Glenn Beck talks about the climate emergency, the abortion emergency, and the climate change emergency, among other things. Also, the White House says there's no climate emergency because it's summer, not because of high gas prices.
00:04:01.600Uh, here is what the White House said.
00:04:06.100How concerned is the White House if it may end up sort of angering female voters if it does a sort of go ahead and announce a climate emergency ahead of a public health emergency?
00:04:16.920Considering we haven't seen, uh, such an announcement after Roe.
00:04:20.360Is that, is that why maybe the timing has been moved or?
00:04:24.020No, I wouldn't, I wouldn't look into, I wouldn't make that, uh, uh, into an issue.
00:04:29.720I, both of, both of those things are still on the table.
00:04:32.680We just haven't announced them or made a decision yet.
00:04:38.080So we might have a health emergency and a climate emergency, which is, which is just going to be great.
00:04:45.280Now, I want you to understand, in the climate emergency, um, they keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
00:04:53.200Um, they are not declaring an emergency because of gas prices.
00:04:58.800They are declaring an emergency because it's summer.
00:05:03.420Uh, and the gas prices actually are a benefit to them.
00:05:09.660Of course, the more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.
00:08:59.720Hopefully, hopefully that is what would happen, uh, with this president.
00:09:05.500Um, but, uh, do you, you count on that?
00:09:11.440No, they, they have apparently decided, uh, Biden has supposedly decided that he's not going to declare a climate emergency for now, but he reserves the right to do that.
00:09:25.340Uh, you know, sometime in the future could be tomorrow, could be next week.
00:09:28.840Uh, but that's amazing restraint on his part.
00:09:32.160I got to say, I'm kind of surprised he didn't do it already.
00:09:48.600Uh, well, he's, he does have the problem where he's got squabbling kids, these radicals, the, they want a health emergency declared for, uh, for abortion and the climate emergency.
00:10:05.060And which one is he going to please first?
00:10:16.480He can reinstate the crude oil export ban, which means we couldn't export any oil, which would be suicide for us and the rest of the world.
00:10:27.580Um, he also can, uh, reduce emissions by the equivalent of shutting down 42 coal plants.
00:10:36.820Um, uh, he would, if he shuts down, uh, export, that means, uh, gas as well.
00:10:45.300So fracking would be stopped in Texas and New Mexico.
00:10:50.580Um, uh, he's already done the fossil fuel lease, uh, things, no new leases.
00:10:57.580But now they're trying to, uh, pressure him into just saying, stop drilling altogether.
00:11:04.560And this guy has, um, uh, already acquiesced to the left.
00:11:14.360He is being controlled by the far left.
00:17:41.540So what you saw yesterday, AOC and Omar, those are literal use, useful idiots used by the communists.
00:17:51.480And that's why the police had to invisibly throw them up against that invisible wall, frisk them in manners that were really almost rapish, and then put those invisible handcuffs on them.
00:20:57.400If we really, truly believe that our justice system is that corrupt, and I think it is, but it's that corrupt, what do we have left as a nation?
00:21:09.700Joe Biden is at the center of what is, I believe, the biggest corruption scandal in presidential family history.
00:21:18.460It has been given a free pass, but not on my program.
00:21:22.340So many questions, so many red flags, so many conflicts of interest surrounding the Biden family business activities that it's hard to keep track.
00:21:31.260The latest is he is benefiting and getting money from his company that that is partly owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:21:45.440This company, the highest bidder on our, I'm getting all kinds of stuff in my headphones.
00:22:10.120Well, it happened because we've got a corrupt administration.
00:22:14.100Find out all of the details and the latest from his laptop that, I've got a few questions on some of the salacious stuff, too, that we've never brought up, we've never talked about, but it's really out of control at this point.
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00:24:23.780This national emergency thing really bothers me, and it's shocking to me how many things that we have talked about in the past are here now.
00:24:36.100And the national emergency thing is something that, like in the last four weeks, I had a whole show on it and saying, this is what's coming next.
00:24:46.060And while for yesterday, they thought for a while he was going to declare a national emergency today, but the White House has said, don't look for it today, but it could be coming next week.
00:25:12.460It was interesting to see the squad, too, just blatantly wearing those green bandanas like you were talking about, which shows their affiliation with the communist, the revolutionary communist party in America.
00:25:23.100But the thing is, they don't care anymore.
00:25:25.660They think they're too far down the road that we can do anything about it.
00:25:29.600And as you started saying, I think in about 2009, they're just going to show themselves because they're proud of who they are and what they are.
00:27:13.880And these P ads are executive emergency orders that are remain unsigned.
