Things Are NOT Normal in America. It’s on Purpose | Guest: Steve Krakauer | 2⧸21⧸24
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2 hours and 4 minutes
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Summary
Tucker Carlson's first interview since returning home from Russia is a must-listen. Glenn Beck and Tucker talk about the importance of being prepared for anything that might come our way, and why you need food, water, and energy.
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Let me talk to you a little bit about preparedness.
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You want to be prepared for whatever might come your way.
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If you listen to this podcast, I said, so what do we do?
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And Tucker said, focus, focus, food, water, energy.
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We can't let those things slip away and have them control food, water, and energy.
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Welcome to the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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Yesterday, I had a fascinating hour conversation with Tucker Carlson.
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If you're a Blaze TV subscriber, you can watch it in its entirety now.
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First interview he has done since going back to Russia.
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I mean, well, at one point he said, I'm really having a hard time not using the F word with you right now.
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But I think it was really important what we learned yesterday.
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So yesterday, I think it was an important day for those who are fighting for the republic.
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I have often told you, you need to know who is standing by your side.
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And most people know that my former Fox News colleague, Tucker Carlson, went to Russia to interview Putin.
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Something that everyone, every journalist would love to do, but nobody can get an interview.
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The media and the left, as well as the Lindsey Grahams of the world, gave birth to a whole litter of kittens when it happened.
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But those who know and have gone to really get to know Tucker and have grown to trust him as a defender of American ideas and ideals,
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began to question some of the things that happened while he was there.
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Now, I didn't question him, but it left a, I don't know, a lingering doubt, okay?
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The things that he talked about with the grocery stores and the subways.
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Now, people pointed to that and said, that's proof Tucker not only loves Putin, but he wants an authoritarian state here so we can have clean subways.
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He was a communist, or at least a very big communist sympathizer, who was working for the Times, went to cover Russia,
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and knowingly helped Stalin cover up the murder of about 8 million Ukrainians.
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He wrote lovingly about the clean streets and the subways and how this planned economy and planned state functioned with perfection and everybody loved it.
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He's not on Putin's side at war or peace, but yet he doesn't seem to condemn him.
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When he shows us the subways, is he telling us that we need, I don't know, to bring back law and order and we need a strong man to clean up the streets?
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Or does he believe the Declaration, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights is the way to fix our country?
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So let's start with the shopping carts and the subways and the state, how great they were.
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Let me now go to some of the criticism of you that, you know, Jon Stewart just did a piece.
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I don't know if you've seen it on you, but yeah, I never watched them either.
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So, you know, you went in, you said Moscow is clean, the subways are wonderful, look at the chandeliers.
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Well, you, I know you, Tucker, you're smart enough to know who built those to look like that and why.
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So Walter Durante denied the existence, he was a New York Times correspondent in Russia in the 30s, he denied, of course, the Ukrainian famine, which was Stalin, that's exactly right.
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And he denied that the show trials of 1937, 38, that the terror was happening.
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He told lies and that's why his Pulitzer Prize was pulled from him posthumously.
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I told the truth in order to shame our leaders.
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That subway station I showed was built by Stalin in 1939.
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Joseph Stalin, probably the worst person in human history.
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That was over 80 years ago and it's still in perfect shape.
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Look at what Moscow has and compare it to what we have.
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And you have to ask yourself, like, no, this is, this is an indictment of our leaders.
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And I would recommend to every single one of your viewers and listeners, if you can, go spend a week in Moscow.
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Not because you love Russia, but because you love your own country.
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And compare that city, the largest city in Europe, 13 million people, compare it to the city that you live in or the city near you, which is in better shape.
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It's a radicalizing indictment of our rapidly declining standard of living and the horrible mismanagement of our leaders.
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Why don't we have a subway like that in any American city with no crime?
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So I, I went on to talk to him about this and I said, well, wait, I mean, that's because a dictator.
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There's no, there's no drug problem in China because you can just execute them on the spot.
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And again, he reiterated, I'm showing those things because I think Americans should be pissed off that this country, which we're told is on the brink of collapse, it's still together.
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And he was saying, I want to shame our politicians and wake the American people up saying we used to have clean streets.
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We did it because it was the right thing to do.
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And we didn't have leadership that was leading us down this path of more and more chaos and drugs and crime and decay.
