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Ep 1038 | The Left and MSM Fundamentally CRIPPLED the Country During COVID | Guest: Jason Buttrill · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  But we start by doing America's COVID hangover.
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  Here we are five years after COVID,
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  and you know,
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  this is
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  March 2025.
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  You remember March 2020.
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  Our show started in February 2020.
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  Uh,
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  and you know,
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  the COVID thing was,
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  was pretty big,
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  and I feel like a lot of us kind of wanna never look at it again,
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  which is understandable,
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  but I feel like it's interesting to look at how the world has changed
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  since back then.
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  And,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  I think we often lose sight as to what the world is,
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  what we lost for a period of time,
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  what we,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  lost for just a moment in time.
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  And what we maybe lost forever
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  because of the COVID-19 virus and also,
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  of course,
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  maybe more importantly how the government handled it.
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  Uh,
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  I wanna focus on a really,
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  really interesting piece by The New York Times called
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  30 COVID Change charts.
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  Here we go,
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  30 charts that show how COVID changed
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  everything
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  in March 2020.
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  5 years ago,
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  and they have 30 of these,
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  obviously we're not gonna go through all 30 of them.
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  But
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  they're pretty interesting and just to see how
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  the world and America in particular
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  changed
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  because of the illness itself and then the response to it.
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  And it kind of,
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  I broke it into three basic categories here.
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  First of all,
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  you have the one-time
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  crazy spikes in,
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  in something.
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  Something completely changes in March 2020 on the day,
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  it gets absolutely insane,
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  and then comes back to normal relatively quickly.
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  But to the point where it was such an incredible spike,
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  it breaks the chart completely.
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  Right,
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  like you'll remember some of these,
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  like,
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  for example,
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  unemployment claims.
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  Here's unemployment claims,
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  and by the way,
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  this is a chartapalooza episode of this program,
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  of course,
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  podcasters,
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  I will keep you up to date with how all these things look,
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  but you can look at it on YouTube if you want to see all the visuals.
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  Unemployment claims went from pretty even from,
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  you know,
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  2015,
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  a little bit down.
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  You can't even see the movement though.
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  When we talk about,
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  oh,
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  it went from 5 to 4%,
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  you can't even see that on this chart because it went all the way up to 6
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  million claims per week.
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  For a couple of weeks and then came all the way
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  down and was back down to normal by about 2022.
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  And when you look at that chart,
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  you say,
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  oh gosh,
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  it came back really quickly.
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  Remember that 2020 to 2022 period was a dark economic time,
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  right?
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  It was really,
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  really terrible and it lasted a long,
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  long time until it quote unquote came back to normal.
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  But
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  the chart can't even detect those changes anymore because COVID broke the chart.
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  Also broke the chart when you're talking about searching for cutting your own hair.
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  We did that for a very short time.
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  It was a dark period on this program where I could not cut my hair.
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  Uh,
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  I decided I was not going to do it until things actually opened,
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  and my hair got shaggy and annoying and I hated it.
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  I actually bought a flowy
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  to try to cut my hair at one point,
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  didn't wind up using it because I was scared of it.
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  Anyway,
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  here is the chart for how,
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  how to cut your own hair.
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  You see again,
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  nobody is searching for it,
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  then everybody is searching for it for about a month,
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  and then no one ever searches for it again.
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  So you have those sort of one-time spikes that break the chart completely.
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  The next category is
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  you have these big spikes in March 2020,
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  these COVID spikes,
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  and then things sort of slowly return to normal.
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  We definitely lost
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  something for a period of time,
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  but then things kind of went back to the way
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  that they were.
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  Let me give you some examples on that.
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  For example.
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  Traveled,
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  how much were you traveling?
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  The big
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  difference there is,
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  I will focus on the bottom chart there,
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  which is by plane,
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  which is
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  you see people traveling basically the exact same amount of distance by plane,
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  then they go to basically zero in March 2020.
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  And by about mid 2021,
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  we are back to normal plane travel,
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  give or take.
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  Kind of the same thing happens with cars.
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  People really didn't travel all that much in cars,
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  and I felt like I traveled more in cars honestly during that period because
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  what could you do
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  in the weekends with your kids?
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  You just took them on long drives to parks,
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  nothing was open,
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  but
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  We got back to basically normal
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  and car travel
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  as well.
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  Murder and theft is another interesting one.
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  Murder,
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  we remember the,
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  the,
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  the spike in in uh crime
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  uh through COVID and through that next summer,
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  the George Floyd summer,
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  and on into the beginning of Biden's term,
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  and that is what we saw.
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  We saw a big increase starting in March 2020 of murder rates went up by
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  gosh,
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  probably 30 something%.
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  And then peaked in about 2022
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  and then started coming back down.
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  We're now at about normal rates.
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  Theft,
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  of course,
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  kind of did the opposite.
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  In March 2020.
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  It dropped because I mean no one was leaving their house,
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  so
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  who are you stealing from?
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  You can't go to people's houses and rob them there.
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  You can't rob them on the street.
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  It got very,
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  very difficult for criminals.
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  It then
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  Rose way back up in that sort of George
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  Floyd summer and on into the Biden administration,
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  peaked in about the end of 2022,
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  beginning of 2023,
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  and then has come back
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  down actually to rates that are a little bit lower.
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  This is a fascinating one for,
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  I mean,
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  a lot of you who watch this care about this stuff because I,
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  I don't know why else would you watch.
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  The show if it wasn't for environmental charts.
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  I feel like
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  if we are number one in America with people
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  who want to obsess about dumb environmental charts.
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  That's what we do here.
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  But this one is fascinating.
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  This is global carbon dioxide emissions,
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  and this is such a
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  this chart,
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  I could do a whole monologue just on this chart,
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  and it doesn't look all that exciting when you look at the line.
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  But for podcasters,
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  you see
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  an increase in how much emissions we are putting out between 2015
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  and 2019.
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  Which is fascinating because I thought we were,
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  wait a minute,
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  I thought we were having all sorts of cuts in
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  emissions from all these wonderful increases in solar power.
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  Nope,
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  not really,
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  but
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  it drops massively in 2020
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  and then increases back to normal levels in 2021 and
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  is now much higher than it was back in 2019.
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  The 2020 drop was the largest annual decrease in carbon dioxide emissions
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  since 1750,
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  OK,
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  according to
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  The experts who claim to have the information about what our global climate
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  looked like in 1750,
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  I'm a little skeptical of how exact those numbers are,
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  but
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  beyond that,
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  what's interesting about this chart is,
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  number one,
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  you have this massive cut,
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  a cut you could never achieve
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  with any sort of legislation or environmental plan,
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  and all of the gains go away or all the
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  decreases in carbon dioxide emissions go away in one year,
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  and we're back to normal and we're still increasing.
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  And that's of course because
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  this was sort of a
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  temporary change in human behavior,
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  but it shows that we didn't cut it by all that much.
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  That decrease to set from 1750 is not that big of a decrease.
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  It's basically cutting it only back to 2016 numbers.
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  So you turn.
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  The whole world off for a year and we
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  only go back a few years in carbon dioxide emissions
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  shows that
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  look,
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  your feeble policy is going to do nothing to solve this problem
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  no matter how many times they say that it's going to.
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  Next up,
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  public transit.
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  This one is interesting because
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  you go from
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  Hundreds of millions of transit trips,
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  basically down 75%.
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  We're down to under 200 million
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  in March 2020.
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  That number slowly increases and has now slowly come back to about where the trend
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  was.
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  It's still a little bit below where it was in 2019,
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  a couple 100 million fewer trips than way before the pandemic.
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  But you see the trend here.
