The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 8 ｜ Larry Sharpe ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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00:00:08.640 Things are changing rapidly, and big changes are on the horizon across the country and all around the world.

00:00:17.080 And we are either going to adapt or die.

00:00:21.040 States are either going to stay the course or make a change.

00:00:26.000 We are so focused on red or blue, liberal or conservative, that we're missing a third choice.

00:00:34.160 Perhaps the fourth and fifth choice as well.

00:00:37.020 In New York, there is a viable candidate, away from the two-party system.

00:00:42.940 Today, I'm going to talk to Larry Sharp, who is a wildly qualified libertarian currently running to be governor of New York.

00:00:51.500 We talk about how technology has evolved and continues to evolve, and how that is going to affect jobs in every state, in every household.

00:01:02.200 We talk about education.

00:01:03.920 How do we prepare our kids, not just to get a degree, but be prepared with the skills that are going to be needed in the next generation of workforce?

00:01:12.580 It's all too rare to sit down and talk about big ideas and big issues in a rational way, and actually have a politician say things that make sense.

00:01:26.560 I think you're going to agree.

00:01:28.960 This episode, Larry Sharp.

00:01:31.540 So I guess, because I've talked to you a couple of times, and you're an intelligent man, I have to start with, what the hell's wrong with you?

00:01:52.700 What are you doing this for?

00:01:54.640 No, it's a great question, and the issue is, most people don't know this, but for me to do this, this is really an establishment person's game, right?

00:02:02.000 Either you have, or wealthy, either one, establishment or wealthy.

00:02:05.560 So the other people who are running against me, the Democrat and Republican, they are both literally career politicians.

00:02:11.260 So they are taking money from the people and running a campaign.

00:02:16.760 I'm not, right?

00:02:18.720 I'm a consultant.

00:02:19.620 If I'm in front of you, I'm not in front of clients.

00:02:21.640 So I'm just losing money, and I've been doing this for a year.

00:02:24.880 I lost over 50% of my income last year, and I will lose over 75% of my income this year doing this.

00:02:31.720 I have a wife who doesn't work, two kids.

00:02:34.100 I live in New York City.

00:02:35.320 Oh, my gosh.

00:02:36.040 You can imagine my bills.

00:02:37.380 Yes.

00:02:38.080 So why would I do this?

00:02:39.300 It's a great question, and there's a very simple answer.

00:02:41.920 I don't want to move.

00:02:44.020 My state is broken, and I was actually considering moving.

00:02:46.700 For what I do as a consultant for business, I need a big city around me somewhere, right?

00:02:50.640 So I was thinking of leaving.

00:02:52.520 So I actually went down to North Carolina, Charlotte.

00:02:54.880 I was looking at Charlotte, big city in the south.

00:02:56.380 I thought, okay, great place to go.

00:02:58.620 And it was amazing.

00:02:59.980 I could sell my house in Queens and buy a mansion in North Carolina and pay less taxes and be

00:03:07.840 freer and just everything good, a major airport.

00:03:10.600 Oh, my God, it's amazing.

00:03:12.000 So I got angry.

00:03:12.740 Why isn't my state this good?

00:03:16.020 And it isn't, and it should be.

00:03:17.720 My state should be this good, and it's not.

00:03:19.460 So I have two choices.

00:03:20.580 One, accept status quo, which is not my way, or change it.

00:03:24.200 So I'm running, and I'm punishing myself.

00:03:26.760 I am.

00:03:27.480 But I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

00:03:28.800 I knew what I was doing when I got into this, right?

00:03:30.920 I knew what I was doing.

00:03:32.600 I just want more people to understand what I'm doing so that we can make real change.

00:03:36.240 That's the issue.

00:03:36.860 I will tell you that I used to live in New York City, and a couple things I noticed.

00:03:42.840 One, I'm the kind of guy that is, oh, I grew up in small towns, always lived in smaller

00:03:49.100 areas.

00:03:49.720 I'm the kind of guy, I see garbage, I pick it up, and I put it in the trash can.

00:03:53.900 Until I moved into New York.

00:03:56.780 That doesn't work.

00:03:57.700 And within a year, I found myself saying, and it stunned me, why the hell isn't the city

00:04:04.560 cleaning this mess up?

00:04:05.520 And I stopped after that came out of my mouth, and I thought, I've been here too long.

00:04:11.500 I'm now expecting the city or the state to do something about this.

00:04:15.300 That is correct.

00:04:15.740 It's horrible.

00:04:16.780 Yes.

00:04:17.660 Yes.

00:04:17.960 But New York City is able to survive for a reason that people don't really understand.

00:04:21.940 New York City is the largest city in the entire country by more than double, right?

00:04:26.280 By more than, it's massive.

00:04:27.740 It's larger than 40 states.

00:04:30.320 That's how big New York City is.

00:04:32.020 It's massive.

00:04:32.960 But something else we don't realize.

00:04:34.420 One third of people who live in New York City aren't born in the country.

00:04:38.480 Another third aren't born in New York City.

00:04:40.140 It is literally a magnet for talent.

00:04:43.340 So because you have so much opportunity, because you have so much talent in New York, it's a

00:04:48.040 magnet for talent from all over the world.

00:04:50.180 And it's a 16 million person metro area.

00:04:52.900 So tons and tons of customers and clients and people to hire, oh my God, it's massive.

00:05:00.420 It can be a communist state and still survive.

00:05:03.360 Yeah.

00:05:03.720 Because the opportunity is so huge.

00:05:06.220 Yeah.

00:05:06.560 Now take that outside of New York City.

00:05:08.680 You can't have those same rules because you don't have that same environment.

00:05:12.100 I don't know if you can have those same, I moved my company because, you know, they were

00:05:18.240 just taxing us to death.

00:05:20.340 I wanted to build a radio studio.

00:05:22.560 It took me a year.

00:05:25.540 I came down here.

00:05:26.740 You've walked around these studios.

00:05:28.320 Pretty massive.

00:05:29.060 Absolutely.

00:05:29.680 80,000 square feet.

00:05:30.900 Yes.

00:05:31.080 I turned this into digital radio and television within a week.

00:05:36.600 Yes.

00:05:37.280 Impossible in New York City.

00:05:38.340 Impossible.

00:05:38.940 In New York State.

00:05:39.680 Yeah.

00:05:40.180 Impossible.

00:05:40.740 Cannot be done.

00:05:41.280 Yes.

00:05:41.640 It cannot be done.

00:05:42.600 So the goal is to make sure that the establishment constantly wins.

00:05:46.380 That's the issue, right?

00:05:47.780 We will always do it.

00:05:48.820 In New York State, one thing we're really good at, two things.

00:05:50.820 One is pushing out anything new, right?

00:05:53.440 Pushing out so we can make sure the establishment old money stays.

00:05:56.140 We love old money in New York State, right?

00:05:58.240 Anything new, we push out.

00:05:59.360 We push out hemp, cannabis, vaping, Bitcoin, blockchain, anything new, gone.

00:06:06.360 Cannot be in New York State.

00:06:07.140 We can't stand it.

00:06:08.140 Old money we keep.

00:06:09.560 But something else we do really well is we pretend we're doing it to protect you.

00:06:15.180 So it's always in the guise of safety.

00:06:18.140 I care about you.

00:06:20.440 Our current king will always say my number one issue is protecting New Yorkers.

00:06:24.820 And that's not the number one issue.

00:06:26.300 In reality, executives take the same oath I took as a Marine.

00:06:29.360 And that is to serve and defend, to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:06:36.680 It is not to protect every individual citizen.

00:06:39.980 I was a Marine.

00:06:40.860 That wasn't my job.

00:06:41.760 It wasn't to protect every individual citizen, nor is it the president's job or a governor's job or a mayor's job.

00:06:45.940 That's not your job.

00:06:46.800 What's supposed to happen, it doesn't happen.

00:06:48.380 But what's supposed to happen is the executive branch, with all of its soldiers or police force, defend the Constitution and defend the individual's rights, the Constitution.

00:06:58.640 Then we defend ourselves.

00:07:01.620 We're nowhere near that.

00:07:03.280 Remember, in America, it's very rare that the government just takes our rights.

00:07:07.920 Almost always, we vote them away because of fear.

00:07:11.680 I'm afraid of this.

00:07:12.740 I'm afraid of that.

00:07:13.360 I'm afraid of him.

00:07:13.960 I'm afraid of her.

00:07:14.920 Please take my rights.

00:07:16.460 Make me safe.

00:07:17.280 Take my rights.

00:07:18.160 And New York State is a great example of that.

00:07:20.660 We do that constantly.

00:07:21.740 I'm afraid, vote it away.

00:07:24.360 So tell me about, because you do live in two different worlds.

00:07:29.160 I have my children's family up in upstate New York, Rochester.

00:07:38.240 I was living in Manhattan.

00:07:41.340 It is night and day different.

00:07:43.980 Yes.

00:07:44.320 Night and day different.

00:07:45.340 Absolutely.

00:07:45.640 So how does a state work when you've got Manhattan and it's crazy laws and crazy views, and it has all the population to vote that way, and you're out in the middle of really nowhere in New York, five hours away.

00:08:05.040 Yep.

00:08:05.600 You have nothing to do with the city, and you have to live under those laws.

00:08:09.480 Two issues to remember.

00:08:10.680 The first thing is, the idea that New York City outvotes New York State is a myth that's perpetuated so that people don't vote and it's working.

00:08:18.000 In reality, as I mentioned, one-third of New York people who live in New York City aren't born in a country.

00:08:22.740 One-third aren't born in New York City.

00:08:24.460 Most can't vote.

00:08:25.980 The actual data out of New York City, only about 1.5 million New Yorkers out of New York City people actually vote.

00:08:32.700 They can be outvoted.

00:08:34.300 But the problem is everyone believes they can't, so we have a 70% of New Yorkers don't bother voting.

00:08:39.180 Most from upstate.

00:08:40.620 Because upstate believes what you just said.

00:08:42.520 Why bother?

00:08:43.740 New York City is going to outvote us because they have 8.5 million people.

00:08:46.120 Yeah, but only 1.5 million actually vote.

00:08:49.640 Big difference.

00:08:50.520 So the reality of it is, that's not actually accurate.

00:08:53.100 But the number one thing that you mentioned is, how do you make that happen?

00:08:56.320 People often say, well, what's the big difference between right and left, or Democrat and Republican?

00:09:00.820 It's not ideology.

00:09:02.600 Look, you want to remember, if you look at a, for example, a Carter Democrat, a Clinton Democrat,

00:09:08.780 an Obama Democrat, they're different Democrats.

00:09:11.740 Look at a Reagan Republican, a Bush Republican, and a Trump Republican, different Republicans.

00:09:17.400 Ideologies shift.

00:09:18.580 There's one constant that's lacking.

00:09:21.460 Respect.

00:09:21.780 That's the issue.

00:09:24.440 The issue isn't ideology.

00:09:26.160 It's just respect.

00:09:27.740 I've said many times, people ask me all the time, Larry, what's libertarian?

00:09:30.740 And I say the same thing every time.

00:09:32.300 Libertarian says, you can be as conservative or as liberal as you want to be, just don't force yourself on others.

00:09:38.700 And government also equals force.

00:09:42.020 That's the same thing.

00:09:43.160 Just don't force it.

00:09:44.520 If you just respect people, then all of a sudden you can live with them.

00:09:48.100 We used to.

00:09:49.720 Yes.

00:09:50.020 We used to.

00:09:50.680 That's correct.

00:09:51.560 So Rochester and New York City are different.

00:09:53.600 I get it.

00:09:54.000 They are.

00:09:54.480 My running mates from Rochester.

00:09:55.900 So I get it.

00:09:57.000 Absolutely.

00:09:57.420 They're different.

00:09:58.420 You know, he likes to hunt.

00:10:00.580 Right?

00:10:01.080 He likes to go out and camp.

00:10:02.640 That's his thing.

00:10:03.520 He's a Western New Yorker.

00:10:04.360 And many Western New Yorkers love that.

00:10:06.540 Most New York City people don't.

00:10:08.000 And that's not good or bad.

00:10:09.900 That's just who you are.

00:10:11.740 I don't hide.

00:10:12.460 I'm a city boy.

00:10:12.980 I speak too fast.

00:10:14.040 So there's no way I can hide.

00:10:15.280 I'm a city boy.

00:10:15.600 I'm a city boy.

00:10:16.040 I'm born in Manhattan, raised in the Bronx.

00:10:17.480 I get it.

00:10:18.100 I'm a city boy.

00:10:18.700 And I'm happy.

00:10:19.580 I'm proud of that.

00:10:20.640 But I can also respect other people.

00:10:22.600 And I think the funny thing, I think I learned this most.

00:10:24.800 And people ask me why I'm this way and how so many others aren't.

00:10:29.680 I think it was the Marine Corps.

00:10:30.720 When I joined the Marines at 17, I had never really met people who weren't kind of city

00:10:36.500 folk and New York folk.

00:10:38.140 And I found that so many men that I respected, that I loved, that I would have literally died

00:10:42.320 for or I would have died with.

00:10:44.620 Many of them were what I would consider them country pumpkins, but they were good men.

00:10:48.720 I respected them.

00:10:49.920 We didn't, you know, we didn't know.

00:10:51.320 I remember one of my friends said he used to ride a motorcycle with flip-flops on.

00:10:55.200 And I just thought that was the most craziest thing in the world.

00:10:57.900 He told me, I have no helmet and flip-flops, riding a motorcycle.

00:11:00.700 I thought, that's insane.

00:11:01.920 Who would do that?

00:11:03.240 There should be a law against it.

00:11:04.620 There should be a law.

00:11:05.400 Well, of course.

00:11:06.140 Why would you do that?

00:11:06.940 Yes, that's what I thought.

00:11:07.840 But then I realized, no, he's just a guy who enjoys that stuff.

00:11:10.380 And good for him.

00:11:11.640 I wouldn't do it, but so what?

00:11:13.620 Right?

00:11:13.860 So what?

00:11:14.440 He's not going to play stickball on the street either.

00:11:16.340 So how do you get this message through the gauntlet of the media, the gauntlet of the parties, the gauntlet of everybody being churned out in universities?

00:11:32.860 Yep.

00:11:33.060 So this is, it's a Silicon Valley idea of do it your way.

00:11:44.360 Yes.

00:11:44.480 You know what I mean?

00:11:45.180 But it doesn't connect with people for some reason.

00:11:48.220 But I think it does.

00:11:49.020 And here's what I mean by this.

00:11:50.000 Look, people tease me and they say, well, Larry, you know, you sometimes spend too much time with the left or too much time with the right.

00:11:56.880 Right?

00:11:57.240 If you're left, you think I spend too much time with the right.

00:11:58.940 If you're right, you think I spend too much time with the left.

00:12:00.240 And I say, who's going to fix this?

00:12:03.780 Who's going to cross that barrier?

00:12:06.140 If you're left or right, you can't.

00:12:08.340 You have to be a mediator.

00:12:10.040 Someone who is far less concerned about feeling righteous and more concerned about the results at the end of the day.

00:12:16.200 And that's got to be a business guy.

00:12:17.740 Right?

00:12:18.040 Because that's what I'm concerned about.

00:12:19.120 At the end of the day, if I have happy customers, I win.