00:27:21.420So Congress doesn't know what they are because they're not in effect.
00:27:26.100So this was the big worry of the left that President Trump had all of these P ads already done.
00:27:33.400And all he'd have to do is sign them and you can move quickly.
00:27:37.800So the president right now, they are working on one of those P ads, an emergency directive that would give the president 140 special powers.
00:27:50.660And and let me just give you a scenario here.
00:27:54.820And this is this is from let me see who's who printed this.
00:27:59.500This is from the Atlantic back in 2019.
00:28:04.620They were worried about the the president doing a national emergency claims of emergency or necessity cannot legitimize martial law until they can.
00:28:18.320Presented with this ambiguity, presidents have explored the outer limits of their constitutional emergency authority in a series of directors, directives known as the presidential emergency action documents or P ads, which originated as part of the Eisenhower administration to ensure continuity of government in the wake of a Soviet nuclear attack.
00:28:39.000They are draft executive orders, proclamations and messages to Congress that are prepared in advance of anticipated emergency.
00:28:46.860P ads are closely guarded within the government.
00:28:49.600No one has ever not one has ever been publicly released or leaked.
00:28:54.380Their contents have occasionally been described in public sources, including FBI memorandums, where they were attained through Freedom of Information Act, as well as agency manuals in court documents.
00:29:06.080According to these sources, P ads drafted from the 1950s through the 1970s would authorize not only martial law, but the suspension of habeas corpus by the executive branch, the revocation of America's passports, the roundup and detention of subversives identified in an FBI security index that contained more than 10,000 names.
00:29:29.220Now, this is what was in there in the 1970s that we know.
00:29:37.420Can you imagine the list of enemies to the climate?
00:29:42.520How many people do you know on radio that have been called enemies of the climate, that they're climate deniers and these people should be put in jail?
00:29:53.920If the president issues an executive order on emergency action, it gives him the power to be able to arrest those people and hold them without habeas corpus.
00:30:13.040So they talk about this and they say, let me give you this scenario from the Atlantic.
00:30:19.180Trump's inflammatory tweets provoke predictable saber rattling from Iranian leaders.
00:30:25.020He responds by threatening preemptive military strikes.
00:30:28.740Some Defense Department officials have misgivings, but others have been waiting for such an opportunity.
00:30:34.340As Iran's statement grow more warlock, more warlike, Iranophobia takes hold among the American public.
00:30:41.460Now, just take Iran out and replace it with Russia.
00:30:46.320Take Trump out and replace it with Biden.
00:30:49.620It's exactly what's going on right now.
00:30:52.660Proclaiming the threat of war, Trump invokes Section 706 of the Communications Act to assume government control over Internet traffic inside the United States in order to prevent the spread of Iranian disinformation and propaganda.
00:31:08.160Now, we already know the Department of Homeland Security is saying that there are many sources of propaganda, mis, dis, and malinformation.
00:31:23.400We know they're tracking it right now.
00:31:26.140And we also know that their point of view is not necessarily your point of view.
00:31:37.300He also declares a national emergency under EPA, authorizing the Treasury Department to freeze the assets of any person or organization suspected of supporting Iran's activities against the United States.
00:31:59.580Wielding the authority conferred by these laws, the government shuts down several left-leaning websites and domestic civil society organizations based on government determinations classified, of course, that they are subject to Iranian influence.
00:32:19.820The difference between, I think, conservatives and Marxists is Marxists will warn you about fascism, but will not warn you about communism.
00:32:36.640Where I will tell you, yeah, there are fascists out there.
00:32:42.160There are people on the far, far, far, far, far right that I think they're so far right that they're actually left like a circle.
00:32:48.820But, you know, if you want to claim that fascists are on the right, fine.
00:32:56.740And I do believe there are people on the right that wouldn't mind seizing power, but it's few and far between and would not have regular American support.
00:33:09.960The left, however, that is the Democratic Party.
00:46:16.800You are a guy who I think one of the few that actually really gets ESG and the Great Reset believes and understands how dangerous it is and is working to educate people and also help us beat it.
00:46:36.040Let me start with what's happening with ESG and BlackRock.
00:46:42.080Is BlackRock's downturn in their profits, is this something that is caused by ESG or is this just the downturn of the market that everybody is feeling?
00:46:56.020Well, the answer to that question, Glenn, is it is both of those things, in part because BlackRock is contributing to the downturn in the market that everyone is feeling because of ESG.
00:47:07.660So I'll explain to you how that works, where this is the largest asset manager in the world, managing over $10 trillion, around $10 trillion, about half the U.S. GDP in the hands of one firm.
