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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Pat Gray to talk about the Wuhan virus, the impact it's having on the economy, and how the government should be stepping up to the plate. Plus, the latest on the coronavirus update and how it's affecting the economy.
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Today on the podcast, well, a lot of stuff. COVID-19, of course, coronavirus, Wuhan virus,
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whatever you want to call it, is the big topic. We have, of course, Pat Gray on to talk about.
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He makes a good point. Remember when we used to mock preppers all the time? I mean, not us, but
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preppers were mocked kind of constantly. And they kind of seem to be in a good position now. We
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talk about that. And the idea that price gouging, is it a positive or a negative? I'm going to say
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I think it's a positive. We'll go into that tonight on Stew Does America, my show. You
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can get it on YouTube. Or if you click over right now in this podcast app, search for Stew
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Does America and click subscribe. It's the easiest thing to do. And you'll be helping kittens
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in a foreign country. We'll talk about that today. Also, the coronavirus update, all the
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stats. How is this progressing? And are we going in the right direction or not? Plus, a lot
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of people are at home with their kids trying to figure out what to do with them. We have
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a very extensive list on not only games you can play, but how to actually deal with a
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sort of a major change in your life that may be going on. It's all today on the podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So shall we begin with our coronavirus update? Total confirmed cases worldwide. Up from 171,000
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yesterday to 185,461. Total confirmed deaths worldwide, 7,332. Up from 651. Total confirmed
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recoveries worldwide. Now 79,000. That's only up a couple thousand from yesterday, but at least
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it's up. 162 countries also now have confirmed cases. That's up four new countries. Three more
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now have suspected cases. Six percent of active cases are now considered serious. This is great.
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Six percent. Down from seven yesterday. Down from 19 percent just three weeks ago.
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The U.S. now has 4,743 confirmed cases and 93 deaths. That's up almost a thousand cases and 69 deaths
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just yesterday. Only West Virginia does not have at least one active case. In the U.S., only West
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Virginia. That's remarkable. So the economy or lives? This is what we have to pick now. In a script that's
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playing out in similar fashion all over the world, governments are forced to pick between saving lives
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and economic activity. The U.S. and Western economies are particularly impacted, especially in
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the U.S. Seventy percent of our total economic activity is generated via consumer spending. We are
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the world's buyer. They're the producers. We're the buyers. When we stay at home, the whole world,
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you know, they used to say when the United States catches a cold or sneezes, the rest of the world
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catches the cold. This is a real problem. And across the U.S., small businesses appear to be the
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hardest hit, especially those that directly serve customers such as bars and restaurants and dry
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cleaners. Those are closing down now. A study from Case Western University estimates now that nearly 50%
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of service jobs in the U.S. are going to be impacted with as many as a million jobs lost in the next 30
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days. Stu, how's this going to affect the election? I mean, heavens, who knows, right? I mean, it's a
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massive, massive change. And some of the projections look like there's a recession that doesn't bounce back
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until 2021. So that means the election is occurring in the midst of a recession. And that doesn't usually
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work out well for the incumbent if that's the case. Of course, obviously, things can change. But that's
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if that is the case and we wind up seeing massive, massive effects like that. I mean, it is going to
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change the face of the election without a doubt. We are we're seeing health care system capacity
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be flooded around the world. If there are no protective measures, it floods almost immediately.
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They've been saying, you know, flatten the curve. We have to find a way to flatten the curve. That's what
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everybody is is trying to do. When you flatten the curve by washing your hands, by staying at home, social
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distancing, you can get this down to a fatality rate of 1% or less. If you don't take protective
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measures, the case fatality rate is 2% or 3% and you overwhelm the health care system. Now, this is a
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problem because we are looking at a health care system that is the best in the world. You have
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private businesses now coming in and stepping to the plate. It's not the government. It's the private
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business that is stepping to the plate to help serve and take care of this problem.
