The Glenn Beck Program - Restaurants Have Had Enough of the Lockdowns ｜ 12⧸4⧸20

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00:01:17.040 All right, a lot going on today.

00:01:19.460 You know, I don't know what to, there's all sorts of stuff that basically is revolving around the election.

00:01:26.960 I understand the election stuff is important.

00:01:29.820 I'm getting to the point of, I'm sick of talking about it.

00:01:32.180 I was already sick of talking about it in like the summer.

00:01:36.020 We had already been talking about the election for so long.

00:01:41.120 And then you had the riots and the coronavirus stuff.

00:01:47.280 And, you know, man, we have been beat up this year.

00:01:49.680 We have been beat up this year.

00:01:50.860 And the good thing to remember is once the calendar turns to 2021, everything in your life is going to get a lot better.

00:01:57.040 Because it's just the numerical year that's screwing us up.

00:01:59.940 And everything else is going to be solved once we get past just 2020.

00:02:03.940 Everything's going to be fine.

00:02:05.320 So we have, that's not true, by the way, at all.

00:02:09.380 In any way.

00:02:10.860 Let's see.

00:02:11.660 There's some good, pretty interesting stuff.

00:02:15.500 I'm interested in the Staten Island bar that has decided to first declare itself a autonomous zone.

00:02:24.100 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.

00:02:32.840 I don't understand what is going on here.

00:02:35.660 We have Biden has now said he will keep Fauci on as COVID response.

00:02:41.000 Now, Fauci's been there forever.

00:02:42.160 He's been through a ton of presidents.

00:02:44.160 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.

00:02:59.620 He was running the beer company back in the day and then turned over to John Adams.

00:03:03.860 We'll get into that, of course, coming on as well.

00:03:05.880 And we found out recently that George Clooney cuts his hair with a flow bee.

00:03:12.040 We have that breaking news for you as well.

00:03:15.220 It's not quite as breaking as the fact that Joe Biden's going to have a cat in the White House.

00:03:19.980 It's not quite to that level of importance, but it is the sort of journalism you can expect right now from your media.

00:03:27.160 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.

00:03:36.600 Their job was not to ask tough questions.

00:03:38.380 I mean, it was that point where you'd be like shocked when they would ask a difficult question.

00:03:42.740 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.

00:03:50.260 We'd play the clips back like, look at it.

00:03:51.960 Listen to this.

00:03:53.340 Barack Obama got asked a tough question.

00:03:55.580 It would be like the story of the day back then.

00:03:58.980 Right.

00:03:59.440 That's all it's been now for four years of nonstop badgering by the press.

00:04:03.940 And it's good to see them kind of settle back into the place they want to be.

00:04:07.020 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?

00:04:19.340 That's pretty penetrating.

00:04:20.600 Those are tough questions.

00:04:22.160 And that's what he had to deal with.

00:04:24.860 So I'm sure Biden will deal with the same thing.

00:04:27.880 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:04:28.720 That's coming up here in just a minute here, Pat.

00:04:30.300 We've got a bunch of great stuff today.

00:04:32.360 What was the final and more on trivia, did we?

00:04:34.200 Yeah, we had to revert back to the halftime score of 8-7 Philadelphia, which we all know is not going to happen.

00:04:39.820 Hey, I don't think that's true.

00:04:41.720 The Eagles have a great chance of beating the Packers.

00:04:44.460 I can't even say it with a straight face.

00:04:46.060 If you believe in magic, I guess.

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00:05:14.640 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:08:05.440 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:08:08.920 So, 888-727-BECK and the COVID situation continues to strike death and destruction all over the country.

00:08:21.340 They can't scare us enough on this thing.

00:08:23.500 There can't be enough fear-mongering to go around for this new administration if they do, in fact, become the new administration.

00:08:31.600 Have we not reached the point here where they realize that sort of stuff doesn't work on people?

00:08:38.440 Like, just scaring people to death?

00:08:41.060 It's just not effective.

00:08:43.280 I don't think they do realize that.

00:08:45.320 Because they keep doing it.

00:08:46.700 And, you know, I think we played it yesterday.

00:08:48.300 The Biden thing where he says don't travel for Christmas because we're going to have 250,000 people die before January.

