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Today, we talk a little bit about Haiti and what's going on there.

An assassination of the president at his home.

A crazy story.

We go through the new details that are being reported about that.

We talk about the movie industry, where big-time power players are saying the movie industry is dead and it's not coming back.

Is that true?

We go into that a little bit today.

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The first one

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Mike Lavinati, where has he been for the last gosh, what's it been?

15, 20 minutes since he was in the news?

Remember when he was everywhere all the time?

Good day.

Those were good times.

Really good times.

Kind of came out of nowhere.

Was

suddenly the most famous man in America for a three to six month period.

Right.

And then things took a nasty turn.

They sure did.

Well, he tried to hold up Nike for $20 million or something.

I mean,

Tagas has not tried to hold up an international corporation

for tens of millions of dollars.

I think we've all done it.

We've all been there.

Yeah.

Avenati just got caught, and that's very sad.

What I think is really fascinating about Avenatti is he comes in,

he's just embraced immediately by the media.

Well, yeah, because he hated Trump and he had things to say about Trump that weren't flattering.

And so he was speaking truth to Trump.

Yeah.

And he was essentially the equivalent of a Twitter feed, right?

Like he came out.

He was constantly prepping little insults, you know, little ways to phrase things that the media loved because they were doing the work that, I mean, to be honest, they were doing the work that the journalists wanted to do.

But journalists don't want to act like journalists.

They want to be able to yell and scream Twitter insults at the president at that time over and over and over and over again.

And sometimes they just do.

And sometimes they do.

Yeah, but

they might get a little pushback here and there.

Avenatti was just doing all the stuff they wanted to do.

accuse the president of all the things they thought he did without evidence.

But man, did they love him?

Here's just a little reminder of how much they loved him.

He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti.

Joining us once again is Michael Avenatti.

Let's bring in Michael Avenatti.

Michael Avenatti.

Michael Avenatti.

Michael Avenatti, thank you very much.

He's out there saving the country.

Don Meacham says he may be the savior of the Republic.

You are something of a folk hero now.

I owe Michael Avenatti an apology.

I've been saying enough already, Michael.

I've seen you everywhere.

What do you have left to say?

I was wrong, brother.

You have a lot to say.

I am just dying to hear what you think.

These people all like you.

I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.

We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump.

Michael Avenatti is a beast.

Okay, that's true.

And

he's a beast.

I hand it to her.

And I hand it to Michael Avenatti.

But he has a bigger calling here.

That being a lawyer is little compared to what he's doing.

He has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti.

And Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.

That's fascinating.

Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avenatti.

Trump will run for his money more than anybody else, Michael Avenatti is an existential threat to the Trump presidency.

The Democrats could learn something for you.

You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are.

He has no doubt created sheer panic in Donald Trump's very fragile mind.

Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host.

Is he really thinking about running for president?

One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.

You look at the field of Democrats right now, and Avenatti is the one who stands out.

If they decide to value a fighter most,

people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avenatti.

I have always said that they need a fighter.

Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media.

I think we've used it with great success.

That's great.

And there's one more clip here at the end.

Oh, they don't have the one at the end.

What was the one at the end?

He says something to one host where he says something like, You know, I'll say all my sexual fantasies go along with handcuffs.

They just paid the end.

Yeah.

All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.

I see.

I told you.

Oh?

Oh,

yes.

Yes, clappity, clap, clap.

We're all wonderful.

We're all into bondage.

And guess what, Michael?

You're going to be able to live out those fantasies now in the next two and a half years.

Congratulations.

It's going to be lots of fun.

You're going to see how wonderful those fantasies really are.

How embarrassing is that for the

geese?

And they spend so much time being like, they won't even mention Michael Avenatti's name.

Now, who's not mentioning his name?

Trump has no problem mentioning his name now.

What about all these other places that were having him on as basically an exalted co-host for months on end?

Yeah.

And there was the rumblings that he was going to run in 2020 for president.

Remember that?

And that kind of went away.

Yeah.

Sort of went away.

