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On today's show, we talk to a gun store owner in Massachusetts, a man who is willing to keep his business open even though he doesn't have a license to do so, and a man whose car breaks down on the side of the road and needs to be fixed by a stranger who stops to help him. We also hear about Chicago Animal Shelters running out of adoptable pets and how they are coping with the crisis.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today we go into, well, it's still COVID mania, I suppose, but
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we have some different things that you might not have heard yet, including talking to a
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guy who owns a gun store in Massachusetts. It is not an essential business. Your Second
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Amendment rights, not so essential in Massachusetts. He's decided to keep his place open. He doesn't
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care. He's going for it anyway. We talked to him. We talked to Thomas Massey about what's
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going on in Washington and how they're going to try to pass more money to be doled out
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without a vote. It's a very disturbing development that is going on right now. We also have a
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story completely unrelated to what's going on in the news of a guy who stops, his car
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breaks down, and somebody very interesting stops on the side of the road to fix the car.
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Would be a very strange moment. We'll let him tell his story as well, and all the updates
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that you need from what's going on all around the world with coronavirus. We also have Glenn
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For the first time in the history of Chicago animal shelters, they have run out of adoptable
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pets. People apparently have been running out to get a pet. And if they're out, if you would
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like to adopt a teenager or two, my doors are wide open. Wide open. You can come in here
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with wet lung. And I'm fine. Adopt away. Holy cow. Wow. Things are going well, huh? Man. Wow.
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Okay. So, you know, I feel so bad for anybody who lives in a very small house or an apartment
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in New York. I'm surprised they're just not all killing each other at this point. Yeah.
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Um, it, it is, it is, I have a, you know, I have a nice house with the backyard and everything
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else, but it is so confining. It is, it just three weeks is enough. You're kind of, you're,
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you know, it's like, I, I, I, I, I gotta get out of here. Yeah, it is crazy. Here's the
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good news though. The good news is you only have another 18 months to go according to Ezekiel
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manual, just another 18 months. And then we're done with this. So don't worry about it. America
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would never, America, America will not all be dead. We'll all be dead in 18 months.
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Yeah, we would, we would, we would. And let me tell you something. There's no way that
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we go back. They're talking now that, you know, probably in November, we're all going
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to have to go back in for the winter. No way. No, no way. People are just not going to do
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it. They're going to be like, I don't care. I'll die. I'm not going to do it. Three weeks.
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My kids are, I mean, it's, it's enough. My kids are out of their mind right now. I have
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a teenage son, teenage son. And he is, he was homeschooled. He does not like homeschooling.
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He needs the social stuff. He needs to be very active, needs to be in school or a prison work
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chain gang or something, but he just, he hates it. And he is, he is up until like three
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o'clock in the morning. Yesterday, two days ago, Tanya got up at five and he was up at
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five just watching TV, you know, time before he was on the computer. I mean, we just cannot
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stop it. And I, I mean, we have all the computer keyboards and everything locked up in the safe
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at night and he'll find it. He's like MacGyver. He'll find something to do all night. And it's
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just, it's, it's impossible. And then when you try to do something as a family, oh my gosh,
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I cannot, I cannot, I have nightmares of the Netflix or the Amazon page with, you know, all
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of the options. It's a never ending nightmare because you'll sit down and you'll say, okay,
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you want to watch this? And one of them will say, oh, if you're going to watch this, I'm
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going to go do this. Yep. No, no, no, no. Okay. All right. Well then let's watch this.
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Oh, well, if you're the other one, if you're going to watch it, I'm just going to listen
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to my music and they put their earbuds in. It's like, oh, good God. And, and, and they're
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not, and they're not even close. It's like, uh, you know, one is doctor who, and the other
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one is high school musical and there's nothing, nothing that is, is a bridge between those
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two. It's horrible. Do you just horrible? Must you watch TV together? I mean, like a, can
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you just, well, I'd like to, I mean, right now, right now in the last two days and Tanya
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said to me last night and I said, honey, I'm sorry, I can't help it. It was the book thing
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and I'm working all the time from home and it makes it worse because I'm home and I don't
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have any time to do anything. And she's like, honey, we, we got to do something. And she
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said, I, you know what? I think just, I'm just going to just give up. And I'm like, okay,
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that's not an option, but right now we, I think maybe we have to just relax some of the, I don't
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know because they're, I don't see my kids. They're in other rooms with ear pods. They're, you
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know, whatever. And it, oh my gosh. Okay. Take away, take away their music, take away
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YouTube, take away the, you know, whatever that is that they're doing, take it away.
