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00:00:00.000 oh my gosh stew great show great podcast the best you bet it's uh all on today's podcast we have

00:00:08.160 jason whitlock uh bjorn lumberg on with us to talk about green cars you may not like all the

00:00:15.200 things he says uh because he actually believes that you know we are all gonna die some point

00:00:20.840 uh just that's not what he says no no uh he's what i really like about bjorn lumberg is that

00:00:26.220 he goes he plays on their battlefields right like he looks at it and says okay uh here's all the

00:00:32.020 science that you say is really important we need to know i'm gonna actually read it all

00:00:35.320 and uh put it in perspective and he does a great job doing that today on the program

00:00:40.780 and we also talk a little bit about uh cancel culture it is getting real with the banks and

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00:01:26.240 matt taiby uh is a journalist who has written for rolling stone he's kind of a glenn greenwald kind

00:01:38.320 of guy a guy that i don't agree with you know very often um but he seems to be a classic liberal

00:01:45.540 um and in some regards would you agree with that uh yeah maybe i don't know how i would i mean he's

00:01:53.900 he's i've always thought of him on the left and every once in a while he writes things that you're

00:01:57.620 like oh yeah yeah like absolutely like he's right on that and he's so he and like glenn greenwald has

00:02:03.620 been pretty active in smacking down the sort of cancel culture woke wing of the democratic movement

00:02:10.800 these days two and a half years ago he writes when alex jones of info wars was kicked off a series of

00:02:17.440 tech platforms and a clearly coordinated decision i knew this was not going to be an isolated thing

00:02:22.680 given that people like connecticut senator chris murphy said on the ouster of jones it was just a good

00:02:29.600 first step it seemed obvious the tactic was not going to be confined to a few actors but corporate

00:02:35.900 media critics insisted the precedent would not be applied more broadly uh cnn's so-and-so said i don't

00:02:43.980 think that we're going to be seeing big tech take action against fox news anytime soon uh well that guy was

00:02:52.840 wrong just a few years ago a few years later calls to ban fox are not only common they're intensifying

00:03:00.640 with media voices from cnn to msnbc and former media matters critic uh to the washington post

00:03:09.720 columnists yada yada all on board the movement crested this week with a letter from california house

00:03:17.660 democrats anna eshu and jerry mcnernie written to the ceos of cable providers like comcast at&t verizon

00:03:27.020 cox and dish they demanded to know if these providers are planning to continue to continue to carry fox

00:03:34.160 news newsmax and oan i want to read point number seven from this congressional letter are you planning

00:03:42.300 to continue carrying fox news newsmax and oan on u-verse direct tv and at&t tv both now and beyond

00:03:53.760 any contract renewal date have you or have you ever been a member of a company that is carrying oan

00:04:00.980 if so why this is terrifying should it should chill every journalist to the bone uh this sequence of

00:04:16.840 events is ominous because a similar match set of hearings and interrogations back in 2017 when senators

00:04:23.000 like maizey rono and judiciary committee hearing demanded that platforms like google and facebook come up

00:04:29.540 with a mission statement to prevent the foment of discord accelerated the content moderation movement

00:04:37.980 that we now see on platforms uh sequences like this the government requests of speech reduction made to

00:04:45.160 companies subject to federal regulation make the content moderation decisions of private firms a serious

00:04:52.220 first amendment issue these things are happening this is not a figment of anyone's imagination this is

00:05:03.360 coming and we just have to be prepared and quite honestly please read martin luther king why are those

00:05:16.420 troops still in washington because they want you to react violently they need you to react violently it is

00:05:28.960 it tucker carlson talked about it i think it was last night the night before uh where he was saying

00:05:35.920 look you couldn't write this script better you couldn't be more um inflammatory than what congress

00:05:45.540 and the left is doing right now the the steps they're taking is fomenting real deep feelings in a lot in half the country

00:05:58.680 they need you to be violent because that way they can come in and they can take arms they can stop banking

00:06:08.800 they can become dictators and it is you know it was one thing to say uh barack obama was you know he wanted to be a dictator

00:06:22.100 and there's another thing to say or donald trump he wanted to be a dictator and it's a completely other thing to say

00:06:29.400 they are taking the steps to ensure an authoritarian regime and that is happening now steps are being taken

00:06:40.980 to silence those who disagree who are not in lock step and it's not just being taken by the government

00:06:51.000 it's being taken by large firms as well

00:06:55.320 i'm going to give you one more piece of news quickly um amazon has decided that it's going to

00:07:05.000 quietly end sales of books that it labels hate speech

00:07:11.780 guys this is book burning when we had physical stores they would have to go take the books off the

00:07:23.980 shelf and destroy them now you just digitally remove them and it's like it never happened

00:07:32.920 if they were actually dumping these books if they were actually destroying or burning these books

00:07:41.280 you would have the image in your mind

00:07:44.440 remember we live in a time no longer of words we live in a time of images

00:07:53.720 there was a guy who set himself on fire in tunisia months before the other guy did that is credited

00:08:01.680 in a way of starting the um the tunisian riots which led to the arab spring another guy had done that

