The Glenn Beck Program - Banks and Cancel Culture | Guests: Bjorn Lomborg & Jason Whitlock | 2/24/21

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

Banks have joined the cancel culture and are laying the groundwork to force businesses to abide by their leftist standards. Glenn proves that cancel culture exists by sharing how he was canceled personally by an art gallery. As Amazon begins "digital book burning," Glenn says it’s time to stock up on physical books. “False Alarm” author Bjorn Lomborg joins to discuss the push for green energy, its negative aspects, and how electric cars may not be the ideal solution. Columnist Jason Whitlock joins with the latest on Tiger Woods’ horrifying accident, how Tiger personally impacted him, and misinformation about racial issues. Glenn takes calls from viewers. Have the tides finally turned for Andrew Cuomo? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tonight I have a Wednesday night special we'll tell you about here in just a second. And next week we are going into the financial sector, something we've been working on for weeks, something I've been warning you about for the last couple of years at least. There are big, big, big changes that are being made right now. at the national bank level. All of the big banks are changing things, and they are clearing a runway to be able to cancel anyone that needs to be canceled. Yesterday, Representative Ted Budd,

he's a member of the House Financial Services Committee, warned that the cancel culture is coming now, through the banking and financial services firms. We told you this. This is part of the Great Reset, but it is now coming. A net is being laid, and you need to understand this. Right now, they are targeting, it seems, the members of Congress who voted to challenge the 2020 election results, just as, you know, Democrats did in 2001, 2005, and 20,

But apparently you can't do that anymore. So now the banks are saying that we have the right to cancel doing any kind of services for these people. So I want you to understand what banking services mean. It's not just that you can keep your cash under your mattress. it means that you can't go and have a savings account, a checking account. You can't start a business online and have anybody do PayPal. You can't have a credit card account. If you have a business and you take credit cards, they'll no longer service your business.

You are cut off. PayPal is now starting to look into these things. as well. PayPal is now thinking about cutting people off that are being canceled. A firm, a company that extends installment loans for customers to use at the point of sale, you know, you get three easy payments. They have just dropped my pillow. So if you were going to buy something from my pillow and you wanted to spread it out, now this financial service firm is saying we're not going to do business with my pillow and Mike Lindell. When we ask you to become a member of the Blaze, we use financial services. We don't have your credit card number. We don't keep your credit card

number. We don't want your credit card number. That goes through a firm, a banking services, firm and they charge your card. We don't have anything to do with that. They charge your card and keep everything secure. And we're not unique in that way. No, no, everybody is.

It operates. Everything you buy online is like that. Everybody does that. Maybe Amazon is big enough to have their own stuff, but in Apple, but we're not. Everyone uses third party. Correct. Every restaurant, everybody uses that stuff.

That's good. You know, it's for safety. It's good. You don't want people having it. that. But once the financial services say, we're not taking credit cards, we're out of business. This is extra constitutional. This is not coming through the government. This is coming from private businesses who have a right to do whatever it is they choose to do. You are going to be isolated. I just told Stu, if you have any money, you should have a trust fund with the ability to, what did I say, migrate clauses?

A migration clause in it. And you should do it right now. That means that if you don't have services with the bank, your trust. Fund could still have services with the bank. You're not tied to that. And the migration clauses mean you can move it out of the country if, you know, it's 1939. If you have a trust fund, do you have to wear a pastel sweater around your neck? Yeah, you have to. Yeah. Your children are forced to go to Ivy League schools. Really? So yeah. Okay. And they're all really good at tennis or lacrosse. Strangely, isn't that weird? Yeah. And I don't even know if.

that will work, but I'm telling you now, these times are coming. We are doing everything that we can to make sure that our voice is not silenced, but the things that we're now having to do are extraordinarily expensive. And we are, we're asking for your support. This is the last week of the 30, 30% off for the Blaze TV. Join us at blazTV.com slash, is it Glenn? I think. Yeah, slash Glenn. You'll save 30% now.

BlazTV.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn and save 30%. We must stay in contact. The one thing that we do keep is your internet address. Not your ISP, but your, your email address. We do have access to that. So if everything is is pulled from us and we can still have email access, we can still be in touch. And we will. And I will tell you now, even if it is under a tree in some field somewhere, I will be speaking. I don't care what they take. They will

not take my belief in the goodness of the American people, in the decency of the American people, and in the decency of America when it is allowed to be run by the American people. The problem is now, we are moving to an oligarchy. We are moving to a place to where these giant corporations can do whatever they want, It's called a choke point. It's actually a Barack Obama idea. And it was choke them off at the banks. Choke everybody off.

And we're going to expose that next week on Wednesday night's program. Please understand what is happening. Now, for those who say the cancel culture is not happening, and I wondered whether. whether or not I should even share this with you because I you'll understand at the end of this. I just want you to listen to this letter that I received last night. And then I want you to listen to my response before you feel anything. As I've said before on the air just a little bit that I had my first art show,

it was going to happen this summer. And I've been preparing for it. I've been painting like a madman. You know, I just finished life-size portraits of the Lone Ranger and Tonto. I'm going to do an art show called American myths, legends, and lies. And so I'm painting for all of these things. and I found an art gallery last fall, and it's not easy for Glenn Beck to find an art gallery.

And this art gallery said, no, I'm very liberal. And, you know, this has got to be a vanity project. I can't believe he's any good at it. And the person that was new, this other person said, no, listen, let me send you some of his art. You will be blown away. So they sent. And the person called me up and said, well, I'm in a, I'm in a tough space because I saw your art and you're good. And I would carry you if it wasn't you.

And I don't want to be that person. So I'm going to carry you. And so we planned on an art show this summer. And then I got a note last night that said, I wrote you on January 11th. and I haven't heard back, which I expected, but I wanted to make sure you got this email. Well, I was lost in a deluge of emails, and so I didn't see it until last night.

There's a few things going on following. So this is what was written. Glenn, I hope this note finds you happy and healthy. Upon consideration, I've decided that I would like you to remove my gallery from consideration for the tentatively scheduled summer. art show. I thought it was already scheduled. Well, no, it wasn't scheduled on the date, but we had an agreement on everything. Yeah.

Recent national news events have caused me to reflect on our affiliation as well as my conscience. This gallery is no longer the right venue for your event. I owe you an apology because I said I wouldn't back out on you. I told her. I said, you're, you know, this is going to, this is going to happen. You're going to freak out by all the press. pressures, et cetera, et cetera. But my commitment was made without knowledge of the painful events that lie ahead, but

nonetheless, I'm sorry to change course on you. What painful events lie ahead? Now, this person was freaked out by January 6th. As the follow-up letter said, you know, the events of January 6th made me. send you this letter. Was that you? You did the January 6th thing? I didn't realize. I don't remember you. You were here, I thought. Stop. Glenn, you're a good artist, and I wish you well. As a courtesy, I'd recommend you consider approaching so-and-so, who owns several galleries, such and such. He's a hardworking gallerist who's outspoken in his support of conservative values.

