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And this time,

well, he's always bused, but he's extremely upset right now about,

well, the climate.

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I mean, he hasn't been around, it seems like, in a while.

There is one and only one reason that I miss Al Gore, which is your impersonation of Al Gore.

Oh.

Because without Al Gore being in the news, we don't get to hear it.

There's no reason to do it.

He's almost like, you know, most of your other impersonations are people who are already dead.

You know, most of the people you impersonate passed away a decade ago.

They're no longer with us.

Right.

We lost them.

There's been no

new impersonations necessarily added to the repertoire

for a while.

It's been a while.

And

this is why I always,

if Al Gore needs a medical fund,

and if he ever gets sick, I will be there to help him because I want to make sure at least one person.

We have a living person that I can impersonate here.

So, yeah, you want to keep that going.

Yes.

Definitely want to keep it going.

I'm excited about it.

This is him on Climate Activists Cut Eight.

He's very impassioned.

There's another divide, increasingly, between those who are old enough to be in positions of power and the young people of this world.

Greta Thunberg was just arrested in Germany.

They agree with her

efforts to stop that coal mine in Germany.

Young people around the world are looking at what we're doing.

They look at the World Bank and they say, oh, you've got a climate denier in charge of the World Bank.

So why are you surprised that the World Bank Bank is completely failing to do its job?

What do I say to these young activists that I train around the world when they come to me and they say,

Are you okay with putting the CEO of one of the largest oil companies in the world in as the president of the COP?

There's a lot of blah, blah, blah, as Greta says.

There are a lot of words and there are some meaningful commitments, but we are still failing badly.

We haven't heard the like the graffly Al Gore thing for a while.

Yeah.

Since probably.

He betrayed this country.

He played on our fears.

Forgotten.

I love that one.

And

he has.

It's been a while since we've seen that.

So he's jumping on the Greta bandwagon now?

Like, isn't this over?

I thought.

Well, because you saw her carefully orchestrated arrest, didn't you?

That was incredible.

I think there's a new angle on it.

Yeah,

cut six.

Here's Greta being arrested.

Yesterday we showed a clip that of one of the angles.

Well, they did a second take on it.

Oh, good.

Good.

That's how all arrests happen.

Yes, yes.

Standing there, cops, you know.

So they're all just milling around.

She's laughing.

She's having fun.

Because this is all

orchestrated.

This is all planned.

They're literally posing for photos with Greta.

Yeah.

The police.

Yes.

We think.

I mean, again, I would not be.

They're not police.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's possible.

Although I did hear that she was briefly detained for this incident.

And was she standing in the middle of the middle?

Well, that's where she was detained, was right there.

And then they walked through the mud.

And then eventually they just let her go and she walks off.

And I don't think she even was taken anywhere by police.

I mean, it was such a hoax.

And then Al Gore trying to say she was arrested because of her actions.

Get out of here.

Oh, stop it.

It was all planned.

It was all choreographed.

It was a pathetic display of an arrest.

But Al was pretty angry.

He's mad at climate deniers.

This is cut nine.

Enough already.

Enough.

And I don't want to get...

sidetracked onto what needs to happen, but we need to scale up climate finance, but we need desperately to scale down anti-climate finance.

And we are still subsidizing the burning of fossil fuels globally at a rate 42 times larger than the subsidies for the ship towards renewables, NEVs,

et cetera.

We need new leadership at the World Bank.

We need them to scale up the leverage and vastly increase the amounts that are committed.

And we need to rein in the anti-climate activities of the fossil industry.

I love this.

Even the psychopaths of the World Economic Forum are sick of him.

They need new leadership, though, at the World Bank, because I guess the World Bank isn't doing enough for climate change.

Is that what he seems to be saying to you?

Because that's what it sounds like to me.

And that's an option.

What do you want the World Bank to do about climate change?

Bizarre.

And could we possibly be spending more money on climate research and finance?

And

these companies get...

I mean, we were just throwing trillion.

We just passed a giant bill where there's trillions of dollars going to these companies.

We're constantly doing this.

And no money going to actually look for energy sources that work and are inexpensive and reliable.

None of that happens at all.

I mean, this is such a bizarre stance.

And you look, you know, Al Gore at this point in his life, I think, is looking for relevance more than anything else.

You know, the screamy voice usually only comes out when that's what he's doing.

But the idea that they're not getting enough money for this crap, what are you talking about?

I mean think about Cylindra.

We're just throwing, you know, they're like, oh, we've got circular solar panels.

Oh, here's $20 billion.

How much do you need?

A circular solar panel.

Here they are.

Here you go.

Let me just throw a bunch of money at you.

Oh, you're out of business.

Oh, that sucks.

Oh, well.

Every electric car purchased in this country, they received $7,500

off.

And again, there's been some restrictions on certain models over the years, but generally speaking, this has been true.

And the average person who buys one of these cars is a six-figure earner.

Why on earth would we subsidize people who make six figures to buy fancy cars?

It makes no sense.

Nobody ever talks about that either.

And of course, nobody ever talks about what goes into the production of the electric vehicle, which is so not friendly to the earth.

It's way worse than the combustion engine vehicles that are produced.

And it's going to take decades and decades to catch up to

all the

problems with

the electric cars to offset those with any kind of environmental relief that they're looking for.

It's just, it's impractical.

There's nowhere to put, what are you going to do with all these batteries at the end of the vehicle's life?

Where are we going to pile those up?

So many problems here.

And of course, a lot of the research shows, too, that, yes, during production, electric cars, much, much worse.

internal combustion engines.

And the number of miles you need to drive for this to equal out when it comes to environmental effect is, again, in the six figures.

You got to go over 100,000 miles in an electric car before it even comes close to paying itself off.

So, you know, again, like, and I have nothing against electric cars.

I mean, I don't either.

We've talked about this so many times.

Yeah, we have.

The Tesla, some of these Teslas are great.

I mean, obviously, Elon Musk is not an enemy of the right.

I cheer for him to do well.

They look

great.

They drive great.

They've got incredible acceleration.

Yeah, the new Corvette Corvette E-Ray is out now,

or has just been introduced.

I just talked about this for tomorrow's Studios America.

We're going to do a segment on it.

And it is 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

It is

2.5 seconds.

And

it's basically, in a way, a hybrid.

They put an electric motor on the front wheels, and they're using the same 600-plus horsepower on the back wheels.

And it's an all-wheel drive, the first Corvette ever.

And, you know, look, to me,

I like the internal combustion engine.

I like the sound it makes.

You know, I don't know.

That's just my thing.

I, I don't, I, I like the electric cars.

They're cool, but they're not my daily driver.

That's not what I want as a daily driver.

But this thing, again, is like using that technology and making a ridiculously fast car.

But again, it's a $100,000 car.

Yeah.

You know, and it's certainly not environmentally friendly.

It's still a Corvette.

You know, it's not, it's not getting you good gas mileage.

Right.

So, you know, this.

And you still have to plug it into the wall outlet of your house every night.

This one is more of a hybrid design.

So

it's not like that.

Okay.

But still.

All right.

But the full electric, like

Teslas and stuff, you have to plug in.

And that's costing us energy.

Yeah.

And it's also thousands of dollars potentially in retrofitting your house for the right type of plug to.

I mean, if you're driving enough,

you got to have the faster charger.

yeah uh you know i have a friend who has a tesla and he he doesn't drive it a lot so he's able to plug it in the normal plug and it's it's fine but if you drive it as your normal everyday car you you have to you know i you know look into between 600 and 2000 of retrofitting your house to get the right you know electric you know the electrical outlets to to make this thing charge or either that or you're going to be waiting days i mean there's the porsche electric uh if you plug it into the normal plug this is the porsche taikon which is a beautiful car I mean, it's a great-looking car.

But if you plug it into a normal outlet and it's very low in battery, it could take about three days to charge.

Oh, that's not bad.

Three days.

Just the three days, though.

Okay.

So just so you don't have anywhere to go in three days, you're fine.

You just stay home for three days.

Yeah.

Again, this is why we are from home now.

Just do Zoom calls.

They're just not practical.

That's why I don't have one.

Cause it's just not.

I really, when we test drove that Tesla that they brought here

several years ago uh and we experienced that i really wanted one

really did and really fast but it's just not it's just not practical because especially then there was nowhere to i mean there's very few places that i knew of at least uh to go charge it and when you did go charge it like if you if you have one and we do have some uh movie theaters where you can park your car at one of the uh charging stations and then you're you know you're at the movie for two two hours or whatever and then you come out and it's mostly charged yeah and look that's cool i just that's that's great i like movies but i just can't stop to see one every day exactly i can't i can't just exactly now if i drive from here to houston i'm gonna have to first of all find the special specialty places where they where they have these charging stations and then sit there for i don't know an hour yeah 45 minutes at least yeah and you get some some of the fast chargers now will do a better job i mean look it is improving.

But I do find it

fascinating that the left has now come to a position where, and I don't know if you've noticed this, at places like the movie theater, where they do give you these nice parking spots with the charging thing.

And I think they're closer than the handicap spots.

I think they'd rather have people who can't walk.

They're actually preferring and spoiling the people in their electric cars

over the people who don't have legs.

We're at that point now in our society.

Oh, yeah, you know, yeah, look

sure you don't you're in you're in a wheelchair it's very difficult but i will say you're killing the climate in your in your minivan there so screw you that's where

the tesla parks closer than you

can

the rich person in the tesla who spent a hundred and thirty thousand dollars on their plaid they're gonna walk uh you know very comfortably three steps to get into the movie theater you on the other hand We're putting you at the bottom of the hill.

And I hope your arms are strong to get up it.

