Best of the Program | 3/7/22

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Today, we talk a little bit about what's really going on on the ground in Ukraine.

It, for the first time, I feel like we have the truth, because it's hard to tell what's propaganda, what's not.

Things don't seem to be going well for Russia, so what is their plan?

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I have hesitated on telling you what things are, what's what's actually going on down on the ground in Ukraine.

We didn't really talk about that last week because I'm not sure who to believe.

I think our press is so skewed, and I know the Russians so skewed.

So what is the truth?

Well, we have Jason Buttrell with us, who has some sources on the ground of Ukraine, mainly because we've done so much work on Ukraine

in the last couple of years

that

we know some people, and he's got also some other contacts as well.

Tell me what's going on, Jason.

Fairly catastrophic.

I won't say catastrophic.

It was a very bad weekend for the Russian military, and it's been just a bad invasion period.

A lot of the reports that, and you hit on it, is

you can't trust a lot of the stuff you see from both sides.

From both sides,

good or bad.

But all evidence now is showing that Russia probably expected this to be be a 72-hour timeframe.

The initial troops that Russia sent in, they were paratroopers, which are basically glorified riot police.

And that fits along, and they were decimated.

Most of them were decimated on entering into the country.

I don't have actual casualty counts on either side because they're so

wildly skewed on both sides.

Probably look at what each side is saying and then take a middle number, and that's probably what it was.

But even that number is not good for Russia.

But a lot of the equipment that's getting either destroyed or captured, they also have riot equipment like shields, batons, stuff like that.

So Russia clearly thought this was, hey, three days maximum will go in, the population will capitulate or turn to us, and this will turn into more of an occupation without firing many shots.

Very wrong.

Multiple aircraft were shot down this weekend.

That just caps off, you know, over the past, you know, week and a half, several aircraft, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft have been shot down on the Russian side.

For the most part, their operations are stalling on the ground because they don't have the logistical capability at the moment to take care of anything.

They don't have fuel.

They don't have food, water, things like that are very scarce on the ground, which shows that they were just completely unprepared.

This is not a good invasion, which,

you know, you might want to say, okay, that's a great

thing.

But if you look at Russian strategy, if you look at Aleppo, the siege of Aleppo, if you look at the siege of Grozny during the second

Chechen War, when these things stall, they move to severe bombing, indiscriminate bombing, cluster bombing of the US.

They've been doing

the cluster bombing in the cities already.

They were doing that last week, which you don't do.

Isn't that against the Geneva Convention?

Yes, but the Russians do it and they get away with it.

So now the news is this morning that they have circled all of these cities or a lot of the big cities in Ukraine.

That is what they do right before they just start just bombing the snot out of cities, isn't it?

Yeah, historically speaking.

Yes.

And then, and they haven't really completed encircling many of these.

It appears that way.

And a lot of people have reported and showing these large clusters of Ukraine that are under Russian control.

And that's not entirely the truth from what I'm seeing.

Russia has pushed further, pushed into Ukraine.

They're on major roadways, but they're not really occupying the surrounding territory.

For one of the reasons right now is it's very, very, this is rainy, it's very muddy,

it's hard to move some of these vehicles across this land.

Again, it doesn't seem like they were prepared for that, the Russians.

So even the territory that they have, it's not exactly what I would call an occupation.

It's like they're not really occupying those areas.

We're seeing the Russians move now in force, really, and having to have some sort of uh offense and defense

they don't seem very impressive oh no um most of them appear they don't seem like uh professional soldiers to me right i mean what what i mean what happened to the mighty soviet army right i mean it almost seems like macarthur was right if it's if this is what if this is the capability we should just gone through and gotten rid of gotten this over with from the beginning right after world war ii russia hasn't fought a war like this um if you look at the united states we've been fighting a war like this for over 20 years um and it's very complicated.

Combined arms, when you combine artillery, troops on the ground, you know, aircraft in the air, it's complicated.

The United States military is the best in the world at it.

So I don't know if they just expected, hey, we'll just adopt these tactics and go in and it'll be done.

But clearly, this is the evidence that they're not very capable at this kind of warfare.

So what does this mean?

What do you think that you put Putin into a corner?

What do you think that means?

Yeah,

not good for the people of Ukraine.

