Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Zelensky Overplays His Hand, More Trump Wins, Plus Interview with Joe Bastardi | Triggered Ep.221

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:05:25.000 Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:05:28.000 Another day with another big batch of breaking news.

00:05:34.000 And my father seems to have an extraordinary talent, more so perhaps than ever before, for forcing the left to make the most unpopular positions as they melt down at each and every turn.

00:05:49.000 I know I've said he's the 80-20 president, right?

00:05:53.000 He picks an 80% issue, goes all in, the Trump derangement syndrome, Democrats forced to take the 20% because they literally cannot help themselves.

00:06:01.000 But now, it may be more like 90-10.

00:06:05.000 And by the way, has anyone, anyone, like in the history of the world, maybe Hirohito in Japan, maybe Napoleon going into Russia, but like, has anyone overplayed their hand?

00:06:19.000 More than Vladimir Zelensky on Friday.

00:06:23.000 So we're going to get into all of that in the news rundown.

00:06:27.000 It's wild what's going on.

00:06:29.000 And later, we'll shift gears and sit down with meteorologists to Joe Bastardi to discuss all things weather, climate, climate hysteria, and so on and so forth.

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00:08:46.000 Now, guys, let's take a look at the top headlines.

00:08:50.000 And we'll start off the week with another round of major wins for the Trump administration.

00:08:56.000 For example, automaker Honda announced today that it will make its new Civic in Indiana, not Mexico.

00:09:05.000 To be clear, Indiana is a state.

00:09:09.000 It's in the Midwest.

00:09:10.000 It's beautiful.

00:09:12.000 It has a lot of great hardworking people who would love those jobs.

00:09:16.000 So, another huge win for America.

00:09:21.000 Energy storage company Clarios announced a $6 billion plan to expand American-based manufacturing.

00:09:29.000 And the leading Taiwanese microchip manufacturer just announced a $100 billion investment in the United States This is what America first looks like, guys. 0.89

00:09:46.000 Protecting American business interests.

00:09:49.000 Protecting American security.

00:09:52.000 Protecting and creating American jobs.

00:09:56.000 and not sending blank checks to the rest of the world at the expense of the American taxpayer.

00:10:03.000 Which inevitably brings us to Ukraine, where my father is showing exactly what American strength looks like. 0.77

00:10:15.000 First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.

00:10:19.000 Even you.

00:10:20.000 But you have nice ocean and don't feel now.

00:10:22.000 But you will feel it in the future.

00:10:25.000 God bless.

00:10:26.000 You don't know that.

00:10:26.000 God bless.

00:10:27.000 God bless.

00:10:28.000 You will not have the war. 0.92

00:10:29.000 Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

00:10:31.000 We're trying to solve a problem.

00:10:33.000 Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

00:10:34.000 I'm not telling you.

00:10:35.000 Because you're in no position to dictate that.

00:10:37.000 Remember this.

00:10:38.000 You're in no position to dictate.

00:10:41.000 What we're going to feel.

00:10:43.000 Honestly, again, as I said earlier, I'm not sure if anyone in the history of cards has perhaps overplayed their hand like Zelensky.

00:10:56.000 He walks into the Oval Office.

00:10:58.000 He makes maximum demands with no leverage and derails the entire mineral deal and ultimately a path towards peace.

00:11:09.000 Does Zelensky even want peace? 0.57

00:11:12.000 Maybe he's used to dealing with the other clown who we could come in and he could browbeat and get hundreds of billions of dollars and no pushback, whatever it would be.

00:11:23.000 Maybe Joe was getting 10% for the big guy or Hunter was going to be put on a board.

00:11:27.000 Who knows what was extracted from it?

00:11:29.000 But think about this.

00:11:30.000 Imagine former actor Vladimir Zelensky.

00:11:36.000 Imagine thinking that it's a great idea to have a deal that was supposed to be signed in Munich and that was supposed to be signed in Paris.

00:11:44.000 Then it's going to come to D.C. to sign.

00:11:47.000 And in the press briefing and in a conversation in front of the world, he tries to renegotiate a deal that had been agreed on with Donald Trump?

00:11:58.000 Like, that's the place to do it? 0.96

00:12:00.000 I mean, it only shows you how incompetent this guy is.

00:12:04.000 It's so obvious to the world.

00:12:06.000 You're gonna do that?

00:12:07.000 You're gonna renege on an agreement in front of people live with Donald Trump?

00:12:13.000 Like, it's not like, hey, we gotta change some nuance.

00:12:16.000 It was like, we're just gonna start over from scratch and forget all those weeks of work that you guys have been doing.

00:12:21.000 What exactly is he thinking?

00:12:24.000 Well, here's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz earlier today.

00:12:30.000 Success looks like...

00:12:32.000 President Zelensky sitting down and talking the terms of peace.

00:12:36.000 Talking about what he needs to see, Ukraine needs to see to get to a partial ceasefire, a permanent ceasefire, and an end to this war.

00:12:46.000 And what became so evident to us in that session was he's not ready to talk peace at all.

00:12:52.000 But here's the problem.

00:12:53.000 Time is not on his side.

00:12:55.000 Time is not on the side of just forever continuing this conflict.

00:13:00.000 The American people's patience is not unlimited.

00:13:02.000 Their wallets are not unlimited.

00:13:05.000 And our stockpiles and munitions are not unlimited that we need for all kinds of contingencies around the world.

00:13:11.000 So the time to talk is now.

00:13:14.000 And what we're hearing in terms of alternatives, whether it's the Democrats or leaders around the world, is essentially continuing this grinding.

00:13:23.000 World War I-style trench warfare that is a meat grinder of people, munitions, and national treasure.

00:13:31.000 The president campaigned on ending this war.

00:13:34.000 He was elected to end this war.

00:13:36.000 He will be the peacemaker-in-chief.

00:13:38.000 But it was really confounding to us that Zelensky could have left the White House Friday having the U.S. And Ukraine bound together economically for a generation.

00:13:49.000 You have the British talking about troops on the ground and a security guarantee.

00:13:53.000 The French talking about troops on the ground and security guarantee.

00:13:56.000 We even had the NATO Secretary General talk to the President just before the Zelensky meeting.

00:14:02.000 So this was no ambush.

00:14:04.000 This was an opportunity and a moment.

00:14:06.000 And I think President Zelensky truly did his country a real disservice by not having a positive outcome Friday.

00:14:14.000 We'll see where things are going forward.

00:14:18.000 After Zelensky's disaster meeting last week, my father is reportedly meeting with key officials today to discuss the possibility of winding down the endless taxpayer-funded aid.

00:14:32.000 Zelensky says half of it's missing.

00:14:34.000 He wants to keep the war going on forever.

00:14:36.000 He said that he doesn't see peace anytime, anywhere soon, even remotely.

00:14:41.000 I mean, well, he's losing ground.

00:14:43.000 I can see that based on there's no reports of them ever gaining ground, although it would be interesting.

00:14:48.000 I know Starlink and Elon is basically their comm system, so I wonder if we could objectively ask, because it's nothing the Russians don't know.

