Glenn Returns to Apple Podcasts with a VENGEANCE | Guest: Sohrab Ahmari | 8⧸17⧸23
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2 hours and 2 minutes
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151.62094
Summary
Glenn Beck is back with a new segment called "Relief Factor" where he tells the story of how he went from near-death experience to being able to get his life back. Also, Apple is deplatforming me from their platform, and Elon Musk has a new song.
Transcript
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I'm a big fan of the concept that we should be buying American products.
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Mom is going to be really upset that you're buying stuff from China.
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You can buy products made in America, and these are brave, brave entrepreneurs that are doing it.
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It's one of the reasons I love partnering with many of my clients.
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It's products you can count on, products that are made here with American labor.
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I mean, it starts all the way out in the farm for their socks at Grip6, for instance.
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The American ranchers who raise the specially bred sheep that produce the modern wool.
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The American manufacturers who wash that wool, process it, and then weave it into socks to keep your feet warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
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I think you're going to love them as much as I do.
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Put your trust and hard-earned money into a company that does it right.
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Is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
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Why does it sound like I'm not really Russian there
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They removed at least a decade worth of content yesterday
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At least until we started making noise about it
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The podcast was removed because of a trademark dispute
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Remember the guy who was holding the sword over the head?
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Yesterday would have been a loss of about 3 million views
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And we have more ability to resist big tech censorship
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But our subscribers allow us to be truly independent
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Kind of your life flashes in front of your eyes
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Are we going to be able to get messages to our audience?
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I like what he's doing with the censorship stuff
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Because only about half the episodes seem to be there
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There's going to be a time where these things come off
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This is the biggest discount we've offered ever
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It will save you $30 off your one year subscription
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You know when you're getting close to doing something
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But when you're getting close to doing something big
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There's all kinds of problems that keep cropping up
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A friend of mine who is coming in to work with me today
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I don't know if this had anything to do with it
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Important question coming in from our listeners Glenn here is
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Why is Glenn talking about his podcast in the voice of Count Chocula?
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Especially when you think about it through the lens of
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Capitalistic consumer centric culture that we now live in
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Because we already see this trend playing out in a number of industries
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For example, one aspect of our economy where the idea of owning nothing
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Technological innovation has dramatically altered the way we access movies, television, short films, podcasts,
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I then highlight the dangers in the book of not owning physical media
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By talking about the rise of popularity in streaming services like Netflix and Spotify and Apple Podcasts
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The data printed onto a disc or recorded on a cassette are there permanently
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This is not the case when dealing with streaming services
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The data for the movie as it exists on a streaming service servers
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They can do this because you don't own the content
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The music and podcast streaming service Spotify
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Also has moderated content due to the social pressure
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Podcasting giant Joe Rogan had more than a hundred episodes removed by Spotify
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Because of an alleged instance of misinformation
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A scientist who helped develop the mRNA vaccines
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If a show contains a joke that is considered too cruel
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If a movie's depiction of a person, gender, orientation, or race
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If you hold a movie, show, or even a piece of music
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You might want to consider owning a physical copy
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Because nothing is stopping the corporation that owns it
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Think about what control these corporations have
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And the corporation and governments own everything
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This is the future that is being imposed on the world
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Apple's now engaging in open election interference
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For telling the truth about Joe Biden's corruption
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Who noted he disagrees with me much of the time
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Glenn Beck has reportedly been banned from Apple iTunes
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Yeah we haven't had one of those in like two weeks
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But I will fight to the death for your right to say it
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He serves on the board for a startup organization
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He also happens to be a well-loved and talented real estate agent
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And I'm incredibly proud to be connected with him through my business
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Our job is to make sure that you get paired up with people exactly like Jason
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Go there now tell us where you're moving from and to
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And we'll find the right real estate agents for you
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program and welcome to Mr.
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You're very anti Knights of Columbus aren't you?
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And the Elks Club don't even get you started on them.
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You know whatever happened to the Shriners and their stupid hats in the little cars?
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I spend my summers in small towns and so I do go to parades.
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This is going to be coming up on the Wednesday special for Glenn Beck.
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So that's completely worked out though now right?
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I mean, it was, you know, it was a hundred shows for Joe Rogan and the world was on fire.
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This is, you know, just about fifteen hundred shows.
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By the way, if you're looking to get the podcast, it is still available on other podcast platforms.
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I use an app called Overcast, which I just like better than these other podcast apps.
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I mean, again, it's not to say they're not going to pull it down from these other apps
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But at least if you're looking for a particular show, you can't find an Apple Podcast.
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Because he wrote to me last night and he's like, dude, it's going to happen.
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It seems to me that somebody said that's why they created the blaze was because at one
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But we'll let you know when the entire catalog is restored.
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If the entire catalog is restored, I believe Apple just it takes them a while.
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I bet that happens by the time the show is over today because it'll take.
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So, Pat, you've been following what's going on in Maui.
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It seems there seems to be some suspicious elements going on there.
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I don't like to do the conspiracy thing all the time, but everything is a conspiracy.
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They won't tell us why certain things are happening.
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I don't know how many people long and they're all waiting for placards to so that they can
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go to various places on the island and check their homes, see if they burn down or not.
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A lot of people wanted to, you know, and you have to have a placard to go, presumably
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So they're handing these out and a police officer just shows up and says, oh, no more.
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Why did you shut off power to certain areas or water?
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And, you know, scientists have never heard of this term before, but the governor of Hawaii
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He's done the research and found out what a fire hurricane is.
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Although the hurricane was 700 miles off the coast of Hawaii, it was a fire hurricane.
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So wait, the fire hurricane was over the water?
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And most scientists also, it's such advanced research.
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They didn't know that there was such a thing as a fire hurricane until the governor said it.
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You know, there's a couple of other things that are.
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So there's a couple of things that I find very interesting.
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Did you know that, you know, they, they didn't have the, they didn't have the water.
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They didn't set off the sirens and they failed to evacuate anybody.
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They couldn't have done any of this because of all this SUVs that we're driving in like Texas.
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This is the new thing that, that Democrats are doing.
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It's now not just, Hey, global warming is an excuse to take over the economy, which of course all that still exists.
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Um, you know, they, they, they will utilize every single one of these things to get more power and more control.
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But in, in, in addition to that, when they screw up their day to day jobs, they also had this global warming excuse, which is a get out of jail free card.
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I wasn't the Republican who drilled for oil in Alaska.
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Did you, did you know that the, uh, the chief of police that was, you know, the guy that was in charge of the sirens and everything else?
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Well, well, there was some, there was some emergency experience.
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He was, um, he was the guy that was in charge of the, um, the security for the strip at, uh, in Las Vegas.
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When, uh, during the time, the shooting, the shooting happened.
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Uh, and, uh, but then he left there for a while and he went to the department of justice to receive new training.
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And now he's, uh, now he's the head guy there and in that particular place.
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Things that all, I mean, all I'm sure are just amazing coincidence.
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Just, you know, and they very well could be, they could be, they very well could be.
