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Ready, Stu?

Sure.

I mean, really?

I mean, this is the intro to one of the greatest shows we've ever done.

Are you prepared?

So, wait,

when is this going to happen?

Because we need to.

No, we have to do the show.

Let's just do today's intro for today's podcast, and then we'll do the other one for the really showing

the show

some other time.

Here it is:

a show that we did on Friday.

We cover all of the bases: War in Russia,

Bill O'Reilly, the, you know, the whole Roe versus Wade thing.

I've heard about that, yeah.

Yeah, that's been going on, too.

We talk about all of it and so much more.

It's a Fun Friday podcast.

Here it is.

You're listening to

the best of the Blenbeck program.

We have

Jason Battrill on with us.

Hello, Jason.

Good morning, Glenn.

How are you?

I'm good.

Well, I'm concerned about what's happening in Russia.

And I think we learned on this program,

who was it, Stu, that we had on?

Oh, it was Jack Carr we had on earlier this week, and he dumbed it down for us.

He's a fiction writer, and he dumbed down what was going on with the military in Russia and explained they're out of troops because nobody's having babies because everybody's, you know, like 50 years old and a drunk.

And

I say that half joking.

I just saw a

report that, what is it, 60% of the men are

alcoholics.

in Russia.

Is that possibly true?

They're like, they're just living on vodka.

Anyway,

and so that's one of the reasons why they went into Ukraine and one of the reasons why Sweden and Finland are so nervous, because they need to annex countries to be able to have youth to be able to fight in their military because it's getting older.

They're not having children and nobody's in the military.

Is that right, Jason?

Yeah.

And, you know, there was a lot of talk last week and a couple of weeks ago that they were going to continue to expand.

Many people in the media were hearing the word Transinistra all of a sudden out of nowhere, and they were becoming military experts, which I thought was pretty funny.

What is

Transinista?

One of the breakaway regions,

you know, similar to the one like Abkhazia over in Georgia.

Okay.

The ones that it's one of those cold, it's some of those like used to be kind of hot wars, but are now cold wars where there's just a bunch of Russian troops sitting in other people's countries.

It's pretty crazy.

But the problem is that Russia doesn't have the troops.

They don't have the equipment.

There's not an infinite supply of this stuff, and they are losing it like it's a candy in a fourth grader's classroom.

Because they went through so many.

The loss of troops has been so high, and

they're conscripting people now, but there just isn't enough people to...

you know, have a million-man army anymore, right?

No, and exactly right.

And some of the videos that I'm seeing that are coming out of Russia now is, you know, they're transporting by rail across from Siberia these World War II era vehicles and sometimes civilian vehicles over into Ukraine because they're losing so many tanks.

In fact, just this week, they lost one of their most advanced,

very, very proud tank.

I think it's the T-91, I believe is what it is.

They're brand new one.

They lost one of those in Ukraine, and those are severely limited.

So it's hurting.

Western supplies are hurting.

Did we know this, Jason?

Because Jack Carr did.

I mean, he's a fiction writer.

He writes about this kind of stuff.

He did.

He said he finds it inexcusable if we didn't know this.

Well, it's interesting.

You know,

the Russian, the equipment, a lot of people, and me included, have been telling for a long time that Russia is not a global superpower anymore.

They're a regional power, and they're very limited in what they can do.

Except for nukes.

Except for nukes.

That's really all they have.

All right.

And yeah, I keep hearing people talk about, about, you know, this, there was a lot of reporting about the sinking of the Moskva, which is their flagship in the Black Sea, which is very, very significant.

Because

that was a newer ship, the pride of Russia, right?

Yes, it was.

And yeah, so that's a significant loss.

But

I do think that Russia is going to be limited in how they respond to this.

Okay, so wait a minute.

I want to get to that here in just a second.

But it's important, I think, to set up that Russia is not the superpower that we all grew up thinking they were.

They don't have the military.

They do have all of the

nukes.

But beyond that, they are not a superpower.

They are, they're outmatched by Ukraine and what we're sending.

