Louder with Crowder - March 30, 2020


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In this episode, we discuss the latest on the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the implications for the economy, and what we can do to prevent it from killing more people than it already does. We also have a special guest on the show to talk about why we should be worried about it.

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00:00:00.000 I swear to you, my wife and I were watching.
00:00:02.000 We have an L-shaped couch, so we weren't even right next to each other.
00:00:04.000 It's not like there could have been some telepathic communication.
00:00:07.000 We just both went, oh, that's good.
00:00:09.000 Both of us.
00:00:13.000 And we felt very ashamed of ourselves.
00:00:15.000 Certainly.
00:00:16.000 All right, so some of the latest COVID news right now.
00:00:20.000 Fauci, however you pronounce it, I don't really care, predicted up to 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in the United States.
00:00:28.000 And so Trump has changed the guidelines now where we're going to be extending social distancing.
00:00:33.000 Not until Easter, which would be a beautiful time.
00:00:36.000 Wouldn't it be a beautiful timeline?
00:00:38.000 Yeah, I don't know.
00:00:39.000 I think the beautiful time-out or whatever mitigates the disease, but I do understand him wanting to be hopeful and get the economy restarted.
00:00:46.000 He's the guy who likes a narrative.
00:00:47.000 Yeah, he does.
00:00:48.000 I mean, you know.
00:00:49.000 And we had it going until Easter, when he rose and we destroyed the coronavirus.
00:00:55.000 They rolled over the big boulder to the tube, okay, and they said, there's no virus.
00:01:03.000 And the virus said, put your head in my side.
00:01:06.000 And we said, no, not unless you watch the corona.
00:01:09.000 You're not my savior.
00:01:11.000 Corinthians 2.
00:01:12.000 Let's go to a clip actually of Donald Trump for those who have missed it.
00:01:14.000 This is the news this morning.
00:01:16.000 Him changing or extending the guidelines.
00:01:18.000 Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread.
00:01:27.000 On Tuesday, we will be finalizing these plans and providing a summary of our findings, supporting data, and strategy to the American people.
00:01:36.000 Okay, so I want to be clear about something here.
00:01:39.000 Everyone's now saying, okay, we're definitely going to have the number is 100 to 200,000 deaths in the United States.
00:01:44.000 You think that's accurate?
00:01:46.000 I think it's as accurate as they can figure out right now.
00:01:48.000 Right.
00:01:48.000 Probably overblown.
00:01:49.000 I think it's as accurate as they can figure out right now, considering that the original study that they used for the modeling predicted 2.5 million in the United States.
00:01:57.000 And then in the UK it was half a million, I believe, right?
00:01:59.000 and then they downgrade it to 20,000 or keep it or much less.
00:02:03.000 Yeah.
00:02:03.000 What does that mean? Why pick it? Why pick any number?
00:02:06.000 I'm no math guy, but that's different.
00:02:08.000 That does seem statistically significant.
00:02:11.000 It's like, listen, 99% of Americans will die before the age of 60 this year.
00:02:17.000 What?
00:02:17.000 Really?
00:02:18.000 Or 1%.
00:02:18.000 We don't know.
00:02:19.000 Some.
00:02:20.000 But it pays to get some hand sanitizer.
00:02:23.000 I appreciate the verbal accuracy though, right?
00:02:26.000 If you're like, it's between zero and ten billion people will die this year.
00:02:30.000 I mean, it's harder to get more accurate unless you said zero to eleven billion.
00:02:35.000 We're just making some space for them.
00:02:36.000 The crazy thing is, and I've been watching CNN and preparing for this, and you let me know, we'll be chatting with you over there at BlazeTV.
00:02:42.000 It's easy to get scared.
00:02:43.000 It's easy to get scared when you watch CNN.
00:02:45.000 Chris Cuomo was on CNN going, and Donald Trump, this is killing Americans.
00:02:49.000 You have blood on your hands.
00:02:50.000 You don't care about American lives.
00:02:51.000 And they go, we passed every other country as far as infections.
00:02:54.000 Well, hold on.
00:02:55.000 The rate that matters is per capita.
00:02:57.000 That is relevant because he can't compare us to a country that has a tenth of the population, depending on which country we're talking about.
00:03:03.000 And if you look at the per capita death in the United States, it's very, very low.
00:03:06.000 It's like five or six compared to China, Italy.
00:03:09.000 It's not even close.
00:03:10.000 It's not even close.
00:03:11.000 So it's easy to get scared, of course.
00:03:13.000 I understand it.
00:03:14.000 We should all do what we can to avoid the virus.
00:03:16.000 But this idea right now that you somehow don't care about the deaths of Americans, if you say, hey, completely crippling the economy, which will lead to mass unemployment, starvation, and, by the way, people losing their insurance and potentially dying from other, more deadly diseases, you do have to weigh the pros and cons of all these issues.
00:03:37.000 There's no considering it.
00:03:39.000 What I actually find interesting is that you'll see people talking about the lives and, you know, we need to do everything possible, no questions asked, we have to be able to save as many lives as we can, and yet in the same statement they're like, why can't we get back to work?
00:03:54.000 Right. And it was like, hold on, hold on, you understand that those two things are different.
00:03:57.000 And so you're going to have to make some hard decisions and that the government is wrangling
00:04:00.000 with those things, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, right? I mean, no matter what
00:04:04.000 side you're on, both of those parties are trying to figure out they have different ideas about what
00:04:08.000 that solution looks like. Right. And certainly we believe there's one of the paths is better than
00:04:12.000 the other. But it seems to me we're going, I said this before, we're going about it the wrong way.
00:04:16.000 We're arbitrarily creating this list of what are the essential businesses.
00:04:20.000 How about we do this?
00:04:22.000 In Italy, 99% of people who died, 99%, this is from the New York Post, had pre-existing conditions.
00:04:28.000 The guy who created the Imperial Study, or was associated with the Imperial Study, Neil Ferguson, he admitted that two-thirds of the people who died from coronavirus would have died within that year anyway.
00:04:40.000 Now I'm not saying let's accelerate it and decrease the surplus population, but that is different.
00:04:45.000 If 99% of people have a pre-existing condition, that is relevant.
00:04:50.000 People should know that because if they don't have a pre-existing condition and they get the sniffles, not only should you not go panic buy toilet paper, but you should not be going to the emergency room and cluttering up space that could be used for not only people with coronavirus, by the way, There are still people out there with emphysema and stage 4 cancer and other serious illnesses.
00:05:08.000 They need care, too.
00:05:10.000 And a lot of hospitals have shut that down.
00:05:11.000 I think it was in Brooklyn.
00:05:13.000 I don't have this in front of me.
00:05:14.000 There was another hospital that opened up to just serve non-coronavirus patients because they said they're being vastly under-recognized by doctors.
00:05:22.000 One of the big solutions that's worked in other countries, and that certainly could be an option here, is you identify the people who are, well, I mean, I think they're killing themselves.
00:05:31.000 Not all of them.
00:05:32.000 Just the ones who tip two quarters. 0.93
00:05:33.000 Yeah, just those guys.
00:05:35.000 If it's less than two quarters, I mean, I've got no sympathy.
00:05:40.000 The Sanderses.
00:05:41.000 Not kill the Sanderses, only if they tip two quarters, you put them on the do not resuscitate list. 0.96
00:05:47.000 Right.
00:05:47.000 Anyone out there in the service industry, you know those people that tip you two quarters.
00:05:50.000 I know you have a list.
00:05:51.000 I know it's in red lipstick.
00:05:53.000 I would be in red lipstick.
00:05:55.000 Are you talking to your mistress right now?
00:05:57.000 Is this what's happening?
00:05:58.000 Is this your way of communicating?
00:06:01.000 Don't sext on my show! 1.00
00:06:02.000 Mr. Movie never saw Billy Madison?
00:06:04.000 Steve Buscemi's riding the list in red lipstick?
00:06:06.000 You have a point I think that you're about to make.
00:06:08.000 Yeah, you don't watch movies.
00:06:11.000 But the point is, you've got people who are especially susceptible, and we know, without question, nobody disagrees that certain people in certain age groups or pre-existing conditions are more at risk.
00:06:23.000 So what we need to do is very strongly isolating those individuals.
00:06:27.000 Amongst the family, right?
00:06:29.000 I said this a long time ago.
00:06:30.000 You did.
00:06:31.000 You said it weeks ago.
00:06:31.000 Isolate old people and the vulnerable.
00:06:35.000 This is just an opinion, okay?
00:06:37.000 And you can get really upset with me.
00:06:38.000 It's not that I don't care about grandpa and grandma.
00:06:40.000 This is what we have in the office.
00:06:42.000 We have young, healthy people who have no symptoms.
00:06:44.000 We probably had it in this office in January, honestly.
00:06:47.000 It's possible, yeah.
00:06:48.000 It came in much earlier than news reported.
00:06:50.000 And then the two older employees, who are over the age of 55, are working from home.
00:06:54.000 We've taken those precautions.
00:06:56.000 I don't know why.
00:06:58.000 Why don't we create a list of non-essential businesses that should be closed?
00:07:01.000 Why don't we create a list of people who should be quarantined at this point, rather than say, everything shut down, everybody panic, everybody stay in the house, when the fact is, it's affecting a very small percentage of people.
00:07:13.000 Here's something else that nobody tells you.
00:07:15.000 The coronavirus, not this coronavirus, this is a novel coronavirus, But if you have Lysol, if you have Matt Cleaner, or anything like that, or you clean an industrial kitchen, you have a bottle and it says, kills coronavirus.
00:07:24.000 It's been around for a while.
00:07:25.000 Coronavirus, some form of it, not this form, typically makes up somewhere, I think it was 7-14% of all influenza cases.
00:07:34.000 And right now they're not necessarily taking that into account.
00:07:36.000 So at this point, if you were to lump in All coronavirus deaths, okay?
00:07:41.000 All coronavirus deaths with the flu deaths this year.
00:07:43.000 In other words, if we had not recognized it, and we would just attribute all this to flu deaths, it still wouldn't be an abnormally high season for flu deaths.
00:07:51.000 So let's keep that in context.
00:07:53.000 It matters.
00:07:54.000 We need to fight this.
00:07:55.000 Thank God private industry is stepping up and helping us.
00:07:58.000 But I'm not going to be shamed into panicking.
00:08:02.000 They're using a lot of the same tactics that they use with climate change right now with people if they go, hey listen, I don't think that we should shut down everything indefinitely.
00:08:09.000 We might look into some states opening up more industries specifically to people who aren't all that vulnerable, and you are absolutely excoriated.
00:08:18.000 You're turned into this pariah.
00:08:20.000 It's like you're a pedophile who writes for a salon.
00:08:22.000 What's crazy about this is it's already happening right now.
00:08:24.000 We've already made the decision to choose certain businesses and suppliers because people go, oh, if you're within six feet of somebody, you're an asshole.
00:08:33.000 And it's like, well, you know, I probably should hold my toddler.
00:08:37.000 I don't know.
00:08:37.000 It's hard to be a good parent and stay safe.
00:08:39.000 Well, but that's okay.
00:08:41.000 Well, what about at the grocery store?
00:08:42.000 Well, as long as you stay six feet away, but if you grab the same box of Cheerios... We already know that there are ways to reduce the risks, and it requires being specific.
00:08:52.000 And right now, I get it.
00:08:53.000 People are panicking, governments are panicking, and they're just saying, you shut it all down!
00:08:58.000 You shut it all down!
00:08:59.000 Is that the Italian Prime Minister?
00:09:02.000 You shut it all down!
00:09:04.000 What happened to him?
00:09:05.000 He came back on a trip from Texas, the cowboy hat.
00:09:08.000 I don't know if it'll go through the roof.
00:09:10.000 With the funny voices?
00:09:11.000 Yeah, with the funny voices.
00:09:13.000 That's the thing.
00:09:13.000 during every press briefing.
00:09:14.000 Right.
00:09:15.000 And I mean, I'm telling you, morale will go through the roof.
00:09:17.000 I don't know if it'll go through the roof.
00:09:19.000 With the funny voices?
00:09:20.000 Yeah, with the funny voices.
00:09:21.000 True.
00:09:22.000 You know what, that's the thing.
00:09:23.000 I think if they could just deliver it with a funny voice.
00:09:24.000 Like, about 85% of you probably going to die slow, painful death.
00:09:30.000 I like to party.
00:09:32.000 I am Yanko.