00:08:11.100 same exact reasons he was also a push cart vendor why one and not the other because there was

00:08:20.700 no images of him setting himself on fire it's the image images have real power

00:08:29.560 why is it we can we are not all up in arms with our local school boards and our teachers and the teachers unions

00:08:42.140 just based on the number of suicides that we've had from kids

00:08:47.240 you don't ever see those pictures you don't ever hear those stories msnbc right now is running almost

00:08:58.040 as a backdrop look at they're doing it right now of the january 6th attack on the capital okay

00:09:06.880 they're running those pictures almost 24 7 they're running that videotape

00:09:12.440 because they know that's what their audience wants and they are trying to stir their audience

00:09:19.900 into hatred that's what's happening

00:09:24.560 you know what you're not seeing you're not seeing pictures of the kids who have died

00:09:30.400 you know emmett till his mother was really really smart

00:09:34.440 emmett till if you don't know who emmett till was look him up today and you're gonna see when you

00:09:41.900 look him up you're gonna see a picture of him in his coffin horribly horribly disfigured

00:09:48.720 he was a black man who's in the south but he was from chicago

00:09:53.540 he was killed brutally killed

00:09:57.380 when he was returned to his mother in chicago in the coffin she insisted

00:10:04.260 on having an open coffin because she said she wanted everyone to see

00:10:10.160 what they had done to her boy and she was right

00:10:13.860 we know emmett till's name because once you see that picture you can't unsee it

00:10:20.620 and it stirred people into action

00:10:26.440 where are the pictures on tv of people who have lost their jobs

00:10:34.660 why did we are the world and michael jackson and all these people why did that happen

00:10:41.600 why did that happen

00:10:43.620 for ethiopia ethiopia is probably starving still today i don't even know

00:10:50.040 why all of a sudden because we if you lived at that time you'll never forget the news reports

00:11:00.340 of these terribly malnourished children with the bloated stomachs sitting just dying

