The Glenn Beck Program - The Most Joe Biden Thing We've Ever Heard | 4/25/22

Episode Date: April 25, 2022

Filling in for Glenn, Stu goes through the history of CNN and its failures, leading up to the failure of CNN+. Pat Gray joins Stu to discuss the failure of CNN+. Pat and Stu discuss California’s lat...est radical abortion legislation. President Biden announced the intention for every car to be climate-friendly, and Pat and Stu have some thoughts. As the feud between Disney and Florida continues, President Biden chimed in on whose side he’s on, and Pat and Stu discuss. Pat and Stu discuss the latest update on Elon Musk’s attempted purchase of Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:30 440 or go to Americanfinancing.net. Well, it's Stu and Pat in for Glenn Beck today as he is having issues with his voice. I assume it was some sort of bender with Hunter Biden. We're going to find out about that probably later in the week. But for now, he's not in today. We're going to be talking about everything that's going on anyway because we don't need Glenn to do that. Glenn can bring his amazing perspective later in the week. But today we're going to go into all of the craziness going on, particularly in the media today,
Starting point is 00:02:58 The way they're dealing with the CNN failure and the Washington Post failure from this week is incredible. We'll get into that in 60 seconds. You know, we've talked about my pillow for a while. Glenn, you know, people ask him about this all the time because, you know, he's had Mike Lindell on the show many times. Do you really like my pillow or do you just like Mike Lindell? Well, he likes my pillow. How does Glenn sleep at night? Well, you know, people have asked him that in a lot of derogatory ways over the years.
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Starting point is 00:04:23 So can we take a moment and talk about the last couple of years when it comes to CNN? What an utter series of catastrophes we have seen from this network that used to be, you know, the name and news. This is CNN. James Earl Jones even said it. He told us it was CNN. And when James Earl Jones says something, he's either strangling you telepathically or he's telling you something important. And for a long time, CNN was this network. It would be a network that would honestly be a welcome adjunctly.
Starting point is 00:05:03 addition to the media landscape right now, if it existed in the form that it's supposed to. And think about this. We have a lot of great opinion out there. If you're a subscriber to Blaze TV, I think you'll see perspectives from all across the right and is a great way to get your perspective every single day. BlaseTV.com slash Glenn. Promocode is Glenn if you'd like to join up and save a little cash. And we do that pretty well, I think, here. There's a lot of other services on the right that do that pretty well. There's a lot of services on the left that give you left-wing opinion as well, and that's easy to find. There are not a ton of places anymore that even attempt to do just down the middle journalism, right? Something where they're just giving you the facts with no opinion
Starting point is 00:05:50 whatsoever. There's a, there is, I'm in this business, I've been in this business for a long time now. There is real, uh, utility in opinion. That's something that we need. We can't, it can't, It can't just be boring news that nobody wants to watch. I understand that people want passion. They want to hear some actual perspective, something that means something about the news of the day. What does it mean in the end? I mean, you can hear the facts all you want.
Starting point is 00:06:17 But there is a need for someone who's actually doing reporting. Someone who is sending reporters into the middle of Ukraine, for example. I mean, we're in the middle of a war. We aren't. although we seem to be trying to get ourselves into it, but in theory we're not in the middle of a war, but there's a big war going on between Russia and Ukraine, and it's difficult to know what the hell is going on on a day-to-day basis. What does this mean? Who's advancing where? We're looking at, you look at one map of where the Russians are and another map of Ukraine looks like they're winning and pushing back. Another map looks like Russia's just rolling over them. It's almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is propaganda.
Starting point is 00:07:01 it's wartime, these things happen. People tell the truth, they exaggerate the truth, they do all sorts of things with the truth. Many times they don't stick to it, though. So it would be nice to have an organization like CNN with a lot of resources that could take some time and tell us what's actually going on. And then places like the Blaze and places like, I don't know, the Huffington Post can look at that information and see it through their lens and give you an idea. of their perspective, and then you can judge for yourself. That's how this is supposed to work. Well, CNN abandoned this a while ago.
Starting point is 00:07:38 They've always been, to be clear, always have been, a left-wing, a left-leaning network. A lot of times, though, they were a left-leaning network that attempted to do news. It was news that was left-wing all that often. As we do this show on the Premier Radio Networks, I remember Rush Limbaugh, a zillion years ago, talking about the Clinton News Network.
Starting point is 00:08:02 I mean, this was not a completely balanced source at any moment in its history. It always had a left-word lean. But particularly with the rise of Donald Trump, this organization turned off any efforts to be fair. They were broken. I mean, look, Donald Trump broke a lot of people. And they decided. for whatever reason that this was too important.
Starting point is 00:08:33 They just couldn't maintain the appearance of attempting to be journalists anymore. And this doesn't go for every single person at CNN. There are some exceptions to this, but generally speaking as a network, especially with the arrival of Zucker, they decided to go down this road where they would become to the left of the Huffington Post. No matter what occurred, they would come up with somebody who would present it as a racist, homophobic, transphobic, phobic, phobic thing
Starting point is 00:09:06 that the right had done somehow. No matter what the story was, it would turn back to that. And look, you know, MSNBC was already doing that. There was no room for another network to attempt to do the same thing. And yet they decided this was just too important. They had to do it. And when Donald Trump won in 2016,
Starting point is 00:09:26 they doubled down on it. They decided this was the most, important thing that anything had ever had ever occurred and they decided to double down on just non-thinking critiques of Donald Trump. You can't, there was never any, it didn't seem to ever be in any information on it. And like, look, you can, you could be critical of Donald Trump. I don't think anybody in this audience wants to hear somebody coming out and blathering and being a constant cheerleader for any politician.
Starting point is 00:09:55 Nobody wants that. You can be critical. You can even be left-wing critical. of Donald Trump. That doesn't mean you have to make things up. It doesn't mean you have to create entire arcs of scandal to try to take him out because you don't like him. Just be honest if he's doing a poor job. If you're honest about it, the American people will recognize that. They're certainly doing this right now with Joe Biden. CNN and many other news organizations have done nothing but present the best possible view of everything Joe Biden has done since the moment
Starting point is 00:10:31 he became president of the United States and he's still at 36 and 33 and 37% approval rating. The guy can't even crack 40. And that's with the entire media behind him. Imagine if he didn't have that. So CNN goes down this road. They started off with the Donald Trump era and even as an outsider, you'd have to recognize there were some high points here. The high points certainly were not related to journalism in any way. The high points were related to their ratings, which went up a lot. And I can give you some analysis from the utmost expert on this topic, Donald Trump, that Donald Trump brings ratings.
Starting point is 00:11:19 He's aware of it. Everybody's aware of it. so Donald Trump is the singular focus of CNN for four years they talk about him all the time and they become completely obsessed
Starting point is 00:11:36 to the point where a restraining order was probably necessary every single topic would be spun to be related to Donald Trump in some way this was the only thing they were allowed to talk about for four consecutive years. So Donald Trump, after 2020, Joe Biden comes in, he's the president of the United States.
Starting point is 00:12:03 And one thing that I don't think they thought out all that well was if you can get Donald Trump out of the presidency and somebody else's president, then what do you do with your network? Because they had gone through a complete revamp of not only just, I mean, we know. Again, they were left wing. But to take it to this degree and then remove all ties to the vision of what they were supposed to be as a network. CNN no longer was even early in the Trump days, they would say, oh, we're the apple. This is an apple. Remember these commercials? This is an apple.
Starting point is 00:12:44 And we're going to call it an apple because we're brave. Other people are going to say it's a pear or a fruit salad or a watermelon. But we are CNN. And we will tell you that that is an Apple because we are truth. We tell you what truth is. When you want truth, you come to us. And if we don't say it's true, it's not. That was the approach they went to initially.
Starting point is 00:13:12 Over time, it became clearer and clearer to even its own viewers that this was not the case. So they just turned into a left-wing opinion network. Now, look, you could make money on left-wing opinion. people do it all the time. You can usually raise a lot of money doing it too. There are reasons to do it. The path, if you choose the path of conservatism, you're not doing it because it's easy. It's a lot easier to go out there and take the left wing view. Everyone praises you. Everyone cheers you on. Everyone throws money at you. It's just the way it is. It's just the way it is. So it's easy to go that way. and so they did
Starting point is 00:13:51 and it worked for a few years their ratings were pretty good especially for CNN but then Biden came in and everything has collapsed it has absolutely disintegrated over the past year which is really incredible
Starting point is 00:14:07 they had pretty good ratings for them at least back in the day when Donald Trump was president and now those have gone away completely they dropped something like 80% of their audience then you had the Cuomo scandals
Starting point is 00:14:23 where we have now evidence that not only was the coverage of Andrew Cuomo through COVID really, really terrible. We now have evidence that the guy who heads up CNN was counseling Andrew Cuomo on how to respond to Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:14:51 in press conferences We know that the first words you heard from Andrew Cuomo about his pending and building scandals when it came to his Me Too accusations against him. The first words in his defense were written by an anchor of CNN, Chris Cuomo, who wrote basically an email outline of the speech that Andrew Cuomo went up giving. Then CNN was forced to cover a speech written
Starting point is 00:15:22 by its own anchor, was forced to cover press conferences based on guidance from CNN employees. The guy running it and the woman he was having an affair with who was a former Cuomo aide. We all know, Andrew Cuomo steps down. Eventually, so does Chris. Now, Chris Cuomo is suing CNN. That whole thing is collapsed. And then you have CNN. Plus.
Starting point is 00:15:56 And look, if you know anything about the last 20 minutes or so, you might sense the slightest bit of dislike from me towards CNN. I don't love the network. I'd honestly love to see them be successful if they were doing their jobs. But when they don't do their jobs, I don't wish success on them at all. But even with that, it is hard to classify CNN Plus. as anything other than the greatest media catastrophe that we have ever seen. You want to compare it to something else. Give me the comparison.
Starting point is 00:16:36 I don't know what it would be. Quibi, which if you don't know what Quibi is, a lot of people didn't. And that was part of the problem. That was part of the issue. People didn't know what it was. But let's try to find something. Quibi, I guess, is maybe the closest recent example of a media failure like that. I will take a moment and try to find something.
