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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Today, Glenn starts the show drunk.

00:00:05.520 We didn't think it was going to happen. It's sad. He's recovering, but he just couldn't help himself.

00:00:10.400 So, a little coronavirus drunk news edition.

00:00:13.660 We talk about the small business problem that we're having in this country right now, which is massive.

00:00:21.180 Pat Gray joins us. We have the governor of South Dakota on.

00:00:24.480 They just launched the first clinical trial statewide of hydroxychloroquine, and she talks about what it's like in a state that's, you know, not getting hit very hard with coronavirus, yet having to deal with a lot of the same issues from the government, as well as Dr. Kelly Ward.

00:00:44.400 She's on to talk about the way the left is using coronavirus to push for nationalized health care.

00:00:49.140 There's a lot of that going on, plus how annoying Zoom calls are, because that, I think, is the thing that's affecting most of us right at this moment.

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00:01:40.180 All right, let's do our coronavirus update.

00:01:47.100 The cases worldwide now over 2 million.

00:01:50.780 Really, only up 40,000, 50,000 from yesterday, which is great.

00:01:55.780 Total confirmed deaths worldwide, up only 7,000.

00:02:00.840 Total confirmed recovered, almost 500,000.

00:02:04.780 The U.S. now has 614,000 confirmed cases and 26,000 deaths.

00:02:10.960 That is up from yesterday, quite a bit.

00:02:14.560 587 yesterday and 23,644 deaths yesterday.

00:02:21.800 The U.S. now leads the world in both total cases and deaths from COVID-19,

00:02:26.240 but it is 15th in deaths per 1 million people, 19th in cases per 1 million people.

00:02:33.780 Officially, all 50 states now have at least one death attributed to COVID-19.

00:02:39.940 Just to note, on the scale side, if you will, traffic-related fatalities in the U.S. were down by 23%,

00:02:48.480 as opposed to the same month in 2019.

00:02:52.720 So we saved some lives by not going out and doing anything.

00:02:56.780 Are we at the peak?

00:03:00.480 We think it was the peak yesterday.

00:03:02.360 The death toll in the U.S. increased after New York included at-home COVID-19 fatalities for the very first time.

00:03:11.340 They had 270 deaths yesterday that were attributed to the virus from people who died at home in New York City.

00:03:19.400 New York City's health department says the total death toll now is 10,000,

00:03:23.940 including the 3,700 total deaths that were added on Tuesday that included the backlog of several thousand people who died at home

00:03:33.800 and were not counted as COVID-19 deaths.

00:03:37.420 Health officials have cautioned the deaths are a lagging indicator.

00:03:41.120 They don't mean that the sweeping stay-at-home restrictions are a failure.

00:03:44.400 The peak in deaths across the U.S. is expected this week, according to the CDC.

00:03:50.980 So, the WHO, do we have the audio of Donald Trump yesterday in an announcement in the Rose Garden?

00:04:00.540 He said this.

00:04:01.460 I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess

00:04:11.260 the World Health Organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.

00:04:21.940 Everybody knows what's going on there.

00:04:25.180 American taxpayers provide between $400 million and $500 million per year to the WHO.

00:04:32.120 In contrast, China contributes roughly $40 million a year and even less.

00:04:37.000 As the organization's leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability.

00:04:44.900 One of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHO was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from China and other nations.

00:04:57.040 They were very much opposed to what we did.

00:05:00.140 Fortunately, I was not convinced and suspended travel from China.

00:05:03.700 All right, so here's the real bell that rang yesterday.

00:05:10.860 It is a it's a memo from December 2019 from epidemiologists in Taiwan.

00:05:19.760 They issued an urgent memo to the WHO about numerous cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

00:05:27.620 And the memo suggests that there is human to human transmission and urged the WHO to prevent to prevent further testing to find the pathogen.

00:05:40.960 The WHO ignored the warnings from Taiwan and continued to reiterate all of China's false talking points,

00:05:49.340 that there was no evidence of human human transmission, that it was no big deal.

00:05:53.360 And that was that went on until January 14th.

00:05:56.860 Remember, this is in December.

00:05:58.480 This is before anybody really even knows about it.

00:06:01.920 Two days earlier, by January 12th, more than 700 people had been hospitalized.

00:06:07.100 102 had died in Wuhan.

00:06:10.000 They failed to mandate that Chinese officials share the strains that would have allowed all kinds of diagnostic tests.

00:06:19.140 Taiwan was way ahead of this.

00:06:21.660 Here's the problem.

00:06:23.920 Why didn't the WHO listen to the epidemiologists from Taiwan?

00:06:30.980 I'm not making this up because Taiwan doesn't exist.

00:06:36.980 Taiwan is just an arm of China, and so we don't accept any information from Taiwan.

00:06:43.720 We get all of our information about China from Jed.

00:06:47.740 Here's the problem with the withholding of the funding.

00:06:51.780 Congress holds the purse strings.

00:06:54.520 Will Congress hold back that money and stop paying the WHO?

00:07:00.260 My guess, no.

00:07:02.620 So is social distancing actually happening?

00:07:05.240 A study of mobile phone data shows only 35% of Americans are following stay-at-home orders across the U.S.

00:07:11.480 I find this story absolutely infuriating.

00:07:15.260 A study including thousands of mobile phones tracked from all 50 states.

00:07:21.860 On average, they say Americans were still taking two non-work-related trips out by car per day.

00:07:28.680 Utah, Colorado, New Mexico were the worst offending states with over 2.5 non-working trips out of the house by car each day.

00:07:36.520 Stu, you're a numbers guy.

00:07:39.620 Yes.

00:07:40.340 Any questions on this study at this point?

