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Glenn talks to a gym owner in New Jersey about an unfortunate development involving a cop. Also, we discuss the developments with Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Ukraine, we have recordings now of conversations between biden, John Kerry, and Poroshenko, and we'll get into the mind of James James Rollins, an author, researcher, and best-selling fiction author, who comes on the show to talk about his research into the people who robbed a bank with a watermelon mask.
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welcome to the podcast today we talked to a gym owner in new jersey now you may have seen the
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video where the you know the cop comes in and he basically says he's not going to arrest anyone
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and the crowd goes crazy uh there's an unfortunate development in that story we'll talk to you about
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also uh we discuss the developments with joe biden and ukraine we have recordings now of
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conversations between biden john kerry uh and poroshenko the former president we'll get into
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those james rollins uh who's a huge fiction author best best-selling fiction author he comes on and
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talks about what he's learned with his research about these diseases and the people who robbed a
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bank with a watermelon mask it's all coming up today on the podcast make sure you subscribe at
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all right so last night i did a tv show on the new civil rights era and and i think we are in
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a civil rights crisis i think we are headed for trouble uh because some of these states are
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absolutely out of control thank god it's not coming from the federal government thank god we have the
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federal government to run to and say hey uh justice department can you investigate this
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so do you remember i think it was on monday when uh we played the audio of that cop in new jersey
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opening up the uh the gym in new jersey the attilis gym and he said you're all in violation
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but have a nice day and i said on the air it feels like a do you believe in miracles moment you know
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kind of that moment of the of the olympics in the 1980s well i got an update for you
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that same cop that same guy came back to the gym 50 minutes later and started arresting people after
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the cameras had gone he comes back and starts arresting people now i don't know what happened
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i don't know if he got his head handed to him i don't know but i mean it shows it very at the best
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it shows he believed in something then got his head handed to him and he folded on what he believes
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i don't know if that i don't know what happened but somebody who might is the owner of the attilis
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gym his name is ian smith because he's got even more bad news this gym has now officially been closed
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ian welcome to the program how are you i'm good glenn how are you hi i'd be better if your story was
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better first of all let's start with the uh let's start with the cop do you know anything about this cop or
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or how did he leave a hero and come back 50 minutes later and start arresting people
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um we we are very close-knit with with local law enforcement at our gym uh our gym is is full of
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uh law enforcement first responders uh active and and veteran military um sure a lot of these a lot of
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these guys you know we know on a very personal level um i have never met um that individual um
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although i mean i guess now i know him um yeah he came um and and that that first sort of video clip
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where uh where everybody was rejoicing and chanting usa usa usa was um was i what i believe to be his true
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feelings um when he came back later uh about 50 minutes later it just so happened to be about 10 minutes
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before governor murphy's press conference so that leads me to believe along with with a lot of the
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other stuff that we've been hearing um that this stuff is coming straight down from the top that
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these guys are being put in a uh in a position where they they they have to choose between their jobs
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and their pensions and their livelihoods um or jeez you know or these guys got us they've got to stand
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up police officers please the people will stand with you they will stand with you you've got to
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stand up and and risk your job and i know that's a really big thing but i'm telling you the justice
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department will go all over this if people start firing our cops like they did in seattle for just
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speaking out or doing the right thing a it's going to work out well for you in the end because i think
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that cop in seattle he could be a sheriff anywhere people would elect him in any decent city uh you
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know not seattle but they they would they would elect him sheriff he'll get another job it will pay
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tenfold if you just stand okay so now you found out last night that the health department came out
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and put notices all over your door that you are not allowed to open up because of the health department
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tell me about that correct um so yesterday uh governor murphy in his press conference uh addressed
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the gym um and he said he mentioned something about you know continuing to pursue us legally you know
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which i think i think he he he knows although he won't publicly admit it that he has no legal grounds
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to shut us down that that we are protected by the constitution and that no matter what he says in his
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executive orders or how many citations that he's handed us which is three days for us now so we're
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up to a uh me and my partner up to i think i think seven each um or no seven grand each uh no seven
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tickets each seven tickets each okay yeah so i i think governor murphy truly knows that that he doesn't
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have a leg to stand on where that's concerned so um he's you know he's resorted and he very very
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publicly stated that he's going to get the health department involved um coincidentally uh about
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two hours later uh our um our sewage system was sabotaged by uh somebody stuffing an entire roll
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of commercial paper towels down into our toilets to the point where we did have to shut down the gym
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for the day um oh my gosh backflowing um so we are investigating how that happens but we had
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three different plumbing crews come out last night that had to bring in some some legit equipment not