Starting point is 00:16:57 that can compare, but I don't know what it is. Maybe the greatest media catastrophe in the history of television and broadcast and journalism. I don't know that anyone has ever seen anything like what we have witnessed with CNN plus, and in addition to that, CNN over the past year or so, say two years. It has been an incredible fall from relative grace. Again, their high points weren't exactly high points. but still, the fall from grace is spectacular. We'll have more in that in about 60 seconds.
Starting point is 00:17:35 So what are the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe and Venezuela all have in common? Well, all of them ended up looking like our country is about to look if we don't turn things around. It's going to, they all look like CNN Plus is basically what they had in common. Inflation is running rampant in the United States right now, but those of us who look at history, and we talk about this often, I have a $1 trillion bill from Zimbabwe. it's one of my prize possessions. I am technically a trillionaire. If you, if you do, we all like to be a trillionaire,
Starting point is 00:18:07 but you don't want to be a trillionaire like that. If you want to be informed about inflation, if you want to understand why you don't want a $100 trillion bill of your own, you need to get informed. I have kids nine and 10 years old. These kids beg me to read to them the Tuttle Twins books. And it's so important to get a kid started early. We have spent so much time on the conservative side.
Starting point is 00:18:28 talking about universities. It's too late at that point. It's too late at the point of universities. You need to talk to kids earlier about the foundations of what is important, not only of the country's foundations, but capitalism and even monetary policy. Glenn has talked a lot about the book that's the Jekyll Island book. The Monster of Jekyll Island.
Starting point is 00:18:53 I can never remember the name of it. But it's a great, great book. The creature. That's a creature of. of Jekyll Island. Talking about the Fed and what a disaster the Fed is, all the Tuttle Twin books are fantastic. And I have two kids right in the middle of this age group
Starting point is 00:19:08 and they love them. I can tell you from personal experience. Go to Tuttle Twins.com. While supplies last for your free copy of the Tuttle Twins and the creature from Jekyll Island, Tuttle Twinsbeck.com. Your last chance to get the free book offer. It's ending this week. Don't miss it. Tuttle Twinsbeck.com. 10 seconds, station ID.
Starting point is 00:19:37 So Quibby. is an app or was an app. And it was launched with, I think, $1.7 billion worth of money. And the idea here was people go to YouTube all the time and they want to watch short videos. They're watching five minute and ten minute videos. What if instead of the crap that's on YouTube sometimes,
Starting point is 00:19:58 like, you know, Stu Does America, which is available Monday through Friday. I mean, you got that going on there. You want to avoid that, obviously. And, you know, we'll go to real talent in Hollywood and come up with real shows that are designed to be 10 minutes long. They're designed to be viewed on your phone. We can do all sorts of things.
Starting point is 00:20:16 Like, you know how you have your phone and you're watching it? What is it? Landscape. I can't remember which one is which. But you're watching it landscape and you have your phone and then it's portrait. You know, you turn your phone back and forth. And then the shows get really small and you can't see them. Quibi said, well, what if we customize the shows for that process?
Starting point is 00:20:33 We know people are watching them on their phone. So you turn the phone the long way and it will, zoom in to the best possible view you can see of the show. In fact, they even had situations where you could see two different things of the same show. You'd see two different views. They'd actually customize camera shots for the long way and the wide way of your phone. Portrait and landscape, as it were. So kind of an interesting idea. Then they said, hey, you know, when people are watching YouTube, they're watching it like when they're in the line of the grocery store. They're getting groceries. They're watching a few minutes of shows as they're going
Starting point is 00:21:07 through the, they're going through the process of getting food in their house. And that's a good idea. We'll give them shorter shows. No one's going to watch a half an hour show like Netflix has. Let's give them a shorter show. Okay, you can kind of understand it. They spend all this money. Tons of money into marketing.
Starting point is 00:21:22 They get their last 700, I think of $750 million of funding on March 10th, 2020. And guess what people aren't doing anymore? People are no longer in the lines at the source. watching shows because they're all terrified they're going to die like a week later. And that wasn't the only problem with Quibi as a service, but it was a pretty big one.
Starting point is 00:21:47 They were designed for this idea that people were out all the time and they were watching shows while they were out and then no one was out for a year. So a real problem. The launch was poor. People didn't sign up. It went away really quickly.
Starting point is 00:22:06 It's known as one of the biggest catastrophes in the history of media. It lasted seven times as long as CNN Plus, seven times as long. And they actually had at least a few good shows on Quibi. That is not the case for CNN Plus. They spent $300 million and didn't last a month. That is incredible. If you designed a failure, you could not approach the levels of what.
Starting point is 00:22:40 what CNN Plus has accomplished here. New Coke lasted from, I think it was a couple of months at least, with Coke off the market. It lasted 17 years as a product, New Coke. But New Coke with Coke classic off the market still was a few months. CNN Plus has to be one of the biggest consumer failures in the history of consumers. Stu and Pat in for Glenn. Back in a second.
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Starting point is 00:24:50 Everybody's sick around Texas right now. The allergies are absolutely ridiculous right now. Which, of course, people love sneezing. It's a new thing in our society. Sneezing was. It was never a welcome activity from others. It's especially welcome now, though. People look at you like you've just killed everyone around you when you sneeze now.
Starting point is 00:25:11 It's so true. I mean, did you just murder me? Right. Yeah. Coughing, sneezing, everything. Everything like that is just, you know. Kind of frowned upon. Kind of frowned upon.
Starting point is 00:25:20 Pat Gray joins us. Pat Gray unleashed. Just finishing up the brand new Pat Gray unleashed overtime available if you're a subscriber at blazedtv. com slash Glenn every single day after the show. So make sure to check that out as well. Pat, I've been talking about the absolute and utter catastrophe that is CNN Plus. I think, and we were trying to come up with a comparison, what is the greatest consumer catastrophe of all time.
Starting point is 00:25:48 You know, media catastrophe. Quibi was an example we talked about. But that lasted seven times as long as CNN. Yeah, many months. And actually had some good shows. There were some good shows. Like the Reno 911 reboot they did on that was really funny. I got to say, it was actually really good.
Starting point is 00:26:04 They had some good shows on Quibi. It just was way too much money on a project that didn't make much sense when everyone was locked down to their homes. You know, you couldn't watch. When Quibi launched, you were not able to watch it on television. It was so specific for people who were out and about at the grocery store, you know, watching their phones. Did they fix that during the run? They eventually did try to do it.
Starting point is 00:26:23 But, you know, after it was already a failure. So did you have a quibby? I did actually. You did have it. Sounds like you had it. Yeah, it was good. I mean, it wasn't good. But there were a couple of shows that were good.
Starting point is 00:26:34 And a couple funny shows, a couple good ideas. It would have been an interesting thing to see played out to the end to see what they could have done with it. Yeah. But, you know, but again. There's that. there's Pets.com back in 2000 that was a spectacular failure. But that lasted, I think it was 262 days. Much longer.
Starting point is 00:26:53 Much longer than CNN Plus. And I can't. We talked about New Coke. Oh, New Coke. But again, New Coke lasted 17 years. New Coke was kind of a success in comparison. Oh, totally a success in comparison. I mean, really, the only thing that they, the only mistake they made with New Coke
Starting point is 00:27:09 was taking Coke classic, which was actually just Coke back then. Mm-hmm. But taking Coke Classic off the market and people got annoyed that they took away the thing they liked. People didn't get annoyed, for example, Diet Coke was out and it was been out forever. And they introduced Coke Zero. People weren't like, damn you! Why did you introduce a new option for me? People don't mind that.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Like, they just don't like you taking away the old thing. Yeah, it didn't make any sense to take it away. This is. Unless it was really a marketing ploy. Right. I kind of suspect all along that that's what it was. There is that theory out there that this was actually intentional thing. Well, because it works so well, I mean, the sales of classic Coke actually increased a lot when they brought it back.
Starting point is 00:27:49 So you think that might happen with CNN Plus? Like, people would be like so upset CNN Plus won away that they might go back to regular CNN? I'm not getting that vibe. I don't think so either. So I'm fascinated by this. Now, there is some new analysis about this that maybe you have not heard from Brian Stelter who works at CNN and was one of the centerpieces of CNN plus. Right. Just to make, to be clear, one of the centerpiece of CNN Plus was Brian Stelter.
Starting point is 00:28:16 Now, look, Brian, I don't think you're going to make him a centerpiece of a network. It's just not a thing you're going to do. He's terrible. Now, Chris Wallace was another person they brought over, which again, I'm not very excited about that either. No, I mean, Chris Wallace. I didn't watch him at Fox. Why would I watch him at CNN Plus? But like the people at CNN probably did like Chris Wallace because he was the one guy over at Fox in their perception who would occasionally say,
Starting point is 00:28:41 critical things about Republicans, right? Mm-hmm. So maybe you could understand him being a part. But again, as the centerpiece, and he was ill. I mean, it seemed like their strategy with Chris Wallace was like, let's have him interview, William Shatner. Like, all right. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Yeah. And didn't he make a statement kind of like, yeah, I don't want to do politics anymore. Yeah, right, which is like. Well, wait. That's what you're known for. So it was, again, a catastrophe from the start. But Brian Stelter had some perspective on this. I hadn't really thought of it this way.
Starting point is 00:29:13 I have to admit that. I mean, because I thought this is a complete failure. And everything we know about it is a failure. It's one of the greatest. It's just the question is, is it number one or number two on the list? Are we forgetting something from like the 1700s or something that could compare to this?
Starting point is 00:29:27 I don't know what it could be. But Brian Stelter wants you to make sure you're taking your time in, in how you think about CNN Plus and whether it was a positive or a negative. Have you seen anything like this happened before? in the media business. No. I mean, no. And first of all, I think I'm making history right now. I've never been on a program talking about the demise of that program. Well, we probably have more viewers now than ever before because there's so much curiosity.
Starting point is 00:29:57 And let me try out a theory on. Let me try out a theory on that, which is it's too early to know if this product or this service was a success or a failure. You know, you got all the haters today saying this thing was a failure. I don't know if he can even ever assess that because it just simply didn't have enough time because of the management change and direction. And at the end of the day, if you buy something, if you buy a giant media company, you get to do whatever you want with it. But it does mean there's a lot of suffering for employees and frankly disappointment among subscribers as a result. Just too early to tell. That's all.
