Best of the Program | Guests: Adam Curry & Rob Eno | 3/11/22

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Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 hello, you sick freak. It was a great Friday show.

Speaker 2 Kind of went off the rails towards the end as we were talking about preparing.

Speaker 2 Stu doesn't have a hat, and I'm trying to get an x-ray machine. Totally sane, both of us.

Speaker 2 It's going to work out well. You might want to be somewhere in the middle.
Yeah. I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 Today's program is fantastic.

Speaker 2 Adam Curry is on with us. Bill O'Reilly, Michael Mallon, Michael Malice is on.

Speaker 2 And we talk about the biggest stories of the week. Adam and I both agree.
And I think Michael, did Michael agree with this as well?

Speaker 2 The biggest stories, the biggest story of the week is the digital currency story that you may not have even heard. Make sure you're listening.
Oh, and there's some help if you happen to live in Idaho.

Speaker 2 I'd like your help on something. You'll hear about it in today's podcast.

Speaker 2 You're listening to the best of the blendbeck program.

Speaker 2 I have in my hands

Speaker 2 the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry made up board members, board members from

Speaker 2 companies like Chobani, the, you know, the yogurt people, and Wells Fargo Bank,

Speaker 2 and Bear, and Monsanto,

Speaker 2 and Cliff Bar,

Speaker 2 Select Health, Union Pacific Railroad. Oh my gosh, all of these people, all of the, Facebook, Facebook is on this.

Speaker 2 What am I going to do? They're saying in this official release that I am a conspiracy theorist

Speaker 2 because of what I tell you about ESG.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 I'm sensing

Speaker 2 some sort of risk

Speaker 2 here, Stu. Some sort of boy, it's.

Speaker 2 Well, as you know, Glenn, ESG is just a risk management tool. That's what they say.
Oh, really? Yeah, that's what they say. We'll get into that a little later.

Speaker 2 Michael Malice is on with us now. Hi, Michael.
How are you?

Speaker 4 I mean, is it a theory if it's demonstrable and

Speaker 2 open? No, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2 It is not.

Speaker 2 They say

Speaker 2 it's laughable. They said

Speaker 2 the given legislatures, legislators who have heard me talk about ESG and

Speaker 2 believe it. It's a farcical conspiracy theory from which legislation will be crafted.

Speaker 2 It's easy to dismiss due to its lack of basis in reality, but the problems any kind of legislation against it will create for business is real.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 4 But I mean, it's just shocking how brazen the misinformation is, because at the very least, it's based in reality but wrong, right?

Speaker 4 You're referring to something which is policy, where there's websites about it, where people talk about it. So to say it's not based in reality is in and of itself a lie.

Speaker 4 Second of all, to claim that there aren't different organizations who are coordinating to further a specific agenda is in and of itself farcical.

Speaker 4 The fact that all these different Shobani is working with Facebook, it's only conspiracy, but you don't like it.

Speaker 2 Exactly right.

Speaker 2 Exactly right.

Speaker 4 What does the yogurt company have to do with

Speaker 4 putting up baby pics and photos of your dog other than they have an agenda, a corporate agenda that they want to further?

Speaker 2 It is, it's remarkable

Speaker 2 how this is being squashed when you can see what is happening in Russia. Russia,

Speaker 2 this, by the way, President Biden just said we're going to hit

Speaker 2 Putin even harder. We have revoked our most favored nation status, and apparently we're not the only country that is doing that now.

Speaker 2 That's a harder punch.

Speaker 2 But when you have McDonald saying, you know, we just thought there might be a reputational risk. That's why we're closing all our restaurants.

Speaker 2 When they said we're not closing all of our restaurants, you see ESG and how it works. I mean, it's just, it is collusion, but it is also pressure from all of the banks and all of the other players.

Speaker 2 You play ball or we'll shut you down.

Speaker 4 But Glenn, this is what's really amazing. And this is, kudos to you, because if this was, let's suppose, 10 years ago, they wouldn't have to address it.

Speaker 4 And 10 years ago, you'd have been reacting maybe after the fact.

Speaker 4 The fact that you can get ahead of this issue, that you see and plenty of other people see the tactics that are being used to control, manipulate, and preemptively nip it in the bud, this is something that they can't handle and that really upsets them.

Speaker 4 And this is something that curdles their yogurt.

Speaker 4 Look, inflation is another great example, right? It used to be it's not really happening. Oh, it's happening, but it's not a big deal.
Well, it is happening, but it's a good thing.

