The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Sheriff Mark Dannels | 3/29/21

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

The Suez Canal has been unblocked, and Glenn shares the absurd story of how the canal got started. Pat Gray shares his frustrations about wearing masks in church. Hunter Biden has found himself in another scandal, and this time it’s gun-related. Sheriff Mark Dannels joins to discuss his open letter about how bad the border crisis has gotten under Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm fine. And for the most part, the show went really well until the last part of the podcast revolving around George Washington's hair. Yeah, you have to think that the effects of the medication, you can feel them slowly increasing throughout the episode. Yeah. This might be one for the records. or possibly, you know, at my tribunal before I go into the gulag, possibly. But you don't want to miss today's episode. Really good story that we begin the episode with on how the Suez Canal was built.

And it revolves around a really fat kid, a French man, and macaroni. How do you get the Suez Canal out of that? Oh, believe me, I found a way. It's a great story. We also talked to a sheriff down in Arizona on the border. Some really frightening things happening on the border. And we need to wake up and I put a plea out in that segment of the show. And then, of course, George Washington's hair where it all goes to hell from there.

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Good luck. Listening to. This is the Glenn Beck program with some good news. They just colon blowed that thing out of the canal. So it is free. Yay! It's free. Nine billion dollars a day in trade were blocked by that.

And all they needed to do, Egypt needed a little bit of fiber. And they won't get blocked like that ever again. And I think that's a good thing. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. It's good. Okay.

So we're here with Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed. And welcome to the program, Pat. Thank you. Good to be here, Glenn. So I was at church yesterday, and I'm about to lose my mind on the whole mask thing. Yeah. I talk about this almost every week after church because I am coming out of my skin for that hour. Yeah.

Because I hate the mask. It's so hot. Yeah, it's so hot. It's so hot. Then you start singing in it. Well, I'm not going to. With the mask, I'm not singing. Not going to do it.

First of all, we're every other pew. So we're already, we're a million miles away from everybody. The six foot thing was arbitrary. It's three feet for the, for the WHO. Why aren't we going with WHO standards? I thought they were so great. Anyway. So we're sitting there and we're singing.

And then people start coming up. Did you get the vet? vaccine yet. Have you had the vaccine? No. Oh, you're going to get the vaccine? No. You're not going to get the vaccine? No, I've already had COVID. I had COVID. My whole family had COVID. We were for a long time. We were sick. We had COVID. I got it. So you're not going to get the vaccine. No, I'm not going to get the vaccine. No, I'm not going to get the vaccine. No, it's not that I don't want my family to get the vaccine. We already had COVID. Don't need it. We don't need it. We don't need it. We don't need it. We don't need. it. You know, if I wanted to get it, maybe I would. I don't recommend to my kids that they get it because

it's generally good with kids. I mean, my kids don't need it. It's not that big of a deal. So when are you going to get it? And nothing has changed here in Texas. Nothing has changed. Yeah, Pat and I

were just talking about this. Because they they do this big, remember Joe Biden did this Neanderthal thinking speech where he was saying that Texas opening up to 100% was going to cause the crash of all humanity. There are going to be piles of dead bodies on every street. And I will tell you that we still club women

here in Texas and then just drag him by their hair and obviously everybody knows that. Of course. That's with or without saying. That's with or without a mask. Yes. So yeah. That was way before COVID. I mean, we've been doing that since 1836. And now you've had

18 consecutive days of downward motion in our numbers here in Texas. In hospitalizations, in infections, in death, and all of it. It's all going down. The opposite happening in Michigan right now, where the numbers are going up considerably, where they have not been open 100%. And it's funny because there's two ways this is gone. One is the Neanderthal thinking Gavin Newsom saying this is reckless behavior and all this

nonsense, everyone thinking that it was going to blow up. And, you know, all of us in Texas sort of yawning and rolling our eyes. And on the other hand, nothing has really changed. No. I mean, you can have more people in a restaurant. That's about it. That's the other side. I see a lot of people using this as like, well, this proves lockdowns don't work.

Not really. We didn't have lockdowns before this and we don't have them now. It really doesn't seem any different than it was before we made the speech. People do what they think is the right thing to do. They do. So, you know, the Texans are not all walking around just like, I've got a French kiss everybody I see. It's not happening. It's not happening.

They're still wearing masks. And then I'm going to shoot him with my six gun. That's not what happens here. Well, once in a while. Yeah, once in a while. The shooting with a six gun, but only those who deserve it. Right. Hey, by the way, speaking of guns, did you hear about Hunter Biden's gun?