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So did you get the sense, because like the reason Russia has that and has been able to maintain it for 80 years, right, is because they have certain policies they've implemented.
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You mentioned, obviously, the crime part of this, right?
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They are very, they're very, they're difficult on people who break their rules.
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But also like another part of that policy is centralized government spending money on prioritizing spending on government institutions to make them pretty.
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And secondarily, making sure, focusing money on cities where foreigners come to visit, as opposed to rural areas where they let people.
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So he's not asking for those policies, obviously.
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But he went in to talk about how now you've got a gigantic homeless village in front of Union Station, which is one of the most beautiful train stations in the country.
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And it's right across the street from the Capitol.
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Because we certainly, if we're building turtle tunnels, right, we certainly have the money to be able to maintain these buildings.
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His thing is, we're not choosing, the people aren't choosing them, the government, the government, the government, and the, you know, whatever you call this ruling class, they are actively trying to destroy our cities and our country by saying, don't enforce crime.
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And so it's not necessarily a praising of Russia.
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It's an excoriation of our policies, of not even our policies, our politicians who are intentionally destroying our nation.
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And we all have to get pissed off about it to stand up and say enough is enough.
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Pushed him hard on this because I wanted to know, I think it's important to be very clear on what we are advocating.
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Because everybody will make you, will put words into your mouth.
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And it's important on some subjects because there are those who love America and love the Lord that are currently being called Christian nationalists and that's not who they are.
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But there are Christian nationalists that are advocating things.
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And it is important to understand, are you this or are you that?
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If you're looking to get the church directly involved in the state and the government to rule, then that is un-American.
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However, if you believe our values come from the teachings of the Bible and you refuse to check those values at the door of your public office, why?
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Every day I walk through the door, I'm just as much Christian on the outside of this door as I am on the inside of this studio.
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I don't check my values because it makes me who I am.
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I don't, I, you know, you just don't want some Christian tyrant as the CEO.
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I don't want him coming in here saying, you need to talk about Jesus some more.
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I don't want that, and I certainly don't want that in a government.
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The problem is the hour is growing late, and we have to reconnect with the truth quickly and with what we learned as kids.
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Christ-like love, forgiveness, and then the backbone to say, crucify me.
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That's what I'm saying, and I think that's what he's saying.
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Without a strong moral code of ethics and decency and fact-based truth, you have no civilization to fight for.
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I want to give you one more question before the break.
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So I asked him, I pushed him and pushed him, and he said, you know, I'm really having a hard time not using the F word here.
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Uh, and I finally got to a place to where I think I understood what he was saying, but I just wanted to be clear.
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And if you happen to be watching the blaze, watch his reaction, because it's 100% genuine.
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Where the sticking point is in America right now is there's a lot of people on the right and the left that are both saying, screw the Constitution.
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When, you know, when you look at Orban, I think Orban is great for his country.
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So I think, and I believe you are, you've already said this, but I want to make sure it's very clear on the record.
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The only path forward for America is through the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.
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And by the way, I should just be very, very clear.
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If I was, I'm like the one person on the planet, you don't need to guess about my motives.
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And if I was advocating for a different form of government or for authoritarianism, for a strong man, I would just say so.
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I would have no shame in saying that because I really believe that it's within my rights to say what I think.
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I'm advocating to return to America of, say, 1993.
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And if there's one thing that I will fault Americans for, it's low expectations.
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The governor of Texas should not allow millions of people to cross his border.
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And I don't want to hear, you know, the excuses.
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And I don't want to hear the excuses for why it's okay to have tens of thousands of people dying on the street or sleeping on the sidewalk in tents handed to them by the Episcopal Church forever.
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It's not okay for my kids to use drugs at the breakfast table.
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The U.S. government is within its statutory rights as a government to say that.
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And, of course, the reason is because people will lose faith in liberal democracy.
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And that's exactly what this is about, is the left, and not just the left, I would say that the quizzling right on Capitol Hill, for whom I just have boundless contempt, they're in on this as well.
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They're going to steal the elections just as they stole the last one, which they did.
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And people are just going to be like, you know what?
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I want to live in the country we lived in in 1993 or 1985, not ancient history, post-Civil Rights Act.
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So, what is he, what was he saying there towards the end?
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He was saying it doesn't need to be this way and I'm tired of all of the excuses.
