The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Adam Curry & Rob Eno | 3/11/22

Episode Date: March 11, 2022

Author Michael Malice joins to discuss ESG scores and Biden’s digital dollar executive order. Adam Curry, co-host of “No Agenda,” joins to discuss Biden’s push to create a digital dollar, ESG scores, and the Great Reset. BlazeTV media critic Rob Eno joins to discuss how to prepare for and survive an apocalypse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, hello, you sick freak. It was a great Friday show. Kind of went off the rails towards the end as we were talking about preparing. Stu doesn't have a hat, and I'm trying to get an x-ray machine. They're totally sane. Both of us. It's going to work out well. You might want to be somewhere in the middle. Yeah.

I'm just saying. Today's program is fantastic. Adam Curry is on with us, Bill O'Reilly. Michael Malice. Michael Malice is on. And we talk about the biggest stories of the week. Adam and I both agree. And I think Michael, did Michael agree with this as well?

The biggest story of the week is the digital currency story that you may not have even heard. Make sure you're listening. Oh, and there's some help if you happen to live in Idaho. I'd like your help on something. You'll hear about it in today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. They have in my hands, the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry made up board members, board members from companies like Chobani, the, you know, the yogurt people, and Wells Fargo Bank, and Bear and Monsanto, and Cliff Bar, Select Health, Union Pacific Railroad. Oh my gosh, all of these people, all of the Facebook.

Facebook is on this. What am I going to do? They're saying in this official release that I am a conspiracy theorist because of what I tell you about ESG. Wow. I'm sensing some sort of risk here, Stu, some sort of. Boy, it's, it's, well, as you know, Glenn, ESG is just a risk management tool. That's what they say. Oh, really?

Yeah, that's what they say. We'll get into that a little later. Michael Malice is on with us now. Hi, Michael. How are you? I mean, is it a theory if it's demonstrable and open? No. No, wait, wait, wait.

It is not. They say, it's laughable. They said it's a fun. the given legislators, legislators who have heard me talk about ESG and believe in, believe it, it's a farcical conspiracy theory from which legislation will be crafted. It's easy to dismiss due to its lack of basis in reality, but the problems, any kind of legislation against it will create for business is real. Wow.

I mean, it's just shocking how brazen, the misinformation is, because at the very least, it's based in reality but wrong, right? You're referring to something which is policy, where there's websites about it, where people talk about it. So to say it's not based in reality is in and of itself a lie. Second of all, to claim that there aren't different organizations who are coordinating to further a specific agenda is in and of itself farcicle. The fact that all these different Chobani is working with Facebook, it's only conspiracy, but you don't like it. Exactly right. Exactly right. What does the yoga company have to do with, you know, putting up baby picks and, you know, photos of your dog,

other than they have an agenda, corporate agenda, that they want to further? It is, it's remarkable how this is being, how this is being squashed when you can see what is happening in Russia. Russia, this, by the way, President Biden just said we're going to hit Putin even harder. We have revoked our most favored nation status, and apparently we're not the only country that is doing that now. that's a harder punch but when you when you have McDonald's saying you know we just thought there might be a

reputational risk that's why we're closing all our restaurants when they said we're not closing all of our restaurants you see ESG and how it works I mean it's just it is collusion but it is also pressure from all of the banks

and all of the other players you play ball or we'll shut you down Glenn, this is what's really amazing and this is kudos to you, because if this was, let's suppose, 10 years ago, they wouldn't have to address it. And 10 years ago, you'd have been reacting maybe after the fact. The fact that you can get ahead of this issue that you see, and plenty of other people see the tactics that are being used to control, manipulate, and preemptively nip it in the bud, this is something that they can't handle and that really upsets them. And

This is something that curdles their yogurt. Because if they look, inflation is another great example, right? It used to be, it's not really happening. Oh, it's happening, but it's not a big deal. Well, it is happening, but it's a good thing. Right. Stephen Colbert, who's a televangelist for his progressivism, had his monologue saying, hey, sure, I'm paying more for gas, but that's the price I pay to be a patriot to kind of support Ukraine.

