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Really bizarre situation last night on Monday night football.

Potentially tragic, but hopefully the person involved will pull through.

But

they stopped the NFL game for the first time I've ever seen

and

just didn't play it

after

a 24-year-old safety just collapsed after a tackle.

We'll get into that, talk about what happened there, and a lot more coming up in 60 seconds.

And it's Patton Stew for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

Last night on Monday night football,

DeMar, is it DeMar Hamlin?

Yeah.

Yeah.

DeMar Hamlin

made a tackle.

He was just, I mean, it was a routine tackle.

Yeah.

It looked like.

Totally routine tackle.

Running back ran into him.

It kind of hit him in the chest.

Maybe leveled his either helmet or shoulder pads and kind of hit him in the chest.

And

Hamlin wrapped his arms around him and they both went down.

Hamlin got right back up, and then he stumbled backward and fell to the ground and had had a cardiac arrest.

It was really strange.

24 years old, healthy athlete.

But you heard some explanations about what that might have been about.

Yeah, I mean, there's obviously everyone's going to become a hard expert over the next couple of days.

I will attempt to not go down that road.

I mean, I was listening to, and there's a former NFL team doctor that I, you know, follow on social media, and he did a broadcast about it and

talking about the most likely outcomes.

Obviously, they're going to go and look at this

and look at every possibility.

And we should, of course, investigate every possibility.

There's this thing, Commodio Cordis, which I, of course, don't I'm not an expert on and don't know really anything about, to be clear.

Not, not much of a heart surgeon.

I mean, I do occasional heart surgeries on the side, you know, I mean, like just, you know, like a morning weekend guy, you know, I don't do it for a living, but you know, I'll do some stuff for charity.

Anyway,

so like discount surgery, heart surgery.

Yeah, like I try to keep it, at least keep the price down for people who need it.

Yeah.

You know.

So if you can't actually afford somebody who went to med school,

then they call you.

Yeah.

I mean, and that's what's amazing about stuff like YouTube.

You really can learn almost anything.

So if you happen to be someone in that position, like, hey, I need some major heart surgery and I only have Saturday open, my doctor won't do it, or you just aren't insured, you know, I can, I can probably help you out.

But that's really just a side thing for me.

The only reason I know anything about this at all, in all seriousness, is because I was a little league coach.

And so, like, and I remember as, you know, when I was in Little League when I was a kid, like, they threw you out on the field.

You stood 10 inches away from aluminum bats striking the ball at your head.

They barely even made you wear helmets while you were batting.

As a parent, if you wanted water, you were a sissy.

You were a sissy, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like all that stuff.

As a parent,

things have changed quite a bit.

A lot of safety precautions taken, you know, from incidents, right?

Like an incident happens, and then, you know, these safety precautions face,

you know, fall throughout the entire world.

And so when I was a kid, you know, my son playing Little League and I was coaching,

I had never seen this before I had a kid.

But you now, as a Little Leaguer, in most areas, have to wear like a chess protector on the mound.

So, like, you know, this is in t-ball, right?

You're five and six years old.

You're wearing a not a chest protector and some sort of facial guard, right?

Yeah.

Like, almost a football helmet

on the mound, which again, this was not the case when I was a kid.

No, when I was a kid, we were doing kid pitch at this age, and just line shots were coming back at your head, and you were just supposed to move.

Duck.

Right, duck, get out of the way.

That's what the whole point is.

You get hit in the head with it.

Right.

Put some dirt on it.

Yeah.

Let's go.

So

walk it off.

Yeah, exactly.

That's all.

Yeah, rub some dirt in it.

Move on with your life, walk it off.

Yep.

Now, of course, apparently they tried that with somebody at some point, and they couldn't move on with their life.

So, what a sissy!

Who was this sissy that ruined baseball for us?

I don't know.

Oh, man, I want to hear from them.

But they put on a chest protector because of this particular thing, which is incredibly, it's very rare, but it does happen to athletes.

It happens mostly in athletes and car accidents.

Those are the two two times it happens.

But basically, it's blunt, a blunt object, in this case a helmet, sometimes a baseball, sometimes a steering wheel,

hits you in the chest.

It can't even just be a chest hit.

It has to happen at the exact time during the heartbeat that it, like, you know, they have a chart of it, which I've seen over the past 24 hours, where like, you know, you see that little like, you know,

EKG, it has to be at the exact moment.

Like, there's like a, you know, a 10-millisecond area that if it it hits right then it can it's not like a a typical heart attack it's cardiac arrest it's different and it can it's not like a systemic heart problem with the person where like if you know you you know we we all we have of course jeffy here who who works here who has a weekly heart attacks what's the at this point is it weekly or bi-weekly bi-weekly bi-weekly heart attacks and you know the and i love jeffy and we he had a really scary he did incident a few years ago where he had a really bad heart attack because of a blockage and, you know, I don't know, all of his arteries would be my guess.

So this has nothing to do with that.

It's not like that.

It's not like you, you know, you.

Just a freak accident that stopped his heart for some reason.

Yeah, it basically just, if it hits at this moment, the heart just turns off.

And if you can get the heart beating again very quickly, usually people recover from it.

That's what we're hoping happened here.

The doctor who was a former NFL team doctor basically said, look,

the best place to collapse

from a heart issue like this is in a hospital.

The second best place is probably on the field in an NFL game because there's so many people right there looking at all of this with all the best equipment available to go immediately.

And they did get to him quickly and got his heart beating back on the field.

They gave him CPR.

Which is crucial.

Yeah.

If, you know,

someone had mentioned they had held the ambulance for the mom to get through the stadium and come down so she could go.

And they were like, that's a really good sign.

Like, if your vitals are back and they're holding an ambulance, all his vital signs were normal by the time he got to the hospital.

So that's really positive.

Yeah.

I think, you know, they're.

I don't know how he's still in critical condition, though.

He's not critical but stable, but all his vitals were normal.

It's kind of weird that he'd be in critical condition.

I mean, look, it was really bad.

And just to watch, you know, taking out of

the cause of it and all that, like watching the broadcast, you just don't see multiple NFL players on the field sobbing.

Yeah, I know.

I've never seen anything like it.

Praying, sobbing.

Praying, sobbing.

Like,

it was really disturbing to watch.

And it was, you know, it's the thing that the NFL has.

And again, I fear.

You've never seen them stop a game like that and just stop playing and, okay, go home.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

Of all the injuries we've seen, we've seen people be, you know, somewhat paralyzed.

Dow Stingley got paralyzed from the neck down.

They didn't stop the game.

They didn't stop the game.

They take him off the field and they keep going.

There was a player back in, I think it was the late 50s or early 60s on the Detroit Lions who had a heart attack during the game and died on the field.

Ooh.

And they continued the game.

Oh, my God.

They finished the game.

I didn't realize that an NFL player had ever died on the field.

It's been a long time.

I think the cause for that one was like an undiagnosed blockage in an artery.

Like it was like a normal heart attack.

This is something totally different.

Is it just cardiac arrest?

Well, you know, and it's, it's important to hear the explanation because otherwise the speculation begins.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, that's all I want.

I want to hear the explanation of a healthy 24-year-old who has cardiac arrest on the field for no reason.

And then, you know, and it sounds reasonable.

Okay, that does happen.

And then you don't have the speculation going on that it's, you know, whatever.

And look, we all know what happens to people on social media when you speculate on stuff like this.

But like, it should, you should, A, should be able to speculate.

You know,

it may, this is an initial report from a doctor who was watching it on television, right?

And there's, and, and look, I think we are at the point with all of this stuff that wherever you are on it, when it comes to, you know, obviously, like, there's a lot of speculation about the vaccine and all that.

Wherever you are on it, you're going to remain there.

No amount of evidence is going to push you one iota of an inch in any direction.

I think that's where everybody is.

So I don't know there's all that much value, but I do think all that stuff should be, everything should be looked at.

Like, this is the type of story that like we will get a lot of initial reports and people will find what they want to find.

They will also not find what they don't want to find.

Like everyone's going to find in these initial reports kind of something that supports what they believe, I think.

That being said,

over a long period of time, you do get, I think, real reporting on this and real information.

And hopefully we find more answers.

Because I think everyone has

like it's a very strange incident and it's not something that I think.

It's very weird and understandable that people would have questions.

I do, like, whether this was the Commodio Cordis or something else, like, we know that does exist.

It does happen to players.

It does happen to people in car accidents.

You know, it happens, obviously, at least, I feel like it's like the,

you got to x-ray your candy type of thing.

I don't know if it happened like one time or if it was like common, but I know that my kid looked like a football player on the mound playing little league ball while kids were hitting T-balls at three miles an hour toward him for some reason.

I assume at some point this was a concern.

So you look at this stuff and we won't, we're never going to get,

we're never going to get answers that please everybody to this stuff.

I think what's interesting though is

there has been a

long time fear in the NFL that this could be the type of thing that everyone's sitting around, their television, having a nice family moment, watching an NFL game, and someone drops dead on the field because maybe more of like a really rough hit or something else.

Like, I think that was more of the fear, right?

Someone just gets absolutely destroyed and hits their head and dies, right?

Like something of that nature.

But like, the NFL has been terrified of this.

There was a profile of Roger Goodell,

who's the commissioner of the NFL, and he, the, the, the title of it was like, Roger Goodell is terrified that someone's going to die on the field during a game.

Like, that was the title of the profile.

Like, this is like their.

Well, they've had to battle the CTE thing for years now, and I think that scared the crap out of them.

And so, yeah, somebody dying on the field, can you imagine?

That could conceivably shut down the NFL.

And it's the type of thing that

there are a lot of enemies of the NFL.

This is

a masculine game.

It is

a part of our culture.

It is literally called American football, right?

It is that key to the culture of the United States.

It is the most watched show every year.

It is the most watched show every week.

It is

as central to the American culture as anything else.

It is that big of a deal.

And if you don't think that there are plenty of enemies towards something that is that central to our culture, especially, I mean, like, the left wants to shut down everything that is American culture.

Did you see the movie on, what was it called?

Concussion?

Yeah, with Will Smith.

