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Summary
Glenn and Stu discuss how the Suez Canal was built, a sheriff's plea to save the border, and George Washington's hair. Plus, Glenn explains why he hates wearing a mask and why he doesn't like singing in church.
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Hey, today's episode, uh, should maybe be taken with a grain of salt, maybe a pound of salt, uh, because I opened a bottle that said, you know, don't ingest any of this, you know, if you operate heavy machinery, and I'm like, I'm not driving a bulldozer today, I'm fine.
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And for the most part, the show went really well, until the last part of the podcast, revolving around George Washington's hair.
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Yeah, you have to think that the effects of the medication, you can feel them slowly increasing throughout the episode.
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Yeah, this might be one for the records, uh, you know, or, or, or possibly, you know, at my tribunal before I go into the gulag, possibly, uh, but you don't want to miss today's episode.
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A really good story, uh, that we begin the episode with on how the Suez Canal was built, and it revolves around a really fat kid, a French man, and macaroni.
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How do you get the Suez Canal out of that? Oh, believe me, I found a way. It's a great story.
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We also talked to a sheriff down in Arizona on the border, some really frightening things happening on the border, and we need to wake up.
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And, uh, he put a plea out in, uh, that segment of the show.
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And then, of course, George Washington's hair, where it all goes to hell, uh, from there.
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I mean, we're going to hope you still put it in for five stars.
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It could be like, whoa, I don't know what happened.
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We're telling you now, drugs, don't play this episode for your kids and say, this is what happens.
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And tonight on Stu Does America, uh, we're going to have, uh, we're going to go into the George Floyd thing a little bit, because today was not the right day to go into this show.
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For some reason, Stu kept saying, let's not, you shouldn't comment on this today.
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Uh, make sure to subscribe to Stu Does America as a podcast as well.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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This is the Glenn Beck program with some good news.
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Uh, they just colon blowed that thing out of the canal.
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$9 billion a day in trade were blocked by that.
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And all they needed to do, Egypt needed a little bit of fiber and they won't get blocked, uh, like that ever again.
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And, uh, I think that's, uh, that's a good thing.
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So we, um, uh, we're here with Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed.
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So, uh, I, I, uh, I was at church yesterday and, uh, I'm about to lose my mind on the whole mask thing.
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I talk about this almost every week after church.
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Well, I'm not going to, I, with the mask, I'm not singing.
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So we're already, we're a million miles away from everybody.
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It's three, it's three feet for the, uh, uh, for the WHO.
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So we're sitting there and we're singing and then people started coming up.
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My kids, well, you, so you're not, you don't want, you don't want your family to get the
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No, it's not that I don't want my family to get the vaccine.
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You know, if, if I wanted to get it, maybe I would.
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I, I don't recommend to my kids that they get it because it's generally good, uh, with
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Pat and I were just talking about this because they, they do this big member.
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Joe Biden did this Neanderthal thinking speech where he was saying that Texas opening up to
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100% was going to cause the crash of all humanity.
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They're going to be piles of dead bodies on every street.
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And I will tell you that we still club women here in Texas and then just drag them by their
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And obviously everybody knows that goes without saying that's with, that's with or without
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And now we've had 18 consecutive days of downward motion in our numbers here in Texas.
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In hospitalizations, in infections, in death, in all of it.
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The opposite happening in Michigan right now where the numbers are going up considerably
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And it's funny because there's two ways this has gone.
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Gavin Newsom saying this is reckless behavior and all this nonsense.
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Everyone thinking that it was going to blow up.
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And, you know, all of us in Texas sort of yawning and rolling our eyes.
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I mean, you can have more people in a restaurant.
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I see a lot of people using this as like, well, this proves lockdowns don't work.
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We didn't have lockdowns before this and we don't have them now.
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It really doesn't seem any different than it was before we made the speech.
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And people do what they think is the right thing to do.
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So, you know, the Texans are not all walking around just like, I've got a French kiss.
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And then I'm going to shoot them with my six gun.
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Hey, by the way, speaking of guns, did you hear about Hunter Biden's gun?
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Well, I don't think there's a lot of people informed.
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I don't think there's a lot of people in the audience that do know this.
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What do you mean to make you feel uncomfortable?
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So while the president is pushing gun control, I would just like to stop at the little Hunter
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We apparently talked about a long time ago, and I'm going to pretend that I don't remember
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Why would you pretend that you don't remember talking about it?
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You'd like to take credit for every prediction that you've made.
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I read a story and they're like, the only people that were talking about this was Glenn Beck
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and the blaze and all the research they did during the impeachment.
