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So
my weekend
ended with some news from Oklahoma.
that
an Oklahoma highway has reopened now following its closure for a few hours when a bridge over the Arkansas River was struck by a barge.
And I immediately thought, where in the world is Pete Buttajud?
And
I, you know, I thought about our conversation last week with Stu, who said,
you know, he's not saying that Pete Buttajudge did it.
Oh, no.
No.
That would be insane.
That would be insane.
Yes.
To suggest that.
It's just something that we should obviously rule out as quickly as possible.
right or people might start thinking that it's true and and if it's not true it should be easy to rule out i i will say ever since we talked about this people are sending me a lot of messages on social media every time that there's a some sort of transportation related catastrophe and asking the question hey like where was pete buttigech when this was going on so do you think now i'm gonna just i'm just i'm just throwing this out because i agree with you nobody's gonna ask him hey were were you in Oklahoma?
Right.
You know what I mean?
Nobody's going to ask him.
Yeah.
So, what do you think?
Could we just get an ankle bracelet on him?
Yeah, just to keep trying.
Why not?
They're spying on Americans every day.
And I'm not going to spy on him.
He'd know.
He'd know.
That's fine.
And we're just trying to rule it out that you are that.
See,
here's the problem.
He should be in Oklahoma, but maybe today,
not last weekend.
Is what I mean?
Yeah, it's he's he doesn't seem to show up after,
right?
So, if he's not there after, maybe he's there before, and that's what you're trying to rule out.
Traditionally, this is what a government official would do, right?
Like, if there was a tragedy related to their particular job, they might show up to see the damage, to try to oversee some of the recovery, right?
It does
some believe that he's maybe reversing that.
I would like to see
before it happens.
I would like to suggest to the White House that they have the Pete Buddha Judge Day of Visibility.
Oh, yeah.
So we could just know where we see him.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
There he is.
There he is.
Okay, good.
Know where he is.
Because it is,
you don't necessarily want Calamity Pete to be your
transportation secretary.
Calamity Pete.
Yes, I think
I'm concerned that we do have Calamity Pete, and it's kind of the opposite of Calamity Jane, who helped with fixing the calamities, preventing them.
He seems to be potentially, potentially causing them.
Now, we don't know for sure.
I think that's not the problem.
It would be over the top to believe that he...
But I mean, again, this is a great example of what we talked about last week.
We said, hey, just check his garage for scuba equipment
after the whole Baltimore thing happened.
You know, you wouldn't have thought that in the president's garage there would be be a box of papers.
Right next to the Corvette.
You wouldn't think that that would happen.
So if we would have just listened to what we talked about, if they would have just listened to it and checked to see if there was scuba equipment, we would be able to rule out that he had the scuba equipment with him when this latest bridge was hit in Arkansas
by another boat.
Like, was he, you know, like, was he there with the scuba equipment again?
We could say, well, obviously not.
We checked his garage.
We checked throughout his house.
He doesn't have any scuba equipment so no it wasn't him now here is the
here's the not insane part he should be showing up to a lot of these things you know what i mean yeah i mean in theory now i would argue that would be bad because he when he does show up to things they seem to get worse which is kind of my suspicion as to why maybe he's involved in some of them directly maybe he's there and he was just checking checking to make sure, but he's so inept, he causes the problem.
It could be that could be that.
It could be that.
I'm just curious.
Like, let's just check the travel locks.
Like, when does he book the hotels for these cities?
Sure.
Is it a month in advance?
That would be weird, right?
If we just found out that he was on his Travelocity account, like, you know, 14 days out and be like, hey, how did you know you needed to go?
That would be crazy.
But that would be crazy.
That would be crazy.
It would be easy to track and easy to disprove, but also crazy.
He has been asked the all-important question:
will you run for president?
Well, we all know the Transportation Secretary to President pipeline has been very wide for a long time in American politics.
Yes, yes, yes.
And especially somebody who's doing such a bang-up job.
And what I mean, when I say bang-up, I do mean bang-up.
It is the best possible description of the job he's doing.
It is.
So he said, no, it's a demanding job.
And now that he's seen it firsthand, he just doesn't want to do that.
So.
So he's now, he's claiming he's not interested.
He's not interested.
Because I did think at the beginning when they gave him this gig, it was like, this idiot's going to take this job.
And once he gets it, there's no way he's going to become president because it's a joke.
Like, it's like our
jokey job that we give to this guy who, you know, we criticized him during the campaign because all he had ever done was fix potholes.
And then we're going to give him the transportation secretary job.
Like, it's like an inside joke against Pete Buttigieg.
But now he's actually been so horrible at the job.
Maybe he will become president because that seems to be how you do it on the Democratic side of the aisle.
Well, he's getting serious now about
Boeing.
Oh, really?
Yes, he is.
Here he is yesterday on Face the Nation
talking about the safety of Boeing.
FAA has been putting Boeing under a microscope ever since this incident happened in January.
Under a microscope.
And frankly, there were a lot of concerns about what the FAA administrator saw in the course of those visits and the audit.
He gave Boeing about 90 days to come up with a comprehensive plan to show that they're on the path to deliver the right kind of quality and safety.
We're about 30 days into that.
There are regular check-ins, and FAA is not going to allow Boeing to increase their production until they demonstrate that they can do it safely.
Okay.
Yesterday, I had a good friend come up to me and he said to me, Glenn, I can't take the news on Boeing anymore.
And I said, Ron, why is that?
And he said, well, you know, I was a pilot.
And I said, that's right for American Airlines for years.
He said, yes.
So I kind of know something
about the airline industry.
And he said,
aren't all planes that come from Boeing, don't they receive a final check?
Yes.
Don't they also
receive a final check from the government?
When the plane comes in and before it flies, do they not certify that, yeah, that plane's.
Yeah, now whose job would that be?
By the way,
when you buy a plane and the screws screws are loose, you'd think somebody that was signing off would be held responsible for, I didn't see the screws, right?
Once a plane comes down,
they have to check the plane.
And if you saw some loose screws, then that would probably be, you know, the maintenance guy that was like,
where's the maintenance guy that was supposed to check the screws?
He said, also, we have a minimum
requirement sheet.
Like if the, if, if the engine falls off,
well, we have another one.
So we can still fly it to land it.
Okay.
He said, if like a door of a panel falls off, he said, we can still fly the plane.
We can still fly the plane.
He said, we have a little checklist.
Like, if this goes wrong, that's trouble.
If a panel falls off,
a panel falls off.
We just adjust a little bit.
We're fine.
I mean, if you're on the ground, you might not be shrugging your shoulders as much, but yes, generally speaking, it can
keep going.
And he said, you know, panels from time to time will fall off.
He said, but what I'm thinking is
there's a problem with maintenance,
which would be a problem with the unions
because nobody has personal pride of ownership anymore.
And he said, so is it maintenance?
Is it the
press that is looking at all these things and don't understand that there's also an
inspector
that signs off on the plane.
That's an interesting because I believe that brings us back to Pete Buddha Judge.
What a surprise.
What a surprise.
What a surprise.
So is the theory basically that Boeing's getting unfair blame on this?
Yes.
Okay.
I mean, it could be that they're, I mean, he's not saying they're innocent,
but he is saying that they're getting
way more than their share of blame for this.
It's easy to point your fingers at them.
Yeah, you got a panel, you have to screw the panel back on.
You're inside and doing something in maintenance with a panel.
You've got to screw the panel back on.
Right.
They didn't come with all the screws loose.
Right.
Right.
That does make it.
That would be weird.
You know, you check for screws.
Yeah.
You know,
when you're on the ground doing maintenance, you kind of give it a once over, and then the inspector looks for those kinds of things.
Now, obviously, part of this is because they had.
the issues with you know the one plane that they brought into uh everyone was using was it the seven seven air Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That be on the on the heels of that, right?
What he said.
He said those.
He said that doesn't make sense to him.
And I didn't, he started talking, you know, airplane physics, and I don't think there's any physics that actually make a plane fly.
It's too heavy.
