The Glenn Beck Program - February 22, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Mike Rowe ｜ 2⧸22⧸22


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Glenn Beck and Mike Rowe talk about the Russian raid on the White House and the impact it could have on the country. Plus, a story about how much steak is too much for a steak, and why we should all eat bugs.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, great podcast today for you.
00:00:02.540 We celebrate Washington's birthday with a little story that I think everybody gets wrong.
00:00:09.660 We also talk about what's happening in Russia.
00:00:12.740 I don't know what's happening in Russia.
00:00:16.740 Don't worry, they're just robbing the front room and the living room.
00:00:20.200 But those are pro-burglar rooms, so it's going to be fine. 1.00
00:00:24.880 And the one and the only Mike Rowe joins us.
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00:00:51.800 Can you explain to Americans what exactly will they face if this happens?
00:00:59.720 Sure.
00:00:59.940 As the president talked about in his speech, we are aware that, again, when America stands for the principles and all of the things that we hold dear,
00:01:09.960 it requires sometimes for us to put ourselves out there in a way that maybe we will incur some cost.
00:01:18.740 And in this situation, that may relate to energy costs, for example.
00:01:23.200 Oh, okay.
00:01:23.660 All right.
00:01:23.860 But we are taking very specific and appropriate, I believe, steps to mitigate.
00:01:29.300 You know, the little people are going to have to pay the costs of this.
00:01:32.800 And, you know, if it just darn it, it happens to be fossil fuels.
00:01:37.860 Ah, shoot.
00:01:39.660 But we're going for our principle.
00:01:42.920 Shut up. 0.95
00:01:44.160 You don't even know what our principles are.
00:01:46.900 I'm tired of you talking about our principles because you despise American principles.
00:01:53.320 No.
00:01:53.800 Yes, you do.
00:01:55.480 Yes, you do.
00:01:56.600 And I am.
00:01:58.160 Stu just said to me a minute ago, I'm offended by them using the word principles.
00:02:04.800 They don't.
00:02:05.860 They have none.
00:02:07.560 None.
00:02:07.920 They have none.
00:02:09.640 So Pat Gray is joining us here from Pat Gray Unleashed.
00:02:13.800 Pat, I don't know if you saw.
00:02:15.480 Not only is energy costs going up now because of what what we're doing with Putin, but farmers.
00:02:23.520 Yesterday, they came out with the cost of just the increase of cost of running a farm.
00:02:31.860 And that's bad for farmers. 0.99
00:02:33.020 But really, I'm glad it doesn't affect us.
00:02:36.040 Oh, yeah.
00:02:36.440 It's only the farmers.
00:02:37.220 You know, I feel bad for the farmers.
00:02:38.480 Yeah.
00:02:38.740 Yeah.
00:02:39.100 But this will be fine for us.
00:02:40.600 It'd be fine.
00:02:41.280 Contract labor up forty one point one forty five point one percent fertilizer.
00:02:47.380 This chart says 18.
00:02:50.500 The fertilizer that that most farmers use just this last weekend, it was reported is going
00:02:57.060 up three hundred percent.
00:02:59.680 Why?
00:03:00.480 Because of the next thing.
00:03:02.020 LP gas.
00:03:03.520 Twenty two hundred and twenty six point seven percent increase.
00:03:08.500 Maintenance is eighty nine percent increase.
00:03:11.720 Seeds, thirty percent increase.
00:03:14.440 Insurance, thirty three percent increase.
00:03:17.940 So what's great that they're going to eat all that cost, though?
00:03:20.380 Oh, yeah.
00:03:20.880 That'll be great.
00:03:21.980 They're so rich.
00:03:23.160 Yeah.
00:03:23.600 They can do anything.
00:03:24.620 I'm telling you, support your local farmers.
00:03:28.080 Yeah.
00:03:28.360 Support your local farmers.
00:03:30.080 Let me show you something I found in Costco going shopping in Costco.
00:03:34.460 Give me this.
00:03:35.820 This is saw this.
00:03:37.260 Thought it was a misprint.
00:03:38.560 Actually ask the butcher.
00:03:40.680 That can't be right.
00:03:42.960 Those two steaks are ninety nine dollars.
00:03:47.080 What?
00:03:47.500 This steak is.
00:03:49.560 What does it say?
00:03:50.120 They're two hundred and twenty one dollars.
00:03:52.680 It's not Wagyu, is it?
00:03:54.020 It's Wagyu.
00:03:54.740 It is.
00:03:55.180 Yeah.
00:03:55.340 OK, but two hundred twenty one dollars.
00:03:56.740 That's a lot for one steak.
00:03:58.080 One steak.
00:03:58.660 That's a lot.
00:03:59.340 That's a lot.
00:04:00.180 Not even cooked.
00:04:00.900 I mean, that stuff a pound is like one hundred and eighty dollars a pound or something.
00:04:04.460 Now, yeah, it's two hundred and twenty one dollars a pound now.
00:04:08.180 Oh, OK.
00:04:09.040 Yeah.
00:04:09.380 OK.
00:04:09.640 So it's it's gone up just a little bit.
00:04:11.760 Probably be buying not as many of those steaks as I usually do.
00:04:15.560 I'm telling you, you're going to be eating bugs.
00:04:17.220 You are.
00:04:18.080 Have you noticed this push for bug eating?
00:04:20.140 The bug eating is big.
00:04:21.500 It is.
00:04:22.020 For a couple of years now, they've been hammering that bugs are a lot of protein.
00:04:26.640 They're so, you know, if you put them in some olive oil, they're delicious.
00:04:31.640 Everybody keeps laughing about it.
00:04:33.160 You're kind of weird for not wanting to eat them.
