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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to Monday. We've got a kind of an interesting and different show for you today.

00:00:04.840 Today's very frank and kind of setting the stage for what is to come with the coronavirus,

00:00:09.200 what it means to you, how you need to look at this as a family, as an individual,

00:00:14.080 what it means to your 401k, what it means to your investments. There'll be a lot of stuff

00:00:20.320 that we're going to go over today, but also in the next coming days. If you've been a long-term

00:00:25.000 listener of this program and you've trusted us to guide you through some of these things,

00:00:30.500 today is a don't miss. If you usually listen into the edited version, today may be a day that you

00:00:37.340 want to listen to the whole podcast. If you want to make sure that you understand what's really

00:00:44.260 happening in the world with coronavirus and the economy and the election, it's all on today's

00:00:50.580 broadcast. Don't forget also on Wednesday, I'm doing a special called The Sum of All Fears,

00:00:57.540 and it is about coronavirus. It couldn't be timed better than it is right now. You don't want to

00:01:03.520 miss that. If you're a Blaze subscriber, make sure you're watching Wednesday night, 9 p.m. Eastern.

00:01:10.940 That's blazetv.com. All right, let's go to the podcast. Here it is.

00:01:20.580 All right, our daily Corona stats from Johns Hopkins. As of 5.30 a.m. Central Time,

00:01:38.540 total confirmed cases now worldwide up 110,617. That's a jump of over 10,000 people from Friday.

00:01:49.360 Total confirmed deaths, 3,831. That is up from 3,400 since Friday. 62,000 patients have recovered

00:02:00.080 from COVID-19 around the world. 109 countries now have confirmed cases. It was 94 on Friday.

00:02:09.420 Four more have suspected cases. 13 confirmed cases are considered serious. This is really good news.

00:02:17.800 It was hovering at about 19% are serious cases for a very, very long time. And serious case is

00:02:27.360 requiring hospitalization. And 4% of serious requires ICU. As of today, that number, which was for a long

00:02:40.860 time, 19 on Friday down to 16%. Today, the number of confirmed cases that are serious is 13%. This is showing

00:02:50.360 that as we find more and more cases, we realize, oh, there's a lot of people walking around with this

00:02:58.380 that are not real serious. It's the only ones that we were finding were the ones that are like,

00:03:02.900 I can't breathe. Confirmed cases now in the United States. 27 with six more tracking suspected cases.

00:03:12.460 Now, 27, that includes the one from CPAC. CPAC, somebody went apparently had coronavirus, didn't

00:03:20.600 know that they had it. Anybody who's gone there, I've heard from this weekend, are you okay? Are you

00:03:26.340 freaking out? No, I'm not freaking out? Well, you know, Ted Cruz, self-quarantined. Well, he met with

00:03:34.840 the guy. So did Paul Gosar. And then, so did Matt Schlapp. Well, I shook their hands while I was there.

00:03:43.180 So do I have it?

00:03:48.080 Now, more cases are going to be found. And this is a good thing. Italy now has 1.00

00:03:55.900 closed down 16 provinces, including Milan and

00:04:00.040 Venice. Travel in and out, as well as

00:04:04.200 within the area, is only possible now in

00:04:08.060 response to duly verified professional requirements, emergency

00:04:11.900 situations, or for health reasons. So, they

00:04:16.080 have taken half the population of Italy

00:04:19.860 and locked them in their houses or their neighborhoods and said,

00:04:23.780 you're not leaving. If you need to leave, contact

00:04:27.740 an authority.

00:04:30.680 Do we get there?

00:04:33.820 Places of worship remain open, provided that a safety distance of at least one meter is

00:04:40.060 respected, but religious ceremonies, marriage, baptism, prohibited now until further notice

00:04:46.140 in Italy. People with symptoms of respiratory disease and a fever of 101 Fahrenheit or above

00:04:53.680 are strongly encouraged to stay home and limit social contact as much as possible, including

00:04:59.160 with their doctor. They're telling the people in Italy now avoid all gatherings, if at all possible.

00:05:06.520 All schools and universities are now closed in Italy. All museums and places of culture closed.

00:05:12.400 All cultural, religious, or festive events suspended.

00:05:16.620 Movies, bars, pubs, theaters, dance

00:05:20.180 schools, game rooms, casinos, nightclubs, and all other similar places

00:05:24.500 are closed. All sporting events and competitions are

00:05:28.340 suspended. Ski resorts closed. Swimming pools, sports

00:05:32.380 halls, thermal baths, cultural centers, gyms, wellness centers

00:05:36.380 all closed. Bars and restaurants can

00:05:40.040 remain open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., provided

00:05:43.120 they respect a safety distance of at least one

00:05:46.100 meter between customers.

00:05:48.580 This provision concerns all other commercial activities.

00:05:52.380 So how do you go into a restaurant?

00:05:55.280 They slide it like on one of those pizza

00:05:57.540 things, you know, you put the pizza in the oven.

00:06:00.320 Is that how they slide your food to you?

00:06:02.300 Now

00:06:02.540 there is a doctor

00:06:05.520 that authored the CDC's pandemic response strategy

00:06:11.140 calls COVID-19 the most frightening thing

00:06:14.500 he has ever seen.