00:12:22.180 If I don't, I lose.

00:12:23.360 And your customers are the citizens.

00:12:25.360 That's correct.

00:12:25.880 As governor, New Yorkers are my customers.

00:12:27.580 If they're happy, they stay in New York.

00:12:28.880 If they're happy, they grow their families.

00:12:30.800 And they don't leave and go to Texas to build something.

00:12:33.980 They build it in New York.

00:12:35.240 They hire people in New York.

00:12:36.200 They retire in New York.

00:12:37.180 They spend their pensions in New York.

00:12:38.720 They do all those things.

00:12:39.760 And that's what I want.

00:12:40.620 And that's how I see it.

00:12:42.200 So how do I get through that?

00:12:43.540 It's by getting people to hear that.

00:12:44.740 Because that's a universal message.

00:12:47.060 People wanting to be happy and not move is a universal message.

00:12:51.280 Everyone wants that.

00:12:52.840 We just can't get it.

00:12:54.320 But I'm saying you can get it.

00:12:55.980 This is a universal message.

00:12:57.220 My issue is people aren't hearing it.

00:13:00.040 So what am I doing?

00:13:00.920 I'm using non-traditional media.

00:13:02.900 I'm using, I'm not using podcasts and Facebook.

00:13:05.380 You know, I have an event with over 100 people, 200 people in an event.

00:13:08.100 And I will literally say this.

00:13:09.900 All right, guys, who here came here because you saw my commercial on TV, my TV commercial?

00:13:15.460 No one's hands go up because I don't have any.

00:13:17.360 Right.

00:13:18.120 Somehow I can fill a room more than either of the two major parties without having a TV commercial.

00:13:23.060 It's, we're living in a time, and this has happened to me several times, where I'll see a crowd someplace and I'll say, who's over there?

00:13:34.300 You would think that it was a name that everybody knew.

00:13:36.500 It's a nobody that is huge to a group of people just online.

00:13:42.780 It's niche media.

00:13:43.320 It's niche media.

00:13:44.040 I use niche media all the time.

00:13:45.080 Right.

00:13:45.380 Literally, I go on things like I'll go on literally the vaping legion, right?

00:13:49.360 Which is literally just for vapors.

00:13:51.020 And people think, why would you do that?

00:13:52.360 Because if you're a member of niche media, and the vast majority of people under 40 are, and many over 40 are also, but the vast majority under 40 are part of some niche media.

00:14:03.320 If you take the time and energy to download this podcast or go on YouTube and watch the daily output of whatever it is, you care.

00:14:12.320 You care about that thing.

00:14:14.020 Well, if I'm on there and these guys go, Larry Sharp's a good guy, you listen.

00:14:19.020 It's what you do.

00:14:20.300 So I figured this out.

00:14:21.240 And niche media wants more people who are mainstream because they're not mainstream.

00:14:25.240 They're niche media.

00:14:26.120 So I can now cross over that line.

00:14:28.380 I do it often.

00:14:28.980 I go on many podcasts.

00:14:30.360 And I go on the most niche podcast possible.

00:14:32.600 It doesn't matter.

00:14:33.180 I do it because that's how I'm getting through.

00:14:35.220 And I'm breaking through.

00:14:36.140 As I might have mentioned to you, I'm polling at 13%.

00:14:39.480 13% is insane, right?

00:14:43.220 This was two weeks ago.

00:14:44.620 For a libertarian especially.

00:14:45.720 Yes, with about one third, about two weeks ago, with about one third of name recognition.

00:14:51.800 If I get my name recognition up to 100%, multiply by three, right?

00:14:55.460 It's 100%.

00:14:55.960 That's 39%.

00:14:57.560 39% in a five-way race in New York State is a win.

00:15:01.680 30% is a win.

00:15:03.040 39% is a blowout.

00:15:05.580 So it is possible to happen.

00:15:07.720 The issue is, will people see my name?

00:15:09.480 That's how I get out.

00:15:10.320 I get out by doing two things.

00:15:11.360 One, niche media, not stopping.

00:15:13.660 Literally, as I told you, I don't work anymore.

00:15:16.060 I do two, three, four events every day.

00:15:18.560 Every day.

00:15:19.900 I do media events.

00:15:21.060 I do media events while I'm in the car.

00:15:22.700 While I'm in the car driving from city to city, I'll get online and I'll literally get a phone call and I'll take an interview while I'm in the car.

00:15:30.300 I'll answer Facebook while I'm in the car because I'm driving from one event to the other.

00:15:35.440 This is a full-time job that you can only do if you are either wealthy or you're part of the establishment.

00:15:41.500 I'm neither.

00:15:42.380 So I punish myself, which is fine.

00:15:44.660 I accept that because my hope is no matter what happens, in the long run, others see this and they copy.

00:15:49.540 Look, I'm the kind of guy who models the behavior that I want from others.

00:15:53.520 So I'm modeling that behavior.

00:15:54.980 I hope others will follow.

00:15:55.700 All right, I want to get into some of the ideas that you have because I think they're tremendous and we have to start thinking out of the box.

00:16:06.560 But I have to, because we've had this conversation off the air, not you and I, but a couple of my coworkers tonight.

00:16:12.880 We've had this conversation off the air.

00:16:16.140 If I'm living in New York, I know the Republican is not going to win.

00:16:20.620 That's correct.

00:16:21.140 And so it's going to be Cuomo.

00:16:23.480 And I can't imagine why I would vote for a Republican, even if I like the Republican, and wouldn't send a really strong message, you know, by voting for you.

00:16:38.760 This is what I say all the time when people don't understand.

00:16:41.240 Democrats too.

00:16:42.400 Look, most Democrats don't like Cuomo.

00:16:45.100 All right, how do we know this?

00:16:46.380 An actor got 35% of the vote.

00:16:48.940 I have anything against the Nixon, I'm sure she's a fine woman, but she was an actor. 1.00

00:16:53.260 It's not like she came up and had massive ideas or experience.

00:16:56.860 She was just someone who said, I'm not Cuomo.

00:16:59.440 And she got 35% of the vote.

00:17:00.560 So they don't like him either.

00:17:01.980 What I'm trying to put out here is a vote for a third party, any third party.

00:17:05.820 I prefer mine, obviously, I'm biased.

00:17:07.460 But any third party, once you have a third party, particularly libertarians, who will often dip their toes in left and right, depending upon the issue, are the referees.

00:17:16.700 Because you will actually have better Democrats and better Republicans if a libertarian's in the room.

00:17:23.220 Because when a Republican says Democrats are evil, no one hears it.

00:17:26.640 When a Democrat says Republicans are evil, no one hears it.

00:17:29.260 When a libertarian says, hey, Democrats, aren't you supposed to be about civil liberties?

00:17:33.020 Why aren't you?

00:17:34.220 People hear it.

00:17:35.120 Hey, Republican, you're supposed to be about smaller government, less taxes.

00:17:38.120 Why aren't you?

00:17:39.220 Now people hear it.

00:17:40.980 So there's the referee.

00:17:42.220 If you want a better Democratic Party and a better Republican Party, you should be voting libertarian.

00:17:46.980 That's the way to make it happen.

00:17:48.280 Otherwise, nothing changes.

00:17:49.840 In my state, for 16 years, Republicans have not won any statewide election.

00:17:54.560 Governor, Senator, AG, Lieutenant Governor, nothing in 16 years.

00:17:59.400 Yet somehow the establishment still lies to its people and says, this is the year, guys.

00:18:05.040 This is the year.

00:18:06.660 It's shameful.

00:18:07.520 It's, if I was a Republican, I'd be embarrassed, I'd be angry.

00:18:12.280 I'd be angry.

00:18:13.180 Because for 16 years, Democrats have run the state.

00:18:15.680 If they were going to fix it, they would have fixed it.

00:18:18.420 Republicans have watched this for 16 years.

00:18:21.000 The question I always ask, where's their plan?

00:18:23.600 Where's their movement?

00:18:25.140 Right?

00:18:25.320 People bug me all the time.

00:18:26.240 They say, well, Larry, where were you five years ago?

00:18:27.860 Where were you three years ago?

00:18:28.860 I wasn't working in government.

00:18:30.860 I was a private citizen.

00:18:32.200 I was fixing my business and my family from a crash until the night that devastated me.

00:18:35.720 That was my, my job was fixing my family and my business.

00:18:38.960 And I did my job.

00:18:40.220 I did my job.

00:18:41.680 Their job, literally career politicians, was to make sure our state doesn't fall into a death spiral.

00:18:46.680 And we don't have a million people leaving in the last eight years.

00:18:49.940 They failed. 1.00

00:18:51.520 I'm running because they suck. 0.99

00:18:54.040 That's why I'm running. 0.99

00:18:55.560 So.

00:18:56.120 Yes.

00:18:56.680 So.

00:18:57.200 In one year, I have a movement and plans.

00:19:00.020 They have nothing.

00:19:01.880 Let's get to some of those plans because they're some of the best, well thought out, out of the box.

00:19:07.520 I've not heard these before.

00:19:09.320 Let's take infrastructure.

00:19:11.800 Sure.

00:19:12.240 Absolutely.

00:19:13.060 One of the biggest issues we have all the time is how do we repair infrastructure?

00:19:16.200 If you are a Democrat, you will hear the phrase fund.

00:19:19.560 If you're a Republican, you'll hear the phrase invest.

00:19:22.300 I'm sorry, the word invest and the word fund.

00:19:24.580 What those means, more of your taxes.

00:19:26.920 That's what I mean.

00:19:27.740 More of your taxes.

00:19:28.540 And what I'm saying is, why are we doing that?

00:19:31.660 Why are we constantly throwing the same money into a bad system?

00:19:35.220 We have bridges and tunnels right now that still collapse in New York State.

00:19:38.780 That's horrible.

00:19:39.940 All right.

00:19:40.400 Several ways we handle this.

00:19:41.480 I'll give you three separate ways that we can work.

00:19:43.500 One is just in general infrastructure.

00:19:45.900 We can actually do it to where we lease naming rights to infrastructure.

00:19:49.080 New York State has massive infrastructure.

00:19:50.560 Bridges, tunnels, the Erie Canal, massive infrastructure throughout the entire state, right?

00:19:55.540 Tons.

00:19:55.900 Why in the world do we have right now, we have a Mario Cuomo bridge, which is a bridge named after our imperial family.

00:20:02.240 It's horrible.

00:20:03.460 So we have that right now.

00:20:04.780 That should be the Apple bridge, the staple bridge, the Verizon bridge, right?

00:20:09.440 So we lease the naming rights out to the bridge.

00:20:11.960 Why would they do this?

00:20:12.820 Well, we already have – they already name stadiums.

00:20:16.040 They do it already.

00:20:16.820 They drop $20 million a year for a stadium that's used on the weekends.

00:20:20.460 They would easily drop $50 or $100 million for a bridge.

00:20:23.140 That is mentioned hundreds of times every single day during rush hour in a 16-million-person metro area.

00:20:30.460 And hundreds of thousands of cars pass it every single day.

00:20:33.240 Of course they'd pay for that.

00:20:35.020 But as part of that, we also want them to take care of maintenance.

00:20:38.620 Now, people, of course, go, but then they won't care and the bridges will collapse.

00:20:42.480 Okay, bridges collapse now.

00:20:44.640 Now they collapse.

00:20:45.520 Like somebody who could lose their entire company if it collapses wouldn't care.

00:20:54.380 But a government that is faceless, nameless, they care for some reason?

00:20:59.380 Well, next thing, though, is since we still own the asset, we still inspect it.

00:21:02.760 So inspections still happen.

00:21:04.640 So the inspection happens.

00:21:05.820 Currently, the inspection happens, and it goes on a long list of what we'll fix whenever we get to it, and the bridge collapses.

00:21:11.760 But in this case, it goes, oh, inspection, great.

00:21:14.780 Staples, fix the bridge in six months, or you lose the contract.

00:21:17.960 The bridge gets fixed.

00:21:19.260 We actually have safer bridges.

00:21:20.940 But the best part about having safer bridges is we don't pay for it.

00:21:24.400 I just lowered spending.

00:21:26.060 And on top of that, if there's less government money going out, there's less corruption.

00:21:30.340 So if you just lowered corruption, lowered spending, safer bridges, huh, not a bad deal.

00:21:35.800 But here's the best part.

00:21:36.800 If they're paying for this, why should we have tolls?

00:21:39.700 And you lived in New York.

00:21:40.540 Like, you know how bad those tolls are.

00:21:42.760 Some bridges, 15 bucks to cross.

00:21:45.220 And if you're a trucker like I used to be, you pay per axle.

00:21:48.760 Every axle, you're paying 15 bucks.

00:21:51.140 Changes everything.

00:21:52.600 But I'm not done with that.

00:21:54.220 In this one that I'm talking about now is just the MTA, meaning just downstate.

00:21:58.020 The MTA has massive rail lines, right?

00:22:00.460 It goes off to Long Island, upstate, all over.

00:22:03.300 Why aren't these rail lines being used at night for freight?

00:22:06.880 They're not being used at all right now.

00:22:08.400 Passengers aren't going around at 2 o'clock in the morning, right?

00:22:11.140 So why isn't freight coming in?

00:22:12.820 Freight lines come in.

00:22:13.720 Why would they do that?

00:22:14.540 Okay, number one, it's cheaper than trucks.

00:22:17.340 Number two, less wear and tear in the city.

00:22:19.320 Less truck traffic in Manhattan, right?

00:22:21.440 No more 18-wheelers running into Manhattan.

00:22:23.540 Bring them in that way, right?

00:22:24.460 And they have to come at night anyway.

00:22:26.220 They come at night anyway.

00:22:27.320 Yeah.

00:22:27.620 Exactly right.

00:22:28.300 So instead, bring them on this instead.

00:22:29.960 Of course, it's their stuff.

00:22:32.100 So they'll pay for maintenance on the rails, which passengers use during the day.

00:22:37.280 Yet again, they will pay for it.

00:22:38.880 We have a system like this already.

00:22:40.120 We basically do this for airports, right?

00:22:42.180 The airports, they rent out their gates.

00:22:44.360 We have the system already.

00:22:45.600 I'm not making these things up out of nowhere.

00:22:47.000 It already exists.

00:22:48.520 Same idea here.

00:22:49.440 Again, raising money, raising money, raising money and fixing our infrastructure and safer.

00:22:54.460 We have derailments already in Amtrak.

00:22:57.240 But now if they have to pay for it, again, we still own the asset.

00:23:00.800 We only lease out naming rights.

00:23:02.680 But I'm still not done.

00:23:03.300 Now straight up state.

00:23:04.700 Erie Canal.

00:23:05.440 Erie Canal has give or take 520 some odd miles, about 30, I think 33, 34 different locks.

00:23:12.040 Right now, the Erie Canal costs us about $100 million every year, including capital projects.

00:23:16.360 We make less than 5 million.

00:23:18.280 Oh my God.

00:23:18.900 Yeah, that's nothing but a big loss.

00:23:20.620 How about instead, we give out naming rights to all the locks?

00:23:23.960 It's the McDonald's lock, the Taco Bell lock, the Burger King lock.

00:23:27.640 And oh, you know what?

00:23:28.500 Maybe McDonald's wants them all.

00:23:29.580 Billion dollars.

00:23:30.160 Take them all.

