The Glenn Beck Program - August 18, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Gabriel Nadales & Stephen Moore ｜ 8⧸18⧸22


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48 minutes

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7,985

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690

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Glenn and Stu are joined by Dr. Stephen Moore to discuss the latest in the Global Monkeypox Epidemic and why Glenn should be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. They also discuss the growing problem of sex between men and the monkeypox virus.

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00:00:00.000 Wow, Stu, I mean, I don't know how we do this show every day.
00:00:02.940 I mean, it gets better and better every day, doesn't it?
00:00:05.140 Yeah, yeah, it really does.
00:00:07.780 No, wait, it's...
00:00:08.860 No, I was talking about another podcast.
00:00:10.960 Oh, yeah, that's right.
00:00:12.820 This one is, you know...
00:00:14.220 Anyway, we're glad you're here.
00:00:15.760 It is a really good show today.
00:00:17.320 We covered a lot of things.
00:00:18.260 We had Stephen Moore on today.
00:00:20.980 Fascinating and strangely very funny look at what is happening to our country.
00:00:26.980 It's the only way you can deal with us right now.
00:00:28.500 You just need to laugh at it.
00:00:29.500 It really is.
00:00:30.340 Very important and, again, shocking monkeypox update.
00:00:34.700 Yeah, stunning.
00:00:35.420 I was stunned by this one.
00:00:36.920 Yeah, and...
00:00:37.560 Also, we talked to a guy who was in Antifa.
00:00:39.760 Yeah.
00:00:40.300 Well, I mean, not currently.
00:00:41.680 He was.
00:00:42.360 That's why what the use of was means formerly.
00:00:45.680 That's what the word actually means.
00:00:47.760 Thank you, word doctor.
00:00:48.100 You didn't seem to understand that.
00:00:49.380 I'm a doctor, man.
00:00:49.680 Now that you're telling me that is obvious.
00:00:51.000 Are you a doctor?
00:00:51.740 Are you a doctor?
00:00:52.540 I'm not a doctor.
00:00:53.100 I am a doctor from a highly respected university.
00:00:56.260 And you're in the Radio Hall of Fame,
00:00:57.960 which is something we investigate early in the program today.
00:01:01.420 I was a little sleepy.
00:01:02.580 A little sleepy.
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00:02:31.100 From theblaze.com, Smith & Wesson President, CEO Mark Smith.
00:02:36.800 Smith has issued a statement in which he said that politicians who have denigrated the gun manufacturer have actually contributed to the nation's crime problem due to the policies they support.
00:02:50.280 That's crazy.
00:02:53.140 Oh, wait a minute.
00:02:53.900 I'm on the wrong story.
00:02:56.000 I'm sorry.
00:02:56.740 We're on a monkey pox.
00:02:57.720 I was just enjoying the music there for a second.
00:03:00.300 I was going to say, I thought the monkey pox update was a little different than that.
00:03:03.260 If you wouldn't have looked at me with that face that you just made, I would have had no eye.
00:03:06.980 I would have continued to go on and did the Smith & Wesson thing and said, there's your monkey pox update. 0.98
00:03:12.180 I mean, can we get him in the Hall of Fame for a second time?
00:03:14.760 Is that possible?
00:03:15.640 I am so tired.
00:03:16.960 And there you have it.
00:03:18.660 Another example of why Glenn Beck is in the radio Hall of Fame.
00:03:22.660 Give me the monkey pox update music.
00:03:27.440 Sex between men.
00:03:29.600 There we go.
00:03:30.860 Not skin contact.
00:03:32.840 Uh-oh.
00:03:33.300 Is fueling monkey pox. 0.65
00:03:34.820 Oh, no.
00:03:35.360 This is according to NBC News and, quote, new research.
00:03:42.520 Since the outset of the global monkey pox outbreak in May, public health and infectious disease experts have told the public that the virus is largely transmitting through skin-to-skin contact.
00:03:52.660 In particular, during sex between men.
00:03:56.840 Now, however, an expanding cadre of experts have come to believe that sex between men itself is likely the main driver of the global monkey pox transmission.
00:04:14.500 No.
00:04:14.980 Yes.
00:04:15.380 I won't hear it.
00:04:16.420 Now, I don't know how they're differentiating here because I think sex requires some skin-to-skin contact.
00:04:27.260 Usually does.
00:04:28.020 Yeah.
00:04:28.240 I mean, unless they're doing it differently than I am.
00:04:32.280 Well, I believe they are in this particular case.
00:04:34.500 Good point.
00:04:35.660 Well, I'm too tired to do this show today.
00:04:37.720 Very good point.
00:04:38.840 A growing body of scientific evidence, follow the science, including a trio of studies published in peer-reviewed journals, so you know you can trust it, as well as reports from national, regional, and global health authorities.
00:04:52.660 Well, now you got me.
00:04:54.500 This is absolutely true.
00:04:56.360 Has suggested that experts may have framed monkey pox typical transmission route precisely backward.
00:05:05.060 But other than that, they're nailing yet another pandemic in action.
00:05:08.760 But why did they?
00:05:09.720 Why was this backward?
00:05:11.660 We all know.
00:05:12.660 Why was this backward?
00:05:13.820 PC, right?
00:05:14.800 Exactly right.
00:05:15.380 They didn't want to say that it could come from sex, actual sex.
00:05:20.540 And part of it you can understand because you didn't want to do that with HIV because HIV, remember, it became a gay thing and it wasn't a gay thing.
00:05:30.480 I mean, you could get it through blood, et cetera, et cetera.
00:05:33.960 So they didn't want to make monkey pox a gay thing. 0.93
00:05:38.140 Well, that and they also wanted to be politically correct.
00:05:42.640 I mean, if they didn't want to make it a gay thing, they should have also said, just said, you know what? 0.58
00:05:48.740 But it's happening in the homosexual community by and large, and so you should just avoid, you know, the orgies and the bath spas and stuff like that. 1.00
00:06:02.660 But they didn't do it.
00:06:03.500 And it wasn't even just the LGBTQQIA2 plus concerns here.
00:06:09.380 It was also just, they couldn't even say, how about just stop some promiscuous sex for a while until it goes away?
00:06:14.080 They couldn't even say that.
00:06:14.700 Just be with your monogamous partner. 1.00
00:06:16.900 You want to have, you know.
