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you've got, I don't know, some really nice plans lined up, although the backyard barbecue thing is out because we didn't hit the numbers that

the president told us we had to hit in order to enjoy a barbecue with our friends in the backyard.

A small one.

Well,

if you and your wife live in the same residence,

you go ahead and have the barbecue.

But to be clear.

But you can't invite your children over who don't live in your household.

When he talked about July 4th, he only talked about a small backyard barbecue anyway, even if we hit the numbers.

It's true.

I think there were four people or six people or something.

Which is, in my mind, too much.

In my mind, too much.

I just want to sit back, Pat.

How many do you think are okay?

Two?

Is two okay?

Not in the same backyard, but in backyards.

Okay.

I think one person in a bird's backyard, and you can turn up, like maybe get a speaker or something so you can speak really loudly over like a megaphone or a speaker system to talk to the person in the nest.

As long as you're properly socially distanced, right?

And you would think if you're in separate backyards, you would be.

Well, like, for example, the Tim the Toolman Taylor thing, that can't happen.

No, that's way too close because he's right on the other side of the fence.

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Sad news, though, as we start the weekend,

we didn't hit the numbers that our president required of us to go ahead and have barbecues in our backyards with a couple of people that we care about or at least like and wanted to have over for a burger.

We didn't hit those numbers.

So you can't do it.

Pat, I happen to be of

the idea that it's

way too many people in a backyard if you have multiple people in a backyard well he said up to six if two would have hit our numbers but that's that was too many too many pat okay too

many people yeah you're talking about six people in one backyard i mean maybe if you had 10 acres you know something like that situation if you had 10 acres i personally don't you don't i don't i do not have 10 acres do you have a mountain range that cuts through and gives multiple sections of backyard do you think my name is glenn beck No.

No idea.

Oh, this is a Glenn Beck program.

Glenn does have a mountain range that cuts through his backyard.

But it's not, it's not, that's not appropriate.

What I would say is if you have a mountain range that cuts it, like a pizza,

into six different slots.

Oh, like so you'd need a mountain range that kind of, or like maybe even a forest would work, but it has to cut it into multiple different regions of the backyard.

I don't have that.

And then one person in each region.

If you picture like a small pizza cut into six slices, one person in each area of that backyard,

if it's divided by some natural barrier.

For instance, if your backyard includes Colorado, Utah.

Yeah, right.

Like if you're the federal government.

Yeah.

If you're federal government and you own, let's say, 60% of the western half of the country, then you could have a bunch of people.

You could do this.

Yeah.

And that's because we're all coming together.

This is our Independence Day, Pat.

Otherwise, like, how many do you think?

Are two appropriate?

Can two people who live in the same household go into the backyard and have a barbecue?

Or is that too many?

Is that too much to ask?

Let me just be, because you know, we're conservatives.

We maybe are a little too lackadaisical with our COVID restrictions.

What I would say is, let's say you live on a street and everyone's got a decent-sized backyard.

If you were to have a backyard barbecue with one person per backyard, I think that that would be okay.

Separated by a fence?

First of all, yes, definitely separated by a fence.

But it'd be better if maybe you add some plexiglass to the top of that fence as well.

Okay.

And then in addition to that, you need to stand in the middle of the yard.

Either today or tomorrow, you need to install plexiglass at the top of your fence.

Yeah, I mean, it should be there already.

The fact that it's not already shows that you don't care and you want to kill grandmothers.

But

I'm saying

you stand in the middle of the yard, though.

Not like the Tim the Toolman Taylor thing

where the neighbor came up and he poked his nose over the fence.

Yeah, you only saw his eyes for the entire series, kind of peeking over the fence.

Way too close.

Way too close.

Now, sure,

if you want to look back and look at some of the scientific data, you might note that there has not been a single case of COVID spread outdoors other than very close conversation in the entire history of the pandemic.

But I think six people outside is radical.

And we didn't hit the number, Pat.

We didn't hit the the number.

We didn't hit the number.

We don't deserve it.

We don't deserve it.

I'll have a barbecue in the backyard with friends.

Thank you.

I don't deserve it.

I'm glad you finally said that, Pat.

It had to be said.

It really did.

I feel better now having gotten it off my chest.

And here's the thing:

the fact that we missed this completely arbitrary number

by what, 3%.

So

instead of 70% of people, adults over 18 vaccinated, it's 67%.

This is a massive difference, and it's really going to make the difference between a pandemic, a raging pandemic, and herd immunity, Pat.

That's a dang good number.

In the United States of America, that's an incredible number.

67% of adults have gotten a vaccine.

You know, I'm glad you said that.

I totally agree with this.

I do at times hesitate because you think, like, well, you know, like herd immunity is

factors in an entire population.

We're not going to get to herd immunity anytime soon, probably never.

But, you know, the point is.

I will say, what's his face?

Fauci said 70% at the beginning.

If you get to 70% of adults, that's pretty dang good.

I think it is pretty dang good, especially when you consider that, you know, for most of this time, no one under 17 years old was eligible to even take the vaccine.

So you can't even look at anyone there.

And

you're at 67% of adults.

But more importantly, Pat, and this is something conservatives argued from the very beginning: look, we have a country here.

We have people who are going to be able to make their own risks, right?

They're going to be able to assess their own risks.

You know, what we really need to do to get this country going again is look at the people who are really vulnerable here.

And the people who are really vulnerable are largely people over 65 years old.

Right now, currently, at this moment, we have vaccinated 88.2% of people over 65.

That is an insanely good performance.

I mean,

what did you expect in a country where people are allowed to make their own decisions?

You expect it to be 100?

I mean, there are going to be some people who don't agree with you.

88.2% of the most vulnerable people.

That's incredible.

That's an amazing thing.

That's amazing.

And, of course, we've seen the results.

I mean, we're down 90%

in cases and deaths.

Some of them over 90%, some of these margins.

Hospitalizations as well.

They're trying to scare us, though, back into submission because people are getting too free again, and we're not completely under their thumb right now.

So they're doing the whole Delta variant scare.

The fear-mongering on the delta variant.

You hear it every stinking day.

The delta variant.

The delta variant.

It's coming.

The delta variant.

Just stop with the delta variant.

But they're not going to stop because they want control.

In Los Angeles, they've already remandated masks

if you're going indoors anywhere.

I just don't think any of this stuff is going to work.

I don't feel like they're going to be able to reinstitute these

things.

I mean, the Delta variants are done, I think.

The Delta variant is up to, what, 25% now of cases.

It's going to rise.

It's happening in Great Britain right now.

And now they have

what I would consider a worse vaccine than the ones that we have.

Just presenting it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it's had its problems.

I don't think it's terrible, but their situation right now, they are having an influx of cases due to the Delta variant.

And what hasn't moved at all, and we are now a couple weeks past where it should have moved, are deaths and hospitalizations.

I mean, it's ticked up a little bit, but really it hasn't nudged up at all.

So we've seen cases go up, but this is really like the old, you know, when some of these outbreaks would happen last year, people would say, like, ah, is this going to, is this just cases?

You know, it's younger people.

Is it just cases?

And then the deaths eventually would rise every single time.

This time they're not

in Great Britain.

Now, who knows?

Will it hold?

I don't know.

Here, we seem to be performing even better because I think our vaccines are better performing vaccines

through Operation Warp Speed and all the work that the president did.

I heard him on Clay and Buck, the new show in Rush Limbaugh's time slot, talking earlier this week.

And he was talking about how...

The media all said this was not possible.

They all said a vaccine in that timeline could not be done under any circumstances.

They laughed at him.

They laughed at him.

They went to, they said Donald Trump was trying to manipulate the science to win an election.

They accused him of all sorts of things, yet here we are

disappointed that only 67% of adults are vaccinated by July.

I mean, they had no timeline.

Their initial timelines for all of this was supposed to be a release, maybe by the end of 2021.

Maybe if we're really lucky, they'll release all of this for people.

Yeah, they kept telling us, oh, please, the fastest ever vaccine was developed in four years.

You can't get it done by the end of the year.

And he did.

Think about this, Pat.

I found this to be fascinating.

The early 80s went on, and we just exited Pride Month.

And if you know anything about it.

I miss it already.

I do too.

I mean, we're 363 days away from Pride Month.

I've been in my heart all the year, though.

You will?

I am.

Okay, good.

One of the things that always comes up in Pride Month is the evils of Ronald Reagan.

You know, Ronald Reagan didn't even.

He didn't even mention the word age, AIDS until 1998, after he died.

After he died, after he died, he finally mentioned it

once.

And that was only one time.

And there's all these things that go around the internet.

Maybe we should get into this later, but there's all these things that go around the internet that that Ronald Reagan didn't care about AIDS and he didn't mention it for all this time.

It's not true.

He like doubled the investment in fighting AIDS more than double every year.

Yeah, I mean every single year he doubled it again.

Yep.

And the first year it was called a pandemic

and an epidemic, excuse me,

he was already investing in it.

I mean, he didn't wait.

He didn't wait until it was too late.

He, you know, he was not asked interesting by any journalist throughout the entire 1984 reelection campaign one question about it in any of the debates.

So, like, it was not a focus of the country in large part.

But it's

barely heard about it.

Yeah, we didn't know about it.

We didn't know anything about it.

We didn't know what it was at the time.

I think the first time we ever heard of it was 1982.

Yeah, maybe.

