The Glenn Beck Program - April 02, 2020


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Candace Owens & WWII Vet Bill Kelly ｜ 4⧸2⧸20


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Candace Owens talks about a potential run for office and we go into the coronavirus update and a 95-year-old World War II veteran that actually battled the virus and won a kind of inspiring story. And we talk about Tiger King.

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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Oh, man, you know, this is not the best time in American history to be
00:00:04.240 doing a show about the news. 6.6 million people had new claims for unemployment this week. It's
00:00:10.600 not just a record. It's double the record. That record was set last week. So we doubled last
00:00:17.940 week's record. And the record last week, if you remember, was what, four or five times higher
00:00:22.320 than any other previous week in American history. So I mean, as as expected, the economy is taking
00:00:29.520 a massive hit when you decide to send everybody home tends to happen. We talk about that. We have
00:00:35.360 Candace Owens on today. She talks about a potential run for office. And we go into the coronavirus
00:00:43.240 update, what's going on there. And a 95 year old World War Two veteran that actually battled
00:00:50.000 coronavirus and won a kind of inspiring story as well. And a little bit about Tiger King, because,
00:00:56.200 you know, we're getting to the point of national obsession. So we had to put that in as well.
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00:01:51.820 So here are daily COVID-19 stats from Johns Hopkins. Total confirmed cases worldwide,
00:01:58.340 950,000. We are going to hit a million tomorrow. Total deaths worldwide, only 48,000 up from 43
00:02:09.680 yesterday. So Stu, this is the thing that I think gets everybody. They're like, why are we closing the
00:02:15.160 entire economy? When globally, there are only 48,000 deaths? How could there be 100,000 deaths,
00:02:23.640 you know, in the next two weeks in America alone, when, when globally, it's only 48,000?
00:02:28.500 Well, I mean, I think the, the idea is that it's at the beginning of the increase, right? Like you,
00:02:33.000 it's, we set another new record yesterday for the most deaths globally of the entire crisis. And of
00:02:39.100 course, this doesn't even include China. God only knows what the actual truth is there. There could be a
00:02:43.180 lot more than 48,000 in total already. But just if you look at the numbers worldwide,
00:02:48.940 they are increasing every day. And the idea is that eventually that stops. They think it's going
00:02:53.920 to stop, you know, in the United States somewhere around mid April, or at least, you know, start
00:02:59.500 coming back down. Hopefully, hopefully that's, that's, that's as long as it can go. Because I
00:03:03.960 mean, you look at the economic numbers, I don't know how much longer we can do this and still have
00:03:09.080 as civilization. I mean, it is, is obviously in collapse, you're risking quite a bit here. But
00:03:13.620 that is the reason, right? It's 48,000 globally. But we did what 5000 in one day yesterday. So it
00:03:20.880 was, I mean, you're at it, you added on what, you know, 10% in a day that continues, you know,
00:03:27.720 it gets those numbers get really big, really fast. So the US has 215,000 confirmed cases now,
00:03:34.160 and 500, or sorry, 5,112 deaths. That is up 1000 yesterday. That's the biggest day of biggest,
00:03:44.640 biggest single day of any of death of any country in the entire time the Coronavirus has been here
00:03:50.220 with again, the exception of China, but it beats any day that Italy, Italy is had or Spain has had.
00:03:56.960 Again, we're bigger country than that. So that's not per capita true, but it is still incredibly tragic.
00:04:02.720 COVID-19. Now the third leading cause of death in the US behind heart disease and cancer.