Yeah.

I mean, they make the point in there.

They own a day of the week.

I mean, they do.

And so.

And it was, you know, it was the day of the week that was previously owned by God.

Right.

Yes.

Like, I mean, that's exactly their telling of the story.

Yeah.

And

they own it so much that

college football won't do their ball games on Sunday.

When they're on January 1st, January 1st is supposed to be college football bowl day.

And instead, they moved it to Monday, yesterday

because of NFL football.

It is incredible.

It's amazing.

You know,

our church has three services, and it's like, it was 9,

10.30, and noon, I think, think, were the three times.

Yeah.

And I don't know, a couple of years ago, they shifted it to 8.30, 10, and 11.30.

So that you could avoid the 2000s.

I swear that's why they started time.

I swear they wanted, because

we're in Central Time, by the way, so the NFL game started noon.

And I got to tell you, I make the decision of which one we go to based on when, like, the Eagles are playing at noon, which they were this past weekend.

You're going at 8:30.

I'm not going at 11.30.

No.

I'm going to 10 or 8.30 because I, you know, like, I mean, you know, I don't know if I'm proud of that, but like, hey, if I can get both of them done, you know, why wouldn't I?

And I swear, because when they had it at 11, or you know, it was, yeah, it was 8.

No, it was 10, they had it at 10:30.

So the 10:30 one would end at, you know, 11.45, and then you're like jamming your foot on the gas to get home in time for the start of the games.

And, you know, I don't know how many car accidents were caused by this.

All of them.

All of them.

All car accidents.

And now we have to wear chest protectors when we drive.

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I'm emotionally scarred from this Little League presentation that I received as a coach back in the day because it was the only reason this

when I heard this term and they started describing it, the only reason I remembered it was from this presentation.

It was before the

Commodio Cortis thing.

Commodio Cortis.

Where your heart stops due to blunt force.

Blunt force,

heart object, right in the right spot at the right time.

And so they did this presentation.

And this is Texas Little League.

Right.

So you know that they're running up against a lot of flack from

Texas Little League.

Nobody wants to wear a chest protector.

Even their chip, they don't want their kids wearing a chest protector when they're pitching.

No.

And this is, it wasn't even pitching, Pat.

It was T-ball.

Oh my gosh, you're kidding.

It was T-ball.

T-Ball.

And you know, and you've watched T-ball before.

Like, the kids are going to be a little bit more.

You just hate T-ball to begin with.

And then you put the chest protector on the kid at first

on the mountain.

On the mound.

Yeah.

Come on.

And they did this presentation, and it was like, wow.

It was not.

First of all, it's a rubber ball, right?

It's a rubberized ball.

It's a harder, yeah, harder, rubberized ball.

And then, secondly, the ball's being hit about half a mile an hour back to the if they can reach the mount with the ball.

It was like a big play.

Yeah.

You know?

I mean, only the best kids can get it back to the mount.

But they were like

intense about it to the point that they said, if, because they know, I mean, look, Texas parents are like, come on, rub some dirt at it.

And so they said, if you are caught with not having your kid with a chest protector on the mound, not only will you be,

you will be removed from the league as a coach.

My gosh.

And your kid will be,

you know, I don't know.

Put in jail.

Put in prison.

Thrown in a dungeon.

I don't know.

It was something where.

Your kid will be bussed directly to Huntsville.

Right, yeah.

Guantanamo.

I think it was Guantanamo.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

That's even better.

But they were freaking serious about it.

I mean, it was like a lengthy, that was the central thing I remember from it.

Because, of course, as a kid, as a parent of a young kid, you're terrified of every little thing.

You know, you don't want them falling over and hitting their head on the corner of a table.

So you've got like every, you know, as they grow up.

But like, I remember that thinking to myself, what are they talking about?

I had never heard of it before.

I mean, I played Little League all when I was a kid and not even a consideration.

No.

But so it is, you know, look, it is a rare thing.

It must have happened at some point, right?

Even in t-ball, maybe.

Yeah, it must have been.

Or some level of baseball to justify this.

I think that's why your lawnmower says

don't mow your lawn on the roof.

Snowblower.

No, snowblower.

Don't the snowblower on roof.

Yeah, somebody's done it.

Somebody did a pass.

Some brilliant person did it, by the way.

That seems like actually a really good idea.

That's dumb.

But yeah,

it's one of those things that scars you as a parent as you get into that because you're like, what?

Wait, you're saying what could happen?

Is it okay for me?

And look, if you don't think that tackle football around the country is going to take a massive hit from what happened last night, I'm talking for kids.

It is.

It's going to, I, you know, we've been on the fence on this because, you know, look, there's, I played tackle football as a kid.

Me too.

We all did, right?

And in Texas, it is like a different thing.

I played in Connecticut.

In Texas, like seventh grade seems to be the year that literally every boy plays football.

Like, it's not even like, even if you don't like football, you just get on the team and play that one year as like a tradition.

Yeah.

And everybody plays tackle football.

Flag football has grown in popularity as some of the health concerns have come out.

And so they keep extending how long you can play flag football for a while.

It was like to like fourth grade and it was fifth grade, sixth grade.

Now it's like all the way to eighth grade.

But like, you know, my son desperately wants to play tackle football.

My wife does not want my son to play tackle football.

You know, and I

I don't want my kid to be, you know,

just as a parent, like, God, if you put him in there and something happens, you're going to blame yourself for the rest of your life.

But, like, I guarantee it took a massive hit.

Just people watching that game and watching that happen last night to protect their kids.

There's going to be a lot of parents that want a bail on this.

Pat and Stu for Glenn on the the Glen Tech program.

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It looks like the first trans

prisoner execution is about to take place.

Never had one in the United States before now.

Finally, we've achieved equality.

Right, right?

That's our

goal, right?

Yeah, I guess.

Unless Missouri Governor Mike Parsons grants amnesty, Amber McLaughlin, 949, will become the first transgender woman executed in the United States, scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.

So there's no, apparently there's no court appeals pending or anything, so this might

actually happen.

The petition also includes reports citing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

I thought that wasn't a thing anymore.

I thought, I thought, now, I guess only

if it's a benefit to the trans person is it now a thing.

But gender dysphoria is a condition that causes anguish and other symptoms as a result of a disparity between a person's gender identity and their assigned sex at birth.

So that's what they're, that's what their lawyer is, is claiming now,

that, that they have gender dysphoria, so you should grant clemency.

Don't know if that's going to work.

I guess we'll see.

This is kind of a convoluted, sort of upside-down situation now.

Yeah, it's fascinating because I thought the way that the media handles this is when transgender people commit terrible crimes,

then you just say they're not really trans.

That's what they did with the non-binary mass shooter, right?

They were just like, ah, we don't believe them.

Like, wait, wait, you've been telling us for months and years we're not allowed to not believe them.

Exactly.

It's only what they say about themselves.

We can't determine their gender.

It's impossible for us to do it.

It's only what they say it is.

That's your standard, not ours.

That's right.

And then when the guy comes out, he's like, yeah, I'm non-binary.

No, you're not.

No, you're not.

No.

No, no, you're not.

No.

We want you to be

a white-in-cell male.

So you are a white-in-cell male.

Wait, I thought only the person could determine this.

That's not the way it works anymore.

Well, even with George Santos, you know,

the most popular and most incredible representative in all of Congress now.

Now they're asking if he's even gay.

Oh, right.

Because he's openly gay.

Right.

Right.

But now, is he really gay?

No, he was once married to a woman, so he's not gay.

Oh,

that's fascinating because they will.

None of this stuff means anything to any of them on the left or in the media.

Like they don't care at all about

we get to this point, I think, sometimes because of the drumbeat of these daily stories where we think, oh gosh, they're so committed to this transgender cause that X, Y, and Z.

Well, no, they're not committed at all to the transgender cause.

They're committed up until

the extent that it helps them at that moment.

And then when the next moment, when they need to completely reverse their position and say the exact opposite of everything they've been saying, then they will do that.

It's incredible.

We've seen it with

the women's rights stuff, right?

Like Leah Thomas.

No, of course, Leah Thomas is a woman.

Of course.

How dare you question how you are inhuman.

And then something happens where they have to say how important women are in sports, and then they just switch.

Yep.

They switch completely to now all you should care about is how important women are in sports.

And they get away with all that.

Only women can get pregnant, you know.

Remember that one?

Yeah.

It's like, oh, wait, you guys have been telling us forever that men can get pregnant now.

Now only women can get pregnant again?

It's like in this, whatever.

If it suits them, whatever helps them in a given moment

is all they will do.

And this is why I think like, you know, there's sort of this divide on the conservative side as to whether,

you know, to boil it down maybe is whether you

stick with your principles

or you embrace their tactics,

right?

Whether you just say, screw it, they are constantly being hypocrites.

Let's also be hypocrites, right?

Like, and

while I don't like that approach, you know, I do.

In moments like this, you understand why it exists.

You could understand why someone would say, you know what?

I don't care.

I don't care if we're going to sound exactly like them and we're flip-flopping on something we said five minutes ago.

It's what helps us at this moment.

And if they're using that tactic, we should use that tactic.

I can understand people making that argument.

And it's almost that overt.

Yeah.

Just do it.

Just do it.

Who cares whether it connects with your underlying principles or not?

Now, a bigger part of me says you should care, right?

Like you should, I don't want to be them.

I don't want to be them whether we win or lose a battle here or there or not.

I don't want to be them.

I can't.

I can't live with myself.

I can't live with myself if I turn out like MSNBC in the end.

But

I can understand why people want to do it.

You know, the fighting fire with fire thing is an understandable instinct at this point.

This is incredible.

Yeah.

It is.

And in this George Santos situation, reading the way we were talking about that yesterday.

I want to make sure I understand.

This is the first openly gay congressman elected as a Republican and a non-incumbent.

Exactly.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes.

And he apparently lied about certain aspects of his life.

Yes.

And so, you know, yesterday I was a little,

maybe flippant about how big a deal it was.

I mean, the guy has lied extensively, though.

Yeah.

And just completely misrepresented his life to his constituents.

