Restaurants Have Had Enough of the Lockdowns | 12⧸4⧸20
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Summary
Joe Biden has a cat in the White House. And a bar that declares itself a "autonomous zone" in the middle of the night. Plus, the latest on the latest in the coronavirus outbreak, and a new piece of technology that could change the way you cook.
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You know, I don't know what to, there's all sorts of stuff that basically is revolving around the election.
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I'm getting to the point of, I'm sick of talking about it.
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I was already sick of talking about it in like the summer.
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We had already been talking about the election for so long.
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And then you had the riots and the coronavirus stuff.
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And, you know, man, we have been beat up this year.
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And the good thing to remember is once the calendar turns to 2021, everything in your life is going to get a lot better.
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Because it's just the numerical year that's screwing us up.
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And everything else is going to be solved once we get past just 2020.
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So we have, that's not true, by the way, at all.
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I'm interested in the Staten Island bar that has decided to first declare itself a autonomous zone.
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And then come out and now the police are guarding it as if it's like, you know, the line between North and South Korea.
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We have Biden has now said he will keep Fauci on as COVID response.
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I think he was actually the head of infectious disease response under the Woodrow Wilson administration and Samuel Adams, or John Adams, and Samuel Adams, the beer.
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He was running the beer company back in the day and then turned over to John Adams.
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We'll get into that, of course, coming on as well.
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And we found out recently that George Clooney cuts his hair with a flow bee.
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It's not quite as breaking as the fact that Joe Biden's going to have a cat in the White House.
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It's not quite to that level of importance, but it is the sort of journalism you can expect right now from your media.
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It is interesting to watch the media sort of like fold into the way they were during the Obama administration where they just, their job was to just kiss butt.
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I mean, it was that point where you'd be like shocked when they would ask a difficult question.
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We would be praising people like, you know, John Carl when they would ask one tough question because it was like an amazing moment of the day.
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It would be like the story of the day back then.
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That's all it's been now for four years of nonstop badgering by the press.
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And it's good to see them kind of settle back into the place they want to be.
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They did ask Obama tough questions like, what is the thing that enchanted you the most, inspired you the most, made you the most handsome?
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So I'm sure Biden will deal with the same thing.
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That's coming up here in just a minute here, Pat.
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Yeah, we had to revert back to the halftime score of 8-7 Philadelphia, which we all know is not going to happen.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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So, 888-727-BECK and the COVID situation continues to strike death and destruction all over the country.
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There can't be enough fear-mongering to go around for this new administration if they do, in fact, become the new administration.
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Have we not reached the point here where they realize that sort of stuff doesn't work on people?
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The Biden thing where he says don't travel for Christmas because we're going to have 250,000 people die before January.
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It's almost as notable as when Kamala Harris said,
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We're looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died.
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If I may go out on that limb, that's just too many people.
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You can't have 220 million Americans die in just a few months.
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So if we can cut that to 250,000, that's, you know, that's progress.
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You know, we should probably do better than that.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I think you are correct.
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No, they will just, instead of just giving people reliable information they can count on and letting them make their own decisions,
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And we've seen over and over and over again that this is not the way to go.
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You've seen some Asian countries, for example, who have done relatively well with the virus.
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And part of that is they've been dealing with these viruses popping up routinely for a long time.
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Yeah, it was South Korea one that really was successful, and I think they still are.
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I mean, first of all, they have a lot more flexibility in their constitution than we do.
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You know, I am the type of person, Pat, who would say the freedoms that we have in this country, not worth a dictatorship.
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You're saying that freedom should not just be flushed down the toilet when something goes wrong?
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So I'm on the cost-benefit analysis of this situation.
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However, probably, it's probably easier to stop a pandemic if you're a dictatorship.
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I think if you can just be like China and weld people into their homes, you can probably stop the spread.
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Hey, you know, whenever, when you have like an outbreak in a community and you can just, I don't know, all the people in the community disappear.
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It does seem to be easier to control the virus with those sorts of standards.
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And, you know, I think there's a lot of different things playing into that, particularly in Asia, where they've had, you know, SARS pop up and a million of these other scares.
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They're used to dealing with this type of thing.
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They're also used to dealing with a government who, you know, in their system of government can tell them, yeah, you guys are going to stay home for an extended period of time.
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You got to, I think, some almost unexpected, I think, compliance from the American people early on where they said, OK, well, you have six weeks, two weeks to stop the spread and then turn into six.
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And you're like, OK, I think the American people were pretty much on board for that.
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I mean, even though it was a difficult thing, I'm not saying that, you know, everyone loved the policy, but people were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and try to do what they could as we learned more about the virus, as we stocked up on things like masks.
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And, you know, at the beginning of this was, you know, it was amazing that we were not prepared.
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That's a it's amazing just to see how the country was not really ready for this.
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But after that, it started to get to a point where we all realized we have to be able to have a country that's open.
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We have to be able to have we can't just shut down the economy.
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We have to be able to figure this out because then you're hurting people in other ways.
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And they never really adjusted the messaging all that much.
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I mean, you certainly hear people now say that they're not going to go back into lockdowns and and schools.
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And these are things that I think conservatives were saying from the very beginning.
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I mean, how do you how do you get how do you get the nurses and the doctors to go to work if you have all the schools closed?
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I think even in places like New York City, they're like, OK, we need to open these schools up, especially since the infection rate among the kids is pretty low.
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Would you be willing to get a covid vaccine in exchange for a fifteen hundred dollar stimulus check?
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So in other words, they're bribing you to get the vaccine with fifteen hundred bucks from the government.
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Yeah, I think it's an interesting policy, actually, because they're trying to get people to do it.
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Obviously, now, John Delaney, a Democrat from Maryland, it's his idea.
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He actually ran for president for about 15 minutes.
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He's getting the credit for it for some reason.
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But I mean, I've heard this discussed on, you know, multiple conservative sources.
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Because they're going to give another stimulus check anyway.
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So I think the thought is, hey, why don't we tie it to the vaccination so that people will actually go out and get it?
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And it's also there's also kind of an interesting thing that goes on here in that.
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Usually, like wealthier people who are better off are number one, more likely to want to get the vaccine and number two, have better access to health care to get the vaccine.
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So one of the things they're struggling with is how do we get this to communities who might not, you know, hit those those levels of income, especially since the virus is so racist and is very racist, affecting minorities at a much higher rate than white people.
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Yeah, I mean, look, you know, you live in usually if you're if you're maybe not as wealthy, you might live in a less more dense area.
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You might live with more relatives from multiple generations.
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There are reasons why, you know, it's going to hit those communities harder.
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And so they're trying to figure out ways to do it.
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And they're like, well, people who are in those communities might very well be motivated by fifteen hundred dollars to go get their check.
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You know, if you're going to some upper class neighborhood, they might not be as, you know, they're going to do what they want to do.
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But, you know, fifteen hundred dollars is not nothing.
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And, you know, that is kind of what they're they're talking about now.
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And I think people will probably get on board with it.
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Honestly, I would not be surprised if something like this comes to fruition.
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And I guess it seems like seventy five percent is the the percentage they're looking for to have inoculated.
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Delaney said the faster we get to seventy five percent of this country vaccinated, the faster we end covid.
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So is that what they're assuming is that it's going to take about seventy five percent?
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Because I've heard I've heard percentage is much lower than that to where we're pretty much OK.
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So there's there's a bunch of disagreement on this.
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There are some, you know, pretty legitimate scientists who think it's, you know, more like 40 or 50 percent.
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And then there's people on the Internet who will tell you it's like one percent.
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You know, I think on the Internet, everyone just assumes we're constantly in herd immunity.
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At least half the audience, the other half the audience says we'll never get to it.
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So it's hard to understand when you're when you're on social media.
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It's not I wouldn't say it's the leading scientific position.
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It's a new virus and everyone's trying to figure it out and everyone has their theories.
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But like it is there are some people who believe it's going to be less, you know, with T cells and familiarity with former coronaviruses that all play into each other.
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I think that the typical number is about six is about two thirds.
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So if you go 75 percent, have the inoculation, it's not 100 percent effective.
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You got to remember, though, too, that a lot of people like myself are covid-19 survivors.
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If you know, if until it's widely available, at least when they're still rationing it, they're not going to give it to people who have already had it.
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Probably. But I think it's an interesting idea, actually, especially because we all know.
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We all know they're going to pass another stimulus bill tied to covid.
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Obviously. I mean, it's definitely going to happen.
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Even the Republicans are like, how about a trillion dollars?
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And then the Democrats are like, how about three trillion dollars?
