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00:00:40.180 Nick Shirley is on talking about his time in Cuba. 1.00

00:00:43.920 They've got a little dicey.

00:00:44.980 And the one and only Jack Carr is on with us.

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00:02:58.280 Nick, how are you?

00:03:01.120 I'm doing great.

00:03:02.080 I'm happy to be back in America.

00:03:03.720 Good.

00:03:04.320 Yeah, good.

00:03:05.200 Good to have you back in America.

00:03:07.080 Why did you go to Cuba?

00:03:10.180 What were you planning on exposing?

00:03:12.620 and what are you now going to expose?

00:03:15.600 So I've had Cuba on the back of my mind for nearly a year now.

00:03:19.240 I've been tracking kind of this rise of communism and socialism here in the United States.

00:03:23.820 And I see that Trump and Rubio are talking more aggressively about taking over Cuba.

00:03:28.400 So I figured I probably only have a few weeks left to go to make this video

00:03:31.960 until they do take it over.

00:03:34.200 And so I decided last week that last week was the date that I was going to go do it.

00:03:39.560 And I was shocked by what I saw inside Cuba.

00:03:42.620 somebody described cuba to me just the other day as from a distance it looks beautiful and quaint

00:03:49.400 and then when you get right up to it it is rot and decay and suffering is that what you found

00:03:56.500 100 i mean if you just look at that buildings like the architecture of these buildings like

00:04:02.080 they're beautiful buildings but they have not been kept up for nearly 60 years like the buildings

00:04:07.980 are actually like crumbling the streets are obviously not in a good condition as well and

00:04:15.220 then people are starving seven out of ten people are not going without three meals a day uh there's

00:04:20.540 no kids aren't going to school because there's no power uh the university is actually shut down

00:04:25.980 because there is there they can't go to school when there's no power there's no electricity so

00:04:30.940 kids aren't even learning college students aren't even learning they would say that that's our fault

00:04:35.880 because we've put the embargo on them.

00:04:38.800 So that's our fault that people aren't going to school

00:04:41.080 and they're not having the electricity

00:04:42.540 and they're living in the dark.

00:04:43.820 How would you respond to that? 0.95

00:04:45.900 Yeah, well, I think Cuba's had 60 years 0.98

00:04:47.780 to figure something out. 0.97

00:04:49.220 And for 60 years,

00:04:50.520 they've been underneath this communist regime

00:04:52.400 and they haven't figured it out.

00:04:54.120 I wonder how long it would take for me or you

00:04:55.960 to figure something out

00:04:57.020 if we've been facing the same problem for 60 years.

00:05:00.000 And they're literally 90 miles away from the United States

00:05:02.920 and they've decided to be our enemy for so long.

00:05:04.860 and now the United States is even offering support it looks like and it seems like they

00:05:09.220 rejected that support so I don't know if you know who I'm sure you do Hassan Piker is um

00:05:16.940 but he responded to you and says I obviously don't believe this even a little bit this is

00:05:22.180 your last post you know that went to Cuba to document the humanitarian crisis blah blah blah 0.99

00:05:27.120 I don't even buy this a little bit but it is ominous that this medically stupid he called 0.99

00:05:33.020 you a foul name, is going to Cuba to manufacture propaganda for what I assume will be additional 1.00

00:05:39.660 U.S. intervention. 0.58

00:05:41.440 How do you respond to that?

00:05:43.220 Well, he's the same person who went to Cuba with Ilhan Omar's daughter to promote how

00:05:48.520 it was taking communism inside of Cuba.

00:05:51.940 So he actually went on a paid trip from an organization to go to Cuba, yet he saw what

00:05:58.400 I saw with my own two eyes, and he thought it's still a good idea to promote communism

00:06:03.120 and socialism inside of a country that is letting their children starve, letting the

00:06:08.680 people go without internet.

00:06:09.880 They don't even have access to freedom of speech inside this country, yet he still wants

00:06:13.620 to promote that. 1.00

00:06:14.840 And so he's going to call me stupid. 1.00

00:06:17.140 Meanwhile, he's seeing what I'm seeing. 1.00

00:06:19.060 I'm seeing people suffer.

00:06:20.200 I'm seeing a civilization that is depressed, has no hope left in their eyes, and yet he's

00:06:26.480 still advocating for more of that.

00:06:28.400 so what is the video that you're releasing today what is on it what are we going to see

00:06:35.500 yeah so you're going to see how people really don't have freedom of speech inside of this

00:06:42.540 country and how the buildings are eroding how these children aren't going to school

00:06:49.020 how there's no hope in the eyes of these people that's one thing that shocked me the most is 1.00

00:06:53.260 I've spent a lot of time with Latinos.

