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00:01:06.000And the reason we're doing this, like I said, is we're not first responders, we're not doctors, so we can't create, we don't have a pillow factory.
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00:02:40.000The World Health Organization said that there wasn't any human-to-human transmission as of January 14th.
00:02:47.000Morning Joe, they didn't even mention it on the show until January 24th when they had an expert on there who was, by the way, on there to still say, don't panic about the COVID-woo flu.
00:03:08.000The Chinese are already panicking, as they should, because this virus is spreading all through the central parts of China, and it's a new virus.
00:03:17.000It has never been seen before, so its mechanism of spreading is not quite known yet.
00:03:24.000What I would suggest, however, is that Americans take this as a wake-up call for seasonal flu.
00:04:49.000Then they said, OK, it's something in the right.
00:04:51.000So we just don't know how much of this something is.
00:04:52.000And is it worth the toll that is taking on the economy?
00:04:55.000Therefore, they try to make it sound like we're deniers.
00:04:57.000They're using the same techniques right now, I notice, against people who think that this pandemic needs to be handled seriously, but needs to be handled with a balanced approach to both the livelihoods and the lives of Americans.
00:05:10.000Well there are these things going around on Facebook and Twitter where it's like Trump found out about the virus on X date and then this is the number of times he's gone golfing since or something.
00:05:19.000So it's like knowing about the virus is not the same as knowing the extent and before anybody died and obviously his response was, you know, his response could have been good, could have been bad, but the issue is not when he found out about it, it's when he found out about the severity, which depends on what information he's getting.
00:08:18.000And we're going to have, by the way, even Brendan on the show because he has to wear a lot of protective gear because we're worried that he might be infected.
00:08:24.000And we'll have Brodigan, of course, senior news correspondent on later with the morning after, a roundup of all the news from the week and of course traffic updates because we want to keep you abreast here.
00:08:51.000It may seem like it doesn't matter, and we will get to the projected death rates that they talked about last night, but this does matter because right now they have a chyron going on that Florida might be pressured to issue a statewide shutdown, but there was nothing in the news that the FDA approved new drugs and therapeutics to combat coronavirus.
00:10:19.000I want to take my financial advice from that guy.
00:10:24.000CNN, of course, because the approval ratings are going up, and this should be pretty telling, I think, to folks out there, because remember Rachel Maddow came out not long ago and said, we need to stop airing the Trump press briefings, because this is propaganda.
00:10:38.000And then I think it was HuffPo, these other websites, said, we need to stop doing this because his approval rating was going up.
00:10:43.000Again, sort of like new media, when we're not being harmed by the algorithms, which is why we need to hit the notification bell, we do better than a lot of the shows that are on network television, right?
00:10:53.000Donald Trump, when he doesn't have to go through the intermediaries, when he doesn't have to go through these gatekeepers, there you go, yeah, you can hit the notification bell, hit all notifications, if you're subscribed, of course, iTunes, Android, all of that, Crowderbit, subscribe, we're putting up more content there than ever.
00:11:05.000He doesn't have to go through them, in other words, he doesn't have to go through Maddow, People hear what he has to say directly, his approval ratings go up.
00:11:46.000And then it also has— You just throw all the masks in there.
00:11:48.000Well, it has an antimicrobial cycle, too, and I'm not entirely sure that I understand the difference, but I do wonder if people mocked Donald Trump mercilessly for saying, hey, we should be able to sanitize these masks.
00:11:57.000Like, is it outside of the realm of possibility if Whirlpool figured it out?
00:13:04.000I have a problem with trying to claim that you are unbiased and lying to people about it.
00:13:09.000So last night, CNN refused to air President Trump's press conference, which is interesting because then they tried to pull some information from the press conference That they now think obviously makes the situation look very dire.
00:13:21.000So they want to tell people that everything is terrible, but they don't want to tell you that, hey, you know what, private industry stepped up and we're going to have an abundance of masks and tests very quickly, despite the FDA and CDC.
00:13:30.000So, as a matter of fact, CNN, they didn't air... Here's what's most telling.
00:13:34.000They didn't air the briefer last night.