You can reach him through one of your, from one of his galleries. Feel free to mention my name. I'm happy to also set up an online introduction. Many gallerists will, be thankful for the opportunity to receive well done art, a likelihood of good profit, and a public exposure for their business. Best regards. So I wrote this individual back. And this is why I want you, this is why I'm reading this, because I want you to hear my response.

How do you think I responded? because I know what I felt when I wrote it. What did I do? And why am I sharing this with you? 60 seconds. Okay. Relief factor. Drew lives in Texas.

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I watched that unfold, and it was a dark and frightening and embarrassing time in our country. It is not the way we react. And I knew what it would cause. When I'm watching it, I knew I've been preaching against violence for 15 years. Longer than that. After September 11th, I've been preaching about. non-violence like nobody else in any medium in America. So for me to be canceled because of something that happened January 6th really bothered me.

But here's how I responded. Dear so-and-so, I cannot tell you how saddened I am to hear this news. I truly understand your concern, but please know that I am. my audience were just as horrified at the events of January 6th as you were. At a time when it seems good people on both sides can no longer even talk with one another. I was hoping this show would be a bright example of people with wildly different views that understand and strive for a world where common decency is again the coin of the realm. I probably will not go through a gallery at all now as being,

represented by a conservative gallery does not really excite or challenge me or anyone involved. I was deeply offended years ago by Piss Christ. That's the art project of the crucifix in a jar of urine. But I have enough artist in me, and as a classical liberal, I think art should push people at times. If people complained, they were thinking. If people bullied, they expose themselves for who they were and the art world could move on. We should always strive to make people think, explore, and see things differently. That's what I hoped we could accomplish this summer.

That's not exactly done with a conservative at a conservative gallery. Unfortunately, as I said last fall, I know what is said about me and the heat anyone who is left of me will receive. when they attempt to show any uniting principles. But our country on both sides, it seems, demands political purity. It's wrong and deadly, no matter which side is pitching. We must again learn that just because we associate with one another, it doesn't mean we endorse everything the other believes. I'm ashamed of my fellow countrymen for their painting of liberals,

all of them as Stalinists and conservatives as skin-headed Nazis. know that both of these stereotypes do exist, but Americans used to know that the average liberal and the average conservative is neither of those things, and we could unite on the principles that most of us agree on, the freedoms that are spelled out in our Bill of Rights. I do appreciate your consideration honestly, and sadly, however, I am not surprised. All my best, sincerely, and I hope someday. to be able to meet and spend enough time together. So you will see when it comes to principles. We have much in common and urgent reasons to stand together. We must be beyond anger.

Our responses will do nothing but paint us in a corner or set us free. We must change the whole. hearts of people and speak to good, decent people, which I think this person is, coming from their point of view, showing them that you don't know who we are. We are indeed just like you. There's a little resort on the island of Maui, and oh, it's gorgeous palm tree swing. The flower is gently parachuting through the warm air and passing by your nose with a pleasant aroma. I mean, it is great. You could hear the far-off sound of waves crashing against the stand. And there's a poster of that resort that's going to be hanging on the door of the resort where

you were going to be staying during your timeshare experience. Actually, the poster is sort of is the door since there sort of isn't a real one ever since, you know, Big Jeff crashed through it in a drunken brawl. But hey, that poster, it is beautiful. Really, it's beautiful. Someday you'll be able to use that timeshare thing, especially after COVID. You know, once we get cleared, then you're going to, wow. 100% guaranteed exit of your timeshare with timesharetermination team.com. Check them out.

100% guaranteed exit and 20% off when you terminate your time share. If you use the word, Glenn, call them now 888 get you out. 888 get you out, timeshare termination team.com. and go to blazedtiv.com slash glen the promo code is glen last week for the 30 bucks off offer at blaze tv this is the glenbeck program we're glad you're here matt taibi uh is a journalist who has written for rolling stone he's kind of a glen greenwald kind of guy a guy that i don't agree with you know very often um but he seems to be a classic liberal and in some regards.

Would you agree with that? Yeah, maybe. I don't know how I would. I mean, he's, I've always thought of him on the left. And every once in a while, he writes things that you're like, oh, yeah,

yeah, like absolutely like he's right on that. And he's so, and like Glenn Greenwald has been pretty active in smacking down the sort of cancel culture, woke wing of the Democratic movement these days. Two and a half years ago,

he writes, when Alex Jones of Info Wars was kicked off a series of tech platforms and a clearly coordinated decision, I knew this was not going to be an isolated thing. Given that people like Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy said on the ouster of Jones, it was just a good first step. It seemed obvious the tactic was not going to be confined to a few actors. But corporate media critics insisted the precedent would not be applied more broadly. CNN's so-and-so said, I don't think that we're going to be seeing big tech. take action against Fox News anytime soon.

Well, that guy was wrong. Just a few years ago, a few years later, calls to ban Fox are not only common. They're intensifying with media voices from CNN to MSNBC and former Media Matters critic to the Washington Post columnists, yada, yada, all on board. The movement crested this week with a letter, from California House Democrats, Anna Eschew and Jerry McNerney, written to the CEOs of cable providers like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Cox, and Dish.

They demanded to know if these providers are planning to continue to carry Fox News, News, Newsmax, and OAN. I want to read point number seven from this congressional letter. Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, News, Newsmax, and OAN on U-VIRS, direct TV and AT&T TV, both now and beyond any contract renewal date.

Have you, or have you ever been a member of a company that is carrying OAN? If so, why? This is terrifying. It should chill every journalist to the bone. This sequence of events is ominous because a similar match set of hearings and interrogations back in 2017

when senators like Maisie Rono and Judiciary Committee hearing demanded that platforms like Google and Facebook come up with a mission statement to prevent the foment of discord accelerated the content moderation movement that we now see on platforms. Sequences like this, the government requests of speech reducts. made to companies subject to federal regulation, make the content moderation decisions of private firms a serious First Amendment issue. These things are happening. This is not a figment of anyone's imagination. This is coming. And we just have to be prepared and quite honestly.

Please, read Martin. Luther King. Why are those troops still in Washington? Because they want you to react violently. They need you to react violently. It is, Tucker Carlson talked about it. I think it was last night and a night before where he was saying, look, you couldn't write this script better. You couldn't be more inflammatory than what Congress and the left is doing right now.

