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There was a bunch of people that got in the way of traffic again.

This is a tactic that I absolutely love.

I think it's great.

The people just sit in the middle of the freeways.

You know, isn't that wonderful when they break the law and just show you how committed they are to their cause?

And it just makes you friendly toward their cause.

Yeah, that's me too.

That's exactly how I feel.

I always feel like, you know,

I wasn't going to support them in their fight against global warming.

And then I was like, wait a minute, you've ruined my day.

Yeah.

Now I'm going to support you.

Oh, I love your cause.

My kid is stranded.

I can't pick them up.

And they're stranded wherever they are.

They're like sitting outside a baseball field somewhere, just sad looking at puppy eyes and waiting for mommy or daddy to show up.

And no one's coming because you've blocked my path.

I love your cause now.

Well, yeah, you wouldn't be so selfish as to say you should be allowed to go through here.

Oh, you know, of course not.

That would be right.

I hope, even if you have extenuating circumstances, right?

Even if it's really extreme, yeah.

And there's a guy here who is trying to tell him, I've got extenuating circumstances, I could go to jail.

Check this out.

No, I'm about to get a lot of four years on my parole if I don't make my job.

His parole will be revoked if he doesn't make it to his job.

And he'll be back in jail.

One lane.

I'm asking one lane.

Why are they impressive?

One lane.

One lane.

Let me just get through here.

This is on the Beltway in Washington, D.C.

My gosh.

This poor guy, I mean, Brian knows what he did, but

to be on parole, maybe he's not the most sympathetic character, but this poor guy just wants to not go back to jail.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But even if...

All right, so police show up and do arrest the protesters,

but they also arrest him.

Right.

So

it doesn't even work out.

This is your story of the day, as all other stories of the day end in a very sad way.

Yep.

It's just amazing, Pat.

I don't understand it.

Like, you know, I will say, I watch that footage, and every time I've watched it, I've watched it several times now.

And every time I watch it, I just think to myself, I would not have been able to control myself in that situation.

No way.

I would have done something stupid.

I'm not on parole.

No.

And I would have been more pissed than he is.

Yeah.

He kind of pushes one of them.

That's about as far as he goes.

He takes their banners and he pushes one of them.

He crumpled them up, too.

He crumpled up the banners, some of them.

He might have actually discovered.

Terror isn't isn't exactly effective in a long line of traffic.

Only the first, the first cars are going to see it.

Really, they're going to see it, and they're going to see it for a very long time.

True.

But it's not really effective.

Here you are,

climate change protesters.

You're upset about climate change.

So you cause thousands of cars to idle on the freeway.

altogether because that's really good for the environment.

So that's a really, it's a good move.

It really helps your cause.

I don't understand this.

First, it's illegal to sit in a roadway like that.

You're on the Capitol Beltway, which is one of the busiest freeways in the country, and you're holding up all these people.

And I don't care if they are under a time crunch or not, you shouldn't be doing it.

And they should be immediately arrested every time this happens or dragged to one side of the road, and then traffic just proceeds.

You know, this is exactly why a lot of states have passed the law that you can safely or carefully drive through these blockades.

Even when they're in the road and they won't move, you can sort of drive through them and not face prosecution.

Missouri had a law like that.

I think Oklahoma, several other places have

proposed legislation and passed legislation that it is not illegal to drive through them.

They'll move.

Believe me, I think if you start, if you drive through there, are they going to continue to just sit there?

Well,

maybe I doubt it.

I think my plan would be

I would stand up and I would say, guys, what I'm about to do is put my car into drive.

Then I'm going to duck my head

under the dashboard here.

And I'm not going to see what's coming up.

I'm going to duck my head and it's going to roll forward.

And if you're in front of it, you're going to get hit.

I'm not even going to see it happen.

But you're going to get hit.

That is what is about to occur.

Judge your own risk and then start the engine.

Well, that's the thing.

And then anytime anybody does this, and they start to drive slowly through a group like this, they start screaming bloody murder like you're trying to literally trying to murder them.

I'm sorry, you're the one that's in the roads.

