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Yes.
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But also, we are going to give you the inflation numbers.
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But that's the Inflation Reduction Act, which, oh, by the way, can we play this real quick?
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significant climate legislation that's ever passed in U.S. history.
It's transformative and attacking all the sectors of the economy that are involved in emissions causing climate change.
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Well, that's great.
But it's attacking the economy and it seems to be working out exactly as planned.
And finally, balloon talk.
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The Defense Secretary and the White House had to address something that I think is very, very important.
We lead with, let's go to Cut Eight.
This is John Kirby at the Pentagon.
The top officials in the Pentagon, when asked explicitly if they were ruling out any kind of extraterrestrial presence, said they weren't ruling anything out.
And yet at the beginning of today's briefing, albeit with her usual winning smile, Ms. Jean-Pierre seemed to rule out any extraterrestrial activity.
I don't think the American people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft.
Period.
I don't think there's any more that needs to be said there.
Okay.
All right.
I just want to say, do you recognize your country today?
The spokesperson from the Pentagon, without any laughter from the press corps, said, quote, I don't think the American people need to worry about extraterrestrials today.
Oh.
Okay.
Well, that's normal.
All right.
I got, I got it.
Now, we've heard from Austin they are not a threat.
And then we've heard they are a threat.
And then we've heard they're not a threat.
And then we see that they use Sidewinder missiles to take them down.
Why would you do that if it's not a threat?
By the way, just so you know, in the balloon fight, we had to use two sidewinders.
The first one missed it.
That's just a half a million dollar missile, but, or I'm sorry, yeah, half a million dollar missile.
It missed it.
My favorite part of the story is, and the Pentagon didn't track where that missile landed, but they're pretty sure. that no harm was done.
Pretty sure?
Pretty sure.
Okay.
We don't want to shoot the balloon down in the first place because of the shrapnel that might hit the ground, but we'll just let missiles fly randomly into societies.
And they're trying to get a better sense of what these things are by going and looking at them, but it proves to be very difficult because the debris is landing in the sea or in the water.
Well, here's an idea.
Don't shoot it down over the water.
What?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't shoot it down over the water.
I know it's very, very, very complex.
Now, Biden has ordered the creation.
Listen to this.
He's ordered the creation of interagency team to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena.
UAP.
Okay, that's what they now call UFOs.
Okay?
Does anybody want to step in and tell me what's wrong with this story?
The president, through his national security advisor, today has directed an interagency team to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety or security risks.
Nobody?
We already did this in Congress two years ago.
We have one.
Marco Rubio set it up.
It's why we've found out about possible alien life in the first place.
You already have a commission, an interagency commission that is studying this.
They've produced a report.
And yet yesterday, he announces we're going to do another one.
We need a committee to study that committee.
Well, we need a committee of doctors to study the brain.
All right.
So now the U.S. military first shot at an unknown octagon.
Say it.
I'm not even sure what.
An octagon.
An object that was an octagon over Lake Huron.
Okay.
Yesterday, they said, we don't think it was a balloon.
We don't think it was a balloon.
Was it a kite?
No, we just don't think it was a balloon.
Because it was an octagon, and you don't have balloons that are octave.
Well, Scott Adams just searched Google for five minutes, and he found an octagonal weather balloon for sale on Google.
So apparently they do make them, but maybe the Pentagon doesn't have Google.
Well, Nusher.
Maybe you covered this while I was gone, but do you have a, what's your, what's your cohesive theory that explains this?
Is it just that we've always had lots of balloons going over our heads and didn't know it?
I'll get to that.
I'll get to that in a minute.
I'll get to that in a minute.
yesterday i i spent a lot of time just explaining i don't think the extraterrestrial life has come from alpha centauri uh and then invading us with weather balloons i just don't think that that would be a weird approach yeah Yeah, but I think it would throw us off the track.
Let's get into the hot air balloon and go down and visit them.
I just didn't think that that would be the mode of invasion.
It feels a little probability to me.
It does.
Okay.
So what is happening?
Well, did you know that on January 28th, the U.S. Air Force spotted the spy balloon, right?
Coming in from Alaska.
And it went over the Aleutian Islands.
It was in Canadian airspace.
And then by the 31st, somebody was looking up and they're like, hey, that looks like a balloon.
What is it?
And the government had known about it the whole time, but decided to just be quiet.
Like, we're not going to see this balloon up in the sky.
Okay.
Did you know that just a few days prior to this, the Coast Guard caught a Russian spy ship gathering intelligence near Hawaii?
Now, the media was focused on one spy ship.
The Coast Guard released photos of several.
Now, these are not ghost balloons.
These are ships that just kind of like materialized.
Nobody had seen them.
They had been going back and forth, changing directions, avoiding all of our ability to track these ships.
And then they just kind of like came out.
That's great.
That's wonderful.
So we have that.
Now, I don't know if anybody has checked this, but it's almost like Russia and China are now in bed together.
And maybe we're in a proxy war with not only Russia, but also China.
They're checking our defenses.
They are seeing, are we spotting them?
Can they get past us?
And they're just, they are just testing, I think, our president on the balloons.
So they're playing chicken with us.
Okay.
They're not losing.
They're not winning, but they're not losing.
Okay.
So why is this happening?
Well, has anybody noticed the volume of trade between Russia and China?
It's gone through the roof.
So Beijing is now in the role where they are pretty much funding Russia's war in Ukraine.
You know, kind of like us funding Ukrainian side of the war.
So, wow, it sounds like we're on a losing team.
Looks like we've got Russia and China now as the Axis power and us and Ukraine.
Yay.
Theoretically Europe, right?
Yeah, theoretically Europe.
So this is what I think is truly happening.
Now, in about 10 minutes in Washington, D.C., they're getting a confidential briefing about the spy balloons.
So we should have some idea.
China just came out yesterday and said, yeah, well, you know, there's been 10 balloons in our airspace since 2022.
Washington, D.C. sends the balloons over to our place all the time.
Okay, don't know if that's true, but can we, maybe we should, you know, maybe we should just kind of back down a little bit, seeing that we are now facing China and Russia.
I mean, I don't know about you, but I don't want to go to war with China and Russia.
I don't want to go to war with China and, you know, Ethel, who lives down at the end of my street.
I, you know, let's not go to war.
What do you say?
Ethel's pretty spicy.
I mean, she, she brings it.
Yeah.
So you don't want to get her involved in this.
Correct.
Right?
You know Ethel.
Oh, yeah.
Everybody.
Yeah, everybody does.
Everybody does.
All right.
So we have that going for us.
Now we find out that Russia may have lost an entire elite brigade near a Donetsk coal mining town.
So it's not going well for them.
However, yesterday, the State Department said, hey, you know, if you're an American citizen, okay, you should not travel to Russia.
Do you think so?
But if you're there, you need to depart immediately.
Now, part of this is because what's left are dual citizens, okay?
And what we're saying is, quote, due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces, Americans in Russia face harassment, unlawful detention, and the possibility of terrorism.
Also, Americans in Russia could be subject to mobilization and conscripted to the Russian military.
So they're saying they might just grab people and just say, you, you're in the military.
Or they might just send you to a gulag.
So that seems like, that seems like, you know, really good news.
Now, one last story.
This comes from Forbes.
Carl Sandberg, he's the guy who wrote the Lincoln, you know, autobiography or the biography.
And he said, near the end of the Civil War, how improbable it was that the nation had turned to a one-horse lawyer from a one-horse town to save it.
The president confided that he too thought it was strange and then observed, it was a time when a man with a policy would have been fatal to the country.
I've never had policy.
I've just tried to do what was best as each day came.
Abraham Lincoln.
Next, the next paragraph.
President Biden's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has a similar flavor.
He had no policy for dealing with such an invasion when he entered office because he wasn't expecting one.
But once the invasion became imminent, Biden did everything he could to dissuade President Putin.
But the war began, and Biden and his advisors expecting a quick Russian victory just tried to do the right thing.
That is a magnificent story in so many ways.
First of all, I mean, Abraham Lincoln was really smart and said a lot of really good things.
Is that the one you're pulling out?
Hey, I didn't really know anything about this.
I just kind of gave it.
I winged it.
Is that a good quote from Lincoln?
You should have had a policy on slavery.
Well, the story goes on and says, maybe we should have a policy.
Yeah.
In this one, I'll explain in just a minute.
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Okay.
So.
So Forbes goes on to say, when Ukraine proved unexpectedly resilient in the face of Moscow's aggression, the administration cautiously began sending military equipment, most defensive items like Stinger and anti-aircraft misses, blah, blah, blah.
Russia's subsequent reverses on the battlefield emboldened the administration to rally allies while gradually increasing the lethality of what America supplied.
