't pay attention really
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because i think they will i think they will i think people are starving for the truth and starving for
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somebody to tell them what it really means somebody to explain big principles nobody wants to walk
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around like a dummy all the time and what is this society doing first they treated you like an
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imbecile now they're insisting on you being an imbecile you you're not being taught math you're in
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school you're not being taught math you're not being taught history you're not being taught how to think
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you're not being taught how to question you're not being taught any of that stuff you are being taught
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to be somebody who marches in the streets for what for anything your leader tells you to do
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don't think it through because if you think it through you might disagree with it and if you
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disagree with it you're out this is this is everything the left does they accuse the right of doing listen
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to this some of the most high-profile liberal figures have joined together to encourage advertisers
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to boycott twitter if elon musk brings his promised policy of unfettered free speech okay this in america
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26 ngos and advocacy groups have signed the letter expressing concern about the world's richest man's
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plan no you know that they don't ever really make a big deal out of bezos and how much he controls
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bill gates well this crazy idea clinton that a rich person could buy something that influences is our
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politics what could possibly there's no precedent of a rich person owning a media company now by the way
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i got that information from bloomberg so i know it's gotta be true this is insanity musk himself
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responded to the letter asking who funds this uh this group the answer being assortment of dark money
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groups like george soros's open society foundation ngos founded by former clinton and obama administration
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staffers wealthy white democratic donors and their family foundations so his takeover of twitter
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is going to toxify our information and it's a direct threat to public safety especially among those
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already most vulnerable and marginalized who's the most vulnerable who is the most vulnerable
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the most vulnerable are the people who can't read who have a limited education who have been sucked in
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onto the teat of the government who has gone through government funded schools and listened to the lies
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that are being taught by the teachers unions they're the people that are are out of sight out of mind that
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just watch whatever drivel spills out of tiktok and they're the ones that kamala harris can step in front of
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and say big country bad little country good or anything else that the potato on cnn or anybody says
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those are the most vulnerable those who have an education even and more importantly if it's an education
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they earned they actually did it themselves they did it because they were curious not because they
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wanted a piece of paper those are not the most vulnerable your ad dollars can either fund musk's
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vanity project or hold him to account we call on you to demand musk uphold these basic standards of
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community trust and safety and pull your advertising spending from twitter if they are not okay so who is
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this well the usual suspects uh policy spokesman for hillary clinton's campaign nephew of david axelrod former
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senior advisor of barack obama uh media matters we know who they are uh david brock and and george soros and
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hillary clinton's money um ultraviolet who are these people um well they founded the group on the principle
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that with the combination of organizing technology creative campaigning and people power we can win
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oh wow they're backed by several unions among them the american federation of labor congress of
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industrial organizations afl cio and the american federation of teachers isn't that weird uh by the
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way um the other group media matters yeah yeah did you know that they were uh taking donations from the
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national education association america's largest union representing teachers seems like the teachers
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unions man they are all over this and then other backers like chicago-based billionaires uh members of
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one of america's richest family who made their money through the hyatt uh hotel chain um nicholas pritzker
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he's 76 years old he started the libra foundation uh that's an organization that supports
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frontline organizations building a world where communities of color thrive this is fantastic um
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you've got foreign entities that are involved in funding these organizations that's who do
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who's doing it by the way that isn't just for twitter that email has gone out
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saying you've got to boycott this is esg you watch
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twitter you have to understand if you advertise for twitter that there's some reputational risk to your
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company but you choose whatever that letter has also gone out about abortion you've got to stand for
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abortion and your company has to publicly back it otherwise there's some reputational risk
