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So, Stu, what is your

favorite part of the show today?

Favorite part of the show.

I learned something new about you, and I don't do that.

Every show is not like that.

You know, sometimes I feel like I've heard all your stories, and then you start telling a story about spring cleaning, which I, you know, I've heard bits and pieces of over the years, your odd childhood.

Yeah, my mom took every stick of furniture out of the house.

It was a little interesting, but you know, I heard parts of that.

Sign of mental illness.

And then you get to one more detail.

And it explains so much.

You'll find out about

that and so much more,

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So, I want to give you

a couple of stories here.

European farmers are reshaping the political landscape across the Atlantic just months before the EU's parliamentary elections.

Now, they have their elections June 6th and June 9th.

We have ours in November.

There are more democratically elected politicians this year than any other year in human history.

And so everybody's playing games.

And that

goes for the European Union.

They're voting on new leadership in their parliamentary elections on June 6th and June 9th.

Two dozen EU countries are going to elect seven politicians to represent them

as

democratic democratically elected politicians I'm sorry not seven 720

they are going to be confronting things like floundering economies potential war with Russia my gosh global war big

and major demonstrations are happening all over the world agricultural workers who are a little disillusioned with the EU

they are

mounting their tractors yet again.

In 2023, Dutch farmer protests generated global headlines.

More than 10,000 people fought aggressive emissions regulations.

The new rules threaten to shut down up to 3,000 farms.

The Dutch demonstration has also been followed by the same kind of farmer uprisings in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, and others.

In February, the European Commission Commission tried to do some damage control.

They scrapped a bill aiming at having pesticides used and reining in agricultural emissions.

They only did that.

It was only a temporary pullback.

And I'm hoping the farmers overseas understand that it was only temporary and aren't, you know, they don't.

They don't back down.

I want to read a couple of things to you that they have said.

Here's one protester, farmer protester

from the bbc we are fed up that they won't let us do what we want in our fields they force us to plant what they want us to plant they force us to use the herbicide that they want and apart from that we're being underpaid protests have participated or persisted in recent weeks with demonstrators dumping manure in the streets spraying it at police The New York Times said in a recent interview with the largest farmers union in France, it's the end of the world versus the end of the month.

There's no point in talking about farm practices that help save the environment if farmers cannot make a living.

Ecology without economy makes no sense.

Does that sound like something you agree with?

This is just an illustration of the confrontation between the arrogant elites and the people, the urban globalists and farmers.

Does that sound like something you hear in America?

Now let me go to another story.

Protests over carbon price hikes stopped traffic up in Canada.

Anger over the increase to the federal carbon price led to protests across the country Monday, including several that stalled traffic on the Trans-Canadia Highway.

Man, even the highway in Canada has gone trans.

Ottawa's planned $15 per ton increase in the federal consumer carbon price came into effect on Monday, bringing a liter of gasoline up 3.3 cents per liter on average.

We need to, one of the protesters said, we need to unify our country around an optimistic vision and axe the tax, build homes, and fix the budget and stop crime.

Does that sound like something you might be saying in America?

I think we have a lot of frustrated, disillusioned, disheartened, disenfranchised Canadians.

A majority of Canadians, they feel like they have no voice anymore.

Does that sound like America?

Gas is coming up, everything's coming up, and we just can't afford it.

I know people who are losing their homes.

Could you hear that voice in America?

See, this is what's happening all over the world.

I want us all to succeed.

It's not good what's going on.

Our industries are being destroyed.

Our communities are being destroyed.

And it's hurting our families.

Another person from the Canadian protest that happened on Monday.

See,

here is the real story of what's happening.

This is not about Biden and Trump.

It's about the elites

against

the regular people all over the Western world.

That's why they hate Donald Trump so much, because he's not part of that club.

He doesn't want to be part of that club.

That's why America First

has to be destroyed and dismantled and cannot be allowed to come back into office.

Anybody who has that America first idea,

because that's in direct opposition to what is planned for America.

And by the way, the SEC is going to regulate the future of farmer now, farmers, here in America.

Now, let me ask you, what does the Securities and Exchange Commission do, Stu?

What is their main job at the SEC?

I mean, they're overseeing securities, right?

They're making sure, sure, right?

Right.

You're shaking your head, no.

No, no, no, that's right.

Securities.

You'd think.