00:06:55.560 I lived amongst them for two years.

00:06:58.120 And even in poor circumstances, these people are some of the most happy people I've ever spent time with.

00:07:04.560 These people in Cuba.

00:07:05.920 When you say you spent time in their community, you were in Chile for two years.

00:07:09.880 Yeah.

00:07:10.060 You lived in Chile on a mission.

00:07:11.580 Yeah, okay.

00:07:12.860 And so I've spent a lot of time with Latinos and inside South and Central America as well. 0.99

00:07:20.060 and these people are just there's no hope left in their eyes which is something you don't see

00:07:25.300 even in poor circumstances in chile for instance people may not have that much money they might not

00:07:30.720 have all the food they would like but they're still happy and that's something i didn't see

00:07:35.000 in cuba which was different they um did they know you were an american did you see any did you get

00:07:44.060 any comments at all from people saying hey please trump back off us or please help us

00:07:51.140 you know a lot of them i would ask him about that and a lot of them are ready for change 0.67

00:07:56.640 there was only one lady who who was supporting the regime actually and she was one of the ladies 0.90

00:08:02.300 at the university who was trying to cover up for the mess of the university and all the young

00:08:07.260 people i spoke to they're all ready for a change a lot of them even said like communists is the

00:08:11.700 worst thing that can possibly happen when you when you went you know you said you know you got there

00:08:20.360 and you know they started following you you're not necessarily unrecognizable you know if you're

00:08:27.760 coming into a country especially a communist country they're going to run your name and they

00:08:32.100 would find out who you are why were you surprised that they would be following you because it's

00:08:38.640 pretty clear i mean if if i were a communist and i see you in my neighborhood i'm like he's not here

00:08:44.920 to help me maybe i was surprised because i had filled out all the required paperwork it said

00:08:51.780 my visa said journalistic activities yet they seized all that other people had gone and made

00:08:56.940 videos on cuba i guess i didn't realize that all the people had gone with a guide

00:09:01.860 uh with from the from the government so i was kind of going rogue and the government obviously

00:09:07.600 didn't like that. And for that same reason, there's a two-star general waiting at the

00:09:11.540 bottom of my hotel room for me in the lobby when I tried to leave early because we were being

00:09:16.880 telled 24-7. I was going to go when Hugo Chavez was alive. They asked me to come and speak a

00:09:24.580 bunch of pastors from all over the world. And I was in Africa at the time and I was flying back

00:09:30.240 and we landed in, I don't know, somewhere in the Caribbean. And we got off and I was going to board

00:09:37.440 a plane to go over to speak to the pastors in venezuela and hugo chavez had uh had said that

00:09:44.060 he was ringing the church where this meeting was supposed to take place with soldiers and he would

00:09:49.940 arrest me and everyone all of the pastors in the building um if it was going to happen uh and so i

00:09:57.100 was asked please please don't come we'll be able to get away with it maybe without you but once you

00:10:04.580 come you're a lightning rod um and it it was very eye-opening to me to see the difference between

00:10:11.060 what a communist country you know everybody's marching no kings no kings that's what it means

00:10:16.040 to have a king you can't say anything when you're in a country with a real king or a dictator it's

00:10:23.000 not like it is here in america yeah that's what another takeaway from this trip was okay so right

00:10:30.040 now we have this huge movement inside of our country for ideas like socialism for communism

00:10:34.500 and these people are protesting every week underneath the communist regime they would not

00:10:39.220 be able to protest so they're wanting something that would actually suppress them and stop them

00:10:45.200 from doing exactly what they are doing here inside the united states yet when their influencers go

00:10:50.920 and show that they still will advocate for more of that which just shows that there is either

00:10:56.880 they're getting paid heavily to promote this communist idea that it would be great here inside

00:11:02.880 the United States, or quite literally, they are brainwashed to the point where they have somehow

00:11:07.780 believed that capitalism has spelled them so bad that they want to accept a government that would

00:11:12.940 make them so suppressed that they would not even be able to voice their opinions out in public.

