The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Chip Roy & Jennifer DeStefano | 4/18/23

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

Glenn and Stu discuss tax day and how the IRS has turned the entire process un-American. Rep. Chip Roy joins Glenn to discuss the debt ceiling debate happening within the House. Jennifer DeStefano, a mother, tells Glenn the horrifying story of her daughter's "kidnapping," which was a scam using artificial intelligence to mimic her daughter's voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, so I think today is kind of like an important day in the, at least in the Glennon's, in the Glennon stew annals of time. Because something I predicted back in the 90s happened today on the same day. Two different predictions happened on the same day. Yeah, this goes back a couple decades, this one. And, you know, a lot of it, a lot of that had come true previously with the. These are really specific examples. Very specific. It really makes you wonder how we're going to survive this next era.

I don't know what it is. I learned this from child counseling. It's going to be interesting to watch. It's going to be some interesting times. I'm interested to see how that's going to work out. Wow. I like that. It's pretty good.

I might go there. I like it. It's going to be interesting to watch this all unfold. Hey, we will have plenty to talk about. That's what I go back to all the time. The stories we will have to tell. The laughs we will have right before they put the news around everybody's name. Anyway, today's podcast is really good.

An amazing story from a mom in Arizona. She was called. Her daughter called her, crying on the phone. Mom, they have me. I've been kidnapped. Wait until you hear the full story on that. That. We also have Chip Rob.

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Stu's the only one that's used it. But this is how powerful it is. Microsoft, was it Microsoft? No, it was Samsung, is going to Microsoft and probably going to stop loading the machines with Google as its default browser and go to Bing. Not confirmed yet. They're in a negotiation, but apparently Google was stunned.

Of course they were. By the development. Bing has sucked forever. You're going to Bing. Yeah. And that was one of the things that made them really freak out about AI and caused them to release Bard, which is their version of AI, maybe earlier than was initially expected. And, you know, having played with it a little bit, it's like, it does not seem like it's ready, ready to go.

So here is, here's the head of Google, because BARD was not ready, anybody who uses it knows that. Bard is not ready. And they're just jamming things through the pipeline now, so they're not left in the dust. Well, a Sunday on 60 minutes, a show nobody watches anymore. more. The CEO of Google sat down and said, yeah, I mean, there's an aspect of this in which we call a black box. You know, we don't, we don't fully understand how it comes up with an answer. I mean, you can't quite tell why it said this or why it got it wrong. We have some ideas. And I'm sure our ability to understand this will get better over time. But that's where the state of the art is.

Okay, you're releasing something that is making decisions and you don't understand. One of the reasons, remember we told you this years ago, that Microsoft was dealing with a chatbot and it taught itself another language. It was going two chatbots they put together and they started talking to each other. And within, I think it was like 14 minutes, they started teaching each other a language that no one. watching understood by 17 minutes in, it was all that language and they unplugged it. Okay? You're not, this is alien life. You don't know how this is going to end up.

But Google is like, yeah, well, we don't understand the human mind either. Yeah, so let's not introduce another one. What do you say? But there's no way to stop this. Now, Elon Musk is doing his best to get people to, slow down on it. But I don't know how you do that. China's not going to do this. He was on with Tucker Carlson last night and Elon Musk was talking about AI. He said the dangers of AI could have a more detrimental impact than just elections, saying it will have a calamitous impact on the existence

of humanity in its entirety if it is not managed properly. So, not Let me ask you a question. What do you do? Can we have this as just regular people? Not experts, just regular people. Because I trust regular people much more than I trust the experts lately. What do we do? Do we have the government put regulations in it?

So the government is involved in AI? Do we have the government? Like the Manhattan Project, do we have the government just do it? Because they are doing it. they are involved they will be the first recipient of anything that we have going on okay and they're doing quantum computing too do you feel comfortable with the government being the gatekeeper of who can use AI and who can't or if it gets too dangerous they'll be the only ones to have it i'm not comfortable with that that's why i don't want china developing it are you comfortable with us saying

we're going to put a moratorium on it and let China get it first. I'm not comfortable with that. So what is it we do? We fix ourselves. Look at what we're doing right now. We are working on something that is as game changing as the Manhattan Project. And it's as if we have, you know, they're going to, but they're just about to put a red button on everyone's phone.

so anyone could launch a missile. And we're like, that's cool. It's kind of scary, though, isn't it? Yeah, I guess, but, I mean, I wouldn't put it on our phone. Look how convenient it is. I can win arguments. I just have to push the little red button. What are you crazy?

