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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the program. It is Friday, and it is Pat and Stu here for Glenn.

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00:02:14.900 I don't know if you talked about it yesterday or not, because, I mean, I'm sorry, I missed it.

00:02:18.280 I missed the broadcast yesterday.

00:02:20.260 But there was a video released from the state of New York where people are chanting and hollering in the streets,

00:02:26.980 and I can't make out what they're saying, and I was hoping, especially used to, that you'd be able to,

00:02:31.320 I know you understand New York lingo, that you could help me understand what they're saying in this video. 0.99

00:02:39.480 Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! 1.00

00:02:42.720 Tough to pick up. 1.00

00:02:43.300 Womo sucks! 1.00

00:02:44.660 Can we hear it again? 1.00

00:02:46.640 Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! 1.00

00:02:51.860 I can't make it out what they're saying. 1.00

00:02:54.440 It almost sounds like. 1.00

00:02:55.980 Somebody sucks. 1.00

00:02:57.400 I think. 1.00

00:02:58.100 Can we hear it one more time? I can't quite.

00:03:00.520 Womo sucks! Womo sucks! Womo sucks! 1.00

00:03:04.300 Womo sucks! 1.00

00:03:05.700 It's difficult, Jeffy. 1.00

00:03:06.820 I know.

00:03:07.400 It's tough to pick up.

00:03:08.720 I think it might be. 0.99

00:03:09.380 It almost sounds like something like, Womo sucks? 1.00

00:03:13.040 Womo sucks! 1.00

00:03:13.480 Yes! 1.00

00:03:14.120 That's it! 1.00

00:03:14.720 Womo sucks! 1.00

00:03:15.480 I knew you would know. 0.99

00:03:16.160 Thank you. 0.99

00:03:16.740 And it's interesting, because in New York, the governor of New York is Andrew Cuomo, and he sucks. 0.98

00:03:22.480 So that would make sense. 0.99

00:03:23.660 Womo sucks makes perfect sense. 1.00

00:03:25.440 I don't know why I didn't think of that. 1.00

00:03:28.800 Gosh darn it. 0.93

00:03:29.320 Thank you. 0.93

00:03:29.900 You're welcome.

00:03:30.660 I'm so glad I brought that in to figure that one out.

00:03:33.340 I was talking to somebody the other day about this, a relative who lives in New York, and

00:03:37.980 we were talking about Andrew Cuomo.

00:03:39.600 And of course, obviously, I believe Andrew Cuomo is awful.

00:03:43.140 Dot com.

00:03:43.720 But we were talking about, like, it hasn't really changed in the polling, his approval

00:03:50.520 rating, all that much.

00:03:52.520 It's gone from, like, at one point, it was almost like 80%, and it's gone down to, like,

00:03:55.960 the 70s or the 60s.

00:03:57.720 But it needs to be, like, one.

00:04:00.020 Like, one.

00:04:00.460 Right?

00:04:00.760 Like, I can understand his family.

00:04:02.460 At the most.

00:04:03.060 Yeah.

00:04:03.320 Like, maybe his family.

00:04:04.060 Chris, his brother likes him.

00:04:05.680 Yeah.

00:04:05.820 And that's it.

00:04:06.340 That's it.

00:04:07.160 It should be, like, one person.

00:04:08.160 I mean, his daughter doesn't even like him anymore.

00:04:09.100 The daughter had the boyfriend that was working at the mansion, and Cuomo shipped him off

00:04:14.140 to the border.

00:04:17.120 No, you're seeing my daughter?

00:04:18.400 Yeah, no.

00:04:19.000 Canadian border.

00:04:19.820 Yeah.

00:04:20.260 That is great.

00:04:21.440 It was great.

00:04:22.180 That actually kind of, something like that did happen.

00:04:24.400 Yes.

00:04:25.220 So, you know, I don't know.

00:04:27.240 Will it turn around in New York?

00:04:28.260 I mean, they're obviously so liberal, but at some point when, you know, you have a liberal

00:04:34.600 governor who you might like some of their policies, but you realize, you know, they've

00:04:38.840 killed your grandparent.

00:04:40.860 You know, I don't know. 0.85

00:04:42.000 That would tend to dampen your attitude towards him, I think.

00:04:45.180 I would think so.

00:04:45.960 It definitely seems like New Yorkers are becoming more outspoken about how bad Cuomo is, but

00:04:49.840 the polls haven't moved enough for my liking yet, Pat or Jeff.

00:04:53.660 It's pissing me off.

00:04:56.140 Also, I'm looking forward to the new, brand new streaming service.

00:04:59.160 We don't have enough streaming services in our lives anymore.

00:05:02.880 No, Quibi's gone.

00:05:04.440 Quibi's no more. 0.98

00:05:05.460 Quibi's no more. 0.98

00:05:05.960 Quibi's gone.

00:05:06.500 This is exciting news.

00:05:07.580 Discovery Plus.

00:05:09.340 Discovery.

00:05:09.860 Discovery.

00:05:10.760 Discovery Plus is going to be a new streaming service.

00:05:13.240 Looking forward to it.

00:05:13.800 We've all been clamoring for that.

00:05:14.940 I know.

00:05:15.360 And finally they responded.

00:05:17.060 55,000 episodes, 2,500 current and classic shows.

00:05:23.320 I mean, and it's going to be, all their networks, I mean, they have HGTV, Food, TLC, Own, Planet

00:05:29.840 Earth, and of course the ever popular, and more.

00:05:34.520 I love that chat.

00:05:35.540 I know, me too.