00:23:30.740 Right?

00:23:30.960 You have all of them.

00:23:31.460 I don't care.

00:23:31.820 Whatever the number is.

00:23:32.780 Great.

00:23:33.100 They can all become tourist traps.

00:23:34.360 I mean, tourist sites.

00:23:35.520 And then all of a sudden, at that point, we make that happen.

00:23:38.420 And we rebuilt the entire Erie Canal.

00:23:40.400 And we make it viable.

00:23:42.120 But I'm going to do something else.

00:23:43.080 Right now, the Erie Canal does one thing very well.

00:23:45.060 It smells.

00:23:46.480 Really good at that.

00:23:47.080 But that's about it.

00:23:48.060 But I want to actually put, I want to put hovercraft on it.

00:23:51.920 And I mean hovercraft for a very specific reason.

00:23:54.280 Because hovercraft's really cool.

00:23:56.840 And cool hovercraft would bring youth back to our state.

00:23:59.740 Because someone's got to figure out how to put it on the Erie Canal.

00:24:01.940 Someone's got to figure out how it works in the locks.

00:24:03.880 Look, when I was in the Marine Corps 30 years ago, we had hovercraft that could take a tank across the ocean.

00:24:07.440 I'm sure there's something cool now.

00:24:09.720 I don't know what that technology is.

00:24:11.560 I don't care what it is.

00:24:12.700 I know it's amazing.

00:24:13.880 We'll put it on the Erie Canal.

00:24:15.260 And someone will want to slap the name on the side of a hovercraft.

00:24:19.060 And we'll raise more money.

00:24:20.420 We'll raise money, make things exciting, better life.

00:24:23.440 We build our infrastructure out.

00:24:24.820 But I'm still not done.

00:24:26.040 There's one more left.

00:24:27.420 Someone asked me, there's an interstate, upstate I-81.

00:24:30.680 And someone said, it's collapsing, Larry.

00:24:32.000 How are you going to fund it?

00:24:33.140 And I said, I'm not.

00:24:34.120 I said, what?

00:24:35.040 I said, I'm not going to fund it.

00:24:36.140 So what are you talking about?

00:24:37.140 It's destroyed.

00:24:38.320 Great.

00:24:38.920 My answer is Google Road.

00:24:41.320 There's always space on the sides of all these interstates.

00:24:43.860 Put a Google Road down the middle of it.

00:24:45.300 Or on the side of it.

00:24:46.020 Whatever's the appropriate thing to do.

00:24:46.960 Or one of those magnet rails.

00:24:49.680 One of those things.

00:24:50.680 Put that down.

00:24:51.680 Right?

00:24:51.880 So company X wants to build one?

00:24:53.480 Great.

00:24:53.760 Put it between, I don't know, between Rochester and Syracuse.

00:24:56.780 There's your road.

00:24:57.620 Your Google Road.

00:24:58.200 Put it up.

00:24:59.100 Here's your rent.

00:25:00.620 Your rent to keep that road is maintenance on the interstate.

00:25:04.420 So now you have two choices.

00:25:06.380 You can use the interstate if you want to.

00:25:08.120 Or drive the cool Google Road over the case, maybe.

00:25:10.540 You get both.

00:25:11.620 More options.

00:25:12.520 More choices.

00:25:13.420 We don't pay any extra cash.

00:25:15.420 And since we're still inspecting it, if they want to keep the Google Road, they have to maintain the road.

00:25:20.260 So we get road maintenance.

00:25:22.120 Again, everybody wins.

00:25:23.940 And what happens?

00:25:24.640 We get more people with more choices and less taxes.

00:25:28.080 We have to push spending down.

00:25:30.960 People always say, Larry, you don't talk about lowering taxes much.

00:25:34.660 I don't.

00:25:35.540 I talk far more about lowering spending so that I can push surpluses to the individual counties.

00:25:41.660 So the counties themselves can become heroes.

00:25:43.760 And there's a reason why I want that.

00:25:45.260 There's two reasons.

00:25:45.980 Reason number one.

00:25:47.500 When I take over, I'm going to have people against me.

00:25:50.300 That's how it works.

00:25:51.100 I know that.

00:25:51.560 I've done this in business before, right?

00:25:53.180 I go into a business and I'm a new business and I'm a guy who's an outsider and I think, who's this guy?

00:25:58.120 One of the ways you do that is to make the local managers heroes, right?

00:26:01.940 Then they begin to support you.

00:26:03.340 Same concept in government.

00:26:04.620 I will now allow the local people to be the ones who decide on tax cuts.

00:26:08.100 I'm the guy allowing them to start putting tax cut bills together.

00:26:12.960 They put their name on.

00:26:13.720 I sign it.

00:26:14.840 All you.

00:26:15.620 Yes, you are amazing.

00:26:17.020 I will sign that in a heartbeat.

00:26:18.580 Your names aren't, not mine.

00:26:20.580 You will see I'm giving you an opportunity to be a hero.

00:26:23.040 Less chance you fight me.

00:26:24.580 Less chance you fight me.

00:26:25.660 But more important, I don't know what taxes are hurting every individual.

00:26:30.080 I don't live in, there's 62 counties in New York State.

00:26:31.760 I don't know all of them.

00:26:32.840 I know what's killing me in Queens.

00:26:34.420 But I don't know what's killing you in Rochester or Ontario County or wherever you are.

00:26:38.640 I don't know.

00:26:39.820 So how about your local people tell me?

00:26:41.100 And let them do whatever they want.

00:26:42.400 I'm about reducing spending.

00:26:45.360 We do that.

00:26:46.340 Now we can lower taxes locally.

00:27:03.840 I've not heard a politician talk like this before.

00:27:07.500 And I'm trying to think of how it could be done.

00:27:14.360 And you make total sense.

00:27:17.120 And it could be done if it wasn't.

00:27:19.600 And especially in New York, the labor unions alone would crucify you.

00:27:27.640 No, I disagree.

00:27:28.540 And here's why.

00:27:29.320 Two things.

00:27:30.060 One, I'm actually pro-union.

00:27:32.220 Unions are in the First Amendment.

00:27:33.920 They are freedom of speech plus freedom of assembly.

00:27:36.080 It's what they are.

00:27:36.600 I have a problem.

00:27:37.340 But at the same time, what makes things better is the Janus decision.

00:27:40.300 The Janus decision says what I think is right, which is you shouldn't be forced to be part of a union.

00:27:45.260 Right?

00:27:45.600 When you're forced to be part of a union and unions have basically codified power, right?

00:27:50.100 Then, of course, they're going to stop things.

00:27:51.880 But they're not anymore.

00:27:52.960 Now they can do what they should do.

00:27:53.920 The problem right now with unions is the current union, you ask any union worker, they will agree with me every single time.

00:27:59.860 Unions spend 90% of their time dealing with 10% of their bad apples.

00:28:04.880 They shouldn't be doing that.

00:28:06.620 They should be spending 9% of their time helping out the 90% of amazing union workers there are.

00:28:11.580 The average union worker just wants to make a living, right?

00:28:14.020 There's 10% that are really bad guys.

00:28:16.080 90% are just average guys and gals trying to make a living.

00:28:18.860 So if they would spend time on that, they'll be much better.

00:28:21.440 And that will happen because Janus will allow people to have more than one union.

00:28:25.880 And when that begins to happen, you'll see better unions.

00:28:28.840 But here's the most important piece.

00:28:30.640 All of my plans, particularly for teachers, corrections officers, law enforcement, they actually love it.

00:28:38.200 The unions hate it because it's anti-establishment.

00:28:41.280 But I'm actually making a better world for the actual worker.

00:28:44.520 My education plan focuses heavily on allowing administrators to be relieved and allowing for teachers to actually teach.

00:28:53.060 I have not met one teacher, and I've met dozens upon dozens of teachers when I crossed this state, who all go, this is amazing.

00:29:00.000 I love it.

00:29:01.080 Explain that.

00:29:02.400 Explain the education part of your plan.

00:29:05.640 The first thing is getting rid of all standardized testing, right, until high school.

00:29:09.960 We did it on purpose so it allows – look, standardized testing is unfair to teachers.

00:29:14.900 There's not a fair way of grading them.

00:29:16.200 It's unfair to schools for rewarding them. 1.00

00:29:18.080 But on top of that, it makes kids who are little kids who can't test well feel stupid. 0.98

00:29:21.880 It creates a second-class student at 10, 11, 12 years old. 0.99

00:29:25.780 And it's no indication of success in the future.

00:29:27.720 So it only hurts.

00:29:29.420 When that happens, teachers will go, oh, my God, I don't have to teach the test anymore.

00:29:33.740 No, you teach to your normal localized test, first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade.

00:29:37.840 Teach them how to read and write.

00:29:39.220 Teach them how to think.

00:29:40.460 Teach them how to love education.

00:29:41.800 Teach them how to read, to enjoy reading.

00:29:43.780 Do what you do best.

00:29:45.240 We have massive teacher burnout here right now in New York State.

00:29:48.260 Massive.

00:29:48.720 And the reason is so much checkbox, checkbox, checkbox, checkbox, checkbox, checkbox, and not helping the student.

00:29:55.960 And the minister is hanging over them.

00:29:56.880 And right now, currently, His Majesty, King Andrew II, he actually, his plan for teachers is, and this is true, get non-teachers to teach actual teachers how to teach better.

00:30:11.540 That's his current plan.

00:30:13.340 Yes.

00:30:14.340 Wow.

00:30:14.680 Yeah.

00:30:14.980 I'm saying let teachers just teach.

00:30:17.900 If someone's going to fix it, it's going to be them, right?

00:30:21.160 But I want to really allow for more localized control.

00:30:23.720 Someone actually asked me, let me go to my funding real fast.

00:30:27.020 Right now, funding of the actual education plan right now is very convoluted.

00:30:34.520 It is a mixed way of an algorithm that decides test scores versus this and all that.

00:30:40.280 Instead, flat dollars per student, here's your check, done.

00:30:45.240 In the current system in New York State, if you don't spend your money, you lose it. 1.00

00:30:50.720 How stupid is that? 1.00

00:30:52.520 Yep. 1.00

00:30:53.040 Wow, that's dumb. 1.00

00:30:54.260 Yep. 1.00

00:30:54.520 The fact that it exists is embarrassing.

00:30:56.320 I don't want to say that out loud. 1.00

00:30:58.000 It's so stupid. 1.00

00:30:59.240 How about I said, here's your money, and if you don't spend it, you could save it. 1.00

00:31:03.840 Look at that.

00:31:04.660 You could actually save it.

00:31:05.880 Not just that, you don't have to write grants to the state so that I decide when you get a football field.

00:31:11.780 And of course, I decide because my buddy happens to make football fields.

00:31:15.800 So, and he gave me $40,000 for my campaign.

00:31:19.120 So, what a coincidence, you now need a football field.

00:31:22.000 Right.

00:31:22.220 And now state money goes to do that.

00:31:23.740 How about instead, save your money, you have it ongoing, and if you need to get a loan, you'll be able to,

00:31:29.680 because again, guaranteed government money, banks love that.

00:31:32.940 You can even take a loan if you wanted to, to build your football field.

00:31:35.700 Here's the issue.

00:31:36.420 I don't know when you need a football field.

00:31:38.800 You do.

00:31:39.940 So, why should I be deciding if and when you need one?

00:31:43.200 I've had people say, Larry, we need a farm in our high school.

00:31:46.320 And I go, okay.

00:31:47.860 Need a what?

00:31:48.440 A farm.

00:31:49.120 Okay.

00:31:49.580 And I say, okay.

00:31:50.860 I actually had a woman call in once. 1.00

00:31:52.740 She said, Larry, you have a problem.

00:31:55.420 This is a radio show.

00:31:56.400 And I said, what?

00:31:57.340 She says, I'm dealing with kids coming in this year, and they're four and five-year-olds,

00:32:01.300 and we have a problem because they don't know anything.

00:32:03.320 They don't know their numbers.

00:32:04.620 They don't know their colors.

00:32:05.480 They don't know any of this stuff.

00:32:06.200 They don't know anything.

00:32:06.820 And I said, wow, what do you think the answer is?

00:32:09.580 And she said, I'm going to pay the parents.

00:32:11.540 I'm going to pay them 50 or 100 bucks if their kid passes the test.

00:32:14.780 They'll encourage them to train their kids and teach them before they come to school.

00:32:17.740 And I thought to myself, wow, what a terrible idea.

00:32:21.200 That's what I thought.

00:32:22.160 What I told her was, you know, when I'm governor, if your district says you should do it, you

00:32:27.140 should do it.

00:32:28.220 The reason why I said that was I practice what I preach, right?

00:32:31.660 I could be wrong.

00:32:33.680 She deals with the kids every day. 0.96

00:32:35.640 She deals with the parents every day.

00:32:37.140 If her teachers and her administrators all agree, good idea, try it.

00:32:41.320 And what happens?

00:32:42.260 Either I'm right and it's a bad idea, and we all see it and go, don't do that.

00:32:45.420 Because if she's thinking that, others are too, right?

00:32:48.280 She isn't the only one thinking this idea.

00:32:49.860 So she will have proven them right or wrong.

00:32:52.280 But what if I'm wrong?

00:32:53.780 And this is an amazing idea.

00:32:55.220 And all the kids come in better.

00:32:57.140 And I had another teacher tell me, she said, Larry, there may be some merit.

00:32:59.780 I said, why?

00:33:00.480 She said, you don't know how much money we spend on remedial education.

00:33:05.680 That it might actually be cheaper to pay the parents than to spend all the extra money

00:33:11.060 and time on remedial education.

00:33:12.520 And I thought, that's why I said yes, because you know something I don't know.

00:33:18.120 How would I possibly know that I'm not a teacher?

00:33:20.460 That's exactly my whole plan is that, in a nutshell, for almost everything.

00:33:25.120 So I'll go even further.

00:33:26.940 In addition, when that happens, when I actually go back to removing all of the testing,

00:33:30.540 we'll lose federal funds.

00:33:31.700 We'll lose about $4 billion in federal funds.

00:33:34.180 So when we lose that money, we also lose all of the strings attached,

00:33:37.200 which means all those administrators can go away.

00:33:39.200 Administrators get about $150,000 or more per year.

00:33:42.520 Teachers get about $80,000 per year.

00:33:44.580 So for every two administrators I lose, it's four teachers I can hire or give raises

00:33:49.520 or buy more computers or whatever the case may be.

00:33:51.660 I'm providing a surplus to the district by default, right?

00:33:54.320 Which is great.

00:33:55.080 Because again, the guy who won't decide how to spend that is me.

00:33:58.680 They'll decide.

00:33:59.720 Only thing I require is transparency.

00:34:01.500 If they're transparent, everyone can see it.

00:34:03.000 Life is good.

00:34:03.660 If you take government money, we need to see where it goes, period.

00:34:07.520 No exceptions in that rule.

00:34:08.480 If you don't take government money, good luck.

00:34:10.520 Do what you need to do.

00:34:11.240 But if you take government money, we all see what happens.

00:34:14.400 We have to go even further.

00:34:15.940 I don't want K-12 anymore.

00:34:17.440 I want K-10.

00:34:18.540 The last two years of high school, and again, I'm saying things that people know to be true,

00:34:22.540 but no politician says it.