00:04:35.380 You kind of are.
00:04:36.320 Yes, it is.
00:04:37.260 And yes, we are laughing because it's completely ridiculous.
00:04:40.480 And Americans aren't going to eat bugs. 1.00
00:04:41.880 The Americans will eat bugs if that's the only thing you have. 0.98
00:04:45.440 Listen to this.
00:04:46.140 So there is a trans transition period that may be brutal to some.
00:04:52.300 That's why we have to harness the economic productivity productivity through nature based solutions.
00:04:59.940 This is a quote from a new book out by Charles, not Charles Schwab, Klaus Schwab.
00:05:06.660 Klaus Schwab is the leader of the Great Reset.
00:05:10.040 So he just put this out and he said, you know, we're going to have to have nature based solutions because things are going to be too expensive.
00:05:18.120 That's why we'll have alternative food protein sources like beans and bugs. 0.99
00:05:25.920 It's terrible.
00:05:28.380 You eat the damn bugs.
00:05:30.040 Yeah.
00:05:30.920 Yeah.
00:05:31.340 Be my guest.
00:05:32.140 People have got to wake up.
00:05:33.840 They think that this is all a joke.
00:05:36.540 They think that that's too crazy to happen.
00:05:39.260 What hasn't been too crazy that has happened recently?
00:05:43.060 And look at the farm increases you're talking about.
00:05:45.140 Their cost of doing business and growing crops.
00:05:49.180 Putting them out.
00:05:49.820 Putting them out.
00:05:50.280 They'll go out of business if they don't raise their prices.
00:05:52.560 They will.
00:05:52.860 They're going to have to raise the prices.
00:05:54.740 Except for corn in Iowa, which I guess has really fertile land.
00:05:58.060 They're saying now because of the price of fertilizer going up, that we will have a 40% yield of what we normally have.
00:06:10.620 40% yield.
00:06:12.740 That's not good.
00:06:14.280 That's not good.
00:06:15.560 No.
00:06:15.900 That's not good.
00:06:16.800 Suboptimal, you'd call it?
00:06:17.920 Yeah, I would.
00:06:19.020 And then you have what's going on.
00:06:20.900 You go that far?
00:06:21.620 I go to suboptimal.
00:06:23.060 Wow, really?
00:06:23.740 I hate to get the emotions going with a phrase like that.
00:06:26.660 I know.
00:06:27.180 But it's appropriate in this instance, I think.
00:06:29.560 I think so.
00:06:30.120 Then you go to the banks.
00:06:31.440 And I'd just like to, again, remind you what Canada made permanent yesterday.
00:06:39.520 The government's new directive called Emergency Economic Measures Order.
00:06:43.300 The order says that the banks and other financial entities like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts, cryptocurrency platforms, and insurance companies must stop providing any financial or related services to anyone associated with the protest up in Canada.
00:06:59.760 That's frozen accounts, stranded money, canceled credit cards.
00:07:04.280 I'm going to show you some stuff that they're doing.
00:07:06.220 They made this permanent yesterday.
00:07:08.140 They extended the emergency order yesterday.
00:07:12.380 But there's a reason why they did it.
00:07:14.260 And it's brilliant.
00:07:16.000 It's evil, but it's brilliant.
00:07:18.360 I mean, they are going to impoverish people who stand up against things.
00:07:23.060 Yeah, and they're taking away.
00:07:25.380 They've already confiscated the trucks from the truckers in Ottawa.
00:07:29.920 And with glee, they're auctioning them off.
00:07:32.200 Now they're going to auction them off.
00:07:33.720 Yeah.
00:07:34.660 It's the same asset forfeiture thing that's going on here in the United States.
00:07:39.900 There's no trial.
00:07:40.960 No.
00:07:41.100 They haven't been charged.
00:07:42.620 Most of them have not been charged with anything.
00:07:44.940 Nope.
00:07:45.480 They haven't been arrested.
00:07:46.880 They haven't gone to jail for the most part.
00:07:49.360 There are a few of them did.
00:07:50.180 But they haven't been convicted of anything.
00:07:53.820 Nothing.
00:07:54.200 It's only after you've been convicted of something should your ill-gotten booty be sold off if it was ill-gotten.
00:07:59.820 But their trucks aren't ill-gotten even then.
00:08:02.140 We've left that train in the station long ago.
00:08:05.420 Long time ago.
00:08:06.020 Long time ago.
00:08:06.860 People don't understand.
00:08:08.500 Asset forfeiture happens a lot here in America.
00:08:12.960 It does.
00:08:13.540 And it just happened again.
00:08:15.640 The FBI seized almost a million dollars from this family.
00:08:20.160 And this wasn't a case of driving around with cash in their car.
00:08:23.920 They seized it from their bank accounts and took...
00:08:26.640 Why?
00:08:27.500 To make...
00:08:28.220 $892,000 to be specific.
00:08:31.500 Wait.
00:08:32.100 Why?
00:08:32.360 They started to investigate them.
00:08:35.840 The Bureau took funds from every corner of their world, including Amy's savings that she racked up after decades of practicing as an attorney.
00:08:47.000 And agents showed up at their home, informed them that they were under investigation for allegedly depriving Amazon of their honest services.
00:09:01.200 Wait.
00:09:01.460 What?
00:09:01.880 What?
00:09:02.180 Yeah.
00:09:02.540 In plainer terms, they accused Carl, the husband, of showing favor to certain developers and securing them deals in exchange for illegal kickbacks.
00:09:13.220 And he says, that never happened.
00:09:15.220 And it's exactly why I fought this as long and as hard as I have.
00:09:18.980 And they just seized, because they're investigating him for this.
00:09:23.600 $892,000 from these people.