00:09:33.000 I like to ride the skateboard.
00:09:36.000 Here is my clown.
00:09:37.000 And he just comes in, and the clown's dead.
00:09:39.000 I forgot, by the way, we should have done... This is Morning News Roundup.
00:09:42.000 The first thing that we do is Morning News Roundup.
00:09:44.000 And we already did a story, but here we go.
00:09:46.000 Morning News Roundup.
00:09:47.000 I don't know what that is.
00:10:00.000 So much slurping.
00:10:02.000 We got that music from First Baptist Church, by the way.
00:10:04.000 Yeah, we stole that one.
00:10:06.000 And copyright from First Baptist Church.
00:10:08.000 Thank you for taking part at First Baptist Church.
00:10:12.000 Here's a little bit of what's going on in our neck of the woods.
00:10:15.000 I think that's patented by Al Roker.
00:10:18.000 By the way, he's down to three chins, Al Roker. 0.81
00:10:21.000 Good for Al.
00:10:23.000 He's dropping down from six.
00:10:24.000 I don't know about six.
00:10:24.000 I mean, you'd say five and a half.
00:10:26.000 I'm going to give him that half because he really needs it.
00:10:29.000 Do we have, actually, before we move on, we do have a traffic report because this is a morning show, a new show for you guys.
00:10:34.000 Hit the notification bell, by the way, if you're subscribed on YouTube.
00:10:37.000 Use a promo code quarantine, hashtag MugClubQuarantine.
00:10:40.000 We'll be reading some of your comments, tweets a little bit later on, but only for MugClub members, everyone else.
00:10:46.000 You get to watch it for free.
00:10:47.000 You don't get to talk with half-Asian Bill. 1.00
00:10:49.000 That's a privilege.
00:10:51.000 Not a right.
00:10:52.000 Yeah, it's not a right.
00:10:54.000 It's effectively a goods or service, and you need to provide some kind of a commodity.
00:10:59.000 Preferably, picture some with you wearing very little clothing.
00:11:01.000 That's for Bill.
00:11:02.000 That's for half-Asian Bill. 0.97
00:11:03.000 Nope.
00:11:03.000 For the mistress.
00:11:04.000 Alright, we have the traffic report, right?
00:11:06.000 With Thomas Finnegan.
00:11:07.000 Okay, let's go to that.
00:11:08.000 Well, that is grating.
00:11:21.000 Thomas Finnegan.
00:11:21.000 Do we have Thomas Finnegan, our traffic reporter, on the line?
00:11:24.000 Thomas, are you there?
00:11:26.000 Good morning, Stephen.
00:11:27.000 How are you?
00:11:28.000 I'm fine.
00:11:28.000 What can we expect this morning as people are taking part in their morning commute?
00:11:32.000 Well, we're seeing some traffic from the bathroom to the kitchen, and you want to watch out.
00:11:38.000 You've got a stray sock in there, so you want to hug left.
00:11:41.000 Okay.
00:11:41.000 Thank you very much.
00:11:42.000 And by hug, you mean the wall.
00:11:44.000 Correct.
00:11:45.000 Okay, well it's a problem because I have a centerpiece there in that wall with a vase, so we'll need to move that.
00:11:51.000 This is why I appreciate it, okay?
00:11:52.000 Is there anything else we should know, Thomas?
00:11:55.000 That's about it.
00:11:57.000 There was a pile-up of torn up newspaper earlier, but that's been cleared away, so free lanes for all.
00:12:04.000 Okay, thank you very much.
00:12:05.000 much this has been the traffic update with Thomas Finnegan.
00:12:09.000 Okay so let's move on to the next story.
00:12:20.000 He's on top of it.
00:12:21.000 He is on top of it.
00:12:21.000 Can I tell you, I like Finnegan's mustache.
00:12:23.000 I do.
00:12:24.000 It's a great mustache.
00:12:25.000 Well, you know what, it's from a bygone era.
00:12:27.000 Yeah, it really is.
00:12:27.000 I'm excited to hang on to it.
00:12:29.000 You know what is still from a bygone era but remains?
00:12:32.000 Before I move on to the coronavirus testing kits, because this is good news, Everyone must know this.
00:12:37.000 The pajama pee hole space.
00:12:40.000 What is it with pajamas where they put a button on the crotch, but it's way high up and there's this huge... So look.
00:12:45.000 Let me show you this.
00:12:47.000 My wife had to add this button. 1.00
00:12:49.000 This button wasn't here.
00:12:51.000 No, no, no.
00:12:52.000 I'm wearing underwear.
00:12:54.000 Blur it.
00:12:54.000 Blur it.
00:12:54.000 I'm wearing underwear.
00:12:55.000 But if I was not wearing underwear, look at this.
00:12:57.000 Look at this.
00:12:58.000 Look at this.
00:12:59.000 Why?
00:12:59.000 Why would you do this?
00:13:00.000 Look at the space from here to here compared to the space from here.
00:13:03.000 Easy access?
00:13:04.000 Look at that.
00:13:06.000 Quarter Black Garrett, show them yours too. 0.96
00:13:07.000 We had to put a safety pin on Quarter Black Garrett. 1.00
00:13:09.000 Show them, show them.
00:13:09.000 It's the same problem.
00:13:10.000 Those are from JCPenney.
00:13:12.000 This is from Haines.
00:13:13.000 Yeah, look at it.
00:13:13.000 Put your finger through.
00:13:15.000 Poor quality.
00:13:17.000 Take your pin out, put the finger through.
00:13:18.000 This is a problem I have had three times where my schlong almost fell out.
00:13:23.000 Do you have yours, Audio Wade?
00:13:25.000 Yeah.
00:13:25.000 Show them, show them.
00:13:27.000 Look at this.
00:13:27.000 It's way too much.
00:13:29.000 It's too much.
00:13:30.000 They decided... We know with jeans, if you have button flies, the buttons go all the way down the middle of the pants.
00:13:36.000 With pajamas, they decided we're going to close up a gap of four millimeters at the top of the flap, and on the bottom, we'll leave about a foot and a half.
00:13:44.000 I'm gonna make a sign.
00:13:46.000 My brother dated a girl named Holly in high school.
00:13:49.000 I was wearing Joe Boxer pajama pants.
00:13:51.000 And I was watching TV like this, you know, in the book reading pose.
00:13:54.000 And I turned around because she was on the couch.
00:13:56.000 And I turned around.
00:13:57.000 And when I turned around, I felt a breeze.
00:13:59.000 Oh.
00:14:00.000 That's a telltale sign.
00:14:02.000 Yeah!
00:14:02.000 And I was a late bloomer, so I was embarrassed, because it's very small.
00:14:05.000 And then, this Christmas, my mother-in-law gets me a thermal union suit, because we're in Reno, Nevada, and we're skiing and stuff like that.
00:14:15.000 I mean, they ski, and I just drink in the cabana.
00:14:19.000 And she gets me, buttoned down and plied, I think at night, you know what, I'm gonna put this on and go on down with my mother, show her that I enjoy the jammies she got me for Christmas.
00:14:26.000 And as I walk, there's a sliding door mirror in the bedroom, I take one step, one step, and it was enough inertia to, and my, my...
00:14:35.000 Pecker fell right out, and I was going, I just avoided, by the skin of my scrotum, I just avoided my mother-in-law seeing all of it.
00:14:43.000 Wow.
00:14:43.000 Yikes.
00:14:44.000 That's terrifying.
00:14:44.000 Let me know in the chat, or tweet me, if you, as a man, if you've seen this, every brand of underwear, not underwear, pajamas, underwear they get it right!
00:14:53.000 Underwear they put on two buttons.
00:14:54.000 And you'd think it would be the same.
00:14:56.000 Underwear, you already figured it out over here, put it on the pajamas.
00:15:00.000 Learn from the underwear.
00:15:01.000 It's absurd enough to the point that my wife asked me if I bought my pajamas at a sex shop.
00:15:06.000 Because she thought they were crotchless men's pajamas.
00:15:09.000 They're not!
00:15:10.000 This is just how they do it.
00:15:11.000 Okay.
00:15:12.000 Let's move on to talk about, right now, the FDA.
00:15:14.000 This is big news in Corona.
00:15:16.000 Everything is pretty much Corona right now.
00:15:17.000 But a lot of people may miss why this is important.
00:15:20.000 The private sector has stepped up.
00:15:21.000 The FDA just approved a new five-minute Corona test that could be a whole new ballgame.
00:15:25.000 I think we have a clip to talk about it.
00:15:27.000 On Friday, the FDA authorized a new test developed by Abbott Labs that delivers lightning-fast results in as little as five minutes.
00:15:36.000 That's a whole new ballgame.
00:15:39.000 There you go.
00:15:40.000 Whole new ballgame.
00:15:40.000 No ballgames.
00:15:41.000 No ballgames.
00:15:42.000 Totally illegal right now, President.
00:15:43.000 Sorry.
00:15:44.000 Well, no.
00:15:45.000 I mean, you can play ball.
00:15:45.000 It's super far away from each other.
00:15:47.000 You just can't tag each other.
00:15:48.000 Yeah.
00:15:48.000 It could be stickball if they're playing out in the neighborhood and it's six feet apart.
00:15:52.000 Six feet apart?
00:15:53.000 What is stickball?
00:15:54.000 Is it just baseball with a stick where it's hard?
00:15:56.000 I believe so.
00:15:56.000 It's baseball for poor people.
00:15:57.000 Is that kind of like t-ball?
00:15:59.000 It's baseball for homos? 1.00
00:16:01.000 Or children.
00:16:02.000 Yeah.
00:16:03.000 I mean.
00:16:04.000 But we repeat ourselves.
00:16:05.000 All these children.
00:16:07.000 Keep in mind, this is something that people missed.
00:16:09.000 We talked about this with Dr. Choi last week, right?
00:16:11.000 Where he said, oh, it's getting better.
00:16:14.000 We had five tests.
00:16:15.000 Now we have 30, 35.
00:16:17.000 And that was from Quest Labs.
00:16:18.000 And I know that because I do blood work regularly from some of my kind of pre-existing health conditions, where I go there about every two months.
00:16:24.000 So I know Quest Labs.
00:16:25.000 They're very quick.
00:16:26.000 They turn around things quickly.
00:16:27.000 And he was saying that they had created a lab test for corona, and now they were getting more tests.
00:16:32.000 And that's a private?
00:16:33.000 That's a private lab.
00:16:34.000 And this one is coming from, I believe, Abbott Laboratories.
00:16:37.000 Keep in mind that only a few weeks ago, the fastest test was several hours.
00:16:42.000 Wow.
00:16:42.000 Now we're talking about five-minute tests that don't require them to go up into your sinus like that film Artificial Intelligence with Haley Joel Osment.
00:16:49.000 Did you see the cutaway of what it looks like when they put the thing down?
00:16:52.000 Yeah, they're just touching your brain.
00:16:54.000 They're actually touching your brain.
00:16:55.000 No, but it seems like it.
00:16:56.000 It's pretty close.
00:16:56.000 It's pretty close.
00:16:57.000 I don't think they have to do that anymore, though.
00:16:58.000 No.
00:16:59.000 Now they just saw right in your skull.
00:17:01.000 Think about this for a second.
00:17:02.000 When we talk about how we need socialized healthcare, in this example, we need socialized healthcare.
00:17:06.000 Well, well, hold on.
00:17:10.000 The CDC, they were the only ones who were cleared by the FDA to create these tests.
00:17:15.000 They weren't ready in time and it took hours or significant turnaround time.
00:17:19.000 They had to swab your brain and it didn't work.
00:17:22.000 The second we approve any from private businesses, you can do it in five minutes at home and you don't have to scratch your medulla oblongata.
00:17:29.000 It is interesting how many people are like, I can't believe we're gonna let these private companies make money off this.
00:17:35.000 Oh, okay, so you're against jobs.
00:17:38.000 Oh, no, I mean, no, I'm not against jobs, just people making money at their jobs.
00:17:44.000 Yeah, let me simplify my point of view.
00:17:46.000 Whoever develops the cure for coronavirus should be a trillionaire.
00:17:50.000 Step aside, Jeff Bezos.
00:17:51.000 I don't care what you do.
00:17:52.000 I don't care if you do next-hour shipping.
00:17:54.000 The guy should just walk through and go, I'm sorry, Jeff.
00:17:57.000 Corona swab.