00:11:17.160 That's what really shocked me, is that it's real when you hear that underneath communism,

00:11:24.120 there is no freedom of speech. We've heard stories from North Korea. We've heard people 0.61

00:11:28.260 have escaped north korea it's very few people that we've heard who's left cuba and have shared

00:11:33.320 their story in a way where it's resonated so much with people that wow it's very similar to a country

00:11:40.420 like north korea in reality so there was a story this week in texas about another leering center

00:11:49.340 literally there was a story about this muslim only water park event that was canceled people

00:11:55.740 start looking into it i think it's i think it's sarah gonzalez that looked into it right from

00:11:59.620 blaze she's just tearing it up she's just she's doing great work she's brave yeah she is she's

00:12:04.680 very brave but um she found the organizer of this uh event and uh and they run a leering center

00:12:14.360 same sign same misspelling everything else uh you think they'd learn she's running a leering

00:12:21.080 you'd think they'd learn i mean maybe how many leering centers are there in the country do you

00:12:27.820 think there's a lot there's a lot of leering centers a lot of people just don't know how to

00:12:32.780 and they want to keep making money uh nick i worry about you honestly i have i have in my career seen

00:12:45.260 young people come and get involved and uh and they get tempted by one thing or another and

00:12:54.380 they lose their way uh i know you work hard to be on your knees every day and pray and uh stay

00:13:01.360 close to god um there's going to be forces that come against you both friend and foe that could

00:13:08.620 lead to your destruction please follow the spirit keep the spirit close at hand or you'll you'll be

00:13:14.240 lost and i've seen it over and over again and you at your age you can make a real difference

00:13:21.280 for decades to come please be careful i will i really appreciate that advice

00:13:27.820 nick thanks appreciate it thank you nick shirley independent journalist um and his uh video is

00:13:37.800 coming out of what his what he experienced uh in cuba you can find his website antifraudclub.com

00:13:47.060 and of course you follow him on exit nick shirley you're listening to the best of the glenbeck

00:13:53.820 program jack i don't know what i have to do to get you know uh a copy before the book comes out i

00:14:02.740 i pre-ordered your uh new book i can't wait for it to come out i love i love you i love your work

00:14:09.500 love your work um welcome to the show thank you you are the best i love that uh bumper music that

00:14:15.680 that uh the intro music is fires me up i'm sitting here in my hotel room in new york doing media in

00:14:20.580 the in the lead up to book publication and i just listen to that and watch the intro it just fired

00:14:26.040 me up so thank you and you should have a book by the way you should have a book i sent it hopefully

00:14:30.860 i didn't send it to the wrong address i never know exactly where you are i probably should have

00:14:33.760 asked you before i sent it but you have a blade that's coming that's supposed to help open the

00:14:39.100 second package that comes which is the book in a very interesting new package ah i can't wait i

00:14:44.900 can't wait on its way to you i don't i don't mean i'd pay for the book i'd pay for the book i just

00:14:49.220 want to know the book before i talk to you because i i just i just love your books um so tell me why

00:14:54.900 I mean, you are known for, you know, some of the best characters, you know, in fiction today.

00:15:01.580 You know, James Reese is just a iconic character now.

00:15:05.920 Why start a new series and all new characters?

00:15:09.240 What are you accomplishing here?

00:15:10.740 What's driving this?

00:15:13.460 Well, from the fan perspective, I was very aware as a kid that Tom Clancy started with Hunt for Red October, moved on to Red Storm Rising, then went to Patriot Games, then Cardinal of the Kremlin, then Clear and Present Danger.

00:15:23.580 And then the early 90s, he branches out into both nonfiction with a study and command series and a guided tour series.

00:15:30.160 And then he also starts with a co-written thriller series to expand that audience, to broaden that base, more offerings out rather than.

00:15:38.100 And for him, it was every couple of years a book.

00:15:39.620 Now, for me, it's every year, but still the same type of type of model.

00:15:44.620 So I saw that.

00:15:45.340 And, of course, he's doing video games and he has the movies.

00:15:47.420 And, of course, now after he's passed on, there's the television show for him.

00:15:51.160 But as a kid, reading all those books from the fan perspective, I saw that expansion.

00:15:56.640 And so I knew I had a ton of stories to tell.

00:15:58.860 This was one that I wrote down in December of 2014 when I wrote a bunch of different ideas down as I was getting ready to leave the military.

00:16:05.140 Decided on the terminal list, which I think was a good decision.

00:16:07.880 But I kept coming back to this one called The Fourth Opinion.

00:16:10.380 And it's really based on Have Gun, Will Travel, which is old.

00:16:14.080 Well, first it was a radio show in the 1950s.

00:16:16.080 Then it became a TV show in the late 50s into the 60s.

00:16:19.460 And I used to watch those with my dad growing up.

00:16:21.560 So really, that's the foundation for this.

00:16:23.740 But instead of a hero in the Old West getting on his horse and riding into a new town as

00:16:28.480 that stranger comes to town type of a narrative, now I have Chris Walker, former SEAL, former

00:16:33.040 CIA operative, a student of philosophy.

00:16:35.900 These philosophers are battling for control of his soul.