In April of 22, they decided to send N777 howitzers.
In June, the High Mars rocket launcher.
And in December, the Patriot missile system.
Now it's sending armored vehicles, including the prized Abrams main battle tank, and pressing the Allies to send similar weapons, such as the Leopard from Germany, and there's talk of supplying F-16 fighters.
Washington Post's story on February 9th that closed the targeting of a game-changing HIMARS system that it depends on information provided by U.S. intelligence reporting Ukrainian forces quoting almost never launched the advanced weapons without specific coordinates provided by U.S. military personnel.
The very next day, the Post revealed that the Pentagon was urging Congress to allow U.S. special operators to have hands-on control.
Okay, this is okay.
All right.
Okay, let's, uh-huh.
So the story goes on to say, when is Russia going to say enough is enough?
I think probably this spring.
I think maybe that's what's happening with the balloons and China.
They are letting us know we are not to be fooled around with.
We've had how many power outages and problems?
You know, they keep blaming this on the Nazis, all these Nazis that are around.
I've never seen a Nazi.
I've seen a Klansman before on a street corner.
I yelled at him and my wife was like, can you shut up and just keep driving?
But I've never seen a group of Nazis.
Well, I have, I guess, on TV, you know, that group of fine people, as the press always likes to say, Trump called them.
Yeah.
But apparently they're everywhere.
Yeah.
They're busy.
Very busy.
They're very busy.
They're very, very busy.
We really need to pay attention because one of the things that, according to the Post, is the most damaging, the thing that should worry all of us is this nonchalant attitude in Congress, in the Senate, and in the administration of, you know, we're just sending some stuff over.
No big deal.
We're not going to get into a war.
We are marching towards something and we have got to stop now.
And doesn't it seem more likely we'll get pulled into a war when our president apparently has no policy on this issue?
Yeah.
Is he making it up as he goes along?
Well, at some point, it might feel like the right thing to do is enter into war.
Right.
Right.
Great.
Perfect.
Said Abraham Lincoln.
That's why.
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I would like an investigation on that.
And it won't happen because if we did indeed do it, that's World War III.
I mean, if Russia did that to us, wouldn't that be something we would declare war on?
Now, I have to tell you, for me, it's not fighting a war over.
If our administration did this, that's impeachable.
That is treason.
You don't do this.
You don't go around Congress and do something like this.
And I hope to God we didn't.
But, you know, we all look at it.
Well, Putin's not crazy enough.
Were we crazy enough to do what we just did?
Because if we are crazy enough to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, that is an act of war and to do it without anyone even in Congress knowing about it.
I got news for you.
He's crazy enough to detonate a nuke.
You're calling for an investigation to find out if this was done by us or who it was done by.
Well, name the countries that could do it, Stu.
Well, everyone pointed to Russia initially, which never really made sense to me.
It doesn't make sense to me.
China could do it, but China, I mean, that doesn't make sense.
They'd be on the other side of Russia, and they're cozying up to Russia.
Right.
They don't want to do that.
No.
You have France.
France does not have the spine.
And if their people found out while they were freezing to death, they were the ones that, I mean, that would just be horrible.
England has the capability, but England has the same story as France, and England's not going to do it.
I mean, why would England do it?
I mean, even if they did do it, it's basically our ally doing it anyway, and they would have to ask us.
Right.
I mean, they probably, they don't have to ask us, of course, as a sovereign.
Because I doubt we asked any of them.
Right.
But they would probably consult with us on something like that.
It doesn't make any sense.
I mean, the only thing that, if you want to stretch a little bit, the only thing that kind of potentially could make sense from the Russia standpoint is perhaps a faction of the Russian military that believes Putin is too soft.
Now, this faction definitely exists, right?
They're saying, wait a minute, the United States is supplying arms to these guys.
They are our enemy.
We're already at war.
Admit it.
And they also were the people who are saying, you know, we are too tied economically to these other countries and we can't do the right thing in Ukraine by going after them because of these pipelines and we're worried about Europe and how they're going to react because we have these ties to them for gas and all this.
And that was going on before this war.
So, I mean, in theory, could a faction of the military or some part of their military intelligence complex think that we need to end this so there's no more ties here and we can fight this like we're supposed to?
Why wouldn't, maybe?
Why wouldn't the investigate?
I mean it's, it's interesting to me that uh, all the investigators from the West, they've all been like uh yeah uh, we should just forget about it now.
I mean, we've been down there, we looked at it, we should just forget about it now.
No, I mean, if it was a, it was a Russians and there was any evidence at all, they would have said that, if there's any evidence at all, they wouldn't say it was us.
Yeah, they say.
I mean, they do seem to point to Russia, but they don't provide any real reasoning.
And they don't provide that sort of you know, because there's not a real reason.
Why would Russia want to do that like their?
If their plan was uh, to just go to war with Europe, and they would could just go to war with Europe, right like that.
There's no reason to to break off the income in the middle of, at the worst part of of a financial crisis caused by this war right, like they're.
The last thing they're going to want to do is cut off their short-term access to to the gas business.
Now, I guess this was the second secondary pipeline, so it was the one that wasn't really operational yet.
But still, why close that door?
It doesn't make any sense, you know it's.
It's a bizarre.
It's a bizarre theory.
Why would Russia blow up their own access to a bunch of money, like because have we looked at the rebel alliance?
Because, like you said, it wasn't fully operational yet, so they tend to do it right before it comes online?
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Um, it is valentine's day, which I absolutely hate.
I hate it why you have some plans tonight.
I mean yes, we do have plans nice, but I hate it.
So are you?
Is this going to be the discussion while you're out?
Shut up a little bit of a hey, not happy.
I'm here not happy to see you.
My, my wife gave me a card today.
It was so sweet and uh, I get up in the morning and it's sitting by my sink and hers is not sitting by the sink, it's uh I, I put it at the store, but anyway oh, so I wish you can do something today and go out and get it.
Well oh, you're gonna pick it up.
I thought I might pick it up.
Oh, you should give her the opportunity to pick it up.
Yeah okay, you're right, good idea, it's a surprise.
Go in and see which one you think I left there for you.
Uh, they'll charge you if you got the wrong one, so anyway um uh, just a quick, you know uh, valentine's tip here.
This comes from a Harvard Trained psychologist that works with couples and they, they wanted to show that these are some of the phrases that might show that your marriage or relationship is in trouble.
Okay, so remember, this is Harvard.
Okay okay, I mean we're, we're looking, I mean we're gonna go deep here.
Yeah, I want to.
I want to know what are those?
All right uh, the first phrase that if you notice any of these phrases coming from you or your partner, your relationship may be in trouble.
Uh, the first phrase uh, that apparently they don't want to say is, you don't deserve me.
Really said it could could, also actually written on the valentine's day card I got for my wife, yeah well, that's weird, because the one I picked out said, you're lucky that I even put up with you, which is, you know, still the same phrase.
They wanted you to know.
If you hear any of those, you might be in trouble.
Um uh, this one, uh.
Number two is, uh, stop asking if i'm okay, all right, everything's fine.
When it isn't.
When you hear that, now what would be the issue there?
I can't think of anything.
Uh, they say that's just passive aggressive, uh and uh, then they, you know, then they don't feel open to you know, to to share okay, and they can't resolve the conflict, although I will tell you there's a caveat on this.
Stop asking if i'm okay, everything is fine.
Sometimes guys really just don't know.
We have no idea if you're fine or not.
We just know you've stopped talking to us or you you're just gonna give us a cold shoulder or just a look.
Sometimes that look means nothing.
Sometimes that look means like you've really done something now and i'm so angry I want you to apologize.
And then we're like I don't know what I did, and so you're like hey sub, and then they give you the look you know like okay, all right.
So now I know i've done something, scanning scanning, scanning.
I don't know what.
I have no idea what it is.
Honey, is something wrong?
Can I?
I mean, did I?
No, nothing is wrong.
Okay, all right.
So I'm not sure if that is necessarily the same.
And you said sometimes guys don't know?
What was the, can you explain?
Yeah, I should take out the caveat.
Sometimes don't.
Guys just don't know.
We have no idea.
So if someone's asking, usually that's probably a good sign that they actually care enough to ask.
Yeah, at least you're over that hump.
Are you okay?
Please don't chop our heads off.
We have no idea.
No, yeah, we're really dumb.
Okay.
Number three is if you say this to your spouse, your marriage may be in trouble or your relationship.
You're pathetic.
Now, this is from Assyria.
I don't know, but they say this is name calling and it simplifies.
I'm saying name calling.
Right, right.
I'm saying if it's her name.
Right.
Her name is pathetic, God-given name.