Starting point is 00:30:33 Who could know? You can't know. I don't know. I mean, it lasted less than 30 days or about 30 days. who can know if that's a success or a failure. Yeah, and I said maybe unfairly that it didn't even last a month. Technically, it did last one month and one day. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Or it will. It's not even completely done yet. They canceled it long before a month. I mean, it wasn't even close to a month when they canceled it. But they did, they're playing out the string until I think April 30th. So it is, I guess it technically lasted a month and a day. But I don't know. I feel like when you, when your service has already.
Starting point is 00:31:09 after three weeks been disintegrated, it's possible that is a failure. You don't need more time to assess it. It's not in the year 2387, people are going to be looking back and be like, you know, that's CNN Plus. You got a second look at what happened there. That was a success.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Huge. They had 10,000 people. Watch it. 10,000. And I will say this. I don't believe that number. I don't even, I don't believe 150,000 people. No way.
Starting point is 00:31:36 Subscribe to it. I don't believe that for a second. even had 150,000 total, let alone paid. The Wall Street Journal has already come out and said they have insider information that it was less than 100,000. And I agree with that. I believe it was less. I believe. I think it's less than 50,000.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Here's my theory. They said 150,000 people subscribe to this thing. I think it's closer to 150. Like, I mean, 150, not 150,000, not 150,000, not 1,500. 150. Now, it might be higher than that. And they were all employees of CNN. Right.
Starting point is 00:32:10 It was Brian Stelter and Chris Wallace and their families. Yes. I don't believe that number for a freaking second. Now, that number would still be a catastrophe if you spent $300 million on the product and had a billion dollars to spend over four years. You'd still be disappointed in $150,000 or $150,000 subscribers. But like, I don't buy that for a second. And 10,000 subscribers are 10,000 people watching video, maybe over the course of
Starting point is 00:32:37 of an entire day. Maybe. And I think that's what they were talking about. Wasn't it? I've seen a report a couple different ways. Streamed it is what I read. That's so. That's bad.
Starting point is 00:32:47 Bad. Really bad. Again, they don't have people watching their main product. You know, if you have a main product with a massive amount of viewers and you want to, you want to have, like, you know, Fox and Fox Nation, for example, I don't know, I don't know how well Fox Nation does, but it's been in business for multiple. years. I mean, we could say that. But, you know, they have Fox
Starting point is 00:33:11 Fox News channel, which is a big channel with lots of viewers, and they kind of have this big idea. And then they advertise Fox Nation all the time. They say, hey, come listen to additional commentary from, you know, whatever, Tucker Carlson or whoever. And, you know, I'm sure if people... And people do. I'm sure they do at some level.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Certainly much more than CNN Plus. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And probably CNN regular. And this thing has just, look, there are people, you know, look, there's people who do, you know, they are electricians who work on the show and then people who run, I don't know, cameras on the show. And like, you know, these, there are people who are going to get hurt by this and it sucks for them. You know, I mean, they lured people out of really good jobs to come to CNN Plus with the promise they were going to run this thing. And that's completely irresponsible by the people who did it. What do you do if you're Chris Wallace and you left a really good job to go over. there and be their featured person at CNN Plus and now it's gone. Now Wallace, they'll probably stick somewhere on CNN, right?
Starting point is 00:34:13 They will. The rumors are going to put him at 9 with Brian Williams. I've heard that and that's kind of an amazing admission in some ways. But he can't do his own thing. He's not even strong enough. They don't even trust him to do a newscast for an hour on the primetime CNN, which has 85 viewers. as opposed to 10.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Which is just, it's an amazing thing. But I mean, okay, worst case for Chris Wallace, he probably goes and it's just like a contributor and comments on
Starting point is 00:34:45 the years of the day or whatever. Yeah. You know, a lot of these people left stable jobs. And remember, CNN knew this merger was coming. And they knew Discovery didn't want it. Discovery was saying it publicly
Starting point is 00:34:59 in the media that they didn't want this thing. And they question whether it had utility. It didn't. And so these people, should have probably seen that coming, but if they didn't, they left good jobs to come over to this disastrous CNN Plus and they're going to be out on the street,
Starting point is 00:35:16 which is a completely irresponsible thing for CNN to do. Is it a disaster though? I think it's too soon to tell. You think? Yeah, I do. I probably jump the gun on that one. I loved the Twitter responses to Brian Stelter over the weekend where they had a flaming Hindenburg and said it's really too soon to tell.
Starting point is 00:35:36 If dirigible are a good form of transportation. Should hydrogen be what makes it float? Who knows? Who knows? Is it a little bit combustible? Yes, but it's too soon to tell. Really, whether it's too dangerous. We don't know yet.
Starting point is 00:35:55 It's on the ground in flames. It's already there. Everybody aboard was killed. Yeah. I think it's... I just feel like it's time. Safe to say. To make the call.
Starting point is 00:36:10 I mean, we have a phrase, oh, the humanity already. People know the phrase. And it's specifically around this. I got to say, which one is worse? The Hindenburg or CNN Plus. You have to say the Hindenburg, I don't think that was its first flight. I think it had a bunch of successful flights before that. It did.
Starting point is 00:36:29 If I remember the history correctly. I mean, it had to run. There was plenty of hydrogen ships that got up there and were fine. I mean, they adjusted the plan later and blimps to this day still exist. Very true. You know, we see them over every football game in the NFL. Yeah. So.
Starting point is 00:36:45 They, they switch the formula up a little bit. But do you think CNN's going to switch up their formula when they learn that no one cares about what they're doing? No. No. They're going to continue to. I don't know. Maybe Discovery is rumored.
Starting point is 00:36:58 Discovery is done with Brian Stelter at least. And maybe the rest of the lineup, too. the rumor is that the opinion people are going to go. By the end of spring, they say the opinion people are gone. That would be really a welcome change. Wouldn't it? Oh, man. It's just, it really would be.
Starting point is 00:37:17 I thought of this when the Ukraine, Russia thing broke out. It would be really nice to have a network where we could go to trust some of the information. Yeah. You know, I mean, look, there are a lot of places I like and look and trust, but like, you know, the Blaze doesn't have reporters on the ground in Ukraine. Like, that's not the type of organization. we are. You know, it would be nice if somebody, if there was someone out there who did that and did it responsibly. Yeah. Maybe CNN can recapture that somehow or capture it for the first time.
Starting point is 00:37:45 Well, there was a time when they were that. Yeah. You know, in the 80s? It was always left early 90s. You know, they were always left leaning. But like when, when the first Iraq war broke out, like, they had pretty good coverage. All you had to do was everyone was watching CNN. Yeah. It was your only option. Yeah. People were glued to it. Even though, you You knew, yeah, sometimes they would go, they would take a left-wing position on things. And it was still mainstream media. I mean, you still had that. But at least-
Starting point is 00:38:13 Nothing like today. Yeah, at least you believe the video they were showing was real. At this point, I don't even know if you could do that on CNN. I'm going to say no. Okay. You can't do that. Yeah. But again, it's too early to judge.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Too early. Yeah, way too early. That's the summary of this hour. It's too early to judge CNN Plus. Could be successful. It may in, in time, be viewed as a massive success. That's possible. It's very possible.
Starting point is 00:38:35 You know? It's very possible. If 150 subscribers can be viewed as a success. Yeah. What is that? Like, it's like $1,500 a month that they'd be making. No, it was like five bucks a month. Oh, it's only, that's right.
Starting point is 00:38:47 Yeah. In fact, they cut it to three. They cut it to three. So it's $4,500 a month. Which is, you know, not bad. Not bad. Not bad. I mean, you could pay, you could pay, you get a one bedroom in New York for that.
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Starting point is 00:40:54 It's that global warming. You know, it gets so hot. It flips all the way back around to cold and starts to snow. You know the circular thermometers. Yeah. They go all the way around and it just keeps going. And then all of a sudden you're back at zero. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:06 And negative temperatures. Right. And it really, you know, that's, you need to get rid of those. That's the thing I would do immediately if I was made king is get rid of circular thermometers. Well, it stops some real problems like snow in April. Because we can't have that. That's just part of the weather weirding process. Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 00:41:24 That's right. Snow, whether it's snow or whether it's super, super bad heat. Dry or wet. It's still global warming. And weather weirding. The scientific wording of weather weirding is always been my favorite. Because they're like, well, we kiss. It's not warming.
Starting point is 00:41:40 Just weirding of the weather. You're a scientist telling me about weirding of the weather. Talk about sweat block here. sweat block is, as you've Gladness been talking about quite a bit lately. The best interpersonation he's ever used, he says. Which is pretty amazing. I haven't actually used this stuff yet,
Starting point is 00:42:03 but he raves about it. And they have these wipes, Pat. They're called, I guess there's sweat block wipes and they use them once a week. We really have to get these for Jeffie. Seriously. Jeffie is the sweatiest person. We make fun of them a lot.
Starting point is 00:42:22 It could be 60 degrees. and he's sweating like a pig. Yeah. And we make fun of Jeffie a lot. At times, exaggerate some of the things about him. Like his criminal record, for example. He's up for multiple felonies,
Starting point is 00:42:33 but not. Some of them are misdemeanors, you know? Anyway, but he is, like, he has a legit issue with it. He hates it. And we'll go do the show and their lights are on and he starts sweating.
Starting point is 00:42:44 He hates it. This stuff supposedly you wipe once every seven days. My gosh. And gets rid of it. That's awesome. It's pretty incredible. Glenn swears by this stuff.
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Starting point is 00:43:04 The code is back for 20% off It's Pat and Stu for Glenn Who's lost his voice For at least today Hopefully you'll be back soon Meantime in about 60 seconds We've got to tell you about this California law Savannah Hernandez
Starting point is 00:44:16 Has gone out on the street And asked some people about this law which covers perinatal abortion. You might recognize perinatal as after the birth. Hmm. That's interesting. Now, when you look up parinatal, that means like 28 days after birth.
Starting point is 00:44:35 A lot of the left are saying, no, no, no. It's only seven days after the birth. Okay, so you can allow the baby to die just seven days after birth? Huh. Wow, that's, that's true. generous. We'll get to that and more in 60 seconds. Whether you're buying or selling a home,
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Starting point is 00:46:20 which allows abortion any time to even. pregnancy, as most abortion laws do now, at least in blue states. Red states are starting to fight back against that. But in the blue states, you can't be a Democrat anymore and say, yeah, abortion should be safe, rare and legal safe and rare because they don't care about rare anymore. And they don't, they don't care when it happens anymore. It could happen as the baby is being born.