00:13:37.000Instead, they decided that their news time would be best suited to covering this.
00:13:44.000I don't know why you take your shot at that.
00:13:45.000I mean, you know, just because you don't cook.
00:13:47.000I mean, mom shares her secrets about how to make sauce.
00:15:06.000The point is, at this time, doctors, members of the CDC, our commander-in-chief, were providing valuable information to the American public, but they are so dead set on making sure that Donald Trump can't speak to you directly, that they decided to air Two old men bickering about their mom.
00:16:33.000We'll be live chatting with you folks over there on the Blaze.
00:16:35.000Dr. Birx, right, the US officials initially responded to the coronavirus the way they did because they thought it was going to be more like, they said, more like a SARS type epidemic, not a global pandemic.
00:16:47.000Which, by the way, anyone know where SARS came from?
00:17:15.000I want to make sure that people understand we're not trying to downplay the pandemic.
00:17:19.000I want you to remember that the media who's blaming President Trump for it, for some reason, just like Hurricane Katrina, was George W. Bush's fault.
00:18:05.000Just put it on a hill so we don't have to blame it on the next president.
00:18:11.000So again this is right now Dr. Birx talking about how they were missing a significant amount of data and they believe this is going to be more SARS-like.
00:18:18.000Could we have known something different?
00:18:22.000You know, I think all of us, I mean, I was overseas when this happened in Africa, and I think when you looked at the China data originally, and you said, oh, well, there's 80 million people, or 20 million people in Wuhan, and 80 million people in Hubei, and they come up with a number of 50,000, you start thinking of this more like SARS than you do this kind of global pandemic.
00:18:48.000It's my beverage of choice when I talk.
00:18:54.000There's a finite amount of resources with government and this is something that the
00:20:15.000All kinds of software that have improved everybody's lives.
00:20:18.000You can go and bake more pies in a free enterprise system.
00:20:22.000By contrast, the government cannot bake more pies.
00:20:27.000There is a finite amount of money because you sooner or later, and sooner rather than later, run out of revenue that you can generate by taxing people.
00:20:36.000And that's something called the Laffer Curve.
00:20:37.000A lot of people think we can just tax the wealthy at 100%.
00:20:57.000They see private industry as a piece of the pie.
00:20:59.000That's why Bernie Sanders or Cortez need to redistribute it.
00:21:03.000And then they look at government and see it as an infinite sum, that we should be paying people indefinitely, providing free health care, free internet, free Take your pick!
00:21:13.000In Germany, internet was declared a fundamental human right, which is dangerous because that means that the government can take away a right once they declare it to be a right under their purview.
00:21:23.000So, this is... well, at least in those countries, they don't have a constitution.
00:21:26.000So the right understands private enterprise, you can bake more pies.
00:21:30.000Government, very limited in what they can generate.
00:21:33.000The left sees private industry as evil villains who need to have their wealth redistributed.
00:21:38.000And the government, this all-knowing, altruistic entity that can generate profit from scratch, they couldn't be more incorrect.
00:21:47.000And that's how you are looking at two sides Viewing this pandemic.
00:21:50.000So how you view the world matters before you look at it on an individual issue-by-issue basis.
00:21:57.000You need to determine how you understand the free market and the government's capability to extend these bailouts indefinitely.
00:22:05.000And the longer the government props up these older industries, the slower that growth will be.
00:23:57.000This is why I wanted to bring that up, so you understand there are finite resources with the government, that they cannot necessarily bake more pies.
00:24:03.000January 29th, what was Donald Trump doing?
00:24:07.000He was forming the Coronavirus Task Force, January 29th.
00:24:11.000What were the Democrats doing around that time?
00:24:13.000Schiff was delivering on February 3rd, closing impeachment arguments.
00:24:19.000When we now talk about how we should have known this was coming, and the government should have been more on alert and done their job, I don't have the ability to bring up every single show and watch it in fast time for you throughout January 29th to February 3rd.
00:24:34.000I'm willing to bet if you remember going to your memory bank, you remember all of the headlines about, Adam Schiff swats down Donald Trump!