00:05:37.860 How much are you willing to pay for the streaming service for Discovery Plus?

00:05:42.580 I'm going to go $0, but also $0.

00:05:46.060 They're charging a little bit more.

00:05:47.300 They're charging a little bit more than that.

00:05:48.580 Are they really?

00:05:48.940 Yeah, they are.

00:05:49.400 $4.99.

00:05:51.020 $4.99 a month, $6.99 ad-free for Discovery Plus.

00:05:56.300 That's interesting.

00:05:57.880 I don't know.

00:05:58.740 I know.

00:05:59.360 It's just people will get to the point.

00:06:00.820 And look, we happen to be, there happens to be a Blaze TV that we all love and would love

00:06:05.960 you to subscribe to.

00:06:06.880 Please do, blazetv.com slash Glenn.

00:06:10.160 But it is, there is some sort of, like, how many different subscriptions?

00:06:15.280 I have no idea how many I have.

00:06:16.500 I feel like I have 50.

00:06:17.960 Yeah, that's pretty close.

00:06:19.000 Well, you look at your Amazon, right?

00:06:20.260 Everybody's got Amazon Prime.

00:06:22.040 Most people have Netflix, although we dropped ours because of that child porn thing.

00:06:28.000 Just throw that out there. 0.96

00:06:29.200 You've got your Hulu, you've got your CBS, you've got Disney Plus, you've got AMC has

00:06:36.160 a streaming thing, too, right?

00:06:37.380 Apple TV Plus.

00:06:38.220 Apple TV Plus.

00:06:39.620 And looking forward to the new Hillary Clinton broadcast she just announced yesterday with

00:06:44.280 Apple TV Plus.

00:06:45.120 It's Hillary and Chelsea, right?

00:06:46.240 Yeah.

00:06:46.700 Doing what?

00:06:48.220 They've created a production company, and their first thing is going to be the book that

00:06:52.080 they put together about Strong Women.

00:06:54.300 Strong Women? 1.00

00:06:55.080 Yeah, Strong.

00:06:55.620 It's going to be great.

00:06:56.400 Oh, wow.

00:06:56.880 Can't wait for that.

00:06:57.720 It's going to be great.

00:06:58.380 And that's Apple TV.

00:06:59.240 It makes me want to subscribe.

00:07:00.480 Man, do I want Apple TV Plus.

00:07:02.560 Uh-huh.

00:07:03.400 So, I mean, that's quite a number.

00:07:05.400 Yeah, there's so many.

00:07:06.480 There's way more than that.

00:07:08.180 HBO Max.

00:07:09.040 HBO Max, right, yeah.

00:07:09.720 HBO Max.

00:07:10.440 And HBO Max just announced that they've got the new deal now where Warner Brothers, their

00:07:16.380 movies, remember, they're going to do Wonder Woman in December this month, going to launch

00:07:23.460 at movie theaters and HBO Max for free.

00:07:26.520 Yes.

00:07:27.000 Yeah.

00:07:27.160 They just inked the deal.

00:07:28.620 Now, all of 2021 movies on Warner Brothers will be released at the theater and on HBO

00:07:33.780 Max for free for the first 30 days.

00:07:36.460 Seems hard to overstate how big a deal that is, right?

00:07:38.880 I know.

00:07:39.440 For that industry.

00:07:40.020 Wow.

00:07:40.340 I mean, I've heard theater chain stocks are going in the tank.

00:07:46.020 Is this the end of the theaters?

00:07:47.940 I don't know.

00:07:48.260 No, I mean, Universal just made that deal, right, where they were going to start.

00:07:51.780 They made the deal with the movie theaters that they're going to allow their movies to

00:07:57.200 be released at the movie theaters for 30 days before it goes to video on demand.

00:08:03.120 But if it doesn't make, I think it was the $50 million mark, then it's 17 days and it goes

00:08:08.820 to video on demand.

00:08:10.300 And Universal is giving the movie theaters a cut of all of that, though.

00:08:14.540 So, you know, we'll see what happens.

00:08:17.140 I knew as soon as they announced the Wonder Woman deal, and this was announced on Chewing

00:08:23.940 the Fat, by the way, that it was going to be a done deal for the rest, for the near

00:08:28.580 future, for sure.

00:08:30.000 And they are saying that this is only, you know, creative solutions for 2021.

00:08:35.460 So those creative solutions are going to be for an unlimited amount of time now in the

00:08:41.760 future until the theaters actually close.

00:08:43.680 And you have this, like, weird chicken and egg thing going on with these movie theaters

00:08:47.380 where you just, they're not releasing any movies, so there's no reason for theaters to

00:08:51.880 be open.

00:08:52.600 Right.

00:08:52.860 And there's no reason to go to theaters because they're not releasing any movies.

00:08:56.700 And there's no reason to release movies because none of the theaters are open.

00:08:59.980 So there's no, there's like no real way to get this to work.

00:09:03.280 This is a great, I think, actually a really good idea because they can guarantee a bunch of

00:09:06.940 cash from HBO and they can still get into the theaters.

00:09:09.680 Well, they were saying HBO Max was saying they only, on HBO Max specifically, only had like

00:09:15.040 9 million subscribers.

00:09:16.680 HBO has 28 million.

00:09:19.220 And many, many of those people that have HBO haven't flipped over to HBO Max yet.

00:09:25.560 So they want everybody to flip over to HBO Max and they want new subscribers, which they're

00:09:29.340 going to get with these movies.

00:09:30.540 They're going to get a lot.

00:09:31.340 No problem.