So they oversee the banking and

securities market.

And yep, and they make it very difficult for anyone who has cryptocurrency to survive.

But that's their main goal, but they have a secondary one about securities.

So what do they have to do with farming?

I don't know.

I don't know what they have to do with farming.

So the SEC has just published a 900-page rule.

Not a law.

Laws are passed by Congress.

A 900-page rule that requires now extensive disclosures on carbon dioxide emissions and other theoretical climate risks.

I'm trying again the SEC.

This includes admissions directly generated by a company known as scope one.

Have you ever been scoped?

No.

You're about to be.

Emissions directly generated by a company known as scope one, and then indirect emissions produced because of purchasing energy known as scope two.

Now as bad as that sounds, there is a scope three that they've pulled back for now.

And that is emissions not directly attributed to a company but are part of your value chain

okay so how much energy am i using

scope one uh what is my carbon footprint on my product everybody who's buying my product and using my product and then scope two that's scope two and then Scope three

is

what is everybody in my value chain, anybody who makes a single part, does anything, buys anything from me, what is their carbon footprint?

And you have to figure that out, according to the SEC, in a 900-page rule.

You have to figure that out every year and report back.

I assume the reason there's not a scope three is electric cars look terrible under the measure of scope three when you look down the entire process of making the car.

No.

No.

No?

I figured that's why they eliminated it.

No, they eliminated it because there was some pushback.

And so they're like, well, they're like the EU.

Oh,

well, no, no, no, we're not going to do that.

They're just pulling it back for now.

For now.

However,

I don't know.

I think maybe some of the pushback may have come from the electric car companies.

Maybe, maybe.

So this is a massive expansion of regulatory power.

And what are they doing?

Well, they're pressuring companies to get on board with ESG.

Okay?

You got to do this.

Now, the SEC

is supposed to regulate financial markets.

Hmm.

Now,

the Congressional Western Caucus, which is 100 representatives dedicated to preserving the rural and Western way of life, They are opposing this climate disclosure

rule because it's going to trickle down to the rural communities and the farmers and just shut everything down.

You can't

do this.

You will shut all businesses down.

Who's got the money to be able to figure out

what their business is costing in a carbon footprint?

And of course, you're just going to probably what pay a company that says they can do it, right?

It's going to prop up a whole new industry of people who are going to be able to come in and they're going to be counted as new green jobs created by the White House.

And they'll come in and they'll say, ah,

eight, whatever, you know what they're calling it with some measure,

and we'll act like we've made a greener planet when in reality we've just redistributed wealth to people who agree with the president.

Correct.

Correct.

So

those people who are protesting in the streets of Europe, those people who are protesting in the streets of Canada, are already seeing these kinds of things in their own government.

This is not the Democrats.

This is global elites that are doing this.

And we better wake up to that.

The Democrats have been completely captured by the global elites.

They're captured by Marxists on one side, but the Marxists are the useful idiots.

They don't understand who they're in bed with.

They're in bed with the giant corporations and everybody else that is going to impoverish the average person.

How do they do that?

Well,

it's easy.

They impoverish the average person by doing things like in California, a $20

minimum wage

for fast food.

Do you know how much fast food is going for now in California?

Let me just play one piece and then we'll come back to it.

Here we have Californians telling the truth about fast food and the $20 minimum wage.

Cut one.

But many franchise owners like Jessica Diambra, who runs 11 McDonald's around LA, say the law puts an unfair strain on their businesses businesses already operating on slim margins.

Do you feel targeted that it's specifically for fast food?

Yes, and I think people just don't realize that.

They see this big McDonald brand and just think, oh, they've got all the money in the world.

And it's just, that's not at all how it is.

McDonald's, Chipotle, and Starbucks already saying they plan to raise prices to offset the rising labor costs.

Pizza Hut preemptively laid off 1,200 delivery drivers like Michael O'Heda.

I was very frustrated.

A lot of us got our jobs taken from us.

He was let go after eight years.

What's the point of the raise if you don't have a job anymore?

Amen.

Amen.

Hopefully this translates to the average American.

Hopefully the average American sees what's going on.

The SEC regulating companies out of business.

The SEC.

Regulating your small town out of business.

The regulations on farmers going to stop farms from being able to produce food restaurants going out of business people losing their jobs because of a federally mandated crazy idea

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There's a story out today, two stories I want to talk to you about.

