In the latest episode of America First, host Nicholas J.J. Fuentes and host Alex Blumberg discuss the new draft proposal from the Senate for the first phase of relief from the coronavirus pandemic. They also discuss the latest numbers on the number of confirmed cases of the virus and how it's affecting the U.S. healthcare system. They also talk about a new report from ProPublica about how Sen. Richard Burr sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and why you should trust what the Chinese government is saying about the situation. And they finish up the show with an update on the latest on the outbreak in the United States and around the world. You won't want to miss this! America First is a show that focuses on everyday Americans and their day-to-day needs and wants to help them get the most out of their day to day lives. Subscribe to America First to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news and discuss what's going on in the world, wherever you get your news and information. Thank you for listening and share it with your friends and family! Tweet us to let us know what you thought of the show! Timestamps: 1:00 - Coronavirus update 2:30 - How many confirmed cases have been confirmed? 3:20 - Who's getting sick? 4:40 - How bad is the outbreak? 5: What is the problem? 6:15 - Is it getting worse? 7:00 8: How many cases? 9: What should we be worried? 11:00 | What are we getting? 13: Is it a pandemic? 14:40 15:15 16:30 17:40 | What can we learn from this epidemic? 19:10 21:30 | Is this pandemic really? 22:20 23:00 // 22:30 // 21:00 / 22:40 // Is this a crisis? 27:30 Is it really a crisis ? 26:50 29:30 Can we trust China better than China better? 32: Is there a cure? 35:40 / 33: Is this really a problem? 35:30 / 35:00 ? 36:40 ? 33:00 +33? 37:40 Can we fix it? 39:30 +40?
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00:00:54.000For a fiscal stimulus during this recession, it really is a recession at this point, is the idea that the government would just simply pay everybody in the country a thousand dollars or the poor, the middle class, something like that.
00:01:51.000Who is eligible to receive the money and everything else?
00:01:55.000And again, we're going to be talking tonight about one draft.
00:01:59.000Like I said, the Republicans in the Senate released their draft proposal and what they have decided is that they want to give out $1,200 per individual, $2,400 for joint filers.
00:02:14.000And the people that will be eligible for the $1,200 or $2,400 are individuals who make less than $75,000 and couples that make less than $150,000.
00:02:19.000That's broadly speaking the plan and there are some other nuances to that.
00:02:34.000People that make... individuals that make between $75,000 and $99,000 will get money, but the money is tapered off the more that you make, and the same is true with couples.
00:02:46.000And then there's also some provisions about poor people.
00:02:49.000If you don't have very much taxable income, I believe you only get $600.
00:02:52.000If you don't have $2,500 in taxable income, then you only get...
00:02:58.000So we'll get into all the particulars of it as well as other details from this second and third phase of the relief package.
00:03:07.000Yesterday we talked about the first phase of the relief stimulus, the relief package that was passed yesterday by the Senate, and that included free coronavirus testing, paid sick leave, a number of other provisions.
00:03:20.000This second and third relief package, second and third phase of the relief package, which will be together, will include the cash payments as well as more than $200 billion in stimulus funding for industries like the airlines and other industries most affected, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to small businesses.
00:03:44.000But we'll get into everything that's in the relief package.
00:04:22.000We're almost at a quarter of a million confirmed cases.
00:04:26.000Italy has now surpassed China in official confirmed deaths from coronavirus which is a pretty big milestone considering that according to the official numbers China has 80,000 cases
00:04:39.000And they have had 80,000 cases for something like a month.
00:04:43.000Italy only has 41,000 cases as of tonight, but they've surpassed China in deaths.
00:04:49.000Again, these are official numbers, so that is only true insofar as you trust what the Chinese government is saying, or trust what the Chinese government is saying as much as you trust what the Italian government is saying, which I don't know why you would trust those numbers, but we'll get into all of that.
00:05:06.000We'll also talk about something which I saw on Twitter today, which was really amazing.
00:05:10.000Have you heard about this Senator Richard Burr at all?
00:05:26.000This was an article in ProPublica today talking about how this guy who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, while all of this was happening back in February, late February, early March, this sender was pulling all of his money out of the stock market.
00:05:46.000Like I said, he's a guy from North Carolina and publicly, while all of this started to get out of control globally and in the United States, he was telling people...
00:05:57.000There's no reason to panic, the United States has everything under control, and so on.
00:06:02.000And then quietly and behind closed doors, he was telling his donors and other people that this is far more aggressive than anybody knows, and he was selling all of his stocks.
00:06:12.000He was selling all of his securities, including stocks that he had in, for example, Wyndham Hotels.
00:06:33.000We'll talk about corona and as I said we're gonna switch it up a little bit tonight because we'll also be talking about Tulsi Gabbard which I have been waiting... I have waited a long time for this moment.
00:06:47.000My brown friend Tulsi Gabbard, very sad to see, oh hey, no refunds for all the Tulsi Gabbard voters.
00:06:58.000Tulsi Gabbard supporters who have hated on me for years, I have waited a long time, or maybe for one year, Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of the race today and endorsed Joe Biden.
00:07:11.000And that wouldn't be really shocking or even newsworthy considering that she has won two delegates, okay, since the primary started.
00:07:23.000Back in February and because she polls at 0% or somewhere around there, okay she's got 3% right, whatever.
00:07:31.000Normally that wouldn't be a big deal that a candidate who is badly losing drops out and then endorses the frontrunner, but here's why it matters.
00:07:39.000Because we know that Tulsi Gabbard was running as the anti-regime change candidate and almost all of her supporters only supported her.
00:07:50.000Because she was the anti-regime change candidate.
00:07:54.000She has a lot of left-wing policies, but we know she's not a hardcore leftist, not like the rest of the party.
00:08:01.000A lot of Republicans like her, a lot of Libertarians even like her, Independents and almost all, as I said, because she is opposed to foreign wars and opposed to
00:08:11.000What's happening in Syria, or formerly what was happening in Syria, the quiet regime change happening with our support for the so-called moderate opposition, opposition to the war in Iraq, opposition to the war in Afghanistan, this warmongering about Iran.
00:08:27.000And so it makes it so funny, what makes it so delicious, that she drops out, as she drops out, all of her supporters backed her all this way because she's supposedly
00:08:39.000The principled anti-regime change candidate and she endorses Joe Biden who we know is basically the opposite and we'll get into Joe Biden's record and why that's incredible but it is a very smug day for me today because I've been saying this for so long.
00:08:54.000I've been telling you not only is Tulsi Gabbard a loser, she's not going to win, she never stood a chance at winning.
00:09:01.000A lot of people thought that she was like this dark horse
00:09:04.000That she was gonna be the one who was gonna surprise the field just maybe like Donald Trump in 2016.
00:09:11.000Mike Cernovich, a lot of these characters.
00:12:09.000So, I will say that it's not that I don't want an anti-regime change candidate, and it's not that I don't want somebody on the stage who's talking about regime change or foreign wars, it's just that
00:12:22.000I never believed that Tulsi Gabbard was a strong candidate as a politician, and I also didn't believe that she was really principled on the issues.
00:12:33.000She's on the Council on Foreign Relations, so how great on the issues can you really be?
00:12:38.000You might tweet things out like, Donald Trump is Saudi Arabia's bitch, but if you're involved in any way with the Council on Foreign Relations, I think we know which way we can count on you to swing, right?
00:12:51.000I'll read this report from the New York Times and this is talking about her statement and what she said today.
00:12:57.000It says, quote, Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who ran a foreign policy focused campaign for the presidential nomination of a party she's sharply criticized, announced on Thursday that she was dropping out of the race.
00:13:15.000Gabbard, who had been one of only three candidates and the only woman remaining in the Democratic primary, said she would throw her support to former Vice President Joe Biden, who has accumulated a nearly insurmountable lead in the delegate count.
00:13:29.000In a video posted to social media on Thursday, Ms.
00:13:34.000Gabbard said she felt she could better serve the country in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in her capacity as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard.
00:13:44.000She said, quote, Our nation is facing an unprecedented global crisis that highlights the inextricable bonds of humanity and how foreign policy and domestic policy are inseparable.
00:13:58.000I'm so cynical about these, you know, political statements at this point.