00:17:59.000 I do the corona swab, and you make crappy movies because you have all this money, but for some reason you desperately want to be a part of Hollywood.
00:18:06.000 No one understands this about Jeff Bezos, but it really is bizarre.
00:18:09.000 Yeah, why is he at the Oscars?
00:18:11.000 Yeah, it's a bizarre thing.
00:18:12.000 Do we not think that the guy who created this lab, who created the five-minute test, deserved more than some loose pocket change?
00:18:17.000 Yes.
00:18:18.000 And can you name me one example?
00:18:21.000 One example during this pandemic.
00:18:22.000 People out there.
00:18:23.000 One example where the government has been more efficient than private industry stepping in.
00:18:28.000 Oh wait, Eddie!
00:18:29.000 Send it to me!
00:18:29.000 Crickets.
00:18:30.000 I mean, only in the things that they don't let anyone else do.
00:18:32.000 Like nukes.
00:18:34.000 Right, that's true.
00:18:34.000 Oh, I was talking about the coronavirus.
00:18:35.000 Yeah, but I mean, that's what I mean.
00:18:36.000 Maybe that's a cure.
00:18:38.000 Well, I mean, it is, but not the kind of cure we want.
00:18:41.000 It's like a Thanos cure.
00:18:41.000 Depends.
00:18:42.000 The Kurds aren't big fans of it.
00:18:46.000 I'm not into nuking people.
00:18:48.000 Look, maybe just call me Asian.
00:18:49.000 You guys have a sore spot about that one.
00:18:52.000 Yeah, literally.
00:18:53.000 From radiation.
00:18:55.000 It's not the folks at the post office that you want developing this cure.
00:18:58.000 You want some folks who have some innovation, have some ambition, and actually want to use the stuff that they have, the skills that they have, and make tons of money.
00:19:06.000 And also I would trust the cure more so to FedEx.
00:19:09.000 Like if we decided to entrust the cure to a carrier service, it'd go FedEx.
00:19:15.000 I would believe that.
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00:20:33.000 We have a lot of stock to get rid of.
00:20:34.000 By the way, something to keep in mind, the CDC, or it depends, the FDA, who you want to look at with this, they never replenish the stockpile of masks after Ebola.
00:20:44.000 This is insane, that they didn't have the foresight to go, hey, we just had a giant We had a giant thing go on, and we used all the masks.
00:20:52.000 Pandemic.
00:20:53.000 I was thinking pandemic.
00:20:54.000 Yeah, thing isn't as descriptive.
00:20:55.000 We had a giant thing go on.
00:20:57.000 I'm going to say it anyways.
00:20:58.000 And they didn't think to replenish the masks.
00:21:00.000 Well, they're going to blame Donald.
00:21:01.000 This came out.
00:21:02.000 They tried to blame Donald Trump because he was sending over equipment to China, right?
00:21:06.000 And they were saying, oh, he was blaming that the stock wasn't replenished, and he sent stuff to China.
00:21:09.000 Keep in mind, just a few weeks ago, they were blaming him for not sending enough supplies to China.
00:21:13.000 So they were blaming him for not sending enough supplies.
00:21:15.000 So he felt like he had to send some supplies.
00:21:17.000 Right.
00:21:17.000 And of course, then he realized, oh wait, there's not- we don't have enough soup.
00:21:20.000 They never replenish the supplies.
00:21:22.000 That's like me- Wait a second, wait.
00:21:24.000 And it's not a sponsor, I don't think, because they're sold out, but Prepare with Crowder, we had those sort of bombshell- Yeah, that's right.
00:21:28.000 Bet you're not calling me a conspiracy theorist now, but my wife and I ate all the oatmeal because it was so tasty.
00:21:34.000 It was better than oatmeal.
00:21:35.000 And then we realized when this went down, we're like, hey, what do we have as far as- Oh, darn.
00:21:38.000 We have the broccoli cheddar soup.
00:21:41.000 We're gonna starve!
00:21:43.000 We ate all the oregano.
00:21:44.000 Threw it out.
00:21:46.000 We didn't replenish.
00:21:47.000 Gotta start eating toilet paper.
00:21:48.000 It's remarkable to me that he honestly has been blamed for sending stuff to China.
00:21:53.000 I understand.
00:21:53.000 I don't think he should have sent equipment to China.
00:21:55.000 No.
00:21:55.000 I don't think he should have.
00:21:56.000 But keep in mind at that point we didn't know how bad it was going to be because they told us that it wasn't going to be very bad.
00:22:00.000 Was he sending masks to China that were made in China?
00:22:03.000 No, he's the one.
00:22:05.000 We can probably bring this up.
00:22:05.000 I think Donald Trump is the one president or one leader.
00:22:08.000 Maybe there's another one, like, I don't know, like in Botswana.
00:22:11.000 I have no idea.
00:22:11.000 But of the major countries, they've refused testing kits, I think, and masks.
00:22:16.000 Testing kits or masks from China.
00:22:18.000 China? 0.73
00:22:18.000 It's definitely masks. 0.73
00:22:19.000 Yeah, and they don't work.
00:22:21.000 What doesn't work?
00:22:22.000 The masks.
00:22:23.000 The masks that come from China.
00:22:24.000 People have been using them, and they're like, yeah, you know those masks that you thought they were helpful?
00:22:27.000 They don't do that.
00:22:27.000 All Chinese masks?
00:22:28.000 They have a significantly higher failure rate, and Donald Trump said no masks from China.
00:22:33.000 There's a video floating around of a guy in a Chinese manufacturer, and he's rubbing the masks on his shoes.
00:22:39.000 Have you seen that?
00:22:40.000 Why would he be doing that?
00:22:41.000 I don't know what China does, but China does what China's do. 0.91
00:22:43.000 Wait, he's doing this before he ships out the masks?
00:22:45.000 They're all, yeah, they're in the manufacturing place.
00:22:47.000 That just seems spiteful.
00:22:48.000 It does.
00:22:49.000 Like, haha, hope you enjoy Dreykoff!
00:22:53.000 That's like, uh, we used to go to Friendship Club.
00:22:55.000 Why his feet?
00:22:56.000 I don't, well, we, this is a thing.
00:22:57.000 He might be retarded, because in Friendship Club, true story, my wife, uh, my wife was, this girl was really jealous of my wife's relationship with her aunt, and what they did was they would go to sometimes Disney World with people, this is a thing, it was like special needs, a group. 0.87
00:23:09.000 Yeah.
00:23:10.000 And so they would go to Disney World every year and she, this other mentally handicapped, what do we say, special needs, mentally handicapped, disabled, whatever the term is that doesn't offend you most, she was upset that my wife had a close relationship with her aunt who was leading this function at Disney World.
00:23:27.000 And my wife came home, I shouldn't be wearing shoes, should I?
00:23:30.000 Hold on a second.
00:23:31.000 You're wearing shoes.
00:23:32.000 I don't know why.
00:23:32.000 I'm wearing shoes.
00:23:33.000 But my wife came home to her hotel room in Disney World that night and out of spite, the special needs girl, she was snow angling in my wife's bed and rubbing her shoes on the pillow because she was jealous of her aunt. 1.00
00:23:47.000 But it's the kind of behavior that you accept because she's mentally handicapped, or a member of Antifa, or Rights for Buzzfeed, but that's my point is this prejudice of soft expectations.
00:23:57.000 It's wonderful for mentally disabled people, not so much just because someone's a minority.
00:24:02.000 Like I wouldn't allow you to rub your feet on my... 0.99
00:24:05.000 It's okay.
00:24:05.000 Pillow.
00:24:06.000 You don't have to let me.
00:24:07.000 Well, it's already happened.
00:24:09.000 He said it was Chinese foot binding.
00:24:10.000 Well, you know.
00:24:11.000 He's wrapping it in a pillowcase and tying it up with a nice bow.
00:24:14.000 What else do we have here?
00:24:15.000 CDC was the only place approved to kits.
00:24:19.000 I don't know.
00:24:19.000 Get the JFK.
00:24:21.000 Here's something else that I saw this morning in News of the Morning.
00:24:21.000 Oh, that's right.
00:24:24.000 This is important.
00:24:25.000 The FDA, they're still preventing, obviously, some private companies from conducting as many tests as they could.
00:24:29.000 Some companies could supply 160,000 a day.
00:24:31.000 They're only allowing 100,000.
00:24:32.000 And Donald Trump, remember this, when he had that, what do you call it, summit, press conference, whatever he's doing, the briefings, whatever they call it now.
00:24:39.000 And he said, maybe we could find a way to reuse masks, or maybe you could spray them with some kind of liquid.
00:24:46.000 And then they said, there's no way to sterilize these masks.
00:24:48.000 The FDA has now amended its initial approval granted early Sunday, now allowing Battelle to sterilize the N95 surgical masks without a daily limit.
00:24:57.000 They can be sterilized, reused 20 times thanks to the FDA's loosening rules.
00:25:02.000 You know, if capitalism is allowed to go unchecked, we're going to beat this coronavirus, and then where will CNN be?
00:25:10.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we have to preserve the job of second-rate reporters by allowing this virus to continue.
00:25:16.000 That's a good cue.
00:25:17.000 Let's see.
00:25:17.000 Speaking of second-rate reporters, wait, is that CNN?
00:25:19.000 Yes, I am.
00:25:20.000 I'm saying that because... Oh.
00:25:22.000 That's not live.
00:25:23.000 That's a clip.
00:25:23.000 Take off that thing.
00:25:24.000 That's a live.
00:25:25.000 Let's go to live CNN right now.
00:25:26.000 What are they looking at?
00:25:26.000 They're looking at a ship.
00:25:27.000 We're looking at the USS Comfort.
00:25:29.000 This is the hospital ship.
00:25:30.000 Okay.
00:25:31.000 That's another interesting one, by the way.
00:25:32.000 Was it the Princess?
00:25:34.000 The cruise?
00:25:34.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:25:35.000 The Princess cruise.
00:25:36.000 I think it had 3,000 people.
00:25:37.000 Again, this is a little more free flow.
00:25:39.000 You guys let me know.
00:25:40.000 We'll chat with you soon.
00:25:41.000 The Princess cruise had 3,000 people.
00:25:42.000 700 of them got infected.
00:25:46.000 The death rate when you account for it, it was 1%.
00:25:48.000 And then when you account for people who are below the age of 70, it was much, much lower.
00:25:52.000 Like the death rate for people who are below 70 didn't have any kind of pre-existing conditions.
00:25:57.000 You were talking about a minuscule amount.
00:25:58.000 It's the closest thing that we have to a sample study of knowing who's infected and knowing as much as we could possibly know about their health effects.
00:26:06.000 No one's talking about it.
00:26:07.000 It's remarkable to me.
00:26:08.000 Yeah, well because all, so you're saying that all of those people on the boat were tested.
00:26:13.000 700 of them tested positive.
00:26:15.000 Right.
00:26:16.000 And then there's a 1% death rate.
00:26:17.000 So yeah, that is basically a lab experiment.
00:26:20.000 Yeah, it's contained.
00:26:21.000 Because they're all floating around.
00:26:23.000 I mean, they're not willing guinea pigs.
00:26:24.000 Don't get me wrong.
00:26:25.000 They weren't thrilled about it.
00:26:26.000 They were a victim of circumstance.
00:26:27.000 They chose to get on that boat.
00:26:28.000 Guinea pigs are not willing guinea pigs usually either.
00:26:30.000 That's true.
00:26:31.000 But we don't really care.
00:26:32.000 Yeah, right.
00:26:34.000 Every single guinea pig signs a waiver.
00:26:37.000 Oh, I didn't know that.
00:26:41.000 It's really just claw marks on the other side of the door once you lock them in.
00:26:45.000 And we take that as a form of consent.
00:26:50.000 Also, by the way, consent is a big issue for guinea pigs in the fraternity sorority houses. 0.99
00:26:56.000 Lots of guinea pig rape. 0.73
00:26:57.000 Yeah, it's a real problem.
00:26:58.000 I thought that was just guinea pigs. 0.95
00:27:01.000 Well, that's what you would think.
00:27:02.000 In other words, we just say, guinea pig gonna guinea pig.
00:27:04.000 But we didn't take into account that many female guinea pigs have been oppressed for a long time. 0.99
00:27:08.000 They're not big fans of it.
00:27:10.000 Well, we should care about that.
00:27:11.000 When we say they copulate like rabbits, we assume that both parties involved wanted to copulate.