And it wasn't, you know, they didn't know that much about it.

They didn't know much about it.

They didn't really know how it spread.

And here's the thing that I thought was fascinating, thinking about how far we've come.

In the early 80s,

AIDS was, they realized AIDS was a thing and they started trying to figure out what caused.

It took them four years to identify the virus.

I mean, and four years.

Fauci was saying things like,

we think it might have come from a toilet seat.

I mean, it wasn't exactly that, but it was stuff like that.

Yeah, and we didn't know.

I mean, think about it.

We have, in this situation, Operation Warp Speed produces multiple effective vaccines in less than a year.

And back then, it took four years to even figure out what the virus was, let alone come up with a vaccine for it, which they still don't have.

Yeah.

They do have pretty effective treatments now that have been developed over time.

But, you know, we.

Some people live a long time.

Yeah, very, very long time.

It's no longer the death sentence.

I remember watching Magic Johnson and thinking, oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

He's going to be dead in six months.

Now you can't even detect the disease in him.

Yeah.

And we've come a long, long, long way.

By the way, I think it's Moderna that is about to enter trials on an mRNA-AIDS vaccine,

HIV vaccine, a flu vaccine.

And there was one other one.

Oh, wow.

Melanoma is another one.

They're in the middle of a trial.

Really?

Yeah.

I really, again, I understand that there's a cancer vaccine?

That's amazing.

There's a lot of disagreement, I understand, at times in the audience with vaccinations.

And again, I maintain

that.

I'd take a cancer vaccine.

I'd take it.

And I maintain it's 100% your choice to do all of these things or not.

And I think that's really, really important in a country like the United States with foundational liberties like we have.

On the other hand, like I also am really excited about this technology because if it works, there's hope to wipe out all sorts of diseases that have been around for a really long time.

And of course, we should, you know, make sure that all of it's

safe and everything else.

I mean, I think that's very important.

I'm very encouraged by what the Trump administration was able to do.

One of the things I love about this whole story is that it's the most hated people in the world coming together to do it.

I mean, people hate pharmaceutical companies.

They hate capitalism.

They hate the Trump administration.

And it's impossible to tell this story without them.

But that being said, you know, It's up to you, especially now when these things are available.

If you don't want to take them, you shouldn't have to take them.

And then you you assume the risk associated with that.

If you want to take them, you should have the ability to take them, and you assume the risks associated with that.

That is a, that seems like a country that's free.

It kind of does, doesn't it?

Yeah, it kind of does.

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I mean, she could look at that and think,

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Oh, she is.

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What?

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The squad are a bunch of morons.

We didn't say that.

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No, there really isn't.

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His op-ed was printed, right?

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Take it out.

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Amazing.

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Friend?

Yeah, hey.

If this was my show, I'd play the Jeffy introduction.

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No, it might be a little too long for you.

Yeah, that's too long.

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Well, let's try it.

Here it is.

This is the big intro to Chewing the Fat.

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

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Wow, come on.

Yeah, it's really, it's a professional music intro for a professional broadcaster.

That's a good point.

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Hey, you just got your music played on a national radio.

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Thank you.

And it's time to chew the fat with Jeffy.

First, I want to start off with saying, if you were to find, let's say, $21,000 in the bathroom of a subway, would you turn turn it in?

Yes.

Would you?

Because you'd be dumb.

Why would you do that?

There's a story about a lady who found $21,000 in a small town here just outside of DFW

and in a subway bathroom.

And we don't have subways here.

She turned it in.

Subway restaurant.

Subway restaurant.

Oh, okay.

And she turned it in.

Now, my...

Seems like a good thing, like she's being an upstanding citizen.

If you were a person who left $21,000 in the subway bathroom,

you deserve to lose $21,000.

I'm sorry.

Now the guy came back.

She turned it in.

The police were there.

The guy came back.

The police, apparently he was off to buy a used car.

Right.

Okay.

Now, you know, a lot of my chewing the fat listeners said, you know, she was actually a listener and did it right.

She may have found more than $21,000 and just turned in $21,000 to look good because that's a plan from, you know, if you find money, like say when, you know, money trucks tip over that happen from time to time,

they always go, don't, you have to turn in the money you picked up because people stop and pick up the money that's all over the road.

But that's the plan.

You just drive up and say, yeah, I got carried away.

Here's, I picked up this money, but you don't turn it all in.

That would be dumb.

You just give them a little bit to say here.

Yeah, I got carried away.

Your moral standards are almost too high.

Almost too high.

That's just dumb.

Why would you take the time to pick it up and then turn it all in?

It's a fascinating question.

It really is.

It doesn't make any sense.

Did you get a reward or something?

Yeah, the guy did give her 500 bucks, and he said he was going to buy a used car.

That's what he was doing.

That's why he left it there.

Because, of course, the police asked, why were you traveling with that $21,000?

It's none of your stinking business.

What are you going to do?

Take it from me in this civil asset forfeiture situation?

Is that what you're going to do?

Don't tell.

Don't tell me.

I know.

I know.

Because, yes, their answer is lovely.

It's easy to get it back.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That just, it's not, it's un-American.

It's so un-American and so unconstitutional that

I can't even believe we have to be discussing it.

I know.

I know.

But on the other hand,

if you lose 21,000, if you leave 21,000 in the bathroom, then you deserve to lose it.

I will say this in your defense, and I don't like to ever defend Jeff Fisher of the Chewing the Fat podcast.

But what I will say is, at least for myself,

I absolutely would take that standard.

Like, if I left $21,000 in a bathroom somehow, I would absolutely 100% blame myself for leaving it there and figure it's gone.

And if the person didn't turn it in, I would be pissed about it, but I would also realize it's not their fault as much as it's my fault.

I gave them the opportunity there.

You got to have some responsibility for if you're carrying around $21,000 and putting it in a

bathroom.

Leaves it in the subway bathroom.

I know.

But that's an honest person who's turning that in.

That's hard to do, right?

If you got $21,000 in cash, there's no way it can be traced back to you.

You could just walk out with it.

You could.

What an honest person.

That's awesome.

I know.

It was so nice of her.

Yeah.

I was happy for her.

The only reason we know about it is because she turned it in.

Dumb.

Hey, if you're looking for a gig, though, and you need, say say you lost $21,000

in a subway bathroom and you need a job,

big tech has got some jobs open in Washington, D.C.

Amazon's got 76 openings for government affairs.

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there's work to be had.

And

I won't hear that social media is in bed with the government.

I won't hear of it.

I don't want to hear that they have anything to do with it.

Wow, you're talking about a few thousand people.

Thank you.

I mean, come on.

Thank you.

I mean, it's just ridiculous.

But it's a good gig, right?

I mean, as a side note, too, another gig that if you're looking for a job, you might want to head down to Florida if you're a building inspector because they're going to be inspecting all buildings in Florida up and down the coast now.

No kidding.

So that might be a good job to go down to Florida and say, hey, I'm a building inspector.

And I guess I did inspect this building, right?

I mean, I heard one building inspector say,

we inspected it, we saw some issues, but we did not think it was going to collapse.

Correct.

And even just within a couple of days of before it collapsed, he saw the damage.

There were pictures posted of the damage in the pool room and everything, and he was saying how bad it was.

And even they knew that it was bad.

They'd put it off for several years.

They've been doing a little bit of maintenance, but not what really needed to be done was going to be millions of dollars.

The owners were going to have to put in a bunch of money.

And so they were, you know, they're, we're to believe that they were on it.

Right.

And I guess that the policy is every 40 years, they go through a

full check.

It's like, it seems like maybe that's a little too long.

Hump that up a little bit.

Yeah.

Like maybe 20.

I went,

every one of these stories that happens, and then it sends you on this like long internet day.

It happens all the time where you're just on this long internet trail of reading about things or watching videos about things that you'd never, ever consider thinking about before.

So, I went on one of these on reinforced concrete the other day.

Oh, you want to talk about a concrete?

That's a fascinating topic.

Oh, man.

You know, reinforced concrete.

Kidding me?

What the circumference of the rebar that you use in the reinforced concrete?

Not that I've ever done that.

Okay.

So, one of the things that when they came up with reinforced concrete and they started building everything out of it, they believed that these buildings would last for a thousand years because you've got concrete plus the steel.

Right.

And this is going to be the strongest thing in the world.

And over time, what they've realized is because

the concrete's not perfect,

moisture penetrates through the concrete.

It gets to the steel inside, which rusts the steel.

And then that steel

is what is reinforcing the concrete isn't reinforcing it.

Then begins to rust and then begins to expand, which pushes out on the concrete, which causes more gaps, which causes more rust.

And they're now saying instead of a thousand years, it's more like 50 to 100.

Maybe.

Yeah.

And that is going to be, we have a lot of buildings

that were made out of this and are still made out of this.

And now they do have ways, they do have ways to

help this if they actually do it.

Because the problem is, as well, you don't see the steel bars.

They're inside the concrete.

So you can't inspect them and see where the rust is.

So, what I guess they have a way of doing it where they actually send electricity through the steel, and that somehow,

again,

I stopped about this point, but somehow they put the electricity through and it helps alleviate this if they know to do it or do it at the right time.

But like, we have, you know, a lot of buildings made out of this material that are all at that 50

to 60

level.

1980 was boom times in Florida.

They were building left and right.

And I don't know if you know that.

They used to talk about moisture getting in and rusting the rebar and the concrete.