00:11:08.860 for just any rice you'll never forget those pictures

00:11:14.500 you are being fed pictures

00:11:18.980 of hatred

00:11:21.680 you are not seeing the pictures of suffering

00:11:26.620 right now millions of americans are suffering

00:11:32.580 are they showing the pictures

00:11:35.680 of those people in texas that are suffering

00:11:39.740 that lost everything

00:11:41.360 that that didn't have any power

00:11:44.660 how about the people who froze to death here in texas

00:11:47.960 you're not seeing those

00:11:49.360 what you are seeing

00:11:50.460 are pictures of

00:11:52.300 of ted cruz

00:11:54.440 leaving the state

00:11:56.900 to keep his family warm

00:11:58.960 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

00:12:06.180 bjorn lomborg

00:12:15.700 he is the author of false alarm

00:12:19.100 president of the copenhagen consensus center

00:12:22.560 and visiting fellow of the hoover institute

00:12:25.220 uh welcome bjorn how are you

00:12:27.340 hey glenn it's good to be back

00:12:29.760 i'm good how are you

00:12:30.660 i'm i'm good i'm i'm a little concerned

00:12:33.080 uh you know how uh

00:12:34.980 uh things are starting to be censored

00:12:37.260 here in america and things are uh

00:12:39.660 you know you're you're

00:12:41.140 they're starting to call people with a different point of view

00:12:44.120 um you know dangerous radicals and uh terrorists

00:12:48.020 um uh and i i i wonder how far this is going to go

00:12:54.140 uh we just saw amazon

00:12:56.760 ban another book yesterday

00:12:59.400 they said they're going to start deleting all books

00:13:01.760 they consider hate speech

00:13:03.080 i don't know if that's to gill a mockingbird

00:13:05.020 you know or or mein kampf or what

00:13:08.560 i just i've never lived in a country where we ban books

00:13:11.200 and i wonder if you've thought of

00:13:13.040 i mean this is not what i had you on for

00:13:14.720 but i wonder if you've ever thought of

00:13:16.180 you're you're an extremist

00:13:18.400 you don't buy into

00:13:20.020 the answers and the solutions for climate change

00:13:24.360 yeah there's a lot so look

00:13:27.820 uh my basic point is global warming is a real problem

00:13:31.300 uh but it's often vastly exaggerated in impact

00:13:34.600 and may you know a lot of the rhetoric around it

00:13:38.080 make people panicky and it makes us make bad decisions

00:13:41.940 and that's what i'm really challenging

00:13:43.560 i i've had a lot of people tell me

00:13:45.900 they would love to see me de-platformed

00:13:48.220 they'd love to not see my uh or hear my arguments

00:13:52.460 being uh voiced uh clearly

00:13:54.640 uh but but i also think that most people recognize

00:13:58.500 that's not the way to run a democracy

00:14:01.680 uh actually uh i think john stewart mill already

00:14:05.160 you know like almost 200 years ago

00:14:07.020 uh pointed out that

00:14:09.180 listening to people whom you don't agree with

00:14:12.780 is a good idea

00:14:14.520 partway if you're right

00:14:16.400 they'll prove you right

00:14:18.060 and they'll show you why you're right

00:14:19.780 and if you're wrong of course

00:14:21.160 you actually want to find out that you're wrong

00:14:23.340 so listening to dissenting voices

00:14:25.760 is a really good thing

00:14:27.300 it makes democracy stronger

00:14:28.660 and it's also likely it'll make your decision better

00:14:31.880 only if we are rooted in

00:14:34.300 you know the the scientific theory

00:14:37.000 the the you know show me the evidence

00:14:39.180 and i'll respond to the evidence

00:14:41.480 we we we're no longer doing that

00:14:45.400 there's we're just going off of

00:14:47.860 what people you know want everybody to believe

00:14:51.220 i believe in global warming

00:14:53.640 i can read a thermometer

00:14:55.100 what i don't believe in

00:14:57.300 is a lot of the things that they say

00:14:59.520 for instance the green new deal

00:15:01.080 or let's just take this first

00:15:03.120 electric cars

00:15:04.580 well that's wonderful

00:15:06.140 they're all electric

00:15:06.960 but where are we getting the power

00:15:09.100 to charge them

00:15:10.520 am i wrong on thinking that way

00:15:14.760 well well you're certainly right in your intuition

00:15:19.040 that we need a lot more than just getting

00:15:21.580 cars to be electric

00:15:23.180 because let's face it

00:15:24.540 uh as long as they're still power by coal power

00:15:26.900 uh they will emit almost as much

00:15:29.260 uh remember uh electric cars use a lot of energy

00:15:33.000 typically in china or elsewhere

00:15:34.680 mostly produced with with coal

00:15:37.500 to produce their batteries

00:15:39.380 correct and so once they get to you

00:15:41.740 you can feel all virtues and green

00:15:43.680 and drive around and feel really

00:15:45.160 you know like i'm doing something for global warming

00:15:47.480 but the reality is

00:15:48.740 you've just emitted a lot of co2

00:15:50.780 in china

00:15:51.900 uh and and so you have to drive your car

00:15:54.720 you know 40 60 000 miles

00:15:57.480 before it's actually free

00:15:59.240 and you can actually start saving

00:16:00.660 now that depends a lot on how much

00:16:03.100 of the power that you use

00:16:05.060 come from fossil fuels

00:16:06.460 but you also need

00:16:07.880 to decarbonize

00:16:09.260 the whole electricity grid

00:16:11.520 and that turns out to be

00:16:13.140 really really hard

00:16:14.420 and so again

00:16:15.460 we need to recognize

00:16:16.920 that sure electric cars

00:16:19.080 are you know

00:16:19.860 great for some purposes

00:16:21.580 if you

00:16:22.140 i i have a friend who has a tesla

00:16:24.060 and i've been driving

00:16:25.320 i love it

00:16:26.080 you know it's fun

00:16:26.840 but first of all

00:16:28.120 it's incredibly expensive

00:16:29.220 so it's mostly fun

00:16:30.300 for the upper classes

00:16:31.580 and secondly

00:16:33.100 it doesn't cut

00:16:34.620 all that much co2 0.97

00:16:36.080 uh so you know

00:16:37.520 when when biden

00:16:38.480 and many others

00:16:39.100 are suggesting

00:16:39.660 we should give subsidies

00:16:41.040 in the tune of

00:16:42.160 seven and a half thousand dollars

00:16:43.820 maybe ten thousand dollars

00:16:45.660 you are basically paying

00:16:47.540 an extraordinarily high price

00:16:49.800 to cut a little bit of co2

00:16:51.840 you could have spent that money

00:16:54.020 much much better either

00:16:55.380 cutting carbon emissions

00:16:56.420 or remember

00:16:57.520 there's a lot of other problems

00:16:59.080 that you want to fix

00:17:00.140 both in the u.s.

