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Episode Date: November 14, 2022

Stu gives Glenn the latest midterm update, as Democrats remain in control of the Senate and control of the House still hangs in the balance. Did Mitch McConnell cost Republicans control of the government by not funding multiple key races? Pat Gray joins the guys to discuss the loss of the Senate with Nevada’s sudden Democrat victory. Co-founder of Strive Asset Management Vivek Ramaswamy joins to break down what happened with crypto with the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, and his strange connection with Ukraine. The Left can’t figure out when altering children’s bodies is OK and when it’s not. Stu lays out which House races Republicans are favored to win. Glenn and Stu discuss the upcoming sequel to "A Christmas Story" and debate whether Glenn has officially become an old man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. Have you? So, could you just tell me what exactly is going on now? Yes, the Senate has been called for the Democrats over the weekend. Two close races went the Democrats way. Blake Masters in Arizona lost and Adam Laxalt in Nevada lost. Now, simultaneously in Nevada, the gubernatorial candidate for the Republicans won. So split between those two.

both very close races yeah but the Republican did win in Nevada which is some good news now I understand that thank goodness they found some ballots from like the kitchen union or something what what exactly

happened with these extra ballots I don't know who knows who knows that's stuff they're going to sort out here I guess in the coming weeks I mean again there's people still challenging these are what these are media calls there's you know but still

it does look that way. I think, you know, Carrie Lake is, I'd be interested to hear what she says. Maybe we'll have her on later today, but she, you know, this is a race we talked about that would, if she could sweep it out, was going to be really, really close, but does not look all that

promising by the votes that have come in. I don't know if there's a different perspective from Arizona, but looking just at the results over the past three or four days. I don't think it looks as good as you'd hope. The House still remains as a Republican favorite. So, like, I keep, there's

is, there's one of the, one of the sites, one of the mainstream sites, keeps quoting it as like, uh, Republicans, 220, uh, 221 seats is the projection. Plus or minus four. I was like, well, that's a big plus or minus four because the minus four is 217, which means they don't have control.

And that's sort of the, like, if every single thing goes wrong, they could still lose the house. I, they would definitely be the overwhelming favorite to win it. So far, though, has it? every single thing gone wrong. Well, I get, you look at the races that are outstanding and you just see a lot of like California stuff. Right.

You know, there's not a lot there. You'd be like, okay, that one should come through. Lauren Bobert's an interesting one. The race seems to be completely counted, basically. And she leads by a couple. I was going to say a couple thousand. It's really just basically a thousand and change. But she, 50.0.

Is there a labor union that has? hasn't found their votes. We don't know that stuff. We don't know that. We will eventually find that stuff out. But she remains in the lead. And like that's, that would get you an extra seat. There's a few more that I think a Republican favored.

They should pull through in the house. And as much as this all feels really disappointing, clearing that hurdle is a major, major hurdle. It was the only one that seemed like a real sure thing coming in. It's going to be a much smaller, a smaller margin if they get. it than we were hoping for, but that doesn't matter all that much. You get control of the committees, you get control of the votes, you get to be able, you can block stuff that's going through that Biden wants. There's a lot you can do with just that one piece, but they do have to get that one piece. If we don't get that one piece, that's a catastrophic election. Then you can put it to

the side of a catastrophic election. Right now, I think people feel catastrophe because many people expected a red tsunami. And, you know, I never thought that that was the most likely outcome. But a stronger win than this, yeah. A red wave. You know, this has been a red, this is, we've been calling it a red tinkle. Yeah. Because it feels like you got punched somewhere you didn't want to get punched.

Right. But it does, it's still on the red side. And so we'll see. It's just blood. It's just blood. Yeah. You don't want to get punched there. Yeah.

Thank you for that, Stu. I appreciate it. It's a good way to start a Monday. So there is another. election that is supposedly happening this week. Don't know why he would be trying to get this done so fast. You know, well, I actually do. The reason why Mitch McConnell wants to have an election this week is because nobody in the Senate is really prepared for it.

Nobody else has put their hat in the ring yet. So they're going to have a They're going to have a top secret meeting on Tuesday Shh, don't tell anybody They're going to have a meeting on Tuesday And that's when they're going to hear from, you know, anybody else that wants to put their hat in the ring I hope somebody puts their hat in the ring

Because Mitch McConnell has got to go If there's anyone that you could say, I think they played a role in the loss here it would be Mitch McConnell. You know, why did you put so much money in the Murkowski race when we knew it was going to be a Republican either way? Yeah, that's terrible. Why would you do that? Let us decide that one.

Yeah. I think he, I think we all know why he did that. He did that because he wanted to make sure he had Murkowski who would count out to him. Oh, yes. Oh, powerful Oz. Yes. Yes. So we know why he did that.

We also know why he didn't put money into Blake Masters, which we could have won that race. Oh my gosh, yes. It was definitely a winnable race. Yeah, definitely a winnable race. Yeah. But he didn't put any money there. Why?

Because he knew Blake Masters wouldn't kowt to the all-powerful Oz, otherwise known as the turtle. Not Dr. Oz. Not Dr. Oz. That's a different Oz. Yeah, not Dr. Oz. Which I don't think he put any money into that one either, did he? I don't know the answer to that one.

That was certainly a tougher race, although I think I just wound up losing by, what was it, four points. But seemingly a winnable one. When you have a guy who is incapable of communicating with other human beings, it does seem to be winnable. So here's what I'd like to ask you to participate in. I would like you to write this phone number down, 202, 224, 3121, 2121. That number again is 202, 224, 3121. That'll get you to the capital switchboard. Now, you can go online and look for your senator

and find the direct line to your Senate office, but I highly recommend that you do today. In fact, Deb Fisher from Nebraska, she should be called. Roger Wicker from Mississippi. He should be called Rick Scott, Florida, Ted Cruz, Texas, Mike Braun from Indiana, Josh Holly from Missouri, John Barrasso, Wyoming. He would be great to call. Marsha Blackburn would also be called.

She should be called. I mean, it wouldn't be a bad idea. And let's see who's, let's see who's on the side for. Mitch McConnell. Who's a member of the Mitch's Bitches Club? Who is it that will actually stand with this guy? Because I

think personally that they should have another election and see if we can get anybody else to take over for Mitch McConnell. Because he was instrumental in getting nothing done.

Nothing. The only thing that you can credit Mitch McConnell on is a Supreme Court, and that's a big thing. However, for all of the years that he's been running the dump, that's the only thing I can think of. So what have you done for us lately, Mitch? Besides, screwed this up. Here's the thing.

Mitch McConnell and his ilk are going to be exactly the same as they have always been. Mitt Romney? He said last week, There's only one person who is responsible for the red wave that is coming, and that is Mitch McConnell. And I thought that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard because he wasn't going for the red wave. He was working against the red wave. But Romney is right about this. He does deserve credit for everything that has just happened.

So I highly recommend that you call your senators and wait a minute. I think most of these are up for re-election next time. Well, anyway, I think you should call them and say, hey, we want to know if you're going to vote for or against Mitch McConnell. And if they say against Mitch McConnell, great. if they say, it's a sacred ballot and I'm, we're not sure who is, just let them know, you're writing that down as a vote for Mitch McConnell. And you will remember come election day.

You will, oh, you will remember. You'll remember that. Then you might want to also call, you know, some of the others that, uh, might be thinking about, oh, I don't know, running for president. Who could those be? There's a lot of senators are probably considering it, Glenn. Yeah, probably. I mean, Rubio, you know, isn't it weird?

Rubio is an interesting story, right? I mean, people forget, sure, Desantis won by, what, 19 points. I would assume Marco Rubio, who also won, I think, by 17 points in Florida. That's a big story. He ran already for president. Yeah. Maybe he's thinking it's time to run again. And isn't he one of them that just came out and said, hey, maybe we should replace Mitch McConnell?

He showed some skepticism, it seemed. He did see it. It seemed that way. It would be interesting. Now, you don't think that it's, I mean, I take Marco Rubio at his word. It's not just because he's running for president and knows you're not going to go anywhere in the Republican Party if you back Mitch McConnell. Right? Isn't that it?

Anyway, you might want to call some of these. senators. Again, the number is 202, 224, 3121. Could you run as a Republican if you were in the Senate? Could you run if you had voted for Mitch McConnell? You could run. Yeah, but you'd probably entertain. You'd probably entertain the interest of a bunch of money from Mitch McConnell. But that's the only upside in a primary.

I don't think a primary would, that would not look good in your primary record. Yeah, probably not. Probably not. I voted for it. It was a secret ballot. I can't tell you who I voted for. Oh, I think we know. I think we know.

