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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today, Glenn takes a bunch of phone calls from people trying to

00:00:04.580 figure out the world right now and what they've been seeing. It's interesting to hear from around

00:00:08.980 the country right now. As you know, from the mainstream media, all we're hearing is basically

00:00:14.140 what's going on in New York City, which is where most of these people live. So they are very focused

00:00:19.840 on it, but there's a whole world out there and lots of different things going on. We go through

00:00:23.240 a bunch of that today. We go into whether the new Malaysian approach to the coronavirus is the

00:00:31.260 right one. It's kind of interesting. Boris Johnson in the hospital with coronavirus. We'll get into

00:00:36.020 that a little bit. Also, what to do with your kids in quarantine. If you're in that situation,

00:00:41.540 you know it's interesting. To say the least, we have a coronavirus update. We have the incredible

00:00:49.400 new development of left-wing media sources who have been touting the reusable grocery bag for a

00:00:59.300 very, very long time, now having to deal with the fact that they're banning them everywhere because

00:01:04.160 of coronavirus, which is just bizarre. That's all coming up on today's program. Also, to let you

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00:02:04.600 All right, so our coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins University. Total confirmed cases

00:02:10.600 worldwide now 1,284,000. That's up over a quarter of a million since Friday. Total confirmed deaths

00:02:19.940 now 70,000. That's up 1,600. Sorry, 16,100 from Friday. Total confirmed recovered 271.

00:02:30.700 5% of active cases are considered serious, steady from 5% on Friday, down from 19 back at the high

00:02:40.180 in February. And 11% of U.S. confirmed cases are still requiring hospitalization, roughly on par

00:02:46.940 with Italy at 12%. Spain, 17% are requiring hospitalization. We now have 336,851 new confirmed

00:03:00.680 cases. That is up almost 100,000. On Friday, I gave you the death count of 6,000. Today, it is

00:03:10.220 9,620. We now have about 1% of the population tested. They're saying now, according to the New York

00:03:21.940 Times, the U.S. death toll is off a bit, only by about 100%. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. may be

00:03:30.600 undercounted by half. Inconsistent protocols, limited resources, patchwork of decision-making

00:03:36.940 have led to an undercounting of people with the coronavirus who have died. Let me give you a

00:03:42.240 couple of examples from the New York Times. First one, a coroner in Indiana wanted to know if the

00:03:47.580 coronavirus had killed a man in early March, but said her health department denied a test.

00:03:53.600 Example two, paramedics in New York City say many patients die at home, are never tested for

00:03:58.800 coronavirus, even if they showed all of the signs of infection with death certificates marked as

00:04:05.360 cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, or unknown. An example three in Virginia, a funeral director

00:04:11.800 prepared the remains of three people after health workers cautioned her that they each had tested

00:04:16.620 positive for coronavirus. But one of the three, only one of the three, had COVID-19 on the death

00:04:24.140 certificate. We definitely know there are COVID-19 deaths that are not accounted for. That's across

00:04:31.800 the country. They say that it is, it's 100% off. The same effect has occurred in Italy, Spain, Ecuador,

00:04:41.180 and China, where the rate at which patients are dying and lack of testing led to chronic undercounting

00:04:47.740 of COVID-19 related deaths. As reported by the Blaze last week, citing the Wall Street Journal and Al

00:04:53.080 Jazeera, Ecuador health care officials in some areas have taken to burning bodies in empty parking

00:04:59.900 lots or burying bodies in mass graves, with most of the deaths never tested for COVID-19. In one Italian

00:05:09.820 village, a mayor reported he had more than 300 bodies, presumed COVID-19, which officials had not

00:05:16.700 picked up or counted in Italy's official numbers. The army told us on Friday, then Sunday, we're still

00:05:22.460 waiting, he said. Virus can contaminate face masks up to seven days. Oh, geez. Have we decided on what

00:05:31.840 the face mask thing is, Stu? Are we? They did a national recommendation that when you're out in

00:05:37.220 public, you should wear them. However, they also say that you need to be washing them because if you

00:05:42.080 just keep popping on the same one or handling the mask after you've used it, there may be virus on the

00:05:47.740 mask anyway, so it's not really going to do you much good. It's like one of my favorite parts about,

00:05:54.580 I mean, look, there's not a lot of positives coming out of this, but one of my favorite stories was the

00:06:00.080 fact that now all of these grocery stores are banning the reusable bags and going back to the

00:06:07.380 disposable bags. Oh, I love that. I love that. Because of, you know, the virus, which, you know,

00:06:13.120 it's funny because this has been a legitimate problem for a long time with reusable bags because

00:06:19.780 people take their bag and they put the meat in the bag and the juice or whatever leaks out and it,

00:06:25.620 you know, does all the stuff. You're supposed to wash it every time. Every time. And the fun part

00:06:29.900 about washing it every time is it eliminates any environmental positive that you would get.

