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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. We saw a bunch of protests this weekend of people trying to say,

00:00:05.640 hey, you know, I'd like to have some of my freedoms back. I think that's a good idea.

00:00:09.280 Elijah Schaefer was at one of these protests. He tells us what actually happened.

00:00:13.320 It's a little bit different than you're hearing from the media.

00:00:16.380 What businesses should be getting these small business loans that we've approved here in this country?

00:00:22.940 Giant chain restaurants? Well, it seems like a lot of the money is going there. We get into that.

00:00:27.320 Michael Malice joins us with just a really disturbing story about someone who was murdered or killed by authorities this weekend in Maryland.

00:00:39.500 Plus, we have, again, you know, this path on talking about how to make money as a small business owner in this new world we're dealing with.

00:00:50.660 That comes up as well today. And the coverage of Joe Biden doesn't even exist.

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00:01:49.000 All right, here's our update.

00:01:50.960 Total confirmed cases worldwide now.

00:01:53.800 2,400,000 up from almost 2.2 on Friday.

00:01:58.580 The deaths are up about 20,000 globally.

00:02:03.080 The U.S. now has 746,000 cases.

00:02:08.580 That's up from 687 on Friday.

00:02:12.940 And we are up about 6,000 in deaths to 40,766.

00:02:18.180 We currently have 13,400 people in serious or critical condition.

00:02:23.940 We are now 13th in fatality rate per 1,000,000 people.

00:02:30.420 We are behind the Netherlands and Sweden and Ireland and Spain and Italy and UK and Belgium.

00:02:35.620 All those places with socialized medicine.

00:02:39.040 At least 20 states now in the U.S. are using Chinese-made aerial drones

00:02:45.180 to ensure that we are following our social distancing regulations.

00:02:53.600 Stu, this is what I think the problem is.

00:02:57.020 It's not just about opening up the restaurant.

00:02:59.740 It's about that we have 20 states using Chinese drones to monitor us.

00:03:06.500 Yeah, I mean, the idea that essential activity has been defined in such strange ways.

00:03:12.840 Like, don't we start with, I don't know, our constitutionally guaranteed rights?

00:03:16.660 Wouldn't that be a good place to start when you're talking about essential activities?

00:03:19.520 And yet we're banning gun sales.

00:03:21.520 We're banning church services.

00:03:23.200 We're banning protests.

00:03:24.860 We're banning all the things that are included in our constitutionally guaranteed rights

00:03:28.180 and leaving other things bizarrely open.

00:03:30.840 Like, you know, Florida opened up their beaches this weekend,

00:03:33.780 which I think a lot of people were very appreciative of.

00:03:36.900 However, they were only open for things like surfing,

00:03:40.940 which like surfing is defined as essential activity because it's exercise, I guess,

00:03:45.560 but relaxing at the beach and reading a book is not essential.

00:03:49.740 So that would be banned by the way that they've opened.

00:03:53.140 That's insane.

00:03:54.000 That is, I think, the issue.

00:03:55.640 This stuff doesn't make sense to people.

00:03:57.260 I think people, generally speaking, have done a really good job trying to, you know,

00:04:02.820 honor these things and make sure that they don't spread this virus.

00:04:06.900 And they've been incredibly restrained.

00:04:09.380 Nobody has a death wish.

00:04:11.680 Nobody wants to get sick.

00:04:13.220 Nobody wants everybody else to die.

00:04:15.340 They just don't like it that they are being told exactly what to do.

00:04:19.600 And now when you have when you have a Chinese tech company that is tied directly to the Communist Party,

00:04:28.600 has CCP board members on the board of directors,

00:04:32.340 and we're buying drones from them for our police department.

00:04:39.080 And the police department is flying these over the heads of people saying,

00:04:43.220 hey, you got to go home.

00:04:44.940 No, I don't think so.

00:04:48.380 I don't think so.

00:04:49.560 I'm not.

00:04:50.040 Let's just see.

00:04:50.660 I'm not supposed to go to church, even if I'm in a car with my windows rolled up.

00:04:56.080 Not supposed to go to church.

00:04:57.340 That's First Amendment.

00:04:58.580 I'm not supposed to congregate and associate with people in a group.

00:05:04.320 That's First Amendment.

00:05:06.200 I can't associate with people.

00:05:08.640 Now, Facebook just banned the people that were online that were saying, hey, we want to do a protest in our area.

00:05:17.820 They just banned them because the governors told Facebook to ban them.

00:05:22.540 So that's First Amendment.

00:05:24.740 Can't go by a gun.

00:05:26.260 That's Second Amendment.

00:05:28.060 I mean, how much more do we need to do?

00:05:31.020 Yeah, like I would love to see what the reaction would be by the media.