00:14:55.000 We wouldn't be giving up any kind of national security or Ukrainian security.

00:14:59.000 Where are the terminals moving?

00:15:00.000 Are they advancing forward towards Russia to regain all the ground that they lost, or are they regularly moving back?

00:15:07.000 Maybe the American public should actually...

00:15:10.000 Know that.

00:15:11.000 Because I think that would help them formulate a decision.

00:15:14.000 Because right now it feels like so many on the left are basing this on the, in my mind, incredibly ridiculous and false notion that Ukraine is somehow winning.

00:15:23.000 If we've given them a quarter of a trillion dollars and they're still losing, what's the cost to actually win?

00:15:30.000 What does victory look like?

00:15:32.000 Has anyone even bothered to ask those questions?

00:15:35.000 Because I've been asking them for three years, including to high-powered people in Washington, D.C., and no one seems to know the answer.

00:15:43.000 But I think the way to get them to the table is to wind down the aid, because you know that Europe's not stepping up.

00:15:51.000 There was an interesting chart I posted on my Twitter today that says, a majority of the Europeans really want to help increase the aid of Ukraine.

00:15:59.000 The only problem with the second part of the chart was very few of them actually wanted to do that by paying for it with their own country's money.

00:16:08.000 Huh? 0.99

00:16:09.000 We got America to be the schmuck for the world. 1.00

00:16:11.000 America could just keep doing it. 1.00

00:16:13.000 Who cares about their kids and their schools and their hospitals and their infrastructure?

00:16:17.000 I mean, of course, I want to help feed starving people all over the world.

00:16:21.000 I'd love to do that.

00:16:21.000 Am I ever going to give up a meal?

00:16:22.000 Probably not, guys.

00:16:24.000 I mean, the virtue signaling is insane, but that's exactly what they're saying.

00:16:29.000 So, winding down the aid may be right.

00:16:33.000 The New York Post is reporting that this may be the start of a pivot away from the Ukraine conflict and a pivot towards building alliances across Latin America with leaders like Bukele, Mille, and Maria Corina Machado, who we had on the show last week from Venezuela.

00:16:52.000 That's a big deal.

00:16:54.000 That's pretty useful.

00:16:55.000 That's in our backyard.

00:16:57.000 That's relevant to us.

00:16:59.000 Before this conflict, I guarantee you the vast majority of Americans couldn't have found Ukraine on a map.

00:17:04.000 And while Kiev's a beautiful city, I was there in the early 2000s, I don't think it's worth mortgaging our future and our children's future.

00:17:13.000 You don't have to believe me.

00:17:15.000 Just look at our own governmental agencies talking about Ukraine, even relative to Russia, before they somehow became the deity of Western civilization.

00:17:26.000 And get this, guys.

00:17:28.000 Zelensky was asked about his future and the calls for him to resign, or at least hold an election.

00:17:35.000 And here's how he responded, guys.

00:17:37.000 You're really going to get a kick out of this one.

00:17:39.000 Since the incident, Senator Lindsey Graham said that perhaps you should consider resigning.

00:17:45.000 Speaker Mike Johnson today said that maybe you should consider resigning.

00:17:50.000 Is your attitude it's not their business?

00:17:52.000 Lindsay Graham is a very good guy.

00:18:06.000 He's a very good guy.

00:18:08.000 Very nice.

00:18:12.000 And speaking who must be the president and whether I shall resign, I can...

00:18:20.000 Give him the citizenship of Ukraine, he will become the citizen of our country, and then his voice will start to gain weight, and I will hear him as a citizen of Ukraine on the topic of who must be the president.

00:18:40.000 But Lindsay represents the party that fights for democratic values.

00:18:48.000 Anyway, the president of Ukraine will have to be chosen not at home, at Lindsay's grand home, but in Ukraine.

00:18:58.000 So let me get this straight.

00:18:59.000 We're not going to hold an election to preserve democracy.

00:19:03.000 I mean, it sounds almost like the Democrats in, well, for the last few years.

00:19:09.000 Explain that to me.

00:19:11.000 Please.

00:19:12.000 The reality is this.

00:19:13.000 Zelensky is so unpopular in Ukraine, many polls have him at 16% if he were to run today.

00:19:18.000 And by the way, his only chance to probably win an election would be to cede the eastern half of Ukraine to Russia because they're ethnic Russians who are probably sick of dying for something they don't even believe in. 0.96

00:19:33.000 Maybe that...

00:19:35.000 Maybe that's the way to do it.

00:19:36.000 Maybe that's his actual out where he can remain in power and the world will feel really sorry for him.

00:19:42.000 Not because it's real, not because it represents all of Ukraine, but because that's probably his only actual chance of winning anything.

00:19:49.000 And of course, guys, the memes, the memes and the reaction to this whole sequence have been incredible.

00:19:59.000 Here's one video I posted on X. We're at a UFC press conference.

00:20:07.000 How many pay-per-views would that sell?

00:20:09.000 I think it'd be pretty epic.

00:20:11.000 You're not in a good position.

00:20:13.000 You don't have the cards right now.

00:20:15.000 With us, you start having cards.

00:20:17.000 Right now, you're playing cards.

00:20:19.000 You're playing cards.

00:20:21.000 You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.

00:20:23.000 You're gambling with World War III.

00:20:26.000 You're gambling with World War III.

00:20:29.000 And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.

00:20:35.000 People are dying.

00:20:37.000 You're running low on soldiers.

00:20:39.000 Listen, you're running low on soldiers. 0.83

00:20:41.000 It would be a damn good thing. 0.80

00:20:43.000 And then you tell us, I don't want to cease fire. 0.96

00:20:46.000 I don't want to cease fire.

00:20:47.000 I want to go and I want this.

00:20:49.000 Look.

00:20:50.000 If you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you'd take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stop getting killed.

00:20:56.000 Of course we want to stop the war. 0.95

00:20:58.000 But you're saying you don't want a ceasefire?

00:20:59.000 But I said to you, waste guarantees.

00:21:01.000 Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than any...

00:21:04.000 And Vice President J.D. Vance, well, he's showing why he's the perfect VP. Why conservatism now actually...

00:21:15.000 Has a bench and a future beyond Trump that just doesn't revert back to neocon warmongering, weak conservatism that we've seen from so many in the past few decades.

00:21:26.000 And just more importantly, how much of an upgrade we've gotten for our country in the number two spot.

00:21:34.000 And just check out this chart.

00:21:36.000 This is what I was talking about earlier, right?

00:21:39.000 The chart's popping up here.

00:21:41.000 I forgot that this was going to be in the intro, so I already talked about it, but Europe keeps saying that Ukraine needs more support.

00:21:49.000 But looking at these numbers, they don't actually want to do it if it comes out of their own countries.

00:21:56.000 Think about that.

00:21:57.000 They love it.

00:21:58.000 I want to support everything.

00:21:59.000 Everyone can win.

00:22:00.000 I don't want to pay for it.