00:09:32.020 I mean, they're releasing 17 movies that they're going to online, that they're going to release

00:09:36.140 for HBO Max in the theaters.

00:09:38.300 And I mean, who doesn't want to watch Godzilla versus Kong? 0.92

00:09:41.600 I got to say, I'm dumb enough to show up for Godzilla versus Kong.

00:09:46.100 I think it was the last Godzilla movie, which was another like War of the Monsters. 0.51

00:09:55.040 And it was not good.

00:09:58.700 The last Godzilla movie was really bad.

00:10:02.300 I didn't watch it.

00:10:03.040 It was, I assumed that going in, the, the one before that was actually good.

00:10:07.860 The, the, the original one with, uh, with Brian, with Brian Cranston in it.

00:10:11.400 Uh, and that's not the original Godzilla, but the original of this latest string of them.

00:10:15.180 Is that the one where Godzilla said, yes.

00:10:18.120 Isn't that one?

00:10:18.800 Yeah.

00:10:19.040 He said that.

00:10:20.000 You got James Gunn's of the Suicide Squad.

00:10:22.900 Yeah.

00:10:23.420 You have the long, according to this release, you have the long awaited fourth Matrix film.

00:10:29.400 How long you been?

00:10:30.700 I thought they ended that thing.

00:10:32.740 And, and, and, and, and Matrix three was so bad and convoluted.

00:10:37.840 And Matrix two was also really bad.

00:10:40.020 Matrix one is a great movie.

00:10:41.740 All the other ones have been terrible.

00:10:43.580 You have, uh, space jam.

00:10:46.040 Another sequel.

00:10:46.800 This is the one with LeBron.

00:10:48.200 Oh, no.

00:10:49.220 Who just inked a new deal too, by the way.

00:10:50.840 Yes.

00:10:51.040 A lot of money, a lot of money that he doesn't deserve.

00:10:52.560 Speaking of Braun, uh, are you in love with the fact that he may stick around in the NBA long

00:10:56.880 enough to see Bronny get into the league as well?

00:10:59.380 Oh, good.

00:10:59.700 Wouldn't that be great to have LeBron James and LeBron James Jr.

00:11:03.080 playing together?

00:11:03.400 Oh, that'd be great.

00:11:04.200 He'll make sure that the kid gets in.

00:11:05.720 Yes, he will.

00:11:06.420 Could it, could the kid be any more, is it possible that he's as annoying as LeBron James?

00:11:10.040 Is it possible?

00:11:10.760 Is it possible that LeBron would actually take a pay cut to get his kid on the team?

00:11:15.420 No.

00:11:15.640 Like he did for other teammates and he decided, no, I'm not, I'm not going to take a pay cut.

00:11:20.480 Not a dime.

00:11:21.160 He will not give up a dime.

00:11:23.220 It's just incredible.

00:11:25.020 And then you have, uh, the new, uh, interpretation of Dune.

00:11:30.200 Huh?

00:11:30.960 Wow.

00:11:31.320 The first time around was so great.

00:11:33.380 Right?

00:11:33.960 I don't remember.

00:11:35.020 Dune won in 1984.

00:11:35.900 What happened in Dune?

00:11:36.880 What was the, what was the, that movie was horrible.

00:11:38.260 What happened was, it was like eight hours long, I think if I remember correctly.

00:11:42.280 And what they did was they put a camera on a sand dune and then they showed that for

00:11:49.220 eight and a half hours.

00:11:50.400 It was really good.

00:11:51.480 Was there any humans?

00:11:52.580 Some people said it was slow.

00:11:54.000 Not for me.

00:11:54.880 Not for you?

00:11:55.300 No.

00:11:56.580 I mean, that's about what happened in Dune.

00:12:00.120 But this one looks pretty good.

00:12:01.320 Yeah, I mean.

00:12:01.980 The previews are interesting.

00:12:03.400 There's also a, a, a prequel, I believe, of the Sopranos series.

00:12:07.140 I hope so.

00:12:07.720 I hope they finally, I hope they finally put that together.

00:12:09.860 Yeah.

00:12:10.040 Something about Newark is in the title.

00:12:12.280 Yeah.

00:12:12.920 And it, look, the Sopranos are still strong for HBO, right?

00:12:16.760 I mean, they have those up.

00:12:17.840 Do you watch them all?

00:12:18.760 Yeah.

00:12:19.040 I mean, there's some, some episodes during the series that you always have to go back

00:12:22.800 to and watch season five.

00:12:24.680 You know, the final episode was awesome.

00:12:26.560 Stuff like that.

00:12:27.260 One thing I know from listening to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher podcast, you can get

00:12:32.220 right now if you're subscribing to podcasts at this moment, is you went over the transportation

00:12:37.880 numbers with the TSA.

00:12:40.960 Oh yeah.

00:12:41.400 What was the, do you remember the details of that?

00:12:44.100 Well, some of the details, they actually went up over the holidays.

00:12:47.500 They had like three or four days that actually broke a million through the turnstile.

00:12:51.640 So a million people who went through TSA security.

00:12:54.520 And what was it before the whole pandemic?

00:12:56.720 They, well, the lowest it got down to was 86,000.

00:13:00.360 86,000 from what?

00:13:02.000 During the pandemic or something?

00:13:03.140 Right.

00:13:03.260 Right.

00:13:03.640 That was in the heat of the pandemic.

00:13:04.580 So what were the normal numbers going through?

00:13:06.500 Over 2 million.

00:13:07.180 And then it started going to a couple hundred thousand, 300,000.