The steps they're taking is fomenting real deep feelings in half the country. They need you to be violent. Because that way, they can come in

and they can take arms, they can stop banking. They can be become dictators. And it is, you know, it was one thing to say, Barack Obama was, you know, he wanted to be a dictator. And there's another thing to say, or Donald Trump, he wanted to be a dictator. And it's a completely other thing to say, they are taking the steps to ensure an authoritarian regime. And that is happening now.

Steps are being taken to silence those who disagree, who are not in lockstep. And it's not just being taken by the government. It's being taken by large firms as well. I'm going to give you one more piece of news quickly. Amazon has decided that it's going to quietly end sales of books. that it labels hate speech. Guys, this is book burning. When we had physical stores,

they would have to go take the books off the shelf and destroy them. Now, you just digitally remove them, and it's like it never happened. If they were actually dumping these books, if they were actually destroying or burning these books, you would have the image in your mind. Remember, we live in a time no longer of words. We live in a time of images.

There was a guy who set himself on fire in Tunisia, months before the other guy did, that is credited, in a way, of starting the Tunisian riots, which led to the Arab Spring. Another guy had done that. same exact reasons. He was also a push cart vendor. Why one and not the other?

Because there was no images of him setting himself on fire. It's the image. Images have real power. Why is it we can, we are not all up in arms with our local school boards and our teachers and the teacher's unions, just based on the number of suicides that we've had from kids, you don't ever see those pictures. You don't ever hear those stories.

MSNBC right now is running almost as a backdrop. Look at, they're doing it right now. Of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. They're running those pictures almost 24-7. They're running that videotape because they know that's what their audience wants and they are trying to stir their audience into hatred. That's what's happening. You know what you're not seeing? You're not seeing pictures of the kids who have died.

You know, Emmett Till, his mother was really, really smart. Emmett Till, if you don't know who Emmett Till was, look him up today. And you're going to see when you look him up, you're going to see. see a picture of him in his coffin, horribly, horribly disfigured. He was a black man who was in the South, but he was from Chicago. He was killed, brutally killed. When he was returned to his mother in Chicago in the coffin, she insisted on having an open coffin because she said she wanted everyone to see

what they had done to her boy. And she was right. We know Emmett Till's name because once you see that picture, you can't unsee it. And it stirred people into action. Where are the pictures on TV of people who have lost their jobs? Why did We Are the World and Michael Jackson and all these people? Why did that happen? Why did that happen?

For Ethiopia, Ethiopia is probably starving. still today. I don't even know. Why? All of a sudden, because if you lived at that time, you'll never forget the news reports of these terribly malnourished children with the bloated stomachs sitting just dying for just any rice. You'll never forget those pictures. You are being fed pictures of hatred. You are not seeing the pictures of suffering. Right now, millions of Americans are suffering. Are they showing the pictures of those people in Texas that are suffering, that lost everything,

that didn't have any power? How about the people who froze to death here in Texas? You're not seeing those. What you are seeing are pictures of. of of Ted Cruz leaving the state to keep his family warm. I'm going to give you some things that I need you to do because you are going to lose books and history and we really need to start working together to preserve them.

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Locked out for that opinion. Now, a scientific opinion. I might point out, but I better be careful what I point out. Here's what I would like you to do today. I want you to print out the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. You'll be able to find that online. Print them out.

Print not only the text. but also print the images of those things. And if you can, I want you to go to a paper store or whatever and order some acid-free paper. All of our books from really 1900, maybe 1880 to 1920, is when we started using less cotton and changing our paper. all of the books that you have, the reason why they get so brittle is because there's no cotton in them and they're not acid-free. You have to have acid-free paper if you are going to preserve anything. But it is imperative that you start printing out or putting on a hard drive, but I would suggest printing them out. Things that are important.

I suggest right now you start buying. books, actual books, like the road to serfdom, like the Federalist papers. Make sure you can get that. Like to kill a mockingbird is being taken out of libraries now. Buy these books. I'll give you a list over the next few weeks and the next few days. I'll give you a list of documents. We will make them available at Mercury 1 these documents so you could print them out. But I urge you if you can find encyclopedias prior to any dictionary prior to the year 2000, get it.

If you can get a Webster's dictionary, I think it's the actual Webster's dictionary prior to 1850, get it. If you can find encyclopedias from any age, Mercury 1, and if you have one, We will preserve it. Just contact. Don't just send them.

We are preserving now encyclopedias as far back as we can. And then when they're updated, to be able to document the changes in our dictionaries and in our encyclopedias. But it is happening at rapid speed. And all of the things that are in print are going to go away. when Amazon says they're going to anything they deem hate speech, they are going to start deleting. How are you, what are you using to determine hate speech? What does that mean? You just deleted a book that was a bestseller three, four years ago on why transgenderism,

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It will be very difficult to do anything as a business, including getting loans at a business. the banks are now targeting or discussing targeting anybody who's into fossil fuels, anybody that is a huge footprint unless you comply to these new ESG rules, you're not going to be able to do business. That's why the car companies are coming out with all of the, we're going to be all green by 2030, 2035. We're not going to have a combustion engine. Well, that's great, except, you know, the thing you play,

plug it into? That's not a little magic energy box. Where's that energy coming from? Is this going to make any difference at all? Bjorn Lomborg is with us. He's an expert on this, the author of false alarm, in 60 seconds. I don't, you know, I don't know what it's like in your, in your state right now, but in our state, it was 80 degrees yesterday. it was one last week. It's crazy in Texas. This is the way it always is. It goes cold, hot, cold, hot.

At this time, it's always nuts. That's not really the best for your car. Cold really does a lot of damage to your car. And that's when most repairs really start to happen is at the end of seasons and during the snow and cold weather. If you don't have a warranty, left on your car, it can be a little white knuckle as you're driving and you see that check engine light come on. I know I have a truck that I want to drive till the doors fall off on it. It's at our ranch and we use it all the time. It's our go-to vehicle. I don't want to buy a new

one. It's paid for. Why would I buy a new one? It works fine. We had a chip go on it. It was, I think, $6,000. It was crazy. Luckily, it was covered by Car Shield because if it wasn't, I wouldn't have, when they said, yeah, it's $6,000. And I was there to pick up the car. I was like, why didn't you call me $6,000? They said, it's all covered with Car Shield. Okay. I'm glad you didn't call me.

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Bjorn Lomborg. He is the author of False Alarm, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and visiting fellow of the Hoover Institute. Welcome, Bjorn. How are you? Back. I'm good. How are you?

I'm good. I'm a little concerned. you know how things are starting to be censored here in America and things are you know you're you're they're starting to call people with a different point of view you know dangerous radicals and terrorists and I I I wonder how far this is going to go we just saw Amazon ban another book yesterday they said they're going to start deleting all books they consider hate speed I don't know if that's to Gill a mockingbird, you know, or mine comp or what I just, I've never lived in a country where we ban books. And I wonder if you've thought of, I mean, this is not what I had you on for, but I wonder if you've ever thought of, you're an extremist.