00:22:01.000 They want America to keep spending while they virtue signal about saving democracy.

00:22:08.000 You can't make it up anymore.

00:22:10.000 Although, I guess if you've watched anything that has come out of Europe in the last few years, you realize why there are a civilization that is probably gone, and it probably explains so much.

00:22:20.000 Meanwhile, a new report finds that the Pentagon and officials there were caught using taxpayer-funded credit cards at casinos, bars, and clubs.

00:22:31.000 These cards need to be turned off, and the taxpayers need to reimburse for this insanity.

00:22:37.000 And how long has this been going on?

00:22:39.000 Who was controlling it?

00:22:41.000 Did anyone even care?

00:22:42.000 I mean, they're going to casinos, bars, and whatever else on American taxpayer dime having nothing to do with the purpose of the credit card.

00:22:50.000 And no one was even watching, including Republicans.

00:22:53.000 No one even cared.

00:22:55.000 There was no oversight to any of it.

00:22:58.000 How many other agencies and departments are doing this too?

00:23:02.000 It's just another reason why we need Doge more than ever.

00:23:07.000 I hope those kids on those computers find it all.

00:23:12.000 I hope we expose it for everyone to see, because I can guarantee you this, when even the hardcore, ridiculous Democrats, unless they're on the take, unless they're the indirect or direct beneficiaries of this waste, fraud, and abuse, which I imagine many are, I imagine even they too will recognize that this probably is not the best use of their funds.

00:23:34.000 In just six weeks, Doge has saved American taxpayers an estimated $105 billion.

00:23:44.000 B. B. Billions.

00:23:47.000 Not millions.

00:23:48.000 Billions.

00:23:48.000 $105 billion.

00:23:49.000 In a few weeks, they've covered it up.

00:23:51.000 They've seen it. 0.98

00:23:52.000 They realize how ridiculous it is. 0.96

00:23:54.000 Imagine what four years of this can do. 0.97

00:23:57.000 You need to support them.

00:23:59.000 You need to not buy into the nonsense.

00:24:01.000 Look into the details.

00:24:02.000 Look into the list of the things that are finding.

00:24:05.000 I'm literally starting to write a new book about it.

00:24:07.000 It's that bad.

00:24:08.000 It's that egregious.

00:24:10.000 Government spending is down.

00:24:13.000 Illegal border crossings are down like 95%.

00:24:17.000 I mean, think about that.

00:24:18.000 So it was doable all along, right?

00:24:19.000 We could do this.

00:24:21.000 There's nothing we can do.

00:24:22.000 I mean, you know, can't build a wall.

00:24:24.000 I mean, historically, it's never worked, especially like the 3,000 long mile wall in China.

00:24:28.000 I guess it worked then.

00:24:31.000 It wouldn't work now.

00:24:34.000 Deportations are up.

00:24:35.000 Investments into America are up.

00:24:37.000 And the Democrats are melting down.

00:24:41.000 As my father once wrote, change your attitude and gain some altitude.

00:24:46.000 You'll love it up here.

00:24:48.000 And he couldn't be more right.

00:24:51.000 And we have so much more coming up with Joe Bastardi.

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00:26:45.000 So joining me now, the founder of weatherbell.com, meteorologist Joe Bastardi.

00:26:50.000 Joe, good to have you back, man.

00:26:52.000 How's it going?

00:26:53.000 It's excellent.

00:26:54.000 I want to say I'm one of the sort of co-founders in that my CEO was the founder, but I am...

00:27:02.000 Directly involved.

00:27:03.000 I was there at the beginning.

00:27:04.000 In fact, I tell people...

00:27:05.000 Well, you're also in the private sector, so there's consequence to being wrong, unlike in government, where they just brush it under the table and move on, right?

00:27:12.000 Well, yeah, the crucible competition, it's a good thing I wear the cross of my calling here.

00:27:18.000 I used to wrestle Penn State.

00:27:20.000 I'm around all the time, and you realize that both wrestling and the weather, you have to be right, or be right most of the time.

00:27:29.000 If you're in the private sector, why pay me?

00:27:32.000 Why pay me for anything if I'm not adding value?

00:27:36.000 So that's an interesting situation since I'm the oldest guy left on the block now.

00:27:42.000 Yeah.

00:27:42.000 Well, that's always the joke.

00:27:44.000 I always wanted to be the weatherman because you can be right 10% of the time and still get paid.

00:27:49.000 So I'm wondering...

00:27:49.000 Not in the private sector.

00:27:53.000 It's not like that at all.

00:27:54.000 There's immense competition.

00:27:55.000 I think a few years ago, there were...

00:27:57.000 1,700 different meteorologists or weather organizations that were considered private sector.

00:28:06.000 So there's a lot of competition among us.

00:28:08.000 And of course, the National Weather Service is good.

00:28:10.000 It's not that, you know, people rip on them all the time.

00:28:14.000 And I've found over the years that their forecasts are improving.

00:28:17.000 But that's good.

00:28:18.000 I never wanted to beat somebody because they were bad.

00:28:20.000 I always wanted to beat someone because they were good.

00:28:23.000 And I do like to compete.

00:28:26.000 Wow.

00:28:27.000 Listen, I think it's important.

00:28:28.000 Hopefully we fix some of that stuff.

00:28:29.000 I know, you know, there's a lot of issues in some of the agencies and some of the administration and, you know, whether it's NOAA or any of these other things.

00:28:37.000 So, you know, hopefully there's some talent there, but it's probably the leadership that seems to be the overarching theme.

00:28:44.000 It's leadership in government that's lacking.

00:28:46.000 So even if you have talent, they're not allowed to do things because they're beholden to, you know, whatever the woke talking points may be.

00:28:52.000 Yeah, well, they have to think about if they put something out.

00:28:55.000 What the repercussions are.

00:28:57.000 You know, if you're actually a scientist, you can't sit there and say, well, I'm coming up with a forecast and the storm's aimed here, but I have to consider what that means to the people looking at it.

00:29:09.000 Now you say, Joe, that is a harsh, a very harsh way of looking at things, because you've got to consider the people, right?

00:29:15.000 But what you have to do is make the accurate forecast, and then the people in the way of that will decide.

00:29:22.000 We put out a forecast December 7, 2023, outlining in red what was going to happen in the hurricane season of 2024. Now, I don't have a forecast out like that this year because I'm not certain, but I was darn certain of what I was looking at back in 23. We call it the hurricane season from hell.

00:29:42.000 It looked like 2017, 2020, and by gosh, it turned out that way.

00:29:47.000 You can do that sometimes, and when you get way out in front of something, You literally set traps for the climate hysterics that come back and say, well, look what's going on.

00:29:57.000 I say, well, wait a minute.

00:29:58.000 How come this was out a year in advance?

00:30:00.000 Why didn't you take a look at that?

00:30:03.000 So what happens is, one of the biggest things that I've always been not upset about, we're punching bags.

00:30:14.000 I was never taught to be a punching bag.

