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00:01:19.140 uh hunter biden he was uh interviewed on 60 minutes over the weekend i can't believe he's doing

00:01:27.600 press it seems ill-advised pat uh doesn't it though yeah hide they're hiding your dad he's the 0.68

00:01:34.480 president of the united states why are you out in the press right you can't get him to do a freaking

00:01:37.980 press conference we're getting stuff from hunter yeah and he's he's the he's the surviving son that

00:01:44.640 joe biden never talks about it's always it's always about bow yeah and uh and so it's kind of it's kind

00:01:52.700 of sad in a way um although i think he got himself into a lot of this stuff but uh he was talking about

00:01:59.680 the laptop over the weekend on 60 minutes and you know it just may be that that was hacked by

00:02:08.640 russians or chinese or mongolians i'm not sure who hacked it but somebody might have hacked it

00:02:17.240 uh here's what he was talking about it's on 60 minutes was that your laptop for real i don't know

00:02:22.840 what i know but you know that i really don't know okay what you don't know yes or no laptop i don't

00:02:28.160 have any idea i have no idea so could have been yours of course certainly there could be a laptop

00:02:33.880 certainly yeah it might be it could be that i was hacked it could be that that was the

00:02:37.840 that it was russian intelligence could be could be that it was stolen from martians aliens aliens

00:02:43.900 could have easily been aliens could easily easily have been plutonians yeah or martians i don't know

00:02:49.200 which uh someone from the jupitorians maybe planet zarkon saturnites could have been zarkon yeah

00:02:56.280 zarkonians i think is what they like to be called well i'm sorry from the planet zarkon yeah i was

00:03:01.780 gonna say zarkon five oh okay they they just call people from zarkon they don't like the zarkonians

00:03:06.260 they've been along there's a long-term war in the solar system long story short uh-huh uh it could

00:03:11.300 have been a liar it could have what yeah that's what oh that was a surprise i came out of nowhere 0.52

00:03:17.020 laptops come and go i don't know where are all my laptops they could be anywhere i was walking

00:03:23.540 down the street the other day bumped into a giant stack of my own laptops they were just all over

00:03:27.980 the streets how did they get there russian intelligence i don't know it could have been

00:03:32.120 anything uh this is this is one of the worst answers and this is something he's had months

00:03:38.980 to prepare for yeah and this is the best you could do is maybe it was maybe it was i don't know of

00:03:44.760 course it could be i went i would i went to a swimming pool the other day it was filled with my

00:03:49.280 laptops i was just a giant swimming pool of old laptops i don't know how they got there i have so

00:03:55.740 many russian hacking yeah russian that could be russian hacking could be people from zarkon 0.92

00:03:59.800 could be zarkonians we don't know we don't know uh i mean we're canadians damn canadians could

00:04:05.520 have done this i don't know i don't know man all i know is i go through eight to ten laptops a day 0.89

00:04:10.680 and i don't know where they go they just all disappear going to various various it people's

00:04:17.060 hands and who knows how to get there to an it person i just leave it there could it be mine yes

00:04:23.340 i don't know i didn't know they can fix laptops i was just turning them over i thought it was like

00:04:28.600 a house of substance like a toxic sludge the geek squad just ate them that's what i thought they 0.78

00:04:36.080 did that's what i thought i thought i thought jeff fisher worked there and he just ate them when

00:04:44.220 they came in they're so crunchy i mean who could resist i mean part of it i do appreciate the fact

00:04:53.060 that the question was asked and i should lead with that yeah however i will say i i and i argued this

00:05:00.780 during the campaign i can understand why you would be skeptical especially if you're in the media

00:05:05.500 of like rudy giuliani coming out with a found laptop a week before an election i can understand

00:05:11.160 why there'd be skepticism on a story like that in fact the storyline of how it got to the it person

00:05:17.580 that was left there and then it like it all seemed very questionable all of that being said

00:05:24.820 no one ever asked hunter biden whether it was his his laptop before the election they didn't even say

00:05:33.480 like look okay i can understand you're not going to confirm or deny every salacious detail here but

00:05:38.080 can you tell us did you did you drop off a laptop at this place i mean that's a totally legitimate

00:05:42.500 question that if he says no to it at least you'd say okay well he's denying it completely they didn't

00:05:48.680 even get him on the record with a denial yeah they didn't all they said was we can't believe these

00:05:53.200 tactics they kept going back to that same well all these tactics they're just trying to make a scandal

00:05:59.460 right before the election yeah okay but did you drop it off with this guy at this address were you

00:06:04.420 ever the one that just happens to be a couple miles from the train station you'd be getting off all

00:06:09.100 the time the one with all of your emails in it right like they keep quoting your emails how how do

00:06:15.520 they how do they do that how do they get the video of you doing things canadians deep fake well i think

00:06:21.640 the canadians were working with the russians and the mexicans and they went after my laptop and put a

00:06:29.200 whole bunch of fake emails in there hacked them right into it i mean i it's inexplicable and there's

00:06:37.800 no i mean the follow-up of like could it be yours well how about you know look they say you dropped

00:06:43.380 off a laptop forget whether this is your laptop or not did you drop one off at this place at this

00:06:48.820 address with this phone number and this business name might have been a good question like can we get

00:06:53.880 yeah and obviously of course the real reason he's not answering it is because he did and it was his

00:07:00.220 laptop and the fact that they actually were banning the new york post twitter account over a story that