One is 90% of all illegal immigrants in a secret program designed by Joe Biden's administration has flown to Florida and Texas.

90% of the illegal immigrants are being flown to Texas or Florida.

Does that sound like targeting to anyone?

Also, there is the Texas

Sheriffs Association, which wrote a letter and met with Greg Abbott,

I think, a couple of weeks ago,

and it wasn't really discussed by any members of the press, and I think it should be.

In it, the letter said, we request that our dangerous, chaotic Texas border emergency be officially declared a United States constitutional crisis and crimes against humanity.

We further request the United States government, without delay, assist

in securing the border.

One of the guys who is a main voice on this and has been a main voice in Texas for quite some time, he worked with the state legislature on the Texas original concealed handgun license law in the 1980s, and he was instrumental in the recent open carry law that was passed in 2012.

He's my sheriff, who when I asked, what happens if the federal government just decides to start taking guns from people in our county, he told me, well, I I just have to deputize all of the adults in the county, and all my sheriff deputies need guns.

I love this guy.

It is

Sheriff Bill Wayborne from Tarrant County.

Hello, Sheriff.

How are you?

I'm great, Glenn, and it is so good to be with you, sir.

Thank you.

So tell me about this letter and this meeting.

Was this all of the Texas sheriffs in every county or most of them?

It was a large majority.

It wasn't every one of them.

We did it in a short time period.

We waited until after the primary because we wanted this to be an apolitical law enforcement statement.

And we were gathered there with both Democratic and Republican sheriffs to say that we're standing behind what Governor Abbott's done and demanding that the federal government step in and do their job.

And that was the essence of it.

And I think we had 50 or 60 sheriffs that showed up at the Capitol and stood with the governor.

So is the governor doing everything that he can?

Because Because the federal government's not going to do anything.

He has done everything that he can

absent starting to use force or deadly force.

And that's

the whole issue is that I think he's tried to do everything he could.

I have racked my brain, and if I could think of something else that he could do, I'd certainly pass it on to his staff.

But

I think that they bust out, you know, busting out to sanctuary cities got their attention.

I think it's finally gotten the attention of the United States as a whole, as I'm seeing in the polls these days, that it's become the number one issue, and

people really need to pay attention to it.

I have to tell you,

you know, New York has been complaining that we're sending to sanctuary cities.

I don't know how many bus loads we've did,

and the same with Chicago.

And we find out now that the Biden administration, which has a program of secretly flying illegal immigrants from Colombia and El Salvador and all over South America, giving them tickets to fly into America and then giving them basically a work pass.

And to find out that 90% of all of those illegals are coming into a Texas airport or a Florida airport

seems like targeting.

That is absolutely what it does seem like and absolutely outrageous that they're doing that.

So can you give me any idea or give the rest of America any idea what this is causing here in Texas, how much Texas crime is

changing, how our cities are changing, what our budgets are like?

Well, I can tell you that here in Fort Worth, and in just a couple of weeks, I've been invited to testify before Congress on the impact of Tarrant County.

And, you know,

some of the things that I'm going to share with them is that we're spending our jail right now.

I have about 200 illegal aliens charged with state jail or

felony offenses in the state of Texas, and including a quarter of them for sexual assault of children.

And that's costing us about $20,000 a day.

just to keep those guys.

They should have never been here.

So that's one impact.

And then, you know, I'm just seeing a hot list from last month is that we were well over 500 opioid overdoses in Tarrant County just last month.

And, you know, when we see that range of people and the number of fentanyl deaths that we're seeing,

the drugs are being used as weapons against us.

We know that.

The cartel is very clever.

They don't care that they kill us.

And they're doing those type of things that are impacting us.

And, you know, some of these people that have ended up up dead are not drug addicts.

They are one pill and dead.

You know, that silly college kid that wanted to stay up and do his homework and somebody gave him an Adderall pill, and 10 minutes later, he's dead.

So I think it's had a tragic impact, and nobody's looking at that as

weaponizing these drugs against us.

Not to mention that the cartel is here.

Yeah, I was going to say, are the cartels now crossing the border?

Are they here now?

They are here now.

They are in every major hub city in the United States from Dallas, Fort Worth.

They're here.

We have arrested some.

Some of them are in our jail.

And

we're going to continue to try to catch them.

Obviously, it's a priority with us to take them down.