Could you even keep your eyes open
during that time?
No, I can't.
I just didn't understand it.
Okay.
So he said, Boeing, he said, for more fuel efficiency, he said they're more powerful engines and they lifted them so they didn't suck a bunch of stuff from the ground.
Okay.
So they lifted them higher.
He said, and when you go into a steeper incline, he said that causes, I don't know what he called it, but a wobble that hits your tail.
Okay.
And he said, we've trained for that for 50 years.
He said, there's no, there is no excuse for an American pilot to have any problems with that.
You adjust.
Right.
Like these were foreign incidents.
Correct.
Right.
He says, so that's not, that's a training problem.
That's not a Boeing problem.
That's a training problem.
That's interesting.
Well, I mean, it's not surprising that an institution would be taken down by the media,
you know, maybe with a little bit of undeserved some, at least.
Maybe, I don't know.
I don't know.
I'd love to talk to you.
If you're a pilot, I'd love to hear from you.
Does that make sense to you?
Because I haven't heard anybody, I mean, I've been trashing Boeing because it breaks my heart.
I grew up in the Seattle area.
My family worked for Boeing.
They were always proud of everything they did at Boeing.
And what happened to them?
What happened?
I also kind of want to know, why is it only happening generally with United Airlines?
I mean, that to me says not the plane, but the maintenance.
I'd love to hear from from you.
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Sorry.
The FAA has been putting Boeing under a microscope ever since this incident happened in January.
And frankly, there were a lot of concerns about what the FAA administrator saw in the course of those visits and the audit.
He gave Boeing about 90 days to come up with a comprehensive plan to show that they're on the path to deliver the right kind of quality and safety.
We're about 30 days into that.
There are regular check-ins, and FAA is not going to allow Boeing to increase their production until they demonstrate that they can do it safely.
Well, that's a good ⁇ I mean, that's a good policy.
That's a good policy.
But is that really the fix?
I don't know.
I don't know.
If you're a pilot.
You know, I mean, professional pilot.
I mean, not that you're...
I'm an unprofessional pilot.
I mean,
if you're currently a drunk pilot, please call us and let us know what flight you're about to get on.
If you're not a gaming pilot or just a really risky pilot, don't pick up the phone.
This is one of those things where I feel that we're vulnerable, and this happens to the American people a lot.
But, like, I
feel like we sound like Glenn Beck discussing the middle relief situation for the Pittsburgh Pirates this year.
Like, I have no idea.
I have no clue.
Right?
Like, I can't decipher these things.
And you try to get coverage from the media.
Right.
It's terrible.
It's the same thing that they try to do during COVID, right?
Like, they give you all these recommendations.
You're sitting there in a tough situation thinking to yourself, well, what does this mean?
I've never been through a pandemic before.
What am I supposed to do?
And it's like, well, they're like, well, you got to do this and this.
You got to wear masks over your eyes and your ears and
14 of them over your mouth.
And you're like, oh, really?
Because we have no trust in these institutions anymore.
I honestly don't really know where the problem is.
Because we don't have trust in these institutions anymore, the next one could be Ebola.
Right.
And you'd be like, I'm not doing it.
Right.
What's coming out of my eyes?
Yeah, like I think there's a real danger
into a lot.
And I hear it from people all the time that are essentially just turned anti-medicine since all of this, which is not the right response to it, but is also somewhat understandable considering what we all just went through.
And you look at something like this and like
none of it makes any sense.
The only thing that would tie it all together is that Pete Buttigieg is at each individual tragedy doing it himself.
And that can't be the answer.
So what is the answer?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
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Barry Weiss is going to be with us in just a second.
I was a little disappointed because I heard at first that we had Barry White on.
Oh, no.
Which, yeah, that would be difficult these days.
Yeah.
And I thought, wow, that'll be that'll be a big news story.
Right.
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The founder and editor of the free press and host of the podcast, Honestly,
before she was doing that, she was working for the New York Times as an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times.
Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at the Wall Street Journal and senior editor at Tablet Magazine.
There was a little dust up,
and she decided to leave the New York Times.
And she is probably the first major, wouldn't you say, first major journalist to
walk and say, no, I can't.
I've had enough.
I've had enough.
I've had enough.
It was a big turning point, I believe, in America.
And she joins us now.
Her name is Barry Weiss.
Welcome, Barry.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you guys so much for having me on.
You bet.
Now, we know you're used to being on really smart shows.
Yes.
And
this is not one of them.
So this is...
We're wondering if we should talk to you about this.
I'll dump myself way down.
Okay, good.
Perfect.
Good.
All right, good.
And you're at our level then.
First of all, you are coming into town here in Dallas
April 11th, and you're doing a series of debates.
Because, you know, we should try that again.
You know, have people that are intellectuals on both sides actually debate things and then walk away without killing each other.
Yeah, this is Should the United States Shut Its Borders, the America Debates Series presented by the Free Press and Fire.
Ann Coulter and Sorab Ormari versus Nick Gillespie and Jenk Uyghur.
This is going to be great.
Majestic Theater, Dallas, Texas, April 11th at 7 p.m.
You guys are doing my job for me.
Well, you're welcome.
That's the only thing we can do.
That's what we do here at this intellectual program.
The only thing I can say is
anyone who's listening, we'd love to see you there.
And you can get tickets at vfp.com, like the free press, vfp.com/slash debate.
There's also an after-party where you can hang out with me.
I promise to be fun and not too New York intellectual and all of the and
the four people that the gents just mentioned.
But yeah, this is the first in a series of debates that we're hosting across 2024.
The premise being that, you know, Trump and Biden might not debate, probably won't, but we still believe in the virtue of civil debate.
We still believe in an America where we solve our problems and get to the truth, not with our fists, but with our words.
So, we're doing a series of debates on issues that really matter to Americans, starting with immigration and then
tech capitalism and foreign policy.
So, we're really, really excited to come to Texas.
So, Barry,
do you really
you really think we don't fight with our fists?
I mean, it seems as though, unfortunately, and as I'd like to remind everyone in the audience, I don't want to live like Haitians do.
Haiti, not a good scenario.
You don't want to live under barbecue's ring?
No, no.
Well, that too.
I was just thinking, I like law and order, you know?
I like barbecue too, but not in particular.
Yeah.
I am really concerned about what's coming this fall.
Me too.
Me too.
I mean, I wish I had something.
There's not a smart, clever quip I have to say to that.
I'm really, really concerned about the direction that this country is headed.
You know, I live in
one of the blue cities I imagine you guys talk about in this program where
the most basic expectations that you have as a taxpaying, law-abiding citizen are not fulfilled.
And I'm someone that has, forgive the word guys, but the privilege of being able to
move my family, if God forbid we needed to, where I could, you know, pay in my neighborhood, it's sort of South African, like people pay like a private security service because the cops simply don't show up if you call them.
And, you know, that is an unsustainable situation.
And, you know, it's it's quite shocking to me, you know, that
the Democrats
who
say what you want about Trump, et cetera.
But for those people who tend to vote Democrat, they're just looking for a party that allows them to say what you see with your own eyes is true.
Things are not safe in the way that they ought to be, and we're going to make them better.
I mean, it's such a simple proposition.
And the fact that that's not what's on offer is really baffling to many of us.
So, yeah,
I i find that interesting they do they don't seem to react to uh
actual conditions and people yeah politics i mean it's it's it's a little disturbing because it's kind of like what do you know that i don't know or are you that blind and i don't i don't know maybe blind or arrogant is the answer
yeah i mean i think that there is just as as you both know such a an increasingly tiny bubble that a lot of the people in the political class and also in many of our sense-making institutions inhabit.
And that's a world in which you can go to a dinner party.
This is a real-life example that my wife experienced.
And the majority of people think it's quite normal to suggest that they shouldn't have kids because of global warming.
Now, that is just like
in a different
universe than what most Americans are thinking about, which is the price of their milk, the price of a roast chicken at the grocery store, the price of their gas, how much it costs to buy a home, and very, very basic things like, are we becoming more like Haiti or less?