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america you're gonna be held hostage you're gonna do it are you gonna keep paying them the mob is at your
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door and they're offering you protection you know you just have to pay this little fee how odd is it for you
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get off of twitter stop advertising you know i'm just asking you you know you're either with us or
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you're against us and you know maybe bad things happen the businesses that don't play the game you
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know what i'm saying you know you know there's a reputational risk you're you're building my burn
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down in the middle of the night just play along nobody gets hurt go ahead that is who you're dealing
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with america what's your choice freedom or in bed with the mob
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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all right jack carr is with us hello jack how are you great thank you for having me on sir i
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sincerely appreciate it oh you bet you bet i can't wait how excited are you for uh uh terminalists to
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come out with uh pratt well i'm fired up it's uh you know you never know when you go into these things
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there's a lot of trust involved because they can really take your material and do anything they want
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with it which is why they usually like to get rid of the author right away if you're not yelling
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you ruined my vision yeah they had me involved from the from the get-go and amazon was so supportive
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and uh i think we managed to get all of that uh what people you know talk about being woke uh all
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of that out of there so i think it's going to be very refreshing for people that are between new
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york and los angeles uh it's gonna it i think we crushed it and uh chris certainly did playing navy
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seal sniper james reese antoine fuqua is the director i mean everybody came together and it is dark it is
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gritty it is violent it is authentic and i think we knocked it out of the park what an endorsement it's
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dark it's gritty it's violent you're gonna love it uh all right so jack i wanted to have you on
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because i something feels wrong with this russia ukraine situation uh and it could it seems like
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everybody is prepared if i were a fiction writer uh i would be looking at all of these things that
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are happening and i would say yeah it's just i'm doing a little foreshadowing they're starting to
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build up for war they're letting people know i'm letting the reader know it just seems like we're
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going places that uh i i don't think would be a good place to go as a fiction writer and somebody who
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lives in this world and i i love talking to fiction writers especially about uh geopolitical things
00:32:25.120
because you can't write things that don't make sense because nobody would believe it so you have
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to be based in reality as a fiction writer where do you think we're going well if i'd uh if i'd written
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what is actually happening in the world today whether it's russia ukraine it's a withdrawal from
00:32:45.540
afghanistan whether it's our own country right here if i'd written these things 10 years ago it wouldn't
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be a political thriller it would go in the dystopian thriller category perhaps even the science fiction
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type of category i don't think people would 10 years ago i think if you would have written what's
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happening today 10 years ago you would have been laughed at i mean people nobody would buy the book
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and i think people would go that's ridiculous it would never happen exactly this could never happen
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in this country it's just too uh too too unrealistic that's what the reviews on amazon would say
00:33:17.560
um but uh but these things are happening uh and in fact when we look just at ukraine and russia
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um it didn't take you didn't have to be a genius you didn't have to be a geopolitical strategist
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to look at it apply some common sense to to nato ukraine and russia and predict what was going to
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happen in fact my second book true believer i have a black flag type of false flag type of an operation
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uh to get russia to invade ukraine as part of the storyline and i just studied the situation and needed
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to figure out how to make that happen and lo and behold that has now happened but in the research
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that i did that really was uh you could see that coming because of the decline of the ethnic russian
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population since the end of the cold war and really they could only field an army up to about 2022
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and then they were going to either have they're going to have to invade ukraine because that has
00:34:06.440
the largest population of ethnic russians outside of russia um so for our senior level leaders not to come
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to that same conclusion after looking at it with a little bit of common sense uh is is shot it
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shouldn't be shocking but it is because we rely on those leaders to make those good strategic decisions
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and they have proven time and time again that they're incapable of doing so so wait a minute so
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you say that the reason why they're having a hard time is they they don't they they can't get more
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troops and you're saying that that's one of the reasons why you think they invaded ukraine so they
00:34:41.280
could have ethnic russians to fight that's right so it's uh it's looking at those at those numbers
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and that's you really have about two generations of ethnic russians being a uh a population that can