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You know, there's a, we did a show on FEMA and how FEMA is now being trained to, when they go into a place that has been destroyed by a natural disaster, of course, caused by global warming, um, there to green it, greenify, uh, and build back better.
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Now, what's weird is, uh, there's been all these calls to all of these people who can't seem to call anybody, uh, but these, uh, real estate agents have called and they're offering all kinds of money.
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And this is really upset the governor of Hawaii.
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And so he's thinking about, um, building a memorial there instead of building homes back, he's going to be building a memorial to how bad this fire was.
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Um, my house burns down and I can't go back to rebuild my house because it's now a memorial for people who lost their house and their lives.
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Uh, this is, by the way, can I expand on this just a little bit?
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The governor's talking about banning people selling their homes to mainlanders.
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Uh, because of all these, uh, uh, these ravenous real estate people who are coming in and harassing these people.
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Because they lost their home and people are going, Hey, I'll buy it.
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And like, look, if your home just burned down, there's a good chance it would be really annoying to get a call from a real estate person offering you money for your house.
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First of all, you, when someone has a situation like that, you don't necessarily ban the practice, right?
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Like that's not normally how society works in America.
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Hey, someone doesn't like an offer from a real estate agent or whatever.
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Not normally the response, but I get this is an extenuating.
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But like, what if you happen to be a person who lived in this area and you're thinking to yourself, you know, maybe I don't want to wait 10 years until they build this town back.
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Maybe I would like to cash out right now and I want to move somewhere else.
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I want to move to the other side of the side of the island.
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I love this community, but like, I don't want to wait for this.
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I don't want to spend my last 10 years waiting for them to rebuild my town.
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And now the governor is going to ban you from selling your house.
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And every place it's presented is like these bastard capitalists who are calling these people and asking them to sell their house.
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Look, I get that it might be annoying and it might be above and beyond what you've already gone through.
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And sure, they don't have the labor to rebuild and it's going to take at least two years to clean up.
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But are you going to deprive those people of two years of clean up and then endless amounts of fun in rebuilding their house?
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And then when your house is built and there's no stores around for years on time.
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The state will eventually just say, OK, we've cleaned it up and it's going to be too much.
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It's the the such a scar on our communities that we're going to make it into.
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We're going to make it into a national preserve and then they'll pay you less for your house than the capitalist was was willing to pay.
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And so then you'll have the two years plus maybe about another two years of fighting it.
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Yeah. When you're like one hundred and eight years old, there'll be a Supreme Court case that you get to see as it eventually goes up.
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Why not waste the next the last next 30 years of your life litigating this?
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I mean, look, I'm not saying I'm recommending people do if they want to do it, they can.
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But like to prevent it legally, people can't make offers on your home.
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The other thing they're doing is like, I can't believe these tourists are still coming to Hawaii.
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I don't know the people on the other side of the island whose entire livelihood depends on tourists coming to Hawaii might disagree with you.
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They're trying to make it so more people can't come.
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Yeah, I mean, it's and that's why they don't want capitalists coming in and buying a property because they want it.
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Wait, what is a smart island where it's all controlled by AI?
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We always think that smart city is like, oh, they got Wi-Fi everywhere.
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We're going to pick up Hawaii again because I have some really good news.
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This is Podesta celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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As Karine noted, we're marking the one-year anniversary of a truly transformative piece of legislation,
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the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the largest investment in clean energy and climate action ever.
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I thought it was an inflation reduction in the United States in the history of the world.
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But first, I want to acknowledge that today's event is coming during a time of heartbreak as the toll of extreme weather fueled by climate change is being felt across the country and the world.
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This summer has brought one climate disaster after another from extreme heat in Arizona and Texas
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and across the southeast to floods in Vermont and upstate New York to thick smoke from Canadian wildfires.
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And all of us have watched in horror as the Maui fires have claimed over 100 lives, the largest loss of life of a fire in the last 100 years in America.
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They're saying they had nothing to do with climate change.
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To stop these disasters from getting even worse, we have to cut the carbon pollution that's driving the climate crisis.
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And that's what the Inflation Reduction Act is all about.
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First of all, I mean, why is the largest investment, the most important investment in climate change called the Inflation Reduction Act?
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So they just labeled it something else, lied, and they're still lying by saying it's working.
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You look at every expert, every economic expert, they're saying it's making things worse.
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It has nothing to do with anything getting better on inflation.
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Turning us into taking action from being a member of a partner in the big world.
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What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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The most deadly fire in Hawaii and in American history for at least the last hundred years has happened.
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And they're blaming it on global warming and climate change and all kinds of weird things are happening.
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We're going to take you through this fire and show you exactly what we do know.
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And that strangely does not answer why certain things are being done.
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The strange story of the fire in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
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I want to start with a story that is up in glennbeck.com, and it is all about you.
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The wildfire that raged across Maui became the deadliest fire in U.S. history, claiming more than 100 lives.
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As search and rescue missions continue throughout the burnt remains of the historic town, Lahaina, in times of profound tragedy,
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Glenn's audience has rallied around those enduring profound need and suffering through generous giving.
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On air this week, Glenn rallied the troops again to support the grieving communities in Maui,
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challenging his audience to raise more money than the U.S. government aid package.
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As of 8.52 p.m. yesterday, you, Glenn's audience, raised $472,824 for the people of Maui via Glenn's nonprofit Mercury One.
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That's nearly half a million dollars raised within the first couple of days to our call of action to match the government's aid package,
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which has now been raised to a whopping $2.3 million through FEMA.
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That means this audience alone has done one-fifth of the lifting the entire FEMA and United States government has done.
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All of those proceeds, every single penny, will go towards the residents as they grieve and rebuild in the tough days ahead.
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Through your committed support, we are well on its way, our way to surpassing the government's package.
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This is something that I said when I first started Mercury One.
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If we want the government to do less, then we have to do more.
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I would love if this audience, we'll never be recognized for it, but it doesn't matter.
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I would love to be able to say that this audience raised more for Maui than the federal government did.
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Why do we need the federal government involved in all of our lives?
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Now, yesterday, so you know, our website was hacked into, and Apple dropped my podcast.
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So all of this was done yesterday just on the power of the radio program or people listening on other things other than Apple.
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The radio, Blaze TV, and other than Apple, podcast listeners.
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We can do so much more, and I want to tell you how bad things really, truly are.
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I got a note yesterday from somebody, and they said,
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We have a corporate accountant who does a lot of business in Lahaina.
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I sent him a clip of a girl talking about what was happening there.
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I can't even file insurance claims for 20 businesses as the area is locked down by National Guard,
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so insurance adjusters can't even observe the ruins in person.
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Question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark.
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I've been dealing with this all week, and I'm told their bodies everywhere,
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and for a week they've been hiding the death toll.
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None of these people will have enough money to rebuild.
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Too expensive as everything has to be new building codes.
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That'll mean rich people will buy the land and will be even less housing for locals.
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It will end up being the worst natural disaster in our history.
