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On today's show, Glenn and Stu and Jeff talk about the latest in the ongoing saga of the Chicago Police Shootings and the response from Mayor Rahm Emanuel. They also discuss Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's marriage and why they should have been married in the first place.
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We've been watching a lot of the mayor of Chicago,
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that they don't necessarily have in other places.
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He gave his life that day and his family created
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Today, that mission has grown far beyond New York
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They pay off the mortgages of families who lose their
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They step into the darkest moments of a family's
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life, moments when they're grieving, dealing with
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financial obligations is almost impossible, and they
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It's Americans taking care of their own, supporting
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It's about saying to our heroes and their families,
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We have had, we're in a weird time, I think, in our
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country where we have these stories that sort of
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pop up, and they define an era, and that era often
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these eras, because they come, a big story pops up, we
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talk about it constantly for a couple of weeks, it goes
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But we've, of course, had many of these controversies in
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the past few years, and we've talked about the way the
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I heard, what is it, Screwworm is the latest one?
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They found the first human infected with it in Maryland, by the way.
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But apparently he traveled here from, I think, Guatemala or one of the Central American
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I hope he wasn't a Maryland father and husband.
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Look, we're building factories to create sterile flies that are supposed to go out and kill
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And are you telling me you're not aware of this deadly screw worm?
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I've had a couple of things called that, but no.
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Especially because I'm in the room with you right now.
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I will say, if you're out and about and you have some sort of wound on you, though,
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We really, I think when you say, put yourself in that place again, what it felt like, right?
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We all know that Gavin Newsom kept California locked down to 2023 or something.
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But I mean, think of those first couple of weeks.
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We had indications that like healthy people weren't really affected by it.
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We all knew because I think everybody in the audience at least knew people who care about
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We all knew you can't be closing churches because of this.
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But many of us had our, the businesses that we either own or work at were closed.
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Because even in bright red states for a few weeks or maybe a couple months, these things
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And you could almost feel what it was like to be back in that moment.
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And it felt like something that could not happen in the United States until it was here.
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A day or two of, it might have been the same night or it was the night before the NBA.
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Remember they stopped the NBA game in the middle of it?
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And then all of a sudden, everything was closed.
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We all have, we all understand how weird that era was now.
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Like we can all say that was so strange and so out of the American experience.
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I don't think we've really begun to reckon with how weird 21 and 22 were though.
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Because the fact, the echoes of George Floyd and all of that DEI stuff.
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And the fact that our country for a year or two decided to just become Ibram Kendi in
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nation form, where all of a sudden we were tossing every guy out of work because they
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made a bad joke to some co-worker 12 years ago.
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We were, every time someone would say something that referenced anything controversial, they'd
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We were talking, we were looking back at tweets of players getting drafted to the NFL and
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And then you had all the company stuff where companies were just coming out and saying the
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The one that went viral a couple weeks ago was a tweet by the NHL, the National Hockey League,
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Hockey, which is just famous for people beating the crap out of each other.
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Everybody, you know, all these companies are basically Gavin Newsom.
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They go wherever they need to go to make more money.
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I don't think we've really reckoned with how strange that era was.
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And now that we're at the point where we're saying, hey, you know, maybe Bud Light shouldn't
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have Dylan Mulvaney as the logo of the company, you know, as a spokesperson for the company.
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We have we had so many of those moments where we've kind of reawoken from wokeness and said,
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And it feels like we're making progress and turning that around.
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I don't think we've realized how weird and crazy that period was, though.
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I mean, we reversed almost every belief we had in this country for a couple of years.
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We reversed so many things that we believed never could happen in the United States of America.
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Like we certainly had periods of massive racism in this country.
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We've had all sorts of terrible things in this country in our history.
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And the way we get past that makes us great is to treat people equally.
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You go to a situation difficult where you just don't care about skin color.
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I mean, we talked about it a thousand times, but I mean, I thought we were there when Obama
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I felt like that was actually where it started to turn around.
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But we went down this road of making race and gender and sexual preference into what
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Which is actually what, hear this clearly, what is least important about a person.
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None of it, I mean, look, color of skin makes no difference.
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Now, there are differences between the genders, which are important.
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The left tried to change those things, but that does not mean that gender should be treated
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Like you should be able, everyone should have the same rights.
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Everyone should have the same opportunity, not the same outcome, but the same opportunity.
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When you come to sexual preference, of course, you know, if you're at a bar or something,
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then, you know, probably there is some relevance to that as far as it is somewhat important
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It depends on the time of night, but go ahead, Stu.
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It depends how many Bud Lights you're in that particular evening.