Speaker 4 Colbert, Stephen Colbert, who's a televangelist for progressivism, had his monologue saying, hey, sure, I'm paying more for gas, but that's the price I pay to be a patriot to kind of support Ukraine.

Speaker 4 It's like, you don't care about the problems of poor people in the slightest, and you're telling them that their suffering is virtuous and moral.

Speaker 4 Now, in many cases, sure, you have to make sacrifices for your kid, for your family, for your country. But you, Stephen Colbert, don't get to tell me what sacrifices I need to make.
Exactly.

Speaker 4 And inflation, which everyone uses currency, inflation is a sacrifice that literally everyone has to deal with, and it hurts the poorest the most.

Speaker 4 If Glenn Beck loses 10% of his money, you're still going to be okay. If I'm living hand to mouth and I'm losing 10% of my money, that's food on the table.

Speaker 2 No, that's a roof over your head. That's the difference between living under a bridge and just barely holding it together.
I mean,

Speaker 2 it's obscene what is happening and it is hurting. You're exactly right.
The weakest financially among us, that's who's really paying this high, high price for everything that is going on right now.

Speaker 2 Everything that is going on.

Speaker 2 Michael, did you see the

Speaker 2 digital currency executive order?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I've heard. I mean, I've been involved with the whole crypto space, being an anarchist for many years now.
A lot of people saw this coming down the pipe.

Speaker 4 It's not a surprise. What were your thoughts about it, Glenn?

Speaker 2 Mine was that it was very, first of all, it was hysterical that we just don't have the energy for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. It just too much energy to verify everything.

Speaker 2 We needed it centralized, one computer with a password.

Speaker 2 Literally, one computer with a password.

Speaker 2 So they're using energy now

Speaker 2 as one of the reasons why they have to have it.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 the fact that you and I both know about the Hamilton Project,

Speaker 2 we've read these white papers at treasury.gov for a couple of years. They've been out.

Speaker 2 And now they're saying, hey, we've got to look into this and study it. No, they've already studied it.

Speaker 2 This is tilling the ground. And I think that

Speaker 2 they have to move before the Republicans win, you know, or at least ceded.

Speaker 4 Well, I think it might be a little too late for them because I think what a lot of people saw, if you saw the Canadian trucker convoy, how banks just seized assets without so much as an explanation.

Speaker 4 If you see what's going on with Russia, if you're a Russian citizen, there's lots of things you can't do right now.

Speaker 4 You can't use Google Play and other such apps, and they're seizing bank accounts there as well so that is giving people an incentive correctly or incorrectly to look elsewhere to keep their money secure and crypto by design is meant to be outside of the reach of any individual government uh and if some if your money is out of their reach you're really they're really disempowered and that's a real big problem for them so they have no choice but to act but in my opinion thankfully I think that the

Speaker 4 technology is moving faster than the legislature can. And that is going to be a mechanism for freedom for people of the world

Speaker 4 in the near future. And the mid-fortunate.
It's kind of like Uber. So in many different cities, Uber, rather than being legal, just launched the app, got everyone used to it.

Speaker 4 And by the time the legislature got around to it, people were like, hey, you can't take Uber away.

Speaker 4 So crypto's adaptation is a very good mechanism towards taking away the power of the Federal Reserve, which I'm sure you share my absolute contempt for.

Speaker 2 I do. The problem is, though, is I think they are going to tie this to, because a key word in that executive order was

Speaker 2 stabilization, economic stabilization. They need the Fed coin to provide economic stabilization.
Well, that's true, because you're already operating on modern monetary theory, the first part.

Speaker 2 The second part is you have to control how that money is spent at the lowest level. Otherwise, you'll never control inflation.

Speaker 2 The White House, after denying that inflation was even real or that inflation was, I mean, two days ago, Jen Saki said, no, inflation is going down if you look at the month and month.

Speaker 2 No, no, Jen, not true.

Speaker 2 But now they're saying,

Speaker 2 yeah,

Speaker 2 you should prepare. Much higher inflation is coming.
I think they're going to use that.

Speaker 2 Are you there? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 I'm just saying inflation. You can't talk about inflation, stabilization of currency at the same time inflation is happening.
Inflation means an unstable currency.

Speaker 4 It means a currency that is losing value, and it means that you can't plan financially for the future. Because let's suppose I have a ruler, right?

Speaker 4 If a ruler is 12 inches today and 16 inches tomorrow and 10 inches the day after that, I can't build anything. Money is the same thing.
That dollar is supposed to be a standard of value.

Speaker 4 If that standard of value is collapsing, I can't make these kind of long-term plans. So this is just a lie to claim that it's for stabilization.
When they say stabilization, they mean control.

