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Stu
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Glenn Beck
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Pat
Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your.
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Stu
Ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.
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Pat
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program and welcome to it. It's Pat and Stu for Glenn Today. Got some breaking news that's interesting. Sports related, but also very scandal related, very corruption related, ESG related. We'll get into it here coming up in one minute.
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Stu
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Pat
All right, so apparently there's been a problem with the recruitment of Kawhi Leonard in the NBA. Yes.
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Stu
And this is how basketball player, if.
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Pat
You'Re not aware of him, right.
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Stu
This is how it's kind of being promoted as a big story today, which it is a big story if you care about sports. Looking at the details of it, it's the smallest part of the story. This is a fascinating story for our purposes here. Pat, the story comes from Pablo Torre finds out. Do you know this podcast?
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Pat
I do not.
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Stu
I think he Was at ESPN for a while. He's been a podcaster. I've seen bits and pieces of his news coverage. He seems to be like a guy who just dives deep into various sports related stories, and I've seen a couple of them over the years. He is with the Athletic now and he reports this and it is being promoted as this big story about Kawhi Leonard. Basically what is being alleged is that Kawhi Leonard, who's a big star basketball player, he's 2019, wins the NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors and becomes a free agent. Everybody in the league wants to sign this guy. He's the best player in the league at the time and is the most sought after free agent. Everyone's making offers, everyone's doing everything that they can. And he winds up signing with the Los Angeles Clippers, which is surprising. You know, Clippers don't usually land the biggest free agents, but, you know, they. They wind up signing Kawhi Leonard and they trade for Paul George, another big star from Oklahoma City. In that trade, the MVP of the league, Shay Gilgeous Alexander, goes to the Oklahoma City Thunder. So this is a massive trade in league history. Kind of changes the power balance of the entire league. The Oklahoma City Thunder, of course, go to win the championship this past year. Again, that's not what's important to us, but just the setup. Why this is a big deal. In that free agent courtship by a bunch of these teams, there is whisper, a whisper of impropriety.
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Pat
A secret payment.
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Stu
A secret payment was the allegiance allegation. Thank you. They were talking about this as a situation where they were alleging that he got this payment sort of under the table. Why else would he go to the Clippers? And there was a family member involved and a bunch of shadiness, Nothing ever shown to be proven. So long story short, as they're going through this story, it leads back to a company called Aspiration. Are you familiar with this company, Aspiration?
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Pat
I'm not, no.
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Stu
So Aspiration is a company built by two big Democratic officials. Two guys that the names are familiar. One was, he was the head of, I think the Arizona Democratic Party at one point. Another guy, they're both from Harvard, one of them had run for Congress. They were well known in Democratic circles and wound up starting this, what basically turned out to be a green bank, okay, called Aspiration. They got basically every celebrity you'd recognize as an annoying green promoting leftist to talk about this company. It was a massive deal, multi billion dollar company this thing became. And they had Robert Downey Jr. Doing the commercials. Leonardo DiCaprio. The list of celebrities is they're all a listers. So they go through this whole process and their business was interesting because let's say you go and you decide to start a styrofoam burning and oil consuming conglomerate of your own. The Pat Gray Styrofoam and oil conglomerate.
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Pat
How did you find out about that?
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Stu
Oh, is that you actually have that?
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Pat
That's what I just started. Oh, really? Yeah, recently. A styrofoam bur burning conglomerate.
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Stu
A company that just exists to burn Styrofoam.
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Pat
Yes.
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Stu
That's a shocking.
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Pat
And oil.
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Stu
And oil. Oh, yeah, the oil.
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Pat
Styrofoam and oil.
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Stu
Yes. Okay.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
So you started this company, Pat.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
And I know your work as a styrofoam burner is very important to you as well as oil. I don't leave that out.
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Pat
Right.
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Stu
But let's just say someone else might feel bad about the damage they're doing to the environment. They want to be known as green. This is the ESG era. It's 2021, 2022 in there, you know. Well, I mean, it had existed before that, but you know, that era.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
Everyone's trying to be ESG friendly. They want to be known as a green company. So how do you do such a thing? You know, major sports franchises were working with this quote, unquote, green bank that would say, hey, we just built this massive stadium. We need to offset the carbon. Right. First of all, no, you don't. Secondly, the way they would do that is they would, of course plant trees. So you would go and you would pay this company a bunch of money to get their certification that you were ESG friendly and they would plant trees. Now, of course, they wouldn't actually plant trees. They would quote, unquote, broker trees to be what? So stupid.
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Pat
So they don't even actually. No, they don't do the carbon offset thing.
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Stu
No, they don't do it.
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Pat
Does anybody do it?
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Stu
They broker outside firms to do it. I don't know if it was. I'm sure it was done sometimes.
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Pat
Probably not planned right.
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Stu
Now, according to the podcast, they were charging 5 to 10 times the amount that it cost. I love this stuff. Five to ten times the amount it costs to plant a tree, which is apparently about 10 to 20 cents. Pop, you want to plant a tree 10 to 20 cents. Now, I could do it cheaper than that, but okay, 10 to 20 cents, that's what the per tree. The ESG corporate industrial rate is typically 10 to 20 cents. They were charging these organizations a dollar to do the same stuff. Now you can see the scam building here, right?
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Pat
So.
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Stu
They wind up charging all this money. They raise hundreds of millions of dollars. The company winds up growing to multiple billions of DOL in this period. And it's similar to, we talked about it yesterday, the George Floyd era, where everybody's just throwing money at BLM to make themselves look feel good, even though BLM is just buying houses with it. Right. Like it's that type of thing. So the same thing's going on with the ESG stuff. They are supposedly offsetting all this carbon for these massive organizations. And, you know, is any of that happening? Probably not. But you know, probably not at the very least overcharging for it. So they get all this money, they get all these donations. Eventually, one of the two Democratic officials winds up getting arrested for like, fraud. Okay. And when that happens, a few days later, the entire thing goes bankrupt. So aspiration goes bankrupt.
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Pat
Completely went up. Wow.
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Stu
Multiple billion dollar organization.
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Pat
Like an Enron thing.
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Stu
Yeah. All built on this. You know, I would argue green scam from the beginning, but they're even scamming the people who wanted to be involved in the green scam. That's how bad this is.
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Pat
Wow.
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Stu
Right.
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Pat
Wow.
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Stu
So what they find in at the end of the story here, and you can, you know, you should get. It's. It's worth listening to, you know, it's fast. A fascinating tale Pablo Torre finds out is the name of the podcast, if you don't know it, but they had in the bankruptcy filing. They list the companies that they owe the most money to. Third or fourth on the list is a company called KL2 Incorporated or something.
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Pat
Kawhi Leonard.
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Stu
Kawhi Leonard. He's number two. It's some LLC where they owe him $7 million. Now, in theory, okay, maybe he was a celebrity endorser. They had a marketing deal with him. Well, that was what they said happened. However, no one can find any example of him ever talking about this at all.
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Pat
So did they pay him the 21 million? Because he.
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Stu
It's 28 total.
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Pat
28 million total that was paid to him in secret. Right. That nobody knew about, so that they.
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Stu
Could no work for.
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Pat
They could avoid the salary cap. And, and so it's just endorsement money, which doesn't count toward the salary.
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Stu
That's what they're alleging, basically. You can't just pay somebody extra above the salary cap or it would be unfair. The salary cap wouldn't mean anything. So.
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Pat
But their endorsement deals are separate.
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Stu
Are part of that, but you can't promise those to players, although they would be in the salary cap. And this is all alleged, but the allegation here is that they basically. Steve Ballmer, who is one of the richest men in the world, owns the Clippers, Microsoft. He's involved in this aspiration thing. At some level, they wind up saying, hey, Kawhi, we'll give you $28 million basically under the table.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
He. Now instead of just, I don't know, faking a few tweets about it, which would at least cover your butt.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
They do nothing. He does nothing. He never says anything about it. He never mentions it in any interview.
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Pat
He never tweets anything for aspiration, ever.
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Stu
Nothing.
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Pat
That's amazing.
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Stu
At least as far as has been able to be found so far. He gets absolutely nothing out of the deal. And he never tweets about it and never mentions it in any context and gets $28 million for this.
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Pat
What would it be?
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Stu
Just tweet, throw out a few. I don't. Maybe throw out your people to throw up a couple of messages and at least you could justify it. But they never bother to do that, which is why it becomes a sports scandal. But, like, step back for a second. First of all, how funny is this that people. And I hate. There are people who have really positive hopes and dreams and really believe this environmental stuff and really want to help. And in some ways, you kind of feel bad for them. In other ways, you just have to laugh, because here are people who donated their money, who gave their money to this, who paid this organization for this greenwashing.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
And millions and millions of dollars that were supposed to go to plant trees went to Leonard so he could go on the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Pat
Wow.
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Stu
And never tweet about this organization. I mean, it's almost this. I can say this. This is. These are all allegations. We'll see how it plays out. But this type of stuff is absolutely infesting this world. This world of these. This world of green companies. It's almost alchemy, Pat. It is like this. This. This potential, like, starting point to just print money. Because the context of the business is you're planting trees somewhere in Africa to fight back against an invisible gas. What an incredible.
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Pat
I mean, you.
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Stu
Gordon Gekko, dreamed of coming up with an idea like that.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
You want to talk about all the greatest scam Bernie Madoff would have been like, oh, wait, hold on. I don't even have to fake the documents. This is beyond. Ponzi would have absolutely adored an idea like this.
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Pat
Enron did more work than this.
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Stu
At least they were doing something. Yeah, sort of.
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Pat
Sort of. Kinda.
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Stu
Kinda. At least people got energy.
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Pat
Wow.
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Stu
This is accomplishing nothing. It is a giant, it's a, it's a grounding error in a massive mathematical equation. If you believe every bit of it. If you believe the only, the best things that in every single piece of Al Gore's movie and speeches and all the stuff he's done. At the very best, it is a rounding error of a giant mathematical equation which many of its inputs are self reported from China.
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Pat
Was there anything else that aspiration did other than plant trees?
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Stu
That was their main part of their business other than make commercials with celebrities.
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Pat
Incredible.
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Stu
Just a fascinating story breaking out. There's going to be because I think you're going to get this first layer of this being sports, but conservative media and hopefully some mainstream journalists are going to pick up on this as well and dive into it. Bigger than that. I mean, you know, the people who were running this organization were endorsed by Bill Clinton. Money from the Clinton foundation was pointed to this organization.
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Pat
There's another thing that should be investigated. Yes, the Clinton Foundation. Yes, that's a massive scam as well. Triple eight seven two seven back. More coming up in one minute.
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Glenn Beck
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Pat
Did you see the the Video of something being thrown from the White House. It's kind of strange.
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Stu
I saw something about this. This is because. Because initially it was reported as real. And then didn't Donald Trump suggest it wasn't?
