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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. It's Good Friday. Today we try to bring some positivity and maybe a little wider thinking than just trying to analyze every little thing that goes on with coronavirus.

00:00:14.060 Also have Pat Gray on the program, Bill O'Reilly for an hour. And we hear audio of what happens when you ask people, would they rather have millions dead or Donald Trump in office? Shockingly, the answer was not particularly easy to come up with for a lot of these people.

00:00:31.680 And Senator Tom Cotton will also join us. He's the senator who really called this early on what might happen with coronavirus and why we needed to take it seriously. We'll get to all that on today's podcast.

00:00:44.060 Also, we'll remind you on tonight's Stew Does America, we've found the cure for COVID-19, which is coming from the country of Turkmenistan, who just banned the word coronavirus and now they have no cases.

00:00:56.400 So we're going to try that on the show today, banning the word coronavirus, a coronavirus free program on Stew Does America.

00:01:03.320 That comes up tonight as well. Make sure you subscribe on your podcast platform to not only Stew Does America, but also this program and rate and review and be generous.

00:01:15.060 I mean, you know, it's a holiday weekend. Here's the podcast.

00:01:17.460 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:34.300 It's Good Friday.

00:01:41.000 Would you open up your scriptures for a minute and just look at the book of Isaiah?

00:01:47.460 Because Isaiah saw this day.

00:01:49.860 He saw the hours that would lead into that dark night before the Sabbath.

00:01:57.120 That Sabbath we now call Good Friday. 0.81

00:02:01.560 Oh, yes.

00:02:03.220 And a Good Friday it is, isn't it?

00:02:06.300 Who's feeling good?

00:02:08.220 Put your hands together.

00:02:09.300 Can I get an amen?

00:02:11.140 You know, I was thinking yesterday about Good Friday and I was thinking, you know, that is as out of place as eggs and the Easter Bunny.

00:02:23.420 I don't understand Good Friday.

00:02:25.180 At the first glance, at first blush, Good Friday has nothing good about it, especially this Good Friday.

00:02:34.940 But if you look at the original, quote, Good Friday, it is a day of pain and humiliation and death.

00:02:41.920 I mean, profound shame.

00:02:44.340 I mean, here's the guy who we now know as the Christus or the anointed one, the king of kings.

00:02:56.980 And look at what look at his Good Friday.

00:03:00.500 Not real good.

00:03:01.660 But when you think of king of kings and the anointed one, the Christus, that sounds like something that you would want.

00:03:10.480 I mean, that would be like, hey, who wants to be the anointed one? 0.99

00:03:13.300 I do.

00:03:15.760 And then, like, okay, here's what you need to do.

00:03:18.840 Uh, no, you know what?

00:03:21.740 Where's that Jesus guy?

00:03:23.100 He's pretty good.

00:03:23.840 Once you know the price, it's something that none of us would want, none of us would do, none of us could do.

00:03:44.080 You know what?

00:03:46.460 I wrote a book called The Christmas Sweater.

00:03:48.260 And it's how I understand the sacrifice of Jesus, because my mother sacrificed everything to give me one last Christmas present before she died, and it was a sweater.

00:03:58.860 And I didn't appreciate it at all, and I realized how poor we were on that Christmas.

00:04:06.100 And for a long time, that sweater haunted me, because I understood what it meant to her, and she noticed that it didn't mean anything to me.

00:04:16.360 And I carried that guilt around with me for a long time, and I couldn't get past it.

00:04:25.020 It's weird how many times, how many, what he did for us, and how many times we still just reject it.

00:04:32.060 We can't, we just don't think we're worthy.

00:04:35.340 We just don't think that we're good enough.

00:04:37.140 We just give up all hope.

00:04:38.900 You know, I love, I love Handel, I love the Messiah, but it's not a Christmas thing.

00:04:46.200 I mean, part of it is a Christmas thing, but the Hallelujah Chorus isn't Christmas.

00:04:50.380 You know, I've been thinking this week about,

00:04:53.960 And we, like sheep, have gone astray.

00:04:58.120 That's, that's leading up to Good Friday.

00:05:00.920 Today, if you look at Isaiah and chapter 53, open up your scriptures, chapter 53.

00:05:10.440 We sing this, thanks to Handel, every Christmas, but it,

00:05:17.080 And we, like sheep, have gone astray, and we've each turned his own way.

00:05:24.380 But he knew that.

00:05:25.940 He knew that in advance.

00:05:27.480 He knows it still.

00:05:28.740 And that's what makes Good Friday so incomprehensible to me.

00:05:33.100 He knew that most of us wouldn't be grateful.

00:05:36.200 Some would still reject him.

00:05:38.540 Those who knew, chose his plan, we would reject him.

00:05:42.400 We would despise him.

00:05:43.620 We would mock him. 1.00

00:05:44.680 We would nail him to a cross. 0.99

00:05:46.420 And we still do it today. 0.97

00:05:48.440 Look at our society.

