California Leaders Blame Climate Change for Their Own Failures ｜ 1⧸13⧸25
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Glenn Beck and Stu Forlenza talk about the devastating fires in Los Angeles and how to prepare for natural disasters. Glenn also talks about his own health issues and how you can prepare for a natural disaster.
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Today, featuring Pat and Stu for Glenn, who we would love for you to keep in your thoughts and prayers if you can today.
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He's having a little bit of a health issue. Hopefully nothing serious.
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But, uh, wish him well and speedy recovery here.
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Uh, in the meantime, the catastrophe, uh, in Los Angeles continues.
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Just thousands and thousands of buildings destroyed. People's lives turned upside down.
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We'll get into that and lots more coming up in 60 seconds.
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All right. The catastrophe that is Los Angeles right now.
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Much of this, so much of this, could have been prevented.
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You know, it could have been minimized. That's for sure.
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It didn't have to sweep out of control like it has been.
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But when you go to fire hydrants and there's no water in them, it makes it really hard to put out a fire.
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Now, is that scientifically confirmed? Is that consensus?
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But initial research has shown that water does help in the event of a fire.
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I thought the fire hydrants were there just to make sure you didn't park in a particular area.
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Yeah. That used to be the case, but now they're saying, no, no, they can actually help fight fires.
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If we knew that in advance, maybe we could have made sure they had water.
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You know, but people, I mean, what are the odds of a fire occurring in California?
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You know, one to one is probably what I would put them at.
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And every year the Santa Ana winds are going to blow.
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Well, those are, of course, new because of climate change.
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Is that why they have songs and movies about them?
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You'd think by watching the news that they were brand new.
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You'd think that this was a shocking development.
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There's never been fire and there's never been wind in California.
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I mean, Albert Hammond wrote a song about this a long time ago.
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You could go from the beginning all the way through the song?
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I think the people of California are like, we've had a tough week.
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It'd be nice to hear little Albert Hammond now.
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They don't need a second tragedy on top of the first one.
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This is a, this is a, it's a catastrophe on the level of, of like, what I, you'd look at
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the United States of America and think it wouldn't be possible.
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Like, it didn't seem possible that that sort of chaos and destruction could happen in a
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You know, it can, you know, it's there, you know, the possibility is there, but you think
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we're not going to blow it so badly that the response to the fire is going to make it
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Well, I heard you and Glenn talking last week about the fact that this reminded him of an
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It's, you know, with a, it's a really bad Charlton Heston feature and, you know, he's the fire
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chief of Los Angeles and, uh, they're out of water and somehow the embers are really big
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and fat now and they're blowing all over the place.
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Like that's again, like that's never happened before, but it is, it's freakish like a, like
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one of those disaster movies that we used to see all the time, except it's, it's playing
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out in real time, right before our eyes in the greatest nation that's ever existed.
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You know, I said, I said that during COVID, how is this possible?
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I said that during Afghanistan, the withdrawal there, how is this possible that we could
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And the answer that you've come up with is climate change.
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Seemingly didn't have much to do with what was going on in Afghanistan, though they have
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No, I mean, climate change is mentioned in every news story.
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And that's what Gavin Newsom and, and Karen Bass are turning to because.
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Like it's, it's, if you think of like a fast and furious sequel and Vin Diesel's driving
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his car on, on a, on a bridge at 147 miles an hour.
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And as he comes over the hump of the bridge, he realizes the bridge in front of him is out.
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And luckily there's this one, like, uh, incline, like someone left a board.
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That can launch him a certain distance over the.
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And as he's pulling up, his options are either to just go down into the canyon or aim for
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that one board that's leaning up against the traffic cone.
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It's either die for sure or attempt to go over the gap in the bridge.
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And so he goes and he aims for that, uh, one board and he hits it and it go, he goes up
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And, you know, the girl he's with top falls off and as they're in the air in slow motion.
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And so, you know, these, these, a halter top is not built for such things.
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Um, anyway, so then, and then of course they land perfectly in their, you know, juiced up,
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But that's kind of what they're trying to do here.
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Every other road ends in their own destruction.
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Every explanation for what has occurred here points back to Democrats and the way they've
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Because that's the one they can blame on you in Ohio.
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They can blame that on you driving around a minivan in Indiana.
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Every other explanation for this is their fault.
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Every single one of those roads leads back to them.
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They are absolutely screwed if you don't believe that a 0.9% Fahrenheit, uh, Celsius,
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excuse me, uh, climate, uh, uh, temperature increase over a century.
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If you don't believe that is responsible for these fires, it's them.
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I, it just, will it work on the American people again?
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Will it work on Southern Californians right now?
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I think a lot of them are starting to wake up a bit, you know?
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When your house is, is sitting there in ashes, uh, and you, that's what you come back to
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after you've evacuated and then gone back to see what happened, uh, you've, you can't
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I mean, it just, every single year they have these fires in California, every single year.
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This is, it happens to be, uh, in a more vulnerable area of Southern California than
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Um, and so it's burned down more structures than normal, but that's not climate change.
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That just, that just happens to be where this fire began and then spread because of the
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Uh, and it spreads pretty, pretty easily, particularly Pat.
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I've noticed it spreads pretty easily when you don't have water to fight it.
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You know, I mean, when you can't do anything to stop it, fire just keeps going.
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It's like a perpetual motion machine just keeps going and going and going.
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And no one, when you don't stop it, it just keeps going.
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And apparently no Democrats in the entire state of California were aware of this fact, um,
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because they didn't prioritize, you know, having water to fight it.
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But like, you're right, you know, even if, even if you take the climate, like the, uh,
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the climate change argument seriously, which is hard to do, frankly, in this, in this position,
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like climate change, you know, it's just a catch all for every single problem that they
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But even if you take it seriously, what you're talking about is these winds that have
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Is that the difference between this entire city burning down or not?
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I mean, I don't think there's a ton of evidence to support that, but okay.
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It's a few percent drier than, than it normally was 50 years ago.
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Is that the reason that the entire Palisades burned to the ground?
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It's so inherently and obviously stupid that they just hope your emotion or distrust or
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hatred for the other side, hatred for Donald Trump, hatred for Republicans.
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They just hope that built-in foundational part of California life is strong enough to absolve
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And let's hope and pray it doesn't work this time.
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I mean, because it's going to happen again if they don't do something about it.
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You know, if they don't change their policies, then this will keep happening.
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We're going to, we're going to play for you what the LA fire chief had to say over the
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I will say too, Pat asked for your prayers as we were going to, starting the show for Glenn.
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And there was a couple of different ways his health issue could have gone.
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One was a little bit more negative and one was a little more positive.
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And I don't know, I don't know if you're sitting in your car and you said some prayers right
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then because I just got a text message that it went the good way.
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Have you seen this animation of the fire spreading?
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We put together this incredible animation that shows the timeline of how this fire advanced through the communities of Pacific Palisades and Malibu.
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And then on January 8th, that explosion to 15,000 acres.
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And then the next day, 17,000 acres as it progressed into the mountains.
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And you can see how far it had gotten into Malibu.
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And all the way up to the 11th, which is today at 22,660 acres.
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I don't know if your wife's like this, but my wife is like, you know, lying in bed before she goes to sleep, just watching video after video of like really sad people coming back to their homes.
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And, you know, rediscovering their, you know, she was watching one where the dog was still alive.
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Like some of the dog was in the house, but I guess got out.
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It came back to his house, which is totally burned down.
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And, you know, this is a very online social media friendly community, right?
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Like a lot of people there, like they post all the time anyway.
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So you have that unending flow of content from the area.
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These people have more resources than others that have gone through natural disasters.
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And that's maybe a positive for at least the recovery.
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You know, like there was this, there was a guy who ignored the evacuation order and stayed to try to save his house.
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And he was saying that he inherited that house from his parents.
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In 1960, that house was probably $15,000 or $20,000.
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You know, it might be worth $5 million now, but he doesn't have $5 million to rebuild.
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So he stayed put, ignored the evacuation order, took his garden hose, and put out all the fires anywhere near the area that started to flare up near his house.
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He saved two of his neighbors' homes and his own by just soaking them down when they sprang up.
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And I guess he soaked himself down, too, so that he wouldn't catch on fire.
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You know, and it just shows you what could have happened if they had the manpower to get ahead of these flames and do these kinds of things.
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How did he know before the fire started that water would do anything to them?
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Yeah, and he'd been doing some research into the physics of fire for the last several years.
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I mean, a garden hose, because you do watch it as it spreads.
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Like an ember hits a house and there's this little tiny thing.
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If you're there with a fire, with your garden hose, you can put it out easily.