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But you at the same time have now 60% of Democrats say they have a more favorable view of universal
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health care and socialized medicine than they did just three weeks ago. So people on this are moving
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towards socialism. Italy has both a nationalized system and a private system. Well, had the government
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just took over all private hospitals, all private medical facilities. They just nationalize them. I, I warn you
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nationalization, uh, is coming and we have to be very careful. We are, we are entering the most dangerous,
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uh, phase of our Republic. I think in my lifetime, um, this is going to either destroy us or it will
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give us a chance to reset and, uh, renew. But, uh, you know, when you're looking at some of the things
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that are coming out of Washington right now, what was the one you just said to me, Stu, there was Romney
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was offering a thousand dollars, uh, for every American, which is basic universal income. We don't want
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that. Um, but there's another basic universal income that's being shopped around. Yes. You're
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talking about the emergency family relief act of 20. Yeah, that's it. Yes. It's got family in it and
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emergency. So it's gotta be good. It's gotta be good and relief. So it's got all, it's got great
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things in there. Uh, this is coming from Josh Hawley. Again, it seems like one of the strategies
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here from Republicans is to kind of, uh, outdo the spending of the Democrats here as a, you know,
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as far as a stimulus goes. Um, he wants to be Herbert Hoover. I guess not. Um, so this is
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the Romney plan was worth a thousand dollars per person. This is $1,446 for a family of three,
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$1,786 for a family of four and $2,206 for a family of five would be basically a cash payment
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until the Corona virus emergency ends. However, whatever that exactly means. Yeah. Could you,
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could you read that last line again? Oh, it lasts until when, uh, till the Corona virus,
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uh, emergency would end. Do me a favor, Stu. I'm going to give some good news here. Would you just
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look up, uh, national emergencies still in effect? I think people might be surprised by this. All right.
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Here's some good news. U S is testing the first of its kind vaccine. The blaze reported nearly two
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weeks ago that there's a new kind of experimental vaccine that is now entering human trials.
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The vaccine is unique that it did in the way that it doesn't use a live virus that is used in
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traditional vaccines. This is really good. Rather, the new approach is to synthetically construct an
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RNA strand that copies the genetic code of the virus to teach human cells to produce antibodies.
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The viruses work by taking over human cells and turning each cell into a virus producing factory,
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which is how they replicate the synthetically produced RNA strand used in the new vaccine
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does not self replicate, but it should still activate antibody production. Researchers warned that even if
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the human trial started this week and are successful, it's still maybe 18 months before the vaccine would
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be in, you know, the CVS, but 18 months is the fastest by far. Anyone has been able to put this
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out. The Trump administration vowed Monday, all barriers would be removed to accelerate testing and
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production if successful. So now all non-essential businesses are, are being considered a closing them
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down, but who defines what an essential business is? Tom Cotton and Arkansas Republicans at the United
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States must shut down all but essential businesses and government agencies to stop the spread of the
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coronavirus. The time has come for extraordinary measures to combat the Chinese coronavirus, Cotton
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tweeted. Oh, what a racist. It seems extreme today, but it will seem obvious tomorrow. Cotton, chairman of
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the Economic Policy Subcommittee for the Senate Banking Committee, said he's drafting legislation that
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would give cash, cash stipends to workers and their families. This is what we were just talking about.
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Shelter is now in place in six counties in California. More expected today. Over 7 million Californians have
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been ordered to a shelter and a shelter in place at home for three weeks. The order is effective as of
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midnight last night. Residents are allowed to outside to walk, to acquire food, medicine from local stores,
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or to travel to travel to medical appointments. All non-essential activity outside the home is effectively now
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illegal. Although law enforcement are being asked to practice patience and provide guidance and warnings rather than
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arrest people who refuse to comply. Similar house arrest orders are being considered throughout the county and elsewhere in
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California, including Alameda County, LA County, Orange County. In total, including similar activity
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restrictions in Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, and other locations, an estimated 30 million Americans are
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currently experiencing some degree of travel or activity restrictions. So far, the ACLU's only response to
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COVID-19 is a strongly anti-Trump landing page, indicating that Trump will help lead the panic and asking for
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donations to defeat him in November. That's of absolutely no help. By the way, we are just ahead of people.