Okay.

And this is going to be a

huge, humiliating loss like what we just experienced, and we didn't lose, but what we just experienced in Afghanistan,

they are being exposed now as a paper tiger.

They just don't have any teeth anymore.

And so that makes

if it was Ronald Reagan or even Donald Trump, A, we wouldn't be in this situation.

But if we were in this situation and they came into office, I could see somebody like that who understands power through strength collapse them.

Would you agree with that?

Expose them, collapse them.

We don't have to deal with them anymore.

Yeah, right.

I think that, and I think that Washington and the Biden administration completely shifted strategies as well on this.

I think that when they saw what they were trying to do, which was take all of Ukraine and failing so miserably, They were like, let's push further and see how far we can take this.

Okay.

So now here's the concerning part.

Yesterday, we just admitted that, yeah, we targeted the ship.

We gave them all the intel.

They couldn't have done it without us.

Why would we do that?

I don't remember.

I mean, this is the way it's always been in the Cold War.

They were always targeting our troops and helping the other side, etc., etc.

We knew that, but I don't remember any Soviet leader going, yeah,

look at us.

Okay, they would go, we don't know what you're talking about, but you were like, we got pictures of you.

Don't know, fake pictures.

American press, fake pictures.

That's the way it used to happen.

I don't know of a time that Russia or America has ever said, yeah, yeah, our covert ops.

Look at this.

It's so dangerous, right?

It's dangerous.

I don't know if you would call it, yeah, yeah, I guess you can call it escalatory.

It's very, very, it's different from that part right there is different from the way the Cold War wars were.

Correct.

Correct.

We always had plausible deniability, even if it wasn't plausible to the experts on each side okay right we didn't announce it to the world so it is when Russia is saying don't get involved in this war we are already involved in this war and now yesterday for some unknown reason we just announced it to the press yep that was us okay

because well hold on that that reason I think is important if we could stop on that for a second because the president of the United States has nothing to run on Nothing.

His approval ratings in every category are terrible.

The only one that he looks even moderately okay on is his support for Ukraine.

And so I feel like the reason they're promoting this domestically and making a big deal about every little victory they can is to claim credit in the one area that's moderately

popular.

And that's terrifying.

I think that that is probably true, coupled with this idea from somebody that we can expose Russia and Russia will look weaker than we looked in Afghanistan.

And so the world forgets about Afghanistan and goes, yeah, Russia is nothing.

It's tied together, though.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

It's the combination of the two, I think.

Now, here's the scary part.

Let me just flip the script here a bit.

Let's just say that

there was a...

a Soviet pact or a Russian pact and it included Venezuela and Cuba and other places in South America, which we already know that's what's happening, right?

We all know that.

And they decided that, or there was talk that they were going to

go into Mexico and make Mexico part of that pact.

Okay.

If that were happening and we had evidence of that, we wouldn't do what Putin did, but if they were putting, let's say, missiles in there or whatever, we would go across.

We'd cross into Mexico and stop that.

It would be in our best interest, I think, to do that.

We would at least threaten to do it.

We wouldn't have done what Russia did.

But if the evidence were there, we would go in to destroy those things that Russia was doing.

I'm just flipping the situation.

Now, if our army was so depleted

and Russia was strong and they just kept funneling money and they got other people in South America to start helping.

And we had nothing.

And we knew that their next thing was to invade us, or we strongly suspected.

And we had nothing.

Wouldn't we launch tactical nukes?

And wouldn't the country be for, look, before we shut the lights out on this thing,

this is the only option we have left.

We don't have the troops.

We got to get them out of there.

Let's scare them away because Russia's not going to launch nukes and destroy America.

They want it.

So they're not going to launch a full-scale attack.

Let's just lob a nuke in and flex our muscle and say, back off.

Wouldn't we at least seriously consider that?

So, Glenn, you sound exactly like the conversations from I've read from the history books from Khrushchev.

Khrushchev was thinking the exact same same thing in the early 1960s.

Correct.