00:08:57.600 That would be a lot.

00:09:00.400 That would be notable.

00:09:01.580 It would be notable, wouldn't it?

00:09:03.340 Yeah.

00:09:03.780 It's almost as notable as when Kamala Harris said,

00:09:08.040 We're looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died.

00:09:15.400 I mean, that's too many.

00:09:16.740 If I may go out on that limb, that's just too many people.

00:09:22.420 You can't have 220 million Americans die in just a few months.

00:09:26.300 So if we can cut that to 250,000, that's, you know, that's progress.

00:09:32.640 But either way, that's still a lot of people.

00:09:35.240 You know, we should probably do better than that.

00:09:38.940 That's it.

00:09:39.580 I think you're right.

00:09:40.860 I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I think you are correct.

00:09:44.300 Yeah.

00:09:44.420 No, they will just, instead of just giving people reliable information they can count on and letting them make their own decisions,

00:09:51.340 they've gone down this road.

00:09:52.660 And we've seen over and over and over again that this is not the way to go.

00:09:58.240 It's certainly not the way to treat Americans.

00:10:00.720 You've seen some Asian countries, for example, who have done relatively well with the virus.

00:10:08.040 And part of that is they've been dealing with these viruses popping up routinely for a long time.

00:10:13.500 Yeah, it was South Korea one that really was successful, and I think they still are.

00:10:18.300 Yeah, Hong Kong, Japan has been.

00:10:21.180 And what is the difference?

00:10:22.040 What are they doing that we're not doing?

00:10:23.980 I mean, first of all, they have a lot more flexibility in their constitution than we do.

00:10:29.400 You know, I am the type of person, Pat, who would say the freedoms that we have in this country, not worth a dictatorship.

00:10:38.660 Really?

00:10:39.540 I'd rather have what we have.

00:10:41.300 You're saying that freedom should not just be flushed down the toilet when something goes wrong?

00:10:45.680 Right.

00:10:46.220 So I'm on the cost-benefit analysis of this situation.

00:10:51.120 Freedom is going to win the day for me.

00:10:53.260 Really?

00:10:53.760 However, probably, it's probably easier to stop a pandemic if you're a dictatorship.

00:10:59.560 I think if you can just be like China and weld people into their homes, you can probably stop the spread. 1.00

00:11:08.100 You're further ahead a little bit.

00:11:08.500 Yeah.

00:11:09.180 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.

00:11:17.980 It does seem to be easier to control the virus with those sorts of standards.

00:11:22.140 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.

00:11:32.140 They've dealt with some things.

00:11:33.040 They're used to dealing with this type of thing.

00:11:34.700 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.

00:11:43.680 Don't worry about it.

00:11:44.660 Yeah.

00:11:44.760 So that's not what we're used to here.

00:11:46.920 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.

00:11:57.300 And you're like, OK, I think the American people were pretty much on board for that.

00:12:00.220 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.

00:12:14.080 And, you know, at the beginning of this was, you know, it was amazing that we were not prepared.

00:12:18.660 And that's not a Trump administration thing.

00:12:20.920 That's a it's amazing just to see how the country was not really ready for this.

00:12:27.380 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.

00:12:34.440 We have to be able to have we can't just shut down the economy.

00:12:37.800 We have to be able to figure this out because then you're hurting people in other ways.

00:12:41.060 Yeah.

00:12:41.540 And they never really adjusted the messaging all that much.

00:12:44.540 I mean, you certainly hear people now say that they're not going to go back into lockdowns and and schools.

00:12:49.560 They've come a long way on schools.

00:12:52.020 And these are things that I think conservatives were saying from the very beginning.

00:12:55.000 You know, you've got to keep schools open.

00:12:56.840 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?

00:13:02.180 How is this happening?

00:13:03.380 So that came along.

00:13:04.580 That's come along now.

00:13:05.640 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.

00:13:14.600 It's still pretty low.

00:13:15.580 And even Dr. Fauci is admitting that.

00:13:19.380 Now, let me ask you this, though.

00:13:21.240 What about this proposal?

00:13:22.640 And it's a great one.