00:05:35.880 If a governor said, you know what?

00:05:39.340 You guys can't go out and cover these protests because it's just too dangerous.

00:05:43.500 Can't be outside.

00:05:44.380 Again, same amendment would be being restrained. 0.95

00:05:48.500 Say, OK, no, freedom of the press just doesn't apply right now.

00:05:51.300 You guys can't go out and cover things.

00:05:52.600 It's too dangerous.

00:05:53.820 How do you think the press would react to that?

00:05:56.120 Would they react the same way as when our First Amendment rights go away for the right to?

00:06:01.520 We're talking the difference between we're looking at the difference between life and death.

00:06:05.600 You guys cannot be in those buildings.

00:06:07.900 You can't be doing these things.

00:06:09.540 You can't be covering those stories.

00:06:12.040 You can't.

00:06:13.000 It's just life and death.

00:06:14.640 They would go ape.

00:06:16.180 Yeah, they would go absolutely ape.

00:06:18.080 And of course, that would be completely a rational reaction.

00:06:20.960 Like many of these places are keeping their employees home, working from home if it's possible.

00:06:26.880 But if they need to be out at a place covering it, they're sending them out there.

00:06:30.600 Is that OK?

00:06:32.060 Is that OK?

00:06:32.600 Because I can if the governor tried to stop that, it would be the story of the year because

00:06:40.600 they would say it was a constitutional violation for a million different reasons.

00:06:45.340 And you know what?

00:06:45.920 They'd be right about that.

00:06:47.460 The same way.

00:06:47.980 I mean, I think you can ask all you want.

00:06:51.400 Like you can ask people to not go to church on Easter Sunday.

00:06:55.040 And you know what?

00:06:55.980 Every church, at least that I know of in my area, did it online and they did everything

00:07:01.600 they could to try to make sure that people were safe and healthy and still were able

00:07:05.500 to worship.

00:07:06.400 And would have done it.

00:07:08.340 In fact, my church did it before there was a mandate.

00:07:12.300 My church came out like two days before.

00:07:14.720 Remember, I said my church just canceled everything.

00:07:18.760 There's no there's no meetings.

00:07:20.920 There's no church.

00:07:21.700 There's nothing.

00:07:23.040 Two days later, that's when the rest of the country went under. 0.75

00:07:27.500 I mean, we're not stupid. 0.96

00:07:30.300 We're not stupid. 0.91

00:07:31.700 Right. 0.81

00:07:31.860 But on the other side, like my my mom goes to a church, which is a small church, and

00:07:36.080 they've been doing services with the cars like, you know, you could pull them with

00:07:41.100 your car and they're doing it, you know, and that has been completely there's no risk

00:07:45.900 to it.

00:07:46.340 It's a small gathering of people in their cars.

00:07:48.580 And that has been OK where she she's located, I guess.

00:07:52.760 But many states are stopping that.

00:07:55.740 For what reason?

00:07:56.320 For no reason.

00:07:57.260 Just to show that they can control you, that they can push you around.

00:08:00.220 And that is what makes people believe, I think correctly in some ways, that this is

00:08:06.580 a lot more about control than it is about, you know, control of people rather than control

00:08:11.680 of the virus.

00:08:12.760 You know, like, you know, canceling protests, you know, on Facebook, all these things feed

00:08:17.980 into that.

00:08:18.600 And there's no reason for it.

00:08:19.720 It should be the opposite.

00:08:20.900 You know, when you want to say, hey, like, look, we understand if you want to go and

00:08:24.660 you want to have a service in your cars, if you think it's that important, absolutely

00:08:28.140 go and do it.

00:08:29.280 Just please stay separate.

00:08:30.920 You know, 99.9% of people are going to honor that because they want to they want to they

00:08:37.740 it's it's it's they are so out of touch that it seems as though to I think the average

00:08:45.700 American that likes the Constitution, it seems as though they are taking advantage of this

00:08:52.880 and they're only making they keep upping it where you're exactly right.

00:08:58.120 If they would just ask and say, hey, look, we talk to all of the church leaders and we

00:09:02.600 appreciate that.

00:09:03.680 And there's there are ways.

00:09:04.860 I mean, there's this one church over here that's doing it with cars.

00:09:07.700 We would we would highly recommend that.

00:09:10.540 But, you know, it's up to each individual.

00:09:13.720 A quarantine is when you quarantine and you isolate the sick people, not the healthy people,

00:09:20.760 the sick people.

00:09:21.980 And that's what they've done.

00:09:23.420 They've they've they've quarantined all of the healthy people.

00:09:27.060 And look, I don't I don't have a problem with it, per se, because I think it needed to be

00:09:35.860 done.

