The Glenn Beck Program - The Dirty Truth About Our Food Supply | Guest: Rebekah Koffler | 3/21/22

Episode Date: March 21, 2022

Glenn and Stu discuss the latest news on America’s debt. Glenn reviews what common items cost when Biden was elected, what they cost now due to inflation, and what they may soon cost. Glenn discusses the dirty truth about the future of our food supply and why we must help our farmers to avoid food shortages. Intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler joins to discuss her book, “Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America.” Glenn reviews Our Lady of Fatima’s fifth secret and what the Catholic prophecy could mean as the pope prepares for a worldwide consecration of Russia and Ukraine. As Idaho rejects an anti-ESG bill, Glenn warns, “This is happening everywhere.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We all can feel it. We can see it. It wasn't caused by Russia. It is caused by the Federal Reserve. It is caused by spending too much money and printing even more. I say it's caused by the Federal Reserve. They didn't spend the money. Yes, we have a debt now of $30 trillion that if interest rates go up to about 5% or 6%,

we will not be able to afford anything but the interest on that debt. Okay? Now, we know that's happening. the Federal Reserve also has printed and given the banks untold trillions of dollars. We know that they gave $30 trillion to the bank to the banks by 2010. That news has just been released due to a FOIA request. We have no idea what they've done in the last two years. Can I just add to your point on interest here, Glenn?

Yeah. This is according to Brian Reid all over at the Manhattan Institute. For every point that interest rates go up, just a point. That adds $30 trillion to the debt over the next, I think it's 30 years, which is the same amount that we would spend in that period on defense. So every single point interest rates go up. We owe another $30 trillion. Like we're adding an entire new U.S. military every single time one of these things goes up one point. So we just raised the interest rates, the Fed did, buy a.

a quarter point and said five to seven more hikes are coming. Gosh. Okay. All right. So let's just talk about real stuff here for a second. I wanted to show you what the price of things were, what the price of things are, and what the price of things will be by election day, 24. Okay. we must turn this around.

But our government and our Fed and our administration are incapable of taking the right steps. This is just inflation. The numbers I'm going to give you, just inflation. This doesn't include extra regulation or shortages or anything else. This is just because the value of your dollar is going down. prices aren't going up, the value of your dollar is going down. Now, I used not 7.9% CPI to project into the future. I used shadow stats.

The reason why I did this is because everybody is comparing this to the days of Jimmy Carter. No, it's worse than the days of Jimmy Carter. I'm using the shadow stats because this is the way the government calculated inflation in 19, They changed that calculation because it was looking bad for the United States government and the Fed. So they changed it. But if we look and measure the same things, the same way, we'll get the inflation rate that is 15.5%, not 7.9%. So this is from shadow stats. That's how we calculated these.

I've made some charts, but I'll read them off in case you happen to be watching the blaze. You'll see the charts. If not, let me just tell you where we're going to start. And that is with hamburgers. When Biden was elected, a hamburger was $4.40. Today, I think you guys are working on the wrong end of the, that's the last slide. Look for hamburger. when Biden was elected, it was $4.40.

Today, it's $6.1. Jeez. 2024, November, the time the next election, just with inflation. That's it. No food short, nothing. Just due to inflation. Are you better off than you were four years ago? Hamburger was $4.40.

A hamburger will be $7. and 95 cents. Wow. When Biden was elected, this is just due to inflation. When Biden was elected, gas was $2.18. Today, it's $4.41. November 24th, with no shortages, no war, nothing just from inflation, 583. When Biden was elected, milk was $3.24.

Today, it's 389. Just through inflation in November 2024, the price of Biden milk will be $5.15. I got news for it. I don't care what the price is. I'm not drinking Biden milk. That just sounds really icky.

It does. It does. You're not the one milking it either. You can milk anything with a nipple. When Biden was elected, the price of a light bulb was $1.57. Today, it's. 255. A price of a light bulb when the presidential election in 2024 is happening will be 337. When Biden was elected, eggs, a dozen, $1.45, today, $235, November 24, 311.

When Biden was elected, $1.50 for bread. Today, it's $1.67. November 24, projection. 221, that number is going to be wildly different, and you'll understand why here in a minute. When Biden was elected, just because of inflation, houses were 358, 700. Today, they're 414, 123. November 24 projection, $547,88885. That's the average home. When Biden was elected $22,000.951 was the price of a car. Today, it's $30,603, if you can get one, just through inflation, that number will jump from 30 to 40,488. Just some quick personal news here, Glenn.

I celebrated this weekend my seven-month anniversary of ordering my car. Yes, thank you. It's still not here. They haven't even been taking the order yet. I haven't pulled the order yet, but seven months in, I'm doing well. Have you thought about a horse? Okay, now let me give you something else. Now, these are just projections, and you can find, we're going to publish all of this.

You can find how we made these projections, but they are just projections. these numbers can change dramatically. But we wanted to add in the geopolitical instability factor. So we know about wheat, and I've got something I've got to share with you here in a minute. We know about wheat, but we are kind of, we're being, I think, very conservative on some of these numbers. A hamburger, the price I just told you, add 25.4.4.5.5.5.5.5.5. percent if things continue to go geopolitically as they are. Gas, if things continue, the instability factor, you'll need to add 30 percent to that gallon of gas. 15 percent added for milk, 5 percent

for light bulbs, 15 percent for chicken. I don't think, sorry, for eggs, I don't think that's high enough. You'll understand why here in a minute. Bread up 30 percent. housing down 25% and cars down by 25%. I agree with the housing, not necessarily so with the projection of the cars, but I left this to the experts and our team to put together the numbers. Now, I'm going to take a one minute break, and then I'm going to tell you the truth that no one is willing to talk about about what's really going on with food and why you need to begin to prepare right now.

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but they've all been Democrats, staunch Democrats, I think, except maybe one of them. And they're all experts in different fields in all friends. David Friedberg is one of them. And I was listening to the podcast. and they asked David a question. Now, David used to work for Monsanto, and he doesn't work there anymore,

but he believes in, you know, Monsanto and, you know, blah, blah, blah. Think GMOs and et cetera, et cetera. If you're against GMOs, don't dismiss him because I got my facts from him on the stats, but we're not talking GMOs. We're just talking about looking at the market and what is really happening.

So when you're looking at food, understand that 15% of all global calories come from wheat and rice. 25%. I'm sorry, 15%. One third of all of our wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine. We're supposed to be planting crops all around the world right now for wheat.