00:24:53.000And if you are President of the United States, or if you remember really any of the significant branches of government, You can't be both preparing for a global pandemic that nobody at that point had truly identified as a pandemic and simultaneously dealing with one of the biggest impeachment shams in modern... throughout all of American history.
00:25:14.000There are only so many resources to go around.
00:25:17.000All of your headlines, CNN, were about impeachment and Adam Schiff.
00:25:20.000And now you want to go back and go, why wasn't the American public prepared?
00:25:23.000Because you basically were a glorified... you were a glorified sub-network for C-SPAN.
00:25:57.000In the United States, they said 2.5 million.
00:25:58.000Now they're saying 100 to 200-something thousand.
00:26:01.000Also important to note is we don't really have the most accurate way of accounting for deaths that are solely coronavirus-related.
00:26:08.000This is something people don't fully understand.
00:26:11.000That in any influenza season, about 7-14% of viruses that go around are some form of coronavirus.
00:26:18.000Not this new form of, that's why it's novel coronavirus.
00:26:21.000But if you bring out Clorox or you bring out some industrial cleaner, you'll see that it says it kills coronavirus.
00:26:26.000So coronavirus has been around for a while.
00:26:28.000Even including what we have now, if you were to add them all under global influenza deaths, it wouldn't be significant enough at this point to be a blip.
00:26:37.000And something that's really important in New York City, this is what we're talking about, okay?
00:26:40.000New York City is saying if the country goes the way of New York City, we could have 100,000 to 220,000 deaths.
00:26:44.000And I'm not saying that that cannot happen.
00:26:47.000But I do think we need some context here.
00:27:16.000They also talked about the guy who created this imperial study, Ferguson, said, well, really, if you look at these deaths, two-thirds of them are actually from people who would have died within the next several months to a year anyway.
00:27:26.000Meaning not just pre-existing conditions, but stage 4 lung cancer, emphysema, right?
00:27:31.000Serious respiratory illnesses and this accelerated it.
00:27:34.000Not saying that we shouldn't help them, unlike Italy who says you're on your own.
00:27:38.000That being said, that does change how we deal with this as a society when you understand that only 1% in Italy were younger than the age of 70 and healthy.
00:27:49.000And in New York, 2% were young and healthy.
00:27:53.000The death rate is very, very different, and we are still treating everybody out there as though they are part of this 98% demographic of people over the age of 79 with serious pre-existing conditions.
00:28:05.000So even if you look at that 100,000 number, you're looking at possibly 90,000 to 98,000 people who were going to pass away within the next couple of months to a year anyway, and it was accelerated by coronavirus.
00:28:18.000What's important about that is I'm not saying this is insignificant, but those same people who were going to die anyway, who maybe have cancer, who maybe have emphysema, would also die if they got some sort of serious pneumonia or flu.
00:29:49.000And you tell me that the media has your best interests at heart, and this isn't just about—doesn't mean that the information is not accurate, okay?
00:29:58.000Yeah, okay, we had—I want to make sure I have the numbers right—790 deaths at the time of when we were doing this fact-checking in the morning.
00:30:04.000790 deaths in the city of New York City.
00:30:18.000So when you choose to only pick a fact that is a total number without context, and you choose to not broadcast the fact that we have new therapeutics, that we have more masks, that we've made advancements with antibodies, that tells me that you are not looking to provide just the facts.
00:30:38.000Yeah, it's an illustration of what we've talked about for a long time.
00:30:42.000News media doesn't necessarily care about reporting the facts.
00:30:44.000It cares about rustling up this narrative to make sure that they can use it for their own political well-being or their own ideological concerns.
00:31:57.000You could not pick a mugger, a pickpocketer, I don't know what they call them in South Korea, out of a police lineup because they're all the same height, same hair, same eye color, and then a mask!
00:32:04.000Really, the only way I can tell the difference is by the lip!
00:32:55.000How to make an at-home mask that might, at the very least, be passable, provide some benefit.
00:33:00.000And the study came back saying that actually, a t-shirt multi-blend, like poly-cotton blend, I guess, helps, was more effective than a plain cotton t-shirt.
00:33:11.000Or an antimicrobial pillow were about 70-something percent effective at filtration, and almost entirely effective at blocking droplets.