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But, yeah, you know, that one might be a little bit more, it's at least a little bit more core
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And we've now seen so many companies just get swatted down with their ridiculous nonsense
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trying to kiss butt and move into that, the afterglow of the DEI, Ibram Kendi, George Floyd era,
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And I hope that that's the case, but I think that, you know, what we call it is gone.
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I don't know that the actual happenings of the whole process is gone.
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I made this observation yesterday with Glenn in that progress, I think, is undeniable here.
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We've just started backing out of the wrong, you know, I always think of that famous picture
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If you go down the wrong road, you don't just keep going because you started that way.
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You turn around, you come back to that split again and go the opposite direction.
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When you realize it was the wrong way, you turn around.
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This is a lesson learned by Cracker Barrel yesterday as they came out and have reversed
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When she took the CEO, when she took office, she said how what a great company Cracker Barrel
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And then within the first six months, yeah, we're going to change it all, though.
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No, she's been there for two or three years, I think.
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Within the first six months of her taking the CEO ship, she said, well, we're going to
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And it lasted considerably less time than New Coke.
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A lot of people are like, hey, they weren't going back to Cracker Barrel Classic.
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I mean, New Coke was at least out for a few months.
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And then they continued it as a parallel product to Coca-Cola Classic.
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They make that front, hey, we're going to change it.
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We're not changing everything, but we're changing the big stuff that really matters.
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We're taking away the old guy on a rocket chair, which we come to find out his name is
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I think it's either Uncle or Grandpa Herschel, but it's Herschel.
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And so then, I mean, then the world went crazy.
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So then they go on, they paid for their, and I don't know that they actually paid for it,
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but they did the infomercial on Good Morning America where the CEO came out and had great
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questions from Michael Strahan like, oh, that's interesting.
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I will say, just to pause quickly, it certainly felt like a paid segment.
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And she tried to say that the managers all wanted, were raising their hand for remodels.
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I don't believe that they're, I don't, I think that managers are asking for, you know,
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And maybe we get some new stuff in the kitchen.
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And maybe we work on finding some employees that can stick around and cook for more than
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You know, maybe we get some new shelving in our, in our lobby, in our, in the front of
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I, there's talk about some of the redesigns, right, where they would get rid of all the
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That would be a major change to Cracker Barrel, right?
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I thought, well, maybe it was AI, but I thought I saw some pictures of them.
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There was some of that, I think, that was real.
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And that was, I think, to me, hit me more than the logo change.
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Well, they, they get rid of a couple of the things on the outside, but it's sort of the
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And I think there is a real pushback right now on that.
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And I do believe that Cracker Barrel is probably hurting.
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You know, they're not doing the business that they were doing.
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Because I am fascinated by even why they even started this process.
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Because the last time I was there, I will say this.
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I may have been to a Cracker Barrel a couple of times.
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The chicken and dumplings was one of my favorite dishes.
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It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn today who's out sick.
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Nothing to blow you away, but a slight increase.
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And I would actually say the fact they only went from $3.1 down to $2.5 billion is pretty good performance during COVID.
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From a restaurant where probably every location was closed for $2.
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Honestly, I don't know if they were open or not.
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Remember there was a big issue that Waffle House was closed.
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And then they eventually were like, screw it, we're opening.
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You could make the case that they hung in their super.
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Now, what that picture shows you is moderate but relatively consistent growth.
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And it's been pretty strong, I would argue, since COVID.
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People were traveling back on the road and eating to stop at Cracker Barrel.
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It does, to me, feel like this is totally unnecessary.
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They should have concerned themselves with making sure that the kitchens were up to date
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and they had new tables and chairs and that they were able to have employees stick around
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It didn't seem like it needed a complete rebrand.
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I don't, if it's not for woke reasons, I don't think we necessarily care that much, right?
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I don't think, sometimes you lose a brand that you love and it's annoying and you don't like
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But like, usually it's because there's a motivation behind it.
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I mean, there does seem to be a DEI element inside this company.
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The CEO has been accused of some of this and such.
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But like, I don't know, at some level, I will say there's a line.
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If you tell me you don't care about losing to Herschel, we are going to fight right now.
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What I am saying is there are a lot of big issues.
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You don't want to hate with everyday Americans.
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There's a dividing line where there's some things I care about, some things I just don't
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Too much chicken fried steak is the cause from Cracker Barrel.
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He got, see, we were talking about the rebrand and he didn't want you to know that he was
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frequenting a Cracker Barrel in the middle of this period, crossing, basically crossing
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We mentioned Cracker Barrel has caved to the rebranding outrage.
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This is a tough decision too, because as you mentioned, she comes into office six months
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They do all these, you know, they hire marketing firms.
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And then a week after releasing this thing they said was going swimmingly, they've completely
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And now we're getting stories about how the board didn't all agree on these changes, but
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You, you are not a man who folds to pressure over societal norms.