00:06:16.200 This is a guy that worked on Ebola,

00:06:19.660 MERS, and SARS.

00:06:22.460 He said it is frightening because of the

00:06:24.140 combination of infectiousness and the lethality

00:06:27.720 that appears to be many, many fold higher than the flu.

00:06:32.300 He said there were just three cases in Italy two weeks ago.

00:06:37.100 There are now over 7,000.

00:06:39.520 He said, I don't think it's a crazy analogy to compare

00:06:41.480 this to World War II.

00:06:43.320 The World Health Organization is using these kinds

00:06:45.700 of terms.

00:06:46.380 They've seen what this virus is capable of doing.

00:06:49.200 Dr. Hatchett, who is author of this,

00:06:51.640 joined other epidemiologists in warning not to compare

00:06:54.440 COVID-19 to the seasonal flu.

00:06:57.080 He says it's at least two or three times more infectious

00:06:59.780 and at least 10 times as deadly, he says.

00:07:03.000 There's no comparison.

00:07:04.720 Now, I don't know if you've seen this,

00:07:06.340 but they're now saying over in England

00:07:08.360 that this guy is

00:07:09.780 just trying to scare everybody.

00:07:13.640 They scare you?

00:07:15.500 Still?

00:07:17.500 No, I don't think so.

00:07:19.460 No.

00:07:20.040 Should I be scared?

00:07:21.220 Nope.

00:07:22.200 I don't think so.

00:07:23.300 I mean,

00:07:24.240 you know, look, we were

00:07:25.620 go back to the CPAC thing you were talking about.

00:07:27.940 We were both there, right?

00:07:30.560 You know.

00:07:31.220 You spend more time there.

00:07:32.960 Ted Cruz was there.

00:07:35.280 He's self-quarantining.

00:07:36.800 He hosts a podcast with Michael Knowles,

00:07:38.960 who I had on the show in the same room with me for an hour

00:07:43.160 right after they did the podcast live at CPAC.

00:07:47.080 With Ted Cruz.

00:07:48.020 With Ted Cruz.

00:07:49.320 You know,

00:07:50.240 it is an interesting thing because I certainly understand

00:07:52.680 why they're not telling us who the person is

00:07:54.760 or people are who have it at CPAC

00:07:56.760 because probably people would go to their house

00:07:58.580 with torches.

00:07:59.380 I have no idea what would happen.

00:08:01.300 Why?

00:08:01.960 I don't know.

00:08:02.620 I don't know.

00:08:03.140 They didn't know.

00:08:03.880 But I mean, I know it's,

00:08:05.260 they didn't do anything wrong,

00:08:06.400 but I mean,

00:08:07.420 there is some,

00:08:09.080 your life is turned upside down, right?

00:08:11.240 You're going to have media requests from everywhere.

00:08:13.380 If they release this person's name,

00:08:14.740 I certainly understand if I was that person

00:08:16.680 and I'm not saying that I am,

00:08:18.940 but if I was that person,

00:08:19.940 I would want my identity to be kept quiet,

00:08:23.520 if at all possible,

00:08:24.480 because it would make my life a nightmare.

00:08:25.980 That makes me think he is that person.

00:08:27.620 I have an announcement coming up on

00:08:28.700 Stu Does America tonight.

00:08:29.900 Tune in.

00:08:30.860 I'll just say this.

00:08:31.960 Not feeling well.

00:08:32.940 Was that CPAC?

00:08:34.680 Hung out with Michael Knowles.

00:08:35.340 You haven't been feeling well.

00:08:36.640 That's true.

00:08:37.260 You haven't been feeling well.

00:08:38.040 I have not been feeling well.

00:08:38.780 I haven't been feeling well.

00:08:40.340 Pat hasn't been feeling well.

00:08:41.980 Yes.

00:08:42.440 None of us have COVID-19.

00:08:44.260 I don't think.

00:08:45.100 You don't think.

00:08:45.460 We don't think.

00:08:46.080 Now, it takes a couple of weeks for you to get past the time

00:08:50.640 where you could go without symptoms.

00:08:52.600 It's only been like 10 days or something like that

00:08:54.900 since we were at CPAC.

00:08:56.160 But it is interesting that like,

00:08:57.900 you know, Ted Cruz knows who this person is.

00:09:00.540 And Ted Cruz knows, which is great for Ted.

00:09:03.980 Thanks a lot, Ted.

00:09:04.720 Did I interact with this person?

00:09:06.080 I don't know.

00:09:06.960 No one told me I did or did not.

00:09:08.920 Well, I interacted as you did

00:09:11.180 with people who did interact with him.

00:09:12.860 Absolutely.

00:09:13.480 So.

00:09:13.920 That is for sure.

00:09:15.160 Right.

00:09:15.880 Congratulations.

00:09:16.480 So basically.

00:09:17.040 We're the big winner.

00:09:17.920 Yeah.

00:09:18.280 And I keep looking at this as, you know,

00:09:20.520 I've read enough about it.

00:09:21.620 I've looked at this.

00:09:22.380 I don't fear getting a disease itself.

00:09:26.960 I kind of assume I will get it.

00:09:28.960 And if I don't get it this year, as you pointed out,

00:09:30.760 this is going to stick around.