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Of course, you know, it's really, really dangerous to stay there.
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But he said, based on his experience with previous fires, he at least knew something of what to do.
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For instance, that water may put out the flames.
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It would have been great to know that beforehand.
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Yeah, it would have been pretty helpful, I think.
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But I don't know if this will make any difference to the officials in California.
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Or will he just continue to chalk it up to global warming?
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Because this will happen again, again and again and again, if they don't do something about it.
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And by the way, globally, we're not seeing any increase in the amount of acreage burned.
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So, I mean, if it's climate change, you'd think, now this is a really terrible event, but this is not going to, you know, make the global percentage of acreage burned any different, right?
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Like it's a small area when you think about the earth, right?
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That's why it's, you know, these things burn in the middle of nowhere often, and we just don't really notice them.
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And we had those Australia fires a few years ago, and what they found out, it was actually a below average year.
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We hear nonstop coverage about how terrible it was for Australia.
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At the end of the year, it was a below average year for the amount of acreage burned.
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I mean, look, you know, this is, you'd think only the opposite if you actually looked at the news.
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And like, look, climate change, you know, can it have a factor around the fringes?
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But like, that's not the difference between, that might be the difference, let's say it's the difference between 1,000 homes burning and 998 homes burning.
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Now, if you're in those two homes, probably means a lot to you.
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But at the end of the day, that's not the cause here.
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You need to be able to be prepared to fight these things because they're going to happen whether you think you can control the global temperature or not.
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And not managing the land, not having the water ready, sitting here and using your resources on DEI nonsense and seeing how many lesbian firefighters you can hire is not a good process to make that happen.
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They had to have some substitutes from Oshkosh Junior College JV team.
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And that's who played the second half yesterday.
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I don't know if I've ever seen a game like that.
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And they weren't even, like, you know, because I do remember one or two games where there was, like, people trying to intentionally injure the other team.
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Where I remember that happening, like, back in, like, the old Saints teams that it happened with.
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But, and actually, I think an old Eagles team as well, of course.
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But this one was, like, a lot of them were just, like, friendly fire.
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Like, it was, like, you know, guys just rolling into their own teammates' ankles.
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And so, the Packers lost their top three wide receivers, their offensive line.
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So, should be an interesting one in Philly next weekend.
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Do you believe that the football season's almost over already?
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I will say, I did note that next Sunday, they're the early game, I think, 2.30 Eastern
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And I did also just get the approval or final okay that I'm going to be going up and
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covering the inauguration of President Trump next week, which is on Monday.
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And I noticed the Eagles, they're D.C. and Philly.
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And I was thinking, maybe I need to get up there early, you know, and just kind of make
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my way over to the Eagles just because I'm, since I'm right there.
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Plus, I will say, thinking about trying to take a plane into Washington, D.C. for this
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I can't even imagine what the travel is going to be like going there.
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So, it would make more sense to fly into Philadelphia, wouldn't it?
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It's what, an hour, hour and a half away from D.C.?
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It doesn't matter what the details are on that, Pat.
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We're going to be hosting coverage on Blaze TV.
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The inauguration falls live in the third hour of this broadcast, the lead up to it.
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And then I think the inauguration happens like immediately after that.
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It'll be interesting to watch all that play out.
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I mean, we do have a lot of negative things going on right now.
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I will be happy to see someone, really anyone in the White House.
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Because I don't think currently we have anyone.
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Not exactly sure when he stopped becoming president.
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He certainly couldn't have been president when the Afghanistan withdrawal happened.
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He claims that went as well as it possibly could, though.
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I mean, nothing went wrong with this administration.
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I keep hearing that he's going to make a bunch of speeches this week.
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You ever have a job that you just leave off your resume?
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And now, thinking about this, you worked with Glenn Beck.
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So, yes, of course, you wanted to leave certain jobs off your resume.
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But, like, that's what you should do if you're Joe Biden.
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And then we'll start getting think pieces like, why the right is seizing on Joe Biden's claim
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They've been doing that with Elon Musk now because he's been talking about this huge
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scandal in, was it Great Britain, where they, with the abuse of young women by Pakistani
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I can't remember this story off the top of my head.
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Anyway, they're like, ah, can you believe he's seizing on this?
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Why does he care so much about kids being abused and molested?
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What does that say about him that he cares that children are being molested?
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We're not going to say what it is, but you can put two and two together.
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Wait, I think we should all be concerned about that.
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Let's shine a little light on that situation because up until now, nobody has.
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I mean, there's like thousands of these rapes that have happened, and we haven't heard a
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You know, if Musk doesn't talk about it, who is going to?
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Seems like accountability is important, and in raising the possibility of accountability
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Now, as far as the accountability on this Los Angeles wildfire, who will accept accountability
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Well, that's basically the way this goes every single time, especially in California.
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Things are so bad, obviously, they had to move the Los Angeles Rams-Minnesota Vikings game
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from Los Angeles to Arizona tonight, which is problematic, I guess.
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In the grand scheme of things, it's a smaller problem than a lot of people dealing with.
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It's still an inconvenience and a weird thing for a lot of people who paid a lot of money
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And also the team having a home game, which they basically don't have now.
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So, obviously, football well down the list of concerns in this particular situation,
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You know, maybe you've gone through a bunch of stuff here and you want to go see your
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And it's going to be like that one night of diversion from all the horror that's going
00:32:07.180
I was kind of wondering, why is it because San Diego is not an NFL town anymore?
00:32:12.280
It seems like San Diego would have been, I don't know, closer, more convenient.
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Seems like it would have been more sense to them.
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Put it in San Diego where the Chargers used to play instead of moving it clear to Phoenix,
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Or, you know, you could have gone to Oakland or San Francisco or, you know, but, you know,
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So, you know, I guess it's the facilities are, you know, nice there and ready to go.
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But, apparently, a lot of people are pissed off at millionaires who have hired private
00:32:49.320
firefighters to come and guard and protect their home.
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I would have fires where I'm not sure where the anger comes from.
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If I had the means to do that, you better believe I would do that.
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I would obviously, if you're a multi-multi-millionaire, are you going to pay $2,000 an hour to have
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some private firefighters come and save your house?
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That's worth maybe $10 or $20 million or $30 million.
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Who knows how much some of these homes are worth.
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And just because not everybody can do it doesn't mean you shouldn't, does it?
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I guess you should only do what all Americans can do, and that's watch your house burn to
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It's a nice picture of what the left really thinks about this stuff.
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They want everyone to be equal, even if that means a lot of people have to get worse, if
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Like, they'd rather have those homes, those multi-million dollar homes burned to the ground
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It would be fair to them to see those people get punished in the same way.
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When in reality, what you'd like to do, and this happened with a lot of very wealthy people
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Not only did they save their house, but they saved a lot of houses around them.
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You know, Caruso, who was the guy who almost became mayor of Los Angeles.
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God, this would have looked a lot different if he was.
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But he has, the Palisades Mall is his property.
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They were able to protect it and a bunch of homes.
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And what happens with these private firefighters is they have their own water tankers.
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And so they bring them in and they don't have to rely on the fire hydrants.
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Because when the embers start flaring up, you just put them out like the homeowner did with his garden hose.
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These firefighters did the same thing for that outdoor mall.
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And as you mentioned, the surrounding area saved that whole area.
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And there was some video taken of it, which we can't play because I don't have the rights to it.
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But we have some people driving through the area showing the mall in pristine condition, mostly.
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But then they get to the end of the street and they show what happened across the street from the mall.
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I mean, of course you're going to save your property if you can.
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And places like the Associated Press are saying, you know, this event could increase inequality.
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Is that because my place is standing and yours isn't?
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If your place burns down, all places should burn down.
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To heck with every other concept known to man, let's just have equality.
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So if your house burns down, I got to let mine burn down, whether I have firefighters there or not.
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All right, we're talking about the inequality that this fire is now bringing.
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It could actually increase, we're finding out, the inequality in this country.
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The California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake.
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You might think that's not the right thing to focus on right now.
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Samantha Santoro, who's 22, a first-generation college student at Cal Poly Pomona, remembered being annoyed when the initial news coverage of the wildfires focused more on celebrities.
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She and her sister, who attends UC Berkeley, worry how their Mexican immigrant parents and working-class neighbors who lost their homes will move forward.
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We don't have like, oh, I'll just go to my second home and stay there, she said.
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The landlord of their family's two-bedroom house, probably evil.
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And we'll have to, we have to find out the skin color in their genitals and who they're attracted to before we know if they're a villain in the story or not.
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But the landlord of the family's two-bedroom house with a pool, again, this is not exactly like, usually these sad stories aren't, you know, homes with pools.