It'll be clear, I think, by that answer. Because everybody who doesn't vote for Mitch McConnell, I think they're going to be fine saying I didn't vote for Mitch McConnell. Pretty sure. Pretty sure. So that's Romney. I love him. You've always been a big Romney guy. All that I can always remember.

Deb Fisher, Roger Wicker, Rick Scott, Ted Cruz. Some of these are going to be easy. They're going to say, no, I'm not voting for him. But just make sure everybody in the Senate on the Republican side understands, you're not joking around. You are clear what Mitch McConnell has done for you

and the country. And I'm pretty much sick of it. Mike Braun, Josh Hawley, John Barrasso, and Marsha Blackburn. This would be good to call.

Did I tell you that they're voting on that on Wednesday? Just two days from now. days from now. And what, four days, five days after they called the Senate? Yeah. Isn't that weird? That's weird. Because Schumer is not calling for a re-election until December. But Mitch wants to get this done. Wants to get this done right away, right away. If there's anything you'd say about Mitch McConnell, it's that he's speedy. He just sees the word. You know, I mean, he looks like a turtle. Sure. But remember, the turtle won that race. Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this. Let me tell you too. He, when he sees a continuing resolution or an omnibus bill, he is on it. They'll give it to him and he'll say,

right, right away. And then he's nimble. He's nimble. He gets it to the guys within hours of the vote. So nobody can, you know, really look at it. But that's as fast as he can go. He is fast. So when we're looking at another omnibus or we're looking for a continuing resolution, Mitch is our guy. And when we're looking now at the 2024 election coming up, I think Mitch is the guy to chart the course to get that Republican Party back on track. You do. Well, in the same sort of way as I think our state,

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7,000. Where we have like almost everyone you've ever seen on Fox News as a candidate. Yes. Yes, I do. Unfortunately, yes. I think there was a hope among some that maybe you'd have, you know, Trump versus DeSantis, maybe like a Larry Hogan, who's probably going to get in it as a moderate, something like that. But like the two people with a chance to win and then a limited field where you'd see two

people kind of fight it out and then you'd get to the end with some sort of rational conclusion of that story. In 2016, there were so many candidates all at the same time. Everybody joined in. Tons of people below 1%. You know, debate stages, they split up over multiple days. I mean, this is all coming back to me now and it's starting to be terrifying. Everybody is going to be running for vice president. That's what's going to happen. They're going to run for president, but they're actually running for vice president. That's what's going to happen. That's what you'll see in the field. And that happened, of course, that played. out in the Democratic primary in 2020

where a failed presidential candidate got the VP slot. And if we have people like Mitch McConnell, we'll do that again. We'll do, hey, it worked for the Democrat. Let's get the least popular person and put him on the ticket. So you think Mitch McConnell will be VP? I think there's a good

chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be interesting. So let me go back to the 2016 crew for a bet. Marco Rubio, you think is I think there's chance. Yeah. I think yeah. Ted Cruz. yes now ran Paul is an interesting one ran Paul has been very much in the news over the past couple of years especially on the COVID stuff we did ask him this question directly when he was on the air with this one time and his answer was definitely not no I'm not running it was more of a if Trump wins I don't think there'd be much of a point or if Trump runs I don't think there'd be much of a point meaning I guess that he'd clear the field at some level I think that's changing unfortunately because I don't think I don't think I don't think I don't think there's think a great, a huge field really benefits the Republican Party or conservatism generally.

No. And I like, I like watching the, I like watching the varying viewpoints. I like to see who's the best candidate. I don't think a big primary necessarily is always damaging, but I don't know. It seems to be so, so much of a side show. You can't get anything accomplished. Everyone's, you know, 30 second answers on a debate stage from 12 different people does nothing. No. And the nice thing is, This time you're going to have Liz Cheney joining in, too. You think she's going to get into? Of course she is. She'll run and she'll be.

She'll be funded by the left like crazy, so she'll always be standing there. She'll just keep going. I don't know if they'll pick her or they'll find someone. They're going to find someone to take her place. It might be Larry Hogan. But someone's going to take that wing of the Republican Party and give it a whirl. The Glenn Back Program. World has a ton of troubles right now, and while some of them are just over the horizon, I believe there is a new dawn waiting for us.

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miserable would be a good word despondent would be another word defeated would be a third that we could use so not spirited no not spirited in any way

except about the national divorce movement I'm kind of you're into that I'm kind of into that yeah I wouldn't mind do you think that in if we got a national divorce in the new let's say

constitutional republic that we would like to live in. Do you think the GOP would win the elections? Somehow they'd still blow it. They'd still blow it. They'd still find a way to lose. There'd be a commune, one communist. And he'd be like, I think, I should fill all of the Senate seats and they'd win. Yeah.

That's probably true. Yeah. Probably true. So isn't it bizarre, though, that every time you, go to sleep with a lead, you wake up with not the lead. It's kind of strange to me. I wasn't expecting this over the weekend. Have you? Adam Laxold would drop the, what, almost three point lead he had going into the weekend, two and a half points, something like that. And all of a sudden, nope, he lost.

Adam Laxold preparing him for a loss. I'm like, wait, what? How did that happen? Well, all the precincts that came in were heavy Democrat. We just thought they might be slightly Democrat. Okay. Wow, that happens a lot. Didn't happen in the gubernatorial race, though. That's good. That is true. The Republican governor hung out there.

If you're going to do it, you know, if you're going to cheat, you think you would do. Probably go for all of it. Exactly. That's why. Or. That's what they want you to think. You know what? We'll give them the governorship.

We'll give them that. They won't be able to say it. As long as we have the Senate, then they won't be able to say anything. It hurts, though. It hurts. It does. And to see the victory lap that Biden is taking. I mean, after the Xi message, he meets with Xi for three hours, comes out talking about, you know, how great it is that Democrats won.

That, well, how did he put it that? Oh, election denialism was strongly rejected. Because, you know, there's such wide and open and honest elections in China. I'm glad he was able to show. shine light on that. Because they've been doing such a good job. President G, very, very popular. Very, very popular.

In fact, I think he might win 98, 99% of the vote. Well, if they let people vote. That's because they call him Mr. Freedom. Mr. Freedom. Mr. Freedom. Mr. Freedom. Wow, I didn't see that one coming. No.

But then again, I didn't see Laxalt losing either. No, I didn't either. Did not either. So at least it takes the edge off the Georgia race now. doesn't it? Yeah. It's like, whatever.

It might be good for, for Walker's chances. I think there's an argument to be made that like now that control isn't a hundred percent is teetering on that. Really? Maybe, maybe, uh,

maybe they win. Maybe Republicans will be more active than some sideline voters that don't typically go out to the polls. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I still think. Because my reaction is a little like Pat's.

Huh. Well. Well, I mean, it's it. I, I am. It's a six-year term. I'm getting out of the car before they drive it over the cliff, but they are driving it over the cliff. Assuming we still have a nation in the next couple of elections, it will be nice to have a one-seat cushion. As we see how close these things are.

The next couple of elections? Yes, towards 24, 26. Next couple of months. It is important, though. And next time the map tilts towards Republicans, as we've discussed many. times. Yeah, we have a better shot. Yeah.

2024 should be a good year. Now, he said it's McConnell's going to see to that. I'll tell you. I thought you were just talking about maybe replacing him with somebody. I am talking about it. Now, there are some people that are talking about it as well. You know, there's there's Josh Hawley.

Okay. Eric Schmidt. Yes. Rick Scott. Good. Ron Johnson. All right. Lindsay Graham.

Lindsay Graham. Yeah. That's a surprise. Yeah. Mike Lee. J.D. Vance. Okay. Ted Cruz. Like that. Rubio.

Rubio was in that? There's a few. Murkowski, strangely not. What a surprise. Strangely not. Stunning surprise. Did they call that race yet? The Murkowski won. I haven't checked that one in a while. For the love of Pete. Just call it Alaska. I know. I don't know if they have yet. I do. No, they haven't because they have to do the rank choice thing and they have to wait for all the votes to come in.

But she's going to, I think Murkowski is the favorite there by Marcos. Of course she is. You're going to go for. the more of the two evils. Not the lesser. But the more. Yeah. So Chabaca is currently up by two points. This is...