00:09:31.760 We're all going to get it.

00:09:33.420 The flu stuck around, right?

00:09:34.760 Right.

00:09:35.200 The Spanish flu stuck around.

00:09:36.160 Yeah.

00:09:36.920 It's just, the problem is, is there's no vaccine

00:09:40.220 where there's a vaccine right now,

00:09:42.520 which helps old people, you know,

00:09:46.320 live through the average flu.

00:09:49.080 So if you get it now, there's no vaccine.

00:09:51.900 There appears to be some things that are working on it.

00:09:55.860 Yeah.

00:09:56.340 Some of the AIDS.

00:09:56.900 HIV medication.

00:09:57.860 Yeah.

00:09:58.180 Some of the AIDS medicine is actually helping cure this.

00:10:01.880 But, you know, it's, we're all going to get this.

00:10:05.680 It's only a matter of time.

00:10:07.420 And we're not all going to die.

00:10:09.360 Right.

00:10:09.520 If the flu did not have a vaccine and did not have four approved treatments for it,

00:10:13.500 the death rate would be a hell of a lot higher than 0.1%.

00:10:16.260 And that's part of the reason why it is a 0.1% is because of the way we've reacted to it.

00:10:20.220 We've seen this happen as well with South Korea, who's been aggressive, 1.00

00:10:24.360 has a good health system, has been aggressive trying to contain it,

00:10:28.680 is reporting a 0.5% mortality rate as opposed to two and three in other parts of the world.

00:10:35.840 So let me give you a couple of other things here.

00:10:38.200 We're going to debunk the coronavirus myths for you in a second,

00:10:41.440 but I want to give you a couple of last stats that you need to keep in mind.

00:10:45.420 U.S. case count expected to spike dramatically this week.

00:10:50.480 Why?

00:10:51.660 Because we are now starting large-scale testing all across the country.

00:10:57.620 In January, doctors at the CDC decided to reject the WHO standards for coronavirus testing,

00:11:03.820 noting that 30% false negative was found in China.

00:11:08.720 Now, Donald Trump, see, he didn't do enough.

00:11:11.460 They should have accepted it.

00:11:12.740 It was a 30% false negative.

00:11:15.520 And so the United States CDC, not directly getting a phone call, I'm sure, from the president saying,

00:11:22.440 reject that.

00:11:23.540 They looked at that and said, that's too high of a false negative and a false positive.

00:11:29.520 So, no, we'll come up with our own.

00:11:32.520 The tests produced by the CDC in early February were designed to test for SARS-CoV-2,

00:11:38.780 the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as SARS-CoV-1.

00:11:45.080 But they were faulty and had to be replaced, because Donald Trump told them,

00:11:51.320 I'm telling you, put carrots in that formula. 1.00

00:11:54.640 Yep.

00:11:55.180 He's a big carrot proponent.

00:11:56.900 Big, big.

00:11:57.720 But you can't inject a carrot.

00:11:59.140 He should have known that.

00:11:59.780 He should have known that.

00:12:00.300 It's very difficult to do.

00:12:01.120 It's just his incompetence that makes it.

00:12:02.900 Anyway, by today, more than 2.2 million new tests will have been sent out to the regional labs

00:12:09.720 and the hospitals, according to the U.S. Surgeon General.

00:12:12.880 Large-scale testing is expected to dramatically increase the case count in the U.S.

00:12:19.760 Right now, suspected 1,200 cases in 33 states.

00:12:24.500 But we don't know.

00:12:26.320 When you see a huge spike this week, it's because we're testing now for the first time.

00:12:31.780 I want to talk to you a little bit about Farr's Law.

00:12:34.240 I didn't even know what Farr's Law was, but I knew of it, and all of us at some point knew

00:12:40.400 what Farr's Law is.

00:12:42.240 It was actually named after Dr. William Farr, 1840, and there is a bell curve pattern to it.

00:12:51.420 And almost all epidemics follow this pattern, including a sharp increase in cases at the

00:12:57.260 beginning of the cycle, and then the peak, and then it comes down and returns to a baseline.

00:13:02.060 This pattern exists because we modify our behavior so we don't get sick.

00:13:09.080 And those who do get sick, they seek medical attention.

00:13:12.740 China, which had its first cases in December, peaked in last January or early February and

00:13:18.720 is now in decline of the spread phase because they modified their behavior, which is what we're

00:13:24.240 doing.

00:13:24.800 We are about 45 to 50 days behind where China sits.

00:13:29.540 So we are still now at the early stage of the up of the bell curve.

00:13:34.760 In 45 or 50 days, we will start seeing the down just like everybody else.

00:13:41.240 It's not getting worse.

00:13:43.240 It's just our turn now.

00:13:45.500 And it indicates that our peak cases should be in April or early May and then decline

00:13:52.920 through June and July.

00:13:54.880 I'm still looking for an answer that I'm comfortable with on whether or not this is a

00:14:00.580 a seasonal flu or not.

00:14:03.500 We're not sure.

00:14:06.540 Normally, flus have a season.

00:14:08.760 And when you get into hot weather, it starts to dissipate.

00:14:12.860 Korea is expanding and and going through the roof. 0.93

00:14:18.800 Well, they found that Singapore, which is much warmer and more humid, is actually not

00:14:25.360 growing at the same rate.