Speaker 4 And it's kind of scary how much of the verbiage is straight out of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Rugged, because they use words in the exact opposite of what they mean.

Speaker 4 And they'll use whatever word they need in order to further their sense of power control.

Speaker 4 And Glenn, I got to tell you, it really seems to me like they're losing control of the megaphone and of many other things. And they're freaking out and they don't know what to do about it.

Speaker 2 Especially. Well, usually what dictators do is

Speaker 2 start hammering. Usually dictators just shut everything down.
When they feel they're losing it,

Speaker 2 they just start shutting things down. And I just,

Speaker 2 I fear, I don't fear.

Speaker 2 I feel that's where they're going. And

Speaker 2 that will put

Speaker 2 a big hitch in our get-along. How's that for Texas?

Speaker 4 They spent two years shutting literally everything down. Yeah.
And now they're going the other direction. So I agree with you that their impetus and their MO historically has been to shut things down.

Speaker 4 But politically and culturally, things are going the opposite direction. True.
So I think they don't know what to do.

Speaker 4 And I don't think this president is, even if you love him, you can't regard him as a visionary or innovative thinker. He's a party hack.
He's been a party hack since the 70s.

Speaker 4 So you can't look to him to think of new ways of governing.

Speaker 2 That's not the whole point was he was supposed to be returned to normalcy, meaning he's old school well that old school is not going to work in 2020 yeah but that's why we have you know that new young up-and-comer kamala harris you know she's

Speaker 4 i love her so much oh my gosh i love her so much gosh i i she's gonna be the greatest president we've ever had for comedic purposes it is going to be absolutely beautiful to watch hers it's going to be like veep for those of you who watch that show

Speaker 2 it is exactly the same thing it is it is michael thank you so much uh always a pleasure guys you got you bet uh anarchist michael malice

Speaker 2 this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening

Speaker 2 Adam Curry, a guy who I used to think was the coolest guy on television and MTV VJ for years,

Speaker 2 and then is the guy really responsible for podcasting. I mean, he worked with Steve Jobs to get podcasts on to the Apple iPod at the very

Speaker 2 beginning.

Speaker 2 He is wicked, wicked smart

Speaker 2 and has been following things like ESG and the Great Reset for a while. We welcome Mr.
Adam Curry. How are you, Adam?

Speaker 5 Hey, Glenn, good to see you, my brother.

Speaker 2 Good to see you.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 we didn't meet until a couple of weeks ago, and I can't believe that friends, who we have to have mutual friends, haven't put us together earlier because we think so much alike.

Speaker 5 And I think, as I told you on your podcast, not only do we think alike, but we've

Speaker 5 had similar paths, but we're also, I think, more or less the same age. After this wonderful visit I had with you, you can see I want to be like you so much.

Speaker 5 I bought one of those microphones that you have. I'm like, wow, I sounded really good on Glenn's show.

Speaker 2 Now I need a little beard going.

Speaker 2 You're just a little goatee, and you look a little like Colonel Sanders, and you're all set.

Speaker 2 I want to read something to you, Adam, and just get your thoughts on it. We're working with 20 different states right now on legislation, anti-ESG legislation, and having the treasuries

Speaker 2 divest themselves of places like BlackRock, okay? Yeah. That are clearly working against the interests of the everyday people.

Speaker 2 So this is a statement from the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry. And I want to read this to you and get your

Speaker 2 thoughts. Some in the Idaho legislator are opposed to consider legislation to deal with ESG or environment, social, and governance.

Speaker 2 ESG, a risk management system, is being labeled as the latest threat to individual rights.

Speaker 2 While as preposterous as this sounds, folks like Glenn Beck have given legislators a farcical conspiracy theory from which legislation is being crafted.

Speaker 2 While it's easy to dismiss due to its lack of basis in reality, the problems it creates for businesses are real.

Speaker 2 Risk management for all companies, small and large, private or publicly traded, have common threads in determining asset risks from environmental factors such as climate change or local weather patterns.

Speaker 2 Additional risks are present in employment and management relationships and community acceptance of the business.

Speaker 2 Finally, the governance of all companies are critical considerations when it comes to risk management for investors. Business is, by definition, based on a risk reward system.

Speaker 2 Legislative efforts to manage how risk inputs are evaluated are unwelcome and foundationally dangerous to free enterprise. These people are actually using that.

Speaker 2 The Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry believes and defends that if Idaho wants to retain the moniker of the least regulated state in the nation, there is no role for government to dictate how business or business and their investors will evaluate the importance to each company, whether it is through formal systems labeled as ESG or otherwise.