00:13:12.360 We're back up to about between six and 900,000.

00:13:15.820 So it dropped off by over 90%.

00:13:18.180 But it was two and a half million.

00:13:19.660 Yeah.

00:13:19.780 Two and a half to 3 million every day.

00:13:21.500 And then it has bounced back to roughly half right now.

00:13:23.940 It's interesting to look at the theaters, which we're doing about $200 million a week

00:13:28.920 in the theaters.

00:13:30.660 Not that long ago.

00:13:31.640 So in February 14th through the 20th, they did $215 million in theaters.

00:13:36.240 That dropped off to like, you know, it was March 6th, the week of March 6th, it went

00:13:41.800 to $134 million.

00:13:43.400 Then the next week went to $58 million.

00:13:45.740 The next week went to $5,632.

00:13:48.400 Ooh.

00:13:48.840 I mean, they were celebrating Croods.

00:13:53.280 Yeah, right.

00:13:53.980 A release over the Thanksgiving holiday.

00:13:55.860 Well, that's what I was going to say.

00:13:57.080 Yeah, globally.

00:13:58.120 14 million.

00:13:58.960 That's what I was going to say here.

00:13:59.780 So it went down to like, you know, $5,000 for a few weeks.

00:14:02.540 Then eventually, you know, once we got out of the six weeks to, you know, to stop the

00:14:07.000 spread or whatever, a few opened up, got up to like $100,000, got up to like $500,000

00:14:11.440 through the summer, finally broke a million in August.

00:14:14.820 So again, think of how long that is.

00:14:17.560 Then $3 million, $8 million, $16 million, $30 million in September 4th.

00:14:22.140 And then it started kind of getting that flare up again.

00:14:24.840 Closing them back down again.

00:14:25.740 Went the other way.

00:14:26.520 $14 million, $13 million.

00:14:27.620 And it's been right around between $11 and $14 million for the past two months.

00:14:32.580 That's still a 90% drop off from pre-pandemic numbers.

00:14:36.940 And let me give you what's in a really nice theater near us right now.

00:14:41.880 Die Hard.

00:14:42.820 Okay.

00:14:43.200 We can see that at home.

00:14:44.620 It's a Christmas movie, by the way.

00:14:45.640 Same with Dr. Seuss, The Grinch.

00:14:48.660 Okay.

00:14:49.040 Yeah.

00:14:49.580 Love Actually.

00:14:51.120 Jeez.

00:14:51.800 Here's a new one.

00:14:52.700 All My Life.

00:14:53.480 Never heard of it.

00:14:54.140 Don't know these people.

00:14:54.920 Elf is showing the Croods, Let Him Go, and The War with Grandpa.

00:15:01.340 You forgot one huge movie that's been released for the next, started today, I think, maybe

00:15:08.540 yesterday, and through the weekend, the Elvis remastered That's the Way It Is movie.

00:15:14.440 Okay?

00:15:15.100 Thank you for that reminder.

00:15:16.400 Wow.

00:15:16.960 Jeffy, that was egregious that I left that off the list.

00:15:20.460 Word.

00:15:21.260 Just a few minutes.

00:15:22.000 It really wasn't egregious, just so you're aware.

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00:16:30.740 There's a California chef that is, I mean, I think you're seeing a lot of this reaction

00:16:45.960 to the ridiculous overreaches by these blue state governors, largely, and mayors, and they

00:16:52.160 are, you're seeing a lot of it come from restaurants and bars.

00:16:55.580 And it's weird because like, they're just like the public face of this.

00:16:59.020 It's interesting in that, you know, restaurants have seen real devastation.

00:17:02.780 Bars, obviously, even worse. 1.00

00:17:04.220 I mean, a state like Texas, because we had this metric set up of 15% of the hospitals filled

00:17:10.920 with COVID patients means you go to, I think, 50% capacity in restaurants and bars close.

00:17:17.160 I think it's the way it works.

00:17:18.560 There's so many restrictions and weird things like this.

00:17:20.780 Like, it's hard to keep track of, but so, you know, that's happened a lot and they've

00:17:26.020 been kind of the public face.

00:17:27.100 You think about some of these industries, though, that have totally gone away.

00:17:30.300 I mean, like concerts.

00:17:32.280 Right.

00:17:32.720 You know, concert, we have Eric July, who's a Blaze TV contributor.

00:17:36.020 Love Eric.

00:17:36.940 And he comes in for the News and Why It Matters.

00:17:39.420 He's been on this show, my show, Studios America.

00:17:41.700 I'm sure Pat Gray Unleashed as well.

00:17:43.040 And he talks, he's a musician.

00:17:46.600 He's a singer for a band, you know?

00:17:49.260 Mm-hmm.

00:17:49.580 And that whole business is just dissolved.

00:17:54.720 Yeah.

00:17:55.420 Like, if you go to a concert venue, basically, you're just turned things off for the year.

00:18:01.420 And the thing about that is that for these bands, that's now how they make their money.

00:18:06.520 The concerts are far more lucrative than the record sales because the digital record industry

00:18:14.980 has just pretty much destroyed the massive amounts of money they were making from that. 0.77

00:18:19.640 So, they're not making the big bucks with the recordings anymore.

00:18:23.560 They're making the big dollars at the concert venue.

00:18:26.300 Mm-hmm.

00:18:26.640 And now they don't have that.

00:18:27.680 Just gone.

00:18:28.200 So, then what do you do?

00:18:29.120 Yeah, then what?

00:18:29.780 I mean, you know, we talk about professional sports.