It is that dangerous in the hands of wrong people. Told you yesterday how you could easily just collapse the banking system with this. easily today you could do that no thank goodness i don't well i i bet you people are working on it but it's not happening yet but it will the invisible hand of the market remember is is not a good or a bad hand it depends on the people who are using it the invisible hand of the market gives us us what we want because of who we are. So what is it? Look around. What is it that we want? Power, money, fame? Wow. Control. Technology is just technology. It's like the internet. It's going to be both good and bad. And you're never going to put the internet back into its bottle unless you

collapse, you know, energy. Fry all the chips and you're just not able to make them anymore. You can't put it back in the bottle. The problem is not the gun. The problem is not, in this case, it might be the app. But the only thing we can really change is ourselves. That's it. Did you see the poll that came out from a professor who's been doing a poll?

He says 40,000 people have done this. taken this poll. He said, I've run it several times and I keep getting the same results. Which universe is the better one? One with humans or one without humans? How do you think that was answered? 40,000 people took this poll. How do you think it was answered?

You're not willing to say, huh? No, I mean, the fact that you're bringing this up has to be that people are saying that it would be better without humans. Okay, no. Thank goodness. No. No. But it's 58 to 41. Okay.

Okay. Closer than it should be. A lot closer than it should be. We are, we're living with people. I'm going to give you one of the biggest stories of the day next hour about the latest in these crazy climate people on what they're saying about foodstuffs. These people, they will starve the world to death. They'll starve the world to death. And I think there's a lot of people that'll be like, okay, so what's wrong with that?

That aren't thinking that, oh, you know, that might be you. We have to restore the gods of the copybook headings. We have to restore those things that we knew to be true, eternally true. And it just starts in our own lives. it's not that hard. Well, yes, it is. It is actually really hard. I mean, especially when, I mean, have you heard, there's a new licking game where you can get children to lick whip cream or marshmallow fluff on one side of Plexiglass and then you as an adult could lick on the other side.

Yeah. It's just a game, Stu, that we're playing in schools now. Sounds a game. Totally normal. Yeah. Yeah. They're even screwing up marshmallows. these days. That's the state of our world. Well, I will tell you. I think that started with Ghostbusters

one, but maybe that's just me. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Chip, how are you, sir? Glenn, how are you, sir? Good. I should, I should actually pay more respect to you. I mean, you're a chip to me, but, uh, congressman. It's good to have you on. Nah, no, look, we're, we're, uh, we're friends and, uh, that means a lot. Like, at the end of the day, we get these titles, titles don't mean much unless you earn it. And Congress needs to earn their titles. Yeah. We are, we are, we're looking at a big battle.

The Republicans always fail on this. They always lose their spine at the last minute. And, uh, and that's why we're in the mess we're in right now. You don't have any control or any levers of anything the administration is doing. So they can spend and do whatever they want because you no longer have the purse strings. House representatives do control the purse strings. What we, Congress, have historically done, was given the president too much power and not use those purse strings to rein in the president.

This is at the center of what we're talking about. Right now, I believe the speaker has done a good job laying out the baseline. I don't mean the baseline in the budget sense, but the sort of the floor, which is we need to go back to 2022 levels of spending, which to restrain the bureaucracy. We could cut it back to pre-COVID levels, basically. But then we need to be very specific about trying to undo the damage that this president has been doing, both in terms of legislation that has passed, as well as executive action. We need to undo the damage of the Inflation Reduction Act, so-called, which has all these ridiculous green subsidies,

which would destroy our ability to have economic growth and energy freedom. We need to undo the damage of the IRS proposal, which will hang these bureaucrats going out to the American people who are trying to just go through their life and sick tax agents. after him. We need to make sure that we're going to, you know, peel back some of these executive actions, like the president's trying to get in the way of states who want to deal with our own decisions on the transgender bathrooms or the pistol braces and other things that affect our freedoms. These are all things we can be doing. The World Health Organization needs to be stopped. You and I've talked about that a lot. It's ridiculous. These are things that we can do using the