00:09:25.640 They lost their home.
00:09:26.960 They lost their cars.
00:09:28.340 They sued, but they supposedly reached a deal where supposedly they're going to return $525,000.
00:09:38.160 Oh, that's big of them.
00:09:38.980 About half of it.
00:09:39.380 You know, this is actually the most, that one is the most questionable out of them.
00:09:43.980 Usually they're just like, hey, what do you have that cash for?
00:09:48.220 Yeah, they just pull you over for a traffic stop and just take the money.
00:09:51.120 Still, short of showing us the evidence and convicting me of a crime, you can't take that money.
00:09:59.120 Nope.
00:09:59.860 Nope.
00:10:00.120 It is unconstitutional to do what they're doing over and over and over again.
00:10:05.120 And it's, people just don't understand.
00:10:09.280 This is coming for everyone.
00:10:12.500 Yes.
00:10:12.820 Nobody's safe on this.
00:10:14.140 If you step out of line, it will, I mean, Mike Lee and Rand Paul are trying to bring up their bill that they tried to get passed under Trump.
00:10:24.880 Limit the emergency powers, limit the emergency powers.
00:10:29.960 Well, they couldn't get it under Trump.
00:10:32.560 They think maybe they can get it now.
00:10:34.920 I don't think so.
00:10:36.120 I don't think you're not going to limit emergency powers on these guys.
00:10:39.640 No.
00:10:40.180 But that's what Congress should be doing. 0.63
00:10:41.960 And it's not just emergency powers.
00:10:46.120 Trudeau invoked the emergency powers because he could.
00:10:50.840 And so he did.
00:10:52.180 And he said, it's going to be temporary.
00:10:54.320 Really?
00:10:55.240 Yesterday, they voted in Parliament to extend it, to give it its stamp of appeal.
00:11:02.460 First chance they got.
00:11:03.620 First chance they got.
00:11:04.600 They extended it.
00:11:05.220 First chance they got.
00:11:06.440 Now, they used a trick, and I'll tell you about that trick here in just a minute.
00:11:11.140 But do you think our government is beyond a trick?
00:11:14.660 Oh, no.
00:11:15.520 And all they have to do, they already, he just enacted ESG.
00:11:20.360 Their finance minister, like our Treasury Department, they are a member of the board of council or something for ESG.
00:11:32.880 In Canada?
00:11:33.800 In Canada.
00:11:34.760 In Canada.
00:11:35.300 She is a board member of the World Economic Forum on the Great Reset.
00:11:41.880 So she's all on board.
00:11:43.940 All Trudeau had to do was say, yeah, go ahead and just enact that.
00:11:48.840 And we're just going to do it through emergency powers.
00:11:50.920 But this is what it's about.
00:11:53.180 This is what's coming.
00:11:56.160 And you can't seem to get anybody to really care or act on it.
00:12:05.140 I think there are.
00:12:06.520 I think people don't know what to do.
00:12:08.800 Well, that's true.
00:12:09.580 That's true.
00:12:10.020 I mean, look at this.
00:12:10.480 That is true.
00:12:11.080 You've been talking about taking your money out of the big banks for a while.
00:12:14.980 But even doing that wouldn't protect you against this type of thing.
00:12:18.200 No.
00:12:18.700 And that's why you get to the cryptocurrency world, and then you see what they're trying to do to cryptocurrency in Canada.
00:12:24.840 They're trying to, I don't know how you freeze a Bitcoin account.
00:12:27.940 I don't think you can necessarily do that unless you have it.
00:12:29.940 They close the off ramps.
00:12:31.140 Yeah, right.
00:12:31.780 You wind up with your money in some exchange, and they go through the exchange to shut it down and deny access to the funds that you have.
00:12:38.580 I mean, they're doing everything they can to control every little bit of your life.
00:12:43.300 Meanwhile, look this up.
00:12:44.860 They're doing the Hamilton Project.
00:12:46.320 The Fed in Boston is in charge of the new digital currency, and it's called the Hamilton Project, the guy who wanted the first central bank, the first bank of the United States.
00:12:59.060 And they're working with MIT.
00:13:02.400 And what's interesting is they said that they didn't want to work through blockchain because they needed more transparency than that.
00:13:13.080 I'm sure.
00:13:14.040 But blockchain is every transaction is publicly posted.
00:13:18.440 How much more transparency could you possibly need?
00:13:21.560 I don't know.
00:13:22.920 Be able to.
00:13:23.680 Just more.
00:13:24.360 Just more.
00:13:25.340 Just more.
00:13:25.740 Just make sure that they can turn it on and off or anybody they want and know exactly what people are doing.
00:13:30.760 Well, they've shown pretty well that they can get a hold of the blockchain funds, haven't they?
00:13:34.840 I mean, the FBI has done that already and confiscated people's money.
00:13:39.320 Yeah.
00:13:39.780 That means that they just had a $3.6 billion.
00:13:42.280 I mean, I don't know what I don't know what people think tyranny looks like more than taking everything you own.
00:13:51.300 But other than that, I mean, you can't go buy food.
00:13:54.760 You can't get a job.
00:13:55.840 I don't know what you're waiting for.
00:13:58.220 Well, I'm waiting until I'm behind bars or barbed wire.
00:14:01.280 That's tyranny.
00:14:02.300 That's tyranny.
00:14:03.160 Looking at this story, by the way, from Pat, two years.
00:14:05.760 They haven't charged them in two years.
00:14:07.740 Right.
00:14:08.240 Two years.
00:14:08.780 Have they charged everybody?
00:14:09.740 Almost a million dollars.
00:14:10.940 Gone.
00:14:11.660 Have they charged anybody or everybody on January 6th?
00:14:16.100 Are all those people that's going on?
