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The Great State of Alaska - August 14th, Hour 1
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Um I will tell you this, it's kind of cool for me because arriving in Anchorage, arriving here in Alaska, it is the last state of the 50 states that I've ever visited.
I had not visited Alaska before this trip.
And I think it's really cool that I get to be here.
Now, I do have the temperatures all throughout the year, and it's actually really not bad if you look.
I mean, year-wise, the the yearly average high in Anchorage is 46 degrees.
Not exactly the free state of Florida in terms of weather.
The average low is 32 degrees.
The the worst months are like January is the worst.
It has a high average 25, low of 14.
Uh, February, uh, high of 29, low of 17.
Uh December, high of 26, low of 15.
I mean, there's a lot of cold months in here.
Uh, but I will tell you it is absolutely pick picturesque.
The people are amazing.
Uh the food is amazing, which we'll get to later in the program because Linda's answer was, well, let's heat up some crab cakes from the night before.
And uh, you can eat that for breakfast because uh she failed to inform me that the store that we were gonna order from was closed, but that's a different story for later.
Um it's just a cool state.
So I I just got interested on my own, and I started reading all about Alaska while I'm coming here.
Um I may and I I'm thinking most of you may not know this, so I'll share some of it with you.
Alaska's 591,000 square miles.
It is twice the size of Texas.
I'm looking at a map of Alaska right now.
The land mass is is huge.
It's massive.
Um it is probably one of the most energy rich, one of the most natural mineral rich.
It is one of it it, I I mean, the amount of money they take in every year, it's spectacular in terms of oil, energy, especially now that Donald Trump's going to be in office.
That that money's going to go through the roof because yes, he's opening up Anwar, which was the purpose for getting Anmore in the and in the first place.
And but also gold.
It is the only state in the United States that produces platinum.
I bet most people didn't know that.
Uh when you look at the story of Alaska, it's phenomenal.
The people of Alaska, they don't pay income taxes.
They don't pay sales taxes.
They don't have an estate tax when you croak after you died and you pay taxes your entire life on your income, and then they want to come in and they want another bite of the apple.
But that doesn't happen in this state.
And uh, you know, it's natural beauty from bald eagles to black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, you name it as incredible.
And then you look at the deal.
Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia in March of 1867.
What do you think they paid per acre?
Two cents.
Remember, they called it Seward's Folly.
They thought it was, well, why'd you why'd you waste money on that land?
Well, it ends up being one of the most in terms of natural resources, one of the richest areas in the entire world, so some folly.
It's pretty incredible.
And you know, what's interesting too about the fun fact, Alaska purchased from Russia for two cents an acre.
In part, Russia sold it to offset the debt of their current the the war that they were having because they needed the money because of the economic liability of the Russians who are struggling with debt after the disastrous Crimean War, which took place from 1853 to 1856.
So there's a ton of fun facts here.
Uh their constitution here in Alaska was adopted in 1956.
They became the 49th state in 1959.
Uh, and again, twice the size of of Texas, 1400 miles north uh to south, 2700 miles east to west.
It has the lowest population density in the entire country.
It has 17 of the highest peaks in the United States.
They're all located here in Alaska, and they're beautiful.
I mean, absolutely stunning.
Uh if you recall in World War II, Japan invaded some of the Alaskan Islands, which started a 1,000-mile war, which was the first battle fought on American soil since the Civil War.
The transatlantic pipeline moves 88,000 barrels of oil an hour.
Uh it is in terms of its seafood industry, the state's largest private sector employer.
Um, I've been obsessed with the state.
I mean, if if I I can't even calculate how many hours I've spent watching Life Below Zero or Deadliest Catch, which is narrated by my our friend Mike Rowe.
Um the fact that people live off the grid.
Now that's not Anchorage, Anchorage is a little bit different.
It's you know, it would be your quintessential American neighborhood with really good restaurants if you know where to look and great breakfast place if you know where to look.
Uh this way you don't have to eat old crab cakes from the night before.
I would love to be invited to a nice breakfast place.
Anyway, absolutely.
Alaska is five species of of salmon, king salmon, silver salmon, uh red, chum, and pink.
Uh Alaskan moose is the largest member of the deer family.
Now, on the menu at breakfast today, they did have reindeer sausage.
I got pork sausage.
I just was not in the mood to be experimental today.
I mean, I wouldn't want to eat Rudolph either that early.
I feel you.
That's a thing.