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Likely we're going to end up somewhere around a trillion or one and a half, something like that.
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And if it's going to come anyway, you know, you want people might as well get a benefit for taking the vaccine.
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What if we get more people vaccinated and vaccinated than we have people in this country?
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Yes. If we can do it with the election, we can certainly do it with the vaccine.
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But Congress has been working on for months on this agreement and can't can't come to an agreement on the stimulus package.
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So they're still at odds, even as 12 million people could lose unemployment benefits in a few weeks if nothing's done.
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So that's why I think a lot of people in Congress are looking at this as, yeah, that's maybe doable.
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Then we kill two birds with one stone, although I think you're still going to have some resistance to the vaccine.
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It's surprising to me how I mean, my producer, Pac Ray Unleashed, Keith Malonek, really adamant about not getting the vaccine.
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Yes. And he's currently at home because of a covid scare, which is interesting.
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Yeah. No, I think a lot of people will have that.
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I tend to believe and I could be wrong on this, tend to believe that you're going to have about half the country.
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The polling seems to show about half the country is fine taking it.
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I think I think it was something like 60 percent of people are fine taking it in the first couple of months and they don't necessarily want to be first in line.
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But I mean, the first couple of months, it's something like 60 percent.
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And, you know, there's probably 10 to 20 percent who are like hardcore, never going to take it no matter what.
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It's that other group to get you to 70 percent, which which might be, you know, 10 to 20 percent of the people who fall into that group.
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I tend to believe that if it's as effective as it seems to be, if these numbers hold up and people don't turn into lizards or something, getting the vaccine, then people will just be like, all right, screw it.
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I start seeing a group of lizards, though, that used to be people and now aren't anymore because they got the vaccine.
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I think that's going to cut down in the amount of people that want to take it.
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I think a good 10 percent of people, if they know they're going to turn into a lizard, will say they don't want to take the vaccine.
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It is Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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He's a guy who was in he was he lives in Florida and he does a lot of traveling and they had an option for him to join the COVID-19 vaccine trials.
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They deemed me too sexy to be representative of the American people.
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That was the reasoning behind it, though, that they gave you.
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Either that or they just never emailed me back.
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Most people, you know, a lot of people tried to get into it and did not.
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But he got into it and actually took the he took the Moderna vaccine.
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And do you know if you're in the control group or not?
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So it's interesting because you have half the population in the trial gets the vaccine, half get the placebo.
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First shot he had had no no side effects at all.
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And when he got the second dose, he spent one night.
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And he he got very excited about that because he knew that meant he had the vaccine.
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And so it was almost like the beginning of actually getting covid.
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Because chills and a fever are could be one of those.
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He said he ran five miles the next day, which I found to be just irritating.
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I've run five miles as well combined in my entire life.
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You know, we only can you can only really only check the effectiveness of a vaccine when
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We don't know if it's effective on one person per se.
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But the results of the trials look really promising.
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And, you know, I can understand, you know, I think if you don't want to take the vaccine,
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I don't think there's any to me, there's any personal liberty argument among, you know,
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But when you talk about wanting to have the economy really open, not like it is now, not
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like it is even in the summer at the lowest point of covid, when most of them things were
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open up as literally back to literally back to normal.
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Now, another path to do it would be developing a treatment.
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But but a vaccine is as much is going to be is just come along faster.
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A lot of them have chipped away at the death rate on this thing.
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But it has not is, you know, it's not it's we're still in this place.
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I mean, I've talked about this a lot and we talked about it yesterday as well that, you
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know, this week was going to be a week where because of the data delays from Thanksgiving,
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we're going to get all these peaks and records this week.
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I mean, like it's not just that it's not just data building up like we are in a period.
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Hospitalizations is the one stat that doesn't really do this.
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And we are at a an all time high by a large margin in hospitalizations over covid.
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We're over one hundred thousand, which is I mean, in March, we were only at sixty thousand.
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The difference is just that we're very it's very spread out right now.
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You know, so it's not as intense as it was in New York.
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And that's going to wind up making the numbers very large, unfortunately.
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But it's not it's it is a totally different situation than it was in March and April.
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So just get us to immunity by next football season.
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So that we don't have to go through this nonsense again with no fans in the stands.
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Also, I don't want BYU to have to cancel all their games again and come up with, you know,
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the school for the deaf and blind play, you know, matchup.
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Because when BYU and the school for the deaf and blind get together on the football field,
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By the way, we have like a few seconds here before the break.
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I mean, BYU, an actual national championship kind of contender, right?
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And they've got a ranked game against another unbeaten 14th ranked in the Associated Press
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They've been at the top division of college football for only like four or five years.
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So they put together a really good program in a short amount of time.
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Three of the all-time great shows that are also available on podcast represented today,
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filling in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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Pat Gray Unleashed, which you can listen to live right immediately preceding the show,
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or you can listen on podcast, listen and watch.
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Well, it's not immediately preceding this show, but it's sometime later.
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And then you've got – well, no, those are the only ones we're talking about.
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I don't know if you talked about it yesterday or not, because – I mean, I'm sorry.
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But there was a video released from the state of New York where people are chanting and hollering
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And I was hoping, especially used to, that you'd be able to – I know you understand New
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So, that you could help me understand what they're saying in this video.
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And it's interesting because in New York, the governor of New York is Andrew Cuomo,
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I'm so glad I brought that in to figure that one out.
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I was talking to somebody the other day about this relative who lives in New York,
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And, of course, obviously, I believe Andrew Cuomo is awful.
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But, we were talking about, like, it hasn't really changed in the polling, his approval
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It's gone from, like, at one point it was almost like 80%, and it's gone down to, like,
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I mean, his daughter doesn't even like him anymore.
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The daughter had the boyfriend that was working at the mansion, and Cuomo shipped him off
00:30:50.080
That actually kind of, something like that did happen.
00:30:56.160
I mean, they're obviously so liberal, but at some point when, you know, you have a liberal
00:31:02.500
governor who you might like some of their policies, but you realize, you know, they've killed your
00:31:09.880
That would tend to dampen your attitude towards them.
00:31:13.700
It definitely seems like New Yorkers are becoming more outspoken about how bad Cuomo is, but the
00:31:18.240
polls haven't moved enough for my liking yet, Pat or Jeff.
00:31:23.940
Also, I'm looking forward to the brand new streaming service.
00:31:27.080
We don't have enough streaming services in our lives anymore.
00:31:38.640
Discovery Plus is going to be a new streaming service.
00:31:44.940
55,000 episodes, 2,500 current and classic shows.
00:31:50.740
I mean, and it's going to be all their networks.
00:31:54.000
I mean, they have HGTV, Food, TLC, Own, Planet Earth, and of course the ever popular
00:32:05.600
How much are you willing to pay for the streaming service for Discovery Plus?
00:32:09.840
I'm going to go zero dollars, but also zero cents.
00:32:28.700
And look, we happen to be, there happens to be a Blaze TV that we all love and would love
00:32:37.960
But it is, there is some sort of like, how many different subscriptions?
00:32:49.940
Most people have Netflix, although we dropped ours because of that child porn thing.
00:32:57.080
You got your Hulu, you got your CBS, you got Disney Plus, you've got AMC has a streaming
00:33:07.520
And looking forward to the new Hillary Clinton broadcast she just announced yesterday with
00:33:16.160
They've created a production company and their first thing is going to be the book that
00:33:38.340
And HBO Max just announced that they've got the new deal now where Warner Brothers, their
00:33:44.280
movies, remember they're going to do Wonder Woman in December this month, going to launch
00:33:56.400
Now, all of 2021 movies on Warner Brothers will be released at the theater and on HBO
00:34:04.620
Seems hard to overstate how big a deal that is, right?
00:34:08.260
I mean, I've heard theater chain stocks are going in the tank.
00:34:16.220
Well, I mean, Universal just made that deal, right, where they were going to start.
00:34:19.680
They made the deal with the movie theaters that they're going to allow their movies to
00:34:25.080
be released at the movie theaters for 30 days before it goes to video on demand.
00:34:31.000
But if it doesn't make, I think it was the $50 million mark, then it's 17 days and it goes
00:34:37.600
And Universal is giving the movie theaters a cut of all of that, though.
00:34:45.040
I knew as soon as they announced the Wonder Woman deal, and this was announced on Chewing
00:34:51.840
the Fat, by the way, that it was going to be a done deal for the rest, for the near future,
00:34:58.440
They are saying that this is only, you know, creative solutions for 2021.