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The cleanup alone will take 2 to 3 years, as there is no infrastructure or labor to do it.
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I want you to know that because of you, we are already doing amazing things.
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We have Operation Barbecue Relief, Samaritan's Purse, Operation Blessing, ITDRC, Harvest Church,
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which that's Greg Laurie's church in California, but he also has Sister Church in Maui.
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Drew Friedrich, Chief Operating Officer, I got a note from him from Operation Blessing.
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He said, I want you to know you are the first organization on the ground to provide aid.
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Operation Blessing, we have helped them to get there.
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Let's see, Samaritan's Purse, they wrote in, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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The generosity of your audience in Mercury One, which has helped us airlift 17 tons of supplies to Maui in the wake of the deadliest fire.
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Supplies on that DC-8 cargo aircraft include hygiene kits, solar lights, cooking kits, plastic tarp,
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equipment needed for us to help in the aftermath of this disaster as residents are allowed to return to their communities.
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Samaritan's Purse volunteers will help homeowners sift through the ashes for any sentimental keepsakes that may have survived the flames.
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Also, Operation Barbecue Relief is there, and they provide food, hot food, for any of the workers and also any of the families who have been displaced.
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The attack on our website did not slow you down yesterday, and I find it interesting that two things happened yesterday.
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As I just said, we want to raise more money than the federal government because we want them to do less.
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As I went into that commercial break, hackers hacked into mercuryone.org and took the entire site down.
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Luckily, we have a very good security team, and it went right back up probably within an hour or so.
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But our staff over at Mercury One just started taking phone calls, people making donations.
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This is one that we really want to be helpful with because these are not rich people on Hawaii.
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This is a local historic town, and what's being done to it, I think you can find in Dark Future, the book that I wrote.
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But let me just give you the facts of what happened because it is not what's being reported.
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So I want to give you something from the Von Mises people.
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I think it is such a great article that I should read it verbatim.
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The most destructive natural disasters are never 100% natural.
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Human choices, land use, and government policies play a big role in how harmful hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, flash floods, and wildfires are to affect communities.
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Though the details are still emerging, it has become clear that government failure did much to make this disaster worse and possibly even started it.
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While the so-called experts are blaming climate change and in the process demanding that government grab even more power and authority to someday give us better weather,
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the destructiveness of this fire was the product of an all-powerful and all-incompetent regime.
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The specific origins of this fire are still being investigated, but there is much we already know.
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The city of Lahaina sits on the west coast of Maui, Hawaii's second largest island.
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It's surrounded by grassland, much of which is owned by the state.
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Nearly a decade ago, Hawaii Wildlife Management Organization, a research nonprofit, warned the Hawaiian government that the area around Lahaina was extremely fire-prone due to frequent downslope winds,
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Little to nothing was done by the state government to address these risks.
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A subsequent report in 2020 added that an invasive species of exceptionally flammable grass was prevalent in the surrounding fields
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and that passing hurricanes created strong winds known to fuel wildfires on the islands.
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Early last week, Hurricane Dora crossed the ocean south of Hawaii.
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By early Tuesday morning, August 8th, winds as fast as 60 miles an hour were blowing down the slopes of West Maui Mountains into Lahaina.
00:54:55.900
Around sunrise, a large fault was detected in the power grid, indicating a downed power line.
00:55:06.080
Twenty minutes later, the first reports of fire came in from an area around the road uphill and upwind from the city.
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The area where flames were first spotted is full of electrical infrastructure, mostly operated by Hawaiian Electric,
00:55:29.540
This included a substation and a multitude of power lines.
00:55:34.660
Most of the land in the area is owned by the state of Hawaii, except for a parcel belonging to the estate of one of Hawaii's last princesses.
00:55:43.700
This parcel housed on a solar farm supplying electricity to the Hawaiian electric substation.
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Early last year, NPR published a glowing article about the solar project, praising it as the direct result of government regulation crafted to help transition Hawaii to 100% renewable power by 2045.
00:56:06.960
But on the morning of August 8th, as winds hammered the old wooden utility poles,
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this highly electrified area in the dry grasses above Lahaina was quickly becoming dangerous.
00:56:21.180
Yet no formal procedure was in place to shut off sections of the grid in the face of severe fire risks.
00:56:29.260
As a result, 29 fully energized poles fell across West Maui that day.
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Say that again, 20 electric, 29 fully energized electrical poles.
00:56:50.680
Even with the down poles in the way, the first firefighters on the scene met with some early success.
00:56:57.180
Around 9 a.m., the county fire department declared the fire 100% contained.
00:57:02.600
But the message to residents included an ominous request.
00:57:07.460
The county's water pumps were powered by electricity, much of which was frantically being turned off to deactivate the down lines.
00:57:18.160
Officials asked the public to conserve water to preserve water pressure.
00:57:22.940
But by mid-afternoon, a flare-up brought the fire back to life on the Lahaina Bypass, a major road that heads straight into town.
00:57:31.600
The flames moved swiftly into Lahaina at 4.46 p.m., one minute after the county government finally set out an alert to warn the city's population, largely without power, about the flare-up that had occurred over an hour before.
00:57:49.660
To make matters worse, county officials failed to activate emergency sirens, leaving residents unaware of the danger bearing down on them.
00:57:59.520
And as firefighters heroically rushed toward the flame and trying to save their own community, they found that there was little to no water pressure in the fire hydrants, which quickly ran dry.
00:58:14.100
So far, I haven't heard anything about global warming.
00:58:16.700
With a single backed-up highway leading out of the city, many residents of Lahaina had nowhere to go.
00:58:25.440
Some scrambled into the ocean to escape the smoke and the flames.
00:58:35.800
And as of this writing, making this the deadly American wildfire in over a century, in addition, 2,207 buildings were destroyed with property damages expected to reach $5.5 billion.
00:58:48.480
To review, a power company, shielded from competition by the state, placed electrical infrastructure among highly flammable state-owned grass fields above the historic city of Lahaina,
00:59:05.300
which the government was twice warned were highly susceptible to fire.
00:59:10.600
And once fire broke out, a combination of defective water infrastructure, terrible communication by government officials,
00:59:19.720
and only one escape route doomed the people of Lahaina to the worst wildfire experienced in this country in over 100 years.
00:59:28.000
This was government failure through and through.
00:59:32.300
In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises explains that on the market,
00:59:38.220
the ultimate source of profits is foresight, the ability to anticipate future conditions.
00:59:46.960
And economic loss occurs when market actors fail to anticipate the future.
00:59:53.500
The possibility of riches if one succeeds, and the guarantee of painful failures if one doesn't,
01:00:00.440
forces producers and service providers on the market to constantly weigh risks and opportunities.
01:00:08.620
Government, however, immunizes itself from the profit and loss system,
01:00:14.240
and therefore from much of the need to weigh risk.
01:00:18.700
Sure, some county officials may resign because of this,
01:00:21.940
and the share price of Hawaiian electric may dip,
01:00:24.960
but the people of Maui will be forced to keep compensating the very organizations that have failed them,
01:00:31.720
and there is nothing natural about that kind of a disaster.