Cause that's...

sorry you're the other side of the lot we put you on the other side of gravel there's there's some boulders in the way but you'll get there eventually we have faith in you you're handy capable you know maybe you brought some people that can carry you over all

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All right, we got one more fun Al Gore clip because it's been so long since we've heard from him that I wanted you to experience

the full frontal effect of Al Gore because it's great.

You should never go full Al Gore.

Never.

Never.

Really?

Never go for it.

You don't want that.

Cut 10.

Here he is.

We're going to bring these emissions down.

And just to put the science in a slightly different context.

People are familiar with that thin blue line that the astronauts bring back in their pictures from space.

Yeah, get this.

That's the part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere.

And it's only five to seven kilometers thick.

What?

That's what we're using as an open sewer.

If you could drive a car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds, you'd get to the top of that blue line in five minutes.

And all the greenhouse gas pollution would be below you.

We're still putting 162 million tons into it every single day.

And the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth.

That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs, and soaking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice, and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach 1 billion in this century.

Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees.

What about a billion?

We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world.

We have to act.

So in answer to your question, I would say

we have to have a sense of urgency much greater than we have yet.

We have had, and we need to make some changes.

What is he so irritated about?

Is he a Chargers fan or something?

Why is he so upset?

Because we are not doing what we need to do.

Stu?

That's why.

There's so much there.

I mean, where do you even begin?

I don't know.

First of all, I'm all in on the rain bombs.

We need to talk more about rain bombs.

That's a new thing that they've done for, I don't know, a rainstorm?

It's like a rainstorm.

And I want to make sure I'm understanding.

It's raining.

It's raining hard, probably.

Yeah, it rains hard.

It rained.

It rained hard.

And it's never, you know this.

It's never rained hard before.

It's never rained hard before, but now it rains hard.

The other thing is, how many nuclear bombs had to go off?

160,000 every day.

Every day.

All that makes me think is that, wow, nuclear bombs are not that effective.

That's what it makes me think of.

Well, certainly not the Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Right, that's like nothing.

Yeah, they were nothing.

They were nothing.

Apparently, because right now we're, you know, look, we have tons of problems, but certainly when it comes to technology and, you know, life expectancy and everything else, with the exception of a little pandemic we had recently,

things are pretty good when it comes to human history.

We're all living longer.

We've pulled a billion people out of poverty.

They're no longer starving.

Where does this

vision of this hellscape we supposedly live in that environmentalists believe is constantly active?

Where is this place?

This comes from the climate.

I don't know.

I don't know, but they invent all these new terms like rainbow

and polar vortex,

or is it vortex?

And then what was the other thing that they've, I don't know, they changed all of all of the definitions of normal weather events that we've had forever.

You know, a polar vortex, what is that?

Well, it's, it's a cold front.

That's what that is.

It's a cold front that came from the Arctic.

We used to have Arctic cold fronts in Montana all the time.

Several times a winter, there would be a Canadian cold front.

Did they have rain bombs in them?

No.

No rain bombs.

No, they did not.

They did not.

No, they had snow.

Rain didn't come with the arcade.

So a snow bomb.

Snow bomb.

So snow bombs are turning to rain bombs consistent with global warming.

You know,

I think one of the things that's really perplexing me about these Gore clips, there's something so off about them.

Is there someone disagreeing with him on these points on this panel?

Like, it's the World Economic Series.

So he's at the WEF.

I really doubt it.

They're all cheering him on, right?

Why is he screaming at everyone?

They're just

to nod their head and agree with you, right?

That's the whole point of this panel.

Yes.

And he's screaming at everybody.

He's trying to, it's almost like he's trying to pull a Greta, right?

How dare you?

That whole upset Greta thing that she does when she's so fired up doesn't work as well with a 75-year-old guy.

Also, it also doesn't work well for Greta, but that's a whole different situation.

It's an interesting time, Pat.

It is.

It's an interesting time.

It is.

And yeah, he is quite animated.

He's quite bothered by what's going on.

But he wants, you know, he wants to be funded to the tune of $100 trillion, like AOC kind of proposed.

Just $100 trillion?

Just $100 trillion.

Just $100 trillion.

$100 trillion is a small price to pay to get him to shut up.

Can we just give him the money?

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Al Gore has really reinvigorated my concern about the climate.

Really?

Yeah.

This works.

I do not want to be a denier.

For the people who deny that we have climate,

I think they're wrong.

And frankly, I just don't, I don't agree with them, and I never have.

We do have a climate on this planet.

I think they're confusing us with

Mars,

which does not have a climate, but we do.

And I would never deny it.

And it's clear the differences.

Yes, they're both round, you know, but round is like reddish.

That's what they tell us anyway.

Yeah.

But have you ever witnessed it from space with your own two eyes?

No.

I haven't.

I haven't.

You've seen these fake photographs about a round planet.

Yeah.

I learned this all from Kyrie Irving, and it was quite convincing.

It is incredible how, you know, I think you guys played it too.

The Chelsea handler.

I mean, that goes beyond the flat earth thing.

A person who thought the sun and the moon were the same thing?

Oh, such a good clip.

Oh, such a good clip because

it just shows that these

people in Hollywood who give us all this advice and tell us about the climate and tell us about...

every other piece of science we're supposed to believe.

Yeah.

Most of them are idiots.

Oh, completely.

You need to remember that.

Completely.

I mean, listen to this.

I didn't know, and this is true.

I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing.

And she goes on to explain.

Yes, she did.

Yeah, that, you know, she thought when the sun went down, the moon popped back up.

And they were the same thing.

Why would you call it something different then?

Why would you...

Why wouldn't it just be the sun?

Or why would it wouldn't it just be the moon?

Why would you call it a different thing when it's in the day and it or at night and these are the type of questions that at 40 you'd think you would have asked yourself by now right like at

four maybe not uh-huh right at four you maybe you believe that the sun though i do believe i've never heard of it before i've never heard of anybody who thought the sun and the moon were the same even you before no uh never and even a child you know reads like good night moon right like right and they know they're not referring to the sun right right like i really do feel like at four years old, most people know they're not the same thing.

They might not understand all of the physics at that point, Pat.

You know, they might not know the exact distance that each is away from the Earth, but I think they're relatively.

One of them looks considerably closer to the Earth than the other.

Yeah.

Plus, at night, you can stare directly into it, whereas in the day, it might be harmful.

So.

But maybe is there a switch?

Do we know?

I mean, like, is it?

Like a dimmer switch.

There's a dimmer switch that kind of just goes off.

That's possible.

And it just dims, you know, dims the sun until it turns to the moon.

Like if you have a bright light in your, in your, uh, your dining room and you look at it, ah, gosh, that hurts my eyes.

Turn the dimmer down to the lowest setting.

Yeah.

All of a sudden, you can stare right at it.

Yes.

And I just thought, maybe she's not wrong here.

You know, maybe, maybe, because she goes on to talk about how

she was riding an elephant when all of this happened.

And maybe

the person who was driving the

elephant around, around, which by the way, those are motorized creatures, not animals.

We know that now, just science.

But maybe that person didn't know.

Yeah, that person was wrong.

We have that full clip just to remind you how brilliant Chelsea Handler is.

I didn't know, and this is true.

I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing.

It's hard to believe, but what are you talking about?

I was shocking to me as well.

Of course, it must have been more shocking to you.

It was like, I was in Africa, we were on Safari, my sister and I were riding an elephant, and there was a man riding an elephant for us because we don't know how to ride an elephant.

And my older sister, Simone, looked up

at the sky and she said, Chelsea, Chelsea, look up.

It's not often you get to see the sun and the moon at the same time.

And I was like, well, I was like, Scooby-Doo.

I'm like,

I said it, I go, wait, I go, but they're always together.

And as soon as I said that, she turned around and she goes, what did you say?

And I was like, oh, shut up, shut up, shut up.

I'm like, I knew what I said was wrong.

Gideon elephant.

I was like, let's canter.

Is that what an elephant does?

Oh, my God.

And

she looked at me and she goes, I need you.

And I just tried to gloss over it.

I was like, never mind what I said.

I know.

And she said, no, I need you to tell me.

what you think is happening between the sun and the moon.

And I was like, honestly, I just assumed when the sun went down, it popped back up as the moon, you know?

The little costume change.

Like, is that not what's happening?

The man riding the elephant spoke no English and went, boom.

And he's just like another dumb American, you know?

That's embarrassing.

That's A,

why do you tell that story when

it really

explains how stupid you are?

I mean, obviously at some level, she knows it's going to be funny on the show.

She's a comedian.

She's telling, I think, a true story, but like, she's going for laughs and getting them, right?

Yeah.

Because, I mean, it doesn't make any sense that you would tell it on national television.

Part of the story is that you were embarrassed to tell your sister.

Yeah.

Right.

And now you're telling the world.

The world, right?

So now everyone knows you're an idiot.

So that's part of it.

But I think it's interesting to note that this is a person.

You might say, okay, Chelsea Handler.

Who is she?

Well, you know, this is a person who, by the way, has been lecturing us about politics for years and years and years and years and telling us how stupid we we are as risk conservatives, but also a person who's successful enough to go on an African safari and ride elephants around, right?

Like, this is a person who's made it in life to some level.

Yeah.

I mean, have you ever been in an African safari, Pat?

I never have.

Now, I have also no desire to go in an African safari because it's so outdoorsy.

Like, I'm really more of an indoorsy guy.

But still, like, there's some level of success associated with going on a trip like this.

And, you know, she's done a lot of this stuff.

Well, she's shot shows all around the world like she and here's it and she's obviously the person who makes seven figures a year seven figures a year and obviously we've just given you complete and total evidence that she's a moron like i yeah she's obviously a complete idiot right and yet she's it explains about america i'll say yeah

i mean that's absolutely a merit

unbelievable it's absolutely amazing like this is you go back to the 13th century this is the type of person who, you know, probably starves on the side of the road because she's so stupid and no one wants to help her.

