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Bill O'Reilly, Dan Bongino, and Chad Prather join Glenn Beck to discuss everything that went on this week in the world of policing, including the recent shooting of a police officer in Minneapolis, and the mayor's plan to take guns away from police officers during traffic stops.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today, Bill O'Reilly joins us. He's here for the hour to talk about
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everything that went on this week. We have Dan Bongino on as well. And Chad Prather joins us
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as well to talk about his run for governor of Texas. And of course, the terrible decision
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of starting a run for governor of Texas by coming on my stupid show to do a power hour in which he
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has one shot of beer every minute for 60 minutes and then attempts to talk politics with all of us.
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That's going on tonight. Don't miss it. You go to youtube.com slash stew does America. You can
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subscribe to the channel there and watch the show. Drink along with us. We'd love that. It's been a
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long year. Let's forget as much of it as we can. Here's the podcast. You're listening to the best
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of the Glenn Beck program. Our next guest is a friend of the program, friend of mine,
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and somebody that I have a business opportunity I'd like to suggest. Dan Bongino is joining us. Dan,
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have you ever thought about signing a big deal to go on a tour with Geraldo Rivera? Because you'd
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never have to go because you'd never get a chance to talk. So you could make money literally in your
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sleep. First, first of all, let me ask you, Dan. I love it. I'm always open for a business opportunity.
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I love that. Let's quickly. Let me just let me just ask you first. How are you feeling? How are you doing?
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Yeah, doing good. I appreciate that. Thanks for asking. Doing okay. Doing okay. So always praying every day.
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Doing good. How long away are you or how far away are you from getting all clear?
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Well, May 3rd, I have a scan out at MD Anderson in Houston and hoping that one turns up negative. And
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you know, if it does, it's a battle for the rest of your life. You know, we've got to go scan all the
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time, but let's hope it's okay. I think we're praying for you. All right. Let's talk a little bit
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about the insane idea now from the mayor of Minneapolis of taking guns away from police officers,
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but really only at traffic stops. Cause that's not dangerous at all for them.
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Yeah. Yeah. Listen, there are two scenarios in policing that pretty much every cop, and I know,
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you know, a lot of them will tell you that, uh, that are the most dangerous traffic stops and
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domestic violence calls, uh, the most dangerous, I would say, hands down. Now, why is that? You know,
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if you're thinking logically, not like, you know, the mayor of Brooklyn, uh, center,
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who said that absurdity there, that they shouldn't have guns on some traffic stops,
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the reasons why, if you're using reasoners are self-explanatory, we're, we're visual creatures,
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right? We're not bats. We're not dogs. You know, bats use what, uh, echo location, um, dogs use
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olfaction and smell. We're visual creatures. So when you're approaching someone in the street outside of
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a vehicle, you can typically ask them to see their hands. So Glenn, here's a minute. This is really
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going to be crazy for the liberals listening. You can see the hands, you know, eyeballs don't shoot,
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knees don't shoot, elbows don't shoot, fingers do. Fingers are located on hands. This is all news
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to liberals. Okay. So you can see them. The problem when you're approaching a vehicle and why they're
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so dangerous is a vehicle is a contained box on wheels. Again, news to liberals. You can't see
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what's inside the vehicle until you approach the vehicle. And if someone is going to shoot you,
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God forbid, as a police officer and you have to react to it, they know what they're going to do
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before you know how to react. So by the time you see it, you could be already dead. Tragically,
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like that officer in New Mexico, we saw that video for. So again, this is just reason. I know that's
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difficult for liberals to get through their heads, but that's the stupidity of asking an officer in
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his most dangerous situation to not be armed with a firearm. Dan, let me, let me ask you, let me
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branch out here and let's look at the whole landscape of what's going on. You've pushed
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people to the brink with COVID. Even the director, national director of intelligence has come out and
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said there are going to be revolutions around the world and instability because of COVID and because
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of what's going to happen to economies and people aren't able to get goods and services. They're not
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able to go to work, et cetera, et cetera. So the director of national intelligence says there's a
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problem and it's going to be revolutions. It will, it will take a semi-stable countries and
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destabilize them because there will be migrants that rush into those countries and destabilize
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that country. We have all these things going on. The Supreme court now, maybe 13, maybe the
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filibuster. Hey, let's make Puerto Rico and Washington DC a state. Yeah. Yeah. What, what,
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what, what is going to happen here? Well, I, I hope, I hope this conversation we're about to have
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is looked at in four or five years and everybody said, Oh, Dan and Glenn, that was all crazy. I mean
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that I, I, I genuinely hope that this conversation's left off in a few years. Unfortunately, um, because,
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uh, you know, I had an AP history class in high school and the teacher was, he was a Democrat,
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but he was a smart guy. And he said, you know, the reasons you don't have societal chaos in places
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like the United States and you likely won't in the future. Thank God is because we have a middle
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class. Um, and people in the middle class have a lot to lose. You know, the rich are usually powerful.