01:00:42.120
Why are we still in the financial troubles that we were in in 08?
01:01:05.900
Because the teachers' unions are in bed with the Department of Education,
01:01:13.480
Nobody pays the price for this education except you and your children.
01:01:22.340
Don't know, because no one was held responsible.
01:01:26.440
Inflation, it's the government in bed with the Fed,
01:01:32.740
Crime on the streets, no one is held responsible.
01:01:36.060
Crime and corruption in D.C., no one is held responsible.
01:01:46.240
All of these things is the government in bed with private corporations or unions.
01:01:55.520
And they don't have to pay a price because the government is in bed with them.
01:02:03.940
The government never has to pay a price because they can just print more money.
01:02:12.780
And in this particular case, the poor people of Lahaina in Maui.
01:02:22.460
Because I can guarantee you, if Dark Future is right,
01:02:25.840
the government is going to take that land and make it into a national park or something like that.
01:02:41.540
But let's raise money and show the average person,
01:02:46.700
the people who actually lost their homes and their lives,
01:03:08.840
You and I are alive today for one simple reason.
01:03:11.800
We have moms that lived in a nation where it was possible to have an abortion,
01:03:20.280
Sadly, this isn't the story of 64 million of our brothers and sisters.
01:03:32.220
so that at-risk infants will get a chance at life.
01:03:36.980
Our society is telling moms that their babies are just clumps of cells.
01:03:41.400
That's why abortion continues at the rate that it does.
01:03:44.500
But when a mom meets her baby through an ultrasound,
01:03:53.580
Help bring life and love to a whole new generation.
01:03:58.160
Through you, pre-born has rescued over 28,000 babies this year.
01:04:40.760
I had a strange reaction yesterday to the Apple podcast thing.
01:04:45.880
Luckily, nobody in my business had that same reaction,
01:04:55.460
Um, they canceled me yesterday on Apple, the podcast.
01:05:04.980
There are still only 1,915 of them that have been restored.
01:05:11.000
We're waiting, Apple, for the rest of the library.
01:05:23.120
With no warning, no strikes, no phone calls, nothing.
01:05:38.780
Because they're so big, they don't think you have a choice.
01:05:50.020
Because, well, who's going to do anything about it?
01:05:55.280
Now, you're showing Disney where you're going to go.
01:06:10.020
There's still some attempt at privacy with Apple.
01:06:16.040
Apple's privacy is better than other brands, typically.
01:06:20.020
But again, that's a totally different problem, really.
01:06:22.860
I mean, privacy is a different concern than whether they're going to allow you to access content.
01:06:30.340
The point is, there's not a lot of great options.
01:06:35.040
At some point, you and I will lose track of each other if we haven't found a way.
01:06:42.000
And the way that I put together 10, 11 years ago now was the Blaze.
01:06:58.080
As we've shown yesterday, it can happen in the blink of an eye.
01:07:04.200
And if we didn't have radio, Twitter, quite honestly, if Twitter would have been in bed with Apple, you wouldn't have known it.
01:07:15.620
It would have taken you a while to figure it out.
01:07:21.840
So, thank you, Elon Musk, for at least giving the opportunity currently for people who are being bullied a chance to speak out.
01:07:33.520
And thank you to everybody who supported us and got us back on.
01:07:38.680
You know, I have to tell you, nobody knows how great of an audience this is.
01:07:47.760
I don't think there is, and I mean this sincerely.
01:07:53.860
Honestly, I honestly cannot think of an audience for a commercial show that has ever, has ever been this good, has ever been this giving.
01:08:08.440
I mean, when Maui is in trouble, and I can mention it, I don't think I mentioned it more than three times in passing.
01:08:18.060
One time I talked about it, and then two other times I just said, hey, Mercury One is helping out in Maui if you want to help out.
01:08:30.500
You're not, I mean, you are the average person.
01:08:32.780
You're struggling, you're trying to pay gas, but everybody gets so beaten down and there's no good people around.
01:08:46.320
There are millions of you that gather every day around this show.
01:08:51.920
I don't know why this show has this audience other than we're like-minded.
01:09:13.960
Look at what this audience, look at what this audience has done.
01:09:17.320
Just the last couple of years, since Biden has got into office, look what we've done.
01:09:26.520
We're still on the ground helping people in Afghanistan.
01:10:00.300
He said it in multiple interviews about the movie and about Underground Railroad.
01:10:13.500
Just this year alone, this audience has saved 28,000 babies from abortion.
01:10:35.960
How many of these kids will become something great?
01:10:49.700
And this, you're the kind of people I want to live around.
01:10:57.980
Think about all of the things that you have helped with.
01:11:05.160
And I think Afghanistan was the most universally.
01:11:09.080
Well, that's the craziest one, maybe of all the whole time.
01:11:18.560
But it was when that week we all felt like there's no hope.
01:11:23.300
And then all of a sudden there was, and it was because of individuals.
01:11:29.040
You know, I can't, I can't help the people in Maui.
01:11:33.320
The government's clearly not doing it, but all of us together, we can do that.
01:11:44.280
And that's the kind of stuff that gives me hope.
01:11:48.920
When that starts to go away, that's when you'll know America is done or she's just flat out broke.
01:11:58.100
$35 million a couple of years ago, really before Bidenomics fully kicked in.
01:12:14.460
I mean, the hope that I hear from people that go to the movie and see Sound of Freedom and the hope they have, that comes from you.
01:12:35.160
Yeah, you're part of a group that is doing some really great things.
01:12:46.600
There's an amazing book slash documentary slash movie to be made about all of the things that this audience has accomplished over the past 20 years.
01:12:57.300
You know, and I thought about it the other day.
01:12:58.720
You know how this show, why this show got syndicated?
01:13:05.280
It was because this host said there's a kid who the neighborhood is trying because they have these HOA rules.
01:13:16.080
They won't let this kid who's dying of cancer build a treehouse.
01:13:21.480
And I said, come on, let's go build this kid a treehouse.
01:13:27.300
And I broadcast from that treehouse with that kid and the hearts and the minds of the neighborhood was completely changed.
01:13:35.980
That was the what that was the show that I did early on that syndicators were like, wow, that was really cool.
01:13:44.620
And I'm like, I know what a cool audience, huh?
01:13:47.480
And from there, we've just been doing it over and over and over.
01:13:58.140
Final number, like 18,000 people in Afghanistan.
01:14:09.500
When when the government is stopping everything and they see that they may not ever know your name, they may not even know Mercury one because we don't tout it.
01:14:22.700
We've immediately turned this money over to people who we know are doing good.
01:14:35.260
We give them the money to load up the plane that they know they need.
01:14:38.700
And we pay for the plane and ship it over there.
01:14:42.440
So others will get the credit, but it will be you that did it.
01:14:59.600
And while nobody will ever thank you because our name's not on it.
01:15:20.340
Well, good ranchers is knocking that out of the park right now.