00:35:03.340
So those creative solutions are going to be for an unlimited amount of time now in the
00:35:11.560
And you have this, like, weird chicken and egg thing going on with these movie theaters
00:35:15.280
where you just, they're not releasing any movies, so there's no reason for theaters
00:35:20.700
And there's no reason to go to theaters because they're not releasing any movies.
00:35:24.560
And there's no reason to release movies because none of the theaters are open.
00:35:27.840
So there's no, there's like no real way to get this to work.
00:35:31.180
This is a great, I think, actually a really good idea because they can guarantee a bunch
00:35:34.720
of cash from HBO and they can still get it into theaters.
00:35:37.580
Well, they were saying HBO Max was saying they only on HBO Max specifically only had like
00:35:46.480
And many, many of those people that have HBO haven't flipped over to HBO Max yet.
00:35:53.420
So they want everybody to flip over to HBO Max and they want new subscribers, which they're
00:35:58.460
They're going to get a lot with the main releases.
00:36:00.000
I mean, they're releasing 17 movies that they're going to online, that they're going to release
00:36:05.580
And I mean, who doesn't want to watch Godzilla versus Kong?
00:36:09.580
I got to say, I'm dumb enough to show up for Godzilla versus Kong.
00:36:14.000
I think it was the last Godzilla movie, which was another like War of the Monsters.
00:36:29.880
I didn't watch it because I assumed that going in.
00:36:39.720
And that's not the original Godzilla, but the original of this latest string of them.
00:36:43.120
Is that the one where Godzilla said, isn't that one?
00:36:51.360
You have the long, according to this release, you have the long-awaited fourth Matrix film.
00:37:20.560
Speaking of Braun, are you in love with the fact that he may stick around in the NBA long
00:37:24.780
enough to see Brawny get into the league as well?
00:37:28.720
To have LeBron James and LeBron James Jr. playing together.
00:37:35.740
Is it possible that he's as annoying as LeBron James?
00:37:38.640
Is it possible that LeBron would actually take a pay cut to get his kid on the team like
00:37:45.240
And he decided, no, I'm not going to take a pay cut.
00:37:52.740
And then you have the new interpretation of Dune.
00:38:06.140
What happened was it was like eight hours long.
00:38:10.300
And what they did was they put a camera on a sand dune.
00:38:15.940
And then they showed that for eight and a half hours.
00:38:31.300
There's also a prequel, I believe, of the Sopranos series.
00:38:40.760
And look, the Sopranos are still strong for HBO, right?
00:38:46.920
I mean, there's some episodes during the series that you always have to go back to and watch.
00:38:51.320
Season five, you know, the final episode was awesome.
00:38:55.140
One thing I know from listening to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher podcast you can get right now,
00:39:00.820
if you're subscribing to podcasts at this moment, is you went over the transportation numbers
00:39:11.920
Well, some of the details, they actually went up over the holidays.
00:39:15.380
They had like three or four days that actually broke a million through the turnstile.
00:39:19.520
So a million people who went through TSA security.
00:39:35.060
And then it started going to a couple hundred thousand, 300,000.
00:39:40.240
We were back up to about between 6,000 and 900,000 regularly right now.
00:39:47.560
Yeah, two and a half to three million every day.
00:39:49.380
And then it has bounced back to roughly half right now.
00:39:51.820
It's interesting to look at the theaters, which we're doing about $200 million a week
00:39:59.700
In February 14th through the 20th, they did $215 million in theaters.
00:40:04.060
That dropped off to like, you know, it was March 6th.
00:40:07.880
The week of March 6th, it went to $134 million.
00:40:16.520
I mean, they were celebrating croods release over the Thanksgiving holiday.
00:40:27.760
So it went down to like, you know, $5,000 for a few weeks.
00:40:30.400
Then eventually, you know, once we got out of the six weeks to, you know, to stop the
00:40:34.880
spread or whatever, a few opened up, got up to like 100,000, got up to like 500,000
00:40:39.360
through the summer, finally broke a million in August.
00:40:45.380
Then $3 million, $8 million, $16 million, $30 million in September 4th.
00:40:50.020
And then it started kind of getting the flare up again.
00:40:55.620
And it's been right around between $11 and $14 million for the past two months.
00:41:00.580
That's still a 90% drop off from pre-pandemic numbers.
00:41:05.220
Let me give you what's in a really nice theater near us right now.
00:41:22.820
Elf is showing The Croods, Let Him Go, and The War with Grandpa.
00:41:29.200
You forgot one huge movie that's been released for the next.
00:41:37.360
And through the weekend, The Elvis remastered That's the Way It Is movie.
00:41:44.840
Jeffy, that was egregious that I left that off the list.
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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I love this trend of the movies going so quickly to the home market.
00:42:56.320
Like this simultaneous release of Wonder Woman, 1984, whatever it is, going to theaters and HBO Max at the same time.
00:43:08.200
I mean, it's going to be sad, I think, if the theaters just become obsolete after this.
00:43:16.940
I really like the new ones where you can go eat meals.
00:43:24.800
Unless I'm watching it late at night, there's no chance of me getting through a movie in my house.
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Because someone's going to come in and start talking to me.
00:43:33.100
Someone's going to come in and, you know, my kids are going to want to go outside and play.
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Like, there's no way I'm getting through a movie unless it's, you know, everyone in the house is in bed.
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Because you can actually focus on what you're watching.
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And they made it super comfortable in these new theaters where they got the recliner and all of that.
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You remember John Edwards, the failed candidate for president?
00:43:58.940
That is definitely the case when it comes to movie theaters.
00:44:01.760
If you're in the South in particular, and I don't know if this is, you know, every region exact details, but, like, the South versus the Northeast I can talk about.
00:44:10.400
And that, like, the theaters, if you're in New York City, the theaters are not like they are in Texas.
00:44:17.120
They're nice and huge, and they've got recliners, and you're getting food delivered to you.
00:44:21.640
There's occasional ones that they put up in the Northeast, but it's not like it is down here.
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Down here, there's a dine-in theater every, you know, mile and a half on the main roads you're driving on.
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There's a lot of big, empty buildings that are going to be popping up down here.
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It's going to be a big deal if they go out of business.
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I mean, there's a lot that have closed around here already.
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she's got some great Christmas gift ideas for you.
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Yeah, like a tax-the-rich sweatshirt for the low price of $58.
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In a way, it is a tax of the rich because only rich people can afford it.
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And she's got a Green New Deal hoodie that you can get for just $65.
00:49:56.700
And I'm sure that's made of hemp sourced locally.
00:50:06.240
Is it amazing that these, you know, they hate capitalism.
00:50:14.580
And there's income inequality and we can't have that.
00:50:17.620
And then they charge outrageous prices for merchandise so they can benefit from it.
00:50:22.140
Now, I have no problem with capitalism, of course.
00:50:28.600
I mean, now I will say the prices are much better on studosmerch.com.
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And the best mug to drink a warm holiday beverage out of that has a nice cityscape lit on fire
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with a Christmas tree on fire in the foreground.
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T-shirts and mugs and all that Andrew Cuomo was awful stuff.
00:51:02.340
We are out of the Nancy Pelosi sucks pens, though.
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We sold out of our entire holiday shipment in like three days.
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I am constantly amazed by how much this audience thinks Nancy Pelosi sucks.
00:51:20.400
There's almost no limit to the amount of suckage they think Nancy Pelosi creates.
00:51:25.660
And I agree wholeheartedly on that, by the way.
00:51:29.720
I will say it's amazing to see Ocasio-Cortez try to do this because there's no justification
00:51:35.060
Like, the reason why I want to sell you a Santifa Claus t-shirt is because it's profitable
00:51:43.180
I think people really like it when you're at holiday parties or whatever.
00:51:45.980
And it's a cool way to kind of bond with the audience.
00:51:48.640
But generally speaking, I want to make money for the company because I want them to keep
00:51:56.700
And what is the justification for this hypocrisy?
00:52:00.500
So she can buy, what, more ads to keep herself in power?
00:52:08.600
I mean, you know, one of the easiest ways to get yourself sued is to put the image of Che
00:52:13.020
Guevara on an item because someone has the actual copyright to his image and will sue
00:52:20.720
These are the people who love socialism so much and communism.
00:52:24.120
They want to make money off that image because in reality, at the end, capitalism always wins.
00:52:32.300
You know, these politicians can come out and talk.
00:52:35.200
You know, Bernie Sanders, his entire career in notoriety is made on being a democratic socialist
00:52:45.220
I mean, he had to have known when he bought the second vacation home that this was not
00:52:50.780
But at the end of the day, he'd rather have a second vacation home than whatever price
00:53:05.700
It's, you know, people get so fired up about the sort of capitalism elements of the holidays
00:53:11.820
and if that's all you think about, if that's all you do, then yeah, sure, you can overdo
00:53:17.780
But I like, I like the capitalism part of the holidays.