00:07:06.820 obviously when you watch this interview what's true i mean we thought it was true before but

00:07:12.860 obviously this was his laptop these things were on his laptop and they just decided to ignore it

00:07:21.280 so that at the end of the day donald trump would not be president anymore i i i'm not a person who

00:07:27.660 always says that but like it's clear they saw a narrative from 2016 and i you know i read enough

00:07:33.480 it's my job to read the left-wing media so you don't have to and i read enough left-wing media to

00:07:38.560 see they had constant complaints for the four years of the donald trump presidency that they believed

00:07:45.220 again this is insane but i'm gonna lay it out for you they believe they were too tough on hillary

00:07:51.340 clinton in the in the campaign they believe they gave too much oxygen to various scandals like the email

00:07:57.900 scandal and they believe the reason hillary clinton lost was kind of their fault because they they

00:08:04.600 decided to be in their view honest and cover these emerging scandals that were being talked about and

00:08:12.120 that were out there like the email scandal and so they believe this time we can't let that happen

00:08:17.980 again and you some of them talked about it outwardly that like when when the when the right

00:08:24.200 comes up with their scandal last minute we need to ignore it because last time we did it and look

00:08:28.240 what happened that is the way they viewed 2016 so in 2020 so when this came up for him they did

00:08:34.980 exactly what they said they were going to do for four years completely ignore it and not even try to vet

00:08:40.980 whether it was a real scandal or not and now here we are a year after six months after the election

00:08:45.840 and they are now admitting that they should have been asking those questions why are they asking

00:08:52.380 them now why are they bothering with it now now that the guy's already president of the united states

00:08:57.680 now you're going to ask the question about the laptop they were so invested in removing donald trump

00:09:03.300 with any means necessary that they just intentionally ignored this they did they they talked about it

00:09:10.980 they admitted it and they executed that uh way of doing business without shame without shame and here

00:09:23.340 we see that obviously the ramifications of that is it worked no trump isn't president anymore so you

00:09:29.240 know that that's going to be their plan every time now you got to believe it they're just going to

00:09:33.040 ignore any scandal uh that is coming from the left they just won't pay any attention to it they won't

00:09:39.180 give it any oxygen uh it did work this time it's hard to argue with that they didn't talk about

00:09:45.320 they didn't talk about hunter biden at all in fact they made it a conspiracy theory if you believed

00:09:52.120 anything was wrong with him that he did anything wrong in ukraine or china or this laptop thing if

00:09:59.220 you believe any of it it was just a big conspiracy theory well now all of a sudden they're starting to 0.99

00:10:03.580 look into some of it and they're finding out that the guy's a bald-faced liar and a drug addict who 0.94

00:10:10.420 maybe he doesn't remember because he was so drug addled maybe maybe he doesn't know because he was so 0.98

00:10:17.620 wiped out on drugs he he admitted that he relapsed as as late as during the campaign last year 0.72

00:10:24.560 during the campaign and this sucks man i mean this is a tough thing for anybody to deal with and 0.98

00:10:29.900 and i'm sure it is you know okay i'm sure it's hard for joe biden to deal with his son is a disaster 0.97

00:10:35.540 yeah his son is a disaster and that's not easy to deal with but it is it is easy for the media to

00:10:40.560 deal with something like this and this is a guy who is returning rental cars with lines of drugs still

00:10:45.640 on the dashboard on it and do your drugs when you rent a car well all the drugs a line or two for uh

00:10:53.220 for the nice rental company people like a tip yeah like a tip i left you snort whatever's on the

00:10:58.580 dashboards lines of coke there so enjoy that won't you he's had a really tough time he's been

00:11:03.460 impregnating strippers all around the nation exactly uh he's been on like the impregnated stripper tour

00:11:08.880 uh he's been involved with his you know with his brother's widow oh my gosh it really is brother's

00:11:15.120 widow's sister and then the stripper in arkansas with the baby look family family stuff can be really

00:11:21.820 difficult and i and you know they've had a kid die there really is a a rough road here for the for

00:11:28.940 the biden family over the years i mean this has been a yeah a really rough bumpy ugly road and it's not

00:11:35.300 about even though at times we may mock hunter biden it's really not about that it's about the media

00:11:40.880 holding them responsible for their criminal actions did they occur we don't know because no one asked the

00:11:48.440 questions you know you could go through peter schweizer's book and see a lot of things that i

00:11:52.680 would call criminal and they're all documented bunch of things yeah i mean and not just with hunter but

00:11:58.500 like the whole family the whole family stinking family his brother is another big one in that his

00:12:03.960 brother his daughter yeah it's all over the place in that family there's lots of corruption they've been

00:12:08.160 using power in ways that i don't feel comfortable with for a very long time but that is the meat the

00:12:14.540 media's job is to ask those questions and not wait till april you don't ask the question in april i

00:12:20.740 mean it's better than not asking it at all i suppose but you don't wait till april this came out before

00:12:25.600 the election this should have been talked about and everybody on earth should have been aware of

00:12:32.940 whether this was hunter biden's laptop or not and everything that was on it and just let the american

00:12:37.900 people decide then that would have been nice yeah if the american the american people had the information

00:12:43.320 and they were able to decide whether or not it mattered to them but that's the problem they

00:12:47.920 chose wrong last time yeah and we can't let them choose again because they chose wrong last time that's