00:14:26.640 So they think there is a possibility that this is a seasonal flu, which would be a very

00:14:33.600 big blessing to the world.

00:14:36.040 Unfortunately, not for Australia and New Zealand.

00:14:38.380 And they already have cases, which is odd if it is a seasonal flu.

00:14:44.040 But they're also closest to China.

00:14:47.540 And so things would be getting worse on that hemisphere as things get better for us.

00:14:52.360 And the world could catch its breath from this as we move towards a vaccine.

00:15:00.020 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:08.380 Hello, America.

00:15:09.640 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:11.340 The Corona virus.

00:15:13.340 It is not about the virus as much as it is about the spreading of fear, the protecting

00:15:20.220 of the medical community.

00:15:22.480 And the one that's really going to impact all of us, your cup of coffee at Starbucks.

00:15:29.520 I'm going to show you how your cup of coffee at Starbucks is going to radically change because

00:15:36.420 of the Corona virus and how it actually will affect you and everybody else who buys a cup

00:15:43.480 of coffee every day at the Starbucks or the Dunkin Donuts in one minute.

00:15:48.480 I have to tell you, my dog has completely changed.

00:15:57.540 Uno is the happiest he's ever been.

00:16:00.940 I mean, first thing that happened was the forced marriage that we forced him into with

00:16:08.060 Ella, who was wicked.

00:16:09.840 Uh, it made him miserable and he was not happy. 0.73

00:16:14.020 And then we changed his food and that changed a great deal.

00:16:19.040 Then we did Vita smart.

00:16:21.440 We did rough greens.

00:16:22.940 We added this.

00:16:24.120 This is not a dog food.

00:16:25.260 It's what you put in it.

00:16:26.400 And he has completely changed.

00:16:30.240 We were just talking about it yesterday, looking at him and seeing him.

00:16:34.680 I've never seen him wag his tail so much ever.

00:16:36.840 I've never seen him so active as he is right now.

00:16:40.200 He's seven.

00:16:41.060 We got him at three.

00:16:42.560 He's more active now than he was at three.

00:16:45.380 He's a different dog.

00:16:46.880 And we have rough greens to thank.

00:16:49.500 This is one of the best things.

00:16:51.560 Let me just make sure I'm.

00:16:53.660 Yeah, this is the best thing I think we've ever done for our dog.

00:16:57.940 Bar none.

00:16:59.200 This has made a bigger change in him for the positive than anything else we've done, including,

00:17:05.520 you know, the putting to sleep is his ex-wife. 0.91

00:17:09.640 Rough greens, 14 day jumpstart challenge right now, 1495.

00:17:14.480 See the difference in your dog in 14 days or less.

00:17:17.440 You will see a difference.

00:17:18.580 The longer we've been giving this to him, the more changes we're seeing.

00:17:22.820 I mean, I've been given to him, I don't know, two, three months.

00:17:25.440 And we're seeing even more changes today than we were originally.

00:17:29.160 Go to roughgreens.com slash back, but you'll see a huge difference in 14 days.

00:17:34.220 Roughgreens.com slash back, or just call them at 833-GLEN-33.

00:17:39.460 Take care of your dog.

00:17:40.660 Have him thrive, not just survive.

00:17:43.220 833-GLEN-33 or roughgreens.com slash back.

00:17:48.140 On average, the average day in America, over 38 million people buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

00:18:00.300 Okay?

00:18:01.500 That's a lot of people.

00:18:02.460 38 million people buy a cup of coffee every single day at Starbucks.

00:18:07.680 Now, Starbucks is a big company, but that store is a franchise.

00:18:12.680 Now, that's 10% of the population in the United States.

00:18:18.020 Starbucks stores are mostly owned by private people, franchise, small business owners.

00:18:24.040 They operate their store, but they own it under a license agreement from Starbucks corporate.

00:18:30.980 And the average Starbucks franchise operates with a 5% to 7% margin.

00:18:37.360 Now, what that means is after all of the operating costs, the supplies, the electricity, the employee salary, the taxes, and everything else,

00:18:47.500 that franchisee, that business owner of that local Starbucks is making about 5% to 7% of money at the end of the month.

00:18:57.560 Okay?

00:18:57.760 That's their profit they take home.

00:18:59.480 Every month after all of the costs are deducted from all of the sales.

00:19:03.400 So, to put it another way, to show you how little that margin is, and that's a normal margin,

00:19:11.700 but to show you how little that is, the average Starbucks owner, the franchisee,

00:19:17.760 makes a profit based on only two days' worth of operations every month.

00:19:24.200 28 days, all the sales go just to operating that place.

00:19:29.440 Only two days of the month is that rich business owner actually making money.

00:19:37.220 Okay?

00:19:38.280 Now, imagine that today, and if it hasn't already gone out, it's going to go out to Blaze employees today and to Mercury employees.

00:19:48.860 You get an email from your HR manager, maybe your CEO at work,

00:19:53.280 and you open it up today, and it says,

00:19:56.020 Due to the risk of coronavirus, all employees are being asked to work from home for the next two weeks,

00:20:02.060 at least, effective immediately.

00:20:04.580 Have your laptop.