Right.
Okay.
This one, again, it has to come from a PhD because you never see this one.
So far, it's pretty advanced analysis.
The fourth phrase that you just don't want to say or hear in your relationship is, I hate you.
Shut up.
It's not.
I hate you.
Number four, I hate you.
Wow.
Did we pay for the study?
We had to pay for the study.
It overgeneralizes momentary feelings and creates insecurity even in the good moments because your partner may think, do they really love me right now when they said I hate you last week?
What good moments are you saying?
Good moments.
So you have a bad moment where you say, I hate you.
And then you have a good moment, you're like, I love you.
And you're like, you just said you hated me.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Your breakdown of the situation is inconsistent.
Wait, do you get back to the I love you thing after the I hate you thing?
I think the I hate you thing kind of winds it up, doesn't it?
I mean, I kind of see that as a red flare.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
She says, I hate you.
Do you go to Harvard?
No, I Yale.
Okay.
Five, you're a bad parent.
You're a bad parent.
Who says these things?
I don't, I don't, I don't know.
You're a bad parent.
You're a bad parent.
Or at least most of these seem like immediate relationship enders if you say them once.
Right.
So they say, this is what you're supposed to do for a good relationship.
Use I statements, say thank you, and take responsibility.
So now I'm not a PhD, but I am a doctor in the humanities.
And this is, oh, for the love of all humanity, say these things.
Okay.
Use I statements, say thank you, take responsibility.
Use I statements.
Yeah.
So it would be like, oh, thank you for saying that.
I've been looking to take responsibility of my own life, and you've just reminded me, I hate you.
Oh, it's a nice statement.
Yeah.
I hate you.
I hate you.
That's good.
And apparently it'll be fixed.
It'll be fixed.
Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.
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Or my wife's been saying she hates me now for years.
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You want to talk about misinformation and disinformation?
I don't know which one this is, but the New York Post, who I normally trust, has run this headline.
And it's just an out-and-out lie.
Barney is back.
The beloved purple dinosaur reboot is in the works.
I don't know anybody that likes Barney.
Not a single soul.
They were all filmed.
Every episode was filmed here in our complex, our studio complex.
And I'm not proud of that.
You know, I say it just to get it out there so it can't be used against me.
But also, Barney.
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No.
Everything a little skin tight, I guess.
The Biden administration yesterday has announced another sale of oil from the Department of Energy Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Another 26 million barrels going to be sold off.
Oh, good.
So we're at the lowest now dating back to 1983, which was just a few years after the Strategic Oil Reserve was put into place.
So that's great.
That's great.
Yeah.
Really, really, really.
We have a lot of things that are like the first since 1983 or earlier.
Yeah.
You know, inflation, there's a lot of that going on.
You know, I don't know if you've paid any attention to what's been going on in Ohio, but there's some real problems in Ohio.
We're spending the whole next hour on Ohio and what's happening there.
But, you know, the good thing is, is that, you know, we have Budajudge.
And do we have time to play Cut 9?
Yeah.
To work with your contractors, to work with your community colleges on building a workforce that reflects the community.
We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project looking like, you know, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood, right?
You can build community wealth that will help close wealth gaps in this country if we can tear down those barriers.
That's great.
That's Pete Buttajudge.
He spoke about this and, you know, hey, white people shouldn't get jobs.
He's the transportation secretary.
No comment until 8.30 last night on what the hell is going on in Ohio.
Where is he on this?
Where is he on this?
I mean, have you ever, can you name any other transportation secretaries?
Like, this guy has been in the middle of like 10 cataclysmic disasters since he's taken this job.
He is horrible at this.
He's horrible.
Every single thing he does seems to turn to a disaster.
Like, I mean, it's a really meaningless, not a meaningless job, but it's not a job where you get any notoriety.
And yet this guy's in the center of all sorts of stuff.
Every time there's a massive screw-up, it's usually on him.
Well, the exception that, you know, the media doesn't recognize that.
You know, they want to keep his, they want to keep his runway open for a possible run in 2024 as president of the United States.
But he needs to answer for what's happening in Ohio.
And what's happening in Ohio is a nightmare.
Don't?
You know?
I'd like to see Pete Buttigieg move to Palestine and live there and tell me it's okay.
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What is happening in Ohio is uh is, a nightmare, a national nightmare.
Um, what exactly is happening in Ohio?
Yesterday we had Pete Budajudge out talking about how construction workers shouldn't be white.
We need to balance our work, for you're the transportation secretary.
Have you been on the ground yet?
We've been down on the ground in Palestine Ohio, you know, and the EPA yesterday came out said oh, it's all fine, all fine, nothing in the water, nothing to breathe, no big deal, except people's animals are dying and they're being told you can go back.
You know, this is what happens when you have government agencies.
Lie to people, like they did at the CDC with COVID.
Now you think you have any credibility.
If I'm living in Palestine Ohio, I'm saying to the EPA, really, you and you and Professor Pete, go ahead, you come here, you live here for a couple of weeks and walk around a mile away from this derailment, drink the water, then I'll believe you that maybe my family would be safe.
I wouldn't believe it.
This is a real crisis.
So what's really going on on the ground?
Well, we want to take you to somebody who lives about a mile, mile and a half from the accident.
However, their property is only about half a mile from the crash site.
It's not a good situation, and America needs to answer for it.
When I say America, I'd like Washington to answer.
What are you doing to protect the people, the water supply, all of it, in 60 seconds?
You know, you'd think that, I mean, because everybody in the media and the left, they always love these spills.
War Zone Aftermath and Dog Crisis00:15:23
So they always are covering it wall to wall.
This has been going on since what?
The 6th?
Was it?
I mean, this has been going on for a very long.
The third, the third.
Where is everybody?
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I want to welcome in a resident, Caitlin Schwartzwalder.
She is the von Schwartz Doberman kennel owner and has been forced to evacuate.
But you were there for the first couple of days, were you not?
Caitlin?
Hi, Glenn.
Yes, I was.
So the derailment occurred on Friday evening, and we were there from Friday evening until Sunday evening at 8 p.m. when we were subsequently evacuated.
My home and my business are both on Taggart Road, which is the road of the derailment.
We have 27 acres.
And from driveway to derailment is 1.2 miles.
And from the edge of the property to the derailment is less than a half a mile.
And the railroad tracks actually butt up to the back of the property by 10 feet.
Holy cow.
So when you had the dogs in the kennel, everything was fine until they set this on fire, right?
I wouldn't say fine.
To be honest with you, the area looks like a war zone.
It looks like I would assume Ukraine to look like.
There's military tankers every half mile.
There's police personnel blockading roads.
It's beyond anything imaginable.
And it's so surreal to think that this is our home.
So when you are evacuated, you immediately take all of the dogs out.
But then you have horses too, don't you?
Correct.
So on Sunday evening, with the help of Bearded Brothers Moving Group, which is a local moving group in Ohio, they came with their moving trucks.
We evacuated 30 dogs between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. the next morning.
They were able to transport all of the cages and kennels.
And I had my own vehicles to make multiple trips to transport the dogs.
We had them all evacuated to a private residence by the next morning.
You know, it's less than an ideal situation, but it's all we have, you know, in this time.
You know, the home is not fenced.
The dogs do have to live in cages because, you know, there's not an appropriate setup.
I mean, what kind of appropriate setup can you make in one evening?
So we evacuated the dogs between Sunday night and Monday morning.
The original time of the controlled detonation was supposed to be 12 in the afternoon on Monday.
At 11 o'clock, we were evacuating horses.
I own one horse, and my neighbor has eight other horses across the street.
My horse is only six months old.
She's a baby.
And we had to load these horses onto trailers.
They were all upset from the noises and the banging and the, you know, just emergency personnel flying up and down the road.
We had a terrible time trying to get them loaded onto trailers and evacuated.
Believe it or not, our local police department, specifically Officer Frederick, he actually came into the horse pastures with us and helped us move the horses out, you know, because all we knew that the control detonation was happening at noon.
And obviously, there was a chance of a catastrophic failure prior to that.
So we were all just kind of wishing and hoping for the best and trying to get these animals to safety.
And we did.
And the control detonation didn't end up happening until I believe about 4:38 on Monday.
And then kind of all hell broke loose.
So tell me now what happened after the explosion because they've just come out.
EPA has come out and said, oh, it's fine.
But were there some people that stayed or they left their animals?
Yeah, unfortunately, some people had to leave their animals because they didn't have a place to evacuate that was animal friendly.
Some people left the animals, and unfortunately, some of those animals have died.
There are stories of a woman with chickens.
I have spoken with her personally.
Anytime there's any kind of animal death, of course, because I'm so close, I do a little more digging.