00:16:38.660 But he gets in his Volkswagen bus, pop-top camper from the mid-80s with his Belgian Malinois

00:16:43.280 dog next to him.

00:16:44.580 And for his first city, he rides into New Orleans.

00:16:47.580 And that's a place that has always stood out to me, a place I always wanted to set a novel because it's just such a colorful city.

00:16:53.660 A lot to work with in terms of corruption with the police force, with the government officials, that sort of thing.

00:17:01.340 So it's very ripe as far as a background for a novel like this.

00:17:04.660 So this is another offering outside the James Reese Terminalist universe.

00:17:08.800 And I'm just I'm fired up with how it how it came out.

00:17:11.080 And for those who are fans of, let's say, a Pale Rider or a Shane or a High Plains Drifter or a Magnificent Seven, there'll be little drops of that in there, too.

00:17:17.900 But it's my modern interpretation of a stranger who comes to town narrative.

00:17:22.300 So tell me, because Walker, if I'm not mistaken, is haunted by a loss of a friend in Afghanistan.

00:17:29.920 And you wrote this down, you said, in 2014.

00:17:33.000 did did you how did the how did the withdraw from afghanistan play into this or did it that

00:17:43.320 shameful ending of afghanistan right right so james reese terminalist series those books started

00:17:49.140 well before our departure from afghanistan so that's not part of james reese's experience

00:17:53.880 chris walker a little younger he's there he's former seal but now he's in the cia

00:17:58.180 and he's in Afghanistan as we're starting to withdraw.

00:18:02.400 And the CIA wants to leave an asset behind

00:18:04.360 that they've recruited to report on what happens

00:18:07.080 after we're gone.

00:18:08.520 And Chris Walker and his buddy, John Staub, 0.97

00:18:10.840 they know that this guy's gonna get killed. 0.99

00:18:12.860 His family's gonna get killed. 0.98

00:18:14.040 He's too associated with the Americans. 0.96

00:18:15.600 So they go off the books

00:18:16.760 and try to get him across the border into Pakistan

00:18:18.720 so he can get to Islamabad and claim asylum.

00:18:22.600 And of course that goes horribly wrong.

00:18:24.340 And this isn't too much of a spoiler,

00:18:25.840 but Chris Walker's best friend

00:18:27.060 is killed in that attempt to get their asset across the border here. But watching that,

00:18:33.400 and you don't have to be a veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan to be horrified with the way that we

00:18:37.600 left Afghanistan in August of 2021. And neither do you have to have any sort of touch points with

00:18:44.940 the military or degrees in military history. You don't need to have studied tactics or strategy

00:18:49.920 to know that there was a better way to go about it. All you have to do is apply common sense and

00:18:55.460 apply logic to that problem set uh and anyone could have done it so much better if they had

00:19:00.500 just done that so it's very painful to watch not just for for veterans but for any for just citizens

00:19:05.860 to see uh our our country it was our best effort after 20 years uh come on so but that what that

00:19:12.760 also did and how it ties into iran now is that it taught our enemies a lesson and it taught them

00:19:18.120 that americans one are tired of of war uh and two the americans do not know how to effectively

00:19:23.720 in their military to get a desired political end. So that's the lesson they've walked away from,

00:19:29.500 our withdrawal from Afghanistan with direct line between Russia invading Ukraine. And of course,

00:19:34.160 now China is watching what we're doing in Iran. So really, now that we're engaged there,

00:19:39.000 we have no choice but to win that thing because it's not regional. It's not just energy prices.

00:19:43.220 This is global in nature. Meaning after World War II, we could deter our enemies because of

00:19:49.300 our strength following World War II. We ushered in an unparalleled era of economic-

00:19:56.660 Stabilization.

00:19:58.940 Stabilization, but prosperity across the globe. We took that burden on our taxpayers,

00:20:03.720 our military took that, especially the Navy took that on in terms of providing security across the

00:20:09.200 globe. Then we lost that deterrence, especially with what happened in August of 2021. We lost

00:20:14.380 that deterrence that hard-earned deterrence that really provided stability across the entire globe

00:20:19.920 so the stakes are much more than regional so how how does the world perceive us because i look at

00:20:27.180 i look at people who are enemies now and i gotta believe they're just like they're just thinking

00:20:32.020 hold on just hold on till 2028 because he's going to be out and the american people are tired of all

00:20:39.440 of this and they're just, they're going to go back. And so all of our enemies, you know, they're

00:20:44.220 kind of, they're kind of just holding out and you, and if it does go back the other way, we'll see

00:20:49.820 all of this stuff roar back. But I'm trying to square this here with, I thought for sure, we,

00:20:57.280 I know we were a laughingstock. Our military had become an absolute laughingstock and we just

00:21:03.080 gutted all of our credibility with, with, you know, a big stick. And then Donald Trump comes in

00:21:08.860 And boy, I've never seen a bigger stick and I've never seen a an operation like our military.