It went ask for a comment. Ask for a comment. That's what she said. We've been talking about that race for like two weeks. Why have we not talked about this race with Pat in here? We need Pat in here when we're talking about the Chabaca race. Right. Because it's important.

have somebody that can do Brickowski's at 42.8. But the way this breaks out, of course, when you do the ranked choice voting, you're going to lose the last candidate first and her vote, which I think the last one is a Republican, but it's only a couple percent. And that, let's just say that even goes

to Chabaca, which it could go either way. The next one's a Democrat. And that's, I think, 9% of the vote. And that, that percentage will be distributed between it will almost exclusively go to Murkowski, which should per- over the 50-point barrier.

That's the way I'm looking at that race. Now, of course, there's still a bunch of votes to come in. Alaska is one of these. And are you from labor unions? Possibly. I think you have 14 days after the election to have your, they wait 14 days, something like that, and to get all the votes in.

What? Yeah. Look. Do they have to be at least, like, marked the day of? I think they have to be postmarked by the day. And you might say like, it's three towns away. and it still takes 14 days in Alaska. That could be the truth.

I don't know. You know, Alaska is a little bit of a different place, but, I mean, if there's one, you can't, there's no reason to do this in, like, California. Like, Alaska, maybe you have a, there's some island out that no one's ever visited. And, you know, I don't know. It takes a while for the mail to get there. Maybe, but like, you know, it's like New York City. We need six months.

Sorry. I think Nevada did that. Either Nevada or Arizona, I was reading about one of the two, I can't remember over the weekend. And they said that Saturday was the deadline for mail-in votes to arrive and be counted. And it didn't even specify whether or not they had to be postmarked November 8. So that's good. Well, the other ones they do is they're like, what? You don't care about our military members serving overseas that want to get their votes?

What happens about a person who is in a cave in Afghanistan and decides on Election Day he's going, he needs to. He gives it to a Sherpa who postmarks it on November 8th, who that has to walk it. And he hasn't heard yet that we withdrew from Afghanistan a year ago. He's in a cave. How would he know? You're right. He just knows he wanted Catherine Cortez Mastow to be the next senator. I think that's a very good point.

A very good point. And, you know, while you're at it, I mean, sure, he's over in a cave, but you might be in the kitchen of some union kitchen. where there's knives and you've got to get around all the knives as you're passing out the ballots and then collecting all the ballots and making sure that it gets there, you might need a couple of months. That's very likely. It takes time. It takes time. How many times have we seen that be the case for some of these voters? Many, many times.

Many times. Or you might be dead and it takes you a little longer to get it out of your casket, above ground, into the hand of a mailman and all the way to the voting place. You know, it takes some time for the dead to get their vote counted. They move slowly. If you've ever seen a horror movie or a zombie movie. I don't know if you've seen this. I've seen this happen. You have to convince the worms to take that letter up above the soil.

And a lot of them don't want to. No. And they have to grab that ballot with their teeth. With their worm teeth? With their worm teeth. Their worm teeth and get that up there. Yeah. And worm teeth, you know, they might bite through the, they might start eating the ballot. You have to get it up there before they finish dissolving it.

That was the problem with the, with the chads. Oh, really? Yeah. The worm teeth. The worm teeth. It was, dang it. Man. So many of our problems come back to. So many. You know? Yeah. Good chunk of them. Hey, so can I just give you a story about Walgreens? Walgreens has decided to close three locations in Boston. Oh, what racist.

Man, thank you for saying, welcome. So clear and obvious that that's all about racism. It is. Now, they might have been, you know, robbed every day. Yeah, but who isn't? That's just sheer unadulterated racism. Thank you, Pat.

I was glad somebody said it. I was hoping you would see that like the city of Boston does. Everything is racism now. Everything is racist. It's true. It's true. I was a, my wife and I went away, I was in Nashville. Nashville. I love Nashville. It's a great town, great people around. Went into a Walgreens there. And that was an interesting experience.

Really? Yeah, it was different than the most of the Walgreens that I go to in a normal way. Well, she was inside the store accosted by multiple homeless people while she was in her aisle and I was in my other aisle. And she had to kind of come over and, and let me know. Now, this is like, you have, you have, she has a problem of homeless people in this circumstance yes first of all on the walk over there obviously there was 1,400 homeless people

that came up and asked us for money or looked at us in a threatening manner of some sort but that's just Nashville that's just what's going on down there downtown after you could crawl over the giant bags of trash that are on every single corner

but once you get past that the whole circumstance you think Once you're inside the Walgreens, you're going to have a respite of some sort. Listen to this elitism, Glenn. I know. I know. The elitism of this guy.

My gosh. Oh, wow. It's sad. It's a real problem for these. When they shop at Walgreens all the time. You know what I mean? They're just like high-fiel. The upscale Walgreens.

You do kind of expect, though, inside a store to not be harassed by people. Okay. And apparently not. Apparently not. You expect to be harassed by salespeople trying to sell you stuff. That's what I expect going to a store. Is that the way it happens at Tiffany's? I don't know, Glenn.

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pay, Mr. There's hell to pay. You know, I just recently paid my taxes Glenn and you might say, wait a minute, isn't it in November? Yes, that is accurate. I did well file my taxes as the more appropriate way of putting it because I was owed

money in a refund. Now they owed me money in a refund so I wasn't all that concerned about getting it in on time because they owed me money, right? Like, I mean, I obviously should have been more concerned about it. That's when I'm really concerned. But I mean, I'm like, I obviously I want the money back, but I know I'm going to get it

back. And it's like, I, I just didn't want to pay the penalties if I owed them money, right? Correct. Well, guess what? I got my refund back and it was less than I was supposed to get because they actually penalized me for filing my return late, even though they owed me money. so then they took money out of the refund and kept it because they said I didn't pay I didn't file early enough sometimes not an awful lot lately but sometimes when you speak it makes me happy why so wait a minute wait a minute I want to go back how is it there are certain things that you you have to do right but when it comes to voting eh get it in when you can you know

But it is amazing. You don't have to come on the day. You can come up to, I don't know, six weeks beforehand. And by the way, if you can't get, if you just can't make it in that six week period, you can come on election day. And if you just can't make it on election day, you can mail your ballot. And if you just can't mail your ballot early enough for it to arrive by election day, you just have to postmark it on election day. And then it can arrive up to two weeks late. And if your candidate is behind and you're part of a labor union. There's all new rules for you. Right. All new rules. But like, isn't this a normal, like, thing to ask people to do if you're paying a bill? I know I send my bill in early so it arrives that day, right? I think that's basic. We say, like, all the time, like, yeah, we've got to be able to prove who you are.

Voter ID is important. And almost 90% of people agree with that point. No, but the politicians really don't. They don't, right. They don't agree with that, you know? And yet, when you go to an airport, it's definitely not racist to have photo ID. No, not there. It's not.

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Vivek, are you there? Glenn, how are you? I'm good. Kind of a disappointing week last week, but recovering from it and moving on. Yeah, well, you know, that's the only way forward, right? I know, it is. So Vivek, I wanted to get you on to explain the FTX thing to somebody like me that's not really up on FTX, and I haven't been following this 30-year-old guy.

Tell me what's happening. and what it means. It's a really interesting story, Glenn, and not all of the details are crystal clear yet. I can give you the super detailed version of you're interested, but the slightly less summary version is that there's a guy who operated an exchange called FTX, right? That was the exchange where people trade cryptocurrencies. It's like Coinbase. Yeah, exactly, except this is offshore, Coinbase is onshore.

So think about that as an exchange. but it's a centralized exchange. It just happens to trade cryptocurrency. So it's like an old school, think about it as an equivalent of like a stock exchange, except people can trade cryptocurrencies on it. That's owned and founder founded by and lead owner is Sam Bankman Fried who goes by SBF. But he also had a separate hedge fund called Alameda. So that's a trading firm. So that's not an exchange. That's just trading to try to make money like people always have. On Wall Street, this has existed for a very long time, hedge fund that just traded their own capital to make more money. So he's operating both the exchange and his own hedge fund. And it appears what happened was when that hedge fund

encountered a bunch of losses and they have leverage, right? That means they're borrowing. That means they have to post collateral to cover for those losses. So it appears what he did was he took customer funds from the exchange, but used that to borrow it and post it as collateral. And when that came to light, the other participants in that exchange, particularly one big market participant, this guy, Chang Peng Zhao, said that he was going to dump a bunch of the, and this is where it gets a little bit complicated, but a bunch of the token issued by the exchange that basically caused the value of that token, the instrument that people hold on the exchange, to collapse. And that sent a free fall spiral that caused the whole house of cards to come crashing down.