You know the... Yeah. Why do you say it that way? Yeah, with an accusatory kind of... Because, like, what do you think we're stupid? Is that... Well, I don't think there's a lot of people. I don't think there's a lot of people in the audience that do know this.

Okay. Now I don't want to share it. Wow. I feel judged. No. This is an unsafe environment. This is an unsafe environment. I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable.

I feel and it's my feelings that really matter. Even though my apology won't matter. So you're right. You're right. So while the president is pushing gun control, I would just like to say, stop at the Little Hunter Biden story that we apparently talked about a long time ago and I'm

going to pretend that I don't remember it. Really? Yeah. Why would you pretend that you don't remember talking about it? You'd like to take credit for every prediction that you've made. Well, I'm going to pretend. I read a story and they were like, the only people that were talking about this was Glenn Beck and the blaze and all the research they did during the

impeachment and they were the only ones of time and I'm like, damn right. You didn't remember. Remember the... Of course I do. Anyway. The story begins in 2018 with Hally Biden.

Now, Hallie... Haley. I think. Why don't you tell the story? Is it Haley? Why don't you just tell the story? Well, no. It's your story.

I'm just helping with it. Well, you remember the story from when you initially talked about it so often. Right. It was you to the story. And by the way, did you hear my macaroni story on the Suez Canal a few minutes ago? Don't correct my stories. Right. Okay.

They are air. height. So Hallie Biden. Yeah. With Bo Biden, you want to correct me there? No. Okay. So Bo is, Bo's dead and Hallie, the widow starts, you know, with Hunter and she's

going through Hunter's truck due to a, quote, suspicion she had. Hmm. Now we don't know what that suspicion she had was. but then she found a 38 revolver and it belonged to him and apparently it just ended up in a trash can behind a grocery store across the street from a school. It happens. It happens. Guns go off by themselves. And sometimes they're like, I am so sick of being, I am not going to be treated this way and under a seat and a truck.

I am worth more than that. I want to be in that trash can across the street from the school behind the grocery store. And so it went off. Now, the police are saying that that kind of thing doesn't happen. So she returned to the store later to recover the gun as Hunter had directed her to do, but it couldn't be found. She told the grocery store about the missing gun. Could you imagine that conversation? Hey, um, did you guys find a gun in your, in your trash cans by any chance?

Can you imagine having that conversation? No, I mean, if somebody walks into the store, it was like, if somebody came to me and said, hey, here at the studios, you know your dumpster in the back? Did you guys happen to find, you know, like some weapons in there? I would immediately call the police, right? You'd be like, uh-huh. Yeah, you know what? We did.

Why don't you wait here for about 10 minutes? So she went to talk about the missing gun, and this is where things got weirder. The missing gun is particularly worrisome because the school is right across the street. They were afraid that it would be used, you know, used in a crime. While police were questioning Hunter. He also appeared to racially profile two Mexican grocery store employees telling officers they were probably illegals. So when the cops go to talk to Hunter about the gun that was in the, he immediately throws them under the bus. Oh, okay.

All right. Then the police and the FBI go in and the FBI, go in and the police, the FBI telling the FBI, tell, the police, you know what, we got a federal investigation going on. And so two secret service agents with badges and identification cards reportedly pay a visit to the gun store where Hunter bought the firearm earlier that month and told the owner to turn over the firearm transaction record from the purchase. Now, why would you do that? Oh, we want no record of that. We'd like you to give us all the records on that. Well, the store owner was like, I don't think you actually want this for an investigation.

I'm guessing you want to make all this stuff disappear. So the store owner held on to the paperwork until the ATF came in and they reviewed the forms. And the Secret Service said, oh, we, no, we didn't send anybody out. We don't know what you're talking about. We didn't send anybody out. And also appears that Hunter may have lied on his federal background check. No, did. I don't think there's any way he could.

No, no, no, he may have lied. How is they may have lied? He said, it's a little fuzzy on those federal forums. When they ask you about, you know, previous incidents with drugs and you say, you said, no. And blatantly you're on record. Yeah. Convictions and stuff. Well, when you were doing Coke in a Hertz rental car that you turned back with Coke lines still on the dashboard.

It's unclear. You could easily. It's like, Are you an illegal alien? No, I'm not from space. Why would you call me an illegal alien? And since when do we ban people from space coming? And can it be abuse when it's so much fun?