Not happening in much of Russia, not happening anywhere in Ukraine. Next stat you need to understand. Our food supply, you know how the cars had just in time. Our production lines were all just in time. And that's why we can't make cars, because there are parts that are sitting somewhere, you know, crossing the ocean,

sitting on a dock someplace, the whole supply chain has broken down because it's just in time. It arrives just in time to put it into the car. When you have a disruption, it just boggs everything up and unclogging it. We don't even know if we can really unclog it and get it started again, but it's going to take years to do it. That's the supply chain for stuff. The supply chain for food is $90. days. We have 90 days worth of food in the supply chain. That's from the grocery store to the

garden and everything in between. If it stops, we stop, let's say we just, for some reason, stopped all farming. We would have 90 days left of food worldwide. Okay. 25% of all global production is food. We're about to lose 12% of production. That means we're losing half of our food supply of wheat. Half of our wheat food supply. This is going to hit places like Africa first, and it's going to hit places of poverty,

unlike anything we've ever seen. 800 million people currently on Earth live below 1,200 calories per day. So you know, the Germans would not allow Jews to have more than 600 calories a day. So they are only double the amount of calories that the Jews got during the Holocaust. And we all remember what they looked like. If they're at 1,200 calories today and they're in in places that are poor, which they most likely are, those calories will be either cut off or greatly reduced.

Now, the bigger problem is fertilizer and energy. The energy price to run the tractors, to run the trucks, to run everything. else and the price of phosphorus and and potassium potash and nitrogen those are the three major things we use to make fertilizer natural gas 90% of ammonia is made from natural gas prices in natural gas have doubled and in some places gone up four x it's gone from $200 a ton to $1,000 a ton. Phosphorus, 10% of the phosphorus from Russia, and 20 to 25% of all of the potash comes from Russia.

It's now been banned in Russia. They cannot sell it. We cannot buy it. They said, oh, you're going to cut us off of the bank? Great. We'll cut you off on this. Potassium is up to $700. phosphate went from $250 to $700.

This is causing so much stress on the farmers that farmers now all around the world are not planting their fields. They are reducing the acreage because without fertilizer, you're not growing much. So why plant all those fields? It's not going to be a good year, they're thinking. So as they as fertilizer goes up, they pull more and more acres. So far, the price of corn has doubled soybeans, wheat, skyrocketing. The strategic food reserves in some parts of the world are now opening.

We better have perfect weather all over the world. Just because if things continue the way they are, And don't turn around quickly. And we can't get fertilizer. Hundreds of millions of people will experience famine by the end of the year. We need to do everything we can to support our farmers. We need to understand what's coming. And you need to have a garden, plant some seeds, live by a farm and help them,

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worse and worse and worse. Keeping store owners wide awake at night trying to figure out what are we going to do? Well, there's a couple of things that we should do. First of all, let me go back to food for a second.

The governments around the world are buying up large swaths of food right now. The commodity prices going up, not just because of traders, but because governments are trading. and governments are like, we're going to buy our corn right now.

And first in, first out. Countries that are in Africa, they're going to have a really hard time. They're not going to get the food that they desperately need. But neither are other countries as well. We're all going to take a real hit on this, especially if we don't have good weather, if we don't have fertilizer. we should as a nation be doing everything we can right now to help the farmer. Everything we can right now to get fertilizer.

You know, everybody's worried about the price of inflation for the average person. Okay, that's really bad and we're all hurting. But if we don't take care of the farmer right now and get him fertilizer and make sure that they can afford the things that they can afford, or they have to afford. Our inflation is the least of our problems. It will be shortages next year. Now, they are buying, governments are buying food,

but governments all over the world now are also, while they're doing that telling you not to hoard. And I'm telling you also not to hoard, but I am telling you to prepare for your family and then others that will be hungry. We have to help each other through this. There are going to be people who just can't make it, and they'll have to bring another skill. It's going to be barter, I guess, but we're just going to have to help each other.

If you can grow food, plant this spring. Anything you can do to ease the burden on your family and others do it. When you go to a store, if you go to a store, if you're going to do it, if you can do it, you can do it, you can do it to ease the burden on your family on your family, If you are going in and you're going to buy macaroni and cheese, and you only need one box, buy two. Put one away. Use the other one. When that one box is done, don't reach into the pantry to get it by a second box.

As I showed you just a few minutes ago, just because of inflation, that box a year from now is going to be costing you a lot more money at the store. and when you hit a breaking point, you'll have some food storage. But be careful on what you think your breaking point is because real, real trouble is coming. And we have to be prepared. And we have to be prepared to help others. This is, I think, the beginnings of the times when I have felt since the beginning with you that you are, are going to play a role in saving this nation. And I think this is the beginning of it,

preparing for those in need. And it is going to be really, really, really hard because you're going to be like, I prepared. They didn't. I know. I know. But we're in this together. You've got to take care of your family first, but we're in this together. That doesn't mean that it doesn't mean you should tell the world what you're doing because governments will come in and they'll start to make it illegal to hoard food they will start to demonize people first as hoarders this is a while away I think but that's what will happen so just keep your mouth quiet and nobody needs to know your business just urge the people who get it to be to just store some food for their family and and create a network, if you will, of people

who think like you and and really understand what's coming and just help each other. Just help each other. So how real do you think the food shortage thing is? I think it's- The food shortage in places like India and Africa, I think millions are going to die. millions will die, probably worse than anything we've ever seen. Oh, my God. If this, if the work, if they come up with a solution today and crops get into the ground, maybe not.

But, but it will still be a problem because we're not getting fertilizer. So it will be a situation where maybe we as a, as the top market in the world, are able to acquire this stuff, but at higher prices. Way higher prices. But down the line. The poorer countries are not even able to acquire it at all. Yeah, are very, very little. It'll all be, it'll be Ethiopia on a grand scale. Do you remember what that was like?

Oh, yeah. I remember all the commercials. Yeah. And we had to the We Are the World song out of that. Yeah. And that was not worth it. No. I don't know if it solved it.

If it did, it still, I mean, no offense to the African people. But I think they would oppose the song over being saved. I think they'd rather. I think they'd rather starve to death. It might be a little. get a hasty generalization there. Look, I may be speaking for an entire continent here, but I think if they could go back to the 80s and they say, look, where we have generations of our people be alive or that stupid song play again, they would choose, they would choose to delete the song

and sadly have a deal with the repercussions of that. Well, we don't have Michael Jackson around to make a song this time. But it is going to be bad. It's going to be bad everywhere. And forget everything else. Just know that a 25% of fertilizer comes from Russia. Just the 25% of global.