Florida is a swamp.

So there's plenty of moisture.

Yeah.

And I was down in Miami for New Year's weekend, and it was

right on the beach.

And it was the windiest place I've ever been in my life.

Like, it was as if there was an ongoing hurricane the entire weekend.

And there wasn't an ongoing hurricane, but it was really windy.

I mean, there's a lot of pressure on these buildings, not to mention, obviously, saltwater being blown up and everything else.

So it is, it's a, and the period you talk about, Jeffy, in the 80s, boom time.

Were all these builders really doing everything up on the up and up at that point?

How dare you.

Oh, yes.

I mean,

if you watch the documentary series Miami Vice, what you'll know

is that not everyone in Miami in this time was on the up and up.

Really?

Yeah, it's shocking to hear.

Wow.

There's a lot going on.

Incredible.

Really?

What could be going on?

Yeah, there's an interesting guy who hosted the show.

He had a white suit and often a white tie and then a teal shirt.

And it was a very strange combination.

But it's just fantastic.

There's no way.

I mean, it's just

going to be a nightmare for these buildings.

They need to be inspected.

They're inspecting 400 right now.

And that's going to expand.

Yes, that's good.

All the way up and down the coast.

And so

I mean, you got 400 buildings just in that area of Miami to look at.

And everybody, if you lived on the beach in Miami in one of these buildings that were built around that time.

You're a little nervous.

I'd be for moving right now.

Oh, I would be for moving.

I thought of you, actually, Jeffy, when they were giving the interviews, like, look.

You know that other building that's got the same name down the street that was built at the same time by the same people.

Totally okay.

You don't need to evacuate it.

It's a beautiful building.

It's the strongest building ever.

Don't worry.

Just stay put.

No big deal.

How about you zip it and

go up to your apartment, okay?

I say to myself, there's no way I'm staying in that place.

I don't care if I'm sleeping on the beach every night.

And you might be.

I don't even know if I go back to get my stuff.

I don't.

I'm not going back in that building.

Sorry.

I know.

I'm going to start over somewhere else.

Somewhere else.

Absolutely.

And I'd like to congratulate,

well, we can either talk about congestion on the highways or the state of California and their

state-funded travel restrictions.

You choose.

You get to choose.

We can go either.

Choose your news?

Choose your news from chewing the fat.

You get to have traffic congestion or, well, actually, we can go to traffic congestion because California is involved in that too.

Los Angeles has lost its title.

It's had a title of the

most congested roads in 30 years.

It lost its title.

To

New York.

Newark.

Yep.

56 hours.

Jeez.

Oh, that's a way down because no one was driving.

Right.

So

Los Angeles has 46.

So it went down.

You know, it's still pretty good.

There's still a lot of hours

stuck in the car.

Here in the DFW area, we're about 40.

41, something like that hours stuck in the car for traffic-wise.

But you only spent...

It's not in my part of town really traffic

it's not that bad where we are come on it's where we on our side of town it's not that bad it's not that bad it's it's starting to get back to that it is it is starting to get back to that houston is number three and i know that houston is a favorite of yours yeah houston is really bad it's got bad traffic yes bad weather bad traffic i like everything else I thought you liked it all.

Except for the weather and the traffic.

Okay.

And we're sort of in that period now where in between like the COVID era and the fully open era.

And it's interesting.

You look at some of the stats and it's like restaurants are back basically in Texas to 100% of what they were before the pandemic.

Office attendance is like 38%.

Oh, yeah.

And like a lot of that is just like, hey, I don't know if that ever gets back to 100%.

I don't think it does get back to 100.

Right.

I think people just, you know, they've realized, hey, we can be pretty efficient at home.

We can do it at home.

And why the hell are we going in there every day?

I don't want to see Jeffy.

Why would I go?

You know, if I cannot see him, why wouldn't I just stay home?

Exactly.

And honestly, like, what if we have Jeffy stay home?

You know, he can do it.

You don't want to come in, though.

I know, but I want to come in.

And your family wants you to come in.

But we're thinking that maybe you should stay at home.

To sure?

Yeah, positive.

Yeah.

Just save gas.

It's almost like a pay raise to have you stay at home

and don't have to spend the gas mileage.

Yeah, because gas is wearing tear on your car.

All those things.

This is for you.

Oh, we're thinking of you.

And if you want to come in, what if you came into a different building?

Maybe the opposite direction.

What if we purchased another studio and built it

500 for me?

Right.

Well, no, but I'm sure there's one that exists run by somebody else.

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Greatest deal of all time.

Great.

It's awesome.

He gets paid $1.2 million from the New York Mets until 2035.

He'll be 72 years old in 2035, by the way.

And that was instead of getting one $5.9 million deal.

The reason the Mets seem to have done it is because they were investing with Bernie Madoff at the time, and they figured if they pushed these payments way down the line, it wouldn't matter.

They'd make so much money on the Madoff money.

Anyway,

I've heard that story every year, and I love telling it every year.

And it's one of my favorite stories in sports.

I've never heard this part of it, though.

Bobby Bonilla

also

has another deal like this with the Baltimore Orioles.

I've never heard that either.

He is making $500,000 a year every year on July 1st until 2029 from the Orioles.

So he's actually getting $1.7 million plus, almost $2 million a year until 2020 or until 2029, and then $1.2 million until 2035.

I think you should try to defer it again.

Just be like, all right, now give me $800,000 until 2090.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

I got four people out.

You know, four people protesting.

That's pretty good.

It's powerful.

Powerful.

There's certainly no crackdown.

No, no.

No.

And by the way, we should point out, the Chinese government,

wow.

Can I tell you?

They get things done.

Okay?

They get things done.

They are leading the way on climate.

Yeah, well, they're on the cutting edge, according to Al Gore.

Yeah.

Cutting edge.

Cutting edge.

Now, when we say cutting edge, leading the way, it does mean also that they lead the world in emissions.

By a lot.

By a lot.

They passed us a long time ago.

A long time ago, yeah.

But

it's cutting edge.

No, it was even

thick, yeah.

Yeah.

By the way,

the whole Chinese thing.

Did we talk about this on the air?

I can't remember where this interview with Mark Cuban.

Where Cuban is like answering all these questions.

And, you know, as you'd expect, he's a billionaire.

He can say what he wants.

He's answering every single question totally confidently, easily, no problems.

Everything's rolling off his tongue.

And they they get to China and the NBA, and he's like, oh,

well, countries.

And

I don't want to, you shouldn't judge.

Well, let me get back to you.

I can't really.

What's it?

It was unbelievable.

I mean, they're terrified.

Terrified.

These guys.

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we got this presidential historian survey.

These are always fascinating to me because

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are complete buffoons.

So in addition to being numbskulls, they're also total buffoons.

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We got the 45th president in office right now.

So the top 44 presidents listed by presidential historians.

This is a survey I usually see around

President's Day.

Yeah.

But I I don't remember seeing it this year.

Maybe they just waited until now to come out here.

Yeah, COVID, right?

Call that team.

Yeah.

So

let's start with the worst president of all time.

This is perennially the worst president of all time.

You know who they usually pick as the worst?

Number 44.

Then after?

Nope.

But they don't like Hoover.

They don't like towards the bottom.

Hoover is 36,

so he is near the bottom.

James Buchanan,

our first gay president.

I don't know if they're homophobic or what, but they always list James Buchanan dead last among American presidents.

Yes, they do.

Sad, sad for James.

We also have, let's see, to start at the

number 10.

So the top 10.

Oh, wait, wait, you're not going to do more of the crappy ones?

Well, yeah, I don't know.

I want to know more of the crappy ones.

Okay.

Give me some crappy presidents, according to historians.

At number 43.

So 44 is James Buchanan.

Number 43, Andrew Johnson.

At number 42, Franklin Pierce.

Presidents people don't know much about.

No, yeah.

Franklin Pierce,

name three things Franklin Pierce accomplished in office.

I can actually remember the day that I realized John Tyler was president of the United States.

I went through my entire life not knowing about

John Tyler.

And I remember, John Tyler, who the hell is John Tyler?

Well, he's the 39th best president in the history of the country.

These guys at the end,

you really realize are not there.

A lot of them are just not known.

No, they're not.

This next one at number 41 is definitely known.

Donald J.

Trump, they list it.

41.

I will say,

I am

stunned he is not 44.

According to presidential historians, yeah, that's a good point.

Again, like these guys always put progressive presidents up at the top and conservative presidents at near the bottom.

The fact that they didn't put Trump at 44 out of 44 is stunning to me.

They must hate gay people like President Buchanan.

Yes.

Yes.

William Harry, William Henry Harrison, 40th.

What was he president for like nine days?

How long was Harrison president?

Yeah, is he the one that died really quickly?

Wasn't he the one?

I can't make these guys confused now.

They do.

It might have been McKinley.

McKinley wasn't president very long either.

Maybe that's the one of the month.

Okay, so then John Tyler, as we mentioned, at 39.

Millard Fillmore, 38.

Harding, 37.

Herbert Hoover at 36, as we mentioned.

Zachary Taylor, 35th.

Martin Van Buren,

Rutherford B.

Hayes, 33.

Benjamin Harrison, Richard Nixon.

Okay, so hold on.

So William Henry Harrison.

Yeah.

His presidency lasted from March 4th, 1841 to April 4th, 1841.

Wow.

That's not a.

March to April.