Speaker 2 Listen to this.

Speaker 2 The tragic reality of the new world is one where talking heads drive policy to stir the masses by creating non-existent problems and then solving the problem with massive overreaches into the private sector.

Speaker 2 Businesses cannot stand by and allow this to happen. And we will firmly defend our members' ability to run their own companies in the way that best suits them as a private and independent entity.

Speaker 5 Well, first of all, congratulations. You are now an official conspiracy theorist.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. This is good news.
This is good news.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 That's why I always call myself the crackpot. I figured that's much easier.
You know, they don't have to kill me.

Speaker 5 Well, unfortunately, and so much happened in such a fast amount of time since we last saw each other,

Speaker 5 and a lot of it's coming much closer. I think we're seeing the total capture.
The capture is more or less complete.

Speaker 5 And with that, I mean, if we go back and just talk specifically about what ESG is, and it's great hearing it now. A lot of people are talking about it.
They're not quite sure exactly what it means.

Speaker 5 But again, it stands for environmental social governance. And this is a

Speaker 5 measuring standard that goes along with this, which was created literally by the bankers, including BlackRock,

Speaker 5 with a separate foundation to determine how environmentally conscious, socially conscious, and governance conscious a corporation is. And we're talking mainly about publicly listed companies.

Speaker 2 And hang on just a second. To give you an idea, there's no individual choice on anything.

Speaker 2 I've talked to people in the oil industry this week, and they have said, Glenn, we can't with the leases and everything. Yeah, we need that.
We can't get a dime from the banks. So that's ESG.

Speaker 2 The banks say, no, those oil rigs, there's much attention.

Speaker 5 Not just the banks. It's much worse than that.
It's the

Speaker 5 retirement funds, pension funds, insurance companies. And they have, you know, for their own clients, they have certain things they can and cannot invest in.

Speaker 5 And this ESG has become this fictitious score. And if

Speaker 5 I don't have a Merrill Lynch retirement account, but I understand that people who do are already seeing the ESG score of their portfolio of the companies that they have in their portfolio.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 so we've seen a lot of this taking place over the past probably five years is when it really started to accelerate. So environmental, that's all Green New Deal.

Speaker 5 And holy crap, we missed, we totally weren't paying attention. And they passed a trillion and a half dollars, of which half is going into that kind of stuff.

Speaker 5 The social.

Speaker 2 The latest, the latest bill that just

Speaker 2 horrible.

Speaker 5 These things are horrible. When you look in it, all the money, I mean, and that's all, I'm sure the Federal Reserve is very happy.
Oh, yes, we've got to push some money out. You know,

Speaker 5 that's not going to help inflation.

Speaker 5 But the social part we've been watching uh really the acceleration with black lives matter you saw every corporation giving away tens of millions of dollars or donating tens of millions of dollars to black lives matter inc

Speaker 5 which By the way, has been completely dissolved. There's no one around who runs it.
The founders

Speaker 2 of the mansions, where's the money?

Speaker 5 There's a lot of groups looking for money. Say, hey, we were all there.
The money went through you. Where did it go?

Speaker 5 So that's also what's then. Then you have the governance part, which is equity.
So do we have the right amount of black and brown people in the organization?

Speaker 5 Do we have the right amount of female to male to transgender to whatever? It all has to be equitable and equal and equity is really the key term. But the social governance capture is

Speaker 5 has come closer to the environmental with the war. the war, I'll just say it, in Ukraine.
I mean, first of all, COVID is yesterday's news. We're still in

Speaker 5 that headspace where we're freaked out about stuff. And during lockdowns, et cetera,

Speaker 5 the thing that everybody could kind of glom on to, which created this social cohesion that we all were, oh my goodness, we can get out of this, was masking, social distancing, and eventually proof of vaccination, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 5 So now we have... We're still kind of reeling from COVID.
Things are stopping, but there's not even any news about it. Please pay no attention to the Pfizer documents that came out.

Speaker 5 And we have tremendous inflation, uncertainty in the world. War is always scary.
And what have we all glommed on to? Thanks to the corporations who led the way.

Speaker 5 The huge divestiture in starting with Russian oil, but then tech companies, everyone just can't.

Speaker 5 I mean, I'm surprised they didn't wake up this morning and go to Google Maps and not be able to find Russia.

Speaker 2 I mean, they cancel.

Speaker 5 And we're all jumping on board. And this is wrong.
This is fundamentally, at a human level, wrong.