Okay, so do you eat uh Moo Moo the cow?
I don't know.
It appears most of America eats left of that.
What is the difference if you eat Moo Moo the cow Or, you know, Charlie the chicken.
I'm telling you right now.
I'm not saying I'm right.
I hire an assassin.
I know I'm wrong.
I'm just saying.
What do you mean you know you're wrong?
Because I feel bad.
Like there's certain animals.
Like I couldn't eat a bunny.
I couldn't eat a sheep.
I couldn't eat a lamb.
Rabbit's delicious.
Forget about it.
But you can eat the chicken and you can eat the fish.
I got four.
You can eat the beef and the cow.
And I feel guilty every morning when I see them and I feed them, and I feel guilty because I probably eat the muzzle.
I do.
How many chickens do you have?
I have four.
Abbey lily, butter, and honey.
A reindeer, did you know is a domesticated caribou?
No, I did not know that.
I don't even know what a caribou really is.
Both male and female caribou grow antlers.
Did you know that?
Unlike deer?
No.
Deer?
No.
You didn't know that.
No.
And you know, I'm teaching you all sorts of fun facts.
Um but I just love the fact that that people live this way.
Uh 1926, a youngster 13 year old Benny Benson from Konyag, Alaska designed the state's flag.
Pretty cool story.
A third of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle.
Uh it has the largest national forest in the U.S. polar bears are considered a marine mammal protected under the marine mammal protection act.
Uh great white sharks have been found in Southeast Alaskan waters.
I mean, I can keep going, but I don't know if you really want to hear it.
Musk ox.
They're not a type of ox, but closely related to sheep and goats, believe it or not.
Um it's just pretty cool.
It's a very cool place.
And if you watch the shows, the people that live off the grid fascinate me.
You know what you could never do?
I could live off the grid.
You could not.
Oh my god, you're so full of it.
You wouldn't last one second without your cell phone.
Imagine having to wait more than 45 minutes for a meal.
That's what's that's what Starlink is about.
I'm sorry, how's that being off the grid?
I can stay on the grid with Starlink.
Why, but isn't that the whole thing?
But what if you're off the grid, you're off the grid.
You don't say why I have a different version.
You're off the grid, meaning you're providing your own communication.
Oh, there's a handy, there's handy.
For example, you you no, it's reality off the grid.
You provide your own generator for power so you can have heat and air conditioning if you want it.
Of course.
So there's people that camp and people that glamp.
You're a glamper.
No, no, no, you know.
You're a glamorous guy.
It's fine.
You know no.
You're glamorous.
You don't eat leftovers.
You have generated by the way, you know.
You don't know a thing about America agrees with Linda.
Oh, what's the what's the Find Alpha on X says he'd eat weak old crab cakes.
I am silky, says eat the slop, improve your intestinal fortitude.
You know what though?
Anybody that's responding did not walk into the room where they're gonna be.
Wait, you got one penguin icebreaker, steak yes, old seafood.
Old seafood, no way, Sean.
If anybody walked into the room where you had placed the old crab cakes.
Those crab cakes were placed with love.
Can I finish?
They were placed with love, but they stunk to high heaven.
They were heated in a microwave.
It was the most disgusting smell I've ever walked into.
And I wanted to walk out of the studio immediately.
You're gonna make it in life below.
3,000 rivers, 3 million lakes in Alaska, 100,000 glaciers.
How many lakes?
Three million.
Oh my God.
Estimated hundred thousand glaciers.
That's five percent of the state.
More than a hundred volcanoes.
Um it has the most diverse wildlife, as we were talking about from moose and whales and polar bears, etc.
Oh my.
Then, of course, the beauty of northern lights.
If you've if you've not seen a video of it, it's incredible.
Uh it has the lowest recorded temperature in the U.S. minus eighty degrees Fahrenheit, which might even make Linda's old disgusting smelly crab cakes frozen, which she would take the smell away.
And um, it just has a unique history in in every regard.
It's it's nicknamed the Last Frontier, and it is the largest U.S. state, the lowest population density, as I said, and also known for extreme temperatures and and all of this.
They do have giant Vegetables due to the long summer days.
Alaska is known for their giant vegetables, including a record breaking cabbage that weighed more than 94 pounds.
And they have a lot of indigenous cultures here.
Uh as well.
You're you're you're sucking up to Linda.
It's disgusting.
People, you know what it is on X, people are hysterical.