No. You know, I think it's too. Abuse drugs? No. Damn it, they abused me for years. So now he answered no to a question. in the firearms transaction record asking if he was an unlawful user

or addicted to marijuana, any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance. And his answer was no. His answer was no. That's a felony. But don't worry, kids. He's part of the elite.

He's not going to pay any price for that, I'm sure. But I just love that this is coming out now. as daddy is saying we have to tighten the restrictions and ban certain guns ban certain guns yeah but i just like we we have to really tighten the uh the background checks because as his own son has just proven people lie all the time people lie all the time if you if you want a drug let's say you're a drug abuser and you want a gun, you're going to go find one. And you'll buy it not necessarily from the gun store because you're already buying

drugs from a drug dealer. It's not like, I've got my lines. My favorite one was this boulder shooting, you know, one of the first narratives after they were like, oh, it's got to be a white guy. Once that went away,

they were like, well, did you know that 10 days before this shooting, they banned they were the judge overturned an AR 15 ban in Boulder and 10 days before that and this guy bought the the AR 15 like six days before that do you believe this? Well he bought it in another town where they didn't have an AR 15 ban that it didn't that is why that is why we must have federal. No, that's why we must have it federally. I think it needs to be global because we need to keep these borders open. We can't have we can't come. up with the disconnect as to why we're fine with open borders, but we need gun laws all over here because obviously they could just bring the guns across the border. Well, it's not like you

have nefarious people like drug cartels right, right, on the border that are actively making money. Right. Doing things. Human trafficking, drugs, guns. That's none of that happening. No. Those are just good people. Good people. Good people. Good people. Bringing people to a better life. Yeah. Yeah. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Recently, an Arizona sheriff named Mark Dannels shared an urgent letter on Facebook, and I would love for you to read the whole letter, but I want to share just a couple of excerpts from it.

He writes, The current conditions on the border are impacting public safety in our communities, and by any reasonable measure, constitute a humanitarian crisis. We remain immersed in politics, rather than solutions. In Cochise County, Arizona, they have a sophisticated camera system along the migrant routes across the border.

These cameras detect significantly more traffic than our federal partners report capturing. In fact, our estimates are that only 28% of the people crossing illegally are taken into custody. Now, I want you to think about the numbers that we have. Think about the numbers that have crossed already. If that's only 30%, the numbers are staggering.

And where are these people? TCOs, transnational criminal organizations, are exploiting the migrant crisis to ensure the redirection of law enforcement resources away from the interdiction of illegal drugs into this country. They know that increased migrant traffic, especially children, overwhelms resources and essentially gives them the unfettered ability to traffic drugs into the U.S. Make no mistake, this is a deliberate tactic. On top of a public safety and humanitarian crisis, we may now add a public health crisis. There should be an outcry from those persons who have expressed concern about the COVID pandemic. Arizona's border sheriffs are not interested in the politics. of the current crisis or perceived political ideological victories.

We need policies from Washington, D.C. that discourage rather than incentivize undocumented immigration. The time for politics and partisanship has passed. Sheriff Danyls is exactly right. The COVID situation alone should be enough to seal the border, especially for those who are panicked over the COVID crisis. Right now we have

in the center of Dallas, Texas, we have a convention center that is filled with illegal aliens who have not been tested and can come and go apparently as they please. Due to Mexico's extremely low rate of testing,

we have no idea how bad it is. The death toll however in Mexico, is probably around 300,000. Just last Friday, Argentina suspended flights from Mexico. All of our schools are closed. Yet, migrants and minors are flooding over the border and we're housing them. And we are not giving money to the cities, especially down on the border.

On President Biden's first day in office, he signed an executive order, halting construction of the border wall. Now Sheriff Danels is here to point out that the unfinished portions of the border have simply provided infrastructure, mainly roads, for the drug cartels. It is, according to a study, it is now a multi-billion dollar business for these cartels, human trafficking. The same report finds that in order to pass through the territories of drug traffickers, migrants have to pay drug taxes or cartel taxes as much as $180 million a year.

What are we doing? Our elected leaders refuse to come back to common sense. Some issues must be apolitical and this is one of them. And if they won't make it apolitical, we must insist. that they do. And we must insist not to play politics on the border. Just talk about the real facts. Sheriff Danels is here with us now.

Sheriff, how are you, sir? Good, Glenn. The letter says it all. It really does. It is very, very clear. Tell me what is happening in Cochise County. To understand where we're at today, it's best to understand where we came from.