power of the purse. Now, I'm not saying we get all of that, but Republicans better damned well fight for those things, force. it as far as we can get it. And then you've got to figure out when you got an all frame and then go back to and get some more. But under no circumstances, should we pass a long-term debt ceiling increase to mortgage our kids' future without getting substantive changes like the ones I just outlined. And we're right in the middle of having those debates right now. And internally, so what is the mood from the Republicans? Look, this is all difficult, right? I mean, I don't, I'm going to be honest. I speak of McCarthy has a tough job. I'm not trying to give them a

excuse. It is hard. We had a good conversation this morning. We laid out an outline that I think is a good framework. Okay. There are still some things we need to address. For me, for example, the Inflation Reduction Act with all of the Green Subsities, which are basically giveaways, largely to big corporations, advancing leftist causes, you know, enriching them, undermining our national security, undermining our energy security, driving up the cost of your energy, you know, putting in place all these ridiculous requirements. They've got CAFE standards now that have tried to require all battery-driven

fleet cars by 2030. How are you and I going to drive around Texas with that and afford it? These things we have to stop. So some of this is going to take a willpower to drive a larger agenda on this beyond just the sort of

dollars and cents we normally get trapped in in a death ceiling fight. Reducing spending is part of it. But we're going after a woke weaponized BRI undermining your freedom, undermining economic growth, undermining well-being and national security of this country, all in the name of a climate fetish agenda driven by radical leftists that this president is fueling. We have to stand in the way of that. I think we've got a lot of the makings there, but I'm going to be blunt.

There are a handful of folks in our conference who get a little wobbly. You know it. It always happens. And we're having to hold the line. Same debate is occurring on border security, by the way. We're a handful of people want to undermine our ability to actually get transformative change. We're not going to do that. We want to be like Democrats were in Obamacare.

Yes. They didn't care. They took it to the limit. We need to stand up and take it to the limit. This is, I mean, we are about to see a big change on the border to the negative here in the next. Title 42. Yeah, Title 42. That is, that's really going to make things.

really bad on the border. Who is it that is trying to, well, you don't have to tell me, but, oh, I will find out. I'm not going to name names yet, but I promise you we're either going to pass good bill or we're going to, or we're going to have a vote, and then you'll know, because they'll be a voting record. We're not going to do anything in between. We need to pass a good bill. We need to have the provisions that will stop the releases into our country in violation of law that are the magnet that are causing the cartels to make profit that are undermining our security, endangering Americans, endangering migrants, killing migrants, driving fentanyl into our communities. We need to stop it. We can. We've got to have the willpower to do it. Over 200 Republicans agree

that we need to do it. There's a small block, and we're working through it in good faith. I'm not going to go pointing fingers. We're working through in good faith. I think we're going to move a good bill through the judiciary committee tomorrow that would do the job, but we're going to have to see how things unfold over the next week or two based on what we get through. Is there any kind of uniting things on agencies like just slashing the Department of Education or justice because of all the lies that are coming out? Is there any rock that everybody will rally around when it comes to the Republicans? Well, right now have a pretty good level of agreement, probably even 218 to say that we should return to 2022 spending. Now, I want you to think about that.

to do that and keep our spending for defense up where we needed to be to fight China. I mean, we need to gut all of their, you know, non-you know, the, you know, DEI and all their woke stuff. Yeah. But we still need to spend it. If you do that, then you return non-defense spending to 2019 pre-COVID levels. That's a pretty good whack at the bureaucracy. Now, I mean, it's not like 2019 was the paragon of virtue for, you know, federal. Better than this.

But it's better than this. If we do that, that's a pretty good. whack at the bureaucracy across the board. Now, once you appropriate, well, you target that at the new FBI headquarters, restricting the justice woke programs. Go after the garbage at the Department of Education that's, you know, poisoning the minds of our kids. Go after the garbage at the Department of Interior EPA that are undermining our ability to produce, you know, wealth and grow the economy. We can do a lot of that. But you do that in the appropriations process. Right now what we're doing is saying we're going to set the caps. Let's go return to

2022 level spending and then let's identify those demons. But we're doing that right now and all of our messaging. You know them. You do it every day on the show. Why do you need a $3.5 billion new headquarters for an FBI that has been undermining our security and targeting it? Correct. I don't think we should do that. So what happens? It leaves the House. It has to go to the Senate. And then what's the Senate going to do? They're like kill, you know, babies and, you know, orphans and women and old people. I mean, you know, it's what they always do.