He was like, I am not sending military equipment into Vietnam because I don't want another Cuban missile crisis on my hand.

I don't want to tempt the United States to start doing what you just said, sending tackling nuclear bombs with low-yield nuclear weapons.

And that all ended once Brezhnev came into power in the mid-1960s.

All that, he said, you know what?

He said the same thing.

He said, the United States is a paper tiger.

Our equipment right now is actually more advanced than the United States was.

And it was at the time.

Our pilots pilots had never seen Sam missiles before.

We had never seen them.

The United States lost 2,000 or just over 2,000 military planes, including pilots, due to Soviet service dairy missiles.

Over 10,000 Soviet troops went to Vietnam and supplied, I can't remember, it was over 2,000 tanks, Klishnikov rifles.

Their aid to Vietnam was far more than what we've given Ukraine right now.

This is how the Cold War era militarism.

Right.

And I think this is different than than any place else.

If we were in Afghanistan, we wouldn't have done tactical nukes.

If we were losing, we would just pack up and go.

The American people wouldn't hear of it.

Okay.

But because

Russia is so ingrained in us and this is

a

fight for global superpower status.

I could see them before they step off the stage and lose.

I could see them absolutely going,

lob a tactical nuke in.

Yeah.

Well, and it's part of their, it's part of their doctrine.

It's part of their, and that's one of the things that Jack Carr probably alluded to.

We kind of overstated what the Garazimov doctrine was, which was their new military doctrine, which as of now looks like the Garazimov doctrine was, let's just send over some World War II equipment and let it get blown up in the middle of mud season in Ukraine.

It's pretty poor.

But the end state of the Garazimov doctrine is escalate to de-escalate, which means tactical nuclear weapons to scare everybody else off the battlefield and go, oh, let's hit the peace table and give Russia some concessions.

And I have to tell you, if you look at it from their perspective, knowing that they're exposed, they're done.

They lose this, they're done, they're exposed,

that is, that's truly terrifying.

Because from their perspective, it would kind of make sense.

And the other side, if you take Putin out,

he doesn't do it, you take Putin out, you have the chance of getting somebody who is an old Soviet kind of mindset that is like, no,

you could get somebody who's like, we are rebuilding this superpower.

And damn it, I'll use nukes.

Yeah.

I mean, you could go either way.

It could go either way.

It's really dangerous.

That's the most likely outcome I see for this because it's very easy for a group of oligarchs and some generals to blame it all on Putin and say, look, it was the crazy guy that everyone knows has brain problems and cancer.

Okay, so he's just get rid of him.

Okay, so Jason, give me,

Jason, by the way, is our head writer and

former military intel guy,

and so really watches the state of global politics and war.

Give me

the top two scenarios that you think are most likely to happen here.

Most likely scenario is what I just said.

I think that the only way out, i think the russians need a way out and i think the only way out is to quietly have putin go away that is the most likely in my opinion because it gives them an out it says it gives them someone to blame and uh it says hey it doesn't mean don't get me wrong this is not going to get better we're not suddenly going to get a russian leader that all of a sudden agrees with the west we are uh we're we're all we're adversaries and russia and the western europe will always be adversaries but this will ratchet it down at least for a time being exactly this will give them excuse for them to be able to pull back and say and kind of blame everything on him okay um which i know he would love uh which makes him more dangerous i think uh the the other scenario

another scenario is uh well let me give you three so another scenario would be them settling basically with eastern ukraine and drawing this out to a stalemate um basically making it a weapon yeah basically what it was since 2014 uh eastern ukraine they'll stick with that next third is is probably the more scary, and that is this escalates to where every Russian general is in agreement, and they think the only way out is to escalate, to de-escalate.

So

doesn't this make

this other piece of the news that came out yesterday was Sweden and Finland said, we have a guarantee from America that if we ask, we're going to be a part of NATO.

That's what started all of this was just the idea that NATO was going to be expanded into Ukraine, which there was no truth to that at all.

Finland is extraordinarily important to Russia.

That's a major escalation, is it not?