00:06:18.060 Protect yourself and don't do it for now.
00:06:20.180 Yes, they didn't do it.
00:06:21.020 No.
00:06:21.200 So what a surprise those who tell us to follow the science didn't follow the science and got it precisely, quote, backwards, which...
00:06:35.200 Shocking.
00:06:36.420 I'm not going to...
00:06:37.240 Monkey pox! 0.52
00:06:41.720 I've got another monkey pox update.
00:06:45.340 Well, we still have the theme.
00:06:47.420 We do?
00:06:47.940 We have a theme for it?
00:06:49.080 Yeah.
00:06:50.020 The monkey pox theme is still available.
00:06:52.340 We can play it as many times as we want.
00:06:55.440 Should we save it or should we do it now?
00:06:57.580 It's another...
00:06:58.900 You're right, Stu.
00:07:00.300 I mean, this is science, man.
00:07:02.260 People are suffering.
00:07:03.280 No.
00:07:04.480 You know, we've got to get the facts out.
00:07:06.100 Right.
00:07:07.420 Now, I'm...
00:07:09.080 This is such a stupid show.
00:07:12.500 It is.
00:07:12.920 Don't worry, the world's burning down, but we're doing this.
00:07:16.580 I just love the...
00:07:17.620 Because I know this has happened to me several times.
00:07:19.440 You're walking down the aisle of a grocery store and you're just saying monkey pox.
00:07:24.280 And you're just like, how weird must that look to a passerby?
00:07:28.440 Okay, so in a completely unrelated story to the last monkey pox update, gerbils...
00:07:42.800 I'm not making this up.
00:07:46.000 Gerbils and hamsters may have to be put down...
00:07:50.100 No.
00:07:51.020 ...in order to control the spread of monkey pox.
00:07:54.620 Oh, no.
00:07:55.660 Now, it's not everybody's gerbil.
00:07:59.700 It is just the gerbils that are found in the houses of people with monkey pox.
00:08:07.160 Oh.
00:08:09.320 Okay.
00:08:14.440 Sometimes...
00:08:15.000 Truth is stranger than fiction.
00:08:17.280 Sometimes...
00:08:18.800 Truth is uncomfortable.
00:08:20.360 And sometimes more detail of a news story is not necessary.
00:08:26.720 Swear to you, that is an actual news story today.
00:08:30.320 All right.
00:08:33.420 May I...
00:08:34.360 May I now do the story on Smith & Wesson?
00:08:38.180 Yeah.
00:08:38.360 Smith & Wesson president, CEO Mark Smith, issued a statement in which he said that politicians
00:08:46.380 have denigrated the gun manufacturers and they have actually contributed to the nation's
00:08:53.920 crime problem due to the policies that they support.
00:08:56.580 Now, I find this absolutely outrageous, Stu.
00:08:59.960 There's no way, no way, that they have played any role whatsoever in any of this.
00:09:07.980 Right?
00:09:09.080 Right.
00:09:10.220 A number of...
00:09:11.080 Quoting...
00:09:11.600 A number of politicians and their lobbying partners in the media have recently sought to
00:09:15.780 disparage Smith & Wesson.
00:09:18.040 Did you hear what he just wrote?
00:09:19.940 A number of politicians and their lobbying partners in the media have recently sought to disparage
00:09:28.460 Smith & Wesson.
00:09:29.300 Some have had the audacity to suggest that after they have vilified, undermined, and defunded
00:09:36.860 law enforcement for years, supported prosecutors who refused to hold criminals accountable for
00:09:42.560 their actions, overseen the decay of our country's mental health infrastructure, and generally promoted 0.59
00:09:48.620 a culture of lawlessness that Smith & Wesson and other firearm manufacturers are somehow
00:09:54.800 responsible for the crime wave that has predictedly resulted from these destructive policies.
00:10:02.360 What a lying, conniving, evil capitalist.
00:10:13.460 But they are the ones to blame for the surge in violence and lawlessness, and they seek
00:10:19.820 to avoid any responsibility for the crisis of violence that they have created by attempting
00:10:25.520 to shift blame to Smith & Wesson and other firearm manufacturers and law-abiding gun owners.
00:10:32.400 Many politicians remain staunch advocates for gun control.
00:10:43.960 Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the assault weapons ban of 2022, though
00:10:49.820 the bill probably not going to make it through the Senate.
00:10:52.460 While the term gun violence has become a commonplace expression, guns do not commit the crimes.
00:11:02.300 To be clear, a Smith & Wesson firearm, says the CEO, has never broken into a home.
00:11:08.320 A Smith & Wesson firearm has never assaulted a woman out for a late-night run in the city.
00:11:13.660 A Smith & Wesson firearm has never carjacked an unsuspecting driver stopped at a traffic light.
00:11:20.200 But I will tell you right now, if I am ever pulled over on the side of the road by a Smith & Wesson weapon
00:11:28.960 and it demands my car, I think I'm going to happily give it to it.
00:11:35.080 I would like a selfie with that gun, you know what I mean?
00:11:39.800 Maybe using its cell phone.
00:11:43.340 Instead, Smith & Wesson provides citizens with the means to protect themselves and their families.
00:11:48.200 We will never back down in our defense of the Second Amendment.
00:11:53.040 The Second Amendment of the Constitution states a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state.
00:12:00.340 The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:12:06.840 Now, I personally like his response.
00:12:10.960 You know, but sometimes I just can't see common sense.
00:12:18.460 So now, let's look at what the politicians are saying.
00:12:23.900 The Oversight Committee Chair, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney from New York,
00:12:31.180 pushed back on his remarks in a statement to CNBC.
00:12:34.960 I'm sorry, to CNBC.
00:12:37.220 She said, the CEO of Smith & Wesson refused to testify before my committee
00:12:42.920 and face the families who have lost loved ones because of his company's weapons of war.
00:12:49.180 The committee will not permit Smith & Wesson to dodge accountability
00:12:54.040 or to obscure the gun industry's role in all of this violence.
00:13:00.440 They're not going to do it, Stu.
00:13:03.000 A number of politicians...
00:13:04.740 No, wait, wait, wait.
00:13:06.440 She said...
00:13:08.900 Oh, jeez.
00:13:11.120 Why is everything going wrong on me today?
00:13:14.200 The Oversight Committee has been investigating America's firearm industry.