00:30:16.000 We wait for something to happen, like the Tennessee flood or the wildfires or whatever, and then the media gets right out there with the climate change agenda, right?

00:30:24.000 And this is what NOAA, the top of NOAA pushes this.

00:30:27.000 You know, it's not like the FBI. You have a lot of great agents in there, and you have a lot of guys that know and just love the weather.

00:30:34.000 They want to forecast the weather, but you just watch constant, constant repetition.

00:30:40.000 Climate change, climate's worse than ever.

00:30:42.000 And what happens is you have to change your focus.

00:30:46.000 Weather, weather, weather.

00:30:48.000 I think you know Alex Epstein, for instance.

00:30:51.000 He wrote a great book, Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

00:30:54.000 And Alex is right.

00:30:56.000 No matter what's causing it, simply adapt to it.

00:30:59.000 That's what problems and adversity are about.

00:31:02.000 They are about us advancing.

00:31:04.000 If a problem comes in your way, you have to advance.

00:31:06.000 The weather's causing your problem, and the weather's always going to cause your problems, Don, because We've got three times as many people living in the way of stuff with infrastructure that's much more important.

00:31:18.000 I always use Hurricane Hazel.

00:31:20.000 Myrtle Beach, October 50, 1954. By far, my opinion, the latest, greatest hurricane on record.

00:31:28.000 A Category 4 hurricane in the middle of October hitting North Carolina, South Carolina.

00:31:32.000 If it hit today, it'd probably be a quarter trillion dollar storm because Myrtle Beach in that area was not...

00:31:40.000 Built up the way it was, the way it is now, right?

00:31:44.000 So what happens is, guys like Al Gore, who have a very interesting philosophy on climate, they're the kind of guys that they would put three times the amount of pins on a bowling alley and say, look, I'm knocking down more pins every time I throw a ball.

00:32:00.000 We've got more in the way, so there is more risk involved, and that involves getting out in front in the forecast and also educating people as to why these things are happening.

00:32:09.000 Yeah, that's actually really interesting.

00:32:10.000 I never thought of it that way.

00:32:11.000 Hurricanes seem to be more, you know, more violent.

00:32:14.000 But you're right.

00:32:15.000 If you're living in South Florida, your population has tripled in the last 20 years.

00:32:20.000 Well, actually, the last 40, 50 years.

00:32:22.000 But what happens is, if you're a geek like me, for instance, you see these Tennessee floods that just happened?

00:32:29.000 This is child's play compared to what happened in 37 in the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys with that.

00:32:36.000 I was looking at that today.

00:32:38.000 Those floods are there, and the temperature contrast was even greater than the temperature contrast we see today.

00:32:44.000 In fact, 36-37, back-to-back, was probably the worst winter flooding in two winters in a row that we've seen in the Ohio River Valley in those areas.

00:32:53.000 We have a similar weather pattern, except it was on steroids.

00:32:56.000 A lot of people say to me, the weather is going crazy.

00:33:00.000 I go...

00:33:00.000 I go back and I look at the maps, and that's because my father was a meteorologist, and he always preached to me, look, the weather is an infinite system.

00:33:07.000 You're not going to be able to get it right all the time because it's always changing.

00:33:10.000 But if you go back and look at what happened, you have a basis of it.

00:33:14.000 But how many Americans know what happened in 1937 in Tennessee?

00:33:19.000 Nobody.

00:33:20.000 I know it. 0.96

00:33:20.000 So when someone comes out and tells me, well, that's climate change, I go, what are you, crazy? 0.96

00:33:24.000 I mean, you know, it's interesting.

00:33:28.000 One of my favorite hurricane maps of all time, and I don't want people to get the wrong impression about me, I am a weather geek, is September 4th, 1933. There was a hurricane hitting, Category 3 hitting at Mar-a-Lago, all right?

00:33:41.000 Another Category 3 was hitting at Brownsville.

00:33:44.000 Two Category 3s hitting the U.S. within 18 hours down along the Gulf Coast or the South...

00:33:53.000 The Gulf of America coasts there.

00:33:55.000 And all I'm saying is if that happened today, do you realize what the media would do?

00:34:00.000 And yet someone like me goes, wait a minute.

00:34:03.000 I've seen things far worse than this.

00:34:05.000 And today you get punished for knowing stuff as opposed to before you used to get punished for not knowing it.

00:34:11.000 Yeah, well, we were supposed to be underwater a few years ago, according to some of the great meteorologists of our time, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg.

00:34:18.000 But last week, J.D. Vance told the Munich Security Conference.

00:34:22.000 That if we could survive a decade of Greta Thunberg being sort of the end-all be-all of meteorology, they could handle a few minutes of Elon Musk doing what he's doing. 0.72

00:34:32.000 And the left is now attacking the Trump administration and specifically Doge, suggesting that the cuts to government waste could be bad for the climate.

00:34:43.000 I mean, that seems to me to be insane.

00:34:46.000 But there's a recent article in Forbes titled, "Are tariffs a bad idea for climate change?" Suggesting that tariffs are bad because we can't import many Chinese solar panels.

00:34:57.000 I mean, are these people just absolutely insane?

00:35:00.000 Well, you know, I have learned over the years that I try to figure out, well, what's the other guy looking at?

00:35:08.000 And see, with me, the only reason I'm involved in climate is because I need it for what I do, which is forecasting the weather.

00:35:17.000 Most of these people that you're talking about...

00:35:19.000 If the whole climate argument went away tomorrow, what would they do?

00:35:23.000 So they continually, they always feed back toward what their lifeline is.

00:35:30.000 And I hate to say it.

00:35:32.000 I know, I'm sure we have people on the left that listen to this because they want to pick out every word someone says.

00:35:37.000 But you know what?

00:35:39.000 I understand what your problem is.

00:35:42.000 If your problem is that you have invested your entire life, if your God is the climate...

00:35:48.000 Then, God forbid, someone takes that away from you.

00:35:52.000 What are you going to do?

00:35:53.000 So you've got to understand, you're dealing with people who are fighting as if they're fighting for their very lives because of the way it is.

00:36:00.000 See, no matter what the climate does, I get up the next morning and I have to forecast the weather, right?

00:36:06.000 So every day is Christmas to me.

00:36:08.000 And that's the one thing I wanted to say, you know, you need people in NOAA that love the weather so much that they think they hit the lottery.

00:36:18.000 See, that's how I think.

00:36:20.000 I have eternal gratitude toward my Heavenly Father for giving me whatever talent I have.

00:36:26.000 And you need people like that.

00:36:28.000 And when you have people like that that love something so much, they'll do anything to make it right.

00:36:35.000 And that's what we've got to do.

00:36:37.000 Yeah, I think you're 100%.

00:36:38.000 Right.

00:36:40.000 The left has replaced God with various deities.

00:36:43.000 They're sort of always ever-changing.

00:36:45.000 I've used the example.

00:36:46.000 Greta Thunberg as the high priestess of climate change, that becomes the gospel.

00:36:51.000 It goes, you know, Zelensky as the lord of Ukraine, and it's the most wonderful thing in the world.