00:05:49.880 Look at what we're doing in our society.

00:05:53.020 But he chooses us anyway.

00:05:58.740 Listen to what he signed up for in Isaiah.

00:06:02.880 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground.

00:06:09.140 He has no form or comeliness.

00:06:11.420 And when we see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him.

00:06:15.340 I mean, this is, who's signing up for this job?

00:06:18.460 This is a picture of a little fragile shoot that begins to bud.

00:06:23.320 It's grown off the edge of a stump that's cut right to the ground.

00:06:27.820 The huge tree is gone.

00:06:29.400 There's nothing there.

00:06:30.600 There's this tiny little tender sprout that could so easily just break away and die.

00:06:36.920 And to make it even worse, the stump with its tender shoot is located in a dry desert.

00:06:44.060 The chances of surviving the burning heat, the scorching new day sun, no soil, no water.

00:06:51.640 The chances of survival are slim to none.

00:06:53.940 Hey, who wants that job? 0.97

00:06:56.220 He's the opposite of the majestic oak that everybody's like, we cannot cut down that historic oak that has provided shade for our family for generations to come.

00:07:12.420 He's a little shoot.

00:07:14.060 He's got all the odds going against him.

00:07:18.300 And yet, when we look at it, we still don't see any beauty.

00:07:23.400 It's not there because it doesn't conform to what the world says is beautiful or desirous.

00:07:33.520 Isaiah says he's despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

00:07:38.620 And we hid our faces from him.

00:07:40.920 He was despised and we didn't esteem him.

00:07:44.240 You know what's amazing is reading that?

00:07:46.760 Take the Jesus part out of it. 0.80

00:07:48.440 We haven't changed a bit.

00:07:49.920 It's easy to look at the people back then and go, yeah, look, they despised him.

00:07:53.560 Take that line and listen to that line again.

00:08:09.760 Again, let me paraphrase it.

00:08:11.400 But think about those people that we pass every day.

00:08:13.840 Those people who are invisible to all of us.

00:08:17.480 They're despised, rejected by everybody.

00:08:21.420 They're people of suffering, familiar with pain.

00:08:24.800 But we turn our face.

00:08:27.680 We look the other way.

00:08:28.560 They're despised.

00:08:30.480 And we don't care.

00:08:33.060 That's what Isaiah is saying here.

00:08:35.440 That's the way Jesus was.

00:08:36.800 We didn't care.

00:08:37.580 We're no better than those in the past.

00:08:39.320 And it's not to shame us.

00:08:41.140 I really want to point out why Good Friday is good because it is truly a miracle.

00:08:47.860 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we didn't esteem him, stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

00:09:01.700 See, surely he has borne our griefs.

00:09:03.920 It was our weakness that he carried.

00:09:06.680 It was our sorrows that weighed him down.

00:09:09.340 It's the thoughts.

00:09:12.340 We look at him and go, it's what he did.

00:09:15.520 If you were back in that time, is this a punishment from God or a punishment for his own sins or a punishment from the law?

00:09:23.520 It's him.

00:09:27.080 Yet he took on our sickness.

00:09:28.920 He carried our pains.

00:09:31.340 And we regarded him as a criminal, a nobody, or worse, cursed and struck down by God, afflicted by God, because somehow he was.

00:09:40.280 But he was wounded for our transgressions, our rebellion.

00:09:46.680 He was bruised for our iniquities, our sins, our thoughts, our deeds, our broken promises, our greed, gluttony, cruelness.

00:09:54.440 The darkness that we all hide, the things that we just don't care about, the people that we just are invisible, the people who are suffering right now in our own neighborhood, perhaps in our own house, but we don't do anything about it.

00:10:10.400 I love this line.

00:10:11.980 The chastisement of our peace was upon him.

00:10:15.260 What does that mean?

00:10:16.400 The chastisement of our peace was upon him.

00:10:18.660 The brutal crucifixion, the punishment that he took, the beating, the whipping, it was the punishment for our peace.

00:10:32.340 And I don't mean peace like, oh, peace on earth.

00:10:34.380 I mean, peace inside the thing.

00:10:36.620 You know how, at least it's me.

00:10:38.280 I think about things that I've done in the past or things that I've said or failed to do.

00:10:42.380 And I'll be driving in my car and the radio won't be on or taking a shower.

00:10:46.800 And there are times that I'll have to go, la, la, la, la, la, just to stop myself from thinking.

00:10:52.060 Maybe it's just me.

00:10:56.720 That is peace.

00:10:58.020 When that voice stops that tape, that's peace.

00:11:02.560 That's why he was punished. 1.00

00:11:03.900 So we wouldn't have to stand in the shower and go, la, la, la, so we could stop thinking about the stupid things that we did. 0.99

00:11:12.380 With his broken skin, his bruises, his broken bones, his pierced flesh, with his stripes, we are healed. 0.97

00:11:20.800 We are forgiven.