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I think when people are going to take it that way, when people are critical of you, you tend
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to just continue in the direction you were going in.
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And it's hard to slow down when you get going, right?
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So do you think this is the right thing for them to do?
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I mean, I'm glad that they did, but I don't know.
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Because their first knee bend, I think, was where they should have stayed.
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Their first knee bend was, look, Herschel's not going anywhere.
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And it's just the sign on the store that's changed.
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They tried to ease that pain of getting rid of the old logo.
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But I kind of feel like they should have stayed there.
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But I will say, oftentimes, these rages that go on for a few weeks wind up fading.
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And, you know, I mean, I can't tell you how many people told me they were never going to buy Bud Light again.
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Bud Light was able to kind of just go through that.
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And now their sales are back up from the low points.
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Still seeing their commercials during football season.
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I mean, I will say, they basically spent every dollar they had in marketing trying to address that issue.
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Like, who is a figure that some people on the right like?
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A lot of times, you know, you wind up trying something like this.
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Coca-Cola being probably the best example of this.
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And now you're the biggest beverage company in the world.
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Did they say, I mean, they said the new logo is going away.
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Or, I mean, did they say, hey, we made a mistake?
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They said, we've listened to you, is what they said.
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If you were fired up about this, maybe, you know, look, I grew up in the Northeast.
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You know, Cracker Barrel is not the institution it is to many down in the South.
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And don't you try to ease your hate for Americans, OK?
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I honestly didn't care that much when it happened.
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You know how much stuff there is going on, Jeff?
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Those of us that drive across this great land of ours and need some food once in a while
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I know those of you that, you know, fly over, look down upon us.
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You host a podcast called Chewing the Fat and you commute 20 minutes home.
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And it's only 30 minutes because you stop at Cracker Barrel on the way home.
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You know, it wasn't my central issue, but I get, you know, if it was a brand that I cared
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Um, I think the right thing to do in this moment is to reverse yourself.
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This is not like a meaningful change where some of these companies made statements, you
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know, uh, about who they were and they're, we, this is, this is, you know, these are
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And if you like their food, you, you, I guess you went about it, they went about it, you
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And, uh, what's your forgiveness level on the stuff?
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Like when something like this happens, they reverse it.
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Or are you more of the person who says I'm pissed off for them ever doing that?
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Oh, I'm, uh, I'm, I will be, uh, maybe the first Cracker Barrel I pass on the interstate.
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But by the second when I'm kind of hungry, that's just go.
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Um, I think a lot of this has to do, you know, this is, uh, ties loosely, I think to the
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flag burning situation, uh, with the president and his new executive order be, you know,
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it's a much more serious symbol than, than Herschel.
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And however, though, I think the symbol, it is a symbol.
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I think people think of the idea of a flag burning and say, wait a minute, I don't want
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We've talked about this issue before we met with, um, Orrin Hatch, Senator Orrin Hatch
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from Utah years ago, uh, in, in the back room of an arena where Glenn was doing a show
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and we were sitting there, I can't remember, there's four or five people there and he was
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I don't remember what year this was, but I guess it had to be in the Obama era, I want
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And Orrin Hatch's big idea was to get people to the polls, to win elections.
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He was going to put a constitutional amendment, uh, a flag burning amendment and the, in the,
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And I, Glenn and I are so like, really, that's, that's the idea.
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Like something, I don't want anyone burning flags.
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And I, and I, am I pissed off every time I see it?
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I mean, it's, and it shows how you're pathetic if you do it.
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I will say the way it was first presented, uh, as the, you know, this, uh, this flag
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burning, uh, executive order, I thought, uh, I never wanted to burn a flag more with them
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telling me I couldn't do it, but I, I said, the way it was presented, the way it was presented.
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And it's a symbol of a great nation, but that is, it is a symbol of a great nation.
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I feel like it, I feel like being worried so much about that symbol is almost a sign
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All the things that people say that it is, this is a symbol of that.
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And, and you, and do I feel, do I feel angry if I see someone burning it?
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Like if you're that, it feels like something, you know, um, a, a country does that is more
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insecure than we are certainly is more insecure than, than, than our, than the current president
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I mean, this is a person who knows how great the country is.
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And I think that's the motivation behind the flag burning amendment.
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And the way it was presented, which obviously is not what it is, uh, you know, I'm like,
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well, I've never wanted to burn a flag more now.
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And it's just, but then when you find out that, well, that's really, once again, what
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we talked about earlier, it's not really what it is.
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Let's hear him talking about it first and then we'll discuss what it actually says.
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Here's Donald Trump talking about the flag burning amendment.
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What the executive order does, sir, it charges your department of justice with investigating
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And then where there's evidence of, of criminal activity, uh, that where prosecution wouldn't
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fall afoul of the first amendment and instructs the department of justice to prosecute those
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who are engaged in these instances of flag burning.