It's like, you don't care about the problems. of poor people in the slightest, and you're telling them that their suffering is virtuous and moral. Now, in many cases, sure, you have to make sacrifices for your kids, for your family, for your country, but you, Stephen Colbert, don't get to tell me what sacrifices I need to make on inflation, which everyone uses currency, inflation is a sacrifice that literally everyone has to deal with, and it hurts the poorest the most. If Glenn Beck loses 10% of his money, you're still going to be okay. If I'm living hands a mouth and I'm losing 10% of my money, that's food on the table.

No, that's a roof over your head. That's the difference between living under a bridge and just barely holding it together. I mean, it's obscene what is happening and it is hurting. You're exactly right. The weakest financially among us. That's who's really paying this high, high price for everything that is going on right now, everything that is going on. Michael, did you see the digital currency executive order?

Yeah, I've heard, I mean, I've been involved with the whole crypto space being an anarchist for many years now. A lot of people saw this coming down the pipe. It's not a surprise. What were your thoughts about it, Glenn? Mine was that it was very, first of all, it was hysterical that we just don't have the energy for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. It's just too much energy to verify everything. We needed a centralized one computer with a password. Literally one computer with a password.

So they're using energy now as one of the reasons why they have to have it. But the fact that you and I both know about the Hamilton Project, we've read these white papers at treasury.gov for a couple of years they've been out. And now they're saying, hey, we've got to look into this and study it. No, they've already studied it. This is just as tilling the ground. And I think that they have to move before the Republicans win, you know, or at least seated. Well, I think it might be a little too late for them because I think what a lot of people saw, if you saw the Canadian truck or convoy,

banks just seized assets without so much of an explanation. if you see what's going on with Russia. If you're a Russian citizen, there's lots of things you can't do right now. You can't use Google Play and other such apps. And they're seizing bank accounts there as well. So that is giving people an incentive correctly or incorrectly to look elsewhere to keep their money secure.

And crypto, by design, is meant to be outside of the reach of any individual government. And if your money's out of their reach, they're really disempowered. And that's a real big problem. problem for them. So they have no choice but to act. But in my opinion, thankfully, I think that the technology is moving faster than the legislature can. And that is going to be a mechanism for freedom for people of the world in the near future and the midfront. It's like kind of like Uber. So in many different cities, Uber rather than being legal, just launched the app, got everyone used to it. And by the time the legislature got around to it, people were like, hey, you can't

take Uber away. So crypto's adaptation is a very very very. very good mechanism towards taking away the power of Federal Reserve, which I'm sure you share my absolute contempt for. I do. The problem is, though, is I think they're going to tie this to, because a key word in that executive order was stabilization, economic stabilization. They need the Fed coin to provide economic stabilization. Well, that's true, because you're already operating on modern monetary theory, the first

part. The second part is you have to control how that money is spent at the lowest level. Otherwise, you'll never control inflation. The White House, after denying that inflation was even real or that inflation was, hit me two days ago. Jen Saki said, no, inflation is going down if you look at the month and month. No, no, Jen, not true. But now they're saying, yeah, you can, you should prepare. Much higher inflation is coming. I think they're going to use that. you there? Yeah. I'm just saying inflation. You can't talk about inflation, stabilization of currency at the same time inflation is happening. Inflation means an unstable currency. It means a currency that is losing value, and it means

that you can't plan financially for the future because let's suppose I have a ruler, right? If a ruler is 12 inches today and 16 inches tomorrow and 10 inches the day after that, I can't build anything. Money is the same thing. That dollar is supposed to be a standard of value. If that standard value is collapsing, I can't make these kind of long-term plans. So this is just a lie to claim that it's for stabilization. When they say stabilization, they mean control. And it's kind of scary how much of the verbiage is straight out of Einrand's novel Atlas Shrug, because they use words in the exact opposite of what they mean, and they'll use whatever word they need in order to further their sense of power control.

And Glenn, I got to tell you, it really seems to me like they're losing control of the megaphone and of many other things, and they're freaking out and they don't know what to do about it. Well, usually what dictators do is start hammering. Usually dictators just shut everything down. When they feel they're losing it, they just start shutting things down. And I just, I fear, I don't fear. I feel that's where they're going. And that's that will, that'll put a big hitch in our get along. How's that for Texas?