Yes, and the Finns have a very proud history of kicking the Soviet Union and Russia's butt all on their own.

I don't really think they need NATO help on this.

Yeah, I see this as more worrying than anything else because, as you said, this is exactly what they said they were trying to stop.

And this gives Putin credibility saying, see, I told you.

Exactly.

Of course, the reason why they're just trying to jump into NATO now is because Russia decided to invade Ukraine.

I mean, like, they weren't planning on doing this until Russia invaded Ukraine.

And then they were like, wait a minute, we better freaking figure out a way.

You don't announce it.

You just don't announce it.

You just said one day, say, by the way, we're in NATO?

No, you say if this thing escalates right now, it could peter out.

But especially three days before Victory Day in Russia, where Putin's got to beat his chest about the strong Russia.

You don't escalate it.

It's terrifying.

It's truly terrifying.

Luckily, we have real experts at the helm that can

walk this line for a second.

Real grown-ups.

Jason, thank you so much.

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We're so glad you tuned in today.

Pat Gray joins us from Pat Gray Unleashed.

Hello, Pat.

Hello, Glenn.

Well, I got a press release from the Babylon Bee that I think is important.

In a somber press release outside the burning gates of torment and suffering, the fire god Moloch warned of a looming supply chain issue regarding child sacrifices.

Moloch added that human sacrifices, purifications, ordeals by fire, mutilations, etc., would have to cease until the supply chain shortage was sorted out through democratically violent means.

My demon logistics department is reporting a supply chain shortage of children to sacrifice upon burning aisles and fiery pits, said the god of brazen gratification and hedonism.

The scarcity of innocent young lives to be brutally murdered at my feet is mostly due to the Supreme Court's upcoming reversal of Roe v.

Wade, led by white supremacist Clarence Thomas.

An uncomfortably large percentage of the U.S.

population cried out in fear and terror at the prospects of not being able to sacrifice children of a loving heavenly father for their own selfish desires.

Eyes rolled back in their sockets, blood-curdling screams pierced the air in the name of egomaniacal convenience.

What about my career as a corporate drone who loves binge drinking on the weekends?

cried one woman at the steps of the Supreme Court building while holding a protest sign reading, my body, my choice, my vanity, my career, my parties, my barren, loveless life.

At publishing time, Moloch was considering the allowance of back alley child sacrifices using common household objects and horse medication.

Babylon B is so brilliant.

They are.

They really are.

Never cease to amaze.

Of course,

why they're not allowed to be on social media anymore.

Right.

They're not allowed to.

That's not okay.

You can't be funny and

clever on the right.

No.

It's not allowed.

By the way,

let's go back.

Could we go back to the stat of alcoholism?

Because

I have a theory on this because, Stu, while in the last break, we were talking about Russians and the alcoholism rate, which is really, really high.

And

what was the stat that you found?

Russia's number one for male alcoholics.

Okay.

36.9%

of their males tied with Hungary.

Of Russian males, 40%.

Are alcoholics?

That's crazy, right?

Wow.

Crazy.

No, that's not.

That's tied with Hungary at number one.

But same kind of thing.

So what is...

Number two is Belarus, by the way.

So it's all Soviet

region.

Yeah.

So

let me just throw out a theory here on this.

Well, no, give the other stat.

Okay.

Because where are Russian women?

So women, Russia is not number one.

They are number two

at 7.4%.

Who's number one?

The United States of America.

We got it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We got the gold.

We got women alcoholics.

We're number one.

So we are number one with women as alcoholics.

Okay.

And what is that number?

Is it close?

10.4%.

Holy cow.

So to see how much of an outlier, almost every country on earth is below 5%.

There's a few like Russia and

Hungary again and

Belarus again are all in this like 6% to 7% range.

And then we're way up at 10.

What's the percentage for men in America?

That's a good question.

Male alcoholics.

At the moment.

United States.

Here we go.

Because it's 17.6.

Oh, my gosh.

So about half of Russia.

And not nowhere.

We're right in the pack.

I mean, we're a little higher than average, but

we're not an outlier like we are with women.