And you hit it in your intro with me was the fact that President Trump, I've worked his border for 37 years, President Trump was the first president to actually emphasize and do everything he can within his power to secure our border. Right. It's not immigration, two different programs, border security. And we were very close with him, shirles, police chief mayors, governors, DHS, TVP all the way through in his administration.

When president, and we've come so far, we truly have, the best has been, the ranchers tell me, Everybody asks, well, how do you know it's the best it's been? First of all, our stats show us that. Second of all, the people live on the rural border down here, the ranchers, the farmers, the citizens say, this is the best it's been in three decades. So that's the best measure of a test. So we come up to current time when President Biden signed the executive order day one, which obviously was politically driven, ideology driven. When he did that the first day, it sent a message to the cartels and those vulnerable people,

people that hey, and hey, we're coming across, we're opening up the border. And he stopped the construction on the border, which stopped subterraneous technology, revenue resources, and the physical barrier. My three checkpoints are shut down in my county. I got a border patrol station shut down in my county for respond to help my deputies. I got my aeros stat shut down. And I just learned Friday, they removed me from the Homeland Security Council. Oh my gosh. Because of the letter? is what they did. They removed the majority of every member on the Homeland Security Council, which was formed after 9-11 to help advise DHS for communities and for this country. So all the three people were left on the advisory council, the chair, vice chair, a past chair. A time in history that a president's crisis on this border. So wait, wait, wait, wait. So this is because I am concerned about the humanitarian crisis, but I am equally concerned. I'm not blinded by that. by what the drug cartels are doing,

but also the, you know, other than Mexicans, the, the Iranians, the Syrians, the fact that the drug cartels will smuggle guns and drugs and terrorists into this country. Nobody's talking about those things. So tell me this was developed after 9-11. what could their reason be for flipping everybody on that board? Well, and the first thing comes to my mind, Glenn, is politics. Political ideologies, they want to have their own.

They want the avoidance of this and having people on that advisory council that speak very loud, their business, their consultants, their federal judges, all the people that have come through, that, sheriff's police chiefs, that had been now removed on that. It just silences. that voice. Once again, and one thing I've seen since this has happened is the lack of transparency, the lack to share any kind of plans, in fact, in the letter it talks about we're going to develop a plan. Well, don't you think any logic on this would, you'd have a plan in place before you get rid of your current members who have served honorably, have served,

I worked on the technology committee, I've worked on youth violence, I worked on faith violence. I mean, spent a lot of time to help our communities. And with a, again, stroke of the pin, we're gone, we're gone. So again, it silences everything. There is no transparency with this. And I've spoke to DHS at senior leadership. They have no answers for us. We're past due on questions and answers in this country.

I'm just, you know, Sheriff, I'm just looking at your resume. You are really, really, your background is right exactly what we need, especially in a place like Coach East County, I'm stunned now that they're not listening to you. Tell me what the border wall was doing and why it was so bad to stop it on day one. What is that done? Well, besides sending a message to the cartel that we have an open border, and that's literally the message that's been sent. We hear that from those coming across illegally,

because the opportunity is now, and truly they're coming across to that reason. In my county, when they stop the physical barrier, the technology and the resources, what that's done is left my border and disarray down here. President Trump was the first president after three decades to push beyond what the physical barrier was in the early 90s from Operation Stone Garden, or Operation Daykeeper and Hold the Line were two programs that kicked off our physical barrier know what it is today. President Trump pushed beyond that. First President in 30 years or 30 years to do that. The bridge is just a couple months when our monsoon season, our wet season, head forward here in my county. We're in worse shape now. We're in where we started. And so it's

and you said that there's, you said that there is infrastructure that they, the drug cartels are using, the roads, et cetera, that were made for the construction. Is that in your county? You are correct. And what they did was up on the backside. about very, very frequent smuggling area for the cartels because it's been concealed up there behind the mountains. They blasted roads took them off six months to a year to put the infrastructure in behind the mountains back into the last year. We got a chance to put better at most national parks.

Once again, there was no reasonable. So nobody is talking, we are all talking about these kids in cages and the humanitarian crisis. What is left behind are the small communities that, are right there on the borders, that are getting dumped. All of these people are coming in. You know, it's a crisis because the federal government doesn't have space for them. Well, the ones that they really don't have space for, they're just putting on buses and they're just sending to cities all across the country. And the border towns are the first ones to get hit hard.