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And you're going to just get so frustrated that you're just going to say, whatever, just whatever.
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The New York Times reported yesterday, I think it was, maybe the day before, in a story that I had in my daily show prep, but we never had a chance to talk about it.
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The frustration level of the emergency calls to the left, that people who voted for Biden are finding themselves just tired.
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They're tired of, he's Hitler, he's Hitler, he's Hitler, he's Hitler.
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And everything being a crisis and an emergency and they're worn out.
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We also still really love our country and most of us aren't willing just to sit back and watch it go away.
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What happens when a community or a civilization is tired and everything is a crisis, which it's about to be?
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People just say, fine, just, I just make it stop.
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If you ever watched my show when I was at Fox or you listened to me on the radio or you've been following me on Blaze,
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you know there's two strategies being employed right now.
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Tonight, I'm going to go back over Cloward and Piven and top-down, bottom-up, and inside-out.
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By the way, Cloward and Piven said, you know, I'm just an old lady.
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Piven comes out and she used to say to me all the time on Twitter,
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He's saying that I'm teaching all these crazy things.
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Yesterday, and it's available now for Blaze TV subscribers
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in its entirety, Tucker Carlson and I had a conversation
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especially because I left it having a lot of my questions answered
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Because it's interesting to see the way he thinks.
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Welcome to the Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment
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You know, every day we talk about things that I never thought I'd talk about
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I never thought that would be something I had to discuss or think about
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And I just want to check with you because maybe this is normal in Philadelphia
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Just all by itself, no saddle, just a horse galloping down the freeway
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No, I drove down that road many times when we lived there
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And buffalo can just walk through, you know, the barbed wire
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It's on their face and they're like, I don't care
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And once in a while the town will have to call and say
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And they'll say, I know, well, he'll come back home
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I've never seen a horse galloping down the freeway before
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You know how many problems we face in this country
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I mean, honestly, if there's no food and horses are running down the highway
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I mean, I don't think I'm going to get bored of the food
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Because I don't think anybody's ever seen that before
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Yeah, I mean that was like, I think that was an expensive horse
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You know, you don't keep one in a, you know, a walk-up, you know, apartment
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But again, you also don't keep it on the highway
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Right, right, I mean, how did they find the on-ramp?
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I don't know, there's a lot of questions on that one
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This isn't like, yeah, well I saw this a month ago
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I now this morning got a list from my controller
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To tell us the tax annual assessments and values
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You have no clue what this means to this industry
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You have no clue what this means to every average New Yorker
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I got a part, I got small three family buildings
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Cut 13, this is one about the hotels in New York
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This is one of the five hotels that has been transformed into a shelter
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We're going to walk in there and see what kind of operation they're running inside
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When hotels such as the Row Hotel close until further notice
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They sign the contract with an outside source saying that they will pay the rent in order for them to house the migrants
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And the hotels love it because it is guaranteed money every single night
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And at a rate of $200 per night at the Row Hotel
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So can we just play the horse running down just because I need to
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The city of Buffalo and some of those first-ranked suburban areas
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And there's a problem CNN says with homelessness
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The number of people experiencing homelessness in a single night went up 12% in the United States in 2023
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In part because COVID programs preventing evictions and housing losses came to an end
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A quarter of those people were unhoused for the first time in their lives
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How many people fell into homelessness during COVID?
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Before COVID there were probably about 20 or 30,000 people
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They're on their way to Texas, Tennessee, Florida
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The collection of migrants that have been added to our country in the last three and a half years
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The woman who runs the bullying internet account
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I mean, maybe it's his first day with the makeup
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Anyway, this guy is having a serious conversation
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I'm so glad someone's finally asking this question
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My problem is that I'm too hot, too successful in my career
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Do you know how hard it is to choose an outfit each day?
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I also have so many amazing and hot people sliding into my DMs every day
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You've never had to deal with problems like that
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Every day, you know how hard it is to pick out a set of clothes every day?
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makes more sense than any other story I've seen today
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Look, a horse running down the highway in Philadelphia
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That is the most sensible story we've talked about in this segment
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He's forgotten that he's been in a coma for 400 years
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Have you heard about the big umbrella that we want to put in space?