You don't buy into the answers and the solutions for climate change. Yeah. There's a lot. So look, my basic point is global warming is a real problem, but it's often fascinating. exaggerated an impact and made a lot of the rhetoric around it make people panicky and it makes us make bad decisions and that's what I'm really challenging. I've had a lot of people tell me they would love to see me be platformed. They'd love to not see my or hear my arguments being voiced clearly. But I also think that most people recognize that's not the way to run a democracy. I think John Stuart Mill already, you know, like almost 200 years ago, pointed out that listening to people whom you don't agree with is a good idea. Partly, if you're right, they'll prove you right and they'll show you why you're right.

And if you're wrong, of course, you actually want to find out that you're wrong. So listening to dissenting voices is a really good thing. It makes democracy stronger and it's also likely it'll make your decisions better. Only if we are rooted in, you know, the scientific theory that, you know, show me the evidence and I'll respond to the evidence. We, we're no longer doing that. There's, we're just going off of what people, you know, want everybody to believe. I believe in global warming. I can read a thermometer.

What I don't believe in is a lot of the things that they say, for instance, the Green New Deal, or let's just Just take this first. Electric cars. Well, that's wonderful. They're all electric. But where are we getting the power to charge them? Am I wrong on thinking that way? Well, you're certainly right in your intuition that we need a lot more than just getting cars to be electric.

Because let's face it, as long as they're still powered by coal power, they will emit almost as much. Remember, electric cars use a lot of energy, typically in China or elsewhere. To make. Mostly produced with coal to produce their batteries. Correct. And so once they get to you, you can feel all virtues and green and drive around and feel really, you know, like I'm doing something for global warming. But the reality is you've just admitted a lot of CO2 in China. And so you have to drive your car, you know, 40, 60,000 miles before it's actually free.

and you can actually start saving. Now, that depends a lot on how much of the power that you use come from fossil fuels. But you also need to decarbonize the whole electricity grid. And that turns out to be really, really hard. And so, again, we need to recognize that, sure, electric cars are great for some purposes. I have a friend who has a Tesla, and I've been driving. I love it. It's fun.

But first of all, it's incredibly expensive. so it's mostly fun for the upper classes. And secondly, it doesn't cut all that much CO2. So, you know, when Biden and many others are suggesting we should give subsidies in the tune of $7,500, maybe $10,000, you're basically paying an extraordinarily high price to cut a little bit of CO2. You could have spent that money much, much better either cutting carbon emissions, or remember, there's a lot of other problems. you want to fix both in the U.S. or around the world. So again, this is a question about getting

our priorities, right? It's a question of getting a sense of what is the impact of what you try to do, not just feeling virtues, but actually doing good. So, Bjorn, I, I put my trust in the free, not the corrupt capitalism that we have now, but in the actual free market to solve these things. and we're just not there yet. We are going to solve these things, but look at what happened to Texas. Now, it's not entirely because of, you know, we're cutting back and cutting back on, you know, fuels that we have grown to trust, you know, and gone all to windmills. But it's partially because of that. And I have no problem.

I own a farm. It's completely green energy. It's completely off. the grid. It's solar and it's wind power and it's backed up by natural gas if we have to. I'm all for it, but A, only the rich can afford it. And B, I've spent, I can't tell you how much money getting this to be stable. It's not ready yet for prime time. And certainly most people, I was actually very curious to hear that you have backup from gas because most people, of course, just get the backup from the electricity grid, which of course simply means that they get all the

subsidies and they push on all the cost of still driving the rest of the electricity system to typically the poorer rate pairs. So in some sense, you're absolutely right. Most of this is something that supports rich people a lot and supports a lot of virtue signaling, but actually does fairly little to cut carbon emissions. And you're right about the idea that what the Texas, the terrible incident in Texas last week, I think shows most clearly not, you know, was it windmill's fault or was it the gas or the cold power fire plants or even the nuclear plant that dropped off for a while. It's much more question of saying, without stable power, you're really up creek. Yes. Society, you need stable power. That's what makes us rich. If you go to many developing countries, one of the things

you see is they all have a diesel generator because they know they can't trust the power system. And that is one of the reasons why they're trapped in poverty because you don't want to invest in a place where you don't have sustainable power. That's why we cannot imagine ourselves run just off of wind and solar, although people love to say that, because what are you going to do when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing? And remember, people will, then, you know, sort of, I'm not sure whether that's an affair, but, you know, they very easily say, oh, we'll just have batteries. Remember, you need a lot of batteries. Right now, the U.S. have batteries enough in seconds of U.S. electricity consumption. Oh, my gosh.

Now, nowhere near being able to have that for hours' days or even ceases. And I will tell you, they're wildly expensive. They, I mean, you still have to replace those batteries over time. And they don't hold as much as anybody thinks they do. I mean, it's, you know, I am on solar and I put it all into batteries. But I'll tell you, we go a week without sunshine. We ain't using that. I mean, we have these gigantic batteries.

They're out. Yeah. They're out. There was in a little northeast Indian village. It was the first Indian village that went all solar, supported by Greenpeace. And, you know, they got lots and lots of PR. And everybody was very excited in this village because they didn't have any electricity.

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They said they didn't want fake electricity. They want real electricity. And because he was democratically voted in, they actually got a new power line from the main grid, mostly powerful. And oh, and the prices dropped by two-thirds. And again, you know, this is not to discourage the fact that yes, solar and wouldn't have a space.

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I must read. You need to have this book. Let me, Bjorn, if I could, go back to something you wrote several years ago. I refer to this often. It's something you wrote in Global Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1 in 2016, about the Paris Accord. and you talk about what would happen if the Paris climate agreement was actually, if everyone fully participated in it and everything went the way they said it would and no one broke any rules, the impact of this,

which has caused so much consternation here in the United States about whether we're going to be in it or not, is so minuscule. It seems almost impossible to imagine that it's caused this much conversation. Yeah, no, that's absolutely right. What we showed in that article was that even if everyone did what everybody has promised, and this is the UN's own estimate, the cuts by 2030 would be equivalent to reducing temperatures by the end of the century by less than 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit. We would be able to measure the impact by the end of the century.

