The Glenn Beck Program - September 06, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Steve Baker ｜ 9⧸6⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

40 minutes

Words per Minute

154.20297

Word Count

6,305

Sentence Count

276

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Glenn and Stu discuss a story about a guy who claims to have had sex with Barack Obama, and how the media completely ignored it. They also talk about the economy and a new puppet show featuring the voices of the characters from the Muppets.


Transcript

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00:01:50.320 So, Stu, tell me what you know about the guy who says I had sex with Tucker Carlson from the past, not what you know now.
00:01:57.820 Well, I had never heard of a guy having sex with Tucker Carlson, and so that's another breaking news story.
00:02:03.760 Well, we'll get to that one in a little while. Believe me, the press will pay attention to that one.
00:02:09.120 I will say I've completely ignored the story.
00:02:12.180 You've completely ignored the story.
00:02:13.640 Completely ignored it. Everything you tell me, I sort of remember the headlines, never really cared about it.
00:02:19.320 Okay.
00:02:19.980 So, everything you were about to tell me is new information.
00:02:22.560 Okay. So, Stu has a very selective memory, and this is one, this is a story that-
00:02:29.440 It wasn't me, was it?
00:02:30.360 Uh, because that would be-
00:02:32.020 Yeah.
00:02:32.400 Okay.
00:02:32.800 It was you.
00:02:33.440 Oh, wow. See, it is. I told you. All new information.
00:02:35.500 All that crack. All that crack.
00:02:37.080 You know, when you're on crack, you forget a lot of things.
00:02:39.180 Okay. So, anyway, this is a story that back in 2007, 2008, somewhere in that area, this story surfaced.
00:02:47.340 And it is a guy who says, no, I had sex and smoked crack with Barack Obama.
00:02:53.480 Now, these were the days where those things were crazy.
00:02:58.440 I mean, I know they're run-of-the-mill today, but back in the old days, we didn't have presidents that were smoking crack and having gay sex that we know of.
00:03:11.780 Hmm. What do you think, what do you think that tall hat on Abraham Lincoln was? Hmm? Crack pipes.
00:03:19.540 Anyway, uh, so, I remember this coming out, and we had no verification of anything.
00:03:26.140 We never talked about it because we were, we looked, and I think I even said on radio at one point, guys, guys, we don't have to go to the gay sex crack pipe thing.
00:03:38.240 There's enough on the Marxist front.
00:03:41.880 And we were in the midst of fighting the Jeremiah Wright fight that the media also dismissed, okay?
00:03:49.300 They dismissed absolutely everything about Barack Obama because he was their candidate.
00:03:58.060 Now, I have long forgotten about the gay sex thing with Barack Obama.
00:04:03.180 But the man who's, I mean, it was a magical evening for him, he hasn't forgotten.
00:04:11.280 Now, the reason this is a story today is because Barack Obama's old girlfriend received a letter from Barack Obama when they were dating, and then they broke up, and I think this letter might have had something to do with it, where he talked about thinking about having sex with men all the time.
00:04:33.180 And, uh, I mean, she just didn't think that that was, you know, her cup of tea.
00:04:38.640 Uh, you know, she, they had a lot in common.
00:04:41.200 She also thought about having sex with men, uh, but didn't like her boyfriend to be thinking that way, apparently.
00:04:48.820 So, nobody in the press even asked her about it.
00:04:54.060 That she's just turned over the letter because I don't even know who looked into it.
00:04:58.380 Somebody looked into it and, and started going through, and they found this trail, led to her, then the letter was produced, and we now know.
00:05:08.640 So, this guy is going to be on Tucker Carlson.
00:05:11.640 No.
00:05:12.080 This guy is going to appear on the Twitter show that Tucker Carlson hosts.
00:05:18.900 How's that?
00:05:19.500 Is that better?
00:05:20.900 Uh, much.
00:05:21.620 Yeah, and he's, um, well, let me just, here, here he is.
00:05:28.680 You're just a guy who's in town for the night, and it sounds like you're looking to party.
00:05:32.320 Yeah.
00:05:32.760 Pulled up in a bar outside, and there's this guy that's introduced to me as Barack Obama.