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Pat
He did suggest it was AI because he said, okay, so you see on the video that something comes out of the White House. You don't know what it is. Something comes, something comes out of one of the windows on the second floor of the White House that faces 15th street or something. So something is thrown out the window. And then Peter Doocy asks the President about it. He says, I don't know anything about that. Can you show me? And so Peter Doocy comes and shows it to him on his phone and he said, that must be AI because you can't open those windows.
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Stu
Okay. So he's just reacting to this in real time.
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Pat
And, you know, it made sense because those windows are bulletproof. Right? So you don't just open windows. He said they weigh like 600 pounds or something. And so you don't just open up the window and throw things out of the White House. So you don't know if it's AI or if it's something real or what in the world it would have been that was thrown out of the second story window at the White House. I don't know. But it's a weird, it's a weird story. But Peter Doocy also asked President Trump.
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Stu
Well, wait, hold on, before you go off on that one. I had heard, though, that the White House confirmed it was real.
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Pat
Oh, did they? Because I, I hadn't.
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Stu
Okay, so. So we don't know yet where this settles. That's. That's what my understanding was that they said it actually was real.
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Pat
And did they say what it was?
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Stu
Garbage.
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Pat
Is that just garbage thrown out the second story window at the White House? That's a weird, A weird thing to do.
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Stu
I didn't see the video, but was it like a black.
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Pat
Yeah, it was plastic bag, dark thing. It was dark. You couldn't really tell because it was from so far away.
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Stu
What's the allegation? It was a corpse. What are they trying to say?
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Pat
It's not big enough for a corpse. So I don't think they're trying to even allege that somebody's throwing dead bodies out of the second story window.
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Stu
Maybe some of the leftover cocaine from the Biden White House was found.
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Pat
Maybe somebody's like, let's get rid of this right now.
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Stu
I love how the media is interested in this, but they were not at all interested in the actual cocaine actually felt found in the actual White House.
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Pat
Right. We didn't care who that was, why it was there.
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Stu
Figure it out, Pat. And you will never know. This is the most document. There's cameras everywhere.
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Pat
Well, not there.
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Stu
Not there.
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Pat
Why would you have cameras at the White House?
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Stu
That's true.
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Pat
So, yeah. Garbage. Is that the explanation really of the.
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Stu
Let me see if I could find.
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Pat
An updated look for them because that's. Yeah. I don't know why you would be throwing out garbage from the second story window at the White House. But it's kind of, kind of funny though. It is funny because that's what you.
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Stu
Do when you just don't feel like carrying it all the way down. Are the bags leaking? You just got out the window.
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Pat
Throw it out the window. What could be down there?
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Stu
The White House would necessarily engage in such a thing.
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Pat
But so no, but it's relatable. Yeah.
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Stu
And we've all done it.
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Pat
We've all done. We've all. Look, I'm not walking this thing all the way downstairs and out to the garbage can. I'm just going to throw it out the window.
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Stu
Gravity always wins. Throw the thing out the window. It'll land you deal with it down there. It makes a lot of sense. It's called efficiency. We're always complaining about the lack of government efficiency. That's incredibly efficient.
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Pat
Very much so. The other thing is, and we'll get into this in a second, but all of the reports of the President's health right now, all of a sudden the news media is all over the health of the President. They couldn't be more concerned about what's wrong with a president right now. I mean, they were totally fine with a President who lost his mind and could barely walk for four years. But now that a president has a bruise on his right hand, now they're all over what is going on with the health of this president. So we'll get into that. Coming up. Cuz Peter Doocy asked, actually asked President Trump about reports that he was actually dead over the weekend.
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Stu
If he responded, I feel like no, he did. Yeah. Okay.
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Pat
He did respond. And turns out no, he's. He's not dead. Triple eight, 727 Beck. More coming up. This is Glenn Beck.
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Glenn Beck
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Pat
Glenn's newsletter is exists.
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Stu
Sign up@glennbeck.com.
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Pat
It's Pat and Stew for Glenn today. Triple 8, 727B Eck. Lots of concern now all of a sudden about the health of the President of the United States. Uh, they weren't concerned at all for four years when they should have been, when they. Here's a guy with dementia. Here's a guy who could barely stand half the time. Uh, we, we played a montage of Joe Biden walking through sand. It looked like the guy was going to collapse at any second.
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Stu
Oh, is that real? I did think that one was.
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Pat
Oh, my gosh.
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Stu
I thought that was AI. No, that was a real clip of him walking through sand.
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Pat
Yeah. Play cut seven. This is Biden falling asleep. This is Biden falling upstairs. And he whoops. Oh, boy. Look out. Okay. The three times that he tripped climbing the stairs at Air Force One. And then he finally gets. And then he falls over the sandbags. That looked like it hurt. Hurt. That's gotta hurt.
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Stu
That was a big one in a lot of the books about the election, by the way.
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Pat
Eddie's help.
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Stu
Particular incident.
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Pat
Yeah. Okay. And then this is walking through this. Okay. I mean, look at that. Is, is that. That's not healthy. That's a real cliff feral man. Yeah, it's he and Jill walking on the beach.
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Stu
Sharp as attack.
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Pat
Delaware.
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Stu
Wow.
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Pat
Sharp as attack. Nobody 20 year olds can't keep up with the guy.
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Stu
Mr. President.
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Pat
Mr. President, what are you gonna say to Trump on Wednesday? Mr. President, why can't you walk? There's a.
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Stu
It's black. Anyway.
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Pat
Then he trips over the color black.
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Stu
I guess we can't be expected to.
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Pat
He almost fell face first on the stairs in wherever that was. China, I think, or Japan. Then he falls up the stairs again. That's. Yep. Oh, boy. Oh, look out.
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Stu
He's got it. He touched down not even four hours ago. That was a quick. As you said.
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Pat
Again, almost fell. Oh, somebody has to grab his arm. Help him. Allocated. Falls again up the stairs.
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Stu
Really had a problem with the stairs of police officers.
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Pat
She even mentions the president did have a. A slight trip there as he's boarding Air Force One. Thank you. But there's no problem. Don't worry about it.
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Stu
Oh, this is my favorite one.
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Pat
Right. I love this. On the bike. He just falls over and. Oh, boy. Oh, golly. Oh, that's the best one. Little fake jog there that he did all. Then he tripped up these stairs. That acts like, yeah, I did that on purpose. Then he falls asleep at several meetings.
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Stu
Stay awake the whole time.
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Pat
No, I mean, that's too much to ask. And then here he is at Normandy, falling asleep. Respectful. Oh, man, that's a lot.
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Stu
And they don't seem to be interested in it at all.
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Pat
Not at all. But because Donald Trump has a bruise on his right hand, they're completely out of their minds with what's wrong with this president. Plus, he's dragging his leg. Have you heard that he's dragging. Let's see him get out of. Yeah, go ahead, show the. Getting out of the. I mean, I think he might have something wrong with his knee. It looks like he might have an issue with joint pain or something. I don't know. But he's not dragging his leg. Unless the definition of dragging is different than I've believed it to be my entire life. And there he's doing a little bit Trump dance and then he. I don't know. Is there. Does it look like something's wrong with his knee?
- [29:40]
Stu
Maybe a little bit. Maybe he's got.
- [29:42]
Pat
Might have some issue.
- [29:44]
Stu
That's not necessarily a significant thing. Again, what's fascinating about this is how they didn't care that the.
- [29:50]
Pat
They didn't care at all.
- [29:52]
Stu
In the couple of the tell alls about the election that have come out since the 2024 election, particularly the one where he trips over the sandbags was a massive thing. That's like when really when a lot of the panic started in the Campaign with the Democrats really thought Biden, like, this could happen at any time. If this guy falls down again, we have real, real problems. Now, of course, there's these little stumbles, but like the bike one was really bad, very bad. The sandbag one was really bad where he really falls over completely. What's fascinating about Trump is, honestly, I might prefer if he had a little bit less energy. I have to cover everything he talks about. He makes me tired. And really, at 79 years old, the pace that this guy keeps up is fascinating. I think that is something whether you like his policies or you don't like his policies, you really have to acknowledge, you might think you can't be a real dictator if you're super duper lazy at not getting anything done and falling asleep all the time. It's hard to be a dictator. Right. You know, they keep accusing him of being Hitler. You need a lot of energy to be that guy. And, you know, I don't know. I will say if you're gonna be the guy that runs everything and you're gonna be the person who's cracking down all the time, you have to have a lot of energy. I think that's quite obvious. He does have. Does he have a knee problem? I don't know. But that's never been a. There's never been an issue. We had presidents who were in wheelchairs. That's not the problem. It's not really all like with Biden, it wasn't about the fact that he stumbled every once in, or even that he was old. It was just that that was an indication building on top of.
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Pat
Yeah, it was one of many indications.
- [31:40]
Stu
What we had seen for so long and his lack of ability to do even the basic functions of the presidency, like showing up in public.
- [31:48]
Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
Communicating, doing interviews, press conferences.
- [31:51]
Pat
The media is so concerned. Here's Jen Psaki talking about Trump being in hiding for days. Really can't make this stuff up sometimes.
- [32:02]
Stu
And look, we may never know why.
- [32:04]
Glenn Beck
Donald Trump suddenly spent a week hiding entirely from the American public.
- [32:08]
Pat
A week.
- [32:08]
Stu
But you don't actually need baseless online.
- [32:10]
Glenn Beck
Conspiracies to explain why he might not.
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Pat
Want to show his face in public right now.
- [32:15]
Stu
I love that they're actually entertaining this as it's a real thing.
- [32:19]
Pat
Yeah, absolutely.
- [32:22]
Stu
If you're not obsessively online, you might not know that. That the left was basically insinuating that the President had died. For the last week, they had come up with this conspiracy theory that he had died because he hadn't made a lot of public appearances for a week. Now, the man does love the camera, does love to be out in front talking to people. Does this all the time. So him not doing that for a week is mildly notable. I could see why you'd notice it because he's always out talking to people. But people also can take vacations. He's playing some golf. It seems like during that time, you know, people. It's not all the work of the president is not done in front of cameras. And so it's very easily explainable. And it was easily explained by the man when he showed up alive to things over the past couple of days.
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Pat
Yes. And Peter Doocy asked him about the reports over the weekend that he was actually dead. Cut 3.
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Glenn Beck
About a big viral social media trend over the weekend. How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?
- [33:30]
Stu
You see that?
- [33:31]
Pat
No.
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Glenn Beck
People didn't see you for a couple days. 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.
- [33:38]
Pat
Really? I didn't see that. You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful. They went very well. Like this is going very well. And then I didn't do any for two days.
- [33:51]
Stu
And they said there must be something wrong with him. Biden wouldn't do him for months.
- [33:56]
Pat
He wouldn't see him. And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him. And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape. No, I heard that. I get reports now.
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Stu
You knew.
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Pat
I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody and everybody saw. That was on one of your competitors.
- [34:15]
Stu
It was. Was it Daily Caller? He did some. Some interview in the period where they said he was. So he actually was doing things. I don't know. If they didn't release it, then maybe they were holding it for a couple days. I don't know exactly how that played out, but it's just nonsense. And I think it's wish casting. I think this is what they want to happen.