00:47:19.180And if you add Vanguard and State Street to the list, the top three, they manage more than the U.S. GDP.
00:47:24.840And what they do is they're aggregating the money of everyday citizens.
00:47:28.800Probably most people listening to this program, actually.
00:47:32.460We don't know it through our 401k accounts, through pension fund accounts, et cetera.
00:47:36.400And what they do is they use that money to advocate for these ESG policies in corporate America, climate change plans, emissions caps, diversity, equity, inclusion, quota systems for race and gender on boards, et cetera.
00:47:52.400They use our money to advocate for those principles in corporate America that makes companies less successful.
00:47:59.000And as we've seen this year, has actually contributed to stock market declines as well, in my opinion.
00:48:06.040And the ESG-specific funds this year, Glenn, have actually underperformed the broader market as a whole, even though the broader market as a whole has already done badly enough.
00:48:16.340And I think a big part of why the broader market has done badly is in part because of the demands of these ESG-linked asset managers.
00:48:24.100But the ESG-specific funds have done even worse.
00:48:27.260So the answer to your question is, is there a downturn because of the broader market or is it because of the failures of ESG?
00:48:33.840The answer is both, because part of the reason the broader market is turning down is exactly because of some of these toxic policies that cause companies to focus on these orthogonal social agendas.
00:48:45.720So let me ask you if – because this – I'm not an investor.
00:48:53.520I really – I mean, I should never be around money.
00:48:57.880However, it would be my feeling that if you are in a place to where oil is as scarce as it is, if we didn't have ESG, wouldn't the energy market be the place to put your money?
00:49:18.060Or is that just a Glenn Beck, you know, thought?
00:49:23.640It's Warren Buffett quietly starting to behave this way, too, Glenn.
00:49:27.160So you might give yourself a little bit more credit than you just did.
00:49:30.000But it's actually – if you think about it, you know, this is the potential moment for U.S. energy to really shine and rise to the occasion, not just as an investment proposition, but as a proposition to meet the needs of Americans at a time when there's a massive supply-demand imbalance, right?
00:49:48.380I mean, you remember that as recently as 2018, the U.S. was the world's largest producer of energy, how quickly things have changed now with the U.S. president groveling in front of foreign dictators around the world, begging them to produce more oil that the U.S. could be producing instead.
00:50:09.200And now I know the Biden administration is trying to walk this back.
00:50:11.980I think a lot of ESG managers like BlackRock are trying to walk this back and say, well, we don't really want to end fossil fuel production.
00:50:19.940Actually, you know what he's just making – he's making good on a campaign promise.
00:50:24.020In September of 2019, on the campaign trail, I'm quoting him exactly – here's what President Biden, then-candidate Biden, said, I guarantee you we're going to end fossil fuels, end quote.
00:50:37.100That was a campaign promise that he's now delivering on, but he has multiple tools to deliver on it because normally the way constitutionally you would deliver on that campaign promise is that you would get a law passed through Congress.
00:50:49.600Well, he doesn't have the political support to do that.
00:50:51.660The American people haven't given Congress the political support to do that.
00:50:54.620Joe Manchin won't even stand in the way of doing – won't even allow that to happen.
00:51:00.480Well, they're resorting to other means like executive action through the climate change emergency.
00:51:06.100We'll see – we'll hear more about what that means.
00:51:08.020They're doing it through the private sector, deputizing their cronies like BlackRock, many of whose alumni, by the way, work in the Biden administration, but large private sector actors.
00:51:17.340They do favors for them in return for those private actors doing through the back door what government could not get done through the front door through Congress, the constitutionally ordained way for actually passing laws.
00:51:29.260So he's delivering on that campaign promise, but doing it through the back door in ways that I think would make our founding fathers shudder if they actually knew the way the government was treating the private sector and using the invisible fist of government instead of the invisible hand of the market to actually reach these outcomes.
00:52:04.340We have the history of being the world's breadbasket.
00:52:07.860If it wasn't for ESG, wouldn't this be the time that farming would be the best kind of investment where you would – we would be selling our wheat and our food all over the world?
00:52:22.540We would literally be feeding the world if it wasn't for ESG.
00:52:47.680I kind of look at energy as even more fundamental because it's upstream of nearly every other sector and nearly every other production means.
00:52:54.180But the thing for people to understand here is that this is damage that's been done in the last few years by the merger of public power and private power.
00:53:06.360So that's what makes it so hard to find a source because on one hand, Biden can say this isn't my fault.