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just like a snake and a plunger but we had uh we had these specialized trucks that had to come in and
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um blast water into our pipes in order to clear it out and they they finally got that resolved but they
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they confirmed that that was very clearly purposely done that wasn't you know oops i i flushed you know one
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piece of of paper down the toilet it was it was quite deliberate um so we spent the night doing that
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frank and i left at about nine o'clock and um in the middle of the night somebody had i guess was was
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kind of passing the gym and they saw that there were four squad cars here in the middle of the night
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as well as some other unmarked vehicles um posting some stuff on the wall and we have some pictures of
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that um that we actually just handed over to uh fox 29 news um posting this stuff on the wall in the
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middle of the night and it is uh basically an order of embargo it says and the the health code
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violations we looked them up are extremely vague um there's not nothing specific that we did to
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violate um and then in addition to that no health um department official has ever stepped foot inside
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of our building as long as we've owned it um so the wording in it is very vague it just you know
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refers to you know coronavirus spreading and stuff like that but we're the only uh business in the
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entire strip mall that that seems to be closed um so it's it's a little baffling um i don't understand
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how they can come in and shut us down without even inspecting our facilities there's there's things on
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there that mention poor ventilation um you know if you would just step inside our facilities we have
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an air scrubber inside uh we have an hrack system that works perfectly fine uh the facility is ventilated
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there's a ton of measures that we've taken so it's flimsy at best uh and we have our lawyers
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working on it and we plan to open up tomorrow i have to tell you ian i i i'm about to lose my
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mind and i think america feels the same way i talked to a woman uh yesterday she's a salon owner
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um they said they were going to arrest her this is in oregon they didn't arrest her they have
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threatened to pull her business license yeah and then they sent child protective services to her house
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that's crazy this is such an abuse of power that was going to happen to us as well
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you know we have we have a 15 year old at home um and and you know it it keeps her up at night all of
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the potential blowback uh from this you know because she's she's you know she stands behind me um or at
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my side with all of this um you know but you know it's um it's it's it's pretty scary when when
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government organizations are weaponized against uh the public you know the uh department of health
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is there to protect us you know and for the most part that's that's what they do as their job but
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you know these these governors are weaponizing these organizations that are meant to protect the
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public to enforce um you know their will and that that's a pretty scary thing you know and then
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same thing with with child child protective services you know that that organization is there to
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protect um children uh but it's being used in in the case of the uh salon owner in oregon as a as a
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as a weapon against her um and that's that's pretty alarming you know that's that's very scary
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ian uh stay in touch with us let us know what's happening don't let a day go by if they're upping
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it if they're using another weapon make sure you reach out to us okay absolutely i'll keep you guys
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in touch uh and what is the uh what is the go fund me page if people want to help uh you know help you
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with your legal bills uh so the go fund me was set up uh by one of our members um and that is a
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defense fund not only for um us as owners but we have a bunch of uh members slash volunteers who have
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been helping us stay open during this time um as well as all of our members uh because some of them
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have been arrested and charged um we have set up that legal funds and our lawyers have agreed to
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represent everybody so that's going to pay for the cost of the lawyers as well as any fines or
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punishment incurred by any member or patron of the facility or any volunteer as well and that's
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available on our social media uh there's a link on um excuse me our instagram which is attilis jim belmar
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um so yeah and we're gonna we're gonna keep pushing forward you know we're we're definitely
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not going to back down and we are very thankful that our members stand behind us as well and we're
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going to stand with them good good for you thank you very much the attilis jim.com you can find them
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so there's a lot of news that is not being reported uh a lot of things like we have talked about
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the uh trouble of child abuse and domestic abuse in homes that nobody is reporting but
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the new york post finally is thinking about the average person uh they've just released a story
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people stuck in haunted homes during quarantine are reporting now a rise in spooky happenings
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now this story is written by natalie o'neill who natalie good for you for taking on those big
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yes you're in new york yes you could be reporting on the spooky happenings around cuomo and how
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everybody old around him seems to die but no you got the real important story the spooky happenings in
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haunted houses i was intrigued by this story and i wanted to reach out to one of the guys who is
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is mentioned in this story his name is brent underwood he is the owner of cerro gordo it's a ghost town
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uh and he says i don't believe in ghosts but spooky happenings have happened brent underwood welcome
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to the program how are you sir good morning i'm doing pretty good how are you uh well i'm i'm i'm
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pretty good now you're you bought an abandoned silver mine right uh and and is this in nevada or is
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this california where is this it's about three hours outside of la so it's in california it's