00:17:01.100 or around the world

00:17:01.740 so again

00:17:02.620 this is a question

00:17:03.760 about getting our priorities right

00:17:05.560 it's a question

00:17:06.300 of getting a sense of

00:17:07.180 what is the impact

00:17:09.200 of what you try to do

00:17:10.260 not just feeling virtuous

00:17:11.820 but actually doing good

00:17:13.100 so bjorn i i

00:17:14.440 i put my trust

00:17:17.280 in the free

00:17:18.760 not the corrupt capitalism

00:17:21.040 that we have now

00:17:22.020 but in the actual free market

00:17:24.200 to solve these things

00:17:26.500 and we're just not there yet

00:17:28.940 we are going to solve these things

00:17:31.220 but look at what happened to texas

00:17:33.660 now it's not entirely

00:17:35.320 because of you know

00:17:37.180 we're cutting back

00:17:38.080 and and and cutting back on

00:17:39.880 uh you know fuels

00:17:41.200 that we have grown to trust

00:17:44.300 uh you know

00:17:45.520 and gone all to windmills

00:17:46.760 but it's partially because of that

00:17:49.900 and i have no problem

00:17:51.560 i i own a farm

00:17:53.020 it's completely green energy

00:17:55.220 it's completely off the grid

00:17:56.860 it's solar

00:17:57.420 and it's wind power

00:17:58.580 and it's backed up by natural gas

00:18:01.640 if we have to

00:18:02.640 um i'm all for it

00:18:05.280 but a only the rich can afford it

00:18:08.140 and b

00:18:09.240 in i've spent

00:18:11.660 i can't tell you how much money

00:18:13.600 getting this to be stable

00:18:15.160 it's not ready yet

00:18:17.620 for prime time

00:18:18.760 no and and and certainly most people

00:18:22.420 i was actually very curious to hear

00:18:24.180 that you have backup from from gas

00:18:26.060 because most people of course

00:18:27.420 just get the backup

00:18:28.500 from the electricity grid

00:18:30.500 uh which of course

00:18:31.700 simply means that they get all the subsidies

00:18:33.920 and they push on all the cost

00:18:36.540 of uh of still driving the the rest

00:18:39.220 of the electricity system

00:18:40.300 to typically the poor rate pairs

00:18:42.880 uh so so in some sense

00:18:44.700 you're you're absolutely right

00:18:46.080 most of this

00:18:46.780 is something that supports

00:18:48.380 rich people a lot

00:18:49.860 and and supports a lot of uh

00:18:51.780 of uh virtue signaling

00:18:52.900 but actually does fairly little

00:18:54.840 to cut carbon emissions

00:18:56.140 and you're right about the idea

00:18:57.800 that what what the texas 0.96

00:18:59.540 uh uh uh uh the terrible incident

00:19:02.700 in texas last week

00:19:03.860 i think shows most clearly

00:19:05.420 not you know was it windmills fault

00:19:07.620 or was it the gas

00:19:08.480 or the cold power fire plants

00:19:10.640 or or even the nuclear plant

00:19:12.120 that that dropped off for a while

00:19:13.680 it's much more a question saying

00:19:15.540 without stable power

00:19:17.720 you're really up creek

00:19:19.480 yes society you need stable power

00:19:22.820 that's what makes us rich

00:19:24.500 if you go to many developing countries

00:19:26.360 one of the things you see

00:19:27.680 is they all have a diesel generator

00:19:29.300 because they know they can't

00:19:30.640 trust the power system

00:19:31.780 and that is one of the reasons

00:19:33.620 why they're trapped in poverty

00:19:35.100 because you don't want to invest

00:19:36.560 in a place where you don't

00:19:37.720 have sustainable power

00:19:38.880 that's why we cannot imagine

00:19:41.760 ourselves run just off of wind

00:19:44.400 and solar

00:19:44.780 although people love to say that

00:19:46.400 because what are you going to do

00:19:47.640 when the sun is not shining

00:19:48.900 and the wind is not blowing

00:19:49.860 and remember people then

00:19:52.060 you know sort of uh

00:19:53.280 facility i'm not sure

00:19:55.000 whether that's an affair

00:19:55.820 but but you know

00:19:56.860 they very easily say

00:19:58.080 oh we'll just have batteries

00:19:59.560 remember you need a lot of batteries

00:20:02.000 right now the u.s have batteries

00:20:03.540 enough to support 14 seconds

00:20:06.860 of u.s electricity consumption

00:20:08.900 oh my gosh

00:20:10.040 nowhere near being able to have that

00:20:12.040 for hours days or even season

00:20:13.880 and i will tell you

00:20:16.060 they're wildly expensive

00:20:17.800 uh they i mean you still have to

00:20:20.700 replace those batteries over time

00:20:22.760 uh and they don't hold as much

00:20:25.460 as anybody thinks they do

00:20:27.100 i mean it's you know i am on solar

00:20:29.440 and i put it all into batteries

00:20:31.160 but i'll tell you

00:20:32.220 we go a week without sunshine

00:20:34.660 we ain't using that

00:20:36.480 i mean we have these gigantic batteries

00:20:39.400 they're out

00:20:40.640 yeah

00:20:40.920 they're out

00:20:41.620 there's there was a wonderful um story

00:20:44.240 uh in uh in a little northeast

00:20:46.980 uh uh indian village

00:20:48.860 it was the first indian village

00:20:51.040 that went all uh solar

00:20:52.960 uh supported by greenpeace

00:20:54.880 uh and you know they got lots and lots of pr

00:20:58.080 uh and everybody was very excited

00:21:00.600 in this village

00:21:01.180 because they didn't have any electricity

00:21:02.740 uh so clearly uh getting some solar

00:21:05.740 electricity was better than nothing

00:21:07.340 uh but what happened when they turned it on

00:21:09.940 was of course after two hours at night

00:21:12.360 yep

00:21:12.580 everybody had depleted it

00:21:14.120 so they had to start telling people

00:21:15.860 oh you can't use this

00:21:16.840 you can't do that

00:21:17.660 oh god no not a refrigerator

00:21:19.340 uh and you know suddenly

00:21:20.960 there's a lot of things you can't do

00:21:22.860 and then when the uh when the minister

00:21:25.180 came to you know uh uh inaugurate

00:21:27.800 this whole project

00:21:28.660 uh the villagers was actually protesting

00:21:31.140 they said they didn't want fake electricity

00:21:33.900 they want real electricity

00:21:35.440 and you know because he was democratically voted in

00:21:38.160 uh they actually got a new power line

00:21:41.220 from the main grid

00:21:42.380 mostly powered by coal

00:21:43.560 uh in a couple weeks

00:21:44.840 uh and oh

00:21:46.020 and the prices dropped by two-thirds

00:21:48.080 uh and again you know

00:21:49.940 this is not to discourage

00:21:51.320 the fact that yes solar and wind have a space

00:21:54.000 and they are sometimes really good

00:21:55.940 you know in california

00:21:57.200 if you have little

00:21:58.880 if you have some solar

00:22:00.700 it can actually cut off the very top peak

00:22:03.080 uh usage uh around noon

00:22:05.600 when you need it for air conditioning

00:22:07.120 that's great

00:22:07.780 but don't believe that you can run an economy off of it

00:22:11.180 this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:22:17.880 jason whitlock