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Everything that anybody says, oh, Donald Trump, he's not doing, he's ahead. Try this, European Union to
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close all borders to non-EU citizens. Uh, that sound like what Donald Trump did last week where he was
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called a racist and, and not doing, and not doing the right things and just, and just trying to piss off all of
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our allies. This is what they just did. They wish they would have done it a week before Donald Trump announced
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it. Everything that he is doing, it seems to be all the things that the European Union does too late. The national
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supply chain is fine, but how to balance the local needs overall, plenty of food and medical supplies to stock America's
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store shelves when measured nationally. The challenge, however, for some markets is ensuring
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regional supply chains can keep up with the surge, uh, surge buying caused by local orders for residents
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to stay put for two to three weeks longer. Stores like Kroger, Walmart do have regionally located
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warehouses, localized buying sprees as residents stock up for long stints at home can empty regional
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logistics facilities requiring retailers to shift stock from one region to another. We're all going
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to get it at some point. Please just be a thinking human being. That's all we have to do is just be
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decent and be a thinking human being. Stu, have you looked up those numbers for me? Uh, yes,
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I have, uh, so we have, we do have a couple, a couple in effect still. Um, you know, March,
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2020, the coronavirus that's for under Trump. It was May, May and 20, 2019 under Trump. Another
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in February, 2019 under Trump. Then, uh, November, 2018 under Trump, September, 2018 under Trump and
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December, 2017 under Trump. Then you have those room. Those are all still in effect. They're all,
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uh, but those aren't, those aren't coronavirus emergencies. I thought we were just in this national
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emergency. Oh no, I thought you wanted the list of all of them that were still in effect. Oh no,
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I know. I was just thinking that maybe there would be one or two. Well, there's certainly
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there's November, 2015 from Obama, April, 2015 from Obama, March, 2015 from Obama, May, 2014 from
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Obama, April, 2014 from Obama, March, 2014 from Obama, May, 2012 from Obama, July, 2011. What were
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these national emergencies that were still in? They're still, they still haven't stopped. What,
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where were those in 2014, 2012? Well, I mean, do you, I mean the, the, the conflict in the
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Central African Republic is still going on. Oh, that's still going on. So it's the situation
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in Burundi. Those were national emergencies here in the U S those were in. Yeah. Situation
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in Burundi. The national emergency here and in Burundi. Okay. All right. Okay. Well, both
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places. So I know I was very affected in my household by Burundi. Um, July, 2011 under
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Obama, February, 2011 under Obama, April, 2010 under Obama, June, 2008 under Bush, August,
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2007 under Bush, October, 2006 under Bush, June, 2006. These are all national emergencies
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that are still running. Still running. So the point, the point is, cause I'm sure you have
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just a couple of more. Yeah. May, 2004 under Bush, May, 2003 under Bush, March, 2003 under
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Bush, September, 2001, of course, under Bush. Yeah. But there's nothing, there's, there's
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nothing really old. August the 17th, 2001, June, 2001, November, 1997, March, 96, October,
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95, 95, 94. And then there's one back here. November 14th, 1979 is the oldest. Okay. So
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1970. The point is national emergencies never go away. They never go away. So any, any legislation
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that is passed while this national emergency continues must have the language changed. It
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must be changed and it must have sunsets in it. Like every 30 days, every 60 days, this will
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continue. Anything that is set up by this government will continue. We're not out of this national
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emergency because the next wave is the economic emergency. They can do anything under this
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national emergency. It must be phrased properly. And hopefully we have a few people in Congress
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that are aware of this. Don't fall for the all sick family stuff. Don't fall for the, oh,
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it's a Patriot thing. No, no, don't fall for it.
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Dana Lash joins us. Dana Lash, one of the founding members of the blaze and blaze TV
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is joining us now. She's got a new book out called grace canceled. How outrage is destroying
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our lives, ending debate and endangering democracy. Uh, she should know a little bit about this,
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uh, as she has probably received less grace than anybody, uh, in the median in, uh, in quite
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some time. Welcome to the program, Dana. How are you?
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I'm doing well, Glenn. Good to talk with you. It's been a while. It's good to be on.