00:14:15.000The best way I can be of service at this time is to continue to work for the health and well-being of the people of Hawaii and our country in Congress and to stand ready to serve in uniform should the Hawaii National Guard be activated.
00:14:28.000Tulsi Gabbard will be out there in the streets.
00:14:31.000If you live in Hawaii, maybe Tulsi Gabbard will hand you rations.
00:14:37.000You go to the grocery store, local post office, wherever they're gonna do it, right?
00:14:41.000And Tulsi Gabbard, Commander Gabbard, will be out there in her little cap and in her camouflage, her camo, and you know, she'll just be one of the grunts, one of the rank and file handing out water bottles because she is just...
00:14:56.000Can I get a double salute because she is just... It's so, it's like, you know, when these politicians do this kind of stuff, I'm gonna serve in the National Guard.
00:15:22.000I know that he has a good heart and is motivated by his love for our country and the American people.
00:15:27.000I'm confident that he will lead our country guided by the spirit of Aloha, respect and compassion, and thus help heal the divisiveness that has been tearing our country apart.
00:15:40.000You know, again, here's the thing, and here's why we're talking about it.
00:15:44.000She says, although I may not agree with the Vice President on every issue, and that certainly is true,
00:15:51.000They don't agree on every issue, and you don't have to agree on every issue with a politician or with anybody to endorse them or to vote for them, anything like that.
00:16:02.000You know that when you go out and vote in a presidential election, you don't agree with the president, or rather your candidate, your nominee, on every position that they hold or everything that they've ever done.
00:16:14.000And certainly it's the same with politicians.
00:16:15.000A politician that drops out like Kamala Harris, or Cory Booker, or Pete Buttigieg, or Beto O'Rourke.
00:16:23.000They don't agree with Joe Biden on everything, but they endorse him because broadly speaking he represents
00:16:50.000That is what differentiated her from every other candidate, because she really wasn't extremely left-wing.
00:16:55.000She'll go on a show like Tucker Carlson, for example.
00:16:58.000All the other Democrats think Tucker Carlson is a white nationalist.
00:17:02.000Tulsi Gabbard is a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson's show.
00:17:05.000Tulsi Gabbard is sympathetic to conservatives.
00:17:10.000And a lot of right-leaning or right-wing causes.
00:17:13.000And we know that, really, the main thing that you could argue might be left-wing, and maybe that's an anachronistic or outdated mentality, is the anti-war.
00:17:22.000But increasingly, obviously, Republicans are becoming more anti-war.
00:17:26.000But, in any case, that was her single issue.
00:17:39.000Tulsi Gabbard's whole campaign is about opposing war, and Joe Biden does not agree with her on that.
00:17:44.000Joe Biden voted for the Iraq War in 2003.
00:17:48.000Joe Biden was the Vice President under Barack Obama when the United States and NATO deposed Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
00:17:57.000That was a horrible regime change intervention that is still not solved to this day.
00:18:02.000Libya has still not recovered in any meaningful way.
00:18:06.000And moreover, Joe Biden was in favor of removing Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria.
00:18:11.000And again, was Vice President under Barack Obama when we began to fund the moderate Syrian opposition, which is really Al-Qaeda and ISIS and all kinds of other radical Muslim groups.
00:18:24.000And so how can somebody who is really anti-war and anti-regime change drop out, and you could say you can drop out if you're losing, but then turn around and endorse somebody who served in one of the most pro-war administrations in US history, and a senator who is by no stretch meaningfully anti-regime change or opposed to foreign wars?
00:18:45.000And to me, it's obviously a little bit of a personal victory lap because I've been saying this for a year.
00:18:52.000I've been saying not only is she not going to win, and here we are, but I've also been saying that she's not who she says she is.
00:18:59.000You know, this is somebody who's in favor of abortion, and somebody that's in favor of gay marriage, and somebody that's in favor of universal health care, Medicare for All, I believe, and somebody that's fundamentally a leftist.
00:19:13.000The war credentials, or the anti-war credentials rather, she's not even that great on those either considering she works with the Council on Foreign Relations and she never criticizes or talks about Israel.
00:19:24.000Add to this her most recent endorsement and I think you can see that I have been vindicated, clearly vindicated on Tulsi Gabbard.
00:19:34.000Hey, that's why you don't vote for women.
00:19:36.000Not gonna lie, that also plays a factor as well.
00:20:08.000It would be great if we could have two anti-regime change candidates.
00:20:12.000If we could have, you know, Donald Trump, who is opposed to unnecessary regime change, and, you know, if that's Tulsi Gabbard or somebody else who's opposed, then that would be great.
00:20:25.000She's not principled on that issue, and she's not strong on that issue, and politically, I don't think she's anybody that is our friend.
00:20:33.000And that's the problem with a lot of conservatives.
00:20:35.000It's this very, and this is a very weird penchant that conservatives, or maybe more accurately, dissonant right people have, which is to say that they seem to ignore huge overlap with traditional or mainstream conservatives,
00:20:53.000But they get excited about slight overlap with leftists.
00:20:58.000I see this all the time in the dissident right.
00:21:01.000Where Donald Trump, for example, is against illegal immigration.
00:21:05.000He's trying to build a wall, trying to shut down asylum seekers and illegal immigration at the border.
00:21:12.000He's working on legislation that will restrict the amount of legal immigrants, if you look at some of the proposals that have been pushed around.
00:21:20.000You know, the RAISE Act might have been a little bit better but not terrific.
00:21:24.000But at the very least, the President has dramatically reduced illegal immigration into the country and even legal immigration has dramatically gone down since the President got into office.
00:21:35.000You look at the President who opposes China.
00:21:54.000Significant progress is being made on a lot of these issues, and even if progress is not being made or the progress is unsatisfactory, the president, when he talks about these issues, the rhetoric, what's being tried, is directionally going the right way.
00:22:09.000And a lot of disinterested people look at this and they say, well, it's not good enough, it's not perfect, and therefore I hate Trump, and therefore I'm against Trump, and I won't vote for him, he's lost me.
00:22:21.000They'll look at, for example, the Syria strikes.
00:22:24.000Donald Trump did three rounds of missile strikes on Syria over the course of the last three years.
00:22:30.000One in April 2017, one in April 2018, and I think one later on in 2018.
00:22:37.000A total of three series of missile strikes, variously in response to gas attacks, and then I think the third one was something else.
00:22:45.000Anyway, people look at those missile strikes, which in the grand scheme of things are inconsequential, and say, oh, he struck Syria, I'm not voting for him, ignoring the fact that we have withdrawn from Syria.
00:22:57.000We have abandoned the goal of regime change in Syria, which was the object of the last administration.
00:23:03.000The policy of the Obama administration was they sought, and their primary goal was to remove Assad from power.
00:24:29.000And with Tulsi Gabbard, here's somebody who's a total and complete leftist in favor of mass immigration, actually in favor of illegal immigration, in favor of all these socially liberal causes, but because she says she's against regime change, people are in love with her.
00:24:48.000She says something, there's this much overlap on what she says, and people get enthusiastic.
00:24:54.000Donald Trump, we probably agree, and we're maybe 70% of the way there with him, and maybe the implementation is 50%, whatever it is.
00:25:02.000But you've got significant swaths of overlap on agreement on the issues and on policy execution, and people look at little things here and there.
00:25:13.000A missile strike, a symbolic thing, a gesture, Trump will say something, even something like our support for Israel.
00:25:20.000Trump, like every other president, is going to give more than we should to Israel.
00:25:27.000Like any other president wouldn't be exactly the same, you know?
00:25:30.000So I have noticed there's this penchant, and that's why, that's a big part of why I opposed Tulsi Gabbard from the start, is because I don't agree with her on anything, except for maybe the regime change.
00:25:40.000With Donald Trump, we agree on illegal immigration, we agree on the Second Amendment, we agree basically on taxes, we agree on trade, regime change is in there too, and on immigration, on a lot of these things, so...
00:25:54.000I just don't understand why that is, but why people will take Donald Trump and even the mass of conservatives in the country and say, oh, conservatives in America are not all the way there, you know, they're civic nationalists, right?
00:26:08.000They don't see race, these kinds of things.
00:26:11.000But generally, there's a lot of overlap, like I said, on a lot of these issues.
00:26:16.000But people will jump when they hear about, like, Chapo Trap House saying something about immigration, right?