00:06:35.080 So if you don't wash it every time, there's a slight environmental positive, though you're risking

00:06:39.580 your health in serious ways. If you do wash it out, it's worse for the environment than plastic

00:06:44.740 bags. So no big deal. No big deal. So your face mask could be infected for seven days, but don't

00:06:52.000 worry about it. The fact check from USA Today I found interesting. Finally, they got around to this

00:06:58.380 one. Did Obama deplete U.S. national stockpiles of N95 masks? Did you hear this? If you're a conservative,

00:07:07.860 you probably heard this. If you're a liberal, you probably didn't hear this. Yes. According to USA

00:07:15.200 Today, now they've finally taken up the the the the task. He he geared us up for a swine flu

00:07:23.100 and hurricane and flooding cleanup operations in 2009 and then again in 2012. They used all the N95 masks 1.00

00:07:31.680 or a lot of them and then never put them back in stockpile. So didn't replenish. That's one of the

00:07:38.500 reasons why Donald Trump is so bad. We don't have any masks. Yeah, that would be somebody didn't put

00:07:45.400 more on the shelf. That would be Barack Obama. Yeah, there actually is an interesting story today,

00:07:50.020 too, about how George W. Bush was obsessed with pandemics. He read the 1918 flu pandemic book,

00:07:57.840 which we've talked about before. It's a pretty, you know, it's probably the great influenza. Yeah,

00:08:02.000 right. Yeah, it's the probably the biggest well-known best-known book about the 1918 flu. Yeah,

00:08:07.860 and he read it and was like, look, this is serious. We need to be prepared for it even when we don't see

00:08:11.580 it coming because right around when it hits it's gonna be too late and he spent tons of times and time

00:08:17.760 and resources preparing the U.S. government for this and then it was whittled away by, you know,

00:08:25.540 largely Obama. I mean, it was really a big deal to Bush personally. It was abandoned once Obama took

00:08:32.060 over and, you know, you could make the argument that Trump should have, you know, brought all

00:08:36.860 these things back in his first three years. There's not, you know, there's no blameless person here

00:08:41.520 overall, but still Obama seems to be the one who really did not prioritize this as much as you would

00:08:48.880 have hoped throughout this and it's costing. Well, it didn't prioritize quite honestly anything. I mean,

00:08:53.320 when it comes to disaster, you don't have a stockpile and then not replenish it. If you're

00:08:59.360 using it, you have to, at the end, go back and replenish and they didn't. And, you know, I don't

00:09:06.960 blame, I don't blame Donald Trump for that and I don't blame Obama for not carrying through with

00:09:13.080 George Bush's thing. I do blame him for, or his administration, for not replenishing it. That's

00:09:20.240 your responsibility. I mean, you know, we all learn that with our moms. Can somebody, I mean,

00:09:25.700 you just want to replace the toilet paper or is that all I live for is just replacing everybody's

00:09:31.100 toilet paper. There's a new roll underneath the sink. I mean, we all, we all got that from

00:09:37.160 our mom. That's exactly what Barack Obama should have heard. Um, latest casually, as we told you

00:09:42.800 earlier today, Corona beer has officially stopped production. No, it's not that we're that stupid. 0.99

00:09:52.260 Mexico has finally gotten a clue and said that, uh, that's not an essential business. I think there'd 0.99

00:09:58.900 be a lot of people that would disagree with that. Uh, but they have shuttered the, uh, beer business,

00:10:03.900 uh, Japan and Hong Kong may declare a new state of emergency because the virus has re emerged.

00:10:12.960 Both Japan and Hong Kong saw new waves of COVID-19 cases as travel and work restrictions were lifted

00:10:19.880 about 10 days ago. This couldn't be worse news. And then the surgeon general came out and said,

00:10:28.460 this is going to be the hardest and saddest for most Americans lives. He said, this is going to be

00:10:33.560 the grimmest period of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This is quote going to be our

00:10:39.700 Pearl Harbor moment, our nine 11 moment. It's going to be localized and it's going to be happening all

00:10:45.460 over the country. And I want Americans to understand that. I want Americans to understand that as hard as

00:10:51.040 this week is going to be, there's light at the end of tunnel. Do you have that feeling at all,

00:10:55.880 Stu, that this is going to be the hardest, most grim or the, or I thought you were going to say is

00:11:01.460 their light at the end of the tunnel is what I'm feeling. Um, yeah, no, I mean, do you feel like

00:11:06.580 it's that light? Do you feel this, what he was saying? Well, I don't worth seeing it. We're going

00:11:11.820 to be seeing, we're seeing thousands of people die a day. I remember the beginning, your,

00:11:16.560 your whole, what do you, you said this, I think last week, it's currently the third largest

00:11:22.380 cause of death in America, right? Yes. Right now it's third. Yes. Um, you know,

00:11:28.180 and if it just stayed stable, didn't grow, just stayed stable by the end of the month,

00:11:34.020 it would be the number one killer. The number one pandemic in the last hundred years, right?

00:11:40.060 The number one pandemic last hundred years. Yeah. So, I mean, it's been, that's pretty remarkable.

00:11:44.340 It's been pretty significant. I mean, again, like, especially my situation is different than

00:11:48.980 probably most of the people listening in that I'm still coming to work every day. Like I was talking

00:11:53.900 to people this weekend who could, they were like, wait, what? You're still going in? Like,

00:11:57.580 how is that possible? You know, in a lot of parts of the country, you know, it's not like it is in

00:12:03.520 New York, but I mean, there are several major cities who are about to go through the same thing

00:12:08.340 that New York is going through. We've bought a little bit of time, hopefully, and some of the

00:12:12.800 resources will get to the right spots. The president was pretty, uh, upbeat about getting the right

00:12:17.620 amount of ventilators and such to each location. Hopefully that can actually happen.