00:34:23.800 All they say is, we have to invest in our kids and fund our kids and care about teachers

00:34:27.940 and care about students and education is everything.

00:34:30.860 Education is not everything.

00:34:32.220 We have a thing in New York State called the Regent's Diploma.

00:34:34.660 You may know what that is.

00:34:35.920 It's a Regent's Diploma.

00:34:36.720 It's a special diploma that comes out of high school. 0.97

00:34:38.540 It is 100% useless, totally, and absolutely worthless. 0.91

00:34:43.120 No one will say it. 0.99

00:34:43.820 I will.

00:34:44.360 It means nothing.

00:34:45.680 How do I know that?

00:34:46.360 I hire and fire.

00:34:47.700 No one cares.

00:34:48.860 You got a special high school diploma.

00:34:50.740 No one ever.

00:34:51.720 This has never happened.

00:34:53.460 Oh, Mr. Beck, Regent's Diploma.

00:34:55.420 I had no idea.

00:34:56.300 You're hired.

00:34:57.340 That's never happened ever.

00:34:59.040 Nobody cares.

00:34:59.820 It's a bunch of more administrators, more testing, more stress, and we literally have

00:35:05.620 kids.

00:35:05.860 We have an epidemic of suicides in kids now.

00:35:09.700 Why would we be doing this?

00:35:11.160 We have bullying issues.

00:35:12.200 We have violence in schools.

00:35:13.440 We're going to add this pressure?

00:35:14.760 This makes no sense whatsoever.

00:35:16.380 The last two years of high school are a bunch of lost kids.

00:35:19.600 Lost.

00:35:20.420 They're doing video games, gym, study hall, smoking weed, bad habits.

00:35:26.300 Then they go off to college.

00:35:27.400 It's 13th grade for the first year because no one's ready for it.

00:35:30.180 And then it takes six years to graduate high school.

00:35:32.480 Bad, bad, bad.

00:35:33.560 Nothing but bad.

00:35:34.320 It's only, and if they even graduate.

00:35:36.280 You mean college.

00:35:37.020 College.

00:35:37.360 I'm sorry.

00:35:37.580 If they even graduate college because the graduation rates are as low as they've been

00:35:40.320 forever.

00:35:41.220 It's horrible.

00:35:42.420 So instead, at 16, take your test.

00:35:45.480 If you pass your test, you now have a high school diploma.

00:35:47.560 Done.

00:35:47.860 Whether that's homeschool, private school, public school.

00:35:50.920 Don't care.

00:35:51.500 Take a test.

00:35:52.400 You're good.

00:35:53.680 You have five options now.

00:35:54.680 One, if you think college is the right answer for you, which for some people it absolutely

00:35:58.500 is, no worries.

00:36:00.260 Go to a prep school.

00:36:01.400 Go to college.

00:36:02.100 We have to stop people from believing that the only answer is college.

00:36:05.200 It simply isn't.

00:36:06.360 Education is not the answer for everyone.

00:36:08.740 And if you look at what's happening now, again, I'm a guy in the business where I see

00:36:11.260 this.

00:36:12.580 We're actually looking at smaller companies.

00:36:14.780 If you have a master's degree or above, you're a no hire.

00:36:19.240 You are literally a no hire.

00:36:21.900 Oh, master's degree?

00:36:22.800 No thank you.

00:36:23.320 So what are you finding?

00:36:24.960 You're finding highly educated people in government because government still cares about that

00:36:29.720 and still pays you for that.

00:36:31.060 And some large organizations do and academia does, right?

00:36:34.320 So you find people in academia, government, and large businesses.

00:36:37.420 Small businesses, you have a master's degree or above.

00:36:39.980 They're saying, what did you do?

00:36:41.320 What have you done?

00:36:42.640 Yeah.

00:36:42.800 So they care about it.

00:36:43.380 You know, it's not so small business.

00:36:44.840 Google and Apple is now saying that.

00:36:47.340 It's correct.

00:36:47.780 They don't want that degree.

00:36:49.220 Does it matter?

00:36:49.700 I've never in probably 400 jobs that we've created.

00:36:58.320 Never have I once said, so what'd you get your degree in?

00:37:05.200 Yes.

00:37:05.920 Could I see your certificates?

00:37:07.600 Yes.

00:37:08.220 I don't care.

00:37:08.900 Nobody cares.

00:37:09.780 Show me what you've done.

00:37:10.820 And we're still acting like education is back in the industrial age.

00:37:15.060 It's not anymore.

00:37:16.100 That's why I say 10th grade and either go to a prep school and a specialized school.

00:37:20.140 Is that for biology?

00:37:22.160 Is it for English?

00:37:22.740 Is it for history?

00:37:23.300 Do that.

00:37:23.920 So you get to college, you can take advantage of incubators.

00:37:26.380 You can take advantage of internships.

00:37:27.920 And that's what matters in college.

00:37:29.320 What you learn in college is useless because five years from now, it doesn't matter anymore.

00:37:33.800 Right.

00:37:34.120 Whatever you've learned is gone now.

00:37:35.660 So I need you to want to know how to do things.

00:37:39.020 That's what matters.

00:37:39.840 Why people struggle to get jobs now, right?

00:37:42.420 Look, I've taught at the graduate level as a guest instructor at both Yale and Columbia,

00:37:46.900 right?

00:37:47.140 My degree, bachelor's in anthropology.

00:37:51.300 Yes.

00:37:52.720 How'd that work out for you?

00:37:54.620 Great, I guess.

00:37:56.200 But my point is, who cares, right?

00:37:58.500 So let's give them that opportunity.

00:38:00.020 But say you don't.

00:38:00.840 Say you're that smart kid, that brilliant kid.

00:38:02.920 Take the SAT at 16.

00:38:04.780 Go get an associate's degree right now.

00:38:06.360 Go do it.

00:38:07.080 Why would you be bored in school and get bullied by the other kids?

00:38:10.820 Go off.

00:38:11.320 You can be a scientist anyway.

00:38:12.480 Go.

00:38:12.940 You're that kid.

00:38:13.860 Or go to an actual trade school.

00:38:15.580 In New York State, we need tradesmen desperate.

00:38:17.780 In fact, across the country.

00:38:18.900 We need tradesmen across the country.

00:38:20.420 But particularly in New York State.

00:38:21.300 In New York State, the average tradesman's over 50.

00:38:23.340 It's a problem.

00:38:24.660 Go to trade school.

00:38:25.140 Become an HVAC person.

00:38:26.620 You don't need people who are in the trades have told me, Larry, I would expand.

00:38:30.440 I physically can't find the bodies.

00:38:33.360 I can't find qualified people.

00:38:35.320 I would expand.

00:38:36.220 I can't find people in New York State to grow my business.

00:38:39.040 It's impossible.

00:38:39.680 I have the work and I can't do it.

00:38:41.560 All the time.

00:38:42.860 You don't want to go to trade school?

00:38:44.320 Go to work.

00:38:45.040 Get a job.

00:38:46.720 Why we're afraid of putting our kids working at 16?

00:38:49.360 I don't know.

00:38:49.840 I worked at 16.

00:38:51.060 Kids are going to get caught in a loom.

00:38:52.740 That's not how it works.

00:38:54.240 That's been gone for 100 years already.

00:38:56.060 We're fine.

00:38:56.660 They're going to die in that kind of, you know.

00:38:58.000 It's not going to happen.

00:38:59.100 It's crazy.

00:38:59.660 I lost my kid in a tragic loom accident.

00:39:02.220 Exactly, yes.

00:39:02.840 It was the bobbin pin factory.

00:39:04.980 So, yes.

00:39:05.620 No, that's not going to happen anymore.

00:39:07.160 So, let them go work.

00:39:08.140 Let them get a work ethic. 0.98

00:39:08.860 The second thing I hear all the time, people hire me and they say, Larry, I will hire anybody

00:39:13.220 with a work ethic.

00:39:15.100 They don't care.

00:39:15.580 They have 10 years experience, five years.

00:39:17.280 Just when I say show up at eight, be there at eight.

00:39:20.480 I can't remember who I was talking to.

00:39:22.040 I was talking to a business owner and he said, honest to God, if I could get away with never

00:39:30.140 hiring another American citizen, I would do it.

00:39:33.540 I know.

00:39:34.040 And that's horrible.

00:39:34.960 Horrible.

00:39:35.420 I wish that wasn't true.

00:39:36.440 But you're not the only person to say that.

00:39:37.600 I've heard that many times, many times.

00:39:39.560 I've heard that more than once.

00:39:40.940 They're trying to get people because, look, I can't change parenting, but I can change

00:39:45.960 the environment.

00:39:46.480 And I want kids at 16 making decisions now.

00:39:50.240 People say, but Larry, they're 16.

00:39:52.000 George Washington went and surveyed.

00:39:54.280 He surveyed what's now Pittsburgh at 16.

00:39:57.600 That's correct.

00:39:58.220 Yes.

00:39:58.860 Why aren't we doing this?

00:40:00.100 Right.

00:40:00.360 Work at 16.

00:40:01.160 Look, the price for failure at 16 is very low.

00:40:04.700 The price for failure at 26, so much higher.

00:40:07.920 That's what's happening now.

00:40:08.820 We have a generation of kids now in their 20s.

00:40:10.940 So if you ask them, do you feel like an adult?

00:40:13.180 Over half will say no.

00:40:15.400 It's never happened before.

00:40:16.800 That has to change.

00:40:18.240 I'll start it here.

00:40:19.540 Start doing it.

00:40:20.880 Let me go to the next piece.

00:40:22.220 How do you pay for this idea of prep schools and trade schools and associate's degrees?

00:40:29.140 Very simple.

00:40:29.640 New York State says I have to pay for all school grades one through 12.

00:40:33.400 Okay.

00:40:34.380 So when I was a Marine, I got out.

00:40:35.940 I got the GI Bill.

00:40:36.620 The GI Bill said you have X number of dollars and X number of years to use it.

00:40:39.960 How about this?

00:40:40.980 We take $20,000, seven years to use it.

00:40:44.200 Good luck.

00:40:44.840 That sits, you know, in the government.

00:40:46.800 We'll pay.

00:40:47.060 Write the check if you want.

00:40:48.060 Write the check.

00:40:48.800 Here's what I know will happen.

00:40:49.900 You have a bunch of prep schools, trade schools will pop up and they'll all cost $20,000

00:40:54.820 for two years.

00:40:55.500 What a coincidence.

00:40:56.340 Because that's government money.

00:40:57.320 And how do I know they'll come up?

00:40:59.000 Because they'll get loans.

00:41:00.200 Why?

00:41:01.280 Banks love guaranteed government money.

00:41:03.420 They will give out loans for that in a heartbeat.

00:41:05.340 They'll begin to grow.

00:41:06.460 But the best part about that is you will have, imagine as an 11th grade teacher, everyone

00:41:11.380 in your class wants to be there.

00:41:15.020 No disciplinary problems.

00:41:16.760 No bad kid in the back of the room.

00:41:19.140 Everybody wants to be there.

00:41:20.300 It will change what it is to be a teacher in 11th and 12th grade completely and to be a

00:41:24.380 student.

00:41:24.760 It'll change.

00:41:25.260 It'll give you, there's no bullying in those classes, right?

00:41:28.060 They're all the same kind of guy, all the same kind of gal. 0.69

00:41:30.800 They're looking for the same things.

00:41:32.440 I'm creating community, which is what we're lacking, right?

00:41:35.660 This goes directly to school violence, school violence.

00:41:39.600 All the shootings we've had while they are murders at their core, they are public suicides.

00:41:46.440 It's what they are.

00:41:47.360 The three things killing our kids.

00:41:48.680 And I've said it many times and I'll keep saying it until someone actually says this

00:41:51.720 because no one else is saying it.

00:41:53.780 Lack of community, lack of purpose and loneliness.

00:41:57.260 That's why we have incels. 0.82

00:41:59.060 That's why we have, you know, the bad guys going out there and killing people.

00:42:02.200 That's why we have it because of that.

00:42:04.060 Give kids purpose.

00:42:05.580 Give kids community.

00:42:06.840 They won't be lonely.

00:42:08.540 They won't kill people.

00:42:10.380 That's the actual, that's the root cause of all of this.

00:42:13.800 Happiness.

00:42:14.680 You'll have happier teachers, happier kids, which means happier parents.

00:42:18.320 Everybody wins with this, but it's the best part.

00:42:20.700 We're doing $20,000 for two years.

00:42:23.080 So it's $10,000 per kid per year.

00:42:25.640 Right now, New York State spends $22,000 per kid per year.

00:42:28.980 More even than California.

00:42:30.440 $10,000 more than the average and we rank 37th in the country.

00:42:34.200 And His Majesty is happy about this.

00:42:35.920 Shame on him.

00:42:36.360 Now we're saving $12,000 per year.

00:42:39.680 There's about 400,000 11th and 12th graders.

00:42:42.340 That's over $4 billion.

00:42:44.080 I have saved all of my federal funds.

00:42:47.620 I lose nothing.

00:42:49.560 And I'm able to still give every single district a surplus.

00:42:54.600 Districts get a surplus.

00:42:55.740 Teachers are happy.

00:42:56.940 Administration is less.

00:42:58.560 Happier kids, happier parents, happier teachers.

00:43:01.480 Win, win, win, and more effective.

00:43:03.620 To do that, they'll have to get rid of the Board of Regents.

00:43:05.300 Yes, the Board of Regents in New York State is going to stop all of it.

00:43:07.900 They have to go away.

00:43:08.940 But then who would give the Regents diploma?

00:43:11.600 Oh my God, you're right.

00:43:12.920 I've changed my mind.

00:43:14.000 See, it all falls apart in the end.

00:43:15.760 That's what happens when that thing, I hadn't thought of that.

00:43:17.880 So yes.

00:43:19.520 So let me go back to the three things that you said is the root of the problem.

00:43:24.280 Give them again.

00:43:25.320 Lack of community, lack of purpose, and loneliness.

00:43:28.060 Okay.

00:43:28.700 Can you take that back a step?

00:43:30.900 What has hurt the feeling of community and brought us loneliness?

00:43:40.120 And what's caused these things?

00:43:42.700 Oh my God, so many things.

00:43:44.040 There's so many of them.

00:43:46.180 It's technology is affecting us more than anything.

00:43:49.900 I mean, that affects people.

00:43:51.480 Many people will say, you know, Larry, I'm worried about, you know, the foreigner coming to take my job. 0.99

00:43:57.660 I'm worried about the big business guy coming to take my job.

00:44:02.620 I'd be worried more about technology than anything else.

00:44:05.120 That's coming to take our job.

00:44:06.320 That's the biggest thing, right?

00:44:07.960 I'm worried about-

00:44:09.400 Stop, stop.

00:44:10.560 Expand on that.

00:44:11.380 Yeah.

00:44:12.080 All right.

00:44:14.000 Let me do a couple of things on this one.

00:44:15.400 This is a big deal.

00:44:17.060 People often say, people used to say, I don't care about technology because it gets rid of the chump job, 1.00

00:44:23.160 the job that's unimportant, right?

00:44:24.440 That's the one that goes away.

00:44:25.440 But if you know what's happening in New York right now, you see a whole bunch of bankers getting laid off.

00:44:30.780 Lots of them getting laid off.