00:18:31.540 Obviously, you see these professional sports leagues who have gone from, I mean, you watch

00:18:36.900 the games, you watch an NFL week of games, you know, half the games have zero fans and

00:18:42.820 half the games have, you know, maybe 10 or 20% of the fans.

00:18:46.760 I mean, they're talking about the Super Bowl at, I think, 20% capacity.

00:18:50.820 It's something like 15,000 people, supposedly, in the stadium, which I can't imagine what these

00:18:56.020 tickets are going to cost.

00:18:57.400 But you look at all that.

00:18:59.560 What about minor league teams?

00:19:00.720 You know, what about, what about like the, you know, here, I think this is around the

00:19:06.080 country.

00:19:06.380 I've been to them with the kids and other places as well, but they have like trampoline

00:19:09.960 parks and like these indoor sort of like, almost like indoor amusement parks in some

00:19:14.400 ways where they have trampoline parks and they have like all these cool things for kids

00:19:17.540 to do, go-karts and, you know, all these things where people are sharing the same space

00:19:23.720 and doing physical activity or whatever indoors.

00:19:26.060 You know, I mean, we, we have them around us and they're open again, again, limited capacity

00:19:31.420 and we've gone to them, uh, you know, several times, but the crowd is one 10th of what it

00:19:38.840 was.

00:19:39.220 How do these places stay open?

00:19:40.560 I don't know.

00:19:41.300 Well, you know, they're dealing with this, of course, at restaurants quite a bit.

00:19:44.280 Uh, there's a California chef, a TV personality, Andrew gruel, uh, which is a weird name for

00:19:49.660 maybe it's gruel.

00:19:51.020 It's probably, maybe it's gruel.

00:19:52.420 I don't know the guy, but, uh, he, uh, he was talking about these, the, the, the madness

00:19:57.180 of these lockdowns and these restrictions.

00:19:59.100 Listen, here's the situation.

00:20:00.980 Do we take the pandemic seriously?

00:20:02.620 Of course we do.

00:20:03.660 Am I saying that we shouldn't close outdoor dining?

00:20:06.140 Yes, I am.

00:20:06.800 At every single juncture along the way here from the beginning shutdown to today, we've

00:20:11.540 listened to all of the advice from our government officials only to be shut down over and over

00:20:16.180 and over again, and then not compensated for the elements that we put in place in our businesses

00:20:21.360 in order to protect our customers.

00:20:22.980 We shut down indoor dining.

00:20:24.660 No problem.

00:20:25.420 I got a warehouse full of plexiglass right now.

00:20:27.500 Okay.

00:20:27.860 We went outdoors.

00:20:29.240 All right.

00:20:29.700 Now that's getting shut down.

00:20:31.000 I just put thousands of dollars into outdoor heaters.

00:20:33.140 There is zero scientific evidence that proves that outdoor dining is contributing to a

00:20:39.040 rise in cases related to this.

00:20:40.960 I can go get a pink cockatoo for my Christmas tree, but I can't go and dine outdoors at a

00:20:45.140 restaurant.

00:20:45.500 I can go to target.

00:20:46.220 Amazon's making tons of money.

00:20:47.780 All big business is getting rich.

00:20:49.560 Okay.

00:20:50.160 Outdoor dining does not lead to any of that.

00:20:52.680 Therefore screw that.

00:20:54.340 We're staying open outdoors.

00:20:56.060 It's that simple.

00:20:57.240 Wow.

00:20:57.780 That's great.

00:20:58.760 And he's right on all of that.

00:21:00.680 All of it.

00:21:01.200 There is no, there's no evidence that says that outdoor dining leads to a major transmission.

00:21:07.060 I mean, it's, it's very, very unlikely that you're going to get it and doing outdoor

00:21:10.940 dining and you're killing these businesses because you're not only telling them they can't

00:21:16.640 have customers, which is already a really big deal, but, and I've heard this from restaurant

00:21:22.440 owner after restaurant owner, they are, you're doing these things to, to please the government,

00:21:28.060 like putting plexiglass up and all these separators and to make honestly, some of the people who

00:21:33.360 come to your restaurant who are scared, feel better.

00:21:36.220 Some of them might be effective.

00:21:37.680 Some of them don't do much of anything.

00:21:39.420 They're just feel good measures.

00:21:41.060 And you're spending all of this cash to do this.

00:21:44.240 And then at the end of the day, the government doesn't come back and say, Hey, we know we

00:21:48.660 asked you to shut down.

00:21:50.100 We know we asked you to, to build these, uh, you know, bubbles for everyone to sit in.

00:21:55.200 Uh, so they can basically, everyone can live inside of plastic wrap.

00:21:58.440 We know you spent a fortune on that.

00:22:00.300 Here's some cash for that.

00:22:01.320 Now there have been some programs that have helped with, uh, with shutdowns.

00:22:04.680 We know, uh, you know, the PPP and there's going to be another stimulus package that comes

00:22:09.140 here in the next, uh, couple of months.

00:22:11.160 At least, uh, it's either going to be, um, probably, uh, very soon or, uh, you know, late

00:22:18.040 January, early February, but that's going to be another trillion dollars.

00:22:20.660 And some of that money will go to restaurant owners and other companies to be compensated

00:22:25.180 for this stuff, because it is the government forcing them to shut down.

00:22:29.180 Um, yeah, I will say if, if it's a state regulation, however, that money should probably come from

00:22:34.580 the state, not the governor, not the federal government.

00:22:37.520 I think that we have, this has got to, this is, this is a little bit out of control.