And a lot of Americans
are running toward the right because of those basic issues.
So
let me bring you back to the border here for a second.
I cannot figure out the end game here.
Because
you have every
Pentagon, you have the Department of Homeland Security,
you have everybody saying all the lights are flashing red.
We're at high alert.
Well, if, God forbid, something happens, everyone will know that it most likely happened because we have an open border.
How do Democrats survive
that?
I mean, they're not.
At least if you're looking at the polling and you believe that the polling is accurate, an overwhelming number of Americans are listing immigration and specifically illegal immigration as the single most important issue in this election.
That's pretty mind-blowing considering that there's a lot of other issues that really matter.
And this is one that's a choice where it doesn't need to matter.
So, you know, it's from just a purely strategic perspective, politically, it's very, very baffling to me.
And I have to say, especially, i'll put myself on the hook here you know i am someone who is just very pro-immigration as a general rule you know like every american i'm a descendant of immigrants but in my case um more recently maybe than a lot of other people um given the jewish expulsion out of europe under hitler but you know after october 7th and watching you know what is possible what can come you know what violence and barbarism can come over over what israelis believed was an incredibly secure border.
I am just looking at the issue in a very different way now, and I'm taking it personally a lot more seriously.
And,
you know, I can speak not on behalf of the Jewish community, but definitely on part of a lot of people I know that they're feeling similarly.
I think that most people thought, you know, most people coming over the border, and perhaps this is still true, are seeking a better life.
They're like my grandparents.
Could be true.
It's just we don't know.
And the idea that, you know, we just don't know
is bad enough can i ask you
being um
you know an immigrant or immigrant family from uh yeah i to be clear i'm not an immigrant it should no no no i know you're your family um yeah um i was born and raised in pittsburgh yeah yeah no i know that i'm sorry did it mean it i told you you weren't on a smart deal
um
but you know you probably you know, you I know you grew up hearing the stories, but probably never thought it would happen here.
And now to have, to see what you're seeing on the streets, what does that feel like?
Really, really disorienting and alienating.
You know, I grew up in such a proudly Jewish and proudly American family.
I grew up in a family in which, you know, when things were said to me, I remember waiting for the school bus with my second sister and a Catholic school bus drove by and they called us kikes and dirty Jews.
I'd never heard those words before.
And the attitude on the part of my family was, that's so embarrassing for them.
They don't know that this is America.
We don't do that here.
And that was just the ethos that I grew up under.
In other words, the ethos that, you know, the founders of this country were steeped in the Hebrew Bible, that, you know, towns and cities across this country are called Shiloh and Canaan and, you know, and
all of the city and town names of
the land of Israel.
And, you know, Europe wasn't like that.
This was a country not based in ethnic nationalism and blood and soil.
We know how that ends up, but based in a set of ideas.
You know, Benjamin Franklin wanted the image on this country's great seal to be Moses crossing the Red Sea.
Abraham Lincoln called Americans the almost chosen people because he read his Bible.
And not for nothing, his name was Abraham.
You know, he was named for the very first Jew of all.
And so that was,
I didn't even think of it as a worldview because that's how certain it was for me and certain it was for, you know, at least the American, sort of the golden moment that I grew up in.
And, you know, beginning about five years ago with the neo-Nazi massacre in the synagogue where I became a bat mitzvah, tree of life,
that all started to shift.
And, you know,
on the one hand, it's...
The big picture, I think, is a story of ideas.
And the truth is, is that, you know, America is based on them.
And when we are loyal to those ideas, when we fight to renew those ideas, when we pass those ideas on to our children, this is an unbelievable place to live, not just for the Jewish community, but for every single minority and striver that has ever called America home.
And when we abandon those ideas and when we give in to
a set of ideas that
pit us against each other, that suggest that America is not the last best hope on earth, but
based on
an ideology of white supremacy,
not really worth fighting for, no better, Glenn, than a country like Haiti, that's when things start getting dark.
And that's what we're starting to see here.
You know, I don't know if you saw there was a
viral image of one of these groups.
It feels silly to me to even say they're pro-Palestinian.
No, they're anti-Israel, they're anti-Jewish, and they're anti-American.
They got up on stage at an Easter mass screaming their hats off.
What does that have to do with the war in Gaza?
Like, what does any of this actually have to do with a tragic war that's happening 10,000 miles away in a place that most of these people can't locate on a map?
They claim to be fighting for the lives of innocent Gazans who are tragically dying in this war, but it's really about something much, much darker.
I mean, you have the entire Middle East playing that game.
They all say they care about Gaza.
Then open your borders.
The reason why they won't open their borders is they know that it is not about that.
And every time they do open their borders, there's some sort of revolution that starts.
I mean,
if they truly cared, but they don't, they care about the destruction of Israel, not the people of Gaza.
It might be.
Yeah, and I, yeah.
And I just, you know, I think one of the things that's alarming for, it's not just Jews, it's just anyone, anyone who reads history understands that societies where anti-semitism is allowed to thrive are societies and regimes and cultures that are dead a hundred percent of the time like when anti-semitism is allowed to flourish it means your society that's the five alarm fire and it's coming you know it's coming from the left and it's coming from the right too and they are presenting themselves in really different ways but at the same time and it's obviously something that i'm i'm thinking about and trying to fight with every fiber of my being.
Barrier, it is great to have you on.
We're both big fans.
We listen to you,
we admire what you have done,
and hope to have you on again.
Thank you.
Thank you guys so much.
I hope I dumbed it down enough.
Appreciate it.
All right.
Have a wonderful day, and I'll see you guys in Texas.
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Or is it the airline and the mechanics?
Because aren't they the ones that, when it lands are like hey that door looks like some screws are coming loose maybe i i mean i'm gonna talk to pilots 888 727 beck we go there in just a second first
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We're going to talk about politics here in just a minute.
We also want to talk a little bit about the LGBTQ events.
that are seemingly clogging the calendar just a little bit.
But But first, I want to take some calls from last hour.
We were mentioning that I had a pilot friend come to me yesterday and go, Glenn, this is not Boeing's fault.
And his name was Ron Boeing, but no.
He said,
it's not Boeing's fault.
He said, I think it's the mechanics' fault.
And he explained why.
But I wanted to hear from other airline pilots.
This guy was a pilot for, I don't even know, you know, 30 years, 40 years
at
American Airlines, and he knew what he was talking about.
I couldn't translate what he was talking about, but I wanted to know if there were any pilots that agreed whose fault is it?
Is it Boeing?
Is it the FAA and Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation?
Is it the airline?
Is it the mechanics?
Michael in Kansas, you're a pilot.
That's correct.
I am.
Okay.
Whose fault is it?
I'm a retired captain with United.
Okay.
You know,
it's an issue.
I think your American friend
was on target, and I think your analysis is pretty good, too, as far as
I think it's just sloppiness.
I've got some friends that are retired
Boeing, actually, and they said, you know, sometimes when they would see things wrong, they would raise a flag, say, hey, I saw this or that, whatever, and they were kind of ignored.
And we had this whistleblower here a while back, you know, that
was found dead in his car for whatever reason.
You know, so but there's things, there are just some things like that that
there's an awful lot going on.
I mean, a lot of airplanes out there.
There's a lot of, you know,
things wearing out, what have you like that, whether they're new or not.
They're putting a lot of hours on these things.
And they do need some good scrutiny.
And I think it just falls through the cracks.
But I don't think it's Boeing.
You know, and whether it's
a lack of leadership at the top of the federal the federal end to
put the focus in the correct place or exactly what's going on there.
But
obviously, we've got a problem.
He was telling me about the
777 MAX, and he said that problem is caused when you are coming up at a sharp angle.
He said it'll cause some sort of a wind turbulence on the tail.
And he said, in America, we train for that.
Right.
Right?
Yeah, exactly.
And i think and like you said the the accidents that have happened uh especially like with the um uh 737 max i think that was 100 training
how come we haven't heard that or
or lack thereof um
i don't know third world country you don't want to make them look bad i don't know wow instead we'll we'll blame everything on boeing and make it look like like it's like Boeing has gone bad.