00:12:22.700 Seattle sending their vent, Seattle sending their vents to, uh, New York, which is great.

00:12:27.280 Yeah. I mean, so hopefully, I mean, I do have a lot of confidence that when the United States

00:12:32.480 decides something's a legitimate thing to focus on, we do pretty well at it. Usually,

00:12:38.300 you know, it takes us time sometimes to pick these things up early. We talked about this with

00:12:43.420 terrorism, right? Like, you know, we were not necessarily taking it seriously for a long time.

00:12:47.880 And then all of a sudden, one, one, one Tuesday morning, we all kind of like, holy crap, this is 0.58

00:12:53.080 a really important thing. And we took it very seriously after that. Um, and we tend to do those

00:12:57.960 things, you know, when we really put our mind to it, we do pretty well. And you could see like the way

00:13:03.600 that these companies are coming together and making, you know, the masks and the face shields and

00:13:07.540 ventilators. And, you know, we are, the testing is another one. I keep, I keep spouting this and

00:13:12.640 no one seems to care about it. It's because it was a narrative apparently two weeks ago and no

00:13:16.480 longer applies. But the idea that the United States had basically no tests at all three weeks

00:13:21.880 ago and is now doing 150,000 a day, we're up close to 2 million tests already. We've tested now

00:13:29.760 more than any other, um, country, you know, and who knows with China, you throw them out cause you 0.84

00:13:36.180 don't know, but we, I mean, we've, we've stepped that up quickly. We have these rapid tests coming

00:13:40.360 and between that and the potential antibody tests, you have a situation where we could get a handle

00:13:46.180 on this and operate our country in a relatively somewhat normal fashion, even before we get a

00:13:53.680 cure or a treatment. You know, it's amazing because I, I watched, I told you, I think on Friday that I

00:13:58.920 watched Sky News, uh, from England and, uh, there were two, two stories that stuck out right at the top of

00:14:05.460 the hour. One was the private sector saying, please let us make ventilators. Let us make masks. The

00:14:13.080 private market was begging the government to allow them to make medical things and the government

00:14:19.620 wasn't doing it. The very next story was the government's and look it up. It's unbelievable. The

00:14:25.980 government's five, uh, five-step plan to be at a hundred thousand COVID tests by the end of this

00:14:35.740 month. What? What? The five-step plan? I mean, holy mother, you're kidding me. We're doing a million a

00:14:48.100 day. And we were the country that was, oh, we have no clue as well. No, this is the capitalist system. Yep. This

00:14:55.380 is the capitalist system. And you know, this is what there's this thing going around about how, oh, there's

00:14:59.800 no libertarians in a pandemic. It's the opposite. Everybody turns into libertarians in a pandemic. The

00:15:05.000 most left leaning, I want big government people all see when it gets really important, they get rid of all those

00:15:11.840 dumb restrictions, all the licensing issues, all of the long approval processes. You know, there's

00:15:18.200 these things we talked about, Glenn, a little bit certificate of need laws, which are laws that say,

00:15:23.060 hey, uh, when you want to build a new hospital, you have to go to the state and say, I think they need

00:15:27.420 a new hospital. And the state has to tell you, yeah, we agree with you after hearing the opposing

00:15:33.020 opinion from people in the community who know best, namely the competition you'd have in the hospital

00:15:38.320 that already exists. So they come in and they, of course, don't approve a lot of these hospitals.

00:15:42.780 The same thing goes with, uh, you know, important medical equipment like MRIs and ventilators,

00:15:47.440 right? So they go, they go through this. They had at one point, um, 49 states had these,

00:15:53.860 they started to whittle away as, you know, as Reagan went on. Um, but I think it was something

00:15:59.420 like 36 states when the pandemic started. I think it's 15 of those states, most of them,

00:16:05.140 most hard hit by this, uh, you know, pandemic have all waived those laws now so that people can bring

00:16:11.060 in more beds and can bring in more ventilators. But it does very little use once the pandemic has

00:16:17.420 already begun. Like if you had an open system and there were enough beds there already, you wouldn't

00:16:22.560 have to worry about these things last second. It said they're bringing ships in off the, off the

00:16:26.300 coast. These are the kinds of things that you will learn about in arguing with socialists.

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00:17:13.360 A great battle against an invisible enemy. All of these things that Donald Trump has said,

00:17:18.240 uh, they're true and they make perfect sense. Even Trump's most ardent supporters and, uh,

00:17:26.300 and his most ardent opponents, both of them say, this is a once in a generation emergency

00:17:34.500 and we should be on wartime footing. And the opponents of Donald Trump, many of them have

00:17:42.320 called for more and more power to be handed to no, no, let me get this right to be taken

00:17:50.460 by the president to do battles against this invisible enemy. Everything from commandeering

00:17:56.560 manufacturing plants to logistics, to shipping companies, pharmaceutical manufacturing research,

00:18:03.560 nationalizing the banks. What is going on? You said he was a tyrant. You're opposed to him

00:18:11.000 and you're just telling him to do all these things. No. And thank God we have a president

00:18:18.480 that understands the free market president that has preferred to form a partnership with private

00:18:24.000 industries to wage the war, turning America's great companies to produce masks and respirators

00:18:29.760 and ventilators and medicine and vaccines, all the things that will ensure our country can and

00:18:35.480 will prevail while keeping them private. The United States and the entire world, they

00:18:42.960 are engaged right now in a great battle against an unseen enemy, an enemy that threatens to kill

00:18:49.020 our people, destroy our nation and our way of life. And it's an enemy that we have seen and fought

00:18:54.800 before as a people. We've faced this enemy throughout human history over and over and over again.