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They had increased the $1,650 rent, making it possible for the Santoros to affordably raise their, or they had never increased the rent, excuse me.
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They were able to raise their daughters affordably.
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Now they're temporarily staying with a relative in Pasadena.
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The family has renter's insurance, but not much else.
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I think it's hard to believe that you have nothing.
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Of course, this is, these stories are really tragic and really horrible, no matter how much money you have.
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You know, it's not about how much money the person who lost their home has.
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If you're a huge celebrity, you've got millions and millions of dollars, yes, your situation's going to be better.
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By the way, this is why you work hard through life.
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This is, it doesn't mean you're going to be rich.
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However, the reason you actually do this is because when you have bad events like this, you're able to make it better.
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I could stay at the Beverly Hills Inn if I, if, you know, if you have that kind of money, then, you know, you can kind of weather a situation like this.
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program
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uh glenn will return tomorrow looks like uh pat and stew today for glenn on the glenn beck program
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uh we got to get into this mark zuckerberg interview that was uh it was joe rogan wasn't
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it wasn't on a rogan show uh and what he had to say about censorship from the biden administration
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fascinating we'll get into that in one minute well we have so much work to do in this country
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talking about censorship from the biden administration hmm interesting uh here's what he had to say on rogan's
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show these people from the biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse
00:47:41.240
and it's like these documents are it's all kind of out there did you record any of those phone calls
00:47:46.340
i don't know i don't think i don't think we were but but i think i want to listen i mean their emails
00:47:50.500
the emails are published it's all it's all kind of out there we said no we're not we're not going to
00:47:55.060
take down humor and satire we're not going to take down things that are that are true and then at some
00:48:00.800
point um i guess uh i don't flipped a bit i mean biden when he was he gave some statement at some
00:48:08.580
point i don't know if it was a press conference or to some journalists where he basically was like
00:48:11.760
these guys are killing people and and um and i don't know then like all these different agencies
00:48:20.740
and branches of government basically just like started investigating coming after our company it
00:48:25.380
was that it was brutal it was brutal hmm they're not going to take things down that are true
00:48:30.740
hmm uh the hunter laptop comes to mind uh you did take down things that were true and you did uh
00:48:39.140
squash conservatives and uh conservative sites and uh hampered traffic and really shut us down
00:48:48.880
for what four years and now all of a sudden we get this mea culpa okay it's a little irritating to me
00:48:57.720
i mean i believe that he i think that's fair i i yeah i think he believes it now yeah where were
00:49:04.100
you four years ago mr perm where were you four years ago come on yes i think that is entirely fair i
00:49:13.020
i i'm a bit torn on it overall because i first of all really want i would love to have another elon
00:49:19.760
musk on our side yes that'd be great yeah that'd be great and i don't know if this is legitimate from
00:49:24.140
from him it could very well be like he's just seeing the writing on the on the on the wall he
00:49:28.580
knows that's what i think it is going to be very trump focused and yep and he better get back on
00:49:33.100
board yeah uh you could see that um it's probably the most likely uh part of this yes that that being
00:49:41.840
said first of all on that that's not necessarily bad you know one of the reasons why you win elections
00:49:48.220
is for things like this to happen yeah right it's one of the reasons we organized and we all went out
00:49:52.460
to vote and we did all that i welcome it because of this right yeah you want the pressure on these
00:49:58.060
guys to be towards sanity instead of insanity right and we're like i'm at the point now with
00:50:04.380
elon musk that i think he's had um a a significant transition from where he was a while ago because i
00:50:11.280
was just like with duckerberg here i was very skeptical of the elon musk thing at the beginning i
00:50:15.620
don't know what this guy's been telling me non-stop about global warming and how we have to
00:50:19.740
build spaceships to avoid it for the last 10 years why am i going to believe that all of a
00:50:24.580
sudden he's some big conservative or whatever um and i know there's there's splits within the
00:50:30.840
conservative movement over a lot of things that elon musk supports but generally speaking i think
00:50:35.640
what he's what he's saying is is real i think he's had this transition he really does believe a lot of
00:50:41.420
these things and this is how it started with him and maybe this is a start of it with with mark
00:50:46.060
zuckerberg i hope so i hope so but like if it's not one of the reasons you go out there
00:50:52.620
and you win elections is to to change the tides the tides during the biden administration particularly
00:50:59.540
early were pulling people toward woke nonsense woke craziness and all these companies were proudly
00:51:07.960
touting their dei initiatives they sure were and now they're dropping and now they're dropping them
00:51:13.360
including facebook facebook you know mcdonald's walmart like huge brands i i well i think it's
00:51:22.000
possible it's real with zuckerberg on a change i don't think it's possible that walmart has had some
00:51:27.680
big change i don't think that's what's happened here walmart is just saying like okay this is getting
00:51:31.920
doing more doing us more harm right than it is good right so let's switch mcdonald's there's like
00:51:38.680
why are we dealing with this right everyone told us this is going to make us look good and now it's
00:51:43.560
pissing off more people than it's than it's than it's helping us with so let's change it like those
00:51:47.740
are corporate decisions and that's like the positive of winning an election and sending a message like
00:51:52.900
that on the other hand it could be that zuckerberg really is having some sort of transition you know
00:51:57.580
which is be great would be the best case scenario i think yeah it'd be great great to have another
00:52:01.560
person in that sort of powerful position who adopts and and appreciates free speech but in
00:52:06.280
the meantime it would just be nice if they would allow free speech on facebook yeah even if it's not
00:52:11.640
real even if it's a transition only for convenience uh for facebook for the next four years that's okay
00:52:18.980
too i'll take that too um if you just don't you know stop censoring stop squashing conservative
00:52:26.680
thought and who decides by the way what's true and what's not because there's some there's some uh
00:52:34.000
differing opinions on that on really yeah i haven't noticed that are there some people who are still
00:52:39.460
saying that water will put out fires there are i hope they're suppressing that because that's crazy
00:52:44.840
they should yeah but i i think that's true pat and it's like you know you listen to way the way
00:52:51.640
zuckerberg is talking we can play some more of the clips if we want but like he was talking about how
00:52:55.320
we saw a real problem which i think is real at the beginning of this i think there really was a
00:53:02.760
problem that tech companies could have helped solve in some way like i remember when the fake
00:53:08.340
news term first started it wasn't like hey people disagree on climate change or hey why aren't you
00:53:15.300
saying that people can transition from one gender to the other with a series of magic words it wasn't that
00:53:20.600
it was like someone would say uh you know uh look at this this guy murdered 10 people last night and
00:53:27.760
no one's doing anything and then you look at him like this person is i think that's robert downey jr
00:53:33.040
that's not even what do you mean this like it was just completely fake news people were just putting
00:53:39.060
uh crazy stories out there that were just completely made up to get clicks yeah and it was something that
00:53:45.600
was hurting people's online experience because they would be like oh my gosh i'm outraged they
00:53:49.740
retweeted they'd repost it and it would just be like some account trying to make money on totally
00:53:57.640
fake news stories just stuff they like made up not stuff that was politically disagreeable just stuff
00:54:03.120
that was not even political at all just nonsense and so they wanted to try to to crack down on that
00:54:08.460
and like they went in the direction of fact checkers where twitter slash x and elon musk
00:54:15.520
went in the direction of community notes and community notes is quite clearly a better system
00:54:21.320
and it's been proven to be a better system and now mark zuckerberg who very recently was in such a
00:54:27.620
a blood brawl against elon musk that they were threatening to have a cage match against each other
00:54:32.540
is admitting that twitter got it right and they got it wrong it's amazing isn't it that kind of that had to
00:54:37.980
be hard for him to do it yeah it probably was it probably was and you're right you're hats off to
00:54:44.000
him for that that's good but now we'll see the proof's in the pudding right yes he's saying these
00:54:48.740
things like now that he said these things i've had several people reach out and say like i posted
00:54:52.880
this and they took it down and i don't even think they've implemented any of these systems yet so i
00:54:57.140
wouldn't be surprised if that stuff is still happening yeah probably we will see over the next year or two
00:55:01.960
how how loyal they are to this mission and it just would have been nice if it would have happened
00:55:07.160
four years ago yeah you know stand up to the government you can't allow the government to
00:55:12.180
tell you what to take off your website and what not to yeah you know i i honestly like the the
00:55:17.560
conversations with zuckerberg i listened to a decent amount of the rogan one because i was curious to
00:55:21.880
see how real this was and you came away thinking it was pretty real no i wouldn't say that i i think
00:55:27.540
it's possible it's real is where i am all right the part of me that that bothers me and i think might be
00:55:32.680
the same thing that's bothering you is there wasn't it wasn't a mea culpa it was an admission