00:05:38.400 I had given Barack $250 to pay for Coke.
00:05:41.900 I start putting a line on a CD tray to snort, and next thing I know, he's got a little pipe, and he's smoking.
00:05:49.320 So, I just started rubbing my hand along his thigh to see where it was going, and it went the direction I had intended it to go.
00:05:56.700 Even though you had sex with him twice, you did cocaine with him, watched him smoke crack twice, you had no idea who he was.
00:06:01.620 I had no idea who he was.
00:06:03.300 You just asked the obvious question.
00:06:04.440 What was Obama like on crack?
00:06:05.960 Um.
00:06:06.260 Is it your sense that that's who Obama is, just transactional, or that he's bisexual, or, like, what is that?
00:06:11.620 It definitely wasn't Barack's first time, and I would almost be willing to bet you it wasn't as long.
00:06:16.860 The guy's running for president, and credible information comes out that he's smoking crack and having sex with dudes.
00:06:23.320 That seems like a story.
00:06:24.880 Well, it would be a story if the media really cared about telling people the truth.
00:06:31.040 Okay.
00:06:31.900 Okay.
00:06:32.580 All right.
00:06:33.780 All right.
00:06:34.640 Woo!
00:06:34.840 Uh, that's a good way to wake up in the morning.
00:06:37.100 Good morning, everybody!
00:06:38.980 It's just a regular run-of-the-mill Wednesday in America.
00:06:42.520 Can re-can-is it possible to rewind my life and delete the past five minutes?
00:06:47.740 Is that possible?
00:06:48.600 Is that something that's out there?
00:06:49.740 Is that eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?
00:06:52.060 Is that a documentary?
00:06:53.280 Uh, we could.
00:06:54.400 Because I'd be interested in knowing less about this story.
00:06:57.980 Can I know less about it?
00:06:59.460 Well, here's why this story is important.
00:07:03.440 Okay?
00:07:03.660 And there's only one reason this is important.
00:07:06.860 Uh, because I don't care about anybody's lifestyle.
00:07:10.800 Um, I do think it's interesting that the first black president, now some are saying the first gay president, um, but they don't know about Polk, uh, is, uh, is Barack Obama.
00:07:24.680 Uh, he came out against all of this stuff.
00:07:27.820 Okay?
00:07:29.080 The press, all they had to do was investigate.
00:07:33.740 Now, there were so many things going on at the time.
00:07:38.080 The Jeremiah Wright thing, I thought was much more, um, important.
00:07:42.380 I don't know if we knew about the crack thing, but the gay sex we knew, um, or we didn't know.
00:07:48.640 We know this guy said it.
00:07:50.640 Right.
00:07:50.880 And that's why we never reported it.
00:07:52.660 It was one source.
00:07:54.240 Now, with the letter, that looks pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty bad.
00:08:00.240 Pretty, pretty bad.
00:08:01.240 Like, yeah, okay, it probably happened.
00:08:04.700 Um, the reason why this is important is because times have changed so much.
00:08:11.460 The press did not pursue this story.
00:08:15.500 There was not one person in the press that decided on their own to pursue this story.
00:08:23.600 If this story would have come out with the letter in 2007, would things have been different?
00:08:31.920 Or would the press have said the same thing they said about Hunter Biden?
00:08:37.020 I contend they would have done exactly the same thing they did with Hunter Biden.
00:08:44.560 They would have claimed that this was not true.
00:08:47.660 This is just a smear because he's black, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:08:52.280 So has the media changed at all?
00:08:56.540 Because they're still not reporting this.
00:08:58.320 Now with the letter, they're still not reporting this.
00:09:02.820 And again, this guy, he didn't have any credibility with me.
00:09:06.280 I have no idea, you know, who he is.
00:09:09.940 But the letter now gives this great weight.
00:09:17.440 So they're doing the same thing.
00:09:19.660 They're just ignoring this one, hoping that it will go away.
00:09:23.740 And by doing so, half the nation knows something that the other half does not.
00:09:29.480 By doing so, half the nation has information that the other side has no idea about, thus causing another fracture and balkanization.
00:09:42.760 Because when you get together with somebody and you're having dinner, you know, Thanksgiving, and I hope this doesn't come.