And I've actually personally spoken to these people who have had herds of chickens die, who have had domestic foxes die.
I have a personal friend whose family member's dog went out into the yard and never came back inside, a two-year-old healthy dog.
My personal dogs, just from the two days that they were there and exposed to just the fire fumes and whatnot, whatever was in the air prior to the detonation, I had four dogs needing to have emergency veterinarian services because they were projectile vomiting, very lethargic.
So, you know, I can't even imagine what it would be like for a human or an animal to be there during the controlled detonation or being there now.
I can't imagine.
We've had to go back a couple of times for supplies because, you know, I had to move an entire business in one evening, as well as my own personal things.
And we've had to go back, and going back is extremely uncomfortable.
It is, you know, there's physical symptoms each and every time we go from, you know, itchy, burning, watery eyes, itchy, burny throat, coughing.
It was a weird sensation of like your eyes pulsating.
It almost felt like your eyes had a heartbeat.
Our skin was so dry that even, you know, your general moisturizers that you put on, you know, after a shower have still not resolved the problem.
So I can't imagine being back there now.
Our plan is to most likely not go back ever.
But we're just trying to fund all these things and trying to just figure out where life has to go from here.
So what is it like on the ground today?
Because there's, I mean, this detonation, you know, happened a week ago Sunday, and the EPA is saying, oh, you can go back in.
And some people are.
But as you said, they're experiencing difficulties.
Yeah, so I was there yesterday.
I was continuing to grab some more kennels for the dogs to make the situation here a little bit better.
And we couldn't stand to be there for more than 30 minutes.
So I don't know how people are doing it.
What I know is still, as of yesterday, it doesn't look like our normal town of East Palestine in Darlington, Pennsylvania.
It looks like something out of a movie.
It's empty.
I think the media is not appropriately displaying the fact that people aren't going back.
Some people who didn't have the financial means to stay away any longer came back, but I think anybody who had an option did not go back.
Jeez.
Okay, so they're now worried that all of this stuff is seeping into the water supply.
And I know Pennsylvania has just closed down one of the plants, but the EPA said they had screened 291 homes near the crash site.
It has not detected any levels of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride.
And they said they still have to screen, but it's safe and they're not finding anything in the water.
You believe that?
My understanding is that, you know, I have talked with some chemical engineers and environmental services, and essentially it's not supposed to be in the water just yet.
From my understanding, the vinyl chloride is like water and it travels through the ground in the soil like water.
So, you know, being a mile, 1.2 miles away, like we are, other locations within a mile, it takes time for this stuff to travel the ground.
We have not had much rain.
I think in the last seven days, we've had one day of a little bit of rain.
They're saying that right now, they're not surprised if it tests okay.
But in four, five, six months from now, you know, these levels could be astronomic.
And that is the concern.
That is my concern.
That is others' concern, not to mention the fact that physically being there is uncomfortable.
And yeah, I mean, you have 20, what did you say, 26, 27 acres?
This is farmland.
What are people going to do?
I mean, you're not going to be able to sell this land.
I mean, that's kind of why we're at a rock in the hard place right now.
You know, I have a 7,500 square foot facility.
I have a beautiful home.
I have other buildings that I've built on the property as well.
So I have a great investment into this property that now went from, you know, X amount of dollars to maybe being able to sell it for a fraction of what it's worth.
Maybe.
I mean, who in their right mind would buy something on Taggart Road right now?
I couldn't imagine.
So, you know, now we're faced with the issue of little to no help from anybody.
And we're faced with the issue of having to potentially own two large properties, you know, and, you know, funding and the ability to own two pieces of land and two buildings and two facilities and pay, you know, two taxes.
I mean, it's going to be nearly impossible for a small business.
So, Caitlin, hold on for one minute.
And when I come back, I want to ask you what we can do to help.
I mean, I know our audience well enough to know, and we just, we want to help.
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This is bad.
You're, we're.
We're looking at now, you know, if you want to use that land again, I think you're going to have to, I think you're going to have to dig up and take quite a bit off the topsoil.
Not an expert in this, obviously, but that's what I'm seeing today.
Environmental Protection Agency is like, yeah, don't worry.
I don't believe them.
Can I ask you that?
Do you believe them, Kaylin?
So I can't comment on that, but what I can comment on is that we were told by Norfolk personnel that the agencies that were coming to our homes to test were from independent laboratories.
Now, what I can tell you firsthand is that we had a gentleman from GTEC, which is the so-called independent laboratory.
He was sitting in our driveway from the night of the derailment.
And we had spoken to him just very informally.
And he said that, and I quote, we follow around the railroad when they make mistakes, and they are happy to have us here.
And when, you know, C-TEC came to our facility to test our air, they had not offered the services of water at that point in time.
They handed me a contract that essentially said that I needed to hold Norfolk, their affiliates, not limited to, but including C-TEC, harmless of any future.
You didn't sign it.
Oh, of course not.
Yeah, good.
But unfortunately, 340 other residents did sign it.
C-Tech Air Testing & Liability00:05:22
And that's where my heart just breaks for these people because we don't know the long-term repercussions of what these chemicals can do in our air, to our environments, to our homes, to our businesses.
And they've signed their rights away in the hopes that they're getting help and the right answers from these organizations.
And what I can tell you firsthand is that C-Tech, the affiliate of Norfolk that came to test the air, was followed by the EPA.
And what I can tell you is that we said, can the EPA by themselves come into our kennel?
We do not sign this paper.
And can they test themselves?
Because they're a government organization that has the ability.
They had the testing equipment with them.
And the answer was absolutely not.
Why?
I can't tell you why.
I just, I don't know.
So how could we help you?
It sounds like if you could get some independent testing, that might be a help.
But how could we help you?
I think that's the thing.
The thing is, is that people who have the means to stay away and stay evacuated are wanting just independent testing done.
Now I've reached out to three different independent laboratories and they've actually reached out to me as well, CORE, Atlas, and Acron, I think, if I say that correctly.
And their services, they want retainers between $15,000 and $50,000 to do these independent testings of the land or of the air, soil, and water.
Now they do a whole reconnaissance of the property and the topography.
And it's a very intense. procedure and protocol.
And I mean, I think that the way to help imminently would be to help fund these landowners and or people who have stayed evacuated and are demanding these private testings to fund, essentially help us fund the private testing because many people can't afford $15,000 to $50,000 upfront.
Especially, I spoke with a gentleman at CORE Environmental Services this morning and I said, you know, these chemical engineers and people making intelligent and professional consenses are saying that this could be six to eight months to a year from now where we're going to see answers.
So if we're having to pay these kinds of retainers up front and have to pay them again, maybe in six months, again in a year, it's just not feasible.
All right.
So Caitlin, I want you to hold on the phone.
I want to get the names.
If Mercury One won't help out on this, I'll pay for those themselves.
We'll send some help up there to get your water and your land and your air tested properly and independently.
So hang on just a second, Caitlin.
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Just talking about what's happening up in Ohio in this.
I mean, it is a simple little farming town, simple little town.
And they're hit by just unreal devastation.
And as I'm reading today and I see that the EPA says, oh, you know, everything's fine.
You can go in.
Everything's great.
I know if I live there, I don't believe that.
It's not that I think that it's wrong.
I just don't believe them.
I don't believe the government.
And let me ask you something.
Biden's $1.1 Trillion Train Set00:15:53
Isn't Joe Biden Mr. Train Set?
Isn't he Mr. Amtrak?
He had the keys to the Amtrak, didn't he?
Yeah, he had the keys to Amtrak.
He has given more money to the railroads than any other politician, I think, ever, all the way back to Abraham Lincoln when they drove the golden spike.
The guy was friends with the maintenance staff.
Oh, he knew everybody by their first name.
He just did a big deal to get the railroad unions not to strike.
That's right.
He navigated that crisis with tact.
Where is he on this one?
Where is he on this one?
This is a letting Mayor Pete take the heat for it.
Yeah.
And where is Mayor Pete on it?
Doing the terrible job he always does because he was a diversity hire.
So the only thing that I can see from Mayor Pete is that he was out yesterday giving a speech about how construction companies needed to hire more black workers.
What does that have to do with transportation?
What does that have to do with transportation?
He has this huge train pile up.
It looks like it's from a broken or overheated axle.
The only statement that I have seen from the White House is that that was Trump's fault.
Wait, the axle?
Wait, what?
Yeah, it was Trump's fault because Obama had said, you need to have different brakes and upgrade the brakes.
And Trump took that and got rid of that law.
Okay.
I'm sure he didn't go in and was like, whatever you do, I want unsafe breaks on all of the trains.
That had to be an executive order on both sides.