And remember, too,

it wasn't just Trump.

per se he was attacking.

He also had one of the fake accusers of Kavanaugh under his umbrella.

Oh, he brought along one of those three.

I was like, wait a minute, none of these claims make any sense.

And that was, I think, the beginning of the end because it was so easily sort of debunked.

And I think there was a moment there where the media said, oh, wait a minute.

He might just be making all the stuff up.

And much of it he was, obviously.

We know that now.

What's fascinating about this is he is such a terrible figure.

Such an awful, awful, just,

I mean, he's a creature of the system that is, you know, the lowest among us, right?

It's like the worst that society can produce, Mike, is Mike Clavanati.

And he's so bad, I mean, especially among conservatives.

Like, he's going to prison because he defrauded and tried to extort Nike.

The company that like promotes Colin Kaepernick

and gives him millions of dollars to do nothing except harass police officers.

And conservatives are like, good job.

Good job, Nike.

You got him.

Like, he's actually lower on the scale than Nike, which is saying something.

Yeah, Nike's pretty low in my book.

People don't like Nike.

That are at least conservatives.

And it doesn't even have a problem, I think, now with the woman who brought him to prominence because he was her lawyer, Stormy Daniels.

And isn't she suing him, too?

Oh, no.

I think she's suing him.

He's that bad of a lawyer.

He's that bad that even Stormy Daniels is,

I think, suing him for,

I don't know what.

She says she had a statement

reacting to his sentencing today, and she said, he was a man you wanted to trust and believe in.

But the longer I knew him, I began witnessing his lies and dishonesty until I realized I, too, became his victim.

I am sure today he found a reckoning.

Let's hope that leads to an honest realization that he must change his life.

Again, Michael Avenatti is not only below Nike, but also this stripper porn star that was trying to go after the president as well.

So really a,

and I actually don't know her work all that well, so I shouldn't say it.

Was she a porn star or just a stripper?

I can't remember.

Does anyone remember this?

I don't remember either.

No?

I don't know.

Sarah, for some reason, doesn't seem to have this knowledge.

Why?

Sarah, I'm just asking for just a quick distinction.

porn star or stripper?

Or both.

Pretty sure porn star, but

she's your confirmed.

There you go.

You know, again, Sarah has many bits of knowledge that we sometimes don't fully explore.

We don't appreciate.

Yeah, you know, we don't.

Not quite.

She has a reservoir of knowledge.

Yeah.

And we need

to do it more.

In certain areas.

Other areas, not so much, but certain areas.

She really nails it.

So thank you.

Porn seems to be my area.

So it's really a fascinating story because, you know, if you think about it, really, like, they did actually

churn up these checks that were paid from people like Michael Cohen and the Trump organization to, you know, these two women.

And even though that happened,

still this guy is a complete disgrace.

Like, I mean, this is an ultimate, this is a dream of the media at the time to come up with this sort of storyline.

They came up with it, and still Michael Lavanati ends up in prison.

It really is an amazing turn of events because we forget it happened so fast, and so many things happened to us.

They made him,

I mean, they were trying to elevate him to president of the United States.

Right.

They really were.

And he was just nothing but a total tool.

Yeah.

That's all he was.

Hey, look, blatantly obvious from the beginning.

Right.

Like, you know, he immediately reminded me of when he came on the scene was Michael Cohen,

Trump's former attorney, who has now turned on him and is now doing basically the same thing that Avenatti was doing, going on cable news all the time and saying, How,

you know, I've got all this information and nobody will listen to me.

And Trump's really bad and he's going to prison soon.

All the things Avenatti was doing, now Michael Cohen is doing.

But, like, you know, you look at Michael Cohen, you look at Michael Avenatti, you just immediately get the impression that not one 24-hour period has gone by where they didn't do something illegal.

You know, it's just like, again, I don't have any evidence on it, but

the state apparently did on both of them.

So it's not worked out well for either.

And

that's a sad turn of events.

Is it, though?

No.

I think him winding up in jail is kind of a happy place.

It's ended up in a happy place.