00:14:17.740 No, a lot of them are still waiting.
00:14:18.880 A year and a half there.
00:14:19.840 Yeah.
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00:15:29.260 Yesterday was President's Day, but today is actually George Washington's birthday.
00:15:33.060 We were supposed to celebrate all presidents, but when I was growing up, it was Lincoln that
00:15:40.700 we celebrated, and then Washington.
00:15:42.460 I brought a couple of things in.
00:15:44.360 This is the key to the box number seven at Ford's Theater, occupied by President Lincoln
00:15:49.360 the night of his assassination, April 14th, 1865.
00:15:54.340 That's the key that opened that door.
00:15:57.240 This is the bloody cuff that was taken from, you can see the, on the other side, actually,
00:16:07.160 you can see the blood stains on this cuff.
00:16:11.000 This is what he was wearing that night.
00:16:13.460 You can see some of the stains through it.
00:16:17.640 This is the door handle of his house.
00:16:22.980 And everybody who sees this is like, can I just touch the door handle?
00:16:26.780 Yeah.
00:16:27.520 Of course you can.
00:16:29.800 It'll cost you, but you can do it.
00:16:31.480 Yeah, it'll cost you.
00:16:32.760 We tell you the fee after you do it, obviously.
00:16:35.120 Exactly right.
00:16:36.040 It's amazing, isn't it?
00:16:36.740 It's incredible.
00:16:37.500 Now.
00:16:38.060 Yeah, I gave back that key already.
00:16:39.960 Wait a minute.
00:16:40.740 It's not here, though.
00:16:42.540 I want to talk to you a little bit about this, and this is from George Washington.
00:16:47.960 Today is George Washington's birthday, and if we are talking about how do we save
00:16:55.040 our country, because we are a country really of rebels.
00:16:59.320 We are a country of the Boston Tea Party.
00:17:03.320 We were founded on questioning government.
00:17:06.240 We're supposed to.
00:17:07.340 But in the old days, they used to tar and feather people. 0.63
00:17:14.660 And, you know, you rarely died from your run-of-the-mill tar and feathering.
00:17:20.440 Really?
00:17:20.620 Yeah, if they wanted to kill you with tar and feathers, they could, you know, they could
00:17:25.020 do it, dipping you in tar.
00:17:27.440 But that was if they wished you dead.
00:17:30.520 Usually, they just wanted to make an example.
00:17:33.600 This was the case with a guy that you've probably never heard of, Robert Johnson, and it happened
00:17:38.440 on September 11th, 1791.
00:17:44.100 So Hamilton had passed his whiskey tax and taxing all the whiskey, and I'm like, wait a minute.
00:17:54.980 Johnson was riding his usual tax collection route when he was surrounded by 11 women, he thought. 1.00
00:18:03.320 But there were actually 11 men in women's clothing.
00:18:07.680 They stripped him naked, tarred and feathered him, took his horse, and left him in the forest.
00:18:12.600 But he didn't die, and they didn't want him to die.
00:18:16.600 They wanted his scars to be a warning to every tax collector in the region.
00:18:22.040 If you try to collect this tax on whiskey, we'll make your life a living hell.
00:18:27.120 So he recovers, and Johnson issues a warrant for the arrest of two of his assailants, who
00:18:33.520 he recognized, you know, even dressed as a woman.
00:18:37.180 Some guys can't pull it off, I guess.
00:18:40.500 Unfortunately, the man delivering the warrants was also tarred and feathered and left tied
00:18:45.300 to a tree.
00:18:48.160 Johnson did exactly what they wanted.
00:18:50.140 He quit the tax collecting business after that.
00:18:53.000 The violence just got worse and worse, and anyone with any connection to tax collection
00:19:01.900 was a target, even the collector's wives and children's.
00:19:06.480 I mean, it sounds a little like, sounds a little like what Trudeau is doing.
00:19:10.580 Anyone even associated, you can lose everything.
00:19:15.940 Well, the people in Pennsylvania, it was Western Pennsylvania, divided under the regime of the
00:19:22.080 rebellion.
00:19:24.040 It was a revolt that was upending everybody's lives, but they also didn't like the whiskey
00:19:31.220 tax, and they looked for leadership.
00:19:37.260 That's when George Washington wrote this letter.
00:19:40.420 However, he tasked General Henry Lee with leading 1,200 men, a militia, to squash the rebellion
00:19:53.400 in Western Pennsylvania.
00:19:55.660 Now, I have heard this story a million times.
00:19:59.280 I heard it in school, and I hear it all the time.
00:20:02.560 And I hear one of two things.
00:20:04.060 I hear George Washington, yeah, tell me, George Washington and the whiskey tax.
00:20:10.400 In fact, I heard that just last week from Michael Malice, tell me about a benevolent
00:20:13.700 government with a whiskey tax.
00:20:15.140 Didn't he just say that last Friday?
00:20:16.520 I think he did, yeah.
00:20:17.260 Yeah.
00:20:18.260 Well, you know, that shows you don't understand the story of Washington and the whiskey tax.
00:20:22.400 I've also heard, you know, from the others, these are really bad guys.
00:20:26.180 They were just so violent and horrible, and they all needed to die.
00:20:30.100 Neither one of those are true.
00:20:31.400 In this letter, in my hand, Washington laid out his expectations for Lee's army.
00:20:38.600 He said, first, to combat and subdue all those who may be found in arms in opposition to the
00:20:45.060 national will and authority.
00:20:46.920 Second, to aid and support the civil magistrate in bringing offenders to justice.
00:20:52.360 The disposition of this justice belongs to the civil magistrate.
00:20:56.120 And let it ever be our pride and our glory to leave the sacred deposit there unviolated.