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Pat
It is.
- [34:35]
Stu
They want bad things to happen to this guy. This is why you see so many people cheering on when he was almost killed. They were cheering him on. Cheering on the assassins. There's no shortage of this stuff. If you go online, you can find a lot of people just rooting outwardly for his demise. Demise.
- [34:57]
Pat
Yeah. There's also conspiracy theory on the left. You know, the right is supposed to be so conspiratorial. There's a conspiracy theory on the left that the entire assassination attempt in Butler Pennsylvania was a fake.
- [35:12]
Stu
Oh yeah, it was fake. Still lives.
- [35:13]
Pat
That one with a. Yeah, there were. I mean there's just more coming out about that over the weekend that he was shot with a rubber bullet.
- [35:22]
Stu
There was also the glass shattering theory.
- [35:24]
Pat
Yeah.
- [35:25]
Stu
That the.
- [35:25]
Pat
Right.
- [35:25]
Stu
The bullet struck a teleprompter which then deflected glass at his ear, which was.
- [35:32]
Pat
Disproven a long time ago. Like the next day. Yeah.
- [35:35]
Stu
And it's. Look, a lot of people in a moment like that come up with reports and theories and like that's, you know, somewhat. I would again say it's better to be right than first. But a lot of people come out and just wildly speculate. Again, a man was actually killed in this scenario. He was struck with a real bullet. It wasn't a rubber. They didn't use a real bullet on him and a rubber bullet on the President. This stuff is so nonsensical, but it's a coping mechanism for the left. When that happened, it was blatantly clear that there was no way Joe Biden was winning that election. I mean, it was already clear that he was going to lose that election. But once we hit a time where the President was almost assassinated on stage. And not just that, but also then stood immediately up and said, fight, fight, fight. And in one of the most incredible moments in the history of the country, there is no way Joe Biden was going to defeat him. And so I think there was a big coping mechanisms that grew out of that moment. Of course they switched candidates. It got closer for a while. There's a bunch of stuff that happened after that one. What a freaking year that was. But this is just craziness. People are so obsessed with him. I can't understand it. We are supposed to be a country that does not obsess about the President like this. That's not the way our government is set up. He's just one part of the government. It's not supposed to be a dominating feature of your life. And for millions and millions and millions of people on the left, that's all I think about every day.
- [37:12]
Pat
One of your favorite guys and mine was actually rooting for his demise. Tim Walls Cut four. Check this out.
- [37:20]
Stu
I'm not. You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things and although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying.
- [37:31]
Pat
Just saying. That's funny.
- [37:33]
Stu
There will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news.
- [37:37]
Pat
So what a dirt bag seems to be saying there will be news sometime. That Donald Trump is dead and that's what he's actually rooting for. It seems to me this guy is a real piece of work. I don't know why we continue to have to hear from him.
- [37:53]
Stu
I thought really this was over.
- [37:54]
Pat
Yeah, I did too. This is, I was hopeful, the single.
- [37:57]
Stu
Worst vice presidential pick in American history by far.
- [38:01]
Pat
It's not even close.
- [38:02]
Stu
There have been people who've been thrown out of the job and I would still say he's working.
- [38:06]
Pat
Was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln compared to this guy, Just unbelievable.
- [38:12]
Stu
I'd rather have Spiro at me now.
- [38:15]
Pat
Yes. And he's been dead for 40 years. More coming up. Common sense ain't common anymore. Is it time to wake up and wrangle the sheep? Glenn Beck continues next.
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Stu
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Pat
Hear them sort of.
- [39:04]
Stu
You were made to scream from the front row. We were made to quietly save you. More Expedia made to travel. Savings vary and subject to availability. Flight inclusive packages are atoll protected.
- [39:16]
Glenn Beck
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Pat
Foreign stew for Glenn. Today we have an update on the situation with throwing something out of the White House window.
- [40:40]
Stu
It was a corpse. We now know it was a corpse.
- [40:43]
Pat
Do we know who?
- [40:44]
Stu
No, we don't know who.
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Pat
Like a janitor or somebody.
- [40:47]
Stu
We just saw a leg sticking out of the bag. And so we do know. Okay, now it was a corpse.
- [40:52]
Pat
Well, that. That's solved then.
- [40:54]
Stu
Yeah. So it was. Left is freaking out about AI.
- [40:58]
Pat
It was just a dead body. Leave him alone.
- [41:01]
Stu
What are you gonna do? Carry the body all the way down the stairs?
- [41:04]
Pat
No, that's too much.
- [41:06]
Stu
There's an open window. You just toss it out. Gravity brings it to the ground. You pick it up. When you get down there, that's how you. This is how you evacuate a body from your building. Now the left is trying to make this into yet another controversy with Donald Trump. They're saying he lied about it being AI, which, as you blatantly, when you see the video of him seeing it, he didn't even know it happened.
- [41:30]
Pat
He didn't know.
- [41:31]
Stu
He sees a video on a phone, he goes, I don't know. That's AI looks. You can't even open those windows.
- [41:35]
Pat
Because it does make sense if you can't open the windows, that nobody opened the window to throw something out. It must have been AI.
- [41:42]
Stu
Right? So the leftist first went and started posting pictures of these windows being open. Like there's a picture with Reagan and Nancy waving to people outside of one of these windows.
- [41:51]
Pat
See, you can open the windows.
- [41:54]
Stu
That was their first step. Now we have an email from the White House. Again, a terrible, terrible thing. They're hiding this body. They dropped out of the second floor really well.
- [42:05]
Pat
And really, nobody's even alleging it was a body. It wasn't big enough to be a body.
- [42:09]
Stu
No, it looks like a small. Like a bathroom garbage can bag. It's like a tiny bag. I would actually get a little bit upset at the contractor who did it, potentially, because it was a light enough bag that you should have just carried it down. But that being said, a spokesperson from the White House confirmed via email that the clip was off. Authentic. Explain what it showed. He said a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone threw it out the window. So that's the end of the story.
- [42:37]
Pat
Okay. Is that a normal thing? Do they throw things out the White House window a lot, or do they normally walk it down and throw it away?
- [42:44]
Stu
My guess is this is speculation on my part, Pat.
- [42:47]
Pat
Okay.
- [42:49]
Stu
This stuff happens all the time when you're a contractor. I mean, I've seen it happen. I worked at jobs when I was younger where I threw things out the window because I didn't Feel like carrying them downstairs. This is not an. I've done it at my house, I'm sure. In fact, I know I have thrown it off our porch because I didn't feel like carrying it down through the house. So it probably happens. And then someone who's working a job at the White House was then told there are different rules at the White House. We can't just throw stuff out the window. That's probably the end of it. Somebody who normally does that at a job and would normally do that with no problems needs to realize there's cameras. People talk about it. Just a little correction for next time.
- [43:34]
Pat
This is Glenn Beck.
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Stu
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Pat
Sam down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program, I guess. Oh, it's Pat and Stew for Glenn today. Got a couple of indicators of how the American middle class is disappearing.
- [45:58]
Stu
Oh, no.
- [45:59]
Pat
Yeah, yeah, they're disappearing. Disappearing, Just evaporating.
- [46:03]
Stu
I don't know. Could they have been thrown out of the window of a White House? Of the White House, yes.
- [46:07]
Pat
They could have.
- [46:07]
Stu
A plastic bag, perhaps.
- [46:09]
Pat
I think we just saw it happen. New theory for anyone on the left discarded completely.
- [46:14]
Stu
You just take them one for free.
- [46:17]
Pat
Don't tempt them. They will.
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Stu
They will.
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Pat
All right, more coming up in a minute.
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Pat
So apparently adults are taking over Disney and they're forcing out America's middle class families that they have to pay $10,000 to take their family to it. Then they got to stand in long lines because adults are ahead of.
- [48:03]
Stu
This is a big thing. Yeah, I guess. Are you? Do you know? I know there's a couple people around here who are, who love to go to Disney as adults, who we've talked to about this in the past. I'm sort of fascinated by it. Like it's not to say that there's not something fun to do at Disney for adults, but like if I'm gonna take a vacation, it's not my number one choice. Now our own Glenn Beck, a big, big Disney nerd.
- [48:29]
Pat
Yes.
- [48:29]
Stu
And I don't know that he goes there anymore. He kind of got tossed off of them, maybe in the woke era for good. I don't know that he still goes back, but for a long time he would Go back and he'd bring the kids, but also kind of like, not bring the kids. Not really. Didn't have. They didn't have to be there for him to enjoy it. He just loved Disney. And a lot of people are like that. I don't quite get it. Do you get it?
- [48:51]
Pat
Yeah, I like Disney.
- [48:53]
Stu
Go by, like, if you had a choice, you're planning a vacation, no kids involved, you and Jackie are gonna go. Are you like, all right, let me just pitch this to you, Disney.
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Pat
I would.
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Stu
You would?
- [49:05]
Pat
Yeah, I would. I would. We just went in February with my grown son and his wife, and we went to Disney and to the new Universal.
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Stu
That's interesting. I see. I see it much more as a kid's pursuit. Like, we took our kid to Disneyland right before COVID That was their one trip. Congratulations. Hope you liked it. And they're the perfect age for. It was fantastic. And I went as a kid many times. Not many times. Three or four times. We had a relative who worked there, so we got there a couple of times. Maybe more than our finances would have allowed to in a normal circumstance. But it was, you know, great. But I just. It doesn't. It doesn't seem like the thing that if I'm going to plan a vacation for a couple of adults, that wouldn't be my top choice. But, I mean, for many people it is. So that's fine. Right? And Disney loves that. Disney wants you there. Disney wants adults to come because obviously it ups their numbers, but it ups their numbers in a few different ways because basically, families typically go there cheaply. Families go there with a budget because typically you're younger, you don't have as much money, you're trying to pay off. Maybe a house, you've got a couple of kids, you know, college is on the way. Families typically go to Disney and they're watching their pennies as much as they can. They've come up with a budget. They're trying to fit it in. And that has always been one of the main driving forces of Disney. People who make one trip every three or four years and save up for that Disney driver trip.
- [50:43]
Pat
Yes.
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Stu
What has happened is a bunch of adults have decided they want to go and they enjoy that experience and they've got a lot more money. Now. This is. There are multiple groups here. Could be people like our own Pat Gray who are living off that cookie money. Mackexi, Cookie cash just flowing in all the time.
- [50:58]
Pat
Flowing in.
- [50:59]
Stu
I mean, it's just rolling in the dough. The fact that you took not one but two Rolls Royces to work today, Pat, I thought, was a little egregious.
- [51:07]
Pat
Excessive.
- [51:08]
Stu
I thought it was a tad excessive. I don't even know how you drove. Would you have one leg in one and one leg in the other? And you had to put your arms down and drive the steering wheels? I don't even know how you do it.
- [51:16]
Pat
Yeah, it's hard.