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  The trend line,
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  it was decreasing before the pandemic and we're about where we are,
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  not quite back to normal,
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  if you will,
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  but certainly very close to it.
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  After-tax income is a fascinating one.
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  If you love to complain about government spending,
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  as
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  I often do,
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  you see,
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  of course,
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  people with the rising incomes through the.
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  Trump administration the first time
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  and then you get that big peak with this first stimulus check
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  that goes away,
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  comes back to normal.
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  Then you get a second stimulus check,
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  that goes away,
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  comes back to normal.
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  Then you get a third,
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  the American rescue
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  plan,
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  this is Biden's big thing,
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  and that's where it peaks.
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  And now we've come all the way back down and got back to normal.
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  What's fascinating about that.
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  Once again,
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  these stimulus,
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  you throw a bunch of money at people like this,
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  what do they do?
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  I mean maybe they spend some of it,
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  maybe it gives you a little bit of a,
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  I mean,
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  of course it gives you a little bit of an economic
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  panacea for a very short period of time,
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  but that is it.
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  It goes away,
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  and now we're back to normal income levels.
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  What's fascinating is what that
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  level,
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  what all that money,
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  all that government spending,
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  trillions of dollars,
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  by the way,
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  most of that money did not go to health.
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  About 90% of it went to things other than healthcare.
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  Put it in people's pockets.
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  A lot of people bought all sorts of crap,
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  OK.
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  You remember this period.
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  People spent their stimuli checks.
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  They got their stimuli checks,
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  then it went away.
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  What do we get for that trillions of dollars in spending?
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  What we got
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  is what people refer to as the great resignation.
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  And it showed in this chart,
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  resignations.
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  This is again another New York Times chart.
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  You see the resignations generally rising until you hit March 2020,
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  and then resignations drop off this chart.
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  Why?
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  People are terrified.
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  They're not going to,
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  you know,
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  drop their jobs while the economy
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  has shut down.
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  A lot of them are getting fired,
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  but they didn't want to quit at that point.
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  Then
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  they got a bunch of money from the government.
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  And then,
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  you know,
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  people started getting,
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  you know,
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  the,
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  the,
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  everything opened up and jobs started opening up and people got cocky.
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  They had a bunch of money in the bank
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  and so they started resigning the jobs that they didn't like.
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  That peaked in about 2022
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  and has now fallen back to normal levels of resignation.
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  So the great resignation at one point was talked about as like,
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  here's this new trend,
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  everyone's going to be resigning their jobs all the time.
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  Didn't hold at all,
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  that is now pretty much gone,
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  uh,
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  so that was a seemingly a one-time thing thanks to
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  Uncle Sam.
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  Next up,
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  this is a sad one,
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  for all of our four-legged friends out there.
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  Adopting a dog.
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  Yes,
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  adopting a dog,
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  searches for that peaked
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  incredibly in 2020,
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  went all the way up.
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  Everyone wanted to have a dog at their house.
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  And then it kind of came down
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  by 2022,
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  had dropped back down to normal levels,
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  actually slightly below normal levels,
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  because a lot of those people had dogs already.
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  Remember
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  that moved all the dog adoptions up a couple of years,
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  and then people started ditching their dogs after that,
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  which is even more sad,
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  but that is kind of where you were,
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  and that gives you a good sense of where.
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  People were in 2020.
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  They wanted the lovable dog.
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  They're at home.
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  They adopt the dog,
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  and now they're no longer adopting the dogs at the same rate.
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  That's a sad one for our four-legged friends.
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  A positive one for our two-legged friends might be,
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  hey,
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  we all turned into alcoholics for a few months,
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  but that didn't really hold.
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  Interestingly,
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  in 2020,
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  everybody started buying alcohol
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  because they wanted.
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  Kill themselves and this is the slowest way to do it
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  and
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  everyone started pounding alcohol all the way through March 2020 until about 2021,
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  2022,
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  is where that peaked.
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  That has now retreated to
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  the pre-pandemic trend,
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  which by the way,
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  was increasing.
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  So you have a major increase from 2016 to 2020.
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  That increase basically
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  continues all the way till today,
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  but we had that huge spike in between.
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  So we're back now on normal trend lines of all of us just being kind of alcoholics,
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  which is a much,
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  much healthier
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  option.
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  I'm,
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  I'm hurt.
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  And it's interesting because I've heard so much about this
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  sort of sober movement,
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  which,
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  by the way,
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  I think is a good thing.
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  I don't,
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  I never was a believer.
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  And the couple of glasses of wine are good for your health.
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  It doesn't mean that I don't enjoy my,
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  uh,
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  my occasional alcoholic drinks,
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  but I will say,
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  I don't,
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  I never
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  was fooled into thinking it was good for you.
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  The new guidance is kind of like,
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  yeah,
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  it's not really good for you,
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  but you can still have some,
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  you're not gonna,
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  it's not gonna kill you.
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  Um,
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  but I've heard so many people about like,
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  oh,
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  now people aren't drinking,
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  they're drinking these,
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  uh,
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  virgin cocktails at bars.
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  No sign in the data of that whatsoever.
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  I mean,
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  unless we're canceling that out with other alcoholic purchases.
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  I don't know,
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  um,
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  it doesn't seem to be much sign of that.
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  There's a supposed increase in those types of people,
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  but
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  I don't really see it.
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  And then we have a final category of these charts.
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  How did COVID change the world?
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  Well,
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  remember this term that was thrown around a lot during COVID?
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  This is the new normal.
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  And I hated that term,
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  um,
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  and I was worried that
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  this could be the new normal,
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  right?
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  Like how is this going to reverse,
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  how are things going to change?
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  You know,
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  I,
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  I don't know,
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  in Texas,
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  our new normal came really,
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  really fast,
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  which was basically the old normal,
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  um,
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  but some things changed around the country and never got back to normal,
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  and this is the stuff we really lost
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  because of not only.
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  COVID,
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  but
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  the government response to COVID.
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  Let me start with used car prices.
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  Used car prices were pretty reasonable from 2016 all the way to 2020.
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  Uh,
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  they dropped initially because everyone was like,
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  I don't want to spend any money,
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  and then they spiked like crazy all the way up to February 2022 where we had the peak
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  of the,
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  uh,
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  used car price market.
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  That has dropped a little bit.
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  But it is still way,
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  way above
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  normal
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  pre-COVID,
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  and it seems like we may have at least a long-term
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  used car market increase.
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  That's a problem obviously for people looking for reasonably priced cars
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  and with the kind of new idea with tariffs,
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  which started by the way under Biden.
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  100% tariffs on cars.
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  I think I don't know if it's electric vehicles or all cars from China,
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  and then it has increased obviously with Trump,
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  who is much more favorable to tariffs
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  than previous Republican presidents at least.
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  That is a fascinating
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  thing that might not be changing for a long period of time.
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  So used car prices might be high for the foreseeable future.
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  Next up,
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  and this is probably one of the more sad
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  examples of what we lost during COVID,
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  3rd through 8th graders in their US scores.
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  This is just a way of measuring.
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  Academic performance,
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  it's not necessarily just about whether they get lower scores or not,
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  but you see a massive drop of about
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  between
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  a quarter and a half a year behind
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  in reading and math on average.
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  Now
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  some of that plays out in majorly
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  separating ways,
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  and a lot has to do with that.
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  I mean,
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  I'm just going to be frank with you,
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  blue states and red states.
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  Red states opened early,
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  got their kids back to school.
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  Their decreases are much less punishing
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  to the kids
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  when it comes to academic performance
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  than it is in blue states.