Speaker 2 it's it's wrong also because despite what the people say that this is free market that it's individual resp you know individuals get to choose their own way that is not true

Speaker 2 that is not the case it is the exact opposite

Speaker 5 wall street is driving this wall street is pushing they're saying you cannot be in russian uh in russian stocks or russian assets or or commodities uh you've got to get out of it um and because of this capture that's taken place with the large corporations who are advertising and telling everybody how great it is, I mean, the things that are happening.

Speaker 5 This morning I got an email from Universal Audio. They make audio equipment that I use.
Well, this is so horrible. What's going on? We cut off all Russian customers.

Speaker 5 They can't even access our IP addresses. Like, why are you doing that? Isn't creativity cross boundaries? Isn't that for all people of the world? Same with, I'm a ham, as a ham radio operator.

Speaker 5 There's a database online called qrz.com, qrz.com, and you can find all the call signs in there, and you can look stuff up. These guys, they took out all the Russian call signs overnight.

Speaker 5 This is insanity.

Speaker 5 It is psychological

Speaker 5 escape, and we're following straight into

Speaker 5 demise.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 what is happening? I said earlier today, if they can do this to Vladimir Putin, who

Speaker 2 willy-nilly just throws people out of windows and gets away with it, has billions of dollars and a country with a ton of nukes. If they can do this to him,

Speaker 2 what the hell do you think they'll think about doing something to you when you disagree?

Speaker 5 I mean,

Speaker 5 and it's the cancellation that is the scary part, Glenn. It's because it's financial canceling.
And they did it to Canadian truckers.

Speaker 5 I mean, in the omnibus bill, I don't know the exact, I think it was $100 billion the IRS is going to receive.

Speaker 5 And you know who they're not going to go after? Goldman Sachs. They're not going to go after BlackRock.
They're going to go after small people, middle-class people.

Speaker 2 Probably people who have a low ESG score. Probably parents who are standing up in their school board meetings and saying, this is wrong.

Speaker 5 Those people are going to be targeted yes and you were talking to michael malice earlier uh another fine texas uh uh resident and um you know he's he's absolutely right with um the the direction we're headed with this announcement the well it's just another let's go study stuff and come back in six months but the cryptocurrency executive order now biggest story of the week i think that's the biggest story of the week because once the central bank digital coin comes in and you can find online videos of the

Speaker 5 director of the Bank of International Settlements talking about this, again, the Canadian

Speaker 5 Association, it's open. They're very open about it.
That your money will have expiration. If they give you money, you might not be able to use it

Speaker 5 after a certain period.

Speaker 5 Literally, your dollars could be earmarked, and this can be tracked all the way through your spending habit.

Speaker 5 And when it pops up somewhere that you want to, I mean, I can imagine with the environmental part at a certain point, sorry, you can't buy gas today. You've surpassed your credits.

Speaker 5 And I know this sounds like, ah,

Speaker 5 but China is doing this. And there's one other thing I want to say.

Speaker 2 Russia. Russia started doing it too.
Russia's now doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 of course, it's a globalist movement.

Speaker 5 Ultimately, the idea is to get us all people enslaved underneath what they're doing.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 5 the way I see it is it's a perfect two-pronged strategy.

Speaker 5 Now, you can inflate oil prices.

Speaker 5 You can make energy very expensive through legislation, executive orders, et cetera.

Speaker 5 I truly believe that the idea, and this is what you're hearing our administration saying, don't worry, we're going to put 500,000 charging stations in.

Speaker 5 Don't worry, oil won't be a problem once you buy an electric vehicle. That's what they want everybody to do.
It's obvious.

Speaker 5 And they will push us in that direction. It will become unaffordable to commute to work.
A whole section of people, just like COVID, will have no problem working from home.

Speaker 5 And it will be the, it's the physicals versus the virtuals, even though you and I, by definition, are kind of virtuals. The physicals still have to go to works.
They have $5, $6 a gallon gas.

Speaker 5 It's going to break that system. Go home.
You can't work. We'll send you some digital dollars.
Now, it's not tomorrow, but it's coming.

Speaker 2 It's coming, I think, sooner, maybe longer than we would expect, but sooner than we hope. You know, in that executive order that Biden put out this week, it says we have six months to

Speaker 2 decide and

Speaker 2 come up with a plan, and we're going to consult everyone.

Speaker 2 Well, it talked about all its stakeholders, other countries, businesses around the world, labor unions, but it didn't say anything about the American people or Congress.

Speaker 2 Do you know that process? Is it all through the Federal Reserve? They get to choose?

Speaker 5 Well, we have to go back to the Constitution, who's really allowed or has the power to create money, and that is certainly not a commercial bank.