And even if everyone continued, remember we didn't do that with any of the other treaties, but even if everyone continued for the rest of the century, you would cut temperatures by less than 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of century. So a lot of people like to say, oh, this is the big solution. But the reality is Paris is just a literal small first step. It's a little bit like, you know, if you decide you're going to go on dieting and you eat a thing, salad and you sort of declare, oh, done that. Now I have a beach pod. No, that's actually not how that works. You need a lot more. And of course, that's what we're now coming up to, realizing, oh, wait, if you actually want to fix this, you need a lot more, and it's going to be a lot harder and a lot more

expensive. Okay, so that's the thing. John Kerry just said we have nine years. I'm tired of these. I mean, every, we hit them always. But now is, this is it. We only have nine years to fix this. A, is that true at all? No. Yeah. Okay. The best person for this is actually the

Prince Charles in the UK. He's both predicted that we only had 100 months like 10 years ago and we had, I think, six months. Last year, he said we literally have an hour

left. You're just like, really? This comes from the idea that the UN and the UN Climate Panel was in 2018 asked to produce a report that shows what will it take to get to something that's almost impossible, namely less than two degrees than degrees. What will it take to do something almost impossible?

Not surprisingly, they came back with a report that said, you will have to do something almost impossible by 2030. that was interpreted by people to say, this was 12 years ago, 12 years from then in 2018. So people who just came out and said, we have 12 years to solve global warming. We have 12 years to save the planet. But the reality is, no, we have 12 years

if we want to do something that's almost impossible that nobody has argued is actually the best outcome. And in many ways, it's probably one of the most silly things, to imagine that we could do because it's going to be phenomenally expensive and at the margin it'll actually help very little extra. So I want to go into what is being proposed now and what you see coming our way and what society actually looks like if these things are implemented. I want to do that here in just a second. But before we leave the Paris Accords, I read just

last week or maybe it was this week, that China has built three times more coal power plants than the rest of the world combined in the last year. And they said, don't worry, we're just, we're, we're, we're, we're going to be compliant and we're going to, we're going to, we'll hit all of our goals by 2050. I don't believe that. Well, actually, China is smarter than that. because China has promised that they're going to peak their emissions by 2030, and they're then going to get it down to zero in 2016. Now, if you're going to peak something, would you want to push it up as far up as you could? So in some sense, it makes a lot of sense to say, we're going to build a lot of power plants,

and then we can peak at a really high level. This is not entirely true. This is roughly what they're doing. The other bit promising that they'll go to net zero in 2006, I think it was particularly clever because it both means that they're going to do this after everyone else has done it. And it also means that they've shown goodwill. But remember, in their proposal for Paris, they actually not only proposed that they were going to go net zero by 2006. Hang on, hang on, hang on just a second.

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It's amazing. Yes, something that they would never allow on today. and he is a guy who, you know, we don't agree politically, I'm sure, on a lot of things, but we're at the same place, I think, where, okay, if this is real, what's the best thing to do? And things like the Green New Deal are not it. It seems to be about redistribution of wealth and power and control more than climate change. and it will devastate the Western economies. And then you don't help anybody.

Bjorn, tell me about the Green New Deal as proposed if it goes through and all of these, all of these deals that seemingly the left is ready to impose on the country. What do we look like when it's fully operational, this Death Star? So the Green New Deal is a lot of different things. And my speciality is look in the climate part of this. So there's a lot of other things involved in it. But certainly the Green New Deal just on the climate part is a very expensive bid to basically make sure that America becomes not dependent on fossil fuel, basically just carbon neutral by 2050 or even before.

Biden has promised to make the electricity grid. carbon neutral already by 2035. Is that possible? Is that even possible? Well, the thing to remember, I think, is everything is in principle possible if you're willing to pay enough. That's, of course, one of the beauties of a market economy. So you can simply pay up, and then you will be able to get an almost carbon-neutral

energy grid. The thing to remember, and I think this is very helpful, Bill Gates, points out that if you want to think about this, if you can't live without fossil fuels, you can just simply suck out the CO2 from the atmosphere. We know what the price of that is. So you could pretty much make the whole world go carbon neutral for about six or seven percent of global GDP. So if you just made everyone six or seven percent core, you could probably solve this problem. Now, remember, most policies that try to achieve this will do this a less effective way. So very often we'll end up seeing more costly outcome.

Countries who've been promising to go carbon neutral by mid-century, they've actually had the courage to ask their independent economic organization to say, how much is this going to cost us? Not that it made them change in their mind, but that organization came out and said, this is going to cost you at least 16% of your GDP by 2050. Not once. Screw it up. It might be a lot more than that. Oh, my gosh. 16% of GDP by 2050 for the U.S. is $5 trillion. A year.

I think there's two things you need to recognize when you talk about the future. You are going to pay a lot change the way that Green New Deal, and honestly, most people are arguing that we should fix climate change right now. You should also recognize that because the market economy is actually such a wonderful engine, it is not going to bring us to the poor house. it'll simply make us less richer than we otherwise would have been. Well, they say that by not fixing global warming, that it'll hurt the economy by, you know, X number of dollars in GDP, you know, in the next 50 years.

Is that true by not doing anything? We're poorer? So global warming is a problem. So, and, you know, climate economists have spent about three decades looking at, what are the cost of this? And they've come out and said, look, if you don't do anything by the 2017, so when climate change is a little further ahead, the UN estimate the impact will be equivalent of making each one of us somewhere between 0.2 and 2% less well off.

So at the worst case, it's 2% in 270s. Remember, by then, we will be on average across the world, this again, UN data, will be 364% as rich as we are today. But because of global warming, we'll only be 356% as rich. If that's a problem, no, it's not the end of the world. Right. And of course, the real problem is if you then try to solve a 2% problem by going 16% into debt, you're basically fixing a wristache by cutting off your arm.

That's a really bad idea. So how do we, you have been so outspoken, you're so well spoken, you have the facts, you have written many books, you are very well respected, and we seem to be going down the same panic road every year, and it gets worse and worse and worse. What can we do to stop the hysteria and actually get back to a table where you're talking about reasonable things. Yeah. In your question is built in the problem.

It's really hard to fix this because, remember, politicians love to promise stuff that they don't have to pay, which is why it's wonderful to talk about what you're going to do in 2050 when you're not only not going to be in politics, but possibly not even going to be around. So it's wonderful for politicians to be able to say, you are going to die unless you will let me and let me save you from climate. change. And likewise, most media loves to play up, you know, one catastrophe after another. So this is a really hard thing to solve. We are, we keep doing it wrongly, but you're absolutely right to say,

so how do we solve this? Look, we solve it in the way that we have always solved problems through innovation. Remember back in the 1950s, Los Angeles was a pretty damn polluted place, mostly from cars and its special geography. It was a terrible place. A lot of people were really, really worried. This was mostly from cars. And the simple sort of Green New Deal approach to this would be to say, let's get everyone to stop using cars.

Let's get everyone to walk. That would never fly. What actually did work was in 1974, a bright guy invented the catalytic converter. You plug it on, you pay $500 of thereabouts. And basically, voila. Your emissions are much, much lower. You pollute what you used to do. So now we have a situation.