00:04:11.200 United States of America now leads the world in total confirmed cases 115,000 more cases than Italy,
00:04:17.480 although Italy leads the world in death with 13,000 dead there. US is 25, the 25th in total confirmed
00:04:25.300 cases per 1 million population. So put it into perspective, we're leading the world because we
00:04:30.560 are so huge. The US is 23rd in confirmed deaths, one per million in population, 15 dead per million
00:04:39.880 citizens. Italy has 218 dead per 1 million. We have 5000 dead, almost 9000 recovered,
00:04:54.940 and 5000 still today in critical condition. And the number is growing. COVID-19 now killing victims
00:05:04.260 who don't have COVID-19 EMTs in New York have been given directions now not to transport heart attack
00:05:11.060 victims to hospitals if they cannot be revived at the scene. Prior cardiac arrest victims would have
00:05:17.880 been transported to the hospital for further lifesaving procedures. But the hospitals are overwhelmed now
00:05:22.940 with COVID-19 patients. So if you have a heart attack today in New York, you are solely in the hands
00:05:29.540 of the EMT. If they can't replace the pulse or start your heart beating at the scene, they're not taking
00:05:38.120 you to the hospital, they leave your body in the custody of the NYPD. China lied. People died now 1.00
00:05:45.980 trending on social media. It's only going to get worse for China. China is in fact, 0.98
00:05:52.720 tomorrow, we're, we're going to expose something that was bothering us. And we're like, wait a minute,
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00:07:21.260 support us and become a member at blaze TV.com slash Glenn promo code Glenn. Okay. So the U S
00:07:27.680 intelligence services now have concluded, uh, what the internet has known since January,
00:07:32.640 the Chinese communist party lied about the total infected and total deaths during Corona virus. 0.62
00:07:38.720 citing a report provided to the white house last week, officials confirmed that U S intelligence
00:07:45.180 concludes gross under reporting of total cases and total deaths. Many have speculated the numbers
00:07:52.040 coming out of China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and other totalitarian countries have been dramatically
00:07:57.680 underreported by as much as a factor of 10, according to MI five, uh, early misrepresentation of data
00:08:07.140 by the Chinese communist party have led some Western politicians and epidemiologists to underestimate
00:08:13.480 the seriousness of COVID-19 as they did in Italy and Spain, the UK. Um, I don't know why we believed
00:08:23.300 the communists would tell us the truth this time. Uh, but we're still not hearing the truth. Let me give
00:08:29.680 you a story here about there is a, uh, Taiwan is delivering millions of masks. In fact, 2 million
00:08:37.100 masks, hospital masks to the United States. Why would Taiwan do that? Well, let me give you an example. 0.97
00:08:44.320 And this goes into our investigation that will be, will air tomorrow. Uh, this is an interview,
00:08:50.920 uh, with an official, uh, with an official from the WHO. Now, if you think that people aren't covering
00:08:59.040 for China, listen to how this official, uh, reacts when asked a question about Taiwan, Taiwan,
00:09:07.880 the Chinese say Taiwan doesn't exist. It's China. We all know Taiwan exists. Taiwan is a separate
00:09:16.880 country. They want nothing to do with China, but China is just laying claim to Taiwan. Listen to how
00:09:23.460 the WHO is handling this interview with this reporter. Would the WHO considered Taiwan's membership?
00:09:38.780 He just sits there, looks at the camera. Hello? I couldn't hear your question. Okay. Yeah. Let me,
00:09:46.260 let me, let me, let me repeat the question. Let's move to another one then. Right. Because I'm,
00:09:51.680 I'm actually curious on talking about Taiwan as well on Taiwan's case.
00:09:58.060 Okay. Then he looks down and he just disconnects from this Skype interview.
00:10:03.560 We decided to give Dr. Alward another call to follow up.
00:10:07.840 And I just want to see if you can comment a bit on how Taiwan has done so far in terms of
00:10:12.340 containing the virus. Well, we've, we've already talked about China.
00:10:18.500 We've already talked about China. No, we were talking about Taiwan.
00:10:24.000 This is why Taiwan is sending us masks. You'll notice the accent of the doctor. American.
00:10:30.600 WHO. WHO. When you see, we expose them tomorrow on why you cannot trust the WHO.
00:10:38.260 Their numbers on China are all skewed. They're all wrong. And we'll explain why tomorrow. It is.
00:10:49.620 This is what mainstream media should be doing.
