The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Thomas Massie & Jade Powell ｜ 3⧸18⧸20

00:00:00.180 Welcome to the podcast. Another day in apocalypse land as we deal with the coronavirus.

00:00:06.160 Are you cash hoarding? It's a big problem. Are you taking your money out of your bank?

00:00:11.160 That could be limited. That could be labeled as cash hoarding if you don't watch it.

00:00:16.600 And we're now having people across the country who are calling 911 because they're out of toilet paper.

00:00:22.980 Not really advisable, but you may want to know about that story.

00:00:27.460 Also, Thomas Massey, the representative, is joining us, talking to us about not only what's going on with coronavirus, but also the FISA authorization and what happens after this.

00:00:37.120 Because if we have a big situation where we're giving up power and we're giving up power to the government, how does that play out later on?

00:00:44.600 And Daniel Horowitz is watching all the money they're spending and all the new stimulus programs that we're about to get hit with.

00:00:51.760 It is a it's one of those things where we're looking at a current crisis going on now and we're setting the ground for another crisis once this one is over.

00:01:00.760 We look at both sides of that. You can also watch Glenn's special tonight.

00:01:05.060 It's on coronavirus. What do you need to know? You can any question that you have, you can hashtag GB just the facts, hashtag GB just the facts to get your answer.

00:01:15.480 Your question answered on their coronavirus special tonight. That is at 9 p.m. Eastern.

00:01:20.900 And an hour before that, you can get the show with me, Stu Does America, in which we're going to we've got a little news of the New York Times that we've discovered.

00:01:29.300 We're going to get into that, which is an amazing piece of hypocrisy.

00:01:32.500 Go over and click on Stu Does America and search for that and click on subscribe on your podcast app now.

00:01:39.860 And here is the podcast.

00:01:49.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:57.700 Our daily stats come from Johns Hopkins and they are as of 530 a.m. central time.

00:02:04.520 Total confirmed cases worldwide, 202,000. That's up from 185. That's a big jump.

00:02:11.720 Total confirmed deaths worldwide, 8,000 up from 7,300 yesterday.

00:02:18.580 Total confirmed recovered, 82,000 up from 79,000 yesterday.

00:02:25.340 167 countries have confirmed cases up from 162.

00:02:29.560 Four more have suspected cases.

00:02:31.900 How many countries are there? There's 170, aren't there, Stu?

00:02:34.520 Do you know?

00:02:35.940 I mean, that number always fluctuates.

00:02:37.640 Yeah, I think it's 190.

00:02:39.280 Yeah, the countries without examples, though, just aren't they're not testing in Madagascar, I don't think.

00:02:45.980 Correct. Correct.

00:02:47.600 And the all continents have it now, I think, except for Antarctica, which, hey, I'm willing to carry eggs on my feet.

00:02:55.000 If that's what it takes to stay, you know, free and and virus free.

00:03:00.500 Yeah, I'll do it.

00:03:01.560 Six percent of active cases are now considered serious, requiring hospitalization.

00:03:06.000 That's steady from six percent yesterday, but down from 19 percent just three weeks ago.

00:03:11.840 The U.S. now has six thousand five hundred and twenty four confirmed cases and one hundred and sixteen deaths.

00:03:18.060 That's up from forty seven hundred cases just yesterday and ninety three deaths just yesterday.

00:03:25.540 The U.S. now all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. and four U.S. territories have at least one confirmed case.

00:03:33.800 West Virginia was the lone holdout and they got a confirmed case yesterday.

00:03:38.580 Doctors are now urging younger patients.

00:03:40.680 COVID-19 causes permanent lung damage to all survivors.

00:03:45.720 Doctors in Belgium treated several younger victims here recently.

00:03:49.460 They took a CAT scan and realized they are suffering from severe lung damage.

00:03:56.040 This validates or seems to validate a report out of Hong Kong and Korea that even the younger victims who recover from COVID-19 may have permanent lung damage due to the scarring of the lung tissue.

00:04:08.280 Twenty percent permanent loss in lung function.

00:04:11.660 That's huge, especially if you're in 20s and you're going to lose 20 percent lung function when you're 20.

00:04:17.680 That's not good.

00:04:18.620 These are younger people.

00:04:20.040 They say did not smoke.

00:04:21.460 They have no other conditions.

00:04:22.920 They had nothing.

00:04:24.320 They got it.

00:04:25.020 They survived.

00:04:26.080 Then they got a chest X-ray or a CAT scan, a CT scan.