So, you know, putting complexities and the details to one side, which we can get into if you want. The bottom line is there's a guy who is self-dealing, using customer money on an exchange to cover his own personal trading losses, tried to cover it up. When that came to light, there was a house of cards that came crashing, and unfortunately, many of those customers are likely going to lose a lot of their money and even the portion they get back they're not going to see for a very long time. So that's just descriptively what happened. But boy, is there a lot more that's interesting to this story when you look at this guy who was a major donor to the Democratic Party, one of the major faces of advocating for regulation of the cryptocurrency industry in Washington, D.C., that created the smokescreen that prevented people from being able to see through this fundamental fraud. Okay, so let's, I want to go there, but first let's start. He's like 30 years old. And his, and the woman running the hedge fund, she's girlfriend, right?

His girlfriend looks like she's 14. Yeah, I'm not going to, I don't have the facts, but I will tell you it did not look. Good. It surprised me a little bit. Right. So how is it that these two people pulled the wool over so many people's eyes? So it's a great question. I think it has to do with cultivating this do good image, this futurist image on the promise of

cryptocurrency and the importance of what that would mean for humanity. I mean, at the end of the day, these are nothing, this guy is nothing more than a high frequency trader. And there's nothing wrong with being a high frequency trader, but it's just, you're in the business ordinarily to just make an extra buck, to make an extra buck by beating somebody else at the sport of trading effectively. But what he managed to do was to disguise that in the veneer of this moral superiority, this morality. And the funniest part about this, Glenn, is that a lot of people miss this, this is going to have a backlash that I think is going to be over-inclusive, where this guy was operating a centralized exchange. That's no different than an

old-school exchange. It just happened to offer trading in cryptocurrencies. So there's really nothing that fancy or even futuristic, let alone morally humanistic about it. It's just an old-school exchange where people trade stuff and the stuff they trained it as a cryptocurrency. But the actual promise of the future of cryptocurrency of decentralization is actually decentralized exchanges where there's no single centralized owner of the exchange. And the irony here, Glenn, is I think this is going to provoke a backlash from regulators to the entire cryptocurrency. Of course it will. Including to decentralized exchanges and the irony, here's the ultimate irony that a lot of people miss. He couldn't have done what he did if it were actually a truly decentralized exchange.

The only way he was able to borrow those customer funds as one actor and lend it over to his hedge fund to post his collateral is the fact that the exchange was centralized in the first place. And so the irony here is you have this guy who was the face of pro-regulation. He was a pro-regulatory advocate in Washington, D.C., which is why everyone viewed him as the good guy, the golden boy. And yet, the irony is he happened to be the fraudster. And then the reaction to that is likely going to include over-regulating. decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, which would have been probably the best way of actually preventing this fraud. So that's the irony in the whole story that I think people haven't yet caught up to see. Isn't he also big in ESG and the world economic form?

It's part of the smokescreen. Exactly. It's all just part of the smokescreen, Glenn, is that is part of it. Now, there was a story that was floating around on social media yesterday that actually found a subsidiary of fact set, which is one of these ratings companies, assigned an ESG score on a leadership and governance metric, including as it related to sustainability standards, that was higher for this company than ExxonMobil, which is a company that most Americans will know and has been around for a long time. Okay, so that's the bit of the farce in this,

but that's just one example of the farce. He's pro-regulation. So the Democrats in Washington, D.C., see him as a good guy. He is the second largest donor to Democrats this cycle, donating over $30 million, another point on the strike in the tally of being the good guy. Wait, hang on. Didn't he also say that for 2024, he will donate up to a billion dollars to the Democrats? Yes.

So the funny thing is what he said is he was going to donate a billion dollars over the 2022 and 2024 cycle. Now, the sad part for a lot of Democrats is they were kind of upset at it because you might think that meant like a few hundred million now and more hundred million then. Actually, he only ended up donating 30 plus million. So the side note to the story, kind of the comic part of this, a lot of Democrats are actually upset at him for only ponying up a little over 30 million because he had committed to a billion. But you see, this guy hit there's a common pattern, overpromising and under-delivering. Turns out that applies to political donations as well. But the broader point, though, Glenn, is it's just checking all.

the boxes, speaking with Clinton on stage and Tony Blair, boldly wearing shorts, being the cool guy of the future, world economic forum, all that, that entire crowd, ESG rating, donations to the Democratic Party, being vocally pro-regulation in an industry where the other entrepreneurs have, in my opinion, for good reason, resisted regulation. That created the cultivated aura of this being one of the good guys, one of the guys you could trust. And it reminds me a lot of actually that CEO of Volkswagen. You remember this guy, Wintercorn? He was the CEO of Volkswagen, which was the number one ESG award-winning company.

Yes. Until they found, and by the way, he would wax eloquent about climate change and the energy transition until they found that he had actually rigged the emissions measurements in their own cars, right? This reminded me a lot of that story, where the person who protests the case for the futurism of the ESG-laden world, one of the good guys about the pro-regulation crowd ended up being the most fraudulent of them all. And it's not an accident that that pattern just repeats itself time and again, because it's all about creating a smokescreen to

allow you to get away with a kind of fraud you would have never gotten away with if people hadn't been thrown off the scent with the smoke screen that you put up. So that's the story. It happens again and again, and I wish people would learn the lesson, Glenn, but there's something about us as a people that make us suckers for the smokescreen of wanting to be the pro-ESG, pro-democrat, pro-regulation, good guys, that every time that ends up being actually a pretty good way to throw the regulators and to throw customers off the scent and to be able to get away with something like this. And Vivek, there's a real big media angle here to this, too, because this is yet another

example, Elizabeth Holmes style, where they made this guy into a hero. All the things, like, he, he doesn't brush his hair. He, there were stories about how he wears shorts to every meeting. One story talked about how he would fall asleep on beanbag chairs outside of offices. And they'd bring in all these multi-billion dollar donors past him while he was sleeping. And then he would wake up and waddle into the, the meeting like 10 minutes later. And this was like, he's just a genius. He doesn't even care.

He's asleep on a beanbag outside the meeting. One story talked about These are all praising him where he was playing video games during an entire presentation while he was in there and they gave him a billion dollars after this meeting

where he was playing League of Legends throughout an entire meeting. And like there's no mea culpia from the media after all of this who built this guy into this celebrity to get all of these dollars and there will never be a time all they'll get is a bunch of podcasts

later on hosted by the same reporters who initially interviewed him and made him into this superstar. I mean, it's a ridiculous cycle. You make such a good point, and this is less a story about this random guy, SBF, whatever. He came two years ago, he'll be gone, you know, two months from now. But it's an indictment of our culture. I mean, what is it about our state of our psyche, our cultural psyche in the U.S., even internationally, that causes us to bear this self-inflicting pain every time?

to line up behind a guy who not only poses to be the boy genius. I mean, that was Elizabeth Holmes version of this, but to take that to the next level, to think that he is actually better than the rest of us just because he checked the boxes that we had created in our artificial edifice of ESG and of humanitarianism and of political philanthropy. It's almost as though we did this to ourselves,

and he was just the guy who happened to ride the wave that the rest of our culture had created. That's the more interesting part of this story, because it's the Volkswagen thing all over again. You know, it's Unilever in Kenya. I mean, it's all the stuff I've been writing and talking about for two years. We just see the same story repeat itself in different clothing. It just happened to be in the clothing of cryptocurrency this time around.

So I heard on the podcast all in, I heard Brian Armstrong, who's the CEO of Coinbase, saying he didn't see this one come. at all. He said, I just thought he was a really good, really good guy. He said now in retrospect, I guess I did see things, but I ignored them. Was there anybody who saw this? Not that I know of. I mean, it's what makes it such a big story, right? And I'm not even, you know, I follow the cryptocurrency space, but that's not an area where I spend an immense in order amount of my time. I'm focused more on, you know, equity markets, et cetera. But,

But there is something about seeing a guy who is calling for greater regulation in his own industry while also making greater donations to the very people who are responsible for crafting those regulations. Gosh, that sounds a bad face in my mouth. That alone struck me as potentially false and inauthentic. Now, was that going to underlie a $30 billion, $40 billion fraud? I did not necessarily go the extent of predicting that. There was something that was amiss about this in terms of calling for self-hating regulation while donating to very people who are going to write those regulations.

And that's strange. That sounds a little like Zuckerberg. It actually does, doesn't it? It does. Yeah, it does. It's a pattern repeats itself, Glenn. You know it well. So it's not going to be, we could probably count.