00:20:06.040 The internet is going to stay up.

00:20:08.340 You've already made your Costco run for your canned goods, your beans, your rice, plenty of toilet paper.

00:20:13.560 In fact, too much toilet paper.

00:20:15.220 What's the deal with the toilet paper, America?

00:20:18.140 Anyway, you're all set.

00:20:19.840 Kids are going to stay home from school.

00:20:21.520 You update your Netflix and Disney Plus subscriptions, and you prepare yourself mentally for a two-week bug-in.

00:20:29.380 Semi-quarantine at home.

00:20:31.540 Local governments have not said anything about it yet, other than, you know, if you can, just stay off the streets.

00:20:38.720 You know, don't have a big, you know, block party.

00:20:43.040 You know, just don't congregate in large groups.

00:20:46.900 And as a responsible America, we all look at each other and go, yeah, okay, that's reasonable.

00:20:52.820 We'll do that.

00:20:55.200 Let's go back to Starbucks for a second.

00:20:58.060 Foot traffic is now almost ground to a halt because you're not going to work every morning.

00:21:04.340 You're not going into a store to buy coffee.

00:21:07.980 You might go in there and buy the grounds so you can go and make it yourself, but you're not going into the store to do it.

00:21:15.460 You're not standing in line.

00:21:17.900 In local businesses that are heavily dependent on daily cash sales, all of a sudden, a rapid overnight and sudden decline has dramatic consequences.

00:21:29.400 Operating costs of a store, they don't decline with foot traffic.

00:21:36.560 If you have brick and mortar, it still costs you the same amount to run your daily business when the store is busy as it does when the store is empty.

00:21:44.120 That's why you need that store to be packed all the time.

00:21:47.040 Employee salaries, the electricity to keep the lights on, the rent, the insurance, the license fee to Starbucks corporate, the cost to brew the coffee, to bake the muffins.

00:21:56.260 They're all the same.

00:21:57.920 If you have a thousand customers or ten customers.

00:22:02.720 But let me go back to the original idea here that you're only making money.

00:22:07.600 You are only making money two days a month.

00:22:11.740 So if you have just a two-week period with virtually no foot traffic, it's devastating to you because you still have to pay all those bills.

00:22:23.400 So what do you do?

00:22:24.420 Well, as a store owner, you start cutting back hours.

00:22:27.920 You cut the shifts for employees.

00:22:30.600 You might even lay some workers off.

00:22:33.060 Move to skeleton crews if it's more than two weeks.

00:22:36.460 The loss of work for hourly employees means they are not able to pay rent.

00:22:41.760 They may not be able to make their student loan payment or their car payment.

00:22:44.960 They can't make a credit card payment without ongoing sales coming in.

00:22:49.440 The store owner has to dip into savings to cover the expenses.

00:22:52.800 He has to sell stocks, bonds, anything to raise cash to try to stay afloat.

00:22:58.900 But he's being hit by the stock market.

00:23:02.000 He's already losing money.

00:23:03.400 Think of all the things that you won't spend money on during your just two-week bug-in at home.

00:23:09.960 No trips to the movie theater, who also have the same operating costs, whether or not the theater is full or empty.

00:23:15.640 They still have to pay the salaries.

00:23:17.400 They still have to pay licensing for showing the films, whether they're five people or a 500.

00:23:21.760 While quarantined at home, you're not stopping for gas.

00:23:24.940 You're not buying Mountain Dew fountain drinks that you're guilty pleasure on a Saturday morning while you're driving your kids to soccer practice.

00:23:31.880 You're stopping at that 7-Eleven.

00:23:33.940 More than six million small businesses in America are heavily reliant on that daily foot traffic.

00:23:42.960 Customers walking into their store making a cash purchase.

00:23:47.020 Online orders via Amazon is going to have an uptick in the tens of millions.

00:23:52.000 Because tens of millions of Americans and all over the world are going to be forced to be bugging in.

00:23:59.620 Some restaurants might see orders via food delivery apps, stay steady.

00:24:03.380 But there are millions of businesses from laundromats to theaters to bars to Starbucks stores to convention centers to concerts.

00:24:15.140 They rely on classic consumerism to stay afloat.

00:24:20.480 None of this, you will notice, has anything to do with the president or Washington or anybody in the media.

00:24:29.740 It has to do with basic economics.

00:24:35.460 So this is the catastrophic butterfly effect of COVID-19.

00:24:41.940 This is the thing that keeps me up over the last couple of weeks.

00:24:48.820 The death we all get.

00:24:52.500 We probably are going to lose some friends or grandparents or parents.

00:24:57.800 We might.

00:24:58.620 We're going to all lose somebody we know.

00:25:01.720 But it's not, it's not a, it's not the black plague.

00:25:11.580 It could be the black plague.

00:25:14.060 And this is why the market is doing what it's doing today.

00:25:17.340 A massive change in consumer behavior will have an outside, outsized effect on different parts of the economy that rely on regular steady income.

00:25:31.760 If you're not driving to work, you're not buying gas.

00:25:34.560 You got that.

00:25:35.060 But you're also not putting more miles on your car.

00:25:37.260 You're not having the problems that might.

00:25:39.040 So now your mechanics, everyone, everyone depends on everyone going to work.