00:09:51.040 But if this comes up, you're going to have all the people in your family say, there you go again.
00:09:57.860 Making stuff up and being probably very, very upset about it.
00:10:04.960 If I found out this about Donald Trump or anybody else, I would want to know it.
00:10:10.520 I would want to know it.
00:10:12.920 But they don't even get the ability to decide.
00:10:17.180 The same thing is happening now with the government.
00:10:21.060 You may not be able to decide if you can vote for Barack Obama or, sorry, Donald Trump or not.
00:10:28.800 Because they know better for the people who claim democracy is so important.
00:10:36.760 They're trying everything they can to eliminate Donald Trump from the ballot, including telling states to remove him from the ballot, trying to get him under the 14th Amendment, which does not apply here.
00:10:54.820 Trying to put him in jail, trying to put him in jail, any of these things, just so you cannot vote for who you want to vote for.
00:11:03.900 If that's Barack Obama, gosh, if that is Donald Trump, then it's Donald Trump.
00:11:09.940 But trust the American people, but they don't.
00:11:14.300 This should tell you everything you need to know about progressives and everything you need to know about the media, which are progressives.
00:11:24.820 They don't think you're smart enough.
00:11:28.580 They want to be the arbiter of the information that you get.
00:11:33.640 Look at the CDC.
00:11:35.740 I have no problem with the CDC.
00:11:39.940 I don't like the way it was done, but I have no problem with drug companies trying to come up with a vaccine.
00:11:45.780 I have no problem.
00:11:48.580 What I have a problem with is they didn't even live by their own rules.
00:11:54.320 Okay.
00:11:54.900 So that would make me say, I'm not going to take this until other people have taken this.
00:11:59.640 I want to see because that's this is first time ever this has been done.
00:12:03.880 I don't think I'm going to take it.
00:12:05.180 My problem is not with people who decided to take it or the people that were offering it.
00:12:10.500 My problem was being forced.
00:12:13.700 My problem was we know better than you.
00:12:18.760 My problem was the FDA saying you can't use these other options.
00:12:25.020 Who the hell are you to tell my doctor?
00:12:29.560 Who are you to tell my doctor that I can't take drugs that have been on the market for a hundred years?
00:12:37.240 Who are you?
00:12:38.640 You know better than my personal doctor?
00:12:41.600 How dare you?
00:12:42.400 You should feel about Fauci and everybody else the same way you feel about Fauci and all those who tried to jam this down your throat and make you into a monster.
00:12:59.840 You should feel the same way about the press.
00:13:06.220 Because the press is also making all of your decisions.
00:13:11.080 By excluding information, we have numbers, research has come out that shows 15% of the people that voted for Joe Biden,
00:13:23.680 had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop, had they been told about it,
00:13:30.720 had they not been told that it was a Russian op,
00:13:35.280 would have changed their vote and not voted for Joe Biden.
00:13:41.080 They made the decision for you.
00:13:47.600 You didn't need to know that information.
00:13:49.980 There's one thing about people not reporting because you have one source.
00:14:04.600 I didn't report this story.
00:14:07.740 It would come up and I would dismiss it.
00:14:10.020 If it ever come up on the air, I would say,
00:14:11.800 there's enough with Jeremiah Wright.
00:14:14.360 There's no need to go into that rumor.
00:14:17.920 We don't know if that's true.
00:14:22.220 It's another thing when you have physical evidence.
00:14:25.320 The press's job is to look at everyone with equal eyes, but they don't anymore.
00:14:37.020 If you're running, I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat.
00:14:41.880 If you're running and there's information out there,
00:14:44.740 I don't want to hear all of the rumors and innuendos,
00:14:49.140 but these large organizations have the people to do the research.
00:14:56.160 They have the people to go and the resources to go and investigate.
00:15:00.860 Thank God now the right has the resources.
00:15:04.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:15:12.500 Steve, investigative journalist, Blaze Media contributor Steve Baker joins us now.
00:15:17.960 Welcome.
00:15:18.660 Thanks, Glenn.
00:15:19.300 Good to be here.
00:15:20.020 Yeah, good.
00:15:20.440 First time we've met.
00:15:21.440 Absolutely.