Speaker 5 But that's, you know, the Federal Reserve Act changed that. So that would be something that we would have to go back to.
But I think that what is good for people to understand,

Speaker 5 and it's, and I came to my own understanding when I talk to banker friends or people in politics, you even see it now when they talk about raising the debt limit.

Speaker 5 And,

Speaker 5 there's always a polarizing issue like, oh my goodness,

Speaker 5 oh, the Republicans are going to shut down this, the Democrats are going to shut down the government. But what is really going on is, and they're always surprised, like, well,

Speaker 5 you can't not raise the debt limit. That's un-American.
I mean, you literally hear people say that. That's un-American.

Speaker 5 Because the way our system works, which the financial system, is, and this is why the Federal Reserve, who does create our money through debt, says, you know, we like to keep inflation at 2% a year.

Speaker 5 That's not 2% what you're paying extra in gas or what you're paying for for household goods or this consumer price index they've made up and changed throughout the years.

Speaker 5 That's how much money they need to print every single year to create in order for the system to work. And that's why

Speaker 5 a Toyota truck in the 70s cost $5,000. Now it starts at $50,000.
That is the result of money printing

Speaker 5 throughout the decades.

Speaker 2 And what's crazy is you saw this in real time recently. They said in 2008, the price of gas was, what was it, $341.

Speaker 2 What was the price of gas? It was $4.11. $4.11.
Yeah. And now today, in today's dollars, they say due to inflation, that would be like $5.25.
You're like, wait,

Speaker 2 that was 12 years ago. What are you talking about? You know, it's not like 1950 to today.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 so now the gig is up because throughout the financial crisis of 2008-2009, when they created a whole lot of money,

Speaker 5 then we had a similar issue in the liquidity, i.e., banks weren't trusting each other to even lend to each other. So, there's one or two weak sisters in the mix, which is still in there.

Speaker 5 We don't know where.

Speaker 5 Now, we have another trillion and a half dollars going in. So, they're solving these problems kind of as they go along.

Speaker 5 But the fix is the central bank digital currency because then you don't have to create more money.

Speaker 5 You can destroy money and you can destroy it directly from people by taking off minute amounts of their bank account after the decimal in just forever.

Speaker 2 Adam Curry, great to talk to you. Hope to talk to you again soon.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 Adam Curry. You can find his podcast.
It's tremendous.

Speaker 5 The best of the Glen Bank program.

Speaker 5 So there is a,

Speaker 2 the Washington Post wrote a story, why we obsess over the details of a nuclear apocalypse. I don't, I mean, I don't think we need a story on that.

Speaker 2 I think, you know, being vaporized is probably why we obsess over it. And I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't obsessed over it since I was a kid.

Speaker 2 You know, now to not have to worry about it for 30, 40 years, and then suddenly like, hey, by the way,

Speaker 2 they might use nukes. That's kind of a problem, seeing that it's the old foe

Speaker 2 that actually has all those old nukes and some new ones too. Kind of a bad thing.
So we were talking about it in the office and Rob Eno, who is our Blaze TV media critic,

Speaker 2 started talking to us about the things that we have to do. And so I thought I would bring him in today.
I didn't realize he was going to wear a hazmat suit.

Speaker 2 But you're looking good, Rob.

Speaker 3 Well, well, thank you. I'm going to take off the mask.
You are the only person that could get me to wear a mask

Speaker 2 today. Yeah,

Speaker 3 the mask, of course, is, I don't know if you saw, but the Department of Homeland Security said that after the nuclear blast hits and after you've used your school desk.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that you have to get under.

Speaker 3 To get under, to protect yourself from the nuclear blast.

Speaker 2 Which, when I was about six, I knew that was ridiculous. Right.
Yeah. We saw the film of how everything is vaping.
With the turtle. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then they said, with the turtle, get under the desk. And I remember being probably six going, this is not going to protect me from what I just saw.

Speaker 2 I will say, too, I'm happy you took the mask off because I don't picture you that way. But I also will say any white guy wearing a white hood, also not a good person.

Speaker 3 Yeah, not a good

Speaker 3 one.

Speaker 2 I'm glad you took that mask off.

Speaker 2 Clayton Bigsby.

Speaker 3 I was doing my Clayton Bigsby impersonation. Okay.

Speaker 3 So they said you're supposed to, you know, and then you're supposed to wash your clothes or wash yourself.

Speaker 3 And then apparently, after you get the radiation off, you're supposed to go in the fallout. Remember follow-out shelters?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 My grammar school had a fallout shelter with the number of people that could be in the building.