If we took 10 minutes, you could probably find 10 to 20 other examples that smell just like it. We were with Vivek Ramoswami, and we're going to continue our conversation with him in just the second, because we haven't even gotten to the Ukraine part or the missing $1.7 billion. We'll get to that in just a second. First, let me tell you about rough greens. If I handed you a plate of food, and before you took the first bite, I said, oh, by the way, we've completely sterilized that. Would you be like, what do you mean by that? Well, we just, we wanted to make sure it didn't have any nutritional value in it at all.

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Well, the funny thing is now they're talking about this, uh, about the potential hack into the system too after the fraud story came to light. So I'm, so I have no basis for this other than intuition, but to say that that hack seems mysteriously well-timed. So guys being, you know, investigated now for fraud, being scrutinized for fraud, for himself misappropriating those funds to his affiliated hedge fund from an exchange that he was operating for customers. And then suddenly there's a hack. And I think that it strikes me as a little convenient to sort of say that, okay, the hack is something that we can blame because that's something that's outside of all of our control when in fact, at the very moment, for two years there wasn't any report of a hack, but now

there's a report of a hack right when you are being investigated. So that did smell a little bit amiss to me. But, you know, the facts on this are changing by the day, changing by the hour. But the lesson I think is actually less complicated than each of those detailed facts might, you know, might, you know, invite. And I think that it's pretty simple. Whether it was cryptocurrency or anything else, there's just a guy who's operating in exchange for customers. And you cannot use customer money without their express permission to advance your own financial

trading goals, period. That is a hard line. And whether you're regulated or not, that is an illegal act. of misappropriation, of theft, and then fraud in line to the people who you're stealing from. So it actually, in a certain sense, has nothing to do with cryptocurrency, has nothing to do with crypto regulation. The only double irony of this is that if it has actually been operated as a truly decentralized exchange, this guy couldn't even even done the thing that he did.

And so in a certain sense, the cryptones of this, let alone the morality of this, is all just a deflection and the smokescreen from the essence of what was really nothing different than just an old school made off-esque fraud. And is there anything more than just trading into fiat currency becoming in bed with Ukraine and the main bank of Ukraine to to trade cryptocurrency and get it into fiat currency so people could use it? Do you think there's a money-making scam in there as well? Well, I think there's no doubt that there is, you know, in all of crypto exchanges, sort of a money laundering element to it.

Yeah. In the sense that, you know, you're using the supposed anonymity of these exchanges to be able to, you know, launder money that you otherwise would have not been able to launder. But that's not unique to cryptocurrency. Right. You have to do that in the current fiat. No. That's a bit of a deflection.

I know. Thank you so much. much Vivek. I appreciate it. Vivek Ramaswami, he is the author of Nation of Victims and co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management. The Glenn

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You mean, why would I do that? Yeah, why would you? I don't know. You don't know why you'd cover it? I don't know. It was just placed here by my Zionist overlords. Oh, okay. And I had to do that.

Now, if I may continue, Stu, without your rude questioning, let me tell you about another story. This one we're featuring on our Wednesday night special. Our Wednesday night special is all about a country that has gone insane. Now, just remember the little tattoo story as we share this story about a father who lost his children to the state. That moment the doctor places your newborn into your arms. Your entire world changes. I'll do everything in my power to keep you safe. I'll fight for you every single day.

For Jeff, that moment arrived times two when his twin boys, James and Jude, were born. And from the start, Jeff loved being a dad. I was the stay-at-home parent for them. I've raised them since they were the youngest children. And we were very close. and had a super tight bond right up until the courts took them away from me. Everything changed when the boys were two years old.

Jeff's then-wife began telling James that timeouts were only for little boys. And that. The monster's only boys, you better not be a boy, scaring him in these little timeouts. And when I put my foot down and stopped that, she filed for a divorce almost immediately. She's a pediatrician, and using her connections with licensed care providers, she was able to get psychologists to basically force me out of my house. And that's when the situation escalated again.

Jeff, who then still had 50-50 custody, took this video of James when he was only three years old. You're a boy, right? No. I'm a girl. Who told you you're a girl? Mommy. She puts dresses on you? Oh, wow.

And what else does she do? She buys my hairbands. Uh-huh. And she gave me hair clips. Oh, hair clips? Okay. She enrolled him in school as a girl under a fake girl's name. She started to claim that I couldn't cut my son's hair and that I couldn't use male pronouns. And she went to court to try to force me to use male pronouns at home to stop presenting him to the world as a boy.

This evening there's a decision to share in a volatile custody case involving a seven-year-old's gender. What this case has taken on a life of its own, the central question being, should a seven-year-old live as a boy or as a girl? The custody battles continued, but Jeff's ex-wife used her connections with psychologists to force her hand. His 50-50 custody soon became every other weekend only. This hurt the relationship between me and my sons tremendously. And my sons were very sad about it and cried about it all the time. So James, now 10, has lived his short life in a whirlwind of confusion. So there was a time when every authority figure in my son's life except me was telling him he was a girl.

His teacher at school, the principal, the police officer at school, the librarian was telling him as a girl, the lunch lady was telling me he was a girl. His brother, although he didn't want to, was forced to use his girl's name. But there's one part of James's story that makes it even more tragic. And here's the important thing to know about my case. My son has never presented as a girl to me. He only presents as a girl when he's with his mother. So my approach was just very simple to show my son how great it is to be a man.

So we just did all the things that I did as a boy. We hunted rabbits. We tracked animals. We did hikes. We didn't need to worry about it. we were able to tough everything out. And my son flourished under these conditions. On the weekends, Jeff shared with his sons his love for boxing.

You know, he didn't think he could make it through those first workouts, you know? And he saw that we could tough it out together. We would get down there and do our one hour of floor work, working on our abs, working on our core. And we could do all that together. In a boxing gym, everybody that does the work gets respect. And they enjoyed that. treated like young men. Their time together shaped James immensely. Became to understand themselves as in command of their world, able to make changes in their world. And this eventually culminated

in my son refusing to wear a dress at his mother's home because he likes being a man. He told the court-appointed counselor that he wanted to be a boy and wanted to go to school as a boy. The court ordered counselor, she said, well, this child is saying he wants to be a boy, that must be because the father's making him say that. And on that basis, she recommended that the court take the children away from him because my son has to be a boy. The boy's mother moved them to California, and Jeff says she's already beginning a full transformation for James. He last saw them over a year ago. But Jeff's battle is far from over. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

But I assure you, I will not stop fighting for my son under any conditions. We say save James, save thousands of children, so we don't forget those other children. He's fighting for more than just his son. He's fighting for James, but also for all the other kids whose parents just won't speak up. And in my daily prayers, I always remember the other children and their parents who either can't or won't fight for them. save James, save thousands. Wait until you meet this dad on Wednesday. I think this guy is remarkable.

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Oh boy, big news from Egypt, you know, at the U.S. climate conference, they have come out and said, according to a new study, we've got nine years. Nine more. That's fantastic news. I thought we were already pretty much toast. Yeah, no, we've got nine more years. We had passed the point of no return. No, no, no. We've nine more years now? Nine years. Well, this is a miracle. Well, I should say, we, we have nine years, but they're very concerned because new gas projects launched in response, you know, to Russia and Ukraine. is will consume 10% of the remaining carbon budget that they have. 10% of the remaining carbon budget?

Yeah, yeah. That sounds bad. I thought this is good news. It makes it all but impossible for nations to meet the Paris Agreement goal to limit the warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Now, quick question here. Natural gas is, we're talking about the same substance. Yeah, yeah, natural gas. The one that's almost exclusively responsible for the drops in emissions.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Moving from coal to natural gas. Right, right, right. But they're saying natural gas is the enemy. Look, here's the problem. Here's the problem. You know, we've got more growth. We have more growth.

We have 1% increase in carbon dioxide just from burning fossil fuels right now. And emissions, now listen to me. Emissions in both the United States and India have increased while China and the European Union will probably report small declines. From what? From the COVID year? Because they have not been increasing overall. They've been decreasing.

I've been on a long-term downward trend. Stu, scientists are warning of the world's dangerous trajectory right now. The trajectory has been down for decades. No, no. Leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference. Okay. Yeah. They've advocated for natural gas as a.

transition fuel that will ease the world switch from fossil energy to renewables. So at least four new gas projects have been reported or announced in the last 10 days with several African countries pledging to expand export capacity and support and supply more fuel to Europe. That's why it's important, Glenn, to keep Africa in the dark ages. You know, hopefully they can never have any piece of the civilization we've grown to know and love. Well, if we keep them in, uh, in, in a situation where they have none of the resources that we have. Yeah. That's much better for the planet. Sure. Just punish an entire continent of people.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, it is the rhetoric. It's the rhetoric of increased natural gas, uh, usage and production. Okay. It's the rhetoric. I'm quoting the rhetoric that is alarmed scientists and activists who say, who say expanding natural gas production could harm. those very vulnerable communities and push the planet towards a hotter, hellish future. Quote, gas is not a low-carbon energy source. End quote. Wow, that's a riveting quote, first of all.