00:15:22.060 So I've never met anybody that was charged with racketeering.
00:15:25.640 Have I?
00:15:26.260 He looks dangerous.
00:15:27.140 He does.
00:15:27.520 He does.
00:15:28.120 He looks like a racketeer.
00:15:29.460 Sorry.
00:15:29.720 So they actually said they were going to come after you because you had the access to the January 6th footage, right?
00:15:39.180 Well, this original assault on my freedom, no other way to characterize it, happened two years ago.
00:15:47.720 I was there at the Capitol.
00:15:49.540 I was there covering it as a journalist that day.
00:15:51.540 I did what every other journalist would do that had a camera and a microphone and a tripod.
00:15:56.240 I wandered around and followed the story where the story went.
00:16:00.060 The story went into the building, and myself and between 80 and 100 other journalists also followed the story into the building.
00:16:07.040 Those independent journalists who have been jacked up legally obviously did not file their stories the next day with the right media outlet.
00:16:16.440 And then, of course, those who did, none of them have faced any criminal penalties or investigation whatsoever.
00:16:22.940 So fast forward eight months from then, I got the call from the FBI.
00:16:28.400 I asked them, what took you so long?
00:16:30.800 And then a couple months later, they did the interview with me.
00:16:34.100 A month after that, and this was November of 21, they actually notified my attorney that I was going to be charged within the week, quote unquote, and that one of those charges was going to be for interstate racketeering.
00:16:46.420 Now, not a single other January 6th defendant of any type has ever even been threatened with racketeering in this whole dragnet.
00:16:55.200 So how do they – based on what?
00:17:00.380 Well, the only thing that we were able to surmise, and this was an educated guess, was because during my FBI interview, they asked me what I had done with my videos.
00:17:12.380 And I said, well, I did what everybody else does.
00:17:15.360 I licensed my videos.
00:17:16.780 My videos have been used by HBO for their documentary, New York Times for their documentary, such and such and such.
00:17:23.440 And the FBI agent went, how much did you make?
00:17:28.780 And I looked at my attorney, and I said, I don't have to answer that question, do I?
00:17:32.540 He said, no.
00:17:33.620 And next thing I know, my attorney gets an actual U.S. code violation number that they were going to charge me with.
00:17:42.360 And it was, in fact, an interstate racketeering felony charge with a potential prison sentence of 20 years.
00:17:49.100 So now you didn't hear anything from 21 until recently.
00:17:52.720 Yeah, they went silent.
00:17:55.220 We immediately launched a – lack of a better way to put it – a media offensive.
00:18:00.780 I sent out over 200 press releases right after we were notified that I was going to be charged within the week, quote-unquote.
00:18:08.060 And I think we successfully backed them off.
00:18:11.220 At least they took my file and put it on the bottom.
00:18:14.040 This particular assistant U.S. attorney did anyway.
00:18:17.080 And so we didn't hear from them again for over 20 months.
00:18:20.640 And then a month ago, we get a subpoena.
00:18:24.780 And what does it say?
00:18:25.520 What do you have to do?
00:18:26.300 I had to bring – I had to turn over all of my videos that I had taken that day.
00:18:30.320 And the interesting thing about that is – and, of course, we had several – not only my attorneys, but other experts look at the subpoena.
00:18:36.760 And they said, oh, yes, this is about you.
00:18:38.940 Because if they were bringing you in, the grand jury was bringing you in, they would have subpoenaed you directly to testify in somebody else's case.
00:18:47.520 But because they didn't bring you in and they are –
00:18:51.760 Asking for your evidence.
00:18:53.200 Your evidence.
00:18:54.040 It's about you.
00:18:55.520 And, of course, a grand jury is not convened for misdemeanor charges.
00:19:00.280 How does that feel?
00:19:03.240 I have good days and bad days.
00:19:05.640 I mean, obviously, it's not anything I want to go through.
00:19:11.800 I pray every day, Lord, let this cup pass from me.
00:19:15.040 But then on the good days, I'm ready to fight whatever it is.
00:19:19.480 It is absolutely incredible what's going on.
00:19:22.200 We were just talking about the ADL and their fight with Elon Musk.
00:19:25.680 But we know that's coordinated from the left or we have great suspicion that that's all a coordinated attack.