And God only knows what that executive order else was loaded with.
The other thing, too, is when you say you want to spend a lot of money on everything, when eventually some of that money isn't spent, you can just say, well, we wanted to spend more money on that and you wouldn't let us, right?
It's always that extra $4 that would have saved them.
How many infrastructure projects have we done?
I don't keep saying that.
I say yes to all of them.
All right.
And I hear the press.
This is our infrastructure.
This is our falling apart infrastructure.
How much more money do you need?
How much?
I want the big number.
Stop biting around the edges and going, hey, Dad, can I just have a little bit more?
I want to know what it will cost.
I want to know that number.
I am sick and tired of hearing about our crumbling infrastructure.
And then we pass the largest infrastructure bill of all time.
And then four years later, I hear about our crumbling infrastructure.
And we're passing the biggest budget for infrastructure of all time again.
And then a few years later, I hear about our crumbling infrastructure.
Give me the number.
I want the number.
I'd like to know what you're doing.
Is anybody here yet?
Is anybody at this point saying, how much are you claiming this is going to be?
Because they've already done it with global warming.
You know, what is it?
$150 trillion?
To do what they're saying is $150 trillion.
Give us that number.
How much is the infrastructure to stop it from crumbling?
And you know what?
Pete Buddha Judge, you're a joke.
You're an absolute joke.
Where are you?
Why are you not in the hard hat?
At least getting some photo ops down at the site.
Why are you not in the hard hat?
Why don't you have soot on your face?
It'd be good for your campaign.
I swear to you, people don't actually care.
These people in Washington, oh, no, we care for your children more than you care for your children.
Do you now?
Where are you for the children from this town that haven't gone to school, that are living in a motel, some of them probably living in their car?
Where are you on the children?
Wow, Glenn, you are just forgetting about the bipartisan infrastructure bill that we just passed last year.
And, you know, the good thing about that is that it couldn't have passed except for the wonderful, loving help of 10 Republicans who came on board to help in the Senate.
What an incredible group.
Should we go through some of their names?
I don't know.
It just feels like maybe just I'm not going to go through all of them.
All 10 would be too much.
Too much.
Too much.
And I know they all deserve so much credit, but let me just highlight a few names for you.
Kevin Kramer of North Dakota.
Let me give you Roger Wicker of Mississippi.
And Mitt Romney of Utah.
I want to highlight those three names.
Oh, Deb Fisher as well of Nebraska.
I want to highlight those four names specifically because they're all up for reelection in 2024.
And now would be the time to find a good primary challenger against them if you happen to think that working with Joe Biden on his new train set was not the most the best use of your $1.1 trillion.
Maybe now would be a time to think about that because we can all complain about it later.
And I'm sure we can all complain about Mitch McConnell and some of the other names on this list.
And there are some to complain about.
But those three you can do something about right now.
Right now.
Four.
It was four, I believe.
Fisher's a little bit more of a borderline case overall, perhaps, but the other three aren't.
Their voting records suck.
And Kevin Kramer, Mitt Romney, certainly, Roger Wicker and Deb Fisher, all in states that are read that you can absolutely win the general election with a good conservative challenger.
Mitt Romney's popularity among Republicans in Utah is 41%.
There's no reason you can't knock him off in a primary.
Let's do it.
This is the time to do it.
Now's the time, everybody.
Well, I believe it was Mitt Romney that also helped bring the Inflation Reduction Act into play as well.
I want to show you something, Stu.
And I want you to come over here to stand next to me here for a second.
I want you to read them.
Well, you know, you actually can read it on the screen back there.
This is from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Okay.
150% payout high-efficiency electric home rebate program.
Appropriation.
Funds go to state energy offices and Indian tribes.
In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to carry out a program to award grants to state energy offices to develop and implement high-efficiency electric home rebate programs in accordance with subsection C,
$4,275,000,000 to remain available for the rebate.
That's $4 billion there.
$4,270.
Okay.
$4 billion.
That would be more notable.
$4 billion, $275 million toward grants to Indian tribes to develop and implement high-energy electric home.
Notice it's not gas.
It's not high-efficiency.
It's high-efficiency electric home.
The rebate in accordance with subsection C, that is $225 billion for the million.
You need to.
$225 million.
God, it's a lot of money, but it's a lot of money.
I'm already confusing.
I just get lost with the anyway.
Oh, a ton of money, and it's all in there.
Plus, some more things we're going to be showing you that when they all come together, they are dismantling our electrical abilities.
They're dismantling our electric generation plants.
Okay.
And they're incentivizing this, not just here, but your tax dollars are going all over the world to convince governments to shut down their electric, coal electric plants.
And they get money just for shutting them down.
And they want to shut down the stuff that was created to replace the previous shutdowns for natural gas.
Correct.
You want to get rid of that too?
These people do not care about your family.
They do not care.
I know that sounds horrible and harsh, but there is no other way to explain it.
Now, I'm not saying they cause the train derailment by any stretch of the imagination.
But where is the government with, you know, if I have good buddies in the train industry and I'm the president of the United States, when they come, this is what they did.
They offered $25,000 to help move the town.
So we got $25,000.
Anybody need any help?
We got you covered.
Really?
I call as the president of the United States to say, hey, Jack, my good buddy, that I've been there forever.
Take care of these people.
Do it right.
Set the example.
Good Lord.
Ron DeSantis built a bridge in what?
A weekend after a hurricane?
Built a bridge.
We still can't put the fire out.
We're still, I don't know.
I don't know what we're doing.
We got people living everywhere, but I'm sure the air is fine.
It's really despicable.
And you as American citizens should need to clock this one.
Put that, okay, that's how they treat us.
Okay.
All right.
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the glenn back program hey some really really good news uh that has come in yesterday once again from uh florida
It appears as though our good friend in Florida has actually now taken on ESG in a big way.
He is now abolishing any kind of ESG standards from banking or anything else in use in Florida.
I mean, this is the kind of bold action that will actually take it apart.
This is the biggest news we've had on ESG since we started talking about ESG, and it's coming from DeSantis.
That's great.
Now, is this, are you talking about is it just state funding or is it there's some additional looking for the story now to make sure I get it right because you know me, DeSantis.
Here it is.
Proposing legislation to prohibit state and local governments from including any environmental, social, or governance considerations in any investment.
The comprehensive anti-ESG legislation previewed Monday at an event in Naples.
The plans build off the previous actions that the governor has taken and would prohibit the use of ESG in all investment decisions at the state and local level, ban state and local entities from any consideration of ESG in the contracting process, and block state and local governments from weighing ESG when using municipal bonds.
Okay, so it's government related, which is, you know, I think the limits of his power there probably anyway.
But that's really good.
And it seems to address the E, S, and G here, not just the E, which has been kind of a problem.
He said, by applying arbitrary ESG financial metrics that serve no one except the companies that created them, elites are circumventing the ballot box to implement a radical ideological agenda.
Through this legislation, we will protect the investments of Floridians and the ability of Floridians to participate in the economy.
This is fantastic.
That's great.
I think this is as far as you can go.
He has gone every possible way he could go.
And you see, with his stature in this race right now, which is 1A, 1B, with Donald Trump really seemingly in the Republican race, he's at that point now where he just wrestles these headlines.
Even though we've talked to a bunch of people around the country who've tried to do things, some of them have been really impressive.
But DeSantis does it, and it's now DeSantis' thing, right?
Like he is able, it was just like with the immigrants being sent to Martha's Vineyard.
Other states were already doing stuff like that.
He does it and it just wrestles the entire issue.
I mean, it just seems like he is, you know, this is his year.
If he's going to have a year to win this president, to win the nomination, this definitely seems like it.
So did you hear that the premier of Quebec, Francois Legault, he has now said that the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has got to stop busing people to Montreal.
I love this stuff.
I mean, this is crazy.
I mean, Texas gets him up to New York and everybody says, oh, the humanity, how could you possibly do that?
Quebec Premier vs. NYC Mayor00:14:53
And what does a Democrat do?
Put him on a bus and send him across the border up into Canada.
Eventually, like Santa Claus is going to be like, how are all these immigrants getting here?
They're only a few weeks away from them.
The elf unions.
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What you're about to hear here is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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So another politician throws their hat into the ring.
We'll talk about that coming up in a minute.
And let me ask you, have you ever had a disagreement with something, with someone, and it's fact-based?
And you know the fact.
You just can't find it anywhere.
And it goes on for years.
And the guy you're working with every day will bring it up from time to time.
And you're like, you don't, no, you don't know.
You don't have the facts.
And then he'll say, well, you need it.
Today is the day after a almost 20-year argument between me and Stu.
Really?
Today's the day of reckoning, my friend.
Oh, no.