This is not where you're supposed to be.

I don't know if you're aware of that.

It's a really terrible tactic.

It's a really tactic.

I hate it.

It's a terrible tactic, and it does

nothing for you.

Except piss people off.

No one is sitting back there and saying, you know what, I've reconsidered my position on fossil fuels.

Yeah, because they're sitting in a freeway.

It must be really important.

It must be really important.

It must be important.

I'm not going to do fossil fuels.

I remember this happened in Houston when you lived down there.

Do you remember this?

Yes, I do remember this.

It was the SEIU protest for the janitors who cleaned the buildings downtown.

And so the downtown janitors group, I don't remember what they called themselves, but they brought in a bunch of.

That's a good enough name.

Yeah, I I think it just got

janitor's group.

That's the name.

I like it.

They brought in a ton of people from Chicago, from SEIU headquarters, and then imported the people.

Imported them to Houston.

And then in big intersections,

they would drive into the intersection and then dumped garbage in the middle of it.

I guess symbolic that, okay, here's the stuff we cleaned up last night, and now it's in the middle of the road.

What about us?

This will never get cleaned up.

That type of thing.

And that did not endear me to their plight no i'm telling you so they would block major inter intersections with garbage yeah huge piles of it because they'd dump a whole bunch of it and then you were like darn it give these guys a raise no

that's not how it happened that is not how it happened no no it tended to upset me and make me a bit irritable and not friendly to their cause actually so and out of spite you just wind up like i

like if that happened to me and i'm driving and i was sitting there in that traffic for all all that time, I would, even with the cost of gas being $5 a gallon, intentionally rev my engine at every stoplight for the next month just to hurt the environment.

Now, that might not be sane.

And also, it doesn't really hurt the environment, but

just symbolically to annoy them, I would do it.

Yeah.

And I would never, I would be much less likely to go along with their cause after that.

No question.

I wouldn't want to even consider it because I wouldn't want to reward them.

I don't understand how they think that helps.

It doesn't.

It doesn't.

Not to mention that their cause is ridiculous.

Bat crap crazy.

Yes.

It really is.

I'm reading Alex Epstein's new book, great book, Fossil Future, right now, which is about, you know, maybe we should consider, I don't know, using more fossil fuels, not less.

Maybe actually, you know, we'll make the world a lot better if we use more.

And he makes the case, and

I think it's really hard to pick apart, which is why the left does not engage with it.

That, you know, there, there can occasionally be

some things about fossil fuels that are negative.

However, the good totally overwhelms that.

And it is a unique ability

to create that good.

We talk about, okay, well,

we can make solar power, we can make wind power.

And obviously, there's tons of problems with that and the cost and all the things that we've talked about a million times.

But also, they don't even start to address major portions

of

our energy needs.

Really, they just produce electricity.

So, like, you know, when you're talking about heavy machinery, how are you getting that done?

You know, I know Elon Musk has a couple of prototypes out there for long-hauling with electric vehicles.

Maybe eventually that comes across.

I wouldn't put anything past Elon Musk.

You know, the guy's pretty smart and seems to be able to accomplish a lot of amazing things.

And maybe one day that technology will be real.

But as of right now, heavy-duty transportation is fossil fuels full stop.

There's no way to do it without fossil fuels.

You need them.

And

he pointed out a prediction that I had forgotten about, Pat, a prediction from Al Gore

and a need from a demand from Al Gore in 2008, I think it was, that we are completely off of fossil fuels by 2018.

And I thought, I sat back and I thought, what the fuck?

So in 10 years, he wanted to be completely off fossil fuels.

At no point did he try to get the actual reasoning behind that or how you would do that it was obviously impossible I mean look at this we're at a we've increased our fossil fuel usage since then

and we're not at zero I will tell you that and just think of now how absurd it is I mean you had you could have never predicted someone like Elon Musk would come along right a guy who was willing to throw vast amounts of his fortune at a problem he really cared about and risk losing billions of dollars, right?

He just did it because he really cared about it and was able to innovate faster than any of these major car companies could.