00:33:19.000So learning how to do the ninja-type t-shirt.
00:33:24.000Look, these were the guidelines that conducted these studies!
00:33:27.000And now they say, no, no, no, don't wear a mask, because at the time, it wasn't about whether they work, it was about shortages for healthcare workers.
00:33:33.000And by the way, if masks don't work at all, why do healthcare workers need them so much?
00:33:38.000I understand they need them more, and we should get them the masks first, because they're dealing in close proximity with people who have The coronavirus.
00:33:49.000Yeah, but they don't think that you can handle that information, so they have to lie to you and say that they don't work.
00:33:54.000Yeah, they don't think that you can actually discern that, okay, well, I shouldn't buy it, but maybe somebody else should.
00:33:58.000I think every single citizen of the United States who's walking out there should look like they've just left Arkham Asylum or are Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.
00:35:17.000Mr. Finnegan, what do we have this morning?
00:35:19.000What should people look out for on their morning commute?
00:35:22.000Well, this morning there's some light congestion in the kitchen as you make your approach to the coffee pot, so be on the lookout for that.
00:36:32.000So I don't want to speak out of turn here and I think that I can I would hedge my words and safely say that releasing rapists during a pandemic seems like a bad idea.
00:36:59.000And this comes again from the ism if you believe that it's a prison industrial complex and that prison should only be about rehabilitation and not punishment.
00:37:08.000I think that prison should be as uncomfortable as legally possible and hopefully we can rehabilitate all of these people.
00:37:17.000I don't want it to be like Sweden where you commit some kind of a serious violent crime and you effectively get put in an IKEA display case.
00:37:25.000I don't want you going to prison where you have more than most people in Manhattan in their junior suite apartment.
00:37:30.000I think we need a balance punishing people as a deterrent and rehabilitating people.
00:37:34.000But then again, that's my worldview as a conservative, so it does dictate that releasing serial rapists into the small town of Rochester, New York sounds like it could come with some complications.
00:38:29.000In other words, if you have a negative story amidst a pandemic and you have a success story, like private industry stepping up and creating masks, or now that we have the ability to create testing kits.
00:38:47.000And they don't have to stick an iron rod in the back of your skull like it's some sort of a lesson being learned from Kevin Spacey in Seven!
00:39:00.000If we have to pick between that and, well, you know what?
00:39:05.000More people in New York aren't having access to ventilators.
00:39:08.000Listen, that's terrible, but we should also really make sure that we highlight the hopes.
00:39:12.000Yeah, when it goes back to the left calling all of that false hope.
00:39:16.000So if Trump is not saying 100% negative things, if he's including things like, hey, there's actually some promise here in the private industry, then that is false hope.
00:39:38.000False hope is not Americans will come together and fight this enemy and show our strength and resolve and industries have stepped up without the need of the Defense Production Act.
00:39:50.000Without that, they've stepped up and they're making hundreds of thousands of masks and making the capabilities to sanitize hundreds of thousands more.
00:40:12.000If there's ever anything that should make you borderline climax in your government chair amidst a hearing, it should be masks that can now be sanitized and recycled 20 times that were single-use!
00:40:26.000It's a lot more complicated to make than a straw!
00:40:29.000Yeah, so the message is clear, you're not allowed to be happy.
00:40:33.000You are not, not only allowed to be happy, you're not allowed to broadcast.
00:40:37.000We want to, this is really what it comes down to.
00:40:39.000They want to shut down the briefings because the briefing, the briefings include, keep in mind, the death figures that you're hearing about now, that came from President Trump's briefing, folks.
00:42:57.000I really hope that he doesn't hang around with his brother, because that would be a pre-existing condition.
00:43:03.000That would put him at risk, because I would imagine the coronavirus can enter through the nipple way.
00:43:08.000There's a lot of capillary circulation there.
00:43:11.000The next thing that I want to get to here is I want to talk about the stimulus bill, because I think this matters.
00:43:16.000I think a lot of people skimmed over it, and this is the biggest spending bill in American history, bar none.