00:21:14.920 I've never seen it this effective, you know, and the question is still out on Iran, but still it's been pretty effective.

00:21:25.100 How do they perceive our military?

00:21:27.580 Is this just all based on Trump?

00:21:29.440 And don't worry, I'll go back to being, you know, a joke.

00:21:33.460 How do they perceive us?

00:21:35.620 Well, I think that that jury's out right now.

00:21:37.820 So after Venezuela, of course, it's that they can say, oh, wow, look, the same types of, let's say, early warning systems that we have are the same ones that did nothing to stop the Americans going into Venezuela in January.

00:21:49.620 OK, we need to reevaluate our defense systems here because we have the exact same ones made by Russia, made by China, perhaps.

00:21:56.420 But that was a that was a message right there. 0.82

00:21:59.300 And if we had stopped right there, I think we were on some pretty secure footing when it comes to what our capabilities are as a military.

00:22:06.260 And then we try a similar thing with Iran. And it hasn't quite worked out, I don't think, the way that the administration anticipated, based off our performance in Venezuela. It's a different part of the world. It is a puzzle.

00:22:20.340 Right. Right. And we and when it comes to negotiations, when we think about that, we make this mistake in the United States.

00:22:27.480 If you're sitting across the table from another American doing that mirror image and thinking that that person across the table from you in this negotiation has the same values as you do, has the same concerns as you do.

00:22:38.180 And you amplify that by 10, 20, 100 times when you sit across the table from someone with a tradition of having grown up in Iran.

00:22:46.820 That is a very different person or people to be negotiating with. 0.70

00:22:51.460 And you cannot, certainly can't, if your kid doesn't work in the United States, 0.99

00:22:53.820 American citizen, it's certainly not going to work across the table from somebody from Iran. 0.99

00:22:58.420 So we tend to do that. 0.96

00:22:59.560 We tend to make that mistake of mirror imaging what's important to us

00:23:02.900 and putting that on the other person that we're talking to.

00:23:05.720 So maybe we have gotten down to a level of leadership that is more receptive to negotiation, but.

00:23:16.200 hopefully i'm i'm not sure yeah i'm not sure either so how does how does this end jack i mean

00:23:25.940 as a fiction writer i'm just asking you write the write the most logical ending for me on this

00:23:33.800 well thanks for not putting me on the spot um but uh how is it i mean just this fiction i know i'm

00:23:40.500 not asking you for prediction i'm asking you because this is what you do for a living you

00:23:44.060 look at things and say okay if i had to do this you know what what would i say would be believable

00:23:49.060 i'm not asking you to predict but what would what do you think is believable that could happen

00:23:53.080 i was kidding so i mean at most uh conflicts need to get to that uh negotiation table eventually

00:23:59.260 russia will get there with ukraine it's just a matter of how much time um so for for us i think

00:24:05.540 we we definitely underestimated the impacts and we all we tend to do this over and over again i

00:24:10.440 don't know why because there's history here that we can go back to to look at and we look at let's

00:24:14.360 say 1972 1973 we look at the oil embargoes there the reverberations of that were not just during

00:24:20.820 the embargo they went all the way through the rest of the 70s um and i don't know why we don't

00:24:25.760 go back and see that and anticipate that as being the outcome here with these uh global energy

00:24:30.380 markets um very similar to the early 70s but now even we're even more dependent on that area of the

00:24:36.160 world so we tend not to do that so that's a that's a very long way of me saying that there

00:24:40.420 are so many factors here and eventually it'll get to the negotiation table eventually it's just how

00:24:45.960 much pressure uh that the united states can put on through violence um in order to get them there

00:24:51.780 and they're willing to sacrifice a lot they think they're willing to sacrifice their their entire

00:24:56.300 country their country men there um it we're almost giving them an opportunity to uh to to make it up

00:25:03.120 their version of nirvana or heaven um and they're willing to sacrifice all those people under them

00:25:08.720 uh to get there so it's a it's a very different part of the world to negotiate with so i would

00:25:12.400 say it's going to take a lot of pressure a lot of violence to get them to where we want them

00:25:18.640 which is getting those those things that we were negotiating for before the war so now there's that

00:25:23.040 but now we have we've added to that destruction of a navy destruction of ballistic missile

00:25:27.120 capability drone capability destruction of an air force and the strait of hermos which is

00:25:31.760 very odd to me that that wasn't secured right out of the gate. And, you know, we'll go back

00:25:37.220 and look when someone writes books about it five, 10 years from now about what that problem set

00:25:41.540 entailed, what those discussions were, and why we didn't secure that right out of the gate.