00:12:52.400 the way they view this and it is it's not a way to get you real information i'll tell you that

00:12:56.820 the best of the glenn beck program

00:13:00.440 looking at this vaccine situation in florida has been fascinating to watch 60 minutes ran a big expose

00:13:12.140 and it's clear now the media has decided ron desantis is a front runner for president in 2024

00:13:19.000 this is now they're just doing anything they can to sink this guy at this point

00:13:24.420 they've decided they need to make sure they take him down before he can get started because and you

00:13:30.520 look at desantis who's a guy who's elected in very narrow election in florida very close election

00:13:36.020 and has seemingly done really well i mean it's really hard to to look at his performance and say

00:13:41.540 anything other than that they they kept things largely open they sort of led the country and

00:13:48.060 you know we should be clear here they they didn't exactly and they had a mass mandate but they

00:13:53.240 lifted it in september where it took texas just did it you know a couple weeks ago uh you know they

00:13:58.740 there was they leaned freedom let's put it that way they leaned freedom when dealing with the

00:14:02.840 coronavirus and with a very elderly population one of the oldest populations in america finished sort of

00:14:09.360 middle of the pack for for covid results as far as deaths per million and many other measures

00:14:15.480 which is impressive i mean i remember when florida's first started having an outbreak early on

00:14:20.600 in miami and and in other areas and it was thought to be like this is going to be really bad because

00:14:25.880 they do have an older population and if this starts spreading like crazy the most vulnerable people

00:14:30.840 are going to be very vulnerable well it didn't wind up turning out that way

00:14:33.600 and florida performed really well and desantis you know i've heard him uh discussed as a

00:14:40.560 professionalized trump right where he does a lot of the things trump does but you know donald trump

00:14:47.580 for for all the things he does really well was also very interested in like calling people on msnbc

00:14:54.020 ugly right like that's not what ron desantis does he's he's he's he loves mixing it up with the media

00:14:59.600 he goes back and forth with them all the time but it's usually more about issues rather than you

00:15:04.620 know people's appearances and the sort of stuff that like trump as an entertainer trump as a media

00:15:08.940 personality got into a lot people like desantis because he brings a lot of the same policies a

00:15:13.640 lot of the same things to the table but he doesn't he doesn't go down those those sort of outlier

00:15:19.240 role roads that would make that made a lot of even trump voters uncomfortable a lot of the tweeting

00:15:24.980 yeah he you know he doesn't he doesn't participate in and it's not like he's like understated

00:15:30.440 desantis likes to mix it up but he usually is doing it based on issues of governance where trump you know

00:15:37.880 a lot of times obviously was much more interested or you know as interested in just mixing it up and

00:15:42.860 fighting with the media you know desantis likes him fighting with the media but he's usually doing it

00:15:47.040 over something some sort of policy thing so this happened with 60 minutes over the weekend this is let me

00:15:51.980 give you this clip this is uh they're trying to figure out basically why ron desantis used publix

00:16:00.220 which is a big grocery store chain in florida as a distribution center for the vaccine now if you've

00:16:07.300 ever lived in florida this would strike you as like super obvious like there's a publix on every corner of

00:16:14.160 every street in between if you are on a residential street and there's six houses on it the last lot is

00:16:20.680 filled with the publix that's how it works in florida which is a grocery store right grocery store

00:16:24.880 yeah it's like a kroger or albertson's yep just it's just really dominant in florida really dominant

00:16:32.960 in florida no very well known for their very uh very good sub sub sandwiches uh that uh certainly

00:16:39.200 didn't add to my weight gain while living uh in florida and there's one right across the corner from 970

00:16:44.400 wfla our tampa affiliate and we would go there i mean i'm pretty sure that's mostly what's responsible

00:16:50.260 for jeffy's size was the the proximity of that publix to 970 wfla so here is a 60 minutes with a i mean

00:16:59.740 they dug deep on this one we can't get hunter biden to be asked a question about his laptop before the

00:17:03.920 election but they dug deep into this ron desantis publix controversy this weekend let's listen so why

00:17:09.940 did the governor choose publix campaign finance reports obtained by 60 minutes show that weeks

00:17:15.840 before the governor's announcement what publix donated a hundred thousand dollars to his political action

00:17:21.500 committee whoa friends of ron desantis oh my gosh julie jenkins fancelli heiress to the public's fortune

00:17:27.780 has given 55 000 to the governor's pack in the past and in november fancelli's brother-in-law

00:17:34.580 hoit r barnett a retired public's executive donated 25 000 oh my gosh publix did not respond to our

00:17:42.140 request for comment about the donations governor de santis is up for re-election next year

00:17:47.800 oh i imagine governor de santis's office would say look we privatize the rollout because it's more

00:17:54.420 efficient and it works better it hasn't worked better for people of color that's true before 1.00

00:18:00.380 i could call the public health director she would answer my calls but now oh if i want to get my

00:18:08.460 constituents information about how to get this vaccine i have to call a lobbyist from publix

00:18:12.460 that makes no sense they're not accountable to the public distributing vaccines is lucrative

00:18:18.620 under federal guidelines publix like any other private company can charge medicare 40 a shot to

00:18:26.120 administer the vaccine okay there is so much packed into that clip it could take us a whole show to go

00:18:32.180 through first of all the idea that ron de santis is district choosing how to distribute the vaccine