00:55:39.000
of what happened i really screwed up for four years right he didn't say that he did say twitter
00:55:45.020
handled it better which is kind of a mea culpa i guess sort of but it wasn't like we wow we uh i'm
00:55:51.840
really sorry for those people who lost their accounts which would make it more legitimate yeah
00:55:56.320
it would feel if he did that it was a much more of like gosh can you believe the government came
00:56:00.620
after me and they said they wanted to take down things that were true and we said no well that's
00:56:03.860
not how i remember it no because that's not how it happened yeah i mean i'm sure at times they did
00:56:09.040
say no yeah but generally speaking they went along with this stuff for a really long time and it pat
00:56:15.600
destroyed people's businesses right i gotta believe right i mean i you know i we live in this i gave up on
00:56:23.780
facebook because of it i mean they just continued to to uh squash more and more of what we had to
00:56:31.420
say on facebook and so i just gave up eventually glenn's talked about this publicly uh that uh
00:56:37.100
they're the reach of his facebook page is something down by something like 90 or 95 percent and it was
00:56:41.600
that way for all of us yeah and they and they outwardly kind of told people where we want you to
00:56:46.560
see your friend's wedding photos not take in news content now they're reversing that now which i think
00:56:52.440
again is good i just don't know if it's it's a real commitment because you have to have a real
00:56:56.680
commitment there are ugly things that happen when you embrace free speech there are terrible things
00:57:02.640
said on twitter and it's hard to defend them yeah um it's hard to say actually our policy is to allow
00:57:08.020
that terrible speech our policy is to allow that terrible thing to be on the internet yeah but that's
00:57:13.420
the right thing to allow yes you have to allow the only kind of speech that you need to have uh protected
00:57:20.200
is harmful or not necessarily harmful but stuff people don't like yeah it's easy to protect you
00:57:27.800
know yeah basic speech sunshine speech is easy i mean nobody has to nobody takes offense to it
00:57:34.980
it's the stuff that's offensive that is difficult to protect but that's what needs to be protected i
00:57:40.540
think too facebook has realized they're no longer relevant the way they were when they were allowing
00:57:45.800
news content everyone you know people were talking about it people were on it they were sharing things
00:57:50.080
and i think because they decided hey let's make this all about you know your friend's new job
00:57:55.260
announcement which again might be important to following your friend's life of course but it's not
00:58:00.420
it doesn't happen enough in people's lives for it to be to make it a relevant place to go
00:58:05.000
so younger generations completely abandoned it in favor of tiktok and snapchat like myspace
00:58:10.240
yeah and it can happen to you you know facebook was able i mean the reason why it hasn't fully
00:58:17.380
happened to meta generally is because they keep buying all the competition yeah right like instagram
00:58:21.920
took over but they own that and and whatsapp but but they own that and and that's smart smart business
00:58:28.180
right like you know buying up your competitions a smart part of business um a friend of mine who's kind
00:58:34.100
of a tech nerd had a theory and he was like i think most likely it's just him you know kowtowing
00:58:40.620
to the trump administration you know seeing seeing the current seeing the you know reading the room
00:58:44.740
which is smart to do as a business person he's like but i think there's a possibility that
00:58:50.860
you know he's just kind of grown up you know he is only 40 and we've he's been in our lives so long
00:58:58.700
wow that you kind of it kind of feels like he's been around forever yeah it does but he started
00:59:03.900
this thing when he was in college well well he didn't start it stole it when he was in college
00:59:09.120
when he was in college yes which i'm kind of so he was young when he stole it he was younger when he
00:59:15.220
when he you're right he uh allegedly stole facebook from the winklevoss twins right who by the way have
00:59:22.280
gone on to build a totally separate multi-billion dollar business of their own congratulations to them
00:59:28.400
yeah um pretty actually pretty impressive guys they are you know they've been at the forefront of
00:59:33.580
two separate revolutions it's incredible it's really incredible between uh crypto and uh and
00:59:40.260
previous facebook but you know zuckerberg obviously built this thing into a behemoth uh but he built that
00:59:47.580
his argument was and i think if there's something to this maybe that number one this happened when he was
00:59:53.320
very young he uh was probably more likely to be pushed around by the government and pushed around
01:00:01.440
by people around him telling him this is the way it should be number one and number two he sees himself
01:00:07.820
as sort of this free speech libertarian guy in his words unlike rogan and these other statements
01:00:11.860
which sounds absurd to us yeah but when you think about him being in this san francisco tech bubble
01:00:20.600
he probably was the most libertarian guy around that he knew or at least one of them yeah he probably
01:00:26.300
is to the right of most of the people he's been around his entire life yeah which is not which is
01:00:31.680
not right we are right no it's very left to us yes but center left if that's what he is is like a
01:00:38.940
hardcore conservative in this community right with the exception of a few people like musk and peter
01:00:43.260
teal there's some libertarians out there yeah yeah conservatives but it's very it's few and far
01:00:47.200
between and so the people who kind of like hey i think free speech you know i want a platform for
01:00:51.760
that that may have been what he really saw himself as and maybe as he's growing up and he's you know
01:01:00.000
seeing adulthood for what it is and seeing the government for what it is and seeing these pressures
01:01:05.600
as as what they are uh and these nonsensical leftists like maybe he's seeing the light a little
01:01:10.860
bit and that would be good possible yes i mean we can see it's possible to look at this in a
01:01:15.300
positive way right but you could yeah you could it's an option it's out there more coming up in
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one minute we don't usually take it but it's out there it's an option uh all right glenn's been
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you know just to give credit where credit is due to mark zuckerberg he did steal it allegedly from
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the winklevoss twins okay at harvard yes uh but you know what he had some real business acumen
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to he had i stolen it i wouldn't have really known what to do with it no i don't think so
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i really don't think so would have taken off no i don't think so uh but he turned it into a
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multi-billion dollar business and there's something to that you know same with bill gates yeah bill
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gates stole everything he ever had from xerox and ibm and turned it into a multi-billion dollar
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business so they're you know they're good businessmen i remember thinking when he was offered
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i don't know something like three or four billion dollars for facebook i remember that we were on
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the air together i think talking about that yep and i remember thinking this he's insane yeah why
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would you take that he turned it down and the reason he turned it down was he wanted to build what he
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wanted to build which again kind of plays into what he's talking about now at the time i thought it was
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insane because it could have been myspace in six months and gone right and be zero dollars and this
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has happened to a lot of people since yeah uh but he he bet on himself and it worked out and and to
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say he had nothing to do with it because i you know because i think the winklevoss twins uh got
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kind of the got the shaft a little bit in the initial treatment of the facebook story they were
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kind of like yeah dopey frat brothers who had nothing to you know they just had a stupid idea
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and what was the name of the movie they kind of presented it that way and i think that's become
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the reality yeah the social network social now that's that's based on a book called the i think
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it's called the accidental billionaires by ben mesrick and what's interesting is uh he wrote
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another book later on called uh bitcoin billionaires i think it's called it's something like that and
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it's about the winklevoss twins basically after the facebook fiasco yeah and what are they worth 65
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billion now or something insane they bought really really low they saw the bitcoin thing coming really
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really early and they built a huge company uh based on a gemini but also just bought a ton of
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bitcoin and we're trying to you know going around the world when all the all the fallout from the
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facebook thing was happening they were doing bitcoin stuff and no one was paying attention to
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it because what the hell it was like you know you know ten dollars at the time um they built you
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know helped build this thing saw it very very early and his book about um the winklevoss twins
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the bitcoin one is way more positive on them like it basically he kind of says like i saw them as sort
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of a joke in this first book and then i saw them and really understood what they were doing and and now
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i'm really really impressed by them interesting yeah i mean it kind of wow it kind of turned me
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around on them because i kind of thought oh god they like to row i remember that they were rowing all
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the time they were kind of goofy twins right like that's what you thought and i i get totally like
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the wrong read i think on them uh-huh it's not all about rowing no it's it wasn't all about rowing