But they're here.

And

they have decision-making cartel people.

in Fort Worth, Texas, and in Dallas, Texas.

Can I ask you a question?

Somebody told me that the crime statistics that you always hear that people say

there is no more crime.

Crime is not going up from illegals.

The numbers are just not there to show it.

Somebody told me that it is because when we put these things through the courts, it is easier to charge them with being an illegal and sending them back.

So they're not necessarily charged and go through the court system

of what they did.

You know, like, you know, whatever it is, whatever law they broke.

Is that true?

Not in Tarrant County.

That is not true.

We are charging them with the offense that they have committed.

We've got murders in jail, like I said, sexual assaults in jail.

We've got felony DWIs in jail.

So we've got a whole host of people that are being prosecuted and sent to the state penitentiary.

And

after they serve their time, we will deport them at that point.

But we're going to make sure that we get the conviction.

and

get them in custody.

Because right now, you know, if you're released from custody and you're turned over to ICE on minor offenses, the Biden administration is going to let them go.

So tell me the role of, because there's a lot of people going out to vote for their sheriff.

What should we be asking sheriffs to know if they're

on the Constitution side or on the

rule of law, FBI side?

Well, I think that that's the direct question of where you're standing as far as the Constitution and are you making sure that your oath is being upheld?

And are you going to be the peacekeeper of the county and the chief law enforcement officer of the county?

And are you going to cooperate with ICE?

Are you going to cooperate with other officials as you deal with illegal aliens coming through your jail?

I think those are important questions.

And

when it comes to

edicts and

special rules now that are going to entrap and ensnare a lot of people.

Are the laws of

enforcement the same on actual congressional laws as they are on

like the SEC now with climate regulations that they've come up with?

And they say, you've got to file this, this, and this, or you're going to go to jail.

That hasn't been passed by Congress.

Do you still have to enforce that as if it is a law?

We always run that by legal advisors, but on most of the cases, on those regulations, we use our discretion and say, no, we're not going to enforce that.

Thank you, but no.

And can you stop the federal government from coming in and enforcing in your county?

Sometimes that's a little bit trickier.

A lot of people believe that, but the federal government does have jurisdiction.

They can come in and do things.

But as they talk to us,

and

we're real fortunate here in the Greater Tarrant County area,

the federal agents on the ground here are good, conservative people who believe in the Constitution and they believe in the Second Amendment.

They believe that the right of due process.

So even though we hear some shouts from Washington from time to time,

there's not a lot of movement of the needle in this area.

So I've heard that from other sheriffs, and it concerns me because

it is coming from Washington but why aren't they standing up and saying something there's these whistleblowers whose lives are being destroyed by the FBI and why aren't more standing up

I think that we will see more stand up as it goes and it's just like everybody else they're seeing what happens to the people that have been whistleblowers in the past and that they are devastated by a lot of things and and they they're they're fearful to to come forward because it'll just ruin their lives

Sheriff, thank you so much.

God bless you.

Thanks for everything you guys are doing.

Everything, I appreciate everything you're doing.

God bless, and we'll see you later.

All right.

That's Sheriff Bill Wayborne.

He's actually my sheriff from Tarran County.

The guy has 10 children.

He makes me feel like an absolute slug.

He has 10 children.

Eight of them are adopted because he knows the problem with fatherless children.

He's just a really, really great guy.

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So if you missed any part of the podcast today, you've missed a lot.

We started with people from all over the world witnessing now in real time the assault from their own government.

It's not just left and right here in America.

That is not the argument.

It's really up and down.

The elites on top and the people down at the bottom, we're feeling like,

hey, none of this stuff is working out for us.

The basic needs to sustain human life, food production is being changed, water is being fought over, energy is getting flipped completely upside down.

The threat of World War III has never been closer.

And the Western governments appear to want all of this.

And they're all happening all over the world at the same time.

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What are you shaking your head at?

You're just looking at that.

Do you think I'm listening to you about preparation after your bathtub soup story we just learned about?

I haven't made bathtub soup.

How do we know that?

You seem to be defending it.

Well, I mean, kind of yes and kind of no.

My mom used to make bathtub soup.

How

far into the special tonight do you say start putting vegetables inside of bathroom areas?

When does that?

When does that?