00:09:36.860 But I do have a problem.

00:09:38.580 Like, for instance, I don't have a problem with the Texas governor and what he's doing.

00:09:41.900 And he seems to be opening things up and and and moving slowly.

00:09:47.200 Would I like it to go a little faster?

00:09:49.240 Maybe.

00:09:49.940 But I'm not sitting there looking at all of I'm not being advised by the medical people.

00:09:56.020 And balancing that with the advice that I would get from all the small business people.

00:10:02.900 I know that we're in a very dicey situation.

00:10:05.380 It better happen in the next couple of weeks that we start to go back to work, but not in

00:10:10.400 places like New York.

00:10:12.680 All right.

00:10:13.320 So what are we going to do?

00:10:14.740 I don't have a problem staying at home right now.

00:10:17.600 And I'm not going to go to a restaurant if it opened today or the movie theater and it

00:10:21.580 was a packed restaurant or a packed movie theater.

00:10:23.940 I'm not going to the movie theater because it's my choice.

00:10:27.720 I don't like it when they take my choice away.

00:10:30.360 I mean, it's like it's like teenagers.

00:10:32.960 At some point, you have to let them start to make their own choices and fail at the choices

00:10:40.440 because they don't teenagers don't like it when authority says you will do this.

00:10:47.920 So you hopefully have raised them enough to only have to put the guardrails around the

00:10:53.640 big stuff.

00:10:54.360 Well, there's no guardrails here.

00:10:57.540 We're just children. 0.97

00:10:59.000 Now, the city of New York and Bill de Blasio is encouraging people to be rats. 0.98

00:11:05.480 And that is I mean, that's the city to do it in and rat on your neighbor. 0.94

00:11:10.680 Send pictures of your neighbor doing something that they shouldn't be doing.

00:11:14.780 My gosh, do you want to talk about the Stasi?

00:11:17.740 Talk about turning neighbor against neighbor.

00:11:21.760 Wow, that's the way to do it.

00:11:23.340 60% now of PPP cash went to publicly traded companies.

00:11:29.680 Congress authorized $350 billion for the payroll protection program for small businesses.

00:11:35.900 And it looks like most of that cash went to chain restaurants and franchises and hotels

00:11:41.180 that are part of publicly traded companies.

00:11:44.580 Franchise locations, including some that are technically owned and operated by a larger publicly

00:11:50.880 traded company, qualified as small businesses.

00:11:54.560 Less than 10% now of the PPP loans ended up going to small businesses that employed fewer

00:12:01.400 than 50 employees.

00:12:04.120 Now, here's some good news.

00:12:06.340 It looks like COVID is easily destroyed by UV light.

00:12:11.920 Most coronavirus studies are easily destroyed by exposure to sunlight, including the SARS-CoV-2.

00:12:21.800 UV light cripples the lipid-based membrane, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:12:27.300 UVC does not does kill coronavirus.

00:12:30.680 UVC light is completely harmless to humans and our eyes.

00:12:36.860 UVC light bulbs are available in the U.S.

00:12:40.140 I guess if we wanted to open up our business, the best thing we could do is maybe put UVC light

00:12:46.720 bulbs everywhere in our places of business.

00:12:49.960 Oh, by the way, did you see Sherman Williams has now come out with a paint?

00:12:55.000 Why aren't we painting all of our hospitals and our schools right now as they're closed?

00:12:59.880 They should all be repainted with the anti-COVID virus paint.

00:13:05.280 Somehow or another, they've developed a paint that it kills the coronavirus

00:13:10.380 and doesn't allow it to live on the paint surface.

00:13:16.020 Experts are now saying that it's time to close grocery stores.

00:13:19.960 Some experts, union leaders, and small grocery store owners believe it's become too dangerous

00:13:26.140 to let customers browse the aisle.

00:13:29.960 So they're now saying the large food chains need to go dark.

00:13:38.440 Okay, that doesn't sound like a good idea, but whatever.

00:13:45.420 Chinese has now produced news articles in Arabic blaming the U.S. for COVID-19.

00:13:55.300 Things are going to get dicey with China. 0.71

00:13:57.580 We have an update on that tomorrow that you really don't want to miss.

00:14:02.540 Also, it looks like we may run out of beer, soda, and other carbonated beverages.

00:14:07.540 The lockdown is hurting our ability to make compressed carbon dioxide.

00:14:17.540 And now it looks like our bubblies are not going to be so bubbly.

00:14:26.720 The overall demand for fuel has dropped over 30% since the pandemic began.

00:14:31.660 That, in turn, has caused ethanol plants to stop producing so much ethanol,

00:14:35.600 which is also used as an additive in many fuel products in the U.S.