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Maybe I could take enough of those to go into a coma
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The horse is okay with a bucket of water, Glenn
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I say they because I don't know the gender of the horse
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It makes me think you didn't actually look up what happened to the horse
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And so something tragic probably happened to the horse
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Until they decide to probably eat it in two weeks
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But at least I don't want to squish horses under my foot
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So it'll be harder for me to kill the horse than the cricket
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But once I've seen, you know, you show me a good steak
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But if you scrape something off of my window and then toast it
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Again, never thought we'd have that conversation
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The district said they need an additional $837,000 to support additional needs across the system
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Denver's public school system has been taking the hit
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With as many as 250 new students a week since the new year
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I mean, he might have been really hurting inside
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And then load it up with a bunch of crap that will cripple you
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They've helped so many people just in this audience
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Alright, so I was talking to you about the interest on the national debt
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It is now going to exceed the entire defense budget of $822 billion for fiscal year 2024
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What are they? The F-22s or the F-24s or the F-something
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Has secretly been slashing the number of illegal immigrants
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Who must post bond to enter in the United States
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Yeah, he apparently shibbed somebody with a knife
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Welcome to the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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We all know things are about to change dramatically.
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Stu, can you think of anything that might change that might make you, I don't know, $1,000 poorer?
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Yeah, that I'm a little more nervous about than I used to be.
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Well, you've bet me $1,000 that you think Michelle Obama will be the candidate.
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Yeah, not only that, but that Joe Biden will not be the candidate.
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Well, by definition, Glenn, they can't have two candidates.
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If Michelle Obama was the candidate, that would also mean that Joe Biden.
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Anyway, so if you're like me and would like to see Stu suffer,
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I have somebody who can take the parallel from 2020 and show you how it's been done before.
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Steve Kranichard, who used to work here, and where were you working before you worked at the police?
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So, yes, I was at CNN for about three and a half years.
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It was a very different CNN, I have to say, back in 2010 to 2013 when I was there.
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Yeah, well, I had just left there, and it was, I mean, it was still the same, but it was not out of control.
01:28:12.260
Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't crucify you in the hallway with literal nails.
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And then you came here, and you were working at the Blaze for a long time.
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And you left us for somebody better looking and more talented.
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It's called Uncovered, How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People.
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You've been watching the media for a long time and watching politics and how it's been covered.
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There's something, there's a replay of sorts, I think.
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And I know you wrote about this in the book, but I want to see what you, if you believe it ties back in.
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And that's the Bernie Sanders getting the shaft from the DNC in 2020.
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And I think you can, I write in Uncovered about the way Bernie Sanders got the shaft in 2016 as well.
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And then again in 2020 by the DNC, we saw this incredible moment.
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They actually made a point of this when they covered this in the New York Times of saying,
01:29:21.100
Bernie Sanders was really kind of coasting to victory.
01:29:28.340
Well, in 2016, and then again in 2020, he won Nevada.
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And then there was this moment where Pete Buttigieg, who was doing pretty well in his campaign,
01:29:36.480
and Amy Klobuchar, all of a sudden, they all dropped out.
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They all got behind Joe Biden in this final push to stop Bernie Sanders, stop the big upstart,
01:29:46.220
the big progressive, the anti-establishment candidate on the Democratic side.
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But what was different in 2020 and what I write about in Uncovered versus 2016 was it was also the media.
01:29:55.780
I went back and I looked at some of that MSNBC coverage.
01:29:58.360
Joy Reid, Chris Matthews, they were going so hard against Bernie Sanders,
01:30:03.000
but not just against Bernie Sanders, but against his own supporters.
01:30:05.720
And they were rallying the rest of the Democratic Party and saying, you know, you have to get in line.
01:30:11.080
CNN, this incredible moment, I have to say they kind of created the story of Bernie Sanders having this sexist moment with Elizabeth Warren,
01:30:20.440
where he said, oh, a woman can't become president.
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And then that night is the CNN debate where Elizabeth Warren could then attack Bernie Sanders over it.
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So there were all these little moments where the corporate press was essentially working in collusion with the DNC to stop Bernie Sanders.
01:30:37.620
And I believe that we've seen a playbook for this.
01:30:46.620
Now we see potentially, I think the drip, drip, drip happening as reclined podcast last week, certain stories.
01:30:53.180
If Joe Biden were to step aside, here's how they could replace him.