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Are you kidding me? They're almost insane as it is. Am I the only one dealing with this?
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No, I just think that this is the time for those sorts of piece, you know, that, that
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leniency is, is valuable here, right? I think so too, but I could be very wrong.
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I feel like, like this, like, look, there are reasons to help with long-term habits, right?
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To get them off of all the devices and all of that. In this situation, you know, you just
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have to like, all right, well today they're just on the iPad.
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Yeah. But 30 days and it's a habit. 30 days and it's a habit. Yeah. I don't think it's
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unlimited. We're looking at a lot more than 30 days. Take them out to the pool. I mean,
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this could change. You got a pool. Have them go swimming. Yeah. Go out and go swimming.
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Little brats. Well, I, I turned on, I told Tanya, I said, let's heat the pool because it's
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60 today. I said, let's heat the pool. And she said, heat the pool. Do you know that? Cause
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I said, we're not spending money anyplace else. We're not going anywhere. We're not
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going anywhere, you know, but you could lose your job. Yes. But the kids will be out of
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the house. And there's definitely this thing going on, I think too, with, uh, with just
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like, obviously like, you know, we're in, you know, outside in the suburbs and Texas, it's
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a totally different situation. As you point out to the city and people in New York city,
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even it's totally different situation than people in like, imagine being in a developing
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country where you have like 15 people in your house anyway. And you have, you either go
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out and work or die. There's no social distancing going on. 15 people in your house and it's
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250 square feet. Right. Yeah. Try that. Right. Yeah. And here we are bitching about first
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world problems. Yeah. I can't get my kids in the pool or up to the movie room.
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I have to tell you, I have not, I, I, because maybe because I lived in New York, I can relate
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to the, the, they must be losing their minds. Imagine being in one of those skyscrapers or
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just do one of those, just ratty rat infested, cockroach infested apartment buildings in New
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York where you've got 500 square feet and just two children, one child. I mean, it's got
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to be crazy, crazy bad. Yeah. Where you can't go out into the park or did you hear about,
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well, who was the, what was it in Denver where, um, a father and daughter went out and they were
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just throwing a softball, uh, back and forth to each other. The social distancing, they
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weren't around everybody. They weren't in a team or anything. It was just a father and
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daughter. They arrested the father. Yeah. Dragged him out in handcuffs. Unreal. In front of his
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six year old daughter. Uh, that is insane. That's crazy. That's insane. I don't know what's
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Colorado. What the hell is happening to you? That's got to stop. It's nuts. I guess they're
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trying, they're trying to apologize. I wouldn't, I would not take that apology. I would take
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that to court. I would take that to court. I'm getting a little surly. I got nothing.
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Yeah. I got nothing but time on my hands. I don't accept your apology. You bastards. No.
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Some of these, some of these restrictions though, they're just anti-American. They're just
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unconstitutional. They are. And you know, finally, some people are starting to push back a little
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bit. In Idaho, we've got a group of people led of course by a Bundy. Uh, Am and Bundy
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is getting, getting people together in Sandpoint, Idaho and saying, no, we're not going to do
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All right. So we have another stimulus bill that is, uh, coming up and God only knows what
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they're putting in these things. And there's nobody doing their job in Congress or in the
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Senate. We have representative Thomas Massey who got massacred. Uh, what was it just last
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week, uh, for standing up and saying, uh, no, you, you have to have these people come
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in and actually debate the bill. Uh, right now, Nancy Pelosi is passing all of these things.
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This is just the leadership in Congress and the leadership in Senate, just doing business
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and railroading all of this stuff through. And it's absolutely unconstitutional. Thomas
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Massey, who is being a watchdog of our money and our constitution. Welcome to the program,
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Thanks for having me on Glenn. Yeah. The swamp nearly crushed me 10 days ago for insisting
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that Congress show up for work and, uh, they're going to try and do it again. They're trying
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to pass bills with nobody there. It's not constitutional and tell me why truck drivers and nurses and
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grocery store workers have to go to work, but Congress doesn't.