What you're looking at is if you want to compare it to what it's going to look at, look at what they did in Aleppo, look at what they did in World War II.

Yes, because they say, well, what about Syria?

Syria, it is nothing about race or anything else.

It is about the Middle East has always been on fire.

It's a dumpster fire, and you never know how to help or if it will help.

You're always on the wrong side.

I mean, it's that's why America didn't look at Syria.

America barely looked at at

the Christians in the area.

You know, I mean, we just didn't do anything to help the Christians in the area.

So it's not because of a religion or a race.

It's because it's a dumpster fire.

This has been a stable, westernized country, completely corrupt, but a stable, westernized country.

So, yeah, we are looking at it.

And I don't think that the world will stand for him just shelling shit cities.

No, we were talking off air, Stu.

You mentioned that, you know, where's the Russian Air Force been on this?

And I think a big reason why he hasn't probably bombed the heck out of some of these cities with his massive air force is because the world will not stand for this happening to, you know, a more Western European country.

When he just unleashes like he did in Aleppo or Grozny, when cluster bombs are hitting Kyiv, that's when the world is going to be like, okay, you've gone far enough.

The question then is, how far does the West get involved here?

Which will get scary.

Let me play cut two.

This over the weekend, this is

blinking.

What more can the United States do here if, for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member, wants to send fighter jets?

Does that get a green light from the U.S.?

Or are you afraid that that will escalate tension?

No, that gets a green light.

In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians.

What could we do?

How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to the Ukrainians?

We're in very active discussions with them about that.

Look, I've been in Europe for the last couple of days working closely, as always, with our allies and partners, that NATO, the European Union, the G7 countries, and all of us together are continuing to take steps to increase the pressure on Russia through additional sanctions, all of which are very actively under discussion and will be implemented in the coming days, as well as taking further steps to give the Ukrainians what they need to defend themselves against the Russian aggression.

Okay, so this seems like a good thing.

Explain how scary that is.

Well,

NATO-supplied fighter jets, that's kind of another level right there.

Coming from Poland, they are old.

I think it was g 29s that they're considering remember in top gun and mi-28s that was like that was in the 80s yeah um so um but yeah so but this is still an escalation and it's got the earmarks of your typical cold war you know battle whether it's the u.s and vietnam the chinese and the soviets wouldn't get involved but they would supply russians to the vietnamese

um very similar north korea same thing um this is how and and and afghanistan point that one out too um but this is a major regression and it's got all the

symptoms or the

same things that happened during the Cold War.

Now, the question now is,

during Vietnam, we knew this was going on.

United States wasn't on the verge of collapse.

Russia can't sustain this, right?

They cannot continue to let all these weapons go into Ukraine, embarrassing Putin, while at the same time, you know, an economic

WMD is now being unleashed on Russia.

So he's going to have civil problems.

These people are going to rise up.

We're not going to see that probably because TikTok,

all these Russian media outlets, Facebook, Twitter are now shut off in Russia, which is a tragedy, really.

But we're not going to see how they're reacting, but they're not going to react well.

So Visa and MasterCard over the weekend said they're not going to process anything in Russia, which Russia immediately turned to China and they said, fine, we'll use their visa or master card.

But this is targeting the civilians, which we've never, ever, ever, ever done before with sanctions.

We always say we are targeting the regime, we're targeting the country, we don't target the individuals.

My understanding, too, is that the cards will work, Russian-issued visas will work inside of Russia.

So they can still buy basic supplies with these cards.

They just can't buy anything international.

So it's remarkable to me that nobody is noticing the number of companies that are involved in this.

This has never been seen before.

And everybody is saying this is great and screaming for

the oil to be shut off from

Russia.

But could I just point out,

we don't have the oil.

If we want it to shut off, we need to say, open

up our own oil and gas resources.

We can't afford to shut this off.

Well, it's only 10%.

Okay.

You want another 10% on top?

This is death for the United States.

We are right now negotiating with Iran and Venezuela.

Amazing.

Why would we enrich those two countries?

Look,

I know the global warming bullcrap.

I know all of these people are like, well, the planet's going to die.

Well, you know what?

I know the radicals, the real radicals, believe that we should just, we need to shut down more than we did at COVID-19.