00:22:41.580 I mean, you have a lot of people who are laid off and those people, uh, you know, we have

00:22:46.520 an unemployment system.

00:22:47.840 Uh, there's been talk about potentially another one of these sort of stimulus bonus stimulus

00:22:51.820 is the wrong word for this because it's not stimulus.

00:22:54.180 It is.

00:22:54.840 It's, it's closer to eminent domain.

00:22:57.360 The government has taken your property.

00:22:59.980 It's taken your business.

00:23:01.140 It's told you to shut down, uh, and they're supposed to compensate you for such things.

00:23:05.800 Uh, you know, I have, there's a big libertarian part of me that does not like all of this,

00:23:09.760 but I do understand it in this particular circumstance.

00:23:12.100 When the government is responsible for your business being closed and you being on the verge

00:23:16.400 of bankruptcy, then, you know, it's appropriate that they compensate you, I guess.

00:23:21.200 Uh, but yeah, so you look at industries like restaurants and movie theaters and, well, cruise

00:23:29.720 lines, when, when, when are cruises going to be acceptable again?

00:23:33.780 You know, I've been seeing commercials for them lately.

00:23:36.620 Really?

00:23:37.280 I think it's, are they actually open?

00:23:38.980 Yeah.

00:23:39.300 They're like, they're actually cruising.

00:23:40.940 They're selling some cruises.

00:23:42.540 They're, uh, I don't know.

00:23:43.500 Most of them have, have pushed it off to 2021 sometime.

00:23:46.400 I think they might be selling future cruises and trying to get people excited about that.

00:23:49.800 I was surprised to see though, advertising for it at this point.

00:23:52.700 That is surprising.

00:23:53.460 You know, I mean, there's like, what about this live events business?

00:23:55.220 This is a whole convention business, right?

00:23:56.720 Where you have these huge conventions like a comic con and there's a ton of them.

00:24:01.900 Um, and it's like those, what, how are those businesses planning through this?

00:24:07.200 Even if you're going to have them in the near future, you're going to have to have them

00:24:10.380 in a, in a separated, uh, circumstance where you're not getting close to people and people

00:24:15.500 are wearing masks.

00:24:16.080 I don't want to do that.

00:24:16.800 It's not comfortable.

00:24:17.960 You know, we went, um, you know, they had these six weeks to stop the spread or whatever

00:24:23.100 it was, you know, two weeks and then another month and that ended.

00:24:25.440 And I think it was right, right after that, or not soon after that in Texas, they opened

00:24:30.540 up, uh, dining at 25% capacity, uh, in, in Texas.

00:24:36.040 And it was like at the point where nothing was open.

00:24:38.740 I mean, it really, I think Georgia had opened a little bit, maybe one or two other states

00:24:42.880 and I was South Dakota kind of did the whole time.

00:24:44.840 And a couple of other states had that, had it that way, but it was like big news at

00:24:47.760 the time.

00:24:48.080 And the first day it opened, we went out to a restaurant here in Texas.

00:24:52.780 Uh, and it was interesting in that it wasn't fun.

00:24:58.240 You know, it's one thing to say you can go to a restaurant.

00:25:01.260 It's another thing to go to a restaurant where everybody is masked around you.

00:25:04.860 You can't understand them.

00:25:06.140 You can't have fun.

00:25:07.580 You can't go talk to somebody.

00:25:09.380 You know, if you're going to a bar or whatever, you can't go talk to someone across the bar.

00:25:12.660 You know, you, you, you, you're freaked out because you're wondering what droplets are

00:25:18.880 landing on your face from, from fellow, uh, diners.

00:25:22.440 And it's like, I think people have, have loosened up a little bit since then.

00:25:26.540 Right.

00:25:26.700 And we've, we've had, we've been dealing with this for a while now, but it wasn't enjoyable.

00:25:30.960 You know, the whole point of this is it's not just going out and consuming food.

00:25:34.920 You can do that at home.

00:25:35.760 It's an experience and these guys work so hard to design these amazing, you know, dishes

00:25:41.820 and have a great atmosphere in their restaurants and even to work, to do it outside.

00:25:46.400 And at the end of the day, it's impossible for them to provide the things that the, the,

00:25:52.040 the, the people who are coming to the restaurants actually want.

00:25:54.440 Yeah.

00:25:55.340 You know, you've, you've really just hampered this economy to a level that is, uh, I mean,

00:26:01.140 we certainly never lived through anything like this before my, my favorite hamburger

00:26:05.260 place in all of, uh, Texas, uh, twisted route still, still closed.

00:26:11.360 They've been closed and they're continuing to be closed, uh, in most of their locations.

00:26:16.280 I think in Shreveport, Louisiana or someplace, they've got a couple of restaurants open, but

00:26:22.000 all, all of the restaurants in the DFW area still closed.

00:26:26.820 And I think they've even filed chapter 11 bankruptcy.

00:26:29.400 So, I mean, I, I don't know how people are surviving it.

00:26:33.040 I don't know what you're doing for livelihood.

00:26:35.020 Uh, but when you once had such a successful operation that you have, that you now have

00:26:40.760 restaurants all over the place, you've gone from one to 20 or 30 or whatever.

00:26:45.380 And now you've had to be closed all this time.

00:26:47.940 It just devastated your business.

00:26:50.220 So how do you ever, how do you ever get that back?

00:26:53.800 You just can't.

00:26:55.160 And the government can't make everybody whole.

00:26:57.620 Everybody who has declared bankruptcy and who has shut down, they're not, they're not

00:27:03.800 all going to be made whole again by the U S government or a state government.