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And what the penalty is going to be, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.
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If you burn a flag, you get, and what it does is incite to riot.
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I hope they use that language by the way, did they?
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You don't get 10 years, you don't get one month.
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You get one year in jail and it goes on your record and you will see flag burning, stopping
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Just like when I signed the statute and monument act 10 years in jail.
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of you heard any of our beautiful monuments everybody left town they were gone never had
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a problem after that it's pretty amazing we stopped it but this is something that's uh i
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don't know in a certain way it's equally as important now i think every single person in
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this audience probably agrees with the sentiment yes right the idea that we don't want people
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burning flags is disrespectful to the country it usually indicates someone who is either
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outwardly opposed to our nation or just really annoying and smelly um so there is it's what
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usually one of those two things yeah now what he's saying there a one-year penalty for burning
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the flag is not only not something he can't do himself you can't just institute a new criminal
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penalty through an executive order that's not how the system works at all in addition to that
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the executive order doesn't even describe this penalty it doesn't right it says nothing about
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the way it was presented yeah the way it's presented here is a very tough stand on flag
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that's it monuments the same thing we're gonna we're gonna tell everybody we want everyone to
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know don't do it the actual text of this though is consistent with the constitution and is consistent
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with the supreme court ruling where i see you know a lot of people on the right are now saying oh well
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yeah we should have it should be illegal to burn a flag uh you can have that argument i think a lot of
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people would agree with you on it because uh but you know you have to go orrin hatch's approach while
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i didn't necessarily love it as a tactic was the right one you have to have a constitutional amendment
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for that to go on um but at the end of the day i think a lot of people just really don't like flag
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burning so they want it to stop what trump is doing here is giving you a message of this is going
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to be a massive penalty what he says there and it says in the uh executive order as well is basically
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if someone's burning a flag and that incites a criminal riot they should be prosecuted for the
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for inciting the criminal riot and usually but that's already a crime and most for the most part uh you
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know those the insightful the insight of uh of riots that's already taken place you know i mean the
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crowds are already gathered when we see people burning our flag cleaning burning the country's
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flag the crowd's already there they're already incited yeah so the flag burning is just uh you
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know the icing on top it's yeah it's part of it um now jd vance addressed this uh because
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antonin scalia was one of these justices who was on the side of saying flag burning is we might hate
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it but it is protected speech he said one antonin scalia was a great supreme court justice and a
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genuinely kind and decent person true two the president's executive order is consistent with
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texas versus johnson that's that case and it's true it not only is it consistent with it it mentions
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it in the executive order basically saying we're not going to violate this and then three uh he says
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texas versus johnson was wrong and william rehnquist was right that's probably the the actual debate people
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are having um you know i i tend to think it's a symbol and you know i'm with you in that you know
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you should be able to do it if you really want to uh but uh i i don't like it and i'm not going
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to approve of it and i'm going to criticize you for it but like it doesn't change my life if you
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burn a flag i just think you're dumb that's basically what happens unless the fire results
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in my house burning down which is we hold it that's a crime that's a separate crime so that's
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where we are with that again the media going crazy over this when in reality when you read the text of
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We complain about the media being wrong about stuff.
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This is one of those moments we hope they are wrong.
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Because we're getting reports now from Minneapolis of what appears to be a horrific shooting
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happening at a church, Annunciation Catholic Church, in southeast Minneapolis.
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These are the details I'm getting to currently.
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It is a, I mean, I, to set the scene here, it seems to be really bad.
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They're saying, I mean, this is an initial figure.
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There was a school about 320 kids and they were in an all school mass at the time of the shooting.
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There are reports of a man dressed in black with a rifle.
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And it does appear that the situation is under control from the aspect of additional violence carrying forward.
01:30:01.480
We don't think that there's a threat to the surrounding community anymore.
01:30:07.120
I mean, that usually means the person with the gun has been killed or killed himself or has surrendered in some way.
01:30:15.640
But, but good God, this, this seems to be a really, really tragic situation.
01:30:23.640
And, you know, I, all we can do at this point is sit back and say, and pray for the victims, pray for the families that are involved.
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When people say hope, my hopes and prayers are with you, and then the left mocks you and says, oh, all you have is hopes and prayers.
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Well, first of all, hopes is one thing I can see.
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Hopes do very little for you in a situation like this.
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We can try to be optimistic for the best possible outcome.
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When, when the left mocks prayers, what they're mocking is the ultimate thing you can do in this moment.
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I mean, I don't, you know, we'll get into that.
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I'm sure that will be a debate coming in future days, and I don't, I don't need to do it yet.
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You can try to do all sorts of different things here on earth.
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But at the end of the day, the solutions to issues like this do not come from laws.