So, because nobody seems to be more deserving than Michael Avenatti of just spending a little time in prison.

So that'll be fun to see.

Sometimes it's good for people to sit back and think about what they've done.

You know, you need a timeout sometimes, and he needs a timeout in a bad way.

And we should say it was very sad.

He cried.

He did weep openly.

As a man, he broke down and wept openly in court.

Yeah, that's sad.

Yeah.

You know, you could tell it's really gotten to him now after he's lost his money and his fame.

He did admit to wrongdoing, too.

He said he got carried away with himself, or I don't know if it's due to that effect.

What?

Yeah.

You think Michael Avenatti got away from him?

I don't think so, but

he does now because

he's got to show remorse so that maybe he can get parole sometime soon.

Right.

So we'll see.

We'll see what happens there.

But

what a sad day for Michael when he wept.

As a man, he wept openly.

Triple 8 727, B E C K.

Also,

I was fascinated by the fact that France is now warning their citizens about travel to Spain and Portugal.

They're kicking in to gear the COVID fears again because things are starting to calm down and governments are losing control of people.

And so

we've got to regain control.

France is telling its citizens they shouldn't be vacationing in Spain or Portugal

in the latest sign that the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 could wreck Europe's summer.

And here in the United States, they haven't scared us enough with the Delta variant yet.

So they're starting to push the Lambda variant.

Yeah, I've been hearing a little bit about the Lambda variant.

Lambda.

Now,

do the vaccines cover the Lambda?

I think it's too early to know what's going on with the Lambda.

I don't think there's any reason to believe that any of these variants are doing anything to evade

these

vaccines in any meaningful way.

The only one that seemed to really do it in any meaningful way was the South African one, which I can't, is Gamma, maybe?

I think in this new naming system?

I can't remember.

Is it Gamma?

I think it might be Gamma, but it's already pretty much faded from view.

The Delta one, does like, you know,

there is one study out of Israel that shows it's still pretty effective, but not as effective.

64%.

64%.

But

Pfizer, which they're claiming, what,

94%?

Yeah, I think.

Every other study, though, has it more in the mid-80s to high 80s.

Oh, okay.

So, like, I don't know.

Even with the variants.

Yeah,

they think one of the issues is that

Israel is super aggressive with testing.

So if you come in contact at all with anyone who had COVID, even if it wasn't like a long-term contact or anything, they test everybody, they do the entire tree.

And so, they're catching a lot of asymptomatic cases and such.

But the same thing is holding that is held with every other variant in all of these situations.

You don't get as sick, you don't get as sick, you don't go to the hospital, you don't die, which is a plus.

Those are all plus.

Yeah, and

almost every single situation.

Again, the number in the United States right now is 99.9.

Literally, 99.9% of hospitalizations are people that are unvaccinated.

So,

again, take what you want from that,

but 99.9%.

That doesn't mean you have to get vaccinated.

No, and it doesn't mean the government should force you to do it.

No, that's for sure.

It doesn't mean they should come to your door.

It doesn't mean Jensaki should show up with a needle

and inject you with anything.

It just means that, you know, these things have been pretty effective, and we've seen a way to be able to deal with it.

99.9%.

You might say, how could they possibly perform better?

And the answer to that is they could be one-tenth of a percent better.

That's the answer.

They could be 100% effective.

They're only 99.9%.

So deal, you know, that's just the thing.

And it's like, they keep hyping this stuff, you know, that right now, I mean, you're seeing what's going on with the Olympics, right, Pat?

That they're having no

fans.

I heard a journalist talking about what they have to do.

They have to test every day.

for three days before they leave.

Then they have to get tested at the airport.

Then when they they arrive, they have to get tested and go immediately from there to their hotel room in isolation for three full days.

Then

they can't ever leave the Olympic bubble for any of the time that they're there.

So it's all inside the bubble.

And

I think that the athletes as well have,

after the Olympic Games are over, have 48 hours to leave the country.

Wow.

I mean, they are loading this on.

And Japan has not really had, had.

I mean, they've been able to avoid the worst of this from the beginning.