And that's what they voted on, you know, based on the things he said, I guess.

Oh, this is not a good story.

It's not a good story for Republicans at all.

I thought we were clear yesterday.

Maybe we know.

But, like, this is really bad.

And

you shouldn't do it.

I think the thing I'm most fascinated about is how it was not uncovered beforehand.

Like, how it took so long, how there was not a.

Right.

How did we find out only after the guy's elected?

You didn't do any of this research

beforehand?

Like, you know, you went to NYU.

Why would you say that if you hadn't been there?

Because you know people are going to look it up if you're a Republican.

If you're a Republican, the New York Times is going to go down to NYU or make a phone call and say, hey, was George Santos ever enrolled at NYU?

And they're going to find out, no, he wasn't.

And then that's going to look bad for you.

It's quite a commentary on the state of the media, though.

I was talking to Doug Gowdy, our great affiliate, WGY, in Albany this morning.

And his point was,

how come there was no

local newspaper before this election occurred who had uncovered any of this?

Where was

it fascinating, especially in this day and age?

Now, I know the media has, there's been a lot of cuts in the the media.

There's not as many local reporters and all of that.

But, like, just considering how many people are obsessed with politics and all the people that are on the internet just tweeting for free, digging into every aspect of everybody's life all the time, you'd think this would be uncovered.

It is remarkable.

Number one, it wasn't uncovered.

Number two, that he thought he could get away with it.

Yeah, incredible.

How can that be possible?

He claimed until last Wednesday

that his mother, Fatima Devolder, worked her way up to become the first female executive at a major financial institution, and that she also worked in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

And that after the attack, she died a few years later, kind of implying that maybe it was something from the,

you know, I don't know, fallout or the building or the asbestos or something in the air that killed her.

Apparently,

his mother had never been anything but

a cleaning woman.

So there's another massive lie.

She only spoke Portuguese.

She was a cook and a cleaner.

His roommates

said that she was hardworking, but she only cleaned homes and sold food.

None of those interviewed by the Times could recall any instance of her working in finance.

Several chalked up the story DeSanto's tendency for myth-making.

Apparently, he was well known by his friends for just making stuff up all the time.

Who has friends?

I don't know.

Well, Jeffy, we have friends.

Yeah, well, that's true.

Jeffy, I could definitely see doing something like this.

He said he attended some prestigious private institution in the Bronx, the Horace Mann School, and dropped out in 2006.

There's no record of him ever attending that.

This is the weird thing.

I mean, it's amazing.

It's oddly specific.

Yeah, it is.

So you could track it down and check it.

Yeah, right.

It's stupid to lie like that.

Right.

Like, if you could say, you know, I worked in a school school.

I went to a private school.

Yeah, I went to a private school.

I was in finance.

That would be difficult to track down.

I mean, who even knows what the Horace Mann School is, right?

Like, you'd have to.

Right.

Unless you live in New York.

Right.

And I'm sure.

It's fairly well known.

Right.

It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can, the Le Mario Caprio movie where...

Yeah, but that was the 60s, you know?

Yeah.

Where it was a little harder to track things down without the internet.

Exactly.

But like he was, that was what he was doing.

He would have these very specific backstories that he told to people to fool them and to manipulate them.

And, you know, it was a great documentary.

But

I didn't think Leo did that stuff.

But it's like in 2023,

and I guess he didn't get away with it, right?

I mean, he hasn't even been sworn in yet, and he's already under lots of pressure to resign.

But today's the day.

Yeah.

And I think, look, the most likely thing, especially with the type of margins in the House we're talking about, is normally, I think in a normal situation, he would get so much pressure that they probably, the Republicans would be like, ah, remove him.

Remove him.

You should resign.

They would put pressure on him internally.

With a five-seat majority,

I will not be surprised if he makes it through this.

Every once in a while, this happens, you know, like

candidates go through really crazy stuff.

It seems like they're going to resign.

But let's be clear.

Democrats wouldn't resign over this.

No.

They wouldn't even acknowledge it.

Again, look what Biden is light about.

His entire life.

I mean, we knew that during the first presidential campaign he ran back in 1988 when he claimed that he graduated with three degrees.

He had one.

He claimed that he was at the top of his class.

He was near the bottom.

He was certainly in the bottom third of his class.

He claimed all kinds of things that just weren't true.

And he even admitted it.

There was a, we played this a few weeks ago on my show, Pac Ray Unleashed, where he's admitting back then to exaggerating to make a point.

And he said he does it all the time.

Yeah.

Well, and he does.

But it's okay for him because he's folksy.

Right.

And it's funny because, like, that's essentially the defense of what we were just describing from the friends of George Santos, who were saying, like, look, you know, he's just a guy.

He just makes lots of stuff up.

He's always making stuff up.

Like, that is essentially Biden's 50-year excuse for this problem.

Yeah.

Oh, that's just Joe being Joe.

Joe being Joe.

You know, yes, he lies.

He makes stuff up all the time.

He describes personal memories from his life that didn't exist.

It's charming.

What was the thing where, remember back, I guess this was, I can't remember which campaign he's run for,

he's run so many times, but it was the Katie's

restaurant, was it?

Yeah.

Katie's restaurant in his hometown that had been closed for decades.

And I can't remember the details of it.

But like

every single time this man has run for any office, he has

He has been in a controversy where he's made up multiple things.

Remember, it was the other one was,

I mean, he's talked about the,

it was one of the presidents making a speech on TV.

He remembered seeing it and the TV in 1929.

Yeah, he watched FDR in 1929 or something.

It's like, oh, Dad had been defended.

All of those things.

I mean, he's had,

I mean, I wouldn't, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say he's had at least 100 of those moments that are the equivalent or more or worse than anything George Santos did.

Definitely.

And no one cared.

Definitely.

No one cared.

They were all just little quirks.

Oh, Joe Biden.

He occasionally does go off the rails a little bit, but we love him.

And that's why we give him a big Joe Biden hug.

Oh, we love good old Uncle Joe.

George Santos is Satan, however.

And let's write, what has there been?

Eight?

Eight pieces in the New York Times about this guy?

Easy.

Who, again, was, if you did not live in New York, I guarantee you had never heard his name before.

You had never heard of him

before

the New York Times started flying reporters to Brazil to look at court records from when he was a teenager.

Incredible.

Hunter Biden, he gave you a laptop with every single interaction he has had.

Over multiple years, which included him with hookers, with drugs, with potentially shady business dealings.

You had all of it, and you ignored it for at least a year before you even admitted it really was a laptop of undermining.

Even after you admit it, you continue to ignore it.

Yep.

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Hey, over the break, did you see what Michelle Obama had to say about Barack?

Fascinating.

I think she was on, was she on the coven?

You know, the view with the little coven that they have.

They got the witch's brew in the middle of it.

And then they had Michelle in there talking to him

about,

you know, the past.

People think I'm being catty by saying this.

It's like there were 10 years where I couldn't stand my husband.

You know?

Wait, why?

So great.

I mean, and the first thing that comes to mind is, well, okay, well, great.

We got some common ground with you that I didn't think we ever had.

That's a sort of bipartisanship I didn't know existed.

Yeah.

We also couldn't stand your husband.

And as a matter of fact, still can't.

You said 10 years.

And guess when it happened when those kids were little, right?

Right.

Right.

When you were like, you know, you can use a senator and you were coming into the White House.

Right.

And the first years of the presidency, they were little.

So that's when you couldn't stand him?

Interesting.

I wish we had that information back in the day.

That's interesting.

Fascinating.

Why would you ever say that in public about your husband when you're both so high-profile?

Really bizarre.

But that's who she is.

This is the Glenn Back program.

I'm interested in the human composting story.

It's really?

Yeah.

You got some bodies or you've been looking to get rid of me improve the soil?

I mean, yeah.

The soil improvement will be significant, I think, with human compost.

Yeah, I have.

Yeah.

I mean, what's the next step on this?

Soil and green?

You know,

it's people.

It's people.

45 seconds.

Yeah, I don't have my machine turned up, but

it is people.

And we learned that, what, 50 years ago, exactly?

In a documentary.

Yeah, in the documentary, Soil and Green.

So we'll be eating people soon.

I mean, if they can't push the bugs down our throat, they'll try to push cannibalism down our throat.

It's coming.

It's coming.

Just incredible, the

lack of respect for human life and humans and death, for that matter.

Turn us into a compost.

Morally, if I had to choose between cannibalism and bugs, I would pick bugs.

Bugs, me too.

But taste-wise, I think the experience, I make pick, might pick cannibalism.

The bug thing, all the legs and ugh, ugh.

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What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

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So what's coming up in the year 2023 for us?

We'll give you a, well, we'll give you all the important information on that from people who apparently know and have predicted our future.

Let you know what that is in less than 60 seconds.

It's Patton Stu.

Got some predictions for the coming year.

From

some people

I wouldn't normally expect predictions from.

Like,

you remember Dmitry Medvedev?

Oh, yeah, he was.

Former president of Russia?

Yeah, he was the guy who

I remember President Obama talking to, and President Obama mentioned he had a lot more flexibility after the election for whatever shady thing they were discussing.

He also was the guy who there was a time where there was a Russian constitution.

I don't think you can really make the case there is one anymore, but the Russian constitution said you can only have two terms in a row.

So they went Putin, Putin, and then they went Medvedev for one term as like the puppet.

And then they went right back to Putin again.

And then Putin was like, this is stupid.

No more of this.

So then they canceled that whole clause.

And now he can just stay in there forever.

Yeah.

So now apparently he's into,

I don't know, psychic predictions.

Really?

Yeah.

He has said, let's see, for Europe and Asia, there will be a fourth Reich created this year, encompassing the territory of Germany, Poland, and the Baltic states,

the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Kiev Republic.

What is the, is he talking about Ukraine?

I think he's denying Ukraine as a country, basically.

Okay, so, and other outcasts will join that fourth Reich.

He also had several other predictions related to the economic and financial situation, including that oil prices will rise to $150 a barrel.

Gas will top $5 per thousand cubic meters.

No way to tell what that is because it's the metric system.