00:04:32.480 And when they got the CT scan, they realized, holy cow, there's real serious damage.

00:04:38.960 Yesterday, the president pushed for two hundred and ten billion free dollars every month to U.S.

00:04:48.020 adults.

00:04:48.400 The president pressed Secretary Steve Mnuchin to give checks to a thousand dollars per person per month to all Americans starting in two weeks.

00:05:00.700 And when I say all Americans, all Americans except millionaires.

00:05:04.560 The thousand dollars per month stimulus would cost two hundred and ten billion dollars every month.

00:05:10.780 There are 209 million American adults over the age of 18 millionaires do not receive this money.

00:05:17.980 If you're bored during the COVID-19 quarantine, Dr.

00:05:21.880 Oz came out and said, I have an idea. 0.98

00:05:24.840 Have sex. 0.99

00:05:27.440 OK, thank you, Dr. 0.99

00:05:28.820 Oz.

00:05:29.320 U.S.

00:05:29.860 hospital ships have been have been activated.

00:05:32.640 Now, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper confirmed that two hospital ships have been activated, will be anchored off the east and west coast of the U.S.

00:05:41.240 Stu, can I just ask you a question?

00:05:44.280 Did anybody think?

00:05:45.880 I don't know.

00:05:47.580 Cruise ships?

00:05:48.980 I'm getting kind of a bad idea.

00:05:51.840 I think what the what they're doing with that is they're putting the people who are in the hospitals for other reasons on the ship for other reasons.

00:05:59.000 So they can clear out the actual hospitals for the covid patients.

00:06:01.940 It's a theory, but I don't think there's going to be any because the military on right military doesn't have they don't they're not prepared to deal with this.

00:06:11.380 They're they're, you know, trauma.

00:06:13.380 And so I think all the trauma is going on to those ships.

00:06:16.220 But once one person gets it on one of those ships, I mean, they're going to be traveling around looking for a port to come in, you know, without without Steve and Edie Gourmet doing the, you know, doing the entertainment.

00:06:29.920 Um, type a blood may be more likely to catch covid-19 people with type a blood.

00:06:37.200 Do you know what kind of blood you have?

00:06:39.400 I sides read.

00:06:40.700 No, no, I would say no.

00:06:42.800 I don't really know off the top of my head.

00:06:45.300 Those with type O also are at risk, obviously, but type a significantly more likely to catch this according to China.

00:06:56.120 A study in Wuhan, the epicenter of disease, also found with type blood a type a blood.

00:07:02.420 There's you're more likely to die from covid-19 with no clear indication on why that may be true.

00:07:09.980 Covid-19 now may be cured by an existing antiviral drug cocktail doctors in Queensland Center for clinical research.

00:07:19.120 That's in Australia, pressing Australian authorities to grant him leave to begin human clinical trials.

00:07:26.480 By the end of the month, Professor Patterson, who is an infectious disease physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, said it's not a stretch to label the drugs a treatment or a cure.

00:07:37.420 He says it's potentially a very effective treatment.

00:07:40.920 The doctor did warn that even if the antiviral drugs prove to be effective, it may take months to get the studies through the human clinical trials.

00:07:48.840 We can test this in the first way.

00:07:50.820 Is anybody else thinking about all the tests that are going on and how we're rushing and then and then think of what is it?

00:07:59.300 I am legend.

00:08:00.000 And wasn't that the Will Smith movie, the Omega Man thing?

00:08:05.600 Didn't it wasn't that a when they were trying to fight a virus and then they came up with a vaccine and it was turning people into vampires or something like that.

00:08:15.020 I mean, I just don't want to be a vampire. 0.99

00:08:16.920 Stu, of all the I will promise to kill you if you turn into a zombie, I'll shoot you in the head. 1.00

00:08:22.760 Will you shoot me in the head? 1.00

00:08:23.780 Will you be my friend and shoot me in the head? 1.00

00:08:25.120 I didn't only if I'm a promise me. 1.00

00:08:27.120 No, I'll do it.

00:08:29.000 I'll do it.

00:08:29.460 No, I don't need to.

00:08:30.200 I'm pretty sure there was not a request made.

00:08:32.480 You look a little like a zombie right now.

00:08:36.100 I'm glad we're social distancing right now.

00:08:38.820 Yeah, I know.

00:08:39.740 Amazon no longer shipping cheap clothes and knickknacks to warehouses.

00:08:46.060 Okay, I don't.

00:08:48.820 Can you define knickknacks?

00:08:51.140 I mean, because I mean, who buys knickknacks?