00:11:22.020 And the ugly, the invisible, the shame, the horror is all turned into something beautiful.

00:11:29.080 A day of death and blood, the darkest day, becomes the brightest.

00:11:35.880 It becomes Good Friday because nothing could ever surpass this good.

00:11:46.260 I'm going to share this with you today because it's the best news I could share you because none of our stuff means anything.

00:11:54.820 Honestly.

00:11:55.340 All of the arguments on politics.

00:11:59.180 And are you done with that?

00:12:00.840 Because I am.

00:12:03.840 All of the worries that we currently have right now, all of the worries about our neighbors and and about our children and what's going to happen with school and what's going to happen.

00:12:13.800 All of that is meaningless.

00:12:15.300 It really is.

00:12:16.380 If we don't have peace.

00:12:18.240 And I know from experience, the hardest one to forgive in our lives is us.

00:12:29.720 It's me.

00:12:31.000 It's you.

00:12:32.860 It's easier for me to forgive you for something than it is for me to forgive me for something.

00:12:40.080 And we're all the same, but we never talk about it.

00:12:42.920 But we're all the same.

00:12:43.940 Oh, if people only knew what I've done or who I really am, they wouldn't like me.

00:12:49.700 We hide.

00:12:51.040 We hide.

00:12:52.660 And I think we hide from ourselves many times because sin convinces us that we're not complete.

00:12:59.460 We're not worthy.

00:13:01.520 That's that is the lie that was nailed to the cross.

00:13:05.400 That was it.

00:13:06.200 That we're not complete.

00:13:07.820 We're not worthy.

00:13:10.040 He knew us.

00:13:11.720 He knows us.

00:13:14.740 He knew what we would face.

00:13:16.700 He knew what he would face.

00:13:18.500 And he still did it.

00:13:25.300 I want you to listen to me.

00:13:27.480 If you are having struggles in your life right now.

00:13:32.240 If you are at all feeling unworthy at all.

00:13:36.160 If you are feeling that you are under this dark cloud.

00:13:40.120 You are listening to this broadcast for a reason.

00:13:43.720 I am speaking directly to you.

00:13:46.360 You are worthy.

00:13:50.960 Your life doesn't have to be this way.

00:13:53.420 Your life is not going to change necessarily.

00:13:56.500 I've been there, brother.

00:13:57.720 I, I was down on my knees and I was ready to end it all.

00:14:04.420 And I decided, no, you know what?

00:14:06.720 I'm going to stand up.

00:14:07.840 And I wish I could tell you the very next day was different, but it wasn't.

00:14:10.900 But today is 10 years ago was 20 years ago was this happened to me 20 years ago.

00:14:18.580 And I'm a completely different person.

00:14:21.500 It takes work, but man, is it worth it?

00:14:26.380 And it all revolves around what happened today and Sunday.

00:14:35.240 He's there just to say, you're my man.

00:14:40.380 You're, you're here for a reason.

00:14:42.940 I've already done.

00:14:44.100 Don't worry about any of that.

00:14:45.220 I've already paid for all of that.

00:14:46.840 It's all fine.

00:14:48.300 Let it go.

00:14:49.740 I'm here to help you.

00:14:56.300 This power is real.

00:14:59.820 I know it to be true.

00:15:02.140 And it is beyond what, no matter what you think, no matter how far down you are, it is more powerful than that.

00:15:09.280 It has power beyond your need and it will heal.

00:15:13.260 It will make you whole.

00:15:14.520 It will change your life because you're worthy.

00:15:19.740 It will change your life because you were worthy.

00:15:42.520 And we like sheep.

00:15:49.400 The best news I could give you today is this too shall pass.

00:16:01.320 The sun's about to come out.

00:16:05.620 And we get to witness it.

00:16:07.480 But share that good news with your friends today.

00:16:18.740 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:32.840 All right. 1.00

00:16:34.220 Mr. Bill O'Reilly, you sick freak. 0.99

00:16:36.680 Welcome to the program, sir. 0.99

00:16:39.300 Yes, I heard the words humility and jocularity.

00:16:44.960 I really appreciate that kind of an intro, Beck.

00:16:48.980 No, that's not what I...

00:16:51.160 Fun and frivolity.

00:16:52.860 Not two words that I think of when I think of Bill O'Reilly.

00:16:56.780 But maybe that's just me.

00:16:58.640 Not one that leaps right to the top.

00:17:03.100 No, not necessarily.

00:17:04.420 No?

00:17:04.560 But I'm sure it's in there somewhere.

00:17:05.860 No, no, no, no, no.

00:17:08.380 So, Bill, I read your review of the Tiger King, but I want you to give it here on the air at some point.

00:17:16.720 So, we can either start there or whatever you think is newsworthy today.

00:17:22.200 What's the big story of the week?

00:17:24.800 Let's end with the Tiger King.