Just 25%. So what do you do here? Because I think it's easy for us to say that we've done everything wrong. It's easy. But look at the effects of what we've talked about with inflation. The things you're talking about, 30 and 40% increases, are nothing

compared to if we internally, all of our production in the United States. If we got rid of all of this global trade, our prices were go up way more than 30 or 40%. You know, you would not see your TVs are no longer $400 for a 60 inch. I'll tell you that much. All this stuff goes away without the global trade and all of the things associated with it. So the theory going back as as globalization,

not in the nefarious, you know, UN running our lives. of way. But in the, hey, we're going to trade with countries because we can turn up production. And certain countries will do certain things well. Others will do others. We'll all combine our efforts. And this is why you have Walmart and prices are really low there. So that goes in. And one of the theories was, as we saw new countries get into that system, those countries tended to moderate. They wanted to be involved in the global trade. So they didn't act like psychopaths all the time. So our theory was, if we. embrace countries like Russia and like China, they will over time be so interested in these

markets that they will stop acting like psychopaths. Now, I think we've seen that with those two countries, that has not worked out very well. However, you've seen it in other areas, you know, Japan is a good example of it working out pretty darn well. So what do you do? Do you just, do you wait longer to bring them in? Because it seemed like we try to bring them in as an incentive for them to change. and instead of letting them change first and then allowing them in.

So I think this is this is the key. Out of 170 countries, 95 do not have on their books. 95 countries do not have on their books illegal slave trade. They have not made slave trade illegal. Really? 95. That's a mind-boggling stuff. Enormous.

95 countries. 95 countries have not passed anti-slavery. Now. there's a lot of countries probably in that number because I don't know all the countries, but there's, I'm sure, though, some that, like, don't have a problem with the slave trade. Okay. However, we should set our limits. And this has been common sense for a very, very, very long time.

If your government doesn't have the same kind of understanding about human rights, we shouldn't be doing trade with you. And just at a basic level, right? You don't have to match all of our policies. No, but you've got to respect human life. Men are born to be free. Okay. If you enslave people or build concentration camps or have gulogs or whatever, no, I don't think we should do business with you.

And that's why we're enslaved to these very, very low prices. It's not that we're getting our, some of the stuff we are. It's not like we're hiring people at very low cost and then putting them in, slavery, we're getting stuff some places at a very low cost because the cost of living is so low. So they're making a decent wage in their country for their area. When these countries, a lot of these factories open, the line is around, you know, it's a mile long to get jobs at this place because it's the best job available to that community. Correct.

Correct. However, that's not the case in China. Now, there might be people lining up around the block in China to have a job here, but they also enslave people. So no, if your country is so diametrically opposed to our system, no, that would include Saudi Arabia. That would include Iran. That would include Russia, China, North Korea, all of these countries that just don't see the world and people the same way. And I think, too, this points to another one of the undersold failures of the Biden administration that people

are not talking about, which is when Donald Trump was president of the United States, our relationship with India was never better. They love Donald Trump there. Now they've decided to side with Russia and China. And China. And our option, right, if we were to lose China as a manufacturing hub, our easiest replacement is going to India, where it's a little more expensive,

but not a lot more expensive. And if they're a close ally, there is some synergy there. We could still probably make some products at reasonable prices and help someone who's, they always call it the global democracy, the largest global democracy. India is the biggest country that has some of the trappings of what we would respect as a government. And we seem to be losing them right now. And that's a big deal. We're going to lose them.

we're going to lose Taiwan. We're going to lose possibly the Philippines. We will lose Vietnam. All of those countries that provide low cost labor. We'll lose all of those. If we continue down the path we're on, that will leave us with just half the world.

Huh. Almost like what the Great Reset is calling for. They will often. offer the solution of the end of globalization. You'll hear that. This is the end of globalization. We've got to do things. We've got to do things closer to home.

And so it will appear to be the end of globalization, but it will not be the end of globalization. It will be what you interpret as more global controls. But we'll make stuff closer to home and not with China or Russia. Uh-huh. Really? Because we're currently doing a deal with Iran. Just saying. It's going to work out well, I think.

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what is happening over in Ukraine. First of all, the Kremlin is warning against panic buying as food prices are rising over in Russia. They are saying no hoarding, no panic buying. This is going to start

happening all over the world. Please be prepared for it. I went over it in hour number one. If you didn't hear that in the first hour, make sure you grab the podcast. So what is Putin really after? Who is Vladimir Putin? What is his game? So I read a book called Putin's Playbook recently by Rebecca Koffler.

She is a U.S. intelligence expert. She was from behind the iron curtain. She came to America when she was. young. After 9-11, she decided that she wanted to help protect her new country. So she went to work with the Central Intelligence Agency, and she was part of the red teams that we've heard so much about with the Pentagon trying to war game. I have to tell you, I read her book, and I think this is one of the people that I hope everybody is listening to in Washington, because I think she really understands Putin.

And if I may say, Rebecca, you had me at Alexander Dugan. Welcome. Thank you, Glenn. It's such an honor to be here with you and your audience. Thank you. So, Rebecca, tell us a little bit about your background so people know exactly who you are and how you know these things. Of course.

So I was born and raised behind the Iron Curtain in the former Soviet Union. And my parents were anti-communists. They didn't agree with the Soviet socialist system. And they were raising me to go to America one day, the land of freedom and opportunity and justice. And so I immigrated in 1989 to America. And then after September 11th, as you said, I went to serve in the intelligence community. And because I wanted to protect, you know, help protect my country against foreign threats. And I knew that sooner or later, even though the Soviet Union collapsed, it will emerge, you know, as a foreign threat. I didn't know how soon it was going to happen, but there we are with the conflicts in Ukraine. And it's not really about Ukraine, Glenn. It's a proxy war

between Russia and the United States for control in Eurasia. Okay. Explain to people what Eurasia is in case they don't know. Sure. Eurasia is the biggest landmass. It's basically Russia occupies the center of Eurasia. And China is up there, obviously. And more than Russia, it's what the Russians believe is strategic buffer that they have relied on for centuries for their security, including in that strategic buffer is Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia. and a bunch of what we call sons. And with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States security establishment assumed, I don't know really why,

but assumed that these countries are going to be democracies. And nothing could be further from the truth because there's nothing in Russia's history or in the history of those other countries that points to the fact that democracy is even a viable system of governance. And so at this point, we're basically on a collision course geopolitically with Russia because the United States wants to make sure that we call the shots in that area of the world, not China, not Russia, but we do. And the Russians, of course, want to make sure that they keep their security perimeter in their control and not us. And that's what this conflict is all about.