They spent two years shutting literally everything down. Yeah. And now they're going the other direction. So I agree with you that their impetus and their MO historically has been to shut things down. But politically and culturally, things are going the opposite direction. True. So I think they don't.

know what to do and I don't think this president is even if you love him you can't regard him as a visionary or innovative thinker he's a party hack he's been a party hack since the 70s so you can't look to him to think of new ways of governing that's not the whole point was he's supposed to be returned to normalcy meaning he's old school well that's school's not going to work in 2020 yeah but that's why we have you know that new young up-and-comer Kamala Harris, you know, she's... I love her so much. Oh, my God.

She's going to be the greatest president we've ever had for comedic purposes. It is going to be absolutely beautiful to watch her. It's going to be like ZEEP, for those of you who watch that show. Oh, it is. It is. It is. Michael, thank you so much. Always a pleasure, guys. You got me bad.

Anarchist, Michael Malice. This is the best of the Glenn Beck. program and we really want to thank you for listening. Adam Curry, a guy who I used to think was the coolest guy on television and MTV Vijay for years. And then is the guy really responsible for podcasting? I mean, he worked with Steve Jobs to get podcasts on to the Apple iPod at the very, very beginning.

He is wicked, wicked smart. and has been following things like ESG and the Great Reset for a while. We welcome Mr. Adam Curry. How are you, Adam? Hey, Glenn, good to see you, my brother. Good to see you. You know, we didn't meet until a couple of weeks ago, and I can't believe that friends,

who we have to have mutual friends, haven't put us together earlier because we think so much alike. And I think, as I told you on your podcast, not only do we think alike, but we've had a similar path, but we're also, I think, more or less the same age. After this wonderful visit I had with you,

you can see, I want to be like you so much, I bought one of those microphones that you have. I sounded really good on Glenn's show. I need a little beer going. Just a little goat tea in your, you look a little like Colonel Sanders and you're all set. I want to read something to you, Adam,

and just get your thoughts on it. We're working with 20 different states right now on legislation, anti-ESG legislation, and having the treasuries divest themselves of places like Black Rock, okay, that are clearly working against the interests of the everyday people. So this is a statement from the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, and I want to read this to you and get your thoughts. Some in the Idaho legislator are posed to consider legislation to deal with ESG or

environment, social, and governance. ESG, a risk management system, is being labeled as the latest threat to individual rights. While as perposterous as this sounds, folks like Glenn Beck have given legislators a farcical conspiracy theory from which legislation is being crafted. While it's easy to dismiss due to its lack of basis in reality, the problems it creates for businesses are real. risk management for all companies small and large private or publicly traded have common threads in determining asset risks from environmental factors such as climate change or local weather patterns

additional risks are present in employment and management relationships and community acceptance of the business finally the governance of all companies are critical considerations when it comes to risk management for investors business is by definition based on a risk reward system legislative efforts to manage how risk inputs are evaluated are unwelcome and foundationally dangerous to free enterprise. These people are actually using that. The Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry believes and defends that if Idaho wants to retain the moniker of the least regulated state in the nation,

there is no role for government to dictate how business or business and their investors will evaluate the importance to each company, whether it is through formal systems labeled as ESG or otherwise. Listen to this. The tragic reality of the new world is one where talking heads drive policy to stir the masses by creating non-existent problems and then solving the problem with massive overreaches into the private sector. Businesses cannot. stand by and allow this to happen and we will firmly defend our members ability to run their own companies in the way that best suits them as a private and independent entity well first of all congratulations you are now an official conspiracy theorist oh yeah this is

yeah yeah yeah yeah that's why I always call myself the crackpot I figured that's much easier you know they don't have to kill me well unfortunately and and so much happened in such a fast of time since we last saw each other. And a lot of it's coming much closer. I think we're seeing the total capture. The capture is more or less complete. And with that, I mean if we go back and just talk specifically about what ESG is. And it's great hearing it now. A lot of people are talking about it. They're not quite sure exactly what it means. But again, it stands for environmental, social governance. And this is a, there's a measuring standard that goes along with this, which

was created literally by the bankers, including Black Rock, and with a separate foundation, to determine how environmentally conscious, socially conscious, and governance conscious a corporation is. And we're talking mainly about publicly listed companies. And hang on just a second. To give you an idea, there's no individual choice on anything. I've talked to people in the oil industry this week, and they have said, Glenn, we can't, the leases and everything. Yeah, we need that. We can't get a. dime from the banks. So that's ESG. The banks say, no, those oil rigs, there's that's not just the banks. It's much worse than that. It's the retirement funds, pension funds,

insurance companies. And they have, you know, for their own clients, they have certain things they can and cannot invest in. And this ESG has become this fictitious score. And if I don't have a Merrill Lynch retirement account, but I understand that people who do are already seeing the ESG score of their portfolio of the companies that they have in their portfolio. Right. And so we've seen a lot of this taking place over the past probably five years is when it really started to accelerate. So environmental, that's all Green New Deal.