00:10:54.500 We should be looking into the numbers. We need to know we're, we're changing the entire world on
00:11:01.520 faulty numbers and we're trusting the WHO. Well, when you see things like that and you're like,
00:11:08.100 wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. They are just taking the hard communist party line.
00:11:12.620 An American is playing the hard communist line. Why? Oh, we'll show you tomorrow. 0.63
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00:11:29.180 Use the promo code Glenn. All right. Uh, just a bit more of, uh, information in our COVID-19, uh, update.
00:11:39.640 Uh, we now, we now know 50% of the viral spread comes from people with no symptoms.
00:11:45.260 They're saying this is why this is so hard to, uh, predict where it's happening because the people who have it have no symptoms.
00:11:53.180 To prevent the further spread top infectious disease experts in the U S say they are reconsidering their guidance on face masks.
00:12:01.880 This is such a lie.
00:12:04.680 They've, if we had plenty of face masks, they would have told us to wear face masks the whole time.
00:12:09.420 The face masks have always worked. They, what they magically work in the hospital and they don't work on you.
00:12:15.300 That's ridiculous. They didn't trust the American people to do the right thing and make sure that there were enough masks for the
00:12:21.620 hospitals. You know, that's, that's the mere fact.
00:12:25.320 I trust the American people to figure it out.
00:12:28.180 And you've already seen what the American people are doing.
00:12:30.780 They'll, they'll have face masks and they're just turning them into their hospital because they're at home.
00:12:34.520 They don't need them. But if we're going to turn this, uh, country back on,
00:12:38.500 we need face masks and we need people to make face masks.
00:12:42.200 They're saying now to make your own at home.
00:12:45.300 Well, there's no proof that any of that will work.
00:12:50.020 Uh, but it's better than nothing.
00:12:52.860 And, uh, if we're going to open the country up, we are going to all have to wear face masks.
00:13:00.340 Then there's, then there's this one last story that I want to share with you.
00:13:03.720 A locomotive engineer in Los Angeles has been charged with one count of train wrecking class, a felony under federal law.
00:13:14.440 He is the engineer of this and he backed the train up.
00:13:18.840 He was, he was there at the port in Los Angeles and he saw the, the, uh, USS mercy coming in the naval ship, the, the hospital ship.
00:13:31.820 And he said, it's suspicious.
00:13:36.040 They're not, that ship is not what they say it is.
00:13:39.560 That's not there to help heal people.
00:13:41.900 Now he didn't say what it was doing.
00:13:43.900 He just said, it's, that's not what they, this is a, this is a plan.
00:13:49.020 And he said, I only had the chance once the whole world is watching and I had to, people don't know what's going on here, but now they will.
00:13:55.840 Well, I don't know what's going on here other than you tried to ram your train into the ship.
00:14:02.460 Uh, and he got close.
00:14:03.940 He got close.
00:14:04.800 Uh, he saw, I think it was on CNN.
00:14:06.980 They said, and he got close.
00:14:08.860 No one on the ship was hurt.
00:14:10.320 Uh, he, he, the train finally stopped 250 yards away from the ship.
00:14:18.240 Okay.
00:14:18.860 That's not close.
00:14:19.900 I wasn't thinking anyone on the ship was hurt when he was 250 yards away.
00:14:25.500 I'm very concerned about why a train engineer would not understand he was going to come up short on this one.
00:14:30.940 You probably should not be.
00:14:33.560 You know, well, the good news is it only goes backward and forward.
00:14:37.880 So that's true.
00:14:38.720 He doesn't have a lot of options.
00:14:40.960 You know, is that backward or forward?
00:14:43.800 There is something really important to understand too.
00:14:47.580 If you, uh, happen to be contemplating derailing a train into a ship, number one, you need to make sure you can get a little closer than 250 yards.
00:14:57.100 But number two, when you're interviewed, you can't give the quotes that this guy gave because he keeps saying stuff like, you know what?
00:15:04.360 I only had this one chance and I, people had to know.
00:15:06.880 And now they do know what?
00:15:08.920 I don't know what you didn't tell me.