And there's no, instead, she's a millionaire.

Right.

Instead, she's a millionaire.

She's going on safaris to Africa and riding elephants around and looking for the moon and the sun.

Like, this is a miracle of modern society that she is able to maintain life.

Plus, she said it happened.

She had this amazing realization when she was 40.

That was seven years years ago.

She's 47 now.

So this just barely happened.

Yeah, it's like a new song.

It's not even a decade old.

Her realization that the sun and the moon are different things.

I mean, that's fantastic.

It does make you feel good in that, though.

It shows you the intellectual capacity of these lefties.

It shows why they are so

such big proponents of big government and abortion and

unlimited

border crossings.

It shows.

Yeah, and a lot of times you look at these beliefs, especially as people who might listen to this show every day, someone who, I don't know, reads occasional things.

I'm not looking for a high bar here, but like, you know, someone who's mildly informed, you can look at this and you're like, these views are just childish, right?

But that's the thing.

These are childish people.

These are people who are essentially intellectual children.

They're people who think the sun and the moon are the same thing.

That is who you're talking about.

When you have people who are trying to get you canceled on Twitter because of something that you said, they likely think the sun and the moon are the same thing.

That's the level of the person you're talking to.

So it's up to you whether you engage in that nonsense.

I don't know that it benefits anyone when you do.

But like, there's no reason for us to be taking advice from these dolts.

No, no, there is not.

Why would we care what they think about anything?

No.

You know,

I thought about this a lot when the whole NFL scandal was going on with like Colin Kaepernick and people taking knees and stuff.

And it's like, people got very fired up about that.

And look, I understand that because you're insulting the country, you're taking a knee, you're not honoring the flag.

All those things are important to me.

However, you have to realize that the people that you're criticizing have the intellectual capacity of an egg.

Like, why do we care if they take knees?

Colin Kaepernick is essentially, it's like you're talking to a hamster mentally, right?

Like the brain function is very limited.

Almost non-existent.

Right.

Like this person does not make good points because he's incapable of making good points.

Why get fired up about whether, what he thinks about this country?

You should look at it as a miracle that this country exists and can take care of people like him.

Right?

And not only take care, but the guy makes millions of dollars.

He's $14 million just for doing Nike commercials.

He's doing nothing.

Does he even show up to the Nike?

Is there any evidence that he's recently shown up to a Nike commercial?

I don't even think he's seen one in years.

They're paying him so

much money

as ransom because if they fire him, he will go on television and say how racist they are.

So now he has to maintain perpetual employment

because everybody knows the second he gets kicked out, what he's going to do.

So now, you know, even though I can't imagine he's selling a lot of shoes, Collin Keepernick was a bad quarterback when he was a quarterback, which he is not anymore.

But he did have one good year.

I don't even agree with that.

I don't know if you have a decent year.

I don't even agree with that.

Almost acceptable year.

I will not.

Serviceable.

Would you go serviceable?

A surprising.

How about surprising?

Okay.

He took defenses by surprise for a few games and ran around a bunch of times behind one of the historically best offensive lines in history.

Right.

And still didn't win.

At the end of the day.

So look, I'm not.

What is his quarterback rating?

Wasn't it one of the lowest,

not just in the league at that time, I think one of the lowest in a starting quarterback in history, if I remember right now?

He's had stretches like that for sure.

Yeah, really bad.

You know, I mean,

there's a whole show.

I did a whole show on this once called Stu Does Colin Kaepernick.

Which I love.

And it goes through his entire career

game by game to tell everybody that, like, yes, he's an idiot.

Sure.

That's part of this conversation, but more importantly, he was a bad quarterback.

And that was necessary because people acted like he was the second coming of

Joe Namath.

Right.

Or Joe Montana.

Yeah.

Even.

Exactly.

They were acting like he was the best quarterback who's ever played the game.

And he wasn't even good.

No.

Let alone best.

No, I remind people as often as

I can that before Colin Kaepernick ever took a knee, ever took one, he didn't take a knee.

He hadn't done any of that stuff yet.

He hadn't taken a stand against the flag.

He didn't wear the cops or pigs socks yet.

None of that stuff had happened.

Before all of that happened, he lost his job to Blaine Gabbert.

That says everything you need to know about why he's not a starting quarterback.

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We started a charity years ago.

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Yeah, we started doing this.

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Now, Pat,

so women can't show their breasts on this.

No, if you're a biological woman, you may not show your breasts on Facebook.

If you were a, let's say you're an Instagram model, a biological woman, you think maybe there might be some clicks in this here if I can show my bountiful bazooms.

Yeah.

You could theoretically just identify as a man, not have any of the surgeries, just identify as a man, put it in your pronouns, and then show your bare breasts and probably get lots and lots of clicks.

Logically, I think you probably...

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This is a new industry completely.

Wow.

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People are totally going to do this.

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Then I believe you could

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So that's for anybody who identifies as transgender or non-binary, meaning they themselves are neither male or female.

Yeah, I think you could circumvent this policy.

Huh.

If you identify as a man.

That's interesting.

Because I think, yes, people will do that, will they not?

I think it just makes sense that they would do it.

Certainly seems like something that would happen on Instagram.

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The Pfizer CEO, Al Borla,

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And he, I think this was in Davos,

and he didn't want to answer any of them.

But we'll show you what,

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All right, you have got to see

this interrogation.

of

Al Borla from Pfizer.

He's the CEO.

And he had a couple of people on the street asking him questions, one after another.

And

they didn't ask him to stop.

They didn't ask him to

do anything formal.

He could have answered him just as he was walking down the street.

But here's what happened.

This is cut

12.

Mr.

Borla, can I ask you,

when did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission?

How long did you know that without saying it publicly?

Thank you very much.

I'm sorry.

I mean we now know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission, but why did you keep it secret?

You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%.

But we now know that the vaccines do not stop transmission.

Why did you keep that secret?

Have a nice day.

I won't have a nice day

until I know the answer.

Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?

Is it time to apologise to the world, sir?

To give refunds back to the countries that poured all their money into your vaccine that doesn't work, your ineffective vaccine?

Are you not ashamed of what you've done in the last couple of years?

Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?

Are you proud of it?

You've made millions on the backs of people's entire livelihoods.

How does that feel to walk the streets as a millionaire on the backs of the regular person at home in Australia, in England, in Canada?

What do you think about on your yacht, sir?

What do you think about on your private jet?

Are you worried about product liability?

Are you worried about myocarditis?

What about the sudden deaths?

What do you have to say about young men dropping dead of heart attacks every day?

Not a lot.

Why won't you answer these basic questions?

Good question.

No apologies, sir.

Do you think you should be charged criminally for

some of the

criminal behavior you have?

I'll stop and answer that.

What do you got to do?

How much money have you personally made off the vaccine?

Good question.

How many boosters do you think it'll take for you to be happy enough with your earnings?

Nothing?

Who did you meet with here in secret?

Will you disclose disclose who you met with?

No.

Who did you pay commissions to?

In the past, Pfizer has paid $2.3 billion

in fines for deceptive marketing.

Have you engaged in that same conduct again?

Yes.

Yes, sir.

Thank you for asking.

Yes.

He just keeps going.

If any other product in the world doesn't work as promised, you get a refund.

Should you not refund to countries that laid out billions

for your ineffective vaccine?

Are you used to only sympathetic media, so you don't know how to answer any questions?

Yes.

Is that it?

Yes, that's another good point.

Shame on you, sir.

Shame on you.

I mean, hilarious.

I love that.

I love it.

29

great questions.

Zero answers of any kind.

Well, he said, have a nice day.

Oh, he did.

Have a nice day.

Have a nice day.

Yeah.

Have a nice day.

It'd be great at the end of that.

If he's like, I'm sorry, I just don't speak English.

And,

you know,

they're persistent.

I'll say that.

They'll say that.

I mean, that's not easy to do.

No, no.

That's hard.

It's also odd that the guy, you know, the CEO of Pfizer in this climate is walking around with no security or anything.

Very true.

Again, like, you know, he should just answer questions, of course, but he's not going to.

I'm surprised, though, in Davos, he's not walking around with a bunch of very large meat with very large weapons.

Me too.

They just got to shoo these guys away.

Yeah.

And there was none of that.

I will say that, like, you know, we do know what Pfizer does here.

They make the little blue pill.

He had a yacht before this.

Like, this is not true.

He's not financially restricted in any way.

You think he made some cash on Viagra?

He maybe did okay with the Viagra thing thing and many other medications.

But yeah, you know, look, these guys are not used to anybody but friendly media.

That's for sure.

You know, and you know, like

there's a lot of people have a lot of questions and there's no reason they shouldn't they should engage more in this stuff, I think.

You know, I think it would be helpful for these companies to just sit there and

answer some of these questions.

There was a good answer to it.

Yeah, let's hear it.

There are no good answers because they're right.

I mean, at the very beginning of the Pfizer vaccine, they were claiming 95% efficacy.

That quickly went down and it went down again and it went down again.

And then it turns out, well, they didn't even study that.

They didn't even test that.

They had no proof of any efficacy

because

they didn't test it.

Well, then, where did you get the 95% figure?

That was, you know, those are some really good questions to put to him.

Seems like there was, I don't know, some incongruencies there.

Yeah, I mean, I think, look, I think the

whole storyline changed for a lot of people as we went through

2020 and 2021.

I mean, when you hit the Omicron thing, it changed.

I mean, look, again,

you should be able to do what you want to do.

You want to take vaccines, you can take them.

If you don't want to take them, you shouldn't have to take them.

That should be a basic fundamental human right in the United States of America.

Anything other than that is just an insult.

But obviously, there was a lot of people who were skeptical of the vaccines who brought up a lot of these complaints and thought this stuff would happen.