00:19:33.600 Look at – we've said if they can do this to Donald Trump, they'll do this to anybody.
00:19:38.340 Well, they're now doing exactly the same thing to Elon Musk.
00:19:42.040 I'll show you the man.
00:19:43.540 Go find the crime.
00:19:45.880 And here you are, just a journalist, regular guy.
00:19:49.780 Did you get the call from, you know, I don't even know, the Proud Boys and the Hoods or whoever it was that organized this whole thing?
00:20:00.480 No, this is what makes an interstate racketeering charge ridiculous on its face is that requires collusion, coordination, basically a conspiracy with others in order to initiate some sort of racketeering plan.
00:20:13.060 And the reality is, is that by myself, I crossed a state line from North Carolina into Virginia into D.C. to do nothing more than document an event that was taking place.
00:20:25.420 And quite frankly, I've not and have never been a Trump supporter.
00:20:29.540 So this is interesting, again, on another level.
00:20:33.140 And so when that happened and we got this particular charge, the only thing I could think of is who are they going to connect me to?
00:20:41.560 I've never been in contact with a Proud Boy or an Oath Keeper or anything of that type in my life.
00:20:47.760 Now, once the trial started and I started covering the trials and covering January 6th events, I've talked to quite a few of them.
00:20:54.640 How many people are in jail still without a trial?
00:20:58.480 I don't know that number.
00:21:01.020 It's not as big as we maybe think it was.
00:21:06.040 Five would be outrageous.
00:21:07.740 Yeah, it's too many, but there's more than that.
00:21:09.400 They've arrested over 1,100 now.
00:21:11.340 They're obviously ramping up now because they got that huge new funding boost in the last omnibus bill back in that $1.7 trillion omnibus bill last year.
00:21:24.640 And then as a result of that, they have the funding now that they believe they can go after another 2,000 people.
00:21:31.340 1,200 to 2,000 people.
00:21:32.760 Holy cow.
00:21:33.760 Holy cow.
00:21:35.760 And yet, the ones who cut down one of the fences, we showed this video last week, cut one of the fences, was there.
00:21:43.700 We have his face.
00:21:44.980 The guy up on the tower, we have his face.
00:21:47.420 uh the pipe bombers nobody seems to care about those guys in in uh the department of of justice
00:21:53.840 nobody nobody seems to be even they they've never posted their faces on the most wanted list
00:21:58.740 we've asked questions obviously about all of those we've done our own investigations uh some
00:22:04.560 of us have run our own uh facial recognition software obviously they have better facial
00:22:09.320 recognition software at the department of justice and the fbi and and we've also seen many of these
00:22:14.860 characters using their phones while on the capitol campus so they are really proud to roll out as
00:22:21.300 evidence in these trials this geofencing software that they have and they can track people down
00:22:26.040 and they're really proud to roll that out but when we point out the clear facial uh high definition
00:22:31.940 photography of an individual and using their phones and then we ask why they don't know who it is oh
00:22:37.060 well we don't know we just we just we don't we just don't know okay so henry enrique tario
00:22:44.740 yesterday former chairman of the proud boys sentenced to 22 years in prison 22 years
00:22:52.300 tell me this case he has a checkered background you start there he's been in trouble with the law
00:22:59.920 a couple of times before he's actually done time in federal prison for another conspiracy charge
00:23:06.260 i forget the exact details of the case but it was some sort of medical device rebranding that he was
00:23:11.820 doing that they had stolen goods and they he got jacked up for that but not against the government
00:23:17.000 but not against the government okay and it was a federal charge and he did spend time in federal
00:23:21.060 prison and then he became an informant after that and he actually began informing on other criminals in
00:23:27.460 the circles that he ran in and then as a result of that uh he was considered by many of the people
00:23:36.620 even in the proud boys first of all they didn't think he would ever be arrested for this they thought
00:23:40.900 that probably he was a chs himself confidential human source for the fbi or some government agency
00:23:46.800 so there was always that conspiracy and always that suspicion about him leading up to this and
00:23:51.800 then he was arrested and then it was the suspicion was well they'll never go through with it or
00:23:56.240 he'll somehow get out on it get out of it and of course now after the the conviction and the
00:24:02.120 sentencing the conspiracy still persists because they say okay well he'll get sent to some uh you know