00:15:10.580 You have to be specific.
00:15:13.300 And I'm really curious.
00:15:14.600 I really want to know.
00:15:15.920 He thinks what he thought was on that ship.
00:15:18.480 Was it aliens?
00:15:19.840 Is, are we giving people COVID?
00:15:21.860 I really want to know what this guy was thinking.
00:15:24.480 Legitimately.
00:15:25.060 And how a guy who, legitimately, I want to know.
00:15:27.480 Yeah.
00:15:27.720 I went on the internet last night to try to track down what, like what conspiracy theory he was kind of pointing to.
00:15:33.600 Cause it definitely seems like he's in some, you know, down a deep on a rabbit hole.
00:15:38.700 But like, no, like he's so deep in it that he, he thinks everybody else knows about it.
00:15:43.660 Or at least everyone's going to know what he's talking about.
00:15:45.500 It's like, well, no, I couldn't even find the conspiracy theory.
00:15:48.060 I would love to, if anyone knows what it is or can explain to us what it is.
00:15:51.960 I'd love to hear.
00:15:52.880 I'd love to hear.
00:15:53.440 I would really like to know.
00:15:54.160 I'm just, I just, cause I'm just, I'm fascinated by this.
00:15:56.460 So the idea that you derail a train and come up 250 yards short of your target to prove a point that you don't express is just not a good plan.
00:16:04.180 This is a bigger, this is a much more important story for people to follow over, you know, Governor Cuomo's nipple rings, whether he has them or not.
00:16:11.600 I don't even want to think about that.
00:16:13.120 No, I don't want anybody to tell me if he has them or not.
00:16:15.760 I don't want to, can we stop thinking about his nipples?
00:16:18.940 This is a much more, but if you're going to do a nonsensical story, this one, we definitely need to know.
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00:16:48.380 So there's a, there was a tweet sent out by the governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont.
00:16:53.900 He said, it's with heartbreaking sadness today that we can confirm the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to COVID-19.
00:17:03.980 A six week old newborn from the Hartford area was brought in unresponsive to a hospital last week and could not be revived.
00:17:12.180 Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive.
00:17:18.120 Absolutely heartbreaking.
00:17:19.440 We believe this is one of the youngest lives lost anywhere due to complications relating to COVID-19.
00:17:28.340 This virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy also stresses the importance of staying home and limiting exposure to people.
00:17:35.900 Your lives and the lives of others literally could be saved.
00:17:38.440 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:17:39.080 Well, Candace Owen did not like this. 1.00
00:17:42.640 Candace wrote, linked to COVID-19?
00:17:45.400 What the hell does that even mean?
00:17:46.740 Did the newborn have pre-existing conditions?
00:17:50.100 Yes or no.
00:17:50.640 Did the infant die of coronavirus?
00:17:53.140 Yes or no.
00:17:54.120 Stop with the political doublespeak.
00:17:56.240 Scaring mothers of newborns with partial information is scum behavior.
00:18:01.520 Complicated by, linked to.
00:18:03.960 Has anyone realized that all of these death announcements provide partial information?
00:18:09.080 If you're going to start using the death of infants to scare people into doing what you want,
00:18:12.800 you better start providing full information.
00:18:15.980 Well, that's created a firestorm and Candace Owens joins us now to talk about it. 1.00
00:18:21.500 Hello, Candace.
00:18:23.080 Glenn, when am I ever not causing a firestorm?
00:18:27.280 I don't know.
00:18:28.520 I don't know.
00:18:29.300 You are a human flame.
00:18:31.260 Torch on is what you should say every day when you get out of bed.
00:18:35.800 So, what is the, first of all, tell me about your sisters, because I think this is important
00:18:40.860 for people to know, because you are very passionate on this because of your sisters.
00:18:48.620 Yeah.
00:18:49.140 So, I first, everyone who doesn't know, I just want to say, I grew up in Connecticut.
00:18:52.700 So, I am Connecticut-raised, and so, incidentally, all of my family lives in Connecticut.