Yeah.

Like a month.

Not a good run.

I mean, I kid you.

It's unfair.

He should be like number one.

He couldn't have screwed up that bad.

Is he the one that caught pneumonia when he was out doing the

speech?

Chester A.

Arthur.

Two.

Very obscure president.

He at number 30.

George Bush at 29.

George W.

W.

Bush.

Yeah, now, it's interesting.

George W.

Bush is now moving up on these lists, you're noticing.

He was going from 33 to 29 this time.

And this is why you can't look at these recent presidents with any level of

honesty.

These guys cannot do it because Bush was the worst guy in the world in 2009 and 10.

And now that Trump has come in and now he's the worst guy in the world, you can move Bush up and say, Bush was good.

But look at, look at the comparison.

And by the way, the same, I know it seems impossible, but the same thing will happen with whoever runs next.

If Ron DeSantis is the candidate, they will say, geez, we thought Trump was bad, but Ron DeSantis is worse.

They did it with Mitt Romney.

Remember that?

They're like, look,

gosh, we thought George Bush was bad, but Mitt Romney, he's worse.

They do it every single time.

Right.

And Bush has gone in the surveys.

They do this 2009 survey, 2017, 2021.

So Bush in that time has gone 36 to 33 to 29.

See?

Yeah.

He's moving.

He's moving up the chart.

He's moving up.

He's moving up the chart.

Another four places.

George W.

Bush.

Like, has he accomplished something new?

What has happened to make him go from 36 to 29?

It's the perception.

Yeah.

You know, you're right.

History tells the story, I guess.

Gerald Ford, who was not a great president, was number 28.

Garfield and Carter next.

Carter should be way lower than 26.

That's for sure.

He's one of the worst of all time.

He should probably be in the 40s,

late 30s to the early 40s.

Grover Cleveland, they list at 25.

One of our greatest.

This is one of our greatest presidents of all time.

This guy, to me, is top three.

Yep.

He's definitely top three.

Calvin Coolidge.

And they have him 24.

Calvin Coolidge at 24.

That is a disgrace.

It really is.

24.

It really is.

I mean, I agree with you.

I think he's probably my favorite president.

Maybe my second or third favorite, but he's right up there.

He should be up there at the top.

That's a terrible miscarriage of justice.

For me, he's up there with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

He's right up there with those guys.

He was a great president.

Let's see.

Clinton is down at number 19 now.

Clinton has kind of gone the other way.

He's gone 14, 15, 19.

Same with George H.W.

Bush, 18, 20, then 21.

It's interesting that those guys are going backwards for some reason.

James K.

Polk is a guy you don't hear about much since we dropped James K.

Polk Tuesdays doing Pat and Stew years ago.

We finally got tired of doing it.

But he's listed at number 18.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

All right, the top 10.

Barack Obama at number 10.

Just above him at number 9.

This is way too low, I think.

Ronald Reagan, 9th.

I'm surprised he's 9th, actually, on a list like this.

If I was going to put him, I'd have him higher.

But ninth isn't bad for presidential historians.

I'm shocked that they put him ninth.

That's stunning for historians.

JFK, who always is overrated, number eight.

Tomorrow, that's ridiculous.

Yeah, it is ridiculous.

He didn't even complete a term.

Again, Again, not his fault.

But still, you have to take that into account.

He did some good things, though.

He stared down the Soviets.

He

had the vision of the moonshot.

And he lowered taxes.

Yep, in a big way.

I mean, he was not.

I would not put him at the bottom, but

he's not a top 10 president.

He didn't even serve.

He didn't serve enough time, I think, to be a top 10 president.

Right.

Let's see.

Thomas Jefferson, number seven.

Way too low for Thomas Jefferson.

Harry Truman is above Thomas Jefferson at number six hmm no no

Dwight D Eisenhower the fifth best president of all time

kind of ambivalent on that one then you get to Theodore Roosevelt I'm not ambivalent on that that's terrible

terrible ranking and even worse is number three FDR yeah those are number three no

FDR is definitely near the bottom of this list Definitely one of the worst presidents of all time.

In fact, we skipped over Lyndon Baines Johnson He's listed at number 11.

He might be the all-time worst president.

Seriously, I think he is underrated in that discussion as one of the worst presidents of all time.

He is almost single-handedly responsible for all of our problems with debt.

Trillions and trillions of dollars can be attributed to him and the war on poverty.

And he was

an out-of-control racist.

Racist.

The fact that they, again, not racist.

I mean, look, Woodrow Wilson, who we didn't mention somehow on this program, which is terrible.

He's at number 13, which actually is probably too high.

He should be obviously in the 40s.

But, like, Wilson was a racist

a lot earlier than Johnson.

Johnson was still doing the racist thing, you know, a half century later.

And here's the thing, the weird thing about Lyndon B.

Johnson.

He's credited for the civil rights bill, for signing it.

Incredible.

Well, yeah, after he was forced into it, essentially.

He fought it his entire life.

He fought it.

Right up till the time he signed it, really.

He signed it out of political necessity.

He had to sign it, and he finally did, but he fought it the rest of his career.

It's despicable that he's listed at number 11.

Okay, going back to the number two.

George Washington,

which I don't have a problem with, since you've got Abraham Lincoln at number one.

I mean, that's hard to argue with.

Although Southerners would always argue with Abraham Lincoln being number one, the best president of all time.

Yeah, I might put, look, Lincoln is a top five president in my view, but I'd probably put Washington ahead of him.

I definitely would.

It's hard to put Washington behind anyone

in a list like this.

I'd have Coolidge in the top five.

I think I'd have Reagan in the top five.

Jefferson, I could put in the top five as well.

For sure.

You know, Monroe.

James Monroe?

Not a top five guy.

No.

For me.

Madison?

Madison, I would consider Monroe.

He's definitely top 10.

I don't know why he's so, I mean, like his.

He's never listed high, though.

Yeah, you know, I think there's a separation.

It's hard for, I think, most people to separate his presidency versus his legacy.

Writing the Constitution.

Yeah, like, you know, he's one of the most important people in our country's history.

Yeah.

Some people rate his presidency a little bit lower.

Yeah.

But his contributions to this country, you'd put him in the top five for sure.

But yeah, I put Reagan up there.

I would put Coolidge up there for sure.

And my bottom five has got Woodrow Wilson in it.

It's probably got Jimmy Carter in it.

It definitely has LBJ in it.

Yes.

Those names, you can't look.

You

can't look past them.

And I think maybe the best president of all time was William Henry Harrison because he was only in there for a month and he couldn't screw things up.

He's the only one.

Right.

Right.

How if we did monthly presidents?

Maybe we should think about this as a real long-term trend.

Last month as a president.

Yeah.

I think, though, that's the term limit we go with.

Four weeks.

You could be president for four weeks, and then you get a second four-week term, and then you're term limited out.

I like it.

We'd have a lot of elections, though.

I don't think I could take the election ads in this format.

This is like what they do in Israel right now.

They just, hey, wait, what if we just throw another election next week?

Let's just plan having a weekly election for the president.

And let's see if that guy can put together a government.

And then the next guy in another month will elect him, see if he can put one together.

Maybe we shouldn't.

This is a crazy idea for a lot of these parliamentary democracies, but maybe you don't have the president putting together a government.

Maybe that's not the way the system should work.

I don't know.

Yeah, maybe let the people

elect representatives into a government,

and then you go with what the people elect.

This is one of the most fascinating things about how the world has developed, I think, which is

the United States comes out of nowhere.

This is July 4th, right?

We come out of nowhere.

We're the upstart kids in town.

We take over the league, right?

MVP every single year.

And so few countries have decided to just emulate what we're doing.

Followed up plan.

Like, they all try these little mixes on it.

They all have a little different way of going about it.

I mean, they've all moved from monarchies to toward democracy.

I mean, the world as a whole has gotten a lot better since the U.S.

came through, and we've had a lot of that influence.

But they all, a lot of them just stick around with this like parliamentary democracy system, all these things.

Like, look, you know what you should do?

Look at our Constitution, put it when it says United States, change it to your name or your country.

That's what you should do.

Go in there, take the document, control

H, I think it is, which is find and replace.

Okay, find United States, replace with Uganda or whatever country you are, and then go with it.

Yeah, that's easy.

Now, you want to tweak a thing here or there.

I can understand it.

Maybe your culture is a little bit different, but we've set this up pretty well.

You've seen this works, right?

We've basically been

a superpower forever.

Forever.

And people are just like, what if we try something totally different?

What if we put...

What about if we do a constitution on Twitter?

What if we did that?

Let's have a panel of kings.

We'll have nine kings, and they can all.

It's like, why?

Just do what we've done.

We've told you how to do it.

It works.

You all, he's like, well, we're going to have totally different laws.

But at the same time, I want to mention.

All of our people should be able to illegally cross the border to go into that place all the time.

And it's hateful if you don't allow them to do it.

Wait, you could just have this where you are.

It's not the land that has made this place great.

It's not the location.

It's not the climate.

It's the Constitution and the founding documents that have made this place great, among other things.

Just try to emulate that as close as you can.

It's not rocket science.

It's not.

I've already shown you how to do it.

Or we could go to Twitter.

And send us some amendments.

A tweet at Iceland's Got a New Constitution on Twitter, and we'll put them in there.

No more than 244 characters, though.

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we're still trying to noodle out uh how these other countries

can can make a successful government.