00:22:27.700 welcome to the program how are you

00:22:31.200 awesome thanks for having me

00:22:33.240 you bet i know that tiger woods was

00:22:35.440 uh kind of a big deal growing up

00:22:38.700 with you and your dad right

00:22:40.340 absolutely tiger is my favorite athlete of all time

00:22:44.520 me and my dad

00:22:46.440 you know just brought us closer together

00:22:48.620 talked about tiger more than any other athlete

00:22:51.360 tiger when i think of sports and just happy moments

00:22:55.360 it's it's tiger woods and magic johnson

00:22:57.820 when he was with the lakers

00:22:58.720 yeah uh tiger woods i think was that way for all of us

00:23:02.760 especially when his dad was alive

00:23:04.340 uh because of their relationship

00:23:06.660 and what they accomplished together

00:23:09.060 uh and uh you know i think his his spiral into trouble

00:23:14.900 it it appears to be i don't know

00:23:18.120 because i don't follow these guys at all

00:23:19.580 but it appears to be tied to

00:23:21.440 the death of his dad

00:23:23.380 and uh him making it kind of

00:23:25.640 on his own in an in a different way

00:23:28.080 is that accurate at all

00:23:29.640 yeah i think it's accurate

00:23:31.500 look and glenn i'm glad you started out

00:23:33.640 by letting me establish

00:23:35.100 i'm a huge tiger woods fan

00:23:38.220 right but i'm gonna be honest

00:23:40.440 you know when i look at tiger's life

00:23:44.260 i i say wow he was really super prepared

00:23:47.400 for golf

00:23:49.020 and nothing else

00:23:50.420 i'm not sure if he was super prepared for anything else

00:23:52.760 yeah

00:23:53.100 and that kind of fame and fortune too

00:23:56.220 is also uh really bad

00:23:58.600 especially if you lose the anchor of

00:24:00.880 of that's been guiding you the whole time

00:24:03.340 that steady hand

00:24:04.160 so do we know there was

00:24:06.580 there were no drugs or alcohol involved in this accident

00:24:09.480 do we know if he was asleep at the wheel

00:24:11.960 how did this happen

00:24:13.120 and what happened

00:24:14.220 i think i think we know

00:24:16.340 based on the police

00:24:17.360 that there was no alcohol involved

00:24:19.880 uh tiger recently had another back surgery

00:24:24.260 and so and we you know

00:24:27.060 it's been part of his history to

00:24:29.540 uh take painkillers

00:24:31.960 because he's had so many different surgeries

00:24:34.180 and he's he struggled with that problem

00:24:36.240 i'm not sure

00:24:38.100 if we'll ever know

00:24:40.060 what was in his system

00:24:41.960 at the time of this accident

00:24:43.220 maybe they took his blood

00:24:44.860 and we'll examine it

00:24:45.880 maybe they won't

00:24:47.140 i mean tiger's a huge brand for nike

00:24:49.520 and i'm sure

00:24:51.620 uh they're going to try to protect his privacy

00:24:54.880 as much as they can

00:24:56.500 sure and if they were prescription drugs

00:24:58.280 and he wasn't abusing them

00:24:59.720 i mean you know you take

00:25:01.600 you take some of these drugs for pain now

00:25:04.440 at night

00:25:05.080 this happened at seven o'clock in the morning

00:25:06.740 you're groggy still at seven o'clock in the morning

00:25:09.580 i mean you could easily fall back to sleep

00:25:11.580 and and not because of the drug

00:25:13.780 but because of the after effects of the drug

00:25:15.680 here's what i'll say glenn

00:25:18.360 and i'm a huge tiger woods fan

00:25:21.140 i mean tiger woods

00:25:22.420 can make me cry

00:25:24.260 uh but what what i would say is where

00:25:28.060 i would somewhat disagree with you is like

00:25:30.960 if i'm taking prescription drugs

00:25:33.900 and i'm worth

00:25:35.540 a half billion dollars or more

00:25:38.100 yeah i have a driver

00:25:39.460 yes true

00:25:40.300 i i i take that precaution of like

00:25:43.200 hey because of my injuries

00:25:44.780 because of my surgery

00:25:45.920 i take these prescription drugs

00:25:48.560 maybe it's best for me

00:25:50.940 not to drive

00:25:51.940 i i'm not worth nearly the money

00:25:55.040 that tiger woods is

00:25:56.300 but i basically gave up driving