00:36:58.000 We must now go for this, you know, corrupt nation and support them at all costs.

00:37:02.000 You have numerous other, you know, Anthony Fauci as the high priest of COVID. It's like they're replacing the god that they forgot all about or disavowed.

00:37:14.000 The reason that happens is they're lacking, and it's our education system and our belief system that has really taken a hit over the last 40 to 50 years.

00:37:24.000 I think that when the Vietnam War came around and people realized that the government may be lying to them, we lost faith in our government.

00:37:34.000 We started losing faith in our government, and then we started losing faith in our God.

00:37:38.000 And so what happens is you have to, there's something God has put in all of us to reach for something bigger than ourselves.

00:37:45.000 So what happens is if you don't have the centering point that you're supposed to have that you were blessed with, you go look for something else.

00:37:53.000 It'll be climate, it'll be, you know, the whole trans issue or whatever. 0.99

00:37:57.000 And you have to have something that is bigger than you that you can go for.

00:38:02.000 And the problem is, you know, I look at everything as spiritual combat.

00:38:06.000 The problem is, I don't believe a person's inherently evil, but I think there's evil out there.

00:38:10.000 You know, one of the wrestling coaches at Penn State used to say, if something distracts you, it's destructive.

00:38:16.000 So what is your true mission in life, any of us, right?

00:38:20.000 If there's something that's distracting you from that, that you're worshipping, that you're actually, this is more important than anything, guess what?

00:38:28.000 It turns out to be destructive to what your true cause is.

00:38:31.000 And that's what you see.

00:38:32.000 I mean, a 17-year-old female is screaming and yelling at people. 1.00

00:38:38.000 I'm sitting there going, wait a minute.

00:38:40.000 First of all, I found out later she was a depressed person, and that's always a hard thing to do.

00:38:46.000 But that sort of cured her depression.

00:38:48.000 Every time you have anger and rage, those endorphins get set off and you feel better about yourself and all this other stuff.

00:38:54.000 It was a giant—20, 30 years from now, people go, look, that was a giant exercise in simply trying to correct a problem she had, right?

00:39:05.000 And yet the entire world just piles in after her, or a lot of people did.

00:39:08.000 And then there's Al Gore.

00:39:10.000 When has he been right about anything?

00:39:12.000 Or even Barack Obama.

00:39:14.000 If you're telling me the sea levels are rising, what are you doing?

00:39:18.000 Building a mansion or buying a mansion that's at the top of a funnel-shaped bay at Martha's Vineyard, right?

00:39:24.000 You know, a funnel-shaped bay facing south.

00:39:26.000 You know what happens to water when it enters a funnel-shaped bay?

00:39:29.000 Let's say like the 1938 hurricane.

00:39:31.000 It goes up.

00:39:32.000 You know, I want to be friends with Barack Obama so I can go ride out a hurricane in his place.

00:39:39.000 Yeah, we've brought up some of the most egregious examples, but can you explain where the left goes wrong in their hysterical climate predictions?

00:39:47.000 Again, according to Al Gore, we should already be underwater.

00:39:51.000 I mean, I live at sea level in Florida.

00:39:53.000 I mean, I haven't seen much of a change in the few years that I've been here.

00:39:56.000 They said we should have been underwater a few years ago.

00:39:59.000 They always sort of then move the goalposts, and it's going to be 10 more years until it is going to be, and then another 10 more years.

00:40:05.000 But what?

00:40:06.000 Aren't they telling us?

00:40:08.000 And what's the scam behind all of it?

00:40:11.000 Well, are they really going wrong?

00:40:12.000 They still have a great deal of the population believing all this stuff.

00:40:17.000 So what is their real goal?

00:40:19.000 They don't care about being actually right about the weather.

00:40:22.000 Are they getting paid?

00:40:23.000 Are they getting paid to be right?

00:40:25.000 Because if they were, that's not what they're getting paid for.

00:40:28.000 They're getting paid to promote an agenda, and that agenda wants to put shackles on the American freedom. 0.53

00:40:35.000 That we have, okay, wants to stop us from advancing.

00:40:39.000 Remember, this country is sort of like what Browning said.

00:40:41.000 A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for, right? 0.95

00:40:45.000 As a country, we should always be trying to exceed our grasp.

00:40:49.000 Our reach should exceed what we can actually grab, because that's where God comes involved.

00:40:53.000 So what these people are actually doing is they don't care about the answer.

00:40:59.000 They just want to get the horse out of the barn and get people.

00:41:04.000 In this soundbite society, this very distracted society, to just buy into it.

00:41:09.000 And that's where we've gone wrong.

00:41:11.000 We've never understood that it's not about the science.

00:41:14.000 It's about their agenda, right?

00:41:17.000 And so, I mean, someday, Mar-a-Lago is liable to be underwater.

00:41:21.000 As a matter of fact, you know, it's kind of funny.

00:41:26.000 I look at the tracks in the 1940s, the hurricane.

00:41:31.000 Everybody's going to use Mar-a-Lago because that's where you guys live, right?

00:41:35.000 Of course they're going to use that, right?

00:41:37.000 But if I looked at those tracks, I'd go, how the heck is it not underwater by now?

00:41:42.000 And here's the interesting thing, Don, is that that part of Florida has not been hit by a major hurricane since 1992. We're on the West Coast.

00:41:54.000 We've been with cycles on the West Coast.

00:41:56.000 But it's remarkable that the area from West Palm Beach southward has not had a major hurricane hit.

00:42:02.000 They're in a hurricane drought compared to what's happened before, just like New England and Long Island.

00:42:07.000 They're in a hurricane drought.

00:42:09.000 They used to get hit once every seven years up until 1991, and then there's nothing since then.

00:42:14.000 So what people don't understand is they don't care about the reality.

00:42:21.000 Think about this.

00:42:22.000 So the Arctic ice cap is going to melt, right?

00:42:25.000 And that's going to flood your house, right?

00:42:27.000 Well, how is that possible?

00:42:28.000 If you put ice cubes in water, or in a glass of water, when the ice cubes melt, does the liquid overflow?

00:42:38.000 No.

00:42:39.000 The ice cap could melt tomorrow, and you're not going to have any problems.

00:42:44.000 Where you would have problems is if the glaciers and all that stuff, a Greenland ice cap melted, or the Antarctic ice cap melted.

00:42:49.000 Because they're above the surface.

00:42:51.000 Yeah, and that's not happening.

00:42:53.000 Every year I look at Greenland and it's above normal snowfall up there.

00:42:57.000 And that's the other interesting thing that when I was a kid, my dad gave me a bunch of books because he's a meteorologist and he knew his son right off the bat from when I was three.

00:43:09.000 This is all I ever wanted to do.

00:43:10.000 So I was eight years old.

00:43:11.000 He gave me this book called, I think it was Why the Weather, and there was a chapter on climate change.

00:43:16.000 And this is 1963, saying exactly what you're seeing now would be going on, that it would snow more.