Starting point is 00:46:55 That's the partial birth part. Rare has gone the way of CNN Plus. It is no longer a thing. Yeah. And they're kind of proud of it or say, well, if it should be, if it's safe and legal, why should we worry about rare? Yeah. And they want to say more common.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Yeah. Safe legal and common is their new. And I don't even know safe. They don't seem to care about much of that either, honestly. No, they don't for the baby. Yeah. They don't care about the safety of the baby at all. The only thing they care about is legal.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Just let it happen anytime. anywhere, you know, we should have abortion clinics inside 7-Elevens because it should be that convenient. It should really be just whenever they please. But in California, they're passing this law about perinatal abortions, which allow the baby to die seven days after birth. Very strange. So Savannah Hernandez, when out on the street asking people about this new law and what their thoughts were. So basically, like, if they have their baby, they can neglect them for seven days. And if the baby dies, then they can't be held criminally liable.
Starting point is 00:48:05 What do you think? Yeah. I think whatever, like, helps women and helps them achieve their, like, dreams and how that needs to, like, happen. It's definitely, like, acts to help that is helping all of us. Amen. So I prefer that most women make the decisions at eight weeks. Okay. But I'm also in support of 10 months out of the womb.
Starting point is 00:48:26 So you think babies should be aborted 10 months after they're born? If the mother wants to, yes. I think them kids. So if like you want to get a late term of abortion, like that's up to you. You know, I've had an abortion too, and it's, it was my choice, and I'm happy I had that choice. I've had an abortion myself. Would you guys get an abortion again? Yes.
Starting point is 00:48:49 100 times. I'd do it multiple times. Me too. Until I feel that I'm ready to parent. That's the choice I'll continue to make. Huh. Wow, that's great. I had 22 abortions last week, Pat. Did you really?
Starting point is 00:48:59 Yeah. In one week? Yeah. Now, I'm really happy about 21 of them. You should maybe be a little more careful. Is that too much of me to ask? Pardon me, Pat? Is that too much to ask?
Starting point is 00:49:12 Wow. Yeah, I'm sorry. Wow. I can't believe you even said that publicly. Don't be careful. I've just changed my mind. Thank you. Don't be careful.
Starting point is 00:49:21 get pregnant as many times as you want. Yeah, not careful, care less. Right. Be careless about your, that's what we need to encourage in this society. More carelessness. That's the, that's the, I love that because that, when they say the don't say gay bill and, you know, they people oppose this bill. And in the bill, specifically, it says age appropriate conversations.
Starting point is 00:49:44 So to oppose the bill, you are outwardly asking for age inappropriate conversations. the conversations must be inappropriate for the age for your view of that bill if you're on the left. The same thing here. Like, if you say to someone, what if you're more careful,
Starting point is 00:50:03 maybe don't do the activity. Or protect yourself before you know activity. Take some precaution. I don't know. There's pills for that. There's pills. There's condoms. There's all sorts of things.
Starting point is 00:50:14 Prophylactics, all sorts of things. There's all sorts of ways to make sure this does not occur. If you would not like it to occur. Mm-hmm. That no... That don't involve tearing the baby apart in the womb. Yeah. It just seems like a basic step.
Starting point is 00:50:27 It does. You know, I understand sometimes the world can be a complicated place. However, encouraging the opposite of being careful, which would be to encourage someone to be careless, is an odd choice for what we are supposed to believe is the responsible side of an argument. Yeah. Well, could this have been precipitated by a guy who once said, I'm going to teach my children. I got two daughters, nine years old and six years old. I'm going to teach them principles.
Starting point is 00:50:58 But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at 16. Well, didn't you kind of set things up there for people to feel that way about being punished with a baby? Now they consider it a punishment that they just don't want to deal with. And so they just eliminated from their life. It's incredible. It really is incredible. And this law goes even much, much farther.
Starting point is 00:51:27 Much. You know, talking about, you know, in Savannah, who, you know, was here with us at the place. Very nice and thoughtful person who's trying to actually get answers on these questions. And just asking questions, you know, if you've never seen Savannah, she's young. She is, she's not an old white man. Right. And that is, of course, old white men have no, no knowledge, and we should obviously get rid of all of them from society.
Starting point is 00:51:54 She's not one of them. And we should never comment on abortion for pregnancy at all. Obviously not. At all. She comes, you know, it's a different package. The people talking to her don't think she might be on the conservative side of the aisle. They don't really consider that. So they're not, their guard isn't up.
Starting point is 00:52:13 They're just answering the questions as they feel. Yeah, I had an abortion. It was great. I forget loved it. I would recommend everybody have about 10 to 12 abortions per month. If you can do it, I highly recommend it. That's the attitude from some of these people. And, you know, is there no limit?
Starting point is 00:52:32 What is the limiting principle, Pat, to the argument of women's choice? What is the limiting principle of that argument? To me, there isn't one. There isn't one now. That's a problem. I mean, like the guy said, he prefers that you only, only get an abortion within the first eight weeks. But he also supports 10 months after birth.
Starting point is 00:52:58 Right. 10 if the mother wants that. Right. He is not advocating that the dad should have any opinion in this. No. But if the mother wants to kill the child, she may. Yeah. After 10 months.
Starting point is 00:53:11 Now, I don't know why the 10 months barrier. Why not a year? Two years. Why not? Why not now? Why not with why not his parent right now? Right? This is the problem with this argument.
Starting point is 00:53:23 If his mother wants. Right. If his mother wanted. Like if his mother decided, you know, you know who sucks is my stupid kid. I just saw on television. He's 28 years old and he's the dumbest person alive. This is radio, but if you saw his haircut, you could understand an abortion request for mommy at this point. Even at 28 years old, he's got the dumbest haircut I've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:53:48 of my life. And that guy, that guy, maybe, you know, there's an argument to be made if Mommy has a choice that maybe he should be aborted at 28 years old. And honestly, when you adopt the left wing
Starting point is 00:54:06 view of this particular issue, why wouldn't you? Why not? Why not? It's the mommy's choice. The kid doesn't get rights to when. Whenever you're saying it is, it's arbitrary. Yeah. Right? least we had a line of the birth canal before where we could say, okay, you know, Kermit Gosnell, we're going to put him in prison because he kept killing people after they were
Starting point is 00:54:29 born, right? That used to be, there was a time way back in like 2016 where we agreed with this. At least we could acknowledge, okay, there's Peter Singer out there. He's an ethicist at Princeton. There was a few people out there who would argue for abortion after birth, but it was pretty rare. Now it's not. It's not. It's becoming more and more common because of course, when you say the fundamental foundational truth of this argument when it comes to abortion is mother's choice, there's no limit to that. As long as mommy's alive, how do you draw this line? How do you draw the line
Starting point is 00:55:07 of it's mommy's choice so mommy gets to abort the fetus? It's mommy's choice and we have no respect for life anymore. just none. And we people, these, obviously these kids are so desensitized to human life that they don't care anymore. And they don't care. You can put this you could see too. They've put no thought into it. Even the people who have had abortions have put no thought of this.
Starting point is 00:55:35 And it's because they know the standard come back to any given argument about abortion is, well, if the mom wants it. And that gets you off the hook for no matter what you say. Yeah. You'd be like, well, you know, wait a minute, but that woman was a dictator. She committed genocide. Well, yeah, but she was the mother of the country. The mom wanted it. Mother's choice.
Starting point is 00:55:53 They'll justify anything through that lens. Because, of course, when it's arbitrary choice by a person, you can justify anything, right? You can justify anything through that lens. You know, what was the case back in Houston? You'll remember this, Pat, where the mom drowned five other kids in the bathtub. Yeah, Andrea Yates. Oh, my God. It was one of the worst stories I've ever heard.
Starting point is 00:56:13 Horrific. And, but like, why would a leftist oppose it? Why would the people in that video oppose that her treatment in that story? Today, I don't know that they would. I don't know they would. You just say, you know, well, look, you know, she made a choice there. You know, she was the mom. I think the oldest was seven, if I remember, right.
Starting point is 00:56:35 So I don't know if they would oppose that. Do you think we could get an on, like an on record? statement from like an AOC to oppose that case right now. Do you think she would have, do you think, do you think she would say something to the effect of, look, it might not be my choice. Right, but I'm not going to affect her choice. I'm not going to affect her choice. She's the mom.
Starting point is 00:56:58 Yeah. She gets to make that choice. Who am I going to tell her? What choice to make there? I don't know. She was stark raving mad. If, you might want to affect that choice. If we are not at that point, we are close to it.
Starting point is 00:57:11 Yeah. Yeah, we are close to it. They're passing. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. It gets worse. I never would have thought we'd get to a point where people would be saying 10 months after a birth of a human being that you can end their life. If the mother wants it. Would you have ever thought that that was possible?
Starting point is 00:57:36 Never, just a few years ago. I mean, other than like you said, Peter Singer, who has been saying this nonsense for, a while, but nobody took him seriously at first. Apparently they are now. Yeah, it's similar to the CRT thing. You know, CRT bubbled up in people like, you know, the equivalent of Peter Singer, you know, at institutions for a long time. It sat there for a long time growing and manifesting itself as they taught generation after generation, this nonsensical ideology. And now, here we are. Right. Like, now we're at the point where something pretty drastic has changed. Where now that philosophy that was just in colleges is now being taught to your elementary school kids because their teachers went to college and learned it back 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Starting point is 00:58:27 And we're seeing this beginnings of that, I think, now with this extreme abortion argument. And the only positive thing out of it is that it does highlight the craziness of the left in a way that maybe you couldn't. you know people when the argument was okay well free viability maybe it's okay but we frown upon it we want to make it as rare as possible that argument I think makes sense to some people
Starting point is 00:58:52 it doesn't make sense to me I will say but it makes sense to some people I don't think the argument of we can kill babies after they're born makes a sense to a lot of people only the extreme left and I hope that's true because if it's not we're lost Pat we're lost it's over
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Starting point is 01:01:05 In fact, she tweeted out, I don't think I've ever seen Kathy Ireland say anything about politics. But she tweeted out a new, iniquitous. California bill AB 2223 will legalize infanticide. Killing babies up to 28 days old. People of all faiths, no faith. Every political party, race, gender, and sexual orientation are vehemently rejecting this. Please click the link and take action. So the left is completely denying that this legalizes infanticide, of course,
Starting point is 01:01:44 because that's, I mean, that's horrific. And some of them are saying, no. And it's only if the baby is born and you've got seven days to leave it to die, not 28. So. That's much more sensible. Isn't it though? Yeah, isn't it? This is what they do.