00:07:42.880 Because that doesn't seem right, does it?

00:07:44.320 35% of Americans are staying home.

00:07:46.380 Everybody else is violating this?

00:07:47.860 Right.

00:07:48.400 I totally question the assumptions of the study, right?

00:07:53.360 Like, just because you're going out of your house a couple of times does not mean you're not doing the whole social distancing thing.

00:07:59.240 Oh.

00:07:59.960 Right?

00:08:00.740 Oh.

00:08:01.360 If you're going out, first of all.

00:08:02.720 Right.

00:08:03.320 We all have, we can go to get groceries.

00:08:06.680 We can go for a drive and not end up anywhere.

00:08:09.780 You can go out to get gas.

00:08:11.080 You can go out to do lots of things.

00:08:12.900 What do you mean non-essential trips?

00:08:14.940 That's a bizarre way of looking at it.

00:08:16.820 Uh-huh.

00:08:18.120 So, these trips include fast food restaurants, which you can go to a fast food restaurant and you can be completely safe.

00:08:27.180 That's part of it.

00:08:27.940 It includes hardware stores and home improvement stores.

00:08:31.780 And that one, that one's a little dicey because I think it is essential for our sanity to be able to go to the Home Depot and do some things around the house.

00:08:41.060 Otherwise, there's nothing else we can do.

00:08:44.960 But, so hardware stores, which is, they are essential.

00:08:49.940 They're on the essential list.

00:08:53.420 And the other one is grocery stores.

00:08:55.680 Well, all of those are on the essential list.

00:08:59.420 The two of them are food.

00:09:01.100 What are you talking about?

00:09:02.680 It's a stupid study.

00:09:04.560 And not to mention, I hate the fact that they, I mean, I get it.

00:09:08.020 We all know our data is out there.

00:09:09.520 But the fact that these people are so easily able to put together these tracking studies of everywhere we've gone is revealing.

00:09:17.940 That's what it should be.

00:09:19.200 I want to study on how fast these guys have found ways to track all of us.

00:09:24.860 And nobody seems to have a problem about it.

00:09:28.900 By the way, Texas was among the most compliant states with just below two trips out per person per day so far in April.

00:09:35.740 I think this is garbage.

00:09:37.820 I'd like to know with the 2.5 non-work trips.

00:09:41.760 I'd like to know if they went to hardware stores, grocery stores, or restaurants.

00:09:46.000 I count that as in compliance.

00:09:48.000 So what's the real number?

00:09:50.740 Now, here's the latest study on COVID and how it's spread.

00:09:55.080 Air conditioning systems may help spread the virus.

00:09:58.700 My comment?

00:10:00.360 I don't care.

00:10:03.560 If you think I'm going to turn off my air conditioning unit, I'm not going to.

00:10:09.820 Take me to prison.

00:10:11.320 Burn me at the stake.

00:10:12.820 I'm not shutting off my air conditioning unit.

00:10:16.480 Period.

00:10:18.000 By the way, five new viruses have been found to live in bats.

00:10:26.480 My comment?

00:10:28.800 Can we stop experimenting with bats?

00:10:34.360 I'm just saying.

00:10:36.720 Might be a good idea.

00:10:38.720 And finally, the CDC's plan to reopen America.

00:10:42.720 And this one's better than the California list.

00:10:50.900 Any state reopening must meet four conditions.

00:10:55.600 The incident of infection is genuinely low.

00:10:59.420 Now, what does that mean?

00:11:00.640 What is genuinely low, Stu?

00:11:02.040 Is New York genuinely low?

00:11:05.080 No, I would say definitely New York is not genuinely low.

00:11:10.220 And the problem here, of course, is testing is not even.

00:11:16.920 Okay?

00:11:17.300 It's not universal.

00:11:18.000 We're doing far less tests than some other states here in Texas, even though we have a large population.

00:11:23.780 It's also not randomized.

00:11:25.360 So, we're not just taking people off of the street and finding out if they have COVID-19.

00:11:30.880 That way, you'd be able to tell how many people are actually sick and asymptomatic and contagious.

00:11:36.340 We're instead just testing people with symptoms.

00:11:39.520 But still, I mean, you can get something out of that.

00:11:42.340 I don't know what.

00:11:43.400 They have to have an actual metric, though.

00:11:45.020 They can't just say, eh, kind of low.

00:11:47.700 Genuinely low.

00:11:48.520 Genuinely low is not a good.

00:11:49.680 They can't say that.

00:11:50.160 No.

00:11:50.580 You've got to come up with some sort of metric for that.

00:11:52.160 No, that's right.

00:11:53.640 The next one is a well-functioning monitoring system capable of promptly detecting any increase in incidence of infection.

00:12:03.880 What the hell is that?

00:12:06.220 What does that mean?

00:12:07.880 A well-functioning monitoring system?

00:12:11.200 Excuse me?

00:12:12.000 Part of that is quick reporting, right?

00:12:13.900 Like, on these cases.

00:12:14.780 We've noticed one thing that is really frustrating is Sundays and Mondays tend to have really bad reporting because they're reporting the deaths from the previous day, and those days are weekend days.

00:12:26.280 So, like, these deaths, they're happening, but they're not getting reported for two and three days, which is why yesterday's number was the highest it was.

00:12:33.080 But the day before that was a really encouraging number.

00:12:36.000 So, it could be that.

00:12:37.060 You know, I keep going back to this thing with the thermometers where they have these internet-connected thermometers.

00:12:45.280 Kinza is one of the brands.

00:12:46.740 And they have sort of a heat map that was able to detect a lot of these breakouts early because a lot of people were taking their temperature and they were seeing fevers.