00:13:23.480 Would you be willing to get a covid vaccine in exchange for a fifteen hundred dollar stimulus check?

00:13:29.380 So in other words, they're bribing you to get the vaccine with fifteen hundred bucks from the government.

00:13:34.860 Yeah, I think it's an interesting policy, actually, because they're trying to get people to do it.

00:13:40.060 Obviously, now, John Delaney, a Democrat from Maryland, it's his idea.

00:13:43.940 He actually ran for president for about 15 minutes.

00:13:46.700 To be clear, other people have proposed this.

00:13:48.460 I don't know.

00:13:48.780 I mean, Delaney may have as well. 0.84

00:13:50.040 He's getting the credit for it for some reason.

00:13:51.400 But I mean, I've heard this discussed on, you know, multiple conservative sources.

00:13:56.000 The stimulus check for the vaccination?

00:13:57.700 Because they're going to give another stimulus check anyway.

00:14:00.240 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?

00:14:05.720 And it's also there's also kind of an interesting thing that goes on here in that.

00:14:10.060 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.

00:14:22.320 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.

00:14:38.160 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.

00:14:46.880 Right.

00:14:47.360 You might live with more relatives from multiple generations.

00:14:50.340 There are reasons why, you know, it's going to hit those communities harder.

00:14:53.940 And so they're trying to figure out ways to do it.

00:14:55.620 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.

00:15:00.960 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.

00:15:06.100 But, you know, fifteen hundred dollars is not nothing.

00:15:08.100 That's a lot of money.

00:15:09.040 Yeah.

00:15:09.440 And, you know, that is kind of what they're they're talking about now.

00:15:12.540 And I think people will probably get on board with it.

00:15:14.840 Honestly, I would not be surprised if something like this comes to fruition.

00:15:18.260 And I guess it seems like seventy five percent is the the percentage they're looking for to have inoculated.

00:15:27.840 Yeah.

00:15:29.120 Delaney said the faster we get to seventy five percent of this country vaccinated, the faster we end covid.

00:15:34.500 So is that what they're assuming is that it's going to take about seventy five percent?

00:15:38.300 Because I've heard I've heard percentage is much lower than that to where we're pretty much OK.

00:15:43.760 Yeah.

00:15:44.120 So there's there's a bunch of disagreement on this.

00:15:47.160 There are some, you know, pretty legitimate scientists who think it's, you know, more like 40 or 50 percent.

00:15:52.940 Yeah.

00:15:53.260 That's OK.

00:15:53.900 That's closer to the number I've heard.

00:15:55.400 Yeah.

00:15:56.000 And then there's people on the Internet who will tell you it's like one percent.

00:15:59.780 One.

00:16:00.380 You know, I think on the Internet, everyone just assumes we're constantly in herd immunity.

00:16:05.240 At least half the audience, the other half the audience says we'll never get to it.

00:16:08.040 So it's hard to understand when you're when you're on social media.

00:16:10.600 But there are there are there are scientists.

00:16:12.780 It's not I wouldn't say it's the leading scientific position.

00:16:15.600 It's like, you know, you get these things.

00:16:18.780 It's a new virus and everyone's trying to figure it out and everyone has their theories.

00:16:21.920 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.

00:16:31.460 Yeah.

00:16:31.620 And it could be more like 40 or 50.

00:16:32.960 I think that the typical number is about six is about two thirds.

00:16:35.660 So if you go 75 percent, have the inoculation, it's not 100 percent effective.

00:16:40.420 So it'll get you to about two thirds.

00:16:43.280 You got to remember, though, too, that a lot of people like myself are covid-19 survivors.

00:16:49.560 And you've already got I've already had it.

00:16:51.700 So the platelets or the antibodies or the.

00:16:54.440 Right.

00:16:54.640 So I really should be last in line to get it.

00:16:58.120 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.

00:17:04.920 Probably. But I think it's an interesting idea, actually, especially because we all know.

00:17:11.440 Let's be honest about this for a second.

00:17:12.960 We all know they're going to pass another stimulus bill tied to covid.

00:17:16.740 Obviously. I mean, it's definitely going to happen.

00:17:18.420 Even the Republicans are like, how about a trillion dollars?