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It is. It's, it's obscene, Thomas. It really is obscene. I mean, I understand if they don't,
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you know, they're, but most of them are old and, you know, are, are prime candidates for getting
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this. So I understand that they don't want to go in, but then fine, do it on the phone,
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do it on the internet. That's what we're all having to do. Do it on zoom. You can do it. Congress,
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uh, they, they're not even looking for ways to do it. In fact, uh, Nancy Pelosi has said she won't
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call everybody back because it's just too dangerous. Glenn, we're telling millions of
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school children to, to go to school online and Congress can't even hold a hearing online. We,
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it's ridiculous. You know, and this is what I've said this time. So they're going to try and do
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something by UC. I don't, I don't want to get crushed again. I know I'm going to get crushed
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again, but what I've said is vote remotely, enable voting remotely for Congress. If you don't
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want to show up for work, at least work from home, but they, this is about not having any
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accountability. And by the way, this loan program, is it appropriate to call it a loan program? If
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you expect a hundred percent of the loans to default, these are not, the banks are not loan
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originators. They're grant administrators and it's free money. Is it, when you put up a sign and say
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free money, is it any surprise that you run out of $300 billion the first day? No, we'll run out of
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$250 billion. You know, the white house told me when they were trying to get me to vote for this
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bill 10 days ago, it's so big. We're making it so big. So we won't have to revisit this issue
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until like July or August. That's what they told me. Oh, don't worry. We got plenty of money there.
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The fed can leverage it. Uh, you'll, you won't have to vote on anything like this again. And here we are
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not even two weeks later and they're telling us they need, well, the Senate Republicans are saying a
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quarter of a trillion. And then Pelosi saying, no, we need another quarter of a trillion. So
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this would be half a trillion dollars, not even two weeks after the first bill. And they don't want
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anybody to go on record. So what's in this bill, Thomas, do you have any idea? I know that they're
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now saying the Democrats are saying they won't vote unless, and this, this kills me unless we change
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our voting system in November and we allow, um, uh, some sort of remote voting for every American,
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yet they won't remote vote for the bill. Yeah. They can't enable remote voting for 535 members
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of Congress. I don't think it's going to go well with the general public, by the way, that's a state
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issue. There are states that have mail-in ballots and their states that don't, there's no reason to
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nationalize this. This is something that the states handle. People need to get out their
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constitutions and look at them. Uh, and I will tell you something, Glenn, I see a very grim future
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here in a few weeks if the governors don't reverse course. The assembly lines are shutting down.
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People, when you see these jobless numbers, those are people who aren't going to the factories and
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aren't working. By the way, you know, we all like to think that the farmers are still working and
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they are for the most part, but most of that food goes through a factory that has to be approved
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by the USDA, et cetera, before it gets to your table. Those factories are shutting down, Glenn.
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There were six slaughterhouses, like giant meat packers that have shut down. Uh, we're going to
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run out of food. Well, I know that, I know that, I know that, uh, the farmers are now buying up. I mean,
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I have cattle on my ranch. Um, we're stocking up on food, um, making sure that you have enough
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to, so you're not selling your cattle because there's no one to take the cattle and, and process
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the, the meat. I think we'll have meat shortages. I think because of, of lack of workers on the
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ground, there's lots of, I would talk to a farmer yesterday in North Carolina said, he's ready to pull
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a crop up. He didn't have anybody to do it and he can't afford to pay anybody to do it because he's
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not sure he qualifies for the loan because he only hires people two months at a time, three times a
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year. Right. And the loan still isn't going to make people come to work. You know, you've seen
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pictures of dairies pouring out milk. You're going to see pictures of, of cattlemen shooting their
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cattle and burying them, uh, because they can't afford, they're, there's no feed to be had
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and there's nobody that will process them. And meanwhile, you're going to have shortages in the
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supermarket. By the way, I've got a bill I introduced like five years ago to fix this called the Prime
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Act that would let local processors process meat and you could sell it with inside the state and it
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would, it would allow local processors to fulfill this need so that you don't have farmers killing
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animals instead of putting them into food. Thomas, this is the, that is the kind of thinking that
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we need to get on. You know, Donald Trump was made fun of because America first, but that is all that
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is, is think globally, act locally. Every hippie understands that. Um, and all you're saying is give
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the local people a chance to do things without having to go through the federal government. Let the
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states do it the way our constitution was built. So what's the, what's the holdup on this one?