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If you, if you're a Christian, if you're faithful, your ultimate response in a situation like this is prayer.
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And certainly, the people who sent their child probably at great expense to a Catholic school, those people certainly believed in it as well.
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And you might say, well, gosh, if you're on the left, you might say, oh, gosh, well, they didn't do anything for their kids.
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Well, you know, you can, you can be a horrible human being if that's what you desire to be.
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That option is presented to you in this country.
01:32:20.280
You can sit here and take, you know, some grotesque joy out of this type of situation.
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But at the end of the day, this is the only thing that does solve this is people changing and, and, and honestly, miracles.
01:32:38.220
The only thing that can solve a situation like this in a free society is a miracle.
01:32:42.300
And I really do hope that, hope and pray that maybe, maybe, maybe the worst things that are being reported are not true.
01:32:52.620
Jeffy, I know you've been looking at this as we've been talking here.
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Well, we can certainly hope and pray that what they're reporting is not true.
01:33:08.640
The shooter, they claim, is deceased from a self-inflicted gun wound.
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And they also said that they found firearms and explosives on the scene.
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So, I mean, is, could something, you know, obviously they have everything locked down and we hope that that is the end of all of this, that nothing else horrible happens.
01:33:32.040
I mean, I would, I would pray that 20 is too high.
01:33:40.220
I mean, the situation being lined up in the reports that we're seeing, I mean, you think about a, it's a, you know, large, pretty large church.
01:33:47.840
But a school service, you know, my kids go to a religious school.
01:33:58.580
I mean, and to see a situation like this, this is why, I don't know if you've noticed this, Jeffy, but like churches now really often have people who, you know, security and armed officials there when they have large gatherings.
01:34:13.440
That's a, it's a, it's a despicable sign of our society, but a lot of people, a lot of people have anger against God.
01:34:22.320
A lot of people are psychos and want to do terrible things to children.
01:34:28.500
I mean, we've talked, and I'm sure, I'm sure Glenn has talked about it, you know, for safety and security of churchgoers, as you said, with security outside.
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But they've also talked about trying to get churches not to live stream their Sunday services.
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You don't want to, well, because this is one of the things that we've seen.
01:34:52.980
Consistently through reporting on mass shootings over the years, which is a desire for notoriety.
01:35:02.220
A desire to be the one who sets the record, to be the one who everyone remembers to be.
01:35:09.960
And this is why I don't use the names of the shooters.
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I know the blaze currently has that policy as well.
01:35:17.720
I know a bunch of other people have jumped on that bandwagon.
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Because that is the one clear thing you can see in report after report and study after study on these things is that is a big part of the motivation.
01:35:32.180
The big part of the motivation is that notoriety, is that fame, is to be famous even among that community.
01:35:39.440
And the community are people who are thinking about doing these mass shootings or have done them.
01:35:43.820
And there's almost like a bizarre, like, you know, swifty type society that has developed online.
01:35:55.560
Oh, well, we've been a death cult on the left for a long time.
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And you can just start with abortion and then work your way down the list.
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I mean, we've got them crying now that they're for crime, right, in the cities.
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They want the crime in the cities without saying, well, we need crime.
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When they're saying they're against making streets safer.
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You know, you think about the deaths of all the potential births that came before, you know, of course, going after human beings before they were born.
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You have the situation that certainly developed in mass in Canada, where now we're seeing one of the leading causes of death.
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Where they're encouraging people without life-threatening conditions to take it on.
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And I think, honestly, there's a real consistency with the attitude of so many about what you might refer to as bad neighborhoods in cities.
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You know, like there's that situation in L.A., famously Skid Row, right?
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Where it's basically like, it's not walled off, but in a way it almost feels like a walled off area of the society.
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If you cross this street, we might start enforcing crimes.
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But you there, you have your little community of crime and suffering and despair, and we'll live over here.
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And there is a version of that that goes on in every one of these big cities, Chicago certainly, you know, certainly in D.C., where they will just allow a lot of this stuff to happen as long as it happens in the right areas.
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I mean, really, we're seeing it in every major city across America.
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I mean, it's overwhelming, which, you know, leads us into President Trump saying we need to clean it up.
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And I think that's why I think people will actually have have an appetite for it.
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The denials from the left and the media are not going to work.
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You can't tell you can't talk your way out of these problems.
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People are buying things and the prices are going up.
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You can't tell them Bidenomics is working and expect that to be effective.
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You can say Donald Trump's evil and he's orange and he's Hitler and he's all these bad things.
01:38:55.520
But at the end of the day, what he's suggesting is we should stop crimes from occurring.
01:39:11.440
I think they have and they just but they don't go to certain areas.
01:39:21.860
And now I will say D.C. during the inauguration, a different place.