00:53:11.460This is just the decisions of the private sector that stopped drilling for oil, that stopped drilling for – that stopped fracking for natural gas.
00:53:19.900There was no policy you could point to, but actually the reason why they're doing it is because of the ESG movement in the private sector that this administration and the modern left supports through the back door.
00:53:31.800So that's kind of how they're able to really trick the public through this jujitsu move saying that, oh, this isn't the – this isn't us passing laws to do this.
00:53:40.540We're just seeing the private sector underinvest in oil and gas.
00:53:44.740That's what they say when gas prices are high when in fact they were responsible for causing it.
00:53:48.360That's what people need to wake up to.
00:54:09.140And we're not telling the companies to do this.
00:54:12.120Do the companies want to do this, or is it based just on the pressure from places like BlackRock who have a lot of those shares because we run our money through BlackRock for our 401Ks?
00:54:30.800And I'm telling you, so the U.S. energy sector, the potential of U.S. energy to be able to supply not only America's needs but the global needs is staggering.
00:54:42.900It's an American travesty when those same companies have been hamstrung from being able to do their jobs.
00:54:48.580Now, most people choose to work in the energy industry, for example, work in the energy industry because they want to be part of that solution.
00:54:56.080But what's happened in the last four or five years is that these large shareholders like BlackRock have imposed constraints on these companies.
00:55:03.040I'll give you a very specific example.
00:55:04.820Exxon, by the way, was the largest company in the world as recently as 2013.
00:55:10.840BlackRock voted in favor of putting three dissident directors, three new directors that they put on the board of directors at Exxon to adjust its climate change strategy.
00:55:22.580And before BlackRock voted for those directors to join Exxon's board, Exxon had a business plan to increase oil production 25% between 2020 and 2025.
00:55:32.420After they put those new directors on Exxon's board, they revised their business plan to reduce oil production 20% over those same five years.
00:55:51.480How much lower gas prices would be if American oil companies were actually producing more oil, which was their prior business plan.
00:55:58.480Before BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street 2 vote in favor of these new directors on the board, say, no, no, that doesn't match your climate change plans that we want to see you implement.
00:56:08.060Now you need to reduce oil production.
00:56:11.340It's the fraud of our time where Americans are paying for $5 gas at the pump with one hand, not knowing that their own 401k accounts and their own pension fund accounts and brokerage accounts are actually subsidizing the very ESG agenda that gives them $5 gas in the first place.
00:56:28.520And I think that once people start to see that with clear eyes, the good news is we find our way to a better way forward to say that we're not going to let someone else abuse my money, abuse my savings to be able to send messages to the U.S. energy industry that I absolutely don't want to be delivering to the U.S. energy industry.
00:56:44.640Instead, I want them to make great products.
00:56:47.220That's actually what I think the next step in this battle looks like.
00:56:49.880We have a ton of states now that are looking to move their money and, you know, all of the pension funds and everything else.
00:56:58.920We have a lot of states that want to do that.
00:57:00.800We have a lot of people that want to do that.
00:57:02.460But I'm assuming this is what you're working on.
00:57:06.260You I think you told us last time you were on that you were going to start something and go right after BlackRock.
00:57:14.380And well, this is that is that happening?
00:57:16.480This is why I started Strive earlier this year, creating a firm to compete head on versus BlackRock, because these are problems, Glenn, created in the market that need to be solved through the market.
00:57:50.180I think it exists in corporate America, what I call deep corporate.
00:57:53.000But these are institutionalized, bureaucratized actors that, you know, BlackRock and State Street and Vanguard, they've mastered this system over the last 10 to 20 years.
00:58:03.740And it's an ossified system that in absence of everyday citizens speaking up and demanding change, you're going to have a mid-level bureaucrat who's going to happily sit and collect his paycheck without wanting to be bothered that's going to say, well, this is what I've done and I don't get paid anymore if I serve my citizens or not.
00:58:23.240So leave me alone. You know, I'm overstating the case, but only by a little bit, which is exactly how many of these mid-level bureaucrats at the state level think and even communicate.
00:58:33.660And I think that at the end of the day, the right answer is going to come from everyday citizens demanding change, kind of like what you saw in a small scale, the school boards last year, parents taking educational control back into their own hands, not leaving it to some sort of bureaucratized school board and saying that it's your job to educate my children.
00:58:51.680No, they're my children and I have a say in how they're educated. It's the equivalent, I think, I think, I think bottom up, you know, it's a sort of a positive revolution of sorts that we need to see that actually take every day to say that this is my hard-earned savings.