Los Angeles is much cleaner, even though people drive around a lot more. And you've done so through technology instead of telling people, I'm sorry, could you do less, which will never really work? That's what we need for climate change. We need innovation that will make green energy so cheap that not just you and your farm and rich, well-meaning Americans will, for green energy, but that also Chinese, Indians, the rest of South Asia, Africans, Latin Americans will, how we've solved almost all problems in the world. If we invest a lot more in innovation, that is the way that we'll actually fix climate change and fix it cheaply. And also, of course, if we manage to make cheap green energy,

it'll also unlock untold fortunesfully is the main problem of solving global warming. It's not about getting Americans off CO2 because you actually will admit fairly little of the emissions in the 21st century. Even John Kerry admit it as much. This is about getting the rest of the world to do this, and you only manage to do it through innovation. So let me ask an additional question here about green and clean energy. there is a new nuclear power plant, if you want to call it that, a very small device that is now being tested out and can be used in all kinds of areas, especially the poorest places in the world. It doesn't have meltdown capability, if you will, at least far as I understand it. A, have you heard about that?

And B, why isn't the green movement all over nuclear energy? It can make hydrogen. I mean, it's, it is, it's nonstop. Yeah. So absolutely nuclear efficient should be one of the things that we look at. The reason is, so most green people are not happy about nuclear simply because it used to be really, it used to be thought of as really dangerous

and, you know, they marched against when they were young and that kind of thing. But the reality is it's not dangerous. Actually, nuclear power is probably one of the most safe ways to produce electricity. But, unfortunately right now, partly because we have huge regulations on these,

they're incredibly expensive. So right now, you will not be able to get the world on just nuclear power. But the gizmo that you were talking about, I haven't heard of that particular one, but there's lots of development in what's known as fourth generation nuclear power, which is modularized, much safer, and they promise that it'll be much, much cheaper. If that happens, yes, that will be possibly the solution or certainly one of the solutions.

My only concern here is we should also recognize that was what they told us about the other three generations of nuclear power, right? That'll be incredibly safe and incredibly cheap and too cheap a leader kind of thing. But honestly, you know that, that it is incredibly safe. It's only unsafe when you have corrupt governments like, you know, the former Soviet Union building those things. When you have... Sorry, sorry. My point was not the safety. It was the cost part.

So... Yeah, but the cost part, though, isn't the cost part due to the regulations that... I mean, some of those regulations are put there to make it impossible. to afford to build a nuclear power plant. There's certainly an argument to be made for that, and I think a reasonable part of the regulations are two owners. On the other hand, I think you also just simply need to recognize there's no way you're ever going to make the argument.

Correct. Let's make nuclear power plants a little less safe. So there's... No, no. You need to get cheaper, safer, a fourth generation nuclear. But the whole point I think here is to recognize that there's lots of ideas. So nuclear could be one of them, obviously, fusion, so the big idea that could be it.

Also recognize that there are lots of other ideas. Craig Venture, the guy who cracked the human genome back in 2000, he has this idea of distributing algae that on the ocean surface that basically soaks up sunlight CO2 and produces basically have a whole oil-based economy, but CO2 neutral because they've just soaked up the CO2 out on the ocean surface. This is not by any means principle possible, and it's one of these many, many ideas. So again, the idea is if you invest in a lot of these ideas, and that's how innovation works, most of them are going to fail. And that's okay because we just need a few of these to work. And those are the ideas that will power the 21st century.

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And also, I'd like to go into some stuff that Bjorn talked about with you on the Stu Show right before. Stu does America? Yeah. At 8 p.m. Eastern. Yeah, we could do that. You've been bumped for today, though. I've been bumped today. Did he have a bigger name?

Yeah, we got a bigger name. Actually, a guy I met at 7-Eleven yesterday. He was buying corn chips, a new kind of corn chips. He's going to come on and talk about him. So you've been buffed till tomorrow. Sorry. So sorry. And if we have time for you tomorrow.

I'm not sure we'll have time tomorrow. But if we have time tomorrow, we'll do that. This guy, though, I mean, he doesn't really have a particularly dynamic opinion about the corn chips, but he did buy them. And I just thought it would be better. Okay. All right. Well, it's going to be a riveting stew does corn chips, I think.

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Jason Whitlock. Welcome to the program. How are you? Awesome. Thanks for having me. You bet. I know that Tiger Woods was kind of a, a big deal growing up with you and your dad, right?

Athlete of all time. Me and my dad, you know, just brought us close together, talked about Tiger more than any other athlete. Tiger, when I think of sports and just happy moments, it's Tiger Woods and Maddie Johnson when he was with the Lakers. Yeah. Tiger Woods, I think, was that way for all of us, especially when his dad was alive because of their relationship

and what they accomplished together. uh and uh you know i think his his spiral into trouble it it appears to be i don't know because i don't follow these guys at all but it appears to be tied to the death of his dad and uh him making it kind of on his own in a in a different way is that accurate at all yeah i think it's that why i've let me establish i'm a huge tiger woods fan right but i'm going to be honest you know, when I look at Tiger's life, I say, wow, he was really super prepared. And nothing else. I'm not sure if he was super prepared for anything else.

Yeah. And that kind of fame and fortune, too, is also really bad, especially if you lose the anchor of that's been guiding you the whole time, that steady hand. So do we know there was, there were no drugs or alcohol involved in this accident? Do we know if he was asleep at the wheel? how did this happen and what happened? I think we know, based on the police, that there was no alcohol involved. Another back surgery.

And so, and we, you know, it's been part of it because he's had so many different surgeries and he struggled with that problem. I'm of this accident. Maybe they took his blood and we'll examine it. Maybe they won't. I mean, Tiger's a huge brand for Nike. Obviously, as much as they can. Sure.

And if they were prescription drugs, and he wasn't abusing them. I mean, you know, you take some of these drugs for pain now at night. This happened at 7 o'clock in the morning. You're groggy still at 7 o'clock in the morning. I mean, you could easily fall back to sleep and not because of the drug, but because of the after effects of the drug. I mean, Tiger Woods can make me cry.

I would disagree with you. Incription drugs, dollars or more, I have a driver. Yes, true. I take that precaution of like, hey, because of my injury, because of my surgery, I take these prescription drugs. Maybe it's best for me not to drive. I'm not worth nearly the money that Tiger Woods is. He gave up driving behind my car.

I moved to Nashville, drove, you know, here, drove my car here, and did some driving. And now I haven't driven for three months, I don't think. And why is that? Because of all the drugs you're taking? I mean. No, no. No, it's literally, it started in L.A. just because I wanted to walk more. And I wanted, my drug of choice is like potato chips of eating those while driving in a car. And so I just wanted to give all that up and walk more bad habits driving a car that I don't have, you know, Uber. They don't want you to eat or drink in there. And just driving that much. And in, like, in 2002, I was doing radio. I was writing for the newspaper. I was doing TV.