00:13:17.860 According to the panel, major gun manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson,
00:13:21.160 have made over a billion dollars in the last decade selling military-style weapons.
00:13:27.480 Okay.
00:13:30.880 She goes on and she says,
00:13:33.540 as the world watches the families of Parkland victims relive their trauma through a shooter's trial,
00:13:39.820 it is unconscionable that Smith & Wesson is still refusing to take responsibility
00:13:44.680 for selling the assault weapons used to massacre Americans.
00:13:51.300 She says that his statement shows how afraid they really are.
00:13:57.480 Okay.
00:13:58.000 I got a couple of things.
00:13:58.860 First of all, I don't think they deny selling the weapons,
00:14:03.700 or I should say, producing the weapons that were sold to people who then use them incorrectly.
00:14:10.980 I'm not going to sue the lawnmower people
00:14:14.480 if somebody comes at me with a lawnmower
00:14:18.100 and they're holding it up like it's a fan
00:14:21.320 and just shred me like baloney.
00:14:24.180 Baloney.
00:14:24.620 I'm not going to sue.
00:14:27.480 I can't believe the lawnmower industry will not.
00:14:33.800 Why are chainsaws still available when we've got this Jason guy out with a chainsaw?
00:14:42.400 Why?
00:14:43.060 I don't know.
00:14:45.700 Jason's crazy.
00:14:46.920 It's not the chainsaw's fault.
00:14:49.280 I believe it's Texas Chainsaw Massacre who they'd be killing with the chainsaws.
00:14:53.680 Jason, that's not really his shtick as much.
00:14:56.820 What's the other guy's name?
00:14:57.920 Michael Myers?
00:14:59.080 Yeah, Mike Myers.
00:15:00.660 I think you want Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 0.66
00:15:03.840 That's the...
00:15:04.620 Leatherface would be the...
00:15:06.080 Leatherface used a chainsaw, but I'm pretty sure Jason or Mike Myers also used one at some time.
00:15:12.160 It may not have been chronicled in the documentaries.
00:15:15.200 It was a canon.
00:15:16.020 That you are, yes.
00:15:17.720 Okay.
00:15:18.500 Shut up, Stu.
00:15:19.720 I'm fighting for my life here today.
00:15:23.660 Okay.
00:15:24.180 So, I'm not going to blame the lawnmower company or a chainsaw company for some thing that did or didn't happen in a movie.
00:15:34.960 You don't blame the gun.
00:15:40.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:15:49.920 Gabriel, I am so excited to have you on the program.
00:15:53.480 He is the author of Behind the Black Mask, and he is the national director of the western region of our America.
00:16:02.700 Hello, Gabriel.
00:16:03.320 How are you, sir?
00:16:04.680 I'm doing great.
00:16:05.340 Thank you for having me.
00:16:06.460 You bet.
00:16:07.020 So, I would imagine there was a time in your life, probably fairly recently, that the last person you would have thought you would be talking to is me.
00:16:17.820 Uh, yeah, definitely.
00:16:21.020 I mean, especially because I've been a conservative activist for quite a little bit now, but I never expected to really speak out of my story until 2019, when my friend got beat up at Berkeley.
00:16:31.540 Uh, he's the one who President Trump invited at CPAC back in 2019, and, you know, I was his, uh, we're best friends, and I started realizing just how horrible campus violence was getting.
00:16:42.140 I just left this violence in general, and I decided that I really needed to speak out about my experience with anarchists and the Antifa movement.
00:16:49.540 So, I've been doing that for about three years now.
00:16:51.300 Well, thank you for that.
00:16:52.840 Um, so, tell me, tell me about your life in the movement and what your pivot point was.
00:16:59.340 Sure.
00:16:59.900 So, this is actually a ways back.
00:17:01.620 A lot of people don't realize that Antifa is a lot older than, than people think.
00:17:06.380 Yeah, it started in the 30s.
00:17:08.340 Yeah, in the 30s.
00:17:09.260 So, I, I first got involved in, like, punk music, because, uh, there's a huge connection in the 1980s and 90s with Antifa and the anarchist, uh, punk music.
00:17:18.780 So, in 2011, I was into that, and I just went to a protest.
00:17:22.220 I just went because I wanted to be involved, and somebody in the black mask, you know, came up to me, and he asked me if I wanted to join him and his friends.
00:17:30.880 And I was like, yeah, let's do it.
00:17:32.600 And for about a year and a half, I was participating in direct action.
00:17:35.180 I was part of the Occupy protest in Los Angeles, the animal rights demonstrations, all of that from 2011 to 2012.
00:17:43.500 And, you know, we just, it was all about creating havoc to really oppose the American system that we thought was the most fascist system out there.
00:17:50.400 And, uh, what was the pivot point with you?
00:17:55.560 What was the point where you went, wow, I, I, I shouldn't be here.
00:18:00.260 You know, it's actually kind of interesting, because there's never been one point where I say, like, wow, you guys are bad.
00:18:06.040 It was a slow transition, but I also think that it was inevitable, because I'm a very curious person.
00:18:10.920 I'm always, I always want to hear what the other has, has to say.
00:18:15.700 And, you know, at the time I was a leftist, so I started reading about Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell.
00:18:20.780 Well, these are great authors, but at the time, I didn't like them.
00:18:24.460 But I found them interesting enough that I wanted to grab their ideas, talked about them with my friends.
00:18:28.240 And, well, guess what, just for asking questions about these ideas, that was the very first time I was called a capitalist pig.
00:18:35.560 And it just made me realize that some of these people didn't even care about, like, the actual ideologies.
00:18:39.600 They just wanted to promote this propaganda of, like, us versus them, like the fascist system.
00:18:45.160 We're the liberators.
00:18:46.100 But they're just full of themselves, because they don't really, or they're not really looking to build a better society.
00:18:52.020 They're just really looking for control.
00:18:54.680 And slowly and surely, I started reading, learning more about conservative movements, and then I slowly became conservative.
00:19:02.620 And, you know, to this day, I'm still very much the same person.
00:19:05.800 That's why I have that bachelor's degree in social justice essentials, because I still want to learn what the other guy says.
00:19:12.380 But let me tell you, the more I learn about leftist ideology, the more it makes me realize just how wrong they are and just how much I love America.
00:19:22.020 So, this is a remarkable turn in an individual.