You know, we've shown them the way and they just won't follow us, apparently.

And so they're doing things like, wait a minute, what if

we continue to pretend like we're a monarchy?

This will be fun.

And we make the people pay for a royal family who has no actual power, but we'll give them billions of dollars every year.

They can fight amongst themselves like they're the Clampins and

the,

the who are the two war factions?

Not the Clampets, because the Clampins were fine,

but they don't have any power, that's the beauty of it.

Yeah, but they keep dominating

all the news coverage instead of actually the people making the laws.

Oh, oh, and the prime minister should be able to call for an election whenever they want.

Right.

That's a great idea.

Let's not schedule it in advance.

Let's just have the person who has the power decide when the best chance of them having more power will be.

And what if we go to the queen and pretend we're asking her for permission to put together a government?

Or how about this one?

What if we take someone who used to be in the FSB and was probably responsible for dozens of murders and we give him the presidency and let him execute all of his political opponents?

He can just poison people who oppose him.

And then we'll pretend pretend like he's term limited and

we'll let the president be his best friend who holds the presidency for four years and we'll put the other guy back in.

Okay.

That sounds great.

And what if we then set a deadline of 2036 when he has to leave?

Yeah, because it'll only be 38 years by then.

That's great.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just so

we've already mapped this out.

Stop trying to reinvent the wheel.

We already invented it.

And is it just us?

I mean, it's kind of obvious that we've been successful with this.

Yes.

Right?

I think that's true.

I mean, look, they kind of obviously see that so many countries are so far to the left of us and want to implement and they want to give away and they want to control and they don't like that.

I think that's the problem.

The biggest problem with the United States as far as exporting democracy

in the way we know what we refer to as democracy is

that it requires people to, number one, not want to control everything at the top.

Yeah.

And number two, cede to the people and allow them to use their liberty to make their lives better in the way they choose.

And nobody in leadership anywhere in the world wants to do that.

It's amazing.

They all think this is nuts.

This is why things like Bitcoin take off.

Because it's going against that system and it can't be controlled by these governments.

It's so true.

It's like you just can't get people to give up their own power.

Principles of freedom.

It's amazing.

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We had some interesting decisions by the Supreme Court this week.

Yeah, enough for me to don my notorious ACB shirt.

Amy Coney Barrett, on the right side of both of these, by the way,

these rulings yesterday.

She's been good so far.

It's been nice to see.

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Because I feel like this is going to be a recurring situation where

she's going to be good for a a while.

You know, like, I'm hopeful at least.

What is she?

Late 40s, right?

Yeah, she's going to be around for a long time,

which is good.

And certainly one of the big parts of the legacy of the Trump presidency.

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, notorious ACB.

And I wonder,

if you're going to rank those three choices, how are you ranking them?

Right now?

Yeah.

I hadn't thought this one out, but if you're, we just ranked a whole bunch of presidents.

Probably

Coney Barrett first,

followed by Gorsuch and then Kavanaugh.

That's kind of how I think I would go, too.

Coney Barrett, it's a little early to say this.

I mean, we're definitely on all three of them, it's too early to say what their legacy is.

But just as far as my optimism level, right now, it would probably be Coney Barrett.

Kavanaugh, like, as much as he became this, you know, this big, controversial figure and conservatives were pushing so hard for him, He's the one I have the least faith on as far as actual rulings.

People don't, there's some, there's a sect of conservatism that doesn't love Gorsuch all that much because he's a little too libertarian for them.

And that's kind of, I rather, he's kind of more my flavor in that way.

So I like him a little bit more than some conservatives do.

But they've all been, none of them have been terrible.

I mean, Kavanaugh has not been terrible.

He's, he's had a couple rulings that make me

crinkle my forehead a little bit.

But, you know, he's not been terrible.

None of them have been terrible.

Yesterday, it was 6-3

in two separate rulings.

One of them I want to focus on, one of them was about whether California can require charities, private fundraising organizations, to disclose their large donors, mainly because they didn't like the Koch brothers.

That was really what it was.

And the Koch brothers brought a challenge to this, even though one of them is no longer alive, and they won.

You can't force organizations to give out who their donors are.

There's no reason to do that.

From the same people who constantly argue there is a right to privacy built into the Constitution, which leads them to say that you can have an abortion whenever you want, those same people are like, oh, of course you have to disclose your donors.

This makes absolutely no sense.

So that was one of them.

The other one was

about this Arizona voting law, and it applies to really all the voting laws going on right now.

The left is arguing basically,

you know, you can't do anything that restricts anybody's voting access.

The conservatives are arguing, well, yeah, you can.

You can make any, you know, states get to make their own laws as to how they run their election process.

And, you know, as long as you're not doing things like crazy poll taxes and you can't vote if you're black or things like that, you have a pretty wide berth to be able to do what you want.

The Supreme Court ruled six to three, Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion.

And he says, I think this is quite a valid point here, where a state provides multiple ways to vote, any burden imposed on voters who choose one of the available options cannot be evaluated without also taking into account the other available means.

So you can go and you can vote one, like,

for example, this is legitimately one of the things they're saying is shutting down the rights of minorities to vote in this country.

To vote in Arizona, you will need to show up at the right place.

Why the oppression?

Why are they oppressing the vote?

Why do they want to suppress the vote so much in Arizona?

Why?

Like,

if you're supposed to vote in a precinct in Phoenix, you can't just show up in Mesa.

Why?

I don't know.

It just seems like the most basic part of voting.

I know I can tell you the places that I vote because I know this, there's a one church I go to that I never go to at any other time other than when I'm voting because it's not my church.

But I know where it is and I know how to go there.

The same thing with when you go to the town hall, you might need to vote there.

I don't go to the town hall that often, but you know what?

I took 10 seconds to figure out where I needed to go to vote.

That's how this works.

A very basic requirement of being a citizen.

And then during the early vote, at least in Texas, I don't know if this is the rule in every state, but at least in Texas, you can vote anywhere in the county during early voting.

So any precinct you can walk into if you're early voting and you can pretty much vote anywhere in that particular county you want to.

That's pretty generous, I think.

That's pretty easy.

Just on election day, you have to vote at your own precinct.

And I don't know why there's that rule,

but

now that's not, you know, there's lots of different rules in every single state.

This is kind of what Arizona is pushing back on.

Now, I don't know if it applies to early voting, but do they want you to be able to vote anywhere?

They're saying the left is saying you should be able to vote anywhere.

You should be able to vote, you know.

That's never been the case, though.

It's never been the case.

It's never been the case.

It's a basic requirement: go to the right location.

If you go to the right location,

they send you to the right location.

Yeah.

You know,

they didn't like that.

And so

Alito's point is basically

you can,

if it's got to do with fraud, for example, that's in the interest of the state, and they should be able to monitor that.

The other part of it was ballot harvesting, where, let's say, some left-wing campaign worker can go to a nursing home and collect all the ballots from the nursing home, and he goes and checks and turns them all in.

Like, obviously, this is a big fraud possibility.

And they said you can't do that.

Goes up to the Supreme Court.

And the Supreme Court says, yeah, you know what?

Actually, you can.

The basic idea here is that you should be able to, if it's not

having some significant impact on your ability to vote, if it's not arduous,

if there are other ways for you to vote, like for example, a person who has decided, you know what, I will only vote in the wrong precinct, right?

That whoever that person is can vote by mail, right?

And that's available in Arizona.

So there's other ways to vote.

And also if it has something to do with fraud, it should be available.

Now, if that doesn't mean that everything is,

fraud is all over the country all the time.

They're not saying that.

They're just saying that obviously it's in the interest of the state to control.

voter fraud.

Listen to these two arguments, though, and you tell them, because these are not equivalent.

You know, sometimes you have like one side has a really good point.

The other side also has a really good point, which one should be right.

And we might think it's the conservative side.

They might think it's the liberal side.

Every time I turn on law and order and I watch an episode, I'm completely convinced that this guy murdered this family.

And then the other attorney steps up and I'm completely convinced he's innocent.

You know, like.

Sometimes Supreme Court rulings come down like that.

Here are the arguments as summarized by the New York Times.

Justice Alito said the prohibitions on ballot collections under the new guideposts, he kind of set forth some rules as to what can be shut down and restricted, saying they imposed a minor burden, they left open other ways of voting, and they were meant to combat fraud.

Justice Kagan responded that the measure disproportionately affected rural Native American communities that lacked ready access to mail service.

Those are the two sides of this argument.

One is saying, look, look, you got to control fraud.

And as long as it's easy to vote another way, we can't go crazy.

Of course, there can be restrictions.

The other side's saying, yeah, but what about Native Americans in rural areas that don't have mail?

Are there a lot of those places?

A lot.

Like,

it's not something I would have realized is a major problem.

Right.

And, of course, they can still vote.

They can still vote by mail.

And by the way, if you want Native rural Americans to have better access to mail, then Congress can just give them that.

They can work on that if the Native American areas want it, right?

This is not something that is.

You could also vote in person.

They could vote in person.

Yes.

They could vote by mail.

They could vote a bunch of different ways.

Now,

there is, and even if, like, you came up with this crazy idea, right, at the end of the day, that this one community had an issue

getting to the mailbox.

You know, maybe

we could hire someone for $10 an hour that's a government worker.

You know what?

Take one of the people who's doing nothing that works for the government, and then maybe they could bring it over.