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I know. I know. Good to have you. Good to have you on the program. I know you're from home. Are
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I am an introvert, so I am living in paradise right now. And I just look at it like I'm a
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hobbit in my hobbit hole and I am, I am grateful that I have a home studio and I'm able to do
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everything from my house. So I'm living my life. Right. And you, you're going to church digitally
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and just kind of homeschooling the kids again? Yeah, sort of. Going to church digitally is a
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new one for me. That, that one took a little bit getting used to. We had our first digital
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service last Sunday. Um, the kids start there. My youngest start to kind of work at home stuff
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tomorrow. And I, I mean, I know that there are parents out there that have, you were talking
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about your kids cleaning out the garage. I know there are parents out there that are doing
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stuff with their kids and that's awesome. I mean, we're, we don't even know what day
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it is right now because my schedule is all disrupted. But I know it's crazy. It'll be good.
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It's crazy. Yeah, it is. Yeah, we've, it's nuts. We've gone from, from Tanya driving the kids around
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to, you know, play practice and, and this, uh, you know, school and that event and, um, all the time,
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it's like she was a shuttle service, um, and to do nothing. Like the kids are home and it's like,
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well, who is this creature in the other room? I, I don't recognize them. They're my children.
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It's weird how fast things stopped. That things have stopped. And I kind of,
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I liked that they're home though. My oldest went off to college for the, I mean, he, he's a college
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freshman. He left this fall, this last fall. And so that was, that was awful. And I'm actually,
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this sounds, this sounds really bad, but I'm actually kind of grateful for the time. I feel
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like, you know, we get a little bit of extra time because I'm sure the world's going to shift
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back into high gear here soon, but I'm, you know, I'm happy that we kind of had this little
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period. I just, I, with all of the awfulness that's, that's happening with this virus and
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everything, I just, I feel like we're supposed to kind of take this time together and be a family
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and do stuff. And we play, you know, we play all kinds of stuff. We play games and, you know,
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I do my stuff for the day and then we have the evening. So it's nice.
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We play hide and go seek, except it's a new version. It's just called hide.
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You hide. Okay. And then you're going to find us. Nope. Just go hide. So your, your, your book is
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about grace, which seems really timely, especially with there's, there's absolutely no grace extended
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to people anymore. There's no grace, especially extended to this president. Everything he does,
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he's ahead of the rest of the world and he'll get bashed for it. And then, you know, when Europe
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today, they're making all kinds of announcements that Europe is closing all of the borders and
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they're canceling all flights and you can't, if you're, you're being called home, well, that's what
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he did. And he was called all kinds of names for it. Now, when the rest of the world is doing it,
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they're brilliant. They're all brilliant. We should be more like them. Well, we were last week.
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Yeah. Talk to me a little bit about grace in this, in this time period.
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No, I, and I'm, and I think that's right. And it's not just grace. That's, that's kind of missing.
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It's also the ability for society to forgive. There's a cancellation of forgiveness and an
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outright refusal of redemption. And I, I mean, I can't believe that we're, we're even doing this
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during a pandemic. I mean, that seems to me that that would be the time that you would exhibit
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the most grace to your fellow man, that you would try to do the best you could to be a good
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steward. And instead of everybody's playing politics and they're really worried about what
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communist China thinks as it relates to their responsibility and spreading a pandemic. But
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it is, it's, I, when I started writing this book, there were a couple of things that contributed to
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the idea of it. The first thing was the way my kids reacted to the Parkland town hall. And then
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the second thing was a Norm McDonald interview, because he's my absolute favorite comedian of
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all time. I think he's one of the smartest comedians out there. He's hysterical. And he
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had made a good point that he wasn't defending Roseanne Barr. He was saying, okay, she did something
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wrong and she apologized and she's contrite. And where is the forgiveness? Isn't that kind of how
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this goes? And he was like, nobody wants to apologize anymore because nobody wants to forgive
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anybody. And I thought that's exactly right. And that it contributes to this polar tribalization
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because it's not about persuading people. It's about utterly destroying them. It's more of an,
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as politics now is more of an exercise of the ego, then it is actually trying to move the ball down
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the field and advocate for one's issues. And so that's, that's how the book started. And I get into
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all of it. I talk about the death of nuance, how political conversation is incredibly stupid now.