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  Blue states see,
• 14:39
  you know,
• 14:39
  and look,
• 14:39
  and like,
• 14:40
  you know,
• 14:40
  you could say all those stupid Democrats and their dumb policies,
• 14:42
  of course,
• 14:43
  true,
• 14:43
  but a lot of Republicans in those states,
• 14:45
  and you know,
• 14:46
  kids shouldn't really be members of parties yet.
• 14:49
  They're the ones paying for the policies made by the left,
• 14:51
  and it is incredibly sad to see that sort of drop that,
• 14:55
  by the way,
• 14:55
  it just has not recovered.
• 14:57
  We saw a massive drop and really only slight recovery
• 15:00
  from that.
• 15:00
  Next up,
• 15:01
  um,
• 15:02
  vaccinations.
• 15:02
  This is interesting because the Great Barrington Declaration,
• 15:05
  which was,
• 15:06
  I covered this a couple of weeks ago,
• 15:08
  uh,
• 15:08
  the kind of the skeptical response.
• 15:10
  To the government lockdowns,
• 15:11
  you know,
• 15:12
  people like Jay Pattacharya were
• 15:14
  people who were major co-signers of this.
• 15:15
  I think Marty Makari was on that list,
• 15:17
  and they came out and said,
• 15:18
  Hey,
• 15:18
  we can't be just shutting down a society.
• 15:20
  We can't be locking down.
• 15:21
  This is going to do all sorts of damage
• 15:23
  to people.
• 15:23
  What we should do is focus on protecting the most vulnerable for COVID
• 15:26
  and let people who let the 25-year-olds in the workforce go out and do their thing.
• 15:31
  That was very controversial at the time,
• 15:33
  kind of embraced by conservatives.
• 15:36
  The number one thing they worried about,
• 15:37
  uh,
• 15:37
  the first thing
• 15:38
  that they said could happen if we did not adopt their approach,
• 15:43
  was that we would have lower vaccination rates
• 15:46
  for
• 15:47
  kids for normal things,
• 15:49
  nothing to do with the COVID vaccine,
• 15:50
  just,
• 15:50
  you know,
• 15:50
  normal things that kids get vaccinated for.
• 15:52
  We've seen that happen,
• 15:53
  that started in 2020.
• 15:55
  And has dropped now down well below the line
• 15:58
  and is now going I mean I wouldn't even say it's flattened out yet,
• 16:01
  it's still dropping these rates.
• 16:02
  Now a lot of this has to do
• 16:04
  with not
• 16:07
  the shutdowns per se,
• 16:08
  but
• 16:09
  the way the government tried to mandate the COVID vaccine.
• 16:13
  When they did that,
• 16:14
  parents,
• 16:15
  people said,
• 16:16
  Wait a minute,
• 16:16
  I don't want that thing.
• 16:17
  You're trying to force it down my throat.
• 16:19
  Maybe I'm going to start questioning all the other
• 16:20
  vaccinations that we use to typically provide our kids.
• 16:24
  Those rates are dropping,
• 16:25
  and we've seen some consequences of that so far,
• 16:28
  so we'll see,
• 16:29
  we'll monitor that one as well.
• 16:31
  Then we get into some other,
• 16:32
  I think,
• 16:32
  really sad stuff,
• 16:33
  um,
• 16:34
  time socializing with others.
• 16:36
  This was decreasing anyway
• 16:37
  before we got to the COVID period,
• 16:39
  and then we saw a massive drop off in 2020,
• 16:42
  um,
• 16:42
  by about 25% of the time that you're normally socializing with others.
• 16:47
  That drops by 25% in 2020 and has stayed low.
• 16:51
  It's increased a slight amount,
• 16:53
  but we have now lost a massive percentage of the
• 16:55
  time that we actually spend with other human beings.
• 16:58
  That's bad.
• 16:59
  Uh,
• 17:00
  staying,
• 17:00
  spending all your time online and not spending time with actual people
• 17:03
  is really,
• 17:03
  really bad,
• 17:04
  and you also start to see those people
• 17:06
  when they're just online personas
• 17:08
  as sort of like different,
• 17:09
  right?
• 17:10
  They're,
• 17:10
  they're awful.
• 17:11
  They're,
• 17:11
  uh,
• 17:12
  you can't,
• 17:12
  you can't accept,
• 17:13
  I mean,
• 17:13
  people are awful online,
• 17:14
  right?
• 17:15
  So you only see the worst of people
• 17:17
  online instead of actually spending time with
• 17:18
  people that you might even disagree with.
• 17:20
  And learning that hey,
• 17:21
  maybe
• 17:22
  they might be annoying on politics,
• 17:23
  but actually they're kind of decent people.
• 17:25
  This is why every Democrat thinks every
• 17:27
  Republican is some crazy insurrectionist Nazi.
• 17:30
  I mean,
• 17:30
  because,
• 17:31
  you know,
• 17:32
  they're insane,
• 17:32
  they're online all the time.
• 17:33
  I spend some time with real people.
• 17:34
  I don't know.
• 17:35
  I feel like when Democrats spend time with conservatives,
• 17:37
  what they find out is,
• 17:38
  oh,
• 17:38
  they're actually kind of
• 17:39
  normal,
• 17:40
  great people,
• 17:41
  um,
• 17:41
  and,
• 17:41
  and that happens the other way as well.
• 17:42
  So that's,
• 17:43
  that's one time socializing with others.
• 17:45
  And the other side of that coin
• 17:47
  is how much time you're spending at home.
• 17:49
  Look at this,
• 17:49
  man.
• 17:50
  I mean,
• 17:50
  you know,
• 17:50
  we had a massive increase,
• 17:51
  of course.
• 17:52
  2020,
• 17:52
  as everyone would expect,
• 17:54
  a 100% increase of the amount of time you spend at home,
• 17:57
  but you'd think that would be dropping off and getting back to normal levels.
• 17:59
  It's not.
• 18:00
  We've seen a little bit of a decrease again
• 18:02
  from 2020.
• 18:04
  People are getting out of the house a little bit more,
• 18:06
  which is good.
• 18:07
  However,
• 18:08
  it's nowhere close to where it was before that.
• 18:11
  This whole touch grass thing that everybody talks about.
• 18:14
  Get out of your house,
• 18:15
  touch some grass,
• 18:16
  see some people,
• 18:16
  do some things.
• 18:18
  That is a real problem,
• 18:20
  and it's going to get much,
• 18:20
  much worse with AI and virtual reality and all those other things.
• 18:24
  So that is a,
• 18:25
  uh,
• 18:25
  those two,
• 18:26
  those are fundamental core problems that
• 18:29
  we're developing in our new technological society
• 18:32
  that got kicked into high gear because of COVID and have not recovered.
• 18:35
  And finally,
• 18:38
  You knew this one was coming.
• 18:39
  The federal debt
• 18:41
  Our debt was bad before.
• 18:43
  There's no doubt about it.
• 18:45
  It was on a line that was increasing very significantly.
• 18:47
  We had all sorts of massive problems,
• 18:49
  and then we decided to just buy the entire country
• 18:52
  out of working for about a year and a half.
• 18:55
  That sort of decision
• 18:57
  increases federal debt to a situation
• 19:01
  that is absolutely intolerable.
• 19:04
  $3 trillion increase in just the months after March,
• 19:07
  as the New York Times notes,
• 19:08
  but what they don't note is now it's up to $10 trillion.
• 19:13
  That's $10 trillion above the already crazy levels we expected
• 19:18
  from the pre-pandemic trend.
• 19:20
  It was already horrible.
• 19:22
  We were doing show after show after show about it then,
• 19:25
  and now we're $10 trillion
• 19:27
  past that pace.
• 19:29
  This is getting worse and worse and worse.
• 19:30
  We dealt with the ramifications
• 19:32
  with that,
• 19:33
  with the with inflation,
• 19:34
  and we're never getting those prices back either.