00:17:21.880 And then the Democrats are like, how about three trillion dollars?

00:17:25.320 Likely we're going to end up somewhere around a trillion or one and a half, something like that.

00:17:31.080 So you have to expect that that's coming.

00:17:33.220 And if it's going to come anyway, you know, you want people might as well get a benefit for taking the vaccine.

00:17:38.600 Yeah. What if we use?

00:17:40.140 OK, like the election.

00:17:42.760 What if we get more people vaccinated and vaccinated than we have people in this country?

00:17:48.420 What about that?

00:17:49.380 One hundred and fifty percent.

00:17:50.760 Yes. If we can do it with the election, we can certainly do it with the vaccine.

00:17:54.720 But Congress has been working on for months on this agreement and can't can't come to an agreement on the stimulus package.

00:18:04.420 So they're still at odds, even as 12 million people could lose unemployment benefits in a few weeks if nothing's done.

00:18:11.860 So that's why I think a lot of people in Congress are looking at this as, yeah, that's maybe doable.

00:18:17.060 Maybe we just bribe people to get the vaccine.

00:18:18.840 Then we kill two birds with one stone, although I think you're still going to have some resistance to the vaccine.

00:18:23.980 Oh, yeah.

00:18:24.640 It's surprising to me how I mean, my producer, Pac Ray Unleashed, Keith Malonek, really adamant about not getting the vaccine.

00:18:32.880 Yes.

00:18:33.140 Yes. And he's currently at home because of a covid scare, which is interesting.

00:18:38.680 Yes. Yes.

00:18:40.460 Yeah. No, I think a lot of people will have that.

00:18:43.180 I tend to believe and I could be wrong on this, tend to believe that you're going to have about half the country.

00:18:50.000 The polling seems to show about half the country is fine taking it.

00:18:52.980 Half the country has some level of skepticism.

00:18:55.100 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.

00:19:03.260 But I mean, the first couple of months, it's something like 60 percent.

00:19:06.340 And, you know, there's probably 10 to 20 percent who are like hardcore, never going to take it no matter what.

00:19:10.880 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.

00:19:18.720 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.

00:19:30.140 Let's get this over with. Yeah.

00:19:31.320 I start seeing a group of lizards, though, that used to be people and now aren't anymore because they got the vaccine.

00:19:39.240 And this turns out to be a side effect.

00:19:40.660 I think that's going to cut down in the amount of people that want to take it.

00:19:43.680 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.

00:19:48.720 I think it's at least 10 percent.

00:19:50.940 OK, I talked to a guy last night on Studios America who took it, who was in the vaccine trials and went through both shots.

00:19:57.940 I'll tell you his story here in about one minute.

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00:21:16.360 Yes, I talked to Adam Gillette.

00:21:17.800 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.

00:21:27.420 He signed up for it.

00:21:29.240 Now, I think I mentioned this one before.

00:21:30.820 I signed up for the trials as well.

00:21:32.780 Did you really?

00:21:33.560 Yeah, I did.

00:21:34.160 I did not get in.

00:21:35.440 They deemed me too sexy to be representative of the American people.

00:21:39.740 Weird.

00:21:40.440 They were actually.

00:21:41.640 What's the point?

00:21:43.160 That was the reasoning behind it, though, that they gave you.

00:21:45.880 Either that or they just never emailed me back.

00:21:47.240 Too sexy.

00:21:48.160 Most people, you know, a lot of people tried to get into it and did not.

00:21:51.200 But he got into it and actually took the he took the Moderna vaccine.

00:21:54.860 I believe it was the Moderna one.

00:21:56.000 Okay.

00:21:56.360 And do you know if you're in the control group or not?

00:22:00.440 So you.

00:22:00.920 Yeah.

00:22:01.060 So it's interesting because you have half the population in the trial gets the vaccine, half get the placebo.

00:22:07.360 And so he it's a two shot process.

00:22:09.900 First shot he had had no no side effects at all.

00:22:13.320 And when he got the second dose, he spent one night.

00:22:16.440 He had chills and he had a slight fever.

00:22:19.620 And he he got very excited about that because he knew that meant he had the vaccine.

00:22:24.640 Right.