00:14:39.700 That is a problem for consumers of fizzy beverages because a significant portion of the country's supply

00:14:45.340 of compressed carbon dioxide, which is used to generate fizz in these beverages,

00:14:50.180 comes as a result of the byproduct of ethanol production.

00:14:54.660 Now I suddenly care about the oil price.

00:14:59.920 And coronavirus.

00:15:01.120 The pandemic has reportedly caused shortages on several items,

00:15:06.700 but apparently people really like frozen pizza.

00:15:10.560 We bought $275 million worth of frozen pizza during the month of March.

00:15:18.580 This is an increase of 92% from the same time period of the previous year.

00:15:25.060 According to Adweek, the increase in sales of frozen pizza is comparable

00:15:29.420 to the recent rush of toilet paper.

00:15:31.940 As news of coronavirus and impending shutdowns broke,

00:15:35.160 you know, I have to tell you something.

00:15:38.640 I was one of them that bought a bunch of frozen pizzas.

00:15:41.580 Did you, Stu?

00:15:43.180 Well, I just do that regularly.

00:15:45.260 I know that was no change in my typical pattern.

00:15:48.960 Yeah, I never buy frozen pizzas, but boy, I did.

00:15:51.400 That first, when we went in and I first did some shopping,

00:15:54.920 I went in right to the frozen food aisle and I went right to the pizzas

00:15:57.900 and I'm like, we're getting all of those.

00:16:00.020 Well, it makes sense, right?

00:16:01.160 Like it's a good food that will stay for a long time.

00:16:03.940 If you happen to be in that, uh, look, the food chain breaks down.

00:16:08.320 Mom and dad are dead.

00:16:09.760 Mom and dad are dead.

00:16:11.020 You just put this in the microwave, kids.

00:16:13.740 You step over our dead bodies and you just heat this up

00:16:18.140 and it's called a pizza pocket.

00:16:20.940 You'll love it.

00:16:22.120 Right now, the media would have you believe that everywhere in America

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00:17:21.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:24.800 We're so glad that you've tuned in.

00:17:26.220 Pat Gray is joining us from Pat Gray Unleashed,

00:17:28.060 the podcast that you can get wherever you hear podcasts

00:17:30.600 or you can hear him do it live right before this program

00:17:34.300 on the Blaze Radio Network.

00:17:36.120 Hello, Mr. Pat Gray.

00:17:38.040 Hello, Glenn.

00:17:39.280 I'm very excited today.

00:17:42.540 Are you?

00:17:43.340 I am really excited about the freedoms we're losing.

00:17:46.580 It's really interesting to watch and fun.

00:17:49.320 Oh, what freedoms have we lost?

00:17:51.900 You people, what freedoms have we lost?

00:17:55.940 Almost nothing.

00:17:57.060 Well, okay, we can't go anywhere and we can't do anything.

00:18:00.380 And we're asked to narc on our neighbors,

00:18:03.100 which I think is wonderful.

00:18:04.760 And, you know, if we're trying.

00:18:07.240 That's Bill de Blasio.

00:18:09.420 He's, what are you going to say?

00:18:11.340 He's a Marxist, fascist, communist?

00:18:13.700 Oh, yeah. 0.87

00:18:14.660 I am going to say that.

00:18:16.080 All right.

00:18:16.440 Okay.

00:18:16.700 Yeah, I'm going to say that.

00:18:18.180 Here's Bill de Blasio over the weekend to New Yorkers.

00:18:22.700 Now, it is easier than ever.

00:18:24.640 When you see a crowd, when you see a line that's not distanced,

00:18:27.800 when you see a supermarket that's too crowded, anything,

00:18:30.760 you can report it right away so we can get help there to fix the problem.

00:18:34.380 Yay! 0.99

00:18:34.400 Now it's as simple as taking a photo.

00:18:36.820 All you got to do is take the photo and put the location with it and bang,

00:18:43.120 send a photo like this, and we will make sure that enforcement comes right away.

00:18:48.180 Wow, we've made your SS activity so easy now.

00:18:53.040 It's so great.

00:18:55.260 We will have your neighbor strapped to a chair within 25 minutes.

00:18:59.820 I mean, holy cow.

00:19:02.560 Thank you.

00:19:03.720 That is great.

00:19:05.320 You know, I was just saying, Pat, and I'd love to hear your opinion on this.

00:19:11.440 This movement that is starting to happen around the country,

00:19:15.880 the Washington Post said, it's a new Tea Party movement.

00:19:19.480 Well, if that one was about the Constitution, then yes, that's what this one's about, too.

00:19:26.020 I don't believe this is a movement that I want to go and go to my favorite store

00:19:32.520 and get my favorite ice cream.