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you don't make a billion dollars rowing there's very few professional rowers no that's true who have
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maintained that kind of fortune so that's really true yeah except in norway i think there's a lot
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of billionaire rowers in norway filled with them but not filled with norway's filled with them
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meantime senator mark kelly of arizona says that tiktok will likely go dark in the united states
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next weekend wow they're gonna shut it down is that what that means are they gonna just turn
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off tiktok in the united states first of all i hope they do i'd love that because it's just so
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annoying i know but that's uh that's separate from what is reality and that's not going to happen
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right no i don't that's a terrible way of describing dark sounds like okay it's just gone
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right it like disappears from your phone or your ipad yeah like i think uh that's that's the
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impression i would have of it right like if you told me that i would think i'm going to look down
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at my phone which by the way it's going to look exactly the same as it does now too which is without
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the tiktok app yeah but in theory you'd look down at your phone if you had tiktok and you'd look down
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and it would would not be there or you'd click on it and it would not operate it would just be a blank
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screen right that's that's what i would take from from kelly's description that's what it sounds like
01:08:58.820
of this that's not at all what's going to happen yeah now if it goes through again this is the law
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you can still see some more challenges popping up you know shockingly and probably will the chinese
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cover the communist party does not necessarily want to give up control of all the minds of our
01:09:14.480
children they were supposed to have to sell it to an american right and that american would have
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control over all our children's right which is so much better so much especially because surely
01:09:25.260
china can't find one american who would buy it and then just agree with them not out of 339 million
01:09:31.920
people no no way could they find someone because it's funny we're finding we're electing people to
01:09:37.360
be president of the united states that are super friendly with china uh as we did in 2020 well if
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they were giving you 10 million dollars you'd be pretty friendly oh my gosh i would just sell this
01:09:46.620
country 10 million 20 bucks just sell to sell this country right down the river to the chinese
01:09:52.240
communist party it's funny a lot of parents are doing it for free yeah they're just like hey
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take my child's brain why don't you manage their thoughts and and and uh aspirations instead of me
01:10:04.180
um i don't think tiktok is a good thing i don't think it is the type of thing that uh is going to
01:10:11.140
it benefits the country at all i wish it would i wish it was never invented i can't believe
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that how many you know homes it's in right like i i can't i can't believe it because it's what
01:10:21.160
350 million subscribers or something like that it's massive i mean it's huge if it's not the big
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it's right up there is one of the biggest apps and especially for younger kids who are on it all the
01:10:32.420
time and just i and honestly like there is a real um national security risk with letting the chinese
01:10:39.560
government um run your kids lives that's not necessarily a good policy one we might want to rethink
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um going forward but secondarily it's just so terrible for their attention spans it's so terrible
01:10:51.940
for their brain it's just brain rot it's just not i mean that's not to say there's nothing good on it
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like you know there are occasionally things i you know i see them played from time to time on other
01:11:02.580
social media platforms like i don't know good recipes or i mean there's people that do productive
01:11:06.980
things with it um i i'm always looking for a good recipe too i guess i should probably i should
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probably subscribe uh and download the app you're a big recipe guy be big recipe huge you're chef pat
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i love me a good recipe yeah you're always in that kitchen after the show just baking up a you know
01:11:27.120
a nice bisque yep oh yeah or maybe a lot of times a gumbo of sorts and do a recipe for pheasant under
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glass i'm always on the lookout it's weird always a lot of people are going in there like microwaving
01:11:38.800
cheeseburgers and you're like no you go for the whole thing yeah so i mean but you know there
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people like they have stuff like you know interior design or like life hacks i mean there's stuff
01:11:47.780
that's a value on it but of course they can find that anywhere you can find that there's instagram
01:11:52.140
every other freaking social media as you point out with mark zuckerberg who allegedly stole facebook at
01:11:57.060
the beginning he's also allegedly smoked stole snapchat with re uh he stole x with threads he
01:12:04.040
allegedly stole uh you know tiktok with reels oh wow like i mean yeah this stuff is available and 50
01:12:11.760
other things not controlled by the by the communist party of china right so but taking all that out for
01:12:18.640
a second what's actually going to happen with tiktok it basically what they're going to do is it's not
01:12:25.180
going to disappear from your phone it's not going to go it's not going to stop working it is basically
01:12:29.500
the way the law is written is they the uh app stores can no longer offer it as a as a new as an
01:12:35.800
app so no new people could get on it in the app store now my understanding is you could probably just
01:12:41.000
go to the website i don't know how they're stopping that but you can't go to the app store which is of
01:12:45.840
course how most people use tiktok so you can't go to the app store and download it as a new app once
01:12:50.660
they once this goes through if it goes through and secondarily there won't be any more there won't be any
01:12:55.400
updates from tiktok so if apple releases a new ios right and they need new requirements in there
01:13:04.120
your your tiktok app might not work anymore like the way it's supposed to if you download the new
01:13:10.100
the update from apple yeah like right once you get the new software it's not going to work as well
01:13:14.860
yeah now you might be able to avoid that for a while if you remember uh flappy bird remember this
01:13:20.340
this story from years ago flappy bird it was a um a game that came out super simple game where you
01:13:26.740
just have to go in between pipes your bird would have to and you keep typing uh tapping it the screen
01:13:30.960
and your bird would kind of go up you have to go in between these pipes it was a really stupid game
01:13:35.060
it was very very hard very difficult and it was created by some guy i don't know in some place that
01:13:40.800
i never want to visit um that uh and he wanted to do it and people got really addicted to it and
01:13:45.840
became super popular went to like the top of the charts and he decided in the middle of the
01:13:51.940
viral craziness that he thought it was becoming a bad influence on people people were playing it too
01:13:56.840
much and he decided he didn't want it so he took it down just on his own took it down from the app store
01:14:02.320
and so if you had it on your phone already you could keep playing it for as long as you
01:14:07.140
wanted until uh until the updates made it irrelevant or something but it was still there if you deleted it
01:14:14.160
you couldn't re-download it though and that would be the same with tiktok if you delete the thing
01:14:17.480
it's not you're not going to be able to re-download it if all this stuff happens which which it may
01:14:21.560
not it may not they may find some last minute legal reprieve they may uh you know they've gone
01:14:26.760
through a lot of a lot of their options though it does seem like this is going to happen and uh you
01:14:32.560
know i don't know look fewer people being on this is good for america in every way imaginable
01:14:39.660
and it might be bad for certain influencers and i i do think that is that really sucks like if you
01:14:44.960
if you built a business you know you build a business on 10 million followers on tiktok
01:14:49.120
yeah probably have been smart enough to go over to instagram and and probably have built a good
01:14:53.840
business over there wherever else to to shield yourself but maybe not and you know if you're
01:14:58.700
making all of your money from tiktok this is pretty rough on you and i i don't generally like the
01:15:04.480
idea of the government coming in and banning things after people i don't either but this is a
01:15:08.780
little bit different i do think the national security risks are pretty high on this one yeah
01:15:12.280
and it's coming from the ccp that's an issue that's a problem and there's all sorts of evidence that
01:15:17.600
they are looking at this that they are influencing what kind of content uh comes uh to to to us like
01:15:23.380
yeah they are intention like you look at the stuff that comes first of all they don't let tiktok
01:15:28.960
into china tells you kind of a little bit tiktok you cannot get it in china yeah it's amazing
01:15:35.640
because they know how bad it is for people they know how terrible it is for a society
01:15:42.140
they're poisoning us instead and so that's a terrible idea but it's not going away again reels
01:15:49.540
is doing the exact same thing you know the hope is that with an american force behind it or an
01:15:55.360
american mindset behind it at least they're not intentionally seeding uh chaos at least they're
01:16:02.240
not intentionally trying to put harmful things into uh the american population which i do think china
01:16:09.680
is actively doing i think that's actually happening yeah i think there's plenty of evidence uh to back
01:16:16.660
that up um also how good will it be for america if we take over greenland
01:16:23.540
i think it'd be really good um i'm not i'm not sure we should just do it um no the president
01:16:32.600
to be the president-elect didn't rule out military intervention i i think that's just part of his
01:16:39.740
negotiation process i i don't think we would actually invade greenland and take it over militarily
01:16:46.300
uh but i do think he's serious about trying to acquire it from from the dutch i think that's