One day, one guy just asked if you were day drinking because anybody would eat that beautiful breakfast I made you.
See that?
Maybe you were day drinking because it was already lunchtime.
Oh, you're only showing her the favorable one.
I can't even say that on air.
I can't say that.
Robert can have whatever she's cooking.
And Robert can have her too.
Oh, I'm taking, I'm taking it, right?
Take it easy.
I'm just saying.
I mean, it's pretty amazing.
Um, so we're here for a lot of an important reason, and I'm gonna get into that on the other side of this.
And I kind of go back to where I was yesterday, and that is that you know, you think of every world leader, who is the only person that would be able to even pull this off.
And that this is the oddest thing.
European leaders are trying to weigh in and tell Trump what he can and cannot do at the summit.
Trump's been very clear.
He says he thinks he'll know in two minutes if he's gonna get a deal.
Number one.
Number two, Vladimir Putin in the lead up to this, and I'll tell you about this in a second, had a lot of nice things to say about Donald Trump.
Uh, number three, there really isn't a lot in this for the U.S., except that it's in everybody's best interest for the world to get along, and it's in everybody's uh best interest if you can to stop the killing and the murder of innocent men, women, and children.
And it is in the best interest of Europe, but there's not a single European leader that can pull off what Donald Trump's pulling off here.
Not one, not any that's thought about it.
Joe Biden never once even called Putin as he was amassing troops on the Ukrainian border.
Um, so um it's it's a pretty historic time.
We're looking forward to see what the outcome is.
I'm gonna game out for you where I think this might go.
And the president even acknowledged today that there's a 25% chance that you know what?
He might stand up, walk out of the room and say yet, like Greagan did it at Reykjavik.
But I'll tell you this if Putin doesn't make a deal, I know exactly what Trump is gonna do.
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Um, so here we are in Anchorage, and uh in Alaska is a very cool state.
It's so unique, it's so different.
And I've I've now traveled as of today, I've been to all 50 states, and they're all unique and beautiful in their own way.
A lot of similarities in the lower 48.
That, you know, you you're gonna have a strip ball, you're gonna have your and I saw McDonald's here too in Anchorage, but you're you're going to see a lot of similarities.
A lot of Alaska is just unique and different.
It's incredible.
So it's kind of like a a very special place, and those people that do live off the grid are amazing.
Now living off the grid means that you provide your own energy, you prepare your own food, you store your own food.
It doesn't mean that you can't have Starlink.
That doesn't mean, oh, you're not really living off the grid.
So what I think I should do is I should reach out to Mike Rowe.
He was just on last week.
And I should say to him, Mike, let me ask you something.
If we talk to these.
Listen, you can talk to him the way you talk.
However, you talk.
You say stuff weird now that you live in sunny, you know, Florida.
I don't know.
It's a little weird.
Doesn't sound like you're from Franklin Square anymore.
I'm not sure.
I'm not.
No.
Sunny Florida.
No.
That's correct.
I'm a f I am a proud Floridian.
All right.
So, anyways.
Never going back.
I know.
You've made it very clear.
I mean, even Nathan Lane made a song about you.
So all that to say, I think we asked Mike Rowe and the guys from Life Below Zero if they think that having a generator and heating and air conditioning.
You don't watch the show.
Absolutely not.
So then I'm not saying I watched it.
You wouldn't have to answer that qu you need that question answered.
Because they do they do have generators.
They do.
Oh, yeah.
And they have tractors.
And is it for their Starlink?
They have communication capability.
Yes, that would include uh satellite technology.
Off the grid means the government's not bringing in your power line, your gas line, and every other thing in between.
So untrackable.
You've got to do it yourself.
So you got some secrets.
You need to keep it tight.
You need to get off the grid.
I like it.
Okay.
And if you're injured, you gotta have an emergency plan.
You plow a runway area for an emergency uh flight out of where you are, and the odds of you know are great that you may not make it.
And these people live off the grid.
I love those people.
Those people are brave, courageous, they're pioneers.
Uh, but the fact but they have fire.
They have wood that they chop.
And I did not change they were allowed to have all those things.
What do you mean that they're not what do you think?
You're gonna be in a freezing house and freeze to death that's 25 below zero.
I thought it was you versus nature.
Oh, go swim with the polar bear.
You know what?
I think you should drown yourself in that smelly old old uh crab cake that you were cooking for breakfast.
So you know you're losing the audience agrees with me.
You can keep crying all the time.