00:18:40.040 based on 100 000 of donations hey that's what split over multiple years like this is insanity

00:18:48.340 why on earth would he care about that 100 million maybe that's influencing him a little bit but

00:18:55.440 100 000 big deal now of course as and this has been talked about by public health officials for a

00:19:03.620 very long time in that if you put if you put the vaccine availability in places that people are

00:19:08.680 familiar with and go to off often anyway they're more likely to get it right like if you need to go

00:19:13.940 to the what did he say oh before i could go to the public health director and they'd answer my calls

00:19:17.640 well who not mine right i've never talked to a public health director before it's much easier

00:19:23.720 public is much more accountable to me than a public health director they don't even know they don't

00:19:28.720 know who i am i go to public i go and i buy food there they have to keep their customers happy they

00:19:33.400 are very accountable to the people and people are in there all the time are going to see signs for hey

00:19:38.400 you can get the vaccine here i mean you know every year when the flu vaccine and i'm somebody who gets

00:19:43.340 the flu vaccine typically usually what happens is i'm in cvs and i see the sign i'm like oh yeah i was

00:19:49.420 supposed to get that i might as well get it now that's usually how i get it because i'm just

00:19:53.460 there and i'm like i remember that it's there and i so i go and get the flu vaccine now again this is

00:19:59.360 something that is non-controversial cvs is distributing the vaccines for covet all across

00:20:06.600 the country walgreens is doing it why are they doing it that way well people go into those places

00:20:11.460 it's not like it's not like trying to like if you have to file a a government form like to change

00:20:17.080 your address or or to um to the typical stuff that you have to go to town hall for even sometimes to

00:20:24.700 register to vote or one of those things it's much more arduous than going to the place you go to all

00:20:30.140 the time i never know where to go you go in the you go in the town hall there's all these different

00:20:33.760 buildings they all have none of it's none of it's self-explanatory it's always a difficult process

00:20:38.940 to deal with government so instead they put them in walgreens you just walk up there and say hey

00:20:43.640 uh you know i have my appointments today get the shot get some you know hostess products and walk

00:20:49.520 out because those are healthy so completely understandable and happening all over the

00:20:55.760 nation florida is not the only one that is distributing vaccine this way in major consumer

00:21:02.100 centers that's what the concept is go to a place where people are already you don't have to spend

00:21:08.260 millions of dollars advertising because they're going to walk by the signs all the time

00:21:11.220 so this goes on uh they they they try to lock down desantis on this obvious scandal

00:21:18.480 which is just completely we're getting outrageous sums of money from these people yeah a hundred

00:21:25.020 thousand dollars oh we should also mention when he goes oh it's not working for people of color

00:21:28.700 if you don't know uh public's it's a whites only grocery store yeah they do not realize that was 1.00

00:21:34.400 legal yeah no yeah they do not allow black people inside of public's dang uh bastards why why you do 1.00

00:21:43.860 black people i know they can't get ids they apparently can't get to grocery stores either 1.00

00:21:48.320 well no they all live in food desert food desert found that out from michelle that's right which by 0.94

00:21:54.080 the way is not uh accurate either we went around texas this is back in when we i was doing a show

00:21:59.500 i loved oh there's such a great when you were doing the food deserts in dallas it was called

00:22:05.240 we did a segment called deserted and it was on the show i did on for the blaze called the wonderful

00:22:09.960 world of stew which is a weekly show so we get to have a little more time to do uh production on

00:22:14.500 these things so we would go out on the field and i would go i would find food deserts in in texas

00:22:20.260 they were actually designated designated as such and then i would go visit all the grocery stores

00:22:25.420 inside the food desert because without fail they would always have not just one but multiple

00:22:32.020 grocery stores inside what they call the food desert unbelievable and it just these are just

00:22:37.700 straight out lies they would say that you know they have because they put out a map they said this is

00:22:42.240 where all the food deserts are and i'm like i'm standing in one i went to one that had a um a target

00:22:48.680 superstore was a full grocery store inside a walmart superstore with an entire grocery store uh

00:22:54.880 store inside a sam's club which has lots of the same types of things uh and and an eatsies which

00:23:02.360 is like more of a i don't know like a craft sort of grocery store that has you know it's not a

00:23:07.680 grocery store it has some prepared foods but it has like a mix of things but you couldn't get like

00:23:11.080 fresh produce at any of those places all of them i think you get fresh produce at all of them

00:23:15.120 and what and like some of the some of the places didn't have like you know unhealthy processed snack

00:23:23.180 foods like eatsies wouldn't have something like that but you could get that at target wood walmart

00:23:28.340 wood target wood yeah so all these things and they were it's a it's like a i can't be more than a

00:23:33.320 a square mile for sure it's much less than that i mean these are things that like you could drive

00:23:39.020 to all four of these places within three minutes they're that close to each other and they're inside the

00:23:44.560 food desert and so we went and visited them and we're like look we can't find any produce here

00:23:48.960 and so that's all over the place which is of course why they don't talk about food deserts anymore i

00:23:53.220 guess not because there really aren't any not in america look if you're in the middle of nowhere in a

00:23:58.940 rural area like sometimes maybe that's the case but that's not the way they that's not that's not

00:24:04.400 how they define it no they're talking about urban areas where you can't get fresh food and the idea

00:24:09.240 once again is these evil corporations don't like minorities so they don't put grocery stores near 0.51