00:59:05.240I'm going to take control. It's just like it's my kids. It's my money. It's not your money, a pension bureaucrat. It's definitely not your money, BlackRock. That's what we're going to have to see.
00:59:12.560I think the same thing could be said for what we saw with Afghanistan. I mean, just this audience raised almost $50 million in like three weeks to go and save and rescue people from the Afghanistan debacle.
00:59:33.340We flew the last plane. This is the deal we had to make with the State Department, that we could get our people out if our first plane that flew out would carry our special forces.
00:59:47.620We're the ones that paid for that. I mean, it's incredible, but it is also a great, great example of what a group of people can do if they really set their mind to it.
00:59:59.720Vivek, hang on just for one minute. I have one more question for you. But first, I have to tell you about the Tuttle Twins. They have a powerful, powerful new book.
01:00:07.520It's called American History, 1215 to 1776. It is a history book. It's a story book. It's not about the dates and the memorization of names.
01:00:20.760It's about the ideas, because that's what history is supposed to teach us. What idea replaced the old idea? And how did we get there? And what did we learn from it?
01:00:32.760If you learn from history and not the names and the dates, but if you learn the stories, you'll be able to apply that to our future.
01:00:42.920And that's what's missing right now. We don't know our own history. We're not teaching why fascism, how it came about, why it happened, and how bad it was.
01:00:54.800We're not teaching more of that than we are of communism. We're not even teaching what worked here in America and what set us apart.
01:01:04.220The Tuttle Twins book does it. They have an amazing deal right now. They're throwing in 200 pages of companion curriculum and activities, an audiobook version, videos to help the lessons from the book come alive.
01:01:16.480It's like 250 pages itself. Your kids are going to love it. You will love it. I think every American home needs to have a copy of American History by the Tuttle Twins in their home.
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01:01:44.680The Vake, earlier this week, I came back from vacation and I said the most important story since I've been gone was the Sri Lanka overthrow of the government and kicking out of the president.
01:02:10.060Because the World Economic Forum said this is the model. And there was a story up at WEF dot org that said the headline was how we're going to make Sri Lanka rich by 2025.
01:02:25.920So they implemented all of this stuff. They did everything the World Economic Forum said to do.
01:02:33.300And I talked about it and read that story on the air. By the time I got off the air, the World Economic Forum had taken that story off of their website.
01:02:42.800But do you agree that Sri Lanka is the example that we should all be looking at saying they're the ones who did it and look how it turned out?
01:02:52.720I think it's a great example. Unfortunately, Glenn, I would love to say it is the example.
01:02:58.060Unfortunately, we're seeing more and more examples by the day.
01:03:01.140I mean, look, look, look what's happening in Ghana. Look what's happening in the Netherlands.
01:03:05.200Look at what's happening in the United States and Canada at a smaller scale.
01:03:08.840We have an energy supply shortage that we just talked about in this country.
01:03:11.580But you're right. Sri Lanka is a great example to see what happens when these toxic philosophies are taken to their logical extent.
01:03:19.500And, you know, I think that this is a transnational issue, Glenn. It is a transpartisan issue.
01:03:24.560It goes beyond partisan boundaries, national boundaries. It is a global monarchy.
01:03:29.360And it's going to take a revolution to fight.
01:03:30.560I agree. You're exactly right. Vivek, thank you so much.
01:03:35.340Be a part of that revolution because we're in one, whether you like it or not.
01:03:41.580And we don't need to pick up our guns. We need to inform ourselves and inform our neighbors.
01:05:52.260Most people don't know the history of the Purple Heart.
01:06:00.940The Purple Heart medal is now awarded if you were wounded in combat.
01:06:06.700But that is not what the Purple Heart set out to be.
01:06:09.940The reason why the Purple Heart is a Purple Heart and has the bust of George Washington on it is because the Purple Heart used to be called the Merit Badge, the Badge of Merit.
01:06:24.140And it was something that George Washington did in the Revolutionary War.
01:06:28.480It was the first civilian medal that was allowed.
01:06:34.100If you were an officer, you could get medals.
01:06:36.680Anybody under an officer, you couldn't get any medals.
01:06:39.900And so he made this as the first enlisted man's badge of merit.
01:07:20.940So he looked for things that would bring would bring favor upon our people because we were people of merit and we were doing things that would find favor in the eyes of God.
01:07:39.040He believed that's the only way to win is if we deserve to win because we're a good, decent people.
01:08:48.120He's the man behind our brother's house, which is a recovery home for men that follow the 12 step program in Munster, Texas.
01:08:56.680He was nominated by a man who lived in that home for six years and went through his recovery program and is now seven and a half years sober.
