Glenn Beck's new TV show on the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the U.S. and the ridiculous media narrative that conservatives don't care about human life. Plus, the latest on the stock market crash and what it means for the economy.
00:00:00.000Welcome to the podcast. Today we have kind of a different show. We wanted to kind of hear from you and find out what's going on in the world.
00:00:09.840Because there's a way of looking at things and we can go through all the news and get all the reporters telling us what they think is going on.
00:00:16.480But we always find that it's valuable to check in with you and see what's going on in your world because we learn so much from doing that.
00:00:22.600And we take a bunch of calls today from people who have gone through real tough times with this. People who are questioning our future when it comes to our economy and the future of the country.
00:00:33.020We also go on and take on a little bit of the ridiculous media narratives about how conservatives in particular are being portrayed as not caring about human life.
00:00:46.700Which is a bizarre accusation when you want to insert abortion into the issue.
00:00:54.300But the idea being that we don't care about old people because of the stock market futures. That's much more important.
00:01:00.420We get into that. Glenn has a special TV show on coronavirus today. Make sure you subscribe and check that out.
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00:01:22.760We'll tell you about that. And go through the spending bill, which is, there's a lot in there. Highly questionable.
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00:01:59.620All right, here we go with our coronavirus update.
00:02:02.040The daily stats, as always, as of 530 a.m. Central Time from Johns Hopkins University.
00:02:08.460Total confirmed cases worldwide, now up about 40,000 to 434,000.
00:02:15.680Total confirmed deaths worldwide, 19,000, up 3,000.
00:04:56.980Majority of the public is going to be ordered to stay in home in the coming days as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation.
00:05:04.060Total of 13 states, at least 16 municipalities have enacted measures to keep residents inside their homes and prevent the spread of the virus, according to CNN.
00:05:12.940I have to tell you, I don't know why we're closing down everything, everywhere.
00:05:19.820There are towns all across America that are still working and can keep social distancing that don't have the virus yet.
00:05:29.340They should remain online just with social distancing so we can still go to work when we can.
00:05:40.200Again, 13 states and 16 municipalities have enacted measures.
00:05:48.580That number amounts to 148 million people, or half of the population.
00:05:57.280Uniformed military personnel yesterday set up a makeshift morgue outside of New York City in a hospital.
00:06:03.840It is Hollywood disaster scenes that are starting to be seen in some of America's biggest cities.
00:06:12.560Also, UV rays proven now to destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
00:06:18.780The infection rate of COVID-19 is 22 times higher in Iceland as compared to Australia.
00:06:25.520The research comes as scientists in Hong Kong demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is easily destroyed with UV light, just like all other coronaviruses or flus.
00:06:40.280So it looks like there is indeed going to be an end to this this summer as the season changes.
00:06:51.080But it will also mean that it will come back if we haven't found some sort of a vaccine or some sort of a some sort of an old medicine or drug that works.
00:07:04.320Again, Prince Charles has tested positive.
00:07:06.780I'm wondering, I'm wondering, I'm wondering if people in in in Scotland and Ireland see that as good news or bad news.
00:08:04.700There's a spot between what Putin did and what the president of Mexico has been doing lately, which is still walking around and hugging and kissing people and eating the cheeks of children for whatever reason.
00:08:16.280And he is how that that whole story is the most undercovered story to me in this entire crisis, which is we can do whatever we want here.
00:08:30.760However, the fact that we have a country just to ourself across a border that we don't want to enforce, that is not doing anything, that is still having soccer matches very, very recently, still having festivals, still having their president walk around and do rallies among tons of people.
00:08:49.060There's almost no testing going on in that country.
00:08:52.100They are almost certainly ravaged by coronavirus.
00:08:56.620And the second we were to cure it here, it would be coming over the border like crazy from there.
00:09:02.940It would make no difference and we'd have to do it all over again.
00:09:06.340And if we ever got serious, if they were out of control and we got serious about our border, Donald Trump, of course, be called racist again.
00:11:11.020And a lot of them have lost their job because, you know, they're and he sounds like a slumlord because they're lower rent apartments, you know.
00:11:19.600And he posted these on all his three properties.
00:11:24.580Now, the governor, Governor Polis, not a fan of him, but Governor Polis and the Jefferson County where I live, the biggest county in the state.
00:11:36.160They have not decreed anything, but they have said they recommend that landlords, you know, make payment arrangements, you know, don't charge late fees, those kinds of things.
00:11:47.180But they can't these these landlords like this are protected because it's not a decree.
00:11:54.660So I really wish Dr. Carson would decree that that, you know, be be show some humanity.
00:12:03.160Well, I tell you, Felicia, this is I agree with you.