00:19:34.060 This is about these cities and these states that are becoming Nazi-like, 0.85

00:19:41.800 where I can't even get into my car and go for a drive.

00:19:45.160 Excuse me.

00:19:45.840 Yeah, it's not America, and it's kind of heartening to see all of the pushback now.

00:19:54.700 And I know that the other side of this, the Democrats are all saying,

00:19:57.920 you guys just want to, you just, you're capitalists who just want capital.

00:20:02.520 Well, well, I mean, even if that were true, we should be able to be capitalists who are bringing home capital

00:20:10.980 because our kids are going to be starving pretty soon.

00:20:15.040 I mean, we are so blessed and fortunate to have a job.

00:20:18.440 I don't know why, but it's considered essential.

00:20:20.500 And so we still have jobs.

00:20:22.480 But there are 22 million people who, in three to four weeks, all lost their jobs and have no way of paying their bills.

00:20:29.460 No, and can't, in Michigan, you can't even get, you can't even get to the unemployment office.

00:20:35.860 You can't call the unemployment office.

00:20:37.900 People have been calling for two weeks and can't file for unemployment.

00:20:42.040 That's, that's it.

00:20:43.160 That's madness.

00:20:44.400 What do you expect people to do?

00:20:46.100 As we were just talking to Elijah Schaefer a few minutes ago, he was up at the protest in Washington State.

00:20:51.100 He said 4,500 people were there.

00:20:54.500 If that's true, that's outrageous number of people in, in Washington State.

00:21:00.620 But one of the things they can't do there in Washington State is go fishing.

00:21:05.960 Excuse me?

00:21:07.100 My grandfather, my uncle used to go right to the side of the river, right, right down the end of their street,

00:21:13.440 and they would fish and we would fish and we would have fish for dinner.

00:21:18.320 You can't do that now.

00:21:19.780 I mean, that's part of the lifestyle of Washington State.

00:21:24.520 At least it used to be.

00:21:26.160 And you're telling me now that I don't have a job and I can't go get fish?

00:21:31.820 That seems unconstitutional.

00:21:34.200 Entirely unconstitutional.

00:21:35.880 That's one of the many instances where it says to me it's just a power grab by the government

00:21:40.720 because there's no reason to not allow single fishermen or two fishermen who are six feet apart from each other

00:21:47.280 to go out and get fish.

00:21:48.820 There's no reason to arrest people who are paddle boarding by themselves in an ocean.

00:21:54.900 There's no reason for any of this.

00:21:56.620 This is just, this is just power hungry officials clamping down on a populace.

00:22:03.800 It's despicable.

00:22:04.840 So, I got a call from somebody.

00:22:11.080 He's an analyst, looks at global trends and everything else.

00:22:15.940 And we were talking and he said,

00:22:18.560 I think our major cities are going to,

00:22:22.900 there's a possibility that they become unstable during this in the next, you know, six months or so.

00:22:28.580 And he said, I wanted to talk to you because I want to understand this, this movement that's happening.

00:22:35.080 Do you think it's a big deal?

00:22:36.160 And I said, I think it's a huge deal.

00:22:37.700 And I think it's just beginning.

00:22:39.660 You know, when you see in the news today that Shake Shack got a lot of the small business money.

00:22:48.120 Okay.

00:22:48.500 Well, most people don't even know what Shake Shack is, but if you live, not, is it Shake Shack?

00:22:52.940 Yeah, it is.

00:22:53.560 Yeah.

00:22:53.900 Oh, steak is.

00:22:54.600 Yes, Shake Shack.

00:22:55.620 No, Shake Shack.

00:22:55.720 Yeah, and they got some of the, they got some of the money.

00:22:59.960 Well, I don't know if those are franchise restaurants or if that's a corporate thing,

00:23:07.720 but no restaurant has 500, McDonald's doesn't have 500 employees.

00:23:12.560 You would say, no, they have millions of employees.

00:23:14.980 No, but you count them locally.

00:23:17.820 So, if the franchise needs help, they can go out and get it.

00:23:22.420 And I don't have a problem.

00:23:23.260 It's a franchise.

00:23:23.900 But if it's the company, like, are they, do you know, Stu, is that a franchise?

00:23:30.720 They're giving the money back, by the way, they're returning the 10 million.

00:23:33.900 That's why they're kind of in the news here.

00:23:35.860 But it is, it's definitely not what people thought of when they thought of a small business

00:23:39.640 loan going out.

00:23:40.640 They think about local places and maybe small, you know, regional chains or something like

00:23:45.940 that.

00:23:46.200 But, you know, 60%, 60% of those businesses that got small business bailouts are traded on

00:23:53.380 the open market.

00:23:54.800 That's not a small business.

00:23:56.760 No.