Yes.
This sounds terrible.
Oh, yeah.
You're not hanging this around my neck anymore.
Oh, I'm hanging it around your neck.
Oh, wow.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, that's coming up in 60 seconds.
This is scary.
Yeah, well.
It was scary what your people did to Philadelphia, too, over the weekend.
Oh, I was.
They were under control.
I thought a couple cars turned over.
Come on.
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So, Stu.
Yes, Glenn.
You're familiar with the Space Needle.
I am familiar with the Space Needle.
You're familiar with Seattle.
Yeah, it's in Seattle.
It's right by where you grew up.
Absolutely.
You had a high level of knowledge.
In fact, you taught me almost everything I knew about the space needle.
Many, many stories over the years.
Yeah.
And you notice you emphasize stories of the space needle.
Yes, yes.
That is what I'm saying.
Because I told you the story one time that I was very small and I was in what they call the torchlight parade in Seattle.
And I look up and I thought the space needle was on fire.
Okay.
Yeah, I remember this.
Remember that?
And you said.
Really?
That's incredible.
And I believed it for a very long time.
And I said, well, it has gas jets and they don't use them anymore, but they have gas jets and they can set the needle on fire.
I don't know if they still can, but they did at one time.
Well, they didn't set it on fire.
Well, no, they just ignite the gas flame.
Okay.
So that was kind of a cool moment teaching Stu something.
It was.
It was incredible.
And I told the story to other people.
Yeah.
And then he said, that's not true.
Well, that's an interesting way of telling that story.
How do you remember it?
We went to the space needle and asked the people who worked at the space needle and they said no.
Yeah, but that guy didn't know what he was talking about.
He didn't know what he was talking about.
There's a lot of tour about the space needle.
How many times have you been someplace where you know more than the person giving the tour and you're like, okay, that person needs to shut up.
Kids, kids, get away from that guy.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
That, that, my friend, is what happened.
And you never, you have always pitted some stranger's word against me.
The stranger who was employed by the space station.
To give you a mystery about the space needle.
I found the plans of the space needle.
You've been looking for decades.
Two decades.
Two decades.
I'd just like to show you there up on the screen.
You'll see aircraft warning beacon, natural gas torch, gas burner.
Then it goes into the building.
The gas torch is the needle.
Now, I want to first point out that your beef is with the space needle employees.
It's with you.
I don't have any dog in this fight other than to torture you for being wrong.
I know, I know.
But like, it bothered me that you believe some stranger.
We got on the elevator.
I'm like, don't listen to that guy.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
And you went, he works here.
And I'm like, yeah, and probably sometimes he makes corn dogs too.
That's, first of all, not how that happened at all.
But also, the fact that's the way I remember it.
That's the way America remembers it.
But this is at the top of the space needle, which is not where you said that.
Yes, it is on the needle.
And then you said something about it being fireworks.
You thought maybe it was fireworks that you said.
Because you made me doubt myself.
You have caused.
Wow.
You have caused so much damage in my life.
And this is just setting the record straight.
But you don't know.
You don't know, never have known that.
That bastard at the space needle.
If I knew his name, I'd call him today.
Oh, yeah.
Here are the plans.
Pretty sure it was the lead historian of the space needle.
That's who we were talking about.
Really?
The lead historian is just up by the elevators.
He was a guy that would say, going down, that was his job.
Lead historian.
And I believe it was you who even asked to confirm because I said that's wow, it's fascinating.
And you asked to confirm it and he said no to your face that that did not happen.
But you did find the plans there.
Now, do you know that this is the way number?
I guess my follow-up question.
Stop your questions.
You obviously have the answer, Stu, but like they did wind up actually doing this.
You've confirmed that.
And also that the event occurred.
Both of those things you've confirmed.
Stu, I'm not even going to dignify that.
I'm not even going to dignify that.
Okay.
Wait.
I am busy doing the people's work.
All right.
I don't have time to make calls to the space needle to see if they actually did it to the plans.
You don't have time.
Do you have 20 years to look for plans?
I've never really seen that when I was a kid if they hadn't put it up.
I know I saw it.
There's a hundred other stories in which you say you saw stuff and you didn't see it.
I mean, we could go through those.
I remember the day I saw Stu as a friend.
Yeah.
I remember that day.
And I want to make sure you don't have time to call them, but you have it because you have other things to do.
But on a day where there's like a new presidential candidate being announced, you wanted to start an hour with your space needle recap.
I've waited two decades.
Two decades.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I.
So now here you are, an older gentleman.
And you realize that all the things that you believe based on my knowing the space needle or not.
It's all a house of cards, Stu.
All a house of cards.
I remember there was those shirts that fans made.
What if Glenn Beck was right?
Maybe that was about the space needle.
Oh, it was.
I had them printed.
It was.
It was.
It absolutely was.
Okay.
So now we just need to take the next step and we'll work on that to try to confirm any of the facts that Glenn has and we'll see.
So you don't believe the blueprints?
I believe the blueprints, but I mean, there's multiple other factors.
Like, what did the torch, what was it supposed to do?
Did it make it look like it was on fire?
Was it set off?
There's a giant gas flame on the roof of the space needle.
That's not what the plans say.
It just says, it just says gas torch.
We don't know what that means.
What do you think?
It's a little teeny torch.
It could be a teeny.
It's a teeny jump torch.
Yeah.
Right.
Why would you put a tiki torch?
Maybe that was the first Charlottesville protest.
No wonder you liked it so much.
All right.
Could we please get to business?
Oh, yes.
I'm so sorry.
This was just supposed to be a quick mention.
And you turned it into a national nightmare.
All right.
So Nikki Haley comes out yesterday.
Not this morning, I believe.
Is it this morning?
I thought it was.
I thought it came out this morning.
Yeah.
Really?
I got an alert.
Let me see the blueprints.
No, I'm asking.
I don't have.
I thought it was this morning.
I got an alert this morning that told me she released her video.
So her video.
Yeah, she had a big announcement video, you know, kind of telling people who she was.
I thought maybe it was another kind of video.
I mean, usually people try to get attention and they release videos and you're like, okay, you shouldn't have done that.
Well, you don't do that to become president.
You do that to become a billionaire.
That's a totally different.
Is it?
Is it the way to the billionaire is not through the White House these days.
All right.
So Nikki Haley, and that's really not a surprise.
That she's in the race.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not a surprise.
She was definitely tipping her hand that she wanted to get involved.
And reports that she talked to Trump about this because she initially said she would not run against Trump.
Seems like they had a conversation at one point.
She's a serious person and someone who's been talked about in this conversation for a while, a couple of elections, was a pretty good governor of South Carolina.
I think she was a great governor.
She was a great UN secretary, general.
No, not secretary.
What do they call it?
Ambassador to the UN.
She was a great ambassador to the UN.
She never questioned me on the space needle.
It's in her video.
She actually says, by the way.
I'd be anxious to talk to her about what's going on with the balloons, what's going on with China, the Nord Stream pipeline, all of that.
Yeah.
I think we are headed for, I think we're headed for war and we may be in it by the end of the year.
Russia is, Russia is putting together a massive assault for spring.
Everybody's like, oh, well, nothing's been happening.
It's because it's snow and muddy and cold.
And they're, you know, I don't know.
Hitler learned that lesson.
Now's not the time to go in and attack.
But when the spring comes, Russia's going in, I think.
Guns ablazing.
Yeah.
And it seems like, it seems like they've made progress, even though it's been cold.
They've been, you know, it felt like for a while Ukraine was really had the momentum behind them, and it seems like that stopped and maybe reversed a little bit lately.
So yeah, that would be interesting to talk to her.
She obviously has some expertise in that area.
And I mean, like, we talked about this a little bit, I think, on Studios America a few weeks ago, but like you have on the Republican side, a number 1A and a 1B, if you will, depending on what you believe in the polls, Trump and DeSantis.
And like, there's a good chance that there's a third person who at least makes some noise in this race.
Somebody gets to double digits in a couple polls.
Give me the example.
Give me the example outside of DeSantis and Trump.
Give me the example.
You want a potential field list?
Yeah, you think that you're like, this person could, you know, this person could rock the world.
Now, I want to alert you who you're listening right now.
This is coming from a guy who denied that the space needle had a gas torch up at the top.
For almost two decades.
Almost two decades.
By the way, definitely not two decades.
Not even close.
Oh, yeah.
And then, and then let me tell you something else.
He'll just take advice from like elevator people.
People you just meet.
You come off the elevator and you're like, hey, let's ask this guy.
This is what he thinks of you, America.
You're elevator people.
You're working hard for a living getting, but if you have to wear a hat and a polyester, like, you know, Disney monorail suit, I'm not going to put a lot of stock into what you say.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, now we're learning so much about you.