And holy crap, we missed, we totally weren't paying attention and they passed a trillion and a half dollars of which half is going into that kind of stuff. The social part. The latest, the latest bill that just passed that. The omnibus bill. Yeah, the omnibus bill. These things are horrible. Yeah.

These things are horrible when you look in it all the money. And that's all, I'm sure the Federal Reserve is very happy. Oh, yes, we've got to push some money out. Yeah. That's not going to help inflation. But the social part, we've been watching really the acceleration with Black Lives Matter. You saw every corporation.

giving away tens of millions of dollars donating tens of millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter, Inc, which, by the way, has been completely dissolved. There's no one around who runs it. The founders are off the land mansions. Where's the money? There's a lot of groups looking for money. Say, hey, we were all there. The money went through you.

Where did it go? So that's also what's the, and the governance part, which is equity. So do we have the right amount of black and brown people in the organization? do we have the right amount of female to male to transgender to whatever it all has to be equitable and equal and equity is really the key term but the social governance capture is has come closer to the environmental with the war the war i'll just say it in ukraine i mean first of all covid is yesterday's news we're still in that uh in that headspace where we're freaked out about stuff and during lockdowns etc the thing that everybody could kind of glom onto, which created this social cohesion that we all, oh my goodness, we can get out of this, was masking social distancing and eventually proof of vaccination and et cetera, et cetera. So now we're still kind of reeling from COVID, and things are stopping, but there's not even any news about it. Please pay no attention to the Pfizer documents that came out.

And we have tremendous inflation, uncertainty in the world. war is always scary. And what have we all glommed on to? Thanks to the corporations who led the way, the huge divestiture in starting with Russian oil, but then tech companies. Everyone just can't. I mean, I'm surprised I didn't wake up this morning and go to Google Maps and not be able to find Russia.

I mean, they can't. And we're all jumping on board. And this is wrong. This is fundamentally at a human level. And it's wrong also because despite what the people say that this is free market. it. It's individual, you know, individuals get to choose their own way. That is not true. It's not the case. It's not the case. It is the exact opposite. Wall Street is driving this. Wall Street is pushing. They're saying you cannot be in Russian,

in Russian stocks or Russian assets or commodities. You've got to get out of it. And because of this capture that's taken place with the large corporations who are advertising and telling everybody how great it is. I mean, the things that are happening, this morning I got an email from Universal Audio. They make audio equipment that I use. Well, this is so horrible what's going on. We cut off all Russian customers. They can't even access our IP addresses. Like, why are you doing that? Isn't creativity cross boundaries? Isn't that for all people of the world? Same with, I'm a ham, as in ham radio operator. There's a database online called QRZ.com, QRZ.com. you can find all the call signs in there and you can look stuff up these guys they took out all the

russian call signs overnight this this is this is uh insanity it is a it is a psychological um escape and we're following straight into a demise you know i i i said earlier the today if they can do this to vladimir putin who really nilly just throws people out of wind windows and gets away with it has billions of dollars and a country with a ton of nukes. If they can do this to him, what the hell do you think they'll think about doing something to you when you disagree? I mean, and it's the cancellation that is the scary part. Because it's financial canceling. And they did it to Canadian truckers.

I mean, in the omnibus bill, I don't know the exact, I think it was a hundred billion dollars the IRS is going to receive. Yes. And you know who they're not going to go after? Goldman Sachs. They're not going to go after BlackRock. They're going to go after small people, middle class people. Probably people who have a low ESG score. Probably parents who are standing up in their school board meetings and saying this is wrong.

those people are going to be targeted. Yes, and you were talking to Michael Malice earlier, another fine Texas resident. And, you know, he's absolutely right with the direction we're headed with this announcement. Well, it's just another let's go study stuff and come back in six months. But the cryptocurrency executive order. Biggest story of the week. I think that's the biggest story of the week. Because once the central bank digital coin comes in, and you can find online videos of the director of the Bank of International Settlements talking about this.