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And I think that if we really start to see media stories, places like a CNN, places like MSNBC,
01:31:04.880
start to talk about what's really going on behind the scenes at the White House or potentially some,
01:31:09.900
maybe some big Hunter Biden investigation, then we start to know they're done with Joe Biden.
01:31:19.340
You know, just this week, that she's really the force behind him staying because she wants vengeance.
01:31:29.340
I mean, I don't know who's really crossed Dr. Jill, but okay.
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And I thought that story would not have come out in 2020.
01:31:40.380
They are now going after her and just sending a subtle signal.
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I don't think the story would have come out in 2023.
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I think that the her report, the special counsel report was a big moment.
01:31:59.000
I mean, you know, 86% of Americans, including most Democrats, think that Joe Biden's too old to run.
01:32:04.480
And if this is really going to continue down this path, and I do think that the State of the Union coming up next month is a big pivot point.
01:32:10.940
If Joe Biden is able to sort of be okay on that big stage, maybe the rest of the Democratic establishment, the elites on the Democratic side and the media stays behind it.
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But if he doesn't, if he stumbles, I think we're going to see the floodgates open.
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And we've seen, you know, like I've read and uncovered, the media on the left has tremendous power to sway their base.
01:32:36.240
Even if he says, I can do the job, it appears the American people think I can't.
01:32:40.840
And then we start to open the idea of, okay, what happens next?
01:32:55.900
And there's no reason to believe she's got this job.
01:33:01.620
It still would be difficult, though, to just replace her.
01:33:06.020
I mean, just to skip over her, Michelle Obama would be the one figure you could see that happening with.
01:33:11.000
Because they could justify, well, it's an Obama, it's a black woman, we can do this.
01:33:17.180
I don't think Gavin Newsom is a realistic possibility.
01:33:21.380
I think Michelle Obama, Kamala, but I think is a, I mean, she's just unlikable.
01:33:32.580
It has to be a black woman if you're going to go with Kamala.
01:33:36.740
This is why I think it's so important for a really discerning viewer and reader to look at what the media is putting out there.
01:33:45.660
There was an Axios piece recently about kind of behind the scenes of the Biden administration that essentially propped up Susan Rice as this really key figure who she knew so much more than Kamala Harris on the border.
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She was really taking it to Alejandro Mayorkas behind the scenes, maybe planted by the Susan Rice people to kind of position her as a potential savior there as well.
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Is she the one that's the point person at the White House?
01:34:08.240
I think that she was a part of that Obama-Biden blob that was part of it.
01:34:15.480
She is, last year, it was, you know, essentially removed.
01:34:18.960
But you look at the people, Anita Dunn, Susan Rice, a lot of these holdovers from the Obama years.
01:34:23.820
I mean, a lot of people have described the Biden administration as the third Obama administration, right?
01:34:29.460
And, you know, they say, they mock that now, but that came from the New York Times even in 2020.
01:34:37.600
They were basically arguing on behalf of Biden, essentially.
01:34:41.240
This is, don't worry, it's a third Obama administration.
01:34:43.380
But there was also somebody who was taking it apart and saying, you know, had been taking it apart and saying, well, you know, everybody thought that was crazy.
01:34:58.740
And Obama's the only one that hasn't moved away from D.C.
01:35:04.220
And to your Michelle Obama point, recently on Jay Shetty's very highly rated podcast, why?
01:35:10.540
She wasn't there to promote anything, but she's there talking Trump, talking politics.
01:35:14.100
So you start to get these seeds and you wonder what is really behind it.
01:35:18.060
And I do think that what's most interesting about this current moment that we're in is Biden is, you know, part of the blob.
01:35:30.180
And whoever's running that White House is part of that.
01:35:32.900
But also the corporate media, I have quotes on the record in the book about people saying how the people that are covering the Biden White House have spent decades working and essentially having cocktail parties with the people in the White House.
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It's not necessarily they're all colluding together, but they go to their each other's kids soccer games.
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They know they're part of that Acela media in New York and D.C.
01:36:00.580
If that's where the Democratic Party wants to go, it will be fed through the corporate media.
01:36:05.360
So it feels like that already, but it's not, but it's, it doesn't seem sure-footed yet.
01:36:13.040
And you're saying it's going to be the, possibly.
01:36:16.800
I think if I'm diagnosing your bet with Stu, I think it's probably 50-50 still.
01:36:45.880
And let me just, let me talk this out in my head as we're going through this.