• 19:36
  I've got news for you.
• 19:38
  Really,
• 19:38
  really negative things.
• 19:40
  Really,
• 19:40
  really
• 19:41
  a giant wave is coming when it comes to the debt,
• 19:44
  and that wave got much,
• 19:45
  much.
• 19:45
  Taller through the COVID years.
• 19:46
  So that's what we're looking at.
• 19:48
  That was what the last 5 years have brought us
• 19:50
  some things that were bad for a time and went away,
• 19:53
  and some things that are here unfortunately
• 19:55
  to stay,
• 19:56
  and most of those things really,
• 19:57
  really negative.
• 19:58
  Speaking of really,
• 19:59
  really negative experiences,
• 20:01
  Jason Buttrell joins us next.
• 20:13
  I hope you enjoyed that,
• 20:14
  um,
• 20:15
  trip down memory lane into 2020.
• 20:17
  Now I know we all want to forget those times,
• 20:19
  uh,
• 20:20
  but let's be honest,
• 20:21
  they were there,
• 20:22
  the empty store shelves,
• 20:23
  the doctors not being available,
• 20:25
  the panic over every cough,
• 20:26
  God forbid,
• 20:27
  you cough in a crowded area.
• 20:28
  It was kind of chaotic there for a while.
• 20:31
  And if there's one thing that we should have learned,
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  it's this,
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  no one is coming to save you.
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• 21:36
  I'm joined once again by Jason Buttrell,
• 21:37
  head writer and researcher for Glenn Beck.
• 21:39
  Uh,
• 21:39
  Jason,
• 21:39
  thanks for coming on the program,
• 21:40
  man.
• 21:40
  Hey,
• 21:40
  thanks for having me.
• 21:41
  I'm excited to talk to you about this because you are fired up about the signal story.
• 21:45
  And I did something on this yesterday,
• 21:47
  and my basic take was,
• 21:48
  if you,
• 21:49
  if I'm sure you tune in every episode,
• 21:50
  but if you happen to miss it,
• 21:52
  was basically like,
• 21:53
  we don't know the,
• 21:54
  we don't know the story yet,
• 21:55
  we don't know really what's true.
• 21:57
  But,
• 21:57
  uh,
• 21:58
  also,
• 21:58
  if,
• 21:59
  you know,
• 21:59
  if this is a mistake,
• 22:01
  um,
• 22:01
  it's a pretty bad mistake,
• 22:02
  it shouldn't happen.
• 22:04
  Um,
• 22:04
  and it should,
• 22:05
  we should be OK calling out our own side when they make a mistake.
• 22:07
  That's OK.
• 22:08
  On the other hand,
• 22:09
  we don't know what the whole story is here,
• 22:11
  and you have a kind of a theory.
• 22:13
  I want to go into what we,
• 22:14
  we learned today before we get into it,
• 22:16
  or at least what we think we learned today.
• 22:17
  The Atlantic has now released the entire signal chat.
• 22:21
  And part of,
• 22:22
  part of what makes me skeptical of,
• 22:24
  of
• 22:24
  the Trump administration's general response to this is
• 22:27
  like all the games of semantics they're playing,
• 22:30
  which is like they were like,
• 22:31
  there were no war plans,
• 22:33
  uh,
• 22:33
  in this,
• 22:33
  uh,
• 22:34
  uh,
• 22:35
  chat.
• 22:35
  Now,
• 22:36
  we now have the chat.
• 22:38
  I mean,
• 22:39
  I don't know,
• 22:39
  would you call it a war plan?
• 22:40
  I don't know.
• 22:41
  I mean,
• 22:41
  it doesn't have everything that you'd need in a war plan.
• 22:43
  It is not a congressionally authorized war.
• 22:46
  However,
• 22:47
  it is,
• 22:48
  it is pretty detailed
• 22:49
  in the fact of like,
• 22:51
  The bombs will drop at this exact minute,
• 22:53
  right?
• 22:53
  It's like that detailed,
• 22:55
  obviously stuff that the average person
• 22:57
  shouldn't know.
• 22:58
  They also say it's not classified.
• 23:00
  Are they just playing a semantic game here,
• 23:02
  because obviously it's very sensitive information at the very least.
• 23:04
  So they clearly held back classified information
• 23:07
  within that message,
• 23:08
  or Hexeth did.
• 23:09
  Uh,
• 23:09
  he talks,
• 23:10
  uh,
• 23:11
  vaguely about target packages,
• 23:13
  so target packages would be the heavily classified stuff.
• 23:16
  The target packages,
• 23:18
  that's general
• 23:19
  nomenclature for uh for military strikes.
• 23:22
  It includes the person you're going after,
• 23:24
  the types of ordinance,
• 23:26
  uh,
• 23:27
  like the.
• 23:27
  The location,
• 23:28
  you know,
• 23:29
  coordinates,
• 23:29
  all that,
• 23:29
  all that stuff,
• 23:31
  uh,
• 23:31
  imagery,
• 23:31
  a bunch of other stuff,
• 23:32
  so they,
• 23:33
  they,
• 23:33
  they very specifically left out
• 23:35
  the higher classified stuff from that text,
• 23:38
  right?
• 23:38
  He didn't say the name of the person they were going after,
• 23:41
  right?
• 23:41
  They,
• 23:41
  they said the top missile guy,
• 23:43
  um,
• 23:43
  that was after the attack.
• 23:45
  They did say.
• 23:46
  Kind of refer to the person what time that person would be
• 23:49
  attacked,
• 23:50
  which it does seem like they actually got him,
• 23:51
  which is
• 23:52
  a good news,
• 23:53
  and they also held out something that Goldberg
• 23:55
  looks apparently like he completely lied about.
• 23:58
  He said that he said that Director CIA
• 24:00
  Director Ratcliffe had named like a classified source
• 24:05
  within like a like a CIA source,
• 24:07
  uh,
• 24:07
  I,
• 24:07
  I don't know if it was in Yemen or wherever,
• 24:09
  um,
• 24:09
  but that person that Ratcliffe named was his chief of staff,
• 24:13
  not a classified source,
• 24:15
  so.
• 24:15
  That is a blatant lie by Goldberg
• 24:17
  or a mistake.
• 24:18
  Now I look,
• 24:19
  I have no,
• 24:20
  I don't think highly of Goldberg at all.
• 24:22
  Um,
• 24:22
  in fact,
• 24:23
  uh,
• 24:23
  particularly like,
• 24:25
  you know,
• 24:25
  I go back to
• 24:26
  remembering him firing Kevin Williamson,
• 24:28
  which was one of the legitimately like most spineless
• 24:31
  things
• 24:32
  in the beginning bubblings of cancel culture
• 24:35
  where they went back and found an old uh point he had
• 24:38
  made on abortion and like after they had hired him canceled him.
• 24:41
  So like I have no
• 24:42
  respect for Goldberg at all,
• 24:44
  um.
• 24:45
  You know,
• 24:45
  that being said,
• 24:46
  I think his terminology is saying,
• 24:48
  OK,
• 24:48
  we're war plan.
• 24:50
  He should not have been on this chat.
• 24:51
  It is a mistake.
• 24:52
  He's on there.
• 24:52
  The White House has admitted it is bad that he's on there.
• 24:56
  The question is how did he get on there,
• 24:58
  right?
• 24:59
  And this is where your theory comes in.
• 25:01
  Walk us through what you think might have happened here.
• 25:03
  So can I get some behind the scenes?
• 25:05
  Yes,
• 25:05
  of course,
• 25:06
  please.
• 25:06
  So when I heard you do your monologue,
• 25:08
  I was actually over there.