I mean, you could have never predicted or depended on someone like that coming along to advance in electric cars.

And even with that advancement, we're still not even remotely close.

I think it's 3% of our energy comes from renewable, from solar and wind now.

3%.

If you combine solar and wind together.

Yeah.

I think if you do solar, wind, and hydroelectric, it's like five.

Yeah, and hydro is, you know, again, another thing the left fights against all the time.

Yeah.

It just seems quite clear they don't want.

It's not about the carbon.

You know, it's about, there's this idea that you want to sort of de-industrialize this country.

Yeah, they fight against hydro and nuclear, which are both clean, renewable sources, and they won't have anything to do with either one of them.

You know, and I'm skeptical that solar or wind could ever do the types of things we need from for our power companies.

I'm skeptical.

Even if the technology improved to some level where it was capable of doing a lot more, the left would complain about that too.

Did you see the car company in, I don't know, Sweden or Switzerland or somewhere

where

they have it run on solar power?

They built solar panels into the car.

It's $245,000.

Just the $245,000.

Just Just the $245,000.

What's the lease price on that?

You know, probably about $80,000 a month.

That's not a very good lease.

I just got to put $100,000 down and only pay $20,000 a month.

Wow.

Yeah, it's up to you.

I'm in.

But

not only did it cost an extraordinary amount of money, but it also got you, I believe, 40 miles on a charge.

Ooh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So how sweet is that?

Very sweet.

Okay, you could almost get to working back one day before you had to fire it back up with the sun that isn't shining by the time you get home, really.

And so what do you do with it?

It's so impractical.

We're just not there.

We're not there yet.

Where you can say, all right, let's turn this over and let's cut back on our fossil fuels.

And I think you and I both agree that if we were there,

I'd be fine with that.

I don't have any

loyalty to fossil fuels.

I don't work for ExxonMobil.

I mean, I do recognize that they've turned

the world into a, we now have like civilization largely because of fossil fuels.

So I do give them, I have a lot of affinity for fossil fuels.

I don't, I look at them as an overall massively on the positive side of the ledger.

And it's not close.

However, if some other technology, like nuclear makes an argument here, right?

There's there's a possibility for nuclear, i think uh being a real player in in in the in the world of especially especially electricity generation and i think there's an exciting future there for nuclear it's you know it it but again it's opposed by the left it's opposed they they hate it you can always tell a serious environmentalist from from one of these idiots that's going to sit in the middle of a highway when you ask them about nuclear if they won't embrace nuclear you know they're not serious about it now you you might i think i could still make the argument that it's not it should not be our highest highest priority to go to zero carbon.

Like, that's not, that doesn't, you know, it's, it's ridiculous.

I mean, it's just essentially another attempt.

It's an attempt at man-made climate change.

It's like you were saying we had man-made climate change, so let's implement another kind of man-made climate change.

We'll adjust everything about it and try to change the climate by man again.

I mean, this seems to be an idiotic pursuit, but if you're going to go down that road, obviously nuclear would be the way you'd go.

And they don't even address it, they don't want anything to do with it, and it shows they're not serious about it.

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We found out something else about Uvaldi, and it just, it gets more incomprehensible every single time, really.

Apparently, an officer had the shooter in his sights and couldn't get the okay to fire.

I didn't really realize we had rules of engagement like that for police officers.

When you see somebody who has a rifle heading into an elementary school,

it seems like you take the shot, doesn't it?

Well, especially after the guy has already shot at people.

Right.

Yes, that's true.

Because he had taken random shots at people outside the school.

Yeah, he came, he got in the car accident.

He got out.

People ran over to help him and he started shooting at them.

That's how this whole thing started.

So he'd already fired the weapon multiple times.

And you're right.

I don't understand why you would need approval over something like that.

Could have been shot before he enters the building and avoid all of this tragedy.

It really is.

It's just, it's sickening.

I don't understand how each of these things happened along the way

from law enforcement.

You know, we're huge supporters of law enforcement.

100%.

Yeah.

100%.

I mean, I, I, the, the.

But this is incomprehensible.