And on the other hand, a lot of those people were saying that natural immunity would be effective and there would be no breakthrough cases through natural immunity.

Once you get the disease, you get it.

I mean, one of the main things a lot of conservatives were arguing for at the beginning was, hey,

let the people who are in their 20s get COVID.

You know, if it happens,

you don't go out there and try to get it, but if you get it, that'll give us immunity.

Eventually, we'll hit herd immunity and we don't have to worry about this anymore.

Well, that didn't work either.

Omicron was really good.

Really, nothing did against Omicron.

Right.

Once we hit Omicron, these things really

were past the point of relevance.

I really think like the vaccine story, it gets a lot of, you know, a lot of people are talking about it.

And like, you know, it's going to be a big story.

But really, the vaccine is really a 2021 story.

From the beginning of when the vaccine came out to Omicron is where real relevance, I think, was, I think it was an interesting conversation.

I I think we're beyond that at this point, frankly.

I think so, too.

You know, I mean, look, everyone should be able to ask the questions they want to ask, and they should be able to get the answers.

But that doesn't happen.

But that's not going to happen.

They're never going to answer because these people, of course, want to protect their business.

They do legitimately want to protect their business.

Many of these things they're protected from, though.

You know, when we were

going through the process of...

of Operation Warp Speed, built into a lot of that was, hey, please do this really fast.

And you know, if you're not going to get sued for all these things if something goes wrong, we really need you to produce something quickly.

That was part of the argument of Operation Warp Speed.

So rather than 10 years, it took nine months.

Yeah.

And look, and we maybe paid a price for that.

I mean, you know, it doesn't change your perspective on that.

Yeah.

But, you know, it's a, you know, a lot of people are worried about it.

And, and that's, and I keep coming back to this where it's like,

like the food pyramid, right?

Remember the food pyramid, which I think now is the food compass?

Is it

the food pyramid to a compass?

Yeah, I think they changed the food pyramid to a food compass.

I didn't know that.

Over the last couple of years.

And you didn't know that.

Why didn't you know that?

Why didn't you know that?

Shouldn't you know that?

The federal government is telling you you should follow the food compass, Pat.

And I'm pretty sure Kexi Cookies is not on the food compass.

No, it's in the bid.

It is.

Yeah, I think it is.

It's like West.

It's made with really interesting broccoli

and alfalfa sprouts.

It doesn't taste like it at all.

It tastes like it's made with butter and sugar.

Lots of butter.

Right.

So,

for years and years and years, decades, the federal government had the food pyramid.

And the food pyramid had, hey, eat a bunch of eggs, eat a bunch of meat, eat a bunch of grains, you know, all that stuff.

We all remember looking at that when we were kids.

Yeah.

And there were always critiques on it.

Like, hey, is this the reason why we have so many fat people?

Like, people are trying to eat like the food pyramid.

It's creating a lot of cholesterol.

Right.

Like, yeah, everyone had these questions.

We've gone back and forth on that for years.

There are people who make really in-depth arguments as to why the food pyramid caused real societal harm and cost us billions of dollars because the government was promoting these things, particularly in schools that created fat children, that created fat adults, on and on and on and on.

That all exists out there.

But how much passion is there really behind it?

Does anyone care?

Like,

look, the federal government came out with the food pyramid.

They made these recommendations about what we should eat.

And you know what I did?

Ate whatever I wanted.

That's what I did.

What did you do, Pat?

Same thing.

You ate whatever you wanted, right?

I did.

You ignored their advice.

And so there isn't societal consternation about the food pyramid because what they did was make a recommendation, not mandate it.

Yes.

If they mandated the food pyramid, it would be a massive story and we would all be pissed off about it.

And every little problem with it, every little disagreement would become an international incident because we would be pissed off.

The government was mandating this stupid pyramid.

So if the government wants to say, hey, we came up with a vaccine, we came up with a treatment, we think it works, here's our recommendation.

You should take it.

And that's it?

This story is long dead.

Great question.

The story, it does not matter to people like it does because they tried to force people to take it.

Yeah.

Or you lose your job.

Or you lose your job.

You lose your livelihood.

People are out on the streets over this.

They're being threatened.

Their kids can't go to school.

If you just remove that one element out of this, you might say, like, if you're a big vaccine.

I'm going to be almost all of it.

If you're a big vaccine skeptic, you might say, hey, well, there's health effects that are associated with this.

But

the only people who would be dealing with them are the people who chose to take the vaccine.

The people who said, well, I think there might be health benefits, wouldn't have to take it.

And therefore,

they can all say, hey, you bunch of idiots, you shouldn't have taken that.

And that's the end of the story.

Right.

Instead, we have this situation where they try to force people to take it instead of just saying, like, look, it's here.

Take it if you want.

And that's the end of the day.

And if they would just approached it that way, things I think would be a lot different.

And people wouldn't feel the same way that they do about this now.

But like, understandably, when you're, when you're saying you must do something, and then you believe there are bad effects to that, you're going to have a really negative reaction.

You know, that's just the way life is.

Of course, you don't want to, this is America.

You don't want to be told, this is not North Korea.

If Kim Jong-un tells his population to do X, Y, and Z, they they just accept it because that's unfortunately, they've been fed with

100 years of propaganda to believe this man's basically a god.

And so whatever he says goes.

You know?

This is instead a country that was built on the exact opposite principle.

Yeah.

And yet you had people like Arnold Schwarzenegger saying that people think they have the freedom, not that they could screw your freedom.

Right.

What?

In the United States of America, screw my freedom?

Isn't he Austrian?

Yes.

Yeah.

So it's not a huge surprise.

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Albert Borla wouldn't answer any questions on the street, but he did have some things to say.

He had a really big announcement about what's coming from Pfizer.

There's some new stuff that's extremely exciting that they're working on right now, and he talked about that.

Where are you on a flu vaccine based on mRNA?

Oh, the studies are running.

They have completely recruited.

We are waiting for cases as they accumulate.

Means that people have been vaccinated, group placebo, vaccine, and now the disease, some of them will get disease and then we are waiting to unblind the data to see what is coming.

I think will come in the this year, in 2020.

That's what I was going to ask.

I mean you can't guarantee a timeline depending on the clinical trial.

No, because

I think by the first half of the year maybe.

First half of the year.

Yeah, June, July.

And so how far are we away from one vaccine that's both COVID and flu together?

First we need to have the flu.

And if we have a flu, already we started

experiments to combine the two

so that we don't lose time again.

I think we'll come more or less all together if it is successful.

First of all, he's a liar.

He said it was first half of the year and then he said July.

That's not the first half of the year.

It's the second half of the year.

It's the only other half that exists.

By nature, it's the seventh month.

There's only 12th.

What?

This bastard.

I mean, look, you know, we hope hope at some point the technology that they have, this stuff could be really promising.

It might really do some incredible things in the future.

You know,

I'm hoping, but it may not.

But they've given some people such a bad taste in their mouth over the vaccine now that they're going to be skeptical about anything that comes up.

Yeah, I mean, you know,

it's totally, totally true.

And there's got to be, it's become one of these issues that is split mainly on political lines.

And then there's a good chunk of Republicans in particular.

And this is is the opposite of what it used to be.

I mean, it used to be people like

Jim Kerry and

RFK Jr., who's still very much in that movement.

And what's your favorite?

Yeah, Jenny McCarthy, who kind of led that, the anti-vaccine sort of movement.

And they were largely on the left.

And that's changed.

I mean, there's a great story about a town in California, which was the most vaccine-skeptical town in the country.

And they're super liberal.

They're like 90% Democratic voters.

And this is before COVID.

I'm talking about pre-COVID vaccines.

Okay.

And so they were incredibly skeptical of the vaccines.

You know, they had breakouts of measles and mumps in the community and all these things because they were, you know, and they just

want to do RFK Jr.

They didn't listen to RFK Jr.

and they didn't want to do it.

And again, like, you know, not necessarily the way I would advise people, but that's what they wanted to do.

And so

they decided to choose that way until they were skeptical of all these vaccines until

the COVID vaccines, where then the COVID vaccines were the thing that the left was supposed to like and the right was not supposed to like.

So then this town that had been super

skeptical of vaccines for decades just switched completely and had the highest vaccination rate in the area.

Wow.

And we're banning kids from school if they weren't vaccinated.

And all of these things were like the exact opposite of what they had been doing this entire time.

Isn't that interesting?

It's fascinating.

It really is.

Especially since Donald Trump is the one

who really rushed that whole process through.

Yeah.

He provided a whole bunch of money to the pharmaceuticals to help them make it really quickly.

And a bunch of liberals are like, yep, give me that Trump vaccine.

Yeah, they all, you know, they all hated big pharma companies until the day the COVID vaccines came.

It really is fascinating.

It's incredible.

And I think, honestly, it's one of the most fascinating political developments that I've ever seen to see the next couple of years develop because Donald Trump, he just did an interview the other day.

He has not changed his view at all.

The vexes are very positive.

He says, you know, they saved 100 million lives.

Right.

And, you know, look,

it's, you know,

he's survived this long because he knows his base very well.

And

that is not a viewpoint that the base holds right now.

No, that's for sure.

They may have held it in 2021 and 2020, but they don't hold it now.

And he's trying to run in a primary against people who are witnessing.

I mean, DeSantis is a great example.

He was just as pro-vaccine as anybody else back when these things were coming out.

And now he looks very skeptical.

People know their base.

They know how to react to their base.

And Trump is like sticking by this.

It's going to be fascinating to see if he can pull that off.

It's not going to be easy.

That's going to be a political gymnast routine that I've never seen anyone pull off before.

Yeah.

He's done it before, though.

He's been able to do that stuff before.

So we'll see.

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There's an interesting situation.

And

I'd like to know your thoughts on this, Stu, because you still have young kids.