00:34:54.480
sustain a military uh and uh but it in much much smaller numbers past 2022 so in uh 2014 peter zhan
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wrote a book called the accidental superpower which looks at geography looks demographics
00:35:08.480
in uh in world history when it comes to uh to nation states and world powers and uh that's the
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conclusion that he came to in that book which is one of the things that i used in that second novel
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um but there there of course are supporting factors but that's a big one and that also ties into the
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nuclear question because if you have someone uh who believes that their population their country is
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not going to be around in two generations and they can't even field an army passed right about now
00:35:35.280
uh well it makes using maybe a tactical nuclear weapon uh at least threatening to do so but maybe
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even using it a little more likely because they're uh an animal in a corner and it's fight or flight and
00:35:46.200
it's survival it's not they don't look at it as an option as uh hey if we do do this we don't do this
00:35:53.160
well hey if we don't do this we're dead anyway so we have to look we put ourselves in the enemy's
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shoes and uh to anticipate what they're going to do we we continually do not do that in this country
00:36:02.820
for whatever reason i gotta tell you that some of the best commentary i've heard on on what's
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happening in ukraine already and we've been talking just a couple of minutes i didn't hear i haven't
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heard any of that i've heard about the the lack of military um but i i had no idea that we knew this
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from the get-go so when you have this situation and you have putin i'm sure you've done enough
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research just for your own novels on uh putin and how things work over there uh a couple of
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questions first they think he's sick um may have cancer they're saying that maybe he's going under the
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knife um and will be you know under and they don't know how long he will be incapacitated
00:36:51.160
if i'm putin i'm wondering if i'm going to be safe when they put me out or if they might
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accidentally turn that knob up a little bit oh yes and this was something during the cold war that uh
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that was uh at the forefront of senior level russian officials minds when they had to go under the knife
00:37:09.040
when they had to be put put under and they had security in those rooms uh not just because of an
00:37:13.840
assassination or something along those lines by a doctor that might be on the cia payroll or just
00:37:18.560
a uh arrival in the political or or military space but because coming out of that uh at anesthesia so
00:37:24.740
when they're coming out of that there's a certain time period where you're not really very lucid uh
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and for those who have been under the knife know what that that feels like uh and you're coming out
00:37:32.740
of that and well maybe a doctor on the cia payroll can ask you a few questions at that point in time
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and filter that back to the cia so that was something during the cold war that uh that was at the
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forefront when any of those guys would have to go under the knife for a medical procedure so
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i am sure that putin is thinking about that and of course he knows his history much better than we
00:37:52.060
do uh history of coups in uh in russia it's not uh it's not infrequent when we look at world history
00:37:58.560
so i'm sure that uh that he's thinking about that and uh surrounding himself with uh people he thinks
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are trustworthy to ensure that either he's not killed during that time frame or is not uh asked
00:38:09.200
questions during that time frame about his strategy vis-a-vis uh ukraine or the rest of the world or
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uh his intent to use or not use nuclear weapons do you have any idea who would replace him let's
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say he dies on the table do you have any idea i do how that works there's uh there's always a uh
00:38:27.120
a military leader waiting in the wings it seems when we look at uh and uh but who that is i am i am not
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sure uh and you know in these situations uh or just when you're looking at authoritarian dictatorships or
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um or countries like that the senior level leaders oftentimes are not getting the best information
00:38:46.280
because it is uh not healthy to bring that bad news to uh to a dictator because oftentimes it's off of
00:38:52.760
your head or off to the gulag so it's uh it's a strange position to be in obviously we saw that with
00:38:58.200
the uh our war in iraq um uh where saddam thought he actually did have a capability that he he did not
00:39:04.520
uh and putin is probably in that same position do you what do you make of the the story it came out
00:39:11.460
i think yesterday pictures of what they call the flying kremlin it is a plane that they haven't seen
00:39:17.880
it in the air i think since 2010 or 2011 and um it's been flying around russia uh and it is the
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the nuclear plane if something needs to go on you know we have air force one that everything can be
00:39:36.080
run from that plane in case of a nuclear war do you think that's just telling the go ahead oh yeah
00:39:45.060
that seems interesting i didn't see that story but uh you know oftentimes uh these things are done to
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just send send a message uh and they might just to say hey we have this capability um and to get us
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to take or not take a certain a certain action um so for putin to say he's moving nuclear weapons
00:40:02.880
into a certain position well they're probably already there uh or if this plane is flying around
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um if the russian military uh if their capabilities are what we've seen in ukraine thus far then we
00:40:13.300
we overestimated as did a lot of those senior level generals uh probably because they didn't want
00:40:17.460
to get their head lopped off by saying they weren't as capable as uh as they had been uh projecting
00:40:22.460
or advertising but flying a plane like that probably is the same uh the same thing as saying
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hey we're moving nuclear weapons into a certain position just in case we need to use them so that