00:08:53.920 Who's like, you know what?

00:08:55.500 I need a knickknack.

00:08:57.120 Nobody goes out to buy a knickknack.

00:08:59.080 I think knickknacks are just purchased.

00:09:01.920 You know, it's an impulse thing.

00:09:03.580 Nobody.

00:09:04.120 Have you ever heard anybody go, you know what?

00:09:06.320 I just got it.

00:09:07.220 I just moved into my house and what it needs is some knickknacks.

00:09:10.960 No, no one.

00:09:12.020 No one goes out to buy knickknacks, but they do fill your house on every shelf.

00:09:16.780 They do fill your house.

00:09:18.080 But do you know that they're knickknacks?

00:09:20.640 I mean, Amazon might think that some things are knickknacks that I think are essential.

00:09:25.860 I can't think of any right now.

00:09:27.960 Well, I think they blew up as like Amazon's not going to be shipping anything anymore to houses.

00:09:35.300 But I think it's just if you're a third-party seller, Amazon stores your things at their warehouses to send out, and they're not going to be doing that anymore.

00:09:43.760 Oh, okay.

00:09:44.220 So I think you can still order the knickknacks.

00:09:46.400 The knickknacks can still be purchased.

00:09:48.600 They're just coming to you a different way.

00:09:50.120 Good.

00:09:50.620 I mean, I don't want to panic on knickknacks.

00:09:53.120 I'm hoarding all these knickknacks.

00:09:55.640 First dog diagnosed with COVID-19 has died.

00:09:58.740 Now, when I first read that, I thought, Donald Trump has a dog?

00:10:02.600 Because he does not seem like a dog guy.

00:10:05.220 Oh, my gosh.

00:10:06.920 If I had to attach an animal to him, I think I would attach a cat to him.

00:10:11.100 Don't you think?

00:10:11.820 He's more of a cat person, isn't he?

00:10:13.140 I think like an iguana on a leash.

00:10:16.040 Like he's just walking through.

00:10:17.300 A diamond leash.

00:10:19.320 A diamond leash.

00:10:20.200 Carried by someone else.

00:10:22.300 I can see it.

00:10:23.940 Yeah.

00:10:24.380 I don't think he's really an animal person.

00:10:25.980 Maybe he is.

00:10:26.840 But, no, it's not the first dog.

00:10:28.960 It's the first dog diagnosed with COVID-19.

00:10:31.820 Can you imagine going to the center and saying, I need my dog tested?

00:10:35.160 I need my dog tested.

00:10:36.440 I thought they were clear that you weren't allowed to, or the dogs didn't get it.

00:10:40.240 And now they're saying they do?

00:10:41.200 I feel like they change this every two days.

00:10:43.800 And I know it's difficult, but it's really hard to figure out what to do.

00:10:46.920 Like masks, they don't mean anything.

00:10:48.800 You don't need a mask.

00:10:49.860 They're not effective at all. 1.00

00:10:51.040 What kind of moron would be wearing a mask? 0.99

00:10:52.960 And then yesterday they were like, oh, yeah, by the way, you should definitely be wearing masks if you go out in public. 0.99

00:10:56.820 Like, could we just could we just could we just go through some of this here on the because the whole mass thing really kind of pisses me off because they do make a huge difference.

00:11:11.100 The masks, exactly what Stu said.

00:11:14.700 Here is this from the New York Times.

00:11:17.900 Oh, yeah.

00:11:18.940 This is the headline.

00:11:20.160 Oh, yeah.

00:11:20.500 Masks really do work.

00:11:23.100 Oh, oh, OK.

00:11:25.560 So now they've come out.

00:11:27.160 And what they've said is we just want you to know that the mask thing, what we needed is we needed people to stop buying masks.

00:11:35.520 So we told everybody that masks didn't work.

00:11:38.460 I told you at the time, of course they work.

00:11:42.060 Why are they saying masks don't work?

00:11:43.960 And besides, we need them at the hospital to make our doctors feel better.

00:11:50.040 Doc, this is a super secret special mask.

00:11:54.400 It makes you completely impervious to this virus.

00:11:59.320 Just put this on.

00:12:00.280 What?

00:12:01.460 Doctors wouldn't be wearing it if it didn't work. 0.96

00:12:04.240 Of course.

00:12:06.260 But they decided to go ahead and lie to us and tell us that these things didn't work so people would stop buying them.

00:12:13.300 It's so unbelievably irresponsible.

00:12:15.920 This is governments and media cannot do these things.

00:12:19.980 Yeah, they even admit it.