01:16:54.660
real if he i think it's real if it was possible he would do it yeah i think and denmark is saying now
01:17:00.220
they're apparently open to discussing a more prominent role for the u.s they say they don't
01:17:04.940
want to sell it outright to us but they're willing to talk about sharing it which i think is pretty
01:17:10.000
interesting um they're trying to avoid a public dispute with the incoming trump administration
01:17:16.960
though uh and they've sent messages to trump officials offering a discussion on a new partnership
01:17:25.160
regarding greenland's future that's interesting yeah i mean this is probably really what trump is
01:17:32.060
going for yeah he probably doesn't think he can buy it outright but right wants to get a stronger
01:17:37.860
foothold there that he doesn't want china to get a stronger foothold there yeah and is negotiating
01:17:43.260
this is you know this is the way he does it whether you like it or not i will say this there's the new
01:17:48.060
you know just that he's able to get people talking and this is the most fascinating thing about trump
01:17:52.920
is just how he can come up with this idea that no one's talking about and wrestle the entire attention
01:17:58.960
of the united states toward it it's like incredible right the new york times even wrote a piece
01:18:03.320
the headline was how much would buying greenland cost which is a great one now i asked i did this
01:18:09.660
experiment with um uh one of the ai services and asked it how much would greenland cost and
01:18:15.540
it came up with something like it was like it could be anywhere from 50 billion to one trillion
01:18:20.720
and glenn's like a trillion i do that in a second let's do it we spend a trillion dollars on nothing
01:18:25.620
all the time let's let's go out in there and get greenland um you know greenland's like as big
01:18:30.240
even it's like as big as like the eastern seaboard of the united states it's gigantic really big yeah
01:18:35.620
it looks bigger than it actually is on the map but it's big but it is still really really big even
01:18:40.200
when you look at the proper perspective and it's got a lot of uh precious minerals yep it has a lot
01:18:45.340
of stuff there that would be fun to have it's the strategic positioning is really important yeah
01:18:49.400
um however the new york times asked an uh expert david barker he's a real estate developer former
01:18:55.080
economist at the new york fed how much should it cost he had at one point um uh had talked about
01:19:02.140
he was i guess famous previously back in 2009 he argued that the american purchase of alaska in 1867
01:19:08.800
for less than two cents per acre was a bad deal from a purely financial investment perspective you
01:19:13.600
think yeah that's fascinating i don't know i think it was a good buy i feel like two cents an acre was
01:19:18.220
the right price yeah um but uh he uh he says a back of the napkin math for valuing greenland
01:19:25.480
which he bases on the purchase of the um virgin islands so basically kind of like projecting that
01:19:30.820
of the future looking at the changes of gdp going through all of this he has the whole they have the
01:19:35.040
whole analysis in here but bottom line at the end of it comes out between 12.5 billion and 77 billion
01:19:41.100
oh come on i'd pull the trigger on that now i might buy i might see if i can get a mortgage for that
01:19:45.500
yeah i just just personally let's see let's see what can we get american financing on the phone
01:19:50.240
see if they'll give us 12.5 billion between pat stew and glenn maybe we can pull this thing off i
01:19:55.200
don't know it's probably a high rate i mean you can't you can't pass that up there's no first of
01:20:01.300
all no way would they take 12 billion no imagine that they're like yeah 12 billion i mean let's say
01:20:07.060
it's 100 billion let's say it's 500 billion yes wouldn't that be worth it it would be worth it and
01:20:12.180
denmark would really benefit from 500 billion dollars i don't know what their gdp is but it
01:20:17.840
can't be can't be too much more than that do you know the number off the top of your head how much
01:20:21.780
money we've given ukraine i don't know it off the top of my head but it's a lot according to some
01:20:26.020
sources is like 250 billion i mean that's like several agreements yeah yes it is a high number of
01:20:32.480
77 billion yeah i mean i am all in at that price and i think like you know you kind of you kind of
01:20:40.020
look at it like a you know like a baseball free agent right now the my my america's team the
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toronto blue jays are trying to um sign uh my my son's favorite player vladimir guerrero jr to a
01:20:50.420
long-term contract and like there's they you know they negotiate like i think the blue jays have
01:20:54.680
offered 340 million dollars for and uh wow and he wants 450 i think it's 10 years and he wants 450
01:21:02.180
and it's like guys nobody wants to come to your team you live in canada okay no one wants to
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freaking deal with customs for every home trip no one wants to go up there and pay trudeau's tax rate
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right what you need to do to get a player of his caliber is pay a premium if he wants 450 million
01:21:20.280
dollars call him tomorrow and tell him you have 451 million dollars and he's you're ready to sign it
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right now the same thing with this like same thing with greenland is there a possibility of just blowing
01:21:30.960
them away with how much money we offer if they really only want 77 billion dollars offer him a trillion
01:21:36.000
see if they'll take it yeah but start a little lower but but maybe start 500 billion yeah yeah
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yeah i think that'd be worth it'd be a worthwhile purchase the united states at least it would be
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something we're just right we're taking our money right now and making it explode in russia
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Pat and Stu for Glenn today 888-727-BECK um we're just looking up the uh the GDP of Denmark
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who has the rights right now to Greenland their GDP is 404.2 billion dollars last year 404.2
01:23:50.360
uh we could easily oh my god here's a here's a year's gross domestic product for you yeah for
01:23:58.320
Greenland I'm looking at the U.S. GDP is 27.36 trillion I mean is there anything we wouldn't
01:24:04.620
sell for 27.36 trillion I don't think so uh maybe not Texas maybe you don't sell California or Texas
01:24:12.980
for that well California I mean probably something inside or the contiguous United States but I'm
01:24:19.000
selling Alaska in a second for that for take it for 27 trillion you want Guam we'll throw in the
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Virgin Islands what do you want yes what can we what do you need for 27.36 trillion I'm in you could
01:24:31.800
almost pay off the debt for that yeah I mean that would be massive imagine what Denmark I mean it's
01:24:37.280
gotta be tempting for 404 billion dollars seriously I would think it would be and like maybe get keep
01:24:42.640
a percentage of like mineral rights or something like so you get ongoing revenue mm-hmm they should
01:24:47.880
totally sell us this what's going on why aren't they doing it Denmark's stupid for not doing it
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So Joe Biden says that he believes he would have won the election had he stayed in it.
01:27:54.380
Well, yeah, but he couldn't have because he had to leave.
01:27:58.440
They told him he had to leave, so Nancy Pelosi said,
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So then he, as the most powerful person in the world,
01:28:18.660
I think he would have lost by more than Kamala did.
01:28:21.740
But he could have stayed in the race if he really thought he had a great chance to win.
01:28:26.360
I think she probably did do better than he would have done.
01:28:29.660
However, I will say, I would say it would be a lifetime of regret, though there's,
01:28:36.160
unfortunately for Joe at his age, maybe not all that much time to regret it.
01:28:50.420
That was 14 million people more than voted for Kamala Harris.
01:28:59.760
His entire life, this is why I was relatively convinced, even at the heights of these pressures,
01:29:04.820
that he was like, at the end of the day, he's not going to give this up.
01:29:08.360
He ran for Senate when he was younger than the allowed age.
01:29:17.520
Had to turn 30 so that he could be allowed into the Senate after he was elected.
01:29:28.160
And then that was 1972, if I'm getting my years right.
01:29:35.580
Then just 16 years later, which, again, is less than three terms, he's already running
01:29:46.140
Now, that's not Barack Obama fast, but that's fast.
01:29:49.500
He was, you know, not an old gentleman running for president in 1988, then had that campaign
01:29:59.280
Then waited another 20 years, stayed in the Senate that entire time, waited another 20
01:30:08.100
And somehow Barack Obama resurrected his political career and gave him the vice presidency, largely
01:30:15.200
because, in Barack Obama's own words and widely reported, because he was white.
01:30:22.720
And he didn't think that the American people could accept two exotics, was the quote, exotics
01:30:33.880
They had to have at least one white person on there.
01:30:36.240
And they needed someone who was white and old, is what he wanted.
01:30:38.740
Because someone who was apparently a racist who had said things like this.
01:30:42.800
I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who was articulate and bright
01:30:57.900
He actually took a shower from time to time, this guy.
01:31:29.160
Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe this is a requirement of becoming the Democratic vice
01:31:43.000
And then they feel so bad about it that they have to come back to you and say, well, you
01:31:52.140
Because it proves that I can get those racist votes.
01:31:54.440
And that's really what Barack Obama was doing with Biden.
01:31:57.520
Was he believed the American people were racists.
01:32:00.620
This is the, if you go back to his comments on the Pennsylvania radio station, you know,
01:32:06.040
people clinging to their gods and their guns, the people clinging to, you know, the, I can't
01:32:12.520
remember the word he used, but the hate, it was basically the dislike for people who didn't
01:32:20.020
It's going to be hard enough for them to get over a name like Barack Obama, a weird name,
01:32:24.860
a funny name, as he called it, and someone with dark skin to elect them.
01:32:30.020
The only way they'll do it is if you have a really boring old white guy on the ticket.
01:32:34.460
And that's why Joe Biden got the gig in the first place.
01:32:38.960
Then again, he has an opportunity in 2016 to run against Donald Trump, a guy he thinks
01:32:43.320
he can absolutely, he doesn't know it's Trump at the time when he makes the decision to
01:32:46.620
not run, but someone, he believes he can beat anybody in that Republican field.
01:32:49.820
He has the death of his son he's dealing with and Barack Obama comes to him and tells
01:33:00.760
So he sees this as a major mistake in his life of not running.
01:33:05.700
Comes back in 2020, runs, is absolutely toast in that campaign.