I thought so too. I thought so too. That's one of the scientists over there. So the theory is if, if we, if let's say they get natural gas and they are able to experience modern civilization. They'll burn to death in a hellish future. That will, the health, health future happens within an air-conditioned room. With a room that has lighting and refrigeration.

Well, yeah. Or they can theoretically avoid some of this hellish future if they just continue their hellish present. That sounds like a great idea. I'm sure they would sign on for that immediately. Why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they just surpass, just bypass, I guess, their entire lives of potential economic growth? Look, we have to reduce our growth. No, we do not need to reduce our growth.

No, that. I read it in the New York Times today. Yeah, degrowth. Yeah, we have to have some degrowth. That's not what, you never say a plant when it dies. You don't say that's de-growing right now. I'll say that. No one ever says that.

What is this term de-growth? That's what's happening when plants degrow. It doesn't lead to anything other than degrowth. Degrowth. Degrowth. Yeah. Decompose, I hear that one a lot. Why don't they ever say the economy?

We just need to decompose the economy for a little bit. That would be a more sensible description. Because that implies death. Yes, it does imply death. Death is completely different than degrowth. It is. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Is it, is it, though? That's my question. Yeah. Is it? Well, I'm not a scientist, so I can't tell you. But scientists are saying now, we have to de-grow. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say, I don't think so. But then again, I'm a guy who's like, hey, let's not mutilate our kids.

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So Glenn Yeah Can I walk you through The house Do you mean my house The unfinished house It'll be finished In six weeks, you know

Six weeks now Oh gosh, that's terrible I thought it was only two Two weeks Okay good But I'm I know Your house is never gonna be finished

Never gonna be finished Anyway go ahead Not that house Now glad Yes We have a situation where let me give you the good news. Okay.

For example, prediction markets say the House should go Republican, 95% chance. 95% chance. That's pretty good. That's really good. Although I do remember those prediction markets being very, very confident in things like Kerry Lake. They were pretty confident. Now they are not confident in Carrie Lake. Now they're not.

No. It's changed now. In fact, now there's a 94% chance that Carrie Lake will lose according to the British markets. Huh. Wonder what happened there. That's different than it was probably. she probably had a 60 or 70% chance

mid to late last week. I trust the prediction markets. Right. They could change, right? But that's what they think. They're confident. Almost everybody will tell you, and you've heard this nonstop, even in the mainstream media,

the Republicans will likely win the House. Yeah. But can I be a little pessimistic here and walk you through what we have? Is it pessimism or is it reality? I think it's reality. But it's not all bad news. but just how confident do you feel in this scenario that I'm about to walk you through?

Okay, I'm guessing zero. Okay. But let me hear it. I went through all the outstanding races. Okay. Mm-hmm. Looked at them. And I have, I don't know, what I tend to find is a somewhat disturbing situation.

Okay. So I ranked all of the races in the best chance for Republicans to win. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So 21212 are. pretty much in the bag. 212.

Got to get to 218 though. Wow. 218. That's a long way from it. That's easy. Oh, is it? There's a lot of races. There's a couple dozen races still out there. I mean, I, you know, gosh.

We really have to be over 220 to even, because you know there's a lot of weasels in there. Yes. Yes. Yes. For sure. But 218 is control. And at this point, I'll take control. I will take 218 control.

Yes, I will too. All right. So I've ranked them in the old school grading system from, from, from, from, you You know, your old high school days, A, B, C, D.F. Ooh. Okay. Wow, that's harsh. Now, none of these, I would say, are completely decided. But I came up with three A's.

Three A's. Three. Three. And that means really high, according to the grading scale. These are the best of the best. Not sure things. Let me give you an example of a race that I put it as an A. Okay.

Lauren Bowbert's race in Colorado. Oh, that's an A. That's an A. Now, as of right now, she leads by zero point. 4% with 99% of the vote in. How many votes is she away, actually, not percentage? That's a good question. If you give me one moment, Glenn, of course, I can pull that up for you and I'm completely

prepared to give you any detail that's additional to what I'm stalling. I'm giving you at any time. And that's what's important about this particular coverage. I can always tell you in a moment's notice and people need to understand this. Wow. I think we understand. We just looking for the number of votes. votes that...

A number of votes in that race? Yeah, in that race. Yeah, I've got it at... 1,122, thank you. Okay, 1,000 votes away. Now, but they're 99% in. 99% in. And you'd think, so basically what we're talking about there, would...

The outstanding vote couldn't overturn it, only if there was like a recount or something else. Okay, so alright, I feel good. I feel good about that race, right? That's the type of a race I'm talking about. We have three of those. That gets Republicans in 215. Wait, we have three of those.

Three A races. That are that good. I think so. There's another race in New York. Oh, a 0.4. In New York. Yeah. Okay.

0.4%. That's not Colorado. That's New York. Okay. Yeah. I mean, when you say it that way, you know, it doesn't sound as good, you know. Right. Where's the third one?

Third one. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, that one's in, uh, California. California. That one is not even New York. That's California. All you have to do is depend on the fine people in New York and California. Again, these are close races. Okay.

But I'm going to go ahead and just give us those three just for the optimistic take here on the house. And that gets us to... 215. 215. Now, seeming even more cavernous in between 215 and... 2 18, but it did just a few minutes ago. It seemed really easy. Seemed pretty easy. With a couple dozen races out there. Right. Why can't we get, all we need is six? Right. Right. But now of the A's, I only have three. Three. So now we're at 2.15.

Okay. Now you'd say what number one. But B is still passing. It's still a good grade. It's still a good grade. How many races would you like to see in the B column to make yourself comfortable that the Republican is going to be? 27. 27. That's a good number. That's how I would feel. Right. I always feel these they're going to go against us. How many do we have? Two. Two. Two. Two races that are bees.

Just two. That would take us to, uh, two 17. Yes. And you're going to be excited that here in our bees, we have another California. Oh, good. And you're going to be super confident because it's Arizona is the other one. Oh, I hope it's Maricopa County. That's a great question.

Because that one's done so that's done so well. Yes. Yeah. Now. Mm-hmm. If we assume we have both of the A's and the Bs, that gets us to not 218, which is what you need. Yeah. But 217.

217. Which is one less than what you need. So we don't have control there. Don't have control at 217. Now, may I ask, how much worse is a B from an A? Is it like 1,100 votes? Okay. Or it should be 900 votes.

One race in Arizona. It's a 0.2% lead with 94% of the vote in. That's a B. A B, boys and girls. I'm not being unfair with these rankings. That's a B. And the only reason I say it's a B is because it was expected to be a pretty easy,

not an easy win, but it's a purplish district, but it was projected to be a Republican leaning district this time. Now, of course, we've seen that before. In what state? In Arizona. In Arizona.

Good, good. Okay. And then we have a race in California where there is a six-point lead currently for the Republican. However, only 52% of the vote in. That's going to shrink as we get closer. That's a B. That's B. But that one was leading Republican anyway.

They've got the lead. I'm going to get that a B. That gets you to 217. Now you go into the 6th. C's. Uh-huh. Now, we just need one of these.

Just need one of them. And you'd like how many to be there to just get one out of. I'd like, this is a C. Is a C? So again, you're in like toss-up area. So I would like, maybe I'm going to shoot low. Five?

Five. That's a nice guess. Unfortunately, you lose. I lose. Because I only have three. You only have three C's. Now, if you're optimistic, and you take those A's and B's and you're like, okay,

we got these off, that's 217. You got one of these three. We still don't have the house. This kids is going well. Going well. I think Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, I think they've done their job. I think they've done their job.

They should be rewarded with more leadership positions. They should be rewarded with new positions. Now here we have two California races and in Arizona in the seas. We have one. What? To California races. And please tell me it's like in the farming area of California. Some of them are.

There's some. Again, you know, I know California we make fun of. There are races that a lot of Republicans do win in California. Yeah. Some of them they're even favored in. But like, for example, this one, which is a toss-up. Uh-huh. It's a toss-up race, I would say right now, if you look at the projections.

Okay. was a Biden plus six district. Okay. Okay. So one that Biden won. All right. But now in this environment, which is not necessarily,

I mean, it's only slightly better for Republicans, maybe. Right. We need the Republican to win. And of course, we still have 30% of the vote to count. So we don't know at this point.