And there's no help from the federal government. There's not. You look back in 2019, Glenn, where the caravans and surges at President Trump, took on and addressed. In the first nine months, we had 141 countries hit our southwest border. And I've got to say this, I know the focus is on the children. In the first nine months, we had 3,500 children that were being exploited by the cartels. And what that means, they were coming across with an adult expedited into the country because they had a child with them. Then the children were brought back to Mexico and recycled back in the U.S. just to get people in the U.S.

This cartel has its thumb and hand on, everything going on in the southwest border. County is $6,000 ahead to come across our country, into our country, excuse me, and then they become servant to the cartels, whether it be sex, grave, drug, gangs, enforcer, whatever it may be. And unfortunately, the national media is painting a picture of these poor kids. And I agree. I agree. In 2014, when the cages first came alive, that was that gender and president of Obama, we've evolved.

And I do like your point that it seems like nobody can fix this problem. A lot of effort on this border. I have gone through a lot of presidents in my 37 years. I'm telling you, it's left out of the U.S. What can the American people do to help you? They need to stand. Why are the attention of the national media? Exclusively, when I come to the children,

on the southwest border, whether it's an issue, whether it's a health pandemic issue, COVID, whatever it may be. It's coming into your neighborhood. We might be the, coming into your neighbors. They're not staying in my communities until they can find the means or the national,

and get them out of here. Right now, we see charter buses all the time. To hold in my county right now, Glenn, will not stay in Mexico. In my county, the state of Sonora, first that's supposed to expire. If that opens up, our southwest border will be flooded, not just in Texas, but flooded.

Mark, we will stay in touch with you. I'd like to talk to you some off the air. So thank you for everything that you're doing, but we'll be in touch. We're not done with the coverage, and I appreciate your letter, and I appreciate your willingness to speak out. Stay safe and don't give up on the rest of America yet.

I know you're not going to. I'm not going to. I have hope in my old. Thank you. Thank you. Mark Dannels. This is the best of the Glennbeck program. They have dislodged the giant cargo ship in the Suez Canal.

And the reason why I put you on duct tape alert is because we may be, having another toilet paper crisis. Now, I mean, it's been a year. It's been a year. Why not have another one? Just for the anniversary, why not? Why not all go panic and buy a bunch of toilet paper? They're saying because of the Suez Canal being shut down, we may, the world may experience a toilet paper shortage.

And I have to tell you, there are many things, air conditioning being one of them. I think air conditioning and toilet paper are my no-go zones. You know what I mean? If they say, Glenn, you can't have air conditioning and sorry, no more toilet paper, bad for the environment. I say let the planet burn. It's just my line, you know. Indoor plumbing is also on that line. Refrigeration.

Anything refrigerated, you know, that involves any kind of, you know, that involves any kind of, refrigeration, my house, my actual refrigerator, my car. Certainly electricity would fall into this. Gotta have that. Well, if you could find another way to get the air conditioning running and the lights. I guess lights are all. I think lighting is important. There's a lot of things on my.

Here's what we're willing to do. Nothing. Okay? We're not going to do anything. I'm willing to separate my garbage, but not really. Not really. I'm going to put them in the same garbage. can. I mean, I'll separate them and then I'll put them in the garbage can and then I'm

knowing that my city is just going to dump them in the same place. Oh, yeah. The only actual use for recycling is the extra garbage can. You have more capacity. Yes. That's the only thing. Yes. And they're usually big, like the big green garbage can. You can fit a lot of non-recyclables in. Right. That's how I use it. It's great. And so we appreciate the environmentalist for that. Anyway, they're now saying that toilet paper may be a shortage because of the Suez Canal. And I'm wondering, are those little teeny tugboats that they're using, are those really, is that the best we can do? I mean, as a planet, is that, has anybody thought of just taking a big old battleship?

You know, one that we don't even care about, make it like a demolition derby. And they're like, I'm going to take the battleship, but I'm just, just going to ram that thing until it comes unlatched. I mean, is this really the best we can do? Have you seen the little toot out there? Like, I can do it. I can do it. Can we get bigger boats?

It doesn't seem that intimidating. It doesn't. You need a little. But I mean, I don't think destroying the boat in the middle of the canal would work very well. Really? Because that's the way, I mean, you know the history of the Suez Canal. I have zero life. Zero life.