00:43:22.000 In the northern areas, right, when there's more water vapor in the air, it's warming up, snows more, and so what happens is that starts fighting back.

00:43:31.000 Now, what does the left do?

00:43:33.000 They say, oh, more snow.

00:43:35.000 First, there was going to be no snow.

00:43:37.000 Now, oh, more snow.

00:43:38.000 That's a sign of climate change.

00:43:40.000 That's like if I were wrestling, right?

00:43:42.000 By the way, everything is a sign of climate change.

00:43:45.000 It doesn't matter.

00:43:45.000 Good, bad, or indifferent.

00:43:46.000 If I were wrestling...

00:43:48.000 Every time my opponent scored on me, I would get the points.

00:43:51.000 That's how they score things.

00:43:53.000 And when you realize that that is their game, that their game has nothing to do with the weather and climate, and a lot of guys don't, on my side of the issue, and a lot of the scientists, they don't like when I say that because they're involved in the fight.

00:44:09.000 You see what I'm saying?

00:44:10.000 It's sort of a cottage industry on both sides, right?

00:44:12.000 So what we do is, hey, okay, whatever's causing it.

00:44:15.000 Adapt and move on.

00:44:17.000 We've got the ability to move on.

00:44:19.000 I mean, you look at New Orleans, right?

00:44:21.000 Who had the bright idea of building a city 10 feet underwater on the Gulf of Mexico?

00:44:25.000 Which it basically is, right?

00:44:27.000 So guess what's going to happen?

00:44:29.000 So what people say to me, well, look at what Katrina did to New Orleans.

00:44:32.000 I go, far more impressive is what the 38 hurricane did to Providence.

00:44:36.000 Providence is at 41 degrees north.

00:44:38.000 It's not surrounded by 90 degree water.

00:44:40.000 It's 12 feet above sea level.

00:44:42.000 And they went under 13 feet of water.

00:44:44.000 Now, which is more impressive, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, meteorologically, the city on the Gulf of Mexico, a lot of it's below sea level getting flooded, or someplace up in New England that's 10 feet above sea level getting 13 feet of water into downtown Providence.

00:44:58.000 So when you start looking at things that way, folks, you understand that their agenda...

00:45:06.000 Has nothing to do with climate or science or weather.

00:45:10.000 Has everything to do with this entire idea.

00:45:14.000 Limit America. 0.82

00:45:16.000 We've stolen.

00:45:17.000 You know, Barack Obama said, we have 4% of the population, but we use 25% of the resources.

00:45:23.000 Oh, yeah?

00:45:24.000 Well, guess what?

00:45:26.000 We're not being selfish.

00:45:27.000 We export all our knowledge to other countries.

00:45:30.000 Where would we be without that?

00:45:33.000 Where would the world be without America?

00:45:36.000 So think back to what I'm saying.

00:45:37.000 They believe that we're guilty of stealing.

00:45:40.000 And that's what this is all about.

00:45:42.000 They're trying to stop us from stealing.

00:45:44.000 It's not anything to do with climate and science and weather.

00:45:49.000 Well, Paris Climate Accords, right?

00:45:50.000 China doesn't have to sign on.

00:45:51.000 They say, yeah, we'll look at it in 2030. In a few years, we'll keep firing up coal fire plants.

00:45:57.000 India equally guilty. 0.99

00:45:58.000 So America basically is willing to destroy their middle class.

00:46:03.000 To subsidize those who are going to do nothing.

00:46:05.000 And then when it comes time for them to actually do something about it, they'll renegotiate at that point and start the whole process over again. 0.89

00:46:10.000 I mean, it is a little bit ridiculous.

00:46:13.000 Well, it's a top-down control idea. 0.79

00:46:15.000 I mean, you know, I was never really into this stuff.

00:46:18.000 And then I, you know, I used Ackman's razor.

00:46:20.000 I simply eliminated every other motive, all right?

00:46:24.000 So what?

00:46:25.000 So what's a little bit warmer, right?

00:46:27.000 We can adapt to that.

00:46:28.000 That's what we have to do.

00:46:30.000 And then we're going to have to adapt when it gets colder.

00:46:32.000 By the way, you know, the scary thing is...

00:46:35.000 To continue to warm the planet, the reason why the planet got so warm the last two years, we saw the spike, was the volcano went off and we had a very strong El Nino.

00:46:45.000 So you pump so much water vapor into the air.

00:46:47.000 Water vapor releases energy, the release of heat through water vapor.

00:46:50.000 And water vapor is the big controlling, it's the head honcho as far as climate goes, right?

00:46:56.000 So excess water vapor, we have this spike.

00:46:59.000 Oh my gosh, how did this happen?

00:47:01.000 It can't be.

00:47:02.000 That actually proved it can't be CO2, right?

00:47:05.000 But you adapt to the situation.

00:47:07.000 But think about this.

00:47:09.000 The warmer it gets, the harder it is to get warmer.

00:47:12.000 The problem is, if you cut out one of the inputs to the warming, the temperature will crash pretty quickly.

00:47:20.000 Now, if it crashes quickly, that's going to affect a lot of people in an adverse manner.

00:47:25.000 Cold kills a lot more than heat does, for instance.

00:47:28.000 And, you know, it is a worry, not in our generation, I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime, that down the road we're going to have to face the fact that the planet's a little bit cooler than what we want it to be.

00:47:40.000 By that time, there may be 10, 11, 12 billion people on the planet.

00:47:44.000 But you know what?

00:47:45.000 You've got to wrestle the match in front of you.

00:47:48.000 And that is, right now, make America strong again.

00:47:52.000 Do not have people...

00:47:55.000 I'm just shoving climate down your throat, making you feel guilty about the fact that you might be getting ahead, because it has nothing to do with that.

00:48:03.000 It has everything to do with the limitations that are being put on us because of people who are on this massive guilt trip that America has been blessed the way it is.

00:48:13.000 And you want to know something?

00:48:14.000 Every blessing has its appointed time, and if you don't take care of those blessings, you can't be trusted with them.

00:48:20.000 So what happens, right?

00:48:22.000 100%.

00:48:23.000 I mean, you use history, science, etc., to guide your predictions.

00:48:27.000 I mean, you're naming storms going back 100 years and using it to predict future hurricanes and floods.

00:48:32.000 Why aren't others doing that?

00:48:34.000 What is it that you see that others in weather, the business, so to speak, don't want to admit?

00:48:41.000 Because it seems like you're saying everything is so obvious, it's so common sense, but it seems to be totally disavowed.

00:48:47.000 Well, let me ask you a question.

00:48:49.000 If it's common sense and it's simple, It's relatively simple.

00:48:53.000 It's like playing chess.

00:48:54.000 If you're a great chess player, I used to be pretty good, but I'll probably just try to simplify the board.

00:48:59.000 Just take off as many pieces as I can so it just comes down to your piece against my piece, right?

00:49:04.000 But then again, if that's the attitude, if it's supposed to be simple, there are a lot of people who rely on complexities that they need complexities to increase their importance.