Oh, 30. Then you get into the Ds. Wait. That was, that was it. That was it. There's three Cs. Uh-huh.

You've got some. I mean, you've got. I think there's one that's in Arizona where the Republican leads by 0.6% with 89% of the vote in, which my A's, I put, if you're over 95% in and you're winning, you know, I put that as an A. This one's at 89% in winning. So a chance, certainly a chance. And it was a likely Republican district going in.

So you'd think maybe there's a chance that some of the votes will be. Again, you see me. I'm reaching for some of these, but that's, again, it's close. 0.6% lead. But if we won all of the Cs. Cs, right? That would give you to 220, which again, isn't great. In fact, a lot of these mainstream people looking at this are like, oh, well, we

reproject 221 for Republicans plus or minus four. Well, that's a big, that's a big plus or minus. Yes. Yeah. Because 225 at this point would be like, wow, that's fantastic. Right. 217 bad. Bad.

Bad. Yeah. Okay. Then you got three Ds. Mm-hmm. And then I have all the rest of them are Fs. They're not going to win. They're not going to win.

No. Well, again, they're all in California, mostly, at least all in California. And they're all districts that lean Democrat and, you know, the Democrat even have the lead in a bunch of them. Me, I just ask a quick question. Yes. why is it that it just seems to be in the sketchy states

where they can't really count everything that might be why we picture them as sketchy right it might be why it might be yeah it might be something that in theory you'd as a lawmaker in one of these states you'd be incentivized to correct your terrible practices because no one believes you're voting anymore or you might not be incentivized

Right. You know, if you're on the winning side. Yeah. Exactly. So again, you can see why, right? You would say, hey, Republicans are favored in this race. And I would say you probably, maybe right. But like 95% confidence.

Do you have 95% confidence in that scenario I just mapped out for you? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Are Republicans involved? They are. No, I don't have any confidence in it. then. You may remember, Glenn, us saying over and over again, Republicans should win this election, unless they screw it up. Which they always do, I believe, was the rest of that prediction. They're very good at that. You know, you got a couple ranked choice voting. Now, who would you say, I'm going to give you time. I'm going to give you time. Okay. Who would you say is most responsible for that loss?

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Ten seconds. Station ID. Now, just who do you think? is responsible for this. Based on your lead-in. Yes. I believe. No, no, don't base it on my lead. I'm trying to analyze this a little bit.

I believe, I'm talking it through like I'm on a game show. Okay, okay. Based on your question. Based on my question, yes. Do we have the game show music? Based on your question, I think what you want me to say. No, this is not high school.

This is not high school. I'm not a progressive teacher. But I think you have an opinion on this. Yes, I do. And you would say, I guess I'll generalize this Republican leadership. Mitch McConnell! But Mitch McConnell, that doesn't have anything to do with the House. That's why I'm...

No, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. Both of them. Both of them should go. Both of them should go. These guys are the same guys that were in those positions under Donald Trump. You know, when they got rid of Obama. They didn't... Glenn, I didn't get rid of...

Oh, they didn't get rid of... of that, did they? Wow. Well, these guys, they've done an awful lot. And Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy have got to go, even if they're minority, maybe especially since they're the minority leaders. I mean, after a poor showing, usually what you see are repercussions for the people who led the charge to the poor showing. That's usually how things work in the world. Yes, but not here. You're a, you're a, of a, of a, of a football coach. Your team is three in nine and you're not going to make the playoffs and you have a big payroll. Usually you get fired. Right. Usually what happens. Right. But that doesn't seem to be the way that these things go in Washington. Okay, here are the people that can make Mitch McConnell a thing of

the past. Mitt Romney, call his office. No, Mitt Romney? Is Mitt Romney really going to do a thing about He loves him. He should know. But he should know. No, this is, I know. But this is what he should know. He should know that I'm going to remember what you said about, about Mitch McConnell being responsible.

And since you were wrong about that, I'm sure you're going to evict him. And if not, don't worry about it because we have a very long memory. And next election, you are out. Remember, it's only two years. Deb Fisher from Nebraska, Roger Wicker from Mississippi, Rick Scott, Florida, Ted Cruz, Texas, Mike Braun from Indianapolis, from Indiana,

Josh Hawley from Missouri, John Barrasso from Wyoming, Marsha Blackburn, all of these people need to be reminded that when you, lose and you have put your money into an Alaska race that was going to go to the Republican no matter what and you double down there. It's really egregious.

It's really egregious. He cut money from Arizona. Could have won. New Hampshire. Could have won. Took the money from there. Put it into a race where two Republicans were going against each other because he didn't, because he wanted to rescue Lisa Murkowski.

And why did he want to do that? Because the candidate running against Lisa McCrowski said she will not vote for Mitch McConnell's leadership. All of these senators, all of these senators know what their constituents are saying about Mitch McConnell. But Mitch McConnell has a very heavy hammer. And he is trying to rush this thing through. You've got to call them today. The government switchboard at the Capitol is 202, 224, 3121,

get on the phone, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy. Let's start first with the Senate, because they're going to be meeting tomorrow and then I guess voting on Wednesday. We have a very short time period. Mitch McConnell must not be the majority leader. The Glenn Back Program.

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stew i think we need to uh come up with a i don't know something positive new way new way to do this show yeah yeah because i mean it is a little depressing looking at some of the stuff and tomorrow it's got to stop. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. It has to stop. Well, how about stopping it now? Well, what we could do is have a country that's not a raging trash fire.

That's one thing we could do. Where would we go for that? Oh, I don't know how we'd get that. I'm just saying if that existed, we could talk about other things. Yeah, I don't see one. I don't see any country that's not just a burning trash fire. Nothing on the horizon? Nope.

I mean, St. Kitts, Bermuda, they all seem like they're doing okay. Maybe the whole thing is just being surrounded by water. Until they're invaded. Well, yeah, and they're invaded. That's all. But, you know, that probably won't happen. I think I'd rather be trapped on Gilligan's Island because at least, well, no, I just remember the quicksand.

I was going to say, at least it made sense. You know what I mean? Right. You knew who everybody was, you know? That's true. You did know that. I don't know that it made sense, but yes, you did know that. Would you, do you think Gilligan's Island makes less sense than today's America?

No, no, definitely. It was more sensible than that, obviously. That's not an unfair comparison, though. There's some good news. They're good things on the horizon. You know, we are three days away from fundamentally getting a sequel to a Christmas story. Shut up. Isn't that cool?

Peter Billingsley's in it, Ralphie, from back. in the day, who's done a lot more since Ralphie, but he always just gets called Ralphie anyway. That's one of my bigger regrets in celebrity encounters. Really? Yeah. Well, remember in the days when we were really, really, really, really busy? Yes. Okay.

I do. Where it didn't really have time to even think, you know, and people would make appointments for me and stuff. and then brief me on the way into the room. Right, yes. Yeah. And Peter Billingsley was in my office one day. And I said, who the hell is Peter Billingsley?

And they said, Ralphie from a Christmas story. And I said, why is Ralphie from a Christmas story in my office? And we're walking towards my office. And they said, he's really fascinating. he really wants to meet you, door open, I walk in, hey, Peter, okay, I know nothing about his life or what you're doing in the meeting. Or what I'm even doing in the meeting. I'm just there by myself with Peter Billingsley and he looks like a grown-up Ralphie,

which people used to say about you. Yes. People used to say you looked like a grown-up Ralphie. Right. I don't know if they still say that. No, they don't. Okay. No, they don't. So, uh, so Peter was there and I said, hey, Peter, you know, feeling kind of bad for him. Right. Because you're thinking this guy worked as Ralphie and that was a guy. That was it. Now he's, you know, I don't know, flipping pancakes at the Waffle House.

Sure. And, uh, and I said, so what have you, you know, what, what do you, what do you, what have you, what have you, what have you been doing lately? and he said, well, we just finished Iron Man. And I was like, ah, I've got to reevaluate everything I was going to say to you. He was the executive producer of Iron Man. Yeah, yeah. So now he's got a new movie out. He's got a new movie out. Yes, he does.

And he's playing Ralphie. Yes, he's decided to go. Which is, I think, as a person who absolutely loves that movie, And I know that's not necessarily universal. But it is a loved Christmas classic. I like it. Yeah. Christmas story, which they've done a bunch of stuff with on that.

They didn't have a Broadway show for a while? And it was really good. Oh, you saw it? Oh, I saw it. Oh, I saw it. Oh, really? I went with Peter. Of course.