00:44:32.180 Why?

00:44:33.080 AI is here to stay.

00:44:35.380 AI does trades better than traders.

00:44:37.520 Doesn't complain.

00:44:38.540 A whole lot cheaper.

00:44:39.540 Never ask for a raise.

00:44:41.480 So I can hire- 0.93

00:44:41.940 Don't have to pay it 15% or 20%.

00:44:44.460 Not at all.

00:44:45.440 You can pay two or three tech people or maybe even a flat fee, right?

00:44:49.840 And boom, I got my traders rocking and rolling fast than anybody else happening all over the place.

00:44:54.580 So now everyone gets affected by this, right?

00:44:56.540 AI is the new thing, which is why in my personal business, I teach leadership, not management.

00:45:02.780 The difference.

00:45:03.620 Management is process, right?

00:45:05.580 And resources.

00:45:07.140 AI does that very well.

00:45:08.440 The manager is getting replaced by AI.

00:45:11.400 What can't be done?

00:45:13.700 Leading.

00:45:14.680 Leading is different.

00:45:15.740 Leading is communicating, motivating people.

00:45:17.840 Throughout history, whatever technology you have, I'll give an example of the plow, right?

00:45:22.540 When it first came out of the plow.

00:45:23.660 Guy had a plow.

00:45:24.660 All right, I can now farm better.

00:45:26.020 So he puts a horse in a plow.

00:45:27.780 Horse in a plow, way better than me.

00:45:29.720 But what's better than a horse in the plow?

00:45:32.820 Me guiding the horse and plow, right?

00:45:35.860 And every bit of technology, we've seen it happen, even with AI.

00:45:39.180 AI began heavily when it came to chess.

00:45:42.020 Remember the chess games when we were kids?

00:45:44.080 We used to be able to beat the chess games, right?

00:45:46.220 Because the chess AI was so weak that the average guy or gal could actually beat it.

00:45:50.200 And the chess masters always beat AI.

00:45:52.800 I mean, forget, 70s, always beat it.

00:45:55.540 No big deal.

00:45:56.460 Then all of a sudden it became, uh, maybe.

00:45:58.000 See, now AI almost always beats chess master.

00:46:01.340 So what beats AI?

00:46:03.040 Only one thing.

00:46:04.260 Chess master plus AI.

00:46:06.220 That's what beats AI.

00:46:08.060 The combination.

00:46:09.480 Same thing.

00:46:10.580 You have to know how to lead technology.

00:46:13.800 That's the future.

00:46:15.220 Now the problem with that is, no one's saying that but guys like me.

00:46:18.960 We're still saying, go to college and learn stuff.

00:46:21.260 We're focusing on learning things that computers learn in five seconds.

00:46:24.860 We're focusing on learning things that will be irrelevant in 10 years.

00:46:28.000 What I'm saying is, let the actual companies deal directly with the actual trade schools,

00:46:33.540 prep schools, and they'll tell them what to teach the people.

00:46:36.800 Literally, if you're sitting in New York and you own a plumbing company, and there is a

00:46:41.040 trade school, a plumbing trade school in your town, you are literally going to go to them

00:46:44.380 and say, do me a favor.

00:46:45.660 Train them in these things.

00:46:47.140 That's what I need from them.

00:46:48.580 If they know this, I can hire them.

00:46:50.880 In fact, can I take one of my guys, can my manager come in and teach one of your classes?

00:46:55.320 And they'll be like, sure, bring them in.

00:46:58.020 That's how it's supposed to work.

00:47:00.400 Right?

00:47:00.840 Not just that.

00:47:01.420 I'm a tech company and I want tech guys.

00:47:03.500 Don't teach them.

00:47:04.160 Teach them these things.

00:47:06.360 The problem, and here's how I know it's true.

00:47:08.060 I'm a trainer.

00:47:10.560 So I teach college people who go to a company and the company has to pay me to teach them.

00:47:16.740 And they came out of college.

00:47:18.520 Right.

00:47:18.880 Because everything in college isn't helping.

00:47:20.600 I literally ask people, who in here has an MBA?

00:47:22.840 And they'll go, me.

00:47:23.380 Okay, I have to break your bad habits.

00:47:25.280 Literally, I have to break their bad habits.

00:47:27.960 Because it doesn't work in reality.

00:47:30.020 How many times I've taught people, that's school, not reality.

00:47:33.000 That's school, not reality.

00:47:34.340 So the whole thing has to change.

00:47:35.880 Technology is changing all of that.

00:47:37.340 Our schools haven't figured this out.

00:47:38.740 And most of our average businesses haven't figured this out.

00:47:41.480 And government has not figured this out at all.

00:47:43.480 So that's the first piece.

00:47:44.440 But there's even more.

00:47:46.040 Technology changes how we communicate.

00:47:48.420 It makes us completely connected.

00:47:50.400 But we're connected via avatar.

00:47:53.500 We're connected via the image that we portray.

00:47:56.100 And we usually portray images like you and I portray an image.

00:47:59.900 But there's an emotional intelligence that you and I have right now when we're together

00:48:03.220 that allows us to go, oh, is he telling the truth?

00:48:06.000 Is he not?

00:48:06.460 What's real?

00:48:07.080 That happens because I'm actually seeing you.

00:48:09.680 I'm reading your body language.

00:48:11.480 You're interacting.

00:48:12.540 But when you show up on my screen, I have no idea.

00:48:17.540 The pictures you choose to show me, the images you choose to show me, it's a broken reality.

00:48:24.300 So all I assume is, wow, everyone's having a good time, except me.

00:48:30.460 Everyone is perfectly, you know, infallible, except me.

00:48:36.060 Everyone looks amazing, except me.

00:48:38.980 So now I project this also, how awesome I am when I realize that I'm not.

00:48:43.540 So now I'm a liar.

00:48:44.580 And now I feel, how do I deal with this?

00:48:47.240 One of the things you see me do very often is I'm very human.

00:48:50.600 And I'm purposefully very human.

00:48:53.660 I've been doing this over a year.

00:48:55.380 Not once have I ever brought notes to anything I've done.

00:48:59.200 And always I do it live.

00:49:00.940 And always I take any questions and no rules.

00:49:03.240 And I make mistakes.

00:49:04.720 And when I make mistakes, I say, I'm sorry.

00:49:06.660 I'm trying to show people that I'm human.

00:49:08.980 You want to make this place a better place?

00:49:11.840 Except being human.

00:49:14.140 Technology takes that away.

00:49:16.200 We want to be human.

00:49:17.600 We want to have a connection.

00:49:19.000 So it hurts us there also.

00:49:20.900 So there are many ways.

00:49:21.640 But let me go one step further.

00:49:23.480 Automation.

00:49:24.680 There's a big push for the minimum wage.

00:49:28.120 Right?

00:49:28.560 Big push minimum wage.

00:49:29.700 And I get it emotionally, right?

00:49:31.940 I want to make more money.

00:49:33.360 You should pay me more money.

00:49:34.320 Feels great.

00:49:35.020 I got it.

00:49:36.000 But what's actually going to happen, and it's because technology is, it's going to crush small business.

00:49:40.320 How do we know this?

00:49:41.500 Look at any big business, any franchise, any large organization.

00:49:46.120 They already have the tools.

00:49:47.900 They're ready.

00:49:48.780 Go to a CVS or a Walgreens or any of those things.

00:49:52.640 What do you have?

00:49:53.120 Self-checkout.

00:49:54.900 Already ready.

00:49:55.760 They're already making sure you're prepared now for when they fire all their employees.

00:49:59.480 Already setting it up.

00:50:00.680 Don't they have that new, is it an Amazon store now that you just walk in, grab yourself and walk out?

00:50:04.780 Right?

00:50:05.220 Right?

00:50:05.660 That's already happening.

00:50:06.560 Look at any McDonald's or Taco Bell or Burger King.

00:50:09.920 They have kiosks where you can order.

00:50:11.800 It's already there.

00:50:12.700 Go to a chain like TGI Fridays or Applebee's, right?

00:50:17.620 Same idea.

00:50:18.580 Kiosk at the table already.

00:50:20.720 They're prepping you for when they fire everybody.

00:50:22.580 And it's working because we don't even notice.

00:50:26.460 I say it and people go, oh, yeah, because they weren't paying attention.

00:50:29.080 I'm watching this.

00:50:30.320 This is my world.

00:50:31.280 I see it.

00:50:32.500 The most common, this is horrible.

00:50:35.180 The most common job for a male in the United States, driver.

00:50:39.860 Driverless cars.

00:50:41.860 The most common job for a woman in the United States is either server or clerk. 1.00

00:50:45.760 Kiosks.

00:50:47.480 Yeah.

00:50:48.500 We're being replaced.

00:50:50.120 And we're worried about things that don't matter at all.

00:50:51.500 So let me just spend it.

00:50:54.160 Did I go too far?

00:50:54.980 No, no, no.

00:50:55.580 No, let me just, this is a hot place for me because I can't, people are not talking about this.

00:51:05.400 Yes, find a politician who will always talk about what's happening in your world.

00:51:08.440 Find a politician who will tell you that your kid in 11, 12th grade is smoking weed and playing video games.

00:51:12.900 I will tell you that.

00:51:13.740 Find a politician who will tell you college is not the answer for everything and free college just makes people unhappy.

00:51:20.680 I'm the one telling you this because it's real.

00:51:22.480 I'm the one telling you that AI is our biggest threat.

00:51:24.480 Let's fix this.

00:51:25.060 Let's work on that thing.

00:51:26.280 It's a big deal.

00:51:27.660 Let's change education completely.

00:51:29.480 I don't want to keep funding bad systems.

00:51:31.280 Well, the average politician, in my book, my latest book, I said, how do you know which politician is lying to you when, you know, just on the phrase, when they're talking about jobs, you know they're lying to you when they say, I'll bring the jobs back.

00:51:52.940 Yes.

00:51:53.240 They're not coming back.

00:51:54.400 They're not coming back.

00:51:55.400 You have the 5G network.

00:51:57.900 Right now, you do need guidance because of the latency problem.

00:52:01.340 But you go from 100 millisecond latency to one millisecond latency.

00:52:07.100 And all of that information is being able to go back and forth at that speed.

00:52:12.960 You don't need drivers.

00:52:14.540 You don't need anything anymore.

00:52:16.480 Well, which at that point is curators, right?

00:52:18.580 Yes.

00:52:19.060 Right.

00:52:19.500 Curators.

00:52:19.920 And this is the issue that I deal with all the time.

00:52:21.920 This is in a sales world or business world.

00:52:24.400 What is the way of making money when there is so much information you can never even deal with it all?

00:52:30.960 It's curating it.

00:52:32.220 It's what you do.

00:52:33.760 You curate information.

00:52:35.280 That's where it matters.

00:52:36.560 If you can curate the right information, that's where we're leading technology.

00:52:40.280 Where does your plan – because I love your education plan.

00:53:04.340 But by 2025, you're not going to have a career that lasts a lifetime.

00:53:11.080 You're not going to have a career that lasts half a lifetime.

00:53:12.940 The average person now will have five careers.

00:53:14.960 Correct.

00:53:15.460 Yes.

00:53:15.920 Now five jobs have careers.

00:53:17.240 You're going to need to retrain.

00:53:19.600 Absolutely.

00:53:20.260 The first out of the chute are going to be the truck drivers and the drivers.

00:53:24.540 They're the first gone.

00:53:25.980 As soon as 5G is up, it's over.

00:53:27.580 So where in your plan for education do you have – can you use that education at any point in your life?

00:53:38.100 Of course.

00:53:38.780 Yes.

00:53:39.020 And there's the issue.

00:53:39.720 The idea that college is for someone who's 19 is also an anachronism, also shouldn't exist.

00:53:44.860 College should be for anyone who wants to be trained at any time.

00:53:47.900 I went to – as a 30-year-old, and I can guarantee I learned more.

00:53:54.060 Yes.

00:53:54.740 Because I cared.

00:53:56.240 Yes.

00:53:56.500 Because you wanted to learn it.

00:53:58.200 I went to college late.

00:53:59.060 I was in my 20s when I went to college.

00:54:00.040 Yeah.

00:54:00.360 When I was 17, I was a punk.

00:54:01.680 I wasn't going to learn anything.

00:54:02.700 I agree completely.

00:54:03.520 So whenever – here's the issue, though.

00:54:05.040 If you really want this to work, this is the thing I talk about more than anything else.

00:54:08.680 Of all the things I talk about, people asked me once, Larry, if you could only focus on one thing only.

00:54:13.080 If there's nothing else you could change, if you could change one thing in New York State, one thing only.

00:54:16.600 I would say strong entrepreneurial class.

00:54:20.440 That is everything.

00:54:21.920 That's the core.

00:54:22.840 If you focus on small business.

00:54:24.680 What New York State does is it bribes big business to come.

00:54:28.200 Other states do also, but no one's better in New York State than this.

00:54:30.800 We will literally say things like, come on in, big business.

00:54:34.200 We'll give you $10 million in bribes.

00:54:36.380 We'll build stuff for you.

00:54:37.780 Literally, we will build it for you.

00:54:39.440 Just show up.

00:54:40.720 Now, you're already big business.

00:54:42.320 Now, you have bribes.

00:54:43.180 You crush all the businesses around you because no one can compete with you.

00:54:46.900 Then five years later, the bribes go away.

00:54:49.460 You leave.

00:54:50.200 Ghost town.

00:54:51.240 Wrench, repeat.

00:54:52.220 Wrench, repeat.

00:54:52.720 That's been happening for decades in New York State.

00:54:54.740 I will have none of that.

00:54:56.140 In fact, I think it was Amazon who wanted to come to us in New York State.

00:54:58.660 We bribed them $700 million, and they said no.

00:55:03.420 How bad is our state that I say, hey, Glenn, here's $700 million.

00:55:08.480 No, thanks.

00:55:10.060 How bad is that state?

00:55:11.980 That's where we are right now.

00:55:12.940 No.

00:55:13.440 The answer is support small business, support small business.

00:55:16.360 Many ways of doing it.

00:55:17.420 The first one is actually being done in Wyoming.

00:55:19.780 Wyoming right now has a law that if you're a local farmer and you only sell locally,

00:55:25.500 you're immune from all federal regulatory bodies.

00:55:28.180 I will copy that in New York State for all small businesses.

00:55:31.240 How do they get around the commerce law?

00:55:33.300 Not only within the state.

00:55:35.800 That's it.

00:55:36.260 That was the, I can't remember the name of the case, but that was the-

00:55:39.660 And I'll see you in court.

00:55:41.240 I'm okay.

00:55:42.160 I will see you in court.

00:55:43.100 Good for you.

00:55:43.340 I don't have a problem.

00:55:44.120 I will fight that all the way.

00:55:45.960 Good for you.

00:55:46.660 Absolutely.

00:55:47.280 You change that one decision and everything changes.

00:55:50.360 Absolutely.

00:55:51.000 I will fight that all the way through.

00:55:53.020 So small business, small farmers, if you don't sell outside of the state, boom.

00:55:56.640 It also helps with something else.

00:55:57.460 It helps with the idea of those who are internet sales having advantage over those who are not

00:56:01.420 internet sales.

00:56:02.420 If you're internet sales, you're affected because you're going to sell outside of state for sure.