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And by the way, did you hear my macaroni story on the Suez Canal a few minutes ago?
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And Hallie, the widow, starts, you know, with Hunter.
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And she's going through Hunter's truck due to a, quote, suspicion she had.
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Now, we don't know what that suspicion she had was.
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Uh, but then she found a 38 revolver and, uh, it belonged to him.
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And apparently it just ended up in a trash can behind a grocery store across the street
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And sometimes they're like, I am so sick of being, I am not going to be treated this
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I want to be in that trash can across the street from the school behind the grocery store.
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Now, the police are saying that that kind of thing doesn't happen.
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So she returned to the store later to recover the gun as Hunter had directed her to do, but
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She told the grocery store about the missing gun.
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Hey, um, did you guys find a gun in your, in your trash cans by any chance?
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If somebody walks into the store, it was like, if somebody came to me and said, Hey, here
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at the studios, you know, your dumpster in the back.
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Did you guys happen to find, you know, like some weapons in there?
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So she went to talk about the, uh, the, uh, missing, uh, gun.
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The missing gun is, uh, particularly, uh, worrisome because the school is right across
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They were afraid that it would be used, you know, by, uh, used in a crime.
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While police were questioning Hunter, he also appeared to, uh, racially, uh, he also appeared
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to racially profile two Mexican grocery store employees telling officers they were probably
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So when the cops go to talk to Hunter about the gun that was in the, he immediately throws
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Then the police, uh, then the police and the FBI go in, uh, and the police or the FBI tell
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And, uh, so two secret service agents with badges and identification cards reportedly pay
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a visit to the gun store where Hunter bought the firearm earlier that month and told the owner
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to turn over the firearm transaction record from the purchase.
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We'd like you to give us all the records on that.
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Well, the store owner was like, I don't think you actually want this for an investigation.
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I'm guessing you want to make all this stuff disappear.
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So the store owner held on to the paperwork, uh, until the ATF came in and they reviewed
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the forms, uh, and the secret service said, Oh, we, no, we didn't send anybody out.
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Uh, it also appears that Hunter may have lied on his federal background check.
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He said, it's a little fuzzy on those federal forums.
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When they ask you about, you know, previous drug abuse and you say, you know, when blatantly
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you're on record, having convictions and stuff, when you were doing Coke in a Hertz rental
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car that you turned back with Coke lines still on the dashboard, clear, it's unclear.
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And since when do we ban people from space coming?
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Uh, so, uh, so now he answered no to a question in the firearms transaction record, uh, asking
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if he was an unlawful user, uh, user or addicted to marijuana, any depressant stimulant,
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narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance.
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Uh, but I just, I just love that this is, uh, coming out now, uh, as daddy is saying,
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we have to, uh, tighten, tighten the, uh, restrictions and ban certain guns, ban certain guns.
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And, but I just like, we, we have to really tighten the, uh, the background checks because
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as his own son has just proven, people lie all the time.
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If you, if you want a drug, let's say you're a drug abuser and you want a gun, you're going
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Not necessarily from the gun store because you're already buying drugs from a drug dealer.
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You know, one of the first narratives after they were like, Oh, it's gotta be a white guy.
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Once that went away, they were like, well, did you know that 10 days before the shooting,
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they, uh, ban, they were the judge overturned an AR 15 ban in Boulder and 10 days before that.
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And this guy bought the, the AR 15, like six days before that.
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Well, he bought it in another town where they didn't have an AR 15 ban.
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I think it needs to be global because you know, we need to, we need to keep these borders open.
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We can't have, we can't come up with a disconnect as to why we're fine with open borders,
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but we need gun laws all over here because obviously they could just bring the guns across
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Well, it's not like you have nefarious people like drug cartels.
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Right, right on the border that are actively making money.
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Recently, an Arizona sheriff named Mark Danils shared an urgent letter on Facebook, and I
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would love for you to read the whole letter, but I want to share just a couple of excerpts
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He writes, the current conditions on the border are impacting public safety in our communities
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and by any reasonable measure constitute a humanitarian crisis.
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We remain immersed in politics rather than solutions.
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In Cochise County, Arizona, they have a sophisticated camera system along the migrant routes across
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These cameras detect significantly more traffic than our federal partners report capturing.
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In fact, our estimates are that only 28% of the people crossing illegally are taken
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Now, I want you to think about the numbers that we have.
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Think about the numbers that have crossed already.
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If that's only 30%, the numbers are staggering.
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TCOs, transnational criminal organizations, are exploiting the migrant crisis to ensure the
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redirection of law enforcement resources away from the interdiction of illegal drugs into
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They know that increased migrant traffic, especially children, overwhelms resources and essentially
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gives them the unfettered ability to traffic drugs into the U.S.