Again, the Canadian nation. It's open. They're very open about it. That your money will have expiration. If they give you money, you might not be able to use it after a certain period. Literally, your dollars could be earmarked, and this can be tracked all the way through your spending habit. and when it pops up somewhere that you want to, I mean, I can imagine with the environmental part at a certain point, sorry, you can't buy gas today. You've surpassed your credits. And I know this sounds like, but China is doing this.

And there's one other thing I want to say about it. Russia started doing it too. Russia's now doing it. Yeah. Well, of course, it's a globalist movement. This ultimately the idea is to get us all people enslaved underneath what they're doing. But the way I see it is it's a perfect two-prong strategy. Now, you can inflate oil prices. You can make energy very expensive through legislation, executive orders, et cetera. I truly believe that the idea, and this is what you're hearing, our administration saying, don't worry, we're going to put 500,000 charging stations in.

Don't worry, oil won't be a problem once you buy an electric vehicle. That's what they want everybody to do. It's obvious. And they will push us in that direction. It will become unaffordable to commute to work. A whole section of people, just like COVID, will have no problem working from home. And it will be the, it's the physicals versus the virtuals, even though you and I, by definition, are kind of virtuals.

The physicals still have to go to works. They have $5, $6 a gallon gas. It's going to break that system. Go home. You can't work. We'll send you some digital dollars. Now, it's not tomorrow, but it's coming. That's coming, I think, sooner, maybe longer than we would expect, but sooner than we hope.

You know, in that executive order that Biden put out this week, it says we have six months to decide and come up with a plan. And we're going to consult everyone. Well, it talked about all its stakeholders, other countries, businesses around the world, labor unions. But it didn't say anything about the American people or Congress. Do you know that process? Is it all through the Federal Reserve they get to choose? Well, we have to go back to the Constitution who's really allowed or has the power to create money, and it's certainly not a commercial bank. But the Federal Reserve Act changed that. So that would be something that we would have to go back to.

But I think that what is good for people to understand, and I came to my own understanding when I talked to bank or friends or people in politics, even see it now when they talk about raising the debt limit. And there's always a polarizing issue like, oh, my goodness, you know, oh, the republic is going to shut down this. The Democrats are going to shut down the government. But what is really going on is, and they're always surprised, like, well, you can't, you can't not raise the debt limit. That's un-American.

I mean, you literally hear people say that. That's un-American because the way our system works, which the financial system, is, and this is why. the Federal Reserve, who does create our money through debt, says, you know, we like to keep inflation at 2% a year. That's not 2% what you're paying extra in gas or what you're paying for household goods or this consumer price index they've made up and changed throughout the years. That's how much money they need to print every single year to create in order for the system

to work. And that's why, you know, a Toyota truck in the 70s cost $5,000. Now it starts at $50,000. That is the result of money printing throughout the decades. And what's crazy is you saw this in real time recently. They said in 2008, the price of gas was, what was it, 341? But today, or what was the price of gas? It was 411.

411. Yeah. And now today, in today's dollars, they say due to inflation, that would be like $5.25. You're like, wait, that was 12 years ago. What are you talking about? You know, it's not like 1950 to today. Well, so now the gig is up because throughout the financial crisis of 2008, 2009, when they created a whole lot of money,

then we had a similar issue in the liquidity, i.e. banks weren't trusting each other to even lend to each other. So there's one or two weak sisters in the mix, which is still in there. We don't know where. now we have another trillion-and-a-half dollars going in. So they're solving these problems kind of as they go along. But the fix is the central bank digital currency.

Because then you don't have to create more money. You can destroy money and you can destroy it directly from people by taking off minute amounts of their bank account after the decimal and just forever. Adam Curry, great to talk to you. I hope to talk to you again soon. Thank you very much. Adam Curry. You can find his podcast.

It's tremendous. The best of the Glenn Beck program. The Washington Post wrote a story, why we obsess over the details of a nuclear apocalypse. I don't, I mean, I don't think we need a story on that. I think, you know, being vaporized is probably why we obsess over it. And I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't obsessed over it since I was a kid. you know, now to not have to worry about it for 30, 40 years.