00:19:27.280 First of all, have you ever had the chance to meet Daniel Horowitz?
00:19:32.260 Or, no, David Horowitz?
00:19:34.360 David Horowitz, I have not.
00:19:35.880 Have you read any of his books?
00:19:37.900 Yeah, I've read a few different books.
00:19:39.220 And I'll tell you this.
00:19:39.940 I didn't meet him while I was in the movement, but somebody in Antifa who also left, he's in his 40s now, about 20 years before I was involved, he was involved.
00:19:49.380 And he told me that one of his first protests was to protest David Horowitz and free speech.
00:19:55.680 Yeah, yeah.
00:19:56.800 We had great conversations about, like, the similarities and differences of our eras in the movement.
00:20:01.800 Yeah.
00:20:02.100 Well, you are, I mean, you remind me of him.
00:20:05.380 He did exactly the same thing.
00:20:07.400 He was all for it until we withdrew from Vietnam and everything that the right was saying would happen if you leave a power vacuum happened.
00:20:19.500 And he said he realized none of his friends or, you know, comrades actually cared about the people.
00:20:27.160 He was like, but wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:20:29.400 We were wrong on this part of it.
00:20:32.120 And he said they didn't care.
00:20:33.960 And that spun his head because he really did care.
00:20:38.000 Yeah, and, I mean, that tends to be the case with a lot of these far-left movements.
00:20:45.300 They pretend to care.
00:20:46.740 They have all the right slogans.
00:20:47.900 And if you ask them about whatever issue, they'll tell you how much they deeply care.
00:20:51.840 But once the issue's been resolved or we're working towards a solution, all of a sudden that's not enough.
00:20:56.180 They're doing it wrong.
00:20:57.140 It's because it's still under the capitalist system.
00:21:00.460 And the capitalism itself is horrible.
00:21:02.320 They'll just make up a lot.
00:21:03.740 They'll keep moving the goalposts time and time again because, again, all they want is just control of your life and control of everyone.
00:21:10.160 So tell me, how much of the movement was like you where, I mean, it sounds like you kind of joined because you wanted to belong to something.
00:21:23.420 And you kind of got wrapped up into it, and it taught you the hatred and the problems.
00:21:34.400 But you really weren't – it doesn't sound to me like you were really rooted in it.
00:21:40.660 Do I have that accurate?
00:21:42.800 Well, in part, because Antifa didn't teach me to hate America.
00:21:46.140 But I got to say, like, growing up in the K-12 system, public education, it really preconditioned me to hate America before I even got involved with the anarchist groups.
00:21:56.640 Because let me just tell you, there was a biology teacher in my middle school who would love to yell at the top of his lungs about not biology but about atheism.
00:22:05.760 And one day, I remember he was yelling about how proud he was of his sons for being raised atheists.
00:22:11.540 And, of course, people who believe in God are freaking – sorry about this – that he said stupid.
00:22:16.380 And I was like, dude, that's our parents.
00:22:18.640 And, of course, I'm a seventh grader.
00:22:20.460 I'm not going to speak back to him.
00:22:22.060 I was just kind of like, okay, I guess.
00:22:23.900 I should just kind of keep my mouth shut.
00:22:25.700 You know, those are the kind of things, the kind of teachers that really turned me into hating America because I was indoctrinated into believing that everything that my parents taught me,
00:22:35.260 everything that society is telling me is good is not.
00:22:37.880 Because you have these ultra-leftist teachers who think that their job is to tell students what to think, not how to think.
00:22:46.020 So have you read much Martin Luther King?
00:22:50.200 I've read one of his books and a few different of his speeches.
00:22:53.880 Okay.
00:22:54.200 I can't remember the book.
00:22:56.420 So Martin Luther King talks a lot about reconciliation.
00:22:59.760 He makes a very big point to say we cannot look to win because that implies a loser.
00:23:07.140 And you can't leave half the country or a third of the country behind feeling like a loser.
00:23:14.220 We have to reconcile.
00:23:16.940 Now, I believe there are people that will never change.
00:23:19.900 And I can't reconcile with somebody who really believes burn the entire country down and America is horrible and the Constitution and everything else.
00:23:28.560 I don't know how to reconcile with that person, and I don't think we can.
00:23:33.060 However, there are people that are like you, I think, that if we could find a way to actually have a conversation that we could reconcile, not with everybody, with some.
00:23:48.700 Well, you know, the exciting part is what I'm doing right now.
00:23:53.780 I'm working for an organization called Our America.
00:23:56.440 People should check it out.
00:23:57.320 It's at joinouramerica.org.
00:23:59.120 And our job is specifically to do that.
00:24:01.280 We're not talking about conservative or liberal issues.
00:24:03.720 We're talking about American issues.
00:24:05.140 We really want to bring people from the left and the right together.
00:24:08.140 We don't care, again, if you're from the left or right, as long as you're pro-American.
00:24:12.060 And our research shows that the vast majority of Americans believe in America.
00:24:15.880 I mean, they think America is great.
00:24:17.380 They think that America is the greatest country on earth.
00:24:20.900 We're talking about 70%, 80%, 90% of the issues people agree with.
00:24:24.640 The problem is that you have a tiny minority of radicals that have infiltrated legacy media and a lot of something mainstream issues, and they pretend that they're the majority, but they're not.
00:24:36.440 Every time you hear partisan or ultra-partisan or issues that divide people, look at the research.
00:24:43.500 It shows that only about 10 to 15, maybe 25% of people support it.
00:24:48.140 One of the best issues, I think, is defund the police.
00:24:51.240 A few years ago, 2020, you would think that the entire Democratic Party and basically the majority of the country believed in defunding the police.
00:24:59.740 But again, research shows 20-some percent of people actually support defunding the police.
00:25:06.020 And something like 70-some percent of black Americans want more police officers in their neighborhoods.
00:25:11.980 So that's what we're talking about in America, about bringing issues to people together.
00:25:16.240 How do we, how can we do this in our own lives?
00:25:21.140 And if this is true, that we actually agree on things, what are we as people missing to be able to connect with our neighbors?
00:25:29.700 Because they seem to still be voting when the, when it's clear what's happening on the left is a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party, an infiltration.
00:25:41.880 And they have just, it is a leftist operation now.
00:25:46.200 It is not the Democratic Party.