00:21:04.940 So he was hoping that rounding these guys up and bringing them to justice would be enough
00:21:12.640 to end the violence.
00:21:14.060 He was right.
00:21:16.200 The rebels scattered and the revolt ended without any further violence.
00:21:20.540 OK, but what about the whiskey tax?
00:21:22.800 Well, I'll get there.
00:21:25.020 150 men were tried for treason.
00:21:28.460 Only two met the very high standards that is outlined in our Constitution.
00:21:35.140 Two of them were guilty.
00:21:36.920 That means that they had to be executed.
00:21:41.220 Washington pardoned both of them.
00:21:43.860 The whiskey tax.
00:21:50.880 President Jefferson repealed it.
00:21:54.780 Here's the thing.
00:21:56.340 The mob's cause wasn't bad.
00:21:59.840 Jefferson, even Washington himself, thought the whiskey tax was unfair.
00:22:04.680 And Americans had been rebelling against taxes for 30 years, resisting taxation.
00:22:10.800 It was American.
00:22:12.780 It used to be.
00:22:14.680 Why should the people pay the government's debt?
00:22:17.620 They had a point.
00:22:20.540 But they didn't understand who they were rebelling against.
00:22:25.680 And they didn't understand that that's not the way you make friends in America.
00:22:31.800 They lost their way.
00:22:32.820 They got violent.
00:22:34.380 And that's what most people remember about that.
00:22:37.200 The violence.
00:22:37.820 You don't have to discuss the merits of their argument or the validity of their cause.
00:22:45.000 That's not what people talk about.
00:22:47.320 It's either George Washington was the first to put his foot down on the neck of people.
00:22:52.900 Or these guys were so violent they all should be destroyed.
00:22:56.460 Well, that's not right.
00:22:59.180 But the story of the whiskey rebellion and the reason why I'm telling it to you today.
00:23:05.260 Is this is another example of Washington's leadership and Washington's credibility.
00:23:13.220 He understood what was right and wrong, but he trusted the system.
00:23:20.900 Now, I don't trust the system.
00:23:23.860 But I do trust that the people, when they come to their senses, will change the system.
00:23:30.060 And violence delegitimizes good ideas.
00:23:37.240 Good intentions are forever stained by bad actions.
00:23:42.020 We constantly walk the line between compliance and anarchy.
00:23:47.100 The whole American experiment hangs in the balance.
00:23:52.300 If we slip into mindless submission or step out into violent rebellion, we lose.
00:24:00.060 Did you hear me?
00:24:00.780 If we slip into mindless submission or step into violent rebellion, we lose.
00:24:11.100 Washington balanced those two.
00:24:15.840 It requires immense discipline, discernment, care.
00:24:20.700 But he knew something that I'm not sure we all know.
00:24:25.640 It's worth doing it the right way.
00:24:28.460 Because this is worth saving.
00:24:32.300 All that's required is to remember, like he did, who he was.
00:24:37.380 Who you are.
00:24:39.280 Who we are as a nation.
00:24:42.380 We are the Boston Tea Party.
00:24:45.120 We are not the Whiskey Rebellion.
00:24:49.740 They confused them.
00:24:52.260 Washington set them straight.
00:24:53.760 We cannot forget that.
00:24:56.540 By the way, I look for the dark things in American history because I think it is really important to know all the bad things in American history.
00:25:13.980 If we don't know the bad, we'll be surprised.
00:25:17.960 David Barton collects all the good things in American history.
00:25:21.820 I have looked for the bad things about George Washington.
00:25:25.820 I cannot find them.
00:25:28.220 I can find them with a 20th century scholar who never met them or can't give me a footnote on why they think that.
00:25:37.000 It's just that scholar's opinion or an opinion based on an earlier scholar, also from the 20th century, that has no footnotes.
00:25:45.560 He may have been the greatest man to ever live in America or lead a nation.
00:25:55.220 And may his spirit never explode nor be extinguished.
00:26:01.920 The more we model ourselves after George Washington, the safer we will all be.
00:26:08.460 Mr. Mike Rowe, my friend, how are you, sir?
00:26:27.740 I'm great.
00:26:28.500 You look exactly the same.
00:26:30.280 I hate you.
00:26:31.760 You're like you're like Wesley Snipes.
00:26:33.980 You never age.
00:26:35.120 I thought you were going to go with like a Dorian Gray kind of thing.
00:26:38.480 No, no.
00:26:39.320 I've used that a couple of times on people and they've been, who?
00:26:42.120 Who?
00:26:42.280 And I'm like, no.
00:26:42.860 Yeah, yeah.
00:26:43.240 Look, if you have to explain it, right?
00:26:45.200 If you have to explain an analogy, if you have to explain a joke, you know, you usually realize halfway through the explanation.
00:26:50.860 You probably shouldn't have started it.
00:26:52.240 It's not worth it.
00:26:52.900 It's not worth it.
00:26:53.540 Long run for a short slide.
00:26:54.800 So good to see you.
00:26:56.020 You too.
00:26:56.940 We're in quite a different world that we were in when we first met.
00:27:00.380 Feels like it.
00:27:01.080 Yeah.
00:27:01.800 Feels like it.
00:27:02.340 I wonder sometimes, you know, I mean, it's so easy.
00:27:05.120 Just to stare at the headlines and look at what's going on right in front of you and conclude or assume that we're truly in unprecedented times.
00:27:13.320 And then, you know, you're a student of history.
00:27:15.400 You look back and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think, well, you know, the Civil War was a heck of a thing.
00:27:22.600 Revolution was a big deal.
00:27:24.420 That whole World War II thing, right?
00:27:25.740 Yeah, but I think we're past the, you know, the 60s were kind of tumultuous.