And there's no way to know.

There's no way to know.

No way to know.

Is it that you just don't know?

No, no, no.

There's just no way to tell.

With the metric system, it's a mystery.

You can't get there from here.

There's no conversion.

Exactly right.

He also claimed that all the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the U.S.

and Europe and move to Asia.

Further, the Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading the IMF and World Bank to crash.

Euro and the dollar will stop circulating.

They're going to stop circulating this year as the global reserve currencies.

Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead.

For Europe,

he claimed that the UK will rejoin the European Union, leading to its downfall.

Hmm.

That would be an unusual circumstance.

They just left it.

Now they're going to want back in, I guess.

And he says the EU will collapse after the UK's return.

Euro will drop out of use as the former EU currency.

Poland and Hungary will take control of western parts of what he says is the formerly existing Ukraine, while Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland.

This is really interesting.

Interesting, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

It is.

War will break out between France and the Fourth Reich, which has been yet to be created, but will be this year, I guess.

Europe will be divided.

Poland repartitioned in the process.

Now, for America,

he says that the U.S.

civil war will break out in the U.S.

in the coming year.

He claims California and Texas will break apart from the rest of the country and become independent states.

Texas and Mexico will form an allied state.

Ha!

Yeah, I don't

like to see that.

As someone who lives here, it seems a tad unlikely.

It does.

And Elon Musk will win the presidential election in a number of states, which, after the Civil Wars end, will have been given to the GOP.

Wow.

What a soothsayer he seems to be.

Now, I have

a couple minor problems with that.

Elon Musk was born in South Africa, wasn't he?

Yes.

So he would not be constitutionally eligible to win the presidency of the United States.

That's correct.

But I mean, I guess maybe after the Civil War,

there's so many changes.

Maybe we just get rid of that clause.

Exactly.

And, you know, look, Russia has a lot of good information.

And they tell it in a very pleasant way, usually.

Did you watch the Russian New Year celebration?

I did did not this year.

This was the first time.

Something going on with it.

The first time in about a decade I haven't been glued to the screen.

Something wrong with your DV offer.

Yes.

Yeah, I think my satellite went down.

Really?

Yeah, I think I'm going to go back.

Okay, that might be what happened.

Because I, of course, did watch it as I do every year to make sure I understand what's really going on.

Because as you know, Russia is really the center of the universe.

It's not, not us.

It's Russia.

Russia makes all the decisions.

They prop up the rest of the world.

And that's what I learned.

And then there's some other things I learned, and also some really catchy songs

I heard while watching the Russian New Year.

I think we have a clip of it, and we'll try to walk you through.

This is in Russian,

but I think you'll just enjoy it.

For the few people who don't speak Russian, there are a few in our audience.

We did go research recently.

Up to 3% of this audience does not speak fluent Russian.

So there is.

Okay.

Oh.

Wow.

Very happy music, isn't it?

Yeah.

This is not a country at war.

This is a happy country.

Now,

it's so cheesy to see.

It's amazing.

Okay, here's some commentary.

By New Year's toast this year will be a bit unusual.

During the past year, the West tried to destroy Russia.

That's what happened.

No, yeah,

they didn't realize that in the composition of the world,

Russia is the load-bearing structure.

Oh!

Which I didn't know.

Wow, that's why

he's right about that.

Yes, gentlemen,

like it or not, Russia is enlarging.

That's how they describe the war.

All right.

Okay, it's enlarging.

It's not a war.

Oh, and then.

And then back to the music.

Happy, very happy music.

Look how happy they are.

Oh, yeah, they're thrilled.

Look at the dance.

Now, this is from this year, right?

Yeah, this is this year.

This is not 1962.

No, it is of that style, though.

I mean, you could see this.

You could see

those old school, like, variety show performers in the middle of this.

And it's embarrassing.

It's so bad.

And everybody in the audience with these giant smiles.

The cheesy lighting.

Oh, it's

so bad.

It's a terrible production.

I wonder what life in Russia is like.

Because obviously, like, the battle is being fought largely in Ukraine.

So, like, their life is turned completely upside down.

And the Russians, Russians, generally speaking, are, I mean, they're having financial struggles

by some measures.

But, like, you know, life is sort of normal for them.

They're kind of just like, that's way over there in that other country that will soon be part of our enlargement.

So, there you go.

In case you happen to miss it,

the Russian New Year's

did go on.

It's interesting.

They didn't give any helpful safety tips to the Russian oligarchs, though.

Like,

stay away from windows.

Russian oligarchs, businessmen, politicians continue to fall out windows to their deaths.

That's terrible.

Out hospital windows, windows at their homes.

And by the droves, literally dozens have died.

Generals, oligarchs.

It just happened again the other day where a lawmaker, one of the Russian lawmakers, fell out his window and died.

Now, this is all coincidence, but many of them are against the regime.

That is

coincidentally, that is true.

All of those who fall out windows have been critical of Putin and the war.

So I would say if you've been critical of Putin and the war, stay away from windows.

Yeah.

You know, unless you're on the ground floor, then it's probably not as bad.

Not as bad.

But man, they are clumsy in Russia.

It's fascinating.

i you know every once in a while today is the big uh mccarthy vote we'll give you updates on that as it as it comes and and whether they can come up with a house uh a speaker of the house but it's like it we do have our challenges here in the country but like every once in a while you look around the world you're like whoa like still did you follow the peru stuff at all what happened in peru no i don't think so there's a president of peru right this i'm gonna butcher this story if you if you're like i know my peruvian politics i will definitely butcher this.

But my quick reading of it, this is over the past few weeks.

One day, President Peru comes in.

He's about to be impeached.

I guess they tried to impeach him multiple times because he was a farmer with no political experience.

And

I guess the government at the time was sort of pro-market.

They were, you know, again, not for U.S.

standards, but like, was an evil right-wing government to some of the people.

And this, a socialist sort of opposition pops up.

This guy's a farmer.

He has no experience, somehow wins the presidency, gets in, and is like from day one, a complete catastrophe.

Like he's just, he's, you know, all sorts of corruption and everything else.

They try to throw him out of office multiple times.

And they're finally getting to the vote where he's actually going to get kicked out of office, like that day.

He wakes up.

They're going to kick him out of office later that day in an impeachment vote, theoretically.

He then wakes up, goes on TV, and has a speech.

He's like, hey,

I've dissolved the government.

No longer counts.

Nothing they do today counts.

So he dissolves the government.

Okay.

Then.

Did that work?

It did not work.

No, it did not work.

The government was like, no, you can't just dissolve the government.

The military is really kind of what these things often come down to, sides with the lawmakers, not the president.

They come in, they pull him out of office, throw him in prison over a period of four hours from his speech on TV to him being in prison four hours.

Wow.

And you think to yourself,

Wow.

It is at least we have more stability than that.

Now, look,

is it totally out of the question that Biden would come on TV in an hour and dissolve the government?

No, it's definitely possible.

But even when you look at January 6th, which was a really, you know, terrible, crappy day in American history,

despite what's right almost died.

No, that's not what happened.

Like, despite the nonsense that has been made of it out of the media, like it was a riot at the Capitol.

It was an ugly day.

Some people were very, very naughty that day.

Was it the day that democracy almost died?

No.

It was not.

It was the day democracy was fine.

In a few hours, we didn't have the president removed, and we just went along with the process.

It took a few hours of delay, and the normal process went forward.

In Peru, they went from the guy was president to the guy was in prison within a four-hour period.

Like, that is, that's a dumb thing.

That's incredible.

Yeah, that's they're getting, they're getting stuff done.

We've dissolved more governments by 9 a.m.

than most countries do in a lifetime.

And you're, well, right.

At least, well, actually, a lot of countries dissolve their governments.

A lot of countries go through this stuff.

America has been pretty good at avoiding it.

We do have our challenges.

And I will say, I don't know what you think as far as the McCarthy thing goes today, Speaker of the House.

I don't know what's going to happen there.

They think it might go to a second vote for the first time since 1923.

Yeah.

100 years.

Yeah.

100 years.

I expect that to be true.

It actually went to nine votes in 1923.

And that's the process.

Again, we're not perfect.

The process seems to be, correct me if I'm wrong, Pat.

They come up, they have a Speaker of the House vote.

And if they don't get somebody, they vote again.

And if they don't get someone that time, they vote again.

And if they don't get someone that time, they vote again.

And they continue this process of just voting again

until they get a 218-vote majority.

And until then, none of the people who were just elected can be sworn in until they have a Speaker of the House.

So none of these people actually are sworn in as official members of Congress.

If I'm understanding the process right, which I will say, it's a bit convoluted.

It could be a long day for them.

And I think it could go on.

It could go on for days.

You know know what I mean?

I think, you know,

what's the process here?

You have a five-seat majority.

They're not going to give it to a Democrat.

So it's going to be, in theory, a Republican.

The Republicans have McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, who I keep calling Andy McCarthy, who is not only an actor from Academy.

It's so weird.

That's the same thing I want to do.

I don't know why.

And also, he's a writer in a National Review.

So everybody's that Andy McCarthy, I want that to be his name.

He should change his name to Andy, then he'd win the vote.

And people might think, are you the guy from Weekend at Bernie's?

I don't know.

Well, then yes.

I'm voting yes.

Yeah, I'm voting yes.

But like, what's the path?

Let's talk about what the path is if they don't get this vote with McCarthy here, because I don't know where you go.

It's going to be an interesting one.

I don't know how they're going to do it.

Back in 60 seconds.

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You know, the other interesting thing about the vote for the Speaker of the House, you don't have to be a member of Congress to be Speaker of the House.

That's right.

For instance, and this went around a while ago, you could actually vote Donald Trump in as Speaker of the House.

You could.

You could.

So maybe if it went five or six or seven rounds, they still don't have a winner.

Somebody suggests, hey, let's make Trump the Speaker.

And maybe they get it then.

I would count on that.

Yeah, I would say it's highly unlikely.

Highly unlikely, yes.

Sheffield could be voted in Speaker of the House.

He could be.

He could be.

I don't think he's running currently.