00:12:54.000 Like, if we're going to spend another $2 trillion, let's say, on another package, maybe it would make sense to optionally, and that's important, optionally provide these types of thermometers to people so they can take their temperature and we can have, again, aggregated data, not specific to you, but aggregated data.

00:13:16.000 Because we can see when there's a flare-up in a particular area and we should increase testing there, right?

00:13:21.180 Like, that type of stuff makes sense.

00:13:22.440 It doesn't seem like anybody's talking about that.

00:13:24.800 But what they're talking about, the way you do this, of course, is South Korea or Hong Kong or, you know, those types of situations, which there's way too much monitoring there to fit into our Constitution.

00:13:36.720 So, I don't know how you do this exactly while maintaining the rights that we are supposed to have in this country.

00:13:43.220 Well, you'll get your rights back as soon as you do these four things, and I'm only on thing number three.

00:13:47.720 Oh, good.

00:13:48.140 The public health system is reacting robustly to all cases of COVID-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.

00:14:00.220 Oh, okay.

00:14:01.820 We should have that.

00:14:02.500 We should have that at this point.

00:14:04.140 I mean, this is the United States of America here.

00:14:05.500 A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.

00:14:15.220 Well, two out of the four seem not real vague and seem like we should be able to do it.

00:14:24.280 But what is reacting robustly to all cases of COVID-19?

00:14:28.940 I have no idea.

00:14:30.360 This is the CDC's standard on being able to open the country back up and let you out of your house.

00:14:40.380 This is insane that we're even talking about this.

00:14:44.060 This is child's play compared to what California is asking for and how they're going to open up California again.

00:14:54.080 We are headed for an interesting few weeks, to say the least.

00:15:00.360 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:26.440 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:28.220 Mr. Pat Gray is joining us now from Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear on most of this network.

00:15:36.020 And also, you can get him at any time with his podcast.

00:15:42.400 Hello, Pat.

00:15:43.040 Hello, Glenn.

00:15:44.360 I'm so glad to talk to you and see that you're still around.

00:15:49.700 You're still kicking.

00:15:50.500 It's good news.

00:15:51.640 So far.

00:15:52.220 For so many.

00:15:53.180 So many.

00:15:53.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:54.140 I thought maybe I'd like to show you the new Mao Trophy that we're giving away.

00:16:00.220 It is a statue of Chairman Mao.

00:16:04.120 It's beautiful.

00:16:05.940 Yeah.

00:16:06.480 And, you know, it's an honor just to be nominated to win the Mao.

00:16:11.680 But we're going to we're going to award this maybe maybe Friday, maybe next week.

00:16:19.100 We'll see.

00:16:20.320 But in this, this Mao Trophy has got to go to the right recipient.

00:16:25.300 And I would like people to start nominating who the biggest tyrant I'm sorry, who the biggest Maoist is in America right now.

00:16:34.400 And I mean, I think there's lots of people to choose from.

00:16:37.440 There is the governor of Michigan.

00:16:40.060 There is the governor of Kentucky.

00:16:42.500 Governor of Kentucky is great.

00:16:44.080 The sheriff of in in in Los Angeles is really quite good.

00:16:50.340 Even the governor of of Virginia might be a good might be a good candidate.

00:16:55.800 So you have a nomination you would like to.

00:16:58.560 For me, it's got to be it's got to be Andy Beshear of Kentucky.

00:17:02.360 I he's done such a great job in clamping down on people in his state, which is, you know, a mostly a majority Republican state.

00:17:12.000 And so it makes it even more profound what he has done there.

00:17:16.900 The good work he has done, keeping people out of church, keeping people in their homes and not allowing anybody to do anything in the state of Kentucky.

00:17:27.000 It's I'm so glad.

00:17:28.880 Well, I got rid of Matt.

00:17:29.960 Yeah, I think the ankle bracelets on people who refuse to stay at home.

00:17:36.960 I think that was a nice touch that really only only Mao really would have tried to pull off in Kentucky.

00:17:44.480 I mean, can you imagine in a state like Kentucky?

00:17:48.480 That's the kind of stuff that's going on right now.

00:17:51.600 That is it's stunning, really.

00:17:54.200 It's, you know, and fortunately, people are starting to push back a little bit.

00:17:57.740 People are getting a little bit nervous about this or get a little pissed off about this.

00:18:01.740 And they're starting to stick up for the rights.

00:18:04.960 I love the people who are getting into their car and putting together protests.

00:18:09.760 Me, too.

00:18:10.400 You know, they're all they're all going to the, you know, the mayor's office or the and they're all staying in their car.

00:18:16.520 They're just doing tea party rallies in their car, which I think is tremendous, tremendous.

00:18:22.740 By the way, if you're organizing one of those for the state, for your state or community, I'd love to hear from you.

00:18:28.280 I'd also like to hear your nominations for the biggest Maoist in the country today.

00:18:34.400 I think we it's we have to stand up against this stuff.

00:18:38.100 We have to start pointing these people out because this is this is insanity.

00:18:42.880 Did you hear the thing in Michigan where Gretchen Whitmer said, if you have if you have a vacation home, you know, and a lot of Michiganders do because they've got some great lakes to have cabins on and all that.

00:18:54.500 They can't even go to their own home.

00:18:58.320 Like if they have two homes, they can't go to the other one.

00:19:02.140 What?

00:19:02.780 Why?

00:19:03.000 Well, because you're you're spreading your potential virus around a different community then.

00:19:10.180 But you're in your home.

00:19:12.400 Right.

00:19:12.940 But you've gone from one place to another and you've brought new germs with you, I guess.

00:19:17.540 In your car.

00:19:18.080 In the car and in the air.