00:27:18.000 Sometimes they copulate like Chinese. 1.00
00:27:19.000 sometimes they copulate like Chinese, you know, something that breeds a lot, a lot of
00:27:22.000 people, 3 billion Chinese, 18 billion rabbits. Turns out, it's actually just rape. 1.00
00:27:28.000 Oh no.
00:27:29.000 So this colloquialism is really minimizing.
00:27:32.000 Which colloquialism?
00:27:33.000 They copulate like rabbits. You've not heard this?
00:27:35.000 I thought we were talking about guinea pigs, I'm catching up.
00:27:37.000 Well I'm saying rabbits are similar to guinea pigs.
00:27:39.000 You know they're different animals, right?
00:27:40.000 I know that they're different animals. We've all read the Richard Gere story.
00:27:45.000 My point here is that we assume that the animals are both willing participants and we are now finding out that's not the case.
00:27:54.000 You know what the funny part about that is?
00:27:56.000 Richard Gere was not the consenting party.
00:27:58.000 No.
00:27:58.000 That's the tragedy of that story is Richard Gere was the one who was saying no.
00:28:03.000 Oh no.
00:28:04.000 Really?
00:28:04.000 Yeah.
00:28:05.000 Poor guy.
00:28:05.000 He just can't catch a break.
00:28:06.000 No, no.
00:28:07.000 All this stuff is straight to DVD in that crappy dog film.
00:28:12.000 Hiroji, what was it called?
00:28:13.000 The dog still waiting at the train station.
00:28:15.000 I think it's Pierogi.
00:28:15.000 Yeah, is it Pierogi?
00:28:16.000 The Polish dog? 1.00
00:28:17.000 Pierogi.
00:28:18.000 What?
00:28:19.000 We're going to get to a little bit of President Trump's slow response.
00:28:22.000 That's what he's been accused of here recently.
00:28:25.000 But before we do that, actually, I want to keep things in context.
00:28:27.000 We'll be getting to some of your chat here in a little bit or send in your pictures in the morning with your mug at twitter.com slash s Crowder Keep it in context because in Canada things are very different as a matter of fact right now There are people who are being arrested and fined thousands of dollars right for going outside and violating the sort of lockdown orders, right?
00:28:44.000 Which, to me, is really scary.
00:28:45.000 Just as scary, or scarier than the coronavirus, is the complete absolvement of rights that have been long-standing because we're afraid of a microbe.
00:28:54.000 Not saying it's not serious, but that is, equally, we need to weigh this.
00:28:58.000 So, actually, our favorite Greek-Canadian, who helps work with the show behind the scenes, but he's going to be our Canadian correspondent right now.
00:29:05.000 To provide a little context and hopefully make you feel better about your day, let's
00:29:09.000 go to Stories with Pentelus.
00:29:11.000 I know it's crazy, but I wanted to give you guys a story to let you know that it could
00:29:19.000 Like, be positive.
00:29:20.000 Everything's good.
00:29:20.000 I had a buddy a couple years ago.
00:29:22.000 He went to jail and we had a little party that we were all at a little while after he got out of jail.
00:29:26.000 It wasn't for him the party, but he was there.
00:29:28.000 And I started making a lot of jokes about prison because I like to screw with people.
00:29:32.000 And then he stormed out of the room and one of my friends that was there told me, yeah, don't make a lot of jokes.
00:29:37.000 He went kind of crazy in jail because apparently he watches too many movies.
00:29:42.000 And when he got into jail, because he didn't know anybody in there, He went and attacked someone that was like a known tough
00:29:46.000 guy and he ended up getting the shit kicked out of him and then raped 1.00
00:29:50.000 Repeatedly by like a lot of people and it was like a daily occurrence where he'd get beat up and raped
00:29:55.000 so, uh So it could always be worse as i'm saying don't don't do
00:30:00.000 the crime if you're not willing to go to jail And get raped and if you don't want to go through that or
00:30:05.000 if you're not willing to rape, maybe that would have helped Point is uh, this virus thing could be worse
00:30:10.000 Foreign It's always nice to put things in context, yeah
00:30:17.000 By the way, Half-Asian Bill had to go urinate. 1.00
00:30:19.000 Oh my goodness.
00:30:20.000 He is a bulldog, but he has a very small bladder.
00:30:23.000 Bulldogs have pretty small bladders.
00:30:25.000 That's true.
00:30:25.000 Right, because of the horrendous inbreeding in a designer breed.
00:30:29.000 You've got to sit them in their zero-gravity chair and put a CPAP on them while they sleep.
00:30:36.000 You have to massage their lower intestines so that they can make It's almost like they shouldn't exist.
00:30:44.000 They really shouldn't exist.
00:30:44.000 They have to deliver them all by C-section.
00:30:46.000 Is this poop?
00:30:47.000 Yeah, make. 0.60
00:30:49.000 I've never seen this before.
00:30:50.000 I mean, it makes sense.
00:30:52.000 Just make.
00:30:53.000 I think it might be sign language.
00:30:55.000 I like it.
00:30:55.000 I don't know.
00:30:56.000 I like sign language.
00:30:56.000 My mom used to use it every now and then.
00:30:58.000 A little bit?
00:30:59.000 Thank you.
00:31:00.000 That's all I know.
00:31:00.000 It's disgusting!
00:31:01.000 Hey, let's go to CNN real quick and see what they have right now and see what we've gotten wrong so far.
00:31:06.000 And, you know, it's all about how can we help these folks try to get back on their feet, try to, you know, get through weather, this storm.
00:31:14.000 This is not just an issue in San Diego, but this is an issue, obviously, all across the country.
00:31:19.000 So I really tried to set the tone here in San Diego.
00:31:22.000 It's not only if you're Democrat, Republican, it's bringing this city together, putting policies that are going to help people, and help people now.
00:31:29.000 Close the damn door, Bill.
00:31:31.000 Come on.
00:31:32.000 San Diego Mayor.
00:31:34.000 Yeah, good luck.
00:31:35.000 That guy on the right looks like a Fred Armisen character.
00:31:38.000 By the way, keep in mind they have total cases and deaths on there, then they have the United States total cases and deaths.
00:31:44.000 This is something when you tune into CNN, and one of these mornings we'll be doing just watching CNN and fact-checking during the break, almost like an ombudsman.
00:31:50.000 Those numbers are significantly lower than deaths from the flu.
00:31:54.000 Significantly lower.
00:31:55.000 And so it does matter when the models that were used predicted 20 to 50 times higher deaths, especially when you consider the fact that these deaths are significantly lower than are registering right now if you take into account people who are over the age of 80 or if you take into account people who had serious pre-existing conditions who are going to die within that year anyway.
00:32:13.000 Not saying we shouldn't take care of them because this isn't a socialized healthcare country.
00:32:17.000 That's very common in Canada or in Italy where they just don't help you no matter what.
00:32:21.000 The fact that the Do Not Resuscitate Order is a controversy in the United States tells you the different standard of care that we have here.
00:32:28.000 But they just want to toss it up to scare everybody and show that the United States has handled this the most poorly.
00:32:32.000 Actually, if you look at countries with socialized healthcare systems and you look at the per capita deaths, we have handled it incredibly well.
00:32:38.000 The biggest hiccups, the biggest logjams that we have had have been the FDA and the CDC, and it's still happening.
00:32:45.000 It's still happening with cures.
00:32:46.000 It's still happening with vaccinations.
00:32:48.000 It's still happening with tests.
00:32:50.000 Think about everything that we've had problems with.
00:32:52.000 We need more masks.
00:32:53.000 Private industry is stepping up to fix it.
00:32:54.000 We need more ventilators.
00:32:56.000 Private industry is stepping up to fix it.
00:32:57.000 We need more tests.
00:32:58.000 Private labs are stepping up to fix it.
00:33:00.000 We need more space.
00:33:01.000 Private hospitals.
00:33:02.000 Private caretakers.
00:33:04.000 Apparently the concierge doctors now are reaching out and helping a lot of people.
00:33:07.000 I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they start creating at-home care centers.
00:33:12.000 There's a lot of doctors, not just a random guy at a truck stop.
00:33:17.000 Speaking of the media trying to scare people, it was trending on Twitter this morning.
00:33:21.000 CBS News was using shots from an Italian hospital.
00:33:27.000 And when they were talking about New York, right and so it's it really is a big part of this narrative and like so if you show if you show these pictures of like 30 beds full of people it's it is gonna make a difference where you say those people are so yeah as I said it was turning on tour this you know it would horrify yeah Americans right outside of the coronavirus shots of Italian hospitals Yeah, period.
00:33:50.000 People don't realize, it was Blodgett Hospital when I moved to Michigan.
00:33:53.000 It was in Grand Rapids.
00:33:55.000 So there were two times that I can remember going to the hospital.
00:33:59.000 One time was when I tore my knee.
00:34:00.000 Completely tore it and I had to get knee surgery.
00:34:01.000 And the other time was, it turned out I had a small stomach flu and I got need in the balls.
00:34:07.000 And so what happened was I went to this hospital because I was like, oh, my stomach's really bad and my balls were hurting.
00:34:12.000 And so that seemed like something concerning.
00:34:13.000 What I'd forgotten about was this kid who I was teaching jujitsu, like a little kid, need me in the balls. 0.97
00:34:18.000 But it was like three days later, delayed reaction, so I went to the hospital, they were like, drink some kefir, ice your balls.
00:34:23.000 That was the fix.
00:34:25.000 Drink some prolax, ice your balls.
00:34:27.000 But that was the first time I've went to an American hospital, and my wife took me in, and I said, these are, this is like a hotel!
00:34:33.000 I've never seen anything like this!
00:34:35.000 And I know not all hospitals are great here, and not all hospitals are terrible, but if you were to take the best hospitals in Montreal, when I lived there, it wasn't even close to this hospital, which wasn't considered necessarily top tier.
00:34:46.000 It was an average hospital.
00:34:47.000 The best hospital in Canada would be a horror show to most Americans, let alone Americans who mostly go into like 24-hour emergency clinics now.
00:34:54.000 It's like going into a Hyatt.
00:34:56.000 It's like going into a Spring Hill Suites.
00:34:58.000 So if you were to show any Americans just Italian hospitals, they'd be like, oh my god, what a horror show. 0.99
00:35:03.000 That was before, that was last July.
00:35:05.000 We should do a before.
00:35:08.000 We should just get a bunch of photos from before and be like, is this the hospital today?
00:35:13.000 I mean, it's just a very different standard.
00:35:16.000 And in other countries where you have to, you know, the commoditized health care, you just, you can't afford the kind of things that we have here.
00:35:22.000 And part of the question is, you're never asking, is Italy going to come up with some cure?
00:35:28.000 Where's the standard?
00:35:29.000 All eyes are going to the U.S.
00:35:31.000 Okay, who's going to fix this?
00:35:32.000 U.S.
00:35:33.000 I don't understand how the U.S.
00:35:35.000 is criticized for being number one, but then is The sheer fact of being number one is a point to be critical, and then because you didn't do enough because you were number one, you're critical as well.
00:35:47.000 Intervene?
00:35:48.000 No, no, no, don't intervene.
00:35:49.000 But like, intervene, but like, just give us money, but then leave us alone.
00:35:51.000 Don't intervene, but pay three times the average amount of everyone else Yeah.
00:35:55.000 Right.
00:35:55.000 into NATO even though we actually have an international agreement we're all
00:35:57.000 supposed to pay 2% you're paying 3.6 and most countries are paying 0.9%.
00:36:00.000 How about this? When we pay for our own stimulus bills, which I have a problem
00:36:04.000 with that too by the way, I have a problem with a stimulus bill because I
00:36:07.000 think there is a reason for small businesses right we need to support
00:36:09.000 businesses so that people don't lose their jobs. We need to delineate between
00:36:12.000 those people who had to shut down their restaurants, who had to shut down their
00:36:16.000 place of business because the government said you are no longer business
00:36:19.000 Everyone else, don't patronize their business.
00:36:22.000 We need to delineate between that and the airlines who are going to be requiring a bailout within the next two years anyway.
00:36:27.000 No, no, no, no, no.
00:36:28.000 You guys don't get it.
00:36:30.000 Only the people we directly and acutely affected get any money.
00:36:34.000 So I do think it's important to note that.
00:36:35.000 One is crony capitalism, and one is an appropriate purview of government if they see this as a national.
00:36:41.000 Yeah, and we shouldn't treat Boeing the same way we treat the nail salon down the street. 0.62
00:36:44.000 Exactly.