I mean, they really haven't had a terrible time with COVID, but they're worried about it now.

And

they said, I heard a report this morning: the overwhelming majority of Japanese citizens want them to cancel the games.

Wow.

Think about that.

That's a totally different vibe than I think America.

Like, we would be like, wait a minute, you're doing what?

Yeah.

There, the overwhelming majority in polls show that they want it canceled.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome.

It is Pat and Stew for Glenn.

Jeffy has joined us,

which is unfortunate.

I heard you were talking about porn, and no one stopped by.

We actually were.

We were talking about whether or not Stormy Daniels has done it.

Yeah.

Has she?

And I wanted to go and view her work

on a particular website.

Thank you.

And this company will not allow me to access that website.

No, they will not.

No, they're not going to let you.

Completely unacceptable.

Here you are just trying to do research for the show.

Thank you.

That's right.

I think you need to go complain to Glenn about that.

I have already emailed him.

He did a long, long,

lodger complaint.

Completely unacceptable.

Well, I believe we did land on that.

She apparently did do a Stormy Daniels Did a stripper tour

post-Trump accusations, but that is not what she's known for.

She was known for her earlier work, and as a very well-informed on this topic,

a person here in this office just came in, said she was actually on the 40-year-old Virgin.

She was in the 40-year-old virgin.

Apparently, that was the movie that he was using to

excite himself.

Right, in the movie, in the Steve Corrilla.

Now, I'm not sure exactly why there was so much information bouncing around about that topic from this particular individual, but we will leave that.

But he had a ton to another dude.

He did actually went into this game.

He started listing off the entire game.

He had more information than Jeffy did on Stormy Daniels.

Yeah, he most definitely did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Apparently,

his internet access works.

Okay, yeah, apparently so.

I would be stunned if you were the one that was blocked.

That would be really weird.

And I see, you know, just as a side note, we talked a little bit this morning on Pat's show, which airs.

I was preceding this broadcast.

Yes.

That the Washington Post now is quoting this show, saying that the Biden administration should turn the

vaccine to get the vaccine.

Washington Post.

So I just want to say, Washington Post.

And it was after we talked about it.

When was that?

Wednesday.

Wednesday.

Yeah, we're here for you.

Yeah.

And, you know, if you need some more stories, call.

Right.

It's okay.

It's all right.

Maybe you could name us as a source, I suppose.

In fact,

they said that they should acknowledge that it's the biggest medical breakthrough in world history.

Yeah, yeah.

That's amazing.

That's pretty.

That's pretty amazing.

Yes, it is.

It's pretty amazing.

And give him credit for it.

That's what they said Biden should do so that he can kick the numbers into gear again, which I think it would.

I think so too.

Or they could just go door to door.

Or that.

You could just send uh gen sake and avier becera oh yeah door to door to inject people individually and that would also help uh we have the becera clip all right let's listen listen to this from yesterday this is i wonder if you can answer that criticism it's none of the government's business knowing who has or hasn't been vaccinated what do you say

Brianna, perhaps we should point out that the federal government has had it spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic.

So it is absolutely the government's business.

It is taxpayers' business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy.

And so it is our business to try to make sure Americans can prosper, Americans can freely associate.

And knocking on a door has never been against the law.

You don't have to answer, but we hope you do because if you haven't been vaccinated, we can help dispel some of those rumors that you've heard and hopefully get you vaccinated.

I just love that.

It is his business because they paid trillions of dollars

that they went out and earned with their own

sweat equity, with their own labor, with their own hands.

They've been actually digging in dirt and selling goods and services

at roadside stands.

They've been selling vegetables and fruits.

Because I thought they just took it from us.

No, no, no, no.

Good golly, no.

Then that wouldn't be their business if they got it from us.

Oh, okay.

No, this is from their own labor.

I think there's a government farm, and they sell all the vegetables and the fruits that they grow there.

Just along the side of the road.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Roadside.

You can get some really good corn on the cob from the U.S.

government.