00:56:07.080 But if you're not internet sales, you're not.

00:56:09.840 You can just sell locally.

00:56:10.660 Also helps farm the table, all those types of things.

00:56:13.120 Helps all those things out.

00:56:14.160 So helps them tremendously.

00:56:15.540 It's not enough.

00:56:16.180 Second, New York State has a law right now, a rule right now, where you have to have workers 0.76

00:56:20.720 comp for accidents that are work-related and non-work-related.

00:56:25.580 Now, look, if your boss tells you to do something and you get injured, I got it, workers comp.

00:56:30.560 But you want to be a knucklehead and the boss is to pay for that?

00:56:33.220 No. 0.91

00:56:34.180 Most states don't have that.

00:56:35.200 New York shouldn't either.

00:56:36.160 If you want to add that as a bonus for your people, you should be able to as an employer.

00:56:40.520 I don't have a problem with you doing it if you choose.

00:56:42.420 If you think that will get you better talent, please add that as a benefit if you think it's

00:56:45.300 the right answer.

00:56:46.080 But you shouldn't have to.

00:56:47.420 Not just that, New York State has an insurance board.

00:56:50.000 Most states don't have that.

00:56:51.260 Our board is predatory.

00:56:52.280 It literally hunts small businesses to extinction.

00:56:55.940 I have people who I go to, I often go to fairs and a fair that only will be the boss around.

00:57:01.960 So I'll say, why is only the boss here?

00:57:03.700 Why?

00:57:04.320 Well, I can't afford any employees.

00:57:06.300 Or yeah, I have employees, but they telecommute from Pennsylvania.

00:57:11.000 Wow.

00:57:11.820 How bad is this state when that's the answer?

00:57:14.340 Some of them say I have employees, but I can't bring them because what happens is the state

00:57:18.280 literally hunts the fares to look for employees to see if they're, oh, no, boom, $40,000, fine.

00:57:26.220 They're hunting them to extinction.

00:57:28.080 I will tell you, one of the reasons I moved out of New York was insurance.

00:57:32.500 Yes, of course.

00:57:33.240 I wanted to provide top-notch employee insurance.

00:57:39.840 I covered all costs, everything, not a dime.

00:57:45.680 I got to be the last employer in the state before they said, we can't offer anything like this.

00:57:54.820 The federal government was going to come after us.

00:57:57.120 The state didn't want it.

00:57:59.400 What are you doing?

00:58:00.280 How dare you?

00:58:01.060 All of the people that worked for me loved it.

00:58:04.160 Of course they did.

00:58:04.780 You come down to Texas, I'm still one of a fish, you know, out of water on insurance.

00:58:12.080 Texas is better, but New York, how are you going to fix insurance in New York?

00:58:17.260 Insurance board goes away.

00:58:18.480 It's a board.

00:58:19.480 The thing that New York does very well also, lots of things we do well, they're bad, but

00:58:23.060 they're well as we create boards and committees and commissions.

00:58:25.320 If you've paid attention to New York state politics, we've had a bunch of people go to jail

00:58:28.720 recently for corruption.

00:58:29.620 All of them are either on a board or a committee or, or, or an authority.

00:58:35.040 Here's how it works.

00:58:36.200 His majesty doesn't want to actually get his hands dirty.

00:58:39.060 So he creates boards and committees and then he places people on those boards and committees.

00:58:43.620 Those people have given him money, $800,000 he received from those people already.

00:58:48.300 So he puts them on board and that's legal.

00:58:50.680 He can do that.

00:58:51.260 And he says, it's being fair.

00:58:53.460 What actually happens is these boards are unaccountable.

00:58:56.440 They're only going to look at him only.

00:58:57.480 So here's what happened.

00:58:59.560 And you ask any New Yorker who's cared about the community, you go to the board and you

00:59:02.820 complain, I don't like this.

00:59:04.400 I don't like that.

00:59:05.140 I don't like this.

00:59:05.800 And they nod their heads politely.

00:59:07.060 They ignore you because you don't matter.

00:59:09.880 What matters is his majesty.

00:59:11.920 I need to enforce the King's will.

00:59:13.440 You're in the way.

00:59:15.280 These eminent domain, like always stopping people, stopping licenses, removing licenses,

00:59:21.960 totally fine.

00:59:22.920 Do whatever they want.

00:59:24.120 That's what happens in our state.

00:59:25.380 Those boards have to go away.

00:59:26.760 These aren't laws.

00:59:28.160 It's just boards.

00:59:29.840 The problem is boards are used in my state to reward the party loyal.

00:59:34.200 That's what you do.

00:59:35.140 So no politician wants to get rid of them because how else do you reward the people who've given

00:59:39.300 you so much money without, otherwise you can't, you have to give them some kind of monopoly

00:59:44.000 so they can use their power to hurt people.

00:59:45.780 Otherwise, why would they give you any money?

00:59:48.140 Well, guess what?

00:59:48.640 I don't have a career to protect.

00:59:50.240 I don't have cronies.

00:59:52.000 So I don't care about these boards.

00:59:53.080 They can all go away as far as I'm concerned.

00:59:54.280 Every one of them, as far as I'm concerned, can you just go away.

00:59:57.160 Gone.

00:59:58.100 I don't care.

00:59:58.960 What are you going to do?

00:59:59.940 I have an idea.

01:00:01.120 Bring it to a local level.

01:00:02.700 How about that?

01:00:04.060 How about, and I say local for a very important reason.

01:00:06.280 The reason why I want small business.

01:00:07.780 The reason why I want local.

01:00:08.520 If I bribe a big business to come into your town, that big business brings their own people, 0.99

01:00:13.880 their own ideas, their own everything.

01:00:15.260 Doesn't care about the culture.

01:00:17.100 Doesn't care about the history.

01:00:17.940 Doesn't care about the environment.

01:00:18.800 Doesn't matter.

01:00:19.760 But if you grew your business locally, you care about your culture, your history, your

01:00:24.940 environment.

01:00:25.560 The odds of you making an error and screwing things up goes down.

01:00:28.600 And if you do, you actually want to clean it up.

01:00:29.920 You care.

01:00:30.580 Not just that.

01:00:31.220 You're going to care what people around you think.

01:00:32.860 Why?

01:00:33.500 They're your peer group.

01:00:34.800 You grew up with them.

01:00:36.060 You know who they are.

01:00:37.080 Your kids go to school with them.

01:00:39.440 You care.

01:00:40.560 So the odds of you doing better are higher.

01:00:43.340 Don't get me wrong.

01:00:43.680 There are bad people everywhere.

01:00:45.140 But the odds go up if it's local.

01:00:46.840 But not just that.

01:00:47.540 If you want a resilient economy, it's not one big business walks in the door.

01:00:52.640 It's lots and lots of small businesses that are all growing locally.

01:00:56.200 This is what we do to have a resilient economy.

01:00:58.460 New York does not have that.

01:00:59.420 New York has a situation where, I think it's common throughout other areas also.

01:01:03.000 If you're not in a big city, you're either employed by the one big thing.

01:01:07.080 Right?

01:01:07.440 The one prison or the one school or college or the one big company that's in your town.

01:01:12.960 Right?

01:01:13.640 Or you work for a franchise.

01:01:15.340 You work for a Friendly's or a McDonald's or some kind of franchise.

01:01:19.500 Right?

01:01:20.320 A Dollar General.

01:01:21.880 You work for that kind of thing.

01:01:23.140 Or you work for the government.

01:01:24.020 You're a teacher, cop, firefighter, something like that.

01:01:27.000 Or you're on the dole.

01:01:28.400 You're somehow on Medicaid, Medicare, or something like that.

01:01:31.400 Right?

01:01:31.880 Something like that.

01:01:32.340 Or you struggle and you're in a black market.

01:01:34.160 You're selling drugs or doing something illegal.

01:01:37.000 That's not the way to have a resilient economy.

01:01:40.300 And that's what we have now.

01:01:42.100 We have an epidemic of small farmers committing suicide in New York also.

01:01:49.240 They're collapsing.

01:01:50.320 So let me go back to the small business because a key aspect of the small business is treating small farmers like small businesses.

01:01:56.840 And we don't.

01:01:57.760 It's a critical aspect.

01:01:59.200 If we do that, the small farmer then has lower insurance costs because it's as a business, not as a farm.

01:02:04.880 It has lower workers' comp, again, as business, not a farm.

01:02:08.400 But on top of that, you add the idea that they're a business so they can have small business loans.

01:02:14.320 Which means you can create manufacturing on the actual farm, which is what I want.

01:02:19.040 In New York State right now, we have a great beer business in New York State.

01:02:22.180 Craft beers all over New York State.

01:02:23.820 We can copy that in many different ways.

01:02:26.820 Our dairy industry.

01:02:27.780 Dairy industry, I think New York State, if not mistaken, is the third largest dairy producer.

01:02:30.260 I think it's California, Wisconsin, New York State, if not mistaken.

01:02:33.220 Right now, how it works is they're basically price takers.

01:02:36.780 If the price for milk is good, they make lots of money.

01:02:39.160 If it's not, they struggle.

01:02:40.720 That's not a good business model.

01:02:42.560 Who's going to invest in that?

01:02:43.700 No one is.

01:02:44.160 And that's why they can't get loans.

01:02:45.080 Of course not.

01:02:45.520 I wouldn't.

01:02:45.880 Nobody.

01:02:46.100 You wouldn't either.

01:02:47.160 But instead, treat them like small businesses.

01:02:48.520 So what can they do?

01:02:49.660 Now, each small farm, craft yogurt, craft ice cream, craft cheeses.

01:02:55.620 How will it work?

01:02:56.580 It's already working in our beer industry.

01:02:57.840 We have a culture of it.

01:02:59.140 People will invest in it.

01:03:00.760 That will begin to happen.

01:03:02.420 Now, when that happens, these guys, if they want to sell locally, again, no federal regulatory bodies.

01:03:07.900 They get big enough, they can sell out wherever they want to sell.

01:03:10.820 All good if they want to.

01:03:11.760 And you'll cut the regulation for, I mean, I know the Amish in Pennsylvania, you know, were arrested, I think, for their cheese.

01:03:21.280 Yes, not going to happen in New York State.

01:03:22.880 I'm going to encourage small business.

01:03:24.400 There's no tomorrow, including small farms.

01:03:26.320 The advantage of a small farm that goes back to our happiness and family, right?

01:03:29.240 If you're a farm, you tend to have many kids compared to someone in the city, right?

01:03:33.580 So say you have three or four kids.

01:03:35.220 Most of your kids may not want to work on a farm.

01:03:37.860 So you're going to lose your kids.

01:03:38.880 They're going to go off to the city.

01:03:39.700 They're going to get educated.

01:03:40.340 How about this?

01:03:41.120 You can build a family farm with a business on it.

01:03:45.120 So kid one loves to work on the farm.

01:03:47.200 Kid one is out there enjoying it, milking the cows and whatever people on farms do.

01:03:51.520 I'm not a farmer.

01:03:52.280 Doing the farm thing.

01:03:53.780 And the other one says, you know what I want to do?

01:03:55.140 I want to be marketing for the cheese.

01:03:57.600 The other one says, I want to be the operations guy to make the cheese.

01:04:00.580 And now you can keep your kids on your farm, too, on top of it.

01:04:03.640 This is the federal regulations.

01:04:05.060 I don't believe allow you to hire your kids on farms. 0.98

01:04:08.960 Is that true?

01:04:09.660 Yeah.

01:04:09.840 Well, that will not exist then in New York City.

01:04:12.300 There we go.

01:04:13.220 That won't exist.

01:04:14.060 There we go.

01:04:14.840 So that's my point.

01:04:15.920 I'm trying to make this change where it's much better.

01:04:18.700 But even with that, I want to embrace new technology.

01:04:20.960 It's the next piece to think about it.

01:04:21.860 I have to embrace new technology.

01:04:23.380 We pushed out cryptocurrency.

01:04:24.940 We pushed out blockchain.

01:04:26.240 We pushed out hemp.

01:04:27.780 I mean, hemp is amazing for farmers.

01:04:29.760 Cannabis, we push out cannabis products.

01:04:31.840 People think, well, Larry, you want cannabis because you want people to get high.

01:04:35.200 Okay, to be clear, the only people who might be squarer than me, it may be Mormons. 0.96

01:04:42.000 Because the only drug I use is caffeine.

01:04:44.760 That's it.

01:04:45.340 That's the only drug I use.

01:04:45.860 Well, I'm a Mormon.

01:04:46.760 So you're squarer than I am.

01:04:47.840 Right.

01:04:48.380 Yes, you're squarer than I am.

01:04:48.960 But I will tell you this, my daughter has cerebral palsy.

01:04:53.060 She has seizures all the time.

01:04:56.920 Here in Texas, you cannot use cannabis.

01:04:59.980 Yep.

01:05:00.140 And the doctors have all said, you know, you might want to try cannabis.

01:05:06.700 My daughter is so literal and straight as an arrow.

01:05:12.660 She will not do it because it's against the law.

01:05:16.100 Yep.

01:05:16.200 And what am I supposed to do as a dad?

01:05:20.180 What do we do?

01:05:21.380 Take her someplace where she can.

01:05:24.600 That's the answer.

01:05:26.160 Move.

01:05:27.180 And I don't want you to move.

01:05:28.460 I don't want New Yorkers to move.

01:05:30.500 The issue with cannabis is several fold.

01:05:32.580 Number one, it helps out farmers.

01:05:34.680 Again, hemp is amazing.

01:05:35.920 Hemp crete, hemp plastic, hemp rope.

01:05:38.520 Let these farmers create these things.

01:05:40.260 Let them survive.

01:05:40.720 I don't want them killing themselves.

01:05:41.640 I want them actually having a chance at being viable.

01:05:44.020 Let them do it.

01:05:44.480 But on top of that, they'll start selling it, which means it has to be stores that sell

01:05:47.940 the hemp crete and the hemp this and the hemp that.

01:05:50.260 So we're making stores too.

01:05:51.380 It's amazing.

01:05:52.280 But cannabis products too.

01:05:53.700 Cannabis for people who have cerebral palsy.

01:05:55.140 Cannabis for people who can't sleep.

01:05:56.600 Cannabis for people who want to relax.

01:05:58.260 I don't care.

01:05:58.660 Whatever the case may be, you can create cannabis products.

01:06:01.180 They can be, you know, cigarettes or they can be edibles.

01:06:03.660 They can be liquids.

01:06:04.740 Let people do what they want to do.

01:06:07.020 Your point's a perfect one.

01:06:07.840 I've had many, many people in New York State, across the country, but I'm focusing on my

01:06:11.840 state, obviously, have chronic pain.

01:06:14.720 So you have a couple of options.

01:06:15.740 Option one right now, take an opioid.

01:06:18.340 Yeah.

01:06:18.880 80% of all our addicts come from a prescription FDA approved drug for pain opioid.

01:06:23.980 Why would I encourage that ever?

01:06:26.220 That's horrible.

01:06:27.660 Or the other option is nothing.

01:06:29.280 Suffer.

01:06:30.120 Because right now, New York State's answer is punish the doctors and put them in jail.

01:06:34.380 Because you know what always works? 0.98

01:06:35.620 Hit it with a stick. 0.93

01:06:36.160 That always works. 0.60

01:06:37.480 I don't like that hit it with a stick.