00:53:25.660
I don't, everyone's always like, oh, they're so overcommercialized.
00:53:35.200
It's like a way of like vilifying capitalism, you know, to say, oh gosh, it's commercialized.
00:53:39.400
Now, of course, if you completely erase the reason for the season, you can overdo it.
00:53:45.380
But it's okay to have elements of that in there.
00:53:47.320
You know, like you want to have that cool gift.
00:53:49.400
I remember going back and getting like the new video game system when I was a kid or when
00:53:54.400
I remember those Christmases and it was a really cool part of it.
00:54:03.900
As long as you're still celebrating baby Jesus.
00:54:10.680
This happens every Thanksgiving and with the exception of this one, this is the first
00:54:16.740
People be like, I can't believe on Black Friday, people will go out and go shopping.
00:54:22.660
And now stores are starting to open on Thanksgiving.
00:54:29.160
I mean, maybe if people want to go out and buy crap on Thanksgiving, they should be able
00:54:34.060
Maybe you shouldn't be telling other people what they can do with their holiday.
00:54:45.800
And I hear this every year when we talk about this.
00:55:05.180
And then that's when we're going to have our little family gathering.
00:55:09.720
when the store opens until midnight, I get to go out and make double for my shift.
00:55:18.080
But that's we shouldn't be harassing stores into closing because we think people shouldn't
00:55:25.980
I mean, like what a wonderful thing to be able to claim.
00:55:28.540
I don't think those people should be able to work those days.
00:55:33.260
Listen, we sound like we're like implementing COVID laws from above.
00:55:36.740
I don't think people should be able to open their stores.
00:55:39.940
We complain about it from that level in the middle of a pandemic.
00:55:43.200
But yet we're not allowed to have people who if you're having a very big family dinner,
00:55:48.320
you should not be able to go to the store on the same day.
00:55:53.160
I mean, honestly, like if you've had family gatherings, a lot of people would love to get
00:55:57.000
half the people to go out and go shopping instead of hanging around football to watch.
00:56:00.960
If you're opposed to it, don't go to the store.
00:56:04.320
And if you know you're an employee, find someplace else to work that's closed on that Thanksgiving
00:56:11.580
I mean, like, look, I understand there'll be some people who want the day off and will
00:56:17.240
But that we don't implement those things from government levels.
00:56:22.140
Like you have to be able to let the free market do its thing.
00:56:27.180
The thing our society gets all worked up over now, it's really unbelievable.
00:56:33.820
Like the Thursday or wasn't the Thursday night game.
00:56:36.980
It was the Wednesday night game with Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth.
00:56:43.380
And during the course of the game, or maybe maybe this was at the very beginning of the
00:56:49.780
Pittsburgh, Chris Collinsworth was complimenting Pittsburgh fans for their knowledge of the
00:56:58.860
But people are all upset now because he said, he said this egregious, egregious comment.
00:57:07.300
And Collinsworth has been getting himself in trouble a lot lately.
00:57:10.060
He's been saying lots of really controversial things.
00:57:18.600
He was he was giving some that was this is like the big week where you had to say something.
00:57:26.080
Week one, every single NFL broadcast had to start with.
00:57:28.860
And by the way, we don't like when black people get killed by police officers like, oh, wow.
00:57:36.600
Like we don't all understand that, you know, black lives actually matter.
00:57:41.160
Like there's this this is obviously a slogan that steps in in the way and basically is
00:57:46.500
a pitch, as the founders talked about, as a Marxist organization.
00:57:50.880
But I mean, even if you don't you know, even if you don't like the organization, everybody
00:57:55.320
kind of comes together and says, yeah, of course, all lives matter, you know.
00:58:00.040
But you had to do that on week one with the NFL.
00:58:02.060
You had to say we we want to tell you about George Floyd because he's got something to do
00:58:07.580
with the National Football League, question mark.
00:58:10.440
And so he kind of gave out and and gave this sort of surface.
00:58:14.400
Look, I know we all got to say we all, of course, understand that black lives do matter.
00:58:24.880
Well, Al knows the background of the organization, I think.
00:58:28.020
I mean, he didn't say this, but he he was just not going to come out and do an endorsement
00:58:34.020
So he's just like, you know, you say what you need to say and let's move on to some football.
00:58:37.580
But Wednesday night, it was even worse, Stu, because he said this.
00:58:41.900
And in particular, the ladies that I met, they had really specific questions about the
00:58:47.900
I was like, wow, you're just blown away by how strong the fans are here in this town.
00:58:54.100
How dare you say that women in Pittsburgh actually have specific questions about football?
00:59:12.820
He should be right next to Harvey Weinstein in a jail cell.
00:59:19.800
Because I guess the insinuation here is that many women don't pay attention to football
00:59:26.220
and don't know football and don't like football.
00:59:28.280
And the problem with Collinsworth was that he was surprised that they did no football, I
00:59:34.500
He showed, wow, I was impressed because they knew so much.
00:59:38.460
As we all know, as all human beings know, men care more about sports than women do.
00:59:51.760
Well, it's a stereotype that happens to be based in fact.
00:59:59.880
And that doesn't mean that no women like football or know about football, but many
01:00:06.460
And some women know more about football than some men.
01:00:12.080
You look at Lawrence Summers got in trouble for this back when he was, I think, at Harvard
01:00:17.820
when he talked about how, like, well, if you look at the distribution of scores with
01:00:22.480
math, you see that, you know, men do have more of the higher level math scores, but women
01:00:32.340
It's been a while since I went into that debate.
01:00:33.940
But the bottom line was it was like just something he was basically reading off of a chart.
01:00:43.360
Like, yeah, of course, there are women who know a hell of a lot about sports.
01:00:46.480
But generally speaking, they don't care as much as guys do.
01:00:56.600
It's like this gender thing that keeps coming back on with, you know, this week it was Ellen
01:01:00.820
Page, the actress from Juno and many other things who spent the rest of her life since
01:01:05.320
Juno apologizing for Juno because it was, I think, mistakenly a pro-life movie.
01:01:11.380
I don't think they meant to make it a pro-life movie, but it was a pro-life movie.
01:01:16.420
And she's spent the rest of her life running from this great movie she made.
01:01:35.200
Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.
01:01:42.080
His whole throat closed in the middle of that word.
01:01:44.800
But there's a second part of this because I don't care if Ellen Page wants to become
01:01:52.600
But we all are certain and we every single person on earth knows that a nine-year-old
01:02:01.060
And you can say, well, no, we should actually allow them to be themselves.
01:02:09.060
He should be able to choose his college major now.
01:02:15.560
There'll be a lot of college graduates graduating with degrees in Pokemon and Transformers, right?
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If you go through school, you know, half the people who go to college don't wind up working
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Well, we don't understand all of these positions.
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And the same thing with this Collinsworth thing.
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You know, something that hasn't gotten a lot of publicity, which is kind of surprising,
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because usually when a billionaire is caught in some sort of sex scandal, that's all you hear about for a while.
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But this Robert Kraft thing at that massage parlor in Florida seems to me he's gotten pretty much a total pass on that.
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Because he essentially got off scot-free, but three women arrested as part of the high-profile human trafficking sting in Florida were sentenced recently as part of plea agreements.
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They're not going to get any further jail time, but they were all fined, I believe, $30,000 for their efforts on Robert Kraft's behalf.
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And it turned out not to really be about sex trafficking.
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They weren't trafficking, like, you know, selling sex slaves or anything.
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They were just performing certain functions for the clientele under certain conditions.
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It's funny because I think, look, people obviously take sex trafficking really seriously for a good reason.
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But I think when most people picture it, they're picturing, okay, some kid was, you know, or even, you know, teenager or whatever was captured.
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And we all know that there's another side of that business, right, where people are doing these things willingly.
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But that's not, I don't think of that as sex trafficking.
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And that's not, you know, you could say obviously that's wrong, but it's a different level of crime, I would say, when you have two willing participants in these things.
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And I know a lot of times it's difficult to parse that out, right?
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Some people would say that they're doing it willingly, but in reality maybe have pressures behind the scenes.
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And it's a complicated story to know, no doubt at all.
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But they apply sex trafficking, the title, to every one of these situations.
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You know, every time you have somebody who's doing one of these type of sexual, you know, sex worker type activity, they're like, oh, well, it's sex trafficking.
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And it's like, I think that can get, it gets mixed up.
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And I don't think what, I don't think what Robert Kraft was involved in was sex trafficking.