00:19:00.380 And by chance, both of my sisters at the start of this coronavirus outbreak were nine months
00:19:06.000 pregnant when these lockdowns went into place.
00:19:08.040 Holy cow. 0.89
00:19:09.140 First time pregnant, too.
00:19:10.520 So, you know, there's a lot of, you know, first-time pregnancy angst that goes into this.
00:19:14.680 Oh, yeah.
00:19:15.120 So, just so people understand what people that are pregnant right now are going through.
00:19:18.720 There are some hospitals that are not allowing their spouses to be in the room when they 0.99
00:19:22.300 give birth.
00:19:23.240 My sisters were allowed no visitors outside of their husbands.
00:19:26.940 So, there's just, you know, they both have babies that are under three weeks old.
00:19:31.320 And they gave birth in Stanford, Connecticut for one of my sisters.
00:19:34.800 And that is where the hotbed is, all the spread is, where they're saying that it's the most
00:19:38.600 dangerous place to be.
00:19:39.560 That's where I grew up.
00:19:40.380 So, when I saw this tweet go out, I was absolutely infuriated because I've been noticing that
00:19:47.820 trend of linked to, complicated by, complications associated with coronavirus or COVID-19.
00:19:56.440 And that tells a mother or a person nothing.
00:19:59.560 A person could have stage four cancer, okay, and die of a cold, right?
00:20:04.280 But you would no one would ever introduce the information of this person died, complicated
00:20:09.040 by, you know, of something complicated by a cold.
00:20:11.560 You would say this person had stage four cancer.
00:20:13.800 This person, you know, was HIV positive.
00:20:16.120 You would just give more information because it provides context, which tethers people to
00:20:20.520 reality.
00:20:21.540 What he did was so irresponsible, and he did that intentionally.
00:20:26.360 There is no question about that.
00:20:27.740 So, now, why is it irresponsible, Candace?
00:20:33.980 He's trying to get people to pay attention to it.
00:20:36.420 I'm just playing devil's advocate.
00:20:37.460 I don't think I actually believe this.
00:20:38.740 Yeah, as if, right?
00:20:39.660 He's trying to get people to pay attention to it, as if, okay?
00:20:43.820 If this person was genuinely trying to be responsible and was concerned about pregnant women and to
00:20:50.240 be mothers, he would have provided every single detail, right? 0.83
00:20:54.180 He would have said, you know, this person, you know, this baby was brought unresponsive.
00:20:58.840 Maybe the baby was born with some, you know, major underlying illness.
00:21:02.000 Maybe the baby died of SIDS, you know?
00:21:04.220 And because they are now allowing people to be tested post-mortem, every person must be
00:21:09.520 tested to see if they have the virus in their system.
00:21:11.960 They're only reporting if the person tested positive.
00:21:15.320 You know, and this poor infant, this poor family, this poor child is going through enough
00:21:19.800 trauma that you have what they have gone through be used.
00:21:23.560 Because the governor of Connecticut, just like the governor of New York, just like the
00:21:27.920 governor of Illinois, is trying to extract wealth from the federal government.
00:21:32.960 And the more deaths and COVID-19 cases they have, the more they can knock on Donald Trump's
00:21:37.840 door and say, we need more billions. 0.87
00:21:40.020 Do you think it's ironic that all of these states happen to be facing a crisis, a budget
00:21:45.920 crisis?
00:21:46.840 You know, Chicago, I mean, Illinois, facing bankruptcy.
00:21:51.100 Connecticut, facing bankruptcy.
00:21:52.840 Andrew Cuomo in New York, facing a Medicaid collapse, right?
00:21:56.860 He had until April 1st to sort all of this budget stuff out because he's given out too
00:22:02.060 much free stuff.
00:22:03.200 And lo and behold, they are given a gift in the form of coronavirus, which is a real
00:22:07.760 virus, okay?
00:22:08.820 There's no question it's a real virus.
00:22:10.400 What we are questioning is whether or not they are drumming up the narrative by falsely
00:22:14.700 associating every single death to coronavirus so that they can extract more wealth from the
00:22:20.180 Fed.