It is incomprehensible.

It does seem like it's going down.

Every single decision that was made seems to be wrong.

It just was, you know, worse and worse.

And there's all sorts of miscommunication.

They, they think that maybe the request wasn't heard.

They didn't hear it.

Seems really

difficult.

Yeah.

All this stuff seems difficult to understand or believe.

And the fact that they spent multiple days saying how great they were is really a frustrating part of this, right?

The initial response.

I mean, they told the governor here, Greg Abbott, hey, these guys are heroes.

They're fantastic.

You got to praise them.

He comes out in the first press conference and does that, basically.

He's like, hey, it looks like they really minimized this.

And now he's furious about it because, you know, what he was told was completely untrue.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The opening press conference was really inaccurate.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't think it was his fault.

No, it wasn't, but Greg Abbott's fault.

It's just that they didn't do anything right, it seems.

I mean, everything they could have done, they didn't do.

And

this was

completely avoidable.

Yeah,

you know, I guess you're right.

I think it's really hard to stop these things.

And I think the idea that you can pass common sense gun legislation and you're going to stop mass shootings is idiotic.

It is, it is,

it is,

it's almost

incomprehensible how dumb it is.

It's, it doesn't make any sense.

Even if you passed, even if you passed common sense gun reform and you were right that the reason why

they

the reason why these things happen is because there's so many guns in this country.

Now, none of this is actually true, but even if you did it, all you'd be doing is slowing the new purchases of firearms.

There'd still be all these guns out there.

So, and you probably honestly wouldn't slow the purchase of new firearms.

What happened when they banned AR-15s and quote-unquote assault rifles back in the day, which was 94 to 2004, if I'm not mistaken?

What wound up happening was, of course, no effect on homicide rates, as the reports from the government clearly stated.

There was no effect.

What they did see is a few

shootings that may have occurred with assault rifles, quote unquote,

wound up happening with handguns.

So that was the big savings there.

You wind up getting shot by a handgun instead of an AR-15, and you wound up dying anyway.

That was essentially what the government found.

If there was any effect at all, they said it was almost impossible to detect any effect whatsoever.

Well, wait a minute, but you're talking about an AR-15, which was created for the sole purpose of killing people, as opposed to a handgun,

which was created

for

doorstops.

A lot of the handguns are used as a doorstop.

That's the main creation.

That's right.

The main reason for their use.

But what happened was, Pat, and this makes a lot of sense.

Let's say you got a couple thousand dollars you're wanting to drop on an AR-15.

And let's say they get banned.

You can't buy an AR-15 for $2,000.

What are you going to do with that 2K?

My guess is you're going to buy two, three, four handguns.

How many guns are you going to buy for that 2K?

You're going to wind up spending.

And that's what happened, of course.

The amount of guns in the country increased dramatically over this period where they banned ar-15s they you know it's just it this stuff doesn't make

any sense and you look how impossible it is to stop these events here's here's illinois with all these all the the gun love uh anti-gun utopia of illinois where they've passed every one of these laws uh they they first tried to come out and do what they always do well other states nearby have loose gun laws and a lot of times, we don't have any evidence to back this up, but a lot of times people are buying them in like Indiana and coming across the border with them.

And then they're committing their crimes because that's what gang members do all the time, Pat.

They go, you know, guys, let's drive to Indiana to acquire some weapons.

Let's not take them in criminal actions or borrow them from other criminals.

Let's go to a real gun store in Indiana and get our background checked because that's going to really be helpful.

That's not what happens.

And they tried that initially.

Then they found out, ah, crap, he bought it in Illinois.

So they bought all these guns in Illinois.

He was over 21.

Now, I think he actually, I think he purchased it technically before he turned 21, but he could have purchased it because he was 20.

I think he was above, you know, he was past the age.

He could have bought it 21.

Even if you changed the limits, he still would have been able to acquire these weapons.

And he went through this whole process.

They had the red flag opportunities.

Everything was there.

All the tools you could have possibly needed.

And still he bought these guns and still he did these things.