That's death for millions of people all around the world.

Literally, that will mean millions will die all around the world.

We cannot shut down all of our fossil fuels at this point.

Can't do it.

I would understand if the president who disagrees with me came out and said, look, for the next nine months or however long this thing drags on, we are going to open our pipelines.

We are going to fund our, you know, the exons of the world.

We are going to start going back and taking the natural gas out and shipping it.

We're doing it because we have to, or we'll kill the nation.

Now, I'm going back and I'm shutting it all off again in whenever, nine months, whatever it is.

People would understand that.

Reasonable people.

The only people that wouldn't understand it are the Marxists that want to destroy us anyway.

It makes no sense.

None.

Why would we be enriching Venezuela and

Iran

instead of taking care of business ourselves?

That should be the number one call.

I want the oil to stop from Russia, but I want the oil to be replaced with American oil and gas.

Period.

All right, Friday I was concerned.

Saturday when I got up, because Friday I was concerned because the State Department said Americans should consider leaving Russia.

Okay.

All right.

If I were in Russia, I'd probably go, you know what?

I think it's about time to go home.

However, Saturday, they said, the State Department said, all Americans should immediately leave Russia.

I don't know.

That was kind of concerning because you don't just higgledy-piggledy throw that one out.

There's a lot of Americans working in Russia.

Right.

Including WNBA players.

Right.

And you don't just say, hey, by the way, you should leave right now and upend everybody's lives without real reason.

That's usually the last thing that happens before a country goes to war.

Then

Saturday afternoon, they talked about reinstalling the red phone,

the hotline.

Now, for those who didn't grow up

in the time period I did, the hotline was there on the president's desk and the desk of whoever was running things in Moscow.

So it's a direct line from Putin to Biden.

So if something happens in the fog of war, before you launch, you call and say, was that a mistake?

Or did you just escalate?

Because I got my finger on the button right now.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

We did not mean to do that.

That shooting down of that plane was a mistake.

Okay.

It's the last fail-safe.

It is the last

line of defense before a nuclear missile launch.

It's a little terrifying to say,

you know what, get that old phone, get it out.

Do we still have it?

I think it's a Smithsonian.

Yeah, bring it in here.

I mean, that's a little terrifying.

Is it just me?

So, Jason, do you see this getting worse?

Better?

You say that they weren't prepared for this.

They're having heavy losses.

Blinken said there's very little sign of any kind of negotiations.

So does it get worse or better from here?

I wish I had the answer.

It's definitely going to get worse.

Putin cannot afford to look weak on the national stage or

in his own country or abroad, especially in his own country.

So he's going to push to get some kind of agreement where he's going to say, look, I won, but then they also took a win there as well.

I think that he'll still try and say, before I commence bombardment of these cities and pull a grozny,

this is what we want.

And I think that he's already kind of hinted that he wants them to change their constitution, which would probably say we will not join the EU.

We will not join NATO, which they don't belong in either, by the way.

So Ukraine definitely could, you know, capitulate on that.

The areas where they might not capitulate on is recognizing Crimea and eastern Ukraine as Russian or separate.

You think he's going to stop with that, though?

I mean, with this attack, that's where I thought he was going initially, but you think he'd fall back to that position at this point?

I think that he'll have no choice eventually.

He can't occupy Ukraine, doesn't have the forces, and his troops don't have the capability, just seeing what I've seen.

They probably don't also have the will.

What am I doing?

Why am I here?

Many of them didn't even know what they were doing.

Yeah.

All right.

Back in just a second.

Thank you so much, Jason.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

We welcome Pat Gray from Pac Ray Unleashed.

Hello, Pat.

Hello, Glenn.

Hello, Stu.

How are you?

Ah,

never been.

Perfect.

Really?

Pretty much perfect.

Wow, that is amazing.

And you'd think you running a company with cost of inflation,

driving to and fro work.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And yet

everything's perfect.

Yeah.

Huh.

You haven't seen any impact on your cookie company.

Oh, it's almost none.

No.

No.

No.

And no ingredients.

Cheaper than ever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I went to Costco on Friday night.

That was our date night.

That was our date night.

Nice.

Yeah.

It's a fun date.

Yeah.

So, you know, I just went and I

bought lots of things, you know.