I mean,
everything I've seen from the news has made Boeing look bad.
And it wasn't until I started noticing, no,
it's a lot of United planes that are having a problem.
And that made me think, well, maybe it's the culture at United or it's the mechanics on the ground.
Well, you know, whether it's actually, you know, it probably is somewhat of the culture, whether it's the DEI type culture, I couldn't honestly say.
But
there's certainly
a culture that leads you away from, you perfection.
All right.
Thank you so much, Michael.
I appreciate it.
In Florida, we go to Robert.
Hi, Robert.
You are a former airline captain or pilot?
No, no, no, Glenn.
Good morning.
And no, I'm a former mechanic out of the Air Force.
I know this stuff a little bit, and it's a mechanic's fault.
It's also the government.
And then the airline, if you really think about it, that's where you take it that one step further.
The FAA issues a license to the mechanic.
If the mechanic does something wrong, it's supposed to be on him as far as getting that license taken away.
And if they're not doing that, they're just letting it slide.
That's a problem.
Like, I won't get on an airplane right now.
Yeah,
it's an interesting, it's an interesting time to fly where you kind of like.
Great.
We're pretty sure we'll get you there.
Yeah.
Where we were.
You mean on time?
No, we're just pretty sure we'll get you there.
I feel great that I have several flights scheduled next week, and mechanics are calling me up and saying, hey, don't get on flights.
Thanks a lot, Robert.
Don in Tennessee.
Hello, Don.
Hey, Glenn.
Yeah, I agree with your previous caller.
I'm a retired Air Force mechanic.
And
he's correct.
So these guys get airframe and power plant licenses from the FAA.
through a lot of experience, you know, to get those tickets to learn how to work on airplanes and I agree with him I think it's complacency and I also think it's the airlines
probably trying to get those airplanes back up in the air as soon as possible you know because they got you know routes that they got to fly and these guys are probably under pressure to fix those airplanes as fast as possible and quality is slipping through the cracks so Don why is Boeing getting the blame
well Boeing
because
they're their manufacturer.
They're the ones who actually created the airplane.
But as your previous caller said,
once Boeing delivers the airplane to United, Delta, American, whoever, it's on the airline at that point.
I don't know why Boeing is, I mean,
they're the one that's easy to pick on.
They're the person who built the airplane.
But all those big maintenance hangers at Dallas, Fort Worth for American, and Delta and Atlanta,
those are all Delta employees and they're the ones who are fixing those airplanes.
I think when it goes back to the manufacturers
when you have
problems that reoccur.
You know, you have trends.
If you see the same thing happening over and over and over again, then you go back and say, okay, we need to do a trend analysis.
But these are isolated stuff.
The wheels falling off, a door coming loose, stupid things like that.
That's sloppy maintenance, I think, on the mechanic side, and that's an airline issue, which is what your friend told you.
Thank you so much, Don.
John in Pennsylvania.
Hello, John.
Hi, Glenn.
Hi.
Are you a pilot, a mechanic?
What are you?
I'm sorry, a retired pilot.
I retired five
years at a regional airline level, and then I spent my last three and a half years at American Airlines.
I'm agreeing with all the other pilots that have spoken, and it basically gets down to the floor of the maintenance hangar as to the workers that are doing the work.
And these guys are certified, the mechanics are certified, and it goes through a certification process once the work is done, sign-offs on the maintenance issues and everything else.
To say that it's an airline's fault,
it is true about trying to get the airplanes back
can be rushed on that.
Right.
To blame Boeing, but to blame Boeing, I can't blame Boeing.
And the MCAT system, which is what people are talking about with the incidents with the Lionair,
737 MAX, you know,
that was a system that domestic airlines, United States, none of our airlines ever had any issues with that system
and or fatalities associated with it.
John, thank you so much.
It is crazy.
That's exactly what my friend said.
You know, you thought, how could Boeing design an airline, an airplane, and have it that far out of whack that when you started to lift
it would fail on you
and my friend said yesterday that that that's because they're not trained he said in America we train that is something he said we've been training for 50 years on that
and he said it's not hard to correct you just have to know
so why is Boeing getting that rap?
Remember, they went through the software and everything else.
No,
it was the pilots weren't trained.
That's nuts.
That's not.
I mean, is somebody trying to kill Boeing?
I mean, and every piece of the administration is echoing this.
We played the Buddha Judge clip earlier, but like, it's all focused on Boeing and how bad Boeing is.
Right.
I haven't heard anything about the mechanics.
I've heard people bring up United, and I think United is responsible for mechanics.
Right, sure.
You know, you don't hear any of that.
It is weird,
especially because of how vitally important Boeing is to our economy.
Like, this is not just some little fly-by-night operation that you just
get taken down and they are losing ground against their competitors, which there are only a couple.
Let's go to line 11 and Jeff in Michigan.
Hello, Jeff.
Hello, how are you doing?
Very good.
How are you?
All right.
I think it's a multi-blame.
Boeing on the design, MCAS is, that was a Boeing design.
I'm an aerospace engineer, in addition to being a retired airline pilot.
You go and look at that, the way they designed it, they shortcut stuff to save money.
But once it gets to the airline, and you have the things like falling off airplanes, then it becomes
a maintenance issue.
And that's where
the blame lies but the bottom line is it's all about money MCAS was designed so they could save money in getting away with introducing a new airplane as a derivative rather than having to get it completely certified with the new engines that were set on it because they'd have to raise the airplane up so they'd have to put on new gear maybe a new wing so they shortcut that and then in production you know with the holes and they that they they filled up with the door plugs, that sort of thing, that's a production issue.
Again, saving money, they outsource it, and so it's not done as well as it should be.
But once you get to the airlines, there's a very thin line between profit and loss with that.
So they shortcut things to try and get stuff done as well.
Is the FAA or
I don't know, is the FAA under the Secretary Secretary of Transportation?
I would assume it is.
Is the FAA responsible for certifying any of this stuff?
Oh, yeah.
FAA is done.
But I worked for
ALPA Safety for a long time.
The airline, well, I call it the Airline Pirates Association now for another reason.
They have a schizophrenic mission.
They have to promote flying at the same time that they're enforcing rules.
And so they
kind of get pulled in two different directions when they're doing this.
And if you don't have the proper administrator over it, making sure that they're doing both jobs, then you run the problems.
All right, Jeff, thank you so much.
Doesn't that sound like we would maybe not have the right person
in the federal position of like, hey, you got to get the planes up, but you also got to make sure that they're safe.
You know, for some reason, I don't have a lot of confidence in the leadership of this administration.
No, no,
I know.
It's just probably, it's just probably me.
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Wait, I've done all this research and it shows that this is really not a good plan.
And now you want me to fly there?
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I'm just going to take a couple more calls.
Let's take line one, Haas in Texas.
Of course, he's in Texas.
Hello, Haas.
Yeah, that was my call sign.
Yeah.
It's an honor to speak to you and Stu.
Thank you.
I think you're missing the one obvious common denominator, and that's the union.
Any work has to be, not once it's done, it has to be signed off by a supervisor.
All those logs are
there.
They've covered it all up.
And to give you a specific instance, I was sitting alert in Holland.
and got launched off and one of the checks I did, it wasn't even a required check, is checking my fuel.
I only had a half load.
So he had to cancel.
That makes the wing look bad.
They have to file that report.
They fired the entire crew because they didn't put the amount of fuel on, and it's easy to check.
But it just goes back to, I think, this whole situation where
I don't care if it's Boeing, I don't care if it's United.
Once any work's done before it can go back, any airframe can go back into service.
You have to have supervisor.
And in the Air Force, there was actually three different levels depending on how critical the system was.
Haas, thank you very much.
Wait, Haas, do you think that Peep Butti Judge was there?
I would suspect I would look in the wheel well.
Yes, he's so small.
He could totally fit in there.
Yes.
Steve.
Steve in Genesee.
Hello, Steve.