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00:25:54.380 So, I notice I come in and Jason is wearing, again, a shirt without sleeves, which is always a credible look.

00:26:05.480 Well, you know, getting off the white here, criticizing my sleeves.

00:26:12.080 You shall not pass!

00:26:17.140 I am wearing an awful lot of white today.

00:26:19.060 I wear a t-shirt and a sweatshirt that's white.

00:26:22.280 And then my white hair.

00:26:23.420 I mean, if I had a white background,

00:26:24.720 you wouldn't see anything but a pink little smudge

00:26:26.760 in the middle of your picture if you're watching.

00:26:28.280 I hate to ask, but what color are your shoes?

00:26:32.660 I don't know.

00:26:34.260 Well, they're tennis shoes.

00:26:35.640 They're white.

00:26:36.220 They're white.

00:26:37.340 Sweet baby Jesus.

00:26:40.260 The spirit of Christ compels you to tell the truth.

00:26:46.320 So anyway, I'm in the new Michael Landon reboot of Heaven.

00:26:51.040 What was it?

00:26:51.500 Heaven Angel?

00:26:52.520 what was that called heaven can wait heaven can wait yeah no no no that way to heaven highway to

00:26:58.380 heaven highway to heaven that's what it was unlike highway to hell which was in a different direction

00:27:03.720 entirely um but anyway uh so jason you're just embracing your hillbilly i mean i think that's

00:27:10.680 fine i really do i think i i figure if i have botox in my face i have to compensate somehow

00:27:17.340 with a little bit of more of a...

00:27:19.980 I'm still trying.

00:27:21.400 I'm still trying.

00:27:22.220 Wait, wait, wait.

00:27:22.900 Smile.

00:27:23.420 Let me see you smile.

00:27:24.260 It's starting to set in.

00:27:25.680 Is it?

00:27:26.220 Can you tell?

00:27:27.300 It's still kind of bad.

00:27:29.400 Yeah, Jason looks a whole year younger.

00:27:32.580 No, look at that.

00:27:34.100 He's got...

00:27:35.860 I mean, I'm worse.

00:27:36.900 I've got just...

00:27:37.460 Have you seen this giant scar

00:27:38.760 on the side of my face?

00:27:39.540 No, everything about you is perfect

00:27:40.900 except for your outfit today.

00:27:42.360 Thank you, thank you.

00:27:43.780 I'm a little bit worried, though,

00:27:45.020 because...

00:27:45.380 You've got a giant scar on my face.

00:27:47.140 I don't see anything.

00:27:48.840 It's supposed to take two weeks, but I'm starting to think this might be saline.

00:27:53.220 I guess that's what you get with Ali Botox.

00:27:56.740 That makes your story worse about passing out.

00:27:59.900 You had saline injected in you, and you almost passed out.

00:28:02.960 Okay.

00:28:03.520 Smile.

00:28:04.160 Just smile hard.

00:28:06.860 Look, it's not moving.

00:28:08.420 His upper cheeks are not moving.

00:28:10.520 This is a day to become a torch and setter so you can watch Jason attempt to smile.

00:28:13.960 Look at that.

00:28:14.700 His face is not moving.

00:28:16.760 it is that's terrifying it's not moving look at make a straight face straight face watch watch

00:28:24.140 if you're watching i'm sorry we'll describe it we'll do the play-by-play okay put your smile

00:28:28.620 down put your smile down okay okay now now smile your your laugh lines and everything nothing's

00:28:36.800 moving up there it's like i'm very very happy i'm normal i'm happy i'm normal i'm happy i mean

00:28:44.060 there's no change oh my gosh okay well yeah the man with a paralyzed face uh is uh joining us

00:28:55.060 potox buttrel oh wow wow i think i need the t-shirt um okay so uh let's see let me just

00:29:04.140 go through the things that are probably the you know the most important and i think i think because 1.00

00:29:10.280 it's friday i have to start with aoc uh wow she is historically stupid um i mean she is one for 1.00

00:29:21.420 the record books and she was doing an interview uh on a podcast hosted by a comedian elena glazer 0.99

00:29:32.120 i don't know who that is um and uh and there's a few things that she said here let's start with

00:29:38.400 cut one there's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned right stop stop

00:29:47.760 stop stop i want to start at the beginning remember what remember what barack obama said

00:29:53.400 that everybody had a cow over that's what he said look there's a certain amount of money where

00:29:59.220 you know it's just too much money really what was that certain amount of money barack obama

00:30:04.620 Is it enough money for, I mean, you have to have enough money to buy a house in Hawaii

00:30:10.380 and a house in Washington and a house in, where was it?