00:24:13.260 minorities apparently minority money is not effective to as a as a incentive they don't 0.73

00:24:19.020 want it which is ridiculous these places are all over the place they're all over the place they

00:24:23.840 don't care where their money comes from no they don't care they don't care uh so here is uh ron 0.73

00:24:29.380 de santis uh they're trying to trap him on this we know the reason why you gave these vaccines

00:24:34.520 to publics is because of this listen to this clip it's amazing we wanted to ask governor de santis

00:24:41.160 about the deal but he declined our request for an interview oh no we caught up with him south of

00:24:46.360 orlando publics as you know donated a hundred thousand dollars to your campaign and then you

00:24:51.940 rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination so first of all that what you're

00:24:57.580 saying is wrong how is that not paid that's a fake narrative i met with the county mayor i met with

00:25:02.380 the administrator i met with all the folks at palm beach county and i said here's some of the options we

00:25:07.360 can do more drive-through sites we can give more to hospitals we can do the publics and they said

00:25:12.300 we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents but melissa mckinlay the county

00:25:17.100 commissioner in the glades told us the governor never met with her about the public's deal

00:25:22.320 it's wrong it's wrong it's a fake narrative i just disabused you of the narrative and you don't

00:25:29.540 care about the facts because obviously i laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable and so it's

00:25:35.040 clearly not isn't there no no no you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong yes that's actually a

00:25:39.820 fact okay so this is first of all you could see the trump the white why trump fans like desantis like

00:25:46.000 he doesn't care he's just gonna freaking fire back at you over these things uh but of course they also

00:25:50.520 edited that clip i don't know if we have do we have full time to run this let's just let's listen

00:25:54.540 to some of this this is the full uh clip and the exchange with desantis much of this hit the

00:25:59.360 cutting room floor on 60 minutes here's the initial question

00:26:03.920 about 100 000 so first of all that what you're saying is wrong that's that that's a fake narrative

00:26:13.440 so first of all when we did the the first pharmacies that had it were cvs and walgreens

00:26:18.940 okay and they had a long-term care mission so they were going to the long-term care facilities

00:26:23.440 they got vaccine in the middle of december they started going to the long-term care facilities

00:26:28.680 the third week of december to do ltc's so that was their mission that was very important and we

00:26:34.740 trusted them to do that as we got into january we wanted to expand the distribution points so yes you

00:26:41.140 had the counties you had some drive-through sites you had hospitals that were doing a lot but we wanted

00:26:46.060 to get it into communities more so we reached out to other retail pharmacies publics walmart

00:26:51.180 obviously cvs and walgreens had to finish that mission and we said we're going to we're going

00:26:55.920 to use you as soon as you're done with that for the publics they were the first one to raise their

00:27:00.240 hand say they were ready to go and you know what we did it on a trial basis i had three counties i

00:27:05.800 actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different publics how was the

00:27:10.820 experience is this good should you think this is the way to go and it was a hundred percent positive

00:27:15.520 so we expanded it and then folks liked it and i can tell you if you look at a place like

00:27:20.880 palm beach county they were kind of struggling at first in terms of the senior numbers i went i met

00:27:27.040 with the county mayor i met with the administrator i met with all the folks at palm beach county and i

00:27:31.140 said here's some of the options we can do more drive-through sites we can give more to hospitals

00:27:36.140 we can do the publics we can do this backup they calculated that 90 percent of their seniors live

00:27:41.880 within a mile and a half of a publics 90 they said we think that would be the easiest thing for our

00:27:46.360 residents so we did that and what ended up happening was you had 65 publics in palm beach

00:27:51.720 palm beach is one of the biggest counties one of the most elderly counties we've done almost 75 percent

00:27:57.840 of the seniors in palm beach and the reason is because you so well so first of all two things you

00:28:02.540 take from this number one he doesn't go from zero to arguing with her at all she's he explains it very

00:28:08.580 calmly she keeps firing back and eventually it escalates they only put that part in they skip the part

00:28:13.600 where it's 90 of people live within a mile of a public which is an incredible statistic yeah uh

00:28:20.160 they skip all of that and they make it look like he was uh giving this just to publics for these

00:28:26.060 donations when as he lays out clearly cbs and walgreens had it first and by the way they still

00:28:34.380 have it so if you don't have a publics nearby you have a cbs or walgreens most likely it really is i

00:28:40.740 mean the media just they don't even care anymore they're not even trying but a ridiculous segment

00:28:44.120 from 60 minutes this is the best of the glenbeck program and don't forget rate us on itunes

00:28:53.400 so i am trying to eat healthier and i am but the thing is i don't like healthy food i don't like

00:29:05.440 any of it you've heard of a fat suit right i mean there's got to be when are we getting a skinny suit

00:29:10.520 something that will make me look skinny because i just want treats all the time i grew up in a

00:29:15.860 bakery for the love of pete the bad news is no skinny suit is coming you actually have to do the work

00:29:21.000 blah blah blah that's why i am eating built bars it satisfies my sweet tooth but it's a protein bar

00:29:27.260 but not like you know that's like eating stuff at the bottom of my chalkboard usually this is 100%

00:29:33.180 real chocolate it's low carb low sugar if i'm eating a protein bar as a treat come on you gotta know

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00:29:52.900 is going to water just looking at them trust me builtbar.com promo code beck15 by the way uh again