And

it was fun.

It actually turned out to kind of be fun.

The guys who were checking out,

Tanya and I, and all of the people in the line behind us were having a guessing game on how much is that going to cost because we got butter and meat.

Lots of butter and meat.

And

just butter and meat?

No, no, no.

We got a bunch of other things, but that was like, I mean, how do you, that's like gold.

It's like gold now.

I mean, picking up the meat, I'm like, honey, I mean, I'm starting to like vegetarianism.

It is crazy.

You know, we were at the cash register and it was like, is that a bug we could eat?

Let's look at that bug over there on the floor.

It is just, it's insane.

Yeah.

And the, the average person now, so I can't even say this.

It's not an average person.

The person who makes $100,000 a year, the average $100,000 a year earner, is now living paycheck to paycheck.

Since seeing that's double what the average person in household makes, ah, you got some problems.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It might surprise you to know that butter goes into some of the cookies that we make.

Really?

Yeah.

It doesn't seem at all.

A lot of butter.

So, yeah, the prices have gone through the rules.

It's crazy.

Through the rules.

It is crazy.

And, you know,

everything

I've been thinking about,

you know, all of everybody that works here and thinking, you know, everybody is under stress

so how do you give everybody a raise for inflation well then you'd have to raise the price of the blaze subscription and that hurts people and then they have to get a i mean it's just it's it's the inflation spiral yeah yeah

and the good news is we do have some friends around the world that will help us out right oh yeah yeah yeah iran uh is is going to help us out really because we're trying to get rid of the we're trying to ban the russian oil yeah yeah yeah but it's got to be replaced by something somewhere, right?

And we're not going to, for some reason,

we can't drill our own.

Well, we can't figure that one out.

Can't figure it out.

Not since Trump, anyway.

Trump figured it out, but Biden can't.

And so we're turning to good, close, personal friends like Iran.

Iran.

So how's that negotiation going?

It's going pretty well.

According to one of the lead negotiator for the Iranians,

he had good things to say about the negotiations.

Really?

Yeah, he did.

Do we have it?

Here it is.

I think we do.

Iranian colleagues are frantic for Iranian nuclear

nuclear

national interests look like lions.

Indeed, I'm very serious.

They fight for every

word.

Every word.

And as a rule.

As a rule, quite successful.

Quite successfully.

Quite successfully.

I must recognize that.

Do you think that could be a good deal for Iran?

Because there have been different arguments inside that.

I am absolutely

sincere.

I'm sincere.

In this regard.

Iran got much more than it could expect.

Oh, wow.

Iran got much more than it could expect.

Much more.

Much more.

And he goes on to re-emphasize that point multiple times that they got much more than they could expect from Iran.

And I believe it.

Who doesn't believe that?

Constant weakness.

I believe that.

Constant weakness.

That's the entire president.

Constant incompetence in

everything they do.

Now, hang on just a second.

We're also sending people down to

Venezuela, and we're

to get some Venezuelan oil up here.

That'll be good.

Won't that be good?

That'll be really, really good.

Another good, close, personal friend.

Yes.

Venezuela.

Yes.

And then today, Biden is thinking about sending some people to fly out to Saudi Arabia.

I mean, look at what we're doing.

It's not like we're desperate.

We have it.

We could supply the whole world with the oil.

We have it.

We have cleaner oil than the rest of the world.

We just won't use it.

Nope.

Won't use it.

America,

you have to call your congressman and your senator.

Stop this nonsense of telling them to

shut down the Russian oil.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Not unless we drill our own oil and gas here.

We have to provide the rest of the world.

We're not going to Iran and to Venezuela and to Saudi Arabia.

What is wrong with this administration?

Well, we know.

We know.

We know.

It's run by Marxists who don't have

America's

best interest at heart.

Yeah.

No.

By the way, did you hear about

Britney Griner?

Yeah.

Essentially being held captive in Russia.

Yeah.

Now, do you believe, do you know anything about her?

She apparently was.

She's a big basketball player.

She was like an MVP of the WNBA, wasn't she?

She's like a big deal.

deal she's big yeah so she was in russia she was

uh

at the airport coming out and they're playing in a russian league by the way wondering why she's in russia right now she's a spy anyway uh no um she's uh she was over in russia she was coming out over the weekend uh when the state department said every american should leave immediately She was at the airport.