Speaker 3 Like this used to be something I think our millennial and Gen Z listeners don't remember this.

Speaker 2 My senior essay in high school for the American government class or whatever it was was on our fallout shelter because one end of it ended in ventilation right outside.

Speaker 2 And it was like, that's really not how it's supposed to work.

Speaker 2 But anyway.

Speaker 3 So then to protect everybody in there, you're supposed to do the six-foot distancing and wear a mask so that they don't get COVID. We've had a nuclear bomb, but that's what we're supposed to do.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's some other, I mean, this is obviously joking, but there's some other things that people can do.

Speaker 3 I don't know if you saw the study a couple weeks ago, but a vast majority of millennials and Gen Zs couldn't use a paper map to save their life.

Speaker 2 I think this is a real problem. Right.
You know, things go down, just GPS for any reason. GPS goes down.
Nobody knows how to get anywhere.

Speaker 3 Right. I mean, and it's heavily hackable, the GPS system.
So say the map is?

Speaker 2 No, no, no.

Speaker 3 The GPS system, not the map, but the GPS system is heavily hackable.

Speaker 3 And the Russians have already said that they've got directed energy weapons that they've tested on a satellite and shot it down to tell us that if we do something to them, they're going to take out our GPS system first.

Speaker 3 So, all the millennials, they've got the phone and they think that they can, in Gen Z ears, they can go someplace. Get yourself a map.

Speaker 3 I don't know if you know, one of my hobbies is I'm trying to drive through every county in the United States, and I'm at about 75% of them.

Speaker 2 You're not married, are you?

Speaker 3 I'm not, which makes it easy. No,

Speaker 2 I was just, I mean, so I have a few tip-offs. Yeah, there's a chicken and an egg situation going on there as well.

Speaker 3 I have the big Ram McNally road atlas that I buy every month, but I just figured I'd bring in the small ones.

Speaker 2 I got up to Texas. I have to tell you, we got rid of ours.
When Tanya and I met 25 years ago, she used to be the navigator and she would read the map and I would drive.

Speaker 2 And we were so excited when GPS came out because it would end the arguments. No,

Speaker 2 no, you missed the turn. I told you it was right there.
All of that stuff went away. But we can read maps.
My kids don't even know anything about them. Right.

Speaker 3 And you need, so learn how to read a map. Yeah.
Get yourself a compass. I know that it's going to flip when the magnetic flips.
I know that's you've been wondering about that since you were a kid.

Speaker 3 No, it's coming. So, but, you know, get yourself a map.
Just know where the declination is for the

Speaker 3 magnetic north and use a map. So that's, you know, one thing.
The other thing is, I mean, I bought iodine this week.

Speaker 2 I don't know if you remember. I used to.
But two, but it's a little, I mean. It's a little much.
Yeah, it's a little much.

Speaker 3 I might have bought it for the bit, but I did buy iodine.

Speaker 2 All right. But, you know, in Europe, that, I think think they sold out of iodine.
Right. Uh, because, you know, they're right there.

Speaker 3 Right. And what iodine does is apparently the radioactive iodine will go into your thyroid.

Speaker 3 So if you have regular iodine in your thyroid, then the radioactive iodine can't go in, and that saves your system. That's the science of the system.

Speaker 2 How much of that? Do you just like dig a switch? I don't know. You have to look online.

Speaker 3 I am not Dr. Rob.

Speaker 2 If we have a.

Speaker 3 I'm not Dr. Rob.

Speaker 2 That might be something you look up to because along with a map, you may not have

Speaker 2 internet. I'm just saying.
Yeah, print these things out to have them. Then you should have a bug out bag.

Speaker 3 Maybe not this one. Okay.

Speaker 3 So for the bits.

Speaker 2 And I needed a bug out bag. This is the smallest bug out bag ever.

Speaker 3 This is basically for a Smurf.

Speaker 2 Yes, it is.

Speaker 3 I went online and I went to Amazon and I bought a bug out bag and I looked at the bug out bag and it said it has 242 pieces in it. So I assume that it would be somewhat big.

Speaker 2 Because it looks like a backpack. Backpack.
It looks like a backpack. But it's a very, very small backpack.

Speaker 3 But it actually has stuff that you can use, right? It's got,

Speaker 3 you know, it's got a shovel. If you were a Smurf and needed to dig a latrine pit, you know, there's a Smurf-sized shovel.

Speaker 2 That's like a garden home. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I would get a bigger kit. Yeah.
I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Yeah. This is the one.
I mean, unless you're, you know, like I come from big-boned people. That's what

Speaker 2 everybody fats. Fat in my family.
Used to say, we're big-boned people. No, we're not.
We're fat.