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No, he got a massage and then a little extra, I guess, supposedly.
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But how does that, how does, how does a guy in Kraft's position get away with?
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Like, I don't, is he ever going to be on, he may, who knows, he may pop up on CNN again.
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And a pop up is probably not the right way to talk about that.
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He did something that was gross by mistake, right?
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With Tom Brady out of town, I don't feel quite as passionate about that one.
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Hey, Bill, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
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Why would you get a vaccine shot if you've already had the disease, already had the virus?
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Well, love of needles is my first answer to that.
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If she heals good, you know, just getting it injected.
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I mean, I don't think anyone thinks the immunity lasts forever.
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So I think at some point, people who have had it would consider getting the vaccine.
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Assuming everyone, everyone who wants to get it should get it before people like me should
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I haven't really heard the experts talk about whether or not you need to get it if you've
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It's something that they should probably mention.
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I don't know that they need to do it right this second, but you're right.
01:11:20.760
I mean, at some point, that's going to need to be addressed because at some point you're
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going to run out of people who have it, you know, you're going to get to a point where
01:11:32.200
And a lot of people, I think, if they think it would help them get it again, a lot of
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My son had, I would say he was tired and had a little stuffy nose for like a day.
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Though, I will say, I mean, the people we got it from weren't asymptomatic.
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You know, I told you a story the other day, about the other day from a friend of
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mine who they had a gathering of about 10 people, an older couple.
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You know, someone showed up and said, oh, yeah, I was visiting a relative and they
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And everyone's like, why the hell are you here then?
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You know, like you're not supposed to show up to a gathering.
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Long story short, nine of the 10 people now are positive.
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And one of them is in the hospital on the verge of death.
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And it's like this stuff just like it hits people so much differently.
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Another guy who's our, you know, our age, Pat, a dad who I know, his whole family got
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You know, seven, I think seven people in the household.
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Like the kids, I think one of the kids was sick a little bit.
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She wound up recovering, but they thought she was on the verge.
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And Christopher, did she have the extenuating circumstances like she had some other morbidity
01:13:14.340
And it's so, again, it's important as a society, right, as a society to look at this
01:13:20.040
and say, it's important to note that kids aren't really affected as far as death goes
01:13:25.820
It's very, it does happen, but it's very, very unlikely.
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It's really important to plan as a society to say, you know, who is really affected here?
01:13:33.920
People who are like in their 70s and 80s and above.
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However, on an individual level, there are people who actually have terrible outcomes.
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I mean, you know, there's a reporter who just wrote a story about this, got it in March
01:14:01.360
So when you look at it as a, we get like in this weird thing where we're arguing societal
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versus individual points as a society, you cannot close down your society.
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You can't just turn it off and say, we're not going to open any businesses that everybody
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stay home and the government will pay all your bills for the next year.
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On the other hand, as an individual, you can stay away from these gatherings.
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It's not worth just going out and I'm just going to go get it because I've heard the death
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As an individual, you should try to avoid these things.
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As a society, what we're planning as government policy, you cannot just shut down all of human
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creativity and commerce every time you have a situation like this.
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You have to be able to plow through it the best that you can.
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And that middle point in the debate between let's just all run out and have chicken pox
01:15:01.000
parties with COVID and the point of like, oh, well, let's all be in our individual panic
01:15:11.400
And so few, so, so little of the debate has actually occurred in that space.
01:15:21.360
Hi, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
01:15:28.100
Listen, going back to your discussion yesterday about having like a identity card for this
01:15:35.480
Last night on CBS news, the 11 o'clock, the anchor was saying, I think it was the CDC.
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He was quoting said that when you get this vaccine, you will be given a card with, you
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know, the date you got your vaccine and then the date for the second vaccine.
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We are going to have some sort of identity card to go along with this.
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In fact, it reminded me of the vaccine chart or card I was given for my son when he was
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in school before I started homeschooling him in order to show the school district.
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So there's two parts of that, because there is a situation where we've talked about the
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I don't agree with government mandating the vaccine by any means.
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They are saying at this point they're not talking about it, but who knows, right?
01:16:37.120
You know, especially, you know, Joe Biden is going to certainly talk.
01:16:40.620
They're going to have conversations about it, especially if people don't take it.
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I think it's if the effectiveness is as high as they say it is, you might not.
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And they might not even need to get to the point where they're discussing it.
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But the other thing is there is a one part of what you're talking about.
01:16:53.480
There is a so there's two doses to the vaccine.
01:16:56.780
And what they are planning to do is to give everybody a card to remind them to come get
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And that's being kind of tossed around the Internet as this identity card.
01:17:05.780
But it is there's so I'm not saying that, you know, you're you're wrong here, but because
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I think we're seeing ticket masters already said, you know, yeah, you can come to our events
01:17:17.180
So I think a lot of private businesses will do that.
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But there is also a separate thing going on when you get the vaccine.
01:17:24.180
They're giving you a card to remind you, because if you don't come get the second part, it's
01:17:28.940
It's not going to it's not going to it's not going to be 95 percent effective if you don't
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get the second shot and whatever it is, a couple of months.
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So they are do they are dishing those out with each dose.
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The other thing is the government government officials have found a way to insert themselves
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into our lives even deeper than they had before.
01:17:53.700
They're going to they're going to play this for all it's worth.
01:17:56.580
And they're going to try to take as much control as they possibly can in many of these states,
01:18:05.480
Uh, Gavin Newsom, probably in California, will try to make things the vaccine mandatory.
01:18:13.180
Your children have to have the vaccine or they can't go to school and you can't go to
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work or you can't go to a movie theater or a restaurant or a grocery store unless you're
01:18:22.640
I mean, there will be those efforts, I believe.
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It just I think if you get to a point where enough people take it willingly, right, right
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off the bat, you you might we might be lucky here is what I'm saying.
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I think that if capitalism did as good a job as they are reporting, they, you know, did
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generally Pfizer and Moderna and all these things.
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And we're really getting 90, 95 percent effective effectiveness rates.
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I mean, if they can get this by like March or April or something like that, you're going
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to get if you get these numbers at 50 and 60, 70 percent of people are taking it.
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The numbers are going to drop fast if it's if it actually works.
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And at that point, they're not going to need to mandate it.
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The numbers are going to be so low that they're not going to need to do that.
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We all know Andrew Cuomo will do anything that he believes will benefit him at any cost
01:19:20.800
So that's definitely, you know, but again, I have relatives and live in New York and
01:19:42.460
Tim in North Carolina, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
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Quick and to the point, as far as movies and theaters go, I've not heard any discussion
01:19:54.780
on bringing back the drive-in theaters of the 60s and 70s.
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You could order from the snack bar and have it delivered.
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You know, if we've had a bunch, I don't know if this is the same way across the country,
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but we've had a lot of, we do have a few drive-in theaters here in Texas that are operating
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normally like all the time, which is pretty rare.
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But we had a bunch of pop-ups here where they would just take a big parking lot and put up
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a big screen at the end of it and they would just show random movies, you know, for people
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to kind of get out and do things kind of more when it was in the real lockdown period.
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That was one of the few things you could kind of go out and do, which is a great idea.
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I mean, the churches did services that way for a while as well.
01:20:36.580
And the government was like, oh, let's put nails in the driveways so people will pop
01:20:48.480
I think it's not more widespread on the drive-in movie theater because they kind of went obsolete
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in the late 70s and early 80s and there aren't very many of them like you just alluded
01:20:58.420
There's very few drive-in theaters that are operational.
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I think if this was going to be a decade-long type of virus that we were dealing with, then
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I will say, you know, that I wonder if theaters get to that point like drive-ins are now.
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In Texas, there's at least two within an hour of us that are actual drive-in theaters
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and that are operating, nothing to do with COVID, just operating.
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It's become sort of this retro, cool, fun thing to do.
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And I think you might get to the point, building off of this HBO Max story we did last hour,
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where all of the new movies are going to be in your home for a month.
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If theaters go, quote unquote, out of business and they're destroyed like a lot of people
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are worried about, you might get to that point where it's just this sort of more of a novelty
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The good thing, though, is if you can tie them to restaurants like these dine-in theaters,
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I feel like there's always a role for them because everyone wants to go to a restaurant.
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President-elect Biden says he's going to ask Americans to wear their face masks for 100
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We're already wearing masks pretty much everywhere you go.
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On the sign of a place I just had lunch at yesterday, it said no mask, no service, just
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like they used to do with the no shoes, no shirt, no shoes, no pants, no service.
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What I've been doing is I wear a mask, but I go in topless.