00:17:26.440 But I have a question for all your listeners.

00:17:29.520 Yeah.

00:17:29.900 They can think about until we get there.

00:17:31.840 What is America's fascination with the low-rent district?

00:17:40.960 I mean, why are we watching the real housewives of...

00:17:46.020 Oh, I can tell you why.

00:17:48.280 You really don't know?

00:17:49.700 Why?

00:17:51.240 Really?

00:17:52.400 Because we feel better about ourselves.

00:17:55.740 We feel better about...

00:17:56.920 We look at social media and everybody's posting these beautiful lives and everything else,

00:18:01.200 and it's all lies.

00:18:02.300 It's all lies, but we feel bad about it.

00:18:04.560 Then we watch the Tiger King and we're like,

00:18:06.540 Oh, we're better than everybody in this show.

00:18:08.880 This is fantastic.

00:18:10.180 I am finally better than someone.

00:18:13.560 That's what it is.

00:18:14.360 You know, that's not bad, Beck.

00:18:15.600 I mean, I'll buy into that a little bit, but...

00:18:18.600 Yeah.

00:18:19.420 You know, how many tattoos can we see in one program?

00:18:26.700 I can't wait for your review.

00:18:28.820 All right.

00:18:29.280 Bill O'Reilly, what are the big stories of the week?

00:18:32.780 Well, I think it's the emerging war, and again, this always goes back to the same thing,

00:18:41.480 between the far left, which lost their leader, Bernie Sanders, this week,

00:18:47.420 and trying to destroy the American system.

00:18:50.800 It's not just a hate Trump thing.

00:18:54.560 It is for the New York Times, Washington Post, the media.

00:18:57.580 It's almost exclusively a hate Trump thing there.

00:19:00.400 But for the far left, the George Soros cadres, it's about really destroying and then remaking America.

00:19:08.460 And they're trying to find a way to do that within the pandemic.

00:19:15.120 So if they can destroy the capitalist economy, which in the short term is being badly battered, as everyone knows,

00:19:23.800 but if they can really damage it in a long-term way, it's going to be a lot easier for the next Bernie Sanders to get this socialism into the system.

00:19:35.500 So I think that's the emerging story that most people are not aware of.

00:19:41.000 I will tell you, Bill, that I'm really disgusted by so many people and how they are using this pandemic to try to, as you said, destroy America.

00:19:55.500 America, you have people now talking about 18 months of quarantine.

00:20:00.760 There is absolutely no way on God's green earth any country can survive 18 months of quarantine.

00:20:09.560 It's insanity.

00:20:11.260 And they're doing it because this is the fastest road to socialism.

00:20:17.000 This this is it.

00:20:18.340 This is it.

00:20:18.980 This is the thing that I've worried about and warned about for so long.

00:20:22.880 It just came in a package of a virus.

00:20:25.500 Yeah.

00:20:26.460 And, you know, you and I are simpatico or the day for Stu on this.

00:20:33.500 So there is a powerful segment, well-funded, that has co-opted some in the media to get the message out that our health care system is evil,

00:20:46.640 which is, of course, isn't true.

00:20:47.960 If you look at deaths per million of population, we're far below all the socialized.

00:20:53.940 We are leading the world.

00:20:56.720 We are leading the world.

00:20:58.660 The cure will come from us.

00:21:00.460 The trap, the tests have come from us.

00:21:03.020 Everything that socialized medicine stands for Italy and Spain are collapsing.

00:21:08.620 They're collapsing.

00:21:09.900 We didn't.

00:21:11.180 That's right.

00:21:11.680 And the other thing is that the speculation, and I keep telling my listeners and my viewers,

00:21:20.200 why are you watching these cable news programs and network news programs when all you're getting is speculation?

00:21:27.220 Just as you said, well, we're going to be quarantined for 18 months.

00:21:31.440 Do you know and do your listeners know that on Monday, the day after Easter, Austria is sending its children back to school?

00:21:42.220 Mm-hmm.

00:21:42.980 Did you know that?

00:21:44.360 I did, yes.

00:21:45.500 Okay, okay.

00:21:46.220 But most people don't.

00:21:47.400 Would you see that most people don't know that?

00:21:49.480 Oh, yeah.

00:21:49.800 Most people have no idea.

00:21:51.060 Okay, because it isn't reported.

00:21:53.760 So Austria, just north of Italy, sharing a border with Italy, okay, is saying, all right, we believe we have this thing contained.

00:22:03.280 We're sending the kids back to school, and we're opening the shops.

00:22:07.220 So if you want to get a little chocolate on Monday in Austria, you can.

00:22:14.080 Right.

00:22:14.700 But that's not reported here.

00:22:17.000 Same virus, okay?

00:22:19.200 Same transmission in Austria as in the United States, but nobody reports this because it doesn't fit in to the wall of doom mosaic.

00:22:32.820 I have to tell you, Bill, I think it's actually worse than just not reporting on things.