00:27:08.220 It's just not possible.

00:27:09.180 It can't happen.

00:27:10.280 No.

00:27:10.600 So this is a tragedy.

00:27:12.100 And, and I really feel for people who've lost their livelihoods like that.

00:27:16.060 It's really a shame.

00:27:16.740 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:21.660 And don't forget rate us on iTunes.

00:27:28.840 We may have played this yesterday, but, uh, just as a reminder, uh, here's what Joe Biden

00:27:33.760 is saying about your holiday season.

00:27:35.260 That's coming up.

00:27:35.920 Cause, uh, you know, everything's got to change now, right?

00:27:38.680 We, you didn't, you couldn't have anybody over for, for Thanksgiving.

00:27:41.760 Uh, well, even more so for Christmas.

00:27:44.100 I hope you all are listening as with all the trouble you're going through, you cannot

00:27:49.860 be traveling during these holidays as much as you want.

00:27:53.360 I, I have a large family.

00:27:55.760 Okay.

00:27:56.260 We, uh, you probably, you, uh, I used to kid me about it.

00:27:59.880 I mean, everything for me is family beginning, middle, and then when one comes, everybody

00:28:04.060 comes.

00:28:04.380 You think I'm joking.

00:28:05.260 I'm not.

00:28:05.940 Why would I think you're joking?

00:28:07.040 That is such a weird thing that he does all the time.

00:28:10.420 You think I'm joking.

00:28:11.360 I'm not joking.

00:28:12.460 No, nobody thinks you're joking.

00:28:14.700 Why do you always say that?

00:28:16.520 I don't know.

00:28:16.860 He, it's like a weird tick he has.

00:28:18.320 Uh-huh.

00:28:18.660 He, he throws it into sentences all the time when everyone's sitting there like, they're

00:28:22.040 not, they're not laughing.

00:28:23.340 They're bored.

00:28:24.120 Right.

00:28:24.860 That's different.

00:28:25.680 A totally different thing.

00:28:26.840 I don't even care.

00:28:27.840 Let alone think you're joking.

00:28:29.100 I've seen people go away every Thanksgiving.

00:28:31.720 My deceased son, before he passed away, uh, we'd all go away and we'd go away on

00:28:37.020 Thanksgiving to be just a nuclear family, mom, dad, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, 0.87

00:28:44.040 grandchildren.

00:28:44.980 Cousins.

00:28:45.600 And, uh, second cousins.

00:28:47.220 We, the first time we had a, we had a Thanksgiving with my wife and myself, my daughter in the

00:28:53.860 region and her husband who's a doctor in the region.

00:28:56.420 In the region.

00:28:56.860 That's it.

00:28:57.480 All my other kids, everybody else in the family was on Zoom on Thanksgiving, which

00:29:03.360 doesn't, well, Christmas is going to be a lot harder.

00:29:07.180 And, you know, I want, I don't want to scare anybody here, but understand the facts.

00:29:10.900 I love this.

00:29:11.400 Here we go.

00:29:11.980 He's not a fear monger.

00:29:13.300 It's Republicans at fear monger.

00:29:14.860 He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we're likely to lose another 250,000 people dead

00:29:21.580 between now and January.

00:29:24.580 Okay.

00:29:24.800 That's okay.

00:29:26.260 It's a lot.

00:29:26.540 He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we are likely to have a quarter of a million people

00:29:32.920 dead between now and January.

00:29:35.760 Now, January is in, uh, what?

00:29:38.220 26 days?

00:29:39.380 28 days.

00:29:40.460 It's December 4th.

00:29:41.700 Yeah.

00:29:41.820 Okay.

00:29:42.160 So 28 days.

00:29:43.100 So four.

00:29:43.640 So you're basically looking at about 10 K a day, which would be high.

00:29:46.980 It would be high.

00:29:48.080 We've never cleared 3,000 in a day.

00:29:49.880 Yeah.

00:29:50.080 It's 2,700 right now.

00:29:51.760 Right.

00:29:52.040 And it's, you know, we will probably will break those records and it, you know, over the

00:29:55.440 next few weeks.

00:29:56.020 I mean, it probably will happen.

00:29:57.740 It is very widespread right now.

00:29:59.100 But will it go to 10,000 a day?

00:29:59.580 I'm going to go to 10,000.

00:30:00.500 I will be very surprised if it hits that number.

00:30:02.220 I think so.

00:30:02.660 Uh, I, so I was trying to figure out where he got this number from.

00:30:06.000 We were joking about this in the break.

00:30:07.080 I'm like, it's possible he could say globally, 10,000 people a day will die, which is about

00:30:13.880 the level we're at now.

00:30:15.180 Is he trying to say that?

00:30:16.620 If you look at some of these estimates, he says from now until January, does that mean

00:30:21.800 he, you, do you give him January?

00:30:24.100 Like, I mean, until January to me says till December 31st.

00:30:27.540 Yeah.

00:30:27.820 Right.

00:30:28.300 I mean, if you include January in the estimates and take the worst estimates, you go all the

00:30:33.220 way to January or January 31st and you take the worst case scenario, you might be able

00:30:40.280 to get there.

00:30:41.460 Oh, uh, really?

00:30:42.680 Yeah.

00:30:43.000 I mean, like if you're at, if the worst possible thing happens and you will get, which is really

00:30:48.080 stretching to give him all of January.

00:30:49.920 I mean, he said until January.

00:30:51.780 I mean, I don't think you could do that.

00:30:53.720 More likely he just screwed it up because if we give him till January 31st, well, now we've

00:30:58.880 given him till February is how that would be.