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kind of right by mount whitney if that gives you a point of reference in between death valley and
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sequoia national park okay what a what a what a wild place death valley and sequoia national park
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right next to each other is crazy um so so tell me you bought this and it looks beautiful you bought
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this a while back you had heard the stories of the ghost town and everything else but you don't
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you don't buy into any of that stuff do you no i mean i bought it about two years ago with some
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friends and it was a town that at one point in time it was the largest producer of silver river
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california so there was 4 000 residents all the people were telling me that there used to be
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a murder per week in the town and the miners used to line their bunk bags with sandbags
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uh to stop the straight bullets in the middle of the night and so even even stuff like that or
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there's a cemetery on site and so the the ghost stories were abundant before buying it but i
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kind of brushed them all away you know i'm i i guess i should say i wasn't a ghost believer
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um but then about two months ago when when the covid crisis hit our our caretaker we typically have a
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live-in caretaker that lives here he wanted to go home to be with his wife so i uh packed up my stuff
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in austin where i typically live and headed out and i've been here ever since
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uh and so you say you weren't a believer in ghost and now you are what happened
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i think it goes in increments you know at first it's easy to push away these things and rationalize
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them away but i think my first entry into that sphere was one night i was walking to
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watch the sunset and there's 22 buildings here so there's quite a few buildings
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and one of the buildings is called the bunk house and it's a eight-bedroom house that all
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the miners used to stay in when they lived here and as i was going past i noticed something in
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the living room that opened up the curtain and closed the curtain and the light was on in the
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living room and i hadn't noticed the light had been on in that building before so i went in there
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and i turned off the light and i put a padlock on the door and keep in mind i'm the only one with
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the key to this to the padlock and the town's about 30 miles from the closest town and we're
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up 800 feet 8 000 feet in elevation so it's not like there's squatters in there or neighbors or
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anything that might be messing around and so i turned off the light went about my day watched
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the sunset not a big deal um next night i went back to go to the sunset again and the light was on
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again in the in the living room and so i i unpadlocked it and not only was light on the flip the switch
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was back up so to me at first you jump to like oh sure it was faulty electricity you know this or
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that but i think being alone in a town uh with a history like this it definitely raised my kind of
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like uh i guess inner questions i guess i should say and then a couple nights later in the house
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all right no go ahead go ahead a couple nights later so a couple a couple nights later i was at the
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house that i was staying in um in the middle of the night this is probably like three or four in the
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morning a book fell off the shelf and again this is a house that there's no draft i have no pets up
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here i don't have a cat or i have a dog there's no rat um and then as i woke up i just had this
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overwhelming sense that something else is in the house with me and when i did this i i think she
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just looked towards the ground you know i thought maybe it was like an animal of some type but nothing
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there and i just couldn't escape the feeling and then after that there's a pretty quick succession
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that things are moving around you know i wall it went from one house to the other house and just
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all these things that i couldn't explain where if you're there sitting alone in the middle of the
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night in a town 30 miles from no from anybody else you start you know jumping to conclusions i guess
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yeah so that's what i was going to ask you brent i mean you know you're in a town where there are
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stories of ghosts uh and you're all by yourself in the middle of nowhere i mean i freak out i have a
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cabin in the middle of absolutely nowhere as well and i've been there by myself at times and when i'm
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there by myself honestly i keep my gun close because at night you just start hearing things
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you're like i don't know man what it what was that what was that uh and do you think this i mean was
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just playing with you your mind was playing with you maybe a little bit but i think i mean similar
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to your your gun i keep a golf club in the bed with me i don't know how effective golf clubs are
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against ghosts you know uh you know we'll find out but guns too so right it was it was it i definitely
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try to rationalize the way i always think you know you know that could be the win that could be
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this but just the light switch and then my wallet moving is just something that i couldn't explain and
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i i maybe i bought into it but at this point i've moved from non-believer to let's just find a way
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to coexist with these ghosts and so how i handle it is i don't go where i know they like to hang out
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like the bunkhouse and the hotel and these other buildings and i hope that maybe they respect my space
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all right so hang on just a second i just want to give one more thing so somebody went in or a ghost
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went in turn on the lights uh you lock them but they somehow or another got past that lock then the
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next thing you notice is somehow or another your wallet had been moved is it possible that that is
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something more earthly like someone who is squatting and looking for money in your wallet
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is that possible i mean when i say these things out loud i know how ridiculous it sounds i'm with you