00:19:19.840 In the car.

00:19:20.620 I don't fully.

00:19:21.240 I mean, I don't understand this.

00:19:22.780 I leave my home.

00:19:23.920 I get into my car.

00:19:25.180 I pull up to my driveway of my cabin on some lake in Michigan and might be even make Lake Michigan.

00:19:31.640 And I, I, I get out of my car.

00:19:35.100 Right.

00:19:35.460 And we go right into my other home.

00:19:37.340 How am I spreading anything?

00:19:39.380 Well, it is possible, Glenn, that you could go to one of the local businesses and purchase something, maybe some food and take it out and bring it back home.

00:19:46.120 And then you've spread your germs around the community.

00:19:49.020 And we can't have that.

00:19:50.180 But I would be doing that.

00:19:51.420 I'd be doing that in my other community.

00:19:54.640 Do you think you live in America or something?

00:19:56.660 What?

00:19:56.960 I mean, what do you think you are to be able to do this stuff?

00:20:00.780 Oh, I know.

00:20:02.660 Have you heard the like of this?

00:20:04.080 Listen to this guy.

00:20:05.280 Right.

00:20:06.080 Right.

00:20:07.200 By the way, did you hear what she did with the DeVos family?

00:20:11.160 No.

00:20:11.640 You know, because Michigan is one of these that they're having these.

00:20:14.700 They want to start gathering in their cars and protest her.

00:20:18.080 And she said, it's the DeVos family that is doing this.

00:20:24.220 They're funding all of this.

00:20:26.020 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:27.080 Well, the DeVos family is the owner and the originator of Amway.

00:20:34.880 And so they checked, you know, did the DeVos family, are they starting this?

00:20:41.380 And they did write a pretty big check to help fund this thing.

00:20:45.680 And it was all of $250.

00:20:48.520 $250.

00:20:49.720 That's good.

00:20:50.520 Wow.

00:20:51.600 Wow.

00:20:52.040 Yeah.

00:20:52.260 She said it's their money that they're spreading around that is that's causing all of this

00:20:56.580 trouble.

00:20:57.120 And it was $250.

00:21:00.340 So those damn DeVos people are just they're horrible, aren't they?

00:21:05.800 So the next day she had to come out and make a statement.

00:21:09.540 She did not apologize to the DeVos family.

00:21:11.780 She just in her in her briefing, she said, and I just want to thank Amway.

00:21:16.000 They have really been helping with the PPEs and they've been helping with disinfectants

00:21:21.160 and everything else.

00:21:22.280 And they've really played a real role, an important role in our state.

00:21:25.520 Oh, man.

00:21:26.980 Really?

00:21:28.400 I mean, she's out of control. 1.00

00:21:32.200 I got an email in from a police officer.

00:21:35.700 He said, Glenn, I'm a 34-year-old police officer in Iowa.

00:21:38.740 I've been listening to you since I was 16.

00:21:42.600 I want to thank you for being such a strong, clear voice of reason and principle for so

00:21:46.340 many years.

00:21:46.840 Several years ago, I had conversation with my sergeant's assistant chief and the chief

00:21:51.460 about constitutionality of some of the orders that were given by governors throughout

00:21:54.920 the country.

00:21:55.520 I'm happy to say that some are very concerned about governmental overreach.

00:22:00.080 However, some were more concerned about the spread of the virus.

00:22:02.960 I've revisited these conversations several times with them as time has gone on and more

00:22:06.900 and more stories of people being arrested and fined for exercising their constitutional

00:22:10.880 rights have come out.

00:22:12.100 I've made it known that I will not violate the constitution, that I swore an oath to uphold

00:22:16.600 and protect regardless of what our governor says.

00:22:19.020 I've not received any backlash yet, but I haven't been in a position yet where I had to defy

00:22:24.800 orders, even while our mayor is asking the public to call police if they suspect anyone

00:22:29.040 of violating the governor's orders.

00:22:30.840 I just want you to know that while there are many people who seem to be paving the road

00:22:34.380 to hell with good intentions, there are many of us who take our oaths to the constitution

00:22:38.680 with grave seriousness.

00:22:40.040 I hope, God willing, that this passes soon and cooler heads will prevail.

00:22:44.900 Thanks again for the service you've done for the country.

00:22:46.740 Blah, blah, blah.

00:22:47.820 Thank you very much.

00:22:48.840 Um, I, I, I find great hope in this.

00:22:51.660 You know, yesterday I watched, um, uh, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, uh, with the kids

00:22:58.380 and, you know, they were like, the ones that don't have color, why it's black and white.

00:23:03.800 I don't watch the whole show.

00:23:05.400 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:23:07.200 Uh, and Cheyenne said afterwards, this is one of my favorite movies.

00:23:12.320 Uh, it's a really great story.

00:23:14.960 And if that isn't the story of our times, I mean, think of the guts that it took in 1939

00:23:21.380 to make that movie where the movie is about graft in, in the Senate and passing these big,

00:23:31.180 these huge, uh, bills just to save the farmers and the workers.

00:23:36.140 But what's tucked inside of the bills is toxic.

00:23:40.340 And, uh, Jimmy Stewart is sent to Washington and he doesn't know anything about it.

00:23:44.220 And, and, uh, he figures it out along the way and stops it.

00:23:48.020 Think of that in 1939, but think about that today.

00:23:50.560 That's exactly what's going on today.

00:23:52.500 And Thomas Massey is Mr. Smith.

00:23:56.940 I think that's a good analogy.

00:23:58.860 He, he really is.

00:24:00.820 And he's getting the same kind of flack too, from both sides of the aisle.