00:31:01.880 Right.

00:31:02.260 Right.

00:31:02.600 Until February.

00:31:03.480 You would have to, in order for him to be correct, you would have to say until February.

00:31:07.260 But like that University of Washington model says that that's possible.

00:31:10.760 Now, of course, that also means that there's no vaccine, right?

00:31:14.560 Yeah.

00:31:14.940 Like if you have a vaccine that inoculates 30 million people by that time, I mean, the number

00:31:19.800 is going to be a lot different.

00:31:20.900 But don't they also say, uh, if you have to relax restrictions in order to do that and

00:31:26.940 it's going the other way.

00:31:27.920 Think about the, I think about, that's a great point.

00:31:29.560 I mean, think about what that means.

00:31:30.820 It says, uh, it's an estimate that it revolves around, uh, easing mandates.

00:31:36.800 We are not, we are doing the exact opposite.

00:31:39.020 People are adding new mandates.

00:31:41.020 Yeah.

00:31:41.180 Now, the effect of mandates is very overblown, very overblown.

00:31:47.400 You go and look at the mask mandate states, forget even whether the masks work or not

00:31:51.100 for a second.

00:31:51.640 Just throw that away for a second.

00:31:53.840 Just look at what happens in states with mask mandates and states without mask mandates.

00:31:58.540 What's the difference in percentage of people who actually wear masks?

00:32:01.840 It's like 15%.

00:32:03.500 I want to say it's like in a state like South Dakota, about 65% of people are wearing masks

00:32:09.120 regularly.

00:32:09.300 Even when there's not a mandate.

00:32:10.500 Even when there's not a mandate.

00:32:11.300 And in like Washington DC was, I think the highest.

00:32:13.840 It was something like 80% of people are wearing masks, even though there is a mandate.

00:32:17.800 Not everyone listens.

00:32:18.940 Right.

00:32:19.140 And, and the same in South Dakota, a lot of people are wearing masks just because they

00:32:22.960 think it might be helpful.

00:32:24.340 Right.

00:32:24.820 And let's just wear them.

00:32:25.980 You know, sometimes they're mandated in stores.

00:32:27.800 There's, you know, there's, there's other reasons, but like when you look at statewide

00:32:31.660 policy, there are really good personal liberty reasons to argue about those things.

00:32:36.400 When it comes to pragmatic actual effects, people generally speaking, make their own

00:32:41.140 decisions.

00:32:42.020 They make their own decisions.

00:32:43.700 And they're going to, they're going to err on the side of being cautious.

00:32:46.680 Yeah.

00:32:46.980 I mean, like usually I, the mask thing is interesting because you could look at a lot of the studies.

00:32:51.960 Some show very little benefit from masks.

00:32:53.900 Some show decent benefit from masks.

00:32:55.580 Nothing shows, it's not a panacea.

00:32:59.140 There is no, it's not a cure for COVID.

00:33:02.920 Like even the best, the most optimistic studies on masks will show like you might cut your chance

00:33:07.940 of getting, of it spreading by like 50%, which is something that's significant.

00:33:13.300 But when it's not, when you're talking about not, not letting people make their own personal

00:33:19.480 choice and instead throwing a mandate on their head, right?

00:33:22.820 The standard for a government to mandate something should be really high.

00:33:27.820 Like I don't want any of it, but even if you do want mandates, it should be incredibly high

00:33:32.440 bar.

00:33:32.840 You have to clear as far as benefit on the other side, for your personal use, it should

00:33:37.900 be pretty low.

00:33:38.920 Like if you think there's a 10% chance that it'll help and it's not really going to interrupt

00:33:43.600 your life too much, you're probably going to do it.

00:33:45.280 That's why a lot of people are, you know, there's, they're doing their dinners outside.

00:33:49.540 They're standing, you know, they're standing a few feet away from each other.

00:33:51.800 Even if they don't necessarily, they don't necessarily worry themselves, they'll take

00:33:55.700 some steps.

00:33:56.540 Yeah.

00:33:56.840 You know, and you could, that's, that's a much more sensible way for a country to deal

00:34:00.320 with it.

00:34:01.120 You know, let, let, give people reliable information.

00:34:04.120 Let people say, Hey, this might help, might not, but you know, Hey, if you want to take

00:34:08.560 some steps that might help, I think most people would say that, right?

00:34:11.660 Like if, if you have a safety feature on your car that might help in a few percent of

00:34:16.160 cases, all things being equal, you'd probably throw it on your car.

00:34:19.740 If it's cheap, if it's really expensive, you won't, you know, that's how you make decisions.

00:34:24.540 You were able to take a cost benefit analysis and look at how your risk, you know, is in

00:34:30.140 life.

00:34:30.400 And you try to judge that risk.

00:34:31.640 That's how we all live.

00:34:32.880 It's why we go 65 on the highway and not three, because if we went three, we wouldn't

00:34:37.340 die in car accidents ever. 0.70

00:34:39.180 We also don't go 170, you know, whether the mandate is there or not.

00:34:43.820 Now, Pat, of course, does go 170 is why he gets 15 speeding tickets a week.

00:34:47.520 Yeah.

00:34:47.600 Once in a while.

00:34:48.500 I'll do 170, 175, something like that.

00:34:50.620 Yeah.

00:34:51.040 But that's, but you're, you're, you're, you're not in the norm on that one.

00:34:53.720 No, probably not.

00:34:54.620 No, no, no, no, no.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 04, 2020

Best of The Program ｜ 12⧸4⧸20

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