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on the right this is insane particularly coming from a guy that's stuck in a town by himself it might
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sound like i'm going a bit crazy who knows that that might be the case i'm not gonna rule that out
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either but uh right i searched the building with my golf club i didn't find any squatters
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i tell you brent the reason why you're on with us is because i read this story and i thought this
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is ridiculous and then uh when we called a lot of the people and uh sarah who's our booker she said
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you're gonna love brent because he's like i know this is crazy and i might be crazy because i know what
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it sounds like and i love your uh i love your take i will i will say brent you know a lot of people
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would point out um because you say you know you bought into this and you literally did buy into
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this like you've bought into this business so is it possible that you're being motivated by the idea
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i didn't think of the ghost because that will move your wallet brent
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you know listen maybe i'll start listing the ghost as an asset on our business but uh
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until then yeah don't they leave me alone so are you gonna you're gonna restore this and you're
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gonna make it a you know like a not a tourist place but like a a kind of a western resort i guess
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kind of like a lodge yeah i hope to one day renovate the buildings uh that's what i've been
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working on when i'm up here to allow more people to come and stay and experience the history and the
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natural beauty hopefully not the ghosts but you know everything else i guess well i don't know i don't
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know people might pay extra for the ghosts so you might want to you might want to keep that one to
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yourself uh brent thank you so much for talking to us i i appreciate it yes another result of covid19
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right here an underreported ghost sighting brent underwood uh we'll talk again when you open up
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your open up your lodge thank you so much this is the best of the glenbeck program and don't forget
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rate us on itunes okay this you're gonna love this the blaze and elijah shaffer is uh reporting today
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uh on uh the madness of twitch now twitch is a uh gamers platform and uh they have just added a new
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member to their moderation team a transgender who identifies as a deer
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they're going to be the monitor of freedom of speech and what's allowed and what's and what's not
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now i just you know i think i've said enough already but let me let you hear from this deer
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uh and uh what he or she has uh said this is steph lauer uh and here's what she said let's uh take cut
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one uh of steph so i'm hanging in there and i'm not going anywhere i have power they can't take it away
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from me and honestly you know i the the these there there are some people that should be afraid of me
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um and that they are because i i represent uh moderation and diversity and
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i'm gonna come for hurtful harmful people if you're a really
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hmm so people should hear me okay um now she's on a gaming platform and
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here's what she thinks about gamers listen to this well no i just i'm just not cool with white
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supremacy y'all it's really not that i think a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists
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wait that's totally different a fact and a fact about how you feel are totally different things
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no facts feelings are facts no feelings are facts it might be a fact that you should be that way but
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what does that mean you should be banned now uh here she is talking about what she likes to do
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in her off times um so in my in my spare time stop stop stop freeze that frame can you freeze that
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frame she's wearing antlers i just if you're if you're missing uh you're missing a lot if you're
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not watching us on blaze uh but she's wearing antlers uh and she's a good-looking woman a deer
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a female deer a doe a deer a female deer anyway go ahead play this outside my yard in my spare time
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i go out to my yard and i and i prance around and i and i eat grass
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and i just watch it because it helps me feel like in tune with my dear self
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thank you no stew is this real like i that's what i was just gonna ask do you think this is real
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i gamers are racist she's on she's on twitch that doesn't make any sense uh you know she likes to go
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eat grass i mean maybe she is but i i i don't even know anymore it's an amazing conversation
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the idea that we actually think it could be real right uh but i mean i mean elijah sure knows this
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world better than i do 10 years ago i would say this is absolutely bogus but today
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yeah so and what else is in the news i mean that that today this makes sense and i would say too
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there i mean a good chunk of the country has absolutely no right to say anything other than
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it's true and you should respect her as a deer a doe a female deer whatever a female deal fine yes
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i don't fall into the category that that would that would say that but there's no reason to
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if you're going to say a guy can just identify as a woman whenever he feels like it why can't they
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identify as a doe why not again like you're not because there's no physical characteristics that
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coincide with being a doe what does that have to do with it right what does that have to do with it
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nothing ellen explained this a long time ago i remember on her show is saying like you know
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it's a it's a it's a it's a way you feel in your mind when you're talking about gender it's a way
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you feel in your mind well all right i don't know what that has to do with society like it's whatever
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you want to feel in your mind i don't know why we would change any policies based on that but if
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that's what you're talking about okay whatever but that's not something that necessarily affects
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anyone else that's that's you so there's your little head there i'm being kind there's at least
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a 50 chance this is absolutely real the lunatics are in charge of the asylum this is the glenn beck