She had, I think, already gone through security, and then she was stopped.

You have it on tape.

You can see it.

They stop her.

They go through one of her purses or luggage and they found a vape,

what do you call it, pipe.

And apparently it had

hashish oil in it.

Did it?

Don't know.

We don't know.

Don't know.

Certainly, it wouldn't matter if it did or not from the Russians.

They could just say it does.

And she could be now in a Russian prison for 10 years.

10 years for that.

Yeah, it's scary.

And I wish her well, and I hope this doesn't turn into a bit.

I hope she's not spending 10 years in a, I mean, unless she, you know, if she was guilty of this, I mean, I guess you just, you got to obey the law.

Yeah, I would say that.

Yeah, but still, is that a 10-year offense?

No, no, it's not a 10-year offense.

No, it is not.

No.

But I will, but I, but I also, I'd just like to point out she was one that would not

walk out onto the court

for a year if the national anthem was being played.

And

I'm betting she would stand up for the national anthem at this point.

You know what I mean?

Looking for so.

Looking for anyone with a flag on their arm or their lapel to come in and help her.

It's amazing how that works.

Yeah, it is.

Isn't it, though?

Because you do think when that happens.

Yeah, why don't you try somebody else's

justice system?

Justice system and see how that works for her.

And I don't wish this on her, and I'm not gleeful about it.

I'm just let's not take for granted what we do have still here in America.

And there's no way,

I mean, it used to be that the American passport was a golden ticket.

Nobody was stopping an American citizen because we had,

you know, we had support and some clout in the world and you didn't mess with Americans.

Now it doesn't matter because we're a clown show.

We're not a clown country, but we're a clown show.

We are run by clowns And everybody knows that.

Yeah.

I mean,

and they're taking advantage of us because of that.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

What, the clowns or the other countries?

No, the other countries.

Well, the clowns are too.

Yeah, that's true.

The clowns are trying to convince us that we all should, we all have been wearing clown shoes and have clown noses.

And we're like, I mean, does anybody else feel like it is the emperor's new clothes?

Where we're all sitting here going, no, that's not.

Right.

No,

no,

no, you shouldn't be doing that.

And everybody stands around going, oh, look at what they're doing.

Isn't that great?

Look at what we're doing.

I mean, look at this.

It's amazing because

the Ukrainians, God bless them, are sitting there saying, hey, can you guys help us out more?

Can you do X, Y, and Z?

Do you realize what you're asking for?

We're going to make things much worse with this group of people trying to fix the situation.

Oh, my God.

All we're going to do is screw up your life more.

Like, if Ronald Reagan was president, I have some

understanding and faith that maybe we would be able to navigate almost impossible waters with Joe Biden as president?

Yeah.

I mean,

we might as well completely just give up.

You know, I mean, he is, he is,

the incompetence on every single aspect of foreign policy since he took office is incomprehensible.

I mean,

your book, The Great Reset, goes into why a lot of this stuff is going on, that maybe it's not just incompetence.

And that's the only thing that explains it.

You couldn't just be this bad all the time.

You could not.

I mean, I would like, you're an odds guy.

Do you know any odds maker that we could call and say, let's just look at the policies of this administration?

Give me the odds that they're this wrong, this stupid, that

every single thing turns against the United States of America.

What are the odds?

Yeah, I'd love.

Billion to one.

We've said many times on the air, what would you do differently if you were trying to destroy the country?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

I can't think of anything.

Nothing.

I mean, they've done a beautiful job of it.

I would get involved in Ukraine.

That's the one thing I would do.

Get involved in Ukraine.

Yeah, which they still may do.

Who knows?

Please tell your congressman and senator: no.

No, no.

The best of the Glenn Bank program.

Let me tell you

a completely made-up story, a completely hypothetical, a cautionary tale about a man named Tom,

who now his family thinks he's a complete lunatic.

Tom, let's say, is a loyal listener of this program.

He's read the Great Reset.

He studied the WEF website.

He even tried a Bilt Bar.

That's Tom.

At first, he thought, ah, this guy, he's overreacting, collapse of the West, whatever.

Then he started to do his own research.