00:25:48.260 It's a leftist operation that is going for things that I think average Americans are against.
00:25:53.980 But yet, they don't seem to disconnect from it.
00:25:58.040 What am I missing?
00:25:58.960 Well, you know, that's the challenge.
00:26:01.120 Because some of these issues, they paint this dichotomy of like, you're either a good person when you're with us, or you're a horrible person, evil person, if you're not.
00:26:10.580 And a lot of people say, well, I'm not an evil person, so I must be with you guys.
00:26:13.860 So first of all, we have to call out that rhetoric, because, you know, sunlight is the best is infected.
00:26:19.960 We really need to call that out, but not just call it out.
00:26:23.300 We also have to actively build a community that is pro-American.
00:26:27.740 And again, that's what America is trying to do, really build communities at the ground level and to really call out a lot of that toxic rhetoric and just promote great American values at the ground level.
00:26:39.760 So it's not a project that's going to be done in like one, two, not even like five years.
00:26:44.420 It's going to take some work.
00:26:45.880 But we're confident that we really are able to show the greatness that is America.
00:26:50.880 Gabriel wrote a book.
00:26:51.940 I think it was released about 2020.
00:26:53.560 It's called Behind the Black Mask.
00:26:56.620 He is part of an organization called Our America.
00:26:59.760 And he was very anti-American growing up and part of radical action with Antifa.
00:27:07.940 He's joining us now.
00:27:10.460 So, Gabriel, what is the what was the thing that's the first thing that you said?
00:27:16.460 You know, America is kind of a good place.
00:27:20.080 You know, one of the things that I love about this country is that ideal of freedom of speech, the idea that we can have heated discussions, arguments even, and then we can go home and say, yeah, I mean, we can disagree.
00:27:32.620 And that's perfectly fine.
00:27:33.500 You know, I found many people that were not in radical politics that were like that, especially in college.
00:27:40.580 Surprisingly, I met a lot of conservatives who I argued with.
00:27:43.700 And, you know, at the end of the day, we were friends.
00:27:45.780 We would just go out to this diner around the corner from the college, you know.
00:27:49.300 And I love that idea because it was about that community that people really wanted to work together.
00:27:55.580 We just have to walk past or get past that toxicity that that tiny minority radicals like to promote. 1.00
00:28:00.940 That idea of community.
00:28:02.660 But the idea of Antifa and the left is to silence speech because speech is dangerous, you know, and and you're a fascist if you say the wrong things.
00:28:16.820 So how do you how do you approach that with somebody who is, you know, on the radical side of things?
00:28:22.820 Well, you know, I've had a lot of experience talking and arguing with some of these leftists, and a lot of times they don't even know what they're saying.
00:28:29.620 I'll say that flat out.
00:28:30.900 There is some people who are very well read, but then they extrapolate little snippets of information from some very interesting authors, and they'll just use it as a tagline.
00:28:40.320 So one of the things that I often do is I actually ask them questions.
00:28:43.760 I get them beyond the point of like that, like capitalism bad, like, OK, what do you mean by that?
00:28:48.560 What's capitalism?
00:28:49.620 You know, and when you get into the niche of things, all of a sudden you realize that there's a lot of contradictions.
00:28:54.280 I mean, that's where my degree in social justice comes into place, because one of the things that I've noticed is, for example, I tend not to use the word capitalism anymore because I was created by Marx.
00:29:04.080 But also, when people talk about capitalism, you know, being, say, for example, like the responsible for slavery, I'm like, no, it wasn't.
00:29:15.800 Modern capitalism was founded in 1776.
00:29:18.280 The Dutch company was actually part of mercantilism, which is the precursor that capitalism came to abolish.
00:29:22.980 If you look at the people who founded capitalism, like, I'm forgetting his author.
00:29:29.720 Adam Smith.
00:29:31.040 Yeah, Adam Smith.
00:29:31.720 Adam Smith, he actually wrote in his book that founded capitalism, how slavery was immoral and unprofitable.
00:29:39.300 So, in fact, capitalism was a key factor to abolishing slavery.
00:29:43.500 You know, like those, when you get into the nitty gritty of these issues and you ask them questions, they don't really have answers to many of these questions.
00:29:52.360 Gabriel, you are one of my favorite people.
00:29:55.760 I love people who are intellectually, they like the challenge.
00:30:00.040 And it leads them to sometimes uncomfortable or surprising decisions in their life.
00:30:06.540 I would love to have you join me for a podcast because I'd love to spend some, you know, more time with you and talk about it.
00:30:13.220 By the way, just what do you call capitalism now instead?
00:30:16.860 Oh, I just talk about the free market.
00:30:17.980 Free market.
00:30:18.360 Free market or equal opportunity.
00:30:19.900 Because, you know, that's what, okay, quote-unquote capitalism is about, about the idea that everyone has the equal opportunity to make the name for themselves.
00:30:28.580 Gabriel Nandales, thank you so much, sir.
00:30:31.140 Thank you very much for joining us and your hard work.
00:30:37.140 Joinouramerica.org.
00:30:39.540 Joinouramerica.org.
00:30:41.640 Hope to have you back, Gabriel.
00:30:42.600 Thank you very much.
00:30:47.420 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:30:59.160 Steven, how are you, sir?
00:31:01.140 Hey, Glenn.
00:31:01.820 It's so good to be with you.
00:31:02.940 Yeah, how are you?
00:31:03.900 Well, I'm not so good.
00:31:04.980 I'm doing fine.
00:31:05.820 I think the country's going to hell.
00:31:07.100 Yeah, okay.
00:31:07.760 All right.
00:31:08.240 You want to always separate that.
00:31:10.120 I don't know anybody who says fine.
00:31:11.500 And now they are always like, well, in spite of everything, I'm doing great.
00:31:16.200 Yeah.
00:31:18.040 So, you know, and I love this title of this bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:31:22.340 I think I'm with the 86% of Americans who don't believe that this is going to reduce inflation.
00:31:27.660 And, of course, it won't.
00:31:29.160 It's, look, you know, Glenn, you and I have known each other for, what, 25, 30 years.
00:31:33.360 And we've been, you know, voices for fiscal sanity.
00:31:36.640 And I just want to let your listeners know that if you add up all of the spending and debt that we've incurred since Biden came into office, let's see, it started with that $1.9 trillion massive spending bill in the first month that Biden came in, which was basically a blue state bailout.