00:22:37.660 For instance, the governor of South Dakota, I'm sure you've seen her talks that she's been giving on the Constitution and, you know, how she's not going to violate the Constitution for this.

00:22:50.300 She's keeping the state open. 0.83

00:22:51.920 There are about five governors in the country that are refusing to go along with any of this nonsense.

00:22:57.420 She's leading the pack, and they are hammering her.

00:23:01.800 They are just bullying her.

00:23:05.220 Sure.

00:23:05.720 Because this pandemic offers the opportunity to remove Trump.

00:23:13.480 So if he doesn't get a handle on it by summer, then the odds are that he would lose.

00:23:22.980 Because the way Americans vote is emotional.

00:23:26.460 It always has been that way.

00:23:27.840 It's always an emotional vote for president.

00:23:30.420 And the rationale is, well, we'll give the other side a chance.

00:23:33.720 If the kids can't go back to school by September, oh, my God, the Trump administration's in trouble.

00:23:39.000 They know that.

00:23:40.260 If there are just millions and millions of workers who can't pay their bills, my God.

00:23:45.280 So they're rooting.

00:23:46.360 They're rooting to get Trump out.

00:23:49.140 If you could lie detector, Beck, if you could lie detector the media, the national media, and ask them a very simple question, because I am a very simple man.

00:23:58.880 Which is worse, the pandemic or four more years of Trump?

00:24:03.740 What do you think you would get?

00:24:05.460 What answer do you think you would get?

00:24:07.220 Oh, four more years of Trump.

00:24:09.000 Okay.

00:24:09.920 Oh, absolutely.

00:24:10.560 You have those people, and this is the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CNN, that are going to spin everything about the pandemic.

00:24:19.420 It's Trump's fault, and it's a wall of doom.

00:24:22.240 And then you have the other people that we just cited, the Soros socialist people, that are saying, okay, now we can suspend all civil liberties.

00:24:31.900 Now we can tell people what to do.

00:24:33.920 Now we can change the economy.

00:24:36.380 Now we can do all this under the guise of protecting Americans.

00:24:41.660 Under the guise.

00:24:43.480 And, you know, it's the Reichstag fire on steroids.

00:24:49.060 I'm not going to go into that, okay?

00:24:51.600 But that's what this is if you know your history.

00:24:54.360 And so those of us who love our country, who admire the nobility of it and the opportunity that it affords hardworking and honest people, I'm appalled at what's going on. 0.88

00:25:08.400 But I'm also appalled that American consumers continue to go in and watch this garbage. 0.98

00:25:15.420 My TV is black. 0.98

00:25:16.640 And the final thing, and this is self-serving, and I'm sorry, I have had millions of views.

00:25:22.320 I don't know whether you saw the New York Post this week.

00:25:25.060 Millions of views on BillOReilly.com.

00:25:28.160 Millions.

00:25:29.760 Since this pandemic began.

00:25:32.320 Because I don't do speculation.

00:25:34.760 This is a no-spec zone, like the no-spin zone.

00:25:38.520 I just give you the facts as far as we can ascertain them.

00:25:43.160 But that's not what's happening in the media in America.

00:25:46.240 And people are panicked. 0.99

00:25:47.940 People are acting crazy in some cases because of all this garbage. 0.98

00:25:53.220 Well, there are two Americas now. 0.99

00:25:55.700 There are the ones that are buying into this snitch on your neighbor kind of thing.

00:26:01.020 And I want the government to tell me everything and what to do. 0.92

00:26:05.180 And then the rest of America, which is, this is ridiculous.

00:26:10.000 I actually think, Bill, that this pandemic is real and it is dangerous.

00:26:17.020 But I think the way we've handled it, by shutting everything down and going, you know, as you say, Reichstag fire.

00:26:26.060 And in some places, really very totalitarian where you're sending police door to door.

00:26:33.540 I think that is going to spook many Americans.

00:26:36.640 This is exactly what happened under Woodrow Wilson.

00:26:39.200 As you know, when he sent out his stormtroopers, we had a quarter of a million people that had badges and they were working for the Justice Department.

00:26:49.380 And they were to open your neighbor's mail, listen to your neighbor on the phone, find out who our enemies are that don't want this war.

00:26:57.040 And they arrested one hundred and forty five thousand Americans in about a two year period.

00:27:03.200 It was disgraceful. And it it sent the left packing because regular Americans saw what this was turning into and went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:27:14.320 This is not who we are. And that might happen this time.

00:27:17.760 I mean, this could very, very well backfire.

00:27:22.080 And you saw his blow up. You saw him blow up.

00:27:25.460 I mean, this maniac screaming that we can't have a private health care system here.

00:27:31.280 And the stats are right in front of you, right in front of you.

00:27:34.600 You can see how much more effective, as you just pointed out, our health care system is than that in Europe.

00:27:41.280 You can see it. Yet this maniac, Sanders, still won't concede still, because that's a way to control a population through their health care.