00:27:30.520 You know, 80s kind of sucked a little bit, 70s.
00:27:34.180 I think we're left with the big ones at this point.
00:27:37.800 Well, we're all the stars of our own movie, right?
00:27:40.000 We're all the lead in our own play.
00:27:41.680 We're all the protagonists in our own tragedies.
00:27:44.120 And so it's really difficult to look around and not cast ourselves at the center of all of this.
00:27:50.580 We can't help it.
00:27:51.560 It's the fault in our stars.
00:27:54.160 And it's also the thing, I think, that will inspire good men and women to stand up and be counted.
00:28:00.400 And they are.
00:28:01.260 I mean, did you follow what was happening up in Canada?
00:28:04.040 Oh, sure.
00:28:04.460 The truckers?
00:28:05.120 Yeah.
00:28:05.540 Oh, my gosh.
00:28:06.580 Yeah.
00:28:06.720 Those people, I mean, they're selling off their trucks today.
00:28:10.360 Canadians, the Canadian government is starting to auction off all their trucks.
00:28:14.480 They haven't been charged with a crime.
00:28:16.620 They haven't gone to have a court hearing.
00:28:19.700 Nothing.
00:28:20.400 You know what strikes me about all of this, and maybe this is somewhat of a silver lining in it.
00:28:25.500 I kind of feel like we're about to close the loop, right?
00:28:28.820 When this started, truckers were right on the leading edge of heroes.
00:28:35.400 Yeah.
00:28:35.500 They were the very definition of essentiality.
00:28:37.780 Yeah.
00:28:38.220 Yeah.
00:28:38.600 In the course of two weeks, right?
00:28:40.740 They literally went from hero to villain.
00:28:44.100 Yeah.
00:28:44.580 To goat, you know.
00:28:47.320 We've done that, though, with the nurses.
00:28:49.180 Everything.
00:28:49.580 We've done that with police.
00:28:51.080 Everybody.
00:28:52.080 Everybody.
00:28:52.920 Yes.
00:28:53.200 We are constantly changing the definition of words that for a long time we thought we understood.
00:29:00.420 And those definitions are evolving in real time.
00:29:04.300 And if we question it, if we ask about it, well, they look at us like a cow looking at a new gate.
00:29:09.920 Like, what do you, of course, infrastructure involves reparations.
00:29:15.320 Right.
00:29:15.720 Of course it does.
00:29:16.680 Of course it does.
00:29:17.520 Of course it does.
00:29:18.220 Of course that protest was peaceful.
00:29:20.620 What do you mean?
00:29:21.160 You know, it's in so many ways we've been asked, I think, to simply ignore what we're looking at and and pretend that a new language has come along with lots of words that we used to understand but no longer do.
00:29:36.720 It's confounding.
00:29:38.560 So how does this, what happens next?
00:29:41.840 Where do we, I mean, with everything that's going on, in your opinion, because you're connected to people, you're watching things.
00:29:47.620 You're an intelligent man.
00:29:48.720 Well, thank you.
00:29:50.040 What, except for the opera thing, but.
00:29:53.000 We make mistakes.
00:29:53.780 We all make mistakes.
00:29:54.680 Yeah.
00:29:55.480 Where does this go?
00:29:57.520 Well, it's going to go splat.
00:29:59.140 Now, I don't know exactly what splat means, but I do know, I think, was it Churchill who said, you know, when you're, when you're marching through hell, always remember to keep going, right?
00:30:10.180 You got to get through it.
00:30:11.660 And, you know, does splat look like a war in Ukraine?
00:30:15.980 Does it look like a third wave?
00:30:19.080 Does it?
00:30:19.600 I don't know.
00:30:20.380 No, but, but I do believe we're getting close to some kind of tipping point, some sort of critical, some sort of critical thing.
00:30:29.840 This is such a tiny example.
00:30:31.740 I hate, I hesitate to even use it, but I had a moment last week.
00:30:35.560 I was in San Francisco of all places, meeting a friend in a diner and I walked in and there was nobody at the hostess stand and I didn't have my mask on.
00:30:43.540 And I just walked, I could see him sitting right there, 10 feet away in a booth.
00:30:47.020 And a woman ran to the front screaming, sir, sir, sir, I need to see your vaccination card. 0.51
00:30:52.420 And I said, okay.
00:30:53.440 And I had it and I, and I showed it to her and I started walking over to my friend and, and she said, and sir, you need to put a mask on.
00:31:01.260 And I, I looked at her and she looked at me and she had her mask on and I, I had one in my pocket, but Glenn, I, for the first time during all of this, I smiled and I looked at her and I said, I'm sorry, but I, I can't do that.
00:31:14.120 I can't put a mask on to walk five feet, to sit down and have lunch with my friend without a mask on.
00:31:20.880 And the good part of the story is that there was a, there was a pause and she looked at me and she said, I understand.
00:31:32.020 And went about her business.
00:31:33.380 Yeah.
00:31:33.500 And I thought, wait a second, that's, so there's, you know, that's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little thing, but I, I feel a crumbling.
00:31:40.840 I do too.
00:31:41.440 I can feel it.
00:31:42.380 I do too.
00:31:42.820 And people, I don't know what it's, I don't know.
00:31:44.880 I wouldn't want to bet on what an airport's going to look like in a month or a plane or a restaurant.
00:31:50.320 I really don't know.
00:31:51.740 What does that mean?
00:31:52.940 Well, I think it just means that in that tiny little moment where the people who have to enforce the rules come face to face with the undeniable truth that the rules they've been forced to enforce are not rooted or are no longer rooted in anything that is logical.