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On top of a public safety and humanitarian crisis, we may now add a public health crisis.
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There should be an outcry from those persons who have expressed concern about the COVID pandemic.
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Arizona's border sheriffs are not interested in the politics of the current crisis or perceived
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We need policies from Washington, D.C. that discourage rather than incentivize undocumented
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The time for politics and partisanship has passed.
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The COVID situation alone should be enough to seal the border, especially for those who
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Right now, we have in the center of Dallas, Texas, we have a convention center that is filled
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with illegal aliens who have not been tested and can come and go apparently as they please.
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Due to Mexico's extremely low rate of testing, we have no idea how bad it is.
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The death toll, however, in Mexico is probably around 300,000.
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Just last Friday, Argentina suspended flights from Mexico.
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Yet migrants and minors are flooding over the border and we're housing them.
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And we are not giving money to the cities, especially down on the border.
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On President Biden's first day in office, he signed an executive order halting construction
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Now Sheriff Daniels is here to point out that the unfinished portions of the border have simply
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provided infrastructure, mainly roads for the drug cartels.
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It is, according to a study, it is now a multi-billion dollar business for these cartels, human trafficking.
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The same report finds that in order to pass through the territories of drug traffickers,
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migrants have to pay drug taxes or cartel taxes as much as $180 million a year.
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Our elected leaders refuse to come back to common sense.
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Some issues must be apolitical, and this is one of them.
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And if they won't make it apolitical, we must insist that they do.
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And we must insist not to play politics on the border.
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Well, to understand where we're at today is best to understand where we came from.
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And you hit it in your intro with me, was the fact that President Trump, I worked at this
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border for 37 years, President Trump was the first president to actually emphasize and do
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everything he can within his power to secure our border.
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It's not immigration, two different programs, border security.
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And we were very close with him, sheriffs, police chiefs, mayors, governors, DHS-TVP, all
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When President, and we've come so far, we truly have.
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Everybody asks, well, how do you know it's the best it's been?
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Second of all, the people who live on the rural border down here, the ranchers, the farmers,
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the citizens say, this is the best it's been in three decades.
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So we come to the current time when President Biden signed the executive order day one,
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which obviously was politically driven, ideology driven.
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And when he did that the first day, it sent a message to the cartels and those vulnerable
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people that, hey, we're coming across, we're opening up the border.
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And he stopped the construction on the border, which stopped subterranean technology, revenue,
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My three checkpoints are shut down in my county.
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I got a border patrol station shut down in my county for responding to help my deputies.
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I got my AeroStat shut down, and I just learned Friday they removed me from the Homeland Security
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I think it was a collective effort that, and they realized what they did.
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They removed the majority of every member on the Homeland Security Council, which was formed
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after 9-11, to help advise DHS for communities and for this country.
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So all but three people were left on the advisory council, the chair, vice chair, and a past
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And it starts off like this, Glenn, and it says, I'm honored to address you in the first
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But it's the first time in history that a president, secretary, this administration has removed
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We're in a chaos crisis on this border, and you're going to take the group that's been
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selected throughout the country to help advise you into the future, help you navigate these
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So this is because I am concerned about the humanitarian crisis, but I am equally concerned.
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I'm not blinded by that, by what the drug cartels are doing, but also the, you know, other than
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Mexicans, the Iranians, the Syrians, the fact that the drug cartels will smuggle guns and
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What could their reason be for flipping everybody on that board?
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Well, and the first thing that comes to my mind, Glenn, is politics.
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They want the avoidance of this, and having people on that advisory council that speak
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very loud, their business, their consulters, their federal judges, all the people that
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have come through that, sheriffs, police chiefs, that have been now removed on that, it just
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Once again, and one thing I've seen since this has happened is the lack of transparency, the
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In fact, in the letter, it talks about we're going to develop a plan.
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Well, don't you think any logic on this would, you'd have a plan in place before you get
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rid of your current members who have served honorably, have served, I've worked on the
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technology committee, I've worked on youth violence, I've worked on faith violence.
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I mean, spent a lot of time to help our communities.
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And with a, again, stroke of the pen, we're gone, we're gone.
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And I've spoke to DHS at senior leadership, work with the National Sheriff's Association.
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We're past due on questions and answers in this country.
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I'm just, you know, Sheriff, I'm just looking at your, your resume.
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You are really, really, your background is, is right.
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We're not exactly what we need, especially in a, in a place like Cochise County.
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I, I, I'm stunned now that, uh, they're, they're not listening to you.