00:30:00.080 you could really uh use your thoughts and prayers on behalf of glenn and his family today uh he's got a

00:30:05.420 family emergency he's dealing with um maybe all this week and so if uh if you could direct some

00:30:14.080 thoughts and prayers to him and his family that would be great and very much appreciated

00:30:18.060 888-727-BECK it is uh patent stew for glenn uh on the mask mandate in texas i think a lot of people

00:30:28.360 are surprised that our numbers continue to trend down yes since the mask mandate being pulled uh

00:30:36.180 we've gone down another 37 percent in infections and hospitalizations which is pretty good up no it's

00:30:43.280 actually down down 37 percent down 37 yeah down 37 percent 20 i just was reading over the weekend

00:30:50.440 though that 25 states i think had their numbers go up a little bit they spiked somewhat yeah it does

00:30:56.560 seem like there is we had this really big decrease nationally from over the past few months partially

00:31:04.320 as vaccines started but i don't know how much you can you can really put on that case i think you can

00:31:10.140 look at that from elderly people because there is a really significant percentage of elderly people

00:31:14.960 uh who have been vaccinated now it's over 70 percent of uh elderly people have at least first shots

00:31:20.640 uh so that's a lot it's helping with the death numbers though the case numbers are are they

00:31:25.880 basically plateaued at about the level of the the summer lull before we had that uh which was how

00:31:31.420 many how many is that uh give me one second here i can i can give you that number because basically we

00:31:36.340 had a if you think of of the way we've dealt with this thing since the beginning there's been that

00:31:41.200 first wave right where everything was going crazy we didn't have any tests and it was basically new

00:31:44.860 york new jersey california there's some in california some in detroit new orleans got hit pretty hard that

00:31:51.180 first wave but it was mostly a northeast wave if you want to call it that and that was uh that had

00:31:56.480 the are you looking for cases or deaths deaths let's just do deaths because they're much easier

00:32:00.400 to actually look at um and because there was no testing in that first wave at all yeah but you got

00:32:05.120 to about 2 000 deaths a day a little over 2 000 deaths a day in that first wave then it came down

00:32:10.540 to around uh about 600 deaths per day as it came down off of that first wave rose back up in the

00:32:17.380 second wave which would you think of florida texas arizona uh that rose up to about a thousand a

00:32:22.840 day came back down to about 700 a day before this last wave that we had that was really not nearly as

00:32:30.560 intense in any location but was much more widespread it was like a it was not nearly as bad in new york

00:32:37.820 for example yeah um than it was in that first wave it wasn't didn't it get to 4 000 a day but that

00:32:43.260 one got up to that particular point yeah it got up to about it did hit 4 000 in individual days

00:32:48.500 the average got to about 3 500 okay since so since then that was a end of january it's come all the

00:32:55.280 way down to 833 so from 35 we're down about 75 cases that's significant stunning yeah i mean it's

00:33:04.440 been wow yeah same thing with cases uh from about 250 000 cases a day at the peak in that third wave

00:33:10.760 we're now down to about 60 000 cases a day which is about where we were which fauci would say that's

00:33:17.860 too high right he would say too high but yeah it's about the lull we had in between the second and third

00:33:23.640 wave of this so it was a point where we were looking at this and saying okay you know we're we've done

00:33:30.960 well at this point we're not all the way down to maybe where we would like to be but we've done well

00:33:34.700 now since since let's say the beginning of march we've basically that decrease has stopped we've

00:33:43.460 hit a plateau at about 60 000 a day give or take okay so we haven't dropped to like 50 or 40 right

00:33:49.700 we have just stayed at 60 the drop went pretty straight down and then is leveled off about this

00:33:55.720 area yeah now the good thing is uh deaths continue to drop we don't know if that's going to continue but

00:34:00.020 it would make sense that it continues considering we are now uh vaccinating so many older people 1.00

00:34:06.260 this is sort of the approach if you remember pat back in the early days of the pandemic there were

00:34:10.440 sort of two competing approaches you had the left-wing approach which was like lock everything down no

00:34:14.560 one goes outside at all basically unless you're you know unless you're a doctor right yeah only doctors

00:34:20.460 on the roads was their plan um you know i'm exaggerating a little bit but not that much and then there

00:34:25.120 was the conservative idea which was hey we realize this hits people it's really really bad for older

00:34:31.140 people and not as bad for younger people so what if like the younger people went out and were able to

00:34:37.520 do what they could do take basic steps you know social distancing or whatever you know wash your hands

00:34:41.960 a lot do the basics but we can keep the economy chugging as much as possible and we really do kind

00:34:47.300 of lock down on older people uh you know so they they you know nursing homes for example aren't getting

00:34:52.740 tons of visitors right we don't import known covid positive patients into nursing homes like andrew

00:34:58.720 cuomo was doing that was an interesting idea from conservatives um but we've kind of now achieved

00:35:05.200 largely that vision right now which is we have 75 percent of sick people 65 plus have at least had one shot

00:35:13.840 now one shot will get you to about 80 percent effectiveness uh with pfizer and moderna which is

00:35:20.220 pretty good which is pretty good i mean it's much 80 is way better than they thought they were going

00:35:24.160 to do with these things at the beginning yeah they were hoping to get to 50 so they got to 80 with

00:35:28.520 just one shot the um astrazeneca in the uk is the mainly their chosen vaccine there and they're only