- [51:17]
Stu
Two at once is difficult. So you got all that going on with Pat. Also, big fans of Disney tend to be gay individuals, and they often have large amounts of disposable income. So they are spending large amounts of money at Disney as well. Now, Disney, of course, as a business, has reacted to these truths, and they've said, hey, what if we charge these people a lot more and give them better experiences? We'll give them upgraded experiences. They can skip the lines. They get the fancier restaurants, the nicer hotels, all the bells and whistles. Which, again, as a capitalist, I totally adore. But what's happening is the complaint is at least that now the average families who are going there are having the line cut constantly by people like Pat with this Kexi cookie money.
- [52:15]
Pat
Right?
- [52:15]
Stu
You know where Pat pays, Pat pays. And if you don't know this, Pat, on the back of the Snickerdoodle was able to shut down large portions of the park so just him and his family could walk around by themselves. You're not even allowed in the park.
- [52:29]
Pat
Right. We rented the whole place.
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Stu
He just didn't even care. You didn't care about the fact you saw the families outside and they.
- [52:36]
Pat
And I laughed at them.
- [52:37]
Stu
Yeah, you laughed at them.
- [52:38]
Pat
I laughed at him.
- [52:38]
Stu
And then a Disney employee came up and said, hey, just so you know, I know you have this all rented out, but you can let some of those families in. You're not even gonna see them if you want to.
- [52:46]
Pat
And you said, no, no, no.
- [52:49]
Stu
Let their filth.
- [52:51]
Pat
I wish. That would be great.
- [52:53]
Stu
It would be fun. So instead, what the actual thing that is happening is all these people are paying up for great experiences, and it's kind of leaving the average person who can barely afford it, you know, leaving them in the lurch. And that's. That's the accusation. Big story. I think it was the New York Times that or Wall Street Journal, maybe that had it recently. And one thing I was fascinated by was this little nugget in there, Pat. And this is something we've talked about before, but this says, for the most of the park's history, Disney was priced to welcome people across the income spectrum. Embracing the motto everyone is a VIP now. I went to Disney. I don't ever remember it being even close to affordable. Maybe it was at one point. Never. When I went, our family could never actually afford it. We were always in dead Africa. And it was a treat beyond treats. The Magic Kingdom. Right. It was supposed to be a once, maybe twice in a lifetime type of experience.
- [53:49]
Pat
I mean if you're just buying the all park passport and that's what you probably want so that you can go to all the different areas, it's $1,500 plus tax.
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Stu
Wait, for how long? A month.
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Pat
Okay, so you get. Oh no, that's a full year of access to all four theme parks, two water parks and other sports experiences. I mean that's not. I mean that's if you're living in.
- [54:18]
Stu
Orlando, if you're very sensible actually, obviously.
- [54:21]
Pat
If you're coming to Disney from Texas or Montana or California, you're not going to buy that.
- [54:26]
Stu
I would have definitely thought that was more expensive.
- [54:28]
Pat
I would too. Yeah, I would too.
- [54:30]
Stu
This is what, this happens a lot. So what do they have a daily price in there as you're looking at.
- [54:34]
Pat
It, for the daily.
- [54:35]
Stu
Let me push you through the rest of this and, and we'll get to the actual price. But they said in doing so this everyone is a VIP philosophy created a shared American culture by providing the same experience to every guest. The family that pulled up in the new Cadillac, stood in the same lines, ate the same food, rode the same rides. The family that interviews Chevy. Back then, America's large and thriving middle class was the focus of most companies efforts and firmly in the driver's seat. That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded that America's most important market today is its affluent.
- [55:16]
Pat
Now listen to the communism there. Like because there are rich people, it is hurting others.
- [55:24]
Stu
Right.
- [55:24]
Pat
Automatically backing more money. How does that hurt me in any way? And I never heard how much money have you lost? Because Elon Musk has $300 billion.
- [55:34]
Stu
That's a bad example because the currently Tesla's in the middle of taking my money. So I would say that is not a good example. But generally speaking I would agree with you.
- [55:43]
Pat
Yeah, it's nothing. They don't take anything from you. This is not a pie that they take in too big a piece. It's a bakery where you bake your own cash pie.
- [55:52]
Stu
Yeah. And you grow it.
- [55:53]
Pat
Right.
- [55:53]
Stu
But the pie grows, it doesn't get divided. This is a either or scenario. They want you to believe that if one person does well, another person must do poorly.
- [56:04]
Pat
And it's just not true.
- [56:05]
Stu
It's not true. And of course it's not true. They say, by the way, I also don't remember a time in our history where America's most affluent was not the most important market. Yes, there are more people, but the wealthy in every society are going to draw the most expensive experiences. Obviously, it's like it's always been. Yeah. I mean, I just don't. Maybe I'm. Glenn is the Disney historian, so maybe he'd be able to tell us a time, and maybe it was when Walt was alive, where they really targeted only the middle class and didn't give any upgraded experiences. As long as I can remember, though, they've always had some level of upgraded experience for people who want to pay more.
- [56:47]
Pat
Where you. You can get. You can get a pass that helps you avoid the huge line and you can go right up to the front because they've got a separate line for it.
- [56:56]
Stu
Yeah.
- [56:57]
Pat
And not just Disney, but all parks have that.
- [56:59]
Stu
Yeah. And I will say, when I went as a kid, we got the very basic pass. We stood in very long lines.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
I still loved it. Had a great time. When I went with my kids in 20, it was Halloween right before COVID we went there and I said to myself, number one, this is the only time I'm going to be doing this with the kids. Number two, I will pay almost any conceivable amount to not deal with all of the hassles. So I don't remember what thing I bought. It wasn't the most expensive thing. I know people, maybe friendly Disney historians who have had much better experiences than I had at Disney. But I was able to skip some of the lines you get, the extra passes you can get in line and multiple things at the same time. That's the type of stuff that you can buy there. It winds up costing you several hundred dollars extra. It is not the cheapest thing in the world. It's not a mortgage payment for most people. But it was expensive. I did pay up for the better experience. I would say it was much more enjoyable because I was just thinking about, like, gosh, these lines are going to be some of the lines you get there, and they'd be an hour, an hour and a half, and I'm not waiting. My kids were young at the time. I'm not waiting an hour and a half line with them. It's not happening.
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Pat
At that new Universal park, we waited four Hours in line for the new Harry Potter thing.
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Stu
I mean, whatever it's called there is for anything in the world. I would wait for hours. Me neither.
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Pat
I would never do it again, and it certainly wasn't worth it. But. But it was agonizing.
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Stu
How much time in the ride did they spend on transphobia? Did they get into that a lot? Did they say.
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Pat
They didn't say. They didn't really get into.
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Stu
Really? Because that's all I hear about J.K. rowling. She said no other life experience, no accomplishments other than the fact that she's a true transphobe. Yeah, that's what my understanding was these days. That's okay. So you. Wait. So you went. You. You literally stayed in.
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Pat
We literally in line for four hours.
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Stu
I wouldn't wait four hours for the Super Bowl. Why would you do this?
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Pat
We didn't think it was going to be that long, but sure enough, I mean, it's kind of cool because you see some interesting things along the way. They've made the line enjoyable there.
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Stu
Four hours enjoyable? No, no, no, no.
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Pat
An hour enjoyable, maybe. Maybe 90 minutes would have been enjoyable. Four hours was not enjoyable.
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Stu
At two and a half hours, did you think, I got to get out of this line.
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Pat
I'm gonna.
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Stu
I'm pulling the plug on it?
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Pat
Yes. But then I thought, but then I've wasted two and a half hours. Right. So I'm gonna stick it out.
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Stu
This on cost fallacy. You were example.
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Pat
You were.
- [59:38]
Stu
You were legitimately an example of it.
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Pat
Yep, exactly.
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Stu
Did you know at two and a half hours that you had another hour and a half?
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Pat
No, because I would have left if I would have known, I would have left.
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Stu
Understandable. They say the middle class is so eroded in size and purchasing power and rich people got richer. America's most important market today is the affluence. They provide a link, which I like when they do that, when they're making a claim the middle class has so eroded in size and purchasing power that they're making a claim like that. You can't just say that. That now. Oftentimes, the New York Times will just do that. But this time they provided a link. A link goes to a Pew Research study, which is the state of the American middle class. And they do show that in 1971, 61% of the American people were in the middle class. Now, and it's less than that now it's 51%.
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Pat
Oh, my. It's gone down 10%.
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Stu
10%.
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Pat
10% in 60 years.
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Stu
First of all, number one, on my observation list would be. That does not really tell me it has so eroded that our economy has collapsed from 61 to 51. That seems like a difference, a notable difference. I don't know that I would say it's so eroded it's changing our entire society. But okay, we'll take that. That's an opinion, I suppose, if you really believe that's really eroded. It's still the majority of our country. But okay, you want to say it's really eroded, that's a big deal. I wouldn't call that so eroded. But okay, but there has to be a follow up question to this because if you say the middle class is going away, what is the logical follow up, follow up question to that?
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Pat
Pat, Where'd they go?
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Stu
Where did they go?
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Pat
Did they go to poverty? Abject poverty? They're the poor class now, they're the lower class.
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Stu
Certainly the insinuation would you say?
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Pat
Of course it is.
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Stu
Insinuation is we used to have people who are middle class. Now all these rich people got richer, the top 1/10 of a percent. And that pushed all the people out of the middle class into the poor class.
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Pat
Right.
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Stu
What they, of course, don't tell you is the. That over 80% of the people who left the middle class went to the upper class.
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Pat
That's fantastic. That is fantastic.
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Stu
The upper income has risen from 11% to 19% in that period. Which you'd think was a really good thing. Yeah, you would think, suggest. And by the way, there are measures of this. This is just the Pew measure. There are measures of this that show it even more dramatically. But we'll use this one. 80% going to the upper class. That's a positive. It's an incredible thing.
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Pat
More coming up in a minute.
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Pat
Yes, Pat and Stu for Glenn today. By the way, there's more to this eroding middle class story.
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Stu
And again, this is their link. This is what they use to support their argument.
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Pat
And they make it sound like it's really awful, right? Like we're collapsing as a society because the middle class has gone away.
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Stu
So the middle class, as we point out, has eroded. 80% of those people who left the middle class went from the middle class to the upper class. The upper class middle class, as they point out, has grown in income from 144,000 on average in inflation adjusted dollars to $256,000, which is a 78% increase. You might say, well, that might be it. They're going up. And the people in the middle class, while there might be fewer of them, they're making less. Well, no, they. In 1970, again, inflation adjusted dollars, $66,000 was the middle class in 1970. Now it's $106,000. That defines the middle class. This is average up 60%. So slightly less than the upper class, but still up 60% in inflation adjusted dollars. You might say, well, there were 2% of the people who were in the middle class and have dropped to the lower class. And that sucks, right? That's bad. But the reason seems to be the income numbers have just changed because in the lower class, their income has increased from $22,000 in 1970, inflation adjusted, to 35,000 in 2022.
