The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Dana Loesch ｜ 3⧸17⧸20

00:00:00.040 Today on the podcast, well, a lot of stuff. COVID-19, of course, coronavirus, Wuhan virus,

00:00:07.360 whatever you want to call it, is the big topic. We have, of course, Pat Gray on to talk about.

00:00:13.200 He makes a good point. Remember when we used to mock preppers all the time? I mean, not us, but

00:00:17.460 preppers were mocked kind of constantly. And they kind of seem to be in a good position now. We

00:00:22.560 talk about that. And the idea that price gouging, is it a positive or a negative? I'm going to say

00:00:28.340 I think it's a positive. We'll go into that tonight on Stew Does America, my show. You

00:00:32.700 can get it on YouTube. Or if you click over right now in this podcast app, search for Stew

00:00:37.760 Does America and click subscribe. It's the easiest thing to do. And you'll be helping kittens

00:00:42.760 in a foreign country. We'll talk about that today. Also, the coronavirus update, all the

00:00:48.220 stats. How is this progressing? And are we going in the right direction or not? Plus, a lot

00:00:53.220 of people are at home with their kids trying to figure out what to do with them. We have

00:00:57.100 a very extensive list on not only games you can play, but how to actually deal with a

00:01:02.240 sort of a major change in your life that may be going on. It's all today on the podcast.

00:01:14.580 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:18.600 So shall we begin with our coronavirus update? Total confirmed cases worldwide. Up from 171,000

00:01:34.400 yesterday to 185,461. Total confirmed deaths worldwide, 7,332. Up from 651. Total confirmed

00:01:46.660 recoveries worldwide. Now 79,000. That's only up a couple thousand from yesterday, but at least

00:01:52.580 it's up. 162 countries also now have confirmed cases. That's up four new countries. Three more

00:02:01.060 now have suspected cases. Six percent of active cases are now considered serious. This is great.

00:02:08.600 Six percent. Down from seven yesterday. Down from 19 percent just three weeks ago.

00:02:14.680 The U.S. now has 4,743 confirmed cases and 93 deaths. That's up almost a thousand cases and 69 deaths

00:02:25.100 just yesterday. Only West Virginia does not have at least one active case. In the U.S., only West

00:02:33.660 Virginia. That's remarkable. So the economy or lives? This is what we have to pick now. In a script that's

00:02:43.500 playing out in similar fashion all over the world, governments are forced to pick between saving lives

00:02:48.060 and economic activity. The U.S. and Western economies are particularly impacted, especially in

00:02:55.020 the U.S. Seventy percent of our total economic activity is generated via consumer spending. We are

00:03:01.820 the world's buyer. They're the producers. We're the buyers. When we stay at home, the whole world,

00:03:09.520 you know, they used to say when the United States catches a cold or sneezes, the rest of the world

00:03:17.280 catches the cold. This is a real problem. And across the U.S., small businesses appear to be the

00:03:23.900 hardest hit, especially those that directly serve customers such as bars and restaurants and dry

00:03:28.660 cleaners. Those are closing down now. A study from Case Western University estimates now that nearly 50%

00:03:37.120 of service jobs in the U.S. are going to be impacted with as many as a million jobs lost in the next 30

00:03:44.600 days. Stu, how's this going to affect the election? I mean, heavens, who knows, right? I mean, it's a

00:03:52.280 massive, massive change. And some of the projections look like there's a recession that doesn't bounce back

00:03:58.420 until 2021. So that means the election is occurring in the midst of a recession. And that doesn't usually

00:04:06.020 work out well for the incumbent if that's the case. Of course, obviously, things can change. But that's

00:04:10.840 if that is the case and we wind up seeing massive, massive effects like that. I mean, it is going to

00:04:16.260 change the face of the election without a doubt. We are we're seeing health care system capacity

00:04:25.080 be flooded around the world. If there are no protective measures, it floods almost immediately.

00:04:33.200 They've been saying, you know, flatten the curve. We have to find a way to flatten the curve. That's what

00:04:39.740 everybody is is trying to do. When you flatten the curve by washing your hands, by staying at home, social

00:04:48.660 distancing, you can get this down to a fatality rate of 1% or less. If you don't take protective

00:04:57.720 measures, the case fatality rate is 2% or 3% and you overwhelm the health care system. Now, this is a

00:05:07.600 problem because we are looking at a health care system that is the best in the world. You have

00:05:16.100 private businesses now coming in and stepping to the plate. It's not the government. It's the private

00:05:24.080 business that is stepping to the plate to help serve and take care of this problem.