00:32:09.400 And at some point, good cops aren't going to arrest protesters at some point, at some point, look at how many cops in, in Canada just became cops.
00:32:24.400 I don't recognize.
00:32:25.740 I know.
00:32:26.960 But your question is, how long does that go on?
00:32:31.060 My answer is, it's never gone on forever.
00:32:35.600 And true.
00:32:36.820 It's never gone on forever.
00:32:39.400 Yes.
00:32:41.160 Let's talk about the bull crap that is the unemployment rate.
00:32:44.620 I keep hearing from the Federal Reserve, you know, our unemployment rate is only 4.5%.
00:32:50.320 I'm like, that's because you're no longer counting the people who are staying home because you're paying them.
00:32:56.900 Right.
00:32:57.300 I mean, we can't have a 4.5 unemployment rate when everywhere you go, you see help wanted.
00:33:04.800 Everywhere.
00:33:05.860 Talk about a jobs program.
00:33:07.240 Oh, my gosh.
00:33:07.980 Um, yes, that was one of the very first conversations you and I had when you invited me here years ago, which by the way, it wouldn't be the same if I didn't thank you for doing that because it did jumpstart my foundation.
00:33:18.900 We're going to give away another million dollars next month.
00:33:21.680 And we're doing it precisely to answer the question you just posed, which is if we focus only on unemployment, you take your eye off the opportunities that exist.
00:33:33.940 And the opportunities that exist right now are 11 point what million, right?
00:33:41.020 There are so many open positions right now.
00:33:44.380 And Glenn, not a week goes by where my foundation doesn't get a call from some large company or more often than not some association who is desperate, desperate to get out of their own way to hire more people.
00:33:59.100 And they just don't quite know how the I mean.
00:34:05.120 And if you think about it, it's not a great mystery.
00:34:07.440 Companies are often their own worst enemy when it comes to making a persuasive case for why you should work there, because it all looks like advertising and all looks like marketing.
00:34:15.800 And kids today, they've got such a bullcrap meter.
00:34:17.980 They can smell it.
00:34:18.860 They know when they're being marketed to.
00:34:20.420 So what we've been doing for the last 14 years and more pointedly for the last five or six is award these work ethic scholarships and try and make a more persuasive case for the opportunities that do exist by confronting the stigmas and the stereotypes and the myths and the misperceptions that keep millions of people from even looking at a career in the trades where there is so much prosperity going on right now.
00:34:48.860 Well, your head will spin that that is I mean, I'm not sending my kids to college.
00:34:53.240 I won't they can they can go unless you want to go to Hillsdale.
00:34:57.620 You're not going I'm not paying for it because it's just an indoctrination program.
00:35:01.680 And there's they there are trade colleges and trades that you can apprentice in even sure that are really good.
00:35:12.780 You can make a lot of money and have a a pretty nice life.
00:35:16.680 And those skills are going away, going away.
00:35:22.020 Every five tradesmen that retire today are replaced by two.
00:35:27.840 Now that I think it was Lincoln who he was talking about something else altogether, but he referred to a terrible arithmetic, a terrible arithmetic.
00:35:37.080 He was talking about the death, of course, in the in the Civil War.
00:35:40.980 This is just bad math in terms of anybody can look at this and say you take five and put two back, do it every year for the next 10 years.
00:35:50.520 And there's not much there.
00:35:51.900 And that's what's been happening.
00:35:53.260 We're our trade force right now is so far north of 50 years of age and nobody is making a compelling case for tens of thousands of open positions.
00:36:03.440 And the mistake, Glenn, is people think constantly this is a problem between employers and people who either are untrained or unwilling to work.
00:36:12.140 And that's certainly true.
00:36:13.580 But it's also a problem for anybody who shares my addiction to affordable electricity and indoor plumbing and smooth roads.
00:36:22.360 Right.
00:36:23.160 Our our real infrastructure is hanging in the balance.
00:36:27.000 One of the jobs, you know, I'm not sure if you're familiar with all of the numbers that are coming about AI, but a lot of jobs are going to be just destroyed.
00:36:35.540 One of the jobs that won't be destroyed.
00:36:38.300 Plumbers.
00:36:39.380 Right.
00:36:39.800 AI can do new construction, but it can't do it inside the house.
00:36:45.100 It won't be able to.
00:36:46.300 That's right.
00:36:46.660 I mean, those guys are going.
00:36:48.180 They already believe me, I redid my house.
00:36:50.220 They already make a lot of money.
00:36:52.360 You know what I mean?
00:36:52.820 And they don't have both plumbers and two different plumbers.
00:36:58.500 Both of them said, I have tried to get people to apprentice with me.
00:37:04.140 I want to pass this on to somebody else.
00:37:07.200 I can't get anybody to work.
00:37:08.960 They'll work two days and they'll go, I got to do all of this.
00:37:12.500 This is a communications problem and it's a PR problem.
00:37:16.020 And in my view, one of the most important things you can do and anybody who has some influence is tell your plumber's story.
00:37:27.560 Because he can't, right?
00:37:29.800 He doesn't, he, all he can do is preach to the choir and commiserate with other plumbers and they shake their heads and they say, yeah, we can't, we can't find anybody.
00:37:38.060 Meanwhile, the question we ought to be asking the rest, you know, the fat part of the bat, the 300 million people in the country ought to be saying, well, how long do we want to wait for a plumber to come?
00:37:47.180 To fix the toilet, right?
00:37:48.880 You know, obviously we also want to know how much we need to pay, but how long do you want to wait for the lineman to get up the pole?
00:37:57.540 How long do you want to wait for the heating and air conditioning guy to come out here during the next big freeze, right?
00:38:02.540 These questions impact everybody.