00:43:22.000So I think it deserves a little bit of attention, and there are some pros, there are some cons, and I think that the media has been pretty irresponsible in not covering all of the above.
00:44:07.000I think it's small businesses that are going to have forgivable loans for up to $10 million.
00:44:10.000The qualifications, we don't exactly understand what they are right now.
00:44:15.000Let me know if you're chatting right there, if you're a small business owner, how you've been affected economically from this.
00:44:19.000All we can really do for you guys is try to offer this as close to cost as possible.
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00:44:28.000But I think that this stimulus bill, unfortunately, And I know I might lose some of the Trump cultists here, I think I've been pretty fair, is not targeted enough.
00:44:39.000I know that you're more of a libertarian and so am I, Wade.
00:44:41.000But I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that it is appropriate for the government to provide some kind of restitution for businesses that they effectively have shut down.
00:44:50.000Yeah, well, so the Fed has basically set itself up as the lender of last resort.
00:45:00.000I don't think the Fed should exist, but this is not the time to, like, the Fed may very well end after this, but it's, yeah, we're basically, this is the solution and the pattern of solutions that have been set up since Wilson.
00:45:12.000Right, but I do think at this point, for example, the owner of the restaurant down the block, when the government steps up and says, nobody go to restaurants, shut down your doors, effectively it's like a mobster coming and knocking tables over, saying no more restaurant.
00:45:25.000I do think that it is far more appropriate and the argument can be made, and I would agree with that argument, that it is the government's job to try and alleviate what ails that business because it was brought on by government.
00:45:37.000Yeah, well the sort of bailout model is the model that we've been using again for a hundred years.
00:45:42.000So, right or wrong, this is the way things have basically patterned themselves?
00:46:34.000And we have a very lengthy pre-screening process to make sure that they're the right candidates who can pay these loans back, because that's how we make money in the interest.
00:48:06.000This happened over the course of a month, and the government stepped in and said, hey, owner of the Dunkin' Donuts franchise over there on Willow Creek Way, you're going to shut down because we need to prevent infection.
00:48:19.000I think the banks, right, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, all of those, this shouldn't have been bailed out.
00:48:24.000I don't think anyone is too big to fail.
00:48:26.000I think that's different from these companies here, who've been shut down within a span of a month, not because of decades of bad policy.
00:48:32.000And those business owners, these small business owners, did not abuse the system to create any ill-gotten gain.
00:49:30.000Like I always tell people, don't call me after 10.30 unless someone is dead.
00:49:34.000Do not show up on the tarmac in an airplane marked Spirit unless you are in a corona hotbed and it's a skate from New York and you have an eye patch.
00:49:44.000I don't want to see that logo anywhere near me because it's probably a bunch of rapists who've been left out from Rochester.
00:49:50.000Yeah, so the airlines are the 90-year-old who gets coronavirus.
00:51:41.000It cuts out the ones that can't sustain themselves, and the buyouts just keep them up until, if you cut them out, you'd have other ones that build up on their own and then can sustain.
00:52:37.000People leave your general direction to have sex with a stranger just so they don't have to look at you when you're driving in a Geo.
00:52:44.000Yeah, well the whole bailout is based on the idea that the government knows what to do with your money better than you do.
00:52:49.000And I know it's a platitude at this point, but the government cannot make these decisions and cannot be as targeted as consumers, as people who actually want the product.
00:52:59.000But the problem is right now we have artificially manipulated the market and supply and demand because we told consumers that they cannot consume, and I don't think that that's very prudent.
00:53:08.000And I don't know what kind of ramifications this will have long-term for businesses.
00:53:12.000Speaking of which, ramifications, I think actually we need to bring in one of our workers here.
00:54:39.000Because you were not at any risk of coronavirus.
00:54:41.000Our agreement, the reason we're able to serve you for Mug Club Quarantine Month, that's the hashtag, is we all agreed we will only quarantine at home and in the office.
00:54:50.000And since it's broken apart, we never have more than eight people in any room at any given time.
00:55:48.000And then they did move it though, right?
00:55:50.000Yeah, no, I texted them, I'm like, hey, maybe you should reconsider.