In the Uvalde situation, you can't, I don't think you can stop him from going to that school with that gun.

It's just really difficult to do this.

As I pointed out the other day, there's 150,000 schools in this country, 150,000 of them.

They all go to school 180 days a year.

Hundreds of students go to each one.

It's really difficult to pick up that one kid who's going to do something like this.

But when the police happen to be there and they happen to have a scope

pointed at the guy with a gun

about to walk into the school, yes, you could have prevented this one.

Paul the trick.

Pull the train.

And do it.

And you know what?

No one's going, you know, that.

I think they're aware that

they're terrified, right?

Every time they shoot,

every time they take the wrong action, if God forbid they make a mistake, God forbid they do something that's not so crystal clear.

We see what happened the other day, the other shooting that we talked about with police, where they shot a guy who had fired their weapon at them

out of a moving car,

and everyone's in the street protesting the cops over it.

Yeah.

So I can understand why they're hesitant, but in this situation, it seemed like they should have done the right thing.

But the guy goes in.

there were so many opportunities you know the door to the classroom he was in wasn't even locked unbelievable we find out that information because initially we thought it was locked and so they tried the door handle and it was locked and they couldn't get in and so they couldn't figure out how to get in do i break it down with a battering ram do i get a key from a janitor and in fact that we heard he they got a key from a janitor no they didn't even need one it was open that's what's so shady about this.

Look, the police, look, obviously understood a lot went wrong here immediately.

And instead of taking responsibility for it and saying, and I think there were officers that we're going to find out, did do the right thing here and say to the media, hey, guys, what they're telling you is not true.

I think we're going to find out there were some real heroes in that group that wound up going to

the media behind the scenes and

telling them what really went on here.

Because I think the leadership there decided, how do we cover this?

How do we make this look like it was not as bad as it was?

And, you know, in the moment, you can understand some of the decisions you can kind of come up with some rationale for.

I don't understand what the rationale for, though, is

for an officer to have to ask permission to take that shot.

Bizarre.

That's incomprehensible.

It's really bizarre.

On the other hand, we have this situation where a hero citizen actually saw something and said something, like we're always told to do, and it prevented another tragedy on the 4th of July.

It's just so weird that there were these

two would-be attackers that were planning another massacre in Richmond, Virginia.

But fortunately, there was a resident who overheard a conversation between the two of them, went to police, and police were able to apprehend the two men who had two rifles, a handgun, and 223 rounds of ammunition.

So

who knows how big a tragedy that could have happened?

And yet it was prevented.

The sad truth about this is that is just really hard to do.

It is hard to think of what are the odds of them being this one person overhearing this conversation and thankfully coming forward with that information.

But it's really, really, really hard to prevent this stuff.

You know, if you're going to have gatherings of people, there's always going to be some psycho that is out there trying to do something bad.

And the good thing is there's not a lot of them.

But the bad thing about there not being a lot of them is it's really hard to make a difference.

It's hard to minimize these things.

It really is.

You could do your best to try to go after

these people when you hear these rumors of, you know, when they're making videos about potential threats and

fetishizing shooters and things like this.

We've seen this trail of behavior, but like we also live in a country, and this is a good thing, that does not just arrest people when they say things that sound bad.

You know, we live in a country where we don't go, we're not supposed to, go through everybody's private communications and

all their bad things and arrest them before they've committed crimes.

That's just not, you know, I don't know if there's a, if there's a level of, you know,

I don't know what the answer is here.

Honestly, because it's such,

this is the thing that the media doesn't want to admit.

The reason why it's really difficult to deal with is because it's a really small problem.

I know it feels like it's a big problem.

We talked about this the other day off the air pat.

We went through that, they say, what are there, 309 mass shootings or something this year?

Big headline on Drudge.

The 4th of July shooting was the nation's 309th

such shooting.

Don't need to convince you that that's nonsense because you know it's nonsense.

There have not been 309 mass shootings unless you consider every you come up with the most ridiculous wide definition.

We all know what mass shootings are when we say it.

It comes from the nonprofit gun violence archives.

Right.

So you're saying that's inaccurate?