00:25:59.460 four years ago

00:26:01.060 i take uber

00:26:02.300 yeah i went three straight years

00:26:04.660 without ever getting behind my car

00:26:06.300 i moved to nashville

00:26:08.040 drove you know here

00:26:09.620 drove my car here

00:26:10.760 and did some driving

00:26:11.960 and now i haven't driven

00:26:13.400 for three months i don't think

00:26:15.280 and and why is that

00:26:17.140 because of all the drugs you're taking

00:26:19.540 no it's literally

00:26:23.240 it started in la

00:26:24.720 just because i wanted to walk more

00:26:26.800 and i wanted

00:26:27.880 you know i had a

00:26:28.940 the drug

00:26:30.440 my drug of choice

00:26:31.600 is like potato chips

00:26:33.520 and payday candy bars

00:26:36.020 and i had a really bad habit

00:26:38.660 of eating those

00:26:40.040 while driving in a car

00:26:41.680 and so i just wanted to give all that up

00:26:44.980 and walk more

00:26:46.000 and just i i just felt like i had bad habits

00:26:48.620 driving a car

00:26:49.780 that i don't have

00:26:50.960 you know uber

00:26:51.660 they don't want you to eat or drink in there

00:26:53.520 and just

00:26:54.500 i just i just don't like

00:26:56.320 driving that much

00:26:57.800 and in like in 2002

00:26:59.900 i was i was doing radio

00:27:02.260 i was writing for the newspaper

00:27:03.700 i was doing tv

00:27:04.920 and i fell asleep

00:27:06.680 at the wheel of my car

00:27:08.340 and a friend of mine

00:27:10.000 was a passenger in the car

00:27:11.300 and he was a dad

00:27:12.340 and we were going to some press conference

00:27:15.300 and i was overworked

00:27:16.400 i was doing morning radio

00:27:17.560 and i fell asleep at the car

00:27:19.760 just very briefly

00:27:20.700 maybe five ten seconds

00:27:22.480 woke up

00:27:23.580 and you know

00:27:25.400 saved us

00:27:26.420 or you know

00:27:27.140 got control of the car

00:27:29.020 and blah blah blah

00:27:29.680 but that kind of changed

00:27:31.160 my point of view on driving

00:27:32.780 i i you know

00:27:34.760 fell out of love

00:27:35.920 with driving

00:27:36.820 i just

00:27:37.220 just not a responsibility

00:27:38.540 i i want to take

00:27:40.200 so what is

00:27:41.420 what have you heard

00:27:42.400 about the surgery

00:27:43.340 and i know they put a rod in

00:27:45.580 is is

00:27:46.500 he gonna walk again

00:27:48.260 and do you

00:27:49.560 have any idea

00:27:50.540 on the

00:27:51.020 based on what happened

00:27:52.640 uh in sports

00:27:54.580 do you come back

00:27:55.600 and play golf

00:27:56.420 i don't think

00:27:58.320 he comes back

00:27:59.320 i mean

00:27:59.880 this total speculation

00:28:01.160 on my part

00:28:01.780 i think the guys had like

00:28:03.020 five back surgeries

00:28:04.100 and was just recovering

00:28:05.580 from

00:28:05.960 one just now

00:28:07.880 so i would imagine

00:28:08.960 his back

00:28:10.420 won't

00:28:12.140 allow him to compete

00:28:13.380 at the highest level

00:28:14.320 i think that

00:28:15.200 his ankle getting crushed

00:28:17.100 and you know

00:28:18.240 having to be rebuilt

00:28:19.160 they said they put a rod

00:28:20.460 in his

00:28:20.860 leg

00:28:21.780 i can't imagine

00:28:23.320 let's say the recovery

00:28:25.180 is a year

00:28:26.100 or two

00:28:26.940 you know

00:28:28.060 tiger will be 47

00:28:29.300 at that time

00:28:30.500 47

00:28:31.580 when did that happen

00:28:33.680 yeah he's 45 now

00:28:35.520 so i just can't see him

00:28:37.080 competing at the level

00:28:39.060 that he wants to compete at

00:28:40.800 which is at the highest level

00:28:42.280 and so i i think

00:28:44.560 you know if i were guessing

00:28:46.300 you know

00:28:47.000 his career is over

00:28:48.300 that's a huge blow

00:28:50.680 yeah that that's

00:28:52.680 look even

00:28:53.600 at tiger

00:28:54.620 you know

00:28:55.520 half of his powers

00:28:56.820 he's still the most

00:28:58.320 compelling

00:28:58.760 television

00:28:59.680 yeah

00:29:00.100 maybe in sports

00:29:01.260 but certainly

00:29:01.820 in the world of golf

00:29:03.240 uh

00:29:04.300 you know