00:35:35.700 doing one shot right now they're not even going for for the 90 90 effectiveness with the second shot

00:35:41.040 there's like let's get as many people as we can to get one shot so if you think of it that way that

00:35:45.360 it's largely effective anyway 75 already have it over 55 of the of the 65 plus population is fully

00:35:53.260 vaccinated in this country already it's really really fast so we're doing 3 million vaccinations

00:35:59.240 a day a day now that's incredible point oh eight that's really that really is good it is really

00:36:04.660 really good and so this is largely by the way we should point out largely because of the trump

00:36:10.220 administration right uh in conjunction with with uh big pharmaceutical companies the other evil thing

00:36:17.380 and capitalism those three things working together getting something that has never ever been seen

00:36:24.300 before in human history this vaccine program how fast they came up with them how many they got

00:36:30.560 how effective they are yeah how little side effects there have been yeah it's absolutely incredible

00:36:36.120 it's a miracle it really is it really is and i know maybe you don't want to get it but that's

00:36:40.980 still a miracle and that is fine that's just as important here by the way freedom is really

00:36:44.880 important if you don't want to take the vaccine you shouldn't have to take the vaccine exactly no

00:36:48.160 exceptions to that for me i mean like if you if you think i don't want to get the vaccine because i

00:36:53.940 don't like needles you shouldn't have to get the vaccine if you don't want to get the vaccine

00:36:57.940 because you don't trust it you just don't trust public's and ron de santis and the way they

00:37:03.080 distributed the vaccine near the sub shop that's fine too that's really really important uh and

00:37:08.940 people get really sensitive because they feel as if the government's going to come in and mandate

00:37:12.940 it we have not seen that yet but you know people are very uh on top of the passports thing there's

00:37:18.740 all these threats of people coercing you to do this the product is good enough to just be out

00:37:24.420 there it's just believe in your product a little bit you got you came up with something really

00:37:29.380 great it's working really well around the world yeah and just believe that people are going to

00:37:34.920 want to not get the coronavirus and to have and to have not one but what four vaccines yeah that are

00:37:42.980 widely in use right now yeah between pfizer moderna johnson and johnson and astro zeneca yeah natural

00:37:50.940 zeneca is not approved here yet but it is uh in other parts of the world but i mean that's incredible

00:37:55.400 when before the the the data i heard is that the fastest vaccine ever developed was 10 years

00:38:04.300 yep i think it was measles there's one i think was it mumps or something that was i had heard four

00:38:10.000 years on there's some conflicting information as to what the record was at least four times what it

00:38:15.140 took this time and i love look i love the superhero american story of the development of this vaccine i

00:38:21.260 love it too um but i will say you know look mrna technology had been been worked on for 40 years

00:38:27.000 you know they've been working on coronaviruses generally and mrna for seven years because we've

00:38:32.880 seen a lot of coronaviruses they had a really good head start on this people talk about oh they just

00:38:36.700 they rushed it through well they had a really good they've been doing research it was a top line

00:38:40.760 research issue and i think maybe the most exciting part of all of this

00:38:43.960 is that this technology this general it's like a platform and so when they came up with a new

00:38:52.360 variant right when these new variants have come out they've been able to adjust and add and come

00:38:56.460 out with booster shots in weeks because it's just like it's just they just need to tweak it's not it's

00:39:02.280 a totally different way of coming up with vaccines it's not like the old school way so uh the good

00:39:06.620 thing about this is it could i think it's going to do incredible things for other long-term things that

00:39:12.260 people have struggled with other diseases that people have struggled with and that's really great

00:39:17.700 if that's the way this goes but like we should point out that the trump administration is if you

00:39:23.900 want to have political fingers to be pointed should be pointed to the trump administration they are the

00:39:29.940 ones that shepherded this process through it may very well be looked back at as the best thing he did

00:39:36.040 as president they're the ones who provided the money yeah they provided the money they they fast

00:39:42.160 tracked they got rid of a lot of red tape like people are oh they they rushed the vaccine through

00:39:46.660 well they fast track the the red tape yeah and that is like it's that's what gets in the way we

00:39:51.920 could be much more innovative but the fda is always shutting these things down or making it take 10

00:39:56.120 years right and it takes so long because in part the fda approval process is a catastrophe

00:40:02.720 ridiculous ridiculous and so instead of going through that they did something else where you

00:40:08.500 just had a uh an emergency approval yeah emergency use authorization emergency use authorization by the 0.97

00:40:15.500 way instead of the actual approval it very much strengthens your case if you're someone who doesn't

00:40:19.840 want to get it because it would be very difficult for a government entity to require when it hasn't

00:40:24.600 been approved by the fda right yeah it would be very difficult for that to happen i don't think it

00:40:28.240 would hold up in court but again i there are worries there and you do have to worry about

00:40:32.300 government overreach when it comes to power on these things i'm just talking about the actual

00:40:36.120 science plus capitalism aspect of this which i freaking love i love that part of it and why

00:40:41.620 wouldn't you because if you're a trump fan this is exactly what he did yeah these were the steps he

00:40:47.220 took to make this happen and it's important to note too that donald trump got the coronavirus as we

00:40:52.280 all would remember right before the election in a really bad way had a really rough run with it

00:40:56.280 and even though he had it before he left office he got the vaccine yeah like this is donald trump

00:41:02.680 choosing to take it after he already had it it's questionable whether you would even need it