00:55:54.000And they're like, yeah, now that we see that your work is kind of concerned about it and people are locking down everything, maybe it's a good time to postpone it.
00:56:29.000I understand why they would want to come down here, but I also don't know that weather is enough of a justification for stopping at every Motel and Valero gas station through the country.
00:57:06.000Are you sure that there's only a Chick-fil-A one hour from you?
00:57:08.000Like, have you Google Maps'd it recently?
00:57:10.000No, but, I mean, it was just, whenever we went to Milwaukee, that was like... Okay, so you would go to Milwaukee for Chick- So you would go to Milwaukee, wonderful city, by the way, a lot going on.
00:57:56.000And then my wife said, well, the issue is, you know, um, my, my mother, who's our wardrobe stylist, she is, she's, she doesn't have coronavirus, but she does have pneumonia right now.
00:58:04.000So that is something which she hasn't been here.
01:00:44.000Um, what would you like to say to your parents in closing?
01:00:46.000Because you were concerned that they would feel... We're not mocking the parents, but I'm kind of sad because I would have liked to meet your parents.
01:02:05.000Then I read at the bottom of that article, it says, I guess Everclear could work, but if you want to waste some money, just buy hand sanitizer.
01:02:42.000I really do appreciate it, but... I was just gonna say, well, speaking of favorites, Ann Arbor Alex asks, what type of roast are you drinking?
01:02:51.000Oh, so this, actually we just did some coffee commercials, so this I believe is, it's either this, the Vintage Roast, that is my favorite overall roast.
01:03:01.000Here's what I will say about Black Rifle Coffee.
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01:03:06.000They're actually doing, maybe we can bring this up, Gib, and they sent out an email.
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01:03:25.000Black Rifle Coffee, they are donating more than 12,000 bags of coffee along with Black Rifle Coffee canned coffee and other coffee-related products to first responders and service members.
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01:05:22.000The woman claimed that Biden cor... Here's the thing, this is important to note because when the media went nuts over Donald Trump, and we'll get to the comparison of Brett Kavanaugh by the way, when the media went nuts over Donald Trump, what he was saying was, when you're famous, women will let, they want anything from you, they'll let you do anything, you can grab them by the...
01:05:43.000Not a horrible thing to say, but he was trying to create a scenario saying you can get away with anything.
01:05:48.000You're saying it is a horrible thing to say.
01:05:51.000I am saying it's a horrible thing to say, but he's saying they let you, which honestly, I'm amazed that he couched that horrible phrase with consent.
01:06:00.000Like, I'm amazed he had the forethought.
01:06:48.000So my point here is, and she's watching, hi mom-in-law.
01:06:55.000The man claimed that Biden cornered her and penetrated her without consent in 1993.
01:07:03.000Now of course this is, I think that you shouldn't just believe everyone.
01:07:08.000All the time, I do think that due process needs, just like we've said with Kavanaugh, fortunately there was due process when we found out that it was all, it was, lie a whore, lie a whore, and you know it!
01:07:19.000From a jury of the peers, even though there was no jury, nor peers.
01:07:24.000It was just a soundboard with Robert De Niro.
01:07:25.000But the left has not been playing by their rules.
01:07:29.000So let's compare right now the stuff happening with Biden.
01:07:31.000And again, I don't know whether it's credible or not, but considering that he's running for president and how he had, again, that grab him by the I didn't ask him to grab me by the P word in a hypothetical scenario to which he obliged, which really would be the Donald Trump scenario.
01:07:42.000hundred thousand deaths they should at least give some airtime to someone who says, well
01:07:48.000I didn't ask him to grab me by the P word in a hypothetical scenario to which he obliged,
01:07:54.000which really would be the Donald Trump scenario, it's this man, he raped me.
01:08:00.000Let's compare that to Brett Kavanaugh, where, by the way, we know that none of these things could be corroborated, right?
01:08:04.000We know that half of the people who came forward with stories, particularly the gang-rape stories, recanted them, saying, ah, I just wanted to get on TV.
01:08:10.000And Christine Blasey Ford then raised several million dollars on a GoFundMe, and she was presenting different stories to the psychologists and to the authorities that didn't match up with people who weren't there, who were not witnesses from places that don't even exist.