00:29:04.720 he's the only thing

00:29:06.140 that would

00:29:06.680 you know

00:29:07.100 he trumps everything

00:29:08.540 for me

00:29:08.960 football's my favorite sport

00:29:10.320 but if tiger

00:29:11.380 were in contention

00:29:12.820 at a major

00:29:13.540 or

00:29:13.920 hell maybe 0.95

00:29:14.620 just any golf tournament

00:29:15.760 i'd watch tiger

00:29:17.140 over football

00:29:18.000 uh

00:29:19.180 and i think a lot of people

00:29:20.320 were that way

00:29:20.860 because we thought

00:29:21.260 we were witnessing

00:29:21.940 history

00:29:22.600 and even with tiger's

00:29:24.620 personal problems

00:29:25.800 i think most people

00:29:27.060 just kind of like tiger

00:29:28.420 yeah

00:29:28.920 uh

00:29:29.480 and and just

00:29:30.480 he's hard not to like

00:29:31.900 i mean i went through

00:29:33.060 a period where

00:29:33.700 i mean again

00:29:34.240 i don't follow this stuff

00:29:35.160 but you know

00:29:35.760 the the golf club

00:29:37.300 and the car

00:29:37.780 and the wife

00:29:38.380 was a really

00:29:39.100 horrible scene

00:29:39.960 um

00:29:40.680 but it's hard

00:29:41.860 not to like him

00:29:42.840 yeah i think that

00:29:45.040 again i

00:29:46.500 good looking guy

00:29:47.880 i think people can

00:29:49.940 relate to his

00:29:51.980 he was competing

00:29:53.780 in a sport

00:29:54.480 where no one

00:29:55.220 that looked like him

00:29:56.080 had ever had

00:29:56.940 that kind of success

00:29:58.180 and i think

00:29:59.680 everybody in america

00:30:01.620 love what tiger's

00:30:04.100 success in golf

00:30:05.160 represented

00:30:06.060 and said about america

00:30:07.720 and

00:30:08.860 you know

00:30:09.860 he didn't take

00:30:10.740 big huge

00:30:11.700 political positions

00:30:13.000 and so everybody

00:30:14.340 could kind of

00:30:15.000 wrap their arms

00:30:15.680 around tiger woods

00:30:16.940 and we did

00:30:18.400 and you know

00:30:19.260 that's

00:30:19.940 i have so many

00:30:21.560 maybe you did

00:30:22.380 maybe you did

00:30:23.300 because you're 0.99

00:30:23.760 you're black 0.99

00:30:24.460 but all the white 0.99

00:30:25.400 people in america 1.00

00:30:26.320 of course are racist 0.97

00:30:27.360 and uh

00:30:28.460 we secretly

00:30:29.320 hated him

00:30:30.320 and somehow

00:30:32.720 all of you

00:30:33.600 that hated tiger

00:30:34.600 never went to

00:30:35.680 the golf course

00:30:36.420 that he was

00:30:36.860 playing at

00:30:37.460 because it would

00:30:38.440 be a sea

00:30:39.400 of white humanity

00:30:40.820 yeah

00:30:41.360 uh cheering

00:30:42.900 this guy on

00:30:43.940 and celebrating

00:30:44.640 every moment

00:30:45.420 and

00:30:46.180 so you know

00:30:47.420 let me

00:30:48.360 let me ask you

00:30:49.440 one more question

00:30:49.980 on this

00:30:50.420 do you know

00:30:51.880 enough about

00:30:52.660 tiger woods

00:30:53.820 uh

00:30:54.980 to know

00:30:55.780 how a guy

00:30:56.880 who was

00:30:57.800 built from

00:30:59.020 the beginning

00:30:59.780 of his childhood

00:31:00.960 to compete

00:31:02.400 and to play

00:31:03.420 golf

00:31:03.940 and to

00:31:04.840 and then

00:31:05.800 become

00:31:06.580 such an icon

00:31:08.400 at 47

00:31:10.340 years old

00:31:11.280 45 years old

00:31:12.180 just to kind of

00:31:13.240 not be able

00:31:14.540 to do that

00:31:15.240 anymore

00:31:15.600 not command

00:31:16.380 that spotlight

00:31:17.320 for his

00:31:18.140 athletic

00:31:19.120 abilities

00:31:20.420 how is that

00:31:21.660 going to affect

00:31:22.320 him mentally 0.65

00:31:23.080 do you have

00:31:23.540 any idea

00:31:24.180 i think he's

00:31:25.820 been prepared

00:31:27.480 for that

00:31:28.200 over the last

00:31:29.060 few years

00:31:29.700 because he's

00:31:30.460 had so many

00:31:31.140 injuries

00:31:31.640 and missed

00:31:32.500 large chunks

00:31:33.920 of time

00:31:34.580 a year off

00:31:35.560 year and a half

00:31:36.640 off

00:31:37.020 for this injury

00:31:38.040 or that injury

00:31:38.760 i think that

00:31:40.040 tiger has

00:31:41.040 authentically