00:27:51.100 All right. If you're dependent on the government for your health, you've got to do what your government tells you to do.

00:27:56.920 But getting back to the pandemic, I mean, we have people I was walking the terror dog, Holly, the terror dog, who has three million Twitter followers, if you can believe it.

00:28:05.360 So I'm walking Holly, the terror dog. And then across the street, there's a lady with a mask walking some doxelon or something. 0.99

00:28:14.300 So I'm about 12 feet away, not six. I'm fine. I don't have a mask other than when I rob a 7-Eleven.

00:28:21.480 I do use the mask for that. But I said, madam, how are you?

00:28:26.660 I'm fine. And then I hear a muffled. All right.

00:28:30.400 And I go, can I ask you just a question?

00:28:33.060 What what is that protecting you from in the open air on a lane where there's no other people?

00:28:39.600 And it was like silence. What is it protecting you from?

00:28:45.140 And of course, the lady doesn't know. 1.00

00:28:47.720 And the lady is so scared to death that she feels she has to wear a mask to walk the doxelon when there's nobody around.

00:28:55.100 But if you say that, you're going to be crucified unless you say this is a vicious disease.

00:29:01.960 And it is because nobody knows how it spreads.

00:29:05.680 It's not defined. No one knows.

00:29:08.260 I have people who've gotten this thing.

00:29:10.220 They have no blanking clue how they got it.

00:29:12.460 They stay inside. They did what they could.

00:29:14.540 They spray themselves with Lysol all day long and they still get it.

00:29:18.520 They still get it.

00:29:20.120 So this is that's fear when you don't know.

00:29:24.000 All right.

00:29:25.200 When it's going to hit you or why that's fear.

00:29:28.340 So we have to take that.

00:29:29.700 But here's the headline for the Glenn Beck program on Good Friday.

00:29:33.560 Are you ready?

00:29:34.880 Yes.

00:29:35.160 The Disney Corporation, which controls most of America.

00:29:40.120 People don't know that.

00:29:41.900 But the most powerful entity in America isn't the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.

00:29:46.920 It's the Disney Corporation.

00:29:49.320 They signal this week what's going to happen.

00:29:52.980 Iger, on his way out with, what, $3 billion, said, you know what we're going to do?

00:29:59.340 Well, we're going to take everybody's temperature that comes to our park.

00:30:03.860 So when you go to Disney World or Disneyland, you're going to buy your ticket and then there'll be a guy, just like there is with the airlines, checking your bags and you, with a little thermometer thing.

00:30:17.260 And if you have a fever, you can't come in.

00:30:20.080 If you don't, they'll let you in.

00:30:22.020 That's going to be everywhere, everywhere, even your local restaurant.

00:30:28.040 Yeah, Microsoft, Microsoft has already developed something that will set off alarms if you, it just will scan you as you walk in through the door, just like a camera.

00:30:37.920 And it'll scan you if you have a fever, it'll set off an alarm.

00:30:41.260 They've also developed something where if you're not wearing a mask, it will set off an alarm.

00:30:45.820 And they're using those now.

00:30:47.620 Right.

00:30:48.400 Yeah, it's coming.

00:30:50.420 Yeah, we're going to open our parks and this is what's going to be.

00:30:53.040 The problem is you pay so much money for your ticket at Disney, that'll give you a fever.

00:30:58.560 I know, I know.

00:30:59.440 You're paying so much money, it's $2,000 to get in, so your fever's $105,000.

00:31:05.360 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:31:22.160 One of the guys who saw this pandemic for what it was early on was on our program, among other programs, trying to ring the bell is Senator Tom Cotton.

00:31:32.520 And he is joining us now.

00:31:33.800 Senator, how are you, sir?

00:31:36.060 Hey, Glenn, it's good to be on with you again.

00:31:37.920 Thank you for having me.

00:31:39.860 You bet.

00:31:41.080 So you're getting credit from a lot of places as being the guy who saw this coming.

00:31:46.980 But is it because you're such a genius or because you take China for what we know China is, not for what we hope China is?

00:31:58.280 Well, Glenn, it's certainly far from any claim that I'm a genius, but it does have a lot to do with a clear-eyed view of the Chinese Communist Party going back many years leading up to this pandemic outbreak.

00:32:12.900 Specifically in January, as I began to see information in public news sources, not in classified intelligence briefings that I received, just in public news sources, sometimes obscure or foreign sources like East Asian news outlets or medical journals.

00:32:30.240 I saw a clear contrast between two things.

00:32:32.700 On the one hand, you had the rhetoric of the Chinese Communist Party, which was designed to minimize the threat, soothe over fears, tell everyone everything was okay, don't worry.

00:32:45.020 We've got it under control.

00:32:46.780 This can't be transmitted from humans to humans.