Of course you did. Sure. I went to a Christmas story musical with Ralphie. Oh, gosh. Your life is too good. It's better than you deserve. That's what I will say. It really is.

It really is. But they're actually doing a sequel to it with Ralphie grown up hosting his own Christmas. It looks fantastic. It looks really cool. And I think it's the same mom. Yeah, I think you're right. I think it's the same mom. And it's coming out this week on HBO Max, I believe.

I don't know if it's in theaters as well, but in HBO Max, which I don't know. I'm excited about it. I did not see Yellowstone last night, which is something that may have improved my mood a little bit. Really? I thought you loved Yellowstone. I just didn't see it. Oh, okay. I didn't see it. So you're disappointed.

Are you, let me ask you this. I'm going to watch it tonight. Are you the type of person? Because I am this type of person. If I'm watching a series and a big episode airs and I don't see it, I literally will not go anywhere near social media until I've seen it. Yes. I can't. Because you go on Twitter and just people are like, hey, that was great on Yellowstone when the alien came down and killed Kevin Costner.

And you're like, holy crap! Really? Yeah, good thing they saved it for the very end, though. Like, no! And you can't even, there's no way to filter it out. Like, I want a, this is a website I've been dreaming up for a while. You tell me if this is a good idea. I want a spoiler-free zone, right?

Where I can go and read, especially, especially with these things that, these series that have like five years of episodes out and you're just picking them up. because I do that all the time. I really refuse to commit to a series at this point unless there's five years of it. I'm kind of like that. Give me five years. Show me you can stay on the air for five years. Then I'll start investing my time.

Because there's nothing worse than having some. I skip everything that says one season, 2016. Right. You're like gone. Yeah, I'm not even going to try it. It might be great. But I'm going to be frustrated because it's going to just stop. Yeah.

Right. So unless you get five seasons, I don't even go in. But let's say I'm on season two episodes. three and some amazing thing happens, I can't search, I can't look at any content about this show because they're going to give me what happened in season four and season five and season three. So I can't know any of it. So I can't, I don't get the full experience of watching the show because a big part of that now is you're following along.

People are speculating as to what comes next. People are trying to figure it out. Oh my gosh, what happened to this character? You can't do that in that sort of community vibe. Yeah. Because you'll get it also. So I want a, I want a site. that has, it's like a spoiler free zone.

I say I'm on season two, episode three, and I can read all the articles from that time. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I like that. So somebody do that and then cut me in on the profits, because I don't want to do it. Well, that sounds like a binding contract. Right.

Yes, anybody out there who's doing it, that's you. Wow, you are legally bound now to cut him in. 50%? I think you'll back me up on this. Anything said on the radio is a binding contract to anyone who has the same idea and might do it better. Right.

So I went to see George Clooney. Now, see if this you think this is another Peter Billingsley story. Is it where you're hanging out with George Clooney and didn't know who he was? No. I do who he was. Okay, good. So I went to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts in a movie Ticket to Paradise. Okay.

Did you watch it with George Clooney and Julia Roberts? No, I did not. No, no. No. Here's the thing. that one was not a decision that I made per se. Right. Right.

Yeah. So I go and I realize before the movie starts, there's no one under 50 in that room. Okay. There's nobody. There's no youngans going to see that one, you know? Wow, those are two big stars. Yeah.

No, it's been out for a while. think. However, I realized I just fell into the driving Miss Daisy category. You know, nobody was young went to see that or steel magnolias or one of those. Yeah, there's like genre there. Oh, I remember when they were young in their 40s and they were making movies. They were so great. And then you, you know, then you're seeing all these people that you grew up with and you're like,

boy, they're sure ageing well, aren't they? You know, they have to stop shooting about 4.30 in the afternoon for these people. I realize that's what that movie is. That's like a... Yeah. That's like, I remember these people. Yeah. They were the stars of my day.

Yeah. Where they were so great in Oceans 11. Right. Back in the day and they're still together. It's been a while, Glenn, since Oceans. 11. Don't tell me how long is it bit. That movie came out the same year as the September 11th attacks came out.

September 2001. Oceans 11. That's a 21 years old. Wow. When's the last time? George Clooney was in a movie you've seen. Or made any of any note. So I saw on an airplane once.

something he was in where I don't remember. He wasn't happy in his job and he was I don't remember. I can't tell you the last time I saw George Clooney movies. Isn't that weird though? Because I still think of him as the biggest

one of the biggest stars out there. Give me some of the... I would say, so you got a ticket to paradise, which of course, you just saw that. It was actually good. It was actually really good. I would assume it probably would be.

You know, none of this funny business it goes on these. Anyway. Now, I don't remember the midnight sky. Do you remember the midnight sky? Nope. Okay. That was 2020. Okay.

Then there was nothing in 2019 other than, you know, TV stuff. Do you remember Money Monster from 2016? Do not remember Money Monster. I do not either. Doesn't sound good. No. Do you remember Hail Caesar from 2016? Ooh.

I do not. Ow. Saw that one because. somebody wrote it or it had somebody did write it I know I'm trying to remember there was some reason we went

and it wasn't for George Clooney and it was bad so you might remember I could see you remembering Tomorrowland from 2015 but again we're back in 2015 here and I still haven't gotten to one I'm sure you'd actually seen

or anyone in the audience Tomorrowland wasn't Tomorrowland that awful awful movie that I thought looked really cool No, that was Sky Captain of Tomorrow or something like that. Long before that. No, I didn't see tomorrow.

And then I'll get to one that I do know that you were, that you would appreciate, which was the Monuments Men. That's 2014. Wow. That's really the last George Clooney movie. I would say he was like a star and was, and it wasn't a big hit, but it was like critically acclaimed and I liked it. And, you know, okay.

He was looking a little like he was wearing a toupee. I don't think he was, but he was looking a little. like he was wearing a dupe. What does that mean? He wasn't wearing a toupee, but he looked like he was wearing. His hair was just not, you know, it made me feel better as a man, you know. You can go to this George Clooney movie.

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This is the Glenn Back Program. Yeah, I think you, Chris. We're just talking about these big movie stars. George Clooney hadn't done anything for a long time. You go back to Leonardo DiCaprio and you're what, back to 2014? I mean, you have once upon a time in Hollywood with DeCaprio and Pitt, which was a big, you know, big thing. But before that, you're going back to 2015, 2013. I mean, the Revenant for Leonardo DiCaprio and Wolf of Wall Street.

It was 2013. It's almost a decade ago. Now, he's got a couple of things that look really good in the pipeline, including a Jim Jones movie about the Jonesdown situation. No, no, no, no, no. I got, I'm going to see that. I love those. Oh, no. Leonardo DiCaprio is in it?

Yeah. Then it will not be the truth. Because Jim Jones was a progressive Marxist. Yes. He was not a religious nuts. Well, he may have been that too, but he wasn't a religion of anyone's note. No. No, it is a, he was a Marxist.

He was a Marxist. You think Leonardo DiCaprio is going to tell that story? No. No. No. You know, maybe it's a situation like Clooney, it's not like he can't get a. gigs, right? He could go work if he wanted to. But, you know, he's busy selling multi-billion dollar tequila companies and just like, eh, why am I bothering? Why am I showing up?

You know, have you seen all the people that make these tequila companies? And it's like, we're going to sell it for a billion dollars. George Clooney did. And I'm like, yeah, you're not George Clooney. Right. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you know that. Yeah, it seems like the Clooney magic with that was not only is he George Clooney, but he also, like, got the best people to make the best tequila. And then, you know, really, everyone tries to do this though. I mean, who, but it seems like this generation where you think of those people as the big movie stars, DeCaprio, Pid, Clooney, it's kind of gone, right? I mean, like, they'll still make movies, but like, are there, is there anybody stepping into that, into that world? Like,

who would you put in that category of like a big time movie star right now? Because most of them wind up just doing TV. And Chris Pratch did a TV show for Amazon Prime, right? Like, I mean, Brian Reynolds? I mean, he's got like, he's got like a Hulu series. he's great though he is great he is very good but it's like it's a weird time for that and of course he's also

he's doing mint mobile commercials every 10 seconds I know I know you're just buying companies and just doing the commercials that's how they save that's how they save money is they just get Ryan Reynolds

as you all their commercials they don't have to you know they don't have to pay him any extra I guess they get a discounted rate maybe these guys who owns the company these guys make to be sick

right they're too smart because we barely have to work yeah these guys come on yeah they're slat They slap their name on a bottle of alcohol.

I want the best people that can make some tequila for me. Right, I really like tequila. Go hire someone who knows how to make it and put my name on it, please. The Glenn Back Program.