00:12:20.800 Just tell us.

00:12:21.740 Even admit it in the article.

00:12:23.080 I mean, in the story, they say, like, yeah, you know, it was good intentions.

00:12:26.140 And they just wanted to make sure that people were able to get them where they needed them.

00:12:29.100 They didn't want people to go out and rush and get them.

00:12:30.580 So they just said they wouldn't work.

00:12:32.580 It's like, well, it was good intentions.

00:12:34.940 It was good intentions, too, when we rounded up the Chinese. 1.00

00:12:38.300 Well, we're just trying to, or Japanese.

00:12:39.640 We're just trying to make sure that nobody, you know, no good intentions don't count.

00:12:44.860 Yeah, no, that's don't count.

00:12:46.060 Yeah, not a good, not a good idea.

00:12:47.500 Not a good idea at all.

00:12:51.180 Healthcare workers across New York City are bracing for a surge of COVID-19 patients who need hospital care.

00:12:57.460 Everything is being rations and one nurse in a Queens hospital where the floor was just converted to the first COVID-19 floor.

00:13:06.440 She said it was empty two days ago.

00:13:09.800 Now it's full with two dozen patients.

00:13:12.300 We went from donning and doffing gowns.

00:13:15.600 That's a quote.

00:13:16.920 We went from donning and doffing gowns.

00:13:19.460 Gowns, what do we, I've heard donning, don your gown, doffing your gown?

00:13:27.480 Who is this?

00:13:29.120 Who is this? 1.00

00:13:30.400 Somebody who is way too much stupid, like literature kind of education. 1.00

00:13:36.300 Doffing, it's an actual word, should be used more often. 1.00

00:13:40.320 It's very different than donning a gown.

00:13:42.500 It's very prominent in gown culture.

00:13:45.420 Right.

00:13:45.820 What is, can you look it up?

00:13:46.800 Did you look it up?

00:13:47.420 D-O-F-F-I-N-G, doffing. 1.00

00:13:51.040 Now it says, we went from donning and doffing gowns only in patient rooms to being told we can wear the same gown in two positive corona patient rooms.

00:14:01.320 Oh.

00:14:02.400 In other words, supplies are running short.

00:14:04.860 N95s are running short. 1.00

00:14:06.100 Those are being rationed.

00:14:07.200 Don't worry, those don't work, I hear.

00:14:09.780 Nurse said they may add many more beds to the ward as she works,

00:14:13.300 and two or more floors in the hospital may be converted in the coming days.

00:14:18.640 This is why those hospital ships are going out.

00:14:22.280 You find donning and doffing?

00:14:24.040 Yeah, doffing.

00:14:24.440 It's to remove.

00:14:27.580 They could have just said removing.

00:14:28.820 So donning.

00:14:30.260 Ah, so donning is putting it on.

00:14:32.740 Doffing is taking it off.

00:14:34.380 Mm-hmm.

00:14:34.760 Huh.

00:14:35.060 That's how you can remember it really easily.

00:14:37.600 Yeah, that's great.

00:14:39.060 So, you know, I hate to break it to, you know, Jane Austen here,

00:14:48.140 but you could just put, you could just say,

00:14:50.040 we went from taking our gowns and putting them on and off,

00:14:52.780 you could do that instead of the donning and doffing,

00:14:55.220 but I don't drink tea with my pinky out either, so what do I know?

00:15:00.060 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:18.080 Welcome to the program, Congressman Thomas Massey.

00:15:22.260 Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas.

00:15:23.900 This is quite a statement.

00:15:25.380 I fear the actions taken by our government will make FDR's internment

00:15:28.860 of the Japanese-Americans look like a light touch. 0.78

00:15:32.400 You want to explain that?

00:15:33.720 Tell me how you've arrived at that.

00:15:36.500 Sure.

00:15:37.080 I'm really disturbed at how accepting people are of some of the things

00:15:41.520 that the governors are doing, particularly my governor.

00:15:45.440 You know, they posted sheriff deputies outside of a man's home here in Kentucky

00:15:49.340 because they said he tested positive,

00:15:52.000 and they wanted to make sure he didn't go anywhere.

00:15:55.220 What were they going to do if he came out and got in his car?

00:15:57.840 Were they going to shoot him?

00:15:59.540 I mean, you know, this is what we're coming to,

00:16:03.420 and it's very concerning to me.

00:16:06.140 You know, they've never done this if you have the flu or if you have AIDS.

00:16:11.040 Do they come to your house and put you under house arrest?