00:26:22.000Or they'll jump about Comptown saying something that's racist.
00:26:27.000And these people are feminists, they're in favor of degeneracy, they're in favor of liberalism, they're in favor of secularism, they're in favor of mass immigration, anti-white, you know, political correctness agenda, but they say something that's off-color, they say... Bernie Sanders said something based about immigration ten years ago.
00:27:38.000As predicted, as I've been saying, the number of confirmed cases in the United States is skyrocketing.
00:27:46.000We went from, as you can see, it's way up there, we went from about 9,000 I think yesterday,
00:27:55.000to now nearly 14,000 24 hours so consistent with what I've said but we've got our whiteboard here for the rest of the numbers as well all the top 16 countries in our total we've got a total of 246,328 confirmed cases of coronavirus nearly a quarter of a million and it's worth noting that I believe we were at 200,000
00:29:48.000If China tracked, you know, 100 cases or zero cases, whatever it's been over the last day, and Italy got 6,000, you could see where the growth is.
00:29:57.000If that doesn't taper off immediately, Italy's gonna surpass China.
00:30:01.000And China's got a population of one and a half million people.
00:30:39.000I think you'll find that they'll probably overtake Germany tomorrow, or if not tomorrow, by next week.
00:30:46.000And we could see that by Monday, you know, the United States could be hovering right behind Italy.
00:30:51.000There is a little bit of a silver lining here, I will say.
00:30:54.000The United States, today, tested 22,000 people for coronavirus.
00:31:01.000Which, if you've been paying attention to the show and if you've been paying attention to the numbers, the numbers that we have been talking about with testing have been that the United States maximum capacity, this is what we talked about last week, the number or the estimate that we saw last week is that the maximum capacity for tests in a given day in the United States was between 15 and 20,000.
00:31:29.000That if all the labs, if we were optimal, the most labs, coronavirus labs, that we could process, or specimen, that we could process on a given day would be 20,000 tests that we could run.
00:31:42.000Because it was manual and it required a lot of technicians and personnel and so on.
00:31:48.000And in just the span of a week, we got our number up from
00:31:52.000Really, we weren't even operating at that level.
00:31:54.000That was an estimate of the maximum number of tests that we could run was 15 to 20,000.
00:31:58.000The number of tests that we had run last week was 8,000 total.
00:32:03.000We had run 8,000 total tests in the whole country between the beginning of the outbreak in the United States in late January and the middle of March.
00:32:26.000We've got two drive-thru testing centers now in Washington State and one in New York.
00:32:31.000And more are popping up around the country.
00:32:34.000And we know that all kinds of companies and labs are donating equipment, and they're donating their laboratories, their personnel, and so on.
00:32:43.000They figured out how to do automatic testing.
00:32:58.000And that's how they diagnosed everybody or confirmed everybody and controlled it.
00:33:02.000Remember, the number one variable in containing and quarantining the virus is the testing.
00:33:09.000Again, because you can't stop the virus if you don't contain the sick people.
00:33:15.000You can't contain the sick people until you know who they are.
00:33:17.000You don't know who they are until you test.
00:33:20.000I've been saying this for the past two weeks, but it's worth repeating here to illustrate the point.
00:33:25.000That the reason South Korea is at 8,500 and Italy is at 41,000 is largely not only but in a big way because South Korea did the testing early and they made it available and widespread and they were able to test everybody and
00:33:41.000They found out everybody that had it and they quarantine those people and those people are not transmitting the virus.
00:33:47.000That's not to say that you don't have asymptomatic people that are still transmitting.
00:33:50.000That's not to say that they got all of them and now they have nobody left to test, right?
00:33:55.000But it is to say that with all that visibility
00:34:20.000And get that number of daily tests up, double it, triple it, whatever.
00:34:25.000I don't know to what extent that's possible, you know, based on the estimates for maximum capacity last week.
00:34:30.000I don't know if you get much higher than that, but if we begin to test lots of people en masse every day, then it's not outside the realm of possibility that we could end up like South Korea.
00:34:41.000Now obviously we're not going to have 8,500 cases because we don't have 60 million people.
00:34:46.000And we were also slow to the draw on containing it.
00:34:49.000But proportionally, we could be at a much smaller rate of infection than a country like Germany or Italy or Iran for that matter or Spain.
00:35:20.000So that you have less people sick on a given day, then that means that hospitals can treat everybody that comes in, right?
00:35:28.000And that's what it means to flatten the curve.
00:35:30.000If the virus rips through the country very quickly, then you'll have millions of people that are sick all at once, and the hospitals can't handle all those people all at one time.
00:35:39.000Well, if millions of people get sick anyway, and it rips through the country, but it does so in a matter of six months, well then on average, the hospitals are only taking in
00:35:49.000A fraction of that on a daily basis, which is more doable than if you had them all at one time.
00:35:54.000And that's what you seek to do with the testing.
00:35:57.000So, 22,000 tests today, that's the number that's not on the board, but 22,000 tests shows that if we're increasing the testing capability, we're increasing the amount of people we can quarantine and treat, stopping the transmission, flattening the curve, and overall this is going to have huge consequences.
00:36:18.000What we've done in the last week and what will be done in the next two to three weeks will determine the severity of this crisis historically for the country, right?
00:36:29.000For the next year but really for like all time.
00:36:31.000To what extent this will harm or change or alter our country
00:36:36.000The actions we take in this month will decide that.
00:36:38.000Because if we act quickly, we test, as I said, if we test everybody, we get that under control, and everybody gets treated, and everybody who needs to get treated gets treated, and so on, then you'll see that a lot of these restrictions on movement and on commerce will begin to be lifted.
00:36:54.000Because if you get everybody that has it, or for the most part get everybody that has it, and the number of new cases begins to drop off, and, right?
00:37:02.000And there's less people and we get numbers like South Korea has, you get the stabilization happening that it tapers off, things will begin to open up, the economy will open up again, and you'll really start to see light at the end of the tunnel.
00:37:15.000So, you know, looking overall at confirmed cases, it's kind of like a grim picture to see the number of global confirmed cases skyrocket, to see it skyrocket in Italy, and we're not out of the woods yet in the United States.
00:37:27.000There's still a lot of variables left and we still have to make it happen over the next couple of weeks but seeing that testing number and seeing this number go up should actually be reassuring in a way.
00:37:39.000If this number wasn't going up dramatically that would mean that people aren't getting tested.
00:37:44.000The rate at which people test positive for the virus in the United States is like one to two percent.
00:37:50.000So that means that for every 100 tests, you're getting 1 to 2 people that are confirmed with the coronavirus.
00:37:57.000So if we're logging an additional 4,000 people in 24 hours, just do the math, right?
00:38:04.000If that's the percentage, if those are how the numbers break down, then it shows you that actually a lot of people are being tested.
00:38:11.000And the number of confirmed cases goes up shows that that's happening.
00:38:14.000I think the percentage of people that are getting confirmed is going up since they started screening people with that Google form and they did the drive-thru centers.
00:38:23.000They're doing a lot of screening now, so I think the number is actually much higher for that.
00:38:29.000But that gives you an idea that the more they're confirming, that means the more they're testing and the more they're testing, the more we're mobilizing and that shows that the administration's really on top of things.
00:38:58.000I put on my telegram today that I'm not going to be eligible and I thought I wasn't but I checked and what may make me eligible is that they're looking at your 2018
00:39:09.000Tax returns not your 2019 tax returns to determine if you're gonna get the benefit But I'll read to you.
00:39:15.000This is the latest from the New York Times about the relief package So yesterday they passed the first phase phase one of the coronavirus fiscal stimulus the coronavirus relief and as I said earlier and as I said yesterday this included free coronavirus testing paid sick leave
00:39:36.000Cutting a lot of red tape for hospitals, things like that.
00:39:39.000And that came with the Defense Production Act and it came with the military hospital ships being deployed on the East and West Coast.
00:39:47.000Today, we are looking at proposals for the second and third relief package, which will probably be passed in combination.
00:39:56.000And that includes, among other things, this cash payment.
00:40:00.000I'm calling it Trump Bucks or Corona Bucks, but it includes a direct cash transfer from the government to most people or lots of people in the United States.
00:40:09.000Conventionally, when they do a bailout or when a recession happens, they're injecting liquidity through the Federal Reserve.