You know what?

Take some off-duty police officers and say, you know what, the off-duty police officers get to go and pick up a ballot box on the property of the Native Americans.

You don't overrule the state's rights

to set their own election laws because of one tiny outlier somewhere.

This is what the left always tries to do, and it's always about identity.

It's always about race.

It's always about sex.

It's always about sexual preference.

It's always about origin.

All of these things

are supposed, we have laws that apply to everyone.

And that is the difference, I think, between the left and the right.

Right now, we look for rules that

apply to everyone equally and that everyone has an equal opportunity.

And we expect the very basics out of people to do things like voting.

You got to register.

You got to send it in on time.

You know, people keep going to this New York election that's going on right now, and they're like, ranked choice voting.

That's terrible.

What's terrible about the New York elections is that they're allowing people to send in absentee ballots weeks and weeks and weeks after the election is over.

That's the problem.

If all the ballots were in on time, they'd just run the program.

It would be over.

It would be done in an hour.

Instead, they're like, well, what if a rural Native American person doesn't have mail access in New York City?

Because there's a lot of rural Native American areas.

I don't know if you know this in New York City.

A lot.

Yeah, a lot.

And they can't get to a mailbox.

And

they go on a long hike

through Manhattan, then through the Bronx.

Yeah.

Across the bridge.

And when they get there, they don't have to show an ID, though.

Of course not.

Okay, because

that would be oppressive.

That would be oppressive.

And I don't want that to happen.

You know, minorities, they can't get IDs because they don't know where the DMV is.

And a lot of them can't get online.

And so if they can't get online, they don't know where the driver's license is,

the driver's license place,

you know, the DMV, then there's no way they can vote.

And I was reading online that Ron DeSantis banned minorities from going to the DMV.

I mean, I haven't checked it out, but that's my understanding.

I'm sure it's true.

I saw a tweet about it.

Well, then it's true.

Yeah, and then I saw an article about the tweet.

Yeah.

And in the article, it said some people said that Ron DeSantis did this.

That's why I hate Republicans.

Yeah, that's exactly why I hate their guts.

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In Venezuela, they're doing something kind of interesting.

They're going to cut six zeros off the bolivar, that's their denomination of

money, to simplify transactions.

So they're once again going to lop off more zeros from the national currency to try to simplify the daily transactions.

Apparently, they got all the way up to a million Bolivar

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So they had a 1 million Bolivar note, largest in the country's history.

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A million is one with six zeros.

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Which would make sense if it's really 32 cents.

So then you're going to have one bolivar equals 32 cents U.S.

Right?

Wow, this is bad.

It's really bad.

You know, it's really bad.

Interesting that El Salvador had issues like this, not as bad as Venezuela, but had issues like this.

And they were like, you know what?

What if we just use the dollar?

Yeah.

Let's just use the dollar as our currency.

Yeah.

And did they wind up doing that?

I don't know.

They did do it in the early 2000s, I believe.

Okay, and then that went pretty well for a while.

And then we started spending trillions of dollars on COVID and things like that.

And now they're like, you know what?

Sure, we have the dollar.

Let's also do Bitcoin.

And no, so they are the first country on earth to have Bitcoin as an official currency.

Interesting.

And they're in the middle of implementing that right now.

Interesting.

That's it.

I mean, because that's the thing about Bitcoin.

It pushes back against your money printing.

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Yeah, we got this

interesting list of popular songs,

64 popular songs.

Probably won't go through all of them, but a bunch of popular songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s that you just couldn't probably record today,

especially as sensitive as everybody is today.

These are

this, these are amazing.

Some of them are absolutely incredible.

Yeah, Some of them towards the back of that list are really crazy because they're songs you hadn't heard of before.

There's one about seemingly a mass shooting in a high school.

I don't know if you got to that one yet.

I haven't.

It's like, how did anyone think this was okay?

What's that song?

It's from the 80s.

I think it's from Julie Brown, I think, is the author.

It's the singer.

I think, you know, it kind of was supposed to be funny.

Yeah.

It doesn't come off as funny these days.

No, probably.

Then the post-Columbine era does not come off quite as hilarious.

New.

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We'll get into that.

You won't believe some of the lyrics involved here.

Wow.

When you think back to the way things used to be and the way they are now,

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You know, you might think the lyrics today are a little bit iffy, and

some maybe aren't appropriate

to be hearing on the radio.

He had a list of some songs that

spin diddy went through that

when you look at the lyrics, and these are all songs that you probably knew as a kid or growing up.

And

it probably didn't hit you that they were anything special or anything outrageous.

But when you look at them today with today's eyes, they're pretty outrageous.

Yeah, this all started from a

thing that happened in the news recently about Indiana Jones.

They're doing a new Indiana Jones movie right now, which, thankfully, because The Crystal Skull was one of the worst movies ever made.

So I kind of want them to at least attempt to try to salvage the series after what they just did to it.

But they're going through this and they talk to Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

You know, she was obviously his love interest in this movie.

And listen to this scene and see, just listen, do some math in your brain as you listen to this scene.

Always knew someday you'd come walking back through my door.

I never doubted that.

Something made it inevitable.

So, what are you doing here in Nepal?

I need one of the pieces your father collected.

I learned to hate you in the last 10 years.

Ten years?

I never meant to hurt you.

I was a child.

I was in love.

Wait.

It was wrong, and you knew it.

You knew what you were doing.

Now I do.

This is my place.

Get out.

Mohan.

Sami Group.

Bully on them.

I did what I did.

You don't have to be happy about it, but maybe we can help each other out now.

So.

Oh, okay.

All right.

I did what I did.

You knew.

You knew what you were doing.

She just said she was a child.

Child.

wait a minute no she what she's maybe 28 now she

she is saying oh is she they're down there doing interviews but so the the what what prompted this is like this is like the of course dumb ending to the me too saga where now they're criticizing indiana jones who is a fictional character right for his apparent uh sexual assault

of

of Marion when she was too young.

So they've now asked Marion, the actor who portrayed her,

wait, were you like, was there a statutory rape going on?

What happened?

And she says she was 16.

So

she was 26 in the actual movie.

10 years ago was 16.

Wow.

Now, Glenn somehow dug out some of the conversations about this scene.

from like the planning of the movie.

And apparently George Lucas was like pushing for her to be like 11.

What?

Like, she's like 21 in the movie, and it was 10 years ago, and she was 11.

And all the other writers are like, oh, I don't know if 11 is the right number, guy.

I think that might be a little.

And that's crazy.

Lucas is like, how about 12?

No.

So they eventually got him to like 15 or 16.

For what?

And it doesn't mean anything in the plot, right?

It's like, it's totally, he was just apparently wanting to write a lot about something very weird.

So

this got us thinking about how these these things have changed.

Because remember, Indiana Jones came out in the 80s, but it took place in the 30s.

So in the 30s, standards were quite different.

But even since the 80s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, standards have changed quite a bit.

Some of the songs that were released back then could not come out today.

They just would not happen.

Should we go through some of these?

Because

some of them are kind of amazing.

Okay, Under My Thumb, The Rolling Stones?

Yeah, from 1966.

It's about a power struggle between this couple.

And at the time of its release, it was criticized by feminists even back then for subjugating the woman to

being like a, quote, squirming dog.

Probably wouldn't do that today.

So you couldn't do that today.

And apparently, they didn't even like it back in 1966.

It's not all sexual stuff, though, like for like in the summertime.

There's fine.

So if you sang along to that song before, you've probably said, have a drink,

have a drive.

Which is, again, like, you're not in that order.

You're not really supposed to do that.

Go out and see what you can find.

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal.

If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel.

Okay.

Yeah, not appropriate.

No, no.

Now, from the Beatles, the song Run for Your Life, I'd Rather See See You Dead, Little Girl, than to Be With Another Man.

Kind of not cool.

Yeah, seems like a little over the line.

Getting Better with the Beatles has I used to be cruel to my woman.

I beat her

and kept her apart from the things that she loved.

You psychopath.

That had to be Ringo.

Ringo, I think, came up with that lyric because he's in here again later on.

And,

of course, Your Squaw is on the Warpath by Loretta Lynn.

I think Getting Better was McCartney's song.

Really?

I think so.

Yeah.

I mean, maybe I just feel like Ringo had a.

It doesn't seem super appropriate, though.

Even in this, in 1967, you could say that?

That doesn't seem right.

Ed, not at all.

Your Squaw is on the Warpath by Loretta Lynn.

Well, you leave me at home to keep the TP clean.

Then you've got...

I mean, some of these are Ahab the A-rab, which was by Ray Stevens, a comedy song.

Yeah.

That he kind of changed the pronunciation of of Arab because Ahab doesn't rhyme with Arab.

So you had to say Ahab, the A-rab.

And of course, that's not how you pronounce it, and they take offense to that.

Now, Short People by Randy Newman.

Come on.

Jokey and silly.

Jokey and silly.

And it was

an ironic song.

He was being ironic throughout it.

Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones.

Now, this one has made news before.

I've thought about this one many times.

The song features so many taboo subjects, including forced sex with an underage slave girl.

Probably not the topic you want to lead a very well-known song with.

Yeah.

Some of these, though, are like not as well-known.

One in a Million by Guns N' Roses.

I don't remember it.

I don't either.

1988 rock song describes Axel Rose's experience getting hustled at a Greyhound bus station when he first came to Los Angeles.