00:25:47.860 Six million businesses in America need that cash and that foot traffic every day.

00:25:53.680 That's 78 million employees that fall into this category.

00:25:59.500 This is according to the Chamber of Commerce.

00:26:01.240 If America is forced to shut down for any kind of self-isolation at home and spending shifts with 78 million people who are waiting for your phone call or your trip in.

00:26:18.020 If that spending shifts online, the direct economic impact to small businesses, which is the backbone of our country, has lasting effects.

00:26:30.540 Most businesses have 45 days of operating capital at any given time.

00:26:36.380 A multi-week disruption has severe cascading effects.

00:26:42.520 Layoffs, loss in wages, stores will close, higher unemployment.

00:26:47.360 All of these things are so far beyond politics because real people's pain.

00:26:54.600 Everybody's going to talk about the stock market today.

00:26:57.240 It's now down 1,400 points.

00:27:00.540 It opened 5% down.

00:27:05.020 It closed within the first six minutes and took a 15-minute breather.

00:27:11.000 That hasn't happened in a while.

00:27:15.680 Everyone's going to talk about that.

00:27:17.580 You need to think about your one cup of coffee wherever it is you buy it.

00:27:21.600 You need to think about all the things that you do on the way to work.

00:27:25.440 We are barely beginning to feel the effects of COVID-19.

00:27:31.160 Many businesses in America, the economic contagion is going to be worse than the virus itself.

00:27:43.080 Amazon, Netflix, Clorox, they're going to be fine.

00:27:47.120 There's going to be pain on Wall Street today.

00:27:49.740 There's going to be a lot of pain on Wall Street.

00:27:51.920 There already is for people who have to sell stuff because they bought on margin again like a dummy, like they didn't think this one through and they didn't have the money.

00:28:01.340 That's what happened in 2008.

00:28:05.100 But the pain on Main Street is the one that's really going to be felt.

00:28:11.380 And it was felt last time and our big government bailed out all the big guys and forgot about Main Street.

00:28:18.100 Main Street will not be ignored a second time.

00:28:21.680 What you're seeing in Korea and China and Japan and Italy and even in Seattle are indicators that the localized shutdown of foot traffic due to COVID-19 is what we are really going to have to endure.

00:28:37.220 However, this is where we need to see people and not numbers.

00:28:50.360 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:29:03.180 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:05.100 So glad that you've tuned us in today.

00:29:07.220 Thank you for listening to us.

00:29:08.800 If you missed any part of the day's show, please listen to it on podcast.

00:29:12.880 This is especially if you're a long term listener, you've been through it with 2008 and and all of the trouble that we've had.

00:29:20.340 If you were watching me on Fox and you heard my predictions of what's to come, we are now entering those days.

00:29:27.500 And I'm going to remind you over the next few days of some of the things we've talked about.

00:29:32.120 I feel I've always felt a press from I'm sorry to get all religious on you, but I have always felt impressed by the warnings in Ezekiel.

00:29:46.840 Those who have a view over the horizon, over the wall, and they can see trouble coming.

00:29:52.500 If you warn, then the people what the people choose to do is their own issue.

00:29:59.120 If you don't warn, God's got a problem with you.

00:30:03.040 As somebody who has a footprint in this country of about 50 million people a month, that is terrifying to me.

00:30:12.900 That's a lot of blood on my hands.

00:30:14.860 If I don't warn, I have warned you of things.

00:30:22.300 The times are coming.

00:30:23.720 I'm not going to continue to warn you about the things because there's new things coming over the horizon and new things that we have to do.

00:30:30.840 And one of the things that I have to do is make sure that everyone understands this is not the black plague.

00:30:39.920 But don't dismiss this because it is going to Carl's cause hardship in something I am going to be relentlessly mocked for.

00:30:56.820 But I know it is true. 0.94

00:31:00.380 And I speak to those who have eyes and ears, everyone else mock all you want.

00:31:09.920 We are restoring the covenant in Gettysburg.

00:31:12.960 Whether that remains in place will be decided by whether this is a seasonal flu or not.

00:31:20.520 If it's not a seasonal flu, we're not going to be gathering in big crowds until there is a vaccine.

00:31:27.960 But everything we are proceeding as though this is a seasonal flu.

00:31:32.160 But I will tell you that this has been on my mind for a long time.

00:31:37.920 And maybe I was late.

00:31:40.080 I don't think so.

00:31:41.280 But maybe I was late.

00:31:44.020 The covenant is something that has protected our country.

00:31:48.140 It was made by the pilgrims when they first came here.

00:31:51.780 It was made by George Washington.

00:31:53.700 And then the last time it was made was with Abraham Lincoln in 1863.

00:32:01.460 And the turnaround at Gettysburg was tremendous.

00:32:06.660 He declared a covenant that we had to make as individuals, not just as a country, as individuals.

00:32:14.540 And we went from losing every battle to winning every battle.

00:32:20.860 And it always plays out this way.

00:32:23.240 And it hasn't been done.

00:32:24.320 And we are so far off the mark.

00:32:28.020 I want to read this this proclamation that Lincoln made.

00:32:34.920 And I'm going to post this today.

00:32:37.080 And I would ask that you would take this to heart and you would do this.