00:23:57.360 And I'm sorry, but if you're, if you have stock, you're not a small business.

00:24:01.120 And what we're seeing most commonly is the, you know, the companies that are getting these

00:24:06.320 loans are the companies that already had relationships with banks.

00:24:09.700 So, all these companies that, you know, are already dealing at high levels with banks are

00:24:17.060 the ones getting access to the program.

00:24:18.760 While the company who might run and be profitable and not need loans from banks this entire time,

00:24:24.040 those are the ones that can't get any access to the capital because they haven't been dealing

00:24:28.880 with a banker over and over again.

00:24:30.560 Bizarre.

00:24:30.920 So, I think you're going to see a huge, huge movement that comes from those small business

00:24:39.280 owners and the people that live in, you know, in the, in the red states that understand the

00:24:46.740 tyranny and also understand, wait a minute, I didn't get a bailout.

00:24:50.780 Then you're going to get the, uh, then you're going to get the other side.

00:24:55.380 You're going to get the Elon Omar kind of people, uh, and the movements out of New York

00:25:00.660 city where the city did not pay my rent, uh, for six months.

00:25:06.320 And you're going to get that pressure.

00:25:08.840 Those two movements are going to be very, very similar, but very different at the heart.

00:25:16.160 Uh, but that's, what's coming our way.

00:25:18.360 And when that happens, you have civil unrest.

00:25:23.060 You're going to have the, the red states being the media target, the blue states being the

00:25:29.660 ones who are sympathetic being the press is going to be sympathetic towards, and it'll

00:25:34.460 be the blue state movements like Antifa that will be dangerous.

00:25:38.300 And that will only make things a hundred times worse, a hundred times worse.

00:25:44.160 It'll be interesting to see how people respond to what happens in Texas this week, because

00:25:48.020 we're very slowly, uh, opening things up again.

00:25:51.760 Uh, governor Abbott announced that retail, small retailers can open up, but only through,

00:25:57.200 I think, curbside.

00:25:59.240 Yeah.

00:25:59.620 Right.

00:25:59.920 Or home delivery.

00:26:00.960 Curbside.

00:26:01.300 Yeah.

00:26:01.740 So you can still, I mean, they're already open.

00:26:04.260 Most of them, uh, at least in the DFW area and the, in the Metroplex there, you can already

00:26:09.880 go and get food and bring it home or they can deliver it.

00:26:12.840 Yeah.

00:26:13.180 And so they're going to open that up to retail, right?

00:26:14.840 Like, so you can theoretically go buy clothing that way, which, I mean, I, which is kind

00:26:18.360 of a weird way to buy clothing.

00:26:19.520 Yes.

00:26:19.840 I don't know how that's going to work or like a furniture store.

00:26:23.160 You're going to bring me my couch at the curbside.

00:26:27.500 Just put it on top of the car.

00:26:28.640 Like where the Flintstones.

00:26:29.900 Okay.

00:26:33.440 Yeah.

00:26:33.760 I'm not sure it works that way with the couch.

00:26:35.560 I don't think it does.

00:26:38.240 Maybe it does.

00:26:39.100 And then, and then next week we do the next step, right?

00:26:42.700 Yeah.

00:26:43.200 Well, they haven't announced that yet.

00:26:44.240 I think April 27th, they're making more announcements, which would, would, you know, allow some restaurants

00:26:49.300 to open it with certain circumstances.

00:26:52.500 Um, I don't think bars yet for sit down, but like much more spaced out, limited access.

00:26:58.800 Okay.

00:26:59.040 And again, how is that going to happen?

00:27:00.520 How, how's that going to, how's that going to help them?

00:27:03.240 You run on slim margins.

00:27:05.920 You know, nobody's making 30% margin.

00:27:08.700 You generally have a 5% margin, 7% margin.

00:27:12.080 If you do, that means at a packed capacity, you are probably making money after all the

00:27:19.720 bills are paid for the last couple of days of the month.

00:27:23.200 Well, if I have to cut my clientele in half, how do I keep my business open?

00:27:30.220 Right.

00:27:30.300 I mean, you, some of the costs would come down too, right?

00:27:33.160 But a lot of them are fixed.

00:27:34.380 So they, those wouldn't, you know, your rent isn't changing because you have less people

00:27:38.100 in your restaurant.

00:27:38.980 And, you know, I guess like you could argue that maybe it would allow the loans coming

00:27:44.020 from the government to go further.

00:27:45.780 Right.

00:27:46.240 So there's some argument there that could be helpful.

00:27:49.400 Uh, but you're right.

00:27:51.400 I mean, these are not, these are not profitable businesses when you're letting 10 people in 1.00

00:27:56.040 a restaurant meant for 50 or 60.

