We have a new contender for “most insane thing a politician has said.” While speaking to high school students, Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee claimed that the moon gives off energy, is made of gas, and because of that, might not be possible to live on. She later insisted that she misspoke and was talking about the sun … BUT she also stated that it’s “ALMOST impossible to go near the sun” because it’s too hot. Glenn and Pat review these … interesting … claims, as well as Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s latest argument for reparations.
TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errors
PAT: You know, you've been pretty hard on our representatives in Congress today. I think unfairly so. Unfairly so.
GLENN: Unfairly so. Unfairly so. Okay.
PAT: Because they're doing some solid things too.
GLENN: Really? Are they?
PAT: Maybe not the ones who are on the take on the insider trading.
GLENN: Right. Which is about 75 percent of them.
PAT: But other 30 percent, they're on the job.
GLENN: The other 30 percent.
PAT: They're educating Americans. Sheila Jackson Lee was out speaking to high school kids, for instance. And she was talking about the moon. You know, because the moon was just in front of the sun and blocked it for a while. So I think she had some interesting facts on the moon.
GLENN: Oh. Really? On the eclipse. And the moon.
Really? Okay. Here she is.
VOICE: Provide unique light and energy, to say that you have the energy of the moon at night.
And sometimes you've heard the word "full moon. Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see, a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases.
GLENN: What?
VOICE: That's why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon.
PAT: Right.
VOICE: And the gas is such, that we could do that.
(laughter)
VOICE: The sun is a mighty powerful heat. It's almost --
PAT: Almost. Almost impossible.
VOICE: -- impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable.
PAT: Yeah.
VOICE: And you will see in a moment -- not a moment, you will see in a couple of years, that NASA is going back to the moon.
PAT: Right.
GLENN: With all that gas?
PAT: Yeah. Well, yeah, because it's manageable. And it's a gas such that, you can stand on it.
GLENN: You can stand on the gas.
PAT: Almost like the gas was a solid.
GLENN: But it's not.
PAT: It's not. It's gas.
GLENN: Okay. So it's not -- now, see, I'm learning a lot here.
It's not impossible to stand --
PAT: No. But almost, on the sun.
GLENN: On the sun. Yeah. Right? When you go there, you'll be uncomfortable, if you try to live there, on the sun.
GLENN: I've been to places where it's hot before.
PAT: Right. It will just be a little hotter than that.
GLENN: A little hotter than that.
PAT: Big deal. Big deal.
GLENN: An air conditioner. Okay.
So I didn't know -- because I thought it was impossible to stand on gas.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: You know what I mean?
PAT: Yeah. She's saying that this gas is such that it's possible, to live there, and to stand there. Yeah. Because we already have, obviously.
GLENN: And hang on just a second. What was that full moon, thing?
PAT: Yeah. It's like a full circle. When you see the entire circle. The round thing in -- orb, in the sky. That's the full --
GLENN: You're not supposed to look at that round orb in the sky.
PAT: No. That's okay to look at. Its energy is such that --
GLENN: Oh. The moon's energy.
PAT: The moon's energy. And the moon's light.
It's a pretty good light.
GLENN: It's more of a night light.
It's kind of nice.
PAT: Yes. I don't think she understands the moon doesn't have its own light. I don't think she knows that.
GLENN: I don't think she knows that either. I don't think she thinks.
PAT: It's awesome. Is that incredible? Wow!
GLENN: Gas.
PAT: Yeah. The moon. Gas.
GLENN: You know what, could you play that again?
Because notice, no one laughs.
PAT: Right. Because she is not joking.
GLENN: I'm not sure -- right. I know. But no one laughs. I'm not sure anyone in the audience knows she was wrong.
VOICE: Provide unique light and energy. So that you have the energy of the moon at night.
GLENN: No, you don't.
VOICE: And sometimes, you've heard the word "full moon."
PAT: You've heard that, yeah?
VOICE: Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see, a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up of mostly gases.
PAT: Right. Right. No.
VOICE: That's why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon.
GLENN: We don't.
VOICE: The gas is such that we could do that.