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Well, you know, ironically, I have the hippies in Congress have co-sponsored my bill. It's a,
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it's a collection of conservatives and hippies and, uh, the red tape is going to cause people to starve
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here in a few weeks. I'm telling you, if something doesn't change, it's going to get ugly. And the people
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who are still going to work, the productive members of society, they're going to re when neighbors start
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taking stuff from other neighbors and they're going to be able to justify it in their mind,
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right? They're going to look at a neighbor who's got all this food and say, you know, my kid needs
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to eat that guy hoarded food. That's not fair. I'm going to take his stuff. When people start taking
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other people's stuff, then the, then the productive members of society are going to stay home to guard their
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stuff. And it's going to just grind to a halt so quickly. And we are, we are weak. We are weeks
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away. You, you, you, this is quite a charge. I've been talking about food shortages now for a while,
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but I don't predict them coming this quickly. Um, but this is quite a charge because nobody is
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talking about this. Where, where are you getting this feeling, Thomas, that, that, uh, we are that
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close to food shortages, significant food shortages talking to Congressman Thomas Massey.
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There's, there's an article out, uh, yesterday that talks about six of the big giant meat processing
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plants. I mean, one of these handles like 1900 cattle a day shutting down if, you know, because,
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uh, the workers have the virus and they don't have the test to know that which workers don't have it,
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et cetera, et cetera. There's, there are articles out there. Uh, and just myself being a farmer,
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I've got 65 cattle and, and I can tell you the price of cattle is going down. Meanwhile,
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the price is going up in the supermarket and it's caused, caused because of the supply chains are
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brittle and we need to get, we need to change course because by the, by the middle of this summer,
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if something hasn't changed, it's going to be ugly. So Thomas, what, what should people be doing
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right now? They should be, they should be telling their governors to turn the economy back on.
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They should put a mask on. They should quit listening to the people who say that masks don't
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work. They should put a mask on. The employers should, uh, provide masks. When you, when you get to
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work, we need the cheap tests quickly. We need to know who's got some immunity conferred to them,
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uh, because they've had it and recovered. We need to know who's got the virus and needs to stay home
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instead of walking down all of the United States. We just need to, we just need to ask the ones who
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are sick to stay home or, or carrying the virus. So there were some things yesterday I was talking
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because, you know, I own a couple of companies and I was like, you know, I don't know why we can't
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open partially yada yada. And the response immediately was lawsuits, Glenn lawsuits. If
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something happens, someone gets sick, even if they're not getting sick from here, but you've
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partially reopened things, they can sue you. And that's true. I mean, we, we have to have protection
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as businesses that we're not going to get sued. You know, when we go back to work,
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that's maybe that's a place where we could step in with legislation to say, as long as your employer
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is testing every employee, and as long as they're giving you a mask, a brand new mask, when you come
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to work, that they can't be held liable or something like that. You know, there could be a place for
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legislation to get us out of this rut that that's getting deeper. All right, Thomas Massey, um, hang on
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the phone for just a second. I want to take a one minute break, then I want to come back and I want to ask
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you about this, this voting nonsense from the Democrats. What else do you know, if anything
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is in this bill? And, uh, and, and again, um, what should we be doing on the national level? I think
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you're right. The, the state level is where we need to start because it's where it's really out of
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control, but what we need to do on the national level as well, back in just one minute, stand by.
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So we are looking at another 6.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs or are applying for
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unemployment, uh, this week. We are probably right now, Thomas at another, uh, probably between 12 and
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15% unemployment when we see the numbers in the first of May. Um, and it doesn't seem like it's
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going to get any better. And they're still talking about four to eight weeks, uh, you know, under lock
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and key. The Congress says they want to give more. I've been talking to people that are losing their
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restaurants or losing everything, have not been able to get in line for a loan because the money
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is all gone. Should the government be making these loans? We shouldn't be doing it because we are
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encouraging the governors to keep doing what they're doing, which is to shut down the economy.
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They're going to end up starving people. The governors are, you're already seeing people
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committing suicides because they can't get medical help or they're locked down. Uh, the bill that
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Pelosi wants, she wants a 15% increase in SNAP, a hundred billion to local governments and 150
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billion to hospitals, I think. So she, she wants to add another quarter of a trillion to this,
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but the problem, you know, it sounds like it's humane and it's, and it's the right thing to do
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is to give all this money away, but it doesn't create, it doesn't make the food grow. It doesn't
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get the factories running. We're going to run out of things that support life on this planet.