My kids are grown now, and so they don't do a lot of sleepovers.

But I'm guessing that you.

Oh, you don't.

Yeah, they don't.

As adults, they don't sleepover at friends' house that often.

Yeah, it's weird.

But there is a thing, apparently, right now, where a lot of parents are kind of giving second thoughts to sleepovers and not allowing them

for any number of reasons.

One of which, I guess, you know, they're afraid of abuse.

I think that's one of the things.

That's one of the reasons.

Because

do you ever know for sure what's going on in somebody else's house?

No, you never know for sure

but again like this this seems to tie into the fact that we've despite the world being a statistically much safer place from crime than it was when we were young yeah much much yeah

it's true you know this is uh lenor skinese talks about this a lot where you know that we've kind of put this bubble wrap around our kids.

I'm totally guilty of this at some point.

Me too.

Where my kids are young.

And I remember when I was their age, I would just wander out.

Like a summer, my mom would go to work, and I would walk to my friend's house, it was like a mile away, and we would hang out and play all day.

And I'd come back, you know, this, this typical story, you come back when it gets dark and maybe have dinner.

And it's just, you know, people kind of knew around the neighborhood and people kind of kept an eye on you a little bit.

But basically, we did whatever we wanted, which most of the time was eating hostess products and playing wiffle ball.

And, you know, you came back and that was it.

And I, my kids don't do that.

Everything, you know, that's not, I'm not, I don't let my kid walk around for a mile by himself to his friends.

Like, I don't do that at all.

Like,

and I know,

because we think this way a lot.

Like, I'm a guy who likes numbers.

I can look at them and say, hey, I know intellectually this viewpoint makes no sense.

I know it.

I live in a safe area.

We are in a low crime period.

While we've seen it tick ups, you know, the 2020 period was, you know, a little bit different.

We've seen some things.

Murder rate has gone up in some cities.

There are some problems.

You know, obviously some drug abuse issues have arisen over the years.

But generally speaking, we are in a low crime period.

We are in, you know,

the most profound example of this is I was more than double, more than twice as likely to be killed in a mass shooting at my school when I was a kid.

Then kids are now.

Than kids are now.

And that is

blows people's minds.

Yeah.

It's more than double.

Oh, wow.

Now,

when I was in high school, it was in the 90s, and crime rates were higher.

And the difference between mass shootings,

school shootings, I should say, back then, and now is what we see now are very disturbed kids who get guns and try to essentially

take the leaderboard on their video game, right?

They come in and they decide they're going to try to kill as many people as possible.

So we see mass shootings.

What we saw in the 90s were two or three people being shot in a fight.

We saw people, gangs, bringing guns to school, you know, like there, but it wasn't as much, you know, it wasn't 20 or 30 people dying, but people were shot at school all the time back in the 90s.

It just wasn't noticed as much.

And I find it hard to believe that a mom in the 90s who loses their kid because one person was shot at their school feels any,

you know, better about it than someone today who loses their kid in a mass shooting.

But what this also means is More schools go without any shootings at all.

Far more schools, when you look at the percentage of schools, go without mass shootings because when we do see a shooting, it's usually one of these larger spectacle-type shootings, people looking for attention.

And look, that's a whole other problem that's really difficult to solve.

But the bottom line is when you send your kids to school in today's era, they are much

more likely to survive and not be shot.

And they've taken a lot of precautions too, the schools.

They're usually locked.

It's usually much, much harder to get in.

Yeah, that wasn't the case back in the day.

It used to be, you just walked into a school and you went to the principal's office if you needed, you know, to give a note to your child or bring them something that they needed, medication or whatever.

And you were not stopped or asked or frisked or

no security at all.

It's a much different situation.

If there was a fight that broke out in a school, like, you know, the gym teachers coming down the hallway to help break it up.

Like, that's how that, yeah, that's how it worked.

That's not how it works now.

No.

So it is, it is, you know, in some ways, it's so much better.

And the sleepover thing, I think, is part of this.

Like, we, we hear these big, you know,

these terrible stories and they do happen.

But, you know, generally speaking, these rates are a lot lower than they used to be.

And that's positive.

Yeah.

We should, we don't need to bubble wrap our kids as much as we do.

But one of the, one of the concerns, apparently, in addition to the, the abuse, if you don't know the parents really well, um, and do you really know anybody well enough to to trust your kids to be there overnight?

I don't know.

I don't know because you just never know.

So it's so funny.

We just talked about this.

I know.

And it's not logical.

It's not.

It's not logical.

It's not, but here's how illogical I am.

My daughter, my youngest daughter, was 16.

So this was a few years ago because she's 22 now.

But when she was 16, she wanted to walk down.

My wife wasn't home.

And so she came to me

and said, I'm going to go down to the pond.

We've got a pond like half a block from the house.

She just wanted to go down there and hang out.

I don't know, throw rocks or whatever she was going to do at the pond.

I'm like, no, no, you can't.

Wait, 16?

She couldn't go to the pond half a block away?

Half a block away.

No, I don't want you at the pond because who knows?

So I'm illogical that way.

I am too.

I'm not sure why.

Because logically, I do know that the crime rate is much lower.

And, you know, what are the chances of her being kidnapped or whatever at 16?

Very low.

It's low.

Very low.

Really, really low.

I think part of this is,

I know this is, I can only, I'll speak for myself here.

Part of it is like, I just don't want to be the one who approves the thing that goes wrong.

Like, I, like,

it's almost selfish in a way.

Like, I know I would beat myself up till the end of time if I was like, yeah, sure, go down to the pond and then God forbid something terrible happens.

And so you just decide, like, no, just eliminate every bit of risk from their lives.

That's not how to build, you know, a healthy adult.

I think we're seeing the effects of that.

And so i do try you know when i realize this instinct to myself i try to cure it in real time my kids do sleepovers uh they do yeah they do we haven't stopped that i although i have seen noticed there is some hesitance among parents now you know i'm not in the parents groups as much as my wife but occasionally she tells tells talks to me about this that she's talking to one of her friends and you know they don't they don't really like to do sleepovers with their kids and again you know these are people that they are friends and you know a lot of times that they know and i I would think trust.

But there is a, there's a hesitance.

And I just, I think we just kind of jump to the worst case scenario a lot.

Yeah, we do.

And according to this article, it's pretty prevalent now where parents say no to sleepovers.

Like really?

Yeah.

They're worried about, you know, not, not only are they worried about crime, but they're worried about whether or not the people have guns in their home and whether they're locked away safe or whatever.

So there's a gun fear.

So like, so I'm a, let's say I'm a liberal and my kid wants to sleep over at Pat Gray's house.

Pat Gray is probably a gun.

I got guns.

He's got them all over the place.

They're probably laying all over the counter.

Of course.

Oh, yes.

They leave them out on the kitchen counter.

Yeah.

Like you're, you know.

AR-15s out there and a couple of nine millimeters.

Right.

They're just hanging out like, you know, if you go to like the dog toy basket, there's just an AR-15 in there, and I don't want my kid in that environment.

That's kind of the stuff you're talking about.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

So.

What else?

Is there any other concerns?

COVID exposure.

Okay.

All right.

So like I'm a COVID-0 guy.

I'm wearing wearing a mask.

I'm wearing three masks to the gym.

Right.

You know, and then I'm coming home and I don't want my kid because you, as an evil conservative, are probably just.

Well, not only do I have guns, I've got the COVID virus that's just in Petri dishes all over the house.

All over the house.

All over the house.

And you add it as like a spill season

each meal.

Yes.

You're just, instead of salt, you're sprinkling on COVID.

Yeah.

Also, is there, are there alcohol or drugs in the home?

Okay.

Because, I mean, that's true.

Like, there's a,

some people have alcohol in their house.

Some people have it and make sure that it's protected from their kids.

And others like might just have an open liquor cabinet that.

Might, yeah.

I mean, I remember this back in the day.

There were kids that their parents, you know, would drink, you know, drank alcohol, and they would, they would, they'd have their ways of drinking some while the parents were at work and like filling the bottle back up with water and like trying to cover it.

And like that stuff happened.

That was that was a real thing.

Yep.

What about older siblings?

Is that a consideration?

Do they have older siblings worthy of that?

Yeah, I get you.

Right.

Okay.

I can see that.

Right.

Oh, my God.

I'm never letting my kids sleep over anywhere.

Why are you scaring me like this?

No, I know.

Again, I think there's appropriate,

you do have to think about these things as a parent.

I mean, I think one of the big things is, do you trust that other parent?

Is the parent going to be home?

Can they keep you safe?

Are they going to make sure things don't go awry?

Right.

In the middle of the night, you know,

you want your kids sneaking out and vandalizing the neighborhood, right?

You know, that you want to make sure that they actually stay in the house, you know, maybe, especially when they're younger, that they actually go to bed at a decent hour.

Like, you know, we've had, you know, we've had our kids sleep over their friends' houses a couple times and they come back and like, you stayed up to like 2 a.m.

now, didn't you?

I can tell because you're a different person today, and you look like you went on a bender for six weeks.

So I,

you know, you got to get that sense of not every parent has the same standards as you.

Like, you know, my kid, you know, they're going to go to bed basically at the same time every night.

It's not going to be too late.

And speaking of that,

some parents, apparently, have come to a compromise where you can stay there till, you know, late, like 10 or 11 midnight.

Yeah, and then go pick them up.

And go get them.

Yeah, that's like a, they call that a half over.

A half over.

Or a late over.

Stupid.

You're a weird group of people.

Oh, man.

It's just, it's amazing.

So,

but I just find it interesting because apparently a lot of people have just decided it's not worth it.

And so they just say no, just because

they don't want to mess with any of the risk.

Who knows what could happen?

Maybe nothing, but I'm not going to take the chance, which kind of makes sense to me, you know, being a

probably

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You found a statistic on the school shootings?