00:19:01.300 We've had to battle it. All of us are descendants of survivors of the countless previous wars that

00:19:08.620 humanity has had to fight against this hidden enemy of man. The enemy is a disease. The enemy is a virus.

00:19:19.460 But the enemy is not SARS COVID-2 coronavirus. The virus we're actually fighting against,

00:19:28.340 the unseen. The one that wants to remain unseen is slavery. And you can call it what you want.

00:19:35.660 Socialism, collectivism, communism, statism, despotism, authoritarianism, whatever you want to call it,

00:19:44.320 it's slavery. People's individual liberty captured for the benefit and the betterment of everybody else.

00:19:53.180 Those are all forms of enslaving some men to the will of others. That's slavery. 0.88

00:20:05.040 A virus is a biological construct.

00:20:09.500 And doing battle against a virus requires treating both the symptoms caused by the infection,

00:20:15.040 as well as finding a vaccine that can destroy the virus as well.

00:20:19.620 But slavery is also a political and moral construct.

00:20:26.080 It's a social disease caused by an immoral idea spread by unthinking, unfeeling human beings

00:20:33.400 who transmit the disease to others, turning them into factories that produce more unthinking, 0.87

00:20:39.840 unfeeling human beings.

00:20:42.560 They take over the lives of more and more people within a society or a country until that country 0.88

00:20:47.520 is completely destroyed.

00:20:50.220 Its defense is exhausted.

00:20:53.820 And doing battle against slavery requires treating both the symptoms caused by the infection

00:20:59.400 within a society, as well as finding a cure that can destroy the idea itself.

00:21:04.800 President Donald Trump is absolutely right.

00:21:07.980 This is a war.

00:21:09.460 He's also correct that we fought this type of war before.

00:21:14.420 But this is not a war against the coronavirus.

00:21:18.160 That, quite frankly, is child's play.

00:21:20.740 As terrible as it is, COVID-19 is not going to kill us.

00:21:25.760 Might kill a few of us.

00:21:27.540 But we will prevent the spread.

00:21:29.300 We will find a cure.

00:21:31.240 America and the world will survive this pandemic as it has survived millions of others in the past.

00:21:36.840 Each of us is a descendant of survivors of a thousand biological plagues.

00:21:44.800 The president is right.

00:21:47.100 We cannot let the cure for COVID-19 be worse than the disease itself.

00:21:52.720 And he has the right idea in terms of the outcome here.

00:21:56.440 We can't let our response to coronavirus destroy the American economy.

00:22:01.200 Now, when I say in the American economy, it seems cold and callous.

00:22:09.160 Because that's not really the objective.

00:22:11.860 To save the economy is not the objective.

00:22:16.280 A healthy, productive American economy will enable people to generate wealth and accumulate things.

00:22:25.620 And to be healthier, to be safer, to be more free, that's a consequence.

00:22:33.300 That's an outcome.

00:22:34.700 It's not a cause in itself.

00:22:37.080 What has enabled the American economy to be the most robust and powerful engine for human ingenuity, productivity, wealth generation?

00:22:54.560 Individual liberty?

00:22:55.720 Men free to think, men free to build, men free to fail, to seek new achievements, and to be rewarded for doing so.

00:23:13.240 And punished by their own actions, the consequence of their own actions.

00:23:18.540 A natural consequence.

00:23:20.920 They fail.

00:23:23.000 They have a right to compete with each other.

00:23:25.720 Driving each other to be smarter, to work harder, to find the better way to solve problems.

00:23:30.880 That's America.

00:23:32.360 That's not the economy.

00:23:33.620 That's America.

00:23:34.520 That's the battle we're in.

00:23:36.060 That's the battle we're fighting to save.

00:23:38.400 If the cure for COVID-19 is the slavery of some men for the benefit and betterment of others,

00:23:44.680 then COVID-19 perhaps should take us all.

00:23:48.200 If the cost of defeating the biological virus is that we then die on the table to political and moral disease of collectivism,

00:23:59.840 then Trump's fear will have proved to be right.

00:24:04.540 And the cure will have been much worse than the disease.

00:24:08.160 I want you to look at what's been proposed.

00:24:12.400 In the U.S., the government should take over every major industry, from health care to pharmaceutical companies,

00:24:20.160 grocery, food delivery, airlines, shipping, transportation, construction, take it over, banking, take it over, stock market, take it over.

00:24:27.680 On the global scale now, the United Nations is now calling for a permanent 10% global tax on the GDP of every country.

00:24:38.460 Now, they say this is designed to, you know, fight COVID-19.

00:24:42.440 Permanent, permanent 10% tax to enable the U.N. to fight future pandemics, as well as the ongoing pandemic, climate change.

00:24:52.800 Oh, and poverty and income inequality and sexism and nationalism and a thousand other isms that are really, really super unfair.