00:05:31.400 But you at the same time have now 60% of Democrats say they have a more favorable view of universal

00:05:40.580 health care and socialized medicine than they did just three weeks ago. So people on this are moving

00:05:46.980 towards socialism. Italy has both a nationalized system and a private system. Well, had the government

00:05:56.380 just took over all private hospitals, all private medical facilities. They just nationalize them. I, I warn you

00:06:05.740 nationalization, uh, is coming and we have to be very careful. We are, we are entering the most dangerous,

00:06:16.260 uh, phase of our Republic. I think in my lifetime, um, this is going to either destroy us or it will

00:06:25.460 give us a chance to reset and, uh, renew. But, uh, you know, when you're looking at some of the things

00:06:32.920 that are coming out of Washington right now, what was the one you just said to me, Stu, there was Romney

00:06:37.840 was offering a thousand dollars, uh, for every American, which is basic universal income. We don't want

00:06:45.160 that. Um, but there's another basic universal income that's being shopped around. Yes. You're

00:06:51.140 talking about the emergency family relief act of 20. Yeah, that's it. Yes. It's got family in it and

00:06:57.180 emergency. So it's gotta be good. It's gotta be good and relief. So it's got all, it's got great

00:07:01.680 things in there. Uh, this is coming from Josh Hawley. Again, it seems like one of the strategies

00:07:05.480 here from Republicans is to kind of, uh, outdo the spending of the Democrats here as a, you know,

00:07:11.960 as far as a stimulus goes. Um, he wants to be Herbert Hoover. I guess not. Um, so this is

00:07:17.780 the Romney plan was worth a thousand dollars per person. This is $1,446 for a family of three,

00:07:25.080 $1,786 for a family of four and $2,206 for a family of five would be basically a cash payment

00:07:32.500 until the Corona virus emergency ends. However, whatever that exactly means. Yeah. Could you,

00:07:40.300 could you read that last line again? Oh, it lasts until when, uh, till the Corona virus,

00:07:44.760 uh, emergency would end. Do me a favor, Stu. I'm going to give some good news here. Would you just

00:07:50.960 look up, uh, national emergencies still in effect? I think people might be surprised by this. All right.

00:08:00.440 Here's some good news. U S is testing the first of its kind vaccine. The blaze reported nearly two

00:08:07.000 weeks ago that there's a new kind of experimental vaccine that is now entering human trials.

00:08:11.920 The vaccine is unique that it did in the way that it doesn't use a live virus that is used in

00:08:18.560 traditional vaccines. This is really good. Rather, the new approach is to synthetically construct an

00:08:25.160 RNA strand that copies the genetic code of the virus to teach human cells to produce antibodies.

00:08:32.200 The viruses work by taking over human cells and turning each cell into a virus producing factory,

00:08:38.340 which is how they replicate the synthetically produced RNA strand used in the new vaccine

00:08:44.140 does not self replicate, but it should still activate antibody production. Researchers warned that even if

00:08:51.900 the human trial started this week and are successful, it's still maybe 18 months before the vaccine would

00:08:57.460 be in, you know, the CVS, but 18 months is the fastest by far. Anyone has been able to put this

00:09:06.420 out. The Trump administration vowed Monday, all barriers would be removed to accelerate testing and

00:09:12.760 production if successful. So now all non-essential businesses are, are being considered a closing them

00:09:20.460 down, but who defines what an essential business is? Tom Cotton and Arkansas Republicans at the United

00:09:27.280 States must shut down all but essential businesses and government agencies to stop the spread of the

00:09:32.980 coronavirus. The time has come for extraordinary measures to combat the Chinese coronavirus, Cotton

00:09:38.380 tweeted. Oh, what a racist. It seems extreme today, but it will seem obvious tomorrow. Cotton, chairman of 0.97

00:09:46.040 the Economic Policy Subcommittee for the Senate Banking Committee, said he's drafting legislation that

00:09:50.400 would give cash, cash stipends to workers and their families. This is what we were just talking about.

00:09:55.940 Shelter is now in place in six counties in California. More expected today. Over 7 million Californians have

00:10:05.380 been ordered to a shelter and a shelter in place at home for three weeks. The order is effective as of

00:10:12.200 midnight last night. Residents are allowed to outside to walk, to acquire food, medicine from local stores,

00:10:19.740 or to travel to travel to medical appointments. All non-essential activity outside the home is effectively now

00:10:26.300 illegal. Although law enforcement are being asked to practice patience and provide guidance and warnings rather than

00:10:33.880 arrest people who refuse to comply. Similar house arrest orders are being considered throughout the county and elsewhere in

00:10:41.460 California, including Alameda County, LA County, Orange County. In total, including similar activity

00:10:48.900 restrictions in Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, and other locations, an estimated 30 million Americans are

00:10:54.720 currently experiencing some degree of travel or activity restrictions. So far, the ACLU's only response to

00:11:02.080 COVID-19 is a strongly anti-Trump landing page, indicating that Trump will help lead the panic and asking for

00:11:09.060 donations to defeat him in November. That's of absolutely no help. By the way, we are just ahead of people.