Starting point is 01:02:03 This is Overton Window City, though. Yes. What they do. Okay, all of a sudden, yeah, 28 days. Come on. And they say it won't. This kind of thing won't happen. But when you open it up like this and you make an allowance for perinatal abortion, what does that mean?
Starting point is 01:02:19 Well, there's no such thing. It's parinatal abortion. It's not a thing. Right. It's murder of an infant, which is where the infanticide situation comes in. And then now the left claims that's extreme and it's nonsense. And when you go and visit politifact or whatever, they'll say it's false. but the bill is worded such that it does seem to legalize that.
Starting point is 01:02:45 And I don't know why you would have that in the bill if it's not going to allow that to occur. So it's interesting that even some celebrities are starting to speak out about it. Maybe there's some hope for humanity. Because if people are at the point where we just look the other way on, infanticide. We just look the other way when you can kill babies who have not been aborted but the mother doesn't
Starting point is 01:03:16 want the baby. After seven days after birth, then we're done as a civilization. I think we're just over. Again, what's the point of having a civilization other than to protect the people who need it the most? People who can't even feed
Starting point is 01:03:32 themselves and that's the most vulnerable among us. It's why you do this. It's why you build a society in the first place. It's the most basic function of a society at some level. And, you know, now we're at a point where they're admitting they don't want this to occur. And you're right. Like they, this is the same thing Northam had as his, as his, uh, as his excuse when he was on a radio show and said, yeah, I mean, you know, if the mom chooses, you know, after birth, I mean, only if the mom chooses, obviously. We're not going to force it. Um, like, who was suggesting
Starting point is 01:04:05 that we force it? We were suggesting keeping the kid alive as well. what we were suggesting. Right. It's between keeping the kid alive and allowing it to be murdered. Right. And he was like, well, look, if the mother chooses, we have to, you know, we're just going to go with that choice. And it's like, afterward, they're like, well, it'll be rare. And we don't really mean that it's going to happen all the time. And you're blowing it out of proportion. And yes, that's how it technically reads, but that's not really going to be the way it's utilized. And they always have some excuse when they realize they've said too much.
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Starting point is 01:06:22 that this is something we should focus on, but here's what he had to say. In the United States military, every vehicle is going to be climate friendly. Every vehicle. No, I mean it. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:37 It's spending billions of dollars to do it. It's spending billions of dollars to do it, but every vehicle is going to be climate friendly. I don't care about that. What I care about is that the U.S. military, and I bet they do too, has the best equipment available to them, better than anybody else's equipment.
Starting point is 01:06:57 At any cost to the climate. Yeah, whatever. That's not something. Even considering when thinking about the military. Now, hopefully we don't have to use them. It's so asinine. But, yeah, that's not a... By the way, watching the video,
Starting point is 01:07:09 was he aware he was facing away from the podium? and the microphone. Probably not. Probably not. As it just seemed like he was just, now I know there was people standing back there, but I was, I'm hoping that he heard a question from back there and he turned around because if not,
Starting point is 01:07:23 we're even deeper down this, this problem area. Watch him again and pay attention to that because I'm pretty sure nobody says anything to him. But in the United States military. Yeah. Every vehicle is going to be. He's facing the opposite way.
Starting point is 01:07:39 Why are you telling them? No, I mean it. No, he means it. He's not joking. He spends billions of dollars to do it. He spent billions of dollars to do it. Literally not a concern.
Starting point is 01:07:49 Not a concern. The one thing that, when you think about the constitutional limitations of government, the one thing that they actually should be doing is a military. They should have a military to protect the country. Okay. And in addition to that minor detail, when you want the government to do something, you have to ask yourself a fundamental question. Do I care about inefficiency?
Starting point is 01:08:16 And I mean that sincerely. Like, there are things we want the government to do. Mm-hmm. But if you can clear that basic hurdle in that you don't care about inefficiency, the government might have a role. Like, for example, it would be inefficient to store, let's say, tens of thousands of ventilants. right for no use right however when a pandemic occurs it would be great to have them so you might be okay with the inefficiency uh-huh no one can make money no business can be like you know what
Starting point is 01:08:54 i'm going to make some money i'm going to store some ventilators for about 15 years until a pandemic might happen right there's no way to it's there's no way to make that into a business model so maybe the government steps in and has some of these around now of course they tried to do that and failed so even even when you are okay with inefficiency, they'll probably screw it up. But if you can embrace inefficiency, it might be okay
Starting point is 01:09:18 for the government to be involved if there are no other constitutional concerns. The military is a great example of this. I am completely fine with the government blowing through a billion dollars trying to come up with a new weapon system. Oh, yeah. Totally
Starting point is 01:09:34 fine with it. I actually encourage them to try. Take billions of dollars and try a bunch of different crazy stuff that you think might turn into an incredible weapon system to defend us. That is an okay use of taxpayer dollars in my opinion. It is okay to spend money training soldiers for wars they may never fight. Right? I am fine with that.
Starting point is 01:10:00 Make them really strong. Give them the best weapons. Make them the best military on earth. And hopefully that leads to a complete waste of money because they never fight a war. Totally fine with that. This idea is incredibly stupid. The last thing you should worry about when talking about defending your country is an impossibly small percentage of global emissions. Right.
Starting point is 01:10:28 Impossibly small. Electric tanks. Let's not worry about electric tanks right now. Never think of it. Never think of it. Especially when an electric car will only go 275 miles. on a charge. Right. My tank, I want that to go as far as it needs to.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Yeah. And without stopping overnight and charging it for 12 hours. Exactly. You know, if, you know what, if it's efficient and let's say the electric, because they usually do, the electric vehicle costs much more. However, you found it it was a better way for a tank to operate. And it lasts longer. all of the money on that.
Starting point is 01:11:12 Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. But right now, we don't have that. That's not possible. For example, one of the things we've done is come up with nuclear submarines, right? Because we, now that is not, that's not an efficient. We call out a nuclear submarine.
Starting point is 01:11:26 How can that possibly be? Because we don't care about efficiency. When you're defending the country, you take efficiency and you throw it in the, in the garbage. You don't recycle it. You throw it directly into the trash. You don't think about it. Now, look, we, that doesn't. mean waste money on nothing. No, when you're spending $600 for a toilet seat, that's dumb. That's the dumb
Starting point is 01:11:46 inefficiency. It should be at some level expected. This is why you don't turn over large portions of your economy to the government because they're going to do things like that. The military is going to buy $600 toilet seats. They are. Get used to it. And, you know, I will, of course, if I'm in the military, if I'm advising military policy, which shockingly enough at this point, I am not. but if I were, I would advise against $600 toilet seats. However, you have to go. If I came across that line item, I might say. You might say not this one.
Starting point is 01:12:15 Can we find something a little cheaper than that? Right. Like, I don't know, 20 bucks? Right. Is that possible? But when they're like, you know, we are thinking, can I have like $100 million to try to bounce lasers off of stars? Yes.
Starting point is 01:12:26 Yes. Yes. Here you go. Here's your money. Bounce some lasers off of stars. See if they'll come down in Moscow. I don't know. Try it.
Starting point is 01:12:33 You know what I mean? Like I, when you're talking about the defense of the country, you don't care about these things. And when you talk about, this is a, it's remarkable people just don't think about it. When you're talking about cutting emissions, the decisions they ask you to make won't make a difference, even if they're totally right on the science. Often, conservatives will say, wait a minute, well, we quibble with you on this part of the science, we quibble you with you on that part of the science.
Starting point is 01:12:59 And that's important. Of course, getting the science right is really important. If you have a, you know, a disagreement, it's important to have that debate. but like it's also important to realize that if we lost like for example if our entire transportation sector not just cars not just your car but cars trucks planes every our entire transportation sector went from what it is today to zero emissions tomorrow we would cut something like 4% of global emissions and that percentage would be made up by China within about two or three years.
Starting point is 01:13:33 So think of what a ridiculous standard, that is. Turning the transportation sector off, not cutting its emissions, not making it adjust our military use green vehicles, but turning our entire transportation sector off tomorrow would make basically no difference. That is how grand a scale this issue is. It's not the type of
Starting point is 01:14:02 issue. You could say, your personal sacrifice is a giant zilch. It means nothing. It is just a signal. It is just a way to play along to tell everyone who you are, what you care about. They are trying to influence not the climate, but your votes with this nonsense. That is all it is. It will not do anything. You buying hybrids, even, you know, there's a lot of affinity for our friend, Elon Musk, who has done more to affect this issue when it comes to the transportation sector than any individual human being.
Starting point is 01:14:38 And now the left hates him. We should point out that they obviously don't believe that global warming is the single most dire existential threat to our country. Because obviously, Elon Musk, I mean, the guy's tweeted a couple of things we don't like, so let's abandon him. He's not getting, these aren't union jobs, Pat, so we don't care about his cutting of emissions. but he's built an electric car company and actually made it something that people want. And he's built rockets that can eventually get us to Mars. Right. Because he thinks we're going to need to live there someday.
Starting point is 01:15:12 Yes. That's how seriously. That's how much he believes in global warming. Right. But honestly, taking even all these cars and going to electric will make no difference. And this is not, remember, of course, electric cars are not emission free. They are built on electricity that is largely coming from fossil fuels, mostly natural but also some coal and oil and other items.
Starting point is 01:15:34 In addition to that, there's a lot of emissions in the process to put these cars together that are almost never included. But in addition to that, there's the battery that once it's done with its life cycle, it's incredibly toxic to the earth. And the number one supplier for the nickel for these batteries comes from Ukraine and Russia. So there's a lot of issues associated with this. That being said, even if it was perfect. and it really did cut all of these cars to zero, it still wouldn't do anything. It wouldn't do anything to solve this problem,
Starting point is 01:16:07 even if their science is completely right. So it shows how ridiculous this conversation can be. And to take what I just described, the entire transportation sector going to zero emissions and think it should be a priority for our military to worry about electric tanks, it's got to be, it is the most Joe Biden thing I've ever heard in my life.