In the lyrics, the following groups are denigrated.

The police.

Well, that one you can totally still do.

Totally okay to do that one.

Black people.

And he uses the N-word.

Okay, that's not okay.

Immigrants and gays, calling them the F-word for gays in the song.

Not good.

Not would not be done

today, in my opinion.

Not acceptable.

China Girl by David Bowie.

Yeah.

Hard to believe.

These days, China girls are Asian women, of course.

You can't say China Girl anymore.

But

he's saying, now he says that this was about

ridiculing stereotypes of Asian.

So almost in the short people sort of

genre.

Yes.

But in the, it's really strange because in the video for the song, he does something with his eyes that you really couldn't get away with today.

I mean, you would be...

You would be canceled.

Yeah,

your songs would not be purchased any longer.

Stop A-A-P-I Hate David Bowie.

Yes, that's what I say.

Please.

How Island Girl by Elton John.

It's about a Jamaican woman who is, quote, black as coal

who works as a prostitute in Manhattan.

A black boy is trying to take her, again, quote, quoting, black boy is trying to take her back to the island and asks, what are you wanting with a white man's world?

Probably not going to work today.

Dire Strike's Money for Nothing is well known.

You may remember this.

They use the F word for

gaze multiple times.

Multiple times.

Now, that was taken out even back then on some radio stations.

Others just let it play, which you couldn't possibly do today.

I think, and if I understand right, I think they're still playing the song the way it is, which is somewhat surprising if they are.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah, with the F word in it, not leaped at all.

Because, I mean, it's one thing to play a song the way it was.

It's another thing to perform it live today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's dangerous.

That's dangerous.

It's changing these things.

What does it do?

Does it actually help society?

Probably not.

No.

But usually, you know, just these artists don't want to be on video doing it.

Right.

Ringo Starr.

You're 16.

There was a lot of these back in the 70s.

Yes.

About 16-year-olds.

I don't know why.

Why, Pat?

I don't know.

In fact, the song Mike Shirona by The Knack in 1979 kind of got that band shut down even back then because they were singing about young girls all the time.

Yeah, there's a lot of that going on.

And they're like, um, okay, that's creepy.

That's weird.

That was your 16-year beautiful in your mind.

Yes.

Okay.

For Ringo Star.

Fat Bottom Girls by Queen.

Now, you think that one would be banned because it is or questionable because you're fat shaming.

Like, that's what I would think when I would hear that.

However, no, this is the lyrics of the song.

But I knew love before I left my nursery.

Wow.

Okay.

Left alone with big fat Fanny.

She was such a naughty nanny.

He big woman.

You made a bad boy out of me.

So this young man seems to have been raped.

That's what I would say occurred.

He wouldn't think that they'd sing a fun rock song about it later on.

No, you wouldn't.

Sometimes these things occur.

I mean, don't stand so close to me by the police.

Great song, but the subject matter is

not great.

Yeah.

A schoolgirl and a teacher twice her age cross a dangerous line by having an illegal and appropriate affair.

Inappropriate affair.

And I don't think he ever does in the song.

Does he?

He's trying to resist her, basically.

He's trying to talk himself out of it, basically, is what I would say.

How about father figure from George Michael 1987?

I don't remember this line in the song.

That's all I wanted, but sometimes love can be mistaken for a crime.

So he's basically saying, this is like the Nambla argument.

You know, hey, look, I mean, it's love.

You guys are saying it's a crime.

It's actually love.

Not a great idea.

Young girl by Gary Puckett in the Union Gap.

Young girl, get out of my life.

Yeah.

So young girl, get out of my mind.

My love for you is way out of line.

Uh-oh.

Better run, girl.

You're much too young, girl.

Yeah.

Yeah, with all the charms of a woman, so she's not a woman.

You've kept the secret of your youth.

You've led me to believe you're old enough to give me love, and now it hurts to know the truth.

They just did that all the time.

How does this happen?

in the 60s and 70s?

What these guys thought about were 14 year olds.

What is going on?

My Shirona, we talked about a little bit.

Hot legs from Rod Stewart.

Hot legs, bring your mother to 17 years old.

He's trudging 64.

I don't remember that, Larry.

I don't either.

I don't think I knew that that's what he said until this moment.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, that's unfortunately what he said.

How about Stray Cat Blues?

1968 Rolling Stones.

Yeah.

I can see that you're 15 years old.

No, I don't want your ID.

My God.

And I've seen that you're so far from home, but it's no hanging matter.

It's no capital crime.

I don't think that's the standard here.

No, Mick.

And it kind of is a capital crime today.

Yeah.

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We're going over some of these inappropriate songs, songs that were big hits, most of them, back in the 60s or 70s, maybe 80s, even 90s, sometimes, and you just couldn't fly today.

Our friend Ted Nugent is on this list with Cat Scratch Fever.

First time that I got it, I was just 10 years old.

That's pretty young.

You got cat scratch fever at 10?

Yeah.

That's not good.

I got it from some kitty next door.

I went and see the doctor and he gave me the cure.

I think I got it some more.

Uh-oh.

At 10.

At 10.

So

that's a youngster.

How about with Ted Nugent?

I would believe that that

is a true story.

How about Winger 17?

She's only 17.

Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me.

That's okay.

That doesn't work anymore.

Dance Holidays by Wang Chung.

I freaking loved that song when I was a kid.

Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung.

Take your baby by the hair and pull her close and there, there, there.

And take your baby by the ears and play upon her darkest fears.

What the hell is going on with that song?

Wow, that's creepy.

It's like he's got her in a hole in his basement and he's saying, put the lotion on your skin.

How about this one?

I never did not remember at all.

It's called The Homecoming Queens Got a Gun by Julie Brown.

I do remember that.

We do.

Listen to that.

I mean, again, in the post-Columbine era.

Debbie's smiling and waving her gun, picking off cheerleaders one by one.

Oh, Buffy's pom-pom just flew to bits.

Oh, no, Mitzi's head just did the splits.

God, my best friends on a shooting spree.

Similar.

That was supposed to be funny.

It was supposed to be funny.

It's not a real laugh anymore.

Anymore, right.

There's a song, and I'm a Weird Al connoisseur, Pat.

And Weird Al did a song for Christmas one year.

It's called Christmas at Ground Zero.

And it was about, it's a great freaking song.

And it's basically about

nuclear war on Christmas.

But Ground Zero at the point was not fun.

It was not 9-11.

Oh, yeah.

He also did a song called Trigger Happy, which you go back to, which is basically similar to the song we just did.

Same thing, like super crazy violin imagery.

It's freaking hilarious, but I doubt he ever sings it anymore.

He is still touring, by the way, and releasing number one albums, so he's very much still active.

Yeah.

Do you know the song Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Moldar?

I mean, that's pretty old.

1974.

Okay.

I know your daddy's a sultan, a nomad known to all, with 50 girls to attend him.

They all send him.

Jump at his beck and call.

But you won't need no harem, honey, when i'm by your side and you won't need no camel no no when i take you for a ride so that probably you probably wouldn't be singing about sultans and harems i will say i will say this as you go through these this list of all these songs from these past decades and you realize that they're constantly talking about rock stars talking about having sex with 15 and 16 and 17 year olds

we do complain often about how the culture changes, but sometimes it changes for the better.

There are certain things that I would say it really shouldn't be acceptable for a rock star to write a song fantasizing about a 14-year-old.

Probably not a good thing, and even worse if they're actually doing it.

But it's incredible how often they wrote songs like that.

Yeah.

That's all they thought about.

Yeah.

I mean,

you know, Dr.

Hook had a song about 16-year-olds.

Ringo Starr had a song about 16-year-olds.

The Rolling Stones sang all kinds of inappropriate songs about women.

Who was the person who actually did it?

Didn't somebody like imprison?

You always tell me this story.

Oh, Jimmy Page.

Jimmy Page.

What's that story again?

He met a groupie that he

really thought was attractive, and he kind of took her home and he kept her against her will until it finally became

became consensual after a while.

Okay.

But he held her at first, kept her from going home.

And he was, I think he was 21 at the time or 22.

And she was like 14.

I mean, holy crap.

It was a big difference.

And it was a huge thing.

You would think today.

Back then, the guy was never arrested, never charged with a thing.

Kept her for like five years.

She was with him.

And again, I don't know that if a relationship starts at 14, that it can ever become consensual.

Consensual.

That is true.

It was supposedly, you know,

air quotes.

Consensual.

Consensual.

She was staying with me of her own free will.

She really wanted me to be a little bit more.

After the first couple years, she was.

She loved it in my place.

She never left.

She really did.

She really became fond of me after I took the handcuffs off of her in the closet.

I mean, Jimmy Page was a creepy guy.

Yeah.

Yes.

Bizarre stuff.

And that was just one thing.

So

into the occult and, you know, all manner of stuff.

But Stunner loved the music.

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We were just talking about the inappropriate songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

And then we stumbled into one that's

maybe as creepy as any we were talking about.

And I love Aerosmith.

I'm a Steve Tyler fan.

He did some weird stuff with his daughter in

the 90s.

I don't remember exactly how we got to this as we were off, but Liv Tyler, who's his daughter,

kind of was, was this, became the sex symbol in the 90s.

Yeah.

Again, like this is.

How did it happen?

How did she rise to sex symbol status?

She got a great gig.

She had an incredible opportunity.

Like in a music video.