00:40:17.000They're using the Federal Reserve to print more money or to do Treasury purchases and things like that, open market purchases.
00:40:27.000If they do a fiscal stimulus, like in 2008, they will make it targeted based on industry.
00:40:33.000You know, they're bailing out the banks, they're bailing out the auto sector, whatever.
00:40:37.000But this time they had a revolutionary idea to bail out the consumer, to bail out the citizen, the worker.
00:40:44.000And I'll read you this report about all the details about these cash payments.
00:40:49.000It says, quote, Senate Republicans unveiled an economic rescue plan on Thursday that would provide hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to big corporations and small businesses, large corporate tax cuts, and checks of $1,200 for many taxpayers, as well as impose limits on a paid leave program enacted this week to respond to the crisis.
00:41:11.000Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky introduced the proposal after private talks with Republicans in the White House.
00:41:17.000It is likely to face opposition from Democrats who have their own plans and have pushed for more generous paid leave benefits.
00:41:24.000The 247-page bill would provide the $1,200 payments
00:41:47.000For taxpayers who have little or no income tax liability but have at least $2,500 in qualifying income according to a GOP summary of the plan.
00:41:57.000Individuals and couples with children would be eligible for an additional $500 each per each child that they have.
00:42:05.000So this is what the proposal looks like and I'm gonna be really honest with you, it's not good enough.
00:42:12.000The proposal is $1,200 for every individual, but they've got this really low cap, which is $75,000.
00:42:19.000And, you know, that's actually not extremely low, but it is low in light of what was promised and kind of what was sold to us maybe earlier this week.
00:42:28.000Initially, what they said was, well, if you're making a million dollars per year, you're not going to get it.
00:42:34.000But making a million dollars per year is a lot different than making $80,000 a year, right?
00:42:41.000So that was what was initially said is they kind of sold it and they kind of made it out like this would be a universal check.
00:42:48.000That only in extreme cases people making a million dollars in income you know you may have a million dollars making a million dollars in income is quite different.
00:42:58.000So you go from making a million or a billion dollars doesn't get the check too well if you made more than a hundred thousand dollars or make more than seventy five thousand dollars.
00:43:05.000You get a smaller check and after a hundred you get no check
00:43:10.000So it's $1,200 if you make less than $75,000, and as you get between $75,000 and $99,000, the more money you make, the less money you get from the government.
00:43:20.000Additionally, then there's these restrictions on the poor, where it's only a $600 check if you have no income tax liability.
00:43:28.000So in a way, it's almost like an income tax credit, which is very different from what we were promised.
00:43:34.000The way that they've proposed this is they're making it out like a tax rebate or an income tax credit because it's based on these these income tax caps and or rather these income caps and it's based on tax liability for the poor.
00:43:49.000So really this is not at all what they proposed last week.
00:43:53.000What they proposed last week is checks.
00:43:55.000We will send checks free and clear to everybody.
00:44:56.000This is exactly like what happened in 2008.
00:44:59.000In 2008, you had something very similar where checks were sent out, but it was under very similar circumstances with the threshold and based on your tax liability.
00:45:15.000They said yesterday that something like $500 billion would be allocated for the cash payments.
00:45:22.000$250 billion for the first check, $250 billion for the second check.
00:45:27.000And they said that, well, we'll send out $1,200 in three weeks, and then if it's still bad three weeks from then, then we'll send out another check.
00:45:37.000The other part of the bill, which I'll read to you from the hill, it says the GOP plan, or I'm sorry, from Politico, also outlines provisions to give small businesses $300 billion in federally guaranteed loans, moves back the income tax filing deadline from April 15th to July 15th, provides numerous tax cuts for corporations, and authorizes more than $200 billion in financial support for hard-hit industries such as airlines.
00:46:05.000McConnell's plan would provide $208 billion in loans and loan guarantees to distressed sectors of the economy, including $50 billion for commercial airlines and $8 billion for air cargo carriers and $150 billion for other eligible businesses, but those loans would have to be paid back.
00:46:49.000That's, you know, not eligible to pull out their 401k funds.
00:46:53.000But in a lot of cases, what is being passed in this relief bill is going to help corporations and small businesses way more than it's going to help workers.
00:47:04.000The workers, if they're lucky, are going to get a grand.
00:47:08.000Which, if you're on lockdown for four weeks, how far is a grand going to go, right?
00:48:03.000This was the Republican proposal, and it could go up past $2,000, because the Democrats, I think, want to make it more generous, and maybe there'll be a battle between Republicans and Democrats about who can pledge more to the American people.
00:48:17.000And maybe the thresholds will change and so on, but I see this proposal and I'm thinking, this better just be a rough draft, this better just be them lowballing us here, because this is unacceptable.
00:48:29.000The whole economy grinds to a standstill.
00:48:34.000People are out here, and even if they're not sick, they're gonna need funds if they get laid off.
00:48:39.000You can see that unemployment claims are shooting through the roof.
00:48:43.000They have to pay now for their kids who are home.
00:48:45.000You know, if that's daycare, if they still have to work.
00:48:48.000Or, you know, there's other expenses associated with that.
00:48:51.000Maybe they're not getting paid for their work even if they're laid off.
00:48:54.000Or rather, even if they're not laid off, they might not be getting paid as much or at all.
00:48:59.000They might have to be spending more money now to stock up on food if they're on lockdown, you know, to pay all at once up front for a four week supply of all your essentials.
00:49:10.000You're living to paycheck to paycheck.
00:49:47.000Or, you know, something like three quarters of that.
00:49:50.000And the tax revenue was maybe half that as well.
00:49:52.000I think we're up to four trillion dollars now.
00:49:54.000Maybe it was like three, two and a half trillion dollars back then.
00:49:56.000I don't have the figures in front of me, but proportionally, the amount of stimulus we can inject in the economy, if this is going to be as bad or worse than 2008, should be commensurate to that.
00:50:06.000And it should be focused and directed at consumers and workers, is my opinion on the matter.
00:50:12.000I look at this and I say, you know, just not good enough.
00:50:37.000But it's only the draft proposal, so maybe by the end of the week, which is tomorrow, so maybe by next week we'll see something more appropriate.
00:50:48.000Essential workers should go on strike.
00:50:50.000Truck drivers, grocery store workers, that workers should basically just go on strike at this point and demand more, because it would be doable, and they would grind the country to a halt.
00:51:01.000And maybe that would cause a lot of problems, so I don't, you know, maybe that's not a great idea, but it is an idea, because we see time and again that people that get bailed out, as I said, are at the top, and all the people that are even still going to work in this crisis, or having to figure out how to make ends meet, we're the ones that pay the price.
00:52:07.000How is it fair that the people that are working, the people that are not producing, get free money, and the people that are working have to pay money?
00:52:15.000Which is what I talked about yesterday.
00:52:16.000I'm not gonna reiterate that whole rant, but... Unbelievable.
00:52:34.000And that's not to say that you're poor if you have $100,000, but you can see there are a lot of people, maybe not individuals that make $100,000, but couples, families that make more than $150,000.
00:54:18.000You know, so I really dislike this means-tested approach that we're always taking where, you know, some people are getting handouts and some people aren't.
00:54:27.000It just doesn't, that just doesn't jive.
00:54:46.000But anyway that's that's the Trump that's the Trump bucks which is disappointing and that is the relief package which they'll be passing that pretty soon package rather phase two and three of the relief package is coming soon.
00:55:03.000We're gonna move on and talk about just this last thing which I just saw and this really epitomizes it.
00:55:09.000This story with Senator Richard Burr and I'll read this to you.
00:55:14.000I talked about this at the top of the show.
00:55:16.000There is a senator named Richard Burr from North Carolina who before the crisis really hit the fan, before the shit hit the fan, he sold all his stocks.
00:55:26.000Now he didn't go out and tell everybody to sell their stocks.
00:55:29.000He didn't tell his constituents to sell their, you know, their holdings in their retirement.
00:55:33.000He didn't tell them to sell, you know, whatever they might hold on the side.
00:55:36.000He just sold what he had and he told everybody else not to panic.
00:55:40.000But I'll read you this article to give you the gist.
00:55:44.000Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million.
00:56:02.000of his holdings on February 13th in 33 separate transactions.