00:25:02.320 The United States is less than 5% of the world's population, but we represent 25% of the world's GDP.

00:25:11.820 So the U.N. is effectively proposing that about 4% of the population transfer 10% of our wealth each year to support the remaining 96% of the human race.

00:25:23.060 If you don't think that's fair, well, I just call it a progressive income tax.

00:25:30.400 But I will tell you this.

00:25:32.320 That leads to our destruction.

00:25:35.480 And if you think it's unfair, then maybe you should do some rethinking.

00:25:39.720 Because maybe you've been pushing from the wrong policies here in America.

00:25:43.980 Because it kind of feels like the world wants to destroy us.

00:25:48.940 What's proposed here is nothing short of permanent enslavement of the United States

00:25:53.140 for the betterment and benefit of every other national on Earth.

00:25:57.320 There's no doubt in my mind that humans will survive COVID-19 and we'll do it in spectacular fashion.

00:26:05.480 But the plague of collectivism, the idea that some men should be slave to others, that's the oldest idea in the book.

00:26:12.680 That some people have some sort of right to lay claim to the intellect and productive energies of others.

00:26:20.400 That's the real battle here.

00:26:24.560 That's the true invisible enemy that we must yet again defeat.

00:26:31.080 Ask yourself this.

00:26:34.740 Would you have some right to charge into Mike Lindell's MyPillow bedding factory and point a gun to him and his workers

00:26:41.460 and force them to produce cotton face masks to avoid being shot? 0.79

00:26:45.640 Now this sounds ridiculous, sounds preposterous, and all rational thinking human beings would clearly see that as immoral in a criminal act.

00:26:55.080 But they don't see it as immoral and criminal in vast amounts of the world. 0.86

00:27:01.760 That's happening in the world.

00:27:03.720 And yet there are people here proposing to do that.

00:27:07.080 They just didn't say you'd get shot.

00:27:09.160 But they're coming in with the full force of the government.

00:27:11.460 And at the end, it's whoever has the guns.

00:27:17.000 Now maybe some people say, well, I don't want the United States to do that.

00:27:19.960 I want the UN to do that.

00:27:21.400 I want somebody, you know, in a blue helmet.

00:27:25.760 But I'm okay if they have a U.S. Marshal's badge.

00:27:29.880 Now let me ask you this.

00:27:31.000 Does Mike Lindell have the right to choose to convert his factory over to making cotton face masks at his own expense

00:27:38.480 and to pay his workers to make those masks instead of making pillows?

00:27:42.920 Yes.

00:27:44.220 Yes, that is his moral choice.

00:27:50.200 It's a human being engaged in activity that he believes to be virtuous and right.

00:27:54.960 And yes, for the love of all that is holy and profitable.

00:27:59.480 Just as with COVID-19, the defeat of all forms of slavery should be an inevitability.

00:28:12.160 And yet from every corner of our country, there is a call for the forced enslavement of some people for the benefit of others.

00:28:19.520 We are on the verge of losing everything that we have always held dear.

00:28:29.240 On the verge of losing the things that matter the most to not just us, but what we want our children to be able to have.

00:28:38.360 A future where they chart their own course.

00:28:41.340 A future where they can live and grow and be free and live their dreams.

00:28:48.660 Yes, experience some nightmares from time to time.

00:28:52.340 But those nightmares won't define them unless they choose the nightmare.

00:29:00.640 Trump has this exactly right.

00:29:04.100 We cannot let the cure for COVID-19 come at the cost of our economy.

00:29:08.500 And if that's the objective, then it's our original principles.

00:29:13.300 Individual liberty, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

00:29:18.660 Freedom to defend yourself.

00:29:23.800 Those are the things that need to be defended.

00:29:26.860 That's how we protect and restore our economy and our country.

00:29:31.080 That's how we ensure that our children's children will also be descendants of survivors of plagues and pandemics.

00:29:37.880 Whether they're biological or the moral kind.

00:29:40.920 This is why I wrote arguing with socialists.

00:29:49.940 Because I know the fight is on.

00:29:53.720 And we have to be in that fight.

00:29:57.000 And I wrote this not only for you.

00:29:58.840 It's easy to read.

00:29:59.900 It's very, very funny. 1.00

00:30:00.880 It's in the style of arguing with idiots, which was our biggest seller, I think. 0.99

00:30:05.440 And it's for color. 1.00

00:30:07.380 It's almost like a comic book in parts.

00:30:10.340 And it's one of those books that you can pick up and read from anywhere.

00:30:15.520 And we did that because I'm riddled with ADD.

00:30:18.720 But also because it was really effective.

00:30:21.740 We saw in all of the books that we have written, Inconvenient Book and Arguing with Idiots, those two books in this style were the ones that people consumed themselves, learned a lot from, and then gave it to their children or their grandchildren.

00:30:39.940 And their grandchildren used it in college essays, high school essays, elementary school essays. 0.66

00:30:48.900 And I've heard for years how those books had been used.

00:30:53.740 Because they all have footnotes in them, so you don't ever quote me.

00:30:57.160 You quote the people who actually said it.

00:31:01.760 We need to arm ourselves with ammunition.

00:31:04.680 We need to know that this cure is not being called socialism.

00:31:10.440 But this cure is socialism.

00:31:13.240 It is the modern monetary theory.

00:31:16.560 It is universal basic income.