00:31:54.960 Then they did the $1.1 trillion green New Deal bill.
00:31:58.220 Remember, that was at the end of last year, which, by the way, some Republicans voted for.
00:32:01.780 They're not blameless here.
00:32:03.420 And then you had, about a month ago, they passed a $200 billion corporate welfare bill for Samsung and Intel.
00:32:11.980 And then, and then now we've got this $700 billion spending bill.
00:32:16.980 So if my math is right, Glenn, and you just add all that up, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, it's $4 trillion.
00:32:24.760 It's 18 months.
00:32:26.100 Listen to this.
00:32:27.080 Listen to this.
00:32:27.900 Steven said, he just tweeted, I love this tweet.
00:32:30.100 He tweeted, Joe Biden has spent more money than the cost of the Louisiana Purchase, the Erie and Panama Canals, Intercontinental Railroad, the Interstate Highway System, the eradication of polio and smallpox, the GI Bill of Rights, the Marshall Plan, the moon landing, the human genome project, all combined.
00:33:00.100 That is a staggering.
00:33:03.680 And Glenn adjusted for inflation.
00:33:06.480 So, I mean, think about how much we're spending right now.
00:33:09.200 Another way to put it is, you know, if you take just for inflation, the amount of money that Biden spent in 18 months is more money or no, just about exactly the amount of money that we spent to win World War II.
00:33:22.600 At least we got something.
00:33:23.920 At least we won that war. 1.00
00:33:25.280 Well, we have.
00:33:25.840 I mean, we have soldiers.
00:33:26.940 You've heard about the 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:33:30.280 So we got soldiers.
00:33:31.880 You know, that's the thing that's making people angriest about this bill that I found in the last, you know, week or two.
00:33:39.740 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:33:42.100 By the way, they will be, many of them will be armed.
00:33:45.980 Why does the IRS need $10 million worth of guns, ammo and military equipment?
00:33:50.620 The IRS?
00:33:51.440 I thought they were here to help us.
00:33:52.620 This is going to be targeting, Glenn, I'm deadly serious about this.
00:33:57.140 They will use this money.
00:33:58.460 They're not going to go after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg and billionaires.
00:34:02.600 They're not going to go after General Electric and General Motors and Google.
00:34:06.200 Those, you know, those companies are already audited almost every day.
00:34:09.500 And the billionaires have their own armies of tax accountants and lawyers.
00:34:14.680 They're going to go after, first of all, middle class people and small businesses.
00:34:18.880 They're going to be a big target.
00:34:20.380 But most importantly, I guarantee this.
00:34:23.040 You heard it first on the Glenn Beck Show.
00:34:24.440 They are going to weaponize the IRS just like they've weaponized the Justice Department and the FBI.
00:34:30.400 And they're going to go after people like you and me who dare challenge the Biden left-wing agenda.
00:34:38.940 Thank you.
00:34:39.720 You know how Mike Lee introduced me the other night at a speech I was giving?
00:34:43.140 And Senator Mike Lee stood up and he said, I'd like to introduce you to a man who needs no introduction.
00:34:49.500 Let me just say he's never been arrested for a federal offense yet.
00:34:58.500 Stick around, right?
00:34:59.780 Yeah.
00:35:00.060 I mean, they'll find something.
00:35:01.520 They will.
00:35:02.220 They will.
00:35:03.100 You know, Glenn, I got to tell you.
00:35:04.680 So you may recall that three years ago, I was nominated by Donald Trump to be on the Federal Reserve Board.
00:35:12.240 And three days after I was nominated, the New York Times, because they have their sleuth reporters, reported on the front page of the newspaper that Steve Moore can't be on the Federal Reserve Board because he has a $50,000 tax lien.
00:35:25.020 Well, which was true.
00:35:25.900 I did have a $50,000 tax lien.
00:35:28.220 My wife and I had been fighting the IRS for almost three years.
00:35:32.160 We spent tens of thousands of dollars fighting them because we were in the right and they were in the wrong.
00:35:36.940 But I am so sick and tired of these Democrats saying, gee, if you pay your taxes on time and you're honest, you have nothing to worry about.
00:35:43.340 Yes.
00:35:44.100 We pay our taxes on time.
00:35:46.220 We paid the money we owed.
00:35:48.400 We've contended the IRS owed us money that we overpaid our taxes, underpaid it.
00:35:52.400 Anyway, I had to withdraw my nomination because you can't be, you know, on a federal board like that if you have a tax lien.
00:35:59.780 And you know what happened two months after that?
00:36:02.540 We get a letter from the IRS saying, oh, by the way, before I tell you the end of this, I should tell you I went to two tax accountants, three tax attorneys.
00:36:11.080 They all said the same thing.
00:36:12.100 They said, Steve, you're right on the facts.
00:36:13.740 They said, but you know what?
00:36:14.960 You should probably pay it.
00:36:16.500 Just pay it because you know what?
00:36:18.240 It's going to cost you more money to go to court and challenge this.
00:36:21.520 Well, we said, well, screw that.
00:36:23.320 We're going to go on forward with this.
00:36:25.460 And we three months after I withdrew my nomination, we get a letter from the IRS and whoopsie daisy.
00:36:31.500 Yeah, you're right.
00:36:31.980 We made a mistake.
00:36:32.680 We owe you money.
00:36:33.840 But my point is that that that is.
00:36:36.740 So this idea that somehow this is if you pay your taxes, you're going to be OK.
00:36:40.140 No, they're going to find something.
00:36:41.800 And the other thing is the tax the tax code is so damn complicated that nobody nobody knows what they owe.
00:36:47.600 I mean, my God, it's ridiculous.
00:36:49.220 I have to pay file taxes in 50 states.
00:36:52.560 OK, my tax, my tax thing, not because I make a ton of money, just because it's so damn complex is a novel.
00:37:00.420 It's a huge and I don't understand any of it.
00:37:03.140 And I can't tell you how many times I have said to my guys, because I know that it's a weapon.
00:37:09.380 And I've said to my tax guys, look, if there's a line, I want a cavern between me and the line.
00:37:17.600 OK, they will call me up and they'll say, you know, hey, what about this?
00:37:21.520 What about that?
00:37:21.940 And I'll be like, I don't know.