Now, Tom is wide awake and he wants to make sure his family is ready because he feels responsible for their protection.

Boy,

can anyone relate?

Well, his wife, Lacey,

might love Tom, but is not really like Tom.

Might have been one day before they started pumping out kids.

Now they've got three kids under five.

And Lacey, Tom's wife, she's at home with the kids all day.

She just wants to have an adult conversation from time to time.

She also has an elderly mother.

So she's got a lot of responsibility, too.

She rarely has a moment to breathe.

Nonetheless, study ESG scores.

Not high on Lacey's list.

The kids were screaming over the radio when Tom years ago said, you should listen to Glenn Beck.

She would just like quiet in the house from time to time.

Her mother always forgets to put on her hearing aids and then turns the TV up to

about 6 million.

one day after listening to my show recently Tom decided it was time for the family to start preparing but he knew he and his wife needed to make the decision together way to go Tom

so last week Tom decided to approach his wife in the kitchen she was making lunch she had a three-year-old that was bumbling and babbling relentlessly under her feet and she hadn't slept much the night before because the baby kept waking up.

They had guests arriving for a weekend stay in less than an hour.

But Lacey had spent the morning helping her mother, trying to find her heart medicine, so the house was still a mess.

And Tom thought, you know what?

Now is the right time.

I have no time to waste.

Tom decided, now is the time to talk to Lacey.

The collapse of the West is right around the corner, Tom bellowed to his wife, to which she replied,

you have been listening too much to Glenbeck.

Everything is fine.

Tom, stunned, eeked out a series of breathless words, punctuated by rapid and indiscernible arm movements.

World Economic Forum,

digital currency, Dugan, the oil.

And then he went to the Glenbeck standby.

It's trap!

Thoroughly exhausted, Tom collapsed to the floor, staring blankly into space.

Lacey looked on in horror.

Not now, honey.

We have guests arriving.

Tom collected himself and scuttled out of the kitchen, cloaked in abject failure and sweat.

Okay,

this is an example of what not to do.

Now,

how do I know?

Because while I'm not Tom,

I, of course, said more than just World Economic Forum, digital currency, Dugan, oil, it's a trap.

I said more than that.

A lot more.

And

I'm surprised that some of the family members who don't listen to me all the time, but know that Uncle Glenn

kind of knows what's going on, and so they look look to me for time to time for an update, I decided to tell them

everything.

Not a good decision.

So

let me break it down on the things that Tom and I have both learned.

Some rules that maybe you should take when talking to your family about,

it's a crap.

Pick the right time.

Now I'm not sure when that time is, because in a busy household, it never seems to be the right time.

But pick the right time.

Half asleep?

No, hmm, hmm.

In-laws arriving in five minutes, five days, five years?

No, mm-mm, not the right time.

Baby's birthday party, sure, a classic tale to laugh about years to come, but have you lost your mind?

You need to pick a low stress time where you can really talk.

Now, immediately I think, maybe a romantic weekend.

No, no, not a good time.

In couples counseling, they teach couples to employ the acronym HALT, H-A-L-T.

HALT.

Before you have any serious conversation, halt and ask yourself a few questions.

Is she hungry?

Don't do it.

Is she angry?

Honey, I don't know anything.

Is she lonely?

I just want some adult time.

Or is she tired?

Yeah.

If one or more

or all of them apply, wrong time, Wrong time to talk.

Now, here's my question for the counselor.

What on earth happened to you this weekend?

It was not good.

It was not good.

This is an amazing moment.

So

when you tried to

explain to your family the doom we all face in some level of detail.

No, no, no.

And you picked the wrong time.

No, no, okay, so they're my family.

So I said,

they said, what are you doing to prepare?

And I told them what I'm doing to prepare.

And they all went,

really?

And

I said,

yeah, but I mean, it may not happen and it may not happen right now.

But I think we should all be prepared and start thinking along these lines.

Well,

they didn't hear the

it may not happen right now.

And then they also went home and they saw, you know, the new red phone being put on the desk of the Oval Office and with Putin.

And,

you know, the fact that

You know, we're at DEF CON 2 in Europe.

And the other, my favorite was,

by the way, we're the State Department.

If you're an American citizen in Russia, run for your lives.