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And just really kind of put the whole thing to the test.
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A guy coming into a place of business with no shirt, but he's wearing a mask.
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And I don't want to see your feet at my restaurant.
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Rather than shoes, you'd like to see the mask on the feet.
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If you're wearing open-toed sandals, I'd like you to put a mask over your toes, please.
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He hopes the mandate will help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
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There's no way to put a government mandate federally.
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I mean, he's even said, I'm going to go try to convince the governors to do it.
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I mean, I know, like, you know, South Dakota doesn't.
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And, you know, but even North Dakota put one in recently.
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So, I mean, it's certainly most of them at this point.
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Here's what he said yesterday to Tapper on the first day.
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Jake is on the first day I'm inaugurated to say I'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask.
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And I think we'll see a significant reduction if we occur that.
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That occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably.
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Somebody might want to tell Joe, again, it's been more than 100 days already for wearing the mask for most of us.
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Because, you know, while it was kind of a suggestion from the governor, every municipality then mandated it in whatever county or whatever city you reside in.
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By the way, when you go out in public, you've got to wear a mask.
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37 states have statewide mask mandates right now.
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But as you point out, a lot of local areas within those states do.
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I know, like, Florida, for example, tried to basically say that you can't do the local stuff.
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There's a California chef that is, I mean, I think you're seeing a lot of this reaction to the ridiculous overreaches by these blue state governors, largely, and mayors.
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And they are, you're seeing a lot of it come from restaurants and bars.
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And it's weird because, like, they're just like the public face of this.
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It's interesting in that, you know, restaurants have seen real devastation.
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I mean, a state like Texas, because we had this metric set up of 15% of the hospitals filled with COVID patients means you go to, I think, 50% capacity in restaurants and bars close, I think is the way it works.
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Because there's so many restrictions and weird things like this, like, it's hard to keep track of.
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You think about some of these industries, though, that have totally gone away.
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Like, if you go to a concert venue, basically, you're just turned things off for the year.
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And the thing about that is that for these bands, that's now how they make their money.
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The concerts are far more lucrative than the record sales because the digital record industry
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has just pretty much destroyed the massive amounts of money they were making from that.
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So, they're not making the big bucks with the recordings anymore.
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They're making the big dollars at the concert venue.
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I mean, you know, we talk about professional sports.
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Obviously, you see these professional sports leagues who have gone from, I mean, you watch
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the games, you watch an NFL week of games, you know, half the games have zero fans and
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half the games have, you know, maybe 10 or 20 percent of the fans.
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I mean, they're talking about the Super Bowl at, I think, 20 percent capacity.
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It's something like 15,000 people, supposedly, in the stadium, which I can't imagine what these
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You know, what about, what about like the, you know, here, I think this is around the
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I've been to them with the kids and other places as well, but they have like trampoline
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parks and like these indoor sort of like, almost like indoor amusement parks in some
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ways where they have trampoline parks and they have like all these cool things for kids
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to do, go-karts and, you know, all these things where people are sharing the same space
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and doing physical activity or whatever indoors.
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You know, I mean, we have them around us and they're open again, again, limited capacity
01:32:54.180
and we've gone to them, you know, several times, but the crowd is one-tenth of what
01:33:04.080
Well, you know, they're dealing with this, of course, at restaurants quite a bit.
01:33:07.040
There's a California chef, TV personality, Andrew Gruul, which is a weird name for, maybe
01:33:15.180
I don't know the guy, but he was talking about the madness of these lockdowns and these
01:33:26.520
Am I saying that we shouldn't close outdoor dining?
01:33:29.540
At every single juncture along the way here, from the beginning shutdown to today, we've
01:33:34.320
listened to all of the advice from our government officials, only to be shut down over and over
01:33:38.940
and over again, and then not compensated for the elements that we put in place in our businesses
01:33:48.180
I got a warehouse full of plexiglass right now, okay?
01:33:53.760
I just put thousands of dollars into outdoor heaters.
01:33:55.900
There is zero scientific evidence that proves that outdoor dining is contributing to a
01:34:03.720
I can go get a pink cockatoo for my Christmas tree, but I can't go and dine outdoors at a
01:34:23.960
There is no evidence that says that outdoor dining leads to a major transmission.
01:34:29.840
I mean, it's very, very unlikely that you're going to get it at doing outdoor dining.
01:34:34.760
And you're killing these businesses because you're not only telling them they can't have
01:34:42.860
But, and I've heard this from restaurant owner after restaurant owner.
01:34:46.240
They are, you're doing these things to, to please the government, like putting plexiglass
01:34:52.120
up and all these separators and to make honestly, some of the people who come to your restaurant
01:35:03.840
And you're spending all of this cash to do this.
01:35:07.760
And then at the end of the day, the government doesn't come back and say, Hey, we know we
01:35:12.880
We know we asked you to, to build these, uh, you know, bubbles for everyone to sit in.
01:35:17.800
Uh, so they can basically, everyone can live inside of plastic wrap.
01:35:24.080
Now there have been some programs that have helped with, uh, with shutdowns.
01:35:27.480
We know, uh, you know, the PPP and there's going to be another stimulus package that comes
01:35:31.900
here in the next couple of months, at least, uh, it's either going to be, um, probably, uh,
01:35:37.860
very soon or, uh, you know, late January, early February, but that's going to be another
01:35:43.420
And some of that money will go to restaurant owners and other companies to be compensated
01:35:47.940
for this stuff, because it is the government forcing them to shut down.
01:35:52.340
I will say if, if it's a state regulation, however, that money should probably come from
01:35:57.340
the state, not the government, not the federal government.
01:36:00.300
I think that we have, this has got to, this is, this is a little bit out of control.
01:36:04.520
I mean, you have a lot of people who are laid off and those people, uh, you know, we have
01:36:10.240
Um, uh, there's been talk about potentially another one of these sort of stimulus bonus
01:36:14.020
stimulus is the wrong word for this because it's not stimulus.
01:36:23.760
It's told you to shut down, uh, and they're supposed to compensate you for such things.
01:36:28.480
Uh, you know, I have, there's a big libertarian part of me that does not like all of this,
01:36:32.520
but I do understand it in this particular circumstance.
01:36:34.880
When the government is responsible for your business being closed and you being on the verge of
01:36:39.300
bankruptcy, then, you know, it's appropriate that they compensate you, I guess.
01:36:44.520
Uh, but yeah, so you look at industries like restaurants and movie theaters and, well, cruise
01:36:52.480
lines, when, when, when are cruises going to be acceptable again?
01:36:56.520
You know, I've been seeing commercials for them lately.
01:37:06.260
Most of them have, have pushed it off to 2021 sometime.
01:37:09.320
I think they might be selling future cruises and trying to get people excited about that.
01:37:12.520
I was surprised to see though, advertising for it at this point.
01:37:16.180
You know, I mean, there's like, what about this live events business?
01:37:19.460
Where you have these huge conventions like a comic con and there's a ton of them.
01:37:24.160
Um, and it's like those, what, how are those businesses planning through this?
01:37:29.960
Even if you're going to have them in the near future, you're going to have to have them
01:37:33.120
in a, in a separated, uh, circumstance where you're not getting close to people and people
01:37:40.360
You know, we went, um, you know, they had these six weeks to stop the spread or whatever
01:37:45.860
it was, you know, two weeks and then another month and that ended.
01:37:48.200
And, and I think it was right, right after that, or not soon after that in Texas, they
01:37:52.980
opened up, uh, dining at 25% capacity, uh, in, in Texas.
01:37:58.800
And it was like at the point where nothing was open.
01:38:01.500
I mean, it really, I think Georgia had opened a little bit, maybe one or two other states
01:38:05.640
and I was South Dakota kind of did the whole time and a couple of other states had that
01:38:08.840
at it that way, but it was like big news at the time.
01:38:10.860
And the first day it opened, we went out to a restaurant here in Texas.
01:38:14.760
Uh, and it was interesting in that it wasn't fun.
01:38:20.980
You know, it's one thing to say, you can go to a restaurant.
01:38:24.040
It's another thing to go to a restaurant where everybody is masked around you.
01:38:32.140
You know, if you're going to a bar or whatever, you can't go talk to someone across the bar.
01:38:35.540
You know, you, you, you, you, you're freaked out because you're wondering what droplets
01:38:41.440
are landing on your face from, from fellow diners.
01:38:45.240
And it's like, I didn't think people have loosened up a little bit since then, right?
01:38:49.460
And we've, we've had, we've been dealing with this for a while now, but it wasn't enjoyable.
01:38:53.480
You know, the whole point of this is it's not just going out and consuming food.