01:09:07.880It began in 2012 in Gainesville, then moved to Munster in 2015.
01:09:37.460There are rules and regulations, of course.
01:09:39.540Chores are assigned and they have to be done.
01:09:41.920But after you've been there for a while, they'll assist you with finding a job.
01:09:47.420AA or NA meetings are mandatory unless you're at work and you can stay as long as you need, as long as you follow the rules and you stay sober.
01:09:57.160The guy who nominated Terry said he's a very fair man, but he doesn't put up with BS.
01:10:12.400I have seen well over 600 men of all ages, including teens, come and go.
01:10:17.560Many of them made it and go on to live and prosper.
01:10:21.200Some have died, but all of them have been forever touched by this man.
01:10:26.060I can't think of anything more meritorious than walking with grace with God, saving lives and giving back to the community, feeding the hungry.
01:10:37.460I call him the general because he's had the vision and continues to have it, whatever it takes to carry on his recovery program forward one day at a time.
01:11:07.800She was left to parent their seven children all alone.
01:11:11.340Not only is she there for her own family, but families of military members all across the country.
01:11:15.900After her husband's death on the day that would have been his 40th birthday, she founded the Major Brent Taylor Foundation based in Utah.
01:11:25.360The foundation has three major points of focus.
01:11:28.500Training up service-oriented leaders, honoring military members and their family, and engaging in meaningful acts of service.
01:11:38.160The foundation hosts leadership training programs, provides scholarships, and holds events and ceremonies for military families and military members.
01:11:47.320Jenny has been a spokesperson for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, appeared briefly on news outlets talking about her husband, but rarely has her own merit been publicly celebrated.
01:11:59.080Not only has she raised a family of seven alone with faith, love, and grace, but in the midst of tragedy, she dedicated herself to the service of others.
01:12:07.060She is the one person that comes to mind when I think of honor, merit, integrity, and selflessness.
01:12:12.260So there's two people that started a foundation, but I want to make sure that you understand as you nominate people that it doesn't have to be somebody who has done, like started a foundation or done something miraculous.
01:12:30.280The merit award goes to people who quietly serve as well.
01:12:35.600Now, these two that I just read quietly serve.
01:12:39.760However, I want to make sure that it is the small acts that we don't miss, because most of us can do these small acts every single day, which brings me to Kim, the good neighbor.
01:12:55.120This is the message from the person nominating.
01:16:14.580It's so weird because our other German Shepherds have, you know, you see them fade over a long period of time.
01:16:22.100And Uno has been so young and energetic and everything until recently.
01:16:27.960And part of me is hoping that Rough Greens has extended his life and shortened the bad years for him and kept him going and healthy as long as he possibly could before age finally set in.
01:19:00.000I mean, once you change some of the fundamentals, if ESG is allowed to continue and it changes our energy, it changes our lifestyle, et cetera, et cetera.
01:19:20.060And so you understand what kind of world that is.
01:19:24.880Whoever is in power, the other side will be criminalized immediately.
01:19:32.560And the other side can get away with anything.
01:19:35.100It is the old Soviet Union kind of style, where if you're a party member, you know, as long as your crime isn't against the party, you're fine.
01:26:31.520Maybe they're like, these guys really got to get it together.
01:26:34.540You got to go to Spain, really, and learn from those guys.
01:26:37.960Anyway, your credit cards, your social security number, your driver's license, if they have those things, identity thieves have all the information that they need.
01:26:46.500They don't throw the wallet away anymore.
01:27:36.560Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet old lady.
01:27:39.200Anyway, they have changed now and added the definition of female that defines the word female as having a gender identity that is opposite of male.
01:30:39.680You know, when when you look at climate change and all of that stuff, they believe that it is better to impoverish the entire world than to drive a car, you know, than than to, you know, hurt a single animal.
01:30:57.040You know, they're talking about taking the five dams off of the Snake River from Washington and Idaho.
01:33:19.860And then they turn around and call us fear mongers.
01:33:22.380That's all they've been doing on this climate change thing is fear mongering.
01:33:27.460This latest heat wave is the greatest thing that ever happened to them.
01:33:32.180Do you remember when snowstorms would happen and we'd say, well, see, I guess the snow situation you were talking about that we're here not have any snow anymore.
01:33:45.120And don't confuse weather with climate.
01:33:49.760But every single time there's a heat wave, we hear about the weather as opposed to the climate.
01:33:56.580You know, I am so sick of you climate deniers with this.
01:33:59.420As I told you yesterday, here in my own town, okay, right here in northern Idaho or southern Idaho, it was 10 below zero around Christmas last year.