Steve?
Yeah,
I was saying that it's pretty
admirable that
the mechanics were trying to take the blame.
They are a final inspection point to make sure that everything's done correctly.
But quite honestly, I think everything starts at the top.
You know, Pete Budiges, as soon as he took office, he wanted to make sure that they changed what used to be called notices to airmen to notices to air missions.
And then he changed what was called the Airmen's Information Manual to the Aviation Information Manual.
Who cares if it's airmen or aviation?
And those things are referred to as AIM and NOTEM,
but no, you can't see NOTEM anymore.
You have to say
notices to air missions.
Who cares?
So these guys, you're going to be inspecting, what are they going to be inspecting?
Are they going to be inspecting pronouns?
Are they going to be inspecting whether or not they tighten the bolt tight enough?
You know, so what's going to be the metric they're going to decide that they can start making more airplanes?
You know, I'm just tired of seeing where these people who are at the top just refuse to take responsibility and pass it on to the lower people.
You know, and like I say, it's admirable that the mechanics are trying to take that responsibility and they do have that responsibility, but it started when they wanted to say, Are we hiring the right color?
Are we hiring the right, the right
pronoun or what?
And that's got to stop.
Thank you so much, Steve.
Appreciate it.
In at 8727BECK, talking about pronouns, we've, well, we have a,
well, it wasn't exactly an Easter celebration yesterday.
The bunny was not visible, unless he was a trans bunny.
Trans bunnies were visible yesterday.
I've got a few things to say about this.
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Joe Joe Biden released a proclamation on Friday, and I want to make sure that everybody understands that
the Transgender Day of Visibility has been, you know, a thing since like 2009.
This year it fell on Easter, but I think that's why more people paid attention to it.
You know, I don't really care any given Sunday, you want to have whatever.
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our nation's commitment to forming a more perfect union where all people created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
I'm proud to say my administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that the LGBTQI,
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I, you know,
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his administration is working to stop the bullying and harassment of transgender children.
Who now?
Who now?
Transgender children.
Children.
Children.
No, no, that's Glenn.
That is a right-wing conspiracy theory.
They're not trying to do that to our kids.
That's not something that even exists.
It's just a made-up fever dream of the right.
That's in the proclamation.
The Department of Justice takes action to push back against extreme and un-American state laws targeting transgender youth and their families.
And the Department of Justice is partnering with law enforcement and community groups to combat hate and violence.
You know what he's talking about?
Is families that say, no,
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That's his idea of justice.
Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans.
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My entire administration and I have your back.
Okay,
now
the problem is that it was on Easter,
and it's not like this whole transgender thing
falling on Easter this year
was a surprise to Jesus.
You know what I mean?
He wasn't surprised by it.
I think we were maybe surprised by it.
We're like, what?
Jesus was like, yeah, dummy.
Didn't see this coming.
I mean, seen this coming.
Read about it in my book.
But so he wasn't surprised.
And honestly,
the people who are destroying
universal truths
of gender,
they're not an enemy of ours.
They're not.
They are an enemy of God's laws.
And it's for him to work out
because he's not surprised by any of this.
He's not.
I was.
It was weird because
it must have been brought up to me over the weekend, just in my family, like four different times.
Dad, did you hear what Joe Biden did?
Yes, I did.
Let's celebrate Easter.
I mean, I feel sorry for people who are trapped in their bodies.
You know, they feel trapped in their bodies.
That is a horrible, horrible way to go through life.
Even Caitlin Jenner
condemned the pronouncement.
She said, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, created March 2009, continued to be celebrated,
blah, blah, blah.
I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most holy of holy days, a self-proclaimed,
devout Catholic, as Transgender Day of Visibility.
The only thing you should be declaring on this day is he is risen.
That's Caitlin Jenner.
Yeah, and so
I know you've included some of this context earlier in the show.
I guess they apparently started Transgender of Visibility Day back in like the late 2000s.
Yeah, an Easter change.
It's on this day.
It's on March 31st every year.
So occasionally, which has happened, I think, once before since this thing started, it falls on the same day as Easter.
So it wasn't Biden saying, declaring this day, I want, you know, he's.
No, I know, but didn't he do this on like Thanksgiving?
Wasn't there a Transgender Day of Visibility?
150 of them.
There are 28 related halls.
28.
International Asexuality Day.
Ooh, that's it.
International Day of Pink, Day of Silence, Harvey Milk Day, Pansexual and Pan-Romantic Awareness Day,
International Drag Day.
Wait, Pan-Romantic Day?
What is
pansexual and pan-romantic?
Wait, who's a pan- You're pan-romantic?
You're romantic with any gender but not sexually attracted like you're just going out to you're just
like candlelight dinners with can i can i buy you a drink tonight yeah nothing sexual nothing nothing sexual at all we're just gonna have a nice romantic dinner i like that
there's also
entire months devoted to LGBT causes, including Pride Month in June, LGBT History Month in October, Transgender Awareness Month in November.
You get a Transgender Awareness Month and a Visibility Day?
I mean, George Washington can't even have his own birthday.
They're combining them for our founders and going the opposite way.
This is crazy.
You know what?
Let me tell you something.
If you're LGBTQIA Plus
and Jewish,
You never have to work a day in your life.
Every day is a holiday.
You combine Jewish holidays with all of the LGBTQ holidays.
I never see you at work.
Never.
It's true.
There'd be no days to work.
There would be nothing left.
There'd be nothing.
There'd be nothing left.
There would be nothing left.
I think you have like three days, maybe, in February.
But that's it.
It's incredible.
And the funny thing is, they at one point asked the quote-unquote founder of Trans Visibility Day why
they, I'll put they because I just don't know which way it went.
What do you mean by that?
Yeah.
They.
Why they put it in this time period?
It was because they needed to avoid all the other trans days.
That was like the reason why it wasn't a target of Easter in theory.
At least that's what their claim was.
It was.
I believe that.
It was just like, there's too many other days.
If we make it a month later, it's too close to Trans Awareness Month or whatever else is on the schedule.
I mean, just dissecting the calendar.
I mean, you could put the rainbow on the White House,
but could you have made them a little more pastelish so you could also have those an Easter rainbow?
Yeah.
My favorite part was they, the people who were pushing back against this, because, you know, I will say some on the right initially,
who the hell would know the history of Trans Visibility Day?
So initially they were like, oh, she's a hater.
People on the right were assuming with, I think, good suspicion here, rational suspicion, that Joe Biden just created this day and put it on Easter, which I would not put it past them at all to do that.
So when people are going by that, some people were pushing back and saying, actually, this isn't Joe Biden doing this.
And of course, Joe Biden loves Easter.
As you know, he's a devout Catholic.
And look, by the way,
at the White House site, the Easter bunny's right on the site.
They put the Easter bunny right on the site.
Not the Easter bunny.
Yeah.
And if they didn't like Easter, they wouldn't put the Easter bunny on the site.
Guys, that's not the Easter we're talking about.
That's not the one we're concerned about.
It's not the Easter Bunny kind of Easter we're complaining about here.
Right.
We know they're.
He probably only cares about the Easter Bunny Easter because of all the good union jobs at Hershey.
Pork and the fine folks at Cadbury, I need them to vote for me.
Like, we all remember they do the egg roll, right?
We all remember Joe Biden does the Easter egg hunt thing at the White House because remember, the Easter buddy had to pull him away from reporters who were asking him questions last time.
And no, no, no, that was two times.
Two times ago.
Last time it was the transgender and gay people lifting up their top ride going topless.
We got a great Easter tradition happening at the White House.
How could you possibly think he wouldn't honor Easter after all of that?
Why would you be suspicious?
You know, Cardinal Wilton Gregory came out.
He was on Face the Nation, and they were like, so he says he's a Catholic.
And the Colonel's like, yeah, no.
No, Cafeteria Catholic, which isn't really a Catholic.
Cafeteria Catholic is like, I'm going to have some of that and maybe a little bit of, not that, not that, none of that.
And he picks and chooses.