00:24:08.580 white collar uh country club uh facility and be out in a couple years with in reason um he probably
00:24:15.820 was not a confidential human source on this then i don't think he was i think i think that in this
00:24:20.440 particular case he did in fact uh he escalated very quickly because he didn't join the proud boys
00:24:26.360 till just i think 2017 18 something like that wow he escalated in leadership very quickly and then
00:24:32.320 once he reached the top uh and took over the reins of it he was he was uh uh you know he was an active
00:24:39.700 voice as a lot of these people who are being convicted they're being convicted for their scary words
00:24:45.820 a lot of those words are rather um founding fatherish uh they're very revolutionary type words
00:24:52.840 that we've heard and read and seen before and some of us use the use that language and so a lot of
00:24:59.020 these people are being much more severely punished for their words than for their deeds because
00:25:05.120 obviously he did not tear down any fencing that day he did not participate in violence that day
00:25:11.060 he wasn't in dc that day at all so the only thing that they were able to convict him of was his scary
00:25:17.480 words and ultimately the conspiracy of having planned the event but the fbi never was ever able to produce
00:25:27.160 actual evidence of a written or verbal plan of of a conspiracy to attack assault take down the
00:25:34.520 capital stop the electoral uh ratification and that was the same exact thing that they did in the
00:25:40.700 uh oath keepers trials these guys were convicted of seditious conspiracy but it was a what they called
00:25:47.600 an implied conspiracy it was a thought crime it was not what an explicit conspiracy there's no text
00:25:53.380 from enrique tario saying hey this is the day this is what we're going to do this like you guys should
00:25:58.520 go into the capital we need to stop this vote from happening with any any at any expense any means
00:26:04.980 there's nothing like that largely what he was convicted for was not what he did in advance it's what he
00:26:11.080 said afterwards something something to the effect hey you know i'm proud of you guys we did this you
00:26:14.960 know good job that that kind of stuff so there's a lot more uh evidence that could be
00:26:22.960 constricted and particularly let's be honest a dc jury is not hard to convince oh yeah right and i can
00:26:28.280 i can talk a week about just that alone having sat through these trials myself or some of them and
00:26:34.600 as a result of that the uh uh and some of these words that he used i think it was easier to connect him
00:26:43.040 to an implicit uh plan uh than than it was for the oath keepers because they had nothing i sat there
00:26:51.700 every single day for nine weeks and that trial watched it up close and personal and the prosecution
00:26:58.640 the government was losing that case two two weeks into that trial they were getting their butts handed
00:27:04.840 to them by the defense because every single fbi agent seven or nine of them testified under cross
00:27:11.480 examination that they had never seen a written or verbal so what the hell happened well they switched
00:27:18.780 the government switched gears and they went from the explicit their effort to convince the jury of
00:27:23.740 an explicit crime an explicit conspiracy to they literally switched gears and then started the
00:27:29.580 process of going for the implicit the implied conspiracy and literally saying in the trial that it was
00:27:35.300 hatched in the moment on the steps at the capitol that day because they had nothing no planning in advance
00:27:40.500 whatsoever you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program more and more americans are living
00:27:48.520 paycheck to paycheck credit card debt is skyrocketing as is the apr that's your finance when you have a
00:27:56.320 low um interest rate on any mortgage that's why you are you know lock them down um the reason why
00:28:05.320 people lose their houses and everything else if they haven't locked down their interest rate
00:28:09.640 is when interest rate goes up so does your bill and you know this it's your credit card if you are
00:28:17.880 if you're using your credit card now chances are that you are paying north of 20 percent interest
00:28:25.600 i mean that's almost loan shark kind of stuff you're getting into really bad interest rates that you'll
00:28:33.140 have a very hard time paying off so why is the interest rate on your credit card going up well a couple of
00:28:40.500 reasons um one i think the credit card companies are uh especially with big purchases they do not want to
00:28:53.300 be holding the bag uh i have a um and i only tell you this story because i think it is a marker in time
00:29:04.620 okay and we'll show you where we are i have the american express black card i've had it forever it's the