The audience did not walk in the studio and smell the disgusting smell that you created that we had to air out.
Everybody knows when you reheat fish, it's a little stinky.
It's a little stinky.
Okay, it was disgusting.
But you were now I eat leftovers almost every day.
You're full of crap.
On Sunday, I'll make my ribs for the week.
I'll make my steak for the week, I'll make chicken for the week, I'll make chicken weeds for the week.
Okay.
Did you eat the steak?
After the smell of fish, it took away my appetite.
Oh it was so repulsively disgusting.
Let me get my violin out.
Hang on a minute.
So I want to go to this summit because this is important.
Where we are here for a reason, not just to argue about Linda's disgusting reheating of her food.
And it's not that I I I love as a matter of fact, some things taste better the next day.
It's like I think my ribs, like a good give you food.
Okay, I don't want your food anymore.
I will never eat your food.
The crap you eat is disgusting.
That projectile green vomit puke drink that you have, it's like Linda Blair and the exorcist, projectile vomiting, it's disgusting.
Anyway, so what separates President Trump from his predecessors and all these so-called leaders in Europe.
They now remember they've been the ones funding Putin's war machine.
They've been buying his energy.
That's why Angela Merkel got the the white flag of surrender.
But Donald Trump is not like anyone else.
You know, every other politician, I don't care if it's the historically in the U.S., any president you can think of, and you got a guy that is not, you know, making a list of what could go right, what could go wrong, sitting there with advisors, calculating political risk.
No.
Donald Trump sees a need to stop killing and stop war and stop uh a potential escalation in Europe, and he realizes that he's in the unique position that he can he has the best chance of making this happen.
And I don't believe there's a predetermined outcome tomorrow.
I really don't.
A lot of t a lot of times that is the case.
And I would argue, and President Trump said it himself today.
He thinks there's a 25% chance it doesn't work.
And he said, you know, if this works, how he will define success is he wants to immediately have another summit, and that would include Zelensky, maybe some other European leaders, and just try to resolve this and make this go away so the killing stops.
And it it there's not going to be any complicated land swapping or security issue discussions at all.
The question is going to be do you want to make a deal?
What are the parameters that we could set up to create the conditions to make this deal?
That's really why we're here.
That is the big question.
You know, so I want people to understand what it is.
Now, this is all Joe Biden's mess.
Just like Crimea annexed in 2014, Obama, Biden, president, vice president.
You know, this, you know, Putin's accumulating weapons and troops along the Ukrainian border, and Joe Biden didn't pick up a phone and try and call him, uh, and then say, don't, don't.
Maybe the dumbest line ever uttered, which is why Kamala Harris echoed it, and then saying, well, it depends about it's a minor incursion.
But, you know, I will tell you that there are real reasons why Vladimir Putin's coming to the table.
One is Donald Trump fed up with the fact that he he tried to do it the easy way with Putin and Putin, just like the Iranians said no.
Okay, fine, I'm gonna arm the Ukrainians, but unlike Joe, they're gonna pay for the weaponry.
Then he said to um he said to India, I'm gonna put a 50% tariff on you if you import Putin's oil and fund his war machine.
Three, he does a trade deal with the European Union, and instead of buying Putin's oil and funding his war machine, they commit to a trillion dollars in American energy, and all of that got Putin's attention.
If this doesn't fail, I'm sorry, if this doesn't succeed, it's not a failure.
Because all of those strategies will be implemented.
The entire Russian economy, which is kind of failing already, is dependent on the lifeblood of every world economy, and that is energy.
He stops selling energy, Donald Trump forces countries to stop doing business with him.
Guess what?
You know what?
All his all the war machine money he has is gone.
Now, Donald Trump is willing to expend political capital.
Most people aren't willing to do that.
Most elected officials don't have that level of courage.
There's really not a lot here for the United States to gain.
Actually, if you want to know the truth, we would probably gain more if the war continued.
Because the Ukrainian Ukrainians would be buying our weaponry, which would be American manufacturing soaring and making massive profits.
That would probably be a better scenario if we were selfishly looking out for our country.
No, but America has a heart, a conscience, and a soul, and like we care about innocent life taken by illegal immigrants, like we care about law and order in our nation's capital, we so too care about our fellow human beings around the world.
And if we can help, I don't think that goes against or in any way violates the Trump doctrine.
Actually, I think it reinforces it.
Peace through strength actually brings about more peace, not less peace.
Um, so we're gonna see what happens.