00:31:20.240 It's a socialist dream.

00:31:24.900 Book is officially out tomorrow.

00:31:26.560 You can have it at your house tomorrow if you order it now at Amazon or wherever you buy your books.

00:31:30.740 Arguing with socialists.

00:31:32.420 It is out tomorrow.

00:31:33.800 So, make sure you grab it.

00:31:39.340 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:32:01.360 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:32:03.800 So, there's a couple of things that are going on that we should probably talk about. 0.98

00:32:07.760 Don't buy into any of this 5G crap. 0.75

00:32:10.760 I don't know if you've seen it yet. 0.98

00:32:12.200 It's big overseas in Great Britain.

00:32:16.260 They're burning down the 5G masts, the big cell towers.

00:32:21.380 Because, apparently, 5G is weakening our immune system.

00:32:28.660 And so, that's why the Chinese got it. 1.00

00:32:32.660 Because they were the first to be able to have 5G.

00:32:36.020 Their immune system was so weak.

00:32:37.960 And now, if you have 5G, your immune system, that's what's causing this.

00:32:43.420 So, they're telling people now to act now and burn those towers down.

00:32:48.040 And, I don't know.

00:32:50.900 Is Great Britain making cell towers out of, like, you know, old wooden roller coasters?

00:32:57.020 Or, how exactly are they burning them down?

00:33:00.320 Most of them are.

00:33:00.680 We like to make them out of steel.

00:33:02.380 Most of them are out of a sterno logs, which is a strange thing to build a tower out of.

00:33:07.740 Once you start them.

00:33:08.980 Yeah, once you start them.

00:33:10.060 They don't usually get struck by lightning or set themselves on fire.

00:33:13.560 But, once they start burning, they're going.

00:33:16.600 Oh, that stuff drives me out of my mind.

00:33:18.760 Out of my mind.

00:33:20.680 Here's another story.

00:33:21.620 This one comes out of Massachusetts.

00:33:25.340 Looks like the Governor Charlie Baker is not real popular in the gun world.

00:33:32.600 Gun shop owners are not taking kindly to the demand that they close their doors during the coronavirus crisis.

00:33:37.420 After he labeled them non-essential, in March, Baker, a Republican, ordered all non-essential businesses to close their physical workplaces and facilities, both workers and the public, until April 7th.

00:33:52.520 Last week, he extended that order through May 4th.

00:33:55.160 The state published a list of businesses and organizations it considers essential that would allow to keep their brick-and-mortar facilities open.

00:34:03.860 Notably, not on the role of essential businesses were gun shops.

00:34:08.040 However, firearms and ammunition manufacturers, importers, and distribution centers were on the list.

00:34:15.940 But that hasn't stopped the gun owners.

00:34:18.240 A guy who runs the Gunrunner, dedicated to your Second Amendment rights, was on WBZ-TV.

00:34:25.960 His name is John Costa.

00:34:28.700 He owns the Gunrunner in Middleborough.

00:34:31.060 He told WBZ that he not only disagrees with Baker's belief that his gun business is non-essential, but he also stated that he was constitutionally protected to stay open by the Second Amendment.

00:34:43.540 He said, okay, under the Second Amendment, we have every right to defend ourselves.

00:34:48.220 And he's not taking any social distancing precautions either.

00:34:52.200 He says, you know, no, I'm sorry.

00:34:56.060 He's not taking those for granted.

00:34:57.800 He is doing it.

00:34:58.840 He's saying, I'm letting my customers come to the curb, and I do all my business curbside outside.

00:35:04.820 So, I think he's right.

00:35:08.440 Yeah.

00:35:08.680 Yeah, it's interesting to see the constitutional lines being drawn here because I have a real problem with the idea the government would be able to tell church that it can't meet under basically any circumstances.

00:35:24.440 Now, I think if I'm a church, I don't want that to happen right now.

00:35:28.920 I don't want to have church.

00:35:30.140 I want to do it online.

00:35:31.060 I want to do it.

00:35:31.440 I know we had someone who called in, I've heard there's a few of these that have happened across the country where they're kind of spreading out in like drive-through movie theater sort of patterns, and they have big loudspeakers, and everyone kind of sits on their back, the back of their car or whatever, and does it that way.

00:35:46.020 I think that's seemingly totally acceptable.

00:35:48.700 But like, I think as a church, I think you'd want to be able to protect the people as well as you can and do it online or whatever.

00:35:55.260 But like, I don't, I think if they decide, you know what, we're going to do it the way we want to do it, no social distancing, like, I don't know that you can, I don't know that you can stop people from meeting.

00:36:07.940 You can have regulations, they have regulations on every church, right?

00:36:10.800 Every building has to be made, you know, to certain, there's certain regulations that every building has to make to be safe.

00:36:16.400 And there's those sorts of things you could probably put on churches, but to say they can't meet, even if it is for a limited time, is a really weird constitutional line.

00:36:27.740 I know I feel weird about it when it comes to guns.

00:36:30.200 That's what they did in New Orleans after Katrina.

00:36:32.940 Exactly right.

00:36:33.740 And the problem is, is that it's A, the state doing it, not the federal government.

00:36:37.660 So the state's doing it, Constitution and Bill of Rights, you know, is applied differently in the states because the states have the quarantine power.