00:11:18.580 Everything that anybody says, oh, Donald Trump, he's not doing, he's ahead. Try this, European Union to

00:11:24.660 close all borders to non-EU citizens. Uh, that sound like what Donald Trump did last week where he was

00:11:31.400 called a racist and, and not doing, and not doing the right things and just, and just trying to piss off all of 0.75

00:11:37.900 our allies. This is what they just did. They wish they would have done it a week before Donald Trump announced

00:11:45.020 it. Everything that he is doing, it seems to be all the things that the European Union does too late. The national

00:11:55.780 supply chain is fine, but how to balance the local needs overall, plenty of food and medical supplies to stock America's

00:12:03.220 store shelves when measured nationally. The challenge, however, for some markets is ensuring

00:12:09.720 regional supply chains can keep up with the surge, uh, surge buying caused by local orders for residents

00:12:16.380 to stay put for two to three weeks longer. Stores like Kroger, Walmart do have regionally located

00:12:22.720 warehouses, localized buying sprees as residents stock up for long stints at home can empty regional

00:12:28.920 logistics facilities requiring retailers to shift stock from one region to another. We're all going

00:12:36.260 to get it at some point. Please just be a thinking human being. That's all we have to do is just be

00:12:44.500 decent and be a thinking human being. Stu, have you looked up those numbers for me? Uh, yes,

00:12:49.480 I have, uh, so we have, we do have a couple, a couple in effect still. Um, you know, March,

00:12:55.440 2020, the coronavirus that's for under Trump. It was May, May and 20, 2019 under Trump. Another

00:13:01.960 in February, 2019 under Trump. Then, uh, November, 2018 under Trump, September, 2018 under Trump and

00:13:09.160 December, 2017 under Trump. Then you have those room. Those are all still in effect. They're all,

00:13:14.600 uh, but those aren't, those aren't coronavirus emergencies. I thought we were just in this national

00:13:18.860 emergency. Oh no, I thought you wanted the list of all of them that were still in effect. Oh no,

00:13:23.000 I know. I was just thinking that maybe there would be one or two. Well, there's certainly

00:13:27.300 there's November, 2015 from Obama, April, 2015 from Obama, March, 2015 from Obama, May, 2014 from

00:13:34.920 Obama, April, 2014 from Obama, March, 2014 from Obama, May, 2012 from Obama, July, 2011. What were

00:13:42.860 these national emergencies that were still in? They're still, they still haven't stopped. What,

00:13:48.240 where were those in 2014, 2012? Well, I mean, do you, I mean the, the, the conflict in the

00:13:53.900 Central African Republic is still going on. Oh, that's still going on. So it's the situation 0.99

00:13:59.080 in Burundi. Those were national emergencies here in the U S those were in. Yeah. Situation

00:14:05.180 in Burundi. The national emergency here and in Burundi. Okay. All right. Okay. Well, both

00:14:12.680 places. So I know I was very affected in my household by Burundi. Um, July, 2011 under 1.00

00:14:18.620 Obama, February, 2011 under Obama, April, 2010 under Obama, June, 2008 under Bush, August,

00:14:27.000 2007 under Bush, October, 2006 under Bush, June, 2006. These are all national emergencies

00:14:34.640 that are still running. Still running. So the point, the point is, cause I'm sure you have

00:14:39.540 just a couple of more. Yeah. May, 2004 under Bush, May, 2003 under Bush, March, 2003 under

00:14:44.660 Bush, September, 2001, of course, under Bush. Yeah. But there's nothing, there's, there's

00:14:49.460 nothing really old. August the 17th, 2001, June, 2001, November, 1997, March, 96, October,

00:14:56.280 95, 95, 94. And then there's one back here. November 14th, 1979 is the oldest. Okay. So

00:15:03.700 1970. The point is national emergencies never go away. They never go away. So any, any legislation

00:15:10.860 that is passed while this national emergency continues must have the language changed. It

00:15:18.560 must be changed and it must have sunsets in it. Like every 30 days, every 60 days, this will

00:15:25.820 continue. Anything that is set up by this government will continue. We're not out of this national

00:15:31.940 emergency because the next wave is the economic emergency. They can do anything under this

00:15:37.560 national emergency. It must be phrased properly. And hopefully we have a few people in Congress

00:15:44.560 that are aware of this. Don't fall for the all sick family stuff. Don't fall for the, oh,

00:15:50.620 it's a Patriot thing. No, no, don't fall for it.

00:15:57.220 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:01.940 Dana Lash joins us. Dana Lash, one of the founding members of the blaze and blaze TV

00:16:11.620 is joining us now. She's got a new book out called grace canceled. How outrage is destroying 0.97

00:16:16.720 our lives, ending debate and endangering democracy. Uh, she should know a little bit about this,

00:16:23.340 uh, as she has probably received less grace than anybody, uh, in the median in, uh, in quite

00:16:29.380 some time. Welcome to the program, Dana. How are you?