00:24:05.260 And it's, it's really a shame because he's such a good guy, a patriot, a true conservative,

00:24:11.320 and he's, he's getting hammered.

00:24:13.480 He's, I mean, is there anybody who's other than us in this room that are siding with Thomas

00:24:20.080 Massey right now?

00:24:20.920 I don't think so.

00:24:22.100 I think, yeah, I think Shapiro is, isn't he?

00:24:25.740 Yeah.

00:24:25.940 I think there are maybe, maybe Shapiro, but it's, they're few and far between.

00:24:30.340 I think, I think Mark Levin is as well.

00:24:34.320 I, yeah, I'm not sure, but I will say that I know we can fast forward a year or two and

00:24:39.840 there will be a lot of people who very much embrace the idea that the spending of $2.2

00:24:44.540 trillion was probably worth a vote.

00:24:47.280 Yeah.

00:24:47.880 You know, I know it's crazy.

00:24:50.240 You know, it's a wild theory that a couple trillion dollars, the biggest, you know, package

00:24:57.000 we've ever put together in, in U.S. history, maybe we should have had the representatives

00:25:01.620 on the record as to where they felt on that.

00:25:03.720 I don't know.

00:25:04.360 That's pretty picky.

00:25:05.060 You're pretty picky if that's what you're saying.

00:25:06.860 Yeah.

00:25:07.360 It's true.

00:25:07.980 I have to tell you, I think, I think that there is, I think there's something bad brewing

00:25:14.420 possibly, you know, the, the stock market, everybody's talking about the stock market's

00:25:20.320 coming back up.

00:25:21.160 Look, the stock market's still, of course, the stock market is doing well.

00:25:24.880 They just got $2 trillion from the Fed.

00:25:28.200 Of course, the stock market is doing well.

00:25:31.860 This, this idea about the stock market being our benchmark and nobody is talking about the

00:25:38.340 small businessman in America is sickening.

00:25:41.460 I mean, I really think every time I see, did you guys see the story of the, the Chiron and

00:25:49.700 MSNBC from Jim Cramer?

00:25:54.320 He was doing a deal where he said the stock market had its best day since 1939.

00:26:01.160 Well, of course it was Jim.

00:26:04.080 This doesn't have anything to do with anything.

00:26:06.680 There are no metrics involved on anything anymore.

00:26:10.420 Say what you want.

00:26:11.820 The reason why the stock market is doing well is because they've already got their money

00:26:17.260 and we all paid for it.

00:26:20.160 Every taxpayer paid $16,500.

00:26:24.480 That's, that's the chain around our neck.

00:26:26.720 We each paid that.

00:26:28.240 And most taxpayers are not going to get the $1,200, uh, you know, as a free gift from the

00:26:35.960 United States government.

00:26:37.020 So wait a minute, I paid $16,500 and you're giving me $1,200 back.

00:26:42.700 I don't think that sounds like a good deal because I'm not helping saving the businesses

00:26:47.980 in my neighborhood.

00:26:49.360 They're all standing in line and everybody's saying, well, no, you don't have the right,

00:26:54.420 uh, the right parameters.

00:26:55.940 You haven't been in business long enough.

00:26:57.900 You know, you don't have this, you don't have this, or we're already out of money.

00:27:02.600 Oh, okay.

00:27:03.460 Well, that sounds like they're really bailing out main street.

00:27:06.920 I think there's trouble coming.

00:27:09.180 Real trouble.

00:27:10.060 It's hard for me to believe too, that they look, they, they approved $350 billion for

00:27:14.880 the small business, uh, loan plan, the PPP.

00:27:19.360 And it's already going to be empty.

00:27:22.120 Uh, the only reason it's not empty yet is because they've had so many delays, but it's

00:27:25.240 like, they all know what's going over.

00:27:26.580 They, they've already asked for another $250 billion, which, uh, you know, they have not

00:27:32.140 approved.

00:27:32.580 And now they're not going to be in session until at least like May 8th is the earliest

00:27:38.300 they're going to have a chance to vote on this with the current schedule.

00:27:40.940 All of these small businesses, all of these small businesses, they're all going out of

00:27:45.540 business.

00:27:45.800 And the only business that will be left are the big businesses in America.

00:27:49.180 And that's not who we are.

00:27:50.840 We are not just Procter and Gamble and, and Amazon.

00:27:55.020 We are the Amazon that was at the beginning.

00:27:58.120 We're the Microsoft with Bill Gates in his garage.

00:28:01.780 That's who we are.

00:28:03.020 We're the ones where a guy has an idea and he starts to build it.

00:28:08.400 If you get rid of all of the entrepreneurs, if you get rid of all of these people who you

00:28:13.980 get rid of all the people who are struggling, but making it, what do you have left?

00:28:19.280 I don't want to, I, I, I'm not, I'm not interested in saving GE and Procter and Gamble and, and

00:28:27.200 Amazon.com.

00:28:28.920 They got enough.

00:28:30.100 Oh, and by the way, did you also see that the airlines got the bailout, but Donald Trump

00:28:36.980 insisted that they not only pay it, pay it back, which I'm fine with.

00:28:42.860 I'm great with that.

00:28:44.060 But he also insisted that we get a piece of it, that the United States government becomes

00:28:49.860 a co-owner in these airlines.

00:28:53.760 Excuse me?

00:28:55.560 No, thank you.

00:28:56.800 I don't think the United States government should have anything to do with any business

00:29:00.540 whatsoever, period.

00:29:06.960 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:29:14.060 Our next guest grew up on a farm and a ranch in Hamlin County, South Dakota.

00:29:22.680 And from the time she could walk, she worked beside her dad on the ranch and worked with

00:29:27.920 horses and cattle.