Maybe a little yellow squash.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You drive into town a little bit and then you find their retail outlets for their clothing

that they sell there.

Yeah.

It's been interesting to see the messaging on this because we were talking on News and Why It Matters yesterday with Sarah Gonzales, and she pointed out, I think, correctly, that it was sort of assumed that after they said they were going to come door to door, the next step was, we didn't mean literally coming door to door.

Like we weren't really going to come door to door.

That is literally what they meant, however.

Right.

But Sarah's just like, yeah, no, that's door to door.

That's what we meant.

And no Biden's giving it to you.

They're not going to be at your front door vaccine ready.

They're just giving you information on why you should get vaccinated.

And no, I think they won't they have the vaccine?

I I don't think so.

The way it sounded is they were just going to be informative.

At least their new fallback position is it's just like, and they're saying it's not going to be government like employees.

They're saying it's going to be like your local pharmacist.

Like your local pharmacist is going to take time out of their own day.

They're going to come door to door and say like, hey, Justin, do you have any questions about the vaccine?

No.

You know, again, like, I...

Hi, I'm your local CVS pharmacist.

Just want to know if you want some vaccine information.

Yeah, and I got to say, like, in 1985,

someone comes to my door.

I'm opening it up, asking them, like,

what can I help you with?

Hey, buddy, thanks.

What could we talk about?

What do you have?

Oh, okay.

That's, I'm not really interested in that.

Thank you, though.

In 2021, I assume they're either a murderer or they're trying to raise money for global warming.

And by the way, I'd rather have the murderer.

But

you get roofers.

Oh,

and you get

bug guys.

You get anti-bug guys.

Yes.

And they don't want to leave.

The anti-bug guys will say, do you have a bug service?

And I work.

You know, and my favorite of their sales pitch is, well, you know, Jessica down the street.

No, I don't know.

That's every time.

That's exactly what my rumor did to me.

I just did Steve's.

You know, Steve's.

Steve, just around the corner.

No, I don't know the guy who lives right directly next to me or the other person right directly next to me on the other side.

And the bug guys have the implicit threat of carrying around poison with them.

Like there's a chance that if you say no, they're going to go to your ducks and

check.

And you know, no, check the poison.

I'm all right.

I've got it covered.

No problem.

Thanks for stopping by.

Well, who's your company?

Who's doing it for you?

Yeah.

I know.

I'm good.

I'm good.

Just

close the door.

And they're still talking.

And look, that's a longer conversation than I have with them.

Nope.

Close the door.

I just don't answer most of the time.

Because, first of all, first of all,

we have a no-solicitation law from my HOA.

Okay.

Oh, can that be?

HOAs pass laws.

Yes.

It supersedes the Constitution.

It does.

That particular law supersedes the U.S.

Constitution.

Do not come to my door and solicit me.

If I want to buy something, I'll go to you.

Yeah.

Okay.

Don't come to my house.

That pisses me off.

That is the way commerce should work.

Yeah.

Door-to-door sales.

I go to you if I want to buy something.

They're long gone, right?

And it is this sort of like, there has to be this, like, look, we just happen to be in the area and we got these boards in the back.

Do you guys need something?

What do you guys need?

Do you guys need your roof repaired?

What are you talking about?

Yeah, I'm just going to have a flip it roof repair.

While I was driving by, I noticed some damage on your roof.

I don't know if you've noticed that on your one corner.

I can get up there and take a picture of you.

Wait, did you fly over my home?

I can see it from the road.

If you haven't caught that, no problem.

I just want to check it out for you.

Look, I know these things go on and

people work hard.

It's just not the type of thing I want going on in my house.

And if someone comes and tries to pitch me a vaccine from the government, like, no, that's not going to work.

I don't want to.

Even if you don't need it.

If you think it's a great idea to get people vaccinated, something like the idea of having President Trump, who's arguably the nation's largest cheerleader for the vaccine, by the way.

Have you heard the guy on interviews?

He's, I mean, he's calling it a miracle routinely on interviews.

And frankly, it is.

It is.