00:27:58.120 And will 10 people actually show up and sit down at a restaurant right now?

00:28:02.540 I think a lot of people are going to be leery initially.

00:28:04.840 That's what all the polling shows.

00:28:05.980 I mean, the polling shows that still at this point, even Republicans are split on whether

00:28:10.840 we're, the danger is doing too much too quickly to open up the economy or the opposite.

00:28:16.200 Right.

00:28:16.540 Um, and among overall people, it's overwhelmingly in favor of the fear being opening things

00:28:23.180 up too quickly.

00:28:24.080 Well, I, I think even if you open things up, I mean, I just had a meeting with the researchers,

00:28:30.000 uh, and I asked them and it was, uh, split probably in half.

00:28:36.460 Uh, for me, if you open up restaurants today, I'm not going into a restaurant, I'll go get

00:28:41.400 my food, but I'm not going to go sit down in a restaurant.

00:28:43.800 I'm not going to a crowded movie theater.

00:28:46.140 Uh, are you guys?

00:28:47.540 No, no.

00:28:48.600 I mean, you know, if there was a restaurant with 10 people in it, uh, you know, I might

00:28:52.720 again, but again, like, what does that do really for the restaurant?

00:28:55.960 Uh, very little.

00:28:57.000 Yeah.

00:28:57.360 I think, you know, if there is, it would be great.

00:28:59.580 Like, it's funny because one of the things they say is really far away from coming back

00:29:03.180 is fans at sporting events, which again, I understand if a packed stadium would be a really

00:29:09.580 bad idea.

00:29:10.360 However, an outside environment with a limited crowd capacity probably is one of the more

00:29:15.240 safe environments.

00:29:16.740 If you were to take that and don't understand when they're saying about the beaches, these

00:29:21.600 beaches were not jam packed, at least the pictures I saw, you know, you might, you might

00:29:26.940 have had four people or six people.

00:29:28.920 Well, I've got six people that are crowded around my kitchen table every day.

00:29:33.180 You know, if we went as a family and we went out to the beach, I mean, I wouldn't be doing

00:29:38.220 it, but if you went out to the beach and you're open air and you're six feet away from the next

00:29:42.240 group of people, what's the problem with that?

00:29:45.480 And it looked like that was against it.

00:29:46.920 Yeah.

00:29:47.100 It looked like that.

00:29:47.960 It did.

00:29:48.360 Yeah.

00:29:48.960 I think it was the case.

00:29:50.320 They did the same thing in the coverage of that as they did with a protest where they

00:29:53.060 found the one guy who had the crazy sign.

00:29:55.900 Like, you know, you look at the overall pictures of the Florida beaches and they were pretty

00:30:00.500 restrained.

00:30:01.540 People were generally speaking away from each other.

00:30:03.660 There were, of course, some groupings that didn't look good.

00:30:06.660 And that's what made all the, you know, all the social media rounds.

00:30:09.720 But that's just to be expected.

00:30:11.260 I mean, generally speaking, I think people have, I've been, I've been surprised at how

00:30:14.260 well people have done with these restrictions.

00:30:17.380 Honestly, I'm shocked.

00:30:19.220 They've made the most independent state in the nation is Texas.

00:30:23.940 And we are the most compliant, according to the research.

00:30:28.280 Wow.

00:30:28.940 To me, that says everything.

00:30:31.280 That says everything.

00:30:32.380 Because we are not people that like to just sit around and be told exactly what to do.

00:30:38.060 This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.

00:30:50.320 Elijah Schaefer was up for the blaze in Seattle, of all places, with one of the protests.

00:30:56.700 Elijah, how are you?

00:30:59.180 Glenn, I'm doing great.

00:31:00.320 Thanks for calling.

00:31:00.820 Yeah, so the, the protest in Seattle, but not the place I would expect it.

00:31:06.760 Was it a, was it a Liberty protest or was it a, like an Antifa protest?

00:31:12.480 What, what happened there?

00:31:14.500 That's a, you know, that's a good question.

00:31:15.740 You know, it was a little bit north.

00:31:17.180 It took place just a little bit north, about 45 minutes north of Seattle.

00:31:22.340 And what I thought would have been a bipartisan protest against tyranny, because I thought Antifa

00:31:28.320 was anarchist, and I thought that they were so much against, you know, the control of

00:31:33.040 the government, and they thought Trump was a fascist.

00:31:35.700 It turned out it was mostly just right-wingers who wanted to go back to work telling the

00:31:40.200 governor that they wanted their rights back.

00:31:43.760 So, Elijah, I just spent a few minutes saying that this is not about, this is not about I

00:31:51.540 want to go see my favorite movie or eat at my favorite restaurant.