00:31:42.560 transitioned

00:31:43.380 into being

00:31:45.000 really into

00:31:45.760 his kids

00:31:46.580 and i think

00:31:48.540 you would think

00:31:49.860 he's sitting

00:31:50.400 in the hospital

00:31:51.020 bed like 0.94

00:31:51.700 oh my god

00:31:52.520 if i can just

00:31:53.640 walk again

00:31:54.300 and play with

00:31:54.860 my kids

00:31:55.540 and help my

00:31:56.120 son with his

00:31:56.940 golf game

00:31:57.560 and my daughter

00:31:58.180 with her golf

00:31:58.960 game

00:31:59.240 that will be

00:32:00.860 fulfilling

00:32:01.420 enough for

00:32:03.120 tiger

00:32:03.520 i want to add

00:32:04.700 one thing

00:32:05.580 glenn before

00:32:06.280 we transition

00:32:07.100 to something

00:32:07.520 else but

00:32:08.020 the other

00:32:09.040 thought i've

00:32:09.580 had about

00:32:10.060 tiger and

00:32:10.940 this just

00:32:11.820 the way

00:32:12.440 the last

00:32:13.040 10 years

00:32:13.460 of his

00:32:13.700 life has

00:32:14.100 gone

00:32:14.360 it's kind

00:32:15.360 of starting

00:32:15.700 to remind

00:32:16.180 me of

00:32:16.540 like michael

00:32:17.100 jackson

00:32:17.560 michael jackson

00:32:18.280 was a big

00:32:19.020 part of my

00:32:19.800 childhood

00:32:20.340 and memories

00:32:21.220 and i was

00:32:21.620 just big

00:32:22.340 michael jackson

00:32:23.140 jackson 5 fan

00:32:24.220 and then he

00:32:25.420 got involved

00:32:26.200 in controversies

00:32:27.700 and identity

00:32:29.900 issues and

00:32:31.200 skin you know

00:32:32.440 all of that

00:32:34.160 children

00:32:34.660 yeah

00:32:35.640 and i just

00:32:36.900 it's like

00:32:38.020 my memories

00:32:39.100 of michael

00:32:39.760 are blurred

00:32:40.440 i remember him

00:32:41.480 as much for

00:32:42.360 the tragedies

00:32:43.260 and controversies

00:32:44.360 as i do

00:32:45.500 for his

00:32:45.960 singing career

00:32:46.880 and and i

00:32:48.100 just think

00:32:49.440 michael's

00:32:50.380 weirdness or

00:32:51.300 whatever it

00:32:52.040 was that was

00:32:52.580 going on with

00:32:53.100 michael i

00:32:54.500 just he was

00:32:55.140 a prodigy

00:32:55.920 like tiger

00:32:57.400 whose dad

00:32:58.400 drove him

00:32:59.480 correct

00:32:59.900 whose dad

00:33:00.700 you know

00:33:01.460 made him

00:33:02.560 music music

00:33:03.440 and you're

00:33:03.960 going to be

00:33:04.260 and and

00:33:05.500 i just it

00:33:06.860 makes me

00:33:07.260 like wow

00:33:08.180 as much as

00:33:09.140 i love tiger

00:33:10.740 and what

00:33:11.520 he was

00:33:11.780 accomplished

00:33:12.200 i don't

00:33:12.800 think i

00:33:13.100 would want

00:33:13.480 his life

00:33:14.100 and as

00:33:14.640 much as

00:33:15.000 i love

00:33:15.360 michael jackson's

00:33:16.260 music i

00:33:16.780 certainly wouldn't

00:33:17.380 want his

00:33:17.940 life

00:33:18.300 yeah i

00:33:19.120 wouldn't want

00:33:19.560 to be a

00:33:19.940 prodigy

00:33:21.080 well you get

00:33:21.640 all the jesus

00:33:22.220 juice you want

00:33:22.940 if you were

00:33:23.440 michael jackson

00:33:24.040 but i you know

00:33:24.940 what i think

00:33:25.540 you're exactly

00:33:26.140 right and i

00:33:27.140 think that's

00:33:27.620 why people

00:33:28.200 are paid

00:33:29.160 so much

00:33:30.740 money in

00:33:31.580 the end

00:33:32.160 is you

00:33:33.260 give up

00:33:34.100 an awful

00:33:35.120 lot i mean

00:33:35.940 it's one

00:33:36.400 thing to

00:33:36.940 be a

00:33:37.460 star

00:33:37.740 especially

00:33:38.180 at their

00:33:38.800 level

00:33:39.240 but if

00:33:41.040 you're at

00:33:41.460 their level

00:33:42.200 from childhood

00:33:43.580 you you do

00:33:45.320 not have a

00:33:46.820 normal life

00:33:47.680 at all

00:33:48.400 and uh

00:33:49.800 you kind of

00:33:50.940 demanded in a

00:33:52.220 you know pound

00:33:52.980 of flesh or

00:33:53.600 you know a

00:33:54.600 pound of gold

00:33:55.340 uh but it

00:33:56.780 doesn't buy back

00:33:57.800 all the things

00:33:58.400 that you lost

00:33:58.940 na na na na

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