00:29:12.040 centurion card i've had it for what 25 years too i built the blaze on that credit card okay everything we
00:29:21.000 bought was on my black card we have spent millions of dollars as a company on that black card okay and
00:29:28.520 it has to be paid off every month i've never missed a payment never had a problem and literally i built
00:29:35.640 the blaze on that credit card almost every piece of equipment every camera everything
00:29:44.360 was put on that credit card for two decades i go and i try to buy something uh in um what are you
00:29:55.040 looking at two decades the blaze hasn't been around for two decades has it god am i that old
00:29:58.980 no but i've had it for two decades okay so so but when we were building parts of the company yeah and
00:30:03.760 when we were building the studios in new york city and everything else i saw that you make me feel old
00:30:09.080 okay sorry uh so i was in london and we put our london trip on it now the thing with a black card is
00:30:15.760 there's no spending limit okay you can spend i say that about every american express there's no
00:30:21.180 preset spending limit but that's not true for me and the average person and uh they may call and say
00:30:28.740 hey is this you yeah did you just put a ferrari on the card yeah they'll call you for certain things
00:30:34.960 i just bought a control room yes it's me okay so but they don't they don't do it they don't do
00:30:40.820 anything so i put my london trip on my credit card it's a normal vacation normal vacation i went and
00:30:50.400 bought something in london and they uh let me they they took it and then i went to go get an extra
00:30:59.880 suitcase because you know we were bringing gifts home and stuff like that and my credit card was
00:31:05.720 denied and we call american express and we're like we're trying to spend like two hundred dollars and
00:31:13.900 you're rejecting our card well you've you've spent a lot yes yes we have we we went on vacation we're
00:31:22.580 staying at a nice hotel and yes we've had nice dinners out and we've spent a lot well it's getting a
00:31:29.340 little high i said have you look at your computer have you seen i bought whole control rooms and
00:31:37.100 everything else on this credit card yes have you also noticed i have an a plus rating i've never
00:31:42.500 missed a payment yes so why are you calling me now rejecting the 200 suitcase well you'll have to make
00:31:50.640 uh some sort of a payment okay so wait a minute i have this card because i can put everything on it
00:31:58.460 and it's not a problem but now because i'm trying to buy a 200 suitcase you want me to make a payment
00:32:04.880 with my bank with a six hour time difference and i'm in london not real convenient well you'll have
00:32:13.080 to make a payment okay so my wife how much they told us transfer the funds done then it's rejected
00:32:22.320 again now i'm i'm standing in line at this stupid suitcase store just like this is ridiculous
00:32:28.160 and uh it's rejected again the next lady says no you have to pay it all off
00:32:34.720 i said wait a minute hang on just a second what kind of crappy ass credit card company are you
00:32:42.760 where i put it on a credit card i'm away for two weeks the payment date hasn't even come through
00:32:52.160 and you want me to pay it off halfway through the month are you out of your mind why do i have this
00:33:01.020 credit card why don't i just go electronically transfer money to the hotel and everything else
00:33:07.100 well it's just you know we just it's a little concerning are you kidding me now here's the thing
00:33:15.820 this is why i say this i believe that the credit card companies don't want to be holding the bag
00:33:24.060 i believe they're jacking up the rates they're they're uh also uh limiting things because they
00:33:33.280 don't want to be sitting there if something goes wrong and they're holding the bag for it i i that's
00:33:39.580 the only explanation i can come up with it was i've never seen anything like that from american express
00:33:46.200 and then you add on the information that these rates are going up for everybody for everybody
00:33:51.560 and it's it's going to get much worse so you've so you have the interest rates now why are the
00:33:58.400 interest rates going up the interest rates are going up because of the fed if i hear one more person
00:34:05.140 say oh you know what i think the fed's doing a good job are you out of your mind they're now playing
00:34:11.260 firefighter to their own arsony or arsonist moves when i was arson arson yeah they were the arsonists
00:34:21.320 they set fire to everything and now they come in a truck and you're like oh thank goodness they're here
00:34:29.640 and what they're doing is trying to uh make it so you don't have money to spend