01:39:00.260
And these guys work so hard to design these amazing, you know, dishes and have a great
01:39:05.360
atmosphere in their restaurants and even to work, to do it outside.
01:39:08.800
And at the end of the day, it's impossible for them to provide the things that the, the,
01:39:14.820
the, the people who are coming to the restaurants actually want.
01:39:18.100
You know, you've, you've really just hampered this economy to a level that is, I mean,
01:39:23.900
we certainly never lived through anything like this before.
01:39:26.640
My, my favorite hamburger place in all of Texas, Twisted Root, still, still closed.
01:39:34.040
They've been closed and they're continuing to be closed, uh, in most of their locations.
01:39:39.000
I think in Shreveport, Louisiana or someplace, they've got a couple of restaurants open, but
01:39:44.760
all, all of the restaurants in the DFW area still closed.
01:39:49.560
And I think they've even filed chapter 11 bankruptcy.
01:39:52.720
So, I mean, I, I don't know how people are surviving it.
01:39:55.560
I don't know what you're doing for livelihood, uh, but when you once had such a successful
01:40:00.760
operation that you have, that you now have restaurants all over the place, you've gone
01:40:05.200
from one to 20 or 30 or whatever, and now you've had to be closed all this time.
01:40:12.900
So how do you ever, how do you ever get that back?
01:40:17.920
And the government can't make everybody whole, everybody who has declared bankruptcy and
01:40:23.380
who has shut down, they're not, they're not all going to be made whole again by the U.S.
01:40:33.360
So this is a tragedy and, and I really feel for people who've lost their livelihoods like
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Hey, Daniel, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
01:42:02.680
I just wanted to know with everything that's going on in the USA, uh, when are the governors
01:42:10.880
and the legislate and the Supreme court in Texas going to say, Hey, you know what?
01:42:19.860
We are going to go ahead and take ourselves out of the States.
01:42:32.140
Uh, I don't see that happening, but, uh, that's something that always comes up when times
01:42:40.520
Uh, it can be, or every time you walk into a place in Texas, uh, that's someone brings it
01:42:46.440
Those are the only times that secession ever comes up in Texas is good times, bad times
01:42:51.840
in between times, all times, uh, people are asking about secession.
01:43:01.240
I think what would happen is, uh, there'd be civil war.
01:43:11.820
Would have rather done it without the whole civil war thing.
01:43:15.980
And it just amended the constitution and got that over with.
01:43:19.120
Uh, you know, I mean, look, I like the country.
01:43:22.000
Uh, I kind of like the United States of America.
01:43:25.860
It's fantastic here, but I would say I'd rather kind of stay, let's, let's, let's make the
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Instead of worrying about all of us seceding separately.
01:43:38.720
So, uh, John in Georgia, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
01:43:47.540
You were speaking about, um, musicians being out of work.
01:43:50.760
And, uh, one thing that is, uh, lost in that discussion is the entire events industry, uh,
01:44:00.220
And that equates to around 12 million people who work in that industry, many of them in
01:44:06.580
gig worker, uh, economy who are basically out of work, have no prospects for going back
01:44:16.140
And, uh, there seems to not be much conversation happening, uh, around this segment of the economy,
01:44:26.240
It's concerts, it's corporate events, it's business meetings, it's weddings, it's, it's
01:44:33.880
Uh, we're talking about the stage hands and the, um, the sound guys and the lighting guys
01:44:39.920
and the video technicians, all of those people are completely out of work and have the banquet
01:44:48.640
Um, and, uh, it's the audio visual business that, um, uh, I own an AV company and we've
01:44:56.720
And, uh, I don't know how much longer will last.
01:45:01.660
Yeah, it's really, you know, I honestly, one of the first extra days, I really was like,
01:45:09.340
This is, I mean, I had seen, there are times I remember there's certain writers that I
01:45:13.020
follow who, who said things and I was like, gosh, if this person is where Matt Ridley
01:45:16.580
is a guy, when he first reported something, he was like, he wrote something about it and
01:45:19.420
he was like, this is actually might be different.
01:45:22.820
Um, I, that was my, one of my first moments of panic, but I would say the first thing that
01:45:27.680
really like hit me in a way that I, I, I don't think I'll ever forget was South by
01:45:32.460
Southwest canceling people, people might not remember that it's the biggest, like
01:45:36.840
basically the biggest entertainment and like technology festival in America.
01:45:42.140
It brings, it's something like a $300 million economic impact in Austin, Texas.
01:45:51.140
I mean, looking back at that, it's, it was a full week before the NBA did it.
01:45:56.280
Um, and, and all the leagues started shutting down and a couple of weeks before we were in
01:46:00.680
like nationwide shutdown, they, they, they just canceled it.
01:46:03.140
And I remember thinking, you don't just cancel that.
01:46:05.520
Like, what are you talking, like it hit me as like, that is incredible.
01:46:09.900
I mean, that was really, they were, they were, you know, honestly way out ahead of that and
01:46:14.000
understanding how big this was going to be because at that time that is not, people were
01:46:20.420
People were thinking, oh, well maybe we, you know, we might have to change things around
01:46:23.340
This is getting a little weird, but people were not at the point where they thought shutdowns
01:46:26.860
were coming and they canceled that whole thing.
01:46:30.220
I mean, you know, Louisiana went, uh, famously went ahead with Mardi Gras and it didn't work
01:46:38.120
Um, so it is one of those things where that entire industry, you know, banquets, uh, conventions,
01:46:47.600
And that, and everyone tied to those businesses.
01:46:49.740
These people all have basically no prospect for employment and haven't for nine months.
01:46:55.540
I had a similar experience, uh, to your shock and awe, uh, when our church Christmas party
01:47:01.980
was canceled last week, it hit me like, whoa, you can't cancel the, the church Christmas
01:47:09.360
We're not going to have a company Christmas party this year, are we?
01:47:18.480
Uh, actually it was, uh, I was kind of relieved when the church Christmas party was canceled.
01:47:24.380
I will say I'm okay with the company Christmas party being canceled.
01:47:26.900
There's a lot of parties we're getting out of this year and we're all kind of excited
01:47:36.200
Uh, you know, this is, I'm turning around on this whole COVID thing.
01:47:42.140
People are like, oh, these masks, these masks, this is terrible.
01:47:47.720
Like I never have to deal with a conversation in public ever again.
01:47:53.460
And we're going to start talking to each other.
01:47:59.540
You go into CVS now and they say, hi sir, how's your day been going so far?
01:48:04.460
And you don't have to hear that anymore because they know I got a mask on and they know how
01:48:17.120
You get like, you know, I didn't, I, I, I want to go visit my relative at the nursing
01:48:24.460
Last Tuesday when you were allowed to do it, you didn't show up either.
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They've been sitting there by themselves for six months.
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The Zoom calls more than these poor people have had.
01:48:35.860
Yeah, because in some cases that has been going on for years.
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I mean, I, I guess we do, you know, we're going to get all these things back maybe next
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That's why I did a t-shirt that just says, uh, sorry, can't make it self-quarantined.
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I was going to keep using that for an excuse for years and years and years.
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Uh, we may have played this yesterday, but just as a reminder, here's what Joe Biden is
01:50:35.500
saying about your holiday season that's coming up because, uh, you know, everything's got
01:50:40.220
We, you didn't, you couldn't have anybody over for, for Thanksgiving.
01:50:46.000
I hope you all are listening as, with all the trouble you're going through, you cannot
01:50:57.800
We, uh, you probably, you know, I used to, Brock used to kid me about it.
01:51:01.520
I mean, everything for me is family, beginning, middle, and end.
01:51:09.080
That is such a weird thing that he does all the time.
01:51:19.360
He has, he, he throws it into sentences all the time when everyone's sitting there.
01:51:33.200
My deceased son, before he passed away, uh, we'd all go away and we'd go away on Thanksgiving
01:51:42.140
Mom, dad, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, grandchildren.
01:51:48.520
We, the first time we had a, we had a Thanksgiving with my wife and myself, my daughter in the
01:51:55.400
region and her husband, who's a doctor in the region.
01:51:59.040
All my other kids, everybody else in the family was on zoom on Thanksgiving, which
01:52:04.880
doesn't, well, Christmas is going to be a lot harder and you know, I want, I don't want
01:52:10.440
to scare anybody here, but understand the facts.
01:52:16.400
He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we're likely to lose another 250,000 people dead between
01:52:28.120
He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we are likely to have a quarter of a million people
01:52:45.180
So you're basically looking at about 10 K a day, which would be high.