00:32:40.660 We're going to do this together on July 4th.

00:32:43.320 But I would ask that you and your family meet and do this today.

00:32:51.400 I'm just going to read two paragraphs from this proclamation.

00:32:53.820 He said, Lincoln, 1863.

00:32:56.380 Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God,

00:33:06.440 to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow,

00:33:10.660 yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon

00:33:15.840 and to recognize the sublime truth announced in his holy scriptures and proven by all history

00:33:22.720 that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

00:33:31.280 We are so far away from just that paragraph.

00:33:34.600 That's the opening paragraph.

00:33:35.920 Wait until you hear the next one.

00:33:36.880 In so much as we know that by his divine law,

00:33:41.060 nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

00:33:47.840 May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war,

00:33:52.780 I would just say the awful calamity that we are all facing.

00:33:56.060 And it's not just coronavirus.

00:33:57.220 It is this world that we have built on lies,

00:34:02.100 which now desolates the land,

00:34:05.300 may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins

00:34:10.680 to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people.

00:34:16.140 We've been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven.

00:34:19.820 Think of that line.

00:34:20.620 Have we not been the recipients of the best men have ever seen in the history of all mankind?

00:34:30.260 If you say if you were asked,

00:34:32.500 you could be born at any time in any place.

00:34:35.580 If you don't answer today in America, 1.00

00:34:38.520 you're a fool. 1.00

00:34:40.840 You're lying to yourself or you're living in self-imposed ignorance. 1.00

00:34:45.420 We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven.

00:34:51.020 We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity.

00:34:55.360 We have grown in numbers and wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

00:35:02.300 But we have forgotten God.

00:35:05.400 We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace

00:35:09.680 and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us.

00:35:13.080 And we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our own hearts

00:35:17.980 that all of these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom or virtue of our own.

00:35:26.700 Intoxicated with our unbroken success,

00:35:29.560 we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace.

00:35:35.820 Too proud to pray to the God that made us.

00:35:45.340 It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power

00:35:50.100 to confess our national sins

00:35:53.560 and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

00:35:57.780 I do not believe in punishments like so many people believe.

00:36:02.180 God is always merciful.

00:36:05.280 But just like I sit with my children and say,

00:36:08.480 don't do that, it's going to hurt.

00:36:10.020 Don't do that. Don't do that.

00:36:12.240 This is what's going to happen if you do that.

00:36:15.680 The most just system is one where there's not somebody saying,

00:36:20.820 all right, I'm going to punish you now.

00:36:22.560 The punishment is just built into your actions.

00:36:26.220 When you stray away from truth and you start believing and propagating lies,

00:36:32.220 it will come crashing down, not as some punishment, bad,

00:36:37.220 just because you are breaking the laws of nature.

00:36:44.440 And I know people will say,

00:36:46.920 oh my gosh, Glenn Beck's called for the end of the world.

00:36:49.580 Look, he says we're being punished by God.

00:36:51.860 We are punishing ourselves.

00:36:53.900 Let me just read what I just read.

00:36:58.700 Just please listen to that.

00:37:01.400 That's Abraham Lincoln.

00:37:02.860 You're going to bash me.

00:37:04.240 Go ahead.

00:37:05.020 All I did was read the words of Abraham Lincoln.

00:37:10.320 It's not a coincidence that his name was Abraham.

00:37:13.940 Lincoln called for a day of

00:37:23.580 of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer.

00:37:30.940 I'm calling for the same.

00:37:43.740 And it was to be July 4th in Gettysburg.

00:37:51.020 But I feel compelled to tell you that we may do that on July 4th,

00:37:56.620 whether we're going to, whether we're together virtually or we're together in Gettysburg.

00:38:01.880 I think we're going to be together in Gettysburg.

00:38:03.820 But if we have to be there just virtually, we will be there virtually.

00:38:07.760 And I ask all of your churches, I ask every, every person within the sound of my voice that believes in God

00:38:16.780 and knows the blessings that we have received rain down upon us because this is a sacred land.

00:38:26.160 It's not us.

00:38:27.840 We're not that special.

00:38:30.720 It's been a covenant that we've made and we've broken it.

00:38:34.500 We've broken it and we have wasted it.

00:38:38.260 We have now mocked it.

00:38:44.800 We are in a frightening place.

00:38:48.360 Should we choose to make it frightening?

00:38:50.300 We are in a place to where the world looks very unstable and we're going to see more unstable things.

00:38:58.780 And you are going to witness things that you've not seen before.

00:39:03.360 Things that you've like, I've never seen our country do that before.

00:39:07.580 This is that time that we've talked about.

00:39:10.860 There's no reason to worry about it.

00:39:15.620 But there, there is a reason.

00:39:20.300 To individually turn back to him and say, okay, what's out of order in my life?

00:39:29.200 What's out of order in my family's life?

00:39:31.720 And reappoint your cornerstones.

00:39:35.940 Just shore them up.

00:39:38.200 And then as a nation, rough waters are ahead.

00:39:44.140 And quite honestly, I think evil is just unleashed.

00:39:52.460 Lies and deception just everywhere. 0.98

00:39:56.800 We're believing things as foolish as men can have periods. 1.00

00:40:04.040 No. 0.94

00:40:05.120 If we are that far gone.