01:36:48.660
One of the arguments that I, because I think Kamala Harris is, she's still the most obvious choice.
01:36:54.900
One of the reasons why I felt like Biden would stay in place is because if Kamala, who comes into power, becomes the candidate,
01:37:06.720
And all those people who are with Biden now are like, we're going to lose our gig if Kamala's the person.
01:37:12.640
Because Kamala, they're totally, they have totally different circles.
01:37:16.340
The Michelle Obama point, though, is a good one here.
01:37:20.320
Like some of them are Biden loyalists, the Antony Blinkens of the world.
01:37:23.780
But a lot of them are sort of Obama affiliated.
01:37:30.240
But I mean, again, she said over and over again, she doesn't want to do it.
01:37:40.040
I think it's, you've got the bet in now, so it's done.
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But I think we're going to learn a lot more in the near future.
01:37:46.760
I think we're, the fact that the train is out the stage now, right?
01:37:53.640
Now we start to see whether it's going to continue.
01:37:55.800
So, nothing like this has ever been done before.
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I don't know if you saw this, but go ahead and play.
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I've seen it 25 times this morning, and I still watch it every time it pops up.
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I mean, could they do that in the Republican Party?
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Explain both of those to me here in just a second.
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Steve Krakauer, who is the executive producer of the Megyn Kelly program.
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And every time I'm on with her, I, and maybe I should just come out and say it.
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I feel a little awkward, but Megan, my eyes are up here.
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Now, tell me how the Democrats, cause the Democrats have it pretty easy.
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And they put that in place after they saw Reagan win.
01:41:19.700
Well, and I have to say, I know I mentioned as recline, he had the podcast last week,
01:41:26.140
And again, this is who cares about as recline, right?
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But this is a New York times podcast, very influential person.
01:41:30.740
He spends an hour laying out what would happen at a contested convention.
01:41:33.740
He is laying the groundwork for what might be the case here and is obviously pushing for
01:41:42.220
There's a scenario where he steps aside very soon.
01:41:45.080
And then they essentially have a primary process.
01:41:47.340
That seems pretty dangerous for the Democratic establishment.
01:41:49.760
There's the contested convention option, which again is kind of chaotic.
01:41:53.480
And so wait, wait, wait, that is him still saying, and the people are at the convention,
01:42:00.280
the superdelegates and other delegates go, no, right?
01:42:04.840
Or he potentially just says, I'm now going to step aside and let the delegates decide,
01:42:10.500
And there's a lot of delegates that are going to be involved in that process.
01:42:13.620
But I have to put out another really interesting window in time that might happen.
01:42:18.260
This was actually laid out on the Megyn Kelly show back last year.
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There's a moment where from August 23rd until about September 10th, this 20-day stretch,
01:42:26.380
where if Joe Biden accepts the nomination at the convention, then the convention ends and
01:42:30.800
the delegates go home and they're no longer needed.
01:42:33.320
But then in this three-week period, if Joe Biden then decides, I want to step down, what
01:42:46.460
You've got to, I guess, destroy democracy to save democracy, is the theory, right?
01:42:52.580
And so this is certainly a possibility where you can, he can step aside, the DNC just gets
01:43:00.040
It gives them enough time to put it on all the ballots in every state.
01:43:04.180
But who is a big enough name and known well enough to take that job?
01:43:21.120
This is another reason why it's Michelle Obama or whoever gets put in that spot.
01:43:30.200
Look, we've already seen the way that they've talked about Donald Trump.
01:43:34.860
And of course, let alone if there's any, even in the New York trial, if he's found guilty
01:43:39.440
in that at that point, well, I'm not going to get on the debate stage with that person.
01:43:42.160
So whoever is in that spot just essentially just coasts to the final general election
01:43:47.440
in November without having to do any campaigning or any debating.
01:43:50.780
So it's an interesting prospect for someone who wants to not be involved in politics,
01:43:54.320
but potentially, quote unquote, save the republic.
01:44:12.280
But can we just say, I think that we should just step back and say, and this is what I
01:44:15.160
try to do on Uncovered is why is this happening, right?
01:44:17.320
The only reason that we're even having this conversation is because of what I've seen
01:44:21.780
described as threat inflation, where there is this idea where it's not what would happen
01:44:27.000
in 2024 if Donald Trump wins the media, the democratic establishment is making it seem
01:44:32.260
like it truly is the end of the republic, right?