Okay.
Well, none of those, no one in this field is dressed that way.
So you can take those.
So let me give you a list.
Just to go outside of my own preferences here, we'll go to the top 10 Republican presidential candidates from the Washington Post.
Who are they from?
The Washington Post.
Do you want some honorable mentions first?
Marco Rubio.
Okay.
Josh Hawley.
Tom Cotton.
Rick Scott.
Liz Cheney.
Asa Hutchinson.
Larry Hogan, governor of a former golfer.
No?
I think the golfer might be good.
Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland.
Greg Abbott, Texas governor.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, very highly rumored to run, by the way.
That one probably will be a reality.
What the hell is he thinking?
John Bolton's Presidential Ambitions00:02:10
What is he thinking?
I mean, white, that's what I'm saying.
Does anybody know?
Right.
What is he ever thinking?
I don't know.
I'm going to be closer to a donut shop if I win.
What is he thinking?
That could be it.
It could be.
Who's going to vote for Chris Christie?
I think.
Hang on.
I'm just listening.
No one from the Chris Christie family even responded to that.
No.
No, I mean, Christie is, I think.
You know, Christie thinks he should have run back when he was first coming out of the scene and he had a chance maybe to make some noise, did not wind up running, and then tried to run later and obviously did nothing.
He then became super tight with Trump for a time and then had a breakup with Trump.
So now he's going to be, I guess, the one of the in the anti-Trump sort of wing when you're talking about Hogan or Liz Cheney.
He seems like that's going to be his approach.
We will see if there's.
I mean, I do think there's a good chance he runs.
I think he wants the spotlight.
He really likes people talking about him.
He likes the cameras.
We stop with those kinds of people.
And again, like he should like audio, not camera.
If he wants the attention, get it in audio form.
Just like all of us.
We say that.
That's how we got in the business.
We say that as fat people.
Yes.
100%.
You know, there's no, you know, it's not like we hate fat people.
I mean, we do hate ourselves for being fat.
Does that count as hating fat people again?
Yeah.
All right.
Also, John Bolton, Doug Doocy.
Hang on just a second.
What is John Bolton?
What honorable mentions?
What is John Bolton's?
What would his campaign slogan be?
War, bigger war now.
Again, this is.
I promise you, your kids will die in a foreign land.
It's so bizarre because I might remind you that Donald Trump promoted him to one of the highest profile positions to deal with such topics.
No, no, no, no, wait.
But he was great.
I thought he's great if you have a president that is so anti-war because he'll come in and go, you got to go to war.
Right.
Like, for example, he had a lot of influence on the guy in Iran that they went after.
War, Bigger War Now00:04:11
Yeah.
And that was, I think, a good setup.
I think it was.
So, you know, there are times a president has to go to war.
And if he's a real dove, it's good.
I think that's why he balances.
Trump always has balanced his advisors with people that don't necessarily agree with him.
Agree with him.
It's the greatest job ever.
You're the greatest president.
But don't necessarily agree with his policies in lockstep.
And Bolton, I think, really does want to be president, does believe he would be a good president, but it strikes me as more of a Lindsey Graham 2016 type of run when the national topic is not really international issues somehow, even though there's a big war.
I know.
But I mean, this might be the calculation, right?
If the Ukraine-Russia thing goes out of control, we might be looking for a big hawk.
I will tell you now.
I'll tell you right now that I said this in 2006 and everybody said I was crazy.
I said the 2008 election is all going to be about the economy.
It's going to be, there's a crash coming and it's about the economy.
The 2024 election is going to be about war and your money.
That's what it's going to be about.
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Steve Dace thinks he's all that.
Uh, He's coming on with his book, The Fourth Reich.
Little does he know.
My book, The Fifth Reich, is coming out right after.
There you go.
His is not a thousand-year Reich.
His fourth Reich is like a 120-day Reich.
Do you want the top 10 here?
Yeah, go.
Okay, 10, Christy Noam.
Probably will run.
Yep.
Should be running for vice president, I think.
Go ahead.
Chris Sununu, number nine.
What?
This is again the control opening of the Washington Post.
Number eight, Nikki Haley.
Number seven, Mike Mompeo.
Six, Ted Cruz.
What?
Five?
I mean, he's always up.
He's always in that upper tier of the lower tier in the polls.
Don't do it, Ted.
Don't do it.
Five, Glenn Young.
No.
No.
This is an interesting first sentence, which I do agree with.
The lessons of Chris Christie loom large here for Youngkin.
It is a good point.
Like, you kind of got a little bit of the, when you won that race, do you wait?
Wait.
Do something.
Well, if he waits, though, the lesson of Chris Christie is it never comes around.
Your chance never comes.
Four, Mike Pence.
Three, Tim Scott.
Two, Donald Trump.
One, Ron DeSantis.
Now, that's according to the Washington Post, which has the former president in second here.
Only ones that have any chance in that field.
I think i'm not even saying to win, but give me like, who's the guy who breaks out to third?
Or the lady who breaks out to third, who's the person who makes noise?
Give it again to me real quick, uh Pence Scott uh Youngkin Cruise Haley Pompeo Sanunu Scott Pompeo uh Noem, and maybe Noem, maybe Haley yeah, but those are conversation, to be that, to be that third person yeah, that's, that's probably what you're fighting for right now.
Saving Babies Before Birth00:02:25
And because she is focused um, you know she's been a governor so she understands the state level, but she's also been on the international level.
Uh, she could play a uh, an important role uh, at least in the debate um, but you know, as a president or vice president she could play a real role if she's uh, get business done.
But we're not gonna go fight foreign wars kind of president, but we have something we have to get, somebody who knows how to stop wars once they've started for 2024, because this one, the fuse has already been lit, I fear the Glenn BACK program.
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You know, I just want to point out that with every passing day, this job, which used to make some sense, makes no sense whatsoever anymore.
Aliens Boiling Us Slowly00:12:28
Every day, we're slowly being boiled, slowly being boiled, and we don't notice things like Stu just said, what are the percentages, though, that aliens really are responsible for this?
This is how they do it.
Right.
They'd roll it out.
Oh, it's a balloon.
Yeah.
We found a couple of balloons.
Oh, we have lots of balloons.
Hey, no big deal.
We're just firing $500,000 missiles at balloons.
I think these balloons are the performers from Rihanna that just kind of floated away.
Oh, no.
The people who floated away.
Yeah, I think that's a possibility.
Could I show you one thing?
And then we'll go back to politics here in a second.
But I want to show you something that people recorded.
And it was recorded by the Subaru Asai star camera in Hawaii.
And it was Japanese-operated telescope, Big Island.
And it showed lasers, lasers.
Okay, so this is out in the middle of nowhere.
There you can see.
Okay, see the lasers?
Yeah.
Okay.
They're clearly coming down, right?
I would think so, yes.
They're coming down from the sky.
But not necessarily, though.
You don't know for sure.
It could be going up.
Well, either way would be very busy.
Yeah, they would all have to be pointed as if they're looking like they're coming because they're sweeping like a hand of a clock, like a TikTok.
You know what I mean?
So it appears it's coming from the same place up in the sky, or they're all just aimed, but that's quite a distance.
Okay.
And so people took this video and the telescope people took it and they're like, what's that?
The telescope people said that?
What exactly is that?
Now, here is the explanation.
Weather balloon.
No, no, no.
They are saying that this is a NASA satellite that has lasers aboard that from time to time measure the Earth's surface.
Hmm.
Now, I would think that if it was measuring the Earth's surface and it's looking for ice, water features, coral reefs, ocean waves, snow cover, forests, farmland, we would have seen that NASA, that NASA laser before.
Right, because it would be all over the place.
Right.
It'd be like, oh, they're just upstairs measuring again.
Right, right.
They might make an announcement in advance.
Say, by the way, this is the week.
We're doing that whole.
We got our laser tools out.
Right.
Okay.
We just want to make sure 16 inches is really 16 inches between the studs.
We're just going to laser map the Earth.
I haven't seen that before.
I wanted to bring that up and ask you if you've seen that.
I have never seen that.
Never heard of that.
I've never heard of that.
Is it possible that it's true?
Sure.
Oh, yeah.
But it's very odd.
And I've never seen anything like that before.
Yes.
Incredible.
Now, let me ask you, how many times, well, I was going to say a week, a day, do you find yourself saying, no, I've never heard of that before.
I've never seen anything like that before.
Many, many times per day.
Like a disturbing amount of times, right?
But I want the audience to know, because I don't want you to panic, that this is a man who claimed that there were no gas jets on the top of the space needle for years, decades, even.