00:37:23.000 Where's the line?
00:37:23.820 And there's like what we don't know.
00:37:26.000 Some people say that it's close to a line.
00:37:28.320 Some people say there isn't any line there that this is you shouldn't even have to pay this.
00:37:33.520 And I'm like, are those crazy people?
00:37:34.840 And they're like, no, about half the office says no.
00:37:37.520 About half the office says, well, I'm not.
00:37:40.180 I don't know for sure.
00:37:41.640 There is no right answer many times when you're doing your taxes.
00:37:46.220 That's true.
00:37:46.960 And by the way, the IRS oftentimes can't answer any of your questions.
00:37:50.760 And I love this idea that they say, oh, we're going to use this money to help you, you know, do your tax.
00:37:55.480 No, they're not.
00:37:57.020 Only four or five percent of the money is used for taxpayer assistance.
00:38:01.260 Most of it is for investigations and audits.
00:38:03.920 And look, if we had a simple, you know, simple tax system.
00:38:07.920 I mean, I'm a flat tax guy.
00:38:09.360 Just make it really simple.
00:38:10.820 Get rid of the deductions, the loophole.
00:38:12.280 Why do we need to give people $9,000 to buy a Tesla?
00:38:16.180 Especially when they're willing to wait for a year.
00:38:19.300 Exactly.
00:38:20.040 Why are we, why are we, you know, we have just all the, you know, you get tax credits for windmills and bull sperm and all this stuff.
00:38:27.740 Why don't we just make it really simple?
00:38:29.560 Everybody pays their fair share.
00:38:31.180 It doesn't take, you know, weeks and weeks to figure out how much tax you owe.
00:38:34.780 Again, the reason that people have problems with their taxes is because they can't understand it.
00:38:40.020 They don't know what they owe.
00:38:41.960 Right.
00:38:42.900 So, Stephen, I don't know how much you've done on ESG, but I think this is the greatest danger to the free world, not just America, but to the entire free world, free market.
00:38:54.640 And, you know, their goal is, you won't own anything by 2030, 2035.
00:39:01.520 They say 2030, but I think that's crazy.
00:39:03.700 But if that's really your goal, especially in a country like America or in the West where ownership means something, we're built on ownership.
00:39:13.740 The only way you can do that is to impoverish a nation.
00:39:19.080 And I think that's part of this IRS.
00:39:21.740 It is it is all of these things are built to impoverish us to the point to where we have to have.
00:39:30.420 Please, please help us.
00:39:32.000 Help us.
00:39:32.480 Help us.
00:39:34.000 Do you agree with that?
00:39:34.940 So, you know, you know, it's interesting because the first question I always get asked nowadays when I give a talk about, you know, Biden's ruinous agenda, and it is ruinous.
00:39:44.360 I mean, I can't think of one thing that he has done right for the economy.
00:39:47.840 And, you know, I'm proud of what we did under Trump.
00:39:50.420 I was one of his senior economic advisors.
00:39:52.460 We had the economy roaring.
00:39:53.840 And it would be.
00:39:54.460 That's my frustration.
00:39:56.240 Glenn, if Trump were still present today, the economy, in my opinion, would be booming.
00:40:00.300 We wouldn't be talking about a recession.
00:40:02.500 But but then people always ask me, are these people doing this intentionally?
00:40:07.760 And I used to say, no, I think they're misguided.
00:40:10.860 I don't think they're mendacious.
00:40:12.480 But now I'm not when I read this bill, this bill is so damaging to America.
00:40:17.460 The two biggest winners from this war on American energy.
00:40:21.520 And that's what this bill is.
00:40:22.740 It's a war on American energy or oil and gas and coal, which is where we get 70 percent.
00:40:27.300 We get another 10 percent of nuclear.
00:40:28.700 They don't like nuclear power either.
00:40:30.240 So I don't like 80 percent of the places we get our energy.
00:40:32.840 If you want to destroy a country, a good way to to destroy it is to destroy its energy supply.
00:40:39.880 And who are the two biggest winners from this?
00:40:42.040 That's the other thing that's so frightening to me.
00:40:44.580 Russia and Saudi Arabia, Russia and China, China is building 50 coal plants right now.
00:40:50.880 In five years, China is going to be producing five times as much coal as we are.
00:40:55.300 Do you think for one minute President Xi cares about climate change?
00:40:59.580 No, no.
00:41:01.020 And let me go to ESG.
00:41:02.760 I don't know if you heard this yesterday.
00:41:05.260 Half a billion dollars from Saudi Arabia was invested in the ESG funds at BlackRock.
00:41:14.720 Now, how could BlackRock say that they are for the environment and these funds are for the environment?
00:41:19.620 If it's coming from Saudi Arabia, they want to tube us. 1.00
00:41:26.200 I mean, that's the only explanation, really.
00:41:29.160 I mean, either they're incredible fools, which would be the benign explanation, or there's something more sinister going on here.
00:41:36.200 Because I guarantee you, you know, all my young, you know, my kids' friends, they're all millennials, and oh, green energy, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:42.720 And I'm like, you're not going to like it so much when you stick your charger in the socket and no power comes out.
00:41:50.500 And we've already seen that, by the way, in states like California.
00:41:53.700 Look at what's happening in Europe, folks.
00:41:55.840 Open your eyes.
00:41:56.740 Europe tried green energy.
00:41:58.200 It was a catastrophe.
00:41:58.980 I have to tell you, Stephen, I think the Mountain West, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, all of that, I think you are going to see real trouble in the coming years.
00:42:16.920 Because they're not only talking about getting rid of all the coal power, the hydroelectric power is way, way down just because of drought situations.
00:42:26.000 But they're also talking about taking the five dams off the Snake River.
00:42:31.340 I know.
00:42:31.840 That's insanity.
00:42:33.160 There's no – how will you power anything in the West?
00:42:38.440 And by the way, why is the left – I mean, this is the other thing.
00:42:40.760 Why is the left against hydropower?
00:42:42.620 Hydropower is the ultimate renewable energy.
00:42:45.220 Because of the fish.
00:42:46.040 There's no way to good electricity.
00:42:46.820 You get a lot of electric power in New York City from Niagara Falls.
00:42:51.640 And yet we're not – they don't want that.
00:42:54.020 In other words, the only forms of energy that they want to use are the ones that don't work.