00:41:06.660 if you had coronavirus like as a covet 19 survivor myself uh i've had to look into these things as

00:41:12.500 well as a canadian sports hero and a canadian sports hero those two things i'm known for yeah

00:41:16.580 but uh the point is that trump i mean look you could say you know it would be very strange decision

00:41:24.000 making for this to be some nefarious plot that trump willingly decided to take before he left

00:41:29.400 office i mean i don't know why he would do that the point though is that this is going in such a

00:41:34.640 good direction we've come off of these highs right and i think there's a good chance that we'll get

00:41:40.680 that situation that we talked about as conservatives at the beginning where not through policy but

00:41:46.580 through vaccines the older population is protected so that even if we have flare-ups among the younger

00:41:52.380 population we're likely to lose uh the high death numbers yeah uh from the previous outbreaks yeah i was

00:42:01.380 reading an article from somebody who uh isn't a huge proponent of less restrictions and even he was

00:42:10.120 saying um i can't remember the name but even he was saying that by memorial day it's going to be hard to say

00:42:17.740 you still need to wear a mask so we're trending in such a direction now that by memorial day we should

00:42:23.980 be done with that and that's great if that's true look it's it's great you know it's it's true here largely

00:42:30.220 in texas anyway i mean some of the signs remain on the doors uh there are certain places my wife can tell you

00:42:35.920 a list of all of them in this area that will get mad at you if you do not wear a mask i bet she could

00:42:40.180 oh yeah if you're ever on her instagram page that is about 90 of the content is her talking about what

00:42:46.340 places she can walk into without a mask and they won't harass her that's a bit it's about most of

00:42:51.160 her attention these days yeah our house got destroyed by a flood so you have that and then you have where

00:42:55.980 can she go shopping without a mask those are the two things she thinks about but it's true i mean

00:43:01.100 i have noticed and we made this point in the air pad at the beginning of this

00:43:04.760 that really there's been no big difference from in texas yeah before the announcement

00:43:10.060 nothing's changed really in my life maybe now we're starting to see a little bit more of things opening

00:43:15.820 like i you know i'm going to uh the uh the america's team the toronto blue jays uh their game against

00:43:21.820 the rangers today so expected 100 capacity that's going to be weird yeah that's something because

00:43:27.000 i've been to a few sporting events with empty seats this is going to be weird if it's actually

00:43:30.280 but you do have to wear a mask right they do say that unless you're eating or drinking which by the

00:43:33.980 way i'm at a baseball game i will be doing a lot of so it's not going to really affect me all that

00:43:37.480 much uh wanted to play for you this uh pastor he's originally from poland but he lives in calgary

00:43:42.500 canada now and has his parish there and uh some police officers came in to his church yesterday on

00:43:49.480 easter sunday and were hassling people without a mask and so he kind of took exception to that

00:43:56.380 please get out get out of this property immediately get out get out of this property 0.99

00:44:04.080 he's talking to six police officers i don't want to hear anything out of this property immediately i

00:44:09.060 don't want to hear a word out out out of this property immediately until you come back with a

00:44:17.700 warrant out yeah out out out out out of this property immediately out immediately go out and

00:44:31.100 don't come back don't i don't want to talk to you not a word out of this prop out of this property 0.87

00:44:37.800 guy knows his right i don't care what you have to say out out out out of this property you nazis out

00:44:48.080 out gestapo is not allowed here immediately gestapo is not allowed out do you understand english

00:45:01.900 get out of this property get out of this property go so go go and don't come back without a warrant 0.99

00:45:09.260 out nazi out out now what does he want from the officers here i think he wants them to stay

00:45:18.040 have a have a cupcake or something okay do not come back without a warrant he continues to call them

00:45:25.600 nazi gestapo communists fascists uh but they leave and how does this work actually leave

00:45:32.880 uh you need to try this next time you get pulled over out get out out i don't want to hear you

00:45:40.560 get out i'm gonna try that see how that works you get pulled over you know once a week at least so

00:45:46.880 you gotta at least give this a shot seriously i think that's the thing i'm most fascinated about

00:45:51.660 how they actually it actually works yeah i mean of course they shouldn't be in there doing these

00:45:56.320 things uh if he wants them to not be there if they don't have a warrant yeah is it to come in and

00:46:01.060 what enforce i guess the idea was they were enforcing mask policy of some sort yes i guess they were

00:46:05.640 having shirts with no masks right wow and he just put the hammer down he really did uh which is amazing

00:46:14.500 first of all it takes a lot of nerve secondly i mean i'm not normally in favor of uh

00:46:21.020 disrespecting the police officers but they're they're you know hassling people with masks with

00:46:27.360 not wearing masks on easter sunday at a church yeah no look that's that's wrong i will say also

00:46:32.720 however there's a little jim crow 2.0 going on here in that like if you were to yell at the nazis that

00:46:38.040 way that is not the way the interaction would have well that's true that is i get that's kind of an

00:46:43.400 important point as well it is i mean i let the police take enough abuse from people uh yeah that i don't

00:46:48.840 like to see that but but again you understand people are frustrated it's been over a year here

00:46:53.640 of this craziness and you know look there's just no reason there's no reason to be enforcing these

00:46:59.920 types of things ask you tell people reliable information they can count on and you won't

00:47:04.040 change every two weeks and let them make decisions for themselves and then if they show up tell them

00:47:08.640 get out get out get out

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