00:36:45.000 Yeah, it's a very different thing.
00:36:46.000 Exactly.
00:36:47.000 Too big to fail?
00:36:47.000 Sorry, don't believe it.
00:36:49.000 I believe that Southwest and these other airlines who haven't required bailouts will step up and American Airlines should cease to exist.
00:36:54.000 Big fan of airlines, are ya?
00:36:55.000 Big fan of airlines.
00:36:56.000 Big fan of big banks.
00:36:58.000 Big fan of health insurance industries.
00:36:59.000 These are the industries.
00:37:00.000 Big fan of big energy.
00:37:02.000 These are the industries and companies that have been bailed out time after time after time.
00:37:06.000 And guess what?
00:37:07.000 There haven't been nearly as many new competitors.
00:37:09.000 You can't compete with a never-ending supply of federal funds.
00:37:12.000 We need to delineate between that and the people who've been directly affected because the government effectively shut down their business.
00:37:19.000 Here's something else.
00:37:20.000 No one wants to talk about this, but since it's morning and I don't have to go by show map, I'm just, you know, I can get in trouble.
00:37:25.000 We don't pay back China's debt until they fix this. 0.99
00:37:27.000 Yeah.
00:37:28.000 You know what?
00:37:29.000 What is it, 1.2 trillion?
00:37:30.000 No.
00:37:31.000 Sorry.
00:37:32.000 Not saying we're never going to pay it, but you know what?
00:37:34.000 You should give us a discount.
00:37:35.000 You should give the whole world a discount, by the way, for lying about this, for being dishonest, for not telling people what was actually happening.
00:37:42.000 And NATO, let's say, you know what, NATO?
00:37:44.000 We're paying 3.6%.
00:37:45.000 The international agreement is 2%.
00:37:47.000 The average, I believe, is somewhere between 1 to 1.3%.
00:37:51.000 What most nations pay, we pay 3.6%.
00:37:53.000 We say, guess what?
00:37:54.000 We're just going to pay the average that everyone else pays until they step up.
00:37:57.000 Right there.
00:37:58.000 You're talking about anywhere from $500 billion to $1.5 trillion.
00:38:03.000 Let's start rearranging this here.
00:38:04.000 Let's stop footing the bill for the rest of the world. 0.93
00:38:06.000 Just like the rest of the world is looking to us for some kind of a cure right now, and who do we look to?
00:38:10.000 Not the government, but private industry.
00:38:12.000 And the rest of the world benefits from our private industry.
00:38:14.000 Same thing?
00:38:14.000 You know what?
00:38:14.000 You don't get to subsidize drugs.
00:38:16.000 This is true.
00:38:17.000 Sometimes you can order name-brand drugs from Canada, and they're cheaper than the United States.
00:38:20.000 Why?
00:38:20.000 Because all the costs are burdened here in the United States.
00:38:22.000 It costs more here.
00:38:23.000 It's subsidized abroad, and so they don't have to pay as much.
00:38:25.000 Guess what?
00:38:25.000 If you want to use American-made or American-manufactured drugs invented here in the United States from American pharmaceutical companies, you pay a premium.
00:38:32.000 Our people pay less.
00:38:34.000 Off the bat, you pay more.
00:38:35.000 Yeah.
00:38:36.000 This is the America First that I can be on board with.
00:38:39.000 Not tariffs, not trying to shut down global free enterprise or trade on a fair level, which isn't happening with China most of the time, but this idea that we shouldn't be footing the bill for everyone else right now.
00:38:50.000 I don't know.
00:38:50.000 Is it me?
00:38:51.000 Is it me?
00:38:51.000 You guys let me know, but I see it and I go, hold on a second.
00:38:54.000 How about we cut some funding to NATO?
00:38:55.000 How about we tell China to go sit on a wire brush and rotate until they decide to figure their crap out? 1.00
00:39:00.000 They're not going to be holding our debt.
00:39:03.000 And let's make people pay for the drugs that we create and invent. 1.00
00:39:05.000 Same thing right now with coronavirus.
00:39:06.000 This is what happens.
00:39:07.000 People say, oh, it's cruel.
00:39:08.000 Really?
00:39:09.000 Why isn't it cruel for you to have suckled at our teat for decades? 0.99
00:39:14.000 These people brag about socialized health care just like they brag about having a smaller military budget.
00:39:18.000 It works here.
00:39:18.000 It works here.
00:39:19.000 Why did it work there?
00:39:20.000 Sure.
00:39:20.000 Well, you have a smaller military budget, Canada.
00:39:22.000 Why?
00:39:22.000 Because we foot the bill.
00:39:23.000 And then they look to us for health care.
00:39:25.000 No, no, we shouldn't subsidize the world.
00:39:27.000 We shouldn't fund the world for health care.
00:39:29.000 Why should you all benefit from our private health care industry and instead why you simultaneously
00:39:34.000 demonize it between every single election?
00:39:36.000 I do think that there's an incredible amount of people who realize the dichotomy between
00:39:41.000 saying hey, Canada, you want to benefit from being our neighbor from all of the military
00:39:45.000 prowess we have.
00:39:46.000 The collateral benefit that Canada gets from being next to America is people don't can't
00:39:52.000 even imagine economically, militarily, all the different things that benefit Canada.
00:39:57.000 And sure, okay, it's fine.
00:39:58.000 You guys want to criticize us?
00:39:59.000 Hey, we're definitely the land of dissent, right?
00:40:01.000 We have a free media.
00:40:03.000 Everything exists to be able to cross fight.
00:40:05.000 They don't have it as much.
00:40:06.000 They're going to shut you down on hate speech.
00:40:08.000 But the whole point of the matter is just there's a simple list.
00:40:13.000 Want the benefits?
00:40:14.000 You're going to have to pay for it.
00:40:15.000 And when I say pay for it, I don't necessarily mean money, per se.
00:40:18.000 It could be support.
00:40:19.000 It could be being on board with certain policies that we have.
00:40:23.000 It could be on board with punishing other countries that shouldn't be.
00:40:26.000 The number of times where Canada has diverged when we've said, hey, we don't like those civil rights abuses in this country.
00:40:32.000 We're going to put sanctions on them.
00:40:33.000 And the rest of the world goes, oh, I can't believe I can't believe you would punish those socialists for murdering dissidents and LGBTs.
00:40:41.000 I can't believe you would continue to do that, America.
00:40:44.000 Just get on board.
00:40:44.000 Just say, hey guys, if you want the benefits, you've got to take the rest.
00:40:47.000 You know, it's a great example.
00:40:48.000 We do have to get to it, but a great example is the sort of, if you look at the chasm between people being offended by Chinese virus versus the people of China.
00:40:56.000 So the American media is like, you can't say that because there's going to be violence committed against Chinese Americans, which of course none of us want to see.
00:41:01.000 But then you look at people who are trying to circumvent the Chinese government and the censorship and they're going, tell the world!
00:41:07.000 Tell the world that it's the Chinese virus because they harmed us. 1.00
00:41:10.000 These people are upset with government.
00:41:11.000 Keep in mind that guy who said, Donald Trump, don't trust China, China is asshole.
00:41:15.000 That guy was, he was not North American.
00:41:17.000 He was Chinese.
00:41:19.000 This is how they feel about the government.
00:41:21.000 Empathizing with the Chinese people requires ridiculing the Chinese government, because they are... It is amazing that this has been allowed to go unchecked, and you have all these economists go up and say, well, China's the next great superpower of the world. 0.96
00:41:34.000 You know what?
00:41:35.000 Only if good people don't stop them and do something, because there has to be somewhere Where it stops and people are no longer abused by one of the most oppressive regimes that we can think of in modern mankind.
00:41:46.000 Let's not act as though American workers in a Ford plant are on the same playing field as the kids working at an Apple factory.
00:41:52.000 It's not fair.
00:41:53.000 It's not right.
00:41:54.000 We need to do something as Americans.
00:41:55.000 Do we have on the line, I believe we have right now, our guest for the show, Mahmoud Al-Mahmoud, and he is the Director of Public Relations at ISIS.
00:42:04.000 Mahmoud, are you there, sir?
00:42:06.000 I am here, Stephen.
00:42:07.000 Thank you for having me.
00:42:08.000 Good to see you again.
00:42:10.000 Thank you.
00:42:10.000 I'm glad to see you, sir.
00:42:11.000 You look bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
00:42:13.000 From where are you calling right there?
00:42:14.000 I'm seeing some boxes behind you.
00:42:16.000 Yeah, we're doing quarantine, you know, here in Anbar province.
00:42:21.000 We've been deemed by Anbar province to be non-essential.
00:42:24.000 Okay.
00:42:24.000 So, here I am.
00:42:27.000 Well, it looks more like somewhere where you would be lined up for a police photo.
00:42:30.000 What are those lines in the white wall?
00:42:32.000 It looks like the usual suspects.
00:42:34.000 Well, you know, There are blurred lines, for sure.
00:42:37.000 Pretty sure.
00:42:39.000 Okay.
00:42:40.000 Let me ask you this, Mahmoud.
00:42:42.000 How are you adapting right now with ISIS to the new social distancing guidelines?
00:42:47.000 Well, Stephen, I'll be honest.
00:42:49.000 You know, quarantine bears a very close resemblance to my actual life.
00:42:52.000 Okay.
00:42:53.000 So, in many ways we've been in quarantine since 2003 or so.
00:43:00.000 So, you know, being in this subterranean bunker is kind of life as usual.
00:43:05.000 Okay, all right.
00:43:06.000 Do you have any big plans for the quarantine, then?
00:43:08.000 Do you have any plans when you're done with it?
00:43:11.000 Yeah, you know, trying to do a little bit of spring cleaning, for sure.
00:43:16.000 I've been into this Tiger King.
00:43:17.000 Have you seen Tiger King?
00:43:18.000 I have.
00:43:19.000 I have been watching Tiger King.
00:43:20.000 That is not emblematic of all of the United States, by the way.
00:43:24.000 Okay, because I was like, that's pretty cool, you know?
00:43:29.000 Well then, in that case, we are all Joe Exotic.
00:43:33.000 Pretty much everyone here is like that.
00:43:35.000 Yes, yes, yes.
00:43:35.000 Yeah, I would hope so.
00:43:37.000 I would like to think that, you know?
00:43:40.000 Do you think Carol killed her husband and fed her to the tigers?
00:43:43.000 Well, I'll be honest with you, we're trying to recruit Carol Baskin.
00:43:48.000 So I'll just leave it there, I don't need, you know... She's so effective, she's so effective.
00:43:53.000 Like Haida, trying to get in on the bidding wars. 0.99
00:43:57.000 Okay.
00:43:58.000 What do you guys do, though?
00:43:59.000 You know, we're talking about social distancing.
00:44:02.000 What do you do as far as social distancing?
00:44:03.000 I think you froze there for a second.
00:44:05.000 Social distancing, you know, also washing hands.
00:44:08.000 It's a little bit different there in your culture because you eat from the communal bowl and, you know, we had a toilet paper shortage, but you guys don't necessarily use toilet paper.
00:44:16.000 So how does it affect people like you in respect to ISIS?
00:44:19.000 You know, in some ways we do have it easier, Stephen, if that's what you're getting at.
00:44:23.000 It's absolutely true.
00:44:26.000 And so we will see how it's going.
00:44:30.000 Do you have enough toilet paper over there?
00:44:32.000 No, we don't.
00:44:33.000 That's the problem.
00:44:33.000 And I live with a dog.
00:44:34.000 I know you guys aren't big fans of that.
00:44:36.000 And she loves toilet paper.
00:44:37.000 That's her thing. 1.00
00:44:38.000 So it's the worst living being you could possibly have in the house with you during this quarantine.
00:44:43.000 I'll take care of her.
00:44:43.000 No, no, that's not good at all.
00:44:45.000 Oh, OK.
00:44:46.000 I see what you're doing there.
00:44:47.000 You're trying to... Well, look, two can do that.
00:44:49.000 I can drink from my mug.
00:44:51.000 I like how he's advertising.
00:44:53.000 Egypt?
00:44:53.000 What is he, is he advertising for a tourist spot for Egypt?
00:44:57.000 Have you not been to Egypt?
00:44:58.000 Oh, it's lovely this time of year.
00:44:59.000 Have we?
00:45:00.000 Yeah.