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

First of all, we would go pick all the beans and the corn and everything else, and then we'd have to shuck them and get and snap all the beans and the peas and everything else as kids.

It was a nightmare.

Summer was a nightmare for us.

Other kids, oh, I'm so glad school's up.

Please, please, can we do math?

So we'd shuck all of it and prepare it.

And then my mom would make soup and she would mix all of the vegetables in the bathtub.

But she had cleaned the bathtub.

You are leaving out the part of the story where she was mentally ill on cleanliness, okay?

Before we started the bathtub soup, she'd do spring cleaning.

And every stick of furniture would be out on the front yard.

She'd clean the house top to to bottom.

And we would have to stand there, you know, looking over the furniture and just saying, no, really, our family's not insane.

And then she would hide the really insane parts inside the house where she was making bathtub soup.

Yeah, I was going to, because my wife is also arguably mentally ill when it comes to cleaning, as she would admit.

Yes.

She's never going to make bathtub soup.

Well, no, I'm not saying it's a good idea.

Look,

I cannot be the only person who had a mother who made lots of soup in the bathtub.

You think you're going to get...

No.

There's only two things I can think about here when you bring up bathtub stuff like this.

One,

in an emergency, a hurricane is coming.

Yes.

You put water in the bathtub in case you need water because the water is...

This place seems icky to me.

Okay?

But it's okay.

That bathtub.

Well, my mom was a clean freak.

She scrubbed that tub.

Like, I don't know if there was enamel left on the tub after she finished cleaning.

There is no level of clean that justifies soup in the bathtub there's a drain

think about the gross things that go in that oh my she would clog the you know she would cover the what hair

no we never had to bring a plumber from hair it was always like I think there's a bunch of beans

might be corn don't know

did you ever um

you ever cook in a crock pot yeah all right and you put a crock pot they have the liners like a plastic liner you put in the crock pot.

So then you don't have to clean the crock pot every time.

Well, that's a waste.

Did she do that with the tub?

Was there like some sort of plastic?

She put in the garbage cans when she graduated to the garbage cans because it was too much soup just to make in the tub.

She would make it in the tub and then two garbage cans.

But why wouldn't she just go all garbage cans then?

You have a plastic liner.

Because it was deeper.

It was harder to get down and mix the bottom.

That's why.

I'm pretty sure i don't know stew she was nuts she was nuts this you have to be the only person in america that this is happening to

there cannot be out of 350 million people my mama cannot be the only one that made soup in the tub she should be the only one who made soup she should

but yeah i mean you know as i got older and realized this was made in the tub i did start to question it was very good soup though it was very good have i ever i've eaten over your house several times has any of the food been made in the bathtub?

In the bathtub?

No.

Let's move on.

This is.

I cut myself off.

One,

there's an emergency going on

and you put water in there just in case you don't have water for a while.

Use that as an emergency.

Number two, the only other thing I can think of when it comes to this is Seinfeld when Kramer made food in the shower.

Kramer.

Right.

Yeah, that's Kramer.

Kramer's sane.

His entire character was an insane person.

He made food in the shower, and then when everyone ate it, they threw up.

That's how that story ends.

He was not only

insane.

He was also, I don't think his hygiene was the greatest.

I don't think it was either.

No, I'm just saying.

Which is why you don't go into.

I'm just saying.

So let me ask you.

So, because tonight I'm going into the, you know, going into, because we all might be making soup in our bathtubs at some point.

We might.

We might.

No, I think I'd rather just die.

I think you just get.

You think so?

Yeah, I think you just call it a day.

I mean, at that point, you're like, well, why?

Well, I mean,

I mean, first of all, let's look at where she's not, it's not like a still.

She's not like making the soup, you know, and there's a fire under the bathtub.

She's, she's just mixing the vegetables.

Why would this be better?

Why?

Because there's no heat to kill the bacteria.

It's much better.

No, no, no, no.

But then you can it, and so then the heat boils all of that out and then you cook it again.

Yeah, the heat of the canner.

So you would can

keep the taste, but kills the bathroom bacteria.

Yeah, that smells a little like feet, but that you shouldn't.

Well, all vegetable soup

smells a little like feet.

It does, Mr.

Vegetarian.

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I'm more concerned about a solar flare.

I mean, I'm mainly only concerned about that because I have to be paranoid about everything because you.

Like, I don't even know if I would know what an EMP was if it wasn't for you.