01:44:36.040
And so when you have that kind of threat inflation to it, this is such a huge thing.
01:44:42.640
That's when you have these kind of insane, chaotic opportunities that emerge like this
01:44:50.680
What did you think of the New York Times article this week that said that Democrats in particular
01:45:08.000
Well, I think that this is what I saw, frankly, in 2015 and 2016, which is the genesis for Uncovered,
01:45:13.120
which was the media, even the CNNs of the world and the left that are in theory serving
01:45:18.960
the left side of the country are so out of touch with the average person in the rest of
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They're so isolated geographically and have zero diversity of thought, no intellectual
01:45:33.400
And they are just not in step with what the average person, even people on the left, even
01:45:38.400
average Democrats in the rest of the country feel and think right now.
01:45:42.280
Now, look, there is obviously the quote unquote resistance, the people who are consuming politics
01:45:51.340
I think most people are kind of exhausted with this.
01:45:56.960
They'd much rather just, but having enemies, you know, having a country that essentially
01:46:02.740
feels like they have enemies, kind of part of the business model these days in the corporate
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If you don't have that, then you don't have a business.
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We're going to come back and talk to him about Donald Trump now.
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He's the author of the book Uncovered, available everywhere now.
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I mean, honestly, has this ever happened before where we've had to try to convince a guest to stay with us?
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I mean, I don't think that's ever happened before.
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Usually the guests are like, I'm so honored to be on.
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Megyn Kelly is my boss, and she's going to want me, you know, producing the show in a few minutes.
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Okay, so we were talking about what the Democrats can do.
01:49:07.340
You can turn on CNN or MSNBC these days, and you watch a segment about, you know, experts say that if Donald Trump gets back in the White House in 2024, he could go after his political enemies.
01:49:19.280
Okay, and when we come back, here is an update on the four criminal trials against Donald Trump.
01:49:30.820
So, no, I think that the plan was to get a conviction before the election.
01:49:35.880
I think that's certainly still possible, although I think we've seen that some of these trials are delayed.
01:49:40.780
But whether it comes to the political establishment, frankly, on both sides, if you kind of look at it, and the media, that's the plan.
01:49:49.000
I think that they want him to go into that general election.
01:49:51.680
And we've seen in the polls that if he really is convicted of any of these, even the New York one, that could have an effect on the independents, on the apolitical voters.
01:49:59.300
So, it could have an actual impact, but it's just insane.
01:50:02.940
Wouldn't it make him just the – I mean, by their own thinking, that would just make him the third black American president.
01:50:11.140
I mean, you know, I think they've made him into a martyr.
01:50:23.220
Because they've gone after him with such crazy stuff.
01:50:36.620
So, if he goes to jail, I mean, he'll say he wants to run.
01:50:46.160
Because, in theory, he could still run from jail.
01:50:49.080
I mean, it's crazy that we're having this conversation at all, but that is obviously –
01:50:56.380
And now our Republican candidate is running for president from jail and could win from jail as well.
01:51:05.160
I think that we're not going to get any sort of trial and conviction before July, before the Republican convention.
01:51:11.020
So, it would be after – so, I think at that point, it's done.
01:51:15.280
I don't see that as – I think it might have been a possibility if it happened in May or June,
01:51:20.140
and then they get to the convention, and then are they going to have a contested convention?
01:51:23.760
I think we're kind of done with that possibility.
01:51:25.220
It's going to be Donald Trump, conviction or not.
01:51:36.520
If it's Joe Biden, I think he's got a great chance.
01:51:40.480
Odds that Joe Biden is the candidate in November.
01:51:47.860
Should be – I mean, he's already gotten the nominee, basically.
01:51:57.340
But I think that there's definitely a possibility, certainly more strongly, that Biden is not the nominee.
01:52:04.960
I mean, I got to tell you, I mean, I think a lot of America would go, look, just both of you, back away.
01:52:12.240
So, can we get somebody who's 40, you know, just 40, just somebody who understands – I mean, Donald Trump knows how to use the internet and use his phone.
01:52:27.140
You know, he's like, where's my record player, you know?
01:52:31.660
He puts a TikTok out there and they got, like, 27 different jump cuts in it because he can't get – he can't form it.