I am going to say that that is not necessarily that they're people get shot in gangs all the time.

And if you shoot two people in a gang, they count it

as a mass shooting.

That's not what we're talking about, right?

We know what a mass shooting is.

This crime of spectacle, right?

This thing where you're going out, trying to get attention, trying to kill as many people as possible randomly.

Usually, we count three of them this year.

Yeah, not 309.

Three, three.

Three.

And by the way, they've all happened in the past seven weeks.

So it's really on our minds right now.

But this entire year, there have been three, what I would consider

the traditional definition of a mass shooting.

That's Uvalde, it's the July 4th, and Buffalo.

Right.

Those three, I think, really do qualify.

Like, for example, the

next on the list for the amount of people dead

was a terrible, terrible story.

But you tell me if this fits your definition of a mass shooting.

A guy is in prison.

He escapes prison, acquires a gun, goes to a campsite where a family is camping and kills everybody in the family at a campsite.

Now,

he escaped to prison.

I mean, terrible, unthinkable tragedy.

As this, I think it was the grandfather of these kids

was just out there like trying to have a great weekend with his kids camping alone in the middle of the wilderness and gets you know really sad and gets killed.

That's not that's not what we would consider a mass shooting as an escaped prisoner.

Like I how do you blame gun laws for that one?

I believe he was not able to own a gun in prison, so I don't think any anything would have been prevented by common sense gun reform on that one.

You know, a lot of this stuff is there's another a shootout between two gangs in the middle of the inner city.

Again, not at all what we would think about when we think of a mass shooting.

By that definition, there have been three of them this year.

Three is more than zero, which is the goal.

But stopping three incidents in a country of 330 million people,

man, that is a tough, tough task.

It is.

And you're talking about.

A few dozen people every year die from these mass shootings.

That is terrible, and we want it to be zero.

But, like,

it is really hard in a country of 330 million people to take 30, 30 deaths and turn it to zero.

That's a very difficult task.

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WNBA star Brittany Greiner

pleaded guilty today in a Russian court to drug charges that carry up to 10 years in prison, according to Reuters and a Russian state media report.

Now,

because she here's what she's accused of: hashish oil in her luggage.

In her vape cartridges.

Okay, that's a 10-year prison problem?

In Russia?

No.

In Russia.

In Russia, I guess.

Does she really have it in her suitcase?

I don't know.

Certainly, my first instinct is to believe that the Russian government just

retaliating

us right there.

That's what they're angry at us.

Felt like in the beginning.

And we've seen that happen, obviously, many times over the years.

Her statement was interesting.

She said, I'd like to plead guilty, Your Honor, but there was no intent.

I didn't want to break the law, she said in court.

So it makes me think that maybe she either didn't realize that it was illegal and she actually did have it, or

it could just be that's her excuse.

There's some speculation that this is a precursor to a deal being made with America that she will be released, but she needs to

plead guilty first.

Yeah.

I hope that's true.

Maybe that is the deal they made.

She also said, I'd like to give my testimony later.

I need time to prepare.

Well, you've had like three months, have you not?

Yeah, it seems like the one thing she would have time is to prepare her testimony.

Yeah.

But it's, you know, she needs to be brought back to the United States.

And I can't believe they let this linger all this time.

Again, if Donald Trump were in office, I don't think this would be an issue.

I think she'd be here by now.

Oh, I think.

She would have been here a long time ago.

Honestly, the war probably doesn't start.

So

we can reverse a lot of the negative effects we've seen over the past few months.

Yeah.

But I think it's funny because the media is like, well, you know, if this was Tom Brady,

then we'd really be upset about it.

And you know what?

It would be, first of all, if it was Tom Brady, specifically Tom Brady as an Eagles fan, I don't know how upset I would be.

But it would be a much bigger deal.

But it would be, it's true.

It would be a big deal.

If it was LeBron James, it'd be a much bigger deal.

It's not my favorite example either.

I know.

How about this?

Kevin Durant.

He seems to be great.

And I like Kevin Durant.

So there you go.

Kevin Durant.