00:32:49.680 Contrast that with the Chinese Communist Party's actions, which were extreme and draconian, shutting down a city that is larger than New York City, literally boarding up doors or welding doors shut on high-rise apartment buildings, allowing the Hong Kong local government to shut down all air travel from the Chinese mainland, shutting down schools, not just in Wuhan, but across the country.

00:33:12.980 All 1.3 billion people worth.

00:33:15.140 The contrast between that rhetoric and those actions told me that the Chinese Communist Party understood just how grave this virus could become and is therefore the reason why I started sounding the alarm in mid-January and urging the president to shut down travel with China, which thankfully he did by the end of January.

00:33:37.400 So, Senator, I have been concerned about this coronavirus because, for the same reasons, watching what China was doing, thinking this is nuts. 0.93

00:33:49.140 They don't ever do stuff like this.

00:33:50.680 But I, and I think we're going to be proven to be accurate on this, I was less concerned about the death toll that it would take on the rest of the world than I was the toll on the free market system.

00:34:08.000 I mean, we are facing a possible depression, and we've got people in Congress that are, I think, cheering for this.

00:34:17.400 They are looking to hurt the economy in any way to change the capitalist system into a socialized system.

00:34:29.660 I think we are at a place where our constitution and our way of life is on the ropes, mainly because of the people in Congress.

00:34:41.860 Well, Glenn, I would put the responsibility for what we're going through first and foremost at the feet of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.95

00:34:49.400 They had a chance to keep this virus a local health problem in Wuhan.

00:34:57.620 Instead, they allowed it to become a global pandemic.

00:35:01.560 And to give you a sense of the extent of Chinese treachery, on January 23rd, the Chinese Communist Party shut down all travel by airplane out of Wuhan inside of China.

00:35:16.560 So you couldn't fly from Wuhan to Shanghai or to Beijing or anywhere else inside China.

00:35:22.660 But they allowed international air travel from Wuhan to continue.

00:35:27.720 So you could continue to fly from Wuhan to other places in the world to include New York and San Francisco.

00:35:34.720 That gives you a sense of their treachery in this matter.

00:35:39.240 Now, your more fundamental point, though, is very important.

00:35:43.040 And I share your concern about what this virus has done to jobs and our economy, not just here in the United States, but in all of our allied countries as well across Europe, in Japan, in Singapore, in Taiwan, in South Korea, what has happened across the civilized democratic world.

00:36:05.720 And that's why it is so important that we give our people the confidence that the virus is under control, that they're less likely to get it, and that if they do get it, the health care system will be functioning for them.

00:36:17.640 Because that is ultimately what has caused the economy across the Western world to come grinding to a halt.

00:36:23.140 You know, Donald Trump didn't shut down the economy.

00:36:25.620 The president doesn't have that authority in our system.

00:36:27.500 Even our governors and mayors, who in many cases have been aggressively saying what kinds of activities will be permitted, are more or less just reflecting reality.

00:36:38.780 If you look at where the state of the economy was in Europe and the United States in the first half of March, before many governments were taking this action, you'll see that our people were voluntarily and spontaneously starting to stay home.

00:36:52.800 If you look at, like, say, open table bookings for restaurants or airline travel or so forth.

00:36:58.000 So it's not so much a government dictate that has caused the economy to grind to a halt.

00:37:02.800 It is our people's understandable fears of the virus.

00:37:05.880 That's why it's so important.

00:37:06.600 But I think, Senator, I think that there are governors that are taking, I mean, the governor of Michigan just banned advertising for products that aren't essential.

00:37:18.340 What is that?

00:37:20.600 I mean, I think there are those who are are taking their their powers, so to speak, way too far.

00:37:29.740 Yeah.

00:37:30.220 So there's no doubt, for instance, that some governors, I think, have made mistakes.

00:37:34.500 Don't get me wrong.

00:37:35.400 You know, I have not heard about the ban on advertising for any so-called non-essential activity.

00:37:40.280 But, you know, someone might say a Lego set is not essential.

00:37:43.280 Well, if you've got a four-year-old kid at home or three-year-old kids, I do.

00:37:46.280 I can tell you it's pretty essential to have Legos for them.

00:37:48.380 Likewise, in Virginia, the governor extended the stay-at-home order until, I think, mid-June.

00:37:57.220 Maybe that'll end up being necessary, Glenn, but we don't know that now.

00:38:00.420 We don't know in Virginia.

00:38:01.400 We don't know in Arkansas.

00:38:02.340 We don't know any other state.

00:38:03.900 That's why President Trump has only suggested it continue until the end of April.

00:38:07.560 We can take stock in another 10 or 15 days about where we stand.

00:38:10.740 So there's no doubt that some governors and mayors have made bad decisions.

00:38:15.540 But in the end, what is more important than what any governor or mayor does is that we have the techniques and the practices in place that we can stop the population-wide measures we have now and return to traditional public health control, which is case-based measures.