He's not.

He did run for Pope, I remember, one year.

Right.

He did not get that either.

No, he didn't.

I think Catholics consider themselves fairly lucky and fortunate that that didn't happen.

Oh, I think the whole world feels that way.

So if Kevin McCarthy does not get the vote, I still think that's probably the most likely scenario in that he maybe fails once, but then they just keep voting and eventually he gets it.

Yeah, because people just want to go home.

They just want to go home.

Yeah.

Kevin McCarthy, whatever.

And like my

reactionary sort of thought on this is I want someone more conservative.

I want someone who's

not going to get it.

It's going to be tough with this sort of Congress, right?

With five votes, there are plenty of, I mean, there are probably more pro-choice Republicans in Congress that would be able to stop someone more conservative.

Like, you have moderates who have to get on board here.

So, you have to find someone going down the middle.

Well, how do you do that?

Well,

they're going to try it with McCarthy, see if that works.

I think the most likely step after that, if they give up on that approach, is Steve Scalise,

who i think is more

again i don't think any but he's not running he's not now he'd have to throw himself into the right and that would be after failures yeah you know yeah but if they if they don't get mccarthy i think scalise is the most likely guy they can't like you know we talked to andy biggs who's running as well but like there's no way you're going to get consensus on someone like that you're not going to be able to get a you know someone who's seen as this like freedom freedom caucus type of guy it's just not going to happen because because you're not going to get the people who are on the left wing of the party on board same thing that happens if you pick some you know moderate on the left you're never going to get someone on the other side uh conservatives to go along with you have to get literally everybody so they have to try to find that midpoint they this is what they did with paul ryan if you remember back in the day now paul ryan his

his uh sort of profile on the right has changed over the years like i like early early paul ryan is like early radio head you know i i was i was a big fan uh you You know, I like the early radio head stuff.

And eventually they got weird.

And that's kind of like Paul Ryan.

Like later on, it got weird.

But like his early stuff was great.

And he was still at that moment where he was seen as

sort of a relatively conservative member, even after running with Romney and acceptable to a lot of conservatives and then acceptable enough to moderates.

And so they went along with it and kind of split the difference.

But that was a difficult process to find that person.

And I don't know that that person exists now.

You know, it's interesting that you bring up the conservatives who have sort of drifted to the middle.

It never goes the other way.

It never goes like, you know, you're somewhat liberal or maybe in the center, but you go more conservative the longer you're in Washington.

I can't think of a single instance of that happening, both in the Supreme Court and Congress.

Yeah.

Not ever happening.

The only one, the only name that comes to mind, and it doesn't hit either of your two categories there, but the only person who seems to get more conservative over time is Clarence Thomas.

Yes.

He's the one guy.

And thank God, protect him.

Love him.

Put him in a hermetically sealed bubble and protect him

from now until the end of time.

But like, even in the Supreme Court, even Scalia, you look at his voting record, it even becomes slightly more liberal over time.

It does

happen a lot.

Bizarre.

It's the opposite of what happens with regular people, too.

Because regular people usually start off liberal and get more conservative.

And then if you get elected, it happens the opposite way.

Why is that?

Washington just corrupts them.

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Joe Biden just recently said that he has cancer.

Wait,

what?

Is this breaking news then?

Here's

the way he said it.

You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window.

That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.

And why can't for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.

Wait, okay.

That's why you and so many other damn people have cancer.

That's what he said.

But the excuse from the White House is: no, he doesn't have cancer.

You're misrepresenting what he said.

No, we are taking what he said at face value.

He used the present tense.

That's why I and so many other damn people have cancer.

Why are these people damned?

I can't believe that.

Do you know why?

That's unclear, too.

That's unclear.

It is sad.

It is sad.

And I'm not sure if he's damning them

or if he has knowledge that they've been damned by a higher authority.

That I don't know.

I don't know.

I will say I have come to the conclusion that Joe Biden is occasionally imprecise in his speech.

What?

When did that?

I mean,

kind of revelation.

I don't.

I mean, I don't mean to just blurt that out.

I should have told people to pull over to the side of the road and prepared for a real right because that's a shocker.

That's a shocker.

But that's true.

It's like, I mean, that's what he said, right?

That's what he said.

Now they're saying what he said is that he had cancer before he became president he had some skin cancer removed okay i'm sorry but that is a total misrepresentation of what he actually said

they continue to just look us in the face and lie to us it really that part of this experience with biden as president really

has the 1984 echoes.

Like they are really, like they often try to convince you two plus two is five.

They often try almost every day.

Yeah.

Like, Corinne Jean-Pierre will

just say the audio you heard was not real.

Didn't happen.

It didn't happen.

I've often said on my show,

it's like they look at you in the eye and say, I

am not here.

And you're supposed to believe them.

Yeah.

No, I'm looking at you.

No, you're not.

I

am not here.

Yes, you are.

I can see you.

No, I am not here.

That's what they do every day, James.

Every day.

Biggest liars in the world.

But maybe that's why,

maybe this is the revelation of why he's so hell-bent on curing cancer, which he continually says.

If I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes in America is we're going to cure cancer.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah!

A completely fraudulent promise about curing a disease.

And he's mentioned it since multiple times.

Multiple times.

Just a few months ago, he said it again.

That's why, actually, Pat, I created the website, hasjoebidencauredcancer.com.

You did create that website.

Yes.

Well, can you look it up now?

Oh, yeah.

And see if maybe he has cured cancer.

We just haven't heard about it.

Because he said the single.

I hadn't heard that clip in a while.

The single most important change you're going to notice

is that we are going to cure cancer.

That would be a big change.

That would be big.

I will say, like, he has a lot of bad policies.

I don't think he's a good president.

If he came out with a beaker and was like, it's all cured, there it is.

I think I might vote for him.

You know, I think that's the type of thing.

It's more important to me than even tax policy, Pat.

You know, if he actually cured cancer himself, that would be a big deal.

I would say I would consider it.

That would be some brownie points in his favor.

Yeah.

Guaranteed.

A lot of people would be helped by that.

Yeah.

But that's why I created Has Joe Biden Cured Cancer.

But you know what, Dean?

To use that as an excuse that he was saying skin cancer.

Nobody says, I've had skin cancer.

You know, I've got this scar still here on my forehead to prove it.

Glenn has had skin cancer.

You don't say I have cancer if it was skin cancer and it's already been removed, do you?

At least I certainly don't.

Maybe he does.

And is he saying he got skin cancer from what?

Wait, what was the from the oh yeah, from the oil?

From the oil?

You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window.

Literally.

That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.

So wait, the cancer.

And my can for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.

So cancer, skin cancer is called

oil on windshields?

I think it comes from rays of the 2 million degree burning orbit in the sky.

Really?

That some of us call the sun.

I think that's where our skin cancer comes from.

Not from oil on your windshield wipers.

I don't think so.

No.

But

I'm not a physician.

By the way, I'm checking right now.

Has JoeBidenCuredCancer.com?

Asks the question, has Joe Biden cured cancer?

Sadly, the answer, no.

Still?

Still says no.

Still no.

According to this site that I created.

Why don't you hit refresh?

Because maybe that's old.

Okay, yeah.

And maybe that was from your cast.

Has Joe Biden cured cancer?

No.

Cancer still exists as of Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023.

Oh, darn it.

And it does have an exact to the second time.

So you can always keep refreshing it and make sure at some point, I do hope to change the site to yes.

Well, he guaranteed it.

He promised.

I know it's going to happen.

We'll say yes.

He said it's the biggest difference before 2024.

The biggest difference we would notice.

Yeah.

And I will notice it.

I will totally notice it.

We've had relatives with cancer.

We've seen people suffer.

There's a lot going on in this country when it comes to cancer.

It's one of the biggest health care costs in the United States.

If this dude cures it,

even though they announce it on a Friday, I think people will notice.

Yeah.

You know, because they save a lot of stuff they don't want people to know about for Friday because it gets buried in the weekend.

But even if they announced it on a Friday, I think I would still notice.

And most people would still notice.

It'd be a fairly big story.

Maybe he just cured it.

Oh, yeah.

Has JoeBiden cured cancer.com?

No.

No.

Cancer still exists.

Darn.

This is the worst.

Yeah.

You know, you just want it to just change.

One of these days, just going to flip to yes, and it's going to be a big, maybe we'll put some confetti on the site when it turns to yes.

How?

To really celebrate it.

And why would you make that promise?

Unless you had inside information, maybe that we're on the verge, there's going to be a breakthrough in the next couple of years, and you know that for a fact.

Well, maybe then?

I think it does tell us two really interesting things.

One,

how dumb does this man think his voters are?

Like, he is standing there there saying he's going to cure cancer.

Obviously, he's doing that for votes.

This is before the election.

I mean, he continues to do it to prop himself up.

But, like, this was a, he said it was the most important thing that would change if he was elected, right?

Essentially, like, we did a

campaign and we've done it many times over the years, a fake congressional campaign between two candidates, Harold Flimlaski and Ernie Velveeta.

And we don't really say what party they're on.

And it's just a way to make fun of political ads as they're always accusing each other of terrible things and all of that.

And one of the commercials is, I think it's Harold Von Lasky, who talks about how he's been developing the cure for cancer and he's got it, but he's only going to give it to you if he's elected.

And like, it's just a play on how stupid these campaign commercials get.

That's exactly what Biden did.

He said we would only cure cancer if he was elected.

And not only do you have the first part of this, which is his voters idiotically falling for this and him believing they might fall for it and being right,

but then also you have the media who doesn't take him to task for this.

How, think of how he's playing on families who are struggling through the battle of cancer.

And he's saying, God, just cast a vote for me and it will all go away.

All your problems will go away if you vote for me.

And there's not one critical piece from the media who says, what a disgusting display.

Right?

Like, what a disgusting thing to do.

If it were Donald Trump saying it,

you think they would say, oh, good.

All right.

We're looking forward to that.

No.

No.

They would bash him and berate him for giving people false hope, for making things up.

Where's that coming from?

What are you basing that on?

How is that going to happen?