Starting point is 01:16:28 Yeah, just plain dumb. It's as if he is completely senile when it comes to thinking of these things. I mean, that's a good point because he kind of is. He's kind of completely senile. I mean, look at him on Friday when he did another phantom handshake. This is kind of great. This is another one? Yeah, he offers his hand to the wall here in a second.
Starting point is 01:16:51 That, hell, hello. What are you doing? What are you doing? And now we watch. He goes the wrong way. because you're going to see the Secret Service agent, which you never see. Follow him in there because he went the wrong way.
Starting point is 01:17:07 That's why you see the Secret Service agent because he's going the wrong way. So he turns around. Can we see that one more time? He turns around and offers his hand to the wall or something. What are you doing? Hello? And then he realizes and turns around.
Starting point is 01:17:24 And then goes the wrong way. And almost tripped, I think. It fell on his face. And then the Secret Service. And there's a Secret Service game. Oh my gosh. You know, I've been working on something, Pat, a scientific project of sorts. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 01:17:37 Over the past few weeks for Studeau's America. My show, by the way, available on podcast. Make sure to subscribe to it or on YouTube.com slash Studeau's America. Mm-hmm. It is a, the Joe Biden Gaff emotional triangle. And I've decided to come up with this to understand the three types of feelings and emotions you have after watching a Joe Biden Gaff. There is funny.
Starting point is 01:18:04 There is fear. And there is sadness. Yes. And each Gaff has a different profile on this triangle. And it's plotted on this triangle to try to understand where it goes. Because sometimes I watch this and I'm like, oh my gosh, one an idiot. Like that one, that's how I felt. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:20 That was just funny. Maybe a little sad. Not necessarily scary. Mm-hmm. When he says something about like, hey, we might just nuke mousse. Scout tomorrow. That's in the scary section and probably also sad. Not quite as funny.
Starting point is 01:18:34 You know, these three distinct feelings you feel when watching Joe Biden screw up on one of his 20 to 30 times a day, you really need to categorize them. And I feel like we've had a movement. If we were to plot these
Starting point is 01:18:50 gaffs over time, we would see a movement towards scary. I feel like we, you know, it was funny at first. And it got kind of sad. and now it really is like especially with this war stuff I'm getting to the point where I'm legitimately scared he is going to gap us into World War III I am legitimately scared of that
Starting point is 01:19:09 he absolutely could he almost has done it multiple times saying we had troops in in Ukraine saying that it's okay a minor incursion probably won't do much of anything we probably won't react to that NATO might not stick together there's going to be a lot of disagreement if they do anything what was the other one there was another big one in there that I'm missing It was right around the troop.
Starting point is 01:19:29 It was in that speech that he made in Poland. Where he, regime change in Russia. Where he basically seemed to change the U.S. policy on the fly for regime change. He had another one where he was talking about gas prices and just blurted out another major change in U.S. policy. This is like, it's becoming an issue where Vladimir Putin's already not the most sane person. He's already doing things that are pretty erratic. and we're giving him excuses to justify that stuff to his own people.
Starting point is 01:20:02 He can play videos. Like, what's his dumb justification? What's the Ukraine thing? He's like, oh, well, you know, basically this is the United States and the West aiding Ukraine. They want to come after us in Russia. Let me show you the evidence of this. Here's Joe Biden announcing $800 million of arms coming to kill your children, Russian citizens.
Starting point is 01:20:24 And here's another video of, and that one's actually not again. Gaff. That's just for some reason our policy to just announce all this stuff. But then, and then here he is talking about how he wants to make sure I can't be in power anymore. He wants to change your leadership. I'm, of course, the person you voted in so, so overwhelmingly so many times. And now he wants to change that. Does he have an argument to the Russian people about that? Are they going to support that? Probably. Probably. Yeah, probably. Triple-8-700-7-27-B-E-C-K. 8-88-7-27 back. And there aren't too many pet owners out there these days that don't want.
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Starting point is 01:22:39 he's the gift that just keeps on giving. And he gives and he gives and he gives. like he did as he was criticizing Florida Republicans during a pair of fundraisers late last week for targeting Disney and what he has to say needs to be heard. And I think you'll find it's pretty powerful.
Starting point is 01:23:04 We'll share that with you coming up here in a few minutes. Plus, it looks like Elon Musk and Twitter are getting very near some sort of agreement. We'll get into that as well coming up. The Glenn back. Today, featuring Packer, Pat and Stu Procure, Pat and Stu for Glenn, who's lost his voice.
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Starting point is 01:26:25 I think it's critical. It's critical to teach that in schools, in kindergartens to third graders. But here's what Biden had to say because he has such a way with words. I respect conservatives. Yeah, no he doesn't. There's nothing conservative, though, about deciding you're going to throw Disney out of its present posture because Mickey Mouse,
Starting point is 01:26:56 anybody understand that particular sentence? There's nothing conservative about deciding you're going to throw Disney out of its present posture because Mickey Mouse? In fact, did he just see Mickey Mouse? No. He hallucinate that Mickey Mouse had walked in the room? No, I don't think so. Okay. No.
Starting point is 01:27:16 In fact, you think we should not be able to say, you know, gay? End of sentence. That's pretty smart. It's pretty powerful, isn't it? Yeah, it's pretty powerful. It is not the dumbest thing I've heard about that law. That I can say over the past few weeks. I've heard a lot of really stupid stuff.
Starting point is 01:27:36 So just saying that is basically the level of MSNBC's analysis over the past several weeks. That's about right. But then he had this to say I mean, what's going on here? What the hell is going on here? And it's just, it's so, I don't think this is where the vast majority of the American people are. He then went on to say,
Starting point is 01:28:04 this is one of my pet peeves. This is not your father's Republican Party. Okay. How many times have we heard how radical the Republican Party is? He said, this is a different deal, not a joke. Why does he always have to say that? Why? We know you're not joking about that.
Starting point is 01:28:27 Why would you joke about that? This is a different deal? Why would I even think that sentence is a joke? What? It's so weird. This is a different deal, not a joke. Yeah, I, okay. isn't thinking you were joking about a different deal.
Starting point is 01:28:47 It's so bizarre. This is weird tick he has that. Yeah, it is. He's not even, he almost says it in a point where he says something that's obviously wrong. It seems like when he says that, he usually follows it up with that's not a joke.
Starting point is 01:29:02 That's not a joke. Like when he exaggerates something or says something really offensive, that's when he says it's not a joke. When no one was saying, Nobody was saying. Nobody laughed. Nobody gaffod. Nobody smiled.
Starting point is 01:29:17 Nobody thought it was a joke. Your presidency is a joke. Yes. But we don't think what you just said is a joke. Right. And what was it was, this is a strange construct. And he's been using this a lot. This, it's not your father's Republican Party thing.
Starting point is 01:29:31 Like, by all measures that you would look at and say, okay, these are important to Democrats. Mm-hmm. Whether it's like gay rights. trans rights, you know, I mean, every one of their hot button issues, you would say that the Republican Party has come the way
Starting point is 01:29:51 of the Democrats. The old school Republicans were more restrictive on these things, on all these woke causes. And so were Democrats. I mean, Democrats have come so far. His own party has literally merged with the Communist
Starting point is 01:30:09 Party. So much, so that during the last presidential election, the Communist Party USA didn't even run a candidate because they were so content with Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate. They loved him
Starting point is 01:30:25 and so they didn't even run their own. They're like, no, you guys got it. Yeah, you're fine. You're communist enough for us. We love it. This is, I believe what's happening with Mike Lee in Utah now, where the Democrats are just like, yeah, let's just not even run anybody. Evan McMullen's fine. That's exactly what happened there.
Starting point is 01:30:41 what's happening there, which is embarrassing. It is. And like Mike Lee should come out of that race, okay, but... I think he will. Yeah, he's way ahead. There's still, this is... The Democrats have basically given up the state. They're like, well, we've already got, you know, Evan McMullen running as an independent, and we think he's the best chance to take out Mike Lee, so let's not run anybody. It's quite an admission on several different levels, I will say.
Starting point is 01:31:06 It is. And I will say, Evan McMullen's fooled me. for about five minutes. And I regret those five minutes. A great deal. But he is not who he claimed to be at first. Yeah, unfortunately. But again, like, even if he was a, a, I mean, he basically presented as a, you know,
Starting point is 01:31:30 establishment Republican. That is not what he's attempting to do here. No. You know, I mean, I don't understand the path. He's almost a Democrat now. It's the same. be that there's a whole there's a whole class of people for whatever reason who I guess got on the you know it's it's look the the the last few years have been very
Starting point is 01:31:51 interesting the way it's scrambled politics and I can understand sometimes some of the strange things that have occurred but there's a decent amount of people who were critical of Donald Trump who never were able to to not just look at him honestly again I like I still have a lot of problems with some of the policies of Donald Trump and some of the actions of Donald Trump. I don't think he's a perfect guy by any means. But I can say that I, you know, some of the things I expected him to do in 2016, he did, he performed much, he was much above my expectations.
Starting point is 01:32:21 Oh yeah, mine too. From that, uh, from, from several policy standpoints. And like, you know, if you can't sit back and say, okay, well, every belief I had in 2016 wasn't exactly, if you can't just admit to yourself that everything I thought in 2016 wasn't perfect. And I don't know. That's okay. You know, I mean, I think.
Starting point is 01:32:40 everybody has had changes of heart on individual people. I mean, you know, like Mitt Romney, I think, presents that same way. Romney in 2012, I thought, you know, I wasn't like, I liked him better than I do now. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't thrilled with Mitt Romney as the presidential nominee in 2012. But like, you know, I mean, I would have been, I wanted him to beat Barack Obama. I'll tell you that much. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:03 In a big way. Yeah, I did too. And he didn't. And like he, but like he said, he does seem to be. a completely different person on several measures. Not every measure, but on several measures, he seems to be a completely different person than the guy who ran in 2008 and 2012.
Starting point is 01:33:20 Definitely. And I don't understand. It's okay to change. But like, it doesn't seem like these changes are driven by things at times. It just seems like, well, you know, the people who used to like me don't like me anymore. So this new group of people who are on M. MSNBC all the time, they seem to like me.
Starting point is 01:33:41 So I guess I'll side with them on everything now. It does seem like there's weird calculations that go on with some of these politicians. I don't know. But I do find it amazing, though, that they're not even not. Democrats are like, yeah, let's not even try. Let's not even try to beat my claim. There you. It's incredible.