00:29:29.220 And maybe that's what gave her a little bit of extra common sense.

00:29:32.340 She's now serving as South Dakota's 33rd governor. 0.69

00:29:35.260 And she joins us now.

00:29:36.960 Hello, governor.

00:29:37.520 How are you?

00:29:39.160 Hi, Glenn.

00:29:39.620 I'm doing good.

00:29:41.540 It's a, it's great to have you on.

00:29:43.240 And I want to go over what you announced on Monday and what you're doing and why this

00:29:50.300 sets you guys apart from, from everybody else.

00:29:55.740 With hydroxychloroquine.

00:29:57.660 Yeah, we did.

00:29:58.740 We announced the first statewide state-backed clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine.

00:30:04.300 Uh, it's the, we really desired to go on offense against this virus.

00:30:09.360 So we partnered with our healthcare systems leading the clinical trial will be Sanford

00:30:13.980 health.

00:30:14.540 But we also have two other systems within the state of South Dakota that are participating

00:30:18.780 as well to make sure that we're getting a wide swath of individuals participating in

00:30:24.000 this trial.

00:30:24.520 So it will be the first ever statewide one and one that a state is helping to fund and

00:30:30.000 facilitate that will encompass virtually, uh, 80 to 90% of our doctors in the state and

00:30:35.720 up to a hundred thousand people throughout the process.

00:30:38.220 So, uh, we're focused on making sure that we're not just dealing with taking care of

00:30:43.440 our people, but also putting the research in to make sure we have a long-term solution

00:30:47.640 to help fight this virus.

00:30:50.100 And what made you decide to do this?

00:30:52.280 Uh, I mean, if you look at the press, everyone is, is downplaying hydroxychloroquine.

00:31:00.620 Well, we have a healthcare system, Sanford, that's world renowned for their research abilities.

00:31:05.000 And, and they've been working in several different areas to have that kind of capacity in our

00:31:10.060 state is a real gift to us.

00:31:12.600 And I was watching what was happening across the country, uh, and everybody reacting to

00:31:18.280 the virus and not being proactive to really make sure we were getting in front of it, that

00:31:23.060 we could give a therapeutic to folks so that they didn't necessarily have to hide from the

00:31:28.580 virus.

00:31:28.920 They could get out there and fight it off and make sure that they could get back to their

00:31:33.860 daily lives as well.

00:31:35.660 So, um, for me, it was, it's part of the solution.

00:31:38.520 Uh, you know, we're doing, um, some, you know, recommendations to folks to follow CDC guidance.

00:31:44.700 And we're also making sure that we're using technology to do contact tracing, but then

00:31:50.400 having the ability to have this drug trial in our state for such a wide percentage of our

00:31:54.980 population allows us to really go on offense and go after this and make sure we have an option

00:32:00.180 for those individuals who do get sick.

00:32:02.000 When I heard about this, uh, that you were going to do this last weekend, I knew you were

00:32:07.760 going to be dragged through the mud by the press.

00:32:10.300 Washington post didn't, uh, you know, pull any punches on that.

00:32:13.540 It gave the, uh, expected response.

00:32:16.720 They said that you were the one who said there's not going to be a statewide order to stay home.

00:32:22.140 Uh, it's the individuals, not the government should decide.

00:32:25.020 And now you've got a meat processing plant with 400 people that are sick.

00:32:30.140 Do you want to respond to that at all?

00:32:32.000 Well, you know, that article is completely inaccurate.

00:32:35.820 Um, and it doesn't surprise me cause I've seen it a lot, not just in national press,

00:32:40.960 but even here locally with details being left out of articles, but you know, the, the pork

00:32:45.920 processing plant that we do have today, that's a hotspot that we have an outbreak going on.

00:32:51.260 There is a critical infrastructure business, regardless on if I had chosen to put a shelter

00:32:56.760 in place order across the state of South Dakota, that plant would have been up and operating

00:33:01.800 because it's such an important part of our food supply.

00:33:04.740 And it frankly, having it running as a national security issue.

00:33:08.620 So, uh, that would have not impacted that issue, but you know, the post decided to not

00:33:14.660 use the facts and run with an agenda that, that I think is unfortunate for the public.

00:33:19.260 I think it's a grave disservice to our public when they don't tell all the facts because

00:33:24.360 they're misleading them and creating this fear culture at a very important time to discredit

00:33:30.120 people that, um, our scientists, our doctors, our researchers, our elected officials during

00:33:36.040 a period of time when we need to rely on the fact that they have information and have access

00:33:42.240 information, uh, to do that at an important time like this, when literally it's the difference

00:33:46.860 between life and death, I think is a shame.

00:33:50.200 Now you have, because there are those cases for the meat processing, processing plant, but

00:33:55.600 outside of that, how many, how many people are sick in your state?

00:34:00.140 We have a less than a thousand positive COVID-19 cases in the state of South Dakota, about 300

00:34:07.920 of them are recovered.

00:34:09.300 Um, but, but the vast majority of the cases are, are tied to this meat processing plant

00:34:15.720 and in that County that's affected.

00:34:18.420 So we have over 500 cases that are tied directly to that incident there.

00:34:23.040 So we are, we also are coming up with more positive cases because we're aggressively testing

00:34:27.760 in that area.

00:34:28.460 You know, we put all of our resources there, um, to be proactively testing people, isolating

00:34:34.280 them, doing the contact tracing to, to tamp it down.

00:34:37.480 So the rest of our state is doing very, very well, uh, and we'll get this one under control

00:34:43.000 and make sure that we're slowing down the spread.

00:34:45.420 But I think what I've constantly had to remind the public is the science of this virus tells

00:34:50.800 us we can't stop it.