00:30:14.680 Not in Nantucket, but Martha's Vineyard.

00:30:16.820 Is that the cap?

00:30:18.200 Where is the cap for these people?

00:30:20.180 You know, where is the cap?

00:30:21.620 So, but that's not, she's going further than that in this.

00:30:26.080 She's not just saying there's a certain amount of money where it's just too much money.

00:30:31.180 She is going further.

00:30:33.000 start it from the beginning and listen to what she says there's a certain level of wealth and

00:30:38.720 accumulation that is unearned right you can't earn a billion dollars that's right you just can't earn

00:30:49.440 that that's exactly correct okay stop stop no it's not no it's not who are you you're a comedian

00:30:55.160 shut the pie hole what do you mean that's absolutely correct you can't earn a billion

00:31:00.140 There's a difference between you can't earn it and AOC, you would never be able to earn it.

00:31:08.560 Are you telling me that Thomas Edison, are you telling me that Henry Ford, are you telling me

00:31:15.680 that Elon Musk, are you telling me that all the jobs created, that he created all of these jobs,

00:31:25.660 introduced all of this new technology, changed the world, and he didn't earn the million dollars

00:31:31.760 of extra profit after paying all of the hundreds of thousands of employees and changing their

00:31:39.620 lives? Really? What do you mean you can't earn it? This bothers me so much. Look,

00:31:46.580 what you do with the billion dollars, now that could be discussed privately. I mean,

00:31:52.280 And that, you know, we don't have a reason to judge people on what they do with their money.

00:31:56.860 You know, what they do with their money is their business, okay?

00:32:00.300 I do think, you know, somebody who has a trillion dollars, imagine what you could do with a trillion dollars.

00:32:05.100 You could either live the life and have a, you know, 500-foot yacht and do an awful lot of charitable work.

00:32:12.280 But, you know, what you do is up to you, the individual.

00:32:17.140 But you were the one who had the vision.

00:32:20.260 You were the one.

00:32:21.080 It's it's it's a little different than being somebody who comes into a company and you're not going to be a trillionaire or a billionaire if you're the one that just comes into the company and you're just running a company that's run for 100 years and you're making more money just by cutting people.

00:32:40.120 You know, I mean, that's that's different.

00:32:42.220 And I don't think you could earn a billion dollars, not that you couldn't be paid a billion dollars.

00:32:51.720 I don't think you would be paid a billion dollars in that case to just cut jobs, okay?

00:32:57.780 Although there is a kind of a scary skill in that.

00:33:02.020 But when you are creating something, I mean, look at Elon Musk.

00:33:05.260 He's going to be the first trillionaire.

00:33:07.540 He's going to be.

00:33:08.800 I can't even imagine what that's like.

00:33:10.840 I mean, he will have more money.

00:33:14.380 I mean, honestly, he'll have more money than the United States of America has.

00:33:18.580 He won't have more assets, but he'll have more money than the United States of America as a country.

00:33:24.980 So having that kind of money, that kind of wealth.

00:33:28.020 But tell me, if it wasn't for him, think of self-driving cars.

00:33:34.300 That's pretty much him.

00:33:36.300 Electric cars, as we know them.

00:33:38.140 That's pretty much him.

00:33:39.600 All of the technology that he developed for his electric cars, he gave it to the world for free.

00:33:47.300 He didn't take a patent on that.

00:33:49.320 So now you're telling me that he didn't earn it.

00:33:52.920 There's nobody that could do what Elon must.

00:33:55.020 And believe me, you're not going to become a billionaire if you're not doing something,

00:33:59.060 if you haven't come up with something that changes everybody's life.

00:34:05.560 A good friend of mine, John Huntsman Sr., a big industrialist,

00:34:11.020 passed away, I don't know, five years, ten years ago.

00:34:14.760 He told me one time, he asked me the question,

00:34:16.760 what's the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire?

00:34:20.120 And I said, money.

00:34:23.440 I said, I don't know, John.

00:34:24.360 He said, a millionaire comes up with something that helps people.