I mean, I don't understand how these people can say they're Catholic when, you know, they're for abortion.
Do you know that it was the Catholics that have led the way on the pro-life thing from the beginning?
The other religions didn't seem to care all that much.
For years, it was just the Catholics.
You know, the,
I mean, the homosexual thing, I guess it was cool with priests for a while, but not for anybody else.
How, how,
how is that man a Catholic?
I think many Catholics would argue he's not.
And I've made that argument publicly.
But see, that doesn't work because I ask every day the same question: how is this man president?
And many would argue he's not, but still, he keeps staying in there.
So I guess,
I don't know, maybe we don't know how this works.
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So let's see what else happened over the weekend on Transgender Day of Visibility.
Let's see.
Trailer full of Bibles set on fire outside of a conservative Tennessee church Easter Sunday, about six o'clock.
Somebody blocked the intersection right there by the church, and
it was a trailer containing Bibles.
And then they set all the Bibles on fire,
which
is interesting.
Very interesting.
You know, they're not doing that with the Koran.
Just the Bible.
Just the Bible.
So you don't have to worry.
Now, in Arizona, apparently,
the mayor mayor of San Luis, Arizona told Manuel Castro, he's the pastor of the
of the church there, the Baptist church there, he apparently has been serving the poor and the indigent there for about 25 years.
The new mayor came in and
He said,
yeah, the delivery trucks and the food storage and everything else.
It's really,
you're really in violation of code.
And he's like, we've been doing this for almost 25 years.
What are you talking about?
Now, you're a violation of code.
So hit him with two citations.
He said
the police told him, if we have to come and give you a third citation, you're going to jail.
So now he's got to close his church.
He's been doing this for, again, 23 years, no complaints.
He says, suddenly the city became hostile.
What was it, Michelle Obama said?
I'm trying to remember.
And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices.
We are going to have to change our conversation.
We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.
We're going to have to move into a different place.
Fascinating to me as a person who plays that clip often and remembers it so succinctly and so clearly as a very important moment in our history, would bet me $4,000
that she's going to be the nominee.
I thought it was $3,000.
Was it three?
It was three.
It was three.
Are you trying to back out of thousands of dollars now?
No, no, no.
It was three.
We started with two and I upped him once.
No, well, we started with one and then you upped me twice to three.
And then you upped me again, I think, to four.
But whatever.
We can track this down in the transcripts.
No need to argue about it.
But you think that they're going to be like putting her up there as the nominee.
actually
i actually think i should pay you today
i'm not going to you can if you know but i'll let you out of it for free today we don't have to argue about the extra thousand you can pay me if there is no extra thousand we were just we just discussed it's been on national radio i heard it on national radio they said four thousand but no i just thought i i i don't know what their strategy is i i think their strategy is chaos i really do
and this you know executive order that they won't tell Congress what's in it.
You know, the executive order of all hands on deck.
Let's get everybody registered to vote.
Yeah, that's that's uh that's kind of disturbing.
Kind of disturbing coming from them.
You know, it sounds so great, register people to vote.
Coming from them, it's a bit disconcerted because it is something else going on.
But you, so you're actually off the bandwagon of Michelle Obama's then?
I am today.
I am today, you are.
Because I'll let you out of it right $29.50.
I'll let you out of it right now.
You say 50 bucks.
No.
Or maybe $1,000.
No.
So.
Wouldn't it be crazy if I got out of it and then she did?
By the way, some good news.
7,000 adults were baptized yesterday in France
of all places.
They are seeing off-the-charts numbers of people starting to go to church and say, you know, there's got to be some sort of a higher power and getting baptized in France.
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Well, I got some happy news, some really happy news.
On Wednesday,
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Love the Disney folk, the people who have taken Walt Disney and just took all of his dreams and just shred them, put them in the shredder.
Really, seriously, I'd hate to see them all lose their jobs.
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He's up on the Disney Challenge.
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Daniel Cameron, former attorney general of the great state of Kentucky, now the CEO of 1792 Exchange.
Daniel, how are you?
I'm doing well, Glenn.
How are you?
Thank you so much for having me on.
Oh, you bet.
You bet.
So talk to me about what's happening at Disney.
Well, look, as your listeners probably know,
Disney is in a big proxy fight now as it relates to who will ultimately sit on their board.
And this is all coming to a head because my theory of the case is that because Disney got into some of these political agendas a couple of years ago in Florida, they've taken their eye off the ball.
And so whether it's Bob Iger or their current iteration of their board, those folks have shown and demonstrated that they're more concerned about political agendas as opposed to producing a good product.
And so there's another group that is namely led by Nelson Peltz that wants to shift the strategy of that board.
A lot of this has to do with succession planning, if you will, and whether Disney is going to continue to have a focus on high-quality product and customer service, or are they going to focus on these partisan political agendas?
And at 1792 Exchange, I want your listeners to know that in the coming days, we're actually going to share information on board members in a way that people can understand why boards are making some of the decisions that they are making.
Again, that's 1792exchange.com.
That information will be forthcoming.
Again, it's to help listeners of this program know why are boards doing what they're doing?
Why did Disney engage against Ron DeSantis, Governor DeSantis, in Florida, on a very responsible bill to protect our children?
Why did Disney come out against that?
Who's driving those decisions?
That's what 1792 Exchange wants to explore.
That's what we want your listeners to understand.
And I know, again, your listeners are concerned about this because they're concerned about the very fabric and foundation of this country, who we are.
is a country.
What are our businesses engaging in?
Are they engaging in, again, creating those high-quality products?
Are Are they in the business of business,
as
our President Calvin Coolidge talked about?
Or are they about partisan political agendas?
So,
you know, when you look at the
direction of Disney, I can't believe it went on this long because I've never seen a brand flush down the toilet faster than Disney.
That was
an untouchable brand of trust.
And I think that trust is gone.
Can they save it?
Glenn, I think
your analysis is correct.
There has been certainly over the last few years
a shift in mindset by Disney to
not focus on making Disney the happiest place on the world and providing and producing good family content that
folks can gather around and just watch on a Friday night as a family or go to a park and just enjoy time at a park and
ride some rides and have a good time.
They have injected themselves into political debates and injected themselves in a way
that
in many ways sort of skews against traditional values.
and when people and when people go to a park
you know they want to have a good time they don't want to be they don't want to have an agenda pushed on them but unfortunately Disney has gotten into that world and because of it their shareholders have suffered I mean if you look over the last few years the S ⁇ P 500 just as a whole has been performing better than the share price of Disney.
And I have to believe it's because the credibility of their brand has been been harmed by the fact that they've engaged in these political, ideological fights that they frankly should just stay out of.
You know, Glenn, you know that Michael Jordan in the 90s said something to this effect.
He said, you know, Republicans buy shoes too.
What he was trying to say is that
as an entity, as a business, as an organization, We shouldn't be engaged in getting into the middle of policy debates that the legislatures, that the representatives of their states need to make decisions on, businesses shouldn't be in that.
And that's what 1792 Exchange is about.
We want to make sure that businesses get back to the business of business.
It now seems like a novel idea to say that, but most Americans, most citizens recognize that our companies need to be about, particularly our public facing entities, need to be about the return on investment to the shareholders, need to be about producing those high-quality products, and they've got to stay out of these political agendas, especially when those political agendas largely are being driven by the far left or the human rights campaign that is in many ways underwriting these extremist agendas that are hurting the fabric of our country.
I have to tell you, such a great job and service that 1792 Exchange does.
In case you've never been there, you should go.
They rate all of the companies.
I mean,
how many companies are up now?
Do you know?
We've got over, yeah, Glenn, we've got over 2,500 companies.
Thank you for saying that.
And our flagship
product is what we call the corporate bias rating.
And so, Glenn, as you've noted, it basically tells
your listener, if you go to 1792exchange.com, you can go on there, find our corporate bias rating, our CBR for short, and it will rate a company.
If the human rights campaign, for instance, tells you the more woke you are, the better, what we say as a counter is that no, the more woke you are, it's actually making, it's hurting your company, and it's hurting ultimately the consumer because what the consumer cares about, again, is that high-quality product.