01:06:39.000 That's not how it works.

01:06:40.540 So now doctors are becoming afraid to actually prescribe it.

01:06:42.980 What does that mean?

01:06:44.380 Faster to heroin.

01:06:46.680 Faster to meth.

01:06:48.120 You've just made that pipeline even faster.

01:06:50.740 So trying to make things work, you've made the pipeline to heroin faster.

01:06:54.560 Wow.

01:06:55.380 How bad is that?

01:06:56.740 And when you realize that the Treasury Department, when the 21st Amendment was passed and they

01:07:03.780 repealed prohibition, they had all these Treasury agents.

01:07:08.480 What do we do?

01:07:09.320 Yep.

01:07:09.740 That's when we started going after cannabis.

01:07:12.560 Absolutely.

01:07:13.140 I mean, it was yet another government program that wanted to save jobs.

01:07:17.180 Always.

01:07:17.400 How can we save jobs?

01:07:18.580 Yes.

01:07:19.240 Yes.

01:07:19.560 The last option they have is what women have told me. 1.00

01:07:22.240 I don't know why I told me women. 1.00

01:07:23.220 They've said, Larry, I hope you make marijuana legal.

01:07:26.620 And I said, why?

01:07:27.480 They said, because I have so much pain at night.

01:07:29.580 I have to smoke it so I can go to sleep.

01:07:32.380 So I have my son go and buy it.

01:07:34.340 I don't want him going to jail.

01:07:35.960 So the other option is being a criminal.

01:07:37.840 I have an idea.

01:07:39.140 How about I stop judging people for trying to get rid of their chronic pain?

01:07:43.400 I said, I want happy New Yorkers.

01:07:44.820 I meant that.

01:07:46.060 If you have chronic pain, you can't hang out with your friends and family.

01:07:49.180 You can't do things that make you happy.

01:07:51.880 Who am I to tell you you can't do that?

01:07:54.760 It's not my place.

01:07:56.100 If cannabis gives you a better life, then have a better life.

01:07:58.560 It gives you a better farm.

01:07:59.740 Then have a better farm.

01:08:00.300 It gives you a better business.

01:08:01.460 It's a better business.

01:08:02.060 And I don't want to do it like California and Washington and Colorado have done

01:08:06.640 because they've done it to a point where they've taxed it so much

01:08:09.040 that it's still a black market.

01:08:10.700 I'm going to treat cannabis and hemp like onions.

01:08:12.880 With one exception, 18 years or older ID to purchase.

01:08:16.040 Otherwise, it's onions.

01:08:17.240 Because if you have chronic pain and you're poor, why is your life over?

01:08:20.820 I have an idea.

01:08:21.980 Grow your medicine in your backyard.

01:08:23.860 Do that.

01:08:25.000 Let's make happy New Yorkers.

01:08:26.620 Let's make it so the little guy wins and the big guy doesn't win.

01:08:28.880 If we regulate and tax hemp and cannabis a lot,

01:08:31.520 here's what I guarantee you.

01:08:32.940 Big business wins, small farmers and small business loses every single time.

01:08:38.020 I was at a cannabis investment summit about a month ago or so in New York City.

01:08:42.440 And they asked me to speak because I'm the only candidate who's saying,

01:08:45.660 let's do this.

01:08:46.340 Everyone else is like, no, don't do it.

01:08:48.060 So they invited me to speak.

01:08:49.780 There were hundreds of millions of dollars being invested.

01:08:53.740 Guess how much went to New York State?

01:08:55.640 Zero.

01:08:56.500 Big donut.

01:08:57.180 Nothing.

01:08:57.940 Hundreds of millions of dollars going to other states and other countries.

01:09:01.100 Not to my state.

01:09:02.520 We could desperately use that investment and not government money, not taxpayer money,

01:09:08.240 banker money that's going out any place.

01:09:10.360 Not going to New York State.

01:09:11.740 We could create an environment of craft growth, small business, small business owners.

01:09:15.380 We could do it, but we don't.

01:09:17.520 Let me quickly hit on a couple of things.

01:09:33.920 Second Amendment.

01:09:34.860 Sure.

01:09:35.700 You are, I mean, you live in Manhattan.

01:09:39.780 Yep.

01:09:39.940 And it is a different world.

01:09:43.740 100%.

01:09:44.180 You cannot carry a gun.

01:09:47.260 You are told, even if you have, like I have, private security, no, I can't even have trained

01:09:53.700 private security that could carry in any place in the world.

01:09:58.340 I have to hire an NYPD cop.

01:10:02.120 I have to hire somebody who is just getting ready to retire or has retired.

01:10:07.140 How convenient.

01:10:09.100 What are you going to do about Second Amendment?

01:10:11.660 Yeah.

01:10:12.120 New York State has made the Second Amendment the second suggestion.

01:10:16.120 It just, it doesn't, it's, we have what's called the New York State, we have the SAFE Act.

01:10:20.640 The SAFE Act in New York State literally made millions of New Yorkers criminals overnight.

01:10:26.800 And not just criminals, violent felons.

01:10:28.900 If you have any gun charge in New York State, it is a violent felony.

01:10:33.040 So what they said was, oh, you know what?

01:10:35.360 If you have a magazine that can fit 11 rounds in it, that now is illegal and evil.

01:10:41.400 And so I know you bought it yesterday and it was totally illegal, but today it isn't. 0.99

01:10:44.220 You're a violent felon. 0.95

01:10:45.180 That happened overnight. 1.00

01:10:46.360 It was horribly done.

01:10:47.740 Not just that.

01:10:48.480 It actually makes our medical personnel part of our secret state police.

01:10:52.300 They are actually, they actually have to report anything.

01:10:55.440 So you get into a car accident and you're coming in to the emergency room and they say,

01:11:00.200 Mr. Beck, how do you feel?

01:11:01.280 And you're, oh, I feel so bad.

01:11:02.440 I want to die. 0.99

01:11:03.500 Suicidal. 0.98

01:11:04.300 Yes.

01:11:05.100 And now they go to your home and take your firearms.

01:11:07.640 That happens.

01:11:08.340 That actually happens.

01:11:09.180 That's what we have right now.

01:11:10.220 And the worst part is that affects veterans more than non-veterans because veterans are more

01:11:13.600 apt to have TBI, to have PTSD and more apt to have firearms.

01:11:17.360 And worse, we're a community.

01:11:19.720 As vets, we know this.

01:11:21.040 So we tell people, don't do this.

01:11:23.560 Don't go.

01:11:24.040 You're going to lose your firearms.

01:11:25.560 So now what you have is you have one vet going to the other.

01:11:28.180 Here, do me a favor.

01:11:29.160 Hold these.

01:11:30.320 And when a vet goes to you and says, hold these on the vet, what he's actually telling

01:11:33.680 you is, I put one in my mouth last night and I didn't pull the trigger.

01:11:38.200 That's what he's telling you.

01:11:39.340 When he gives you his firearms, he's telling you, I put one of those in my mouth last night

01:11:42.700 and I didn't pull the trigger.

01:11:43.740 So I had to give them to you because tonight I'm going to pull it and they won't get help.

01:11:49.960 This is what the SAFE Act does.

01:11:51.620 And here's the worst part of all of these things.

01:11:53.520 It creates a black market, a black market of ammunition, a black market of trading firearms

01:11:59.520 back and forth without anyone knowing because they're all afraid to report.

01:12:02.780 And so that, what does that do?

01:12:03.740 That makes law enforcement's job even harder.

01:12:06.020 Bad, bad, bad.

01:12:07.400 We have something else coming up, which are red flag laws, which I think already in California.

01:12:10.580 This now makes teachers part of a secret state police.

01:12:12.520 New York state's in a bad spot.

01:12:15.020 I have to fix it.

01:12:16.400 Sadly, that the Democrats in my state are like, great, don't stop now.

01:12:20.420 Republicans don't care. 0.84

01:12:21.580 Completely apathetic. 0.85

01:12:22.560 Whatever.

01:12:23.220 Let it go.

01:12:23.840 Part of the plan.

01:12:24.620 Whatever happens, happens.

01:12:26.020 I'm saying I will get rid of the SAFE Act by 2020.

01:12:28.340 I will make sure it gets repealed.

01:12:29.820 But not just like make sure it gets repealed.

01:12:32.020 I'll make sure it gets repealed by communicating to the rest of the people how bad these laws actually

01:12:37.180 are and how they're not helping anybody.

01:12:39.340 They're not helping anybody.

01:12:40.460 They're making people criminals.

01:12:42.300 They're making people leave our state.

01:12:43.760 And the world doesn't end when someone has their Second Amendment rights.

01:12:46.880 I'm a big proponent of the Second Amendment, even though I don't own a firearm.

01:12:50.140 Of course, I live in New York City.

01:12:51.140 It'd be crazy if I own a firearm.

01:12:52.480 So I can't.

01:12:54.800 The First Amendment is our number one amendment.

01:12:56.960 And I mean that not just as number one.

01:12:59.000 It's the most important.

01:13:00.560 Without freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of the press,

01:13:04.220 we don't have a society.

01:13:05.660 Right?

01:13:05.920 Without that, we got nothing.

01:13:06.640 So that's the number one.

01:13:08.300 That's the most important of all of them.

01:13:09.660 That's why it's the first.

01:13:10.560 They get that.

01:13:11.160 Without that, there's no America.

01:13:13.580 The second one, though, that protects the first.

01:13:17.480 So why do we hate it so much?

01:13:21.180 Why do we hate it so much?

01:13:23.800 What do I hear all the time is school shooting on mental health.

01:13:27.100 I hate when I hear that.

01:13:28.960 And I hate when I hear that from Republicans more than Democrats.

01:13:31.400 Democrats believe it often.

01:13:33.520 Republicans, they shouldn't, and they do.

01:13:35.520 And when they do what they give, they give Democrats the idea, yeah, see, you can take

01:13:39.180 away guns.

01:13:39.660 Ask a Republican in my state about the Second Amendment.

01:13:41.720 They'll go, well, you know, we've got to worry about school shootings.

01:13:45.100 They have nothing to do with each other.

01:13:47.200 Unhappy kids doesn't mean gun restriction.

01:13:51.840 Right?

01:13:52.100 If you take away all the guns, the kids don't want to kill.

01:13:56.060 The kids are still unhappy.

01:13:56.980 You haven't solved the problem.

01:13:58.820 That's what you're seeing in Great Britain.

01:14:00.260 Yes.

01:14:00.740 Knives.

01:14:01.300 Yes.

01:14:02.020 This is what I hear all the time. 0.94

01:14:03.520 Larry, you're cruel because if they have a gun, then they'll kill more people. 0.81

01:14:07.220 So wait, I'm the cruel guy. 0.55

01:14:09.120 I don't want them killing at all. 0.95

01:14:11.060 You're okay with them killing.

01:14:12.340 You just care what weapon they use. 0.98

01:14:13.900 But I'm the cruel guy.

01:14:15.740 No, I don't want them killing each other.

01:14:18.260 Period.

01:14:19.060 It's like saying you can't have, you can't sell explosives because someone might blow

01:14:23.720 up a building.

01:14:24.480 Well, they couldn't buy explosives.

01:14:26.100 They used a plane.

01:14:27.260 Yes, absolutely.

01:14:28.460 Yes.

01:14:28.920 They'll find a way.

01:14:30.780 Yes.

01:14:31.060 If that's who you are, you find a way.

01:14:33.500 Yes.

01:14:33.900 So let's, let's fight the root instead.

01:14:35.760 And look at this.

01:14:36.880 The kid, I think it was at Parkland.

01:14:38.840 I forgot which one it was.

01:14:39.680 Um, who, when he stole those guns to kill all those kids, he had already prepared pipe

01:14:44.180 bombs and pressure cooker bombs in case he couldn't steal the weapons.

01:14:48.080 I'll say it again.

01:14:49.980 Pressure cooker bombs and pipe bombs in case he couldn't steal the weapons.

01:14:57.000 So what law was going to prevent that?

01:14:59.580 He was going to steal them.

01:15:01.280 And if he couldn't steal them, he had other ways of killing.

01:15:04.480 How about this kid doesn't want to kill?

01:15:07.000 You want to take care of school shootings.

01:15:09.520 There's a way in New York state, a relatively easy way in New York state, you accept this

01:15:14.360 as true.

01:15:15.800 Democrats say make a gun free law, gun free zones, right?

01:15:19.820 No guns.

01:15:21.100 Republicans say put a resource officer in front of every school.

01:15:24.140 That's the answer.

01:15:25.340 Okay.

01:15:25.540 Here's the problem.

01:15:26.340 All of the school shootings are planned.

01:15:28.700 Resource officer.

01:15:29.960 He's killed first. 0.71

01:15:31.640 Right?

01:15:31.760 In fact, I met a resource officer when I was, um, North country.

01:15:34.120 She's like, I hate my job.

01:15:35.760 I'm a target.

01:15:36.900 Yeah. 1.00

01:15:37.700 Shoot him or her first. 1.00

01:15:39.300 Instead, very simple. 0.99

01:15:40.420 If you have a license, a permit to, to, to carry a firearm in New York state and you're

01:15:45.680 an administrator or teacher and you want to, you may, that's it.

01:15:51.180 Don't have to.

01:15:51.740 Don't have to.

01:15:52.180 You may.

01:15:52.440 People say, Larry's trying to arm teachers.

01:15:53.760 Nope.

01:15:54.600 You don't have to get a gun if you don't want to.

01:15:56.000 And if you can, you choose to not bring it to that school.

01:15:58.240 You don't have to.

01:15:59.240 But all it does is it makes the person who wants to shoot up that school go, does he

01:16:03.000 have a gun?

01:16:03.480 Does he not have a gun?

01:16:04.380 I don't know who's, I can no longer plan.

01:16:07.800 If you can't plan, that is no longer a soft target.

01:16:10.680 Now to be clear, that's a bandaid because what we see is people then choose other soft

01:16:15.480 targets like churches and theaters, right?

01:16:17.800 They will pick other targets.

01:16:18.740 So that's a bandaid for school.

01:16:21.120 I still have to fix the individual kid who wants to kill.

01:16:25.580 So a bandaid's not enough.

01:16:27.160 I would take that now to stop schools from being shot up.

01:16:30.200 I would, but I've still got to fix the kid.

01:16:33.000 How are you going to do that?

01:16:33.660 So as we talked about, number one is going to be education.

01:16:37.020 Number two is going to be family court.

01:16:39.280 Family court's a disaster in this country, heavily in New York state.

01:16:42.000 It's bad.

01:16:42.540 New York state's the worst. 0.85

01:16:43.260 It's horrible.

01:16:44.280 New York state family court system is destroying families, literally tearing them apart.

01:16:48.260 The amount of father's rights events I've gone to, and I look out there and I see a

01:16:51.340 sea of broken men.

01:16:52.440 I say to myself, how can I fix this state with broken men?

01:16:56.020 I can't.

01:16:56.960 And the worst part is behind every one of those broken fathers is at least one broken

01:17:01.680 kid, if not multiple.

01:17:03.620 And the biggest thing, and I don't know how this works in other states, but in New York

01:17:06.140 state, I don't know if you know this, but if you lie in family court, it is not treated

01:17:11.960 as perjury.