And I just try to train Republicans don't care about that. Try to balance the budget in 10 years, which would be an unbelievable undertaking to accomplish, actually. It's really mathematically difficult. You're going to still have a massive amount of debt pile up, right? We're still going to have, we're going to raise the debt to like $50 trillion. You know, right? In other words, that's if we do the hard work of balancing in 10 years. So we're going to try to send over a responsible first year,

spending on the back of a debt ceiling increase. You guys want us to increase the debt ceiling a trillion or $2 trillion, then you're going to reset the baseline. We're going to reduce spending from the bureaucracy. We're going to get the bureaucracy out of the way. We're going to recoup some of this COVID money. We're going to end $500 billion a student loan that would just save $500 billion instantly in deficit for 2023.

All of those are things that we can go do if we fight for. Senator over the Senate, make them own, you know, favoring a, a, uh, kid who got student loan stuff or whatever over a plumber or the or the or the or the or the or the or the or the or the or the or the or the person who has made up the student loans versus the person who has make them be in favor of the IRS we make them be in favor of the FBI bureaucrat labeling parents to domestic ordering them and getting them focused on their actual task of going after real criminals we can win these messages if we go take it to them it is a woke weaponized government undermining your liberty that needs to be thwarted if we're going to save America and

that's our goal here if you don't do the they understand the GOP is about to lose any brand loyalty? There's just, I mean, it's barely there. But I mean, you know, it's over. If you guys don't do things at this time, when it's this bad, why would you even ever give to the GOP? Well, let me just say this. I believe in results.

I don't like telling you what's being said because it doesn't matter, right? what matters is what we do and what we get done. I will tell you in the private conversations from the speaker now, there is a firm recognition that our constituents expect us to do at least two things, but, you know, dozens more, at least two things. One, secure our border and try to force the administration's hand to do it and give the tools to the next presidents do it, but secure our border. And two, drastically cut spending and change the trajectory of the deficit pile up that's

funding the bureaucrats that's undermining our freedom. Those two things must be dealt with, or the Republican Party is going to be in the assheaf of history. There are many other things we need to do. I mean, you and I can go list them. But if we don't do those two things, we are a dead man walking. And I will say the Speaker has effectively said that.

So have a number of other folks that you may not expect in the conference, accepting and understanding that. We're trying to work in good faith. We're a quarter into this. We pass a number of good bills. You know, we're debating a bill right now to try to make sure that they can't discriminate against, you know, our girls in sports by allowing these, you know, transgender folks to undermine the, you know, Riley, you know, games and the others of the world. So, you know, we're doing some things that are important. But Title 42 is coming.

Our border is wide open. It's coming to summer. We've got to do something about it. And the spending is out of control. So we got to get busy. How can we help you? just keep the heat up make sure everybody out there knows make your rid and look and support the congressmen who are in tough districts let them know you'll have their back let them know you're not just going to yell at them you're going to say look go fight for the things you said you do cut the spending secure the border and i'll come support you we'll get out and get you reelected but most importantly is just keep the heat up keep the prayers coming uh keep the faith right second timothy uh four seven we're supposed to fight to fight keep the faith um you know finish the race, not in that order. But that's what we're supposed to do.

Okay. Chip, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I would, God bless you. I would highly, highly recommend. Now is the time to make a call to your congressman and just say, hey, just heard Chip Roy on. I want to back you up. I mean, I'm hoping that our congressman is the one that's going to be fighting with with chip to get these things done. We just want you to know you do that. We have your back. If we can flood them with positive stuff, because they're used to hearing the bad things. If we can flood them with positive stuff, maybe, maybe we can get this through.

Because it has to. It has to. If we don't cut the budget and cut the size of this out of control government, we don't survive as a nation. We don't. And we're putting all of our money in the wrong places. China is about to open a can of whoop ass on us. And what are we doing? What are we doing? The best of the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I heard a story the other day. It's truly amazing. I think it was first reported out of Arizona family. And these two writers, they do this incredible interview with this mother who went through hell.

This is a story that is showing you the future. Jennifer DeStefano is with us. And she is married and mother of four. and she had an incredible experience when her phone rang and she almost didn't pick it up. Jennifer, welcome to the program. Hi, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me. This is so crazy.