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it sends a message to the west to uh discontinue support of ukraine or get us to take a certain
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action so how how serious do you think this nuke thing is i'm you know we've all grown up uh in you
00:40:47.160
know without this fear of nukes i grew up in the time i you might have too where you know we we feared
00:40:54.620
what russia might do and then it went away and now i are we really that close to some sort of a nuclear
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explosion on on earth i mean the first question is and i did grow up during that time as well uh and
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we thought with the end of the cold war that hey uh our main threat now is the the proliferation of some
00:41:15.660
of these weapons going to uh uh rogue nation states or super empowered individuals or terrorist
00:41:20.660
organizations or that sort of a thing but now we're back with a uh state on state nation on nation uh
00:41:27.100
do you think it's serious well first the question would have to be hey do they have the capability
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and that the answer to that question is yes they have about 6 000 uh both tactical and strategic uh
00:41:38.680
nuclear weapons strategic meaning they're gigantic and fly towards us uh tactical meaning you use them on
00:41:44.580
on the battlefield a lot smaller but still huge uh when compared to something like hiroshima or
00:41:49.720
nagasaki something something like that um but we have when you we have a lot less but you know with
00:41:55.440
nuclear weapons it doesn't really matter how you know a thousand here a thousand there but uh when
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we add all of nato's nuclear weapons and russia's it's about the same uh give or take it's uh just shy
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of 6 000 when we add all of nato nuclear weapons uh to russia's um but in this case it's interesting
00:42:10.820
in that if they did do something like that uh we have this china we have that that side so it would
00:42:16.360
make it a lot harder for china to support russia if russia uses even a tactical nuclear weapon on
00:42:23.120
the battlefield so that's an interesting um uh kind of connection here because china is right now
00:42:29.720
russia's greatest ally uh militarily trade-wise um and they have a there's a lot of incentives from this
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to stay connected and using a nuclear weapon would make that a lot more difficult
00:42:40.020
so i i just want to war game one more thing with you and that is uh china you know it's just
00:42:45.920
reading something i can't remember where i read it this morning um but uh some analysis that
00:42:51.880
the american dollar is going to lose its reserve uh currency status you know in the in the coming
00:42:59.500
days months years whenever and china is making a move to you know basically have a a multi or bipolar
00:43:09.420
uh powered world uh if we japan looks like it's falling apart economically we're not doing so
00:43:19.720
great europe's not doing so great there's a war going on if this thing spirals out of control what's
00:43:26.460
to stop china from taking taiwan and then just gobbling the world right so they are obviously looking very
00:43:35.160
closely at what was going to happen with ukraine and russia um that that didn't happen as fast as
00:43:40.580
uh most of our strategic level thinkers leaders talking heads uh anticipated uh which was about three
00:43:46.760
four days uh russia's going to roll through ukraine and a lot of that is due to zelinski and i still
00:43:52.060
am curious as to why russia did not decapitate that government ahead of time um take out the leader
00:43:58.420
first and i think it's because they uh they thought oh this is just an actor um kind of like uh ronald
00:44:03.660
reagan before he as he first started into into politics um and they they just they discounted
00:44:08.680
how he could galvanize both his country and the world uh against russia so i think that was a
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strategic level mistake and they should have anticipated that one and even and we thought
00:44:18.940
the same thing we offered him uh refuge we said we'll we'll take you out of the country and we
00:44:23.280
the way that was asked and the way that was talked about was so casual it seemed as though we just
00:44:28.200
thought oh for sure the leader of the country is going to pick up and go um and uh russia probably
00:44:34.080
thought the same thing uh but that did not happen and now we have the situation that we have now
00:44:38.940
essentially a war of attrition um and we'll see how that uh we'll see how that that that ends up but
00:44:44.620
china and currency that is that is a major play here and a major component of this that no one is
00:44:50.160
talking about so i'm glad you are and china can look at things obviously they can look they look in
00:44:55.840
decades they look in centuries uh we look at things in four-year election cycles maybe eight years for
00:45:01.820
the real deep thinkers among us but china can take a breath um and they can see what happened in ukraine
00:45:07.800
they can take a breath on taiwan and they can uh they can look at this long term uh and that is the
00:45:14.980
advantage that they have over us they have their problems too they have population problems the one
00:45:19.800
child policy and all that coming to fruition there's their lockdowns their mandates uh they have a lot of
00:45:24.660
issues to deal with as well internally um but they can deal with those issues and take a breath on
00:45:30.420
the strategic front because we're doing a pretty good job of destroying ourselves from the inside
00:45:34.420
right now so a little strategic patience on their part uh really plays into their hands talking to
00:45:40.680
jack carr the author of uh in the blood and the terminal list which is coming out on uh netflix soon
00:45:47.240
uh i own the uh paramount studios here in uh in dallas it was an old movie lot back in the 80s
00:45:55.400
and i have some of i have an old uh ship uh that was used in a mini series back in the 80s um
00:46:03.580
and it was winds of war you're really yeah you're really now in the the best time to be a writer
00:46:12.680
because now these movies can be made in episodes and they don't bastardize the book usually
00:46:20.640
wow that's amazing that you that uh you have that and i've been there on chad prather's show
00:46:26.340
so i've been into i've been in the back rooms there oh my gosh the things that you have and
00:46:30.220
it was amazing let me know next time you're here i'll i'll take you on a tour and show you some of
00:46:35.300
the cool stuff we have um thank you you have a lot of amazing things and winds of war was that's an
00:46:40.060
incredible book and more people read that and worn remembrance and that was their gateway into
00:46:44.400
non-fiction studying history to hopefully apply those lessons going forward and wisdom we'd all
00:46:49.000
be in a better place jack carr um in the blood is out right now and coming soon the terminal list to
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netflix please jack let me know next time you're in town i'd i'd love to take you on a quick tour god