01:35:35.960I'm not going to go into private discussions, policy discussions, or get ahead of the president at this time.
01:35:42.540He's going to make some announcements today.
01:35:44.240What I can say, this climate emergency is not going to happen tomorrow.
01:35:48.520But we still have it on the table, and I don't have a date circle on the calendar.
01:35:55.600This would have been madness if I would have asked you this three years ago, five years ago.
01:36:03.220But I believe in this man's term, there is a real possibility that he declares a climate emergency and then just dictates what the oil companies have to do.
01:36:18.780Basically, almost one step away from nationalizing them, which was the end of Venezuela, by the way.
01:36:25.920But I believe this is the direction that he's going to go.
01:43:27.920And can you imagine the reaction in Britain?
01:43:32.660If this was an American telling their parliament that we don't appreciate the laws that you're making here in Britain.
01:43:43.840I mean, there would be such outrage, such an outcry about ugly Americanism, that the person would be drummed out of their country, which is exactly what should happen here with Prince Harry, come to think of it.
01:44:11.380A lot of people think these are her ideas too, that she's infecting him with.
01:44:17.260I, I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't put it past her.
01:44:20.640Not popular, uh, not a popular woman, either in Britain or in America.
01:44:27.120And it's too bad because, you know, when she was in the show Suits, I think people actually kind of liked her, but not as a big mouth royal, uh, and especially not one.
01:44:38.000You know, what's really weird, you know, what's really weird is when people say, oh, I watched the, the show Suits.
01:47:35.700And Eric July is an entrepreneur, man.
01:47:38.860I can't tell you, Eric, how happy I am for you.
01:47:42.620When I first saw the news that you were putting out a comic book and you were crowdfunding and you were looking for a million dollars and you hit that in the first 24 hours.
01:47:53.820And now you're almost up to three million dollars.
01:47:57.720I have to tell you, God bless America.
01:48:04.240I'm guessing I'm guessing I don't know because I don't know the comic world.
01:48:09.500But if I'm sitting there at Marvel, as I'm looking at things like how badly Thor did and Disney, how bad their numbers are starting to look.
01:48:22.500I'm thinking we we should probably not go so deep into the woke front.
01:48:28.960Have you seen what Ripaverse is doing?
01:48:32.060This has been just an incredible experience.
01:48:34.740And I've been talking about the state of the comic book industry for a very long time.
01:48:38.780And for us to put this out and to get the reception that we got, it just reassures kind of everything it was that I was saying.
01:48:47.980And that is that people still want this stuff.
01:48:51.240They might be going out to try to, let's say, import, let's say, someone else's material like the Japanese with manga because the American stuff sucks right now so much.
01:49:01.860But this proved that, hey, people still want this stuff.
01:49:08.000They just don't want any of the nonsense that's tied, certainly, to the American comic book industry right now.
01:49:13.640So this has just been insane in the sense that it just reassures everything that I've been talking about for a while.
01:49:20.640And, Eric, the best example of this, I think, is the latest Thor, which is just laden with wokeness.
01:49:29.680Every relationship in the movie, just about, is a gay relationship.
01:49:35.500And then they throw in the thing where the two gay men have a biological baby together.
01:49:44.140And so they're even doing things that don't make any sense just to bend over backward and pander to the LGBTQ committee, which is fine if you want to do that.
01:49:56.460I mean, I don't care about the sexuality of the characters.
01:49:59.680It's just I don't want that jammed down my throat.
01:50:02.240I just want an enjoyable movie and an enjoyable comic book, which is what you're doing, essentially.
01:50:09.500I mean, that's really all people want.
01:50:11.080It's not about not seeing black characters or even, you know, whatever sexuality or whatever.
01:50:16.740But when you're beating your audience over the head with it and it's clearly become just a vanity project for all of these people to write their own goofy stories.
01:50:24.640And oftentimes they don't make sense for those characters that they wrote.
01:50:28.480You know, I talked about this in our kind of opening kind of trailer where I discussed like, hey, you've seen your characters that you love be bastardized.
01:50:37.220They're not creating new characters or something.
01:50:39.100They're taking the character that everybody knows and recognize, like the Tim Drakes of the world, and they just make them bisexual out of nowhere and weird stuff like that.
01:50:48.340So that that this resonates with so many people because they have been assured that, OK, this is something new and fresh, but we don't have to go through that.
01:50:55.900We're not going to be gas lit by by the companies themselves, the actors or the actresses or we're not.
01:51:05.300So we just made it easy and just put the stuff out there.