01:17:14.280 I'm sorry.

01:17:14.980 Yep.

01:17:15.200 I'll say it again.

01:17:16.040 If you lie in family court, it is not treated as perjury.

01:17:21.820 Why?

01:17:22.980 I believe it's comes from what used to be in New York state.

01:17:26.480 New York state was one of the last states to have no fault divorces.

01:17:31.180 So for years, you had a divorce, you'd have to lie to your divorce, right?

01:17:34.220 You and your spouse don't get along.

01:17:35.860 You can't get divorced in New York state.

01:17:36.960 Right.

01:17:37.160 So you're lying.

01:17:37.860 Well, yeah, I cheated on her or she slept with my best friend or yeah, whatever. 0.99

01:17:42.920 They would lie.

01:17:43.520 That was the norm.

01:17:44.140 That's how you did it.

01:17:45.180 That was the norm.

01:17:45.960 And I believe that just kept going.

01:17:47.980 I believe that that's what happened.

01:17:49.320 They just kept going.

01:17:50.320 And for years, that was the norm in New York state.

01:17:52.140 Now New York state has no fault divorces, but prior it didn't. 0.59

01:17:55.340 So we just kept lying.

01:17:56.940 So now you have a big problem here.

01:17:58.440 Not just that in New York state, in New York state, we don't really have 50, 50 parenting.

01:18:02.080 Officially we do, but we don't.

01:18:03.400 In reality, here's how it works.

01:18:05.100 Woman gets custody. 0.99

01:18:07.580 Male gets four days a month. 0.64

01:18:09.980 And people will tell me, no, Larry, that's not true.

01:18:12.440 And then I'll say, stop lying.

01:18:13.580 Ask anyone.

01:18:14.560 That is reality.

01:18:16.000 Right.

01:18:16.360 But not just that, because they want them to know that lawyers tell, literally tell their

01:18:20.840 clients, you know, if you say she cheated on you, you might get the kids 50, 50. 1.00

01:18:27.140 I didn't say she did.

01:18:28.620 I didn't say she didn't.

01:18:30.000 But I'm telling you, if you tell a judge that, you might get the kids.

01:18:33.040 And the other one tells the wife, you know, if you say he beat you and you're scared of

01:18:35.960 him, he might, he might not be able to get the kids and you can keep them.

01:18:38.700 And I said this at one of my events and it was a family lawyer, a family law lawyer actually

01:18:44.900 in the room.

01:18:45.820 She said, she announced it immediately.

01:18:47.380 I would never do that.

01:18:48.600 Just announce it right out loud when I say it.

01:18:50.680 And I said, great.

01:18:51.660 You tell me it doesn't happen.

01:18:52.960 And literally she did this.

01:18:56.460 It's her exact response.

01:18:58.440 Head down, look away.

01:19:00.160 She couldn't answer that question.

01:19:02.160 And that was, to be forward, that was on a go live.

01:19:04.620 So that's on Facebook now.

01:19:05.620 You can go look for that if you want to.

01:19:07.040 She put her head down, looked away.

01:19:08.580 Because you know it's true.

01:19:09.680 Because it's not true that it's perjury, which means you're lying back and forth.

01:19:13.000 The lawyers have no punishment.

01:19:14.560 And here's the worst part.

01:19:15.660 The kids watch their mother and father lie against each other.

01:19:18.960 And you wonder why our kids are thinking about suicide.

01:19:20.740 You wonder why our kids don't want to have relationships.

01:19:22.220 You wonder why our kids don't want to get married.

01:19:24.320 They're watching their parents destroy each other.

01:19:26.580 Their image of motherhood and fatherhood is right there.

01:19:30.420 And they're watching it destroyed.

01:19:31.820 Now, no one else talks about this.

01:19:33.160 Why?

01:19:33.540 Here's the reason why.

01:19:34.340 It's going to sound horrible, but it's true. 0.92

01:19:36.080 If you're broken through family court,

01:19:37.940 you don't have any money.

01:19:40.140 Your money goes either to your kids or family or to lawyers.

01:19:43.560 So you can't donate.

01:19:45.160 I don't make much money on this at all.

01:19:47.460 I haven't been divorced in New York State.

01:19:49.020 I don't know how that worked.

01:19:49.900 So I have no idea how that works.

01:19:50.900 So I don't have a horse in this race.

01:19:53.960 But it's wrong.

01:19:55.820 It's wrong.

01:19:57.340 I shouldn't have...

01:19:58.200 Every father's rights group I go to,

01:20:01.460 everyone in that room knows someone has committed suicide.

01:20:04.140 Someone has abandoned their family.

01:20:06.100 And half of them have been in prison, been in jail.

01:20:08.920 But they all know someone's been in jail.

01:20:10.600 It's wrong.

01:20:11.280 So we have to change it.

01:20:13.660 But no one will talk about it.

01:20:14.980 Farmers.

01:20:15.380 I'm not a farmer.

01:20:16.680 But it's wrong.

01:20:17.900 I don't own a firearm.

01:20:19.220 But it's wrong.

01:20:20.040 I don't have to have this.

01:20:21.720 I don't be involved in this to know that it's wrong.

01:20:24.860 So we have to fix it.

01:20:26.680 And that's why people are saying,

01:20:28.020 oh, that guy's right.

01:20:29.360 Because I'm saying what's actually happening.

01:20:31.940 Right?

01:20:32.100 When I tell people that the court system is destroying men,

01:20:34.760 and that doesn't sound good.

01:20:35.720 It's not PC to say that.

01:20:37.440 Because it is beating up women, too. 1.00

01:20:38.680 It's true.

01:20:39.140 There are some women who are getting beat up now also. 1.00

01:20:41.020 But if you make it to where lying is due to this perjury,

01:20:44.780 the person who lies when they get caught goes to jail,

01:20:47.220 and the lawyer who encouraged it loses their license.

01:20:49.460 That protects both men and women.

01:20:50.720 Because women often get beat up, usually because of money. 1.00

01:20:53.000 Usually.

01:20:53.340 Not always.

01:20:53.800 But it's often a guy is hiding money.

01:20:55.720 It's a common issue.

01:20:56.700 But he'll lie about it.

01:20:57.380 He goes, I don't have any money.

01:20:58.640 And he's got two cars, two houses.

01:20:59.760 And when you find out he's got it,

01:21:01.960 he'll pay something.

01:21:02.920 Maybe he won't.

01:21:03.780 Who knows?

01:21:04.200 But imagine if you went to jail, and the lawyer lost his license.

01:21:09.060 Well, he stops lying.

01:21:10.640 Right?

01:21:10.800 Oh, the woman, worse. 1.00

01:21:11.780 Women put men in jail like there's no tomorrow in New York State. 1.00

01:21:14.840 I mean, because there's no due process.

01:21:16.740 So literally your wife says, I'm scared of him.

01:21:19.980 Boom.

01:21:20.860 Order of protection.

01:21:21.860 No due process.

01:21:23.120 No appeal.

01:21:23.980 You got it.

01:21:24.700 Now you both happen to be shopping at Walmart.

01:21:27.080 You're going to jail.

01:21:28.420 Happens all the time.

01:21:30.100 So now here's the best part.

01:21:31.120 A judge thinks that's a good idea because, you know, you're a bad guy, obviously.

01:21:34.440 Why?

01:21:34.760 Because she said so.

01:21:35.940 Who's in due process?

01:21:37.640 Nothing.

01:21:38.380 Isn't this the me too problem?

01:21:41.740 It is.

01:21:42.540 Got to have due process.

01:21:43.480 Yes, you need due process.

01:21:44.660 And there's no due process.

01:21:45.500 Now he goes to jail.

01:21:46.000 So now his son watches his dad go off to jail.

01:21:47.700 And you wonder why his son's messed up.

01:21:50.740 How's his daughter going to pick a good man when her image of manhood is her father going 0.67

01:21:54.960 off to jail every other week?

01:21:56.180 And mom going, yeah, that guy's horrible. 0.89

01:21:57.980 He's a bad guy.

01:21:58.900 And now they hate each other.

01:21:59.940 And now they'll punish each other left and right.

01:22:02.040 Why do you think they don't trust anybody?

01:22:04.660 Family court system is destroying our families. 0.52

01:22:07.500 And I'll go further.

01:22:09.180 Now you have a second part, which is the money, it's all about the money.

01:22:11.900 And it should be about the kids.

01:22:12.900 It's not about the kids.

01:22:13.780 It's about the money.

01:22:14.840 So what does that mean?

01:22:15.660 That means now, you know, John, you at one point made $100,000 a year in your life.

01:22:20.300 You must now make that forever until your kid's 21.

01:22:22.780 And I'm going to make you pay child support as if you make $100,000 forever.

01:22:28.900 How is that legal?

01:22:30.460 Would you have to do that if you were married?

01:22:32.160 No.

01:22:32.680 And in a world where jobs literally go away in five years, companies pack up.

01:22:37.880 People, your job may no longer exist in five years.

01:22:40.960 And that's what you think is right?

01:22:42.560 What is wrong with you, judge?

01:22:44.180 And then on top of that, till 21.

01:22:46.240 So you have to pay an adult, 18, 19, 20, 21.

01:22:50.880 How is that legal?

01:22:52.340 Your kid's an adult.

01:22:54.160 Your kid's an adult.

01:22:55.880 If you want to help your kid when they're an adult, you should if you want to.

01:22:58.840 It's your money and it's your kid.

01:23:00.240 Please help if you want to.

01:23:01.420 You're not required by law to help your kid when your kid's 18.

01:23:04.560 Your kid's an adult.

01:23:05.500 Good luck, kid.

01:23:06.740 That's how that works.

01:23:07.240 Not in a family court.

01:23:08.260 You must.

01:23:09.240 I'm still not done.

01:23:10.040 You don't pay?

01:23:11.160 Tell you what we'll do.

01:23:11.980 I'll show you. 0.91

01:23:12.920 I'll put you in jail. 1.00

01:23:14.300 What idiot judge thought that was a good idea? 1.00

01:23:18.040 Which one? 1.00

01:23:19.220 Oh, I'll put him in jail.

01:23:20.240 This way he loses his job and can never pay.

01:23:22.460 And this way his kids see him in jail.

01:23:24.000 Brilliant.

01:23:24.480 Well done, judge.

01:23:25.420 Or I'll take your driver's license away. 1.00

01:23:27.060 How stupid is that? 1.00

01:23:28.380 Or this is the worst one. 1.00

01:23:29.540 I'll take away your professional license because you didn't pay.

01:23:34.900 This is my state.

01:23:36.860 And we wonder why things are a disaster.

01:23:38.980 And the last part of this is you have a situation to where we look at family

01:23:42.680 court like it is the lowest court, the lowest form.

01:23:47.140 It's the kids' table.

01:23:49.000 Shame on us for that.

01:23:50.460 Family court's the most important court.

01:23:52.720 If you have good families, you have less criminals.

01:23:55.980 If you have good families, you have less people fighting each other in civil court.

01:23:59.440 Family court's number one.

01:24:00.820 Look at all the jails.

01:24:02.360 80% of those men, they don't have followers in their lives.

01:24:05.900 Now, this part does bother me personally because my father died when I was 12.

01:24:10.440 So I didn't have a dad in my life in those years.

01:24:12.700 And I ran after the Marine Corps because I was searching for positive male role models.

01:24:16.280 I didn't have them.

01:24:17.680 Now, the state takes them away.

01:24:20.340 The state, you know how many people I've heard say, Larry, I pay, you know, $1,000 every single month

01:24:24.680 or $1,300 every single month and I haven't seen my kids in seven years.

01:24:27.720 Shame on a system that does that because here's what I know.

01:24:33.460 I didn't have a father for 13 through 17.

01:24:37.400 I would have taken a broke dad any day of the week.

01:24:40.940 Any day of the week.

01:24:42.060 A dad who could only give me ice cream once a month.

01:24:43.860 I'd have rather had a broke dad than no dad.

01:24:45.760 And the state takes dads away and we think we're okay with that?

01:24:48.560 No.

01:24:49.260 I'm not okay with that.

01:24:50.720 I'm not okay with that.

01:24:51.900 That's a change.

01:24:52.640 And no one else talks about it.

01:24:53.620 I don't care where you're viewing or listening to this podcast, but Larry, I've not heard

01:25:03.840 anything from you and I'm sitting across the table looking you in the eye.

01:25:08.800 I haven't heard anything from you that I think you took from someone else and you just read

01:25:16.660 it in their white paper.

01:25:18.860 This is all really personal.

01:25:20.940 Yep.

01:25:22.520 And I wish you the very best and I hope you make a very big impact.

01:25:31.000 I hope you make an impact.

01:25:32.900 I hope you win.

01:25:33.940 Of course.

01:25:34.440 In New York.

01:25:35.880 Look, it's winnable if we get support.

01:25:38.360 Yeah.

01:25:38.600 It's winnable.

01:25:39.520 It is.

01:25:40.280 This is still a winnable race.

01:25:41.440 It's winnable if we get support.

01:25:42.980 Because what you're feeling now is what everyone who talks to me feels.

01:25:47.400 I'm just talking to you.

01:25:48.980 I'm not talking at you.

01:25:50.820 I'm not talking up here.

01:25:52.220 I'm telling you what's actually happening.

01:25:53.900 And when I say it, people go, yeah, he's right.

01:25:56.140 That is what's happening.

01:25:57.640 Yes.

01:25:58.240 Oh, he has a plan to repair that and to fix that.

01:26:00.840 Oh, wow.

01:26:01.780 He actually gets what's going on.

01:26:03.160 We can repair this.

01:26:04.760 They all, when I'm in a room and I have, as I said, two or three or four events every

01:26:09.180 day.

01:26:09.720 And I ask this, these four questions.

01:26:11.780 How many people in this room are registered Democrats?

01:26:13.880 Hands go up.

01:26:14.780 How many people in this room are registered Republicans?

01:26:16.760 Hands go up.

01:26:17.260 How many people are registered, but not that, independent, something else?

01:26:20.340 Hands go up.

01:26:21.160 How many people haven't voted in the last two election cycles?

01:26:23.700 Hands go up.

01:26:24.720 Every single event.

01:26:26.800 No one else can do that in my state.

01:26:28.440 I'm the only one who can do it in my state, which means I can win.

01:26:31.060 If I just get people to hear what I'm saying, they will get it.

01:26:34.340 They will go, wow, I get it.

01:26:36.620 And they vote for me.

01:26:37.700 This is winnable.

01:26:38.620 If I get enough support, financial support, people putting signs up, people online helping

01:26:43.780 me out, all that kind of support.

01:26:45.540 If we do it, we can do it.

01:26:46.820 Remember, it's LarrySharp.com.

01:26:49.040 Sharp with an E.

01:26:50.280 And the E stands for electable.

01:26:53.260 I wish you the best.

01:26:54.840 Thank you.

01:26:55.420 And I would recommend if you listen to this, send it to a friend.

01:27:03.080 Have them listen as well.

01:27:04.700 Thanks, Larry.

01:27:05.520 Thank you.

01:27:11.780 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend

01:27:17.360 so it can be discovered by other people.

01:27:18.980 Thank you.

01:27:35.140 Thank you.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 27, 2018

Ep 8 ｜ Larry Sharpe ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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