00:22:24.820 He must have.

00:22:25.660 He must have had it.

00:22:26.500 You wouldn't get that from the placebo.

00:22:28.340 Right.

00:22:28.480 But very minor side effects.

00:22:30.820 And so it was almost like the beginning of actually getting covid.

00:22:35.620 Right.

00:22:36.060 Because chills and a fever are could be one of those.

00:22:38.540 Yes.

00:22:38.740 Indicators.

00:22:39.460 Yeah.

00:22:40.220 But yet did that was that was that was it.

00:22:42.680 And he was that he was fine the next day.

00:22:45.660 Yeah.

00:22:46.060 He said he ran five miles the next day, which I found to be just irritating.

00:22:50.340 No human being is supposed to run.

00:22:52.100 You don't need to rub it in.

00:22:53.180 Show up.

00:22:54.300 Relax on that.

00:22:55.280 I've run five miles as well combined in my entire life.

00:22:58.780 So, yeah, but he.

00:23:00.540 So, yeah.

00:23:01.240 I mean, obviously, you never know.

00:23:03.700 You know, we only can you can only really only check the effectiveness of a vaccine when

00:23:07.720 you talk about an entire population.

00:23:09.140 Right.

00:23:09.400 You can't just say, oh, I didn't get it.

00:23:10.840 Well, maybe he wasn't going to get it anyway.

00:23:12.820 We don't know if it's effective on one person per se.

00:23:15.360 But the results of the trials look really promising.

00:23:18.420 And, you know, I can understand, you know, I think if you don't want to take the vaccine,

00:23:23.560 you shouldn't have to take it.

00:23:24.560 I don't think there's any to me, there's any personal liberty argument among, you know,

00:23:29.400 for a mandate.

00:23:30.800 But when you talk about wanting to have the economy really open, not like it is now, not

00:23:37.140 like it is even in the summer at the lowest point of covid, when most of them things were

00:23:40.980 open up as literally back to literally back to normal.

00:23:43.940 That is a path to do it.

00:23:45.600 Now, another path to do it would be developing a treatment.

00:23:48.120 Right.

00:23:49.280 But but a vaccine is as much is going to be is just come along faster.

00:23:53.880 They they've tried a lot of treatments.

00:23:55.800 A lot of them have chipped away at the death rate on this thing.

00:23:59.960 But it has not is, you know, it's not it's we're still in this place.

00:24:04.000 I mean, I've talked about this a lot and we talked about it yesterday as well that, you

00:24:08.420 know, this week was going to be a week where because of the data delays from Thanksgiving,

00:24:13.420 we're going to get all these peaks and records this week.

00:24:16.040 And that's happened.

00:24:16.880 But it's also real.

00:24:18.400 I mean, like it's not just that it's not just data building up like we are in a period.

00:24:23.400 Hospitalizations is the one stat that doesn't really do this.

00:24:25.580 And we are at a an all time high by a large margin in hospitalizations over covid.

00:24:30.680 We're over one hundred thousand, which is I mean, in March, we were only at sixty thousand.

00:24:35.400 The difference is just that we're very it's very spread out right now.

00:24:38.320 You know, so it's not as intense as it was in New York.

00:24:42.500 It's just more widespread.

00:24:45.000 And that's going to wind up making the numbers very large, unfortunately.

00:24:49.340 But it's not it's it is a totally different situation than it was in March and April.

00:24:53.440 So just get us to immunity by next football season.

00:24:58.100 Yes.

00:24:58.580 So that we don't have to go through this nonsense again with no fans in the stands.

00:25:05.600 We just get there.

00:25:07.560 That's a real.

00:25:08.420 Yeah, to me, it is.

00:25:09.680 It's one of those.

00:25:10.520 Also, I don't want BYU to have to cancel all their games again and come up with, you know,

00:25:15.760 the school for the deaf and blind play, you know, matchup.

00:25:20.280 Because when BYU and the school for the deaf and blind get together on the football field,

00:25:25.300 you can throw out all the record books.

00:25:26.900 Yeah, no, I've heard all of them from you.

00:25:28.660 I've heard it.

00:25:29.120 But that is I have heard it before.