I know there's disagreement on that from a lot of people, but like, it is a miracle.

You don't have to take it.

You don't have to do it, but it's a miracle it happened in less than a year.

It's never taken less than four.

Yeah.

And remember,

this is what the media was saying throughout the Trump presidency to try to sink it.

Right.

Basically saying there's no way he will ever be able to pull this off.

There's no chance that they will have a vaccine by the end of the year.

He's lying to try to win an election.

And they said it over and over and over and over again.

And then it happened.

And then it's like he should be proud of it.

Yeah, he should.

He should.

And they all said they weren't going to take it.

Oh, now, and now we will.

Now it's required, and we're going to send people door to door.

The freaking vice president of the United States was on TV routinely saying because Donald Trump was associated with it, she wasn't going to take it.

And then now, oh, absolutely, we're going to come to your door.

Kamala might come to the door herself.

That was fatal.

For conservatives, that was their biggest problem getting them to take the vaccine because they badmouthed it all the way up until they came into office.

And then all of a sudden, it's the greatest thing ever, and we take credit for it.

We're doing it.

We need 100% of you to have it right now.

It's amazing, the flip-flop that goes on with crap.

It's It's so bizarre.

Really bizarre.

I mean, we're just, we're filled with hypocrites, which brings me to the story of the 16-year-old that

had $1.7 million in revenue.

And he profited $110,000 last year on revenues.

He was reselling products that he bought and then raised the price and sold it again on Facebook and Amazon.

Good for him.

And he made $7 million?

He made $1.7 million in revenue.

$1.7 million.

Profited $110,000 from a 16-year-old.

Right.

Great story.

Wasn't it not too long ago where the Tennessee brothers who stockpiled some bottles of hand sanitizer that we were going to throw in jail?

17,000 bottles.

Donated.

They ended up donating half to homeless.

They didn't donate anything.

The government did it.

It took the rest.

It took them all.

It's just incredible.

But

less than a year later, oh, oh, it's great.

This kid is doing the same thing, selling goods and games on the internet.

Oh, my gosh.

We love it.

What a wonderful thing.

Now,

that gets you into, well, isn't that price gouging?

Yeah.

Or is that capitalism?

Yeah.

Now, I, of course, am fully in favor of both of these stories.

And I will say, there's no such thing as price gouging.

There are only prices.

That's what they are.

They're just prices.

I know.

There's no such thing as price gouging.

You can't be gouged

You can't be gouged in a tragedy.

Willingly purchase something.

And so price gouging is a problem.

I know that.

But, you know,

when there's a tragedy.

Yes.

If you're taking advantage of a hurricane, for example,

where all the gas stations in the entire area are closed, but you're the only one open who has gas and you're charging $15 a gallon,

we're going to put you in jail for that.

Yeah, and so what happens

in a situation where you're not charging $15 a gallon, what you get is everyone goes to the gas station and puts the maximum amount of gas possible, even if they don't need it because they're worried it's going to be running out.

So then the people who really need it don't get it.

That's the opposite of price gouging.

It means the people who really need products oftentimes aren't able to get it.

Well, that's true anyway, because the people who really need it aren't getting it because the rich people aren't getting it.

That's not the way it works.

Usually what happens when it's overpriced is you only buy what you need.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

You don't overbuy in those situations.

And you know what else happens?

Because the prices are high, you know, gas is a little bit different, but people come in with an extra supply, right?

You're able to bring in other people, maybe from outer state.

Like this always happens with bottled water.

And they're like, oh, gosh, people are charging $8 for a bottled water.

First of all, every freaking baseball game I go to, I'm paying $8 for bottled water.

It's a break pricing.

Yeah, exactly.

But, you know, the people come in and then all of a sudden, you know what?

Bob from an hour away says, I've got four cases of water.

I'm just going to drive in there and sell them all for $8 a bottle and get some cash.

And then all of a sudden, there's more supply of the needed object.

So that means the prices come down because everyone can get it over there for cheaper.

So I'm 100% pro-price gouging.

Triple 8-727 BECK World coming up next.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

Things are a little

iffy right now in Haiti.