01:09:38.000So Washington Post gets to dictate This is another thing people don't understand.
01:09:43.000The algorithm on YouTube and Twitter, by the way, the algorithms that determined, I think it was Laura Ingraham's tweet regarding the Chinese coronavirus, the masks not working, removed.
01:09:54.000There were videos that were suppressed touting chloroquine on YouTube and on Twitter because they were saying it's fake news.
01:10:00.000Now, do those people get that back, by the way, now that it's been approved by the FDA?
01:10:04.000Now that they've actually had to recall these masks?
01:10:06.000So keep in mind, these algorithms that remove those tweets, that suppress those videos, that when you put up a video talking about, as we did, we did this, you can go back and watch it, we talked about the combination of chloroquine last week, I believe.
01:10:17.000Last week, and a link on that video was, did you want to be redirected to this, it wasn't even Wikipedia, it was some kind of COVID reference page.
01:10:25.000And we could see that this video was not showing up as browse or suggested.
01:10:29.000That could have helped a lot of people.
01:10:30.000But the point is that algorithm that directed people away from us, talking about chloroquine, which is now FDA approved, determining it to be fake news, all of these algorithms are created by someone at some point.
01:10:42.000Who helps determine that us talking about chloroquine, which again, cannot stress enough, FDA approved, now for emergency treatment, who is determining that algorithm to redirect away from our content?
01:10:53.000Washington Post, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Snopes.
01:10:56.000This is the place that has a hundred plus references to Ford and zero to Reed, and they're the ones inputting all of the equations.
01:11:05.000I don't know, I assume it's like goodwill hunting where there's equations on the walls and shit.
01:11:10.000Inputting the algorithm that will exist forevermore that never seems to be recalibrated and corrected in the right way.
01:11:19.000I'm not saying that we should go out and give Reid the Ford treatment, because conservatives are consistent.
01:11:24.000I think there needs to be some kind of proof.
01:11:26.000I think that when you compare the track record, this is speculation, of Christine Blasey Ford, or you compare the track record of Brett Kavanaugh, where they couldn't find anything, to Vice President Joe Biden, who routinely sniffs small tweens on camera, The American public is more likely to believe the latter, and that's the thing.
01:11:48.000They had to do so much legwork for Brett Kavanaugh, and Ford turned up nothing, right?
01:11:54.000It just goes to show it's all about power.
01:12:13.000There has been no mention of the masks, the sanitizing masks, no mention of the approved new therapeutics, no mention of the progress or headway that we're making.
01:12:23.000Why do you need an hour and a half to talk about how some hospitals are overburdened?
01:12:30.000You can't give a chyron to, we stepped up testing faster than in the history of ever?
01:12:36.000Yeah, but Steven, that would be helpful.
01:12:46.000What do you think would rightfully go in the history books if you read a chapter?
01:12:52.000That some hospitals were overburdened?
01:12:54.000That might get a paragraph, a paragraph and a half.
01:12:56.000But kids learning history will probably learn that the private sector stepped up, retooled, and created more supplies than ever in the history of the American workforce and created new medical innovations that had never before been seen across the globe.
01:13:14.000That's what the history book will read.
01:13:16.000So, right now, in a monumentous moment in history, I think all of us would agree, CNN isn't even tracking with what will be in the syllabus for fifth graders.
01:13:26.000Okay, and going back to this, this is my point.
01:13:28.000Christine Blasey Ford, they had to go up there and make up stories, right, with Ford.
01:14:16.000They wouldn't have to make anything up with Joe Biden.
01:14:19.000They wouldn't have that uphill battle.
01:14:21.000Before they finish, before they finish the headline, like they're about to announce it before going to the break.
01:14:27.000And they are going to say, hey, after the break, we will talk with Mrs. Reid, the accuser who says that Joe Biden raped people are going to vote guilty.
01:14:35.000You mean the guy who rubs shoulders and has biker girls giving him lap dances at pizza parlors in front of the camera and sniffs small children?
01:17:08.000What are y'all's advice when it comes to being a conservative libertarian millennial who is in Asheville, North Carolina, known as the San Francisco of the East Coast?