Let me ask you this.

Is it possible, is it possible, is this a theory worth looking into?

That

in Russia, what have you done to men?

You've taken the natural hunter-gatherer, I can find my own way, I can build my own business, be my own man, and you've killed that.

And you've, so you only have the men who are subservient to the society

or the ones who have said, I'm breaking out and they're thug, you know,

killers or

thieves, oligarchs, right?

So there's only one, two versions of a man.

Just do what the state says

or be a thug.

How many men want to live in that world?

They've taken and taken away

the real man and replaced it with the cartoon man

or the,

you know, the one that just has to go along with everything.

In America, we are suppressing the actual and denigrating the natural woman.

You know, you can have a job, do whatever you want, but the natural woman,

we are mocking everything that they are,

that they are different than men, that this maternal instinct, that you can be a mom.

Is that possible that the reason why Russia is number one is because they've killed the man and America is number one because we're killing the woman?

It could possible.

Yeah, it's an interesting theory.

It could be a contributing factor.

I mean, is it a sound theory?

I mean, I don't know.

You just presented it.

I don't have any evidence to back it up.

No, no, no, I know.

I'm saying,

is it a sound idea that might be backed up?

Yeah, I mean, I come up with some questions.

I mean, like, we, you know, European women seem to be lower on this list than

I think we've led the world on this, though.

You know, women need a, need a man, like fish need a bicycle.

You know what I mean?

We've led the way of this,

feminist,

Marxist,

you know,

woman.

They've done a job on men too in this country.

I know.

Well, I know, but we're we're behind.

Yeah.

We're behind.

Soviets have been doing it forever.

Yeah.

And then the Russians, when they took over, you know, that didn't go to capitalism.

It went to, you know, a mobocracy.

And so,

you know, we're just,

I'm telling you, religion is the way to go to fix all of this.

Now,

some might say this would be the time that you would want to be a Blaze subscriber

and be watching the show instead of just listening to the show.

But I have no idea what they're talking about.

I think we all know how to solve the women's issue.

We've heard a lot about it this week.

That's true.

We sure have.

Under his eye.

Under his eye.

Okay, so Pat, welcome to the program.

What's the big story for you?

Well, it's the same one it's been all week.

Yeah.

You know, their response, of course, to the supposed Supreme Court decision

and

the reaction of people like Hillary Clinton to it because she's terrific.

She is great.

And I think she seems right because she said this might get her to run again.

No, God.

But who else do they have?

Who else?

Nobody.

Did you hear that Kamala would not join Joe Biden for a press conference because she wants to distance herself from his administration?

No.

That's great.

When Kamala's like, no, I don't want that stink on me.

That's saying something.

Yeah, it is.

And that's who they have, right?

That is who they have.

They have the president of the United States.

Terrible vice president.

And they can't run him.

They cannot run him in 2024.

It's impossible.

I think he wants to run that.

Of course he wants to.

I hope he can.

They can't let him.

They can't let him.

Oh, I hope that.

And they can't have Kamala.

They can't.

She's too unpopular.

She was unpopular with the Democrats.

She was the least popular of all the candidates.

She was out before they.

Wasn't she out before the primary started?

She was out before the primary.

So she had

run to the top of the polls toward the beginning, and then that faded, and then she's gone instantly.

So I have to tell you something that is just so, oh, so satisfying.

The Women's Health Protection Act, which was been going through the Senate and everything else,

and it would make abortion a statutory right.

They were passing this through, and

it talked about transgender men, a capacity for pregnancy with transgender men, non-binary individuals, and those who identify a different gender and others.

So

our good friend Chuck Schumer is removing all of

that language now.

That's funny.

And he says, just marginal changes, you know, just to be more inclusive.

I thought by putting transgender non-binary individuals, that was being more inclusive.

Right.

They have to throw the trans people under the bus now because uh they're worshiping at the altar of of abortion and that's paramount to them it's even it's even a little bit more important to them than the trans movement yeah and it's the one they think they could take advantage of at this moment which is how they make every decision you know it doesn't matter there's never an attempt to maintain logical consistency.