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The best I could live just with cows could be me and cows.
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Well, a butcher and a milker and an ice cream maker.
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You know, it's great is I got to play this because I just think this is so great when a when a grandparent is out with kids and, you know, just having a good time.
01:17:16.280
I know some really great ice cream places around.
01:17:24.700
OK, and then we'll go to Michael Jackson's amusement park.
01:17:35.720
This is exactly what we did with Michael Jackson.
01:17:38.400
We're all like, yeah, but I mean, I mean, probably not.
01:17:49.240
You leaving your daughter at any age with Uncle Joe?
01:17:52.960
There's definitely something creepy about the dude and there's no question about it.
01:18:01.440
We're going to go through this every single time.
01:18:04.380
Every time there's a famous pedophile, we're going to be like, what?
01:18:16.700
I don't believe he was convicted of any crimes on that particular topic.
01:18:38.080
Want to have some ice cream with me, little girl?
01:18:42.180
And for all the criticism Hunter gets for the prostitutes, it's certainly preferable to
01:18:50.980
He's like, at least I'm not a stupid, you know.
01:19:01.320
So, Saurabh Amari has been on the program before.
01:19:08.900
How Private Power Crushed American Liberty and What to Do About It.
01:19:14.040
And I'm reading it and I'm like, yeah, I agree with that.
01:19:22.540
And then, see if you think, see if you think there's an issue here with this.
01:19:30.580
And then he says, hang on, I've got it highlighted here someplace.
01:19:37.600
Most important in political exchange, capitalism alters the distribution of social income for
01:19:50.120
But he mentions that, you know, one of the great examples of what I'm talking about, where
01:20:00.180
I got to that page and I was like, I think we're going to have a problem here.
01:20:06.560
Well, this is, it'll be an interesting conversation.
01:20:09.700
And I'm not, you know, I never, I never ask people to be on the show and then bash them.
01:20:18.440
But it'll be, you know, look, we are in an interesting point when it comes to the right
01:20:22.760
and conservatism in general, in that there are a bunch of different paths forward.
01:20:28.320
You know, you can see really positive things in a lot of those paths, but it's important
01:20:34.100
And I think that's what the big conversation on the right is right now.
01:20:38.140
We can kind of all look at it and say, hey, there are real problems here.
01:20:44.540
Well, the most disturbing thing that is happening right now is this talk on the right of an
01:20:49.860
all-powerful executive that you just have to unleash the power of the executive and let
01:21:04.240
And like, some of that, like, I think there's always an idea that feels good if your guy
01:21:12.080
is doing it, but it feels good to the left right now.
01:21:15.920
They don't seem to have a problem with it at all.
01:21:17.780
But in the long run, it's usually not a good idea.
01:21:25.860
You would say you're not for a dictatorship is what you're saying.
01:21:31.380
The early model was laid down by progressives like Woodrow Wilson, who his policy showcased
01:21:37.120
a state's indispensable role in directing private activity in a complex.
01:21:48.500
I'd be interested to hear what he means by that.
01:22:30.980
Here is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
01:22:43.040
I think we are going to have one of the most important and interesting conversations that
01:22:49.760
I think all conservatives need to have, all Americans need to have.
01:22:54.400
But I think all conservatives, for sure, because there is something afoot in the conservative
01:23:01.700
And we have to decide who are we, where are we headed?
01:23:05.980
Are we headed to some new, uh, refounding something that is taking our cornerstone of
01:23:15.300
life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and, and basic bill of rights kind of ideas and putting
01:23:25.380
A lot of people say, yes, we're not going back.
01:23:30.700
So Rob, uh, Amari is the author of Tyranny Inc.
01:23:34.600
And I really like, so Rob, he has been editor of the New York post.
01:23:39.800
Then I think he was the editor, uh, for the op-ed page at the wall street journal, uh, which
01:23:47.800
Uh, and he's written a new book and I'm reading it and I'm like, okay, I agree with the problem.
01:23:53.680
And then I come across a line that says, uh, the early model that was laid down by progressives
01:24:04.560
And so I thought I really should get so Rob on because, uh, we got to talk about Woodrow
01:24:14.400
If you don't believe me, when I say everything the fed's been up to is leading us down the primrose
01:24:18.840
path towards a digital dollar, uh, something that will allow the government to do whatever
01:24:23.660
it feels like to the value of your money, then at the very least you should get on Goldline's
01:24:28.920
email list and check out the articles that they have on that subject.
01:24:33.180
Yeah, uh, it's coming and it's coming probably faster than you think.
01:24:37.420
All we need is an event and this government will seize that dollar.
01:24:42.400
It will collapse and, uh, their solution will be a CBDC, a central bank digitalized
01:24:48.840
dollar, which will take all control of your money away from you.
01:24:54.980
In these uncertain times, having something tangible feels kind of like a lifeline.
01:25:00.360
Goldline as always has an offer that is hard to pass up, uh, for every 50 of the two ounce
01:25:06.420
silver maple flex bars that you purchase, they're gifting you a hundred of the one and one ounce
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silver, I'm sorry, the one gram silver mind your business bars for free.
01:25:17.300
It doesn't apply to IRA orders time and time again.
01:25:20.720
Goldline has been the beacon for those that are seeking stability in these unstable times.
01:25:32.700
Now, so Rob, not often do I have a friend that says, you know, Woodrow Wilson was great,
01:25:39.600
uh, but I'm making the exception with you and I, I really want to go through, uh, your book.
01:25:55.960
So first of all, outline the problem that you see.
01:26:02.260
Uh, it's a problem of economic coercion that ordinary people face in daily life.
01:26:10.000
We as an Americans, but especially as the conservative movement in the last few generations,
01:26:15.560
since Goldwater Reagan has come to think of coercion and unjust coercion as only what government
01:26:24.120
In recent years, we've come face to face with a new motive of coercion, which is either directed
01:26:33.020
exclusively from the private sector, from, from large corporations, banks, et cetera, or
01:26:39.100
some combination of those types of businesses in collusion with government.
01:26:44.060
So there are really like big headline grabbing cases that I talk about in the book, like,
01:26:49.440
um, you know, the censorship of the Hunter Biden story by Twitter and Facebook, where
01:26:53.980
I was at kind of the eye of the storm when that happened.
01:26:56.820
And I came and spoke with you on the show about it, just as it was unfolding.
01:27:01.060
Um, and the, the debanking of people who are, you know, whose political views aren't acceptable
01:27:10.200
So, uh, but there are also more, less visible kinds of this, right?
01:27:13.940
So for example, and this will get us into the weeds and I won't go too far into the weeds,
01:27:18.480
but the use of commercial arbitration in the workplace, just to give one example,
01:27:25.980
It's a kind of a neutral mediator comes between two merchants of relatively equal bargaining
01:27:32.100
They agree not to go to court if they have a dispute, but to privately resolve it.
01:27:37.160
That's been around since 1925 with the federal arbitration act.