So, but if you look at the west side of Eurasia, you would see Poland. And almost every time Russia has become under attack, it's come through Poland. Don't they look at that as a gateway still and want Poland? You are exactly correct. So the Russians, every war except the Mongol Tata York back in 12. 38 came from the West. And this is why exactly Putin fears NATO. He has been talking about the red lines, right? So he wants to effectively ensure that he has Ukraine back into his orbit. And then depending on what happens with this conflict, obviously the Baltics would be next on the target list. Now, Poland and the Baltics, the threshold for Putin's invading those countries, is like high because they're NATO members. Correct.

Right? Yes. But ultimately, you're right. You mentioned, you know, Dugin and there's the whole school of thought, the Atlantisism versus Eurasianism. It's basically the perennial sort of struggle between the giants. And make no mistake, Putin wants to make sure he makes Russia great again. And he views himself and the Russians view themselves. a superpower on par with the United States and not a junior partner as they feel that they've been treated.

All right. So this weekend, Putin used a hypersonic missile, which as far as I can tell, talking to military experts, the reason to use or to have a hypersonic missile is for long range because it gets there so fast and you can't shoot it out. So he was using it, though, in Ukraine, which to me, just seems like signaling. We've got a lot more. And America, we do have the hypersonic missile and we could put a nuke on it or whatever and we can hit you and you can't stop us.

Am I reading that right? You're 100% correct, Glenn. And I dispute the Pentagon's assessment that it's not an escalation. It's totally an escalation. As you said, this is a dual-capable system. You can put a conventional warhead on it, or you can put a nuclear warhead on it. So the way that this conflict started, if you remember, Putin not only assembled 190,000 troops on the border all but encircling Ukraine, but also he conducted a nuclear exercise.

And so he has been steadily climbing the escalation ladder, step by step, And we are right now on the trajectory to nuclear warfare. So he's signaling, you're correct. He's strategic messaging to us. I have high tolerance for nuclear warfare, and you don't. I have this particular weapon that has never been in combat before, and you don't. And it's nearly impossible to intercept. And so for the Pentagon to say that this is not escalation, they completely failed to understand.

who their strategic opponent is, Vladimir Putin, how conniving and how manipulative he is, and they're totally not prepared, Glenn. So what if Russia uses this weapon? We are now struggling to really grasping at straws, what to do with them, and it's very evident to everybody. So is this a possible way of, because as I understand it, Putin believes in escalation to de-escalation? In other words, ramp it up fast to scare the living becheeses out of people, maybe even using a tactical nuke, so the rest of the world will come to the bargaining table and say, okay, okay, okay, let's work things out.

Is that possible what's happening? And especially with the hyperweapon, instead of using a tactical nuke, he uses this. Yes, absolutely. you just articulated Russia's nuclear doctrine escalate to de-escalate that was developed specifically on Putin's orders for

an eventual conflict. The Russians believe that sooner or later, a war between the United States and Russia is inevitable. Mark these words, inevitable, I quote. And because they fear U.S. conventional superiority,

they believe that they overmatch us in tactical nukes because the ratio right now is one to ten with russia having two thousand new tactical nukes and we have only 200 and this is exactly why Putin wants or plans rather or envisions crossing the nuclear threshold by popping a tactical nuke somewhere in europe or in ukraine in order for us to get confused stand down and really cause like a strategic pause And in the meantime, he would want to move in and die-decapped that Ukraine, removed Zelenski from power as he was planning to.

I mean, you would think, I mean, the rest of the world has looked at nukes for 50 years now, at least, and when this is crazy. I mean, there's no way to win this. We won through mutually assured destruction. Why does he think that a tactical nuke, wouldn't garner a massive response from the rest of the world, just because he has more nukes? Here's why, Glenn, because the Russians have been watching and paying attention very closely to what our defense policy is. And if you remember, under President Obama, we had the initiative

Global Zero. We want to zero out our nuclear capability. All these talk, you know, Putin understands that we have very low pain threshold. We can't even talk about nukes without really kind of like making it sounds like we are absolutely not going to go there. But that is exactly why he wants to use it, okay? Because he knows that we will not use it or he thinks rather that we will not use it. And that is why he is planning to do this because he believes that we will not use it. because he believes that we have, we don't have the kharonis, if you will, to respond or even preempt him.

So are you predicting that he will use at least a tactical nuke? So the threshold for using those is high, okay? It has to be a very specific battlefield scenario where Putin feels so cornered, you know, like a rat, like that red from his childhood that he was. talking about. He's in the corner. And believe me, right now, he does feel that way because things are not going well for Vladimir Putin. He has completely miscalculated the Ukrainian people's will to fight, the leadership of President Zelensky. And so if he perceives that we are about to intervene, we being NATO and the United States on behalf of Ukraine, at that point, he will feel like

a loss is inevitable, that would be the scenario where he would use that. Holy cow. Okay, Rebecca Koffler is talking to her. She is the author of Putin's playbook. I can't recommend it highly enough. I mean, I read it, finished, I think, last week. It is, it's really truly tremendous to give you a real insight into Putin and what you're dealing with.

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For people who don't understand Alexander Dugan and his insane fourth political theory, could you explain his influence and what it is he's trying to accomplish and how likely it is that he's really influencing things in Russia? Dugin used to be the brain trust of Putin. Alexander Dugan's writings, the whole geopolitical, for geopolitical theory, as you explained, was taught at Russia's general staff. They have a center that is called the Center for Strategic Military Research that does threat forecasting. And they have predicted by assessing our defense posture,

and our war fighting style and the past 20 years of our military campaigns and what we've done in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and Syria, and they have decided that Putin is going to be next, that we want to conduct a regime change, and therefore they are going to take a preemptive strike, so to speak, because Putin stayed at once. If a fight is unavoidable, and he's a judo practitioner, right, In addition to being the former KGB officer, if a fight is unavoidable, you must strike first. And this is why he acted to take over Ukraine now, because he perceives that it's his best chance, his window of opportunity, while we have what they believe, a weak U.S. president. Now, and this is what, you know, Duginwan, it's the Eurasianism that Trump, you know, Atlanticism.

And whether it will happen actually or not, Glenn, it depends. It depends on our reaction to what's happening in Ukraine. If he's allowed to follow Ukraine, what's next, right? Moldova, Belarus, Belarus, he's already part of the Union, are the Baltics next. That's what everybody is worried about. And if we don't demonstrate, you know, a viable strategy, which so far we haven't, right? we don't have an answer to his asymmetric strategy because President Biden somehow thinks that sanctions is going to be a magic bullet.