• 25:10
  You can't see right now,
• 25:10
  but that's the Oval Office set and we were doing chalkboards.
• 25:13
  I saw you lurking over there.
• 25:15
  So I was in the middle of all the crap
• 25:17
  that we found out about the CIA infiltrating media.
• 25:20
  Companies,
• 25:21
  everything,
• 25:21
  and I heard out of my right ear you give that monologue,
• 25:24
  and then every like production staff were holding me back
• 25:26
  because I was about to charge on and go,
• 25:28
  I got a theory.
• 25:29
  You're like,
• 25:30
  yeah,
• 25:30
  at one point you come over,
• 25:31
  you're like,
• 25:31
  Can I come on and just give you this theory?
• 25:33
  And I was like,
• 25:34
  we have 1 minute and a half minutes left in the show.
• 25:35
  I don't think that's gonna work.
• 25:37
  And your producer's like just nailing me in the side of the head.
• 25:39
  Shut up.
• 25:40
  So,
• 25:40
  so give me,
• 25:41
  give me,
• 25:41
  we have more than 1 minute and a half now.
• 25:42
  Give me kind of like what you're thinking here.
• 25:44
  OK,
• 25:44
  because I mean you are in CIA mode,
• 25:46
  to be fair.
• 25:47
  You're in like holy crap,
• 25:49
  the CIA is involved in everything mode.
• 25:51
  That's kind of the context of,
• 25:52
  of you going to the story,
• 25:53
  but like it's,
• 25:54
  it's applicable context.
• 25:55
  Yeah,
• 25:56
  and very specifically the things that I was thinking about was,
• 25:59
  you know,
• 25:59
  in the JFK JFK files,
• 26:01
  which you'll find out about tonight on our,
• 26:02
  on our special.
• 26:03
  Yeah,
• 26:03
  this is a must watch tonight,
• 26:04
  by the way.
• 26:04
  Oh,
• 26:05
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• 26:11
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• 26:18
  including in a reenactment at a ranch in Oklahoma of Oswald shots.
• 26:22
  Yes,
• 26:22
  no,
• 26:22
  and it's Glenn doing it.
• 26:23
  It's Glenn doing it,
• 26:25
  um,
• 26:25
  but yeah,
• 26:25
  but in,
• 26:26
  in those files some of the things we uncovered
• 26:28
  was not exactly like a smoking gun of,
• 26:30
  you know,
• 26:30
  like who was.
• 26:31
  Actually the person that shot,
• 26:32
  whether it's Oswald or somebody else,
• 26:34
  but it was all the crazy crap the CIA has been involved in
• 26:37
  going back to the early 60s.
• 26:38
  1 of those which we pulled the document
• 26:41
  was how they infiltrated US media,
• 26:43
  specific journalists,
• 26:44
  and they talk about not only the journalists that they infiltrated,
• 26:47
  let's just say their last name could be like,
• 26:49
  I don't know,
• 26:50
  Goldberg or something like that.
• 26:51
  That's just a random name pulled out of the hat.
• 26:54
  You know,
• 26:54
  if there was a Gold War back in the 60s,
• 26:55
  so I'm just gonna sign that name,
• 26:57
  um,
• 26:58
  that they infiltrated this person and not only him but all of their contacts
• 27:03
  and that included
• 27:04
  um a contacts like Attorney General RFK
• 27:08
  which they note in the CIA document.
• 27:10
  All these people
• 27:11
  were considered now,
• 27:12
  you know,
• 27:13
  penetraable assets that they now have US citizens.
• 27:16
  And media
• 27:17
  also US companies
• 27:19
  um
• 27:20
  let's just say if there was a company back in the day called Signal,
• 27:23
  you know,
• 27:24
  but it was Pan Am
• 27:25
  and let's just say there was a Signal back in the day they had infiltrated it
• 27:28
  and they were bragging about it in these documents.
• 27:31
  Now that's the stuff I was thinking about.
• 27:33
  Now I see this whole thing with Signal nowadays,
• 27:36
  including this conversation which is very weird to me.
• 27:39
  Um,
• 27:40
  for one,
• 27:41
  I don't know if you saw,
• 27:42
  uh,
• 27:42
  Mike Waltz responded,
• 27:44
  uh,
• 27:45
  it was either yesterday or today,
• 27:46
  and he was talking about how this contact
• 27:49
  got added in.
• 27:50
  Yeah,
• 27:50
  there were rumors for a while that possibly a staffer of his accidentally did.
• 27:54
  That was definitely leaked,
• 27:55
  it seems like,
• 27:56
  from the White House,
• 27:56
  at least initially,
• 27:57
  and,
• 27:58
  and,
• 27:58
  and
• 27:59
  to be fair to anyone who's skeptical of this theory,
• 28:01
  and somewhat,
• 28:02
  somewhat including me,
• 28:04
  um,
• 28:05
  it is.
• 28:06
  The White House has done a bunch of different excuses.
• 28:10
  Like they've come up with about 6 or 7 different things.
• 28:13
  Some of them don't work together.
• 28:14
  They've been updating their
• 28:17
  response to this.
• 28:18
  First it was no one texted anything about war plans.
• 28:20
  Then it was,
• 28:21
  well,
• 28:22
  you know it wasn't classified.
• 28:22
  Then it was,
• 28:23
  well,
• 28:23
  it was a mistake.
• 28:24
  He's a good guy.
• 28:24
  They've come up with about 5 or 6 different things they said.
• 28:27
  So I can understand the skepticism
• 28:30
  of whatever they're saying now because they did say
• 28:32
  seemingly the staffer thing.
• 28:34
  Now Wallace is saying it's not the staffer.
• 28:36
  He just knew.
• 28:37
  Direct quote,
• 28:38
  yeah,
• 28:38
  new.
• 28:38
  He's saying that it was not a staffer.
• 28:40
  The way he describes it,
• 28:41
  I don't have the direct quote,
• 28:42
  but,
• 28:42
  um,
• 28:43
  he said,
• 28:43
  he tweeted it,
• 28:43
  by the way,
• 28:44
  if you wanna see the quote Jason Buttrell on Twitter.
• 28:46
  Yeah,
• 28:46
  um,
• 28:47
  he said something about,
• 28:48
  he said that it was a different number
• 28:50
  assigned to a different
• 28:52
  contact.
• 28:53
  Right?
• 28:54
  So if you think about this,
• 28:54
  this is like we're on a,
• 28:55
  we're on a group chat in which we're
• 28:57
  discussing whatever stupid thing the Cowboys just did.
• 28:59
  And I,
• 29:00
  um,
• 29:01
  I tweet,
• 29:01
  hey,
• 29:02
  can you believe they picked up this bum?
• 29:03
  And
• 29:04
  it says Jason Buttrell on my,
• 29:06
  on my screen.
• 29:07
  When I click on the screen on the info,
• 29:09
  if I were to happen to do that,
• 29:10
  it's actually somebody else's number who's Jerry Jones Jerry
• 29:12
  Jones's number and Jerry Jones is very pissed.
• 29:14
  I can't believe I would say such a thing about him.
• 29:16
  Um,
• 29:17
  that's kind of what he seems to be describing here.
• 29:19
  We don't know for sure,
• 29:20
  but that's what he seems to be describing.
• 29:21
  Right,
• 29:22
  and that is very interesting to me.
• 29:24
  He also goes on to say,
• 29:25
  I don't know how this happened.
• 29:27
  We're trying to figure it out whether it was just a mix up or a mess up
• 29:32
  or
• 29:33
  some other technological mean.
• 29:36
  What the hell does that mean?
• 29:37
  That's very interesting.