00:34:52.740 Um, so we have to use the facts that we have in front of us just to slow it down so that we

00:34:57.860 can take care of people in our healthcare systems.

00:35:00.180 So that's been my constant message to the people of South Dakota and that all the control

00:35:03.960 in the world is in their hands that, that they have a personal responsibility to make

00:35:09.220 good decisions, to take care of themselves and their families.

00:35:12.080 Uh, and I, I will do all that I can to partner with them.

00:35:15.680 But ultimately that responsibility does lie with them.

00:35:19.520 So before we, before we change subjects, I want to stay on the meat processing plant one

00:35:23.560 more time, because I want to get ahead of something that I think could be damaging from

00:35:27.480 the other side, the conspiracy theory side.

00:35:29.640 Um, this is a meat processing plant that had been sold to China.

00:35:34.360 Um, but, and I know that there have been stories then, you know, people have been saying, oh,

00:35:39.640 it's Chinese meat.

00:35:40.440 It's not Chinese meat.

00:35:41.580 It's all American meat.

00:35:42.480 It's just owned by China.

00:35:43.800 But have you found patient zero yet?

00:35:46.440 Has there, was there anyone in the factory that had traveled to China or, uh, somebody from

00:35:52.880 China that traveled to the factory or, or not?

00:35:55.760 Do you know, we do know who patient zero is because we obviously have identified every

00:36:01.740 single person and have been working with them in the state of South Dakota that did test

00:36:05.880 positive.

00:36:06.320 We do not have any ties, um, to China from this outbreak at this plant.

00:36:12.520 And I think that, you know, this is a, this is a plant that originally there was a couple

00:36:17.400 of positive cases, but a lot of the spread that we're seeing is happening outside the plant.

00:36:22.760 The plant is on pause right now.

00:36:25.800 We've seen a growth in cases, but a lot of the folks who work here, um, to deliver our

00:36:30.800 nation's food supply, you know, they live in close quarters.

00:36:33.600 They've got a lot of family members, um, and neighbors, um, in housing developments that

00:36:39.580 are, they're sometimes two to three generations, uh, very closely living together.

00:36:44.420 So a lot of that spread is happening at home.

00:36:47.780 And this plant in particular has up to, I think, 70 different languages spoken at it.

00:36:53.220 There's 3,700 employees there.

00:36:55.940 So, you know, there's, it's a unique situation, um, that, that I think, uh, you know, people

00:37:01.500 have been blaming, blaming the plant and, uh, when a lot of the spread is happening outside

00:37:06.400 of the walls of the plant.

00:37:07.760 And that's why we have a pause going on to put up mitigation measures inside the plant.

00:37:13.020 And then also do an education process with a lot of the folks that work there.

00:37:16.860 I have a guest on who is a guy who watches the cattle auctions and, uh, you know, he's,

00:37:22.880 he's really big in the cattle industry and people would know him.

00:37:26.840 The average media person would not.

00:37:29.200 Um, but he's, he just issued a report recently that said that we are, we have plenty of cattle.

00:37:35.400 There's lots of cattle coming up already for auction, but, uh, there's no slaughterhouses.

00:37:41.340 There, there are no processing plants to, to get this meat from farm to table.

00:37:46.860 How concerned are you about the, the food supply, uh, when it comes to meat?

00:37:53.860 Well, a small disruption, uh, in the system, um, has huge effects across our food supply chain.

00:38:01.940 Uh, and that's one of the reasons that this plant is so important.

00:38:05.200 This is a pork processing plant, but it's the same in the cattle industry.

00:38:09.120 Um, and, and we have, it's the largest, it's the largest pork, uh, plant in the country.

00:38:14.960 Is it not?

00:38:16.380 It is.

00:38:17.000 It's very large and it feeds other plants that refine the products even more that end up on

00:38:22.140 your grocery store shelves.

00:38:23.300 So, uh, we have 550 producers, you know, and a lot of them, South Dakota producers that

00:38:28.500 take their hogs there. 1.00

00:38:30.000 Um, and then, uh, that food ends up, you know, right here on American shelves to feed,

00:38:34.920 to feed folks each and every day.

00:38:36.620 And, you know, the virus does not travel through food products.

00:38:40.520 So that is one thing that I think we have to really be aggressive in telling folks as

00:38:44.560 they get concerned about the food that would be coming through this plant.

00:38:47.140 And that just absolutely, um, is not even a factor.

00:38:51.140 Um, the food is wonderful and it will be safe for people to eat.

00:38:54.800 Um, but you know, I think in the cattle market too, we see a lot of manipulation.

00:38:58.700 Uh, there's some investigations that need to happen with our packing industry and control.

00:39:03.140 And a lot, as this gets streamlined and as it becomes more and more efficient, it also

00:39:07.340 allows for a few players to manipulate the markets and the supply chain.

00:39:11.660 And that's why I've said for years, um, Glenn, and I haven't known you for years, but I have

00:39:17.000 said for years that it's important we keep family farms, uh, because it's important.

00:39:22.040 We grow our own food in this country.

00:39:24.540 Um, we never want another, we never want another country to control our food supply because then 0.99

00:39:29.340 they control us.

00:39:30.280 And if we have one or two people controlling the whole supply chain, we're in the exact

00:39:33.800 same situation.

00:39:35.200 So, um, this, this diversity, having 550 different producers that feed into this one plant, um,

00:39:42.200 is important because it's diversity and it's, uh, it's, it's making sure that we do have a

00:39:48.580 national security issue, um, taken care of because we don't have one person controlling our entire

00:39:55.500 food supply.

00:39:56.160 I think the America first, or as the hippies would say, think globally, act locally is

00:40:02.380 beginning to ring true to more and more Americans right now.