But sanctions is a completely different. It's an economic concern. Putin's security concern are completely different. So that is not going to change their behavior. And that's what Putin is banking on, that we don't have an answer to his playbook. And that's what I described in my book. Okay. So when you're looking at the scenario, I got to believe.

that when we pulled out of Afghanistan, that was a green light for Putin. It was. The Russians, as I said, watch very, very closely how we fight, where we fight, whether we're able to achieve victory, okay? And we have withdrawn from Afghanistan after 20 years and $2.2 trillion spent of U.S. taxpayers' money, $6,000. American lives only sacrifice, right? Given the fact that we have a superior war fighting force in military history, our men and women in uniform, are exceptional. We have outstanding weaponry, the best in the world, but technology and weaponry do not win wars. The Russians know that. And given the shameful withdrawal by President Biden, they decided that we are just not able to

handle these wars and close these wars and don't have the stamina to stand up to Putin, and that's when he moved in. That was the green light to him, as you said. And on top of that, Joe Biden greenlighted, if you remember, he told Putin, well, if it's a small incursion, you know, maybe he was punished. So that was the final green light and the trigger that Putin said, okay, I'm going to move in. This is my opportunity before a stronger president, someone like,

Trump, you know, comes to power in the United States, that's the best chance and he moved in. All right. Why is it? And I'm going to have to take a break here. But when we come back, I want to ask you, Rebecca, why is it that our intelligence and everybody else got Putin so wrong to where we thought he was a reasonable guy? What is it about him that we missed this whole time back in a minute? Let me tell you my Patriot Supply. If you've been listening to the show, the whole show today, you'll know with added urgency, I would like you to call my Patriot Supply and get some food storage going for yourself. Prepare with glen.com. Get a $150 discount right now. If you missed our one of the program, make sure you listen as a podcast. Make sure you listen to our number one for today's podcast. It's very important. Prepare with glen.com. You'll get a $150 discount right now on their special three-month emergency food kit.

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She decided that she wanted to help protect our country. She knows Russia inside and out. Former Soviet citizen that came over to the United States. And now is an American citizen. Rebecca, welcome. Thank you, Glenn. Pleasure to be here with you in the audience. Oh, great.

So before the break, I asked you, how did we get Putin so wrong? I mean, I've always said, if you just look at the guy, one arm doesn't swing when he walks. And that's the arm that his gun used to be at. He is still a KGB guy. He's still a guy. He's a thug. How did we miss this?

Absolutely, Glenn. So we've missed 20 years worth of indications and warnings, what we call an intelligence community, I and W of who couldn't was and what he was planning to do. He never made it a secret. Every speech, every strategic planning document, every press conference, he articulated to us that he was planning to reconstitute an alliance similar to USSR, and he viewed the U.S. and NATO as a roadblock in his plan, and he planned to destabilize it.

And yet we missed it. Why? It's because somehow there's an assumption in the intelligence community and in the broader Washington establishment security apparatus that Putin's saying, like an American, that the Russians think and believe just like Americans, and nothing can be further from the truth. Putin is not an American to think like a Soviet KGB officer and a judicial practitioner. The Russians elected Putin four times, Glenn, right? And guess who every single time was a runner-up? It was a communist. It was somebody who would have been even worse. And so

Putin has already done several things that are perceived, by the way, Western analyst as crazy. And he's not crazy. He invaded Georgia. He invaded Crimea. He authorized the shooting down of MH17s. And we keep thinking that, oh, he's not going to use tactical nuke because it's crazy. But maybe what's crazy to us is not crazy to him. His rationale is not American, is not Western.

It's a Soviet KGB killer style, you know, type of guy. a thug like you said an assassin he has authorized assassinations poisoning all these things make sense to him and they actually make sense to a segment of the russian population which is pretty large who support a strong leader bordering on brutal just like Stalin's popularity is rising now so we have we have a situation where Putin says uh he's going to purify Russia of the scum and traitors but there's a lot of people, at least it appears to be, a lot of people that are against this war in Ukraine. Will this silence them and put everybody back to kind of a Soviet kind of footing? That's what I'm afraid of, Glenn.

He's basically calling for people to start ratting out, if you will, the fifth column, the traitors, as he called them. And Putin once stated that treason is the most heinous of crimes. And this is why he authorized assassinations and poisoning of former GRU officer Scripal and former FBI officer Alexander Lithuanenko. So right now, he's calling for a Stalinesque era red terror when neighbors and spy on neighbors and turn them into the Soviet authorities and call them. and call them, you know, traitors. So what he wants to do is he wants the Russian people to actually give out the Russian,

other Russian people. And with the idea that it will scare everyone and people will stop protesting, most of the Russian people are afraid. And I interviewed a Russian source in Moscow, and she said that 90% of people support Putin, 10% and nobody actually supports the war, right? Because it's a slav on slav. It's atrocious. But only 10% do not support Putin. And everyone is scared because the consequences can be really, really harsh. You can be expelled from a university. You can lose your job. And you can get

in jail up to 15 years, rather. And so that is what is scary. these people and we've seen that before in Russian history regretfully. All right. You in your book, Putin's playbook, you talk about the infiltration of Russia of the United States by Russia. It's already here. I know that Dugan has operatives that are, you know, reaching out to organizations all over the West and in Europe, trying to get them on board by appealing to their traditional values. How is this happening with Putin and Russia,

and where do you see this infiltration here in America? Here's how it happens. There are two types of infiltration. There's an infiltration with actual spy, like sleeper agent types of operatives, similar to the 10 who were expelled by President Obama. which was, by the way, it was foolish. We should have kept these people here, debriefed him, and flipped them over to work for us, right?

Back in 2010, Putin actually authorized the infiltration of these 10, probably the minute that he came to power, because they were working here for 10 years trying to get close to U.S. top echelons of U.S. government, and they were getting very close to Hillary Clinton, right? So the second type of infiltration is really the infiltration of the American mind. The Russians for decades wanted to transform the United States from a free capitalist society into a socialist type society, similar to what the Soviet Union was like. And we were warned about it by a defector, Yuri Bismanov, who said that there was a four-step program of such. transformation. And we see the results of it today, right? Today, you know, Bernie Sanders, AOC, and

folks like that, the leftist, they talk about socialism as though it's a viable system and it's been normalized this narrative, which is completely not only absurd but scary. Glenn, I lived under socialism. It's a really, really vile and atrocious system. It's not all about the free stuff. It's about government control. And we cannot allow this in this country, but this is the type of infiltration. So the Russians not only target with their information warfare, they don't only target our networks, but they're targeting Americans' minds with this. And now, yes.

So what is your response when you hear people like Hillary Clinton and others say that that Tucker Carlson is an operative? or what is it? Tulsi Gabbard. Yeah, I can never remember her first name. Tulsi Gabbard, that they're Russian operatives. So Hillary Clinton is a Soviet-style KGB operative type. Okay.