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So how do you, how do you balance this? Because if I, uh, you know, I understand that kind of,
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that to me is critical infrastructure, farm, farming, you know, slaughterhouses,
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food processing, all of that, that's critical infrastructure. Um, but I, I wasn't the one
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who shut my business down. The government told me to shut it down. Doesn't the government have a
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responsibility to reimburse me for all that I lost? Three weeks ago, I was having the best year of my
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life. Now. I don't know if I can even open my business again. Do I, do I get anything back from
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the government? Don't they have a responsibility constitutionally even? That's a great point,
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but here's the problem. It's the governors who have shut things down and it's the federal government
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who's trying to make you whole. There's no feedback loop. The governors are not suffering the
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male effects of their policy. And so we are, we are sustaining their male effects. And so we've put
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them in this moral hazard. So governors like Ron DeSantis, he had to fall in line like the day after
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this stimulus thing passed, he had no other option. Um, and so that's the problem. And, and we're just
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pushing these governors to keep doing it. If the governors had to make people whole for what they
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are doing, they would, they would start coming up with sensible policy instead of staying, uh, stuck on
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stupid. So aren't there places like New York that should be shut down? That, and that is up to the
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governor of New York and they, that, you know, whatever happens there, they have to sustain that
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in New York. Every state, every governor has got different policies. Kristi Noem has got it as a
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policy that's suitable for her state. The problem is the feds are proposing one policy. If there's a role
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for government, Glenn, I think it's in getting these masks out there. It's in getting the tests
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out there. It's in publishing the data. It's in tracking this disease. And I'm sorry about my line.
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I don't, yeah, I don't know if you're, you're at like Chernobyl or where you are, but, uh, uh,
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let me ask you one, one question. Um, uh, talking to Congressman Thomas Massey, I cannot get an answer
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on the way down and I can't get an answer now on the way out. What are the tripwires? What has to
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happen for these states and the government to start recommending that we all go back to work?
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Uh, you know, the numbers are all trending in the right place. Okay, great. We don't want to come
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back too soon. I get it. But can you please find out what the tripwires are, Thomas? Cause no one
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will give it's all, it's all arbitrary. I asked Dr. Fauci that question a few days ago. He said it
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was hospital admissions when they start to flatten out. But the problem is as soon as they start to
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flatten out and they ease off of this mitigation phase and something flares up, they're going to
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shut it all back down again. All right. Thomas Massey, Congressman from, uh, from the great state
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of Kentucky and, uh, one of the congressmen that actually has some balls, Thomas Massey. Thanks for
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being on. You're listening to Glenn Beck. The best of the Glenn Beck program.
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The coronavirus, our update, more than just the numbers, the news that you need to know
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all in just a couple of minutes. And we begin there in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program.
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All right. So let's look at our coronavirus update. First, the numbers, total confirmed
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cases. We're now at 1.5 million up from 1.4, almost a hundred thousand added to it. Total
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confirmed deaths worldwide, almost at 90,000 up 7,000 yesterday. Uh, the U S now has almost
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half a million that are confirmed cases, 435,160. I can guarantee you there are a lot more than
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that 14,797 deaths. That is up almost 2000 from yesterday. Nearly 2000 deaths in the U S makes
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this the highest death rate day so far for the pandemic in any country on earth. U S is now
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officially tested 2 million people that just over 2 million people, 2.2, making the U S 44th in the rate
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of testing per 1 million in population. Less than 1% of the population has been tested for COVID-19.
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What we have found out now is that the virus spreads nearly two times faster than previously
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estimated. This is coming from Los Alamos, the national laboratory. They published a study
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estimating the total number of other people infected by each SARS COVID-2 carrier. The research
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found people infected during the initial outbreak in Wuhan probably passed the virus to an average of
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5.7 others. That's significant. Uh, that is more than double the two to 2.5 other people estimated by
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the world health organization, but we can't take them at their word on anything anymore. Patients sick
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with the seasonal flu by comparison will infect about 1.3 people. If the numbers are accurate,
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the coronavirus pandemic could only be stopped by a widespread vaccination or built immunity for at
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least 82% of the population. That's according to researchers who reviewed the Chinese data from the CDC,
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including the mobile phone data that tracked the movement of patients leaving Wuhan. The WHO is facing
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significant criticism for downplaying the contagious nature of COVID-19 and China's role in, uh, in,
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in the coverup to, uh, uh, that, that stopped, that could have stopped the, the, uh, spread of this virus,
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but of course, uh, didn't more Western governments now agree. The virus likely came from a Chinese
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laboratory, not from exotic food markets. Um, I don't know if this is good news or bad news.