It's not a priority in any way.

It's just whatever they need to say today.

That's why Gavin Newsom is getting in trouble.

Because he said, well, you know, if men could get pregnant, then they'd understand.

And everyone's losing their mind.

The trans people are losing their mind on them.

And they have to understand, they don't care about you.

They don't care about you at all.

They've never cared about you.

Why did you believe them?

By the way, my favorite from the week on this discussion are the videos of panicked women.

My favorite said this.

In case you're a man who doesn't care about Roe versus Wade,

just know that if abortion gets banned, the hookup culture will be decimated.

What woman is going to have mediocre sex with a drunk random man if he could potentially father their child?

Yeah, amen.

This

like this is something that we should be like, oh, wait a minute, the hookup culture.

Oh, wow.

We can't lose that.

Yeah.

Let's keep that in bed.

That's part of the problem.

That's one of the things that maybe is destroying us as a society and a culture is just like,

I want to have sex with anybody right now.

Let me get on the app and see who's closest to me.

That really is the way

it works right now.

Did you guys see the Sex Island thing going on?

No.

I thought he was dead.

No, no, that's a different island.

Okay.

There's more than one.

Now, there's an event going on, and I believe it started.

So if you want to go, you'd have to, you might be a little late, but it is called Sex Island.

It costs $4,500 to attend.

And you can go to this and have sex with as many women as you'd like.

There's a hundred, they guarantee at least two per day.

And you have a hundred women there, and they will have their, I guess.

I bet they are good-looking.

Do you get to die first?

Yeah, and I bet the guys, I bet the guys that are going good.

Oh, yeah, good-looking guys.

This might be an island we should support abortion.

That's kind of, I think these types of things could be problematic in a post-Roe versus Wayne.

Oh, that would be sad.

Though I believe Nevada will keep abortion.

I'm

mildly confident of it.

Pretty sure.

By the way, CNN chairman, the new chairman, says he wants to try some things in Chris Cuomo's old slot.

He said, we're just going to mix it up.

We're going to try some things.

Try some new things.

Telling the truth, accurately reporting things might be something they should try, but I

not on the idea board.

I doubt that.

But it's not on the vision board right now.

So do you remember, Stu, you said MSNBC could be replaced by a random word generator.

You remember saying that?

Yeah, okay.

It was last week or earlier?

This week,

this week.

We have done a test.

Okay.

There is Smart Copy, the AI writer.

Do you know about this?

No.

Okay, so there is Smart Copy, which if

you can't write, you don't write.

You just put in the thing, and it will randomly generate a story for you.

Okay.

Like through artificial intelligence.

Yes.

So what we started with, we said, Republicans are a threat to democracy.

If Ron DeSantis is elected, he's going to be much worse than Trump.

Republicans live in fear, threaten the rights of LGBTQ, and are racist.

So we put that into

smart copy.

Okay.

Okay.

Tell me this doesn't sound like a legitimate MSNBC story.

Democracy has been under attack from Trump and the GOP since the moment he was elected.

Ron DeSantis, who was a guest on Fox and Friends this morning, stands in line with everything we've seen out of Trump.

But he'll be worse if he wins.

Democracy is under attack.

We have to stand up now.

This is not normal.

We can't keep going down this road and we can't forget what they stand for.

Republicans live in fear and threaten the rights of LGBTQ people, people of color, and of course our civil rights.

They're racist, sexist, homophobic, and everything we must fight against.

At the state level, GOP governors have been enacting voter suppression laws to keep minorities from voting, and Republicans in Congress have been putting a stop to any checks on

Trump's power.

This is not normal.

We have to do something about it.

That can absolutely be on MSNBC right now in the prompter.

That was

AI generated.

Wow.

If they just threw a handmaid's tail reference in there, then it would be complete.

You have to throw that in there.

That's a conspiracy theory.

You're listening to the best of the Glendeck program.

All right.

I've been waiting to talk to you, Sheriff.