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Pat
Because the actual number was probably more like, what, 5,000 in 1970 for what? For the lower class. And now it's up to.
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Stu
No, it was 22,000.
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Pat
Right, 22,000, inflation adjusted. So not inflation adjusted numbers.
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Stu
See what you're saying.
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Pat
Probably more like five.
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Stu
It was probably more like 5,000. Yeah. So 22,000, 35,000. Again, we want to use inflation adjusted because that's an important measure. But a 55% increase there, what you've seen is increases between 55 and 78% across all three income groups. The vast majority of the people who have migrated out of the middle class have gone to the upper class. And the people who have gone from the middle class to the lower class largely seems to be a piece of strange economic data. That just means that the lower class has become more affluent, if you will. Right. They've almost up 55% in income. So it's catching some of the people that would normally in 1970 have been considered middle class. I mean, it is insane how these people, they just had you just throw out a thing like that and you can just say it without any support. Oh, middle class is eroding. And everyone goes, gosh, yeah. And just nods. Look at the details as to what has happened.
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Pat
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Pat
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Stu
Can't shadow ban your email yet.
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Pat
Sign up for the Glenn beck newsletter@glenn beck.com It's Patton Stew for Glenn Today. Triple 8727, Beck talking about the left and their continual class warfare and some of the news media that backs them up on this stuff and writes articles like the middle class is completely evaporating. Really? It's partially true. It's gone down 10%. But 8% of the 10% has gone to the upper class, not the lower class.
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Stu
And the lower class is wealthier than they were back in this golden age we're supposed to be excited about from the 70s, which I kind of remember is not the best, period. No, we don't look back at that historically as a golden age. We're much Better off today than we were then. Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't cultural things that you might not like. There's obviously, you would say life was.
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Pat
Simpler then, probably, maybe, yeah.
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Stu
You'd point, I think, to the rise of the Internet and social media as maybe a negative. You'd look at the falling of faith as a real negative in our society. There's certainly things to look at and say, gosh, that's really bad. That being said, this idea that everything is terrible all the time is an obsession in our world, and it's really just not accurate. It's not true. The way I always think about this. My ultimate example of this is there was a time in which people actually owned slaves. Slaves, right.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
And a lot of people weren't even angry about it. Many were. It created a civilian wind up having a civil war, certainly in large part based on that. Now our society freaks out about the statues of the people who were doing that at the time. Now we're freaked out because people who may have held slaves hundreds of years ago have statues in parks, nice parks made of them, and we need to tear them down. And that's our big. That's the way that we're being thwarted today by these mean statues that aren't doing anything. They're just standing there. And I think a lot of times we just lose sense of this. That doesn't mean that things are great. We can complain. I think what we're typically complaining about, though, in the United States in particular, is where we could be as opposed to where we are. Right? Like you might say to yourself, hey, right now, 80% of people make over, whatever the number, $35,000 a year in that one study. And we Wish it was 90. We think it could be 95 or 100 if we weren't so insane with our spending or if we weren't, you know, if some of the jobs that we have had from years past would have held up and the industries would have held up. Whatever your complaint is about the economy, it's not to say that there's nothing to it. It's just that we really do lose sight quickly at the wonders of what capitalism has brought us. It has created miracles throughout not only this country, but the entire world. And we have one party party which is now turning to socialism in a much more overt sense than even the past. And the other party that I think is, like. I don't know how to describe it on the right. I think the right largely still understands and appreciates what Capitalism has brought us, but there's certainly a finicky group that has sprouted it out. That is, it just says it's not good enough and we need to change giant swaths of it to get better. And I don't agree with that analysis, but at least it's theoretically an argument. I just usually been an argument that's been made on the left and sadly.
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Pat
Our youth, it seems, have been propagandized to believe that capitalism is evil and that socialism is the way to go. I just saw a poll, poll fairly recently in the last few weeks where like 18 to 34 year olds favor socialism over capitalism. I mean, it was close, but they actually favored. So it shouldn't be. And it should be that capitalism was ahead, but it wasn't in this particular poll. And that's because the left has done such an effective job with their Marxism and with their propaganda that they've, they've demonized capitalism now. And so our kids really think it's wrong to strive for something better in your life. The Democrats always talk about the fact that people aspire to become middle class. Who aspires to be in the middle class? I don't know, anybody. You aspire to be wealthy usually, don't you? I mean, yeah, right, exactly. You can't be like, oh, all you.
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Stu
Care about is money. No, we're talking about the economy. You aspire to many things. A wonderful marriage, wonderful children, a great job, a great family life, all those things.
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Pat
And you don't always realize all those things.
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Stu
You don't always. You try for it, but no one says, you know what? I, I aspire, I want to make.
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Pat
$45,000 and have a mediocre marriage.
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Stu
Right?
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Pat
A pretty. Okay, I want my job to be super happy.
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Stu
I don't want to really accomplish all the things I've wanted to accomplish, just some of them. You don't strive and aspire for a mediocre marriage or income. Look, that doesn't mean that your whole life is focused on getting a high income, but usually you would rather have higher than lower. That's just the way it typically works. I always found an interesting part of this phenomenon was the Ford Aspire. It was an automobile they had out for a while. It was just not the automobile you aspired for. It didn't mean that it didn't get you around. I'm sure it was fine. It was a vehicle that I could have seen myself. I owned a Ford Tempo when a Ford Tempo was something that existed. We all had cars like that when we were younger. We didn't necessarily aspire to the Ford Tempo, you know, the Ford Tempo was fine. The Ford Aspire was probably fine. I don't know. I never drove one, but I did it.
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Pat
I was very happy with it. Yes, yes. Because it was better than not having a car at all, which was what my alternative was.
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Stu
The first thing you aspire to is having a car. Then you aspire to having a better car. You don't aspire. You know, I would like, now that I've achieved this, I'm going to stay here forever. That's not the way I think the American people think. But they are legitimately depressed about the economy. There's a new story in the Wall Street Journal. Americans lose faith that hard work leads to economic gains. This is really dangerous for a society. The disconnect between these two things is number one. Which. What has set us apart from Europe? Europe, largely over the past 50 years. This has split over and over again. This poll is the same. Can you. If you work hard, do you get ahead? We all are always like 70%. Yes. And Germany and France are always 70%. No. It's just things you can't control. Life is being done to you. That was the European attitude. Our attitude was, we're making our lives. We're making life is what we make of it. That was our attitude. This is changing now. A new poll in the Wall Street Journal. People like me have a good chance of improving our standard of living. This is just a hope standard. This has been 75% agreement between 75 and in periods of recession, maybe it drew down to 55. It was in 2018. Trump first term at about. About 65, maybe 70%. Just eyeballing a chart. It is now down to 25%.
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Pat
25 collapsed. Wow.
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Stu
Now it does seem like Covid was a major factor in that, that people were just. Their entire perception of the world was changed by what happened after Covid. This is why we ranted about it constantly during that period. It was a massive change to our society. Society. But it does seem to be that period where that separated. Same thing when it comes to actual versus predicted consumer sentiment. This is measuring, hey, we have a bunch of economic stats and we have a formula that says this is what people should feel about the economy. When we have these economic stats, these two things ran basically exactly together from 2000 all the way up until COVID 19. Now it's completely separated to the point now where it's 50 points different. It used to be no more than 5 points different. Now it's 50 points different on the scale where the economy and Trump economy is pretty darn good, the sentiment pretty darn bad. Why this is a total change of our society. I think that the way that we're reading these numbers and feeling, feeling these numbers is maybe the way to state that. And you see over and over again that people just don't understand. If you ask people how many people are in poverty compared to the old days, people think it's increased. People think those numbers have gone up when the exact opposite has happened by every measure. Not to mention, I should point out that capitalism has improved the things that we think of. If we go back to 1970, what percentage of people had televisions? Well, yes, that's increased from 1970 to today, as you would expect. However, also the televisions are a lot better. Right. Like they were able to do incredible things that weren't even thought of in 1970. Right. And so you get, not only you could say, well, oh, we've gone from 95% ownership to 99% ownership. So what? Well, yeah, but there's more to that story. Everything in that table has gotten even better. So you look at.
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Pat
Yeah, I'd like to see you put a 1970 television on the wall. Imagine that would be interesting. Yeah, yeah. With the gigantic tube that they weighed 700 pounds. I didn't even lift that thing.
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Stu
It was a cabinet.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
Oh, God, I love that television. It was the one I, you know, grew up watching.
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Pat
Loved it too, at the time at our house.
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Stu
And that was in the, you know, 80s. And it was one that my dad, dad kept all the years after that. It was still in his basement to the day. Right before he died. He finally gave it up. And I just remember being like, good God, this thing, it must have weighed 300 pounds. You need a moving crew to get this thing to go anywhere. If you slid it on the floor, it would dig into the flooring, it would rip it up. That's what it was. And now you could go to wallpaper and get a 70 inch high definition smart television that's an inch wide. That's an inch wide. And it weighs like 20 pounds. Yeah, you put the thing on the wall, just hang it there. It's incredible. It's always getting better. And like this sort of thing is just, I think, dismissed these days by so many people as being like, ah, you know, so what? Televisions don't make a society. Of course they don't. Of course they don't.
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Pat
There's a thousand things you could name that have improved our lives since 1970.
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Stu
That doesn't change your heart. Right? Like, it doesn't change if you've lost faith and have a better television. That's not a great change.
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Pat
No.
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Stu
You know, but it is important to understand that these things do get better over time in major ways and we lose sight of it completely.
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Pat
Yeah. 88727, Becky. Glenn Beck.
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Pat
This Patton stew for Glenn Today. And all this week, we've been talking about the economy and, you know, people's perception of it and how, how the left has propagandized people into believing things are crappy in America and that your life is not good. And the middle class is disappearing. Well, yeah, 80% of them have gone to the upper class.
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Stu
Yeah. So, so laughable. And at the effects of capitalism over a long period of time. They are really amazing.
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Pat
It's staggering.
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Stu
Yeah. In the 1800s, 80% of the world lived in what they call extreme poverty below $1.90 a day. And that did decrease almost. Not quite, but almost cut in half in the next 180 years. That's good progress. But really, it didn't really start falling until one particular date, Pat. When one particular date occurred, we saw a massive decrease that continued over a long period of time.
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Pat
And what Was that date?
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Stu
1980. 1980. Can you think of anything that occurred around.
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Pat
Oh, yeah, the Olympics. The Olympics in Moscow.
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Stu
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.
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Pat
Is that what changed everything?
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Stu
Is that what turned us around, Communism? That's. That's when it happened.
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Pat
Yeah, yeah.
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Stu
From basically the day. Reagan's election.
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Pat
Reagan. Till now.
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Stu
Till now, it's gone. It's gone from 46% to 8% now. That was percent. Wow. That. That's. I will say that's a 2018 number. So it's a few years old. It's actually lower than that now. And there's actually a controversy kind of.
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Pat
So it's gone from over the years, though, 80% in the 1800s to 8% in 2018.