00:12:07.240And this is where we this is where the rubber meets the road.
00:12:10.420And this is what I was talking to Thomas Massey about.
00:12:13.420People have to worry about their rent.
00:12:15.440They have to worry about their rent at home.
00:12:17.940If you're a business person, you have to worry about the rent or the mortgage payment for your offices.
00:12:23.700And that's where people need money right now.
00:12:26.600We don't need money to go shopping other than food.
00:12:29.820If you don't if you lost your job, you can't pay your rent.
00:12:34.500And these banks are getting four trillion dollars and they will be made whole.
00:12:39.920And there's I don't understand why the government just didn't say, you know, no evictions, no mortgages and not have.
00:12:48.340You know, the person who owns this guy sounds like a jerk, but the person who owns apartment buildings, they do still have to pay that mortgage.
00:12:56.640And if nobody pays them, they can't pay the mortgage and then they lose the apartment building.
00:13:02.780So everybody's in it, like you said, together.
00:13:06.440So it makes sense that we all kind of do what we have to do and work together.
00:13:11.740But that requires the bank, you know, the person who holds the note to also say, OK, you know what?
00:13:19.380I know it's tough times and you can only make a third of your mortgage payment.
00:13:38.760This guy sounds like a jerk, but you don't want to stone people because they're higher up on the the the ladder, as you would might see it.
00:13:49.080And they own this big property. Well, they might be fighting for their life as well, and they're not getting any relief.
00:13:55.220And that's the problem. We have to understand that the entire food chain here has been disrupted.
00:15:27.840Well, they're so smart, they're not even sharing the language with us yet.
00:15:31.940So, supposedly, they came to an agreement last night, and it's a thousand pages, and you got the price tag right, as far as what I'm hearing.
00:15:42.820Literally, all I have to go on is the dear colleague letter from Chuck Schumer to the other Democrats where he's bragging on the victories that he got in the bill.
00:15:52.640Well, that's the most substantial representation of the bill that I have right now, and I suspect they're going to try and pass it here in Congress on a unanimous consent without ever actually having congressmen vote.
00:16:18.800It means that Congress is just a bunch of eunuchs at that point, is what it means.
00:16:25.960It means that the administration, people within the administration, and two or three other people, and a bunch of lobbyists got together and wrote a bill,
00:16:36.900and instead of even giving it the imprimatur of a congressional debate, they're just going to try, I believe, I could be wrong,
00:16:45.460I believe they're just going to ask for unanimous consent to deem it a law.
00:16:49.960Like, it wouldn't even be a voiceover.
00:24:11.100And to tell, you know, people are going above and beyond what is necessary to do the right thing.
00:24:17.180And there's a hotline now in Kentucky where you can turn in your neighbor.
00:24:21.900You can, if you see somebody do something that the governor said not to do, there's a hotline that the governor set up.
00:24:28.480And I called it just to, just to see, you know, I thought, well, maybe they'll probably staff it with offshore, you know, a call center.
00:24:36.760But as it turns out, they, the governor's actually just taken people that used to work in other departments and conscripted them to take these calls where people are snitching on their neighbors.
00:26:15.820You know, one of the points I've made about the governors doing these things is some of my colleagues here say, look, this is a government taking.
00:26:24.020The government is taking something from people, their livelihood.
00:26:27.600So we must pay the people back for their their what was taken from them.
00:26:32.500But I'm pointing out that it's the governors who are taking and it's the federal government who is giving back.
00:26:39.080So we are now with this bill, we will be incentivizing governors to destroy their own economy and to put people out of work.
00:26:47.820And if you have one governor who stood up to all of it, now the federal government's coming in and saying, well,
00:26:53.840you might as well go in with the rest of the lot, because now we are going to finance all this malfeasance for the economy.
00:27:01.900Right. And there are there are states that are looking at these other states like they're crazy.
00:27:09.000I mean, it's you know, the cities here in Dallas have been and been blasting our governor because he hasn't put the entire state on lockdown.
00:27:17.520The entire state doesn't need to be on lockdown down.
00:28:13.160Thomas, thank you so much for all that you do.
00:28:15.740The congressman from Kentucky, Thomas Massey, will be watching you and the rest of the congressmen and the senators today in the House and the Senate as they as they maybe don't even vote on six trillion dollars being spent.
00:30:08.920They managed to bankrupt us like Venezuela while still not even covering certain people.
00:30:18.200And then all of this is going to go into a black hole within a week or two.
00:30:22.920If, as the Democrat governors seem to want to do, they keep the shutdown going on this severely, this indefinitely.
00:30:30.960There's no amount of trillions of dollars you could print that is going to ameliorate that pig.
00:30:35.240So it's both too large and too little at the same time.