• 29:38
  And I'm just,
• 29:39
  it's,
• 29:39
  it's not like when you know,
• 29:41
  a new administration comes in
• 29:43
  that the CIA actually installs signal
• 29:47
  on some of these devices.
• 29:49
  Wait,
• 29:49
  Stu,
• 29:49
  that's what Ratcliffe testified yesterday that the CIA
• 29:53
  is actually putting it on the devices.
• 29:54
  He said day one when he was confirmed,
• 29:57
  the CIA came in,
• 29:58
  which he's the director of,
• 29:59
  and installed it onto his computer.
• 30:02
  I just find that interesting because like why does the CIA have such
• 30:05
  a personal close relationship with Signal and why do they trust it wholeheartedly?
• 30:10
  Well,
• 30:11
  Stu,
• 30:11
  it happens to be that there is a
• 30:13
  direct connection through funding.
• 30:15
  Uh,
• 30:16
  back in the day when Signal was first being,
• 30:18
  uh,
• 30:19
  developed,
• 30:20
  they got funding from,
• 30:22
  and I'm,
• 30:22
  I'm,
• 30:22
  I'm forgetting the name of the organization now,
• 30:24
  but I'm gonna have Glenn talk about this tomorrow,
• 30:26
  um,
• 30:27
  from an organization that,
• 30:28
  um,
• 30:29
  is a government organization.
• 30:30
  They gave millions into the development of Signal,
• 30:33
  which I find
• 30:35
  highly suspicious
• 30:36
  because.
• 30:37
  We know the government,
• 30:38
  if you believe anything from the Snowden files or anything,
• 30:40
  or just if you believe common sense,
• 30:42
  we know that the government wants to be able to peek into
• 30:44
  what we talk about,
• 30:46
  whether they want to use FISA to get through it or whatever,
• 30:48
  they want to be able to peek into it.
• 30:49
  So why would they be funding an organization that claims to have unbreakable
• 30:54
  device device encryption,
• 30:55
  and they still claim that,
• 30:56
  by the way,
• 30:56
  they still claim that.
• 30:58
  Well,
• 30:58
  that's kind of weird to me.
• 30:59
  So we looked further into that and the direct
• 31:01
  funding has ties to organizations like Radio Free Europe,
• 31:05
  Radio Free
• 31:07
  Asia,
• 31:08
  which have documented direct ties to CIA funding
• 31:11
  and CIA operations during the Cold War.
• 31:14
  So there is a CIA connection
• 31:16
  if you follow the funding back through the years
• 31:19
  directly to this funding that goes towards Signal.
• 31:21
  I find that interesting.
• 31:23
  That's,
• 31:24
  that's at least weird.
• 31:26
  It gets even weirder when you find out reports of like back
• 31:29
  in uh when when WikiLeaks was releasing tons and tons of information
• 31:33
  they released something called Vault 7
• 31:35
  where
• 31:36
  it was documents that showed that the CIA had capability to penetrate both Signal
• 31:40
  and WhatsApp.
• 31:42
  So they're saying that they have this secretly,
• 31:44
  but now they're saying no,
• 31:45
  it's OK and it's completely safe for
• 31:48
  even
• 31:49
  the CIA director
• 31:51
  to now use signal.
• 31:52
  OK,
• 31:53
  well,
• 31:54
  are there,
• 31:54
  is there any more evidence?
• 31:55
  Well,
• 31:55
  Tucker Carlson said that
• 31:57
  the NSA
• 31:59
  peered into his signal
• 32:00
  and then was able to pick out messages and read back to him basically,
• 32:04
  oh,
• 32:04
  we know you're going to,
• 32:05
  uh,
• 32:05
  do this interview
• 32:06
  with Vladimir Putin,
• 32:07
  something he had not told anybody except through on Signal.
• 32:10
  So to me it paints a picture of the CIA.
• 32:13
  Has some kind of backdoor into the signal.
• 32:15
  That's what it looks like to me now if you're talking about quote
• 32:18
  other technical means for explaining how
• 32:22
  the wrong number on a different contact
• 32:25
  suddenly got inserted by oh I don't know,
• 32:28
  Doctor Goldberg's,
• 32:28
  I have no idea.
• 32:30
  I just added,
• 32:31
  you know,
• 32:31
  like,
• 32:32
  well how?
• 32:33
  because no one seems to know if you believe the government narrative,
• 32:36
  which again that could be iffy as well,
• 32:39
  it kind of seems like to me,
• 32:41
  I'll just say it.
• 32:42
  This entire thing was a CIA op.
• 32:44
  There we go.
• 32:44
  We
• 32:45
  got
• 32:45
  to it.
• 32:45
  We got to it,
• 32:47
  um,
• 32:48
  so,
• 32:48
  so answer me this.
• 32:50
  This,
• 32:50
  this I'm,
• 32:50
  I'm thinking of here as you're going through this theory,
• 32:53
  um.
• 32:54
  What would be the purpose of this?
• 32:55
  Like,
• 32:56
  why,
• 32:57
  why would
• 32:58
  they want
• 33:00
  a journalist to come in and report,
• 33:02
  OK,
• 33:02
  they had an attack a couple of weeks ago that everyone supports?
• 33:05
  Excellent question.
• 33:06
  And it goes back to again our,
• 33:08
  our findings on the,
• 33:09
  on the JFK docs.
• 33:10
  It was
• 33:11
  just.
• 33:13
  There's no other way to take it or to look at this.
• 33:15
  There was an absolute war between the JFK administration
• 33:19
  and the Central Intelligence Agency,
• 33:20
  the entire intelligence community at large,
• 33:22
  um,
• 33:23
  after the Bay of Pigs,
• 33:25
  Kennedy did not trust the CIA.
• 33:27
  He,
• 33:27
  uh,
• 33:28
  he fired Allen Dulles.
• 33:29
  He,
• 33:29
  uh,
• 33:30
  got rid of
• 33:31
  the former USAID,
• 33:32
  which is what's called the International Cooperation Administration.
• 33:35
  Um,
• 33:36
  he got rid of that because they were funding all of,
• 33:38
  I know,
• 33:38
  was funding all of these CIA paramilitary ops all over the world and soft power.
• 33:43
  Um,
• 33:43
  they turned that into a new organization which has no
• 33:46
  ties at all to the CIA today called USAID.
• 33:48
  Oh,
• 33:48
  actually,
• 33:49
  you know,
• 33:50
  they do actually,
• 33:51
  and the,
• 33:51
  these things never change too,
• 33:54
  they just,
• 33:54
  they just move on and they,
• 33:56
  they infiltrate.
• 33:57
  Now I look at timelines now.
• 33:59
  Um,
• 33:59
  the select Subcommittee on Intelligence with Tulsi Gabbard
• 34:02
  was scheduled for yesterday.
• 34:03
  They were all talking about it.
• 34:05
  Well,
• 34:05
  I just find it interesting that this story.
• 34:08
  Drops the day before
• 34:10
  the select sub so they all could get asked about it in real time.
• 34:12
  It dominated everything
• 34:14
  and then once the news cycle starts to have the appearance of
• 34:16
  moving on in this chaotic world of everything happening all at once,
• 34:20
  they drop another story with the full
• 34:23
  before they said,
• 34:23
  oh this is sensitive information.
• 34:25
  We're not going to talk about it in our original,
• 34:27
  uh,
• 34:27
  you know,
• 34:28
  uh,
• 34:28
  publication.
• 34:29
  Well today they said,
• 34:29
  ah,
• 34:30
  screw it,
• 34:30
  I guess it's not that sensitive,
• 34:31
  and they've released the full messages now today.
• 34:35
  So
• 34:35
  now they're injecting it back into it.