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Stu
Yes. Incredible. Incredible. It's a slightly lower. You think of the years since 2018, you had Covid, which was a real problem for the economy, obviously, and then the Biden administration in America. But globally, it's a small piece of the puzzle. So it's been basically a little bit down but flat since 2018. One of the interesting things that's happening right now, though, is they are adjusting the numbers. They said they just added a million people into poverty. We're like, wow, is our economy reversing? No, what they did was change the standard for what was poverty.
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Pat
Wow.
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Stu
They're just like, well, what if we change the number from whatever it was, $1.90 a day to $2.15 a day or whatever it was? That was enough to increase the number a little bit. But the story's pretty clear over a long period of time that this has been a miracle time. You think about 1980, most of the people in the audience were alive in this period. This improvement. Almost all of it has happened in our lifetimes and we don't even notice it. It's not a story that's ever told or talked about. If anything, people believe the things are worse.
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Pat
Yeah, they believe the opposite.
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Stu
What do you think? What do you think makes for that reason? Is it just like a filter of the past where they see everything in like a Leave it to Beaver, everyone owned their own house and, you know, it was this wonderful time and everything was perfect.
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Pat
That's probably part of it.
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Stu
Is that part of it?
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
Is it just our doom scrolling where we're just constantly seeing bad news all the time on social media and that could be a big part of it as well. I don't know. There's a good psychological study that should be begun to understand it.
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Pat
Definitely. This is Glenn Beck. We're going to talk about Dr. Maslowski in a few minutes here.
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Stu
Al Gore's Coming on the program.
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Pat
Al Gore may come on the program because he's been proven wrong again with the Arctic sea ice situation. We played that from. We played that, that speech that he made in, I don't know, 2000-2000-2007-2008. Somewhere in there.
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Stu
Okay.
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Pat
Where he predicted that in some summer months, according to Dr. Math Louth, the sea eyes could be totally gone. In summer months. In some summer months. We'll count all the disclaimers that he had.
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Stu
This is a fun game.
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Pat
Awesome. And we'll take a look at where. Okay. Where are we with the Arctic sea ice now?
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Stu
How's that going?
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Pat
What's happened? How's it going? Let's check in. I mean, it's almost 20 years later and he said five to seven years. So where do we stand? We'll get a look at that coming up. Plus, the radio show just begin.
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Stu
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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program, huh? I think we'll look into some claims that Al gore made nearly 20 years ago coming up in one minute.
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Stu
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Pat
Patent stew for Glenn the Squirrel Week. Al Gore warned that there would be no more sea ice within five to seven years. This was back in 2007 or eight.
- [89:51]
Stu
I think the initial estimate was made in 2007. I don't know what his statement was. I think it might have been 2008 or nine.
- [89:57]
Pat
Yes. He claimed in his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that the previous year, as the Northern hemisphere. As the Northern hemisphere tilted away from the fun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the north polar ice cap is falling off a cliff.
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Stu
Oh, no.
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Pat
Falling off a cliff. One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. And then, and then he said this. Some of the models, some of them suggest to. That there is. Okay, so it suggests to Dr. Maslowski. Not necessarily everybody, but. So there's the second disclaimer.
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Stu
Well, I think I'm at three.
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Pat
Thumb. Okay. Thumb. Some of them.
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Stu
Some of them. Not all the models.
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Pat
Okay, not all of them.
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Stu
Some of the models.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
Suggest. Don't necessarily say it. They just suggest it. Dr. Maslowski, not anyone else.
- [90:58]
Pat
That's three right there. Okay, 75 chance. Okay, 75. It's not 100 chance, it's a 75.
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Stu
Some of the models suggest to this one doctor that there's a 75 chance that this could occur.
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Pat
Oh, I love it. That the entire north polar ice cap. North polar.
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Stu
During summer.
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Pat
During summer. Some of the summer. Okay, not all of them. During all month. Just some of them during some summer months.
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Stu
So that's an interesting one. So you say the north polar ice cap, right? That's what he said.
- [91:32]
Pat
Yes.
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Stu
That's not obviously all the ice, but I don't think that's a disclaimer. Like, for example, he's not saying the.
- [91:37]
Pat
He's not saying the Antarctic. Right, Right.
- [91:40]
Stu
So. But I won't say that's a disclaimer.
- [91:41]
Pat
Okay.
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Stu
He does say in summer months. So not all the time. Is that a disclaimer? It's not just.
- [91:47]
Pat
Yes, it's some summer. Well, the summer months. And then just some summer. So that definitely is.
- [91:53]
Stu
Okay, so some summer months. Another disclaimer months.
- [91:56]
Pat
Could be completely. Completely. Could.
- [92:00]
Stu
Could be.
- [92:00]
Pat
Okay, so there's another disclaimer. Could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years. And there's another disclaimer. It could be five years. Could be seven years.
- [92:09]
Stu
Five to seven years. Yeah. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I see eight disclaimers. That's the whole thing.
- [92:15]
Pat
That's the whole thing, yeah.
- [92:16]
Stu
Can we get it all in context now again? Can we play it one more time.
- [92:18]
Pat
For some of the models? Yeah. Suggest to Dr. Mavlab that there is a 75 chance. Yeah. That the entire north polarized cap during. During summer, during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years. Okay.
- [92:41]
Stu
Wow.
- [92:42]
Pat
So it turns out his fearmonger, which apparently nets him about $200,000 per speaking engagement. Engagement, that's chicken feet to some of these guys. I mean, you know, Obama makes what, 4 or 500,000 per speech but he was never president, so cutting some slack. God. Oh my gosh, no kidding.
- [93:03]
Stu
Thank God.
- [93:04]
Pat
But not only was he wrong about the 20 foot rise in the global sea level in the near future, he not only was he wrong about that, he was also wrong about polar bear drowning because the polar bears were going to drown because of these rising sea levels. And a lot of the babies I guess, couldn't keep up with the sea rise. Now polar bears, incredible swimmers.
- [93:30]
Stu
400.
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Pat
They can swim 400 miles. They've been clocked at 400 mile swims. So they could tread water for a really long time. It's doubtful that they're going to be dry drowning. But he was wrong about those. He was wrong about the snows of Kilimanjaro which were also supposed to be completely gone, completely evaporated. But he was also wrong about the future of the Arctic ice. It has slowed considerably. In fact, Arctic sea ice loss has no statistically significant decline in September sea ice since 2005. That's amazing. 2005 in 20 years. There's no significant loss. That's amazing.
- [94:21]
Stu
Now wait, is that in some of the summer months or did you say December?
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Pat
That's September.
- [94:25]
Stu
Oh, September.
- [94:26]
Pat
So that summer month.
- [94:27]
Stu
So part of the summer.
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Pat
Part of the summer. The summer month when you thought that the thief would be gone completely. But so, so it was. This is also in conjunction with the South Pole, with the Antarctic gain. There have been significant sea ice gains in Antarctica. So he didn't say anything about the Antarctic ice. But that, that has actually increased over the last 20 years.
- [94:55]
Stu
Incredible.
- [94:57]
Pat
It's unbelievable. Really?
- [94:59]
Stu
And what's unbelievable most about it is not the fact that you can't predict the future 20 years in advance. That's actually really hard to. Hard to do.
- [95:06]
Pat
I mean they can't even predict what's going to happen this afternoon with the weather on a lot, a lot of occasions. Yep.
- [95:12]
Stu
I mean they, they. It's difficult to do and I actually really hard if it wasn't for their annoying. I mean I almost feel the same way about this as I felt about like Covid in March 2020. It's like, well, the fact that you might not know what's going to happen with COVID in March 2020. I have a little like it's really hard to probably figure out how that was going to play out, you know. But the fact that you continue to number one, make certain projections about how.
- [95:37]
Pat
It was going to work with incredible certitude.
- [95:38]
Stu
Yes. By the way, I'm 100% sure this is going to happen or 75% sure.
- [95:43]
Pat
And some of them are monsters. Complete there is which is another big.
- [95:48]
Stu
Fat lie and act this way or you are a heathen and killing grandparents in the COVID case or killing everyone in the global warming case. I can understand. I have some grace for you missing out on some of these predictions. It's probably hard to do, but you can't have scientific certainty that changes everyone else's way of life at the same time that you don't know what you're talking about. You can either have science is hard and we're going to miss on some of these things, or you have science is easy, we know it exactly. You have to change your life because of this. You have to go one of those two paths. What they want is both. When they get it wrong, they want to say, oh well, science is hard. It's difficult. Of course we didn't know exactly what the situation was and when they had. Of course they don't learn anything from that. They will still say, sure, we were wrong then, but now we know now we have the science we need. Back then we didn't have all the science. Of course, we didn't have the science 20 years ago. Of course science has improved in that time. Now we know for 20 years in the future what it's gonna look like.
- [96:58]
Pat
What a great scam.
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Stu
You never have to be right. And you know, who remembers the 20078 prediction of Al Gore? Nobody except you. Pat Gray, because of his incredible Al Gore impression, is the only person who remembers that this was even said. And he never has to pay a price for this. Dr. Maslowski seems to still be never.
- [97:23]
Pat
Held accountable at his job.
- [97:25]
Stu
Yeah, listen to this. I thought this was a fascinating rundown of the story. Did the prediction hold true?
- [97:32]
Pat
The Arctic was writing this story, by the way. This is a massively conservative right wing coup.
- [97:40]
Stu
It's just a summary for. It's like an AI summary, I guess, of what happened.
- [97:44]
Pat
All right.
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Stu
Did the prediction hold true? Not exactly.
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Pat
Not exactly.
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Stu
The Arctic was not ice free in summer by 2013, and the window by the way of that prediction was 2013 to 2019. So it was not ice free in summer of 2013. Despite the initial estimate, Dr. Maslowski did not revise his prediction publicly. This is my favorite part of this summary. As of May 2021, he still held to the 2016 plus or min, his three year estimate, even though summer sea ice persisted.
- [98:20]
Pat
So even though he was wrong, he stuck two weeks.
- [98:23]
Stu
He still stuck to it two years after it ended.
- [98:27]
Pat
How is that possible?
- [98:29]
Stu
How do you keep your job? How do you keep your job?
- [98:33]
Pat
You know what that's like? That's like an obscure pastor who predicts the end of the world is going to happen in October. It's going to happen October 3rd.
- [98:42]
Stu
3Rd.
- [98:43]
Pat
And then October 3rd rolls around and they're like, oh no, I was a little off on my calculation. I meant December 12th. And then December 12th rolls around and he's like, no, it's, it's probably next spring. Yeah, I got, I got. I'm missed carrying the one.
- [98:57]
Stu
Right.
- [98:58]
Pat
And so it's actually March 9th. And then they just keep pushing this down the line. And then that's what probably Dr. Math Lavsky is doing now.
- [99:08]
Stu
Yeah.
- [99:08]
Pat
And so is out Al Gore. They just say, well, it's coming. There's never a moment, never a moment where they were wrong. Just flat out wrong.