I have been waiting a while.

Sheriff Bob Johnson is on with us now from Santa Rosa County, Florida.

Sheriff, how are you?

I'm doing good.

How are you?

I'm very good.

I have to tell you,

I don't know what the average person thinks, you know, especially

in blue states.

But when I hear, quote, if someone's breaking into your house, you're more than welcome to shoot them in our county.

We prefer you do, actually.

Or we're hoping this will be the third strike and he'll go to prison and not get out because we're tired of dealing with him, trying to, you know, to be honest with you.

If somebody breaks into your house, you can shoot and kill them.

The chances of them reoffending then are zero.

And we like those odds.

Holy cow, Sheriff.

Nobody, a lot of people think that.

Nobody says that.

Well, and I can tell you what they say in blue states because I've gotten about 300 death threats since then, and which is kind of amazing.

All these people who hate violence and don't want criminals to be shot, but yet they want to come here and kill me.

That's kind of an oxymoron, don't you think?

Wow, you've gotten a lot of death threats?

Yeah, but it's all from states where you can't buy a gun anyway, so I really don't care.

It is what it is.

Have you always been this way, or has our society pushed you further in this direction?

No, I got elected in 2016, and, you know, my citizens will tell you my press conferences can be pretty entertaining sometimes.

And because I speak my mind, and, you know, like you said earlier, it's common sense.

Somebody's breaking in your house.

They're not bringing you cookies or going to give you a a hug.

They're coming in there to break more laws, i.e.

murder, rape, or whatever.

And, you know, in Santa Rosa County, a lot of our citizens have guns, and I promote the use of them.

If somebody breaks in their house, like I said in the press conference, shoot them.

We'll go in there, do the paperwork, and get it over with.

It's not as though,

you know, I mean,

if somebody breaks into my house,

As far as I'm concerned, you know, you're on my territory.

You start to threaten my children.

I don't know what you're doing in the house.

I warn you.

And if you keep coming towards us, I will find you and I will shoot you because I don't know what your intent is.

I have absolutely no problem with that.

However, I'm not for shooting people.

There's a real difference here.

And people don't understand that.

Yeah, there's a big difference.

I'm not advocating people go out on the sidewalk and find people they don't like and shoot them.

I mean, obviously, that's against the law.

But when you're in your home and somebody kicks your door in and then comes in in your home,

yeah, you shoot them.

I tell you what, they do at my house.

They're kind of in a long, dark tunnel with a light at the end of it with Elvis and grandma because I'm going to shoot them multiple times.

So have you found the person as the citizen that shot this criminal and wounded him?

No, no, they missed.

They missed.

Oh, they missed.

Yeah, yeah, that's why I said that press conference.

You know, come take our class.

You will make it more accurate.

Next time you'll hit them.

So how did you know that someone shot but didn't know who it was did the criminal say

yeah no no what happened was we had about 20 deputies out there and they were on a perimeter and they were closing the perimeter in as we got reports of where he was at and then one of the officers on the perimeter said shots fired multiple shots fired um and none of our deputies shot so obviously it was a homeowner and shortly after the the gunshots, we saw him going over a privacy fence into the next yard where he kicked in another door and that's where we cornered him in a bedroom and then he jumped out the window and they caught him in the backyard and so this the community member who had the burglar in his house and shot and missed Didn't want to identify himself and you think it was for fear of he thought he was going to get in trouble

Yeah, yeah.

Well, that's I'm assuming that yeah because they didn't come forward.

I'll tell you right now obviously, you know, as I said in a press conference, you know, you're not in any trouble.

I mean, you, you're more than welcome to protect yourself and your family in your own home.

That's just common sense.

So that's got to be wildly different because I know when I lived in Connecticut and I went through gun safety classes, you know, you call 911 and you put the phone down and you make sure you're announcing you're afraid for your life, yada, yada, because you'll be in court for a year if you shoot if you shoot somebody.

Not that way in your county?

No, not that way in my state.

You know, we have a great governor who supports law enforcement.