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I mean, it's good news that people aren't eating bat soup,
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but it's, but it's bad news that it came from a laboratory. We can add now great Britain to the
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growing list of governments who are confirming that SARS COVID-2 virus likely came from the Chinese
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Communist Party backed viral research lab, the U S UK, Israel, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Germany have
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all reached similar conclusions. The virus behind COVID-19 was most likely laboratory grown. That's
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farther than we went last night on our special. Uh, last night, we did a great special on, uh, the
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Chinese Communist Party and how it's just killing the world. I want to play a little piece, uh, from
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that special where we, we went over the evidence that it was actually, and confirmed by the Chinese
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Communist Party before the outbreak that they were doing experiments with these particular bats,
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very close to where they said the bat soup was watch in February, two researchers from the South
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China university of technology published a paper that was immediately taken down. Gee, I wonder why
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let's take a look at their credentials. Their resume looks pretty darn impressive. Joint international
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research research laboratory, South China university of technology has on a university of science and
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technology, Wuhan university of science and technology. I mean, they're not slouches.
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They're not exactly a couple of internet bloggers in their mommy's basement. Well, maybe they didn't
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have a big name supporter. Maybe they just went rogue, but it says here they actually had the support of
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the national natural science foundation of China. Okay. So why did this get pulled? It's easy.
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Their scientific data went to counter the propaganda. It was a question. The communist party didn't want
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to be asked. Their report detailed that not one single horseshoe bat was sold at the Wuhan animal
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market. Let me quote, according to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors,
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the bat was never a food source in the city and no bat was traded in the market. In fact,
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the bats responsible for carrying the Corona virus come from an area over 550 miles away from the animal
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market. So if the bats aren't from that area and there weren't any of them being sold in the market,
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where did the outbreak come from? Because the data, which now comes from multiple sources,
00:31:44.180
isn't supporting the Wuhan animal market. The two researchers screened the area and they found two
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locations near the market where both were known to be studying Corona virus. One of them is only 300
00:31:57.880
yards away from the market. That's the length of three football fields. So that sounds like a good
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possibility. What's the location? The Wuhan center for disease control and prevention, the same exact
00:32:12.300
place. The researcher was gathering up horseshoe bats in the video. That's where they worked. Now,
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at this point, it seems pretty obvious, but the researchers sum up their conclusions here. Quote,
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in summary, someone was entangled with the evolution of the 2019 COVID Corona virus.
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And in addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer Corona probably
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originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, end quote. What's amazing about this is we showed you the
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video last night from the Chinese Communist Party, where they have the researchers going out and
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collecting these bats and saying, hey, we got to be really careful. Don't get it on your skin or anything,
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because these are this is highly contagious. It's very, very dangerous. They were saying that and it was
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broadcast on the Chinese television by the official state television in I think it was in November or early
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December. And those are the people that were in those caves, taking those bats, saying how dangerous it
00:33:25.920
was, they work and brought all of that stuff back to Wuhan. Then there's the breakout. Fascinating. It seems pretty
00:33:39.740
hard to refute. But right now, the Chinese are saying that it was an American military that brought it over to
00:33:49.740
Wuhan and they have proof because the so-called Wuhan virus was over in South Carolina last summer and the
00:34:01.260
United States government brought it over to China. Doesn't sound like we're headed for any place nice, but we
00:34:08.280
could have seen this coming back years ago on this program. We talked about epidemics. What year was this
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Okay. And it's Wilson. His book was Epidemic. We talked to him just and nothing wasn't like a big thing breaking out at the
00:34:28.920
moment. There was a little talk about the we were right just after the Ebola thing that, you know, there wound up being
00:34:35.200
Ebola patients that came in the United States, even here in Dallas, where we're broadcasting. And we brought him on to kind of
00:34:41.740
talk about what what what the next threats could be. Listen to this clip with with today's context.