Yeah, I mentioned this, that it was, you're more likely to die in the 90s.

And so I wanted to dig up in the break the actual statistic because it is literally one of the most mind-blowing things that I've ever looked at in this data.

And the reason I looked at it is because, you know, of course, we are in the middle of this gun debate all the time.

Every time there's a school shooting, it's we need to take away all guns.

So I wanted to look at what does this actually look like?

You know, what's the, what are the facts?

So here are the facts.

I got it.

I did get it a little bit wrong, I should confess.

This is a stat, and this is as of 2018, just so you know.

So it doesn't reflect the, you know, the recent shootings or the recent

rise in violence that we've had, particularly since COVID.

But it doesn't.

It would, it would minimize these numbers a little bit, but it's, you know, still largely true.

Someone who went to school in the 1990s was four times as likely to die in a school shooting than a student is today as of 2018.

That's

surprising.

It's surprising.

It's jaw-dropping.

Four times, even someone like people like us who really believe in the Second Amendment, really don't believe in the media coverage of the Second Amendment,

who are, you know, follow this stuff closely every day, even I.

would have never imagined that was accurate, but it is, or at least it was as of 2018.

It'd still be multiple times.

It'd be three times.

Three times, maybe.

I don't know.

I'm just throwing it out there.

I don't know exactly.

But the bottom line was: you know, when overall crime rates are higher, these things happen and they just don't make a dent in the news, especially when they're not designed for spectacle.

And that's the biggest problem, I think, with mass shootings that we have not figured out how to cure.

It's got nothing to do with the guns.

It's not even a security issue, or, you know, in some ways, it's not even a mental health issue.

It's a spectacle issue.

People are trying to get this attention.

And

if you don't cure that, you'll never stop the mass shooting thing.

But I mean, to think that, like, we were, I was in real danger back in the day, Pat.

I feel like I was dodging bullets all the time now.

I don't remember any of those shootings, but I'm sure they occurred.

Had to have.

Had to have.

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It looks like Alec Baldwin.

This is a surprise to me.

He has been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Wow.

Didn't expect that.

I thought he just...

Just skate because he's Alec Baldwin.

Yes.

I could see that.

Probably would have that was leading the board in Vegas on what was going to happen.

Yeah, I would say.

Had to be.

Yeah.

Had to be.

The most likely option that he would just get no one.

He had no responsibility for it because

he wasn't aiming the gun and he didn't shoot the gun.

Well, he did both of those things.

Somehow both of those things happened with the gun in his hand.

Right.

So it's kind of strange.

And I think he has a legitimate defense if he didn't load it and he was told it was a blank and

all those things.

I think

he can't be held responsible for not knowing that there was a real bullet in there for some reason.

I mean, that's something that should be taken out of his hands as an actor.

Yeah, so I think both he and the armorer, the person who put the bullet in there, are being charged, are facing the involuntary manslaughter charge.

Wow.

So that's amazing.

That's big.

All the stuff he's done.

That's really something.

He's had a bunch of bumps with the police over the years.

Good old Alec.

But I mean, for these poor people who were killed, I mean, geez.

Yeah.

You know,

there should be some justice there.

Yeah, somebody should pay a price because, you know, it cost a woman her life.

Seriously.

It really did.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, that's happening now.

Now, what's the punishment for something like that?

It's probably not that dramatic, right?

Is it jail time even?

Involuntary manslaughter?

Involuntary?

I think they make you stop doing really bad movies.

Oh, my God.

That's worse than prison time for him.

That's all he wants.

That's, yeah, that's all he does.

Wants to stop doing really crap.

He wants to keep doing really crappy movies and you gotta stop he can't he can't when's the last movie what's the last alec baldwin movie that you saw or slash liked let me think

um

i'm gonna say he was in he was in uh one of the mission impossible movies with tom cruise okay and he was pretty good in that i liked him in that i mean he is a i i do think he's actually a pretty good actor yeah he's not bad but uh yeah it's been a while but they're not there's not a lot of great you know I never hear, hey, are you going to that new Alec Baldwin movie?

I don't think those words have ever been spoken by anybody I know.

So Mission Impossible Fallout is the one you're talking about, I think.

I think it's 2018.

Yeah.

Okay.

And, you know, so four years, five years ago now?

Yeah.

Wow.

So it's been a while.

Since then, there hasn't really, I wouldn't say there's been anything notable per se.

Are you looking at the IDB?

IMDB?

Yeah.

I mean, there was a DeLorean movie, which actually sounds interesting.

I wouldn't DeLorean about that.

Oh, okay.

I saw that.

Framing John DeLorean.

I saw that.

Any good?

It's kind of a documentary/slash

acting thing because he plays John DeVlore in it, but it's also part documentary.

So it's like he's doing reenactments.

See, again, like that's not necessarily the peak of a weirdly done thing.

Yeah.

The boss baby, he's the voice of Boss Baby, which is friggin' voice stuff.

I saw some of that because I have kids.

Oh, right.

Going back, though, it's been

a while.

Did you love the boss baby thing?

You know, it was, as those movies go, it was okay?

It was really,

I guess.

I don't know.

I don't remember it exactly.

Oh, he was also in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation.

Yeah, that's the one I see.

He was in Concussion, the anti-NFL movie.

That's 2015, but we're getting back here now.

That was a pretty good movie.

Have you seen it?

I think I did see it at the time.

It was not bad.

I mean, they're going after the NFL.

And I feel like there's a little bit of that stuff that's like, oh, we have a perfect understanding of this thing now.

Let's blame all the people who may have gotten some things wrong before.

There's a lot of that going on in that

concussion story.

Yeah, there is.

We're like, you know, one of the big,

what makes it a great movie, right?

This doctor, wasn't he, Nigerian doctor, out of nowhere.

No one knows who he is.

He discovers this thing.

He tries to get attention and everyone blows him off.

Well, that's because he was a Nigerian doctor out of nowhere that no one knew.

That's why that happened.

Now, that doesn't mean it's...

But they act like it was an evil thing.

Right.

And it was evilly done by the NFL.

Like, if I remember the, and it's been a while since we did the concussion stuff, but like the year that the NFL, the year that Boston's, the Boston University Hospital was very, I think it was BU.

It was one of those hospitals that really kind of was the leader in saying, hey, you know, a bunch of collisions in sports like this is going to lead to CTE.

That, the year they discovered that, I don't remember which year it was, the next year was the first year the NFL put in restrictions.

Like they immediately, the next season acted on that and started changing things.

And like, you know, maybe it didn't happen as fast as possible, but like, I don't know if it took the university hospital that long to recognize it.

Like, are we supposed to say like the NFL has a bunch of employees, very highly credentialed doctors who said this wasn't the case?

And like, of course they believe the people that they hired.

They should have hired the Nigerian doctor if they believed him.

They looked at the other.

And then people are like, oh, well, it was all about money.

And like, I'm sure, of course, like

that stuff leaks into these decisions at times.

But like, we just love to do this.

Everyone loves it.

They did this with Ronald Reagan back

with AIDS.

You know, HIV, you know, starts coming out.

AIDS starts coming out.

People start freaking out about it.

And everyone's like, well,

Ronald Reagan didn't even say the word AIDS until 1986.

They say this stuff all the the time.

And you go back, first of all, it wasn't even true.

He had said it, but it was not true.

And he funded

research.

He was the first president.

The first year after

it was named by the medical authorities, he funded research.

He was the first president to fund research.

He raised it by like about an average of 80% every year he was in office.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

And

you go back and you look at this and it's like people say he never,

he never spoke about AIDS until whatever it was, 1986, whatever the year was.

And it's funny because, you know, what happened in 1984, Pat?

People might think of it.

The BYU won the national championship.

Is that what you're referring to?

Definitely not what I was referring to.

Really?

The BYU national championship.

No.

That was not.

It was very memorable, but no.

I thought it was as soon as you said 1984.

No, most people know the BYU national championship in football.

I mean, a disproportionate amount of people in this audience did say that.

But yes, no, that's not what everyone said.

What they might think of is the 1984 presidential election.

And what happens in a presidential election?

First of all, the president goes all over the place and answers tons of questions from reporters and then does a bunch of debates.

Guess what?

None of the reporters or debates, none of the questions were about.

AIDS.

AIDS.

Not one question.

The entire presidential campaign in 1984 were about this topic.

I'm sorry, were all of the reporters also anti-gay?

Why didn't they care care at all about this topic?

They didn't ask them about it once.

Right.

So, I mean, again, it's just idiotic

to apply this retroactive sort of justice to people who were dealing with things at a time they didn't know have all the information we have now.

I think the first awareness I ever had of it was, what, 81, 82?

in there somewhere.

I mean, we didn't know that much about it in 84.

We didn't know a lot of things about it.

And there was all kinds of sketchy information about how you get it and how you pass it on.

And people didn't know.

People didn't know.

They were in an era of uncertainty.

They didn't have all the information we have now.

So to judge them by those standards is ridiculous.

The knowledge was ramping up.

And by the way, he did a lot.

I mean, Reagan did a lot to stop this problem.

And he was the person who started it.

He started the fight against AIDS when it comes to government funding.

Sure did.

And usually the left, the only thing they care about is government funding.

They don't care about the private efforts to do anything about it.

They only care about government funding.

And, you know, this was the research into this was highly funded, especially for that era, especially from a guy who specifically was trying to shrink government.

He expanded it in that area.

That's how much he cared about it.

And, you know, it was not on the top of the mind of most Americans at that time.

And you could say that that's wrong, but it was not just a Reagan problem by any means.

If anything, Reagan did more to help it than anybody else at that time.

So, again, this stuff just seems to happen over and over again.

And

that was all from trying to figure out a movie that we saw from Alec Baldwin that we liked.