00:45:00.000 Well, we're also, we also were planning on going to Medina, but that had to be canceled very recently because, you know.
00:45:05.000 You can't be too safe.
00:45:06.000 You know, the, the large groups right now.
00:45:09.000 Right.
00:45:09.000 It's, it's a, it's a, it's very, it's very tough.
00:45:11.000 Well, although I think more people are actually trampled going to Medina and Mecca on an annual basis than the coronavirus.
00:45:16.000 So, you know, you take some, you give some.
00:45:19.000 A bit different.
00:45:19.000 Like so many things in life, you know, it's a balance of risks.
00:45:23.000 Yes, it is a balance of risks, and I appreciate you letting us know that.
00:45:26.000 Hey, we do have to get going here, but Mahmoud, what's your hope or what advice do you have to Americans as the public relations director for ISIS?
00:45:36.000 Yeah, you know, well, I think that the end is near.
00:45:43.000 As I often say.
00:45:44.000 Okay, okay.
00:45:47.000 That's good to know.
00:45:47.000 Yeah, hopefully it's something where we can find a lot of common ground.
00:45:53.000 Right.
00:45:54.000 And then we can get back to where you're scared of me.
00:45:57.000 Okay, all right.
00:45:58.000 Thank you very much.
00:45:59.000 Well, Mahmoud Al Mahmoud, stay safe.
00:46:02.000 Use your hose on your left hand.
00:46:03.000 Don't eat from the communal bowl.
00:46:05.000 We will see you next time.
00:46:06.000 Thank you, sir.
00:46:07.000 Noted, Steven.
00:46:08.000 Noted.
00:46:08.000 Thank you for having me.
00:46:09.000 All right, that's enough.
00:46:10.000 I don't want him to trace our call.
00:46:12.000 Ah, Mahmoud El-Mahmoud.
00:46:14.000 Showing the softer side of ISIS.
00:46:16.000 What a guy.
00:46:16.000 He's just, he's a lover.
00:46:17.000 Were you about to say something there, uh, QuarterBlackCarrot? 0.97
00:46:19.000 You looked like at one point you were leaning in.
00:46:20.000 No?
00:46:21.000 No, I was just listening.
00:46:22.000 Oh, you were listening.
00:46:22.000 I'm very, I'm very intent.
00:46:23.000 I wanted to know what you were saying.
00:46:24.000 Hey, look, CNN!
00:46:24.000 Look, another guy talking from his, from his, uh, closet.
00:46:28.000 Literally.
00:46:28.000 This is remarkable to me, I will say this.
00:46:40.000 These production companies, you look at CNN, you look at these late night hosts, they're so used to having, I think Leno had 147 employees, I know it's over 100 for every late night show, it's well over 100 for most of these shows at CNN, not to mention writers, producers, segment producers.
00:46:53.000 And what happens is, they have all this money, and it goes away because of a self-quarantine, and so, they just decide, well, just turn on your iPhone, like, you can all, there's a middle, there's a middle ground.
00:47:02.000 Look at what we're doing here.
00:47:03.000 They don't have anything?
00:47:04.000 This is what happens.
00:47:05.000 This is the great equalizer.
00:47:06.000 When there's some kind of a pandemic going on, we can create better, more polished content than all of CNN.
00:47:13.000 Think about that for a second.
00:47:14.000 This is more, this show, you know what, when people think of Lotto with credit, you don't think polish?
00:47:20.000 As a matter of fact, what we told you guys when we said, Mug Club Quarantine Month, everything's going to be free, in front of the paywall, plus more content than ever because we want to interact with you.
00:47:29.000 What we told you was, listen, there's going to be less polish. 1.00
00:47:32.000 I didn't anticipate this!
00:47:35.000 I didn't anticipate someone broadcasting from George Michael's Port-A-Potty in Los Angeles in a public park.
00:47:40.000 I like how, you know, what do they say?
00:47:41.000 You don't have to run the fastest, you just have to run faster than the last guy.
00:47:45.000 Right.
00:47:46.000 And that's the last guy, CNN.
00:47:48.000 Yes, that is the last guy.
00:47:49.000 It's the race to the middle.
00:47:51.000 And this is also why they're putting pressure on YouTube and all these sort of new media companies, right?
00:47:55.000 Because what happened is they had this sort of, not a monopoly, but a few major news networks, right?
00:48:00.000 They were on cable, that's what people had.
00:48:02.000 And they had this kind of classic corporate budget cost structure.
00:48:05.000 And now they can't afford it.
00:48:07.000 And it's a race to the middle.
00:48:08.000 They're trying to downgrade.
00:48:10.000 They're trying to cut down costs.
00:48:11.000 We're building up, right?
00:48:12.000 So they're coming down from 140 employees to maybe, I don't know, like 90.
00:48:17.000 And we're going from 8, 12, 15, hopefully one day maybe 20 employees, you know, join Mug Club.
00:48:22.000 $30 off this month.
00:48:23.000 It's quarantine.
00:48:24.000 We're not making anything off of YouTube.
00:48:26.000 So we're intersecting there at the middle.
00:48:27.000 So what happens?
00:48:28.000 NBC, Vox, Universal.
00:48:31.000 They try to step in and get YouTube to shut down competitors.
00:48:34.000 You have ABC, is it ABC Disney?
00:48:36.000 ABC Disney.
00:48:38.000 They step in and they say, you know what, we're going to try and flag and copyright and shut down people who criticize our content.
00:48:43.000 Then they start running more advertising dollars on YouTube so that they can manipulate what gets seen more, what's considered advertiser friendly, and it still doesn't work.
00:48:53.000 People are not tuning in.
00:48:55.000 So there is a silver lining here right now that I think we've learned the media is not the same.
00:49:00.000 Well, we've known this for a while, but it's on showcase right now, 24 hours a day.
00:49:03.000 They're not the people that we thought they were.
00:49:05.000 They don't care about you, and most of all, and most offensively of all, they're incredibly lazy.
00:49:13.000 And right now, they're running an ad for St.
00:49:15.000 Jude, that's nice, but I've been looking at... it's been nothing but like gold.
00:49:18.000 You would think that people who watch CNN spend their days crapping themselves, buying precious metals all day, putting an awning up on their camper.
00:49:27.000 What's the median age down to now?
00:49:29.000 Hey, don't knock it.
00:49:31.000 Come on, man.
00:49:31.000 Hey, those 93-year-olds don't have long.
00:49:34.000 93-year-olds who are at an airport.
00:49:36.000 By the way, what are CNN's ratings right now?
00:49:38.000 Because no one's at the airport.
00:49:39.000 That's true.
00:49:40.000 Are they accounting for that?
00:49:41.000 No one's in the dentist's office lobby where it's just playing non-stop.
00:49:45.000 They've got to be way down.
00:49:46.000 That's the greatest compliment Anderson Cooper has received.
00:49:48.000 That guy has actually aged pretty well.
00:49:51.000 Are you turning on the gas?
00:49:52.000 Okay.
00:49:55.000 That's what they have on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:49:58.000 That's their one-star review.
00:49:59.000 It's like every office you go in just has it playing in the background.
00:50:01.000 You're like, it's so low quality it can be the Yanni of the elevator.
00:50:10.000 It's your muzak for the lobby, visually.
00:50:13.000 I couldn't tell you a Yanni song.
00:50:15.000 Ooh, I've got them all.
00:50:16.000 Give me a Yanni song.
00:50:16.000 What?
00:50:17.000 Actually, so, you know I play violin at a lot of weddings and piano and stuff.
00:50:20.000 I didn't know you did at weddings.
00:50:21.000 Yeah, so I've actually played at like- You're a very well-paid lawyer.
00:50:25.000 50 weddings?
00:50:26.000 I mean, but I've been doing it since I was a kid.
00:50:28.000 Like, my sister and I would, you know, every other weekend would play at weddings and, you know, make some money and all that stuff.
00:50:33.000 Pre-bar.
00:50:34.000 Yeah, pre-bar.
00:50:35.000 And I've had a couple themed weddings that I've had to play at, and one of them was, like, all Yanni songs, one was Enya, one was Guitar Hero songs.
00:50:42.000 It's funny, I was gonna say Enya.
00:50:43.000 What does that even mean?
00:50:44.000 Guitar Hero.
00:50:45.000 Like, yeah, I had to play songs from Guitar Hero 1, because that was how this couple met.
00:50:49.000 They met playing Guitar Hero.
00:50:51.000 I don't like that.
00:50:52.000 I don't like that story.
00:50:53.000 I don't like it when people, they get cute with their wedding, like, we like Star Wars!
00:50:57.000 So they dress up like Chewbacca and R2, or like, we're indie, so they wear Converse All-Stars.
00:51:02.000 This is the one opportunity where you have to follow the tradition, class it up.
00:51:08.000 It was not classy.
00:51:10.000 Meeting a guitar hero, it's no Pride and Prejudice.
00:51:13.000 No story for the ages.
00:51:15.000 I mean, no one was like, oh, amazing, I look back fondly on Franz Ferdinand.
00:51:20.000 No, not great.
00:51:22.000 You know what's crazy?
00:51:24.000 What?
00:51:24.000 When was the last time we did $30 off?
00:51:27.000 The last time we did $30 off?
00:51:29.000 Gosh, I don't know.
00:51:30.000 Of course, students, veterans get it, but now everyone gets $30 off.
00:51:33.000 It was a Vox Adpocalypse.
00:51:35.000 It was a reminder, because when you were talking about where all the different folks were having to deal with the media and whether they can trust these things and how this platform goes around, The only way it happens is Mug Club. 0.55
00:51:46.000 And that was the only way we had it back then.
00:51:46.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:51:48.000 And thank you so much to everyone who's joined.
00:51:49.000 Again, we're doing this because this is how we can give back.
00:51:52.000 We have decided to take an acceptable risk, and everyone here is quarantined just at the office and just at home, washing our hands, hand sanitizer everywhere.
00:51:58.000 Though, I'm gonna be honest, I'm not really at, none of us here at significant risk, so we're not exactly kamikaze-ing Pearl Harbor, like, going out in our shield.
00:52:09.000 No, I mean, he might.
00:52:11.000 But the point is, it's not that big a deal.
00:52:13.000 And we figured we could serve you more.
00:52:15.000 And a lot of people out there, we notice more people are watching in the morning, the evening shows in the morning.
00:52:20.000 Because you get up, you aren't necessarily going to work, and people are listening to the show at home.
00:52:25.000 And so we thought, OK, three times a week, let's do this where we can interact with folks.
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00:52:47.000 We don't want to do super chat on YouTube, because not only do they not pay us, but then they can spy on us.
00:52:52.000 So we'll be doing that, doing that, talking to people, getting some interesting questions from the biggest fans.
00:52:52.000 Right.
00:52:56.000 Get off the TikTok.
00:52:57.000 Do you want some inside baseball before we go to the last story of the day?
00:52:59.000 Speaking of media, did I ever tell you the story about when I went into a meeting at MSNBC?
00:53:02.000 No.
00:53:04.000 I can talk about this now, right?
00:53:06.000 I don't know.
00:53:09.000 I was with Fox News for four and a half years, okay?
00:53:13.000 And what happened was, initially, my contract was like six months.
00:53:16.000 So it was every six months, every six months, every six months.
00:53:19.000 And I found out they would do this to a lot of the younger contributors.
00:53:21.000 By young, I mean I was 20.
00:53:22.000 Maybe I was 21.
00:53:24.000 And the only other guy who was my age was Steve Doocy's son, who basically showed up drunk all the time to do some report.
00:53:30.000 He was like, ugh.
00:53:31.000 They'd be like, hey, Steve Doocy, Pete Doocy, Steve Doocy's son, what's going to be going on in there on the street?
00:53:38.000 You send your own guy.
00:53:41.000 That's a horrible report.
00:53:42.000 My dad hosts.
00:53:45.000 So I was very young outside of him.
00:53:47.000 My point is, I don't really think he counts.
00:53:49.000 And then every six months, we'd have to sit down for renewal, and sometimes it would lapse for like two weeks.
00:53:54.000 So at one period, it had lapsed for two weeks, and I was still appearing.
00:53:56.000 And I met with some executives at MSNBC.
00:53:59.000 And I didn't really know I was meeting with them.
00:54:01.000 I just thought I was meeting with someone who was doing things.
00:54:03.000 So I hope I'm fine here.
00:54:03.000 It's not a violation.
00:54:04.000 Because the contract had lapsed!