And, you know,

as long as you're legally allowed to possess a gun, you know, and you're in your own home, you don't have a duty to retreat.

Somebody kicks in your door,

you know, and they're coming at you, you can shoot and kill them.

And you are perfectly within your rights to do so by Florida law.

I have to tell you, this,

because I talk to sheriffs here in Texas, and we have, most of them are just like you.

I mean, the big cities now, they're just, they're becoming crazy.

But they're just like you.

And this spirit used to exist everywhere in America.

And

it's remarkable to me that you stand out in a country full of sheriffs, which

you are our last defense when it comes to our rights.

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

You know, constitutional officers, you know, our fundamental responsibility is the protection of our citizens.

Everything else is second.

So, and when you have somebody kick in your door, and we have a great response time here in Santa Rosa County, we really do.

For a hot call, what we call a hot call, some burglary in progress or whatever, it's three to five minutes.

And that's pretty quick if you look at the national average.

Oh, yeah.

But what can happen in three to five minutes?

A lot.

A lot.

A lot.

A lot.

That's why we have our homeowners.

We tell them, please arm yourselves.

Come take our safety class.

Make sure you're safe with the weapon and know how to store it.

Keep it away from kids.

But when you need it, you can access it and take care of business.

It is

remarkable to me.

Most people don't know.

The term first responder began in

the

Carter years under the Carter administration.

And it was intentionally put there to make sure that people didn't feel like they were the first responder.

Right.

But we are.

We call you for backup.

You know what I mean?

Not to cower in our house.

Right, right.

And like I said, three to five minutes, you say great response time, but in three to five minutes, if you come in a home and you have a weapon, I mean, you can kill five, six, seven people in that time frame before we get there.

Well, only if you have a weapon of war that has more than one shot.

And I'm just saying.

Yeah, it's amazing, too.

That's another thing on gun control.

So they think that's the only law criminals will abide by if we say you can't have guns.

No, they'll abide by that one.

Yeah, no.

And, you know, it makes me nervous that what we're doing with ammunition.

The Biden administration,

separate and apart from the

boycott that we have on Russia with oil, this is separate and apart.

This started before it.

We've banned all Russian

ammunition in America, which is the number one kind of ammunition for

going out at a shooting range.

And 40% of all of our ammunition comes from Russia.

He's banned it for separate reasons.

And that scares me because if you do have a gun, you should be practicing.

You should be shooting it.

You don't want to pick it up and not feel comfortable with it in your hand.

Well, Glenn, you better calm down now.

You're making sense.

You don't want to have a Democrat calling you with that threat.

It's incredible.

Yeah, no, I agree 100%.

You know, you need to practice with them.

And that's why we put on this class.

It was every other Saturday.

Now we're doing it.

We've had such a demand.

We're doing it every Saturday now for our citizens.

It's free of charge.

And we're going to try to get as many of them spun up on how to handle a weapon as we can so they can protect themselves.

And we're proud of that fact.

Santa Rosa County,

what cities are in your county that we might know?

Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Milton.

We're right in between Pensacola and Destin on the Gulf Coast.

Okay, yeah, you're in the same part of Florida.

Yeah, we call it God's country.

Yeah, it's beautiful.

It's beautiful.

All right.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate it, Sheriff.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

That is Sheriff Bob Johnson from Florida.

Please find out who your sheriff is.

You know, when you go to vote and it just says, Sheriff, for my whole life, I was like, I don't know.

It matters.

These are the guys.

They are constitutionally elected.

They don't report to anyone but the voters,

according to the Constitution.

And so when there is a real problem, it will be the sheriff

that will rule over your county that will either keep you free and safe

or not.

I have a sheriff in my county, and I've said to him, What happens if they ban guns?

They come for guns.

You know, I don't think that's going to happen.

But then again, I didn't think Roe versus Wade would ever be even argued, let alone repealed.

And he said, well, that's when I deputize every single citizen in the county, and you better have a gun.

That's the kind of sheriff that you need, one that knows the Constitution and knows their role as a sheriff.