00:34:38.820 you don't have a job because the the government is spending two trillion dollars in credit
00:34:49.260 okay you think your credit card's bad two trillion dollars on credit
00:34:56.300 okay so you can't rein in inflation because somebody who's a bigger spender than elon musk
00:35:09.060 is is racking up a bill on our government credit cards every year of two trillion dollars and no bank
00:35:18.440 is calling them and saying hey hey hang on just a second hang on can you before you buy that set of
00:35:24.460 luggage can you make a payment on this nobody's calling the government the banks are enabling this
00:35:31.840 the rich are getting richer the reason why they say everybody on tv you know the economy is doing
00:35:41.460 fine no it's not have you been to a grocery store have you bought eggs and milk
00:35:49.020 have you been to the gas station
00:35:52.900 standing there what was it saturday and i look at a hundred dollars to fill my car and i'm like are you
00:36:04.860 kidding me and everything is fine do you know who's getting rich on gas right now you know we we
00:36:13.720 punished uh we punished the uh the russians right because they they have to have this money
00:36:20.760 really do you know why oil is now surging right now the reason why oil is surging the reason one of
00:36:29.880 the reasons why you're paying more for gasoline is because the russians cut back on their supply
00:36:37.060 so the russians are not producing as much as they were intentionally driving the price of oil up
00:36:46.400 the saudis have joined them in that now if i'm a country that i depend on oil and i gotta sell my oil
00:36:56.080 or i'm gonna be bankrupt i don't cut back on the supply i sell as much as i possibly can
00:37:03.220 especially if saudi arabia is going to do that great let them come down drive it up to 110 a barrel and
00:37:12.920 then i'll i'll come in and i'll i'll sell it for 95 or 100 a barrel nope our petroleum reserve
00:37:25.060 is now at the lowest level since 1983 so we don't have the ability to just release a whole bunch of oil
00:37:37.000 at the meantime we are going into
00:37:45.220 electric cars
00:37:49.900 electric cars
00:37:53.800 electric cars where we don't have the cobalt
00:37:57.640 that's in africa but africa
00:38:00.800 it already has those mines and those those pits purchased by china china has the rest of it
00:38:07.860 we are doing things to our own country to kill our own economy
00:38:14.160 trump just came out and said the auto industry
00:38:19.820 will collapse because of these electric vehicles
00:38:23.360 they are doubling down on the number of vehicles
00:38:26.920 but the price is unreasonable
00:38:29.360 the price is not something
00:38:32.100 oh you know do you see tesla tesla just came out with uh you know their cars and they're they're
00:38:36.960 reducing them 25 000 oh so everybody can go out and buy a 75 000 car oh okay okay well problem solved
00:38:45.420 it's also now creating a problem with any environmental benefit that was supposed to come
00:38:52.060 uh new research shows that uh electric vehicles become eco-friendly after somewhere between 30 and
00:39:00.060 70 000 miles now sometimes it's even higher than that but somewhere between 30 and 70 000 miles is like the
00:39:06.220 break-even point if you care about whatever benefit they're supposed to give the problem though is that these
00:39:13.500 subsidies are encouraging people to turn over and buy new cars faster so they're now buying the car
00:39:21.420 before they even get to the break-even point so these families are buying electric vehicles that are
00:39:25.900 environmentalists thinking they're helping buying new ones thinking they're helping even more
00:39:30.060 and actually they're even worse
00:39:32.060 than the fossil fuel car that they left so what was the what was the car of the dictator do you
00:39:38.060 remember there was that little teeny car that was made it wasn't the zil yeah it was made in
00:39:43.900 the soviet union and now they're everywhere because they made the body yeah out of something that
00:39:50.220 will not degrade and cannot be reused okay i can't remember that i don't remember
00:39:55.660 talking about story that we watched a documentary or something yeah yeah um and it's it's this crazy
00:40:00.620 thing i think that's what we're going to be with with cars electric cars because once the battery is out
00:40:10.540 what are you going to do you're going to you're going to spend almost the same amount on a battery
00:40:16.620 to replace all the batteries as you would on a new car no you're going to buy a new car if you can afford
00:40:22.060 a new car what happens to all of those batteries what happens to them where do they go i mean
00:40:30.060 there's just there is no thinking at all we're going to do a chalkboard tonight you will understand
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