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Tell me what, tell me what the border wall was doing and why it was so bad to stop it
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Well, besides sending a message to the cartel that we have an open border and that's literally
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We hear that from those coming across illegally because the opportunity is now and truly they're
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In my County, um, when they stopped the physical barrier, the technology and the resources,
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what that's done is left my border in disarray down here.
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President Trump was the first president after three decades to push beyond what the physical
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barrier was in the early nineties from operation stone garden, or Christian stone garden, excuse
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me, operation gatekeeper and hold the line were two programs that kicked off our physical
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President Trump pushed beyond that first president in three years or 30 years to do that.
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So by now we have a border that was under construction.
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We have, uh, lower line areas where they're putting in bridges where the cement coverts
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are in there and they're putting, uh, the cages over so they can put the cement in there
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and finish the bridges that just sitting there, open, uh, cables hanging out on the ground.
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It's like building the house halfway and stopping and then walking away from the project.
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What worries us in a couple of months when our monsoon season, our wet season hits, it's
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going to wipe out these, what they're supposed to put a brand new road along the southwest
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We're in worse shape now than we were when we started, uh, this project.
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And you said that there's, you said that there is infrastructure that they, the drug cartels
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are using, the roads, et cetera, that were made for the construction.
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And what they did was up on the backside of a very, very frequent smuggling area for the
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Cause it's been concealed up there behind the mountains.
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They blasted roads, took them up six months to a year to put the infrastructure in behind
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the mountains, back into the flatlands, just to get the equipment and the trenching up there
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Well, they got the infrastructure in, but they never got a chance to put the physical barrier
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So now we have, I call them walking paths that are better than most national parks where
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they come up and walk right down to the flatlands.
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And once again, once again, it's, uh, there was no reasonable, um, closure to this, this
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And as a result of this, uh, we have chaos on our board, just on the technology and physical
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So nobody is talking, we are all talking about these kids in cages, um, and the humanitarian
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What is left behind are the small communities that are right there on the borders that are
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All of these people are coming in, you know, it's a crisis because the federal government
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Well, the ones that they really don't have space for, they're just putting on buses and
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they're just sending to cities all across the country.
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And the border towns are the first ones to get hit hard.
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And there's no help from the federal government.
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You look back in 2019, Glenn, where the caravans and surges that President Trump took on and
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In the first nine months, we had 141 countries hit our Southwest border.
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And I kind of say this, I know the focus is on the children.
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In the first nine months, we had 3,500 children that were being exploited by the cartels.
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And what that means, they were coming across with an adult expedited into the country because
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Then the children were brought back to Mexico and recycled back in the U.S. just to get people
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This cartel has its thumb and hand on everything going on in the Southwest border.
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In my county, it's $6,000 a head to come across our country, into our country, excuse me.
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And then they become servant to the cartels, whether it be sex grave, drug, gangs, enforcer,
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And unfortunately, the national media is painting a picture of these poor kids.
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In 2014, when the cages first came alive, that was actually under our President Obama.
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And I do like your point that it seems like nobody can fix this problem.
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We have the most powerful leader in the country.
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But we fight it, including President Trump, who put a lot of effort on this border.
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I've gone through a lot of presidents in my 37 years.
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I'm telling you, it's rather disgusting because it's like we're left out of the U.S.
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when it comes to security, being American, our constitutional rights are on the Southwest border.
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They need to stand up and be united because why were the attention of the national media
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What's happening is everything going on the Southwest border, whether it's drugs,
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whether it's national security issue, whether it's a health pandemic issue, COVID,
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whatever it may be, it's coming into your neighborhood.
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We might be the gate to it all, but it's coming into your neighbors.
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They're not staying in my communities until they can find the means or the non-government
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Right now, we see charter buses all the time, $1,500 a hit to get kids out of our county.
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You see almost every day, you're seeing them pulling out of my county.
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So the only thing holding my county right now, Glenn, with some kind of balance is Title 42,
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which is the health pandemic, central travel only, which means internationally,
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In Texas, what they're doing is the state below Texas and Mexico will not let the U.S.
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In my county, the state of Sonora is still allowing that.
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If that opens up, our Southwest border will be flooded, not just in Texas, but flooded.
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So thank you for everything that you're doing, but we'll be in touch.
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We're not done with the coverage, and I appreciate your letter,
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and I appreciate your willingness to speak out.
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Stay safe, and don't give up on the rest of America yet.
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So they have dislodged the giant cargo ship in the Suez Canal.
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And the reason why I put you on duct tape alert is because we may be having another toilet paper crisis.
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Why not all go panic and buy a bunch of toilet paper?