00:16:32.660 I'm doing well, Glenn. Good to talk with you. It's been a while. It's good to be on.

00:16:36.260 I know. I know. Good to have you. Good to have you on the program. I know you're from home. Are

00:16:40.640 you quarantined now? Self-quarantined at home?

00:16:44.600 I am an introvert, so I am living in paradise right now. And I just look at it like I'm a

00:16:50.540 hobbit in my hobbit hole and I am, I am grateful that I have a home studio and I'm able to do

00:16:56.160 everything from my house. So I'm living my life. Right. And you, you're going to church digitally

00:17:02.720 and just kind of homeschooling the kids again? Yeah, sort of. Going to church digitally is a

00:17:10.340 new one for me. That, that one took a little bit getting used to. We had our first digital

00:17:14.200 service last Sunday. Um, the kids start there. My youngest start to kind of work at home stuff

00:17:20.060 tomorrow. And I, I mean, I know that there are parents out there that have, you were talking

00:17:25.020 about your kids cleaning out the garage. I know there are parents out there that are doing

00:17:28.580 stuff with their kids and that's awesome. I mean, we're, we don't even know what day

00:17:32.140 it is right now because my schedule is all disrupted. But I know it's crazy. It'll be good.

00:17:38.280 It's crazy. Yeah, it is. Yeah, we've, it's nuts. We've gone from, from Tanya driving the kids around

00:17:44.380 to, you know, play practice and, and this, uh, you know, school and that event and, um, all the time,

00:17:52.040 it's like she was a shuttle service, um, and to do nothing. Like the kids are home and it's like,

00:18:00.520 well, who is this creature in the other room? I, I don't recognize them. They're my children.

00:18:05.160 It's weird how fast things stopped. That things have stopped. And I kind of,

00:18:11.780 I liked that they're home though. My oldest went off to college for the, I mean, he, he's a college

00:18:16.960 freshman. He left this fall, this last fall. And so that was, that was awful. And I'm actually,

00:18:23.360 this sounds, this sounds really bad, but I'm actually kind of grateful for the time. I feel

00:18:28.080 like, you know, we get a little bit of extra time because I'm sure the world's going to shift

00:18:31.740 back into high gear here soon, but I'm, you know, I'm happy that we kind of had this little

00:18:36.100 period. I just, I, with all of the awfulness that's, that's happening with this virus and

00:18:41.620 everything, I just, I feel like we're supposed to kind of take this time together and be a family

00:18:49.060 and do stuff. And we play, you know, we play all kinds of stuff. We play games and, you know,

00:18:54.080 I do my stuff for the day and then we have the evening. So it's nice.

00:18:56.720 We play hide and go seek, except it's a new version. It's just called hide.

00:19:03.660 You hide. Okay. And then you're going to find us. Nope. Just go hide. So your, your, your book is

00:19:11.920 about grace, which seems really timely, especially with there's, there's absolutely no grace extended

00:19:18.320 to people anymore. There's no grace, especially extended to this president. Everything he does,

00:19:23.480 he's ahead of the rest of the world and he'll get bashed for it. And then, you know, when Europe

00:19:29.780 today, they're making all kinds of announcements that Europe is closing all of the borders and

00:19:34.380 they're canceling all flights and you can't, if you're, you're being called home, well, that's what

00:19:39.660 he did. And he was called all kinds of names for it. Now, when the rest of the world is doing it,

00:19:45.200 they're brilliant. They're all brilliant. We should be more like them. Well, we were last week.

00:19:51.180 Yeah. Talk to me a little bit about grace in this, in this time period.

00:19:58.160 No, I, and I'm, and I think that's right. And it's not just grace. That's, that's kind of missing.

00:20:03.080 It's also the ability for society to forgive. There's a cancellation of forgiveness and an

00:20:09.800 outright refusal of redemption. And I, I mean, I can't believe that we're, we're even doing this

00:20:15.780 during a pandemic. I mean, that seems to me that that would be the time that you would exhibit

00:20:19.940 the most grace to your fellow man, that you would try to do the best you could to be a good

00:20:24.440 steward. And instead of everybody's playing politics and they're really worried about what

00:20:28.320 communist China thinks as it relates to their responsibility and spreading a pandemic. But 0.89

00:20:33.540 it is, it's, I, when I started writing this book, there were a couple of things that contributed to

00:20:38.620 the idea of it. The first thing was the way my kids reacted to the Parkland town hall. And then

00:20:42.280 the second thing was a Norm McDonald interview, because he's my absolute favorite comedian of

00:20:47.740 all time. I think he's one of the smartest comedians out there. He's hysterical. And he

00:20:53.160 had made a good point that he wasn't defending Roseanne Barr. He was saying, okay, she did something

00:20:58.620 wrong and she apologized and she's contrite. And where is the forgiveness? Isn't that kind of how