00:36:49.800 The United States of America, the Fed does not have the quarantine power.

00:36:53.280 The states have that.

00:36:54.880 And if they say all businesses, see where they're getting in trouble is essential businesses.

00:37:00.920 And then they're saying that that's not essential.

00:37:03.560 Well, a lot of people would say faith is essential.

00:37:06.640 A lot of people would say guns are essential.

00:37:09.460 And I would tend to agree with them.

00:37:11.720 On the gun thing, you can only get it at that store.

00:37:15.720 It's not like faith.

00:37:16.720 We can get online and we can do things and we can talk and, you know, share that way.

00:37:22.640 But on guns, if I want to buy a gun, I got to go to the store.

00:37:26.200 I got to get it.

00:37:27.380 You know, I'm buying it from them.

00:37:29.580 Oddly enough, because of regulations, they can't send them to you.

00:37:32.700 So you have to physically go to the store to get them.

00:37:35.600 Yeah, that's true.

00:37:36.640 Exactly right.

00:37:37.580 It's a weird line, though.

00:37:38.220 I talked to Jeremy Dice over at First Liberty and this is what they do for a living, which

00:37:43.220 is like, you know, making sure that religious rights are protected all around the country.

00:37:48.340 And he said that, you know, there's a pretty long history of limited time quarantine and

00:37:56.560 the ability for states to stop this as long as it's very short and limited in scope.

00:38:02.780 But it is, it just makes me nervous that they can do it even for a minute.

00:38:08.360 You know, this is, I understand that this is important and I'm, you know, I'm not going

00:38:12.460 to church.

00:38:12.820 If they open up my church, I would still watch it online.

00:38:15.220 I mean, I want to, you know, you want to take these precautions.

00:38:17.820 It's just, I don't understand.

00:38:19.300 And there has to be some sort of, like, you could see these pastors that are getting

00:38:26.300 in trouble now because of doing full out services.

00:38:29.340 You could see them going to court after this and winning.

00:38:31.740 I mean, you know, the courts have, generally speaking, supported the state's rights to

00:38:35.960 be able to limit this stuff, but you could see it being overturned.

00:38:39.960 Oh, and especially in places like, well, you know, we talked to that pastor, where was he

00:38:43.780 in Louisiana, where he said, we don't have internet.

00:38:47.340 Well, you know, our church does not have a big, you know, television broadcast kind of

00:38:52.880 component to it.

00:38:53.860 We don't have internet.

00:38:55.760 And a lot of the people that live here in that community, he serves the underserved

00:39:01.640 community.

00:39:03.380 And he said, we got to gather or we're not seeing each other.

00:39:07.340 And so you, what are you going to do?

00:39:09.440 What are you going to do?

00:39:10.880 You're telling these people that faith is not essential.

00:39:14.380 I beg to differ with you on that, but it's, it's a tough, it's a tough place to be.

00:39:19.940 I think a really tough place to be.

00:39:21.380 Seems like if you want to start with essential, maybe the, the constitutionally guaranteed rights

00:39:26.760 might be a place to kind of start with and say, Hey, these things are pretty essential.

00:39:32.340 Remember essential is what is it?

00:39:33.460 Mid-March where Joe Biden is still encouraging people to go to the polls and vote.

00:39:37.420 They thought that was pretty essential.

00:39:39.560 You know, I mean, that's something you could do absentee, but they still were like, no,

00:39:44.520 God, that's no big deal.

00:39:45.760 Go in Florida and go vote.

00:39:47.280 It'll be great.

00:39:47.860 So did you see Stu, the, uh, the thing about, uh, how much of the businesses have been closed?

00:39:55.580 Cause we took a wild guess on when we say we've closed down America, how much of America

00:40:03.420 have we actually closed?

00:40:04.900 How much, how much is, is not functioning right now?

00:40:09.920 Right.

00:40:10.080 And the reason we were talking about that was because I think in our heads, we think it's

00:40:14.280 like 80 or 90%.

00:40:15.880 Like, just like, that's the feeling or in our, in our hearts or the feeling that we're

00:40:19.600 getting is 80 or 90% closed down.

00:40:21.260 But we all realize that that can't be accurate.

00:40:23.460 Right.

00:40:23.720 I mean, there's, there's a lot of things functioning.

00:40:25.940 Most people I know who have jobs that are not like, you know, hands-on jobs that are working

00:40:32.880 at home.

00:40:33.320 There's a lot of people who are working at home.

00:40:35.000 Many of these businesses are continuing to operate.

00:40:37.480 They're just operating in a totally different way.

00:40:39.320 So I think I asked you like, what, give me a percentage.

00:40:41.940 What, what percentage of the economy do you think is actually shut down right now?

00:40:47.000 And you said, so I said 30, yeah, 30%, which was your estimate, which is a, I think would 0.93

00:40:53.840 be a, an estimate.

00:40:54.660 Most people would think that's too small, but that was kind of what I wanted to get out

00:40:58.660 of you to see if that's how you felt too.

00:41:00.480 Cause when I really try to do the map on it, it seems a lot smaller than I would have originally

00:41:04.500 thought.

00:41:05.680 Yeah.

00:41:06.120 I gave 30% and I felt like that's a, that's a price is right number, you know, the closest

00:41:12.380 without going over, you know, I, it could be 50 or 60, but since I was the only contestant,

00:41:18.920 you know, I felt, I felt for sure 30%.