00:56:07.000As the head of the Intelligence Committee, Burr, who is a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government's most highly classified information about threats to America's security.
00:56:18.000His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time.
00:56:22.000A week after Burr's sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30 percent since.
00:56:30.000A week after he sold all his stocks, stock market drops 30%.
00:56:36.000On Thursday, Burr came under fire after NPR obtained a secret recording from February 27th in which the lawmaker gave a VIP group at an exclusive social club a much more dire preview of the economic impact of the coronavirus than what he had told the public.
00:56:52.000According to the NPR report, Burr told attendees of the luncheon held at the Capitol Hill Club, quote,
00:57:10.000He warned that companies might have to curtail their employees' travel, that schools could close, and that the military might be mobilized to compensate for overwhelmed hospitals.
00:57:19.000The luncheon was organized by the Tar Heels Circle, a club for businesses and organizations in North Carolina that are charged up to $10,000 for membership and are promised, quote, interaction with top leaders and staff from Congress, the administration, and the private sector.
00:57:36.000You pay $10,000 for access to the Senate Intelligence Committee Chair so that he will tell you when to sell your stocks before the stock market plunges 30%.
00:57:47.000Seems like you're getting your money's worth, but a lot of people don't have the connections or $10,000 in disposable income to spend on stock tips like that.
00:57:56.000It says Burr's public comments have been considerably less dire in a February 7th op-ed that he co-authored with another senator.
00:58:03.000He assured the public that, quote, the United States today is better prepared than ever to face emerging public health threats like the coronavirus.
00:58:11.000No matter the outbreak or threat, Congress and the federal government have been vigilant in identifying gaps in its readiness efforts and improving its response capabilities.
00:58:21.000His biggest sales included companies that are among the most vulnerable to an economic slowdown.
00:58:26.000He dumped up to $150,000 worth of shares of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
01:00:27.000The only reason he knew to sell was because he was sitting as the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the government told him how bad it was going to be, because the government knew how bad it was going to be before it got that bad.
01:00:39.000And that allowed him to sell, and it also allowed him to tell all of his rich friends, all of the donors who are paying $10,000 a month, or I'm sorry, $10,000 a year, to be a part of his club, that they should do the same.
01:00:52.000And that just gives you an idea of the corruption of this country.
01:00:55.000That gives you an idea of the extent to which you're being screwed.
01:00:58.000If you're told that you're going to get a free check of $1,000, it's a gold rush.
01:01:08.000But let's compare that to all the other bailouts that are being given.
01:01:11.000What is the bailout that's being given to the airline industry, to the cargo plane industry?
01:01:16.000What's the bailout that's being given to corporations with their tax cuts, the payroll tax cuts?
01:01:21.000What's the bailout being given to every single member of the Congress and of the Senate who are getting these insider trading tips and basing their trades based on what they get from the government?
01:01:33.000You know, so you could say that, well, $1,200 is not a lot of money, but then you compare it to what everybody else is doing, the people in the know, the connected people, the rich people, what they're getting, what they knew and when they knew it, and that really gives you an idea of the stark divide between where we're at in the United States.
01:01:51.000Somebody like this should be arrested.
01:01:54.000Somebody like Richard Burr should be arrested and put in jail.
01:01:58.000Because he knew full well the extent of this.
01:02:00.000And he could have told you what was going to happen and he could have spared you your 401k, your Roth IRA, whatever, your retirement plan.
01:02:07.000He could have saved you even if you're just an investor.
01:02:09.000Even if you don't have the retirement but you're just investing money.
01:02:13.000He could have spared you a lot of time, money.
01:02:14.000I guess they all could have in the government if they told you this.
01:02:18.000Or even better, maybe the argument is that people like this just need to know.
01:02:23.000Obviously, some people are going to know about a crisis before others do, and there's an argument to be made that we should try to minimize panic by allowing things to hit the fan and sort of unfold in a natural way.
01:02:36.000The panic's going to happen no matter what.
01:02:37.000The stock market's going to crash if they tell you or you get told a week later, but then people like this need to go down with the ship.
01:02:43.000People like this certainly should not be able, right?
01:02:56.000You know, this would create mass disorder and they want to have a coordinated response and maybe there's a better way to do it.
01:03:02.000But then, if that's the case, if that's the argument, then certainly the people that are in the know should not be invested two million dollars in the stock market and be able to sell a week before everything happens.
01:03:13.000Shouldn't they have some investment with the rest of the country?
01:03:16.000Where's the incentive then to actually take care of the people or the economy if
01:03:20.000You are going to be told all these insights before everything hits the fan.
01:03:29.000Maybe that'll upset you enough to understand what we're talking about.
01:03:32.000It's hard to think about politicians as the blood-sucking animals that they are when you're just talking about it from a very traditional cynicism of power or cynicism about politics or government.
01:03:43.000But then why don't you experience a crisis like this and watch your retirement get liquidated and liquidated in the way that it gets evaporated, right?
01:03:52.000Gets destroyed, the value is wiped out and somebody in the Senate who's representing you liquidated their assets in a very different way.
01:04:03.000So maybe it doesn't jive with you three weeks ago, four weeks ago, and I'm just, you know, it's very generic anti-government stuff or that's the way it comes across, but maybe you'll feel differently when you're struggling, when you might not be able to retire, when you're gonna struggle with medical bills or with whatever the economic fallout of this is, and the person that you vote for that's tasked to represent you is sitting pretty with their two million dollars they cashed in out right before it all went down.
01:08:11.000That kind of machine politics, you know, whatever's left of that, that would have to, it would have to change on an institutional level before that would happen, I think.
01:08:20.000I don't think it's as simple as, oh, the unions are right-wing now, the unions are conservative now, now they're Republican.
01:08:26.000You know, that's not historically how it went.
01:08:29.000Canada says, Nick, RMC confinement is not cozy, can't play Modern Warfare.
01:08:38.000Cool blue square says how would you punish China for all this shit?
01:08:44.000Um, I Don't know that's a tough thing maybe sanctions sanctions or tariffs I'm not sure what kind of tools you could use because I mean obviously we wouldn't like bomb them obviously we wouldn't do anything military but diplomatic and economic measures that seems to be the most likely and
01:09:53.000At this stage in the game, there's not a ton that we could do to hurt them badly that won't backfire and hurt us badly.
01:09:58.000The tariffs hurt them and help us, but, you know, that only goes so far.
01:10:03.000As far as like a proper retaliation goes.
01:10:33.000And they need us a lot more than we need them.
01:10:35.000So, if coronavirus is a lesson in anything, it's that it might be painful, but now would be the time.
01:10:41.000You've got the political will, you've got the political capital, you've got the pretext to break our reliance on China, and that would be a game-changer for them.
01:10:51.000Lauren Pookman says, Hey King, did you see that Senator Richard Burr sold off all his stock in February and downplayed the flu?
01:12:54.000I mean you could go and buy more stuff you just have to make sure that the way that it spreads is through these droplets and it also does live on surfaces so as long as you're washing your hands and not touching your face and you're also avoiding people you should be okay as long as you don't like talk to a person at Walmart as long as you don't get too close to somebody who's coughing or sneezing or you know
01:13:18.000Discharging fluids in some way and as long as when you're touching things You don't immediately touch your your face your eyes nose mouth and you wash your hands afterward And you know you mind it on your clothes and things like that as long as you're just mindful I don't think there's an extremely high risk It's better to just stay home if you have to But it's not the end of the world if you need to go out and buy like groceries You just got to limit your exposure as much as possible.
01:13:44.000Just be very mindful mindfulness is the operative word there
01:13:49.000Melon Buster says, Cruising and listening to America First.
01:14:54.000I'm gonna buy the buying spree with my Trump Bucks.
01:14:59.000Is going to be delightful That's like that is like having two really good shows in terms of super chats free and clear like two or three really good shows and I'm gonna spend that money so good.
01:16:09.000Plug-and-play Star Wars Darth Vader game got I Remember the Star Wars action figures that were red battle droids God got action figures all kinds of things and I think we went out to eat and we got like a treat.
01:16:25.000We got like ice cream or something Anyway, it's gonna be like grandma day all over again.
01:16:28.000It's gonna be like I'm gonna go to the store Because here's the thing.