Starting point is 01:33:56 It's incredible. And again, as far as it being your father's Republican Party or anybody's Democrat party, these guys, Joe Biden wouldn't recognize Joe Biden of 1992. There's no way. Joe Biden 30 years ago was not the same guy he is today. Chuck Schumer, 30 years ago, not the same guy. Harry Reid, when he was alive, completely different in the early 90s than he was around the time of his death. All of these guys have changed and radicalized to the point where they've changed on everything from protecting
Starting point is 01:34:38 the border to abortion. I mean, they were, some of them were practically pro-life back in the day. But all of them, I mean, the worst that they would do is support Roe v. Wade, which was, you know, really the first trimester. I mean, we've gone so far past, so far beyond Roe v. Wade that you can't even see Roe-Vade from where the Democrat Party is today. No. Can't even see it from here. be an incredible move toward conservatism and toward the pro-life cause if we just adopted
Starting point is 01:35:16 Roe versus Wade at this point. Oh yeah. That's how bad the abortion laws are in this country. If we just went to the point where Roe versus Wade initially decided, which was, you know, first trimester you can you can have abortions pretty much on, I mean pretty much on demand. But after that, states can start regulating it. And, you know, when you hear a crazy law, like, they just passed a 15 week abortion restriction in, you know, Florida. That was, you know, a lot of that was allowed under Rovers's weight. It depends. The third trimester, they could come.
Starting point is 01:35:48 States could do pretty much whatever they wanted. The second one, it had to do with life and health and there were some other modifications. Now, that got updated in Casey and has become more and more liberalized ever since. But we're not even close to those initial days. No. and we're not even close to Europe anymore. It used to be, well, in Europe, they're much more liberal than there are laws here. Well, are there any countries that are as progressive with abortion as we are now?
Starting point is 01:36:20 I don't know of them if there are. I mean, I think most of the European countries ban abortion after a certain point. Almost every European country has laws that are more. more restrictive on abortion than us than us and like the state of Utah, right? Like it's that more restrictive than Utah. Most do. Most do. That's incredible.
Starting point is 01:36:45 You know, the, wow. Which is crazy when you think about it. Yeah. You know, and, and some of these laws have changed over the past couple of years. Obviously, there's a big push right now to prepare for a potential overturn of Roe versus Wade, which, you know, still to me never seems to be possible. Well, I didn't think it was possible, but I don't know.
Starting point is 01:37:06 Things are kind of heading in that direction now. This is exactly what it feels. Except for California, of course. Yeah. And to be clear, if they overturn Roe versus Wade, it will get a lot worse in some of these states. Because some of these states will use this as an excuse to open up to what California is doing. Yeah. You know, they're going to say, well, up to birth and then even after birth.
Starting point is 01:37:27 All these restrictions that we're seeing by these evil conservative states, we're going to open up even more. And look, the people who want to get abortions, largely speaking, we've seen multiple studies on this. This is happening in Texas currently as we speak. Most people who want to get abortions get them anyway. They're going to go to other states and they're going to get them anyway. That doesn't mean you don't make the law correct, but it does mean that if you believe that overturning Roe versus Wade or passing abortion restrictions in red states is going to change as much as you want it to change, gets rid of this process. It's not going to happen that way. You're going to have to change people's minds and hearts over a long period of time, which I do think, I do believe will occur.
Starting point is 01:38:07 We've talked about this over the years, Pat. I do believe that history will look back on this period with a really discerning eye. Yeah. That what you guys allowed, you guys allowed murder of babies like this? 63 million babies? Seriously? In 50 years. It's unbelievable.
Starting point is 01:38:25 I think I will judge us harshly. And history should judge us harshly. Well, not me and not you because I'm opposed to it. But I think the people who like it, I think it was similar to slavery, right? Not everybody had slaves. Right. It was mostly rich people and it was not even all rich people by any means. You know, a history correctly, I think judges harshly those days, very harshly.
Starting point is 01:38:49 But I do believe that abortion will eventually come to a point where we look back at it like that, where we all look at it and say, wait, what the hell did we do? Yeah. You know, obviously the left likes to use these things and say all these crazy things. and compare every issue to slavery and this is what they do. But every thinking American looks back at that age and says, well, why couldn't it have been different? You know, I mean, you can, yes, putting things in proper perspective for the people at their time is important.
Starting point is 01:39:17 But also like, come on, how did you just not know on the surface that enslaving a race of people was wrong? It seems to me, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe. I do think that's how people will look back at abortion eventually. Wait, they did what? What did they say was okay? That, no, come on.
Starting point is 01:39:35 It's like we look back at the actions of Russia, the Soviet Union or other, you know, countries like Germany. You look back at them and you say, wait, what did they justify? And a lot of people did come up with ways to justify those actions. These were people, they were drains on society. And it was easy. When you, when society allows it, it's easy to justify. and so many people did. I do think that we will look back at it the same way eventually.
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Starting point is 01:41:37 You might think he might be preparing for something politically. But here's what. what he had to say this weekend. Stolen and now our country is being destroyed. Country's being destroyed. Our country's going to hell. We've never had anything like this. And we have a president right now, sadly, who has absolutely no idea what the hell is happening.
Starting point is 01:42:01 Yes. True. He's shaking hands with the air. He's walking around, somewhat bewildered. I'd say it's no good and taking orders from the Easter Bunny you saw that one no no no you know the Easter Bunny
Starting point is 01:42:19 was a political operative he did a good job actually that guy we should hire that guy he was very good he said no no don't talk don't talk to those people and he's doing all of this while Putin does nothing but talk about nuclear weapons and
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Starting point is 01:43:14 Thank you. That's very good. Very good. I like that guy. Again and again and again. You know, we had it great again. And then we said, I think we should do a comma, make America great again again.
Starting point is 01:43:32 He's great. He's just got a way about him. I miss him like a dad right now because the alternative has been. so awful. I never could have, I could not have imagined how bad it could be with an American president until now. I thought things were bad with Obama. Seriously.
Starting point is 01:43:52 I don't remember Barack Obama shaking hands with air, though. No, he never shook hands with air that I could remember. I mean, I honestly think some of the attacks on Obama when he would make mistakes were sort of like funny, but nonsense, like the 57 states thing. It was obviously just a dumb mistake. And he looked like an idiot, but it was just a silly mistake.
Starting point is 01:44:11 You know, like he really thought 57 states were in the United States. Joe Biden may very well believe that. If he actually believed there were 57 states, I would not be surprised at all. No. At all. And they would be like, you know what? There are 57 states.
Starting point is 01:44:24 He was just predicting the future because we, we, you know, our new stance at the Democratic Party is we need 57 states. I mean, I would not be surprised if they tried to justify it. Oh, they would. Because they try to justify absolutely. everything he says. It's a tough job. But they keep trying to do it. American financing NMLS-182334.
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Starting point is 01:47:17 and he, after the games, you know, one of the moms, they always bring snacks or whatever. Someone brought cookies and they were not, they were not kixie cookies. Oh, no. And it was tragic. It was tragic. It was a lot of non-finished cookies. That's sad. That's sad.
Starting point is 01:47:31 Really? A lot of kids not finished with cookies. Yeah. That's what'll happen. And I was like, next time we have one of these games, I need to get a, I need to get a dozen kexies to bring them over there because that, that'll blow people away. Yeah, excellent, excellent cookies. Speaking of blowing people away, uh, Elon Musk trying to
Starting point is 01:47:47 by Twitter, and apparently he's getting a little bit closer to being able to do that. Twitter shares jumped more than 3% on reports. The company is nearing a deal with Elon Musk that could be announced as soon as today. This is good for everybody. It is. It just is. Musk earlier this month offered by Twitter for 5420 a share. And so you can't say he shortchanged everybody.
Starting point is 01:48:14 No, but what is he putting it, 420 and everything? I mean, come on. It's the marijuana thing. Yeah, he's a fan. He's a fan. The social media company had been expected to decline a deal and had adopted a so-called poison pill to fend off a potential hostile takeover.
Starting point is 01:48:32 But Twitter became more receptive to the bid. After Musk revealed, he secured the $46.5 billion in financing. That's pretty good. And a lot of that's coming right out of his own pocket. 20 billion, I think, is what he said, came right out of his own pocket. And what's amazing about him is doesn't really make a difference.
Starting point is 01:48:52 What is he at? 180 billion. 280 billion. 280 billion dollars. I mean, think of how much money. That is incredible. I was listening to this, this agonizing report
Starting point is 01:49:04 from the New York Times over the weekend. I don't know why I tortured myself with it. I was on a flight. And it was about how many billionaires there are and how come there's so many more than there used to be and how bad this was for society. I mean, it's incredible. They don't even say there's another side of the argument.
Starting point is 01:49:20 It's like, it's just like, gosh, how do we stop this? It's like this struggle. How do we stop these billionaires from getting all this money? It's like, why would we want to stop it? Yeah, why? These people employ other people. And then they invest in other companies. And what do I care?
Starting point is 01:49:32 Even if they don't employ anybody else. I don't care. Even if the money doesn't trickle down to me, so what? Yeah. Their big thesis was that people no longer want to be found when they're billionaires. Like, it used to be that people would, you know, they would angle themselves to get higher on the list of Forbes. and I guess Bloomberg has a list now as well.
Starting point is 01:49:49 And people would try to get higher on the list because they wanted to show how great they were. And now they're trying to hide. First of all, I can't imagine why. Why would you not want that incredible attention you get because maybe you've demonized the entire lot of them? You're basically saying they're all evil. So that's what this article is about.
Starting point is 01:50:06 So I don't know why they would try to hide from that sort of attention. But that is really, you know, what they're saying now is that there's more of them, but they're not, they don't want to be as public about it. you know, you don't even know who these people are anymore. We used to always know who these billionaires were. And they're like, how, they're like, and we've struggled to figure out how we can know more about them.
Starting point is 01:50:24 Why do you need to know more about them? How about letting them live their own freaking lives? Leave below. Stop bothering them. Let them do what they want to do with their own money. You know, if they're doing something, like if they're funding international terrorism, then you can report on that if it's a crime.
Starting point is 01:50:41 But if they're buying nice boats, that's not a story. They can buy as many boats as, they want. Leave them alone. Yeah. It's so weird. What a weird. What a weird obsession. And Elon Musk is hard to lump into this evil group. The guy's homeless.