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Stu
Subsequent analysis have shown that while sea ice decline continues, it has been more gradual than his lower bound estimate suggested. So we see this over and over again, these predictions that go out over time. We find the actual results to be lower than the lowest prediction they could imagine. I love that over and over and over again this happens. And yet they are never the same. People are the same people making the predictions for the future of this stuff. It is incredible that nobody learns anything. Nobody learns anything. No one ever says, you know what I'm thinking? Next time we don't listen to that guy. Nobody says that. Nobody ever has an awakening where they're like, you know what if we get another completely insane nut job to make our next prediction. Prediction. What if we just mix it up, right. Come up with another crazy person to say something next time? No, they bring the same people who.
- [100:14]
Pat
They trot out who've been wrong forever.
- [100:16]
Stu
The same guys who were talking about how we were going to have a population crash. We weren't going to be able to feed people.
- [100:22]
Pat
Oh my gosh.
- [100:23]
Stu
Those people are still in power.
- [100:26]
Pat
What's his face. Who predicted that the west side highway in New York City was going to be completely underwater by. Was it 2000 or something?
- [100:34]
Stu
Yes. Gosh. What was that was down. Hansen. Yes, Hansen.
- [100:37]
Pat
James Jameson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From NASA. From. And he's never been held accountable for that. Nobody's ever said, hey, you are incredibly wrong on every single prediction. What do you say to that? But they're never. Their feet are. Are never held to the fire. No, I remember it's amazing.
- [100:56]
Stu
That particular prediction was made in an office overlooking the west side highway in Manhattan. Manhattan, yes. And I decided to go out and look at the highway to see if it was underwater. It's not.
- [101:09]
Pat
I remember that it's currently not underwater. Huh?
- [101:12]
Stu
No.
- [101:12]
Pat
Are you sure? What about today?
- [101:14]
Stu
No, it's not underwater. People have you driving on it okay.
- [101:17]
Pat
Yeah.
- [101:17]
Stu
I mean it's rained.
- [101:18]
Pat
Yeah.
- [101:19]
Stu
So in a way at times it's been underwater. They have had some flooding in other parts of Manhattan.
- [101:26]
Pat
Yeah.
- [101:27]
Stu
But brief. And it receded quickly after serious storms, but that did not happen. And all these things just made with this incredible level of certainty. I kind of like. It's like if you were predicting the Cleveland Browns going to win the super bowl this year, they're going to win the super bowl this year, it's going to happen. And then there's no one who comes out. No freezing takes exposed to show. Hey, this guy pretend predicted the Cleveland Browns are going to win the super bowl with utter certainty. And then they don't. And you're like, well, that just. I just got the year long. I mean, I guess eventually in theory maybe they'll win. It's going to be difficult. It's been a rough road for our friendly grass.
- [102:13]
Pat
We've never been there up until this point. You know, maybe someday a couple of.
- [102:17]
Stu
The worst losses in the playoffs of all time. Man, I felt, I felt for painful Cleveland in that period. But like, you know, you just think to yourself, well, if you're doing that and you're missing on the prediction over and over and over again, at some point you lose the credibility to make the next one that doesn't happen. In climate science.
- [102:32]
Pat
No, it does not. No, it doesn't. All right, 8 8-727-back. More coming up.
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Stu
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Pat
Welcome back. It is Patton Stew. You know, science is just not all knowing. They do make mistakes. They make predictions that don't necessarily come true.
- [104:06]
Stu
I can't think of it many.
- [104:08]
Pat
Well, we just talked about one for about 20 minutes.
- [104:10]
Stu
That's right.
- [104:11]
Pat
Did you miss that discussion?
- [104:13]
Stu
Yeah, I did.
- [104:13]
Pat
That's weird because you were a part of it. Very, very strange. But you know, the, the whole climate science thing, which is there's supposedly consensus and that's done and it's decided, and you're a climate denier. They try to make you akin to somebody who denies the Holocaust. If you ever say, hey, I understand there has been been some warming, not an awful lot. It's gone up like a degree in 100 years. Big deal. It's actually made it so that we can grow more food, which seems like a good thing to a lot of people, but even that they won't accept. What you have to accept is that it's, it's happening. It's caught all caused by man and it's catastrophic. And if you don't buy into all of those things, Things you're a denier. And that's kind of how they acted too with the Big Bang theory, which because of the James Webb Space Telescope has also come into question. I mean scientists are not sure now. They were sure before, like five years ago, 10 years ago. They were absolutely certain everything started from one teeny tiny little speck that exploded and created everything. Everything. They were absolutely certain about that. And now not so much because the James Webb telescope has apparently shown galaxies that shouldn't have been formed, you know, stars that existed before the supposed formation of the Big Bang. And so what it leads to is that science doesn't know everything. We're certitude. It's a process. It's, you know, we find out, we discover, we learn and then we come up with different theories and it's just. But with climate change you're not supposed to recognize any of that. And if you do, you're some kind of right wing kook and there's no hope for you.
- [106:13]
Stu
That's fascinating. It really is a strange thing and it's such a great scam because if you can get something like that where you never have to be held accountable, it's the, like a money and influence printing machine. You get to live this great life and everyone respects you and they don't remember anything that you said when you were wrong.
- [106:35]
Pat
Wouldn't that be nice if. That would be nice. If we just spewed anything we wanted and nobody remembered any of the mistakes that we made. Everything we say is untrue, what would happen to us? We'd be off the air. I mean there would be consequences for.
- [106:48]
Stu
Our own personal enjoyment. We picked the wrong, the wrong team. Let's be honest about it, as conservatives, we picked the wrong team here. If we just wanted to have success money wise and never feel guilty about all the things that we've done to other people, never feel guilty about all the wrong predictions we've made, never be punished for the mistakes we make at work. We talked about this earlier as we started up starting a multi billion dollar green bank that collapsed in a fraud scandal. We covered that earlier this morning. If you missed it, you don't have to ever really come. Nothing ever happens to the people involved in it. It's just more like yeah, go get your, get a gig at a university working for a think tank and you just continue to go to the same parties and enjoy the same people and have the nice little place in Georgetown.
- [107:43]
Pat
And weirdly have the same credibility.
- [107:45]
Stu
Yeah.
- [107:46]
Pat
That you had before despite the fact that Nothing you've ever said panned out.
- [107:50]
Stu
Sometimes you get more credibility, I feel like, you know, like I think like when you stand by a prediction that had a end date of 2019 and it still has not happened in 2021 and you just like proudly stand up for that, that's amazing. It would be hard to do.
- [108:05]
Pat
It would, it would. I don't think I could pull that, that off. But somehow it's fine with Al Gore. I mean he's, if he's still claiming. Or was it Maslowski? Which one of them was claiming that it's, they're still on track with that.
- [108:17]
Stu
Dr. Maslow.
- [108:18]
Pat
Dr. Mathew Alsky. Amazing. And where is he now?
- [108:23]
Stu
He's still in the same gig, I.
- [108:25]
Pat
Think, which is, he's like a marine biologist or something.
- [108:29]
Stu
He is a research professor, Department of Oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School in Montana. California.
- [108:37]
Pat
I'm sure it's highly prestigious.
- [108:38]
Stu
I'm sure it is.
- [108:39]
Pat
I'm sure it is.
- [108:40]
Stu
I'm sure that it is good for him.
- [108:42]
Pat
All right, well, Dr. Malski, you might want to revise your prediction just a bit since we're six years down the road from it. Triple 8, 727 Beck. More patents too for Glenn coming up. This is Glenn Beck.
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Pat
Sends it out every day. Sign up today@glenn beck.com Pat and Stew for Glenn this week. Triple 8727 the Eck. So where do you stand on the National Guard troops being sent to all of these cities around the country.
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Stu
I, I'm really actually more of a fan of crime.
- [110:50]
Pat
Are you?
- [110:51]
Stu
Yeah, I like criminal activity.
- [110:53]
Pat
Glad that there's a high violent criminal rate.
- [110:58]
Stu
Right.
- [110:58]
Pat
Each of these cities.
- [110:59]
Stu
And I don't obviously want to live in a. In a part of town like that. I want to be able to exploit it for my own gain.
- [111:04]
Pat
Oh.
- [111:05]
Stu
So I will. I'll live in a nice suburb 30 miles outside and.
- [111:09]
Pat
Yeah. But just enjoy the fact that people are losing their lives in the inner city.
- [111:14]
Stu
Yeah.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
Well, you're violent crime.
- [111:16]
Pat
Yeah.
- [111:17]
Stu
Crime. Really any crime I'm for just so that I can explain.
- [111:20]
Pat
Well, then you fit right in with say, J.B. pritzker. I do.
- [111:25]
Stu
They're both my neighbors. Yes.
- [111:28]
Pat
I love what I mean. JB Pritzker has become one of the most irritating figures in the.
- [111:35]
Stu
There. He's getting up there. He's not to Tim Walls level for me yet.
- [111:38]
Pat
Not. No. But who. Who could be there?
- [111:40]
Stu
It's hard to imagine someone getting.
- [111:41]
Pat
Tim Walls and Satan are probably the two people on my list.
- [111:45]
Stu
Close. Very close.
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Pat
Very close. Close. But here's Governor Pritzker on the Chicago, Chicago crime scene.
- [111:52]
Stu
You're going to hear people, especially this past weekend.
- [111:55]
Pat
Pause it for just a second. This is surprising that he can actually. He's actually taking a walk. Is this the first time in his miserable life that he's ever done that?
- [112:06]
Stu
I will say this certainly. This wasn't done for the cameras. This is just him on a day to day basis. He's a big. He just walks all the time.
- [112:14]
Pat
Clearly he's a fitness advocate and enthusiast, so.
- [112:19]
Stu
Right. And that's what happens.
- [112:20]
Pat
We just caught him in his natural habitat.
- [112:22]
Stu
Right.
- [112:22]
Pat
That's all. That's all that's going on here. All right.
- [112:24]
Stu
Now, do you think the reporter is concerned that at some point he may eat her? Yes, I'm con. I'm concerned watching the video. I'm concerned she may be consumed.
- [112:34]
Pat
I don't. She doesn't even seem to be at a safe distance. So I'm not sure if she's that prudent. But let's start it from the beginning because this is brilliant stuff. And here's JB on, on crime.
- [112:46]
Stu
You're going to hear people especially this past weekend, 54 shot, seven dead.
- [112:54]
Pat
The city's not safe.
- [112:55]
Stu
Would you ask your friends to ride.
- [112:57]
Pat
The L after midnight or after, you know, 9 o' clock at night even.
- [113:00]
Stu
To come down to the city from o'? Hare?
- [113:03]
Pat
Look, big city have crime.
- [113:05]
Stu
There's no doubt about it. But let's Just pay attention to what.
- [113:09]
Pat
President Trump is doing targeting Chicago.
- [113:12]
Glenn Beck
He's overlooking red states that have much higher crime rates.
- [113:16]
Pat
Oh my.
- [113:18]
Stu
Always do.