They want a product.
that is good.
And so if you are in the product of making, or if you're in the business of making really good consumer products, that's what you need to focus on.
And unfortunately, we've seen a lot of companies that have been,
they've been taken over by an extremist element or a far-left element.
They've shifted their mindset and what they are focused on such that the product is suffering, that the return on investment to the shareholder is suffering.
And that cannot continue.
If we want to continue to be that shining city on a hill if we want to continue to provide opportunity and build the best equipment and and provide the best services and our businesses have to reorient themselves and get focused again on remaining neutral
and at the end of the day producing that high quality product that every consumer again your listeners your families care about do you think that people are that companies are starting to change and learn their lesson yet?
Glenn, I think so because again, whether you're talking about it,
if other publications are talking about,
other
commentators are talking about it, this stuff is getting into
the national conversation and dialogue.
And now people are starting to wake up to it and they realize that companies aren't focused on their primary business.
They're focused on political agendas that benefit the far left.
And as more people know about this, the more it's going to have an effect on pushing back against these companies and getting our companies back to neutral and back to what they should be about, which is, again,
working hard to produce good products.
So Daniel,
you were an attorney general, so you might be able to wing.
I'm sorry, this is a little unfair to just spring this on you, but do you know anything about
Allstate and was it Allstate or farmers?
I think it was Allstate that just pulled out of California
and said, you know, we're in,
I think they left maybe 60,000 customers there, canceled everything else and just said too expensive, not going to do it.
I'm really worried about the banks and the insurance companies because the insurance companies and the banks can make business impossible to do if if
they don't allow you to open bank accounts or they deperson you.
And the same thing with insurance companies.
If they decide to make guns a giant risk,
you're not going to be able to afford to have one.
You know, that's something in 1792 Exchange we think a lot about.
And going, you're very right to bring it up.
I mean, this whole idea of debanking, meaning that a bank, because you're in
what they might describe as an industry that they don't want to deal with whether it's it's guns or
you know other areas that pertain to our constitutional rights if if you are a Christian entity or Christian organization and they don't like that about you you know the threat of debanking is real and and we deal with with folks that have that concern
it it is a major consideration and again it's one of the reasons 1792 Exchange exists.
It's because we want consumers, we want Christian business owners, we want folks in the gun industry to understand
who are the best banks, the best insurance companies to do business with based on the idea that you won't be canceled because you're in the gun industry or because you're Christian or religiously affiliated.
So this is a big issue.
It touches on our constitutional rights.
And so we have to stand up.
As the Attorney General of Kentucky, I was often in the position of defending constitutional rights.
It's one of the reasons I love being at 1792 Exchange, because we continue to do that work and walk alongside allies to protect
the religious expression and freedom of expression of people that is enshrined within our First Amendment and protect the Second Amendment and our gun rights by making sure that we're holding accountable these insurance companies and banks so that they do not cancel
the folks that are protected by the First Amendment and our Second Amendment.
Daniel, thank you so much.
This is Daniel Cameron
on Disney, what's coming on Disney and also 1792 Exchange.
You can find all the information on Disney.
I would imagine it's in your spotlight bias reports.
Is Is that where it's going to come out, Daniel?
Yeah, look, yeah.
So, look, April 3rd is when the big shareholder meeting is for Disney.
We are going to be spotlighting some of the board folks that are involved in the board decisions at Disney, and you can find that information.
You will be able to find that information on our website.
Okay, 1792exchange.com.
Thank you so much, Daniel.
I appreciate it.
You know, I'm just looking at
some of these companies.
Wow.
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uh
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You could not go into ACE hardware during COVID.
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Yeah, I was kind of surprised at how thorough it was.
Honestly,
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Something like 63 pages
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And the search on them is thorough, too.
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What else do we have on our plate?
Oh, how much time do we have here, Sarah?
Two and a half.
I found something that,
you know,
we just don't
think long term anymore, ever.
We just seem to,
I don't know, do what's right for the day.
I found something in an old, old, old, old, old, old book that I want to share with you
in a minute that I think is, I don't know, it just struck me.
I read it and I thought,
where are these people?
Do they exist anymore?
And I think they do.
But I'm not sure they do in the big cities.
The people who are thinking the way Americans used to think.
It's from a poem, from a book, The Best Loved Poems of the American People.
What's amazing is, I'm reading it, it's an old book.
It was edited by the New York Times.
And you think of the New York Times now,
and then they're putting together, there's a whole chapter on
being an American that is unbelievable, unbelievable,
how times have changed and
how we have just lost our way in so many ways we'll give that to you here in just a second also
um we have a couple of other things we want to get to i i do want to talk to you a little bit about maybe we'll save the economy for tomorrow because i'd like to see if we can get um
uh our good friend on to talk about what's really happening in the economy because it's it's not good it's not good we're reaching the point of no return on federal debt.
We
don't even want to.
Your mood's not going to improve.
Just go la la la la la here for just a second.
But we are now at $1.5 trillion
just
in interest
now.
That's more than I think Social Security and the Defense Department combined.
We've been told
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So I was over at a friend's house.
They were putting the baby down.
And
so they left me upstairs in their living room for a while.
And the sanctity of life really has gone away in our country.
Just putting the baby down right when you're
friends are tired of it.
That's just
put down.
This one needs to be put down.
So
sad.
Yeah.
So I go to the library and
I just looking at their books and I pull one out and it's called the
just looking at their books?
Yeah.
Did you go through their medicine cabinet?
What medications are they taking?
Well, I mean,
not that I'm going to tell you, but no.
What's wrong with looking through their books?
I don't know.
It's there.
You're going through every, is that what you do when you're over somebody's house?
You just go through their stuff.
If I'm left alone in the living room, I get up and I kind of, you know, looking at their library.
Tax, for instance, to see if they have like an enormous amount of Hitler books like you do.
Well, this was, by the way, I didn't notice this.
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and I noticed, where are my Hitler biographies that I have?
Right.
And I noticed my wife turned them around.
She apparently did not want the giant word Hitler on the side of multiple books.
Maybe Maybe because when you go, when people come over to your house, they might look at what you're reading.
Right.
It says a lot about you.
It does.
Okay.
Anyway, so I found this, I found this poem and I just, where are these people?
This used to be, I think, the spirit of America.
An old man going a lone highway came at the evening, cold and gray, to a chasm vast, deep, and wide, through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim, that sullen stream had no fears for him.
But he turned when he reached the other side and built a bridge to span the tide.
Old man, said a fellow pilgrim near, you're wasting your strength in building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day.
You'll never again pass this way.
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide.
Why build you a bridge at the even tide?
The builder lifted his old grey head.
Good friend, in the path I have come, he said, there followeth after me a youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm has been naught to me.
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He too must cross in the twilight dim.
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him
how many of us
i mean i remember when i read that i thought of when i when i got on the air during covid and i said look there's a lot of us who are 50 or 60 that can keep this engine running
that will go out and you know do it for our kids or our grandkids Let's not shut the economy down.
Remember the New York Times?
How controversial that was.
Oh my gosh, they called me a monster.
Yeah.
You wanted to kill all all of your, I guess your own age group was the
criticism?
All the people that would volunteer to do it.
Because I said, what happened to the people like in Chernobyl?
Yeah.
The firemen that went in, they knew they were going to die, but they went in anyway because it was the right thing to do to save the country.
Also, their government lied to them quite a bit.
But I guess still, you're...
But I think firemen would do that here.
Yeah, no, I do.
I think so.
It's true.
Where do those, and that was like massively controversial at the time.
Now you can read stuff in the New York Times.
You're like, oh, by the way, everybody agrees
we should have closed schools during COVID.
All experts agree on that now.
Now all that stuff is out there in the media and being acknowledged as if they always said it was true.
But at the time, that was really controversial.
Very controversial.
Again, you were talking about people making choices about their own lives.
That's what they were doing.