I go back to

gosh, I mean,

I'm trying to find.

I mean, he was in the Aviator, 2004.

The Aviator.

Okay.

Yeah, that was a good movie.

That was a good movie.

I liked it.

I mean, one of my favorite movies of all time is The Royal Tenonbombs, and that was 2001.

So we're going way back to find,

I think, a lot of his, you know, one of his

good times.

It's been a while.

Been a while.

So anyway, poor Alec Baldwin, maybe, maybe getting in trouble a little bit.

Charged slightly.

With two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Still pretty surprising.

Wow.

Why are you going to this bad news when we have all this good news?

I know.

I'm setting new records.

Really, really good news.

I'm incredibly excited about this.

I hope you are as well.

We have.

Get ready for it, America, because you've been, you have,

especially if you have some liberal friends, you know people who are responsible for this, and you should give them all the credit for this today.

Make sure you find one of your liberal friends today and give him a hug and say, congratulations and thank you.

Why?

We have officially hit the debt ceiling.

Yeah.

$31 plus trillion dollars.

We've done it, America.

Yes.

$31.4 trillion, I believe.

Yes.

Yeah.

$31.4 trillion.

Very exciting.

That doesn't mean, of course, we do anything.

We don't stop spending or cut spending or get any more

easily responsible.

I mean, don't even engage in crazy talk.

As Nancy Plus said, there's no crumbs left.

There's nothing left in the cupboard.

There's nothing to cut.

There's nothing in this government to cut, Pat.

So we are not going to do that.

What we're going to do is shift money around for the next few months and try to avoid catastrophe.

That's what we're going to do.

All right, good.

And, you know, it's funny.

I love it.

What if the, I'm really, I'm fascinated by the media coverage of this particular thing because what they say is Republicans are trying to use this as some sort of negotiating tool.

And McCarthy's out there saying, look, we, we're ready now to negotiate this.

Like, let's not wait until catastrophe is right around the corner.

We don't want that.

We want to do it right now.

And Republicans are saying that, like, hey, like, let's deal with this right now together so we don't have to push us to the economic limit.

And when we get close to that economic limit, because of course the Democrats are outwardly saying, we will not negotiate with you on this.

No, we're not going to talk to you about it.

We're just going to wait.

When we get close, the media will all blame Republicans.

Mark my words, this will occur.

They will all say,

this is usually in the past,

Republicans and Democrats just passed this.

It was a bipartisan thing.

They didn't even, they didn't have any cuts.

This was not supposed to be a political football.

They just came out and they passed it.

And that's the way it's supposed to be.

The whole point of the debt ceiling is that this does not occur.

There's no point in having a debt ceiling in reality, right?

The debt ceiling is, there's no reason to have one

in a basic pragmatic sense.

You just keep borrowing money until people will stop borrowing money.

The debt ceiling is in lieu of a budget.

Right.

And it's part of that, right?

Like what we say, the debt ceiling was put in so that we wouldn't just constantly overrun every number.

We'd have to stop and think about it.

It was put in there to intentionally make it difficult to raise this limit so that you'd have to act and try to change things when you wanted to raise it.

If you're constantly passing the debt limit, you have to constantly keep addressing these issues.

And hopefully, it will scare the people a little bit in Washington to do something about it.

That's the whole point of it.

There's no reason to have a debt ceiling.

You know, other countries don't have debt ceilings.

The point was this was a conservative.

wall put up to say, hey, guys, if you're going up to this wall, something's wrong.

You need to change something.

And if you're all going to agree that you can't do it this time, okay, but you're going to have to at least vote to raise it.

And so that has happened many times, but it also has occurred where conservatives mainly have said, hey, this is wrong.

We can't keep doing this.

And let's cut spending.

Let's find some things

to cut, to change, so that we don't hit the next debt ceiling in another six months.

That's sensible.

It's what you're supposed to do when the debt ceiling comes up.

You don't wait till the last minute.

It's the Democrats that are waiting.

Republicans are ready to do this.

You know, you can blame Republicans for a lot of things, and I do, but

this is Democrats.

This is what they're doing, and this is entirely their fault.

And if we do get close to this real catastrophe where we can't pay our debts, it will be their fault.

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It was in Pearl Harbor.

What?

Alec.

Alec Baldwin.

Pearl Harbor.

Oh, I was going to say, he doesn't seem that old.

So he was.

Doolittle.

That movie.

Remember that?

Not particularly well received.

I liked it, though.

Some people did like it.

I mean, it definitely had

some amazing scenes, I can remember.

He was in one of my favorite romantic comedies, Notting Hill.

Okay, okay.

Yeah.

He was in that bathroom.

But

1999.

Yeah, you're going way back.

It's been a long time since he's been in just really good movies.

Yeah.

So.

And now,

it's not going to be in anything.

I mean, certainly,

like, let's say Alec Baldwin is not a normal person.

Like, he's a weirdo and kind of like a real head case and has had all sorts of problems on where a million different things.

But can you imagine?

If this happened to you, let's say in the most innocent way.

You are in a movie, you have a gun, gun, a shot, you know, a scene with guns, you think you're pointing a gun at somebody for, you know, a rehearsal, or even in a scene, you pull the trigger and the person gets shot.

Can you imagine how would you live with yourself?

I couldn't.

I mean, it's not your fault at all in this scenario.

I don't know if Alec Baldwin was at fault, but in this scenario, painted as not your fault at all, it would be soul-crushing.

How would you go back to doing another movie with a gun in it?

You'd be terrified.

It would be virtually impossible.

I think they finished that movie, didn't they?

Did they eventually eventually go back and do it?

Because

I think it's coming out.

Yeah, I think Rust is going to happen.

This has happened throughout history.

We should maybe do this here in a couple of minutes.

There's this, you know,

one of these articles, I think it was from like BuzzFeed or something, but it was the

20 different

behind-the-scenes moments that are incredibly creepy from movies that actually happen in real life.

Some of them are insane, and I didn't remember them.

Really weird things that happened on set Okay, that oh actual things

during the filming of the movie and they're just either really strange or really sad or weird the way they handled it some of the stuff I couldn't believe I mean people dying on set and then them using it in promotional movie posters later on for the movie.

Oh, like the actual death

You could not do that today.

No, no you should not do that.

No, that's a bad idea in every way possible.

But we should bring you some of these.

Some of these, I was like, I couldn't believe some of them.

And, you know, this is what happened.

I guess,

you know, you get through some of these.

The world has changed a lot.

Sometimes, look, we do get on this kick a lot that the world has changed.

And a lot of times it feels like hell.

Some of the things are improvements.

Yeah.

There are some of them that are improvements.

And maybe not using an actual death of

a person in a movie to promote a movie.

Maybe that's a good thing.

It's one of them.

Like, imagine if they put Alec Baldwin on the cover of this movie and released it.

like, as he's shooting, they use the real scene that he's really shooting.

Like, that was really happening back in the day.

Yeah.

Which, yeah.

I mean, think about that.

There's no way you get away with that

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We were talking about Alec Baldwin and the shooting that he was involved in.

He's being charged with involuntary manslaughter.

And we kind of got off on a tangent here of these movies in history that have these weird moments behind them.

And some of them are really, really strange and weird and disturbing.

You know, like we were talking off the air.

It was Bruce Lee after Bruce Lee died in the film.

He died after filming, you know, during the filming of Game of Death, which is the name of the movie.

But he died and they had his funeral and they actually used footage from his funeral in the movie.

So like his actual corpse was in the movie.

Oh, wow.

Which is kind of a weird, a weird thing.

A little creepy.

A little creepy.

A little creepy.

Didn't somebody hit him in the stomach or something as part of the test for that?

Or am I thinking of somebody else?

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure on that.

Yeah.

But we mentioned this one before, which is, I think, maybe one of the most unbelievable things I've ever read.

The film Kane, C-A-I-N-E.

That was the name of the movie.

They were doing a stunt.

It It had something to do with sharks.

And they were doing a stunt scene with a shark.

I guess they prepared the shark to be docile.

So he would swim by this person.

It was an underwater scene.

It would be danger, but nothing would happen.

I didn't know you could train a shark.

That's interesting.

I guess there's certain things you can do to like almost like they say they dragged it.

Let me read this to you because it's incredible.

So this in the waters off of Mexico's...

one of their islands, a movie company was shooting a sequence for a film called Shark using a docile bull shark that had previously been dragged onto a beach for a period to make it groggy.

I guess that's what they did at the time.

However, suddenly a huge white shark appeared

and went through a protective net,

and then it swam up to the camera lens as crewmen inside steel mesh cages grabbed for their spear guns.

The shark wound up killing the stuntman.

Then, the movie company, instead of being like, oh my god, we can't release this movie, they changed the name of the movie from Kane to Shark

with the tagline, Shark will rip you apart.

Then in the promotional materials, they included the actual pictures of the guy being eaten by the shark.

Oh man, that's hard to believe.

That is hard to believe.

To the point of like, you can see the blood in the pictures of this guy dying.

Oh, man.

And they use it for the promotional pictures.

Incredible.

Kind of not cool.

Kind of not.

No.

It is sort of disturbing.

There's some really weird 9-11 stuff, too.

Some of it's just like...

So

remember the Dana Carvey movie Master of Disguise?

No.

Not a lot of people don't either.

This is when Dana Carvey tried to leave SNL and kind of have a movie career.

This movie bombed famously.

Maybe this was part of the reason it wasn't all that funny, though.

They were filming it and apparently were informed of the events of 9-11 during the turtle scene where he looks like a, he's disguised as a turtle.

And so they're in the middle of filming this.

They hear about 9-11.

They have a moment of silence and then go back to the turtle scene.

Can you imagine?

You just hear about 9-11 going on.

You're like, all right, back to the turtle thing.

All right, let's get that done.