Yeah, a music video.

It was done by this band called Aerosmith.

Huh, weird.

And I think it was Amazing, if I remember right, was that the name of the song?

Yeah.

That she kind of became really famous for the sex symbol.

It girl at the time.

Or was it that or crazy?

I think there was a couple of them.

And she was a whopping total of 16 years old at the time.

Didn't

remember that.

Wow.

Didn't remember that.

She was 16 in Amazing.

Yikes.

17 in Crazy.

Okay.

Now, again, it's one thing for someone to hyper-sexualize an underaged girl.

It's another when it's the dad.

When it's your daughter.

Yeah.

It seems like I do.

That just makes it a terrible idea.

You know, we live and we learn here, Pat, and standards do change.

And most of them, it seems like, recently have been pretty bad changes.

That seems like a good one.

Yeah, that's a good change.

It does seem to me that you should change.

And you see, the guy, I mean, if that was anybody

today or in the last five years, you wouldn't see him ever on any broadcast channel ever.

Yeah.

And he's everywhere.

You know, he was doing American Idol just fairly recently.

Well, maybe it's been a while.

Four years?

Five years ago?

Was it American Idol or was it one of the other singing shows that he did?

I don't know.

Time goes by so fast,

it's hard to tell.

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our planet?

It's not going to hit us, but it's coming close enough that NASA is sending a probe out to it, and

it's apparently going to land on the asteroid next year, sometime in 2022, to determine if it contains enough metal.

This asteroid is supposedly worth $10,000 quadrillion

because of all the metals in it.

Here's the thing.

$10,000 quadrillion?

If something comes along with that value, it changes changes the market value of the metal and so it no longer is and also I know I want to point this out isn't 10,000 quadrillion just 10 quintillion why are they saying 10,000 quadrillion what a weird formulation of that it is very weird I mean you'd almost say a million trillion Yeah would be better than 10,000 quadrillion you're already into the illions that no one ever uses maybe they went to quadrillion because nobody's ever heard of quintillion yet and we just barely got used to trillion so now they're okay we'll just do

call it ten thousand quadrillion you may not be used to quadrillion yet you will be soon you will be

you will be you will be the first spending bill that's in quadrillion dollars i mean that's probably way off like the middle of next year before that happens

before that obviously the debt the the deficit hits uh a quadrillion can't be that far off what are we at now 40 something we're well i mean our long-term liabilities we're at over 100 trillion.

Well over 100.

So we're going to get to one quadrillion sooner than you know.

I think Glenn's quoted like 150 trillion in

unfunded liabilities.

It's ridiculous.

Anyway, this could help with that if you could mine this stuff and bring it back to Earth.

I don't know how, you know, we're not living in Armageddon times, the movie.

where you can go out to an asteroid and just start strip mining it that I know of.

But NASA NASA is going to try to drill down into this thing and see if it's valuable.

What difference does it make?

Are we actually going to do anything with it?

This thing is called 16 Psyche

and

it would make, if you were able to mine the 10 quintillion dollars that are within it,

it would make everyone on earth a billionaire.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

We'd all be like Zimbabwe or Venezuela.

Yeah.

But if everybody's a billionaire, isn't everybody just equally poor then, too?

Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.

A billionaire means nothing at that point.

You can't do it this way.

This does not work this way.

No.

I will say, though,

I will say the mystery is solved.

How we got to live Tyler, which was you mentioned this asteroid.

Then we talked about Armageddon.

That's exactly.

Then we got to live Tyler.

That's how pathetic we are.

But still not right to put your 17-year-old daughter as the sex symbol in the video, where, by the way,

they are escaping seemingly like a Catholic school in Catholic schoolgirl uniforms.

This is not a good idea.

Just in case you are a parent, you're thinking to yourself, what if I put my own 17-year-old daughter in my music video?

Just a good safety tip?

No.

No.

No.

Unless she's like playing piano.

And

there may be an exception to this rule I'm not thinking of, but don't make them the sex symbol ever

in your video.

Dress them in a mumu

or a parka

and let them play piano if that's what you want to do.

By the way, U.S.

unfunded liabilities, $150,718,904,000,000.

I would try to do the other.

It's

moving much too fast for me to be able to quote more than that.

And $50 trillion.

But the good thing is the liability per citizen is only $452,267.

Oh, we can all take care of that.

That's not a problem.

Shouldn't be an issue, right?

No.

You're thinking about it.

They pay that off.

All you got to do is print more.

They can always make more.

And that's the great thing about our money supply.

You can always print a few more dollars to cover whatever you might need.

And we do.

Every single day.

And the beauty of it is now you don't even have to use the printing press because you just digitize it all and you just punch in more numbers.

It's easy.

We don't have the money.

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You know what we'll do is

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We'll just keep this going.

Don't worry about it.

It's fine.

Yeah, eventually we're going to run out of time

and eventually

the IOUs are going to come due

and we're not going to be able to pay them.

Then what do you do?

Then you sell China every piece of land that you own i guess because that's the only way we could pay that off

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uh

also how about this um speaking of young kids and inappropriate things There's this book out now for kids from four to eight years old, four to eight, called Maxine Gets Her Vaccine.

See, that rhymes.

And so,

yeah, it makes

it really acceptable and interesting to children.

And what you should do is experiment with vaccines on four to eight-year-olds.

I don't know.

I don't understand why you would do this.

I really don't.

Four to eight-year-olds

rarely get the disease, and when they do, it doesn't seem to be serious, right?

Right.

We were just talking about the death rate in 0 to 19-year-olds, and that rate is 0.0%.

Well, you're rounding, but yes.

Yes.

It's very, very low.

Look, the death rate is very, very low.

Very low.

Well, you would also note, of course, though, that

there's no reason to believe the vaccine death count is any higher than 0.0 on anybody in that age range either.

It seems like both activities are very low risk.

Yeah.

I don't know why, per se.

I think the reason is they think this is stalled.

Like the vaccinations for adults

have slowed, I believe.

So they think they can get parents who are very pro-vaccine to vaccinate their kids and get the numbers higher so maybe we can hit

a herd immunity or close to it.

Yeah, they're trying to get us over that 70%

range.

By the way, 54.6% of all people in this country are vaccinated.

Is that fully vaccinated?

No, that's one dose.

But again,

I don't think that's all that notable.

Almost everyone who gets one dose gets another dose.

And in addition to that, one dose does a pretty good amount when it comes to, it doesn't do as much as two doses as far as your immunity goes, but it does a pretty, it gets you a good way there.

So 54.6.

They think the number is somewhere between maybe 70 and 80% for actual herd immunity.

But I got news for you.

Herd immunity, does it come around when you have open borders?

Does herd immunity ever arrive when you have a country directly to your south that has a very low percentage of their population vaccinated?

When you have Brazil, which has been raging out of control this whole time, they have not had these waves.

They have been raging out of control for a year,

and

there are still

multiple thousands of people dying every day from COVID,

even though they are not barely testing anybody in the country.

And all of that is going on to our south.

We also are going to start allowing flights and all of these other things.

You know, you wonder what herd immunity means in a global scenario like this.

It's going to be an issue for a while.

So I don't think chasing herd immunity makes all that much sense.

What you should do is say, here's the evidence of the vaccine.

If you think it's good, you should take it.

If you don't think it's good, you shouldn't take it.

and then people can move on with their lives and

assume the risk associated with it.

If you want to take it, take it, and if you don't, don't.

Yeah,

what are you talking about?

Liberty, freedom there?

It doesn't seem like

that's ridiculous.

Yeah, you know, it's crazy.

By the way,

yes, we're not at her immunity.

That's true.

We're not going to be at herd immunity, probably, maybe ever.

I don't know.

We'll see.

But our cases are down 95%.

Wow.

Our deaths are down 93%.

We're not going to get everyone vaccinated.

There's no reason to believe it could ever be possible, nor should we try it.

I mean, nor should we sit here and say and try to mandate vaccines for everybody so that everybody gets them.

There's no reason to do that.

We're down in the mid-90s here.

We've crushed this virus to the point that it is now

sort of just another thing.

It's another, it is right now at levels of the flu, right?

I mean, it would be a really bad flu year right now, but

we get it down to 100, 150 deaths per day.

I don't want people to die.

I want it to be zero.

But like, that's the sort of risk that the American people, I think, are, generally speaking, comfortable with.

Yeah.

So over, again, about 90% of people over 65 are already vaccinated.

Those are the people who are most vulnerable.

That's why the deaths are down 93%.

That's a lot.

That's a good percentage.

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We were just going over the numbers of the COVID situation.

They're really astounding right now.

I didn't even realize the peak

infection rate that we hit back in January.

I thought the peak infection rate was about 70,000, you know, 75,000, somewhere in there.

Yeah.

The actual number was 251,084

per day over a week.

And the reason why you don't remember it, likely, was that occurred on January 8th, 2021.

And then we're focusing on the worst

insurrection in American world history.

More world history.

Really?

The worst insurrection attempt ever attempted in global history.

Over one person was killed.

Well, not over one, but one person was killed who happened to be part of the insurrection.

So the death rate is what?

Now we're down, we went from 251,000 on average per day.

Now we're down at 12,000

per day.

So we're down 95% on that, 93% on deaths.

I mean, people who don't think people are still getting banned for saying the pandemic is over.

And look, we're just in a totally different area of this.

And I think with people having the access, it is over.

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