00:54:06.000 I had no interest in Going to MSNBC.
00:54:08.000 But Alex Wagner was there?
00:54:10.000 Alex Wagner?
00:54:11.000 I have never used your name!
00:54:13.000 So now you have the inside scoop.
00:54:14.000 She's there, she does like the World's Greatest Circus. 1.00
00:54:16.000 It's a show on Showtime now or something.
00:54:18.000 Very liberal.
00:54:18.000 She was a host at MSNBC.
00:54:20.000 So I go in, some executives are there, and they were talking about Rick Perry.
00:54:24.000 Because this was back in the primary, you know, it was still Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
00:54:28.000 And they said, we heard that Rick Perry is gay.
00:54:31.000 Do you think he's gay?
00:54:32.000 And I said, I don't know.
00:54:34.000 What are you talking about?
00:54:35.000 I don't know.
00:54:35.000 And they were going through this.
00:54:36.000 I have a source that says it's a very high possibility.
00:54:38.000 And so everyone just kind of got quiet.
00:54:39.000 And I said, well, Hillary Clinton's a dyke. 1.00
00:54:43.000 And I said, well, I have a source that says that.
00:54:45.000 So I'm just going to say that.
00:54:48.000 Yeah.
00:54:48.000 They said, well, what's your source?
00:54:50.000 I said, what's your source?
00:54:51.000 I was very childish.
00:54:52.000 They said, well, our source is anonymous.
00:54:54.000 I said, well, mine's anonymous.
00:54:56.000 And then she was talking about, Alex Wagner was there and she was talking about, she's like,
00:54:59.000 yeah, you know, I studied at the Sarbonne and speaks French.
00:55:03.000 And she says, so I speak French and some international story. And so I just said, Oh, I
00:55:06.000 just said, Yes.
00:55:15.000 She responded for everyone.
00:55:16.000 She didn't even say oui.
00:55:17.000 I called her out.
00:55:18.000 Maybe she does now.
00:55:19.000 She didn't speak a word of French.
00:55:21.000 She could have at least pulled out oui.
00:55:22.000 Needless to say, they had no interest in me working at MSNBC.
00:55:26.000 But it was just remarkable to me.
00:55:27.000 Oh, the sorbonne.
00:55:28.000 And she was pronouncing French words the way someone who wasn't French but wanted to sound French would pronounce them.
00:55:35.000 So, you know, we'll do this.
00:55:36.000 A little bit of inside baseball every now and then, because hopefully it's not a legal violation of contract.
00:55:40.000 And I enjoyed my time at Fox News.
00:55:41.000 I didn't so much enjoy that meeting at MSNBC.
00:55:43.000 Too late to worry about it.
00:55:44.000 Too late to worry about it.
00:55:46.000 Hey, let's show. 0.98
00:55:46.000 It's Sanjay Gupta and John King. 0.98
00:55:49.000 They all hate Trump.
00:55:50.000 Those are actually the areas where we've got to be paying very close attention to, not saying that they're going to be fine.
00:55:56.000 They haven't had many cases yet.
00:55:57.000 They're going to be fine.
00:55:58.000 Areas with few infections can turn into big fires without social distancing.
00:56:02.000 It is a fundamental difference, John, between what we were hearing just last week, this idea that maybe those places could start to be open.
00:56:09.000 First the disease, now the fires.
00:56:11.000 Pay more attention to them.
00:56:13.000 First of all, John, just practically speaking, it's really about the number of people per capita Oh, good!
00:56:19.000 Thank you!
00:56:20.000 Okay, that's good.
00:56:20.000 Okay, that's good.
00:56:21.000 ... the total number of people.
00:56:22.000 Whenever you look at these maps, think about this per capita.
00:56:25.000 New York obviously much more densely populated than some of these other areas.
00:56:28.000 But number two, we haven't been doing testing there yet.
00:56:30.000 We really don't know how significant the problem is.
00:56:33.000 Don't you notice how he goes like, the numbers should matter per capita.
00:56:36.000 Like, oh, that's some good news because per capita we're doing far better than these other
00:56:39.000 countries as far as death rate.
00:56:40.000 But we really don't have enough testing.
00:56:42.000 But hold on a second.
00:56:43.000 Our overall infection rate is higher than anywhere else because we have an obscene amount
00:56:47.000 of testing right now.
00:56:48.000 We're testing a lot of people.
00:56:50.000 And we're also not lying about our testing.
00:56:51.000 Let's be really clear about that.
00:56:52.000 We're not like, no one have Corona.
00:56:53.000 Are you sure about that?
00:56:54.000 No.
00:56:55.000 Yeah.
00:56:57.000 I do realize I thought last night that I was going through some stuff kind of getting ready for this and well you know just doing the kind of browse looking on various social media but also reading news sites and not a single article talks about the lack of testing as it relates to other countries.
00:57:10.000 Every single one of them is criticizing the United States, saying there's not enough testing
00:57:14.000 here, 300 plus million people, you should have more tests, etc.
00:57:17.000 Here, it's a failure of the government, of Trump, etc.
00:57:21.000 But not a single one of them is posting about other countries that have even worse systems.
00:57:26.000 They don't have any tests at all.
00:57:28.000 But there were actually a few people on social media who I thought, they're just people I've
00:57:32.000 either known from high school or other places, who just said, look, I don't know what's going
00:57:35.000 on, but I can tell you this.
00:57:37.000 I don't believe that there are these other countries that have zero numbers right now
00:57:42.000 that are being reported by the media as having zero or single digit cases of infection, not
00:57:47.000 even death.
00:57:48.000 And yet, we're saying there's no number of testing that's happening there.
00:57:52.000 So you're telling me those are the numbers we should believe?
00:57:55.000 The only number you can really trust, and you still can't trust it, the most accurate number we have is the total number of deaths.
00:58:01.000 Not even the mortality rate as a percentage of the disease, because we don't know how many people have it, and now they're determining that more people have it who are asymptomatic.
00:58:08.000 Again, you hear that, you go, oh, okay, so more people have it than we realize.
00:58:11.000 They're asymptomatic or it's very mild.
00:58:12.000 And they go, that means they can transmit it!
00:58:14.000 Well, hold on a second, let's look at the bright side.
00:58:16.000 That means that the death rate is much lower.
00:58:18.000 You guys were saying 6%, 5%, 3%.
00:58:19.000 It's well under 1%, particularly for people who are under the age of 80 years old.
00:58:25.000 Well, yeah, and those are the only things we have to compare it to.
00:58:28.000 We can only compare it to how other countries are handling this exact thing.
00:58:32.000 So, like, we can look back and see other pandemics and how other presidents may have handled Those, but the only other people who are handling this one are the other countries around us.
00:58:42.000 So it depends on what you compare it to.
00:58:43.000 And it's remarkable to me when they compare us to South Korea.
00:58:45.000 It's like, hold on a second.
00:58:45.000 South Korea is a country, first off, they didn't trust the intel from China.
00:58:48.000 They got on it really quickly.
00:58:50.000 They actually did farm it out to private testing.
00:58:52.000 And by the way, some of these tests that were created by private companies were offered to the CDC, FDA, but they weren't approved.
00:58:58.000 Only the CDC's kits were approved by the FDA.
00:59:00.000 The ones that go into your brain.
00:59:02.000 Do you have corona?
00:59:03.000 I don't know, but I think my brain has a sword in it.
00:59:07.000 It's just a problem.
00:59:09.000 And so South Korea had privatized testing, and the government basically docks their citizens.
00:59:13.000 So if you are willing to do that, this is something we need to take into account.
00:59:16.000 Should your data be given over to the government, and should they then have the right to post it publicly so people know where to avoid corona hotspots?
00:59:24.000 Let's be really clear.
00:59:25.000 This does matter.
00:59:25.000 It doesn't mean that you don't care about lives.
00:59:28.000 if you care about the lives of every American thereafter who basically dissolves all of 0.90
00:59:33.000 their rights to a government.
00:59:35.000 Because imagine if this were to happen under a government with like a 20% death rate, which
00:59:40.000 is what they always predicted when they were predicting like a global pandemic, you know,
00:59:43.000 like contagion.
00:59:44.000 They were talking 20, 30, 40% death rate, and you're talking about like a third of the
00:59:48.000 world being infected.
00:59:50.000 So imagine if we were in an actual pandemic, how quickly your rights would go away.
00:59:55.000 And not just because of the government violently seizing them.
00:59:57.000 Donald Trump really hasn't been doing that.
00:59:58.000 It's because of the people demanding it, and the media demanding it.
01:00:01.000 If you don't demand that there is a federal lockdown that puts all businesses out of work as we know them right now, you, for some reason, don't care about the people who are being lost to corona.
01:00:13.000 Which, by the way, if you calculate it all up, still less at this point than flu deaths.
01:00:19.000 We need to take all of these things into account.
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01:01:30.000 Let's get to the last story right now because nothing's been changing in the news.
01:01:35.000 They've been complaining.
01:01:37.000 about President Trump's really bad job, right?
01:01:39.000 This is what they're trying to run with.
01:01:41.000 So I think we have a clip right now about Pelosi putting Donald Trump on blast, if you look at the headlines over there at Huffington Post or Salon.
01:01:49.000 They put him on blast!
01:01:50.000 Oh no!
01:01:51.000 The most powerful man in the world is really, I mean, he has to deal with John King doing a Skype hit with female Skeletor. 0.84
01:02:00.000 He's quivering in his boots.
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01:02:05.000 Let's roll clip three. 0.99
01:02:06.000 Are you saying that his downplaying ultimately cost American lives?
01:02:11.000 Yes, I am.
01:02:12.000 I'm saying that because when he made, the other day when he was signing the bill, he said, just think, 20 days ago, everything was great.
01:02:20.000 No, everything wasn't great.
01:02:22.000 We had nearly 500 cases and 17 deaths already.
01:02:26.000 And in that 20 days, because we weren't prepared, we now have 2,000 deaths and 100,000 cases.
01:02:35.000 This matters because of the content.
01:02:36.000 No, everything wasn't okay.
01:02:37.000 We had 500 cases and 17 deaths.
01:02:40.000 I don't have the source in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that's fewer deaths than people from toasters in that period of time.
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01:02:57.000 The reason why most people looked at that and said, OK, a couple hundred infected, 17 deaths, that's really not serious.
01:03:03.000 It's because statistically, it's really not at that point.
01:03:05.000 And that's why it was the left.
01:03:07.000 It was people like you, Pelosi, and people in New York who were saying that it wasn't a big deal and actually discouraged people from actively leaving because they thought there was a threat posed.
01:03:18.000 If you don't believe me, here's a clip.
01:03:20.000 At least clip four, yeah.
01:03:21.000 The important thing for New Yorkers to know is that in the city currently, their risk is low.
01:03:27.000 And our city preparedness is high.
01:03:30.000 And so we know that this virus can be transmitted from one individual to another, but that it's typically people who live together.
01:03:39.000 That there's no risk at this point in time, we're always learning more, about having it be transmitted in casual contact.
01:03:47.000 Nah, the gray hair Tulsi wore it better.
01:03:50.000 I just feel like that information was wrong.
01:03:52.000 I just pulled out my earphones.
01:03:57.000 No wait, now I can hear.
01:03:58.000 There you go.
01:03:59.000 It's live!
01:04:00.000 Just wiggle it.
01:04:01.000 It's live, bitch! 1.00
01:04:02.000 Oh, this is live, come in.
01:04:03.000 We're doing it for y'all!
01:04:04.000 This also matters because the World Health Organization downplayed it taking advice
01:04:09.000 from China early on, saying that there was no evidence, I think we have these as overlays,
01:04:13.000 of human contact.
01:04:14.000 And they recommended against travel restrictions in January.
01:04:17.000 Here's another fast fact.
01:04:18.000 During that period, Donald Trump finished creating a Chinese virus task force, January 19th, less than a week after the World Health Organization said there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
01:04:29.000 Then he banned, Trump banned travel to China, this is important to note, which Biden accused him of being xenophobic for doing.
01:04:36.000 That's clip five.
01:04:38.000 This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia.
01:04:48.000 This is no time for xenophobia?
01:04:49.000 Here's the thing, I don't really, I don't know what xenophobia means.
01:04:54.000 From what I understand it's the fear of everything.
01:04:56.000 It's the fear of anything that's not familiar.
01:04:58.000 Yes, the fear of anything that's different.