And then suddenly like, hey, by the way, they might use nukes. That's kind of a problem, seeing that it's the old foe that actually has all those old nukes and some new ones too. Kind of a bad thing. So we were talking about it in the office. And Rob Eno, who is our Blaze TV media critic, started talking to us about the things that we have to do. And so I thought I would bring him in today. I didn't realize he was going to wear a hazmat suit. But you're looking good, Rob. Well, thank you. I'm going to take off the mask. You are the only person that could get me to wear a mask today. Yeah, yeah. Okay, good.

The mask, of course, is, I don't know if you saw, but the Department of Homeland Security said that after the nuclear blast hits and after you've used your school desk. Yeah, that you have to get under. To get under, to protect yourself. Which when I was about six, I knew that. I knew that. And after you've used, That was ridiculous. Right. Yeah. We saw the film of how everything is vaporized. With the turtle.

Yeah. And then they said with the turtle, get under the desk. And I remember being probably six going, this is not going to protect me from what I just saw. I will say, too, I'm happy you took the mask off. I don't picture you that way. But I also say any white guy wearing a white hood also not a good hook. Yeah, not a good. So I'm glad you took that one off too.

All right. We were afraid. I was doing my Clayton Bigsby impersonation. Okay. So they said you're supposed to, you know, and then you're supposed to wash your clothes or wash yourself. And then apparently after you get the radiation off, you're supposed to go in the follow. Remember follow shelters?

Oh, yeah. My grammar school had a follow shelter with the number of people that could be in the building. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like this used to be something. I think our millennial and Gen Z listeners don't remember this. My senior essay in high school for the American government class or whatever it was. was on our fallout shelter because one end of it ended in ventilation right outside. And it was like, that's really not how it's supposed to work.

But anyway. So then to protect everybody in there, you're supposed to do the six-foot distancing and wear a mask so that they don't get COVID. We've had a nuclear bomb, but that's what we're supposed to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's some other, I mean, this is obviously joking, but there's some other things that people can do. I don't know if you saw the study a couple weeks ago, but a vast majority of millennials and Gen Zs couldn't use a paper map to save their life. I think this is a real problem.

Right. You know, things go down, just GPS for any reason. GPS goes down. Nobody knows how to get anywhere. Right. I mean, and it's heavily hackable, the GPS system. I'm so say the map is? No, no, no, the GPS system, not the map, but the GPS system is heavily hackable.

Yeah. And the Russians have already said that they've got directed energy weapons. that they've tested on a satellite and shot it down to tell us that if we do something to them, they're going to take out our GPS system first. So all the millennials, they've got the phone and they think that they can, in Gen Zers, they can go someplace, get yourself a map.

I don't know if you know one of my hobbies is I'm trying to drive through every county in the United States, and I'm at about 75% of them. You're not married, are you? I'm not, which makes it easy. It does make it easy. I mean, there's a few tip-offs. There's a chicken and an egg situation going on there as well.

I have a big, I have the big Rand McNally Road Atlas that I buy every every month, but I just figured I'd bring in the small ones. I got up in Texas. I have to tell you, we got rid of ours. When Tanya and I met 25 years ago, she used to be the navigator, and she would read the map, and I would drive.

And we were so excited when GPS came out because it would end the arguments. No, no, you missed the turn. I told you was right there. All of that stuff went away. But we can read maps. my kids don't even know anything about them. Right.

And you need to learn how to read a map. Yeah. Get yourself a compass. I know that it's going to flip when the magnetic flips. I know that you've been wondering about that since you were a kid. No, it's coming. But, you know, get yourself a map. Just know where the declination is for the magnetic north and use a map.

So that's, you know, one thing. The other thing is, I mean, I bought iodine this week. I don't know if you remember. I do. But they used to tell us. little, I mean... It's a little much. Yeah, it's a little much.

I might have bought it for the bit, but I did buy iodine. All right. But, you know, in Europe, that I think they sold out of iodine. Right. Because, you know, they're right there. Right. And what iodine does is apparently the radioactive iodine will go into your thyroid. So if you have regular iodine in your thyroid, then the radioactive iodine can't go in.

And that saves your system. That's the science behind the idea. How much of that? Do you just like take a swing of it or? No. You have to look online. I am not Dr. Robb. Well, if we have a...

I'm not Dr. Rob. That's... I don't want to... That might be... That might be something you look up too because along with a map, you may not have internet.

I'm just saying. Yeah, print these things out to have them. Then you should have a bug out bag. Maybe not this one. Okay. So for the bit. And I needed a bug out bag. This is smallest bug out bag of everything.