And something tells me you're about. to confirm that. I am. The Suez Canal is a fascinating story about how it came. It actually started because a kid was really, really fat and his dad wanted him to lose weight and he hired a French guy to help him. That's honest to God. This is how the Suez Canal started. His dad looking at his son, he's like, you are going to die from an early death. This is in the 1800s, okay? When every when fat was beautiful so you can imagine how fat this kid had to be and he's like you're gonna die from you're too fat you're too fat you'll never amount to anything if you're that fat and uh he couldn't get his son to stop eating so he hires a french guy now why would you hire a french guy to do it

the only reason why this french guy happened to be in town was because napoleon was in town it was it was was Egypt. And so this French guy is like, oh, I can help your son lose away. And he gets to know the fat kid and he likes the fat kid. And he's like, look, don't tell, don't tell you dead. But I got a little buster for you. And so he starts feeding him macaroni. He smuggles in macaroni for the fat kid. And the fat kid's like, I love macaroni. Thank you very much. The French are the greatest. And, and dad just thinks, my son, look, I am doing everything I can. And the dad is saying, well, my son's not losing any weight. Hmm, don't look at me.

So this goes on for a while. And then there's all kinds of wars and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, millions die. Sure. Blah, blah, blah. And things change. And dad dies. And the fact is like,

Finally, finally my dad's dead. And he becomes king. He's now the ruler of Egypt. And with all of these things that are changing, though, with a Crimea war and everything else, the planet is changing because everybody was getting all of their goods and services either overland and the Ottoman Empire was really in trouble at the time. so those trade routes were being lost, or you go down south around Africa, which took too long. So that's when the French guy who was strangely not a dietitian.

I don't know what exactly he did. I think he was like an engineer. I mean, he was a guy who wanted to build the Suez Canal for a long time. And he says, look, I smuggled the macaroni to you. Well, when your papa was saying, Hey, you very fat so much. It was me with the macaroni. And so the fat kids like,

okay, we'll build. I mean, I'm, this is the gist of it. You'd have to. This isn't a historical quote. This is not exactly the historical quote. But we don't know. I wasn't there and neither was a historian. They didn't have tape decks back then.

So he's like, I got to do it because I want more macaroni. And so he builds the, he starts to build the canal. The problem is, is it takes so many people. There's not enough slaves. And he is telling everybody that you have to build the canal. And you're a slave. And so, you know, you're a peasant.

So you work for me. You're a slave. And now go build the canal. Well, at the time this is happening, something else in the world is happening. Now, this is the part where you can look at everyone. who says, the United States never did anything. The United States is just a horrible place. You know what?

We are all about slavery. That's all this country has ever done. Okay. Suez Canal. 60,000 people are slaves building this canal. Something interesting happens. It's called the Emancipation Proclamation. Oh, crap.

Now I don't have slaves. I'm not going to get any. because in Egypt, the Emancipation Proclamation, as it did all around the world, shook the world. And so the 60,000 slaves that were digging the Suez Canal also were freed. In fact, the 20 million slaves in, they were called serfs in Russia, they were also freed because of the Emancipation Proclamation at the time. But I digress.

Back to the fat kid with macaroni. So they build the, they build the, the canal and all kinds of stuff is happening all around the world at this time. We are building all kinds of stuff. I mean, it's in the 1860s. And so you're,

you're looking at, you're looking at, you're looking at the building of some of the greatest things in the world, the greatest construction. We're building canals. We're building tunnels. We're building bridges. Everything around the world.

Suez Canal is dug and now it has to be opened. And they have the big opening ceremony. And a guy comes and he's like, I've got the night, maybe for the opening, I unveil a big statue. for you, uh, and, uh, put it, uh, put it right here at the opening of the canal. It's going to be based on the colossus of road, roads. And, uh, the, like, I, I like macaroni. So they don't build the statue. Instead, they build the statue, a 35 foot tall statue of the guy who snuck the fat kid macaroni. And that was sitting at the opening of the Suez Canal until the, until the, Egyptians took it from the British in, what, 18 or 1950s, and they blew up that statue.

But that guy was Bertoli. That guy was rejected for that statue, and he went on to build the Statue of Liberty. It was originally made for the opening of the Suez Canal. Now, the reason why I'm stopping here is because that was unveiled on the opening of the Suez Canal. as canal, the small little statue of the macaroni guy. That's his official name or? This is if, if history were taught like this, every kid would know history. They would know the macaroni guy.

They would know the macaroni guy. They'd get the gist of the story. And so then all of the kings and queens and everybody from all over the world, they're on a barge and they're all going to go down the Suez Canal. And what happens? A boat gets stuck right before the opening. a boat gets lodged sideways, exactly like what's happening right now.

And so what did they do? They blew it up. I'm just saying, little toot ain't going to get the job done. Blow it up. And that is the story of the Suez Canal. Yeah, kind of.