Speaker 2 This is for very boned people so this is what i why i thought it was gonna be big it said it came with an axe oh wow so this is the axe what is that it came with a dandelion axe yeah i think you can cut down some dandelions with but there are

Speaker 2 size of about two fingers by the way uh the actual blade of the axe yeah there are some things you can use i mean there's

Speaker 2 those are very good stuff these are actually very good to have in in the car so um this is actually going to go in my car this is if you're uh caging any illegal immigrants yes

Speaker 3 or if your car gets out or you want it maybe it protects radiation i I don't know.

Speaker 3 I can't say that.

Speaker 2 You might want to look that up too before the internet goes. Right.

Speaker 3 But, you know, you've got these types of things. So

Speaker 3 do you...

Speaker 2 This is how I know who's really prepared. Do you have food storage?

Speaker 3 I do.

Speaker 2 You do. How long?

Speaker 3 About 30 days, not a lot.

Speaker 2 That's better than most. Okay.

Speaker 2 Do you have a go bag in your car or anything else?

Speaker 3 This was the start of it.

Speaker 2 Okay, that was the start of it. So it was a good start.
It's a good start. Good kill.
Good start.

Speaker 2 Do you have a surgical kit?

Speaker 2 This is where it separates the men and the boys.

Speaker 3 This actually has string.

Speaker 2 It doesn't have a full surgical kit, but I can like Jerry ring it. I can fish.
Yeah. You know what's crazy?

Speaker 2 It says string.

Speaker 2 You got a broken leg. Give me that string.

Speaker 3 But I mean, but that brings up the, I mean, we were all of an age where we probably were all Boy Scouts for a certain period of time. That was part of what we did.
And I couldn't find it.

Speaker 3 I've moved like three times in the past four years. I couldn't find.
I have a 1972 Boy Scout field book, which is fantastic. Not the handbook.
It's a field book, and it's a survival manual.

Speaker 3 It teaches you.

Speaker 3 You know, the other things, like, how to lash.

Speaker 2 Like, I don't think many people have to do it. I don't even know.
Did somebody say to me, Stu, you've got to be like me. Hey.
Hey. Take on the lashing, will you? Yeah.

Speaker 2 No idea. Is it whipping people? I don't know what.
No, no, it's. 10 lashes be making.

Speaker 3 It's how to build structures with wood and small trees. You know, you take the things, like you look at the bridge over the River Kawai.

Speaker 2 Like the Boy Scouts touch, I don't know. I don't live in that world.
You know, it's crazy is, you know, I have the, I was so proud. I, I got the, the surgical kit.
And I mean, it has everything.

Speaker 2 It has, I mean, you can remove an appendix or whatever, you know, have it, brought it home, got the book, how to remove the appendix, and things like that. You know, I'm not coming to your house for

Speaker 2 it. Just so you know.
Tanya said,

Speaker 2 honey,

Speaker 2 who's gonna do the surgery? Yeah,

Speaker 2 because I ain't doing it on you, and I certainly do not want you doing it on me. And I'm like, whoa,

Speaker 2 I mean, but if we have to, she's like, Let me die, let my appendix burst. I don't want you with your grubby hands in my internal organs.
I think this is the appendix.

Speaker 2 Why is there Cheeto dust in there? I don't understand.

Speaker 2 She died from the Cheeto infection.

Speaker 2 I don't know. I think this is, I feel like buying a surgical kit is how the series Dexter starts.

Speaker 2 You know, it just doesn't end well. Now the problem is, is I have all of this stuff.

Speaker 2 If we were in an emergency and somebody like, I have to have my appendix out, I'd have no idea where it is.

Speaker 2 Okay, kids, everybody into the garage, start going through those boxes. I know we have one here someplace.

Speaker 2 This happened in the documentary documentary, Spies Like Us, where they had to improvise an appendix removal. They were not able to do it either.

Speaker 2 Well, I figure the first person will die of appendicitis. It'll burst.
The second person will at least have the set. We'll know where it is.
Because we're like, well, that can't happen again.

Speaker 2 Let's make sure we all remember where the set is. Then that person will die because we have no idea what we're doing.

Speaker 2 The third person will also die because the person who had just a little bit of experience will be in so much trauma, they won't be able to do it. Right.
But by like person 85,

Speaker 2 there's a good chance they might survive. Exactly.
Right. Rob, thank you so much for coming in.

Speaker 2 Now you feel prepared, right? Now you feel prepared.