Remember, during her, you know, when she was a State Department chief, instead of actually paying attention to the Russian threat and developed an counter strategy, Hillary Clinton was busy trying to cozy up to Putin and to the Russians. They wanted to reset Obama and Hillary, even though she had every possible indication and warning what Putin was up to. And she trotted out that mistranslated button that was a huge diplomatic, you know, diplomatic faux part that Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, laughed at. And so she was digging dirt. She authorized, you know, a whole flu of intelligence officials and also, you know, the private industry to dig dirt on Trump to unseat a democratically elected president of the United States.

So Hillary Clinton is dangerous, actually, and the types like her, the corrupt officials like John Brennan, former CIA director under Obama, like James Clapper, DNI, former director of national intelligence. and James Comey, the former FBI director, because they failed to do their job to assess Putin properly and protect us from this threat to us and our allies. I want to make it really clear. She did not just say that Hillary Clinton is a Russian spy. She said she is the type of politician that the KGB would love and that, you know, doesn't watch our back.

Do I have that right? You have that exactly right. I don't mean to say that she's on the payroll of the Russians, but she learned all the wrong lessons from the Soviet playbook. And she and her operatives have applied them, you know, hitting the U.S. really with the double whammy. What happened in 2016 was the Russians did not want to elect Trump. They wanted to foreman discord. and disorder and possibly social unrest.

They feared Trump. And they put out, they being the Obama spy chief, put out a fraudulent intelligence community assessment of January 6, 2017, where they lied to the American people about the reason for Russia's interference in the election. Rebecca, I'm out of time, but I would like to have you back because I'd like to talk to you about Ukraine because Hillary Clinton and George Soros and all those people, were huge in Ukraine doing all kinds of dirty stuff. And then we had a TV star to be elected president,

much to our State Department chagrin. And I know you're writing a new book now on Zelensky, and I'd like to have you back on again and talk a little bit about the other side. Would you come back? Of course. I would love to. Thank you so much. Rebecca Koffler, the name of the book is Putin's playbook.

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Pope John Paul kind of did it after the wall fell but most Catholics will say that wasn't what the what the Virgin Mary was asking the fifth secret involves something really really truly horrible and it involves Russia and Ukraine This Pope has decided to fulfill the request from 1917 this Friday. I'll explain it to you in 60 seconds. All right, true love of country, those who serve it, that's a deep commitment.

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And we used to watch the movie, was it Bernadette or was it Fatima? I can't remember. We used to watch a movie about one of these miracles every year. I've always been fascinated by them, especially Fatima, because there is one secret that the kids knew about, but then gave to the Pope. And it was for the Pope's eyes only. And it was a call. We don't know what it says on the result of not doing it. We just know that it was to call Russia to God.

And if not, bad things would happen. We don't know what bad things. It is literally only read by the Pope and one other person through history. The Pope becomes the Pope. He reads this particular prophecy. And then it is sealed up and he decides what he's going to do, yes or no. Pope John Paul did it. But there are scholars, theologians in the Catholic Church.

church that say he didn't do it the way he was instructed to do it. It requires all of the bishops to come together, et cetera, et cetera, and dedicate a day of prayer and call from St. Peter's seat, Russia, to come to God. That's my rough non-Catholic understanding of it. If you're Catholic, you might want to talk to your priest about it and get involved and make sure all the bishops and archbishops are involved in this on Friday. This is a really odd request coming in 1917 from children who had barely even heard of Russia. The Russian Revolution at the time had just started. It was about eight months old. World War I was raging.

But Mary, the mother Mary, said to the children, not to worry, it will end soon. She told the children, if my requests are heated, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the church. Good, the good will be martyred. The Holy Father will have much to suffer.

Various nations will be annihilated. By this time, the kids were gaining quite a following, It was October 13th, 1917, and Mary appeared for the last time and gave the final part of her message. She said there would be a miracle visible to all of the people who came to the village. 70,000 people came pouring out in the rain, and they were standing in the mud. Many of them were skeptical journalists and religious figures, et cetera, et cetera. As Mary spoke to the children, she said, it is said that the son, rolled out of the sky and across the landscape, throwing off a rainbow of colors.

People fell to their knees. Their clothing dried, looked at it just come back from the cleaners. They all smelled flowers. This, I'm just, you can doubt it if you want, whatever. I'm just telling you what they reported at the time. And when I say they, I mean many of the skeptical reporters as well. The church has deemed this a miracle and a holy sight. there's lots of appearances that they don't you know i saw him in a loaf of bread they don't necessarily

do that over the years different popes have claimed to perform the consecration but uh it didn't happen uh it didn't happen the way it was supposed to that is changing on friday on march 25th 62 years after Pope John the 23rd was told specifically to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, this Pope is going to finally do it. Now, it's Pope Francis. And I don't know. I don't know enough about this to know if it's being done right or not. All of the bishops are asked to do the same thing on Friday.

I think any attempt to beg for God. interceding here on mankind's behalf is welcome. I'm telling you this. This is not my faith, but I support any faith that is working towards humbling man and getting them to ask for repentance and conversion to the Lord for anyone. This could be a very powerful event if Catholic, and perhaps others just join in prayer. But if Catholics all around the world really truly pray hard on Friday, I do believe prayers are answered. Much more to this story,

including what happens if this isn't done properly, I guess. It just strikes me as profound. that something from 1917 that people have been calling for for a hundred years is dusted off at this moment with Pope Francis because apparently the really bad thing happens or begins in Kiev with Russia. Not good. Not good. There's so many things that fill up that list right now.

Yeah. It's hard to keep track of them. I liked your, I did not know you were, you had the ability to go that deep into Catholicism. So they will not accept any miracles in bread? Is that true? No, that's not true. I can't make that blakeet. I'm sorry.

I can't, I can't, I don't want to mislegeous to. Okay. Yeah, I'm practically a Catholic theologian. Not. So I apologize to all Catholics here for butchering this story. but so do we what do you think it means uh i don't know i don't know i mean i again i apologize to catholics i so dislike uh pope francis i just don't trust him because he's also there is a there is another catholic and i it may be from fatima i'm not sure i know a lot of people that are very very much

into what's happening right now have been waiting for this moment literally their whole lives And there's another prophecy that they have been hoping wouldn't be fulfilled, and that is the Pope going over and meeting in Moscow with the leader of Russia and also, I think, the leader of the Orthodox Church. And that is supposedly a very bad sign. and I know this guy, Pope Francis, has been planning on that. Nothing is set, but there have been, there's movement in the papal offices on that. And that would not be good. According to the Catholic prophecy. So what do you, where do you, I think that makes him the last pope, something like that.