01:27:40.820
But in recent decades, increasingly workers complaints are corralled into these types of
01:27:46.560
courts, privatized courts where like Ernst and Young or bank of America get to set the
01:27:51.400
rules and you as the worker are far less, you don't have the same bargaining power where
01:27:58.320
And it means that you can't vindicate rights that you otherwise have.
01:28:02.200
I don't know, like the fair labor standards act or whatever, whatever kind of economic
01:28:10.900
I talk about the kind of hot headline grabbing cases like Amazon, you know, making a lot of
01:28:17.400
money out of the pandemic because they were deemed essential, whereas lots of small businesses
01:28:23.080
And then oppressing their own workers and their kind of hellish Dickensian warehouses.
01:28:28.040
I talk about those, but much of the book is about these less visible kinds of private
01:28:33.680
coercion where, for example, the Sackler family of notoriety associated with the opioid crisis
01:28:40.480
was able to use the coercive elements of U.S. bankruptcy law to shield their assets from
01:28:47.120
states and from hospitals, from insurers and ordinary Americans who had been harmed by the
01:28:53.320
So I just suggest that, and here were the kind of the bit that you mentioned about Woodrow
01:28:57.660
Wilson comes in, that conservatives used to actually be more attuned to this problem.
01:29:06.540
There was a kind of tradition in the GOP, figures like Teddy Roosevelt, then especially after the
01:29:12.160
New Deal, figures like Eisenhower and Nixon, who recognized that there is such a thing as
01:29:18.060
And the way to take charge of it or to tame it is by greater democratic control and sort
01:29:26.240
of political response to giant market actors that otherwise get to set their own prices,
01:29:31.760
their oligopolies, so that their prices that they set, how they treat their workers and stuff
01:29:36.420
is not that kind of free market, you know, Arcadia, that paradise that still was described by Adam
01:29:46.020
The markets are much more complex, much more concentrated, so it requires greater state
01:29:51.900
efforts to protect us from being like debanked by a large bank the way Nigel Farage was in
01:29:58.200
So here's my question to you, because this is the debate that I think we're having now.
01:30:06.660
Are we going to go back to a constitution that really hasn't been used in 100 years, and are
01:30:13.980
we going to reset back to its factory settings, or are we going to develop something entirely
01:30:22.940
They are, and I think you would agree with me, I think, that we are right now a pretty
01:30:30.980
fascistic kind of country, where the government is in bed with these corporations, and they're
01:30:38.400
doing the bidding for one another, so they can get things done.
01:30:41.600
And if you play ball, then you get money, and you get all kinds of perks.
01:30:45.320
If you don't play ball, you're out of business.
01:30:48.300
Well, I actually do want to go back to our constitutional tradition.
01:30:53.520
I would only suggest that our constitutional tradition is more complex than some, I would
01:31:01.080
say, doctrinaire, libertarian, free market types suggest.
01:31:04.720
In other words, our constitution shaped men like Alexander Hamilton, and it was very much
01:31:16.620
Because Hamilton and John Marshall, very influential Supreme Court justice early on, they were determined
01:31:23.460
that the United States wouldn't become like a backwater for Britain, where all they get
01:31:28.100
is natural resources here, and they treat us as a captive market for Britain's own industrial
01:31:34.340
development and industrial manufacturing products.
01:31:37.500
So they did all sorts of things, like setting in place a first bank of the United States
01:31:42.880
to ensure a steady supply of credit that was disciplined and wasn't, like, kind of wild.
01:31:48.660
They created, you know, internal improvements and import substitutions and tariffs and so on
01:31:55.800
This was all within the founding generation or within living memory of the founding generation.
01:32:01.380
So the idea of a state that kind of takes charge of the economy for the general welfare wasn't
01:32:11.640
No, but then you have like, you have like the Jacksonians come around because then they
01:32:15.860
noticed that that bank now had become the second bank of the United States had sort of
01:32:21.100
So Andrew Jackson waged war against it and sort of said, hey, we need greater political control
01:32:26.820
over these institutions that kind of, you know, can shape the lives of yeoman farmers and
01:32:34.360
So it's, you know, because the economy and politics can't be so neatly ever separated.
01:32:41.320
They never, the American tradition never thought of the economy as this autonomous zone of perfect
01:32:48.720
They realize that it's all bound up with what government does or chooses not to do.
01:32:53.840
So I'm just arguing for a more complex reading of the American tradition.
01:33:04.220
Where are the better angels now in Google, Facebook, Apple?
01:33:20.100
Well, you know, unfortunately, I would just say that the founders could be pretty cynical
01:33:30.240
And so they had, you know, as Madison famously wrote, you know, if men were angels, you wouldn't
01:33:38.480
And so although Lincoln was obviously the better angels guy, he expressed that as a sentiment
01:33:53.460
He was somebody that was very, very alone and really an aberration.
01:34:09.080
At the very bottom, it's food and water and survival.
01:34:12.660
But as he becomes more and more powerful, he is driven by money, power over people, fame.
01:34:24.280
And our problem is, is that we have everybody, it seems, at the top has been corrupted one
01:34:34.400
And the reason why it is corrupt, I believe, is because the government can be bought off
01:34:44.120
And little people don't have the money to buy them off.
01:34:50.260
The people who are running for office, they don't care what the people do.
01:34:55.340
They'll say whatever they have to to get them to vote for them.
01:34:59.280
But they don't actually care or like those people.
01:35:05.560
So everything that is happening is a corruption of us not putting the shackles on a powerful
01:35:13.600
government, but letting, quite honestly, the Woodrow Wilson administrative state, where
01:35:19.580
no one answers for the wrong, just letting it grow.
01:35:27.180
So first of all, the bit that I quote from Wilson is just to say that during wartime, during
01:35:32.380
World War I, whether you agree in the U.S. entry into World War I or not, he showcased that
01:35:37.800
you can bring government, labor, management, businesses together to say, how do we build
01:35:45.160
up the whole economy and put it on a war footing and be able to deliver material to Europe and
01:35:53.180
And that model is now woven through the American tradition.
01:35:59.640
It's and it finds its fullest flowering in the deal.
01:36:02.580
But then, as I said, like Eisenhower went even further on some of this kind of logic
01:36:07.280
of government, labor, workers, and then management and business all coming together to make decisions
01:36:13.320
for the general welfare of the whole, which, again, because of that Hamiltonian streak in
01:36:17.920
the founding is not some obnoxious and weird thing.
01:36:21.300
But the problem is that I think that the conservative movement has, because it's especially against
01:36:29.360
since Goldwater Reagan says, I reject the administrative say, all of that.
01:36:38.580
So it comes down like a it only comes down like a boot on our faces.
01:36:44.360
I mean, I'm not I'm no fan of vaccine mandates and I'm on the record about all of that.
01:36:49.100
But, you know, the bottom line is that already by the 19th century, we had an unbelievably
01:36:56.000
complex economy and you had if you if left to its own devices, you would have very few
01:37:02.360
people concentrating power and wealth to the detriment of the farmer, the debtor, the worker
01:37:09.000
And that complexity requires equally complex government because Congress can't like regulate
01:37:18.260
It can just broadly say, well, the railroad should be this and that.