01:52:53.580
And it's, you know, we will probably will break those records and over the next few weeks.
01:53:02.120
I will be very surprised if it hits that number.
01:53:04.620
Uh, I, so I was trying to figure out where he got this number from.
01:53:08.620
I'm like, it's possible he could say globally, 10,000 people a day will die, which is about
01:53:18.120
If you look at some of these estimates, he says from now until January, does that mean he,
01:53:25.840
Like, I mean, until January to me says till December 31st.
01:53:29.840
I mean, if you include January in the estimates and take the worst estimates, you go all the
01:53:34.760
way to the January or January 31st and you take the worst case scenario, you might be
01:53:44.580
I mean, like if you're at, if the worst possible thing happens and you will get, which is
01:53:57.120
Because if we give him till January 31st, well, now we've given him till February is
01:54:05.020
You would have to, in order for him to be correct, you would have to say until February.
01:54:08.700
But like that University of Washington model says that that's possible.
01:54:12.280
Now, of course, that also means that there's no vaccine, right?
01:54:16.320
Like if you have a vaccine that inoculates 30 million people by that time, I mean, the
01:54:22.520
But don't they also say if you have to relax restrictions in order to do that?
01:54:32.360
It says, it's an estimate that it revolves around easing mandates.
01:54:50.960
Forget even whether the masks work or not for a second.
01:54:55.380
Just look at what happens in states with mask mandates and states without mask mandates.
01:55:00.060
What's the difference in percentage of people who actually wear masks?
01:55:05.040
I want to say it's like in a state like South Dakota, about 65% of people are wearing masks
01:55:12.900
And in like Washington, D.C. was, I think, the highest.
01:55:15.380
It was something like 80% of people are wearing masks, even though there is a mandate.
01:55:23.040
A lot of people are wearing masks just because they think it might be helpful, right?
01:55:27.540
You know, sometimes they're mandated in stores.
01:55:31.340
But like when you look at statewide policy, there are really good personal liberty reasons
01:55:38.000
When it comes to pragmatic actual effects, people, generally speaking, make their own
01:55:45.480
And they're going to err on the side of being cautious.
01:55:50.020
The mask thing is interesting because you could look at a lot of the studies.
01:56:04.360
Like even the best, the most optimistic studies on masks will show like you might cut
01:56:08.980
your chance of getting of it spreading by like 50%, which is something that's significant.
01:56:14.060
But when it's not, when you're talking about not letting people make their own personal
01:56:21.020
choice and instead throwing a mandate on their head, right, the standard for a government
01:56:30.540
But even if you do want mandates, it should be incredibly high bar you have to clear as
01:56:36.320
On the other side, for your personal use, it should be pretty low.
01:56:40.460
Like if you think there's a 10% chance that it'll help and it's not really going to interrupt
01:56:45.140
your life too much, you're probably going to do it.
01:56:46.840
That's why a lot of people are, you know, they're doing their dinners outside.
01:56:51.200
They're standing, you know, they're standing a few feet away from each other.
01:56:53.320
Even if they don't necessarily, they don't necessarily worry themselves, they'll take some
01:56:58.740
And that's a much more sensible way for a country to deal with it.
01:57:02.220
You know, give people reliable information, let people say, hey, this might help, might
01:57:08.480
But, you know, hey, if you want to take some steps that might help, I think most people
01:57:13.220
Like if you have a safety feature on your car that might help in a few percent of cases,
01:57:18.780
all things being equal, you'd probably throw it on your car if it's cheap.
01:57:26.160
You were able to take a cost-benefit analysis and look at how your risk, you know, is in life.
01:57:34.520
That's why we go 65 on the highway and not three.
01:57:37.360
Because if we went three, we wouldn't die in car accidents ever.
01:57:52.580
But that's, you know, you're not in the norm on that one.
01:57:58.320
You're on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Stu.
01:58:09.800
Does he have to have a, shall we say, a physical by the White House doctors?
01:58:21.180
But no, there's no physical that he must take before he goes, before he takes office that I'm aware of.
01:58:27.700
I mean, like Trump, if you remember, Trump released a letter from his doctor saying he was the most healthy person in the universe or something.
01:58:38.960
Usually, candidates will disclose basics about their health.
01:58:43.020
There's no constitutional requirement for something like that, though.
01:58:45.960
There is a constitutional requirement to have mental capacity, however.
01:58:49.480
It's just done through the 25th Amendment, not through some doctor's order.
01:58:53.500
You can throw someone out if you don't think they are.
01:58:57.600
It would have to be Biden's cabinet who did that.
01:58:59.220
Obviously, we remember that there was talk at times about that happening with Trump from people who didn't like Trump.
01:59:08.860
I mean, the chances of this happening are basically zero.
01:59:11.380
But if and when it does happen where he's to the point where he just can't function and it's totally obvious, it'll be a complete surprise to everybody.
01:59:22.680
Who would have known that his cognitive abilities are declining?
01:59:32.020
I don't want to say that there's zero chance that he steps down because he's losing his mind.
01:59:37.760
That is, you know, much more likely than zero percent.
01:59:40.600
I'm saying the actual process of the 25th Amendment being utilized is incredibly unlikely.
01:59:47.840
The pressure of it would likely make him resign.
01:59:54.000
He would have been thrown out of office if he stayed.
01:59:56.960
You get to that level, he's just going to resign.
01:59:59.320
Or it might get to the level of, let's say, Woodrow Wilson, who had a severe stroke and he was just incapacitated.
02:00:05.660
And they just hid that from the American people for two years while his wife took over the country.
02:00:11.420
I mean, the 25th Amendment, the only time it actually gets used is like someone, you know, a president needs to get surgery and go under anesthesia.
02:00:23.240
And the vice president, you know, like takes the leadership role there.
02:00:26.900
But, you know, as far as it like the cabinet gathering around and plotting against him, that happens in House of Cards.
02:00:33.800
It could happen in a Biden administration if it gets bad or if just Kamala really wants the gig.
02:00:39.940
But I think it would likely happen in more of a resignation process if the writing on the wall was seen.
02:00:55.580
So my, I'm kind of interested to see what's going to happen with the character of Elliot Page on Umbrella Academy.
02:01:15.200
You know, she was, she was a lesbian who corrupted of, you know, a married woman.
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I'm not watching the show, but I mean, it is interesting because she, now, I think it was last year, Ellen Page came out as a lesbian.
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So she was, in the woke world, she was allowed to play that role on Umbrella Academy because she also was a lesbian.
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So now, she's a heterosexual male if she likes women.
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Which, by the way, I think her preferred pronoun is certainly not her any longer.
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Please do not use gendered language to, to address everyone.
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But also you could refer to Ellen Page as he, who is now Elliot Page.
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But the point is, doesn't, so Ellen Page doesn't exist is what we're supposed to believe, right?
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But that's a great question because she's in the middle of a role on, on Umbrella Academy,
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which I do watch, have watched, and I've watched both seasons.
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And I can't remember, is it, My Chemical Romance guy, maybe?
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As Nikki pointed out, he, they, was she, her on the show.
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And so, now that they've established that for two whole seasons, I don't know how they're
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In fact, I think she should have to get, shouldn't she give up her royalties for Juno, where she
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I mean, she should have to give up all those royalties.
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I would, I would assume this is something that, I mean, how many times did she take roles
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that girls or women could have played when she supposedly was a man the whole time?
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I mean, we saw this, you know, as ridiculous as this conversation is, last year, at least,
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or no, this year, at least twice, there were, uh, white women actors, not actresses, but
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actors, who voiced characters that were not the exact same as them.
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So, therefore, I'm outraged by that, by the way.
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Like, there was one woman who was a mixed, mixed race.
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But if they had to do that, then certainly he, they, has to do it now.
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He, they, can't continue to play a role that a she, her should be playing.
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Especially, now a she, her that liked a she, her, she was qualified for that role.
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Now that she's a he, they, and still likes she, hers, she's now a straight white male.
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You're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
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I wanted to talk about our friend Uncle Joe, if he were to step foot into the White House.
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So he has this 100-day mask mandate idea, which has got to be one of the stupidest things,
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in part because he's going to be able to claim success and have nothing to do with it.
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Because after 100 days, I mean, that takes you to May 1st.
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You've had two and a half months of warming weather, outdoor activities resuming.
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You're going to have 50 million people vaccinated by then, probably.
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Even though it was Donald Trump who got those things moving forward at the pace they moved.
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If this vaccine works as well as they say, this will be Joe Biden's vaccine.
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It will somehow, they will retrofit this to be Joe Biden's success story.
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Even though nothing could be further from the truth.