This is basically for Smurf. Yes, it is. I went online and I went to Amazon and I bought a bug out bag. And I looked at the bug out bag and it said it has 242 pieces in it. So I assume that it would be somewhat big. Because it looks like a backpack.

It looks like a backpack. But a very, very small backpack. But it actually has stuff that you can use, right? It's got, you know, it's got a shovel. If you were a smurf and needed to dig a latrine pit, you know, there's a smurf-sized shovel. That's like a garden hole. Yeah.

In the kit. I would get a bigger kit. Yeah. I'm just saying. You're just saying. Yeah. This is the one. I mean, unless you're, you know,

Like, I come from big-boned people. That's what, you know, everybody fat in my family used to say, we're big-boned people. No, we're not. We're fat. This is for very small-boned people. So this is why I thought it was going to be big. It said it came with an axe. Oh, wow.

So this is the axe. What is that? A dandelion axe? Yeah, I think you can cut down some dandelions with. But there are some things. That's about two fingers, by the way, the actual blade of the axe. Yeah, there are some things you can use. I mean, there's...

Those are very good. These are actually very good to have in the car. So this is actually going to go in my car. This is if you're caging any illegal immigrants. Yes. You're allowed to put the space blank. Or if your car gets out or you wanted maybe it protects radiation. I don't know if it protects radiation.

I don't know. I don't know. I want to look that up too before the internet goes. Right. But you know, you've got these types of things. So do you, this is how I know who's really prepared. Do you have food storage? I do.

You do. How long? About 30 days. Not a lot of time. Okay. No, that's better than most. Okay. Do you have a go bag in your car or anything else?

This was the start of it. Okay, that was the start of it. So it was a good start. It's a good start. Good start. Do you have a surgical kit? This is where it separates the men and the boys. This actually has string.

It doesn't have a full surgical kit. But I could like Jerry ring it. I could fish. Yeah. You know what's crazy is string. It's got a broken leg. Give me that string. But I mean, but that brings up the, I mean, we were all of an age where we probably were all Boy Scouts for a certain period of time.

That was part of what we did. And I couldn't find it. I've moved like three times in the past four years. I couldn't find. I have a 1972 Boy Scout field book, which is fantastic. Not the handbook. It's a field book. And it's a survival manual.

It teaches you, you know the other things like how to lash. Like I don't think many of the ladies. I don't even know. Somebody say to me, Stu, you're got to be like. me. Hey, take on the lashing, will you? Yeah. I have no idea. Is it whipping people? I don't know what. No, no. It's how to build structures with wood in, in small trees. You know, like, you take the things, like you look the bridge over the river Kwai. Like, the Boy Scouts taught you how to build it. I don't want to live in that world. You know, it's crazy. You know, I have the, I was so proud.

I got the surgical kit. And it, I mean, it has everything. It has, I mean, you can remove an appendix or whatever, you know, have it, brought it home, got the book, how to remove the appendix and things like that, you know. I'm not coming to your house for a bit. It's just so we know. Tony, said, honey, who's going to do the surgery? Because I ain't doing it on you, and I certainly do not want you doing it on me. And I'm like, well, I mean, but if we have to, she's like, let me die.

Let my appendix burst. I don't want you with your grubby hands in my internal organs. I think this is the appendix. Why is there Cheeto dust in there? I don't understand. She died from the Cheeto infection. I don't know. I think this is, I feel like buying a surgical kid is how like the series Dexter starts.

You know, it just doesn't end well. Now the problem is, is I have all of this stuff. If we're in an emergency and somebody like, I have to have my appendix out, I'd have no idea where it is. Okay, kids, everybody into the garage, start going through those boxes. I know we have one here someplace. This happened in the documentary, spies like us, where they had to improvise an appendix removal. They were not able to do it either. Well, I figure the first person will die of appendicitis.

It'll burst. The second person will at least have the set. We'll know where it is. Because we're like, that can't happen again. Let's make sure we all remember where the set is. Then that person will die because we have no idea what we're doing. Right. The third person will also die because the person who had just a little bit of experience

will be in so much trauma, they won't be able to do it. Right. But by like person 85, there's a good chance you might see five. Exactly. Right. Rob, thank you so much for coming in. Now you feel prepared. Right now you feel prepared.

No, no, no.