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And of course there's the milkshake death and rage mobs chapter. And I get into the media's role
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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,
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but I ended up writing it. I, it was something that I pitched and I came up with and then I regretted it
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like, you know, two thirds of the way in. Um, Oh, because the premise is being tested and I was mad
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about it. I didn't want to write it. I was mad. I actually, um, at a couple of different points
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consider just burning it all down. And I wanted to write a ridiculous tell all and shoot it all
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into the stratosphere and just let the fire of the burning bridges light my path. That's all I wanted
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to do. Probably need to probably need to write this book all the more. Yeah. It's really, it's really
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hard because you, all you want to do is, um, pay people back. Really? Oh, really? Yeah. You,
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you, you thought that was fun. You thought that was funny. Hmm. Now you're sitting in that hot,
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uh, hot seat. Oh, look, what's coming your way. Um, it's, you just want to pay people back,
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but it's not good when you do. No. And you know that just as well as I do, how graceless people
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can be and how relentlessly graceless they can be. And, um, I, I, you know, and I think that that's
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it cause it's a choice. I mean, to, to, to give grace to someone. And I think that there are some
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people now who are like-minded that think it is a sanction or that it is complicity or it is
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just, you're just going to go along with it. You're going to accept it. That's not what grace
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is at all. Grace is simply unmerited kindness. And the people who deserve it the least are the
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best when you really need to kick it into gear the most. And, um, it's, but it is a choice and
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it's not my first choice. I mean, for crying out loud, you know me, I mean, come on, let's not,
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not. Oh no, I know. It's not anybody's first choice. I mean, come on.
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It's, but it's really not anybody's first choice. It is, I mean, it goes against, uh, what I would
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call the natural man. The natural man defends himself. The natural man swings back. You swing
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at me. My instinct is to swing harder. Um, and, and, you know, the natural man is an enemy of his
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enemy is an enemy of God. Um, we are supposed to rise above that animal. Exactly. And, and,
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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
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witness. And I have to say that I feel that in terms of persuading, because, you know, I've asked
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myself too, especially as my kids started getting older and my oldest son now, he wants to go into
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constitutional law. He did the debate team. He did the whole, all of it. Um, and I was actually kind of
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discouraging him from, from it, you know, great parenting, but, um, I did not want him to think
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that the only acceptable way to respond or handle discussion in the country and in culture was you
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have to be so flexed, so hardcore and be completely emotionless and believe that any kind of empathy
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or any kind of, you know, anything is a vulnerability. Grace isn't a vulnerability.
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And I, you know, I really was, was very cognizant of that. Um, and I, I realized if, if I, if anything,
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I need to model it for him rather than expecting the political culture to, because that's not going
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to happen. So at least, you know, if he sees me modeling it for him, then, you know, maybe that's
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at least something that's a seed planted, you know, that, and then I'll be happy. Um, but I, I really,
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cause he is, he has such a good heart and I know that him and his friends, it's a really a lot
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tougher, I think for them than it was for me when I was their age. And I, I really wanted them to have
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that example. And so that was part of the emphasis for it. So, um, let's go back and, and talk a little
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bit about, um, the, the media and the way they're handling all of this. What do you see coming? You know,
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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
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where was it? Maybe in the New York times. I can't remember where it was. It was in a lefty,
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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.
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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
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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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
00:40:22.360
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.
00:40:58.100
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.
00:41:28.880
Because they could literally weld people, seal people into iron rooms and weld their doors closed in China.
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.
00:42:21.220
But they are trying really hard to make sure that they have food and people to ship them.
00:42:31.060
What's happening in the global economy now has never happened before.
00:42:36.340
The consequences will be nothing short of revolutionary change.
00:42:50.620
Our character description is pretty darn clear.
00:42:54.780
But we're going through a significant season change.
00:43:04.080
That's the job everybody's been getting you to try to deny for a long time.
00:43:11.420
And for once, the world is going to realize they need us to unite.