00:38:31.580 So rather than saying everyone needs to stay at home, we can just identify those people who are sick and those people who have been around them and tell them you individually need to stay at home.

00:38:41.100 And the president outlines that at his press conferences and what we're doing in terms of getting testing up on a rapid basis, getting antibody testing, producing masks, not just for doctors and nurses, but for people at the workplace and so on and so forth.

00:38:53.040 So that's how we give people confidence to get back to something like normal life.

00:38:57.020 And do you have confidence that we are taking the steps right now?

00:39:00.540 I know we ordered 500 million masks for the stockpile.

00:39:05.720 We're ordering all kinds of medicine, et cetera, et cetera.

00:39:08.000 Hopefully these tests come online.

00:39:09.940 But are you are you comfortable that if this thing comes back with a vengeance in the fall, we're not going to have to go and shut down again?

00:39:19.700 We'll have the tools to make sure that our medical system won't collapse on us.

00:39:28.200 Well, first off, Glenn, because there's so much unknown about the virus still, I don't want to say I have total confidence in that.

00:39:34.260 There are no guarantees right now.

00:39:35.860 But we're taking this.

00:39:36.700 We're taking the steps that we know you feel we're taking those steps that we should be taking.

00:39:41.560 At this point, after a false start or two related testing at the CDC and FDA in early February, we are rapidly scaling up our testing capacity as quickly as we can.

00:39:54.700 The world's very best medical researchers and scientists are looking into every angle for possible prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs and vaccines.

00:40:03.160 We are producing the kind of, again, personal protective equipment, not just for doctors and nurses, which we, of course, must have, but for people to get back to work.

00:40:11.800 So if they're working on the factory line, they can have the masks that they need, because ultimately it's those steps that will allow us to get back to something like normal.

00:40:19.980 So we can get out of the situation we're in now, which is buying time through population based measures to produce all those things.

00:40:26.660 So, Senator, we're talking to Senator Tom Cotton, the guy who was leading the charge on the coronavirus.

00:40:36.140 Let me let me take you back to China for a second.

00:40:40.360 What they've done, you could argue, is an act of war.

00:40:44.480 I mean, they've killed more people than than died in World War One by far.

00:40:51.060 They have disrupted our economy.

00:40:53.180 Anybody who would do this as a terrorist strike, we it would be war.

00:40:58.700 I don't want war and I'm not suggesting war, but our relationship with China cannot go back to the way it was where we just believe what they say and we ship all of our business over to them. 0.99

00:41:14.920 Agree or disagree?

00:41:17.700 That's exactly right, Glenn.

00:41:19.260 I can already tell you that public opinion in this country ran very strongly against China, no matter what business or financial or media elites believe.

00:41:28.080 I mean, that's because a lot of Americans have a lot of reason to be hostile towards China.

00:41:33.620 If you work in a factory and your job has been outsourced to China, if your industry like rice farmers in Arkansas have seen their proprietary intellectual property stolen or their computer systems hacked.

00:41:44.300 If you're appalled by the way China forces women to have abortions or harvest organs from political prisoners or smashes Christian churches or interns, religious minorities, in mass gulags. 0.54

00:41:58.520 And now to top it off, they've unleashed a pandemic on the entire world.

00:42:04.080 So things are going to change and they're going to change rapidly, not just in the United States, but all around the civilized world.

00:42:11.220 Because I can tell you, public opinion in America and not just America views China as a pariah state.

00:42:18.820 Well, I will tell you what they're doing to France where they're saying, hey, we'll send you some gowns, we'll send you some PPE stuff, but you're going to have to take our 5G.

00:42:28.920 Boy, I think if the public really understands how they're trying to profit off of this and extort business out of countries, I think China will be the pariah of the world. 0.79

00:42:43.480 Yeah, and Glenn, they're doing that all around the world.

00:42:47.220 They're trying to exploit this crisis that they created.

00:42:52.420 And in many cases, what they're sending is a reflection of Chinese quality control turns out to be defective anyway, as you saw in the Czech Republic or in Spain or elsewhere around the world. 0.67

00:43:03.200 So I think, again, the peoples of the democratic West, no matter what some of their leaders may think right now, will increasingly view China as a pariah state.

00:43:13.600 And that means that we're going to have a fundamental reassessment of our relationship with China.

00:43:17.760 So, for instance, I think one of the very first things we have to do starting now is to bring back manufacturing of basic pharmaceuticals and medical devices and medical supplies to this country.

00:43:28.440 We cannot continue to allow China to control the market worldwide for items that are essential to life and to health.

00:43:36.580 Agree.

00:43:37.100 Senator Tom Cotton, thank you so much.

00:43:39.080 You can follow him at TomCottonAR or you can find him at TomCotton.com.

00:43:44.840 Senator, always good to have you on.

00:43:46.320 Thank you for your good work.

00:43:47.600 We'll talk again.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 10, 2020

Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Sen. Tom Cotton ｜ 4⧸10⧸20

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