Where do you, what's your view on what's actually happening right now when it comes to Russia and Ukraine? Where does this stand? There's a report from, I think it was the Wall Street Journal this weekend, that they now believe that Putin was actually planning on taking the country quickly, is legitimately up, you know, like realizing that this is not going to happen this quickly, and is now looking for ways to pivot back to taking just the territories that he initially indicated interest in. Donbos and Junetsk or whatever and then keeping Crimea and getting the land bridge to Crimea and those things that were rumored to be his goals initially. I'm not sure maybe. I'm not sure that Joe Biden is the guy to conduct those peace talks. He can't do any talk. No.

But that would be good if everyone would accept that. I mean, at least right now. Yeah. Compared to what? compared to taking it all and and really going in and fighting. His use of the hyperweapons disturbs me a great deal. And that could be an escalate to de-escalate. That's his kind of ammo is he ratchets things up.

And that's from a real Russian nuclear document. Yeah. Their strategy is to, you know, in theory, if they were losing or being defeated slowly in a conventional war that they didn't think they could win with conventional forces easily, they would potentially drop a tactical nuclear bomb or some device that would scare the other side so much they wouldn't have to fight that conventional war. So the last big war that they had was Afghanistan, I think. Well, they had Chechnya and they leveled that.

They leveled it. The video from Grozny. Yeah. Horrible. It is unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, that's, it's really one of the things, you know, it's so many of those types of things that go on in the world and you hear reports about them and I remember talking about it at

the time but like you forget how brutal that was yeah so um they lost in afghanistan they just did horrible things horrible things in grozny um and now they're mired in this this this could be another i mean remember how humiliating the loss was in afghanistan if if they uh if he feels like i can't take this loss i think he is going to he it'll go much much much worsen. And I just unfortunately think there's so many people that want war right now. And he might be one of them. I don't know. The president of Ukraine, this is a real test for him. Because if the president of Ukraine is winning and feels he's winning, holding him, he's going to, he'll be less likely to join in on peace talks because he'll think that maybe

we can drive them entirely out and defeat them. So it's going to take a big brother to step up and go, hey, hey, both of you guys, what do you think? What do you think we call this off? Is there a compromise here? And that used to be the United States, but I don't think that's the United States to do that anymore. This has got to be an unbelievable thing for Russia to go through. If you go through, go back to right now they're saying 14,000 dead on the Russians. side, then that's according to the Ukrainians. Now, of course, you'd expect that number to probably

be high. The U.S. is reporting they think it's 7,000. The New York Times says that's a conservative estimate, 7,000. 7,000, to give you a sense of that, is all of the U.S. casualties, as far as deaths go, in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Oh, my gosh. Over how many years, 20 years, they have lost that many people in four weeks. That's a bloodbath. It's a lot of mothers, you know, finding out that their kid isn't coming home. At some point,

that does wind up changing things significantly in a country, even when it is a dictatorship. I mean, you know, even with the power that Putin has, enough moms get those calls. That's why he is now, he's on the same social system now that China is on, pretty much. Really?

Social credit system, you mean? Yeah. He is cracking down like crazy. All he needs to do is introduce a digital currency or the constant monitoring by the phones of everything. But he is right now you dare not speak out. You can't speak out about the war. He is locking this down. And he's going for what he says is a purification of Russia to get rid of the, what did he call it,

swine and traders. Traders, yeah. I mean, that's pretty disturbing. When somebody calls for a purification, that usually means some sort of death camp is on the way. And Russians happen to remember. They're

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I don't know the next time this will be available once we run out of paper this time because of the global paper shortage. All right. Let me tell you the problem with fighting this at the state level is the bank lobbyists and business associations that absolutely are on the war path. If you think the Chamber of Commerce is actually your friend as a small business, you'd be. sadly mistaken, unfortunately. If you think the big banks that are getting billions in, sorry, trillions in bailouts from the Fed and the federal government are doing what's right for you, the little guy, I think you'll be sadly mistaken when you find out the truth. The bill in Idaho, for instance, to stop the state from investing.

in these ESG entities like BlackRock using your retirement money, your money, to basically kill anything that isn't environmentally friendly. And that would mean you farmers in Idaho, that would mean anyone who grows a tree in Idaho and wants to sell it. But also anybody who is against social justice and anyone who doesn't, and have the right people in their business and on their board in governance. The Republicans, many of them, caved with pressure, and that's mainly because of political ambitions, and I'm not guessing that I've been told that by several people in the state that know.

A second reason, according to the sources on the ground, is that the governor and treasurer release their own divestment bill and work quietly behind the scenes to pressure people to go with their bill. We tried numerous times. And when I'm saying we, I don't mean me. I mean, there are several groups that are against the Great Reset. I'm just a guy telling you about it. I happen to go up to this state. I'll go to other states, if invited, to talk about it. But I'm not the guy involved in writing the bills at all. The Heartland Foundation really is taking the lead on this one. But the problem is on this particular case, what the governor did, along with the treasurer, and they would not hear of changing it in any way or not, the governor

and treasurer now are claiming credit for being against ESG without being against ESG, because their bill is absolute garbage. It is truly garbage. Here's what it does. Nothing of importance. It makes it really easy for the state to continue. to invest in ESG funds unless the state legislator or the legislature or the governor specifically outlines that a certain investment activity is not in the best interest of the state and that investment will be disallowed. But it's left up to the governor and I don't think he really is part of the fight against ESG. Or it takes a new law or resolution passed by the whole legislature to forbid a certain

kind of investment. It would be easy to reverse this action in the future if some real ESG spines are elected, but there is no guarantee that policymakers now or in the future will forbid investment activities with your money. And it appears the bill does not apply to state contracts, which, really? Okay. Anyway, so that's what happens. So that's what happens. happened in Idaho and I want to give you this because this is this is what's happening everywhere. This is an op-ed by the statesman, which is the main paper up there. It says last month, now see if you think this is skewed at all or if it's a fair opinion. Last month, political commentator Glenn Beck visited with a group of Idaho legislators at the state

capital to talk about a number of things, including the latest right-wing conspiracy. surrounding ESG investing. Good start. Good start. Okay. ESG is an investment strategy that stands for environmental, social, and governance. It's a way for companies and individuals to invest in businesses that are perceived to be good stewards of the environment, are socially responsible and have equitable corporate governance. It's also a way to assess companies' exposures to risks such as climate change, financial mismanagement, corruption, or other unfair labor practices, risks that could affect stock price and that investors would like to know about. That's all it is.

Uh-huh. Well, listen, he called, the guy who wrote this, called a chartered financial analyst and portfolio manager. And he said, I think ESG investing is good for investors. Oh, you were wrong. So you're wrong. Did they pull the copies of the Great Reset yet from the shelves? No.