I didn't say, let's just take all the old people and force them to go out and hang out out at a COVID party.
I was like, you know, I would do that.
I think there would have been millions of people if somebody would have said what I said and you could do it.
But the government wasn't allowing us to do it.
You shouldn't have given the opportunity you stayed home for multiple months.
But, you know, you would have been out there if you had to be.
Well, I mister I used the pandemic to stay home for multiple months and broadcast from my bedroom.
Darn right.
Darn right.
If you got it, flaunt it, baby.
Like, hey, Stu, you're dispensable.
You go in every day.
Did you go in every day?
Oh, yeah, every day.
We did the show here every single day.
At times, it was like
four people in the entire building.
We had a lot of shows.
There's 80,000.
This studio.
It was weird.
The studios here, we do a ton of different shows in this studio.
There's 80,000 square feet, four people.
When I came back, it was like a ghost town.
Because I came back, what, three or four months before everybody else did.
And it was a ghost town.
It was a ghost town.
And, you know, look, I mean, part of it, I think there were people, especially at the very beginning, who were really scared about what might happen to them.
And then it turned into, you know, what I like is my couch.
My couch is
a lot of people still feeling that way.
Yeah.
They're like all across the country.
You could come back at any time.
At any time.
Like,
sure, I don't want to go back to not being able to go to movie theaters and restaurants, but like the work part, that seems dangerous.
I'm concerned about.
I'm calling OSHA right now because I think there's a COVID someplace around my desk.
If it's not 19, it's 20 or 21.
It's around here somewhere.
Okay, so we've got a couple of
stories that we just haven't gotten to today, but multiple terrorist attack warnings this weekend.
I don't know if you heard about the Russia jamming the airplane frequency this weekend.
Yeah.
Only 1,600 flights.
That's it, though.
That's it.
That's it.
Politics and polls.
There's a great poll out.
It's becoming quite obvious that this will be a stolen election
if
this really
maybe it's close because there's stuff in ballot boxes, but there's no way this guy can win.
You look at the polls of what people are saying, not who they're saying they're going to vote for, but what they're saying about, there's no way this guy can win.
Well, but that's the thing.
I don't know that this election is fought on issues.
I think I'm highly concerned it will not be.
It will be based on whether you like Donald Trump or not.
All right.
Also, a story on Lizzo quitting because she's fat.
And the worst April Fool's joke ever.
Ever.
Which one do you want?
Well, we could rant about polls all day, but I want the worst April Fool's joke ever.
It is April Fool's Day, by the way.
So, if some when something annoying happens and you're something crazy happens today, please just catch it.
Please don't be the person who doesn't realize it.
I beg of you.
I hate April Fool's Day, but
I assume
that it is a dream come true compared to Valentine's Day
because you don't, you know, nothing worth Valentine's Day, it's just too much pressure, too much, too much money, too close to the holidays, just too much.
No,
no, just say no to Valentine's Day.
All right, here it is.
Traumatized mother told how she was blindsided.
A mom who is recovering from an April fool's prank played by her daughter has admitted she's finding it hard to forgive and forget.
The 49-year-old who revealed
her daughter has always been a prankster, told how the 21-year-old had been in the hospital for four days, where she visited every day until April 1st, when her roommates and other friends were going to visit her.
On April 1st, she told how she received a phone call from her crying roommate.
who told her the devastating news.
She said,
your daughter Susan,
her condition just got really bad really fast.
And
she passed on.
Oh my God.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
Oh,
yeah.
She'd be dead after that moment.
Oh my.
She then told her of her surprise and horror about a half hour later that her deceased daughter Susan and her roommates appeared at the door saying, April fools.
Turns out she was able able to leave the hospital because she got suddenly better.
And so that's the way they decided to tell mom.
Now, if that story was that she told her, ah, she didn't make it.
And then seconds later, the daughter popped on the line, it would still be horrific.
Letting her wallow in a half an hour
of her daughter's dead
comedy.
Yeah.
I don't know about that.
She said, I didn't know it was possible to be so relieved and so pissed off at the same time.
I called this joke horrible, screamed at her, told her she was not welcome in my house for the foreseeable future.
Okay?
At Easter,
she told how she was hosting relatives when her daughter let herself in to join the family gathering.
I made her give back the key.
And I told her to get the hell out of the house.
Wow.
And while she persisted and was very stubborn about it, she finally left crying.
The rest of the gathering mom says the rest of the gathering was understandably a little bit awkward.
But also completely understandable.
I don't know how it would take me a long time to forgive that one.
After a minute, she was finding it incredibly hard to forgive.
She said, it's not like I will ever, not ever forgive her.
Or I'm, you know, going no contact or anything like that, but I'm just too hurt and angry to speak or look at her right now because,
you know, because of any sort of discussion about what happened.
With her daughter calling her every day, trying to make amends, she revealed she has ignored all of her calls.
The family is now split between those who believe there are consequences to actions and those who thought she should forgive and move on.
Now, I'm just thinking that on Easter,
you know,
a couple of days after the guy was like, hey, forgive them for they don't know what they're doing while they're putting nails in his wrist.
Right.
Fair point.
You know, I think
we strive to be like Jesus.
We're not all like Jesus.
No, we're not like Jesus.
We try.
Yeah, but
it wasn't like she was crucified.
No.
No.
Though
it would be hard to separate, I think, in that moment.
That would be infuriating.
It would be infuriating, but I mean, maybe there's more going on here.
Right, right.
Was it for YouTube or something?
Was this a social media thing?
No?
No.
I've seen some of these lately that I am convinced are going to end in murders.
There was one the other day that popped up on my feed where a guy is at a playground wearing a bathrobe,
goes over to children,
flashes
the
kids.
The parent is behind them.
Behind them?
Behind the guy.
So they can't see what's going on, but they see the flashing.
The parents run up behind him, start punching him in the back, like trying to figure out what's going on.
You know, they're just,
someone's just flashed my kids.
And then he turns around and shows them.
And it just, he's wearing shorts with a t-shirt that says stay in school.
And
hilarious prank until the bullet goes through the back of your skull.
Because that is exactly, if you saw that happen and you were armed, I mean, I would be, if I said at least pistol whipping the guy.
It's not even good enough.
It's not even good enough.
It's not, I mean, you know, stay in school.
That seems seems like you're just kind of trying it out to see how long, you know.
Yeah, it seems like a test run.
It does.
It does.
Wait, I was just showing him I was wearing garanimals.
Yeah.
That's not enough.
No, not enough.
But someone's going to get themselves killed doing something like that.
Yeah.
Right?
Like, you do something to a child, and even though the message is obviously harmless and it's a stupid prank, like, the kid is like, that's a confusing moment for the kid.
Like, I still wouldn't be okay with it.
I wouldn't be laughing it off with the guy after.
No, did they?
Some of the people, some of the people on YouTube, at least the ones they included in the montage, did sort of laugh it off after they realized
what they thought.
I never want to see you here again.
Oh, yeah.
My gosh.
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Welcome to the program.
Got a couple of things here.
Do we have two minutes?
No.
I don't have two minutes.
I've just, I've just, how much time do we have?
We have one minute.
Play 60 minutes.
This is cut five: 60 minutes on the Havana Syndrome victim.
It was like this piercing
feeling on the side of my head.
It was like I remember it was on the right side of my head and I got like vertigo.
Olivia Troy was Homeland Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence.
In our 2022 report, she told us she was hit outside the White House.
And then severe ear pain started.
So I liken it to if you put a q-tip too far and you bounce off your eardrum.
Well, imagine taking a sharp pencil and just kind of poke in that.
And this man told us he was among the first publicly publicly known cases in 2016 from our embassy in Cuba.
That's how the incidents became known as Havana syndrome.
He's medically retired from an agency we can't name, blind in one eye and struggling for balance.
I thought that was all.
I did too.
I was like, oh, just a few weeks ago, they had a big report saying it didn't even exist.
Havana syndrome.
Crazy.
And now all of a sudden, it's Russia apparently doing it?
Russia.
The Glenn Beck program.