Starting point is 01:50:57 He doesn't even have a home. He lives right now at Friends Houses. It's a very strange dude. He is a weird cat. I like it. I love him, but he's a weird cat. And I am rooting for him to get control of Tesla. So am. excuse me, of Twitter,
Starting point is 01:51:17 largely because I think, number one, he will improve it. It will be a better service once he's running it. I think so. In addition, though, and I think what's been underplayed here
Starting point is 01:51:26 is he sees this as a massive opportunity to make more money. This is the most, there's so much influence, the most easily and most free advertising for any product in the history of the United States, and they can barely make a profit. If they can make one.
Starting point is 01:51:40 It's amazing. All he has to do is put his business what terrible business people they've been. It's been, terribly run Twitter from the beginning. You know, look, for all the stuff you could say about Mark Zuckerberg, at least he's been able to make a lot of money off the thing. Yeah. You know, the same
Starting point is 01:51:53 thing with some of these other big tech companies. Look how influential it is. I mean, Twitter doesn't have anywhere near the reach that Facebook does. But by perception, Twitter is way more powerful than Facebook.
Starting point is 01:52:09 And it's because all the media people are there. They're the ones. There's no reason though you can't get people more involved. if you weren't constantly censoring them, that would be a nice start. You know, if every time someone said something relatively conservative, you didn't throw them off the platform,
Starting point is 01:52:24 it would improve it. Yes. And I think, I think, I think, I think Musk would definitely get rid of that feature where they're shutting down all conservative thought.
Starting point is 01:52:33 Yes, I agree with that. I do think that the end game in one year from today, if Elon Musk takes over, one of the effects that will happen is conservatives don't like Elon Musk as much. because he will eventually make some decisions on censorship that we will not like.
Starting point is 01:52:49 Yeah. You know, but he will be, he will be better overall than it is now. But I still think, I mean, he's not saying he's not going to censor stuff. He's just basically saying,
Starting point is 01:52:57 like, I don't think it should be as arbitrary. Yeah. Or as partisan. And he did say he was going to bring back Donald Trump. And that would be big. That would be big. That'd be huge.
Starting point is 01:53:06 And look, it's so obvious. You have, you have world leaders from around the world that are literally killing people. Like, they're like, they're posting pictures
Starting point is 01:53:14 like they're beheaded enemies and they're like, Twitter's like, yeah, they can stay on. That's pretty cool. Check that out. That's pretty cool. Yeah, like, he's like, hold him by the hair. Look all those entrails. That's awesome. The blood dripping out of his neck or what used to be his neck.
Starting point is 01:53:29 And like Donald Trump, again, like you can criticize Donald Trump for his actions on Twitter. He's mean. Right. I don't know if you know that. Stoog's. He said mean things on Twitter. It is the most ridiculous. It is completely indefensible to not have a guy who.
Starting point is 01:53:44 who may very well be running for president in a very short time, who it would immediately be not, I mean, right now, because of the job Biden is doing, he would not only be the favorite for the Republican nomination, he would be the favorite for the presidency. I mean,
Starting point is 01:53:57 now, once he's back in the public eye every day, a lot of Democrats who say they don't like Joe Biden are going to find their love for Joe Biden. And I hate to break this to everybody, but that's going to happen. It's not going to be a cakewalk, even if it is someone as completely incoherent as,
Starting point is 01:54:14 Biden is not going to be an easy road because, as we all know, the media will do what they do. They will be unfair to whoever the Republican nominee is. And even if it's someone like DeSantis, the media will do everything they can to remind you that you don't, you know, that you don't like Republicans if you're a moderate. If you're a person who right now would say they disapprove of Joe Biden's job performance, they're going to do everything they can to bring you back in the boat. If it's DeSantis instead of Trump, all they'll say is that DeSantis, is Trump. That's all they'll do. Usually it's worse.
Starting point is 01:54:49 I have never seen a Republican nominee in my lifetime that the media didn't tell me was worse than the previous one. They always say the new guy is worse than the last guy. Even after they told you, the last guy was Hitler. They will tell you the new guy. Oh, do you remember how the media handled Ronald Reagan? But by the time George W. Bush was nearing the end of his second term, Ronald Reagan was like JFK to them
Starting point is 01:55:17 and they loved him and oh if we could just get back to the days of Ronald Reagan. You hated Ronald Reagan. It's just that you hate this particular guy even more. So yeah, that happens every single time. MSNVC column, why Ron DeSantis is more dangerous than Trump.
Starting point is 01:55:33 Oh, geez. That's already happened then. It's already happened. It's already begun. Yep. And they will do it no matter who it is. It doesn't matter who it is. If you picked I mean, look, they did it with Mitt Romney. George Bush was a terrorist, they told us. A legitimate, they said he was a terrorist. John McCain. A war criminal. John McCain was worse than Bush. Romney was worse than Bush and McCain.
Starting point is 01:55:56 Combined. Yeah. I mean, they did it over and over and over. Obviously, they said Trump was worse than all of them, of course. But I mean, like, you'd think, okay, maybe Trump was a specific circumstance. He obviously was a bombastic personality and like they're not going to try this again, are they? Absolutely they are. They will tell you whoever is nominated. It was worse than Trump. if it's not Trump. And then they will say, if it is Trump, they'll say 2024 Trump is worse than 2020 Trump. They absolutely will. There is not an exception to this rule.
Starting point is 01:56:25 It happens every single cycle no matter who is involved. And look, this is what they do. They are, most parts of the mainstream media are an arm of the Democratic Party at this point. And this is what they do. They treat these stories as if they are opportunities to, to hurt the conservative cause. This is what they do. You know, their big thing,
Starting point is 01:56:48 this libs of TikTok story with Taylor Lorenz in the Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz was out this weekend, and she's like, look, people are criticizing me for trying to, you know, out this person. And what I said was, look, what if this was a foreign influence? Like, what if this was a Russian actor
Starting point is 01:57:06 trying to create chaos in the United States, right? And you might say to yourself, okay, well, yeah, maybe it would be worth to look into that. I mean, once you found out it wasn't, I don't know why you run the story. Yeah. But in theory, right, okay.
Starting point is 01:57:19 It's a moot point because these aren't. Right. And you found out. And even if you ran the story, you could have not named her and all of these things. But it could be a foreign influence is both the reason that they say they can't, they had to cover the lives of TikTok story. And also the reason that they couldn't cover the Hunter Biden laptop.
Starting point is 01:57:36 Could be a foreign influence. Right. They couldn't talk about that because it could be foreign influence. but they had to talk about lives of TikTok because it could be floor and influence. Another words, whatever point they have to make at any given moment that will help them one percentage point of the time they will make. Whether it makes sense as it relates to anything else they've ever said is not material. It doesn't matter. They don't care.
Starting point is 01:57:59 All they care about is advancing their cause and they will use any justification they can at any given moment to do it. It's embarrassing, but it's so obviously true at this point. Yeah. AAA 727 B-E-C-K More Pat and Stupe for Glenn coming up So if you have pain that you've been living with A pain that despite all of your efforts throughout the years You haven't been able to get rid of
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Starting point is 01:59:13 Glenn back join the conversation 888 727 BECK it's Pat and Stu for Glenn today we've been talking a little bit about Elon Musk and his takeover bid of Twitter that may resolve itself as of today today or tomorrow they think but some fascinating things about the way Elon Musk runs his businesses they seem to be fairly successful. You notice that? Yeah. Yeah, they seem to do all right. Tesla is now worth as much as the combined market cap of the nine largest car makers in the world, including GM, Volkswagen, and Toyota. Wow. Yet, here's the thing, Tesla makes up less than one percent of global car sales. It's hard to do.
Starting point is 02:00:22 justify when you say it that way. Yeah, it is. But I mean, look, Tesla is millions of miles ahead when it comes to technology on electric cars. Right. Even their competition, General Motors and Toyota, they're all saying all they're going to be making are electric cars by 2030. Tesla's already doing that. Why would we assume they're going to be better at it than Tesla is? Right. I mean, Tesla's already doing it. And they're already already way ahead when it comes to technology. And another thing, I will say, and this one hits me personally, Pat. One thing Tesla's doing right now is delivering cars. When you order a car, they decide to send you the car. So when you order the car, like within five years. No, no. Like I could go on
Starting point is 02:01:07 Tesla.com right now and order a car that will be here in six to eight weeks as I design it. That is not what other companies are doing. They're able to get their hands on these chips. And there's like five times as many chips as everybody else needs, and they are able to get them all, they are able to actually get the car you ordered to the place you ordered it. Strange. It's an incredible new innovation in the car industry. Yeah. That's great.
Starting point is 02:01:33 So it's like... Can you believe we're having this kind of discussion and this problem now? It's amazing. I never thought. I never thought. I, Pat, when this car that I ordered, when it came out initially, I was going to order one. and I decided not to pull the trigger on the initial batch of them because I was so, in my head I was like,
Starting point is 02:01:51 this dealership is going to be calling me 50 times a day to make this, like to pressure me into upgrades and all this other stuff that, you know, and I just don't want to deal with the hassle. So I just didn't do it. You know, because I was so concerned, I would be hassled by the dealership. Now when I call the dealership,
Starting point is 02:02:09 they're mad at me. Stop calling. Stop asking about your stupid, car. When it comes in, we'll give it to you. Maybe. And we'll probably charge you more than we're telling you we're going to charge you right now. That's kind of what I expect. And it's like, geez, it's a totally different world. Can you, I mean, you remember the days of like the, you know, the shady car salesman of being a joke, a trope in a comedy where they would always be like pressuring you on everything. That is not the case anymore. They can't get these cars here. They might be. They might want to be shady, but they can't because they can't sell you anything. I guess, Matt, every time I see. see a commercial for a car company. Why are you advertising right now? Turn your advertising off. You don't have any cars to sell people.
Starting point is 02:02:55 It's so, as you can tell, it's sort of infuriating. It's a little frustrating. But Elon Musk seems to be able to navigate these waters particularly well. What he could do for his test, for Twitter. Oh, can you imagine? As a money generating machine. Forget the free speech stuff. I mean, I wouldn't forget it.
Starting point is 02:03:10 It's important to me. But as a company, you got to believe that's going to be set for a real. take off after this if it happens.

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