Which one? The one by Klaus Schwab that says exactly what mine book says? No, no. I was thinking of your book. Callah Schwab's can stay out there. there. Okay. It gives investors, both institutions and individuals, an option to invest in values-based ways. And people's values are different, but it gives them an option. You know, this is really great. And I think that if that's what this is, that is fantastic. So when are you going to come out with one

that is like a values base for conservative people? Because I'd like to do the same thing. That sounds fun. I'd love to invest in the companies that believe in the U.S. Constitution. And, and sovereignty and maybe don't bash God all the time or tell me that I'm white, therefore I don't count. So surely you've got another one coming out, right? And you'll be equally punishing the people who don't adhere to that conservative philosophy, right? ESG has been around for a long time, especially in Europe, but it's really caught on in the United States in the last few years. Yeah, I noticed that. But ESG has become the latest boogeyman for the far-right conspiracy theorists like Beck,

who thinks ESG is a plot cooked up by the World Economic Forum and people like George Soros. No, he's the guy who started the World Economic Forum, but I don't think he's... Anyway, to get everyone in the world to become politically correct. Uh-huh. Step in line with what they call the climate alarmist and undermine American capitalism. No, not... Wow, I'm very surprised here, Glenn, as I read this, because you said it was a conspiracy theory about the World Economic Forum.

And when I, I will say, when I search Google, they must be in on it because the first link is about the Great Reset is a link directly to the World Economic Forum as they explain the Great Reset. Yeah, it's kind of a weird. But he's got it wrong here. He says it's to undermine American capitalism. No, it's not. It's to destroy it.

It's to replace American capitalism. And you'll find that information at the World Economic Forum. Well, you should, you mean, your problem here is you didn't put any links to that in your book. You didn't tell anybody where they could get the information. No, there's like 50. There's like 50 pages of footnotes that go directly to their own words. Yeah, I didn't know that, but I'm sure this author knew it. Because he read the book, obviously.

Yeah, so he understands. Surely. All of this would be innocuous enough, except Beck persuaded Idaho legislators to get a resolution introduced this week, fast-track through the committee and actually passed in the House that describes the detrimental effects that ESG investing strategies have on eye and on. Idaho businesses and our values. The same day, the House passed the anti-ESG resolution House Republicans successfully shot down another really controversial resolution celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. Which one is more valuable for a legislation to be working on?

Exactly. I'm sure the memorial thing. Yeah. I'm sure that's important. I actually like Republicans that shot that down. Who cares? I mean, it's great. It's 50 years old.

You want to have a party? Have a party. Why is the legislature doing anything on it? Or order some pizzas. If you want. Not on the taxpayers. You pay for them obviously. Maybe they have points. Yeah. You know, on their credit card they could use, but really no. This thing goes on and on and on. But what I think is interesting is the pattern. Yeah, there's this pattern I think that we've seen develop with CRT and with so many of these other stories that fit into that. Common Core. Common Core was all of these things. It starts off with, you know, Conservatives start bringing this stuff up and then they just tell you it just doesn't exist. Yeah.

It's either it's very obscure. It's just as some random teaching and like some obscure legal circles. It's nothing. Don't worry about it. Then it crosses over from there to okay, yes, it exists. But it's good. Not bad. It's good.

Not in the way. You're misunderstanding it exists, but not in the way you think. Right. These are all good things. These are really positive things and we have to have them. And then after that, once we get past. that stage and that fails, we go to, we're going to start canceling people who bring it up. Yeah.

You know, those people no longer should have jobs. Those people should not have livelihoods. I mean, I should, shh. Now, I obviously support that in your case, but generally speaking, people should get fired for their views. But that is the way happens. Always. Yeah.

That doesn't exist. That's a conspiracy theory. Okay. Yeah, but they're taking this. It is a conspiracy theory, but it does exist. But nothing like what you say it. is. Okay, it is like that, but it's good. It's good. We need that. That's an important thing. What, you still don't agree with it? You need to be silenced. If you show up at that teacher meeting,

you might be a terrorist. That's exactly the pattern. And this guy hits the beginning of the pattern right there. Conspiracy theory. And yet it's good. There's another pattern this fits. And I don't know this guy individually, you know, personally. So I love to. Let me generalize this a little bit here. So much, particularly of financial journalism, depends on access. And there's a huge access journalism problem with people who would report on this type of story.

Who do you go to to see if this crazy Glenn Beck conspiracy is true? Well, they went to a local investor. Yeah, I know. I'm not going to spend the time to read the book and look at all the linked material from the source. That's way too much work. So what I'll do is I'll call my buddy. who gave me the, the latest IPO tip last week, and I'm going to ask them,

is this real? What is this? And a person I trust told me that it's not a big deal. Okay. And we see this happen all the time. It's famous in sports journalism because you need access to these teams. So example from this past weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles, as you know, America's team, had not signed a lot of free agents in the free agency period.

and a lot of their fans are complaining about this. And so one of the things, one of the pushbacks against that from the team, is this idea that, well, no, they're not signing a lot of these guys, but that's just because they re-signed a bunch of their players before free agency started. So they're spending money. They care. They want wins. But they already did this way.

Stunningly, over the weekend, every Eagles beat reporter that I follow came out with the same exact point. You know, you guys, what you guys aren't thinking about here is they re-signed all their players before the started. Now, this is obviously coming from an Eagles PR person to these reporters who are regurgitating it. And it's not the worst point in the world. It's not, it's an interesting perspective. However, it's when you, your job depends on access to these people, you have to play these games and act as if these are your own random thoughts off the top of your head to convince people to think about things in a different way. This stuff happens through journalism

in every single area. So much of the news that you get comes not from. It's not, was that movie, the paper where the Washington Post was featured and they're like, you know, it's not Watergate. It's some PR person from the organization that's affected writing to the reporter and telling them what they want out there. That is how this stuff develops. And I think that happens on the major scale. I doubt this. I think this is just, I call the local friend who's an advisor and I asked him what ESG was and he said it's no big deal.

it's been around in Europe. Yeah, it's been around in Europe because Trump couldn't cancel the Paris Accords in Europe. They are ahead of us, yes. Yeah, but that wasn't that the big conservative complaint for, I don't know, the last 50 years, we don't want to turn into Europe? Yeah. And all of a sudden, it's in Europe. We could be just like Europe if we do this. It's all a sudden a selling point. When did that start? All right. Let me tell you about life lock. Pretty much every day since Al Gore invented the super highway that we all drive on every day, that information super highway, there's been crime on that highway. Who would have thunk it? Well, they're out there. They're trying to get your personal

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