Get out right now.

Right now.

Run for your lives.

That probably notched them up a little bit in the panic scenario.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, no,

there's a lot to be worried about right now.

So I went to them and said, look, look, look, look.

I am sorry because I feel very alone in the family because I don't tell the family,

you know,

I don't go home and do all this.

If they want to listen, they can listen.

And there's many things that I believe that I shall never say, but I shall never say the things that I do not believe.

And so there's lots of things that I don't say because I don't want, you don't want to live in my head.

You do not want to live in my head.

It's a very dark and scary place.

So,

and it causes a problem with me.

And I bet as a dad, if you feel the way I do, you might feel this way.

You might feel very, very alone because you're like, you know, everyone is depending on me.

I'm trying to just,

hey, let's, yes, let's go out and

just watch the kids play soccer.

Let's do that because it's going to, I'm not stressed out or thinking about anything at all.

I'm just thinking about, let's have a good time.

Okay.

Who wants to to go to Shaky's Pizza afterwards?

I know I do.

All right.

That's

the way I feel.

Like, I'm just faking all of the time.

Oh, yeah.

No, me thinking.

What are you thinking, honey?

Oh,

nothing.

I definitely wasn't thinking about 18 minutes before you know missiles would hit here and how we would possibly survive and get out of ground zero.

I'm not thinking about that.

I'm just

nothing.

So when somebody says, No, really, Uncle Glenn, tell me.

Oh, I was glad to share the burden.

Not

a good idea.

So what I said to them is, you know, be prepared.

Just be prepared.

Just here's what you need to do.

And I didn't tell them this at the time.

I told them this yesterday when there was a big conference call with the whole family.

And many of them were like,

we can never let our,

you know, our wives down to your house ever again.

You're not allowed to call here.

Stop.

And so I talked to everybody and I said, look, here's the thing.

All of these things are true.

All of these things are true, but you cannot,

there's only so much you can do.

And the first thing that's going to happen, and I explained this to them,

that Tanya and I,

for the last week, we have been trying to make some really big decisions on things.

You can't make them all at once.

You can't have that big conversation even all at once.

You have to break them down into bite sizes.

And you'll think like I'm not making any progress because I haven't made any decisions.

All last week, Tanya and I tried to have one conversation about one item on our list.

And it is so,

it's so, it's hard to think about these things.

It's hard to think.

There's no, oh, you know what?

Go to the, go to the bookstore.

There's got to be a self-help book on what to do, you know, if your country's about to collapse.

There's no self-help on that.

There's nothing.

There's no, there's nothing.

There are zombie apocalypse self-help books.

Yeah.

And maybe you could follow me.

I mean, I might get to a point where I'm like, oh, a zombie is involved.

Eat me now.

But

it's hard.

So you just have to do the best you can.

And all last week, Tanya and I, we haven't made a decision yet, but we're closer because we had five or six nights of just having honestly five-minute conversations before all of us before both of us were like, I'm exhausted.

I can't even think about it.

I'm just, I've just shut down.

It's really hard because it evolves everything.

Everything.

So what you need to do is just the next right thing.

And the next right thing would be

on the political side, call

your state, House, your Senate, your House of Representatives, call your governor's office and say no ESG.

Pass a bill, no ESG.

You don't even have to do that if you're just concerned about you.

Go to the store and every time you buy food, you know this.

This is not doomsday.

This is just inflation.

Every time you buy something, buy two if you can.

And then store the second one.

And then when you run out of the first one, don't use the second one.

Go to the store and buy two again.

And store the second one there.

And just keep doing that until you have, I mean, I don't know if you saw this.

Was it Colgate, Colgate, I think?

I don't know.

One of the toothpaste, they're saying that it's going to be $10 a tube this summer.

$10 a tube for toothpaste.

Okay.

All right.

Wow.

Maybe we should buy some toothpaste as well.

Just do the next right thing and start knocking them off.

You cannot approach this

the way, I mean, I've spent 25 years doing this.

I've spent the last 20, almost 18 years, just no, well, actually, since September 11th, really,

about 20 years just focused on what I think we're entering into now.

To bring people up to speed is tough, and you don't want to scare them.

So don't invite me to any parties because I'll make everyone cry.

Okay,

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