00:42:58.560 So maybe there is something more sinister going on here.
00:43:01.280 Why do they get nuclear power, Glenn?
00:43:03.100 If you want to reduce carbon emissions to nothing, you know –
00:43:06.920 Stephen, you and I have talked about – you and I talked about this in 2005.
00:43:11.200 Nuclear power and hydrogen go hand in hand.
00:43:14.820 Nuclear power at night can make hydrogen all night when everybody is asleep.
00:43:20.600 Clean energy, 100% clean.
00:43:23.600 Those two things.
00:43:25.100 And your problem is solved.
00:43:26.420 You know, there's something else.
00:43:29.140 Gee, it's really weird that it seems like global warming and all of this heat and everything else
00:43:34.220 has stopped for a few years.
00:43:36.840 And now it's starting again.
00:43:38.180 Well, guess what's back in fashion again in space?
00:43:42.300 The sun.
00:43:44.000 Solar flares are happening again.
00:43:46.500 The sun is going into high activity.
00:43:49.280 It's a cycle.
00:43:52.060 And it was in activity when everybody was screaming out global warming.
00:43:55.960 And then when all that stopped, the sun was in its quiet period.
00:44:00.280 It's now in a very active period again.
00:44:02.940 And it will be for the next few years.
00:44:05.660 The cannibal solar ejection is supposed to hit Earth this week.
00:44:11.960 Huge solar flare.
00:44:14.360 And that, you know, that brings it millions of miles closer to us.
00:44:18.040 And that's why we have problems.
00:44:20.120 Mass ejection.
00:44:21.920 Strong geomagnetic storms are headed in our direction.
00:44:26.000 There could be some more problems.
00:44:27.220 But let's keep things into perspective, shall we?
00:44:30.500 All right.
00:44:31.040 Michael or Stephen.
00:44:33.220 Tell me what...
00:44:34.960 Michael Moore.
00:44:36.380 Wow.
00:44:36.860 So, Stephen, tell me what you found that was hidden in this bill.
00:44:46.540 Well, how much time you got, Glenn?
00:44:50.220 This is something like 800 pages.
00:44:52.200 But I don't even kind of know where to start.
00:44:56.720 But the...
00:44:58.240 Can we start with this?
00:44:59.080 Did you find on page like 683, we found the EPA is now authorizing...
00:45:06.860 Authorized has the money and the teeth to create their own ESG framework for farmers.
00:45:14.220 Did you see that?
00:45:15.580 Yeah, I did.
00:45:16.320 And I'll give you another one that I think is outrageous is that we found that, for example,
00:45:21.900 they have $3 billion for something called environmental justice grants.
00:45:28.600 Yes.
00:45:29.020 You heard about that?
00:45:30.300 Yeah.
00:45:30.580 Now, I'll tell you what that is.
00:45:32.560 It's just a payoff to all the liberal special interest groups, all the groups that made
00:45:39.880 Joe Biden's...
00:45:40.820 This is graft.
00:45:42.460 This is graft.
00:45:44.000 It's basically paying the people who elected Biden money.
00:45:48.860 And the whole bill is graft.
00:45:50.360 All it does is give money to all the groups that gave Joe Biden money.
00:45:53.680 And I'll give you an example of that.
00:45:56.100 They want to...
00:45:56.720 You know, they have 87,000 new IRS agents, $20 to $30 billion more they're going to spend
00:46:01.960 in doubling the size of the IRS.
00:46:04.100 Do you know the IRS employees have a PAC, a political action committee?
00:46:09.940 Do you know where 99% of...
00:46:11.720 Which party 99% of that money goes to?
00:46:14.000 Yeah, Democrats.
00:46:16.500 The Democrats.
00:46:17.680 So let's get this right.
00:46:18.660 They're going to give...
00:46:19.520 The Democrats are getting $40 billion to the IRS to hire 87,000 more agents.
00:46:24.240 Those 87,000 more agents are going to give money to the political action committee of
00:46:28.240 the employees.
00:46:29.740 And the employees are going to then give that...
00:46:31.180 The PAC's going to give the money back to the Democrats who gave the money in the first
00:46:38.300 place.
00:46:38.680 This is like a third world country we're turning into. 1.00
00:46:41.720 I know.
00:46:42.040 You know, it really bothers me as well, Stephen, that they've made it a whole of government
00:46:50.680 action to sign up new voters and register new voters.
00:46:57.920 So every agency is now doing it.
00:47:01.580 And with the flood of money that is coming into these agencies, you know, I don't know
00:47:06.720 what's real and what's not anymore.
00:47:09.400 Because we don't...
00:47:10.400 I'll give you an example.
00:47:10.760 Nobody's following you.
00:47:11.580 That's...
00:47:12.300 Yeah.
00:47:12.860 So you asked me about some other weird, crazy stuff in this bill.
00:47:16.480 So they wanted to give all this money for the electric battery industry so everybody
00:47:21.440 could go out and buy electric cars.
00:47:22.640 And by the way, if you have a car right now that runs on gasoline, you might want to hold
00:47:26.680 on to that because I'm not making this up.
00:47:29.020 My prediction is within five to 10 years, they're going to abolish any new cars that are
00:47:33.300 gas-powered.
00:47:34.560 Oh, yeah.
00:47:35.240 Absolutely.
00:47:35.880 They're going to make...
00:47:36.780 They're going to basically...
00:47:37.640 You're going to have choice.
00:47:39.160 You're not going to have any choice.
00:47:40.200 You're going to have to buy an electric vehicle whether you want to or not.
00:47:43.680 And by the way, do you know what percentage of new car sales last month in the last three
00:47:47.820 months were electric vehicles?
00:47:49.400 No.
00:47:49.860 What percent?
00:47:50.460 Five percent.
00:47:51.560 So not...
00:47:51.980 People...
00:47:52.580 95% of the cars people want and are buying are not electric vehicles.
00:47:57.140 People...
00:47:57.760 I don't have anything against electric vehicles, but I don't want the government telling me
00:48:01.200 I have to buy one.
00:48:02.140 Right.
00:48:02.440 And I also would like to see the plan.
00:48:04.960 I've talked to energy people and they're like, you put the entire fleet on electricity.
00:48:10.000 We're out.
00:48:10.800 We're out.
00:48:11.360 Na na na na na na...
00:48:13.200 You