00:34:30.380 a billionaire comes up with something that helps people every day okay that's the difference

00:34:40.900 you've made such an impact in people's lives that you have come up with something that people use

00:34:47.800 every single day you know the guy if if toilet paper hadn't been invented uh and some guy you

00:34:55.940 know mr crapper comes out and he's like hey you know no just have that indoor plumbing thing but

00:35:00.600 i also have this other idea toilet paper i think the world would make him a billionaire

00:35:04.920 we'd go from i don't even know using towels or whatever they use leaves i don't know what people

00:35:10.240 use before i don't even want to think about it but i'd pay the person that came up with the idea

00:35:14.480 of toilet paper i think the world would make him a billionaire and damn well he earned every bit of

00:35:20.140 that money, every bit of it. I despise these people who look at money as only evil or not 0.97

00:35:33.660 infinite. They are the people who go, and if I took a water truck and I backed it up into the

00:35:43.220 ocean and I filled that water truck, they'd say, how much water are you? I mean, leave some for

00:35:49.140 the rest of us. And all you'd have to do is turn back to the ocean and go, have you seen how big

00:35:54.320 and deep the ocean is? There's plenty of water for everybody. They think there's this finite

00:35:59.980 amount of money. And that's why people get trapped in, we got to cut, we got to cut,

00:36:07.660 we got to cut. Yes, we do have to cut our expenses here as a nation. But the other way also to get

00:36:14.300 out of this hole is to grow the economy because there is much more money to be made and earned

00:36:21.440 that's that's why we're putting all this money into energy and energy is what to be able to

00:36:28.120 have the power to power ai ai is to do what to change the way all of us live hopefully in a good

00:36:36.460 way change the way we all live and to be able to create things like new medicines that nobody has

00:36:43.420 ever done before it's an infinite amount it's an infinite because i'm wealthy doesn't mean you

00:36:51.860 i'm not taking that money from you why do they feel such personal offense

00:36:57.400 why i believe it's because they've convinced themselves and others that they can't make

00:37:05.800 money they can't be rich they can't and that rich is the only thing that matters

00:37:10.560 and the only way you can get rich and i bet you in her world the only way to get rich

00:37:16.560 is to do something uh you know in politics probably unethical how do you get rich in

00:37:24.140 politics you shouldn't be able to get rich in politics yet they're all getting rich why because

00:37:28.660 honestly they do stuff and they make it legal for them so they can say i'm living by the letter of

00:37:34.300 the law they make it legal for them stuff that's illegal for us to do insider trading etc etc so

00:37:39.900 they see in their own world, the only way to get rich is to cheat other people. No. Capitalism

00:37:47.240 is the greatest. If you really understand capitalism and you've read, please read

00:37:54.280 Adam Smith's, not just Wealth of Nations, but what's the one before it? Moral Sentiments.

00:38:04.480 read moral sentiments because that's when you'll begin to understand capitalism if capitalism is

00:38:12.080 done the way it is now it's grotesque but if capitalism is understood through the through

00:38:17.820 the eyes the way our founders saw it and the way adam smith saw it with moral sentiments that you

00:38:24.300 get wealthy because you've created something that helps other people live an easier and better life

00:38:31.620 i.e. toilet paper or Tesla or SpaceX or the satellites he's now wringing the earth with

00:38:43.020 that has cut down on people being completely voiceless all around the world. You can now

00:38:51.380 communicate with people all over the world at an affordable way because of Elon Musk. He didn't

00:38:56.820 earned that, he has made life easier and better for other people. When you set out and if you're

00:39:04.440 thinking, you know what, someday I'm going to get rich, you'll never get rich. You'll never get

00:39:08.460 rich if that's your goal, to get rich. You will end up compromising and doing things just to get

00:39:14.160 rich that won't be good. You should get up every day and go, how can I make people have an easier

00:39:21.560 life? What can I provide? This is what we say every day. What does the listener need today?

00:39:27.580 What do they need to learn today? What do they need to understand today? What do they need to

00:39:31.220 hear today that we can help them with to make their life easier? When you do that and you do

00:39:38.080 it genuinely, that's why people beat a path to your door because you're providing something that

00:39:44.160 nobody else is providing. And moral sentiments says, if you're a bad group of people, you know,

00:39:50.920 that have no moral standards at all,

00:39:53.760 then it will be drug and pornography and everything else.

00:39:57.320 But if you're a good people, if you have moral sentiments,

00:39:59.680 then you're providing things that uplift and empower.

00:40:04.780 AOC, stop thinking of your own world

00:40:08.760 where you can only get rich by doing things that are dirty.

00:40:12.840 You can get rich by helping people,

00:40:16.240 by empowering people, by making their lives better.

00:40:19.220 that's true capitalism as our founders saw it and the only way to return to that is to return to a

00:40:27.380 people that have moral sentiments not people who preach one thing and live another

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