01:16:50.000And that was largely, almost all my major expenses, was school or it was, because I did some online classes last year, it was either school or it was
01:18:18.000Excuse me, Scorch Titan says Horton named them in the movie Horton Hears a Who?
01:18:25.000Okay, I've never seen that, so I don't know.
01:18:28.000But thank you Wow safety buzz and maxi bro with like a dozen diamonds.
01:18:32.000Thank you guys so much Question for nix is I'm doing go mad right now going number two hurts bad.
01:18:38.000Yeah, I don't think go mad is a good idea I think it's a meme and it's funny like that But the idea of drinking a gallon of milk every day cannot be good for you milk is not good for you honestly, I know a lot of people are like milk pilled or whatever, but I
01:20:14.000OpticsRespector says being endo doesn't mean you have to be a blimp lol yeah factual being an endomorph does not mean being morbidly obese it just means being a little bit thicker you know having a little bit more larger more rotund perhaps but you definitely don't have to be a hot air balloon to be an endomorph OpticsRespector is not a blimp he is not he's not even really fat he's just a big guy just an endo that's what it is so
01:20:43.000One and only Patches says, yo, LA just announced they're going on lockdown, did they?
01:20:56.000New York Post says, Los Angeles County in near lockdown after safer-at-home order due to coronavirus.
01:21:03.000More than 10 million people in SoCal were ordered to stay at home unless absolutely necessary.
01:21:11.000and this comes from the county supervisor blah blah blah so LA and San Francisco are both on lockdown I'm sure it's imminent to New York and probably Chicago as well actually so good to know thanks for the update there let's see
01:21:29.000Safety buzz with whoa, that's like ten ninja genies.
01:21:33.000Thank you so much big guy Holy smokes safety buzz is the real trump bucks here Safety buzz with my trump bucks infusion my trump bucks forward.
01:22:36.000The idea of going to work, but you just get to hang out on your phone is actually...
01:22:41.000I don't know there's definitely an appeal to that because I hate when I was a wagee I hated work so much I can't even tell you how much I despised it and but the idea of just going in and chilling just being on your phone all day on you know Twitter YouTube messing around it's actually almost better because you're making money
01:23:05.000And I mean maybe if you're a car dealer you're probably working on like commission I imagine right probably tied in some way to selling cars So maybe you're not making a ton of money, but at the bare minimum you don't feel guilty I feel like if you waste time normally I feel guilty, but if you're like on the clock It's like these are free hours that I can you know just run out the clock so Not a bad idea
01:23:28.000Question for next is Google jellied eels if you want the real Anglo pill, okay?
01:23:34.000So OpticsRespector says see you in the Walmart FEMA camp big guy Yeah, the next time we see each other we will be will be unloaded Will be unloaded in front of the Walmart FEMA camp.
01:23:47.000We will be getting our haircuts, right?
01:23:50.000We will be walking through a hallway OpticsRespector knows what I'm talking about
01:23:56.000We will walk through a thin hallway, we will enter a small room, and there will be dozens of barbers and hundreds of people getting haircuts, and then the hair will be cleared out to be turned into mattresses, and then it will be brought back in to be murdered, and then they will shovel all of our bodies into the hallway and then outside, and it's just gonna be really... it's gonna be a bad time, man.
01:24:18.000It's gonna be a bad day when the Walmart FEMA camps go up, and if that sounds implausible, then you should be put on an ADL list.
01:24:51.000Unironically, if you need your Trump bucks, keep them.
01:24:54.000I almost, I feel like it's my responsibility as like somebody that takes tips, I mean that's what it is, is like tips, to say, because there is like an asymmetry.
01:25:03.000Some people like, and you know, I'm of the opinion that people have agency and they do what they want, you know.
01:25:10.000If you give money, well that's your prerogative, right?
01:25:12.000But I also do feel a little bit of responsibility, especially because I have a younger audience.
01:25:36.000But I do feel it is my obligation, as somebody who has a younger audience, to tell you.
01:25:42.000And maybe it's not a great idea for me, from a financial point of view, to say this.
01:25:47.000But I do want to tell you, especially in this time, it is prudent to save your money.
01:25:52.000So I joke about, you know, if you get your Trump bucks, send them to me, but if you need the money, and more likely than not you probably do, you should probably just keep it.
01:26:19.000I mean, look, I'm trying to give you a balanced take.
01:26:23.000Support me because, you know, if you like the show and if you get a lot out of it and you have a little money to spare, it helps me continue doing the show, right?
01:26:30.000And it also helps fund the movement and all of that.
01:26:37.000I don't want anybody to feel pressured especially during a time like this I don't want you to get the wrong impression that like I'm gonna go hungry if I don't you know whatever so I just I just in full in the spirit of full disclosure and seriousness on money matters during a serious time I just want to tell you especially for the young people because I see this happen a lot where and it's on various things but people burn through their money on foolish things and then you know they're like well gee I wish I had more money right now so
01:27:05.000So I just I just want to clarify when I say that I am joking.
01:27:08.000I don't want anybody to I don't want I would feel bad if anybody unironically was like, here's my relief check I'll be hungry, but I'd rather give it to you I'll you know, I just wanna I would feel that would be on my conscience if that happens So just want to clarify but that doesn't mean stop sending me super chats It just means uh, you know, just be prudent about these things during a time like this and
01:29:58.000I watched a little bit of Sean and Nick Rikita's debate the other day, and it was just so funny.
01:30:05.000You know, what's hilarious is that I don't know if it's a normie versus non-normie thing or if it's just like a pussy versus jerk thing, but there is definitely a stark contrast between Nick Rikita's entire, like,
01:31:18.000And it's not even like a fighting thing.
01:31:19.000It's not, well not necessarily a physical fighting thing, but it's really just more being confrontational and like being a dick when you need to be.
01:33:06.000Because, you know, fighting is not like it is in movies or in TV shows.
01:33:11.000You know, a lot of people just get hurt or they get in trouble and it's not worth it.
01:33:15.000So you know that's really tough when you catch a charge and you know you're you throw your whole family situation into chaos because you know you're you gotta get bailed out of jail and you get they get you on battery or assault or something or you know conversely if you're on the other end you die because you get hit the wrong way or you get some kind of life-altering injury and that doesn't always happen and you know maybe there should be some fighting but you're always taking a risk anyway
01:33:43.000I'm not trying to say that you have to be some big macho meathead, you know, tough guy that's going around and, you know, getting in fights.
01:33:51.000I don't think that's... I'm not somebody like that that thinks in terms of, you know, macho toughness type stuff.
01:34:00.000We're talking about getting in an argument.
01:34:01.000I'm talking about if you're such a pussy that you can't even, you know, like, fight somebody in a verbal confrontation online, what does that say about you?
01:34:12.000If you can't even draw up the confidence or the aggression to have a little bit of a heated argument with somebody over Google Hangouts or Skype, like, what kind of person are you talking about here?
01:34:25.000And that's not to say that it requires a major amount of toughness or curse or swear anything like that But I mean some of these people they just don't have that they get flustered.
01:34:33.000They get very razzled that they just get yelled at like What's going on?
01:34:38.000So so it's funny whenever I see that and especially when it's someone I don't particularly care for Ronnie says what's your take on combat sports?
01:34:50.000In general, I think combat sports are good for people to learn how to defend themselves and it's a great way to get physically fit.
01:34:58.000I don't think anybody's more fit than people that are, you know, doing boxing or people that are doing martial arts or something like that, wrestling.
01:35:07.000I used to do wrestling and it is, like, intense.
01:35:11.000And it's gonna sound like kind of gay, you know, I don't know so everybody called it gay when I was doing wrestling in like fourth grade because I Mean, you know you go in there and you really have to get close and personal with somebody I know it's for like, you know competition and the sportsmanship of it, but
01:35:28.000But it's like you're really all over and I wasn't comfortable with that because as a kid when I was doing wrestling, I was already autistic.
01:35:37.000I was already, you know, kind of like a shy bashful, uh, you know,
01:35:43.000Awkward young guy and then the idea that it's like, oh, here's a stranger blow the whistle and now you got to grab him Now you got to grab him by the legs and you know, you're doing all these maneuvers and it's it's a lot It's a lot to ask I'm barely okay with like a hug or like a handshake or whatever and then it's like, you know full-on It's like game time but um
01:36:05.000When you're wrestling, when you think about working out, it's about resistance, right?