00:25:31.360 By the way, we have like a few seconds here before the break.

00:25:33.500 I mean, BYU, an actual national championship kind of contender, right?

00:25:38.220 I mean, top 10 team.

00:25:39.560 Yeah.

00:25:39.860 And they've got a ranked game against another unbeaten 14th ranked in the Associated Press

00:25:46.260 Bowl, Coastal Carolina.

00:25:48.340 And you might be saying who?

00:25:50.360 Yeah, this year they've really come on strong.

00:25:52.460 They've been at the top division of college football for only like four or five years.

00:25:59.760 So they put together a really good program in a short amount of time.

00:26:03.880 And college game day, ESPN's college game day, going to be there.

00:26:07.400 Wow.

00:26:07.840 For the hype machine to really kick it into gear.

00:26:12.420 Of course, people don't know.

00:26:13.760 Pat's a BYU alum.

00:26:15.020 He went there.

00:26:15.840 No.

00:26:16.460 No?

00:26:16.820 Mm-mm.

00:26:17.120 So why are you a fan?

00:26:19.040 That's a good question.

00:26:19.560 That's a good question.

00:26:20.140 That's a really good question.

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00:28:35.900 All right.

00:28:36.780 So, you're joining us now to Chewing the Fat.

00:28:41.360 I am.

00:28:41.800 Thank you.

00:28:42.200 And what do you have?

00:28:42.900 I don't know if you talked about it yesterday or not, because – I mean, I'm sorry.

00:28:45.600 I missed it.

00:28:46.260 I missed the broadcast yesterday.

00:28:48.160 But there was a video released from the state of New York where people are chanting and hollering

00:28:54.160 in the streets.

00:28:55.120 And I can't make out what they're saying.

00:28:56.540 And I was hoping, especially used to, that you'd be able to – I know you understand New

00:29:00.320 York lingo.

00:29:00.840 Yeah, I was born in New York.

00:29:01.660 Yeah.

00:29:01.920 So, that you could help me understand what they're saying in this video.

00:29:07.380 Wobo sucks!

00:29:08.280 Wobo sucks!

00:29:09.560 Wobo sucks!

00:29:10.620 It's tough to pick up.

00:29:11.220 Wobo sucks!

00:29:12.480 I can't –

00:29:13.160 Can we hear it again?

00:29:13.920 Wobo sucks!

00:29:15.640 Wobo sucks!

00:29:17.000 Wobo sucks!

00:29:18.240 Wobo sucks!

00:29:19.640 Wobo sucks!

00:29:20.000 I can't make it out what they're saying.

00:29:22.520 It almost sounds like –

00:29:23.860 Somebody sucks, I think.

00:29:25.940 Can we hear it one more time?

00:29:27.220 I can't quite –

00:29:28.400 Wobo sucks!

00:29:29.400 Wobo sucks!

00:29:30.760 Wobo sucks!

00:29:32.280 Wobo sucks!

00:29:33.620 It's difficult, Jeffy.

00:29:34.720 You're right.

00:29:35.200 It's tough to pick up.

00:29:36.620 I think it might be –

00:29:37.260 It almost sounds like something like,

00:29:38.720 Wobo sucks?

00:29:40.900 Wobo sucks!

00:29:41.220 Wobo sucks!

00:29:41.420 Wobo sucks!

00:29:42.020 Yes, that's it.

00:29:42.620 Wobo sucks!

00:29:42.980 I knew you would know.

00:29:44.060 Thank you.

00:29:44.620 Thank you, Pat.

00:29:44.640 And it's interesting because in New York, the governor of New York is Andrew Cuomo,

00:29:49.180 and he sucks. 0.97

00:29:50.380 So, that would make sense.

00:29:51.560 Wobo sucks makes perfect sense.

00:29:53.360 Right.

00:29:54.200 For a New Yorker to want to chant.

00:29:55.680 I didn't think of that.

00:29:56.460 Gosh darn it.

00:29:57.220 Thank you.

00:29:57.860 You're welcome.

00:29:58.620 I'm so glad I brought that in to figure that one out.

00:30:01.260 I was talking to somebody the other day about this relative who lives in New York,

00:30:05.760 and we were talking about Andrew Cuomo.