They're thinking maybe U.S.

citizens are involved here, Haitian Americans.

It really is a crazy story.

It is.

I mean, you go back to from the beginning, you know, what was it, 1803?

Haiti

was a former slave state, gets its independence, and has spent the last 200 years really trying to figure out how to do things on their own with lots of international interference over that time period.

They, I guess it was

in the 2000s, things are starting to turn around a little bit.

It's starting to go pretty well.

They didn't have as many,

they had some actually somewhat normal elections, and then obviously the earthquake occurs, kills 250,000 people.

Think about that on that tiny island.

I think it's 11 million people.

Gosh, I didn't remember it was that many.

Yeah.

And that doesn't count the people in the aftermath, really, where things are continually bad.

I mean, it wipes out huge portions of the cities.

The infrastructure's gone.

Think about that.

The worst disaster in U.S.

history,

the biggest natural disaster loss of life we've ever had

was

6,000 people, I think, in the 6 to 10.

They're not sure how many.

6,000 to 10,000 in the hurricane in Galveston

in the early 1900s.

And that was the worst disaster we've ever seen.

That's 250,000 people in one event.

Wow.

Yeah, I'm looking at that now because you've told the story before.

And it was before,

mainly because of what they did in the aftermath.

Yeah, where they rebuilt the city.

They

lifted the city 17 feet.

It's remarkable.

And

I don't know how you would do that now.

How would you could we do that now?

I don't know if you could lift Galveston 17 feet higher, but they did.

They did back then.

It was September 18th, 1900.

It was a category four hurricane.

But again, they didn't know it was coming.

That was a big part of it.

There was this before we had satellite, advanced satellite technology and everything.

145 mile-an-hour winds killed one in six residents in the city.

Jeez.

Destroyed 3,600 homes

and killed an estimated 12,000 people.

Okay, 12,000.

Yeah.

But again, that's 1,900.

Yeah.

And it's a hurricane coming out of nowhere, basically.

Yeah.

This is

an earthquake, which obviously does come out of nowhere as well, but

in a country with only 11 million people as residents, killed 250,000 people.

Jeez.

Unthinkable.

Yeah.

It's hard to imagine.

Obviously, this throws the entire country into chaos.

There's power struggles.

There's chaotic

crime outbreaks.

There's just, you know, the whole, it's not a functioning state in Haiti after this.

So eventually, this guy who was killed the other day gets into power.

It's a disputed election.

I think 18% of voters come out to vote in it.

Very, very small amount.

He wins the entire election with with 600,000 votes.

So it's a very small amount.

It's disputed.

They eventually come to some sort of agreement where he's provisionally put in as president, but there's like a provisional alternate for a year.

And then he, in his mind, he starts his term.

Okay.

It's a five-year term there.

So he gets through four years and everyone says, okay, see you later.

And he's like, no, I have a five-year term.

And they said, well, what about that first year?

So there's this disagreement.

I mean, think about a country operating this way there's a disagreement as to whether the president's term is over or not he says no shockingly this is tends to be how this happens the people are like uh you need to leave and he says i'm not leaving the election it's not time for the election yet we have situations where um

they've hollowed out to the government so there's only something like 11 representatives currently serving in the government uh

nationally elected because many of them have been

thrown out with corruption reasons, and

the government was dissolved, but not reformulated at one point.

I mean, it's really crazy.

Another thing is the president had dismissed multiple Supreme Court justices, and then the chief justice of the Supreme Court died of COVID.

So think about the chaos in this situation.

Yeah,

it seems to me the Supreme Court justice was supposed to be the next in line.

Is that right?

You might be right on that.

He's next in line for president.

Because now they're kind of like the succession plan is like, well,

it's up here now because he died.

And there's two people going for it, essentially.

So that's all happening after this assassination.

And the assassination is, in and of itself,

a scary and fascinating story.

They're at their house.