01:39:26.500
There are absolutely one trillion police officers all over the place.
01:39:32.440
I mean, honestly, what they're doing today is nowhere near what they do for inauguration for understandable reasons.
01:39:40.780
But in the areas where, you know, politicians walk from day to day on a day to day basis, where their aides are, where the nice hotels are, that's not where the monuments are.
01:39:53.980
The issue are areas outside of that vicinity, which, you know, one area in D.C., I think it was a 10 block area was responsible for 14 percent of the murders in the entire city.
01:40:07.960
Now, you can stop the murders in that 10 block area by populating it with a lot of police officers, at least for a time.
01:40:16.860
That doesn't mean that eventually the crime doesn't move.
01:40:19.660
But what's happened, I think, in city after city, Jeffy, is we've just abandoned these areas.
01:40:28.960
Democratic mayors have come in and said, if we can make it nice for the nice people.
01:40:47.840
I mean, San Francisco is an example of it kind of permeating everywhere.
01:40:52.180
I mean, you can go to really nice areas in San Francisco.
01:40:55.040
And there are still homeless people with needles in their arms pooping on the sidewalk.
01:41:03.980
Yes, and it had just started to become bad in several areas.
01:41:10.120
I mean, when we walked around those neighborhoods, some of those neighborhoods were just starting to get –
01:41:16.140
you were like, are they letting those people put their tents up in front of the buildings, in front of the storefronts?
01:41:28.120
And it was, I will say, the worst smell I've ever smelled was on that trip.
01:41:37.320
It was some combination of God only knows what.
01:41:40.300
I don't even want to get into the description of it.
01:41:47.260
And you can let your city completely go, which was kind of what San Francisco tried for a while there.
01:41:54.140
If you can do a version of this where it's sort of cordoned off.
01:42:02.060
You know, these people – one of the things that I think is effective in what Trump is trying to do here is,
01:42:08.340
for the first time, there's a person who's standing up and saying they actually care about these people.
01:42:14.960
The president is saying, I want you to be safe.
01:42:16.740
I want to do something that is testing my presidency, that is testing the power structure around me.
01:42:24.000
And I want to do that to stop the murders in your community.
01:42:27.680
I mean, how many shows – Jeff, he's the king of television.
01:42:30.920
But, like, you look at – you know, think of, like, The Wire, right?
01:42:37.080
But you have these areas of town that are just crime-ridden, and people just kind of stop and say, well, that's that area.
01:42:47.380
And the police don't want to really go there because they already know that's a bad area.
01:42:55.500
I think one of the plots of the – one of the seasons of The Wire, if I'm not mistaken, it's been a while since I watched it, was they actually did just give them an area.
01:43:03.200
Yeah, the one police chief or captain gave them the area.
01:43:07.440
And so the crime and the drug dealing could all happen right there.
01:43:11.800
It's not that overt, but it's happening all over the country.
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We'll have more updates on what's going on in Minneapolis as we go forward today.
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It is a developing situation, and it is important to realize much of the information you will get in this time period will not be accurate.
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We're getting reports of 20 that are at least injured.
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So, they are giving a press conference coming up in a few minutes.
01:45:15.060
So, we'll learn more about the shooting in Minneapolis.
01:45:18.480
Right now, it's being reported that the shooter and two others have lost their lives.
01:45:35.040
It's hard to even describe how ridiculous this stuff is.
01:45:38.860
Like, you know, if you're going to wind up, if you're going to be one of these people that's going to go and kill yourself,
01:45:44.880
there's so many people now who want to draw attention to themselves and take out others in these moments.
01:45:50.480
And, you know, we saw this with the NFL situation from a few weeks ago where the shooter, like, he was like,
01:45:57.820
oh, this is going to be, you know, death by police or whatever.
01:46:00.780
Went in and killed a bunch of people and then wound up dying.
01:46:03.620
It seems like potentially a self-inflicted gunshot wound here as well.
01:46:10.420
This is very basic and you should be reminded of it.
01:46:17.300
Even if you think you're a terrible person or you're having all sorts of problems, don't do that.
01:46:25.220
Really don't do it when you're going to go take out a bunch of innocent children.
01:46:28.620
You wonder in a situation like this, and oftentimes this is the case where people come back to maybe, you know,
01:46:35.180
someone who went to school there or someone who had a beef with this particular church.
01:46:41.180
But you think the idea that maybe they knew that there was a service where everyone was gathered.
01:46:46.440
Because this isn't obviously what they're doing all the time at the school.
01:46:51.480
Seems like this was timed to hit the mass amount of people possible.
01:46:57.560
But look, whatever you think, you know, to these people who do this over, whatever you think is important in your life,
01:47:05.400
whatever you think is so important that you have to do something like this, I guarantee it's not.