• 34:37
  Now what do you,
• 34:38
  if you're the intelligence community
• 34:39
  and you feel personally attacked by the Trump administration,
• 34:42
  you feel like,
• 34:42
  oh,
• 34:43
  he's screwing everything up we were doing in Ukraine,
• 34:45
  he's screwing everything up with US aid like Kennedy did with the ICA.
• 34:49
  He's screwing everything up that we're doing.
• 34:51
  There is a war right now between.
• 34:53
  The Trump administration and the intelligence community,
• 34:55
  and if you believe Chuck Schumer,
• 34:57
  he said there's a million ways to Sunday how the intelligence
• 34:59
  community can make your life a living hell if you do.
• 35:02
  I think he's right on that,
• 35:02
  but I do not believe Chuck Schumer.
• 35:04
  I will say,
• 35:05
  I agree,
• 35:05
  we can agree on that.
• 35:07
  I think this was done deliberately.
• 35:08
  I think it was a CIA op.
• 35:10
  I think it was done deliberately to dominate the conversation.
• 35:13
  Between Trump's cabinet members to get them turned against each other,
• 35:17
  and I believe it was also done to derail anything
• 35:19
  else that they have going forward and to publicly embarrass,
• 35:22
  yeah,
• 35:23
  sending a message at the very least,
• 35:24
  last one here,
• 35:25
  and we're a little late,
• 35:26
  so we have to keep this kind of short,
• 35:27
  but like.
• 35:28
  Is there,
• 35:28
  I,
• 35:29
  I think there is,
• 35:29
  I have this weakness maybe a little bit.
• 35:31
  There's this idea that like all these things
• 35:33
  we know about in history that were shady,
• 35:35
  CIA doing all sorts of crazy stuff.
• 35:37
  We have this like um
• 35:38
  uh bias I think toward the current time
• 35:41
  that those things are old
• 35:43
  and those things don't happen anymore.
• 35:44
  We solved them,
• 35:44
  we knew about them then and now we're kind of solved.
• 35:47
  Is that a problem that we all kind of have looking back and
• 35:50
  do we get too comfortable thinking
• 35:52
  those crazy things only happened in the olden days?
• 35:55
  Oh yeah,
• 35:56
  I mean.
• 35:58
  Talk about surveilling a presidential campaign in
• 36:00
  the in in the 1960s and Barry Goldwater
• 36:05
  like.
• 36:06
  That could never happen today,
• 36:07
  right?
• 36:08
  Right,
• 36:08
  right,
• 36:08
  never.
• 36:09
  Oh my gosh,
• 36:10
  that happened in 2016 in Trump.
• 36:12
  If you,
• 36:13
  if you,
• 36:13
  that's the reason in my opinion why the CIA fought tooth and nail
• 36:18
  every single time it came for a release of the JFK files.
• 36:21
  They said no,
• 36:21
  no,
• 36:21
  no,
• 36:21
  at the last minute they would write a letter
• 36:24
  and say,
• 36:24
  oh,
• 36:24
  there's,
• 36:25
  there's methods and stuff that we cannot talk about
• 36:27
  really from the 1960s.
• 36:29
  What methods are you compromising today?
• 36:31
  Well,
• 36:31
  you're not you're not redacting methods.
• 36:34
  You're redacting
• 36:35
  pattern of behavior.
• 36:36
  And if we don't get full disclosure,
• 36:38
  that's why this matters.
• 36:39
  If you don't get full disclosure,
• 36:41
  the scenarios you talked about will continue to happen.
• 36:43
  They'll continue to run crazy surveilling,
• 36:46
  you know,
• 36:46
  presidential campaigns,
• 36:48
  infiltrating US media and companies.
• 36:50
  It'll keep happening.
• 36:52
  We've got to continue to ask these questions so it doesn't happen again.
• 36:54
  That is a great promo for tonight's program.
• 36:56
  You do not want to miss it.
• 36:57
  It is on Blaze TV,
• 36:59
  of course,
• 36:59
  the Glenn Beck program
• 37:00
  again.
• 37:01
  You can get it on YouTube.
• 37:02
  You can get it on Pluto TV,
• 37:03
  but,
• 37:04
  uh,
• 37:04
  there,
• 37:04
  because of the length of everything,
• 37:05
  you're not gonna get the entire package.
• 37:07
  You gotta go to Blaze TV to get that.
• 37:08
  So blazetv.com/Stew promo code is stew.
• 37:10
  It'll save you some cash.
• 37:12
  But the bottom line is this is one you wanna watch the entire length of,
• 37:14
  uh,
• 37:15
  because there's a lot in there,
• 37:16
  and,
• 37:16
  and Jason,
• 37:16
  I think just outlined really well
• 37:18
  how,
• 37:19
  why,
• 37:20
  why this matters,
• 37:20
  right?
• 37:21
  Like why does it matter 60 years later.
• 37:23
  Uh,
• 37:24
  uh,
• 37:24
  uh,
• 37:24
  with all these documents,
• 37:25
  it's still really important.
• 37:26
  Uh,
• 37:26
  Jason Buttrell,
• 37:27
  head writer and researcher for Glenn Beck,
• 37:29
  uh,
• 37:29
  and,
• 37:29
  you know,
• 37:30
  uh,
• 37:30
  theory maker,
• 37:31
  uh,
• 37:31
  extraordinaire.
• 37:33
  It's great stuff.
• 37:34
  Uh,
• 37:34
  Jason,
• 37:34
  thanks for coming on,
• 37:35
  man.
• 37:35
  It was a CAO.
• 37:45
  Just wanna have a quick sip here from my
• 37:47
  mug.
• 37:48
  The mug happens to say,
• 37:49
  Andrew Cuomo
• 37:51
  is awful.
• 37:53
  Dot com.
• 37:54
  I don't actually have any liquid in it.
• 37:56
  Um,
• 37:56
  Andrew Cuomo is awful.
• 37:58
  He's terrible.
• 37:58
  He's a horrible human being,
• 37:59
  which
• 38:00
  of course means he will rise throughout the Democratic Party ranks
• 38:04
  and get promoted.
• 38:05
  That is,
• 38:05
  and it's weird because he used to be governor.
• 38:07
  You might say,
• 38:08
  is,
• 38:08
  is mayor promoting,
• 38:10
  uh,
• 38:11
  is that a promotion?
• 38:12
  It's New York City.
• 38:13
  I mean,
• 38:14
  honestly,
• 38:14
  you know,
• 38:15
  no,
• 38:15
  no knock on Albany,
• 38:16
  but like Albany is like not necessarily in the center of,
• 38:19
  uh,
• 38:20
  everyone's thought outside of New York.
• 38:21
  New York City kind of is,
• 38:23
  and running that city is a very high profile position and by the way.
• 38:27
  Barring something crazy,
• 38:28
  Andrew Cuomo is going to be mayor of New York City.
• 38:30
  Here's the latest poll that kind of gives you that point.
• 38:33
  Um,
• 38:33
  Andrew Cuomo at 41%
• 38:35
  in the Democratic primary,
• 38:36
  which of course is really the only contest,
• 38:38
  uh,
• 38:38
  in that,
• 38:39
  in that particular city.
• 38:40
  Uh,
• 38:40
  there's 18% support of some assemblymen that I don't even know,
• 38:44
  8%,
• 38:44
  some comptroller that I know even less about,
• 38:47
  and then 6%,
• 38:48
  uh,
• 38:49
  Mayor Eric Adams.
• 38:50
  The current mayor is at 6%.
• 38:52
  He's losing 41 to 6% to Cuomo.
• 38:54
  Now the only possible,
• 38:56
  I shouldn't say the only possible way
• 38:58
  because there could be 25 new allegations against
• 39:00
  Andrew Cuomo before this thing,
• 39:01
  and he could shake apart
• 39:03
  from scandal.