00:21:05.180 this goes? And he was like, nobody wants to apologize anymore because nobody wants to forgive

00:21:08.880 anybody. And I thought that's exactly right. And that it contributes to this polar tribalization

00:21:14.020 because it's not about persuading people. It's about utterly destroying them. It's more of an,

00:21:19.640 as politics now is more of an exercise of the ego, then it is actually trying to move the ball down

00:21:25.260 the field and advocate for one's issues. And so that's, that's how the book started. And I get into

00:21:31.880 all of it. I talk about the death of nuance, how political conversation is incredibly stupid now. 1.00

00:21:36.540 And of course there's the milkshake death and rage mobs chapter. And I get into the media's role 0.99

00:21:42.460 as well. So it's, there's, there's a lot in it and I, it usually, I, and I didn't want to write it,

00:21:49.120 but I ended up writing it. I, it was something that I pitched and I came up with and then I regretted it

00:21:53.520 like, you know, two thirds of the way in. Um, Oh, because the premise is being tested and I was mad

00:22:01.320 about it. I didn't want to write it. I was mad. I actually, um, at a couple of different points

00:22:06.920 consider just burning it all down. And I wanted to write a ridiculous tell all and shoot it all 0.99

00:22:14.380 into the stratosphere and just let the fire of the burning bridges light my path. That's all I wanted 0.97

00:22:20.000 to do. Probably need to probably need to write this book all the more. Yeah. It's really, it's really

00:22:29.460 hard because you, all you want to do is, um, pay people back. Really? Oh, really? Yeah. You,

00:22:38.880 you, you thought that was fun. You thought that was funny. Hmm. Now you're sitting in that hot,

00:22:43.460 uh, hot seat. Oh, look, what's coming your way. Um, it's, you just want to pay people back,

00:22:51.300 but it's not good when you do. No. And you know that just as well as I do, how graceless people

00:22:59.540 can be and how relentlessly graceless they can be. And, um, I, I, you know, and I think that that's

00:23:07.020 it cause it's a choice. I mean, to, to, to give grace to someone. And I think that there are some

00:23:11.700 people now who are like-minded that think it is a sanction or that it is complicity or it is

00:23:19.460 just, you're just going to go along with it. You're going to accept it. That's not what grace

00:23:22.780 is at all. Grace is simply unmerited kindness. And the people who deserve it the least are the

00:23:29.140 best when you really need to kick it into gear the most. And, um, it's, but it is a choice and

00:23:33.960 it's not my first choice. I mean, for crying out loud, you know me, I mean, come on, let's not,

00:23:37.520 not. Oh no, I know. It's not anybody's first choice. I mean, come on.

00:23:45.300 It's, but it's really not anybody's first choice. It is, I mean, it goes against, uh, what I would

00:23:51.620 call the natural man. The natural man defends himself. The natural man swings back. You swing

00:23:57.080 at me. My instinct is to swing harder. Um, and, and, you know, the natural man is an enemy of his

00:24:04.300 enemy is an enemy of God. Um, we are supposed to rise above that animal. Exactly. And, and,

00:24:12.160 and that's, it's kind of, you know, it really, in so many ways, it's, it's a, it's a form of

00:24:16.600 witness. And I have to say that I feel that in terms of persuading, because, you know, I've asked

00:24:21.780 myself too, especially as my kids started getting older and my oldest son now, he wants to go into

00:24:27.180 constitutional law. He did the debate team. He did the whole, all of it. Um, and I was actually kind of

00:24:33.640 discouraging him from, from it, you know, great parenting, but, um, I did not want him to think

00:24:41.200 that the only acceptable way to respond or handle discussion in the country and in culture was you

00:24:50.880 have to be so flexed, so hardcore and be completely emotionless and believe that any kind of empathy

00:25:01.220 or any kind of, you know, anything is a vulnerability. Grace isn't a vulnerability.

00:25:06.320 And I, you know, I really was, was very cognizant of that. Um, and I, I realized if, if I, if anything,

00:25:13.940 I need to model it for him rather than expecting the political culture to, because that's not going

00:25:18.660 to happen. So at least, you know, if he sees me modeling it for him, then, you know, maybe that's

00:25:22.820 at least something that's a seed planted, you know, that, and then I'll be happy. Um, but I, I really,

00:25:27.800 cause he is, he has such a good heart and I know that him and his friends, it's a really a lot

00:25:32.020 tougher, I think for them than it was for me when I was their age. And I, I really wanted them to have

00:25:36.340 that example. And so that was part of the emphasis for it. So, um, let's go back and, and talk a little

00:25:43.860 bit about, um, the, the media and the way they're handling all of this. What do you see coming? You know,

00:25:53.380 we're, we're sitting at a time where the media has so discredited themselves that because everything

00:26:00.700 has been a way to get Donald Trump, people on our side of the aisle, uh, are, are less, uh, willing

00:26:09.900 to accept that Corona virus is a big deal. And it, it is a big deal. It's not that we're all going to

00:26:17.240 die. It's just that we all have to do what we're all supposed to do. And, you know, there was an article

00:26:22.700 where was it? Maybe in the New York times. I can't remember where it was. It was in a lefty,

00:26:27.280 um, paper in it. And it was talking about how there will be more conservatives that die from this,

00:26:33.800 uh, than liberals don't know if that's true or any way to even prove that. Um, however,

00:26:40.260 their point was because liberals are taking this seriously, but I think this is because of the press.