00:40:11.000 If we can't recognize that truth, how are we ever going to be able to recognize the subtle truths?

00:40:18.140 I urge you.

00:40:19.620 I will post this.

00:40:21.560 I urge you to sit with your family.

00:40:24.040 I urge you today to honor this proclamation from Abraham Lincoln.

00:40:33.740 And I urge you to keep in all humility.

00:40:40.100 I'm only asking you this because I truly feel as though I need it.

00:40:46.360 But we're heading in places and the world is a very confusing place.

00:40:52.320 And I want to tell you the things that I'm supposed to tell you and nothing more.

00:40:59.860 And it is a very difficult job when you take it seriously.

00:41:04.980 I would ask that you, your family, your prayer circles, any, anyone is keeping me and this show and the information that we present to you in your prayers.

00:41:22.280 Please pray for me to be humbled, but in a very, very nice way.

00:41:28.300 I've asked for this before.

00:41:29.620 God dishes this one out fast.

00:41:31.260 I don't, I don't need that much humbling.

00:41:33.180 I just need to make sure I am hearing what he wants me to share with you.

00:41:44.940 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:41:47.280 Welcome to the program.

00:42:03.780 We're just talking about, yeah, we're just talking about this, this good advice versus the panic advice. 0.95

00:42:10.000 For instance, you know, it's the dumbest thing in the world to go out and buy a whole bunch of toilet paper. 0.88

00:42:15.160 But you should go out and buy toilet paper. 0.98

00:42:17.320 Yeah.

00:42:17.520 And part of the reason to buy toilet paper is because if everyone else buys all the toilet paper when you need it for normal reasons, because you're out of toilet paper, it may be difficult to find.

00:42:26.860 There's going to be plenty of toilet paper.

00:42:28.980 Yes.

00:42:29.460 Plenty of toilet paper.

00:42:30.380 They'll make more.

00:42:31.420 However, the problem also is, is if, if, you know, this thing with Italy, where they've just said to half of the country, half of the population of Italy, stay home.

00:42:42.620 It's incredible.

00:42:43.540 And you're not to drive across the country.

00:42:46.180 You don't leave in this area.

00:42:47.340 You just stay where you are.

00:42:48.580 That could happen here quickly.

00:42:50.640 And it's mandatory.

00:42:51.680 There's not a suggestion.

00:42:52.680 No, I know.

00:42:53.940 It could.

00:42:54.320 It could happen.

00:42:54.980 And it's hard to imagine it happening in the United States of America, but it could.

00:43:01.400 I mean, it's also a pretty hard thing to imagine that a socialist might have been the Democratic nominee.

00:43:06.620 I know.

00:43:07.000 Or president of the United States.

00:43:08.180 And he's relatively close still.

00:43:10.540 Yeah.

00:43:11.060 Although he's getting blown out in recent polls.

00:43:13.600 It's like, and it's not like Joe Biden's a moderate.

00:43:15.700 I mean, this idea that he's in the moderate lane is, it's like, it's, it's about the same as saying he's in the young lane because he's the youngest Democrat running.

00:43:23.120 Yeah, that's right.

00:43:23.640 Yeah, I guess.

00:43:24.280 It is.

00:43:24.740 Like, say it is.

00:43:25.540 That's what people are saying.

00:43:26.660 He's the youngest.

00:43:27.880 He's the youngest man running for president of the United States for the Democrats.

00:43:32.060 For the Democrats.

00:43:32.680 And then Trump, the spry 70 year old or whatever it is.

00:43:35.940 I mean, that's incredible.

00:43:37.340 He's really young.

00:43:39.220 But you're right.

00:43:40.200 And it's, it is one of those things where, you know, you have to look at this and say, the only time I can remember seeing this, I think we discussed this last week, is in Boston during the Boston bombing.

00:43:50.100 They basically said, everybody, Boston, stay inside.

00:43:52.360 There's terrorists going around shooting people and blowing things up.

00:43:55.200 And so people actually honored it.

00:43:56.780 I remember thinking, there's no way this is the United States.

00:43:58.940 Oh, yeah.

00:43:59.240 They're not even going to honor it.

00:44:00.020 They honored it.

00:44:00.940 And it was, and I don't think it was a.

00:44:03.580 It wasn't, we're going to arrest you.

00:44:04.920 It wasn't, it wasn't martial law.

00:44:06.420 It was more of a suggestion.

00:44:07.920 Yeah.

00:44:08.100 And people were like, yeah, I'd rather not get blown up or shot.

00:44:10.480 So they stayed inside.

00:44:11.580 Right.

00:44:11.780 I think people will honor this.

00:44:14.740 If they think it's true.

00:44:15.780 There's going to be people like, I'm not doing that. 0.93

00:44:18.340 That's ridiculous.

00:44:18.920 There are going to be those people. 0.92

00:44:20.860 But most people will say, if I can work from home, I'm going to work from home.

00:44:26.180 It's going to be, the problem is going to be when the effects start happening.

00:44:31.240 Wait, I'm not supposed to go into work.

00:44:33.300 I'm a part-time employee or I work hourly.

00:44:36.740 How am I going to make it?

00:44:37.800 That's where it's going to be a problem.

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