00:34:50.740
So Ebola, you know, I think we're we're sitting here and there's really kind of two schools or two camps,
00:34:59.960
one that roll their eyes and like, OK, well, everybody always panics and it's always fine.
00:35:05.900
And the other side that is like, we're ripe for a pandemic. We're all going to die.
00:35:12.220
Where where is where are we? Which side is is more accurate?
00:35:18.480
Well, I think the we're ripe for a pandemic is probably correct, although I don't I don't think
00:35:23.720
we're all going to die there. But there are definitely reasons to be concerned about the state
00:35:29.480
of the global public health system. It is not adequately prepared to deal with a pandemic,
00:35:35.260
whether it's something that comes out of, you know, the Congo River basin like Ebola or whether
00:35:40.660
it comes out of a, you know, a bird market in China, like like a new flu or something like that.
00:35:50.580
Yeah, it could be anything. A new flu, something like that.
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Oh, OK. Yeah. All right. Really bizarre to listen back to that. He also went on to talk about
00:36:01.020
one of the things that was that worked really well during the Ebola situation was it, you know,
00:36:08.200
as well as an Ebola situation can break out or it can work out, is that it expanded in areas where
00:36:16.020
we were well received. Americans could go in and help. Right. And try to fight it.
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Mm hmm. Listen to this clip about that situation.
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The United States effectively created Liberia back in the 1800s as a refuge for slaves,
00:36:29.800
former slaves who were returned back to Africa. And the the big the big moment when 3000 American
00:36:38.040
troops arrived, you know, the U.S. favorability rating in Liberia is like 99 percent. It was seen
00:36:43.600
as this blessed moment when the great savior had come and really was going to help turn the tide
00:36:49.740
on this virus. Imagine what happens if this virus pops up in Pakistan or Indonesia or China, even a
00:36:56.740
place, you know, a place where the 101st Airborne would have to fight its way in before it got to
00:37:01.480
fight the virus. I mean, in the context of you talking about this at the lab and how they hid
00:37:06.300
all these results, this is exactly what he was talking about. Right. There was no way for anyone
00:37:11.360
else to penetrate that society to find out what the hell was actually going on.
00:37:15.520
So the rest of the world became completely unprepared and did not deal with it. And honestly,
00:37:22.020
like you notice the countries that did deal with it well, like a South Korea, for example,
00:37:27.760
Taiwan are the countries that trust China the least. Right. They were they doubted them so strongly
00:37:34.520
so early that they knew this is going to be bad. And they prepared and went crazy at the very,
00:37:39.120
very beginning. And they shut everything down and they were tested. They didn't shut everything
00:37:43.620
down. And some of these, they caught it early enough to be able to do the whole test and track
00:37:46.900
thing. Not all that could be done here, of course, but it's interesting to see that because
00:37:51.100
it's exactly what he was talking about when the United States couldn't, you know, be involved
00:37:57.480
like we were in a place like Liberia. We this thing blew out of out of control really fast.
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We thought we we thought we were involved because we had the WHO. Yep. And we pay the WHO far more
00:38:10.040
than any other country for its, you know, for its salary. And so we thought that we would be able
00:38:16.620
to trust them. A lot of them are Americans, et cetera, et cetera. We couldn't trust them. They were
00:38:21.380
deeply embedded with the Chinese government and they were lying to us and lying to the rest of the
00:38:27.500
world. That's that's the real problem here was we had really dishonest brokers. I don't know if you
00:38:34.560
saw our secretary of state speak yesterday, but he was questioned about how is our relationship with
00:38:42.860
China and, you know, are we getting good information and, you know, how are we dealing with the fact that
00:38:49.940
they appear to not have been telling us the truth? His answer was fascinating. He said, this isn't the
00:38:58.120
time. Look, look, this is not the time to be talking about retribution. This is the time just to get
00:39:06.380
past this and just to get accurate information. And I thought to myself, boy, he didn't ask about
00:39:13.320
retribution. Now, did you mean recriminations or was this a Freudian slip? What what where did you come up
00:39:23.580
with the word retribution? Because I think there is going to be some retribution here. I think China is not
00:39:32.300
going to be allowed to use this for positioning, use this to become even more powerful. I mean, what they're doing
00:39:43.000
to France right now by saying, yeah, sure, we'll help you. But you have to take our 5G network. I think
00:39:49.000
that's going to backfire on China, seeing that this came from China itself.