00:30:07.500 And, of course, obviously, I believe Andrew Cuomo is awful.

00:30:11.040 Dot com.

00:30:11.620 But, we were talking about, like, it hasn't really changed in the polling, his approval

00:30:18.420 rating, all that much.

00:30:20.400 It's gone from, like, at one point it was almost like 80%, and it's gone down to, like,

00:30:23.860 the 70s or the 60s.

00:30:25.600 But it needs to be, like, one.

00:30:27.920 Like, one.

00:30:28.360 Right.

00:30:28.620 Like, I can understand his family.

00:30:30.120 That's the most.

00:30:30.980 Yeah, like, maybe his family.

00:30:31.960 Chris, his brother likes him.

00:30:33.580 Yeah.

00:30:33.720 And that's it.

00:30:34.260 That should be it.

00:30:35.080 It should be, like, one person.

00:30:36.060 I mean, his daughter doesn't even like him anymore.

00:30:37.320 The daughter had the boyfriend that was working at the mansion, and Cuomo shipped him off

00:30:42.040 to the border.

00:30:45.060 No, you're seeing my daughter?

00:30:46.280 Yeah, no.

00:30:46.900 Canadian border.

00:30:47.680 Yeah.

00:30:48.120 That is great.

00:30:48.760 That is good.

00:30:50.080 That actually kind of, something like that did happen.

00:30:52.300 Yes.

00:30:53.060 So, you know, I don't know.

00:30:55.140 Will it turn around in New York?

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

00:31:07.300 grandparent.

00:31:08.740 You know, I don't know.

00:31:09.880 That would tend to dampen your attitude towards them.

00:31:12.300 I don't think so.

00:31:12.900 I would think so.

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.

00:31:21.420 It's pissing me off.

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.

00:31:31.300 No, Quibi's gone.

00:31:32.340 Quibi's no more. 0.98

00:31:33.340 Quibi's no more. 0.98

00:31:34.380 This is exciting news.

00:31:35.540 Discovery Plus.

00:31:37.260 Discovery Plus.

00:31:38.640 Discovery Plus is going to be a new streaming service.

00:31:41.100 Looking forward to it.

00:31:41.700 We've all been clamoring for that.

00:31:42.920 I know.

00:31:43.260 And finally they responded.

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

00:31:59.760 and more.

00:32:02.160 I love that chat.

00:32:03.460 I know.

00:32:03.900 Me too.

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.

00:32:14.040 They're charging a little bit more.

00:32:15.200 They're charging a little bit more than that.

00:32:16.480 Are they really?

00:32:16.860 Yeah, they are.

00:32:17.480 $4.99.

00:32:18.860 Okay.

00:32:19.300 $4.99 a month.

00:32:20.280 $6.99 ad free for Discovery Plus.

00:32:24.240 That's interesting.

00:32:25.760 I don't know.

00:32:26.680 I know.

00:32:27.260 It's just people will get to the point.

00:32:28.700 And look, we happen to be, there happens to be a Blaze TV that we all love and would love

00:32:33.860 you to subscribe to.

00:32:35.420 Please do.

00:32:36.060 BlazeTV.com slash Glenn.

00:32:37.960 But it is, there is some sort of like, how many different subscriptions?

00:32:43.180 I have no idea how many I have.

00:32:44.400 I feel like I have 50.

00:32:45.880 Yeah, that's pretty close.

00:32:46.900 Well, you look at your Amazon, right?

00:32:48.160 Everybody's got Amazon Prime.

00:32:49.940 Most people have Netflix, although we dropped ours because of that child porn thing.

00:32:55.300 You got your...

00:32:56.120 Just throw that out there. 0.96

00:32:57.080 You got your Hulu, you got your CBS, you got Disney Plus, you've got AMC has a streaming

00:33:04.480 thing too, right?

00:33:05.280 Apple TV Plus.

00:33:06.120 Apple TV Plus.

00:33:07.520 And looking forward to the new Hillary Clinton broadcast she just announced yesterday with

00:33:12.180 Apple TV Plus.

00:33:13.140 It's Hillary and Chelsea, right?

00:33:14.140 Yeah.