01:36:09.000I mean, when you're doing a bench press, it's, you know, it's resistance when you're pushing the bar up and that's what it's about.
01:36:17.000And when you're wrestling, it's like almost all, when you're fighting, when you're just like fighting with another person,
01:36:24.000And it's literally just a matter of like pinning them down and I know I know it's gonna sound gay, but that's what it is That's why wrestling is such a good workout or was when I was doing it because and you should have seen all the wrestlers were like jacked there
01:36:39.000and uh... martial arts in general it's a lot that's not just about strength but it's also speed it's stamina it's you know there's a lot of cardio it's jump rope it's sprinting it's jogging it's it's all that and there's weight lifting and you know if you're doing punching and things like that so it builds skills you know that's the other thing with weight lifting you're building muscle but with something like martial arts you're also learning sort of like how to use your body or you you know
01:37:07.000Motion and using bodily movements is almost a skill in itself.
01:37:44.000I want to do boxing but getting punched in the head all the time like that's not really conducive to what I want to be or who I want to be what I do if you're a boxing for a living maybe can afford to lose 10 IQ points or something and get a little messed up in the head but you know if you're talking about combat sports like MMA or boxing I think it can be kind of unsafe so
01:38:07.000I think the training is useful and sparring is good too, but outright fighting I would say is probably dangerous.
01:38:14.000Some people are willing to take that risk.
01:39:30.000Not Romeo says we finally made the ADL list feels good It actually doesn't feel good fearless leader says can Iran be trusted to give us accurate numbers?
01:39:42.000Yeah, that's exactly right, and that's every time.
01:39:54.000Scratch one of these new Americans, one of these hyphenated Americans, and you find somebody with a very loose and flimsy American identity facade.
01:40:05.000You know, scratch a Chinese person about China, and watch how quickly
01:46:34.000Take your Trump bucks and if you don't need them, well maybe give me a little bit, but save maybe 500 bucks for a hotel and flight for the next AFPAC event.
01:47:15.000Thank you for the ninja genie and thanks for the comedy to Greek salads as God refers to Abraham to create the nation of Christ not without him Israel's for us gamers rise yeah, that's what they don't understand is that
01:47:31.000The New Testament, the new covenant that Christ makes, is that the new Israel, the new people of God, are the Christians, the followers of Christ.
01:47:40.000Not the people of biblical Israel, not the tribes of Israel.
01:48:23.000I moved it off because I still have the stand.
01:48:26.000I had that stand before and the mic was on the desk.
01:48:29.000And the problem is when I would slam on the desk, the mic would pick that up and it would... you would hear it.
01:48:37.000It would, you know, make a bad sound on the microphone.
01:48:41.000So with a boom arm that holds the mic suspended in the air and with a shock mount, it absorbs the shock from me banging on the desk and there's a lot less of that
01:48:53.000Noise and also the USB cord doesn't get unplugged as often when I had it on the desk The USB cord was hanging out from the bottom and it was a very like loose micro USB that was liable to fall out But when it's suspended in the air the USB comes in from the top and then I don't have that problem So there's a couple of benefits there Also, I think it's a cleaner look to have it off camera than on camera and
01:49:19.000Florida man says preserve the Aloha or make them speak English.
01:49:41.000I think I might have been lactose intolerant when I was a kid but I grew out of it.
01:49:45.000It used to make me sick when I was a kid but now that I'm older I'm able to eat ice cream or dairy products and it's no issues.
01:49:54.000So it's not that I'm, you know, lactose intolerant, that's the meme, and it's also true that non-white people are lactose intolerant, but I just don't like the taste, and I also, you know, estrogen and all that in there, I don't know, I'm just very skeptical of it.
01:50:56.000What is there really to say at this point?
01:50:58.000I mean, I thought that already happened, you know just to give you an idea I thought they already wrote something like that.
01:51:04.000I mean that they wrote something like that does not really change my mental
01:51:09.000Whatever, you know nothing about that disrupts any of my thought process that doesn't even register us like new information so Kalasaru says no simpery never not even once ha ha ha.
01:51:23.000Yeah, it's so funny Slarch says California announcing lockdown now.
01:51:28.000Yep Save the West says my money's going to the savior of the white race.
01:51:32.000Hey glad to hear it Polish American says nibba.
01:54:56.000And I never was serious enough about it to compete.
01:54:58.000And they didn't really do a lot of the competition stuff at that age.
01:55:01.000But in any case, I would go to the practices.
01:55:06.000and uh... all that and we would have uh... partner you know everybody would partner up and that's you do the warm ups with and they would teach you the moves and you do the moves on each other you know one guy would do the move and then the other guy would do the move and maybe do a little sparring you do a match and you know try and try and do this move this time right and whenever I wrestled this guy was comfortable because I knew him I knew him from school he was familiar right
01:56:56.000I'm gonna sit this one out I don't feel so good.
01:56:57.000You know one time they partnered me up with like the best wrestler in the class and he was like he later became like a high school champion and all this and You know
01:57:11.000I remember, I got partnered up with this guy, because then they would switch it up every so often.
01:57:14.000They'd say, okay, fine, somebody you haven't wrestled with yet.
01:57:19.000They like blew the whistle and you know just like I just got attacked I just got like whipped on the ground just like totally ran up on guy flipped me over and I'm like what the fuck am I doing here I don't like this this is not pleasant I don't I have no when I'm in fourth grade I'm not like okay you know time to pounce time to pounce and you know I just didn't have it in me when I was that age I don't even know if I have it in me now I'm not that kind of person so
01:57:49.000I mean, if I have to, I'll, you know, get in a fight, I'll get in an altercation if it's required, but I'm not the kind of person that's like, oh, hi, nice to meet you.
01:58:33.000That's kind of up close and personal, no thanks.
01:58:37.000So anyway, but bring back it brings back a lot of memories.
01:58:40.000That's why I'm reminiscing a little bit here reminiscing out loud I don't know how much you're enjoying that but I reminisce about these things about my ancient wrestling days so Anyway optics or spectre says boxing is dangerous ask brain sick.
01:58:57.000Yeah, yeah brain sick Brain sick took a beating but you know, he was a champ.
01:59:07.000Especially in that circumstance brain sick the groper boxing match was almost Man that that could have ended badly so
01:59:18.000After AfPak, we had the AfPak Egg Eat, the Raw Egg Eating Contest, where everybody tried to eat as many raw eggs as possible, as quickly as possible.
01:59:28.000And, not too long after that, we had the Unsanctioned Groiper Boxing Match.
01:59:34.000And, uh, we had Brain Sick Blaze going up against, uh, what is his at?
02:00:14.000It was like 2 or 3 a.m., actually, and I was outside and it was like...
02:00:19.00040 degrees and we were just in like we're just hanging out and And you know brain sick just got I mean he just got decimated he's you know Went into the house threw up all over the floor And I don't know if he got a minor concussion or if it was just because he was drunk or maybe was the raw eggs And then the fighting and then the cold.
02:00:38.000I don't know what what it contributed to he ended up being okay, but
02:03:41.000I do, unironically, feel very protective of Jaden.
02:03:46.000Because, and I'll just give you an example, like, we were at AFPAC, obviously, three weeks ago, or two weeks ago, and, you know, it's me, it's Patrick, it's Jake Lloyd, it's Steve, it's Vince, it's all these guys that have kind of been around the block in the movement, and that's not like a flex or anything, but it's just true.
02:04:05.000You know, Patrick has been involved in dissonant politics for years, and
02:04:09.000Vince has been around for years, and Steve has been around for years, and Jake has been at InfoWars, and I've obviously been doing this for three years.
02:04:17.000Jaden has only, I mean, he met me like a year ago, and that was his beginning to the red pill, right?
02:04:24.000And so we're all kind of sitting around, and not like we're hardened, like tough, serious guys.
02:04:28.000We're just kind of hanging around, and you know, we're talking about, we're all debating about what are we going to do for AFPAC, or
02:05:30.000Very youthful energy, a very youthful... And I'm not saying that in a totally negative way, I'm not negging him.
02:05:37.000It's actually a good and endearing trait.
02:05:39.000And it is, in this movement, because a lot of us are so, like, blackpilled.