The house is well guarded with security, and as you'd expect the president's home to be in a country in the middle of the situation i just described and apparently they think about 50 people

roll up in tactical formations

they come in with lines of vehicles and also

people on foot they come into the complex they announce themselves as dea agents u.s dea agents And the way it was described was basically like the DEA is

in Haiti often because they're fighting the drug trade.

So they're very familiar people

there and have a decent amount of pull.

They come in and they say we're DEA.

Like people, generally speaking, honor that.

And apparently they came in, said they were DEA.

They were not DEA, at least that's certainly the official story.

I mean, I don't think there's any, I don't think there's anybody who really believes the U.S.

government was

trying to assassinate this guy in this way.

But they came in, they said they were DEA, they were speaking English and Spanish,

were able to go past all of the security, get into the home, go up to the room where the president and his wife were sleeping.

His daughter

and his son were there as well.

They hid, thankfully.

They executed the president of Haiti.

shot him a bunch of times.

I don't know what the total number was.

I know one of them was in the eye.

I mean, they really, there's rumors, at least in Haitian media, that they tortured the guy before they killed him.

They also shot the wife, who is still alive, I believe, in critical condition, but may make it.

Then they left and they walked out of the facility and never had a shot fired by the security of the president.

So we, you know, it's unclear at this point, you know, there's speculation, was the security involved?

You know, did they know this was going to happen and step aside and allow it to happen?

Did they get disarmed by the DEA at the beginning and they were able to kind of walk out of there?

Was,

you know, were, did they believe that there was an official action and had no idea the president was even killed?

We don't even know at this point the truth there, and we probably won't know for some time.

But

you wonder about how, now you might say, okay, Haiti, it's this country.

It's not even a functioning state.

Should I care about this story other than just the normal human cost that, you know, of course you'd care about.

What's interesting about it is if you think about how this would be framed if it happened, let's say here, right?

Like again, I understand that Haiti and America are much different places, but someone comes in and kills a big leader in our government and they announce themselves as Mexican agents and they're saying they're Mexican drug enforcement.

Can you imagine how we react to that?

A lot of people will just believe, right, it was the DEA.

A lot of people will believe the U.S.

was involved.

We now, at least, the reports are that there were two American citizens involved in the assassination.

The one they've announced the name was from Florida, though of Haitian descent, had interests in Haiti, but an American citizen.

How do the Haitian people

react

to this?

And do they blame blame America?

And if they do, do we have another Cuba on our hands?

Do we have another

island off the coast

relatively close to our country that goes completely the opposite way and becomes an anti-American global influence of some sort?

There's certainly plenty of countries around the world, China, Russia, among them, that would love to influence them in that way.

And you can bet that they are.

You can bet that that chaos is being,

at least attempted to be manipulated

by foreign influence at this time to put another

strong oppositional force in our hemisphere.

And do we still have the Monroe Doctrine where we don't allow that to go on in our hemisphere?

Is that still a thing?

Seems like it, I mean, we sort of enforce that and sort of don't.

It seems like, sort of selectively, because, you know, in Nicaragua, I think they've kind of been communists for a while, right?

Any specific location in Nicaragua?

Like Manawa, Niarawa.

Oh, okay, yeah.

I think in Manawa, Niyarawa, they are fairly communist there.

Yeah.

Daniel Noriega, who's been there for what?

A zillion years?

713 years, I think.

We don't have Jeffy in the studio right now, but of course he fought in the Battle of the Island of Spice

in Grenada,

which was a situation.

That's something we couldn't allow right there.

Couldn't allow.

And then there was, of course, obviously Cuba being a big situation, which is still ongoing.

I mean, we've opened opened up relations with them and then, you know, it's changed, gone back and forth several times since.

But the bottom line is they're still there, still, still chugging along.

And, you know, communists specifically, you may not see, but you may see an anti-American regime pop up there

in a big way.

And it's still pretty close.

Yeah.

Again, you don't necessarily fear them.

You don't have to be 700 miles.

You don't fear the might of the Haitian military personnel.

But when you have influence from a China or from Venezuela or from Russia or from somewhere else, that's what you're worried about.

Yeah.

Yeah.