Think of the emotional emotional manipulation he is in the middle of doing in that quote, where he's saying, hey, you know how your grandma is on the verge of death?

I can make that go away.

Just vote for me.

That's legitimately what he's doing.

And no one says anything.

It's like the 5,000th on the list of controversies from Joe Biden.

No one even mentions it.

No one is critical of it.

It's disgusting.

I mean, we've all had family members who have died of cancer or have been afflicted with it.

Pat, you know, as you you mentioned,

you wouldn't describe yourself as currently having cancer, but you've had to deal with this in the past.

Everybody's terrified.

I had a doctor's appointment

a couple months ago where they did like a, you know, the sort of checkup that you get.

I go through these extensive health checkups every several years to hope I'm not developing something like cancer.

And they do these scans of your whole body scan and they're like,

they sit you down and you're sitting there.

Don't say I have cancer, don't say I have cancer, don't say I have luckily, they did not say I had cancer.

I was very excited about that, but like, even with no

symptoms and no worry, you're sitting there worried about whether you could possibly want to hear those words, right?

And this guy's like, I can, I can make that go away,

right?

He just all you got to do, pull that lever for the Ds.

It's despicable.

It is legitimately horrible to do to people, and no one criticizes him for it.

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The whole Twitter censoring

controversy and the whole situation with Twitter continues to reveal itself.

Journalist Matt Taibbi is releasing, just released over the weekend, another installment of Twitter files that showed that the government, the U.S.

government, was in constant contact with a large number of tech firms in their coordinated efforts to censor, specifically targeting accounts that were critical of Ukraine or the COVID vaccine.

So

no matter how how you feel about the COVID vaccine, people should be able to discuss it.

Totally.

Right?

Totally.

I mean, if you can't handle a little bit of discussion about it, or even a lot of discussion about it, then, you know, just get off Twitter.

Stop looking at it.

First of all, you don't need the

build-up to that statement.

Just get off Twitter.

I mean, that is the best advice possible.

It really is.

But

Twitter is agonizing to me.

It's agonizing.

I know.

I do agree with you on this.

And I understand that it has its -

it does

a lot to direct

the media coverage in this country because all the journalists are on it.

Yep.

That's the main piece of value with Twitter.

You know, if you are on Twitter,

your viewpoint might get to a journalist who writes it up and it becomes essentially the narrative.

And this is why they want to control it so badly.

I mean, you know, I've done this.

You go through the numbers on Twitter.

It's like almost no one uses it for political commentary.

Like, I want to, I should pull this up, but it's something like only 20% of people are even on it at all.

And then when it comes down to that.

20% of Americans?

Yeah.

It's incredibly small.

That's incredible because it feels like everybody's on it and everybody comments continuously.

Continuously.

That's what it feels like.

And look, a lot of people.

I mean, 20% of the country is still a massive chunk of the country.

It's a lot.

Yeah.

But when you take that, you also take out

people who are tweeting about recipes, right?

Like, you know, who is tweeting?

Most of the people, by the way, are like not even active users.

Like, a lot of them are not tweeting routinely.

Most of the people who are tweeting routinely are not even tweeting about politics.

And you go down and it's

a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny piece of

the population that is tweeting regularly about politics.

It's less than 1%, I think.

Wow.

That's really something, isn't it?

That are doing

routinely.

Like, you know, again, people might pop one political comment in their feed that's mostly about sports, you know?

But when you're talking about people who do it consistently, it's incredibly...

incredibly small.

I'll dig up the numbers here maybe in the break, but it's like it's almost nobody.

Taibbi says the files show the FBI acting as a doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship encompassing agencies across the federal government, from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.

The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force,

which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors, from local cops to media to state governments.

Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track.

Is today the DOD and tomorrow the FBI?

Is it the weekly call or the monthly meeting?

It was dizzying how much contact they had between calls and meetings and messages.

A chief end result was that thousands of official reports flowed to Twitter from all over

through the FITF and the FBI's San Francisco field office.

This kind of collusion between the government and a private company to squash the First Amendment is

really un-American.

Yeah.

It's against everything that we hold dear and value in this country.

But other than that.

But other than that, it's great.

It's great.

Yeah.

At least Musk has opened up

the dark areas that deserve a little sunshine, that need to have, you know, some transparency.

At least he's done that.

I mean, and that's, of course, why the left hates him so much right now.

More patents too for Glenn coming up.

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In just a minute, we're going to give you, last hour, we had some important predictions from Dmitry Medvedev,

who used to be the president of Russia.

Sort of.

I mean, he was the president, but the president really made no decisions because he had Vladimir Putin breathing down his neck behind him.

Yeah, because, I mean, I heard if he started making his own decisions, he might fall out a window.

Yes, that is very true.

You know, that happens through a lot of time.

For some reason, you get really, I don't know, dizzy.

Get deep into thought, and then you get dizzy, and then you fall out of thought.

Next thing you know, you're following six stories out a window and dying.

Sad.

It's not good.

But we've got some Nostradamus predictions, so you know these are going to happen.

That's coming up in just a few minutes here.

We'll share with you what you can look forward to or greatly fear

this year.

Because that's usually Nostradamus' predictions are a little bit scary.

We'll get into that and lots more coming up.

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Coming up, last hour we had Dmitry Medvedev's predictions.

But now, somebody with a little more credibility, perhaps, in

the prediction-making world.

Nostradamus's predictions for this year.

Plus, there are some startups by billionaires that are seeking a cure for old age.

Really kind of cool.

Don't know how close they are to coming up with a cure for old age.

We'll get into that, though, and more in 60 seconds.

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Welcome in the very early stages of a brand new year.

Happy New Year.

And so this is the time of year when all the predictions start to happen.

And so somebody went through the quatrains of Nostradamus to see what was perhaps coming our way this year.

How are these things performing, by the way?

I feel like there's a quatrain.

We do a quatrain section of the show every year.

Yeah.

And he predicts.

Well, he nails everything.

Oh, so it's been 100%.

It's been about 100%.

About?

Yeah.

About red ridge.

What margin of error do you have built into that number?

Plus or minus 89.

Okay.

90.

Okay.

95 somewhere in there.

I mean, it's been a long time since he made them, so I guess that's appropriate.

Obviously, we all know about the Histler prediction, which he got completely wrong because nobody named Histler came to power.

No.

It was Hitler, stupid.

Moron can't.

I mean, S and T are next to each other in the alphabet.

But they don't look like each other.

No, they don't.

No, they don't.

Nor do they sound like each other.

They really don't.

Stupid.

One's S and one's T.

They don't sound alike at all.

But supposedly, you know, people give him credit for the Hitler thing.

They give him credit for predicting the Great Fire of London.

A lot of people give him credit for 9-11, for predicting 9-11.

So, and I'm not really sure what specific quad trade it was that predicted that.

And that's the thing because people point to certain things and then other people point to something else to prove the same prediction, you know?

So, I don't know, but here's what's coming our way this year.

Oh, he also apparently predicted the French Revolution.

Says in this article,

these were eerily accurate.

He successfully predicted the assassination of John F.

Kennedy.

Hmm.

All right.

So none of these things have a specific date, but for some reason they all point to 2023 for these happening.

And the first among them, Nostradamus predicted that humanity may face the threat of cannibalism due to a failing economy, writing, there are no abbots, monks, no novices to teach.

Honey will cost much more than candle wax.

What?

Yeah.

I mean, how much?

Wait a minute.

How much are you paying for candle wax right now?

Oh my gosh, about $147 a jug.

And that's too much.

And that's too much.

But too much.

If honey is going to be even more.

Right?

I will say,

it's interesting how things change.

I don't think I would ever.

That's like the one, the dollars to donuts thing.

Oh, I bet you dollars to donuts.

And it's like,

I think at one point, like, you got to, I guess donuts were so much less expensive Mm-hmm than dollars Yeah that it made sense but now like I think donuts are cheap,

right?

Yeah, depending on where you buy them I suppose they are I mean I guess you're buying them maybe by the dozen No, but if you go and buy one donut at Dunkin' Donuts probably over a buck at this point, right?

Well, this place right over here that you go to sometimes yeah for donuts That's very near us for 18 donuts

No, for 12 donuts.

It's about 18 bucks.

Oh, really?

Yeah, so they're more than a dollar a piece

That's amazing.

Yeah.

That's all.

The dollars for donuts cliche has been destroyed.

It was destroyed right there.

Just like the candlewax and honey cliche that everyone says every year.

So, okay, here's the prediction.

There are no abbots, monks, no novices to teach.

Honey will cost much more than candlewax.

The price of wheat will be high.

Man will be agitated and eat his friend in despair.

Because if you're paying more for honey than you do for candlewax, of course you're going to turn to cannibalism.

That just makes sense.

It just makes total sense.

Well, if you're going to put honey on something, it might as well be another human being.

Yes.

Right.

If you could afford the honey.

Yeah.

Me, I'm going to put candle wax on you before I eat you.

Really?

Yeah, probably.

I don't know if that would taste very good.

It's like that cheese that comes in candle wax, the red cheese.

Oh.

The red circle cheese.

You know what I'm talking about?

No.

Cheese wheels?

Actually, I don't think so.

What are they called?

I can't think of what they're called.

They're like, it's a soft cheese made with candle.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it's not made of candle wax, but there's like a red candle wax coating, and you peel it away, and then you eat the cheese inside, right?

You know what I'm talking about?

Yes, I do.

So that's what he did.

He predicted those clearly.

He nailed another thing.

There's another thing, by the way.

The Great War of 2023.

One line in his book stands out in particular, and it reads, seven months of Great War, people die because of evil, but their light will not fall into the hands of the king.

Put that in your pipe and smoke.

So what are we

supposed to take?

That's supposed to be about Ukraine and Russia, I guess, but it's already gone more than seven months.

So I don't know.

But this is what people do.

They jam these predictions into certain things and just say, yep, he was right about that again.

Well, no, because that doesn't really fit.

This is something that this is a good example of our prior beliefs infecting like what.

what we think.

Like if your belief is that Nostradamus is predicting the future, you find way to figure out that Nostradamus is predicting the future.