Steph Curry.

Steph Curry.

If Steph Curry was to be there by now, it would be

the biggest international incident in the world.

And of course,

the implied thing there is that we care about men and we don't care about women.

No, we care about people who are super famous.

If it was Serena Williams, I think people would be more cap in arms.

It would be a huge, huge deal.

Not that many people know who Brittany Griner is.

I mean, she's a famous female basketball player, but I don't know who the best Pinochle player is in the United States.

And if it was the most famous Pinuckle player in the United States, I don't know.

Are you comparing women's WNBA basketball to Pinochle?

I know it's unfair to the Pinuckle people.

I'm just trying to come up with some.

I don't know what the best lacrosse player in the country i don't i don't follow lacrosse at all i had heard brittany griner's name and i don't even know why i think was she like one of the first people who maybe dunked in the wnba maybe maybe she's eight foot seven or something she's very tall i don't even know why i know her name i don't watch w nba basketball i don't care about w nba basketball and that's why people aren't as up in arms as if it was tom brady or lebron james or steph curry that's why yeah it's not because it's a it's a woman

it's it's that's just a ridiculous it's it's just because people don't really follow it and don't really know who she is.

That's why.

It's interesting that she wrote a letter to Biden earlier this week urging his administration to help her and other American detainees.

She said, I realize

she's cutting him some slack here, which he doesn't deserve.

No.

I realize you're dealing with so much, but please don't forget about me and the other American detainees.

Please do all you can do to bring us home.

If this was Trump and he had ignored this situation like Biden has, Oh my gosh.

That would not have been the tenor of, or the tone of her letter.

And she brings up, I think, a really important point here, which is we know her name, but there are other American detainees and we don't know their name.

And what's the reason for that?

It's because she's famous and they're not.

Right?

Yes.

We should be fighting for Brittany Greiner to come by back because she's an American citizen.

And particularly assuming if she didn't do this, but even if she did, it does seem like pretty clear retaliation at some level.

we should be trying to get her home because we care about american citizens whether they're famous or not it's got nothing to do with whether she's a good basketball player or whether you know what if she was the worst player in the wmba that happened to be over there we should still be trying it's got nothing to do with

if she worked at walmart as a greeter we should be fighting to get her out and many of these other people that are detained are those those types of people i mean we just got one one one of them back uh relatively recently in a in a swap

and that's right and like we should be always working on that.

And I will say that was one thing that Trump focused a lot of his attention on.

I mean, he was he was working that those back channels a lot and was successful in getting a lot of people who we kind of had left for dead, I think, as a society.

Just for that, we're never going to get them back.

And was able to get a bunch of them.

I mean, the North Korean situation was a big example of that.

But it happened multiple times during his presidency.

He spent a lot of time thinking about that.

And I think that's part of the reason why,

if you want to believe the the best motivations here, it's part of the reason why the media hasn't gone too, too crazy on this in that you don't,

the best thing might not be everybody constantly talking about her being over there for the back channel stuff to work.

My guess is there are diplomats trying to make this happen.

I don't think Biden's done a good job with this or anything else, but I'm sure there are efforts going on to try to make this situation go away.

And it may come to a good resolution here at some point.

But like constantly focusing attention on it is probably pretty good for the unknown detainee.

It might not be so good for a well-known detainee.

If you're caught with hashish oil at DFW,

what do you think the penalty would be?

I mean, would they, you probably, you might get arrested.

Yeah, it would be a federal

drug crime, right?

$500 fine, and they'd tell you to go home.

Maybe.

I mean, you might, do you want to maybe,

I mean, you know, airports are always weird, right?

Like 10

years.

Like, if you are in line at a concert and you make some joke about the security, right?

Yeah.

The security guard's going to be like, dude, it's not funny.

Or, all right, all right, enough, enough.

Right.

That's the end of it.

If you're doing it at an airport, we all know you're probably going to be there for the next six hours in the back room and probably going to jail.

Yes.

So, I mean,

when it comes to airports, people are a little, you really shouldn't bring drugs through airports.