Are you claiming that these lasers were caused by the space needle?
Is that your case?
I would not be surprised.
No, the space needle is actually supposed to look like a spaceship.
You know, it was for the 62 World's Fair.
So it's like a big spaceship kind of thing up there.
And I think that's maybe where the lasers came from.
Giant balloons that look like balloons, but they're actually spaceships.
So the wait, the flame would be on the top of the point.
I don't know.
I don't even know.
I don't know.
Okay.
I don't know all the facts about the space needle.
Oh, Adam.
Oh, we just heard it on record.
Can you pull that audio?
I don't know all the facts about the space needle.
Interesting admission 20 years later.
Oh, man.
I will know it now tomorrow.
I'll know them all.
I just like the fact that I've sent you on this journey.
Okay.
So could we just go back to that list and talk about the things?
Do you agree or disagree that it is likely, if not most likely, we will have a change in currency before or near the time of 2024?
Wow.
You're saying the digital dollar.
Yeah.
They just announced it.
Well, that's a difference.
To me, I look at that as different than a change in currency.
Like, I think they will say that they will essentially make the case that's an additive, right?
Like a wonderful benefit, a new thing you can try, anything you can use.
But I don't think that's a change.
Okay, so you think we'll still have the green back, but we will.
Okay, okay.
Do you believe that there's it's likely, if not most likely, that we will be in war by 2024?
I really hope that's not the case.
I think the because I have not put a percentage on it in my head.
To me, the issue here is if you're at 5% chance of war with Russia, you're talking about such a terrible outcome that it should be your number one priority to make sure that doesn't occur.
Sure.
I don't think they're doing that.
No, it does not seem like they're interested in that.
It seems like they might be going the other way, but that's just from my perspective.
No, I think your perspective is accurate.
And I'm a guy who hasn't ever seen the laser measuring of the world before.
That's just obviously.
What do I know?
I'm a shut-in.
If you're talking about, if it's over 50%, I think I would say no to that.
I think I would say no that we're at war with Russia.
But I mean, I'm not, the fact that I'm not saying it's 0 or 0.1% is very scary to me.
And China, we're just at a cold war with China by that time.
Yeah.
I mean, you're talking about active shooting wars, right?
Like, I would make the argument right now.
We're in a cold war with both of them.
Yeah, okay.
Honestly.
So, yeah, absolutely with both of them.
Now, real quick, economy doing well?
Probably not.
Probably not.
Yeah.
Doesn't seem so inflation numbers did not have to be a lot of people.
Out of these people are able to give people a sense of, okay, this guy's an adult.
He's going to handle it.
This guy is going to handle it.
Okay.
I mean, I think that would be the case of Nikki Haley, right?
I mean, someone who has foreign affairs experience, someone who has executive experience as well.
Does she have experience?
Like, somebody has to have experience with the economy as well.
This would be the case, I think.
Yeah, and Haley ran a state.
I mean, you know, Pompeo, I think, would get, would get you to that first one.
I think that would be a case he would make, that he has that expertise.
I think Pence would make that case.
Pence has both.
Again, remember that every one of these polls, he's still, he's the number three guy in the polls.
Because everybody knows his name.
Everybody knows his name.
That's a big part of the battle.
It's a big part of the battle.
But if you want a campaign that has the turnout that looks like a Joe Biden COVID campaign, he would go with Mike Pence.
I just don't see people.
I don't know how he navigated it.
I mean, his case is clearly everything you liked about the Trump administration without the January 6th you didn't like.
That's essentially his.
But I'm not convinced that Pence was really in the room on, you know, let's just do it.
Let's go bold and big.
Let's do it.
No, I think that's true.
And I think the things that he would argue are his strong points from the Pence perspective is, hey, like, I'm going to do all this without the tweeting, right?
Like, that's his case.
I'm going to do all this without tweeting, without the crazy rallies.
I don't think, like, I don't think it's going to work.
No, I don't either.
Because I think the people who really, really, there's a section of people who liked the Trump policies, but Trump, he was a vessel to get you to a good Supreme Court, right?
Like, there's a lot of those people out there.
If you're super passionate about Trump, he's already running.
You don't need a guy who wasn't Trump to be your Trump.
It's only the appeal for Pence is only like, if you really love Trump, but only didn't like the fact that he tweeted a lot.
No, that's a huge problem.
I think that's the case for DeSantis.
I think DeSantis is more likely to be tough as nails like Trump was than Pence.
And he's already got the, but I don't do the crazy tweets tonight.
And I think, too, the DeSantis case is more broad than Pence.
I think Pence is so closely tied to Trump.
You have to be in love with the Trump administration to want Pence.
But then also, Trump has told you he basically hates Mike Pence.
Right.
So where's the schizophrenia?
That's a schizophrenic Trump supporter that is like, I really, really love Pence and I really, really love Donald Trump, except for the one thing he said about Pence.
That's not.
There's just no road there to me.
The road you might find there, honestly, is Pence thinking he wants someone else to be president that's not Donald Trump and thinking if he can pull 8 to 10% in these early primaries away from Trump, it might help someone like DeSantis or somebody else beat Trump.
I can see that being his actual idea if he goes through with this, which is not confirmed yet, by the way.
Well, they're very good.
I mean, you know, the GOP is absolutely not above doing to Trump what they did to Hillary Clinton, where you just cobble everybody together and say, everybody, just come out and be for this one person.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That could very well happen.
Otherwise, other names on this list, obviously, this is essentially Bolton's entire case, which I will take this seriously, and I will be the guy you want on national security.
You have also both, I would say Rubio, Hawley, and Tom Cotton have versions of this argument.
Both of them, all three of them have been active in this area.
That's about it.
I mean, that's a bunch of people, but I don't think with a serious chance, and obviously I should also mention Donald Trump would be a guy who would say, I was able to shut these things down when I was president and I had a good record on the economy.
I mean, this is going to be central to his argument.
Donald Trump is the only one that has the credibility to say, yep, I did that to the economy after they said the economy could never grow and I did that to the economy and I stopped all those wars.
He's the only one that has the credibility.
However, he's also the only one that has been smeared for, you know, 10 years now and made into a horrible monster.
I'm not sure if you can get the swing vote.
for Donald Trump now just because of what the press has done to him.
Yeah, and I think like, look, Donald Trump is such, he's elevated a thousand levels above celebrity president at this point.
He is just an argument in and of himself.
His name is an argument.
And so like, it's, I don't think Donald Trump wins or loses the presidency right now based on policy.
And I don't like that.
I don't like that's where America is.
But like, I think right now that it's going to come down to him as a brand, whether you like him or you don't like him.
And that's really what is going to be the decision on that, whether the Republicans say, I want that or not.
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Have you ever seen this before?
Sure.
Chinese authorities have now announced that they saw and have spotted a UFO.
They were preparing to shoot the object down, but they are urging fishermen in the vicinity just to be safe.
So we now have the Chinese going, I mean, seeing a flying, it could be, I don't know if they're measuring the earth or what.
You ever heard that before?
No.
Yeah, no, I don't know.
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So.
So, Joe Biden, I mean, Glenn Beck, I wanted to ask you a question.
Wait, what?
Just a quick question.
No, you're reminding me of somebody else today.
Yeah, probably because you're questioning everything you thought you knew.
You were rooting for the Eagles, they lose.
And then the Space Needle thing.
The Space Needle thing.
And it's important to ask questions.
So, what year again did you say this happened when you saw this?
This flame?
I really just remember.
I remember being a kid.
As a kid.
What year were you born again?
64.
64.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Because the 1962 World's Fair, of course, was the Seattle Sports Deal.
The flame you've been talking about.
Yeah, yeah.
Called the Needle of Flame.
Needle of Flame.
The natural gas torch producing the flame was between 40 and 50 feet tall.
There it is.
Said to have burned enough fuel to heat 125 homes.
The purpose, not to look like a spaceship, but of course, to show how we'd all be using natural gas as well as to act as a giant clock.
Are you kidding me?
As a giant clock to the fair turning on every quarter hour.
But this part was the part I found to be most interesting, which was the apparatus was removed following the conclusion of the World's Fair.
Oh, that's not possible.
So why?
How did he see it in 1960?
At least 64.
He's remembering it.
So what, 69, 70, maybe?
I'm just telling you, I saw it.
This is what happened last time.
The World's Fair.
This is what happened last time.
We should go back and ask the guy in the elevator.
Oh, my gosh.
What does he think about this?
Okay.
Huh, this is exactly what Joe Biden did.
I remember walking in those civil rights marches.
I remember it.
I'm telling you, I was marching in the torchlight parade and I saw it.
Telling you.
And I hope people heard what he just said about Charlottesville.