00:41:22.500 And you lost on the price is right.

00:41:24.140 Apparently.

00:41:24.600 Cause you went over.

00:41:25.560 I did.

00:41:26.040 It was 29% is what they are now estimating, which is amazing.

00:41:30.020 That was really just off the top of your head, 30% guess.

00:41:33.600 But I mean, I think that's, that's an interesting, and I will say in a weird way, I'm a little

00:41:39.340 optimistic about that number because I, right.

00:41:42.760 Like I, you know, look, can we deal with the economy being shut down for a year?

00:41:47.160 The answer to that of course is no, we're in probably never ending depression in, in some

00:41:53.440 ways that way.

00:41:54.140 Can we deal with two months of a 30% decrease?

00:41:58.940 I mean, probably, right?

00:42:01.820 I mean, it's, I think with the, you know, look, I, we're going to have all sorts of long-term

00:42:05.880 problems associated with these trillion dollar bills they keep throwing out there.

00:42:09.240 There's no doubt about that.

00:42:10.740 We're gonna have major problems to deal with, obviously with the actual virus, which is

00:42:15.680 a huge thing, but also, you know, the way that the government is cracking down on

00:42:19.220 things and they're going to be grabbing power like crazy.

00:42:21.380 And there's going to be all sorts of craziness that happens after this is going to be a big

00:42:24.720 fight for all of us.

00:42:26.060 But I mean, if the economy is really, we lose 30% of it for let's say two or three months,

00:42:31.380 you know, you're talking about a GDP drop, which will be devastating in many ways, but

00:42:37.580 it might be something that's not as devastating as in our head where we're shutting down and

00:42:42.800 it's just like empty streets everywhere and, you know, burned out buildings that never

00:42:47.700 get rebuilt.

00:42:49.100 There is that sort of walking dead thing that's in our heads.

00:42:52.640 And if we can come up with a way to turn this around relatively quickly, maybe there is

00:42:57.180 reason for optimism.

00:42:58.100 Maybe this thing can come back the way Trump has been talking about it.

00:43:01.620 So do you want a pin in your, in your bubble or?

00:43:05.980 Do you, you're, you're ruining my optimism already.

00:43:07.720 I'm just, I just finished outlining the case.

00:43:11.500 So you want me to let you, I'll let you sit with it for a second.

00:43:14.480 Okay, let me just think for one second.

00:43:15.860 Okay, there we go.

00:43:18.900 Here's the, the downside of this.

00:43:21.040 I have a feeling that 30% though, are all of the real entrepreneurial style businesses.

00:43:27.600 They're the small business person who operates a brick and mortar shop or restaurant or something

00:43:35.900 like that.

00:43:37.020 You know what I mean?

00:43:37.520 Oh yeah.

00:43:38.160 So all those stores that line all of our downtowns or even in the malls, those things are all

00:43:45.220 closed.

00:43:46.480 And that's a, you know, that 80% of the economy is small business.

00:43:51.220 Yeah.

00:43:51.400 One of the things I, so that's a big deal.

00:43:53.300 When I started with that point, one of the things I thought about is like, we obviously

00:43:56.420 do a lot of online shopping already and we're not going to stop buying things necessarily.

00:44:01.600 We're just going to be buying those things online instead of a brick and mortar.

00:44:04.300 How much of that is going to reverse?

00:44:05.520 Because it was only like 20% of buying was online, which I was surprised.

00:44:09.500 I thought it would be a little higher than that.

00:44:11.160 It was going into this.

00:44:12.400 It was about 20%.

00:44:13.220 Still 80% of stuff was bought, you know, in brick and mortar stores apparently.

00:44:19.640 But, you know, that number is going to go up, but it's not going to make up for all the

00:44:23.940 loss.

00:44:24.500 And the question is, if it comes back and it's now, you know, 50% of stuff is bought online,

00:44:29.580 it's going to be a huge adjustment for any store.

00:44:33.360 I mean, look, the whole thing is the landscape is going to change in massive, massive ways

00:44:38.400 because of this.

00:44:39.780 But, you know, me again, when you're, I've been talking, we have a bunch of small business

00:44:44.080 owner friends that we, you know, that we know, I'm sure you know them as well, Glenn.

00:44:47.100 And it's like, you talk to them and it's just like, they're trying to figure out this program,

00:44:51.520 which is a total, it's been a total disaster so far.

00:44:54.500 It's, it's rolled out in a terrible way.

00:44:56.200 I don't think they communicated it well.

00:44:57.620 A lot of these banks don't even have access to these loans yet.

00:45:01.320 So it's, you know, it's terrible.

00:45:03.780 You know, you, they'll give you loans that will pay for, let's say two months of salary

00:45:08.540 for your workers, but then you, you have to keep them employed for four months for it

00:45:12.500 to turn into a grant.

00:45:13.620 So you have this gap there of like, if we don't come back online, you know, we're in

00:45:19.080 trouble.

00:45:19.480 The president is saying like, you know, look, if, if this doesn't, if it's not enough, we're

00:45:23.560 going to pass more money, which again is, is, is a terrifying thing.

00:45:28.120 Long-term aspects.

00:45:29.380 So, I mean, it really is.

00:45:30.320 It's a, it's a mess right now.

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