02:05:43.000And to have somebody that just sort of, like, uh, has a very sunny disposition... It's refreshing, I have to tell you, so... You know, Jaden... I don't know if that's gonna offend him, I don't know if that's a neg.
02:05:56.000I'm not, I, you know, I'm just, I'm just busting his balls a little bit, but...
02:07:22.000and uh you know grappling with you grappling with you on the floor yeah gonna be a pass for me some people though they just that doesn't bother them for some people that doesn't phase them that's just like if you're an athlete i guess that's the mentality
02:07:39.000I just don't have the... I just don't have that.
02:07:43.000Well, I mean, if somebody pissed me off, I could do it.
02:07:46.000If I were called upon to fight somebody, I would be able to fight somebody, but the idea that it's like, hi, nice to meet you, bell goes off, whistle blows, and it's like, I'm gonna grab you now!
02:07:57.000It's like, I don't know if that's really for me, but...
02:08:01.000I'm more of a verbal spar, verbal fighter, brain fighter.
02:08:06.000Big Globes says you went Sean mode on the kill stream with AllSup.
02:08:43.000You know, I thought we were friends or something, and then he goes and he's attacking Patrick, he's attacking Scott, he's attacking me, he's saying we're incels, we're whatever.
02:10:08.000Well, thank you I it is an inspiring story, you know, not not I want to be humble, but Here is somebody who dropped out of college, you know, and in spite of that I've succeeded.
02:10:19.000So So I am inspiring no, but I appreciate that.
02:11:05.000You have to think about income, and you have to think about what is a job where there's going to be upward mobility, where there's going to be security, where I'm going to make enough money to do the things I want to do in my life.
02:11:49.000That's the biggest waste is when you go to a four-year college and it's like $30,000 tuition per year a lot of people it's a lot more and It's aimless and you don't know what you're gonna study.
02:11:58.000You don't know what you're gonna do with your your degree
02:12:03.000But, conversely, if you're in college, and you know what you want to do, and you want to be an accountant, let's say, or you want to be a lawyer, a doctor, and you know, and you're studying hard, and you're getting good grades, and you know the, you know, the lane that you're in, then you're not wasting time.
02:12:18.000And then there are some people that will spend a lot of time just fucking around, you know, and partying, and doing drugs, or
02:12:25.000You know, even if they're just not diligent about their work in their early years, right?
02:12:31.000If you're not diligent and you're not actively seeking out opportunities or looking for ways to advance yourself through a company or in a career, you're wasting time.
02:13:16.000You know, I worked on some campaigns, and I did some volunteering, and I talked to those people, and talked about jobs, and I got referrals, and I applied for jobs, and I said, you know, look, I understand politics, and I'm passionate about it.
02:13:30.000I've got a skill set that, you know, I'm a smart guy, enterprising, quick learner, that kind of thing.
02:14:43.000I got in touch with the Trump campaign.
02:14:45.000I organized several trips up to Manchester, New Hampshire to campaign.
02:14:49.000I made a lot of contacts on that campaign who I still know.
02:14:52.000Made a lot of contacts in Boston through that.
02:14:54.000That's like one example of something that didn't even like work out.
02:14:57.000I obviously didn't become a campaign guy.
02:14:59.000I didn't get in the GOP or the Trump campaign or
02:15:04.000The College Republicans or anything like that.
02:15:06.000But that's one example of something where I took the initiative, I met new people, I networked, I filled up my Rolodex with phone numbers of people in the Trump campaign, in Boston colleges and things like that.
02:15:18.000I was able to get job recommendations from those people or, you know, referrals and people wrote me letters of recommendation, stuff like that, gave me some guidance.
02:15:32.000I was working on her to get me a job at RSBN.
02:15:34.000And even when I was working at RSBN, I wasn't making any money, but I just did it as a hobby because this was something that was giving me exposure and connecting me to people.
02:15:43.000I was building experience, right, in what I was trying to do, which was become a broadcaster then.
02:15:48.000And then after I left school, I was doing the show, got a job at UPS.
02:15:55.000My plan then was to work at UPS, make enough money to fund my way through school at a different school like Auburn.
02:16:01.000Then I dropped out of there, applied for a different job at Leadership Institute which paid $14,000 and I was going to do that for a semester and...
02:16:10.000Point being, you might not follow that all the way through, but the point is, you might look at me and say, oh, Nick became a YouTuber.
02:16:20.000Well, he started a YouTube channel and he made YouTube videos.
02:16:23.000Well, this was only the consequence of
02:16:27.000One track among many that I was pursuing right and that would have never even happened if I wasn't working my network Aggressively and constantly and thoroughly and exploiting opportunities and coming up with ideas and taking the initiative That's what you have to think about and I'm an entrepreneur.
02:16:44.000So it's a little bit different I mean, I guess that's what I classify myself as maybe it's different if you're a career person, but the thought process is similar and
02:16:53.000If you want to succeed and be great like that, that has to be your mentality.
02:17:26.000Most people, if they're not being told to do something, if they're not told what to do, when to do it, where to do it, how to do it, they'll just fuck off and, you know, drink or work on their phones or, you know, whatever.
02:17:37.000You're not going to make money watching YouTube videos telling you how to make a million dollars in real estate.
02:17:43.000Nobody ever became rich because they watched self-help YouTube videos.
02:17:47.000And I know everybody thinks that's what's going to happen.
02:19:07.000This is going to sound cliche, but if you try, even if you don't know what you're doing, or if it fails, or if you look like an idiot, well, you're learning, and as you're trying new things, you're also gathering a lot of things that will be useful for you down the road, which might be contacts, money, useful knowledge, all kinds of things like that.
02:19:27.000But you just, you just can't, but you also got to be wise.
02:19:29.000It's not just simply grinding and trying aimlessly because there are, you know, history is full of people who tried really hard and grinded really hard and they're fucking failures.
02:20:19.000And often you don't know what you don't know.
02:20:21.000So you might ask somebody for help, thinking that you're looking for one thing, and based on the information they give you, you could be in a completely different direction.
02:20:54.000And based on that, you can begin to evaluate some options and pursue different things and just kind of keep a running track in your head of, well, well, this is plan A and this is plan B. And if this works out, then things could go in this direction.
02:21:07.000And if it doesn't, well, I'm working on this thing and right.
02:21:30.000More fascinating than even, like, ideology, you know, this abstract.
02:21:34.000I remember when I was in college, I hated it.
02:21:37.000Because I distinctly remember going to these discussion sections for our English class, and the way that it worked is you'd have, uh, two days a week you'd have lecture, and you'd go into the lecture and, you know, you know what that is.
02:21:50.000And one day a week, you had to spend four hours in a discussion section.
02:21:54.000So you'd get the lecture on, like, a Tuesday,
02:22:20.000And I know it's not everybody, it's not useless objectively, but at least for me, I cannot sit in a room for four hours and, you know, jerk myself off talking about how smart we are, and let's think about the Odyssey, and let's talk about this theory, and let's just consider things all day, and talk about other people that do things, or people that do things in books, and we'll just talk.
02:29:58.000Because I've been to places in Wisconsin and the South and Iowa where it's like a city and there's inside the city but you go a little bit outside and then it's just like and then there's like an edge it's like the city limit and you it's like you fall off the edge of the world and then you're in farms.
02:30:15.000Here's my house and then farms for miles.
02:30:17.000I could not that would make me go insane So I like the idea of the metropolis, you know, even if I don't live in the city I live in the suburb and really you go 10 miles in any direction and it's development.
02:30:29.000It's you know So I prefer that and I would actually prefer the woods to the farm, you know, cuz that's the other problem with, Illinois
02:30:39.000As you go outside Chicago or some of these major areas and it's all flat farms.
02:30:47.000What I would prefer is to be in like Massachusetts or New York where it's the woods and it's a city but it's surrounded by a settlement surrounded by the woods.
02:31:28.000The compound is going to lay its roots pretty soon.
02:31:31.000And once we get it up and running, there's going to be a strict, no girls allowed, leave your girls at the door.
02:31:38.000And we could maybe get dinner afterward or lunch, you know, I'll put up with that, but none of them are going to be allowed in the Sanctum.
02:33:20.000Being an e-boy is not based on simping from the other gender because there is nothing reciprocal happening between men and women when it comes to that.