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They insulate themselves. The poor have nothing to lose. A lot of poor people and countries with a lot
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of poor people, you see revolutions precisely because they have nothing to lose. We have a pretty
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vibrant middle class, despite the left's protestations otherwise, but you accurately stated
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in the Corona era where we've used Corona virus as an excuse to evaporate pretty much all of our
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God-given big, our rights, right? Glenn, I mean, let's walk them through one by one, right?
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You had, you previously thought you had the freedom to assemble, um, using Corona virus,
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the left that says, no, no, you can't assemble. Matter of fact, if we see you in groups of
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four or five or larger in a home praying, uh, we're going to basically come in and, and, you know,
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either lock you up or prevent that. You can't practice your religion. You weren't allowed in church.
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I mean, we could go through these rights one by one. Um, even the right freedom of press,
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right? Yes. All of them. All of them. Yeah. I mean, you and I are in conservative media. Um,
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there's a threat of, of being banned from the public space, the new public space on YouTube
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and Twitter every day. Liberals don't have this problem. So every one of those rights has been
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under attack using either the guise of, uh, identity politics or Corona virus. So what's the
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consequence of that? Well, the consequence is obvious. You start to lose the middle classes,
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their businesses are taken away, their right to practice their religion. And you incentivize
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exactly what you open the conversation with people who have nothing to lose,
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You are a former secret service, uh, agent, and you're not just a treasury agent, or, you know,
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I worked in a secret service in, you know, wherever you were actually in the white house when we first
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met, I, I swear, I think you were the body double for, uh, Barack Obama. Cause you look a lot like
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him from a distance. And now a lot of liberals would be like, we should have targeted him. Uh,
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maybe. Oh, Dan, it looks like his audio kind of cut out here. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We kind of lost
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them here in the middle. I mean, that's what happens, you know, silencing, silencing the voices
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of conservatives once again. Uh, Dan, I like how you picked that up. That was just seamless. See,
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as broadcast professionals, all of us, right. Right. I have the luxury of being taped a lot on my
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podcast, but doing some live villains on Fox, boom, you bounce right in there. And you just,
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you have to have a, you have to have a line ready to go in your head. Like my thoughts on the matter,
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right? I like how you did that very, very tight. Thank you. Can you guys hear me now? Yeah,
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we can hear you now, Glenn. Yeah, I'm sorry. We have a, how, how this happens. You broadcast
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professionals bounce right in when there's a technical. Yeah. Well, we're having a rainstorm here,
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but, uh, the state of Texas has guaranteed me that we'll never have a loss of power. So,
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uh, I'm sure we're set. Uh, so Dan, uh, you said, and you watched these people and you told me the
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first time we met the first time you really started questioning things was you were watching them
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watch me on Fox and you realize some of the things that you, that I was saying, they were like,
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what the hell? How, how does he even know this? Uh, and it was just because I was,
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right. Glenn, they were obsessed. Remember that thing you did on Van Jones?
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Yeah. I mean, you, you single handedly at the time probably got them to say, Hey,
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maybe this wasn't the best hire. They could not take it to you and Hannity. They were obsessed with
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you. Yeah. And that wasn't a joke. That wasn't hyperbolic. And I told you that.
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So, but you sat there and you said, I've had my eyes opened because I've, I'm, I'm seeing,
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and I'm listening and I'm seeing what you're saying. And then I'm what they're saying and what
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they're doing. And, uh, I really need to stop because I'm, I'm in the wrong place. I need to
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speak out and I need to stand against this. Uh, and yeah, I mean, you're seeing what's happening.
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Do you believe that this is all just a matter of coincidence and they're all, they're all really
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have the best ideas and, and gee, the Supreme court thing, we're not really going to do that.
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That's not really our intention. I mean, they are acting like fascists and they're doing it with
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Coca-Cola and all the rest of them on board. I listen, I'm glad you use the F word and I'm not
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talking about the FCCF word. I'm talking about the fascist word, because I said this on my show
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the other day. Uh, why are we not calling it what it is? You know, we're living in a society
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where 40% of the people are living a lie. We're living a, an actual lie right now. Donald Trump
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colluded with the Russians. I mean, we're, you know, uh, the officer in, uh, in this shooting of
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Daunte Wright was a, was a racist, no evidence of that whatsoever. We, nobody even knows that
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yet. People are just living a lie. And, and, and it's a time like that where it takes truth
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tellers to speak the truth and use the descriptions that are accurate for what's happening right now.