00:49:16.000 You can't do this.

00:49:17.000 You don't know what it is.

00:49:18.000 You're not following the science.

00:49:20.000 You're just someone that's just, you know, out there trying to earn a paycheck, right?

00:49:25.000 So you've got to understand, you know, I have a philosophy.

00:49:29.000 I remember my wrestling coach at Penn State was a guy named Bill Cole.

00:49:32.000 He was one of the first men on the beach in Normandy.

00:49:34.000 And, you know, he's in the – the reason we have a slam rule in wrestling is he was so mean.

00:49:39.000 That's why he was that.

00:49:41.000 He used to always say a good coach makes himself obsolete, right?

00:49:47.000 Now think about that.

00:49:49.000 If you're a scientist and you solve the problem, your goal should make yourself obsolete.

00:49:58.000 The Department of Education, what you guys are trying to do with the Department of Education.

00:50:04.000 You solve the problem, you make yourself obsolete.

00:50:06.000 That means you're successful.

00:50:07.000 But what happens to all these guys who their only importance is attached to the fact that you can't figure it out.

00:50:16.000 I'm the scientist.

00:50:17.000 And that's that, you know?

00:50:20.000 And it's funny because most of the time, the first answer, the simplest answer, is the correct answer.

00:50:27.000 But, you know, if you make it more and more complex, then people have to rely on you.

00:50:32.000 This is all about getting away from self-reliance.

00:50:36.000 You know, the common farmer in the Midwest knows what's going on, right?

00:50:41.000 But he can't get up and explain it mathematically or through equations.

00:50:46.000 And so people say, well, He can't do this or he can't do that.

00:50:49.000 But it comes down to simple, basic forcing.

00:50:53.000 It's like, you know, I'm still in the bodybuilder.

00:50:56.000 Big weights lead to big results.

00:50:59.000 Well, big forcing leads to big results in the weather and climate.

00:51:03.000 So it's the simple big forces, the sun, the oceans, stochastic events, which are random events, that is a big forcing idea.

00:51:11.000 And also, you know, the very design of the system.

00:51:15.000 What makes you think that the planet is designed for, oh, it's going to be 73 for a high, 57 for a low, and it'll rain on my plants from 3 to 6 o'clock every morning, and I can just go out with my unicorns and lollipops and just dance around in the sun?

00:51:28.000 See, that's what people think, and that's not the way it is.

00:51:32.000 Everything in life is designed for conflict.

00:51:35.000 The weather, your personal life.

00:51:37.000 Why is that?

00:51:38.000 So you can respond and become better.

00:51:40.000 It's a great design, and the weather is a great design, too.

00:51:44.000 So, you know, there's obviously a lot of debate on how NOAA should be reformed and how DOGE may look at increasing the efficiency of that agency like they're doing across the board.

00:51:53.000 You're right.

00:51:54.000 They're trying to eliminate the Department of Education by making themselves obsolete by actually getting real results.

00:51:59.000 You know, what would reform at NOAA look like to you?

00:52:04.000 Because, you know, for me, I see some of these things, you know, they don't want people using private boats.

00:52:09.000 You know, at more than 10 miles an hour because of the right whale, and, you know, there's never been a reported, like, boat hit of a right whale, but, like, we're going to change the laws that affect every person who's ever had a boat to accommodate these things.

00:52:22.000 It seems like there's just way overstepping their bounds.

00:52:26.000 You know, what would that reform look like to you?

00:52:28.000 Well, first of all, they're way overstepping their bounds because that's where the money is, right?

00:52:33.000 You know, when I look at NOAA, first of all, let's get something straight.

00:52:38.000 I could not do what I do without Noah.

00:52:41.000 You cannot believe how much great stuff Noah has done.

00:52:44.000 I live on a lot of their sites, not so much their forecasting sites, but their reanalysis sites, their history sites, and there's a lot of great stuff.

00:52:53.000 So what happens is you can't use a blunt hammer and say, I'm just going to cut this thing.

00:52:58.000 You have to look at it surgically.

00:53:00.000 You have a tremendous amount of talent.

00:53:01.000 Now, I suggested, you know, this whole buyout.

00:53:04.000 If you don't want to work...

00:53:05.000 Because you think that the current president doesn't agree with whatever philosophy you have.

00:53:10.000 Okay, fine.

00:53:11.000 You know, you get your buyout and you leave.

00:53:14.000 You want people that are lean and mean and dedicated to the mission.

00:53:19.000 Well, what is the mission?

00:53:21.000 The mission is not to scare the wits out of people.

00:53:23.000 It is to become better and better and better at forecasting and warning and also getting out in front.

00:53:30.000 You know, I've watched the NOAA publication, and there's always something about climate.

00:53:35.000 This was the first warmest ever.

00:53:36.000 And I'm like going, okay, well, everybody that's reading your thing is alive, and they're probably having a paycheck.

00:53:42.000 If it's the first warmest ever, are you trying to tell me that life is not as better back in 1930 than what it is now?

00:53:53.000 So you have to look at things sort of individually.

00:53:58.000 I think our warning centers, Our warning centers are absolutely valuable.

00:54:02.000 National Hurricane Center, but they're things I do with the National Hurricane Center.

00:54:06.000 I'd like them to reanalyze storms based on their size, not just on what the wind is right at the center, for instance.

00:54:13.000 That'll give people a better perspective.

00:54:16.000 So when Hurricane Milton shows up and says, how did it go from a Category 3 to a Category 5 and back to a 3 in 12 hours?

00:54:24.000 How the heck did that happen?

00:54:25.000 Because they're just looking at one wind speed, right?

00:54:27.000 They're not looking at the size of the storm.

00:54:29.000 Things like that.

00:54:30.000 You have to try to educate the public.

00:54:32.000 And you need a director of communications that can get that out there.

00:54:37.000 You need someone in charge of NOAA that knows something about business, but that loves the weather and loves the mission and has to define the mission.

00:54:47.000 And the mission cannot be...

00:54:50.000 You've got to understand.

00:54:52.000 NOAA has to understand that they are essential no matter what.

00:54:56.000 That the climate doesn't have to change for NOAA. All that has to change is the more prosperous America gets, the more essential NOAA is.

00:55:05.000 If we have more people, if we have more infrastructure, more property, guess what?

00:55:09.000 You're worth more if you can nail a forecast and get people prepared.

00:55:13.000 And the further out you can go, the better.

00:55:15.000 So they have to do that.

00:55:16.000 They have to be able to do stuff like we do, like September 8th, say, you know, I put it out over 100 times on Twitter.

00:55:23.000 Southeast part of the United States, last week of September, first week of October, multiple hurricane hits coming, right?

00:55:29.000 I used to do attention Governor DeSantis to try to get his attention that Florida was going to get hit for this two weeks in advance.

00:55:35.000 So you get out in front with Helene.

00:55:37.000 If you go out and say biblical flooding coming out four days away, people can get ready for that kind of thing.

00:55:45.000 So you have to look at it in a way where, let's say you took over a football team.