00:26:47.620 If the roles were reversed, the exact same thing would be happening in the opposite.

00:26:55.120 Yeah. Do you agree or disagree? I think that's something to that. I mean, I, I think that they

00:27:00.960 have made it the way that they have handled this pandemic has, I'm not surprised that they've done

00:27:06.540 it, but I don't know that I'm at the point where I don't think I could ever as universally speaking,

00:27:14.180 I don't think that I could ever recover my respect for so many in that industry. I think it's, I think

00:27:20.380 it's, it's just, it's something that's irrevocable. It's done. Um, and the way that they have been so

00:27:26.940 gleefully running as intermediates between what China is, is insisting they're, they're trying to,

00:27:34.280 they're engaging in a propaganda war. And we have people in our media that are actually

00:27:37.240 assisting them with this. I just saw a headline that came from Axios and they were, they were

00:27:41.700 going after, uh, the United States saying that, no, the, the world health organization should

00:27:46.660 stop calling it the Chinese core virus, but Republic, coronavirus, but Republicans, including

00:27:51.020 the president aren't listening. Yeah. Well, you know what? China also bent the world health 0.99

00:27:54.900 organization over a barrel and insisted that they exclude Taiwan from international meetings

00:27:58.940 about a pandemic. And, and they've also had the world health organization praising them just

00:28:03.440 at the end of January for everything that they've done really essentially to help spread

00:28:07.340 this. So I'm really not going to take them as a source of authority on this. And it's

00:28:10.760 insane to me that our press who should just be watching out for the best interest of the

00:28:15.360 voter are instead actually watching out for the best interest of communist China. So it's

00:28:20.100 like the, the full, the full formalization has happened now. I mean, what they're, they're,

00:28:25.280 they're at where they're, where they're, they've been heading this entire time. And the way

00:28:29.240 that they've handled it is that you're responsible and it's caused people to even question the

00:28:32.900 caution that they should have towards this. It's caused them to question the recommendations

00:28:36.880 and the guidelines. And that's, that's absolutely irresponsible, irresponsible reporting to get

00:28:42.480 people killed. Dana, um, thank you so much for being, um, who you are and, uh, taking everybody

00:28:49.240 along on the, uh, the journey. Uh, Dana's does the, uh, Dana show on the radio. Of course, you can find

00:28:55.760 her online. Uh, the name of the new book is, uh, grace canceled might be a good thing to spend in

00:29:03.380 and, uh, spend the next few days while you're at home. If you are at home yet, you will be soon.

00:29:09.020 Um, just reading and kind of taking a measure of our lives. Dana lash. Thank you so much.

00:29:19.240 Thank you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for

00:29:24.840 listening. I want to talk to the men of America. It's been a while since we've talked, hasn't it?

00:29:40.880 I hope you've been doing well. I miss talking to you. It's been in popular to even recognize that

00:29:47.280 men even exist or there's a role to play, but I'm talking to you today. I want to just address

00:29:54.240 you to give you a heads up. Something's happening and it's, it's happened before, but something that

00:30:00.300 we really haven't seen in America for most of our lifetimes. In fact, I think that we last saw it

00:30:07.140 about 78 years or so ago. Most of us don't have a frame of reference for this, but the minute I say

00:30:16.680 it or play it, you'll understand the reference. It was 78 years ago that America heard these words

00:30:23.240 yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.

00:30:36.200 So it was 78 years ago that the, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and America entered World War II and

00:30:45.520 the world began to change in a flash. And it was, it was one of those events that altered our day-to-day

00:30:53.360 lives overnight. We were on a path, one that was familiar, one that was sure. And then overnight gone

00:31:01.340 and reset in the blink of an eye. And you know what we did? We adapted, we adjusted, we changed to

00:31:12.800 a new path and we dug deep. We found our courage. We found a way to become new people, a focused people,

00:31:22.200 a generous and powerful people. We became the world's production engine with factories filled by

00:31:29.620 men. And now for the first time, women who stepped up to do what the world needed. And us, as a group,

00:31:39.080 we collectively became men. And men, it was a great era for us. And not for all the reasons that the woke left

00:31:49.120 will tell you why we like that, but because the nature of real men. We worked to conquer the natural man

00:31:59.400 to become better. It was the era where we stood up and we became who we were meant to be, not who we

00:32:08.080 could allow ourselves to become. And yeah, sure, we had to kill a bunch of bad guys, but

00:32:14.080 the uniforms were pretty sweet. The dames of the USO dances. They were dames that didn't blow on some 0.90

00:32:21.280 other guy's dice. You know what I'm saying? We got to shoot machine guns, blow stuff up. That didn't

00:32:28.380 suck. We could smoke and nobody lectured us about smoking. Nobody complained if we wanted to have a

00:32:34.440 drink after a long days of work or a firefight in Tunisia, a fist fight to settle our arguments.