Another interesting 9-11 one they have.

This is from BuzzFeed, by the way.

Paris Hilton, remember

her scandal initially that kind of brought her into everyone's attention was her sex tape.

And she had sex with somebody, and it was on tape.

And then the guy, if I remember the way this worked, the guy wound up releasing it, like he wound up releasing it as an adult film, essentially.

And it was right after 9-11 had happened.

So the actual porn movie starts with in memory of 9-11, we will never forget.

And then it goes into a stolen sex tape.

Wow.

That one's weird.

Wow.

A little weird.

However, I will say, I don't know if anything beats this one.

Remember the X-Files?

Sure.

X-Files goes on for years, all about conspiracy theories.

Then the X-Files is ending, and they decide to try a spin-off thing.

The spin-off is called The Lone Gunman.

I guess it was like in the X-Files.

There was like a conspiracy publication called The Lone Gunman.

And

they

try to spin this off, and they have a pilot episode that they run for this show.

And in the pilot episode, which airs in March of 2000,

they

talk about a conspiracy to crash a plane into the World Trade Center.

This, again, was on television in March of 2000.

How do we not, how did I not know this?

I don't know.

Wow.

Yeah, I've never heard of that.

I've never heard of it either.

And so then the people who created the show were like, the first thing we thought of was like, we just aired a show where this happened.

Or it was

in the show, I believe it was a narrow miss.

They didn't actually,

you know, complete the journey into the World Trade Center, the terrorism.

And in the movie, it was a conspiracy.

Supposed to be a terrorist attack, but in reality, it was like the government or like, you know, arms dealers trying to, you know, start a war or whatever, which, of course, was a big part of the actual conspiracy about 9-11.

Yeah.

But I think we, did we dig this up?

This is, We actually dug up some of the footage.

It's a little, it's really, really grainy and hard to understand at times, but listen to this.

This is again from before 9-11.

Okay.

We know it's a war game scenario that it has to do with airline counter-terrorism.

Why is that important enough to kill for?

Because it's no longer a game.

But if some terrorist group wants to act out this scenario, why target you for assassination?

Depends on who your terrorists are.

The men who conceived of it in the first place.

You're saying our government plans to commit a terrorist act against a domestic airline?

There you go.

Indicting the entire government, as usual.

It's a faction.

A small faction.

For what possible gain?

The Cold War's over, John.

Oh.

But with no clear enemy to stockpile against, the arms market's flat.

But bring down a fully loaded 727 into the middle of New York City, and you'll find a dozen tinpot dictators all over the world just clamoring to take responsibility and begging to be smart bombed.

I can't believe it.

This is about increasing arms sales.

When?

Tonight.

How are you going to stop them?

Why didn't you tell the world this?

Go to the press.

You think I'd still be drawing breath 30 minutes after I made that call?

The press?

Who's going to run this story?

Byers, you want to clue us in?

We got a plane to catch.

So they decided to get on the plane and try to stop it from inside the plane.

Interesting.

Is it the targeted flight?

Wow.

It was chosen primarily for its visibility.

It's scheduled to pass 1100 on its way to Boston.

Boston?

You said they intend to bring this down in the middle of New York City?

At this point,

so they left from Boston.

They're going to Boston, I think,

in the show, instead of leaving from Boston, but pretty close.

And they're looking at a map in this scene where you can see where they're where the the destination

of the flight is the flight plan

they're mapping the data now and they're looking at where does it where's the data where are they gonna where's it gonna go

but they stop it you said before they get to their destination yeah they eventually get on the flight this is when they're figuring out where the flight's gonna go

unscheduled stop stop in 22 minutes.

Corner of Liberty in Washington.

Corner of Liberty in Washington.

World Trade Center.

Gonna crash the plane into the West.

World Trade Center.

Oh, my gosh.

They just said it.

They're going to crash the plane into the World Trade Center.

So, anyway, it goes on to show the scene.

Did that movie play in a cave in Afghanistan?

That's amazing.

Incredible.

Right?

Because I remember when 9-11 happened.

Bizarre.

Thinking to myself, okay, it was hard to predict.

Like, how could anyone know that they were going to, you know.

Right.

You would never think of that.

And then here it was on TV, like, a few months earlier.

Wow.

Did you say that was from 2000?

I think it was March 2000.

I think it was.

Oh, okay.

So, like, a year.

A year and a few months before.

Yep.

Wow.

Isn't that bizarre?

Really incredible.

I didn't know about that at all.

No.

Apparently the show did not do very well.

I never really caught on.

But

yeah.

And you see in the movie, they're going right at the World Trade Center in a plane, and then they pull up in the typical movie way, or this is a series, but like they pull up as hard as they can on the you know the plane, and they just miss the top of the World Trade Center as they go by.

It's really, how the heck did that happen?

Wow.

A couple quick more before we go.

Uh, Jim Caviesel, when he was filming the uh, you know, played Jesus and Passion of the Christ, was struck by lightning during the filming of the passion, of the passion, wow, and the assistant director was also struck by lightning twice,

neither were injured.

How is that possible?

How do you get struck by lightning and not be injured?

Kind of incredible, right?

Yeah.

And let's see, there's one more.

Oh, but this one's kind of, this one's really dark.

Special effects artist John Richardson.

He was, you know, in the Omen.

He was, we did the

makeup for the Omen.

He was the one who did the makeup for the decapitation scene in this movie, which is a very, very, you know, horror movie.

He was later killed in a car crash that decapitated his assistant.

Oh, my gosh.

There's a bunch of this stuff.

It's a crazy.

I'll tweet it out if you want to

make your life a little worse today.

I don't know.

I mean, I think some of that stuff is really weird.

There's a lot of like

creepy situations that happen.

And

I don't know.

It's tough.

Some of it's just so difficult to believe.

I mean, the 9-11 stuff is incredible.

The fact that they put that before Paris Hilton's sex tape is incredible.

And I hope people didn't forget.

You know, you go in, you're like, wow, I'm never going to forget 9-11.

Then you watch Paris Hilton have sex on camera for like a half an hour.

And then you're like, gosh, I no longer forget 9-11.

I hope that's not how that turned out.

Thank God they put that

reminder at the beginning of that movie.

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Patton Stu for Glenn of the Glenn Beck Program.

Hopefully, he'll be back tomorrow.

Not positive on that.

We'll see.

But here are some amazing news that I...

I don't know that anybody's really talked much about.

Are you aware that abortions dropped by 99% in Texas since the ruling?

99%.

99%.

That is incredible.

Is that worth losing the midterms over?

You bet.

If that's what caused it, and I don't think it did.

I don't think there's a lot of evidence that shows that the reason...

Well, first of all, we should point out.

The Republicans didn't lose the midterms.

Well, they actually won.

They just won by less than they expected.

That is different than losing.

If that lost the Senate

in the midterms, it's still worth it.

The Buffalo Bills expected to blow out their opponent in the playoffs this week, right?

They expected to blow out their play in Miami, right?

Yeah, because they had their third-string quarterback in.

They thought they were going to blow him out.

They won 34-31, I think it was.

That's different than losing.

Winning by a closer margin.

They won.

It wasn't great.

I admit, I would have liked it to be better.

However, Nancy Pelosi is no longer the Speaker of the House.

That's a win.

That's pretty great.

A win, to be clear.

But again, if you say the results are disappointing, a lot of people are pointing to the abortion ruling being part of that.

It probably was in certain areas.

Like there's some evidence to say in certain areas,

you know, where abortion was more of a borderline issue, that it may have affected and brought over a few voters to make those margins smaller or maybe lose a few races.

But

if that was the price to pay, a 99% reduction in just one state, Texas.

Let's talk about that.

If it was only one state, certainly it would be worth it.

We're talking about people's lives here.

Thousands of children.

Listen to this.

Compared with the 2,596 abortions recorded in the state in June of last year, the number in August

was

68 abortions.

So it went from 2,596

to 68.

That's incredible.

Now, the stats from September through the end of the year haven't been released yet.

So we don't know if that held up.

Right.

I mean, and there are some exceptions for things like Life of the Mother, which is why there were 68.

Because there's really no opening for abortion at this point in Texas other than that.

I will say, though, you know, you have to look.

It's not that the news is not that good overall because, of course, a lot of people leave the state.

Yeah, and go to California.

There's the abortion pill thing where people are getting pills mailed to them.

So some of these things are still occurring.

One of the initial estimates as the entire picture was that abortions dropped by 10%.

Now, Now, even if that was just it and it was just 10%

nationwide, it's a huge, huge win.

I mean, more significant of a win than anything Republicans would actually do if they won all of these elections.

You'd never get.

Especially since they almost never do anything.

Right.

They almost never do anything.

I mean, what's more significant?

Your 4% tax cut or

saving 10% of all aborted children?

I mean, what's the number, Pat?

You know, it's 60-some-odd million since Roe versus Wade.

Yeah, almost 64 million.

I mean, it's an incalculable

worldwide.

It's 1.5 billion.

So

she can't even wait her head around.

That is an incredible accomplishment.

It is.

And if that's all you get done for a while and lose some elections for it, fine.

Yeah, fine.

Right.

It's that significant.

And again,

I don't think, and I don't think you do either.

I don't believe that that was the cause of losing the Senate.

No.

Oh, no, no.

I don't think so either.

There's not a lot of evidence of it.

There is some evidence in certain states where, like, what you saw in states where it was not an issue, either a very bright red state or a very bright blue state, didn't seem to do much of anything.

And, you know, like New York, Republicans performed very well in New York because no one in New York believed, okay, they're going to get rid of abortion, that we're a blue state, we want it.

In some of those purple states where it's a little more difficult to see, like a Virginia, you saw some differences there, potentially.

I mean, but again, you're all it's all theorizing there.

The bottom line is, it's a big enough issue to lose an election.