00:22:20.380 So you see an example of this with the CBS News talent executive and news producer that
00:22:31.380 they said died of COVID-19 Sunday.
00:22:34.480 This according to CBS News.
00:22:37.260 But she didn't really die of COVID-19.
00:22:40.060 Yes, that was the thing that eventually took her.
00:22:43.320 But she has been battling cancer and, quote, related illnesses for 20 years and was in a
00:22:53.380 weakened condition.
00:22:54.400 These are the people that we knew in advance would be the most likely to die.
00:23:00.760 I have a friend who's on medication right now to save his eyes.
00:23:06.460 He's going blind.
00:23:08.160 Well, the medication he's taking is they usually give to people who have an organ transplant.
00:23:15.100 And it completely suppresses your immune system.
00:23:19.500 And I know this guy's like my brother.
00:23:23.100 I mean, we grew up together.
00:23:24.320 I know and he knows if he catches this, he's going to die.
00:23:29.100 But it's not because coronavirus is so deadly.
00:23:31.960 It's because he has no immune system because of the other thing that he has going on.
00:23:38.100 That is correct.
00:23:40.500 That is absolutely correct.
00:23:42.000 And people need to really look into the fine print here because they've changed it.
00:23:46.140 They've changed the medical standard.
00:23:48.140 Never before, when people die of various illnesses, do they test them for one specific virus, right?
00:23:53.380 If you're, as an example, if you're HIV positive and that transforms into AIDS,
00:23:58.260 everybody that dies of AIDS, we know dies actually of something like a cold, right?
00:24:03.200 But we are not told that, you know, a cold is so dangerous that this person died.
00:24:07.660 We're not told that because that's completely unreasonable.
00:24:10.340 Of course, a person with a regular immune system can fight off a common cold.
00:24:14.300 Of course, a person that is suffering from full-blown AIDS is compromised.
00:24:19.060 They cannot fight off a cold because of their immune system suppression.
00:24:22.900 So how are they conflating these things?
00:24:24.920 And why are they conflating these things, Glenn?
00:24:27.980 That's the most important question, why?
00:24:30.300 And I am telling you, it is a financial incentive, okay?
00:24:33.760 The Democrats have never seen a crisis that they didn't think that they could extract money from.
00:24:38.580 And all of them have mismanaged their states.
00:24:41.780 To me, I draw a thick line in the sand when you start coming after vulnerable moms who have so much to be fearful of,
00:24:48.620 especially going, you may not be able to have your spouse in the room when you give birth for the first time.
00:24:55.400 And now you're sending them home with their babies with an idea that these babies are dropping dead of coronavirus?
00:25:01.480 That is absolutely sick.
00:25:04.680 It's scum behavior.
00:25:06.280 I think Ned Lamont is a scumbag.
00:25:08.600 And I stand by that assessment.
00:25:09.920 I'd say it to his face if he was in my living room today.
00:25:12.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:25:30.160 Hello, America, and welcome to Thursday.
00:25:33.140 Bill Kelly is a 95-year-old World War II veteran from Oregon.
00:25:37.940 He lived through the Great Depression.
00:25:39.580 He was in Guadalcanal, and now he has just fought the coronavirus and survived.
00:25:48.360 He is on the phone with us now from Oregon, along with his grandson.
00:25:53.440 It's Isaac, is it not?
00:25:55.840 Yeah, good to be here.
00:25:58.160 Hey, good to talk to you, Isaac.
00:25:59.860 Bill, how are you?
00:26:01.960 I'm just feeling fine, Glenn.
00:26:03.860 Thanks for asking, yeah.
00:26:06.120 Yeah, so tell me...
00:26:07.580 Happy to be here.
00:26:07.740 Tell me what the ordeal was like.
00:26:13.980 Very simply, I just was feeling a little bit low, kind of not very hungry and couldn't sleep very well.
00:26:24.580 Just uneasy.