00:32:41.760 That wasn't that big of a deal, but that's not what made that great. That's what, that's not what

00:32:47.700 made a man, a man. It was a great era because the world needed men to be men. We were called back to

00:32:56.080 our natural role. The world needed warriors to battle against forces of chaos, to hold the line

00:33:02.400 and prevent humankind from sliding into the abyss of socialism, national socialism, and international

00:33:09.840 socialism called communism. The world needed weapons, bombs, tanks, planes. It needed powerful,

00:33:17.260 terrible, destructive instruments to bring to bear, to help wipe evil from the earth.

00:33:24.540 We became inventors. We became protectors, defenders of those things that are worth defending.

00:33:30.960 And yes, as men, we paid a very heavy price. Most of our grandparents or great-grandparents never

00:33:37.420 spoke about what it was really like because they also had to become killers. The world needed

00:33:47.160 killers. We only survived doing what comes naturally to natural man killing because we had trained

00:33:58.740 ourselves through the grace of the creator to rise above the killing and instead focus on becoming

00:34:06.480 liberators. But that generation survived and then came back home and helped the world thrive

00:34:15.880 because they were called to service. They put rifles in our grandparents' hands, put ribbons on their

00:34:23.000 chests and flags over their coffins. And now men, men of America, it's time again. Hear my voice.

00:34:35.300 Consider yourself on notice. Once again, as it has in the past, the world is in trouble. And it's your turn

00:34:44.440 now to step forward and serve. The world is facing a new crisis, one that threatens to push humankind

00:34:51.880 into the abyss. It's not just the coronavirus, but it starts there. As of today, you're being called to

00:34:59.700 service, not in some generic way. You're being called upon to be a man, to play the old role, to be strong,

00:35:07.840 to be a protector. Yes, to be stoic, brave, and confident doesn't mean you're not going to melt

00:35:13.540 down. Doesn't mean you're going to cry from time to time. But you need to act with surety, even when

00:35:22.620 you're not sure, to lead your household, to be helpful and dedicated, to do your part and risk

00:35:29.780 your life and fortune, to protect those around you, not just your family, but your neighbors, to be a part

00:35:35.620 of something larger than yourself, to throw your body into the breach. And it'll be the doctors, both

00:35:42.580 men and women, the nurses, both men and women who are going to be the first online. But this is just

00:35:49.800 the first wave. It's been a while. It's been a while. For the last few decades, society not just forgot

00:35:59.460 about men. They tried to deny men. They forgot they needed men. The world's had it that easy. 0.76

00:36:08.980 We were asked to be gentle and passive, and there's nothing wrong with being gentle. Passive?

00:36:15.580 We were asked to mask our manhood. That was wrong. We were told it was toxic. That's a lie.

00:36:21.540 The world wanted us to play a different part because they thought they didn't need men anymore. 0.98

00:36:27.480 Well, things change. Usually, you need that man overnight.

00:36:36.200 Let this serve as a wake-up call. Let this serve as a calling to become a man. Welcome back, American men.

00:36:48.820 As a man, as leader of a household, a family, or a business, it's incumbent upon us to adopt the

00:36:55.760 proper mindset. And that means the first thing we have to do is force our brain to realize that

00:37:01.240 this is actually happening. We are facing truly unprecedented disruptions in our normal way of

00:37:07.920 life, at least in the short term, perhaps longer. Our lives are probably going to have to change for

00:37:13.740 a while, and some of the things are going to change possibly forever. As America did during the

00:37:19.920 Spanish flu, the Great Depression, World War II. We have to look at things through a new filter.

00:37:25.720 And yes, it has been that long since an event of this magnitude has happened, which is why you have

00:37:32.560 to force your brain into the right mindset. The normalcy bias is a high barrier to overcome,

00:37:38.700 and that's what a lot of our friends and family members are dealing with right now. The normalcy bias.