And I fell asleep at the wheel of my car, and a friend of mine was a passenger in the car, and he was a dad. And we were going to some press conference, and I was overworked. I was doing morning radio. And I fell asleep at the car just very briefly, maybe five, ten, far, and blah, blah, blah. But that kind of changed my point of view on driving responsibility I want to take. So what have you heard about the surgery? And I know they put a rod in. Is he going to walk again?

And do you have any idea based on what happened in sports? Do you come back and play golf? I mean, this total speculation on my part, I think the guys had like five back surgeries and was just recovering from one just now. So I would imagine his back won't allow. him to compete at the highest level. I think that his ankle getting crushed and having to be rebuilt.

They said they put a rod in his leg. I can't imagine, let's say the recovery is a year or two. You know, Tiger will be 47 at that time. 47. When did that happen? Yeah, he's 45 now. So I just can't see him competing at the level that he wants to compete at, which is at the highest level.

And so I think, you know, if I were guessing, you know, his career is over. That's a huge blow. Yeah, that's, look, even at Tiger, you know, half of his powers, he's still the most compelling television. Yeah, yes. Maybe in sports, but certainly in the world of golf, you know, he's the only thing that would, you know, he trumps everything for me. Football is my favorite sport. if Tiger were in contention at a major or, hell, maybe just any golf tournament, I'd watch Tiger over football.

And I think a lot of people were that way because we thought we were witnessing history. And even with Tiger's personal problems, I think most people just kind of like Tiger. And just... He's hard not to like. I mean, I went through a period where, I mean, again, I don't follow this stuff, but, you know, the golf club and the car and the wife was a really horrible scene. but it's hard not to like him. Yeah, I think that people can,

where no one that looked like he said about America. You know, he didn't take big, huge political positions, and so everybody could kind of wrap their arms around Tiger Woods, and we did. And, you know, that's, I have so many. Well, maybe you did, maybe you did because you're black, but all of the white people in America, of course, are racist, and we secretly hated him.

and somehow all of you that hated Tiger never went to the golf course if he was playing because it would be a sea of white humanity cheering this guy on and celebrating every moment and you know let me let me ask you one more question on this do you know enough about Tiger Woods to know how a guy who was built from the beginning of his childhood to compete and to play golf and to and then become such an icon at 47 years old, 45 years old, just to kind of not be able to do that anymore, not command that spotlight for his athletic abilities. How is that going to affect him mentally? Do you have

any idea? I think he's been prepared for that because he's had. had so many injuries and missed large chunks of time, a year off, year and a half off for this injury or that injury. I think that Tiger has authentically transitioned into being really into his kid. You would think he's sitting in a hospital bed like, oh, my God, if I can just walk again and play with my kids and help my son, where his enough for Tiger. I want to add one thing, Glenn, before we transition to something else. But the other thought I've had about Tiger and this, just the way the last 10 years of his life is gone,

it's kind of starting to remind me of like Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson was a big part of my childhood and memories, and I was just big Michael Jackson, Jackson 5 fan. And then he got involved in controversies and skin, you know, all of that. Children. Yeah. Yeah. And I just, it's like my memories of Michael are blurred.

I remember him as much for the tragedies and controversies as I do for his singing. Going on with Michael, he was a prodigy like Tiger, whose dad drove him. Correct. Whose dad, you know, made him music, music. I just, it makes me like, wow, as much as I love Tiger and what he was accomplished, I don't think I would want his life. And as much as I love Michael Jackson's music, I certainly wouldn't want his life.

I wouldn't want to be a prodigy. Well, you get all the Jesus juice you want if you were Michael Jackson. But you know what? I think you're exactly right. And I think that's why people are paid so much money in the end is you give up an awful lot. I mean, it's one thing to be a star, especially at their level.

but if you're at their level from childhood, you do not have a normal life at all. And you kind of demanded in a pound of flesh or, you know, a pound of gold. But it doesn't buy back all the things that you lost. We're going to continue with Jason Whitlock here in just a second. Let me take 60 seconds and tell you about our sponsor, Patriot Mobile. I want to tell you right now, Patriot Mobile is doing something amazing. They're doing a match right now for any funds that are coming in to Mercury 1 for the Texas people who have lost their home, you know, or have really bad problems.

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Have you seen this? Oh, yeah. This is crazy. The numbers of liberals and moderates that think how many unarmed black men were killed by cops in 2019, a huge number think it's over 100. Many think the number is over 1,000 or even 10,000, 7 or 8 percent think that it was 10,000. Conservatives think that it's about 100 that were killed. The actual number is 13. How do we get this screwed up, Jason?

Information, misinformation. The left keeps accusing Trump supporters and QAnonan people are participating in. That's what has so upset me about the reaction to the January 6th problems. I will refuse to call it an indirection, problems at the Capitol. the response and who's to blame and what the bad information that created this information that created the summer of 2020 and a lot of what we've seen over the last decade as it relates to police engagement involvement with African-Americans, Black people has been fueled for Twitter.

They're putting all these, oh, proven. They're fact-checking tweets, those tweets. But if someone gets, if LeBron James goes on Twitter and says, we're getting hunted every day. Every time we step out of our house, the police or white people are just out to kill us. No one puts a fact check. LeBron James has 40 million Twitter followers, and he's fear-mongering and spreading disinformation that directly led to rioting, looting, the nations of police officers, the entire summer. We watched it all live on TV. And no one wants to call this disinformation out,

and it's the major disinformation that's driving a lot of the upheaval and dissension and divisiveness in our country. But let's don't talk about it. There's a committee in Congress that just sent a letter to all of the cable providers, and then Amazon, Google, Facebook, asking, why are you carrying these centers of disinformation. Fox News is on the top of the list. And what are you going to do about it? Because if you don't, we may have to do something about it. A clear threat to anyone who is doing business with those corporations. And you and I have talked about this many, many times. They're coming for voices that disagree. Yeah, we, you know, Tucker Carlson had a tremendous monologue last night. Yep. That it's all a distraction by major corporations that doesn't want

people discussing the unfairness of our economic system and a game that has been rigged against the working man. Let's make everybody hate each other along identity issues, race issues and talk about that and not the economic issues that are really impacting working class Americans has been going on. White people and black people and Hispanic people and people Americans have so much in common. I know. And there's like an organized effort by corporate media to make us think we have nothing in common and we're mortal enemies and it's just a joke.

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You don't want to miss it. Let me go to Brian in Alabama. Hello, Brian. Good morning, Glenn. How are you, sir? I'm fine, thank you. First, God bless you and all that you do. Thank you.