01:37:21.060
But to deal with the railroad business at the granular level, you need you need the
01:37:25.200
complexity of the administrative state, you know, and I think a lot of conservatives who
01:37:29.860
who say, well, this is just all unconstitutional.
01:37:33.840
I invite them to take the first flight after the federal aviation administration has been
01:37:39.640
abolished or to, you know, see what their neighborhoods are like once police is abolished.
01:37:45.920
All of this sort of service, nobody's talking, nobody in the conservative side is talking
01:37:52.060
I mean, I hear about like, you know, FBI abolition.
01:38:01.100
And so far as the FBI has become this sort of lawless agency that's used to again, go
01:38:12.140
You know, there are things that the FBI does besides persecuting, you know, Trumpians
01:38:20.500
So even like Vivek Ramaswani, who's called for abolition of the FBI, is calling for some
01:38:25.920
other agency that would that would do the things that the FBI is supposed to do.
01:38:30.040
So the point is that administrative state is to some extent unavoidable.
01:38:34.100
It's a sort of extension of what Congress's will in a complex society and economy.
01:38:42.740
But if we don't take part in it on the right, if we don't try to shape it and then we get
01:38:47.520
So, Rob, we are having the same conversation that our founders had with Hamilton.
01:38:52.600
This is the same argument and it will never go away because it's the original argument.
01:39:04.440
How do we avoid centralizing power to the extent that it causes us to be vulnerable to the bad
01:39:17.560
So, I mean, I think that one way that certainly the book, which, as you can tell from what
01:39:23.300
I'm saying, is heavily focused on the economy is we need to promote a high wage manufacturing
01:39:31.680
economy like we had, you know, in the mid century era, in the mid 20th century era.
01:39:39.300
We all can only either do services or financial industry or these like apps, like porn apps.
01:39:46.340
And we deliberately gave up our own manufacturing.
01:39:49.040
When you have a high wage economy that's where workers are dignified and they're paid well
01:39:54.660
and they're skilled like we did again, we did in the mid century era.
01:39:58.040
They're not so at the mercy of the of the government either.
01:40:03.220
So what problem right now is we have a high, a low wage, high welfare economy.
01:40:09.300
What that means is not that the welfare net is all that generous actually can be kind of
01:40:13.160
miserly because you have to pass all these tests and so forth.
01:40:15.880
But the point is that the typical worker, the working poor or like the bottom half of the
01:40:20.880
country in many ways, in order to make ends meet, they have to rely on a high share of all
01:40:25.560
kinds of welfare that's not come doesn't come from their job.
01:40:29.360
And that puts you at the mercy, not just, of course, of the boss, because you're very
01:40:34.060
vulnerable and anything that happens, you get fired, but also puts you at the welfare
01:40:37.920
of at the at the mercy of the welfare administrator and more broadly of the administrative state.
01:40:43.280
So if we I mean, I think conservatives are coming around to this that, hey, we didn't have
01:40:48.040
to ship off manufacturing to like Vietnam and China.
01:40:51.100
But it's not like it's not like, you know, China's brutal labor laws and and horrible government
01:41:00.400
It's just that it's just how they run their country.
01:41:05.020
I think here where we can agree on is the importance of restoring and manufacturing high
01:41:13.880
Limits on immigration help with that, you know, because if there's always a reserve of poorly
01:41:20.040
paid labor, it's willing to do things for less.
01:41:22.400
And that's, you know, it weakens our our workers.
01:41:41.900
And so, Rob, I hope we continue our conversation.
01:41:44.660
I disagree with you pretty wholeheartedly, but I will fight to the death for your right
01:41:52.240
And I hope we can have more conversations with this attitude on the program with you.
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and it is, it's, I find it to have ideas in it that I do not agree with at all, and people
01:45:24.100
We are either going to create what the left has created, except with our people in it,
01:45:37.700
Or we're going to realize that the way we've bastardized this country, for instance, Saurabh
01:45:45.880
was talking about, you know, a central bank, that they, that Hamilton wanted a central
01:45:50.200
bank, and Jefferson saw that it was always, only really benefiting the rich people.
01:46:01.440
We didn't have a First National Bank of America that was controlled by the government, because
01:46:06.960
And then, under Wilson, we, we establish a new central bank, the Fed.
01:46:15.160
Is anybody here to say that the Fed is working out wonderfully?
01:46:22.240
And it is now only serving the richest of the rich.
01:46:26.360
It doesn't work, because men have a tendency to go crazy with power and money.
01:46:37.740
I mean, have you ever been to a zoning meeting before, a local zoning meeting?
01:46:43.320
I mean, they sound exciting, but I've seen the results of them.
01:46:47.860
They're, they are people who just want to control other people's lives.
01:46:55.080
It's not a government institution, but that, like, that's how everyone feels.
01:46:58.060
You're like, wait, what do you want to do with my property?
01:47:00.960
And like, yeah, there are arguments on both sides of this.
01:47:03.400
And we talked about this at the beginning, and that there's also a lot that you guys
01:47:06.560
agree on, particularly when it comes to the problem.
01:47:09.220
I think, you know, it was a little boring for you guys to sit here and recap the problem
01:47:14.260
So, you know, I know you focus more on what you don't agree on.
01:47:17.580
But like, this is the, this is the central conversation going on on the right.
01:47:23.120
And it's vital for people to think this stuff out.
01:47:25.700
You know, the, the, we often talk about, okay, you know, for example, defeating Joe Biden
01:47:31.420
in 2024, vitally important for anyone who is on the right.
01:47:42.140
It's clearly changing from what it was maybe in the Reagan era.
01:47:47.720
A lot of people recently have started looking back at that with the big question marks or whether
01:47:51.620
that those solutions can apply to today's problems.
01:47:56.740
Americans who devote decades of their lives to toil should be able to retire in dignity and safety, period.
01:48:06.560
I mean, I hate to point this out, but in the Hebrew language, there is no word for retire.
01:48:14.120
Now, I believe that, you know, I don't know if I'm ever going to retire,
01:48:19.860
but even if I did retire, it would just be to do something else.
01:48:24.040
You know, there's, you're, you're never stopping working.
01:48:27.860
And that doesn't mean that you have to toil in the same job that you've been in.
01:48:32.320
However, what he says, a stronger labor movement with government backing could demand that large firms
01:48:40.140
restore the older model of retirement based on defined benefits.
01:48:45.120
Wait, the older model, you mean the one before the government took over social security?
01:48:58.100
You, you did work at a company, not all companies did it, but you could pay in some of your salary
01:49:05.200
and you could retire and the company would help you with the retirement.
01:49:10.040
That model was destroyed by the federal government, creating yet another agency.
01:49:19.820
Every dollar that I have paid into social security my whole life, I'm not going to see.
01:49:28.520
I mean, I, some of this goes to the idea that like the, the concept of a person going through
01:49:33.580
their life, working really hard at a job that is trying to produce for their family.