01:51:09.100I will tell you that, you know, you probably know this better than I do.
01:51:13.480But the reason why we have superheroes is because of times like this, you know, back in World War Two, it was a it was such a powerful force that we didn't we felt small, insignificant and didn't know how to stop all of the problems.
01:52:15.080Like that stuff has gone completely out the window because a lot of folks are more obsessed with their individual social preferences and social agenda that they may have.
01:52:24.620And it, of course, bleeds off into their work.
01:52:27.080So these people don't look like all these characters or say definitely the superheroes, the one that are supposed to be good.
01:52:33.520But they're more interested in using them as a vehicle to lecture them about election, their audience about stuff that they don't even care about.
01:52:40.640And it's not about that character going around kicking butt, fighting off the evil that kind of goes out out of the realm of reality right now.
01:52:50.020It's more about, hey, I want to use this character so you can accept my individual agenda.
01:52:55.420And I'm going to use that character that you know and love to as a vehicle to really get this message out of there.
01:53:00.860And it just makes for very, very bad art.
01:53:05.400So tell me, because if, again, if I were in this industry, I would see you selling 30,000 copies on day one as a disturbing trend for my company.
01:53:31.360Man, we know that's exactly what's happening as insiders that have already talked about this, about, hey, that's putting them on notice.
01:53:38.820Disney's looking at it like, well, hey, this is something that is happening.
01:53:42.920It's not to say that we're going to completely upend what it is that they're doing.
01:53:45.840But, you know, you're saying that maybe junk, maybe a lot of what they're doing isn't as lucrative as what they anticipate.
01:53:53.440So they see this guy who's been doing comic book commentary come in and make this amount of money, sell this amount of copies.
01:54:00.040I mean, people need to understand the magnitude of this for those that don't like they would classify our book as a graphic novel, per se.
01:54:08.460That's what they would call because of how big it is, this first book.
01:54:11.680If you look at those sales in comparison to like the what's going to the North American comic book sales, we've already destroyed any book that they've put out that's in this genre.
01:54:51.280And that's what's happening right now.
01:54:52.380So the next question is, people sometimes build businesses and they become very, very successful and a Facebook will come in and buy them and just absorb them sometimes to sit on them, sometimes to use them, but make it theirs.
01:55:12.140Would you sell if they came to you and said, hey, we'll offer you whatever, would you sell?
01:55:18.660They couldn't buy it for $100 million.
01:55:21.180They couldn't buy it for $100 billion because if they're willing to pay for it that much, I can make that much myself.
01:55:26.620So I look at it from a creative standpoint as well as a businessman.
01:55:32.860The point of this whole thing that we're doing is that I looked at the industry.
01:55:37.220I saw a problem with it, a fundamental issue with it, and I wanted to do things my sort of own way.
01:55:42.780I took the, let's say, what people are doing like in a crowdfunding space.
01:55:46.580I took it, made it my own kind of spin on it, giving people the visual numbers so they could see it and all of that while also already having the work done.
01:55:56.360I already paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure that I can make this happen, which is why we can get it to the audience relatively quick.
01:56:03.100So if they came to me with a dollar amount, I could refuse it because, like, this is the whole point.
01:56:09.720I don't want to have to go through you guys.
01:56:11.480I want to be able to show folks that we can do this in a far more decentralized way than what it was before.
01:56:18.960Yeah, as a libertarian, philosophically, that's what I want.
01:56:22.180I don't like the idea that there's these mega corporate entities, billion-dollar corporate entities that have control of all of these properties.
01:56:28.880We have a direct, just with the internet and the technology alone, we have a direct line of sight with our audience.
01:56:34.820We don't have to go through the old guard anymore, and that's probably what frustrates these guys more than anything if they write these hit pieces.
01:56:42.700It's that we're seeing success, but we're also not going through them.
01:56:46.460So they can't give me enough money to take my property, not at all.
01:56:49.300All right, so, Eric, can you give us just a one-minute rundown of what the characters are, what's happening in book one?
01:57:00.760Yeah, so Isom issue number one, it deals with a character by the name of Avery Seelman.
01:57:28.100And his sister, Altona, gives him a call and wants him to visit an old friend because there was another different friend, a family friend, that was interning with his sister.
01:57:37.720And she's like, hey, can you go check it, check this out?
01:57:52.540So even though he doesn't like being in the city, he's going to, for the sake of his sister, for the sake of this old friend, he's going to go check this out.
01:58:00.200And, of course, he has kind of the longest day in his life meeting all these interesting characters that all of you guys are going to, of course, enjoy.