00:30:39.760And it's going to expose them to a bunch of political peril.
00:30:42.640And what the Democrats have showed is that you can never outbid them.
00:30:45.600If you don't provide a bold contrast in addressing the crisis in a different way, again, there are certain things we have to do with the surge in funding for the hospitals.
00:31:10.220And then let's get back to work over the next few weeks with the prudent balance geographically, demographically, and take care of the actual problem.
00:31:19.580But instead what they do is they indiscriminately throw $500 billion in the form of $1,200 rebates at people, $500 per kid, even to families that didn't lose a penny.
00:31:34.000But then if you're earning more than $150,000 as a family, as a small business owner, but that's last year.
00:31:42.060On last year's tax returns, but this year you're slaughtered, you get nothing.
00:31:46.860So they're going to get hit politically for that.
00:31:49.580And this whole thing just, it makes no sense, Glenn, because either we address this in a different way and we get back to solving the problem, or there is no money in the world that will solve this.
00:32:08.000So there is no money in the world that will solve this.
00:32:11.180What needed to happen, Daniel, I think, is solve the immediate needs of those who lost their job or those who are about to lose their house because they lost their job or those who are about to lose their business.
00:32:30.220I mean, anything that helps business people out, you know, especially the small business person, just by saying, look, you don't have to worry about your rent.
00:32:45.120Some way of just, even if you have a mortgage, talking to the banks and saying, look, you know you guys are going to get it $4 trillion through the back door.
00:32:56.580And that's just what we're announcing this week, let alone what we did last week, and let alone what you know is coming next week.
00:33:03.560So no mortgage foreclosures, mortgage break for three months for everybody.
00:33:09.500That would take care of the apartment building owner that has to make the nut and pay for that mortgage.
00:33:27.060Once you are giving $1,000 to $1,200 a week for unemployment benefits indefinitely, and, you know, again, in the last bill, they took care of the paid leave for 12 weeks, which now they will advance the cash to the small businesses to cover that up front.
00:33:44.100So you have the immediate problem, the Band-Aid.
00:33:47.300Why they need to spend an extra $1.5 trillion on the $500 billion for the bailouts for the industries, another $367 billion in small business loans, but there's nothing to loan for because they're shut down.
00:34:00.940And then $150 billion thrown at state governments, and then they have, you know, $30 billion for education, another $20 billion for mass transit, which I thought that's the ultimate people spreader.
00:34:15.280It doesn't make any sense, but then at the same time, they're adamantly saying, how dare you, Mr. Trump, hope to get back to work in some modicum of normalcy by April 12th, by Easter.
00:34:41.660If there is no downside to doing this, to, you know, no pain to spending so much immediately more than we need to just now, which is what any normal person would do, why not blow this wide open and give every family a $100,000 check?
00:36:37.920And is there going to be any job to go back to in the end?
00:36:41.360This bill doesn't address any of those.
00:36:43.380And to speak to your home issue, there's another point I think your listeners need to get involved in at a grassroots level with state property or in local property taxes.
00:36:54.220And it's time to get state legislatures involved in this.
00:36:57.200One of the problems I see happening in the next few weeks is this.
00:37:00.620We know the Imperial College study was bogus.
00:37:18.580Where's the evidence that this stuff wasn't baked into the cake from January and February, which it absolutely was, because we had flights from Wuhan when I was calling for a shutoff in January.
00:37:28.580So unfortunately, all these people that are like, oh, we have to save lives.
00:37:32.180Well, yeah, thanks to you, Pelosi had a had a ban on Trump's ban as late as January 29th.
00:37:40.580But my concern, Glenn, is that we're headed for the following scenario where Trump's going to try over the next few weeks to see how to achieve the proper balance.
00:37:48.780And these Democrat governors are suddenly more powerful than God.
00:37:53.640You know, I wish states would have been this powerful over the last half century.
00:37:56.920And they're going to just to make him look look bad, push more severe shutdowns.
00:38:02.980Trump needs to tell them we are not going to bail out the states.
00:38:07.100If you are going to go more severe than needed in the coming weeks, then you need to pay for that.
00:38:12.280And one of the ways of doing that is they have to start relinquishing property taxes, like like you said, so homeowners could afford it.
00:38:21.640I will tell you, Daniel, that I think this is where the president absolutely needs to go.
00:38:26.320He needs to next week say, you know, here's the plan.
00:38:30.320We're going to continue to look at how we're doing.
00:38:33.220But in certain states, they are either past it or it's not the problem.
00:38:39.980You have to keep your social distancing.
00:38:42.020But I'm giving this power to the states and every state should open up when they can.
00:38:49.740We are going to be there to help you open up and we're going to be there and we will encourage you to open up.