• 39:03
  So that,
• 39:03
  that possibility exists.
• 39:05
  If that does not occur,
• 39:06
  the only way
• 39:06
  that Cuomo would even have a chance of losing
• 39:08
  would be something like
• 39:09
  Eric Adams dropping out of the Democratic Party,
• 39:12
  going independent,
• 39:13
  and then getting all the Republican votes,
• 39:15
  plus some Democrats.
• 39:17
  Maybe he could challenge Cuomo.
• 39:19
  Um,
• 39:20
  but that would be in an,
• 39:21
  in a,
• 39:21
  in a situation where it was a general,
• 39:24
  which I don't think he could win in New York City.
• 39:25
  So,
• 39:25
  I mean,
• 39:25
  I,
• 39:26
  I think Cuomo's like
• 39:27
  90% chance
• 39:29
  of winning that election right now.
• 39:30
  So,
• 39:31
  get used to it,
• 39:31
  get used to me talking about Andrew Cuomo is awful.com
• 39:34
  a lot and selling a lot of freaking mugs.
• 39:36
  I gotta put my kids through college,
• 39:37
  OK?
• 39:38
  I'm gonna do it on the back of these freaking mugs right here.
• 39:40
  Andrew Cuomo is awful.com.
• 39:42
  All right,
• 39:42
  let me give you,
• 39:43
  um,
• 39:43
  a couple of other crazy Democrats before we,
• 39:45
  uh,
• 39:45
  leave.
• 39:46
  Uh,
• 39:47
  Maxine Waters is at it again.
• 39:49
  She is completely insane and one of my favorite Democrats for it.
• 39:52
  Uh,
• 39:52
  here she is blabbing about Melania Trump.
• 39:55
  We
• 39:55
  don't care how much money
• 39:57
  you have,
• 39:58
  Elon.
• 39:59
  We don't give a damn about.
• 40:03
  And
• 40:03
  she's just crazy.
• 40:05
  We
• 40:06
  are going to defend the Constitution
• 40:09
  because we believe in democracy.
• 40:12
  Get your head out of the shot.
• 40:14
  So many people have sacrificed and fought and died for democracy,
• 40:20
  and Trump comes along with his ignorant,
• 40:23
  and he don't even know the Constitution.
• 40:26
  If he wants to start looking
• 40:28
  so closely
• 40:30
  to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented,
• 40:34
  maybe he ought to first look at Melania.
• 40:38
  Melania,
• 40:39
  I don't think that's going to be something that's going to happen.
• 40:41
  It's shocking how much they want to deport their enemies though.
• 40:43
  That's of course,
• 40:44
  uh,
• 40:44
  and they get mad at Donald Trump for having an enemies list.
• 40:47
  Uh,
• 40:47
  she's great,
• 40:48
  uh,
• 40:48
  she's priceless,
• 40:49
  as I said,
• 40:50
  and when I say priceless,
• 40:51
  I mean worth zero.
• 40:53
  so that's,
• 40:53
  that's kind of what I mean there.
• 40:54
  And then of course.
• 40:56
  I gotta say,
• 40:57
  uh,
• 40:57
  Maxine's kind of my old flame
• 40:59
  here.
• 40:59
  Uh,
• 41:00
  even crazier and even more new,
• 41:03
  new shiny thing for me
• 41:05
  is Jasmine Crockett.
• 41:06
  I freaking love her.
• 41:07
  She's my favorite Democrat in the world right now,
• 41:10
  and here she is blabbing about something else that got her in trouble.
• 41:14
  Um,
• 41:14
  because we're in these hot ass Texas streets,
• 41:17
  honey,
• 41:18
  um.
• 41:21
  Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.
• 41:23
  Come on now.
• 41:24
  Oh,
• 41:24
  that's funny.
• 41:25
  See,
• 41:26
  it's funny because he's in a wheelchair.
• 41:27
  hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess.
• 41:30
  Ah,
• 41:31
  I get it.
• 41:32
  Get the sass.
• 41:33
  Do you guys get the sass from Jasmine Crockett?
• 41:35
  What I love about this is every video before she's got to the public eye,
• 41:39
  she just sounds like,
• 41:40
  uh,
• 41:40
  uh,
• 41:40
  you know,
• 41:41
  an accounting student.
• 41:42
  Like she
• 41:43
  doesn't sound like this at all.
• 41:44
  I don't know what part of it's manufactured,
• 41:46
  but some part of it is.
• 41:47
  Uh,
• 41:47
  also,
• 41:48
  uh,
• 41:48
  you gotta love the,
• 41:49
  I mean,
• 41:49
  there's no other part to the joke,
• 41:51
  other than that man's in a wheelchair.
• 41:53
  That's the whole joke.
• 41:54
  And everyone in the crowd is cracking up at it.
• 41:57
  A hilarity ensues when you make fun of people in wheelchairs,
• 42:00
  apparently.
• 42:01
  So thank you for,
• 42:02
  thank you for existing,
• 42:03
  Jasmine Crockett.
• 42:04
  I mean,
• 42:05
  AOC,
• 42:05
  you're old news to me.
• 42:06
  You're,
• 42:06
  you're no longer my favorite Democrat.
• 42:09
  Jasmine's the new thing,
• 42:10
  and I'm here for it.
• 42:23
  OK,
• 42:24
  so here's what happened.
• 42:25
  I want to give you an update on,
• 42:26
  on our hot mug shot girl.
• 42:28
  Do you remember her from a couple of weeks ago?
• 42:29
  An arresting smile,
• 42:30
  Georgia sorority girl,
• 42:31
  Lily Stewart's hot mug shot charms the internet.
• 42:34
  She's innocent,
• 42:35
  uh,
• 42:36
  and you know,
• 42:36
  she had a,
• 42:37
  she basically she went,
• 42:38
  she she was speeding,
• 42:39
  and she got caught again for speeding right after that,
• 42:41
  got arrested,
• 42:42
  she went to.
• 42:43
  Uh,
• 42:43
  get the mug shot done and she looked very,
• 42:45
  very nice.
• 42:45
  Look at that beautiful mug shot.
• 42:46
  The problem is
• 42:47
  apparently we now have another mug shot.
• 42:49
  You don't want to have two mug shots this close together.
• 42:52
  College student who recently went viral for her smiling mug shot,
• 42:54
  arrested again
• 42:55
  only weeks later.
• 42:56
  This time
• 42:57
  it was,
• 42:58
  uh,
• 42:58
  arrested on obstruction of law enforcement.
• 43:01
  And loitering and prowling,
• 43:02
  this is what her new mug shot looks like,
• 43:04
  and again,
• 43:05
  she looks very,
• 43:05
  very pretty.
• 43:06
  I will say,
• 43:07
  I'm a little concerned,
• 43:08
  there's a maybe a little bit of a case of crazy eyes setting in,
• 43:13
  and I,
• 43:13
  you know,
• 43:13
  maybe if you get arrested twice in a row,
• 43:15
  that just naturally happens.
• 43:16
  I will say,
• 43:17
  we,
• 43:17
  we,
• 43:17
  we do the research here on this program,
• 43:19
  OK?
• 43:19
  We work hard for you,
• 43:20
  and that's why we use artificial intelligence to project
• 43:23
  what her next mug shot will look to,
• 43:25
  look like if she continues with the crazy eyes,
• 43:27
  and wow,
• 43:28
  uh,
• 43:28
  that's.
• 43:30
  It's a little bit like AOC there,
• 43:31
  uh,
• 43:32
  just a little bit.
• 43:32
  The crazy eyes are coming.