01:49:37.680
And at the end of that life, they're able to, let's call it retirement for the sake of
01:49:43.380
I mean, as you point out, retirement might be working at your church.
01:49:46.980
It might be, it doesn't mean you just sit around at a golf course necessarily, right?
01:49:50.640
Like it's something that you want to do, finding that thing that you want to do.
01:49:53.120
And that is something that I think we all aspire to.
01:49:55.540
When I look at the economy, I think to myself, man, if I could just have the money that the
01:50:05.140
I wouldn't need government programs, but instead they take them from me.
01:50:09.060
They give me a promise of a future IOU with money that I know they don't have.
01:50:14.660
And then that's supposed to provide me some magical retirement.
01:50:21.340
So, you know, look, we can, that's the conversation though.
01:50:25.080
So I think he's talking about a more well-designed version of this, but like, I don't, I just
01:50:32.040
No, they, they were talking about a more well-designed healthcare system.
01:50:44.500
He says, there would still be pockets of individual wealth among investors and managers.
01:50:51.020
We're not talking about full socialism, but owing to the more equitable distribution of
01:50:58.920
the social income, there would simply be a little less money to go around for dangerous
01:51:04.540
speculation and workers' organizations would have a little more money to counterbalance
01:51:09.980
the power of the rich in politics and civil life.
01:51:13.940
That's a little less and a little more, and it can go a long way towards taming today's
01:51:33.460
You will end up the way every other country ends up.
01:51:38.180
The secret to the American sauce was, the smaller the government, the better.
01:51:44.360
And by the way, if they just shut off the FAA tomorrow and all of those federal workers
01:51:53.360
that are in the towers are fired and they can't come back to work, yeah, I'm not going
01:52:02.300
But I have absolutely no problem flying in the air the very next day if they've been allowed
01:52:11.440
to hire those trained workers or had the time to train their own.
01:52:16.840
I have no problem with the private sector flying an airplane, flying in safety.
01:52:28.480
If it has no backing from the federal government, it goes down, it goes down, period.
01:52:44.020
It's interesting because this conversation is, I find conflict in this all the time.
01:52:51.180
I mean, we look at these, the problems, you've talked about it in both Dark Future and The Great
01:52:55.240
Reset, where these companies are trying to go around, they built a system that goes around
01:53:01.820
some of the constitutional protections that we've talked about for many, many years.
01:53:09.420
And so the reaction on the right, I think appropriately has been to say, okay, what can
01:53:15.340
we find that we have in our toolbox to fight back against this?
01:53:21.640
Some of those have been government actions that I think would have made me more uncomfortable
01:53:30.140
five years ago than they do today, or 10 years ago, or 20 years ago.
01:53:34.580
And we hear that from not just, from all over the right right now.
01:53:38.520
Different versions of this, that balance of trying to figure out, as you've talked about
01:53:43.020
in your books as well, how to push back against that is the defining conversation on the right
01:53:52.700
Well, it really, if you're a conservative, you just have to know how to define a conservative.
01:53:57.800
And that is somebody who looks at all of the pieces on the table and say, and they say,
01:54:12.420
What progressives want to do is take everything off the table and not look at what doesn't
01:54:19.280
work and maybe double down on those things that don't work.
01:54:26.920
A conservative needs to look at the things that are working and the things that are not.
01:54:32.440
And in almost every case, I used to be able to say the defense department, but now it's
01:54:40.720
been so politicized that I don't trust the defense department.
01:54:46.060
You have to take them and look at them and say they no longer work.
01:54:50.860
Now, can we build it back to a place to where it's not going to come become corrupt?
01:54:59.500
And you have a better chance of doing that than you do starting something entirely new that
01:55:06.580
has a hundred different factors that you'd never know what was the factor that changed
01:55:18.480
We just have to decide who we are and who we want to be.
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George Washington said, we did not replace one tyrant to replace him with another.
01:55:29.900
We did not overthrow the king just to have another king.
01:55:39.940
These days, if you want to spend a day down at the gun range, you better be prepared to
01:55:45.520
Thanks to severe overregulation and our old friend inflation, ammunition prices are through
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I hope you're going to hit it with a slingshot.
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And you know why they're saying that they're going to have to raise the interest rates?
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The labor market being as strong as it is now, no one's comfortable raising, saying we're
01:57:54.680
So, they need to put you out of work so you stop spending money so they can spend money
01:58:24.260
You get to that point, at the end of the day, every day, and you get to that point where
01:58:30.920
You know, Glenn, it's going to be really interesting to watch this all play out.
01:58:35.180
It's going to be a really fascinating time to just kind of watch all this happen.
01:58:38.380
And just sit here and just go, wow, who would have seen that coming?
01:58:43.360
Oh, we did, but we probably shouldn't say anything about it now.
01:58:47.860
Two more home insurers exit California because there's new rules put in place and new things,
01:59:00.060
And the insurers are like, you know, I don't think we can make any money in California.
01:59:07.500
So two more insurers, which is going to mean that the United States is going to have to
01:59:14.460
You know, they do that on the wetlands and, you know, near the beaches and everything else.
01:59:19.540
Why is the average American paying for the insurance on somebody's house that lives right on the
01:59:32.220
I think, you know, well, the stated answer would be, well, look, if the market did, it
01:59:40.600
Well, you know, you don't have to subsidize rich people's houses on the water.
01:59:46.860
It might be their home, you know, they've had their home forever there.
01:59:52.940
But yes, it's not just an anti-rich person argument.
01:59:57.220
You know, I mean, but I do think that there is a, there isn't really a great argument for
02:00:03.060
the United States government to say, hey, especially from the left, who are constantly
02:00:07.620
the people pushing it and also saying global warming is going to wipe out all these houses
02:00:14.120
Why don't you just stop paying insurance for people whose houses are going to be underwater?
02:00:17.660
Certainly disincentivize people by building new ones.
02:00:20.780
And look, I think most people who do it would say, I will, I will pay the extra insurance
02:00:30.080
And maybe fewer people would choose to do that because of those reasons.
02:00:43.320
Maine is now forcing hotels to house immigrants.
02:00:47.660
Um, how do you, uh, how do you make money with that?
02:00:53.780
I mean, you know, they're doing in New York, they're doing some really nice hotels.
02:00:59.040
Uh, well, I'm not staying at a hotel that is filled with illegal aliens.
02:01:13.940
Like you get out in the middle of the night, you might step on, on somebody, but no, no,
02:01:18.600
And if I'm a hotel and I'm told by the government that I have to do that, that's kind of like
02:01:23.700
quartering soldiers, third amendment, kind of, uh, there, I'm just told that I have
02:01:32.760
Um, no, that's an interesting, you thought it seemed like you really thought about that.
02:01:38.860
I did, I did, I, I mean, here's the whole thought process.
02:01:44.320
Oh, so you said the whole thought process out loud.
02:01:50.380
Uh, you're going to have to house all these people and the government will pay you what