00:40:07.660 It is.

00:40:08.540 I think there's a lot of things that are ringing true to Americans today.

00:40:11.460 It's, it's about the importance of this country.

00:40:13.860 Uh, what makes us special, uh, the importance of the constitution, what powers it gives to the

00:40:19.160 people and to the States and to the federal government.

00:40:22.580 And I've decided that every opportunity I have, I'm going to use it to educate folks

00:40:28.580 really on why, um, the United States of America is the best country in the world and why it

00:40:35.220 deserves to be preserved.

00:40:36.540 And in times of crisis is when you see people, um, overstep and grab power.

00:40:43.060 And we're seeing that in so many places of the country.

00:40:46.700 And I took an oath to uphold the constitution of the United States when I served in Congress.

00:40:52.700 And I took an oath to uphold the constitution here in the state of South Dakota.

00:40:57.820 And I'm constantly guided and using that as my foundation and every decision that I make,

00:41:03.740 and then talking about it to people about why it's important.

00:41:07.300 I think a lot of people think at a time of crisis is when you can wave

00:41:10.480 that aside and take any action you think is necessarily.

00:41:14.220 I think that's when our constitution and foundations become even more important.

00:41:18.940 Um, because it helps you make wise decisions based on facts and based on science and not

00:41:25.000 be manipulated, um, emotionally into making poor decisions that aren't for the benefit of

00:41:30.820 the people.

00:41:31.780 You know, it's a, it's amazing, uh, to me, a, you're exactly right.

00:41:36.600 Um, on, you know, when the constitution matters is when it's popular to do the other thing.

00:41:42.660 Um, it was also amazing to me that people, uh, have flocked to the government taking more

00:41:53.300 and more power, uh, and that you have been such an outlier, um, and been hammered by the

00:42:01.000 national press, uh, because you gave, I think some of the, you've given some of the best

00:42:05.860 statements of anyone in this crisis talking about the rights of the people.

00:42:10.720 And it's up to the people to take care of themselves.

00:42:13.840 Has it been shocking to you to be on the receiving end of such backlash just for standing up for

00:42:20.620 the American principle?

00:42:24.800 No, I would say it hasn't been.

00:42:27.280 I mean, I think I, I, I came from this wanting to be, I wanted to be a farmer and rancher my

00:42:33.240 whole life, my whole life kind of got turned upside down when my dad was killed in an accident.

00:42:38.540 But, you know, I served in the state legislature.

00:42:41.360 I was in leadership here.

00:42:42.500 I went to Congress for eight years.

00:42:44.240 I got a good education on the divisiveness of politics and the national media.

00:42:51.040 I would say that, that, um, that I have to keep my focus on, I do my job and I take my

00:42:58.340 job very seriously.

00:42:59.480 And, um, I also know that when I campaign for a role, I tell people who I am and what

00:43:06.880 my, what kind of person I am, my values and my beliefs and show them and talk to them about

00:43:12.700 how I will use those to make decisions that are best for them.

00:43:15.820 Um, and I, I also will, will be accountable to explaining that to them.

00:43:20.320 So while we've done a great job here in South Dakota, um, taking care of folks and, and doing

00:43:26.300 all that we can to get ahead of this virus and be proactive, I think it's also important

00:43:31.080 to remind people, um, about the rights that they have individually as well too.

00:43:36.560 So many times, um, I see people wanting somebody else to make decisions for them when in reality,

00:43:43.880 uh, they need to recognize the value and the special thing we have in this country is we

00:43:49.880 get to make these decisions for ourselves.

00:43:52.920 Um, I have the, uh, um, stations.

00:43:55.740 I know I'm running really late.

00:43:56.980 Let me just ask one more quick question of the governor.

00:43:59.080 And that is when are we going to see any results from the testing that you're doing now with

00:44:04.780 hydroxychloroquine?

00:44:07.260 Well, we have patients on hydroxy today.

00:44:09.540 Uh, we, I asked the white house and the administration if they would help us.

00:44:13.760 By supplying 1.2 million doses of hydroxy to participate in this trial, there'll be two

00:44:19.620 different branches of the trial.

00:44:21.100 One that will be for COVID-19 positive patients.

00:44:23.960 The other branch will be for those that have been exposed and also for healthcare workers

00:44:29.300 and individuals that are high risk.

00:44:31.840 Again, these trials, we have enough doses to treat up to 100,000 people in the state of

00:44:37.460 South Dakota.

00:44:37.920 And having all three of our systems on board makes it extremely comprehensive.

00:44:42.100 So, uh, they are on it.

00:44:43.840 It is starting.

00:44:45.220 It is all voluntary.

00:44:46.600 Uh, and people are excited about having an option that they can go to with their doctor

00:44:52.040 that not only will help them feel better and save their, possibly save their family's

00:44:57.380 lives, but also, um, lead to a longterm solution to fight off this virus and potentially

00:45:03.820 more in the future, um, the South Dakotans have always stepped up and been willing to

00:45:08.320 contribute in, in ways, uh, above and beyond what I think other folks across the country

00:45:14.280 have.

00:45:14.640 I, I always say we punch above our weight and I think that we, um, we are definitely doing

00:45:19.560 that and people are excited to be a part of the solution.

00:45:22.860 Really glad to see you, Governor.

00:45:24.260 Thank you so much.

00:45:25.240 We've been wanting to talk to you for a long time.

00:45:27.340 You have a bunch of fans at the blaze and on the Glenn Beck program and all of the shows

00:45:31.740 here, uh, keep up the good work and, uh, we'll keep you in our prayers.

00:45:35.780 Thank you so much.

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