You read in the current events, you jam them into his former statements, and you just say that's what it is.

Yes.

And there's a lot of that going on.

I mean, like, the media is famous with this.

Like, if you believe Republicans are racist, then every time they make a decision, it will be based on racism.

Remember the famous thing from Barack Obama?

Uh, that the word Chicago was racist.

The word apartments was racist.

Yeah.

He was so, like, in his worldview, everyone who wants lower taxes is a racist.

So, therefore, the reason those people want lower taxes is racism.

And it's like, well, you can't operate a civilization if that's all what people, all people are doing.

And it's constant, especially with the media.

They just like they have this belief system that you know Donald Trump is evil, right?

So everything is seen through the prism of Donald Trump as evil.

So when he does something good, it's because he's got some nefarious

idea behind it.

This happened with the, I love this, this happened with the tax

release, his tax records that came out over vacation.

Trump's?

Yeah, Trump's tax records were released.

Now, first of all, and it was a nothing burger.

It was absolutely nothing.

It was all stuff that people already knew or suspected.

It was

typical

media.

I will say, unbelievable.

Their justification for releasing these tax records was like, we really don't like them.

And we think people should know.

Well, it's a private document.

If you have a legal reason to release it, maybe you can make a justification.

They were just like, yeah, we could do it.

We had the power to do it and we wanted to do it.

So we did it.

That was really all they came up with on this one.

That's a whole nother part of this.

But one of the things they talked about when you go through

all the tax records

was the accusation going in.

When they wrote the initial stories, they said, these tax records are about to come out.

Why is it important?

Well, we want to see if the tax bill he passed benefited him.

Maybe he was just doing this for his own benefit.

He did these things to pass

these tax clauses that would support his company, benefit him, and he'd pocket the cash.

And that's why,

that was their justification, right?

We want to know.

We need to know.

So then they released the records.

The first story that comes out about it is, ha ha, Donald Trump, what an idiot.

His tax bill actually screwed him over because of the salt deductions.

He actually lost a ton of money.

What a moron.

And that's how they framed it.

Instead of saying, wow, our expectation of him passing a law that would benefit him was misguided.

We were wrong about that.

Our justification for announcing all these records was wrong.

And we were

incorrect.

And we should examine why we thought that no they just flipped the narrative and now said instead of him being so smart and nefarious he passed a law to benefit himself they said he's so dumb he passed a law that hurt himself and that's how that's how they wrote it up yeah it's incredible and they do this stuff all the time This is a good example of it, though.

I think the same type of stuff happens with these predictions.

This is like, well, we believe they're true, so therefore they're true.

Well, he nailed this one.

Okay.

The most recent world event that people have claimed is linked linked to his book was the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in September following her death.

That's a hell of a prediction.

It is.

Because they disapproved of his divorce, a man who later they considered unworthy, the people will force out the king of the islands.

A man will replace him who never expected to be king.

That's not.

That doesn't have anything to do with Queen Elizabeth.

No,

as far as I can see.

They said king, not queen.

Right.

Also, okay.

I mean,

how much like Nostradamus do you need to be to predict the death of someone in their 90s?

It's not exactly.

But it was 500 years prior to her birth.

That's true.

So

there wasn't a year attached to this.

No, anyone who dies.

That's right.

Any king or queen who dies,

you're going to be able to fit this into.

So he essentially predicted that somewhere along the way in the line of royalty, somebody would get divorced and the people would disapprove of that.

Okay?

He didn't say it was Charles.

He didn't say any of that.

No.

But they later will consider him unworthy.

So what people are reading into this is that King Charles will step down this year and appoint not

William, but Harry as king.

Somehow it helped the Netflix series, I suppose, but I don't know if that's likely.

Yeah, I don't think it is.

Then

but there's not a second segment.

You ever notice this with the Nostradamus thing?

At the beginning of the year, you get the predictions.

Yeah.

And there's nobody following the end of the year.

Hey, what did we get wrong last year?

Let's look back on those wonderful quatrains and find out what he got and what he didn't get.

He's predicted an off-planet disaster for Elon Musk.

What?

Okay.

He wrote, heavenly fire when the lights of Mars go out.

Period.

The end.

That's all the

references.

That's the only thing.

What do you want to do with Elon?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Because he deals with space.

I guess.

I think we're reaching here.

Again, yeah, they're just trying to find a way.

Dry land will get drier at a forecast of floods.

The earth may suffer another climate disaster in 2023.

I guarantee we'll have another climate disaster.

There will be a hurricane or a tornado or a typhoon or or an earthquake of course that's going to happen because it always does

uh but he said the dry land will dry up even more and there will be great floods when you see the rainbow

wait what all right deep deep too deep to even understand as a matter of fact more coming up in one minute

Patton Stew here for Glenn.

He'll be back tomorrow.

Earlier in the show, we were talking about DeMar Hamlin, who collapsed during the football game last night, had cardiac arrest after making a tackle.

It wasn't a particularly, you know, heavy collision.

It wasn't a hit, yeah.

Yeah, it wasn't vicious at all.

It seemed very normal.

Yeah, but he went down and his heart had stopped, and they got it going again with CPR.

And apparently, he's stable right now, but critical.

But critical.

Yeah.

Something we didn't mention was his charitable work.

I mean, the kid's really young, but he's already started these charity products, uh, projects, and one of them was a toy drive for kids.

Yeah, and it was interesting to see the reaction as all this went down.

The fans, uh,

you know, in the in the stands, who obviously, like, you have a battle with the opposing team.

These are two of the top teams in the NFL.

Fans were awesome last night, I thought.

Like, they were like really respectful.

And, like, you know, many of them stayed for a long time just to try to get some bit of news about the incident.

And it was, it was really, I thought that was really cool.

And he did this,

you know, he's a new player.

I think this is his second year in the league.

And so he wasn't particularly well known.

He was not like an NFL star.

So he had a charity that he was working on, which is a toy drive that he started, I guess, before he was even an NFL player.

And it started going viral.

Now, after this is after the incident.

So the initial goal for his fundraising was $2,500

just to give toys to kids, which is like, you know, again, like...

It's a modest goal.

Yeah, you know, and it's interesting.

You think about these guys who, obviously you think about the star player.

You think about the guy making $20,000, $30 million a year.

There's a lot of people who have a career that's one or two years long where they make a few hundred thousand dollars a year and are out of the league.

Some people play partial seasons and like, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, a lot of money.

But when your max career length is 10 years and probably the average career length is only a couple of years, you know, that's not, you know, you're not living the high life for your whole life.

I have a friend who played in the major leagues and he was in the major leagues for a couple of years.

You know, he made great money while he was in the major leagues.

But like, you know, you're, when you're done, you're in your mid-20s and, you know, you're not the wealthiest person in the world.

You might have a good savings for someone in their mid-20s, but then you got to figure out a whole new thing to do.

Anyway, I thought it was cool that he was just doing this.

You don't realize that some of these people are doing these great community efforts and you never get any credit for it.

So he wanted to raise $2,500

and he, it's not even really clear

how recent this fundraiser was put up.

It says, it references in the write-up.

He says, as I embark on my journey to the NFL, I will never forget where I came from, and I'm committed to using my platform to positively impact the community that raised me.

I created the Chasing M's Foundation as a vehicle that will allow me to deliver that impact.

And the first program is the 2020 Community Toy Drive.

And it talks about like, you know, being hit hard by the pandemic, these communities.

So it's like, not even like a new thing, but I guess it was still going on.

It had something to do with Christmas, so this even this year's had passed.

But he's trying to raise $2,500.

And before, I guess, this incident, he had raised the $2,500.

I think he was up to almost $5,000 on this.

He's, since the incident, been able to raise more money.

The current total of the Chasing M's Foundation Community Toy Toy Drive, $3,856,740.

Wow.

146,000 donations have poured in since this went on.

And what's really cool is you look at the comments, because you can put the little comments in the GoFundMe page.

So that's just like basically overnight

raised $4 million.

$4 million.

That's impressive.

That's amazing.

And it's cool.

Obviously, you see a lot.

It shows there's still good people in the world.

Yeah, you know,

it was a really tough thing for everybody to watch last night, but you do like to see the reactions like this.

And what was cool is going through the comments on GoFundMe, where obviously there's a lot of Bills fans and a lot of Bengals fans, the opposing team from last night, who are donating.

I saw a bunch of people who were like, you know, our fantasy football winnings for the year, donating all that, which was really cool.

But like, you also see,

you know, comments from all around the country.

49ers fan.

Many thoughts and prayers from a 49ers fan in California.

Broncos country sending our prayers in love.

And, you know, this one,

you know, how impactful this guy was.

Sending positive thoughts from Philly.

Oh.

Now, as an Eagles fan, I can tell you, that's not normal.

Sending positive thoughts to anyone, not normal.

They're the people who booed Santa Claus

after all.

Like Ravens fans, like everybody from around the country, like it's nice to see that community break out, even though it sucks that it has to be something so awful to make that happen.

But the fact that now this guy has raised $4 million, we hope he pulls through this and can, you know,

but at least at the very least, there'll be some good that comes out of this.

Probably more charitable dollars than he ever thought he could possibly raise in one night.

So, yeah.

Again,

you wish it didn't happen, but you know, it's nice to see America.

There are those people out there.

I feel like because all we do is look at Twitter, because we look at the media, because we look at all these negative, divisive conversations all the time, we do lose sight that people actually don't entirely suck.

At least some.

Some people don't entirely suck.

Some people few people don't entirely suck.

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What would be your outlook for the year?

Would you say that you're optimistic about what's going on?

What's What's going to happen this year?

Or are you pessimistic?

That would not be smart to be optimistic.

It's just not smart.

Based on everything we've seen so far.

It does feel like we've been in a dark time for a long time.

Doesn't it?

You know, I can't remember when we all started saying like, oh, gosh, thank God this year's over.

It feels like, I don't know, 2015-ish.

Like, I feel like in that area, I remember thinking like, oh, gosh, thank God this year's over.

And then you realize that the next year is even worse.

And it just continues seemingly forever.