And um, it's gonna get very, very interesting.
Now, Ukraine's neighbor, Belelus, uh, announced that they are conducting nuclear weapons exercises.
This is just saber rattling.
Now, Trump did reveal his his game plan for meeting with Putin.
He said it's like chess.
And he said earlier today, I think he was on with Kilmead.
He estimates 25% chance Alaska meeting will fail.
That's actually that was my percentage, 25, 30% chance yesterday I said that.
And Trump telling Zelinsky and his allies, because Europe wanted to lecture him.
Now, don't get into discussions about what you know, land swaps may take place or what security measures might be guaranteed as it relates to Ukraine.
But the president had said it the day before.
He said, it's really gonna be up to Europe and it's really gonna be up to Ukraine.
And I am here to facilitate this and give them an opportunity, because none of them are able to do it or have the political will or courage to do it.
Now, the president did threaten very severe consequences if Russia does not agree to end this war.
Those consequences, it's not going to be a war between the U.S. and Russia.
No, we were fighting a proxy war when Joe Biden was president because he was paying for all the weaponry that the Ukrainians were using.
Now, Ukrainians have fought valiantly.
They deserve a lot of credit.
I give them a lot of credit.
However, I don't think they can win this war.
My calculation, when you start drafting people that are over 60, you're desperate.
That means too many people have died.
There's been too much damage.
If you let it continue, there's not gonna be a country left called Ukraine.
You just you'll never be able to rebuild, you know, the destruction that currently exists.
Scott Bessent confirms what I'm saying, that tariffs on any major purchaser of Russian oil could go through the roof if this fail, this talk fails.
That's the long-term, almost guaranteed success for Trump.
I don't see a lot of risk.
This is what I was telling O'Reilly yesterday.
I don't think he was understanding me.
Long uh, Hannity, big risk for the president.
I don't think so.
Because if it fails, the the game's not over.
At that point, you've you've got to see this through the prism of what's what's his plan B. I know what his plan B is.
His plan B is to bankrupt Russia.
His plan B is to get the world to stop funding the war machine.
His plan B is to force him back to the table, which is very similar to the strategy that Reagan used.
You know, it turned out the former Soviet Union couldn't buy guns and butter at this at the same time.
Uh best case scenario, we'd get a ceasefire tomorrow.
That would be the best case.
Not guaranteed at all by any stretch.
That's why it's going to be so interesting.
Vladimir Putin in the lead up to this gave an interview with MBC News, and he said that um, what did he say?
A day ahead of the summit, he convened a meeting of advisors to inform you about how the negotiation process on the Ukrainian crisis is going.
He said of the Trump administration, quote, they are making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the fighting, stop the crisis, reach agreements that are in the interest of all parties involved in the conflict.
Okay, I still don't trust Putin as far as I can throw him, but he's kind of signaling that, you know, maybe the time is now.
The number of civilian uh casualties in Ukraine hit a three-year high.
You know, 286 civilians killed, 1388 injured.
Uh the July casualty number, the highest since May of 2022.
Uh, so things are not getting better in terms of if you put a value on human life, and Ukraine is doing their part.
Ukraine is fighting back as they have the entire time.
If you would have told me that three years into this, the Ukrainians would still be fighting with Europe not fully on board, or the continent of Europe and European nations not doing their fair share or contributing their fair share, and that Ukraine is still in this to the extent they are.
I wouldn't have believed it.
They have fought valiantly.
Ukraine is now targeting Russian oil facilities with these drone attacks.
They understand what Trump understands.
That is that is their that is their lifeline.
They don't have an economy without oil.
Uh, Ukrainian media is reporting that 990 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the last 24 hours.
So they've got they've got their own, you know, the damage they're inflicting is severe.
Uh, by the way, interestingly, the base that we will be broadcasting from tomorrow, the military base long been used to counter Russia.
Pretty interesting.
Uh, a couple of other side notes.
There's talk about a possible minerals for peace deal that could be arranged between the three nations.
Um, the U.S. and Russia propose a West Bank style occupation of certain areas.
I mean, I think the Donbass region is gone.
I think that 80% Russian nationals being there.
But I no president would risk it.
I give Trump all the credit in the world.
Oh, he doesn't have an immediate agreement.
This is a not no, it's not.
Because Donald Trump's gonna leave.
If that's the case, he's gonna leave pissed off.
You know what that means if he's pissed off, he's gonna he's gonna go after Putin every way he can.
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