01:33:18.480
I don't remember exactly what it was, but he was a disaster in both.
01:33:23.020
Yeah, Clyburn saved him in South Carolina after he had lost all the previous opportunities.
01:33:29.040
He then turns it all around and who knows what would have happened if COVID didn't happen
01:33:34.020
because basically they just kind of ended the campaign.
01:33:37.480
You know, Sanders, who obviously kept challenging Clinton forever, basically gave up because they
01:33:56.060
I got, I still can't, I still to this day can't believe he gave it up.
01:34:00.720
Why would you care what Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama say about your presidency?
01:34:14.400
Because it made no sense for him to give it up.
01:34:23.440
Really, for no reason because, you know, at the end of the day, yes, he would have lost,
01:34:30.560
But I think in your own mind, it's hard to convince yourself of that, right?
01:34:33.720
I think in your own mind, you're probably like, I can do this.
01:34:38.840
He had an interesting answer to the question, though.
01:34:41.940
Would you have, what was the, it was something like, would you have survived the entire four
01:34:57.680
And maybe that, maybe that figured into his decision.
01:35:04.400
You know, he already made the decision that he was going to, he was going to be there
01:35:09.080
And like, and like, we can look at this world the way it is now, where the media turned on
01:35:16.360
They tried to get him out because they thought he had no chance of winning, which is probably
01:35:21.140
They, and they thought Kamala did have a chance of winning, which is actually arguably true
01:35:26.920
I mean, you know, she was in a position where she was leading in the polls at one point.
01:35:32.000
I mean, we look back at it and we think, oh, there was seven swing states and Trump won
01:35:36.220
But really, I mean, you know, she needed to win three blue wall states, which she didn't
01:35:40.800
The biggest blowout of those three states was two points.
01:35:44.760
So, I mean, this is, again, Trump needed to win one of those states.
01:35:52.620
So, at the end of the day, you think, he's thinking he could have won that.
01:35:58.280
And I do think if he had stayed, the media would have figured out a way to say, you know
01:36:06.540
Actually, maybe he is sharper than we ever thought.
01:36:12.940
And I don't think the American people would have bought it, but they would have come up
01:36:16.020
with arguments as to why, yes, you should elect this person we were telling you was completely
01:36:22.640
They would have turned around and they would have figured out ways to support him.
01:36:25.200
Just based on their Trump hatred, that would have happened.
01:36:29.360
And every day up until that debate, they would have switched back and they would have
01:36:34.420
found suddenly some doctor who says, actually, what we've discovered is he's, the reason
01:36:39.820
why he seems to stumble is because he's so much smarter than everyone else.
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He's got nine thoughts going on at the same time.
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Cancer still exists as of Monday, January 13th.
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He's only got a week, I hope he's got some, he does have some speeches scheduled for this
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You know, he should have done that before the election because I think he would have helped.
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Just a reminder that the Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers yesterday.
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Because I might have forgotten for a few minutes.
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Each time you hear that soaring eagle make a little noise here on the program, you can
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Like, again, if it's not the Eagles, I think I'm with you on that.
01:40:00.200
I'm trying to think off the top of my head if that's true.
01:40:02.520
And certainly don't want the Commanders to win.
01:40:05.380
The Vikings are another one who are in that same sort of boat.
01:40:21.460
You know, the Lions have never even been there.
01:40:30.740
Houston's franchise has never been to the Super Bowl.
01:40:41.320
I felt like they never won the Super Bowl forever.
01:40:47.280
So the one, I think, now, other than Glenn, who's normally sitting in your chair, Pat,
01:40:51.640
the Chiefs, if you're not a Chiefs fan, it's kind of tough to, I mean, they've been so good.
01:41:01.640
And why, I mean, Glenn wants the Chiefs to win?
01:41:09.280
You know, and I will say, like, for a while, it was just Glenn sort of, like, liking Andy
01:41:14.280
Reid generally and wanting to torture me because they beat the Eagles.
01:41:20.520
I think he's actually kind of turned into a football fan a little bit.
01:41:26.060
He brings up points and they're, like, coherent.
01:41:32.200
You should have him on to just talk football one morning.
01:41:37.720
But you should have him on one morning just to talk football.
01:41:40.360
I will say it's not going to be the most in-depth football conversation you've ever had.
01:41:44.120
But, like, he'll make observations that you can tell what he's talking about now.
01:41:51.660
Like, you used the right term for that particular play.
01:42:00.860
I'm not going to say he's mastered it, but it's getting a lot better.
01:42:05.660
So, what do you think of the daylight savings time becoming permanent so we never switch
01:42:12.980
What I would prefer is standard time and never switch to daylight saving time.
01:42:20.300
I just prefer standard time because then you don't have...
01:42:27.060
It doesn't stay light during the summer until, like, 10 o'clock in the north and nine o'clock
01:42:37.900
I noticed that difference because your kid doesn't want to go to bed.
01:42:47.220
Also, during the summer when I'm still working, I have to go to bed when it's light, you know,
01:42:57.560
So, it's still very light outside when I go to bed.
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It's Pat Gray Unleashed, by the way, on Blaze TV.
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But you don't have to, to hear the podcast, you don't have to get up at three in the morning.
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You just listen to it when you want to listen to it.
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You, unfortunately, have to get up that early to put it all together.
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I think people would understand if you just, you woke up about a half hour before the show.
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You know, you wake up a half hour before the show, run right in, just start talking.
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Can you tell the difference that I just got here?
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I forgot to prep any news stories for the show today.
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So what do you think of the daylight saving time going away?
01:43:55.380
And just having one time and we don't switch back and forth anymore.
01:43:58.840
It's one of those things that I'm in favor of happening, whether it has positive results
01:44:05.460
Because I just can't get over the bizarre idea that we just changed the time.
01:44:19.740
Glenn kept saying like, yeah, but you know, farmers need more light in certain times.
01:44:25.320
Yeah, well, yes, but also the light is still there.
01:44:29.600
It's just a matter of when you decide what the number says when you wake up.
01:44:34.380
All we have to do is just adjust the time we wake up.
01:44:38.880
Pat wakes up at three o'clock in the morning because he's insane.
01:44:41.680
You can do that too if you really want to see it all.
01:44:47.800
Like the number on the clock makes no difference with how much light there is.
01:44:52.540
The light is all there, whether it's like it doesn't.
01:44:58.900
And that doesn't change because we changed the clock.
01:45:04.000
And I can't get over like, you know what I compare it to, Pat,
01:45:07.400
is the thing they've done in Major League Baseball
01:45:10.880
where they just plant someone on second base in extra innings.
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They're like, oh, it's a mystery ghost runner at second now.
01:45:19.040
And like the guy who made the last out in the last inning
01:45:21.440
just appears on second at the beginning of the inning.
01:45:23.720
And it's like, I don't care if it makes the game better.
01:45:32.000
I feel the same way about the new kickoff rule in the NFL.
01:45:37.940
It's a little different because it's just kind of adjusting the rules.
01:45:42.480
It's not necessarily like inserting something from out of nowhere.
01:46:12.000
Just keep the clock the same and then change when you wake up
01:46:14.620
if you really want to wake up at a different time.
01:46:30.540
It's just like fire has always been able to be put out by water.
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You've got to make sure you get your best sleep.
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Meantime, on Friday, the big sentencing thing came down from Judge Marchand.
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So what was this 34, 36 felony thing all about again?
01:48:44.540
Well, you say no penalty, but you forgot about the unqualified dismissal.
01:49:00.900
Imagine walking out of there and thinking, gosh, I wish I had some qualifications to this
01:49:08.680
But what if it was something like, you must receive a massage?
01:49:16.880
Let's see where that might be a problem because he did not get that.
01:49:27.120
As if none of this happened, which is fascinating considering we spent millions and millions
01:49:32.120
And how much time and effort went into screaming about this guy?
01:49:44.940
I can tell you by the election results, the answer to that was no.
01:49:49.040
Even CNN did a segment the other, I think last week with Harry Anton, who does all their
01:49:56.440
And he was saying that 5% of voters saw January 6th as the defining moment of the first
01:50:09.620
And you think about that and you're just like, gosh, 5%.
01:50:12.980
They put so much effort into making the entire election about that one day.
01:50:22.440
They did it over and over and over and over again.
01:50:26.280
And while the one you're talking about, the one he was convicted on, was not specifically
01:50:39.840
They failed on every count, except this one, which was in a far left district, which they
01:50:44.720
manipulated every rule to get this conviction, including the statute of limitations.
01:51:06.400
I mean, Trump luckily does have the resources and the support behind him to do this.