00:16:14.440 No.

00:16:14.940 So they need to have justification for this.

00:16:18.060 The man deserves at least due process, I think,

00:16:21.740 and it's just a harbinger of more things to come.

00:16:24.340 I'm used to seeing this in China, 1.00

00:16:26.060 but I think we're going to see some of those disturbing videos of people being dragged,

00:16:31.300 kicking and screaming by people in hazmat suits.

00:16:34.300 I'm worried we're going to see that before this is over with.

00:16:36.560 So, Thomas, I am so with you.

00:16:39.580 So now let's have an adult conversation where nobody's pointing fingers at each other

00:16:43.920 and calling people names because I know you're more than capable of having those kinds of conversations.

00:16:49.860 Here's the crux of the problem.

00:16:56.080 We do live in a republic, so we should never expect that.

00:17:00.000 We should never allow that.

00:17:01.500 And we shouldn't endorse it just even by ignoring it.

00:17:08.900 However, we have this pandemic, and what do we do to make sure that people are taking it seriously?

00:17:17.560 You know, especially because, I think, of the media,

00:17:20.720 the media has so discredited themselves that people who believe in Donald Trump,

00:17:28.040 they're not taking it as seriously because they think this is all just a media hoax.

00:17:33.560 How do we get people to comply without becoming China? 0.99

00:17:38.340 What do you suggest?

00:17:39.880 Yeah, we do need to take this very seriously.

00:17:43.460 And I'm not saying that we shouldn't, so I'm glad you pointed that out.

00:17:48.020 Right.

00:17:48.160 At first blush, it would seem that dictatorships and communism,

00:17:53.860 which its main feature is central planning, are at an advantage in an outbreak like this, right?

00:18:00.920 They're not constrained by a constitution.

00:18:03.960 They just, you know, they tell you to stay put.

00:18:06.840 If they want you to stay put, you do what you're told.

00:18:09.260 And it would seem like they have an advantage.

00:18:11.760 And so that's why I fear some of the reaction here by elected officials in the United States

00:18:18.600 is to go in that direction.

00:18:21.280 But don't give up the free market.

00:18:23.900 We have a tremendous advantage here that they don't have.

00:18:27.680 The economic incentive to solve this problem is immense.

00:18:33.220 And if we free up the markets to do that, we could have astounding results.

00:18:39.380 If you derail the people that come up with test kits.

00:18:43.500 Imagine if a test kit cost $5 and you could buy it now on Amazon, okay?

00:18:49.720 You could, and obviously you'd have to retest and test because one negative doesn't prove

00:18:55.220 that you're never going to have it, right?

00:18:57.940 Right.

00:18:59.060 But then you could go on about your life that day.

00:19:02.160 Take the kit, show somebody that you've tested that day.

00:19:06.600 Maybe it's on your phone.

00:19:08.400 And you could go about working in a restaurant.

00:19:11.040 And I know there are people who are asymptomatic who can spread the disease, spread the virus. 0.99

00:19:17.400 But it's the fact that you have to have the virus to spread the virus.

00:19:21.820 And a test should show that.

00:19:23.440 I also think we need another kind of test, Glenn, that isn't out there yet.

00:19:28.300 And I'd like to see the free market work on it.

00:19:31.260 We need a test that shows whether you've had this virus and you've overcome it, you've recovered,

00:19:37.860 whether you were symptomatic or asymptomatic.

00:19:40.080 Because those people are like super citizens right now, right?

00:19:44.760 There's no reason.

00:19:46.300 They should be stopped from going to work.

00:19:48.240 There's no reason they should be stopped for caring for the elderly. 0.61

00:19:52.380 And I know there's the question as to whether maybe you could get reinfected.

00:19:56.820 But we're three or four months into this disease, this virus.

00:20:01.980 People, we need to answer that question too.

00:20:04.460 But it seems highly unlikely compared to the general population that you could get reinfected if you've recovered from this.

00:20:12.120 So I think, for instance, if you go to a hospital and you get treated and you're recovered,

00:20:16.960 you should get some kind of government ID that says, hey, I'm virus-free.

00:20:21.820 Don't stop me.

00:20:24.100 You know, these are some of the things that we could do.

00:20:26.260 It's almost like you should get a birth certificate once you've been through this virus, if it is the case that you have a natural immunity.

00:20:33.760 But we need a test to show whether you have those antibodies in your system because that's important to coming back out of this.

00:20:40.140 Here's my question to every government official that's turned something off, right, whether they turned off our whole restaurant industry like they did here in Kentucky.