When I read this, I was like, oh, my gosh, this is the future. Tell me what happened. Yeah, it was horrifying. My daughter was training for a ski race. and so she was away with my husband and my younger son as he competes as well. And I was with my younger daughter who had rehearsal. So I got a phone call and I saw it come up as I was getting out of my car as an unknown number. So I first was not going to answer it, but then I thought, well, that could be a medic or could be a doctor or hospital and breathe his training.

So, you know, in case he got hurt, I should answer it. So I had my phone on speakers. I was carrying some things inside to meet my younger daughter at dance. And all of a sudden, my daughter, Brianna's voice says, mom, and she's sobbing and crying. And she is a very specific type of sob and cry. She's not a whaler. She's not a screamer. She doesn't freak out.

It's very internal and controlled. And so I didn't doubt for one second that was heard. So it's her voice saying, Mom, and she's crying and sobbing. And I said, what happened? What's going on? She goes, Mom. I messed up and she's still sobbing and crying. So I'm thinking she got hurt.

I'm like, what happened? What's going on? All of a sudden, I heard a man's voice say, lay down, put your head back. So I thought she was being gurneyed or tobogged or something down the mountain. And then she goes, Mom, Mom, these bad men have me. Help me, help me, help me, help me. And this guy comes on full voice in the background's face. And it's her pleading and sobbing and crying for help.

And he goes, listen here, I have your daughter. you're not going to call the police. You're not going to talk to anybody. If you do, I'm going to pump her stomach so full of drugs. I'm going to have my way with her, and I'm going to drop her in Mexico, and you'll never see her daughter again. She was talking about it. So at that point, I had her own speaker, and I was walking into my other daughter's studio,

and I just started screaming for help. It was after hours. I knew my younger daughter was there with at least one teacher. I didn't know there was a couple of their moms and a couple other students there. And so the mom came around me and heard all of the things that he was threatening to do and what was going on. So one jumped on the phone and called 911 with her phone. I asked, I was trying to text my older son. I was trying to text my other kids, my daughter, you know, find Bree.

Where's Bree? What's going on? Where's your dad? Find your dad? And while shaking, the other mom went and grabbed my younger daughter's phone because my daughter was just paralyzed listening to all the things he was. was saying and tried contacting my husband to find out where he was and where Bree was. And they asked for a million dollars at that point? They asked for a million dollars, which wasn't going to be possible.

He got really angry with me. And then he demanded $50,000. And so I said, okay, and I wanted to talk to my daughter again. He wouldn't let me talk to her again, though. and that's when we found out for 9-1-1 that there was this AI scam going on that's being used and that this is pretty common, which we were horrified to hear, but that gave us some hope. But still, I didn't know for sure if that was what was happening. So I asked him for wiring instructions or how he wanted me to get this $50,000 for him,

and he refused a wire, and he was demanding that I was going to be personally picked up. And I was going to be transported in a van with a bag over my head, with the cash to my daughter. And if we didn't have all the money that both of us were going to be dead. And he wanted to make arrangements to come physically pick me up. So at that point, we had the police on their way. And then finally, we were able to get my husband on the phone with, and he was able to locate and make sure that my daughter was safe and in his possession.

But her voice was so real that I couldn't, I didn't believe that he really had her and that she was really safe because her voice, I was like, I just spoke to her. How can she be there with you? And how can she be there with these guys? I don't understand what's going on. And my brain just could not process that as they kept trying to reassure me that she was safe until they finally handed me the phone.

And I was able to talk to her. And she reaffirmed that she was safe and she was with dad and what's going on. And then that's when I got back on the phone with those guys and called them out on the scam, which they kept denying was a scam. And then I hung up on them. is incredible. So if anybody missed it in the audience, this was an AI representation of

her daughter. How did they get the how did they get the the sound to be able to reproduce her voice? Yeah, I've racked my brain on that. My daughter's not very big in social media and all any accounts he has is private I mean, her TikTok account is 32 followers. So she has done some interviews, some sports interviews. She's an athlete.

She does have a public photographer account from when she did some modeling for some outerwear and skiing. But not, but the voice, the crying, the sobbing is where I can't even find anything that, where they, I'm not sure. And so that's what's really haunting for me is I can't figure out that piece of the puzzle. I don't know where they got that. I'm going to see if some of our guys can look into that, because that is disturbing that they can do that. Did they catch the guys? They're not looking into it.