- [113:19]
Pat
This is the new talking point.
- [113:20]
Stu
Yes.
- [113:21]
Pat
Just deflect it. This is for Republican states. So Kristi Noem was in a similar situation. She was on with Ed o' Keefe and here's, here's what happened there. Except we can't hear it. So she.
- [113:37]
Stu
Perfect.
- [113:37]
Pat
She was asked if they've. Have you ever considered sending troops into these Republican run cities that are equally or more overrun with crime? She actually said yes, yes. We don't care what city it is, who's running it. If there's a massive problem. Problem, we're. We're going to help. Yeah.
- [113:58]
Stu
If we discover a city at some point run by a Republican, we are going to be interested in that. We are. We have an archaeological dig going on right now. To discover one, you'd have to go back. There are a couple.
- [114:10]
Pat
Miami is one, Dallas is one. But that's not fair because he was elected as a Democrat. But that's the exact example that Ed o' Keefe jumps to. Well, Dallas, Dallas. First of all, Dallas doesn't have the crime situation, Chicago does. But secondly, he was a, he was a Democrat when he was elected, but he switched party affiliation since, so that doesn't really count. But then he went to small towns in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana that might have.
- [114:40]
Stu
High crime rates and there's some that do. I mean, Memphis is very high and has been very high for a long time.
- [114:45]
Pat
Is that run by a Republican? Oh, I'm sure.
- [114:47]
Stu
Longtime hardcore Reagan Republican running the same city. All these cities are run by Democrats. And we did. I don't have Memphis in front of me, but we did a stat in one of Glenn's books that I had to work on back in the day. This number's a little bit old at this point, but.
- [115:07]
Pat
So that was back in 09ish. 0809.
- [115:11]
Stu
Yeah.
- [115:12]
Pat
Was it the Inconvenient Book?
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Stu
I think it was an inconvenient book. It may have been arguing with idiots. It was one of those in that period. And the stat was basically it was based not on crime but on poverty. But obviously there's a big correlation there between the highest poverty cities and the highest crime cities. And it was the number of times, percentage of time that the top 10 poverty cities had been run by Republicans. And it was something like 6% of the time over 70 years. 6.
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Pat
Wow.
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Stu
In all the cities, most of the Cities had been 100% Democrat. Run the entire time.
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Pat
We did the study for something like 16 years. There's.
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Stu
There was a couple that were just nonpartisan. A lot of them were definitely Democrats, but just had nonpartisan elections. There were a couple that had brief flirtations with Republicans over short periods of time, but pretty much none that were continually run by Republicans. Now, look, Republicans fail at stuff all the time. This is not a situation where I'm confident that a Republican taking over a of Sense City After 100 years of progressive rule is going to be able to turn it around instantly. We have seen examples of that. Giuliani did a good job pretty much that was able to turn around in one or two terms. That is the outlier. But Miami is another situation that has really improved recently with a Republican mayor. It's kind of silly. Pointing to the governor is partially part of the problem. You can see, I think, be critical of a Republican governor that has a state that maybe they should be doing more to lock down crime in that city and maybe aren't because a Democrat mayor's running into the ground and they don't think of it as their responsibility as much. That could be a problem. But a place like Illinois or California where Gavin Newsom loves to say, well, the crime rate here is lower than in Louisiana, and you come up with a crime rate arguments if you want. There are, obviously, we've Talked about it 100 times, the arguments against that. My favorite one was they used to say Belize, the country of Belize, has one of the highest murder rates in the world. And that would make you not want to go. And you look at the number and there's one murder every week in the entire or every two weeks in the entire country. And because of low population, it's sparse in places. You have wide areas of nothing that winds up affecting the rates, sometimes to your advantage, sometimes to your disadvantage. If you have one really bad city almost always run by a Democrat, it affects the numbers. The areas that are run by Republicans do not have these numbers. They don't want you to look at it at that level. They want you to look at it at the level that serves them.
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Pat
Yeah. And they're counting on the fact that you're not even going to look at it. You're just going to trust them. And while he said it, it must be true. If JB Pritzker said Republicans have higher rates in their states, it must be true. Certainly he wouldn't lie about that.
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Stu
Right. And like JB Pritzker is targeting his voters that he knows must be dumb because they voted for him. So like it's a kind of like a circuitous thing. Like Gavin Newsom is targeting people that are voting for him. So he knows they must be idiots and will believe any, anything because by definition they already voted for him.
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Pat
So yeah, it really, I mean it's, it works out.
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Stu
It's a great, was a great way of going about things.
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Pat
It really is. Then you've got this dolt in Chicago, Brandon Johnson, talking about gun crime there. Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue.
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Stu
To have a gun problem. I mean this is so stupid.
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Pat
That will continue as long as this presidential administration continues to put politics. So it's our fault in Texas that Chicago has a high murder rate because everybody buys guns here and then travels. I mean, you know what? I'm going to take this gun that I just bought in Dallas and I'm going to drive to Chicago and shoot somebody with it. Well, it happens all the time.
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Stu
Well, see, that's not the way it works for me, Pat. What I do is I buy a bunch of guns here. We're in Irving, Texas, you know, suburban Dallas. And what I do is I go to the gun store, load up with guns and then I go meet my friendly gang members in the middle of downtown Chicago.
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Pat
And do you sell it or do you just give it to them?
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Stu
You know, see, it depends. I like to at least cover my expenses on gas and hotel rooms. But generally speaking, I just want the violence to continue. As I mentioned, love crime, huge fan of crime. So that's what we do. Because this, that's either that or gang members are driving to rural Indiana to gun stores. Like I, I would love to know. And I've talked to several gun store owners who have never seen anything like this. But maybe you have if you're a gun store owner and you're just like, you know, we just constantly have people coming in from the, you know, most crime ridden areas in our state and they come and they cross, well, they cross the state lines and then they come into our state and they say, hey, load me up with guns at market price in the suburbs. That's 100% how it goes down. Brandon, you've nailed it. Now if you want to get large portions of guns at lower prices for crimes, one way you can do that is over a wide open border that exists in this country or at least did until recently thanks to democratically leadership. Yeah, a lot of guns do come in illegally that way. That is one way that it happens. It is not common. It Is not common that you go to a gun store in the suburbs and buy guns legally and then go use them for you. Now you might steal them out of somebody's house. Maybe that happens. But it's insane to say that the legal gun system that we have in this country is what's influencing this. It's nonsense. It is nonsense occurring.
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Pat
Isn't it also an admission that the strict gun laws they have in Chicago don't work.
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Stu
Don't work.
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Pat
I mean, whatever the explanation, wherever the guns are coming from, your strict gun law is not working.
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Stu
You call it an admission. What it is, is an excuse.
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Pat
Yeah.
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Stu
When people, when Republicans point out, hey, you already have those gun laws not only in your city, but also in your state. Because it used to be, like in Memphis, they would say that, right? Like, they'd say, well, you know, it's because of these. These gun laws in our state, people just go outside of Memphis and go get them. Now, of course, that wasn't true there either, but that was the accusation. Then we say, well, what about these blue states that have all these same guns, gun laws? And they say, well, there they just leave the state and go to a Republican state. None of this is happening in any large number. I mean, of course, it's probably happened.
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Pat
At some point, a few times maybe.
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Stu
We also know, by the way, rural white people commit murder, right? Like, it's not just gang members, but when you talk about the average. When you talk about these rates in the cities, it's not farmers, right? You know, there are not a lot of farmers that are going into the city to commit murders. This isn't what's going on. Now. The media will tell you it's all white people coming into this to commit the murders because it's all racism. But what you're seeing largely are people killing people that live nearby them that look like them. This is the case in all circumstances, by the way, in every group. That is the most common situation. You usually see murders committed by people against people who are either related to them or are friends with them or are working in their same communities. Often people congregate who are of the same race or ethnicity. And so typically, it's usually within those groups. There, of course, are crossovers and they get all the coverage. But typically that's what happens, happens. Crime statistics have shown this forever. And what's fascinating about their argument is, let's just take it as gospel for a second and act as if this was a real argument, a serious argument. The argument would then be, okay, well, we need to turn off the gun laws in the United States. Now. We went through yesterday. We played a clip of how to get rid of the guns in the United States. It would be very difficult. You've got 400 million guns. It would be really hard to get them all off the streets. But let's just say everybody's gave them up to the government for some bizarre reason. You would then have a situation with a large desire for illegal guns inside of our country and a democratic policy that would leave the borders open for them to cross in. And we'd have the guns anyway, and only the criminals would have them.
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Pat
Huh.
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Stu
This is their way of looking at things. These are just excuses. It's nonsense. But it's the way they've been running these cities for 100 years. And you see the result.
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Pat
Results. Well, do you remember in America when prohibition was in force?
- [124:05]
Stu
Yeah.
- [124:05]
Pat
Nobody. Nobody drank out.
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Stu
That's right.
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Pat
There was no alcohol available anywhere. I think it'd be the same situation. If you outlaw guns, there will be no guns.
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Stu
No guns.
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Pat
Just like there was no alcohol.
- [124:17]
Stu
Especially in an prohibition when you can 3D print the guns or the. Imagine if you could 3D print to the alcohol. How. How much alcohol there would be.
- [124:25]
Pat
Triple eight, seven two seven back. More coming up. Freedom's like a wild horse. If you don't grab the reins every once in a while, you're liable to catch a hoof to the face. And trust me, that ain't pleasant. Beck will be right back after this.
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Pat
That great super gear for Glenn this week. Triple 872-7. Beck. So with the crime going on in various cities, Democrat run cities, Republican run cities, should we send? Should we send. I think the bottom line on this that I'm struggling with is should we send National Guard troops to all of these places?
- [126:31]
Stu
There's so, so much unknown on this. I mean, first of all, he doesn't really have the power to send them to all, quote, unquote, all. Yeah, all these places. Like, I think the issue here is how it's going to happen. There are certain limited circumstances in which he can make an impact in these cities. Now, one of the.
- [126:48]
Pat
And apparently he has in D.C. d.C.
- [126:51]
Stu
He 100% D.C. separate. Throw D.C. out to the side. He can do what he's doing in D.C. he's completely justified. There's absolutely no question about it. It worked. And it would work in a lot of these other cities, too. You throw enough really talented, trained law enforcement officials into a city, you're going to be able to cut crime. There's no doubt about it. That's an easy equation. The issue is the legal pathway to get there. Now, he thought he found a limited way to do it in Los Angeles. Courts just overturned that. We'll see what happens at the Supreme Court level on that one. But he has a lot of challenges as to how he does it. It has to be done right. And that's something. Look, I think the president cares about. I think the people around him care about, about. If they don't, they should. Yeah, I know. I care about it. You have to do things the right way. It's not, you know, we always talk about this with Van Jones when he wrote in the ends justify the means. They don't. You got got to do it the right way. Yeah, there might be a pathway to do something, but there are limits to that.
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Pat
Back here tomorrow. We'll see you then. This is Glenn Beck. Sam.