00:37:43.700 They've never seen it this way, so they don't, they don't, it's easier to dismiss this and look

00:37:49.640 for something normal. It's a natural purpose. It's built in all of us to save our lives most of the

00:37:57.680 time. But we don't live in the same world we did just a few weeks ago, and we are not going to be

00:38:03.200 living in a world that we even recognize a few weeks from now. At this point, you shouldn't be acting

00:38:11.580 as if it might happen. We should be behave as if it will happen. That doesn't mean that society is

00:38:18.060 going to collapse, and we're going to be facing a zombie apocalypse. But localized and reason,

00:38:23.360 regional disruptions in food supplies, energy supplies, they are realistic. They may not happen

00:38:29.420 widespread, but it is realistic. And the reason why people freak out and panic is because they're

00:38:36.560 not sure. Well, nothing is going to be sure for a while. So you have to be the rock. Prepare

00:38:45.520 yourself for being that rock, making firm, commanding decisions. Your family is going to be looking to you

00:38:52.560 for leadership and protection. Be calm. Listen to others. Partner with your spouse. I know this is

00:38:58.940 probably going to be taken out of context. Glenn's saying that you men are men and women just go back

00:39:03.320 in the kitchen. That's not what I'm saying. Partner with your spouse. Make clear decisions together for

00:39:09.780 your family. But when it comes to those you shepherd, be decisive, exude confidence, even when you have

00:39:18.420 doubts, because we all do. Jesus, in his hour, he even had deaths. My God, my God, why have you forsaken

00:39:26.700 me? Jesus had doubts? Realize that the government is there to protect the country, the state, the

00:39:36.660 county, etc. That doesn't mean they're there to protect you. Don't let your family become a refugee 1.00

00:39:42.020 or a statistic. Nothing here means the role of women is lessened or of less value than it ever has been.

00:39:50.040 In fact, the world needs them as much, if not more than us. You know, I'm just going to stop that.

00:39:56.880 I'm going to leave it as much. We both have separate but equal roles to play. They're being called to

00:40:04.320 service, too. As you step into their into your new role, they have to step into theirs. But

00:40:10.060 they need to define that for themselves. I'm a man. Let me speak to the men.

00:40:16.200 The world needs men. 1.00

00:40:22.360 What's worked in other countries to slow down COVID-19 is to shut everything down, shut shopping

00:40:28.600 down, shut down events, shut down travel, shut down workplaces, quarantine people in their homes.

00:40:35.340 That prevents the spread that prevents people from dying. That's what we should expect to happen here.

00:40:41.440 But we are a republic. We don't want the government doing these things. We have to do them ourselves.

00:40:49.000 For several weeks, at least the changes to social behavior like wearing a surgical mask in public and not shaking hands.

00:40:56.600 Whatever it is.

00:40:58.100 That's going to be going on until there's a vaccine.

00:41:05.480 But you're not called to just fight a pandemic.

00:41:10.060 COVID-19 is just the pin that's popping the bubble.

00:41:12.800 The bubble is what you really need to worry about, because this is a two wave disaster.

00:41:17.540 The first wave is a disaster of a deadly disease.

00:41:20.300 If we don't act, it threatens to kill millions of our friends and family and neighbors all around the world.

00:41:26.420 Millions.

00:41:28.880 Because they could literally weld people, seal people into iron rooms and weld their doors closed in China. 0.97

00:41:39.160 They got past it.

00:41:40.860 We're not going to do that.

00:41:42.300 We're not going to follow people with drones.

00:41:44.320 God help us if the government thinks they have to or or do.

00:41:52.720 But as bad as the viral pandemic could be, the next wave will be worse.

00:41:59.040 The economic pandemic that follows threatens to be exponentially worse.

00:42:04.720 Disruptions to the global supply chain have barely been felt.

00:42:09.680 Warehouses that feed the grocery stores are starting to run out of food.

00:42:13.500 They we're not going to have a run on the grocery stores.

00:42:17.940 Don't make it worse.

00:42:21.220 But they are trying really hard to make sure that they have food and people to ship them.

00:42:27.360 The consequences are big.

00:42:31.060 What's happening in the global economy now has never happened before.

00:42:34.620 Realize that never.

00:42:36.340 The consequences will be nothing short of revolutionary change.

00:42:41.740 But we're ready.

00:42:42.840 We're more than ready.

00:42:46.500 We're going to be just fine.

00:42:48.080 We're built for this.

00:42:49.600 God wrote the script.

00:42:50.620 Our character description is pretty darn clear.

00:42:52.960 The world isn't going to end.

00:42:54.780 But we're going through a significant season change.

00:42:59.120 Ready yourself.

00:42:59.820 Be prepared to protect and defend your family.

00:43:02.460 Because that is your job.

00:43:04.080 That's the job everybody's been getting you to try to deny for a long time.

00:43:07.740 But that is your God-given job.

00:43:11.420 And for once, the world is going to realize they need us to unite.

00:43:16.800 They need us to be men. 0.76

00:43:19.700 And each of us play our role again.

00:43:23.660 Good night.

00:43:24.660 Good night.

00:43:24.840 Good night.

00:43:25.200 Good night.

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00:43:45.860 Good night.

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00:43:47.760 Good night.

00:43:48.920 Gall RAM.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 17, 2020

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