00:20:49.900 The question is, what model were you using?

00:20:53.640 Like, what's your plan?

00:20:55.200 And when are you going to turn it back on?

00:20:58.200 Like, don't tell me you just shut down the whole restaurant industry on a hunch.

00:21:03.320 Show me the model.

00:21:04.980 People need facts and data, not reassurances from politicians.

00:21:10.140 So I agree with you.

00:21:12.660 And, Thomas, I have been trying to find the tripwires that our governments are using because I'm in business and I'd like to know what their tripwires are.

00:21:23.360 You know, how do you know when to take it to the next level?

00:21:27.000 How do you know what are the metrics on this?

00:21:30.140 And I can't get them from anyone.

00:21:32.000 It really is like everybody's just going on a hunch.

00:21:36.340 And it's good to, you know, it's better to sometimes to overreact in your personal life if it means just prepare.

00:21:47.160 It doesn't.

00:21:48.520 It's not a good thing when a government overreacts.

00:21:51.620 We need to find that balance.

00:21:54.340 And I don't know what those tripwires are.

00:21:57.840 I can't make heads or tails of them.

00:22:00.640 Right.

00:22:01.040 What are the tripwires for shutting things down?

00:22:04.260 But more importantly...

00:22:05.180 And turning them on.

00:22:06.240 Yeah, turning them on.

00:22:07.300 When are you going to turn them on?

00:22:08.480 Now, I do think that a lot of reaction from the public and a lot of reaction from the government is based on fear of the unknown.

00:22:17.060 But I also think it's right to be prepared for the worst case.

00:22:22.060 So the only way we start narrowing down our response is we start getting more data and more facts.

00:22:29.700 Some government official who's turned something off needs to come out in public and say,

00:22:34.520 here's the worst case, guys.

00:22:35.980 Here's the worst case.

00:22:37.000 And here's what we're going to do to bound that worst case.

00:22:41.540 So, Thomas, here's the thing that, you know, they're talking about.

00:22:45.540 Every bill that's going through right now is said, you know, until the end of this emergency.

00:22:50.200 Well, there are national emergencies declared by Jimmy Carter that are still in effect.

00:22:55.500 So when is the end of this so-called emergency?

00:22:59.620 And I do believe it's an emergency, but we are we by our steps, we may be saving lives, but we also by our steps are destroying our economy.

00:23:11.620 And I think that thing's going to last for a very long time.

00:23:15.180 I think we're easily headed for a depression if we don't pull up and this doesn't end pretty soon.

00:23:21.740 So when we're looking at things, how hard would it be to get the Congress and the Senate and the White House to think in the opposite direction?

00:23:33.560 Give money to those who have lost their jobs.

00:23:36.260 We already have that.

00:23:37.320 We don't need a new system.

00:23:38.940 Just open up the gates so anybody doesn't have a job, they can go get that assistance so they don't lose their house or they can pay their rent and whatever.

00:23:46.840 But for everybody else, I think we have to structure everything instead of the government giving us stuff.

00:23:55.380 The government has to stop taking things.

00:23:58.320 So, in other words, let's say no taxes for the next eight months.

00:24:02.460 None.

00:24:03.080 No federal taxes at all.

00:24:06.060 And the only reason why I say this is if we say no taxes until the end of this emergency.

00:24:11.220 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:12.100 The people in Washington are going to be awfully eager to end this emergency.

00:24:15.580 But if they're giving us stuff, they have no incentive to end this emergency because it makes them popular with certain groups and people.

00:24:26.180 Right.

00:24:26.920 And most of the governors, you know, it's a free transaction for them to shut stuff down right now.

00:24:32.660 And I was looking for that tripwire.

00:24:34.440 When do they turn things back on?

00:24:36.020 And at first I thought, well, when the state workers don't get paid and they show up at the capitals, at the state capitals, because the tax revenue isn't there from the restaurant workers or whatever businesses were shut down.

00:24:48.980 I thought, that's when they'll turn it back on.

00:24:51.180 But then I went back to D.C. and I looked in the eyes of my colleagues.

00:24:54.960 And what I realized is that they're ready to bail out anything, airlines, state governments, individuals, they're ready to bail it all out.

00:25:04.620 This may be the thing that breaks our monetary system.

00:25:08.080 And by the way, we can't.

00:25:09.680 And breaks and breaks the capitalist system, breaks the entire capitalist system.

00:25:14.520 I think we're already operating on the modern monetary theory.

00:25:18.460 I think we're already doing it through the Fed.