00:31:54.360 This is about, um, tyranny, to stop telling us exactly what we can and cannot do.

00:32:03.320 Is that accurate in your view?

00:32:05.900 A hundred percent.

00:32:07.920 Uh, the, the people I talked to, uh, two good examples.

00:32:11.660 The first woman I spoke to was a single mother.

00:32:14.140 She hasn't received a paycheck since March 16th.

00:32:17.680 She's been denied for unemployment because she's self-employed. 0.86

00:32:20.620 She told me and looked right into my face and said, I do not know how to feed my children. 0.98

00:32:25.740 I do not know how to pay rent.

00:32:27.840 She said, I am not lazy.

00:32:29.360 I have never not worked.

00:32:30.720 And now I'm unable to feed my kids.

00:32:33.000 Why?

00:32:33.640 Because somebody told me I'm not allowed to.

00:32:35.980 And another man said, I don't have a job.

00:32:38.300 I don't have food.

00:32:39.400 He said, I know how to fish.

00:32:41.020 And I can't even legally go out and fish.

00:32:43.940 In Washington, it's illegal to fish.

00:32:45.940 He goes, I can't even catch my own food, let alone afford it because the government told me that's, that's no longer my right to feed myself.

00:32:54.900 He can't fish in Washington state.

00:32:59.500 Correct.

00:33:00.840 What the hell is, is it?

00:33:03.820 And that's part of the shutdown is you can't fish.

00:33:07.160 Yeah, and actually people brought their fishing poles and did, I guess, a symbolic cast into the fountain in front of the state capitol building.

00:33:19.460 But many people, you know, had had had fishing poles that said my fishing pole is it is an essential business because feeding myself is essential.

00:33:29.460 That's unbelievable.

00:33:30.940 What was the response from the state?

00:33:32.980 You know, the response from the state and the media was exactly what you would think.

00:33:40.560 There were only Republican candidates running and some congressional senators that were there.

00:33:47.140 There was silence from the governor and leave it up to PBS and the media to lie and say a couple hundred people showed up when in actuality estimates from enterprise reporting was about forty five hundred.

00:34:00.440 So the event was smeared from the beginning forty five hundred, forty five hundred people.

00:34:08.300 Yes, it was it was it was it was beyond it was beyond understanding.

00:34:12.600 When I when I saw that, what I think is hilarious and you'll check this out when I went to look at Getty images to see what images they reported out of forty five hundred people.

00:34:23.360 There was one man who had combined a don't tread on me flag and a confederate flag, one guy out of forty five hundred.

00:34:30.920 That's zero point zero two percent of the people.

00:34:33.540 Only one I saw of all the people.

00:34:35.440 There was one.

00:34:36.540 And guess what image when you type in the protest is there?

00:34:39.840 That one.

00:34:40.480 One man.

00:34:41.280 That one wasn't even at the main protest.

00:34:43.360 He was on the street outside.

00:34:44.800 And the media and the best part is the angle is from the floor facing up, which walks out everybody.

00:34:50.600 So of forty five hundred people who, regardless of political opinion, said, let me go back to work.

00:34:57.900 I want to work.

00:34:59.020 I'm an American. 1.00

00:35:00.120 Damn it. 0.99

00:35:00.620 I want my job back. 1.00

00:35:02.720 They chose this one guy with a flag that pushed the narrative that they wanted to push and refused to report on the truth.

00:35:10.480 Unbelievable.

00:35:11.340 Unbelievable.

00:35:11.780 They do that.

00:35:12.480 We we had that in tea party after tea party after tea party.

00:35:16.460 They would go find the one person dressed as the Statue of Liberty and they would take a picture of that person to avoid the crowd.

00:35:23.540 I mean, it's nuts.

00:35:25.560 Elijah, thank you so much.

00:35:27.240 I really appreciate it.

00:35:29.320 And thanks for going.

00:35:31.640 Going out.

00:35:32.080 Were you wearing a mask?

00:35:35.220 I wasn't wearing a mask.

00:35:36.740 I was wearing the logo.

00:35:38.740 But thank God.

00:35:40.580 Thank God of the of the five images that the AP took.

00:35:44.440 They did take a picture of me and made sure that they knew that right wing news correspondent, Elijah Schaefer, was there.

00:35:50.680 But hey, at least we were there to tell the other side of the story.

00:35:53.600 Wow.

00:35:54.060 Thank you very much.

00:35:54.960 Is your report up on the blaze now?

00:35:56.740 No, the report, the full report will be up on the blaze tomorrow, the full video.

00:36:02.940 But the actual video report will be up on the blaze later today.

00:36:07.240 OK, great.

00:36:07.940 Thank you so much, Elijah.

00:36:08.980 I appreciate it.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 20, 2020

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