01:17:15.000My name is Michael and I'm a Mud Clubber.
01:17:48.000No, it's not in the sense that I want to foot the bill for stoners who are unproductive, but I do think that right now we need to remove it from the Schedule 1 substance list because of the CBD issues, and there does seem to be some medical promise for CBD.
01:18:01.000And I always thought the state should have the right to legalize it, but I didn't like the idea of it.
01:18:06.000If it were in my state, I would vote to legalize it now, but regulated.
01:18:10.000In other words, people shouldn't be just... Anyway, that's something I've changed my mind on.
01:18:14.000And then something else that I've changed my mind on...
01:18:16.000I used to tell people, hey listen, keep your head down until you are in a position where you can be open about your views because I don't want anyone losing work, particularly in the entertainment industry.
01:18:25.000I've changed my opinion on that because you don't have that luxury now.
01:18:29.000I used to give this advice, maybe going back to 2009, maybe through 2012, we didn't have
01:18:34.000the kind of landscape that we have today where there is nowhere to hide.
01:18:38.000If you have ever made a Facebook post, if you have ever put out a tweet, if you have
01:18:42.000ever released a video, or if you've ever been at a party or gathering or function, ten people
01:18:47.000or less, where politics have come up and you've expressed a center-right opinion, you'll never
01:18:56.000And I see people now trying to distance themselves from it, people who I know, who I know, in my personal life, agree with me.
01:19:03.000And we've spent time together, then go on Twitter trying to say, oh, I've changed my mind, and I know that they haven't.
01:19:08.000And I go, I understand why you're doing this, but these people are not going to like you.
01:19:11.000They're never going to be your friends.
01:19:13.000So, this is where the change my mind comes in, right?
01:19:15.000The idea is, find the people whose minds you can change, and then the people whose minds you cannot change, make an example of them for the people who are watching.
01:19:23.000I would say, do the right thing, right?
01:19:25.000If you're a libertarian millennial in Asheville, I think he said.
01:19:53.000Joe Rogan was called a bad guy because he said that a guy who lived his entire life as a man within the next six months, and without disclosing it to an athletic commission, caved in a woman's orbital, might be a bridge too far as it relates to transgender athletes in sports.
01:20:54.000You're no longer brand friendly on YouTube.
01:20:57.000And so people who might have been edgy at some point, maybe skirted the lines with the FCC and had to pay a fine, but it was a part of the show, they couldn't do this.
01:21:09.000So we are more censored than ever, even though we were anticipating not having any gatekeepers and being able to communicate with people directly.
01:21:17.000And that's why Mug Club is so important, and the sponsors that we have, because we're not monetized here on the main Steven Crowder channel at all.
01:21:26.000And we're sponsored by viewers like you, not a foreign caliphate.
01:21:28.000And that's why, of course, we're trying to serve you as best we can.
01:21:30.000That's why we're taking your live chat, people who are already Mug Club members.
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01:21:41.000So you can see when we air episodes, and we'll be doing some live streams as well, like this is obviously a live stream.
01:21:46.000Jean-Guy will be live streaming video games, I believe, with Denogla.
01:21:50.000And we'll just be doing some live chat shows with you in the evening.
01:21:52.000So go check out that schedule so you can see when you can interact with us live.
01:21:57.000But it is remarkable that we are at a point right now where we are less free than ever to say the things that as entertainers and as reporters and comedians and, you know, take the whole spectrum.
01:22:43.000We are trying to make sure that we keep this a feasible burden for everyone on the team, and we are willing to take the acceptable risk right now of coming in and serving you because I know how lonely it is out there, and this isn't of your doing.
01:22:56.000We know that a lot of you would love to be able to go outside, But you don't want to be shot in the street like, you know, you're a pedophile circa 1842.
01:23:03.000I think that's what they did with pedophiles.
01:23:14.000So I know that many of you are stuck home, quarantined against your will.
01:23:19.000This is the only way we could think to give back was to create more content than ever before and give you as steep of a discount as we can possibly afford while still keeping people here employed because we know there are record layoffs.