00:38:06.060 And the, the best way to address it, in my view, I love to talk about it and I'm, I'll find a bully pulpit and I'll, I'll pound my shoe on the table forever.
00:38:15.560 But we have to hear from the people who have prospered directly from mastering a skill that's in demand and gone to work.
00:38:22.260 And until we do, our kids are just not going to buy it.
00:38:25.740 So, so Mike, the, um, can we continue the conversation about jobs that are going to last, uh, through AI?
00:38:35.880 Are you up on that at all?
00:38:37.580 Are you looking into this stuff?
00:38:39.180 Yeah, I've, I mean, I think so.
00:38:41.340 And by AI, you mean artificial intelligence and the, you know.
00:38:45.120 Artificial insemination, which I'm also prepared to speak on at great length, if you'd like.
00:38:49.400 No, no, that's, uh, that's good.
00:38:50.840 That's good.
00:38:51.440 You know, early on in dirty jobs, there was a delightful bit of confusion.
00:38:54.880 Yes.
00:38:55.220 When I told the, uh, the network, yes, I've got a handle on a great AI job.
00:38:59.400 And they were delighted.
00:39:00.320 They thought they were going to come back with a big, with a big piece on robots.
00:39:03.580 And I had my arm up to my shoulder in a cow.
00:39:07.540 Nearly got everybody fired.
00:39:08.800 That is, the first time I, uh, I did that, it's a.
00:39:11.740 Yeah, yeah, it's a heck of a thing.
00:39:12.900 It's a heck of a thing.
00:39:13.760 And you learn why that guy doesn't have one sleeve.
00:39:18.620 That's right.
00:39:19.820 That's right.
00:39:21.020 And, and why that cow backs up every time he walks in the room.
00:39:24.360 Right, every time you see, oh no, that guy.
00:39:25.640 Not this again.
00:39:26.360 Not this.
00:39:27.400 No.
00:39:27.920 It's bizarre.
00:39:29.040 Uh, it goes to, uh, language though again, right?
00:39:31.300 I mean, it's a, it, it, so much is swirling around.
00:39:34.760 You say AI, I hear one thing.
00:39:36.880 Somebody else hears something else.
00:39:38.520 Well, I, I, I'm, what I'm wondering is.
00:39:41.740 We are going to, we're going to live in a world where you have to be retrained for something new all the time.
00:39:46.980 That's coming.
00:39:48.140 Uh, and we don't seem to have that work ethic anymore.
00:39:52.440 It's, it feels like it's being beaten out of us.
00:39:55.160 Well, we've, we've rung it out of ourselves.
00:39:57.360 We've look, it's very, very tempting to, if, if, if, if the guys at car shield can come out and take care of a problem that your dad would have taken care of himself once upon a time, right?
00:40:09.520 That's a slow creep.
00:40:10.900 It's not a bad thing.
00:40:12.240 It's the very existence of companies like that, uh, that I think is telling because more and more of us are, are increasingly disconnected from the business of work.
00:40:23.600 I can't change my oil.
00:40:24.960 I can't even find it anymore.
00:40:26.120 No, you can't, you can't go in and change.
00:40:28.600 It's all chips.
00:40:29.600 That's right.
00:40:30.040 You can't even run a diagnostic.
00:40:31.380 You've, I mean, I, we've placed a lot of, uh, mechanics through our foundation and I'm telling you these guys, they're, they're, it's, it, it's not quite rocket science, but when you open the hood and look down at that thing, it's pretty close.
00:40:45.140 Oh yeah.
00:40:45.420 You need to be a software engineer.
00:40:46.800 No, it's completely different.
00:40:48.120 So look, AI is, and you know, and let me tell you a story.
00:40:51.460 Yeah.
00:40:51.680 I have an old car that has a carburetor.
00:40:54.940 I drove it across the country last, and I got up into the Rocky mountains.
00:40:59.900 That thing was dying on me.
00:41:02.280 It's like, I need air.
00:41:03.200 I need air.
00:41:04.020 I couldn't find anyone who knew how to adjust.
00:41:06.760 I don't know how.
00:41:07.780 Yeah.
00:41:07.940 No one.
00:41:08.780 And they were, this is the honest to God truth.
00:41:11.200 One guy in town said, you know, there is an old guy that used to fix his old tractors.
00:41:18.420 I might be able to get ahold of him.
00:41:20.040 And I'm like, holy cow, this is a lost art.
00:41:22.320 Yeah.
00:41:22.540 I mean, it's a carburetor.
00:41:23.800 Right.
00:41:24.200 Our dads used to do that.
00:41:26.200 Look, I think it was Huxley.
00:41:28.480 I think it was Huxley who said the, uh, the greatest enemy of freedom is anarchy.
00:41:36.360 But the second greatest enemy is efficiency and not effectiveness, efficiency.
00:41:45.060 So when you talk about AI, to me, I immediately think of, uh-oh, we're, we've fallen in love
00:41:53.660 with efficiency as opposed to effectiveness.
00:41:57.080 Effectiveness still has, in my mind anyway, a human component.
00:42:01.700 Humans are effective.
00:42:04.140 Machines are efficient.
00:42:05.600 Right.
00:42:07.040 And somewhere in all that is a lesson and something to be wary of.
00:42:11.420 I have a feeling we'll learn it after.
00:42:14.720 We'll learn it the hard way.
00:42:15.640 We'll learn it the hard way.
00:42:16.860 Mike Rowe, thank you so much.
00:42:17.960 Mike's going to be on the podcast that you will hear on Thursday if you are a member of
00:42:24.200 The Blaze and Saturday, wherever you get your podcast.
00:42:27.900 Mike Rowe from Mike Rowe Works Foundation.
00:42:31.580 You can follow him at micro.com.
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