00:26:25.440 And the ladies here, they checked me out, and I had a fever.
00:26:31.060 So they sent me to the hospital, and then through numerous, numerous tests, they had apparently determined that I had the virus.
00:26:39.400 And then all heck broke loose.
00:26:41.720 I went home isolated, you know.
00:26:44.600 So I went past the germ around, and that was the biggest, the toughest is, Glenn had, you get cabin fever in a hurry.
00:26:55.080 Fortunately, I got two great-grandsons.
00:26:57.940 One is five years old, the other is just a wee one, 11 months.
00:27:01.680 But I could hear him.
00:27:02.820 I had to stay in my room, but I could hear him in the background laughing and talking.
00:27:06.280 So that made it a lot easier.
00:27:08.980 And I said...
00:27:11.640 Uh-oh.
00:27:16.120 Sorry, Bob.
00:27:16.740 I'm assuming that's not one of your grandsons, but...
00:27:19.480 No, I had no...
00:27:20.680 Anyway, just to cut that short there, Glenn.
00:27:27.900 So, yeah, it was difficult, cabin fever and this sort of thing.
00:27:31.860 But I was well taken care of, and I did what I was told, and that's difficult for me.
00:27:37.620 And we worked it on through, and I just wanted to tell the people that it wasn't pleasant.
00:27:45.540 But on the other hand, if you do what you're supposed to do, and you have some loved ones around you and do a lot of praying, well, you'll come through okay.
00:27:55.240 And we've been through that, we've been through Pearl Harbor, we've been through the Big Depression, and who knows what else.
00:28:02.160 And we're tough.
00:28:03.220 We get through it, hang in there, and that's about the size of it, really.
00:28:07.900 So, Bill, you remember the Great Depression.
00:28:11.120 Tell me what that was like.
00:28:13.860 Well, I was just a kid then.
00:28:15.720 See, I was born in 1925, and I remember in the early 30s what was going on.
00:28:22.640 And I remember Dad, this will get you, Glenn, it's a fact that he was out of work, and they'd do most anything to get to support their families, you know, no matter what.
00:28:35.840 And Dad would answer some, he'd answer some ads, you know.
00:28:41.880 And I remember one time, somebody wanted, a company wanted a shoe salesman.
00:28:47.860 And so Dad was getting ready to go to the interview, and he didn't have any razor blades, so he actually took a pane of glass.
00:28:57.040 Where he got it, I don't know.
00:28:58.120 And he was trying to shave with that to look decent at the interview.
00:29:01.620 I never found out, you know, I thought, kind of, what's Dad doing?
00:29:07.840 But I never knew if he got the job or not.
00:29:10.500 But people were willing to do anything to support their family.
00:29:16.000 And they would just, you know, we all hung together in, and we worked through it.
00:29:20.920 And we had fun as kids, too.
00:29:23.920 Did a lot of rabbit hunting back in the Midwest, you know, for food, squirrel hunting, fishing.
00:29:29.780 You know, lived off the land, a big garden.
00:29:32.740 And we just worked through it, Glenn.
00:29:34.760 You know, Bill, it's amazing, because I think most Americans don't know.
00:29:41.080 I mean, we, you know, they're saying that we may had 30% unemployment by June 1st.
00:29:46.980 And, you know, that's beyond what the Great Depression was.
00:29:50.660 Hopefully, we can turn it around quicker than the Great Depression. 0.96
00:29:53.120 But people don't have any idea what it's like.
00:29:58.260 I remember my grandparents, they lived through it, and they were still a little spooked by it.
00:30:04.760 My grandfather used to always say to me, you don't know what it was like.
00:30:07.980 Don't waste anything.
00:30:09.200 Don't waste anything.
00:30:10.020 You don't know when that could happen again.
00:30:13.280 So true.
00:30:14.100 So true.
00:30:15.080 That, you know, it's just like with the garden.
00:30:18.760 We all worked in the big garden we had there and, you know, and had lots of help to help our neighbors, too, that didn't have that.
00:30:28.120 We worked together on that.