Really?

Yes.

Maybe from some, you know, some futuristic apocalyptic sci-fi movie.

Right.

But other than that, no.

I don't think that's what people think about on a daily basis, other than you.

Well, I don't think about it on a daily basis.

That's because you're prepared.

It's because I'm prepared.

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Kansas that I'm going to tell you about tonight that makes EMP shields.

And it's EMP solar shields.

So if you have a solar flare, if there's a lightning strike, et cetera, it stops, shuts down everything so it doesn't travel through the lines and just fry everything.

And now the problem is I asked the guys who were installing it.

I said,

So is it, I mean, is this going to work?

And they kind of just looked at me and went, yeah.

I mean,

I don't know.

It's never really been,

you know, we've never had an EMP.

So I'm like, well, wait,

it's not like I can call, if an EMP goes off and none of this crap works, it's not like I can call them and demand my money back.

Right.

You know what I mean?

Society's over.

And maybe it's just me because I was thinking, that's a great scam.

That's a great business idea.

Yeah.

Now, that's not what they're doing.

They do it for the military and everything else.

But that's a great idea.

It's a great idea.

You can't test it.

Yeah, it's just an empty box.

We We don't know.

And you know what?

If all society crumbles, we'll refund your meaningless currency.

Right.

Right.

Exactly right.

You can even put that.

That can even be the language of your disclaimer.

So does that put me in the bathroom, you know,

the bathtub soup category?

Because I put these everywhere.

I got them in my car.

I'm in the house.

I'm in the sober shields.

Yeah.

I'm everywhere.

Everywhere.

Electric blanket.

I mean, no, I don't think it puts you in bathtub soup territory.

Yeah.

You're closing in on it.

But that one, I mean, I think is a real concern.

I mean, we've talked to experts who have wargamed this, and it is utter catastrophe.

Though I will say, I don't know that you want to be

alive in a world where one of these goes off, even if you survive it.

Like, I don't think that life is...

I mean, that is like...

Don't you remember what they said to us?

Remember the...

The dirty bomb and nuclear expert told us, this was right after 9-11.

We had them on, and we were living in New York.

We're like, that doesn't, I mean, we're living like, you know,

in New York City, I think, is a big target.

And the guy said, you'll be surprised how many of you survive.

And we were like, okay, good.

That's great to hear.

Yeah, no, we did the nuclear bomb blast radius.

And, you know, even if you're in like lower Manhattan, if it hits Harlem, you're going to be okay, probably.

I mean, okay, is probably not the right word.

You're going to live for a while.

You're probably going to live for a while.

Yeah.

But like,

your scenario of an EMP is much more devastating than something like that.

90% of the American population or population of any country, 90%, 70 to 90, is projected to die within the first year.

And I would be like first in line for that, I think at that point, because I would have no preparation and I would be terrible in that scenario.

Well, you'd live for a couple of days.

You'd have great soy sauce and

duck sauce.

Duck sauce.

You'd have both of those.

You'll never get bored.

We now, because my kids love Chick-fil-A so much, we have seemingly an endless supply of Polynesian sauces.

Really?

So I think actually you might be okay for a little bit longer than before.

If you happen to live next door to somebody who has meat or any other kind of food,

you might go over and say, look, I'll trade you some meat for some sauce.

Okay, that could be the type of trade.

But I just feel like society is ugly enough at that point that the fact that you still have your electric blanket blanket working won't necessarily be that much of a comfort.

Like

the scenario you're talking about, they make AMC series out of, right?

Right.

Well, that's the problem.

You do need a tank

because if your electric blanket is working, everybody's going to come to your house.

Right.

And I just want to say, my electric blanket won't work.

I'm lying to you right now about being prepared.

And if you do try to come on my property,

good luck to you.

And you're saying that to the audience, not to me individually, who is obviously welcome in a situation like this.

No, I'm actually, the audience is a little more welcome than you are, quite honestly.

Quite honestly.

Yeah, actually,

I don't think I want to come because I don't know if the soup was made in the bathtub or not.

At the end of the day, I don't know.

At the point where you are showing up at my house,

you will beg me for bathtub soup.

I may have soup that's not made in the the bathtub, and I may say, all I got is bathtub soup, Stew.

Beg me for it.

Beg me.

Yeah, no,

I think I would believe you.

That's the problem.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

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