I worked in the transportation field, and I get a daily email publication, the AMM, the American metal markets. An article in last year's, one of the AMM publications was comparing electric vehicle batteries to the combustion engine, and there were obvious comparisons such as charging time, etc. But the one that stood out the most to me, and this is a quote, the battery's energy density has a long way to go. A lithium ion battery yields approximately 200 watt hours per kilogram versus roughly 12,000 watt hours per kilogram of gasoline. Wow. 200 compared to 12,000? Yes, sir. Wow. Wow. We are, I mean, someday we'll be there. We'll be there.

with batteries, but we're not there yet. And I know. I mean, I have a green house and I have two batteries. We're off the grid. I have two batteries that are, what is that? Stu, that's about four feet high. It's about a four foot cube. I have two of them.

And it'll last, it'll hold sunshine for two days. And in those two days, if we, We have five days of no sun. In those two days, we have to stop using things. Turn off the lights. You know, only use the light or the thing that you really need because of the refrigeration and everything else. I mean, we are a long, long way from storing the energy. And when it comes to wind power, you can't store the energy.

When the wind stops, the power stops. with solar when the light stops, the power stops. Let me go to Shelley in, is it Missouri or Michigan? Michigan. Hi, how are you, Shelly? I'm good. How are you? Good. First of all, I just want to let you know that we pray for you constantly,

and we just love your show, even when we don't agree. We know it's because it's the truth. Thank you. But what I called you about was there is an episode of the Orville, and I think it's one of the dumbest shows ever, I kind of like it. So have you seen the one called Majority Rules? I'm not sure.

It's where they land on a planet and the guy does something offensive to one of their statues or history, something to do with history or a god or something, and he's going to go to jail. And the way that they keep him out of jail is that everybody votes. It's basically an electronic thumbs up, thumbs down. Wow. So it's like cancel culture. Yep, exactly. It's a very good example of that. If you ever want to explain it to somebody that doesn't get it, it's like it's a dumb show, but it's a very good way to show them. And throughout the thing,

they said, it doesn't matter if you did it or if you didn't do it. What you have to do is get everybody's sympathy and get everybody to like you. Wow. Thank you, Shelly. I appreciate it. I mean, there's so many shows. It's like Hollywood doesn't even read their own scripts. there's so many shows and so many things you're like ah that's you hello that's what you're doing right now can in north carolina hey glenn thank god for you and bill o'Reilly thank you um my question is out of all of these with all of this cancel culture and all of these twitters and amazons and banks especially why is there not a an insurgents of conservative alternatives to any of those do you want the real answer or do you want

you know an answer that everyone okay so here's the here's the real answer um what two weeks ago a media service I don't remember I had never even heard of it uh went up

it it maybe I think it it had a subscription subscription service but it was small and it sold for a quarter of a billion dollars, quarter of a billion dollars. And it was, it wasn't, it was nowhere near the size of a fraction of the, of the blaze, which is now the largest subscription service in the world. We are easily, easily worth more than that. Easily, there's no buyer for it. So you can't

get the investors to invest big money to develop tech to I mean if we if we were something that was worth a billion dollars you would have investors that would want a part of that and you could use that money to be able to develop new technology I can't tell you how much new technology I have wanted to develop and haven't been able to because no Nobody's doing it for free. Nobody wants to work with a conservative. And I've watched them develop things that, you know, we were way ahead on in Silicon Valley because they have the money in the investors. Conservatives always.

And this is something that is good, I think. We look for investments that pay off. We're looking for things. I want to invest my money. I don't want to just throw my money away. show me how this is going to work, show me how this is going to affect, and show me how I get out of this and I have more money. Liberals don't necessarily do that. They look for impact and they take some of their money.

And I'm talking about the very wealthy people. They take their money and they're not looking to pull it back out. They're looking to make an impact on culture. We never believed the culture. was worth fighting for. It is. We've lost it. And you can't, with the way things are being herded now, remember, Congress just issued a letter to not just the cable and satellite companies, but also all of the cloud storage, all of the ISPs, anybody like Facebook or anybody that does any service to outlets like ours and saying, why are you doing business with them?

Do you continue to, are you planning on continuing doing work with them after your contracts expire? This is a quote, if so, why? So now we have the double whammy. They're being told that they're going to be investigated. I think they don't have a problem shutting people like us off. So we don't have the ISPs. We don't have the things because everybody in the world works together on that.

We're getting to the point where you'd have to lay your own fiber. This is why we don't have the options. A, the big money never steps up on the conservative side. second, you're now making it impossible and people are going to be expected to do things that are absolutely, you couldn't accomplish in 10 years, but also people are now afraid. If I do business with that, will my bank start canceling services on me? I hope that makes sense. It is one reason why we have said your subscription is so important.

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uh you know you gotta make some money make sure you you do it now this week and watch the show tonight at 9 p.m. And maybe tune in an hour earlier at 8 p.m. for stew does America. I think we run cartoons. I think we might be talking a little bit about Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment allegation tonight. It's interesting that that's been going on now. Media completely ignoring it. They haven't talked about it really at all.

And now the woman who worked very closely with Andrew Cuomo, as she would tell it too closely, has now come out with an even more detailed story. Really? About this. I don't know how much longer they can ignore this. Oh, they can ignore this forever. I don't know.

I think the tide might be turning on this guy. I keep thinking to myself. Are you talking to have nice things? Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe I'm talking myself into this. But the media narrative has changed on him. His approval rating is going through the floor.

Isn't it interesting? He deserves to be held accountable for all the things he's done. But I don't know how the media can ignore a serious allegation for multiple women. But one in particular with real close contact to him. It's a. Bada Bing. Too close again. It's interesting to me that the two guys that were held out as,

heroes of this COVID nightmare are both going down in flames where DeSantis, who was held up as a villain is doing so incredibly well. Should mention Andrew Cuomo isoffold

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barely won. Is that how Joe Biden barely won the presidency? Yeah. It is a... How dare them say that? How dare they? Now, this is a quote from our old friend from the good old days, Anita Dunn. Oh, my gosh. Anita Dunn, if you remember her. Oh, yeah, yeah. She was the lizard lady that had the dry tongue that was talking about about mouth. One of her favorite speeches, she was she had a very dry tongue. Very dry mouth.

I'll always remember that. But she said, she made a comment to an associate. The quote is, COVID is the best thing that ever happened to him, meaning Joe Biden. And obviously,

I think as an observer, any astute observer might note that that's pretty obvious. Yeah, the economy collapsed. Because the economy collapsed. And also it allowed Joe Biden to stay.

in the basement and not have to stand in front of people. It really did work out incredibly well for Biden. He could actually be proud of six people standing there listening to him. They made those small crowds into something that, you know, was a badge of honor. We are social distancing. We have everybody 50 feet away. And the next one, we're going to have our 50 people in 50 different states. It's crazy.

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