00:55:51.000 What's your favorite?

00:55:52.000 What's your favorite football team?

00:55:54.000 The Giants.

00:55:55.000 The Giants.

00:55:58.000 First of all, you don't trade away Saquon, although I was glad they did because I'm a Pennsylvania guy.

00:56:04.000 But the fact is, you go, okay, what talent do we have?

00:56:08.000 Why are we not excelling with the talent we have?

00:56:12.000 And what do we have to replace?

00:56:13.000 Who do we have?

00:56:14.000 It's no different than that.

00:56:15.000 You know what, Don?

00:56:16.000 It's really weird.

00:56:17.000 People scream and yell over their football teams and whatever, basketball teams.

00:56:22.000 Yet they don't apply the same standard to how the country should run.

00:56:26.000 How would the country be most successful?

00:56:29.000 Well, obviously put the best people with the most love in the best places, the people that want to do stuff.

00:56:35.000 NOAA definitely has the core.

00:56:37.000 They're already good, but good's the biggest enemy of best, all right?

00:56:41.000 So they definitely have the core to be great, and they've got to get out of the whole climate thing.

00:56:47.000 I'm not saying don't research it.

00:56:49.000 I'm saying stop with every single little thing.

00:56:53.000 The statistics I read show something like literally the climate has risen by like 0.2 degrees in like the last 75 years or whenever they were able to record it accurately.

00:57:04.000 I mean, that does not seem statistically significant.

00:57:08.000 Well, it rises much more in the coldest, driest areas, temperatures.

00:57:13.000 And that's due to water vapor.

00:57:15.000 That's the thumbprint of water vapor.

00:57:16.000 So I would say that if we're...

00:57:19.000 If we're going to build a, let's say, a Vostok, we decide to work a deal with the Russians where we want to build a resort at Vostok, we still have about a billion years to go before Vostok and Antarctica or whatever or something like that.

00:57:34.000 But it does rise quicker in those areas, and that gets incorporated in the total temperature.

00:57:38.000 So there might be a 7, 8 degree rise in the Arctic in its wintertime, and that then...

00:57:44.000 It translates to the whole entire global temperature when from 30 north to 30 south, the rise may be one-tenth of a degree, right?

00:57:53.000 And you can't feel that.

00:57:54.000 And you can't feel that over a generation.

00:57:56.000 That's why I'm going to use this term. 1.00

00:57:58.000 Stone stupid to try to claim that the migrant crisis is from climate change. 0.99

00:58:04.000 Those people over a generation, first of all, they're more profitable and they're growing more food than ever in Central America, all right? 1.00

00:58:11.000 But secondly, secondly...

00:58:13.000 You can't feel the difference in one-tenth of a degree.

00:58:18.000 You can't feel it yourself in a day and over multiple generations.

00:58:22.000 You can't feel that.

00:58:24.000 So the whole thing again, please, the whole thing again, and people have to realize it, it has nothing to do with climate, weather, science, or making your life better.

00:58:33.000 Quite the contrary.

00:58:34.000 It's likely to try to discourage you from making your life better because, after all, we've got all these kids with climate anxiety.

00:58:43.000 Right?

00:58:45.000 You know what my climate anxiety was?

00:58:47.000 If my dad told me we're getting six inches of snow, I was always worried, well, why can't we get a foot?

00:58:53.000 I wanted more.

00:58:54.000 Never mind.

00:58:55.000 What do you mean the wind's only going up to 40 miles an hour?

00:58:57.000 What about 50?

00:58:58.000 I had the exact kind of opposite anxiety because I like when the weather did extremes.

00:59:02.000 I make a joke about that, but kids couldn't.

00:59:05.000 Kids shouldn't have climate anxiety.

00:59:08.000 The whole thing is nuts to me.

00:59:10.000 Joe, do you see in NOAA or some of the other weather agencies the same kind of fraud and abuse that you saw, you know, that has been discovered in the last few weeks at USAID? I don't know.

00:59:20.000 I haven't looked into what they're doing.

00:59:22.000 I think, again, I look, you know, listen, Don, I mean, I came out of the private sector with AccuWeather.

00:59:29.000 I'm still in the private sector.

00:59:30.000 But let's remember AccuWeather and the National Weather Service.

00:59:33.000 For years, we're at each other's throats.

00:59:36.000 So much so that when the last director of NOAA, the last person to be nominated by your father, Barry Myers, who was the CEO of AccuWeather, and think about what AccuWeather did.

00:59:48.000 I mean, he had 50 great forecasters under one roof, forecasts for the entire planet, right?

00:59:55.000 So, I mean, they knew how to run things very, very efficiently over there, but there was great objection to it.

01:00:02.000 And it was sort of, you know, by that time I was out of AccuWeather, but I had a smile on my face because the government union, there were three attempts at putting a union into AccuWeather, which would have destroyed AccuWeather because we were in the private sector.

01:00:17.000 We couldn't pay people as much.

01:00:19.000 Basically, you had to really love the weather to go to work there at the time, right?

01:00:24.000 So the third time the union came in was the Government Weather Service Union.

01:00:30.000 They tried to come in.

01:00:32.000 I couldn't believe it.

01:00:32.000 There were big advertisements in the paper.

01:00:34.000 The average five-year government weather service guy is making, at that time, $52,000 a year.

01:00:41.000 Average at AccuWeather, $29,000.

01:00:43.000 Well, of course, you're feeding off the public trough. 0.77

01:00:47.000 Right off the bat there, just think about this.

01:00:51.000 The argument would have instantly been if someone...

01:00:54.000 And the government looked at that and said, well, how come we're paying all this money to so many more people when these guys are doing things that are a threat?

01:01:02.000 Because after all, if our forecast is beating your forecast and you're the public forecast, you feel threatened.

01:01:10.000 So when you look at that, I'm not going to look at the books.

01:01:14.000 What I want to look at and what I want to help out with is advising on who has the right attitude to run it.

01:01:22.000 Communicate.

01:01:23.000 And also, specific changes involved with the way things are done, as far as, you know, the Hurricane Center and the Severe Storm Center.

01:01:33.000 And that's not actually, that may not be cutting.

01:01:37.000 Listen, the Hurricane Center is really good at what they do.

01:01:40.000 You know, I used to get into arguments with Rush.

01:01:42.000 Because I said, Rush, go over to the National Hurricane Center, because you live, what, 30 miles away.

01:01:50.000 And go talk to them, and you'll realize they're not trying to scare the daylights out of people.

01:01:55.000 They're putting out a forecast they want to verify.

01:01:58.000 So it comes down.

01:01:59.000 There's plenty to cut, I'm sure, right?

01:02:01.000 But you have to do it in a way where you're looking at the New York Giants or the FBI, and you know you've got a lot of good people in there, and you've just got to make it efficient.

01:02:11.000 Well, Joe, great to have you back.

01:02:14.000 Always appreciate it.

01:02:15.000 Joe Bastardi, guys.

01:02:16.000 Thank you very much, man, and I'm sure we'll talk soon.

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