So unfortunately, because there was no transaction of money and there was no physical kidnapping, there's nothing that can be done. So it's written up as a prank call. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. when I talked to the police, it was, you know, we can have an officer call you if you feel unsafe just to reassure you that you're safe, but there's nothing that can be done. Wow. Did they say how often this is happening?

They did not, but they did say that this isn't the first report they've had of it, but that there's nothing that they can do. When I put it out, I put it out on next door, just as a warning, because I didn't know if it was targeted to her. area. I didn't know where the targeting was coming from. All of a sudden, all these other people started coming forward with their stories, including my own mother called me, and she had never told me this before, but my brother's voice was used to call her to say that he had been injured in a car accident and that he needed money. And she's hard of hearing, so she asked them to keep repeating because it wasn't making sense to her. And the way they spoke to her and they kept saying, Mom, don't you recognize me, that kind of tipped her off at something funny was going on.

and so she told him to go find a real mother and hung up on them. And my brother's not anywhere. His voice isn't anywhere I can think of either. So he's my age, he's in his 40s. So it goes so far and so wide and so deep in so many different areas. The good news is for my wife, if they kidnap me because of my voices everywhere, she'll be like, take him. Mexico, fine.

Can you take him further? That'd be great. Jennifer, thank you for sharing this. What an amazing story. Thank you. Thank you for bringing awareness so we can hopefully stop this. Yeah. Thank you.

Jennifer DeStefano, she's a mom in Arizona. That is the first time I've heard of an AI crime using artificial voice. I mean, that's going to work against a lot of people. Oh, my gosh. Imagine how terrified you'd be, especially when they're saying you can't get off the phone, you know, you, there's no way to, you're making judgments about massive life-changing decisions in moments where you're totally out of sorts. You just said, you said to me two hours ago, I don't know if it was on the air or off

the air, but you were like, I said, this is, this is as powerful as the nuclear bomb when we invented it. It's going to change the world that much, except we all have a little red button. on our phone. Yeah. Okay. And you said, do you really think

it could change that? Look at the damage done today with just that. Imagine bots set out to do as many as they can of this in one day where you have 50,000 people in America get a call like that. On the same day. And on the same day. You would even be able to automate the kidnapper's voices. Yeah.

You don't even need to have people on the other side of the phone. on just you know stick you know the account information or whatever in there and and who knows how many people would wire 5,000 10,000, $20,000 to try to make sure that this is not happening to the kid. I you know and we see these hacker type of situations where state governments, city governments are paying actually the hackers. They're actually doing it when they're actually paying ransoms. When did I say to you there's going to come a time. that you won't believe your eyes or your ears. Oh gosh, it was very early on in the show.

You said that. And, you know, I mean, almost all of the things that you came up with have come true, or at least are almost true. So that was at least 20 years ago. Yeah. Okay. At least 20 years ago. When she said this, I didn't realize it until the middle of it,

I looked at Stu off air and I said, you won't believe your eyes. As I thought about that while she was talking, I thought of something else. Today is the day that the Sony photograph of the year. Oh, yeah. Beautiful photograph. The guy won photograph of the year. It's a world competition.

Photograph of the year from Sony. And he just admitted today, I can't accept the award because that's AI. and I thought we should talk about how good AI is. Today is the day you cannot believe your eyes. Sony didn't pick it up. And you cannot believe your ears. That's bizarre.

Wow. And how could we, if Sony can't detect it, how are we going to be able to tell what is real and what is not? We don't have, and my typical conservative complaint reaction to this has been like, well, we used to have institutions that would be able to decipher these things and you could trust them and now we don't have those. But I mean, Sony, it's not like they weren't trying to figure this out. They just didn't know. They couldn't decipher it. How on earth are we going to be able to tell what is true and what is not?

I'm screw. I'm buying a shack. What's Idaho like this time of year? If we could get Idaho to be warmer. Yeah, that should be a lot warmer. Yeah, that's the problem. I need to find the place like the Unabomber Shack land that has a beach. That's what I need.

Where's that? Is that a place? I need it. Well, I think you want a shack on the beach? You just wait California out for a little while longer, and they'll all be shacks on the beach.