00:30:30.140 And the camaraderie was really great.
00:30:32.360 And it's to exist.
00:30:34.200 You know, it's just, it's born in our American blood.
00:30:36.900 We're that type of people that we take care of each other, and we are a unit that they're not going to break down.
00:30:44.900 We're going to make it through every time.
00:30:46.800 Every time.
00:30:47.580 So, Bill, there's people that don't think that we are those people anymore, that it's the greatest generation, your generation.
00:30:55.880 They did it, and now, you know, we're not the same people.
00:30:59.440 Do you agree with that?
00:31:00.460 Yeah.
00:31:00.700 Or is this just...
00:31:01.500 No, I don't.
00:31:02.580 And the reason I say that is that because I remember when I was a young kid, you know, and the people, the older people, say,
00:31:09.660 oh, those young kids are soft.
00:31:11.280 They're this, they're that.
00:31:12.340 They smoke, they're whatever, whatever, whatever.
00:31:14.560 But when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, sneak attack, you know, it's surprising how these so-called goofy kids turn into mighty fighting people.
00:31:28.080 So, and they're very loyal, and I have lots of faith in them.
00:31:34.420 So, no, there's lots of great guys, and we only hear stories about some of the ones that are new Knicks.
00:31:43.220 But, no, I don't have any problem with the new generation.
00:31:47.200 They'll take care of us.
00:31:49.460 They'll take care of us.
00:31:50.500 We're American.
00:31:51.080 Bill, how old were you when Pearl Harbor happened?
00:31:58.780 Well, I was, let's say that, we had just, family had just moved to San Francisco from Aurora, Illinois.
00:32:05.840 Daddy had a job in a shipyard.
00:32:07.500 And then, Sunday, December 7th, while the attack, Zevni attacked Pearl Harbor, while the, all the big battleships were lined up in a row in their stalls,
00:32:19.600 and having, you know, services, Sunday services, this sort of thing.
00:32:25.900 How old were you?
00:32:26.760 Oh, I was, oh, excuse me.
00:32:28.480 I was 16.
00:32:30.100 16, and so it, the news probably broke at about what time were you at service when that, when that news broke?
00:32:42.140 So, I think it happened like at 8 o'clock in the morning.
00:32:44.240 So, did you know before you went to church in the morning?
00:32:49.020 As I recall, we had the, we had the radio on, and just before we were going to Mass,
00:32:54.740 we just walked up the, up the Mission Street to the church, and then they came, I broke on,
00:33:00.920 and said that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, and then everything broke loose.
00:33:05.880 So, I don't even remember if we went to church that morning.
00:33:08.980 I can't remember that much, but everybody was, everything was, was pretty much chaos.
00:33:15.340 Upside down.
00:33:16.340 So, yeah.
00:33:17.720 Bill, it is, it is, it is great to talk to you.
00:33:23.100 Bill, really great to talk to you.
00:33:24.860 Thank you for all the things that you've done in your life and raising a great family.
00:33:28.600 I mean, just reading about your family and how they took care of you and, you know,
00:33:33.560 your attitude through it.
00:33:34.660 I just think it's fantastic.
00:33:36.060 And thank you for sharing your story with us.
00:33:39.480 That's true.
00:33:40.200 And just one thing else I want to say is that people who are concerned about this virus we're having,
00:33:46.280 do what you're supposed to do, take care of yourself, stay healthy, and you'll get through it just fine.
00:33:51.700 We've done it before.
00:33:52.800 We can do it again.
00:33:53.900 Yeah.
00:33:54.940 God bless you.
00:33:55.800 Thank you so much.
00:33:57.000 And I remember what President Rosedale said, the only thing to fear is fear itself.
00:34:02.680 And that's fact.
00:34:03.860 So, we'll go that route.
00:34:06.160 Thank you so much, Bill.
00:34:07.320 God bless you.
00:34:08.040 Isaac, thank you for being on with us.
00:34:10.660 God bless.
00:34:11.080 God bless.
00:34:11.160 God bless.