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They're saying because of the Suez Canal being shut down, we may, the world may experience a toilet paper shortage.
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And I have to tell you, there are many things, air conditioning being one of them.
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I think air conditioning and toilet paper are my no-go zones.
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If they say, Glenn, you can't have air conditioning, and sorry, no more toilet paper, bad for the environment,
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Anything refrigerated, you know, that involves any kind of refrigeration.
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Well, if you could find another way to get the air conditioning running and the lights.
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I'm willing to separate my garbage, but not really.
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I mean, I'll separate them, and then I'll put them in the garbage can,
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and then I'm knowing that my city is just going to dump them in the same place.
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The only actual use for recycling is the extra garbage can.
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And they're usually big, like the big green garbage can.
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And so we appreciate the environmentalists for that.
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Anyway, they're now saying that toilet paper may be a shortage because of the Suez Canal.
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And I'm wondering, are those little teeny tugboats that they're using, are those really, is that the best we can do?
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I mean, as a planet, is that, has anybody thought of just taking like a big old battleship?
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And they're like, I'm going to take the battleship, and I'm just going to ram that thing until it comes unlodged.
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But I mean, I don't think destroying the boat in the middle of the canal would work very well.
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Not saying really, because that's the way, I mean, you know the history of the Suez Canal?
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And something tells me you're about to confirm that.
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The Suez Canal is a fascinating story about how it came.
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It actually started because a kid was really, really fat, and his dad wanted him to lose weight, and he hired a French guy to help him.
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Honest to God, this is how the Suez Canal started.
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His dad, looking at his son, he's like, you are going to die from an early death.
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This is in the 1800s, okay, when everybody, when fat was beautiful.
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And he's like, you're going to die from, you're too fat.
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You'll never amount to anything if you're that fat.
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The only reason why this French guy happened to be in town was because Napoleon was in town.
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And so this French guy is like, oh, I can help your son lose weight.
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And he gets to know the fat kid, and he likes the fat kid.
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And he's like, look, don't tell your dad, but I got a little buster for you.
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And dad just thinks, my son, look, I am doing everything I can.
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And dad is saying, well, my son's not losing any weight.
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And then there's all kinds of wars and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And the fat kid's like, finally, finally, my dad's dead.
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And with all of these things that are changing, the Crimea War and everything else,
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Because everybody was getting all of their goods and services either over land
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and the Ottoman Empire was really in trouble at the time.
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Or you go down south around Africa, which took too long.
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So that's when the French guy, who was strangely not a dietician, I don't know what exactly he did.
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I mean, he was a guy who wanted to build the Suez Canal for a long time.
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And he says, look, I smuggled the macaroni to you when your papa was saying, hey, stop eating so much.
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So he's like, I got to do it because I want more macaroni.
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And so he builds the, he starts to build the canal.
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And he is telling everybody that you have to, you have to build the canal and you're a slave.
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Well, at the time this is happening, something else in the world is happening.
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Now, this is the part where you can look at everyone who says, the United States never did anything.
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Now, 60,000 people are slaves building this canal.
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Because in Egypt, the Emancipation Proclamation, as it did all around the world, shook the world.
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And so, the 60,000 slaves that were digging the Suez Canal also were freed.
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In fact, the 20 million slaves, they were called serfs, in Russia, they were also freed because of the Emancipation Proclamation at the time.
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So, they build the canal, and all kinds of stuff is happening all around the world at this time.
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And so, you're looking at the building of some of the greatest things in the world, the greatest construction.
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Suez Canal is dug, and now it has to be opened.
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And they have the big opening ceremony, and a guy comes, and he's like,
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I've got the night, maybe for the opening, I unveil a big statue for you, huh?
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And put it right here at the opening of the canal.
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It's going to be based on the Colossus of Roads.
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Instead, they build the statue, a 35-foot-tall statue, of the guy who snuck the fat kid macaroni.
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And that was sitting at the opening of the Suez Canal until the Egyptians took it from the British in, what, 18 or 1950s, and they blew up that statue.
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Bertolli, that guy was rejected for that statue, and he went on to build the Statue of Liberty.
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It was originally made for the opening of the Suez Canal.
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Now, the reason why I'm stopping here is because that was unveiled on the opening of the Suez Canal, the small little statue of the macaroni guy.
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This is, if history were taught like this, every kid would know history.
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And so then, all of the kings and queens and everybody from all over the world, they're on a barge, and they're all going to go down the Suez Canal.
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Right before the opening, a boat gets lodged sideways, exactly like what's happening right now.
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I'm just saying, little toot ain't gonna get the job done.