But that's a a little safety tip for the audience.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So it's your recommendation to leave the hashish oil at home.

That's not exactly my recommendation, Pat.

I might recommend, and this is, I don't want to be judgmental here.

You don't acquire the hashish oil

at any point.

At all?

Yes.

Like, just live your life hashish free.

Wow.

That would be my generalized recommendation.

But

Coke, toot, nose can.

That's totally fine.

No, it's fine.

Don't try to put it.

That's totally fine.

Anything, Coke, toot, nose candy.

A little heroin here and there.

Totally fine.

Totally fine to bring on planes as far as I you can shoot up on planes now.

Now, you can't, you can't misgender the stewardess.

No, who is get those pronouns?

If you call her a steward, please.

You're going to have some problems.

But heroin, I'm pretty sure, is okay on planes these days.

But be careful with the hash-ish oil.

Look, it's

it is

a situation where a lot of times rules are on the books in these countries that are adversarial to us

and many times are not going to be applied to the fullest extent of the law.

Like you have hashish oil, you're going through, I don't know, does every Russian citizen, you know, a lot of them probably do, right?

Russia's not exactly known for their

nuanced law enforcement.

It's not really the way that they roll.

But clearly, I think Brittany Griner is getting the worst of this because of the current situation.

Definitely.

Even if she did do it, which is highly questionable.

We don't know that at all.

Right.

Could it have been planted, not there at all?

Not there at all.

I think very definitely it could have.

But she did sort of admit to it.

But again, that could be part of the deal.

Right.

That could be part of, okay, just admit to being guilty and we'll send you home next week or whatever.

We all know it's just not helpful if that's what it is.

It's not going to improve your situation to say, these people are framing me.

That's not going to help you.

You're already in Russian prison.

Like, you don't want to necessarily inflame the situation when you come home.

Long live Ukraine.

You probably don't want to scream that in the Russian airport either.

It's just like not bringing a hashish oil on an airplane.

I would also say, don't say, long live Ukraine while you're in Russian prison.

Those are the two things I would say.

Good safety tips.

It's the only two tips I have for you today.

Okay.

Here's another piece of breaking news.

Boris Johnson has has resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

He's resigning, but he is going to stay on until they figure out who else it's going to be.

And that could be, who knows?

He said October.

He originally was just going to try to ride this out.

And I don't fully understand the parliamentary system.

I mean, this happens in Israel like five times a year.

They have elections and they have no confidence votes.

And then suddenly somebody's quitting and they have to do another election for the fifth time in the last couple of years.

But

Britain has a sort of similar thing.

If people don't like him, I guess they have to step down.

I don't know.

It's a bizarre.

I almost wish that was our system right now because.

Can we turn that system on for like a week?

Like a week.

You know, just then go back to being a republic, but just for a week.

Yeah.

Wouldn't that be nice?

The accusation here.

is that I guess one of his underlings had some sexual harassment issue in the past.

Right.

And they, I guess they found out about it, punished him.

He stuck around and then had a second incident.

Yeah.

And they got rid of him.

And when they asked Boris Johnson about it, he says he didn't remember the first incident.

I think most people don't believe him.

They think he was just trying to hide it or cover it up.

And that's why I guess his own party turned on him, which means he has to step down.

There were also some allegations about parties during

a previous

scandal that he survived.

It was a big deal for the people apparently he survived well i mean look the gavin newsom thing was a big deal here is but the same thing happened as the gavin newsom thing like he got the heat for it a recall or a no confidence vote and he survived that but he's they both survived it uh in gavin newsom's case it's sad that he survived it because very the people of california are forced to deal with that nonsense and i will say this There's an increasing chance that we here in America are forced to deal with it because Gavin Newsom quite clearly clearly, is angling to run in 2024

if the opportunity presents itself.

And if this election, this midterm goes as well for Republicans as I hope it does,

it's going to create an incredible amount of pressure on Joe Biden to not go forward in 2024.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I mean, Biden loves his power, though.

I don't know that he does.

I don't know that he'll fold to that pressure, but it's possible.

No, no, no, no.