01:47:12.680
And gosh, to watch this stuff happen, especially when it comes to kids, man, this is the worst.
01:47:18.160
This is the worst our society produces these days.
01:47:25.080
We'll have more coverage, of course, on TheBlaze.com.
01:47:29.580
And we'll get into more as we get updates here.
01:47:32.420
Ongoing situation in Minneapolis with a mass shooting seemingly taking place at a church.
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It's Jeffy and Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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Federal sources are telling Fox News the shooter in Minneapolis is dead.
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You had mentioned, Jeffy, another report saying a couple had passed away.
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Is that counting the two that they're saying is not deceased?
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And this is where we're going to draw the line on this.
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It's important for you to know that it's going on.
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It's important for you to know what the reporting is saying at some level.
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There's a chance we are going to have a press conference on this incident in the next 20 minutes or so.
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But there is a limit as to what utility we can provide here because I think what we're going to find out is half the stuff that they're reporting right now is not accurate.
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It's just one of those situations where you just know we're going to wind up with a lot.
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When we actually know the truth and what's gone on, we're going to have much different information.
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It doesn't seem likely, but we're going to wind up finding out what this is.
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So what we'll do over the next 20 minutes for you is monitor the situation.
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If anything concrete breaks, we will bring it to you.
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If we get this press conference, we'll bring it to you.
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But for the time being, rather than sitting here and speculating for 20 minutes, let's go on to some of the other things that are happening because there are a lot of other things happening in the world.
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In fact, a bunch of big developments in the legal world right now, including one with Amazon, Jeff.
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I've got lawsuits and a drug kingpin going down.
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But the Amazon class action lawsuit filed in federal court this past weekend over a bait and switch in which the company allegedly, allegedly, of course, misleads consumers into believing they've purchased content when they're only getting a license to watch it, which can be revoked at any time.
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This is what the class action is mad about, is that you shouldn't say buy because you're not buying it.
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The fact is that what's being bought isn't ownership of the title, but rather a limited time license for viewing access.
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So if the tech, you know, if they decide that they want to replace it with a different cut, if they want, if they lose the rights for the film altogether, they can just take it away.
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If you bought a movie from Amazon, if you purchased a, I'm sorry, a limited time license for viewing access on a movie that you really enjoyed, and they've lost their rights to air it, they pull it from your My Movies section on Amazon Prime.
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I feel like I've purchased movies in the past from Amazon, and I go back to find them, and they're not there.
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I don't, and I don't know that they're, I don't know that.
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Could you be dreaming and not have actually ordered the movie?
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And like, it's really, they have made the case before this California, now this is nationwide.
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Now in California, they had a lawsuit that was where Amazon said, people know.
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People know that they're not actually purchasing the thing they're purchasing.
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And the court was like, that's not what it says.
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Like, it doesn't work to say that, you don't, you have to say things that are true.
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Like, gosh, I'm going through a situation right now.
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But oftentimes, when you make purchases, the website indicates, insinuates, hints toward certain things happening, certain prices on items.
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And then when you go through a little bit of the process, all of a sudden, the price is a lot higher.
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And you have this, you've clicked a button that says buy.
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For a certain amount of time, and then it goes away.
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Maybe that's what you call it, a long-term rental.
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I mean, California just passed a law that says that you're supposed to, the false advertising and consumer legal remedies laws.
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They want, you're buying a limited license for these movies.
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So, under the statute, sellers are supposed to obtain acknowledgement.
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So, I don't know if Amazon is different in California.
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A prime is different in California than it is the rest of the country.
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But, I mean, it comes up on your screen to rent, you can have it for so long, or buy, and they definitely lead you to believe it's yours when it really isn't.
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You know, we all believe that it is, except it's not.
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And it is a, you know, there's some people out there who really are pushing for, own your media.
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You know, if you want a movie and you want to make sure you have it forever and it's not going to be altered or edited for woke purposes.
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Glenn talks about this all the time when it comes to digital books.
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Because you've actually, you didn't buy the book, Stu.
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You went ahead and had a limited time license for viewing access.
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It's the American dream, Jeffy, to have a limited time access.
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For viewing access of your home, of homeownership.
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I feel like, and I feel like there were other companies, too, that we had dealings with that was,
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we were buying movies from, and then it went away, and they gave you so much time to say,
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we're going away, and if you want to keep the stuff you've already purchased, you've got to move it over here.
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I feel like everybody's getting sued right now.
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I know OpenAI is dealing with a bunch of stuff.
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For billions, actually, alleging their partnership is preventing grokking from becoming a common verb.
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And the lawsuit alleges that the two monopolists teaming up last year to embed chat GPT into iPhones
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led them to corner the AI market and throttle Musk's companies.
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Have you ever heard anyone use the term grokking before?