01:52:38.080
And TikTok, didn't his – wasn't his policy no TikTok?
01:52:51.600
I was on a little show called the Glenn Beck Program.
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The book has uncovered how the media got cozy with power, abandoned its principles, and lost the people.
01:53:09.920
And we talked a lot about our bet and not as much about his book.
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But the book has a lot of how the sausage is made and also interviews with, like, every big media personality on this stuff.
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So even though we're not worth his time, the book is worth your time.
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This is, of course, not going to be as good as anything Megan's going to do today.
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But I'm going to talk to you about Cloward and Piven and what just the border is costing cities and states and the federal government.
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This is one of the five hotels that has been transformed into a shelter.
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We're going to walk in there and see what kind of operation they're running inside.
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Why is it like such a big secret, do you think?
01:54:41.900
When hotels such as the Rowe Hotel close until further notice, they sign the contract with
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an outside source saying that they will pay the rent in order for them to house the migrants.
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And the hotels love it because it is guaranteed money every single night.
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And at a rate of $200 per night at the Rowe Hotel, and with 1,331 rooms, that is $260,000
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a day, $1.8 million a week, and $7.2 million a month.
01:55:29.420
Well, this is what Eric Adams has been partially complaining about, right?
01:55:34.140
Like, that they have to spend all this money and they don't have it.
01:55:37.360
I mean, there's reports that they have outside, you know, help coming in from the federal government
01:55:48.040
By the way, we told you today that for the first time ever, horse on the highway, we are...
01:55:55.440
We're now looking at more interest on our debt than what it costs to run the entire military
01:56:23.580
You know that Boston is paying because they have to?
01:56:28.240
So, everybody's going up to Boston and in the right to shelter.
01:56:33.340
You need to have a bed, a guaranteed refrigerator, and a microwave.
01:56:43.420
Well, they don't have enough of those, you know.
01:56:46.680
Would you like a place with a bed and a microwave and a refrigerator and a sink?
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So, what they're paying now, they're paying restaurants and big food processing companies
01:57:06.580
And they're getting hot meals delivered to them.
01:57:11.180
How long is that going to last before it all collapses?
01:57:14.360
Now we have a Boston activist that is demanding $15 billion in reparations for black Americans.
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And what I talked to Tucker Carlson about, he said, you know, there's going to come a time where people are just going to say, make it stop.
01:57:34.840
And they will just run to whoever it is that will make it stop.
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That was a strategy from the Soviet Union when they took over Czechoslovakia back in the 1940s.
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We went over both of these things with giant chalkboards back at Fox.
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I'm going to show you, it's not a theory anymore, exactly what is happening and how those are being played out.
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Exactly as we warned they would, they're being played out right now.
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That sounds like a kind of business I could get behind.
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They also, they glorify God by making great cell service for you in a way you can trust.
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And they're going to give you a better deal than the big three can.
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And more importantly, they're not shipping any of their profits out to Planned Parenthood.
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You're listening to the swinging sounds of Glenn Beck.
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At the end of another program, I still haven't found the right jingle.
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For our Texas Court of Appeals, or no, Texas Criminal Court.
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If Texas doesn't put at least these three people on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals,
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There will not be any investigations at all of any fraud because this Court of Criminal Appeals has made it so the Attorney General can't look into it.
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So, people, you know, we're trying to figure out how to get people to remember Schneck or Schneck.
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And, you know, somebody called and said it's the Coppertone candidates.
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I'll just, if there's another S on, I could easily.
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So, you know, I've been trying to come up with a jingle and I, oof, I...
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Schnee a Parker and Lee Finley for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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I mean, jingle singers, you don't have to worry about AI because, I mean, if this is what it produces, I just don't.
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I don't even know who this one's trying to appeal to.
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I mean, blister is a word, but you don't want to compare the candidates to that.
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In this world of darkness and despair, such a big kind we can share.
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I gotta say, it's like a Pat Benatar endorsement.
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So, it's David, Gene, and Lee, instead of, you know, the last names.
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Is there a demand for a mentally challenged white rapper doing an endorsement of?
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That one sounds like legitimately it could have been a song from some Pat Benatar album in
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I just think I know we're maybe even already past this observation but like think of how
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incredible it is that you could just type a sentence into a freaking thing and it will
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No one will talk about that but they do shine like a glister.