00:25:20.280 Oh, everybody's a Keynesian now up in Washington, D.C.

00:25:24.560 And look, we could survive a 10% drop in GDP.

00:25:28.900 But here's a question.

00:25:30.240 Could we survive a 10% drop in food production?

00:25:34.220 Because I've got local seed stores, a seed store.

00:25:38.680 They sell fertilized and seed right now to the farmers that are planting their fields here in the next few weeks.

00:25:44.220 If they shut down, that's going to have a tremendous ripple effect, not just in the GDP, but in our ability to feed folks.

00:25:53.320 So the question that I think our politicians aren't answering, and the epidemiologists, okay, they're doing a great job of modeling what could happen in which scenarios.

00:26:03.440 But they're not modeling.

00:26:04.960 Their models don't take into account what if the trash doesn't get picked up and rats start roaming, you know, places in large numbers.

00:26:13.780 Well, I think, Tom, I just, I read that trash collection is part of essential services.

00:26:21.860 There are some things that are not closed, and then most of them have to do with sanitary and food production.

00:26:30.440 Yeah, well, look, when they shut down the restaurants here in Kentucky, guess what?

00:26:34.640 They also shut down about 70% of the restrooms that the public uses.

00:26:42.700 I watched a guy with a service dog try to get into an Arby's, and the door was locked.

00:26:49.220 And, look, I've been to countries, large countries, and I don't want to be called xenophobic, so I'm not going to tell you which countries.

00:26:56.280 But I've seen humans defecate in the streets, and diseases run rampant there.

00:27:01.760 And so, you know, I don't think our governor intended to shut down all these restrooms, but he shut down restrooms.

00:27:08.800 I don't know what, where, I don't know where that individual who was trying to get into Arby's, by the way, he didn't go stand in line at the drive-thru.

00:27:15.580 He didn't want to order food.

00:27:16.900 It was pretty sure to me.

00:27:18.480 I don't know what he did.

00:27:19.580 And I don't know if he was homeless.

00:27:22.340 Did he have a home?

00:27:23.460 Anyways, you know, and here's the other thing, Glenn.

00:27:27.280 Is the government going to hold a gun to the sanitation worker's head and say, go to work today?

00:27:34.320 Like, I know we're on the side where they say, okay, they're essential employees, so we're not going to stop them from working.

00:27:41.240 But are they going to come around to the side where they're going to force them to work?

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00:30:11.120 I want to introduce you to somebody.

00:30:12.780 I saw this, what, I think yesterday.

00:30:16.780 An honor student at the University of Nevada, Reno.

00:30:20.420 Created something after her mom mentioned that she should call all of the elderly neighbors to see if they needed anything during the pandemic.

00:30:28.800 So, Jade Powell decided, yeah, we can do something.

00:30:33.900 So, she started a GoFundMe page now because this has just taken, really taken off.

00:30:40.580 By the way, I just got a note about the earthquake in Utah.

00:30:45.000 Please, if you experienced that, I'd like to hear from you.

00:30:48.840 Just call us, 888-727-BCK.

00:30:51.040 Let me get an update.

00:30:51.980 It was almost a 6 on the Richter scale.

00:30:53.620 It was a 5.7 on the Richter scale.

00:30:56.020 So, Jade decided she was going to get some friends, and she started with the girls in her sorority.

00:31:03.940 And they started buying groceries for the elderly people around their neighborhood.

00:31:10.020 And it is spread all across the country now.

00:31:13.780 She joins us.

00:31:15.220 Her organization she just started is called Shopping Angels.

00:31:18.280 Hi, Jade.

00:31:18.800 How are you?

00:31:20.300 I'm doing great.

00:31:21.120 How are you doing?

00:31:22.480 I'm very good.

00:31:23.200 So, tell me what you now have.

00:31:27.100 I know this started with just a group of your friends, but what has it turned into?

00:31:32.520 It's been overwhelming.

00:31:33.960 We have had interest in starting local branches of Shopping Angels in all four corners of the country.

00:31:42.520 Literally, Washington, Maine, Florida, or just a few of the states.

00:31:45.800 We have somebody in Hawaii starting stuff.

00:31:50.580 We've got interest in Canada and even New Zealand.

00:31:53.880 So, it's been really, really overwhelming, but awesome to see how the communities have come together to try and make something for the community that is most at risk for getting sick because of the outbreak.

00:32:09.940 Okay, so now what do you do exactly if, let's say, you want to volunteer?

00:32:15.320 What do you do?

00:32:16.140 What are you volunteering for?