01:51:09.900
But I mean, look at the people who bake cakes and won't bake cakes for certain events they
01:51:16.600
Those people, you know, their lives get destroyed.
01:51:19.660
You know, and luckily, we hear about some of them.
01:51:24.200
J.D. Vance said something interesting about the J6 pardons, which are supposed to happen
01:51:28.660
starting this coming Monday when Trump is inaugurated.
01:51:33.140
And here's what he had to say about the pardons.
01:51:37.140
January 6th pardons, President Trump says there's a process.
01:51:40.140
Where is the line drawn on who will and wouldn't be considered for a pardon?
01:51:44.260
Look, if you protested peacefully on January the 6th and you've had Merrick Garland's
01:51:48.520
Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned.
01:51:52.960
If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned.
01:51:58.560
But we're very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law.
01:52:02.320
And there are a lot of people, we think, in the wake of January the 6th who were prosecuted
01:52:10.180
There's a lot of people who weren't even there.
01:52:13.040
That were sentenced to really egregious penalties in prison.
01:52:19.220
There were people who didn't go into the building who were sentenced.
01:52:23.200
There are journalists who currently work at the blaze, who weren't working at the blaze
01:52:29.460
Who was, I guess, pled guilty to being in the Capitol, which, I mean, he was.
01:52:39.760
He's, he's doing things that journalists do in these situations.
01:52:42.740
There were, by the way, plenty of other journalists in this building that didn't get charged.
01:52:46.420
It was okay if you were the New York Times to go into the building and take photos.
01:52:52.700
Steve's reporting apparently did not agree with the narrative that the, that it was supposed,
01:52:59.920
So, I think, I mean, look, I, tell me what you think of this, because I think we, we had
01:53:09.760
I don't know his entire situation, but he was, I heard, you did hear this.
01:53:13.240
And he was like, basically, even the people who were charged with violent crimes should
01:53:19.460
It's kind of the, the fruit from the poison tree, right?
01:53:22.160
That's sort of his argument that the whole thing was iffy.
01:53:27.700
And so, all, everybody who was convicted should be set free.
01:53:35.780
And I tend to be more on the J.D. Vance side, though, of things.
01:53:41.140
If we, you know, I've had relatives who were police officers.
01:53:45.480
If you're hitting a police officer over the head with a flagpole, I don't care how many
01:53:50.740
times you tell me that the, that the F, there, there are FBI informants who are trying to
01:53:57.700
If you did it with your flagpole to a police officer's head, I don't want you released.
01:54:06.040
What if I hit him in the ribs with my flagpole?
01:54:18.760
Is four years enough time if I hit some police officer in the head with a pole?
01:54:41.660
And like, if you think of like, I was thinking about another riot that would happen, right?
01:54:45.600
Like, if there was a gigantic bar brawl at a biker bar, and police showed up, and the
01:54:51.260
biker bar, you know, it got out of control, and a couple of the bikers wound up hitting
01:54:54.940
police in the head with a nearby flagpole, which was just sitting by for whatever reason.
01:55:08.160
My guess is it's probably, I mean, obviously, if you murder somebody or something, that's not
01:55:15.000
If you assault a police officer, you should face a penalty, in my view, and you should
01:55:21.560
That penalty is probably, and I have to look it up, but probably not four years.
01:55:29.360
I remember in one of Glenn's books, and I remember doing the research for it, and being
01:55:32.780
shocked by it, and having to check it so many times.
01:55:35.040
But, like, convicted child molesters often serve less than three years in prison.
01:55:41.440
You know, it's like, that's definitely worse than anything that happened on January 6th,
01:55:55.760
Now, there are, there may be a few people who deserve longer terms.
01:56:01.380
There is some evidence that some people really were trying to do terrible things, and I think
01:56:06.780
that that's something you have to look at on a case-by-case basis.
01:56:09.160
But I think, rationally, people who did not commit violent crimes certainly have served
01:56:15.780
Steve Baker wasn't doing anything wrong at all.
01:56:19.300
When every minute of him being in that building is on film, you can look at exactly what he
01:56:26.880
Absolutely should not be facing a crime like that.
01:56:28.980
You know, what I've read, Jay Johnston, the actor, who is a sketch, he was on Mr. Show,
01:56:37.840
he was on Bob's Burgers, and several other shows, very funny guy.
01:56:44.340
I mean, one of the most, I think one of the most talent sketch comedy shows there's ever,
01:56:50.560
He was there, and he was in the building for a few minutes.
01:56:57.520
One of the things they charge him with is helping wash the eyes of someone who got hit
01:57:08.700
They say he participated in pushing back in one of the, like, you know, scuffles.
01:57:16.620
If he really did something terrible, he should serve his...
01:57:27.160
I will say a lot of these terms were not 24 years.
01:57:31.780
There was only a few that got that kind of sentence.
01:57:33.900
...who have had jail time, have already served it, and are out.
01:57:38.340
Like the guy that you guys talked to last week.
01:57:41.760
But he was in solitary confinement for four months.
01:57:53.960
You know, the Oath Keepers trial, which is one that Steve covered, Steve Baker covered,
01:57:57.560
where a lot of these guys, the people who were accusing them of what they did with these...
01:58:03.740
And this is why you have to be careful with what I'm saying about violent crimes.
01:58:07.620
People were saying they were violent against police officers, and then the video didn't
01:58:12.420
They didn't have the video to defend themselves, however.
01:58:21.280
Was it the head of the Proud Boys, or was it the Oath Keepers that was in Baltimore, Maryland
01:58:30.680
Now, they have a lot of, you know, text messages and stuff from him, potentially.
01:58:36.440
Their argument is that he was helping arrange some of these activities, which, again, could
01:58:50.340
I mean, even taking out the leadership of some of these organizations, because that can get
01:58:55.780
A lot of these people just showed up to hear a speech and walked into a building.
01:59:02.580
It's a building that our taxpayer dollars pay for, too, by the way.
01:59:06.580
And should they have interrupted the natural process?
01:59:16.800
Do you have a problem with what J.D. Vance said there?
01:59:25.100
He's saying it depends on a case-by-case basis.
01:59:28.400
And he even said, with the violent crimes, there is some gray area there, which is true.
01:59:33.100
Because some of the crimes that were supposedly violent...
01:59:36.380
You know, like, I don't know if Jay Johnson was included in this, but, like, they talked about
01:59:41.160
You know, one of those situations where groups of people were pushing against each other, and he, quote-unquote,
01:59:47.920
I believe it says in the charges, for a few seconds.
02:00:01.060
So, I don't know how many of those are included in that.
02:00:06.200
Assign somebody competent in the Trump administration.
02:00:12.020
They should be doing this already, but take a few weeks.
02:00:19.480
And they probably could have that done already, or they could assign someone immediately the
02:00:24.540
second they get into office to look at it and get this right.
02:00:32.060
They should be able to pull things off that are competent.
02:00:36.700
As a general rule, Glenn doesn't do the whole cell phone thing.
02:00:46.220
But he did make an exception and get one because people are always trying to get in touch with him.
02:00:49.980
And he wanted to support, you know, an organization that is really, really positive.
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They are a great group of people, a great organization.
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This is not like a company that you're complaining about with some woke policy.
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I guess we're completely out in left field on the daylight savings situation.
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There are a couple people who are upset with us, though.
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But someone says, Bobby says, hey, someone please educate Pat and Stu on why we have daylight
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It's so that it's light outside when school children go to the bus stop in the morning.
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On standard time, it's still dark and less safe for children.
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What time are your kids going to school on standard time?
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I mean, I can remember it being, you know, it's dark sometimes in the mornings.
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If they're at five in the morning, by six, even in Texas, it's light outside.
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Are your kids lining up at the bus stop at six in the morning?
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Well, here's the other thing I would bring up, because there's two options here.
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One is we can do the daylight savings time approach in which we just tell everyone that the time
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is mysteriously changed by an hour twice a year.
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So all of society goes to their clocks and changes their clocks, and we act as if this
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scientific measure of time changes twice a year for no reason.
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The other option is your school opens an hour different.
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You'd still be going at the same time in both scenarios.
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Because time is like a scientific measure, but we call it different things.
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What you would do is just say, hey, just go an hour later.
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So a school changes it twice a year, or all of society bends for kids at school buses stops.
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Are they getting there that early in the morning?
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I mean, maybe school starts at three for some people.
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Daylight savings all year so we can drive home from work when it's still daylight.
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But like another thing you could do is just change the hours of your-
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If you really are that worried about driving home at night, you could just change your hours
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Well, why would the whole country bend for this?
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Arizona's the only one that makes any sense to me.
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I think there's a portion of Indiana that does the same thing.