GLENN: We don't.
(laughter)
VOICE: It's almost --
PAT: No. Almost.
VOICE: -- impossible, to go near the sun.
PAT: Impossible. Almost. But not --
VOICE: And you will see in a --
GLENN: I -- I --
VOICE: You will see in a couple of years, that NASA is going back to the moon.
PAT: Okay.
GLENN: The gas. With the gas.
PAT: Yes. To stand on the gaseous moon, so it's going to be cool to see.
GLENN: Wow. Wow. So how much gas do we get from the moon?
I mean, it must cost Exxon a lot to get the gas to the pump. Or is there a way, do we have a hose running from the pump?
PAT: To get a gas from the moon to here?
It's a pipeline. It's a pipeline from the moon.
(laughter)
She has been representing her district in Houston, Texas, for over 30 years. It's -- wow. She should never talk about space, ever again. Or anything else, for that matter.
GLENN: But definitely not space.
PAT: She was at NASA, and asked them while she was doing a tour of NASA, about whether or not you could still see the American flag that was planted on Mars. That was the -- like late '90s or early 2000s.
GLENN: We didn't plant one.
PAT: No, we didn't.
GLENN: We've never been -- wait a minute. That's new. I knew we didn't bring a flag.
PAT: Didn't bring a flag. God forbid. We forgot the flag, and then we forgot to put the human on Mars. So, yeah. There was no human on Mars.
GLENN: Right. We forgot to put the human on board too. Who was responsible for that?
PAT: In years.
GLENN: We landed a ship down there. And nobody was on board.
PAT: Pathetic.
GLENN: Did it slip into the gas?
PAT: No. Not on Mars. What are you, stupid?
PAT: Not on Mars. It's the moon that's gas.
GLENN: Right. Mars is cheese.
(laughter)
How do you get that butt stupid?
PAT: I don't know. I really don't know.
GLENN: Seriously. How could you -- because if you were sitting in a meeting. Now, imagine this.
Okay?
You've been to meetings where you're like, this person is a moron. But you're doing work. There's something that you have to -- I just -- you just have to plow through it. You have to get through it. You're selling this person, something. Whatever it is, you're doing for a living.
And you're sitting in that meeting. And they say something stipend. And you just have to go.
PAT: Hmm, yeah. Huh.
GLENN: Huh. And you just move on, right?
PAT: Yeah. Yeah.
GLENN: I don't think I would have the human restraint.
PAT: No. No way.
GLENN: To sit in a room, and have her say, and, you know, that's the full circle. And it's mainly gas. I don't -- I don't think I could do it. I think this is a really -- don't do this, kids. Because Jesus would not have done this. But I'm telling you, I probably would have. I probably would have played with her like a mouse and a cat. I probably have been like, wow. Really? Gas? What kind of gas is that? I think I would have --
PAT: That is such that you can land on it, and live there? I would like to know. Yeah.
GLENN: Yeah. And so this gas, does it have any air in it? Or is it just oxygen?
PAT: Or is it like a -- like a really hard gas, like a rock gas? Sort of thing. Is it that?
GLENN: Well, I know we brought some dust back. So we know it's a dusty gas. Oh, I couldn't do it.
PAT: Wow. That is --
GLENN: Speaking of representatives in Houston. Let me give you this. This is from the black lawyer's podcast. Which I listened to all the time.
This is Texas Democrat representative jasmine Crockett.
PAT: She is really good too.
GLENN: Is she?
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: She is suggesting now that black Americans shouldn't necessarily have to pay any taxes. Here she is.
VOICE: Just this past week, I don't remember, which celebrity. But it was actually a celebrity.
And I said, I don't know that it's necessarily a bad idea. I would have to think through it a lot. One of the things that they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time, because then again, that puts money back into your pocket.
But at the same time, it may not be as objectionable to some people about actually giving out dollars. But obviously, you start dealing with the tax brackets, and things like that. And that's one of the reasons that we argue, that reparations made sense.
PAT: Uh-huh. That's powerful. Isn't that a powerful point?
GLENN: I so want to ask her about the moon.