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We have people, as we just discussed, trying to wipe out your freedom to practice religion,
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your freedom, your freedom to participate in an open forum and, uh, in a public, in a new public
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space and social media, people preventing your right to assemble. This is scary stuff. And when
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you realize Glenn, that this is not an accident, as you actually, as you accurately just stated,
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this is being done intentionally, body blows to soften you up, to get used to the wiping out of
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your big R God given rights and replacing it with subjective government values. All of a sudden you
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say, like I did when I left the secret service, holy, you know, fill in the blanks. I'm not going
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to be a part of this. And I'm wondering where more truth tellers are. I mean, you see the story
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yesterday with the whole Russia debacle, but the intelligence community at the top, a lot of it's
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been corrupted. You know, this whole Russia about the story, bounty story was fake, totally fake.
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And then we see this other story conveniently comes out the same day. Oh, look, this Constantine
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Kalimnik was the source for Paul Manafort, whatever. And then we find out he was a source
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for the Obama administration too. This is all being done to foster a narrative and none of it is to
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advance your big R God given rights. None of it. And you have people, I don't know what their
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motivation is, but you have even Lori Lightfoot. They're the Adam Toledo shooting. Are you familiar
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with this? The, uh, the guy that the guy was shot back in March and they withheld the tape. And let
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me just play real quick. The, the, uh, 12 seconds of footage. Okay. They shoot him. And when you see
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that, you're like, Oh my gosh, they shot an unarmed man. They never released the videotape. They
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released that, but they never really released the videotape until I think a couple of days ago.
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And you, if you look at it frame by frame, you see this, but the frame up there, he is standing
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there with a gun behind his back. Now the cop, he knows his standing right. Bladed off. So you can't
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see his right. What did I just tell you? Hands shoot, not elbows, not shoulders, right? You can't
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see his right hand, the hand he has the pistol in. When you see the gun, you, all of a sudden he
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drops the gun, but then the hand, because he's bladed off, you can't see anymore. So he didn't
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know he didn't have the gun, but nobody's going to tell you that because it doesn't advance their
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narrative. Dan Bongino, uh, let me know about the test, man. Uh, we'll keep praying for you.
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God bless you. Thank you for everything you're doing. Um, and, uh, thanks for being on the
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program. Appreciate it. Thanks buddy. Talk to you soon.
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Stu, uh, I just, I need your help, uh, on, uh, this story because I'm going to lose my ever
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The Biden administration now sees hydrogen as the Swiss army knife for eliminating emissions.
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No, the Biden administration in all types of industry now are saying we should develop
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domestic hydrogen as a linchpin in our economy and the linchpin in our effort to eliminate
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Hmm. Now, why could I, why would I possibly be wildly upset?
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Well, I remember sitting out front of a, in Columbus circle out in front of the old CNN
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building and watching you get out of a car from general motors that ran on hydrogen, ran on hydrogen.
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Yeah, I remember zero emissions, zero emissions. And you remember what I said to the maker GM? Do you remember what I said about that?
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I remember you saying it was a pretty amazing car and that it could really easily be the future if it was just embraced.
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Yeah. Yeah. And he said, no, the, the government has embraced it. Uh, we've already got a deal with one of the major gas station chains.
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They're going to be having hydrogen stations. All of it. This is going to be done in the next 10 to 15 years.
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Hydrogen is the future. And I said, the left will never allow you to do it.
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And what was the first thing the Obama administration did? The first thing they did when they get into office.
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I don't remember the exact details. I just remember they tanked the hydrogen car.
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Yeah. Yeah. They tanked the hydrogen car. And then when they gave GM a bailout, they said, yeah, you need to go with a Chevy Volt because that thing's hot.
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I mean, really hot. Oh, I can't, I can't take government getting involved in absolutely everything.
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Hydrogen is the future. Zero, um, emissions. Now, do you know how we make hydrogen?
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Well, we don't have to mine anything. All we need to do is take the water that is being used as a coolant for our nuclear power plants.
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And instead of having our nuclear power plants powered down, which they don't ever have to do power down in the middle of the night while everybody's going seepy, seep.
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They then make that, uh, they zap that water and take out the O and get the H.
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That's how you make an unlimited supply of energy. It's really complex and very dangerous for the planet.
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I can't take it now. Um, in the no kidding. In fact, we have the, the Sherlock.
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I think this is appropriate because I've got a few of these that are just a little obvious. You have them, Sarah?
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Okay. Let me start with a story. Um, a majority of students now say it's unfair for non-college educated taxpayers to bail out student loans.
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She's still looking for it. I would just, uh, we're having all sorts of, it's one of those days.
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No kidding. No kidding. It's unfair. Now, I'd like to, now that you're using your thinking caps,
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and you're like, oh, it's a, it's a wrong to have, it's unfair to have somebody who didn't go to college pay for my college.
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Good for you, who's thinking. Now, let me take you a step further.
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For people who did go to college, and they did come up somehow or another with all that money to pay for that college
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Why is it fair for them to pay for yours after they've paid for theirs?
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Ha ha ha! Yeah, I know. It's kind of a brain bender, isn't it?