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That's because they won't allow me to see that, Stu.
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Those things are supposed to be organic, aren't they?
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You know, what's the movie you're trying to make fetch happen?
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This is, you know, I don't think grokking is a thing that's happening.
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Now, I think there are some potentially, you know, I don't really care about a lot of the stuff.
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But there's always these, like, anti-competitive lawsuits.
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Well, look, Apple thwarted, you know, these super apps.
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They're already, you know, the Fortnite deal, maker of Epic Games.
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I mean, they sued them and won for being throttled from the Apple store.
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And so, I mean, so they could sell it themselves and they were getting, they're charging more money on the Apple app and it cost them, you know, a lot of money.
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I feel like you're goading me to talk about my situation with this story selection today.
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I mean, look, you purchase an item and you are advertised one thing.
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You advertised one thing and then you realized that the advertising was maybe a little misleading.
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And I think it would really annoy me to have an electric car.
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However, there are some benefits to electric cars that I'm interested in.
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Both of the ones that I always have to cart around, both catchers.
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So, I was thinking about maybe they have a Model Y, which is like a SUV, much more storage than I have.
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He often plays tournaments that are at eight o'clock in the morning, an hour and a half away.
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And I am very interested in the self-driving capabilities.
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Which many people are using in this very Metroplex.
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And I like the idea of, I'm not going to be, you know, you got to pay attention to the road, but it's nice to have.
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When we get to the point when I can go to sleep, let me know.
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I kind of like the assistance, though, on a long drive.
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And another step, number three in this process of how I got here.
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I have to drive my daughter to gymnastics, which is 45 minutes away and always in constant traffic.
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That drive in my current car, which is a manual transmission, is hell.
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And you forgot when automatics came out why people liked to them.
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But driving in traffic, stop and go traffic for 45 minutes, is not pleasant.
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And then finally, Jeffy, you may have heard of global warming.
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Global warming, I know we're so concerned with it.
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You and I have got the global warming stickers all over our cars.
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Because it is currently 174 degrees in Texas for...
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Well, the sun moves closer to Texas this time of year.
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Just starting to fade into the 80s and 90s occasionally now.
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And the aforementioned Little League tournaments, where your car's outside baking for eight straight hours, getting back in, very difficult.
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Now, again, as I mentioned, the car is a manual transmission, so there's no auto start on it.
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In fact, one of the things that's most attractive to me about potentially buying a Tesla or another electric vehicle would be the idea where you can just kind of turn on the climate control and leave it at like 70 degrees.
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It might not even have said this in your papers.
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But you can have it just like say you're done with the game.
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And you're at the field and you go, oh, man, I'm not going to walk all this whole parking lot to carry this baseball stuff to the car, am I?
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So all these are features that would make me be interested in a Tesla with trepidation because I don't think I love the idea.
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Or they just came out with this new lease program.
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I'm like, this is actually really interesting because one of the lease terms is a year.
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Two to three hundred bucks a month for a year for a used Tesla.
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That's not too bad, but except whatever it costs to charge and everything, I'm told that that's not free.
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I would assume that charging it was free, but it's not.
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It's not free, but it's supposed to be cheaper than gas.
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Well, let's just say after you put your money in and you send them your deposit,
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let's just say the two to three hundred dollar cost seems to multiply by multiple times.
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It doesn't seem to be anywhere near two to three hundred dollars a month.
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And now they're like, well, we're, oh my God, I just want to cancel this thing now.
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And they're like, well, we're not, we can't send you back.
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Like I'm trying to have an experience with this company and I think overall it's a good company.
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Like, no, I'm not complaining about it, but it's like, just be upfront with me.
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And then don't wait to reveal the actual payment until after I've given you money that you won't refund.
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That is an interesting approach as to get customers long term.
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Maybe you could scam them into one deal or a couple thousand dollars.
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But like, I'm not going to want to go back to Tesla after that.
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Once they give, once you've already agreed to the limited time license for driving access from Tesla, you're good to go.
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What you're hearing are your thoughts via the mind and mouth of Glenn Beck.
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Brooks Turner is a 35-year-old dad, and he held his preschooler daughter, Ayla, in his arms as he walked away from the scene of a Minneapolis shooting that is breaking today.
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He said he was told all students were in a church for an all-school mass when the shooting started.
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But Ayla and the other pre-K students were in a room below.
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Ayla said she heard banging and hid in a play kitchen before she was evacuated.
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So thank God at least there's one story there that's hope.
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But it paints a picture of how terrible a situation this is, hiding in a play kitchen.
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Please protect these families and these people that are there and going through this situation.
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We're going to be actually doing a show next week together as well here on the radio program.
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Hopefully, Glenn is feeling better and will rejoin us on tomorrow's program.
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