01:05:01.000 And I think that everybody has a certain level of xenophobia than if you're talking about being introduced to something new.
01:05:06.000 In other words, people are cautious no matter what it is.
01:05:08.000 If you're walking on new ground in the forest, you're like, I don't know, is there going to be a bear trap?
01:05:11.000 I have no idea.
01:05:12.000 You don't know.
01:05:12.000 I always look for bear traps, because wolverines, some guys get caught in them, and then they chew off their own leg and they chase down the person who laid the bear trap because they tracked down the scent, and I wrote a short story about it in grade school.
01:05:20.000 I failed miserably, mainly because I just ripped off Jurassic Park and replaced the Velociraptors with a wolverine.
01:05:25.000 The point is, check for bear traps!
01:05:27.000 It's a concern.
01:05:28.000 It's a concern.
01:05:29.000 Please.
01:05:30.000 And don't plagiarize Steven Spielberg if you're in school.
01:05:34.000 They catch on to that sort of thing.
01:05:35.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this whole coronavirus is just a cover-up for the bear trap.
01:05:39.000 It's just a cover-up for Big Bear Trap.
01:05:41.000 They're everywhere.
01:05:42.000 Big Bear Trap.
01:05:44.000 You can get them at Menards.
01:05:45.000 Save more money at Menards.
01:05:47.000 Right?
01:05:47.000 Isn't that a commercial?
01:05:48.000 No?
01:05:48.000 I have no idea.
01:05:49.000 Maybe it's a Midwestern thing.
01:05:50.000 And I think I confused it with Gander Mountain.
01:05:52.000 Gander Mountain is the outdoor one.
01:05:53.000 The point is, if you need a bear trap, there's a way to find it on the dark web.
01:05:58.000 Or, you can walk into an Ace Hardware, you can also find them.
01:06:02.000 You don't really need the dark web.
01:06:03.000 Or a VPN.
01:06:04.000 Ace Hardware.
01:06:05.000 So, there are multiple ways to skin a cat.
01:06:08.000 This is remarkable to me.
01:06:09.000 Donald Trump cut down travel to China, right?
01:06:12.000 Put a ban in place, which they accused him of being racist doing that.
01:06:15.000 This was, keep in mind, at a time when the World Health Organization, who by the way, when they had their conversations, excluded Taiwan, which to me is very telling.
01:06:21.000 Did you see that video of the World Health Organization, the representative there?
01:06:24.000 He was being interviewed on Skype and he just acted like he didn't hear the question regarding Taiwan.
01:06:30.000 He said, yeah I don't know if we can bring it up or we can bring it up tonight.
01:06:33.000 He said, I didn't hear you cut out.
01:06:35.000 She said, well let me ask you again.
01:06:36.000 He said, no let's move on to the next question.
01:06:38.000 Wow.
01:06:39.000 Wow.
01:06:40.000 So this idea that the World Health Organization, by the way, that these sort of international
01:06:44.000 governmental bodies have no bias is completely untrue because they were saying there was
01:06:48.000 no risk at this point.
01:06:49.000 Donald Trump said, you know what?
01:06:51.000 I think there's some risk.
01:06:53.000 We're going to have a task force.
01:06:54.000 We're going to ban travel to China.
01:06:55.000 I said, no, no, no, there's no risk.
01:06:56.000 And then Joe Biden said, hey, that's racist.
01:06:58.000 And now they're blaming him for not having done enough.
01:07:01.000 And that is probably why our last fast fact here, uh, Donald Trump is gaining and actually eclipsing Joe Biden due to the crisis.
01:07:09.000 More people approve of president Trump's handling of the crisis than ever before.
01:07:13.000 And Joe Biden is not doing so well.
01:07:15.000 And I don't mean that he's not just doing well in the polls.
01:07:17.000 I mean, he's not doing well in that Corona should be the least of his worries.
01:07:22.000 He should be concerned about that cranial microbe that, was it cat pee or cat poop in Brazil that makes people really aggressive?
01:07:29.000 The soccer players?
01:07:31.000 Whatever's happening there, there's something short-circuiting in Biden's brain.
01:07:34.000 Hey, it's really hard for the guy.
01:07:35.000 All he has is challenging people to push-ups, but he has to stay so far away from them right now.
01:07:39.000 Right.
01:07:40.000 No one to challenge.
01:07:41.000 And he can't do push-ups on the ground because then he has a problem with the contact.
01:07:45.000 Yeah, it's terrible.
01:07:46.000 Also, he can't do push-ups because he's incredibly weak.
01:07:48.000 It's hard out there for a Biden.
01:07:51.000 I mean, he would actually probably fare more poorly than women at PT in the Marines. 1.00
01:07:55.000 At this point, yeah.
01:07:56.000 At this point.
01:07:56.000 Are you looking over there?
01:07:57.000 Are we bringing anything up?
01:07:58.000 We have that clip of this person avoiding the question.
01:08:02.000 Oh, we do?
01:08:03.000 Okay, let's bring up this clip.
01:08:04.000 This is a representative of the World Health Organization.
01:08:06.000 Again, and not to be a sore spot, but you and I, we've talked about Taiwan.
01:08:09.000 Taiwan kind of been left out in the cold here, and it's relevant. 0.78
01:08:13.000 Here's the World Health Organization, I don't remember his name, representative, playing it off like he didn't hear the question.
01:08:19.000 The WHO considers Taiwan's membership.
01:08:23.000 Hello?
01:08:35.000 I couldn't hear your question.
01:08:37.000 Let me repeat the question.
01:08:38.000 Let's move to another one then.
01:08:42.000 I'm actually curious on talking about Taiwan as well, on Taiwan's case.
01:08:49.000 What?
01:08:50.000 What?
01:08:50.000 And he closes it.
01:08:51.000 Wow.
01:08:52.000 Wow.
01:08:53.000 And keep in mind, I don't think this is a conspiracy or theory at this point where you
01:08:58.000 say China has not been, the Chinese government, they've not been honest or forthright about
01:09:02.000 what's been happening with the coronavirus, and the World Health Organization has not
01:09:06.000 treated all nations equally.
01:09:08.000 They've been carrying the water of the Chinese government, not the Chinese people.
01:09:11.000 I don't know why the Taiwanese couldn't have a membership.
01:09:13.000 You might know more about that.
01:09:14.000 Doesn't it seem like the Taiwanese should at least be involved?
01:09:17.000 Well, the big deal, the nutshell is that China doesn't recognize Taiwan as a separate nation.
01:09:23.000 It recognizes it only as a rogue state that is part of China.
01:09:26.000 So any national or international organization that recognizes Taiwan instantly goes on the China shit list.
01:09:33.000 Right.
01:09:33.000 And they just say, look, if you recognize Taiwan as its own country, you're dead to us.
01:09:37.000 And so the WHO is an international organization that receives support from another number of countries and of the big five, China is one of them.
01:09:45.000 And so when China says, hey, we're going to stop cooperating with you or funding you or whatever it may be, who knows what these conversations are like.
01:09:51.000 But we do know what they could be like because it's the same public conversation that China has all the time.
01:09:57.000 If you recognize Taiwan, you're dead to us. 1.00
01:09:59.000 So we know what's happening here.
01:10:00.000 And that reporter had an opportunity to ask so much.
01:10:04.000 In a manner of speaking, she didn't really get the opportunity.
01:10:06.000 Well, right.
01:10:07.000 I mean, set aside our political differences, China-Taiwan, in this pandemic, are we going to care about Taiwan?
01:10:13.000 And somebody was going through a tunnel with their Skype account.
01:10:15.000 And by the way, at the very least, it's relevant because of the way the government would be handling it, right?
01:10:20.000 Taiwan, they would be operating autonomously from China, certainly how they're dealing with this in their country.
01:10:26.000 Well, they would be operating autonomously.
01:10:28.000 They would be getting support from a lot of their own supporters, which includes the United States.
01:10:31.000 They have a different government.
01:10:32.000 But if you think about the places that are highly at risk, we're all concerned about Korea because it's so connected there to China, just across on another peninsula.
01:10:41.000 Taiwan and China, the number of flights between those two countries, I don't know what they are, but the amount of travel directly or indirectly in that hemisphere that includes Taiwan is extraordinary.
01:10:50.000 So when you think about a place that's going to need support and certainly wants to know does it have the support of the World Health Organization and they can't even get an answer, it's a big concern.
01:10:59.000 And keep in mind, the World Health Organization, this is the organization that went with these studies, right?
01:11:03.000 These projections.
01:11:04.000 If you look at their Twitter, you look at their social media, that 2.5 million Americans would die.
01:11:08.000 The idea that the Chinese government did great work and everything that they could to try and contain this virus.
01:11:12.000 I don't know if they retweeted it, but certainly the Chinese government did.
01:11:15.000 Their foreign minister repeatedly that this was actually a virus created by the American soldiers, by the way.
01:11:20.000 And people were responding when Donald Trump responded in kind, calling it the Chinese virus.
01:11:24.000 Why does it matter?
01:11:24.000 Because they do not get to rewrite history.
01:11:27.000 Again, aiming it at the Chinese government, the World Health Organization.
01:11:30.000 If you look at the timeline, all of the information that has been fed to the international community from China, World Health has echoed it almost exactly to a T. And then when questioned about Taiwan, again, who was an ally, the United States supports them.
01:11:42.000 We recognize them, I believe.
01:11:44.000 We certainly understand that they are... Do we officially recognize them?
01:11:50.000 It's a complicated issue, but they operate autonomously in a lot of ways, in a way that we would actually be required to provide them with some kind of aid, and we do.
01:11:58.000 They cannot even answer the question.
01:12:00.000 That should tell you how terrified they are, and how beholden not to the people of China, but to the government of China that they actually are.
01:12:08.000 And keep in mind, this is the same organization that ranked the United States, I believe, 36th An international healthcare right next to Slovenia and Colombia.
01:12:17.000 So do they have a vested interest in playing down the success of the United States?
01:12:22.000 And do they have a vested interest in trying to parrot the messages coming from the Chinese government?
01:12:27.000 They certainly have done that.
01:12:29.000 They've done that thus far, consistently, and it's something that we need to be concerned with, especially if we are talking about shutting down the American economy, and by proxy, the global economy, as the result of this information which is, by and large, being provided to us by the World Health Care Organization.
01:12:46.000 Following the money, following the relationships, it does matter.
01:12:50.000 And if we leave you with nothing else right now, we will see you tonight at 9 p.m.
01:12:54.000 Eastern.
01:12:55.000 It is this, that I understand people care on all different sides.
01:12:59.000 I understand that people care.
01:13:00.000 They don't want their grandparents to die, neither do I. They don't want people who are at risk to die, neither do I.
01:13:03.000 And people on the other side also care when they say, I don't want every friend I know to be unemployed or small business that I know to go under.
01:13:13.000 Sure, the big boys may survive because of the never-ending supply of corporate bailouts, but guess what?
01:13:16.000 A lot of small businesses will shutter their doors forevermore.
01:13:20.000 There is a balance to be had here, and I think the numbers do matter.
01:13:23.000 especially the source of those numbers.
01:13:25.000 We're talking about the World Health Care Organization.
01:13:26.000 The numbers matter for us to balance the risk-reward ratio.
01:13:31.000 It doesn't mean that you don't care about any lives lost if you want to prevent damage going forward as effectively as possible, both health-wise and economically.
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01:14:30.000 Then you have him.
01:14:31.000 Oh, no, really.
01:14:32.000 I think you ought to give him a chance.
01:14:34.000 He seems kind of helpless.
01:14:36.000 Helplessness is the last thing I am looking for.
01:14:39.000 I'm just a man.
01:14:56.000 I'm just a man.
01:15:15.000 If we're going to spend the rest of our lives together, you must learn not to interrupt.
01:15:22.000 The rest of our lives?
01:15:23.000 Yes.
01:15:24.000 You mean marriage?
01:15:25.000 Of course.
01:15:27.000 You've got a nerve.
01:15:29.000 Got several of them.
01:15:31.000 We're all functioning normally.
01:15:33.000 Do you realize what you've said?
01:15:35.000 I should do.
01:15:36.000 It's pounded in my brain often enough, asleep and awake, in the drowsy fantasy moment of every lonely dawn.
01:15:42.000 Well, come on.
01:15:44.000 What's your answer?
01:15:45.000 You've taken my breath away.
01:15:47.000 It's just the sudden realization, you see, of the fact that I love you.
01:15:54.000 I love you.
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