Again, that's nothing to do.

It's not a

political thing.

It just seemed like there was always something going on that was like a catastrophe.

And then, of course, I don't know that anything beats 2020, where you basically

society shuts down for multiple months.

Yes.

Well, because we're coming off several challenging years,

they just did a, I think this is a Gallup poll of Americans to find out if they're optimistic or pessimistic about the coming year.

And apparently about eight in ten U.S.

adults, which would be 80%,

think 2023 will be a year of economic difficulty with higher rather than lower taxes and a growing rather than shrinking budget deficit.

Well, how could you be anything but pessimistic about those two things?

I mean, the budget deficit thing is just a matter of whether you have ever watched politics in any way.

If you know anything about the budget, which we don't have, we don't have a budget.

Right.

So you know it's going to be bad.

We haven't had a budget passed since 2008 or 2009.

Incredible.

It's just unbelievable.

So you just got these continuing resolutions, which continue to make things worse.

They also found that more than six in 10 of us, 60%, think prices will rise at a high rate and the stock market will fall in the year ahead, both of which happened in 2022.

In addition, just over half of Americans predict that unemployment will increase in 2023, an economic problem the U.S.

was spared in 2022.

On the domestic front, 90% of Americans expect 2023 will be a year of political conflict in the U.S.

No, wait a minute.

Conflict in politics?

I can't imagine.

Coming from.

Jeez.

72% think the crime rate will raise or rise.

Some of this stuff is like,

we are just a pessimistic society, too, right?

Like we've, if you ask people what has happened in the crime rate over the past, you know, 20 years, almost everybody says it goes, it's up.

Right.

When you come to violent deaths by shooting, for example, everyone thinks it's up.

It's not.

It's down.

It's down dramatically.

Now, it's increased the last couple of years, since the pandemic, really.

We've had increases in those numbers and sometimes scary increases.

But that has not been the trend for a long period of time.

Poverty is even more

overwhelming than that.

When you look at poverty, you ask people, hey, has poverty gone up or down in your lifetime?

And I mean, it's like 90% of people say it's gone up.

And it's gone down by

a lot.

I can't remember the exact numbers.

I can pull it up, but it's something like global poverty has dropped by something like 80 or 90%.

in our lifetime.

I mean, it's really the greatest achievement of modern civilization, and no one ever talks about it.

No one ever acknowledges the fact that when we were kids,

you know,

five, six, seven, eight times as many people were just dying of starvation as they are today.

And that's due to the proliferation of capitalism.

Yep.

Of the free market worldwide.

That's why people have been brought out of poverty.

In a limited way, too.

I mean, really, it has spread.

You know, when we were, you know, you go back decades,

you have a rise of communism, right?

The exact opposite.

You have a lot of countries who have

monarchies and dictatorships and all these things.

A lot of that's gone away.

Capitalism has popped into even countries like China that still have a dictatorship.

Yes, but they've got their

communist, capitalist hybrid, which because of that,

even just that, which is, you know, they're limiting more and more these days, but even just that has helped so many people come out of poverty.

And India is even a better example of it.

I mean, India, who has embraced capitalism more than, let's say, a China, but still has a similar sized population, has had an incredible benefit from that and has dragged billions of people out of poverty.

Something like 17,000 people every day, children, 17,000 children every day that used to die of starvation when I was a kid.

Every day, 17,000 every day.

now don't die.

It's amazing.

That's it.

It's really amazing.

Think about it.

We don't stop and think about that nearly enough.

No, it's really

the biggest miracle really any of us have ever seen.

Instead, what we worry about now is you're going to get too fat from too much food.

Right.

So

it's pretty amazing.

Like, that's kind of like I thought of this before.

Like

the ultimate goal of a civilization, obviously, you have spiritual goals, you have personal goals, you have moral goals.

But taking that out for a second, what is the pragmatic goal of a civilization?

I would argue that it is you choose to die.

If you can come up with a way where you can put up enough structure around you, things like capitalism, things like science, right?

Making it,

making it, you know, maybe you learn something about your health, what you should be eating, or a new medicine comes out, or a new treatment, or whatever else.

All those things work together.

And ideally, you get to a point where the only way you die is if you treat yourself terribly.

You know what I mean?

Like you no longer are going to die because you just get cancer out of nowhere for no reason.

You're no longer going to die because, you know, you were, you just got

hereditary heart condition that you drop dead from one day.

You're no longer going to die because a pandemic comes out and wipes out civilization.

You're not going to die for a car accident because the cars are so safe,

that no longer occurs.

You have to just be completely irresponsible and essentially choose to die.

And that is a, that's like the peak of human civilization.

If we ever get there, and I think we may actually, at some point,

that's like

the end game, right?

Like you'd love to get to that point.

Yes.

And obviously, maybe even beyond that is even when you do screw up, you still don't die.

But like, you have to be so irrational and erratic and

unsafe that you don't die.

And I know they're working on this right now.

They're trying to get to a point where one of the things we've all accepted as human beings since the beginning of time is eventually you die of old age.

And what is old age, but essentially a guaranteed disease.

Basically, eventually your cells stop working, your organs stop working.

The things that you've depended on your entire life no longer

work the same way.

And there are a bunch of, you know, scientists and futurists who believe that we should start thinking of old age as a curable condition.

Well, that's a big story today.

It's one of the headline stories on Drudge

that there are billionaires who are seeking a cure for old age right now.

Like people like Jeff Bezos are working on this,

trying to find a way to stop people from aging.

It's pretty amazing.

It really is amazing.

And they have hope that it actually will happen.

Yeah.

And I don't know that you'll stop it forever.

I don't know.

They're just trying to elongate our lives.

Yeah.

And you go back, like people will say, sometimes I've, because I've talked about this and and people are like, well, you know, what you know, you look at the Bible, right?

And the Bible's like, hey, you're going to die someday.

And so humans are not going to be able to completely end that.

And I think that's true.

However, you also look at the Bible and you see people are living at like 900 years old.

Right.

Like, I don't know.

Maybe there is

a path to this.

Some way to do that.

But apparently they're looking at, in fact, they're looking at a drug that already exists and treats diabetes.

It's called metformin.

Have you ever heard of that?

No.

They're looking at whether or not that can extend your lifespan by multiple years because apparently in the UK, they've been studying that.

If regulators approve metformin to target aging,

some people believe that large pharmaceutical companies and biotechs would jump into the longevity field and make this a field where they can actually make money on, and

would they ever if they come up with a way to extend your life who wouldn't do that yeah i i mean i think one of the ways we we

cope with bad things right is to essentially assume they're normal parts of life right like we

you know we look at like a disease and we're like ah gosh they got that and like you instead of saying you know thinking okay it's it's something that can be cured or something we can get done we kind of like ah crap that you know that stuff just happens.

The common cold is a good example of it.

Like, we've sort of given, and I know scientists haven't given up on trying to cure the common cold, but we all just look at it and be like, look, at some points, you're just going to get sick.

And like, we all know that's not necessarily true because, you know, polio,

for a long time, that's what you said.

You said, oh, yeah, well, sometimes you just get polio, and then you didn't get polio anymore.

And so these things are possible.

You know, right now there's a big explosion of weight loss drugs right now that are coming out.

And they're

showing incredible results.

You know, you take these and within a few months, you lose between the first two that came out.

The first one that's out on the market right now is 15% of your body weight.

There's another one that's out that showed 22%.

There's another one that showed something like 20% in just like 14 weeks.

And like we all sort of like, I think, say it's part of life.

Sometimes you get fat, you eat a bunch of stuff, you get fat, right?

And we haven't really considered the fact that at some point, maybe in the very near future, that won't really be the case anymore.

Now, one of the main reasons these things work is because they're curbing your appetite and you're not wanting to eat as many calories, and that's part of the reason you're losing weight.

But like, you know, eventually there could be a, we could, these things could advance and you could get to a point where

you could be on Kexie cookies all day.

You're just pounding them for every meal.

Are you alleging there's calories in Kexi cookies?

Maybe a few.

When I say a few, I mean a few sticks of butter per cookie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But like eventually we could get to that point where that, you know, that sort of stuff can happen.

Where it just melts fat away

somehow.

And like the third, I think it's the second or third largest healthcare cost we have in this country is diabetes, as Wilfrid Brimley used to say.

And if you have a weight loss drug that can control people's weights, it's likely to affect the percentage of diabetes in this country.

And at that point, you may very well see a massive reduction in healthcare costs.

That could be right around the corner.

I mean, like one of these is on the market currently.

They just, they, they just 60 Minutes ran a report on it this weekend.

Uh, it's called Week Ovie, but they, they just, yeah, I saw that, just, just this week announced they finally have it back at like full dosage for people to start because it had been on the market for a while, but they didn't, they had all sorts of supply issues.

I think they, this is the drug, if I'm not mistaken, that they expect to become the biggest seller of all time.

Biggest seller of all time.

They've been so successful so far at

helping people lose weight.

Yep.

And there's another one.

That one is Novo Nordisk.

It's a company

in Norway, I think.

But

they are on the market already.

There's another one from Eli Lilly called Munjaro, which is now available for people who have diabetes.

However,

it is going to be on the market for weight loss probably later this this year under probably another brand name.

But like, this stuff's here.

It's like here now.

Yeah.

And, you know, obviously some people don't like the idea of a weight loss drug.

It's been sort of,

you know, diet pills have been sort of,

you know, shunned as negative.

Ever since FenFen.

Fenfen and previous things before this one killed like

almost nobody.

And they pulled it off the market anyway.

But these are much more effective than those old drugs.

This is also,

it's an injection currently, but I think they're working on a pill version as well.

Amazing.

Incredible.

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Yes.

For the first show of the year.

Mine comes back tonight.

I mean, I don't know if work ethic is at play there.

I don't know why my show is coming back a day earlier than yours, but I guess that's what it would be.

Stupidity?

Our stupidity.

Our stupidity.

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I'll say that's another good answer.

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Yes, he's in Florida right now.

At noon today, Ron DeSantis is sworn in, and I believe he'll be there when that happens.

I'll be interested to hear.

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