00:32:18.760 So, what is most common is the clients will contact me directly with, like, a shopping list of up to 10 items.

00:32:29.000 And they also give me their address, and then I will pair them with a volunteer that's in their area.

00:32:36.140 So, once I find a volunteer that is in their area, I text them and I ask them, hey, are you able to pick this order up?

00:32:43.620 And then usually they say yes.

00:32:45.720 And they will go to the store and try to pick up the items that are on this list.

00:32:50.500 And then they purchase them at first out of pocket, and then they go and meet up with the client outside of their home.

00:32:58.060 And then the client just pays for the groceries themselves.

00:33:00.760 They don't pay for any delivery fees or any, you know, they don't pay for the time that we spend going to different stores or anything like that.

00:33:10.840 And how many volunteers do you have?

00:33:13.340 Do you have any idea yet?

00:33:14.220 So, we're still trying to organize nationwide volunteers.

00:33:21.440 So, we've actually created email addresses for every state in the U.S.

00:33:26.960 And we have gotten some help from some companies in starting a form stack.

00:33:33.520 So, we now are able to accept up to 100,000 people at a time.

00:33:38.560 So, we're still trying to get the exact number nationwide.

00:33:42.180 But I know we have about 100 volunteers between Reno and Las Vegas.

00:33:46.740 And we do have some in the smaller cities like Laughlin and Gardnerville.

00:33:51.940 So, how do people contact you if, you know, an elderly person needs help and needs somebody to go to the grocery store?

00:34:00.180 How do they find you?

00:34:03.000 Or how do you find them?

00:34:05.060 Yeah.

00:34:05.500 So, there's a form stack that you can sign up to volunteer for.

00:34:09.440 You can also use to request assistance.

00:34:12.360 So, it's a really easy link.

00:34:13.860 It's on our Facebook page.

00:34:15.600 And you just click on it and it asks for your basic information like your name and your address and your contact info.

00:34:22.740 And then it asks you to choose whether you're trying to volunteer or request assistance.

00:34:27.620 And so, that's how we're getting some of the requests right now.

00:34:30.100 Or you can email your local state email and just say, you know, this is our situation.

00:34:38.200 We really need some help.

00:34:39.460 And then the state coordinator.

00:34:41.660 We're still trying to get every state a coordinator.

00:34:44.220 But the state coordinator will then reach out to you in regards to trying to find a volunteer to pick up your order or try to help you out.

00:34:54.600 Jane, thank you so much.

00:34:55.960 I just wanted to give you a shout out.

00:34:57.500 I just think what you're doing is really, really great.

00:34:59.760 You're an honor student.

00:35:00.580 You want to be a nurse, do you not?

00:35:02.480 Or a doctor?

00:35:03.460 Where are you going after this?

00:35:05.700 Yeah, I'm a pre-med student.

00:35:07.160 So, I'm hoping to go to medical school in a couple years.

00:35:11.140 Great.

00:35:11.800 Great.

00:35:12.100 Well, good for you.

00:35:13.500 It sounds like you have your heart in the right place.

00:35:16.280 Jade Powell.

00:35:17.060 And the Facebook address is facebook.com slash shoppingangelsnv for Nevada.

00:35:24.320 Shoppingangelsnv.

00:35:26.320 Thanks so much, Jade.

00:35:27.580 By the way, they're trying to raise $30,000 on their GoFundMe page.

00:35:32.760 Just go to GoFundMe under the name Shopping Angels.

00:35:35.600 They're trying to raise $30,000.

00:35:37.600 I think we can help them with that.

00:35:39.440 If you would like to donate to the people trying to help people that just cannot get out.

00:35:45.260 Anybody over 60 or they have a weakened immune system, that's who they're trying to help.

00:35:50.500 Facebook.com slash shoppingangelsnv or go to their GoFundMe page right now.

00:35:57.440 This is what a free market does.

00:36:02.060 And this is the spirit of America that we have always had.

00:36:06.320 That whether anybody knows it or not, this is the free market.

00:36:10.440 You don't have to wait around for the government.

00:36:12.920 And this is so critically important because this is the kind of stuff that we are now talking about flushing down the toilet.

00:36:20.740 Anybody that says, oh, you know what?

00:36:22.020 We got to get we just have to have universal single payer health care.

00:36:25.720 And we got to get rid of all these private companies.

00:36:27.620 And we should nationalize all these companies.

00:36:30.220 No, that kills this spirit.

00:36:32.820 We got to get rid of all these companies.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 18, 2020

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