00:33:14.560 Oh, God.

00:33:14.940 Doing what?

00:33:16.160 They've created a production company and their first thing is going to be the book that

00:33:19.980 they put together about Strong Women.

00:33:22.200 Strong Women? 1.00

00:33:22.980 Yeah, Strong.

00:33:23.500 It's going to be great.

00:33:24.140 Oh, wow.

00:33:24.800 Can't wait for that.

00:33:25.660 It's going to be great.

00:33:26.280 And that's Apple TV.

00:33:27.140 It makes me want to subscribe.

00:33:28.380 Man, do I want Apple TV Plus.

00:33:30.460 Uh-huh.

00:33:31.340 So, I mean, that's quite a number.

00:33:33.320 Yeah, there's so many.

00:33:34.380 There's way more than that.

00:33:36.060 HBO Max.

00:33:36.940 HBO Max, right.

00:33:37.620 HBO Max.

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

00:33:51.340 at movie theaters and HBO Max for free.

00:33:54.420 Yes.

00:33:54.900 Yeah.

00:33:55.080 They just inked the deal.

00:33:56.400 Now, all of 2021 movies on Warner Brothers will be released at the theater and on HBO

00:34:01.680 Max for free for the first 30 days.

00:34:04.620 Seems hard to overstate how big a deal that is, right?

00:34:06.780 I know.

00:34:07.340 For that industry.

00:34:07.920 Wow.

00:34:08.260 I mean, I've heard theater chain stocks are going in the tank.

00:34:13.680 And is this the end of the theaters?

00:34:15.840 I don't know.

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

00:34:36.700 to video on demand.

00:34:37.600 And Universal is giving the movie theaters a cut of all of that, though.

00:34:42.440 So, you know, we'll see what happens.

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,

00:34:56.940 for sure.

00:34:57.440 Yeah.

00:34:57.680 And that's it.

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

00:35:09.660 future until the theaters actually close.

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

00:35:19.620 to be open.

00:35:20.500 Right.

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

00:35:42.940 9 million subscribers.

00:35:44.580 HBO has 28 million.

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

00:35:57.240 going to get with these movies.

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

00:36:04.040 for HBO Max in the theaters.

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.

00:36:23.020 And thank you.

00:36:24.920 It was not good.

00:36:26.520 The last Godzilla movie was really bad.

00:36:29.880 I didn't watch it because I assumed that going in.

00:36:33.420 Well, the one before that was actually good.

00:36:35.980 The original one with Bryan Cranston in it.

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?

00:36:46.700 Yeah.

00:36:47.200 He said that.

00:36:47.900 You got James Gunn's The Suicide Squad.

00:36:51.000 Yeah.

00:36:51.360 You have the long, according to this release, you have the long-awaited fourth Matrix film.

00:36:57.460 How long have you been watching that?

00:36:58.260 Long-awaited.

00:36:58.880 I thought they ended that thing.

00:37:00.840 Whoa, no.

00:37:01.920 And Matrix 3 was so bad.

00:37:04.240 So bad and convoluted.

00:37:05.720 And Matrix 2 was also really bad.

00:37:07.860 Matrix 1 is a great movie.

00:37:09.620 All the other ones have been terrible.

00:37:11.480 You have Space Jam.

00:37:13.920 Another sequel.

00:37:14.680 This is the one with LeBron.

00:37:16.260 I don't know.

00:37:17.100 Who just inked a new deal, too, by the way.

00:37:18.740 Yes, a lot of money.

00:37:19.420 A lot of money that he doesn't deserve.

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?

00:37:27.240 Oh, good.

00:37:27.580 Wouldn't that be great?

00:37:28.560 Great.

00:37:28.720 To have LeBron James and LeBron James Jr. playing together.

00:37:31.280 Oh, that'd be great.

00:37:32.100 He'll make sure that the kid gets in.

00:37:33.620 Yes, he will.

00:37:34.300 Could the kid be any more?

00:37:35.740 Is it possible that he's as annoying as LeBron James?

00:37:37.920 Is it possible?

00:37:38.640 Is it possible that LeBron would actually take a pay cut to get his kid on the team like

00:37:43.660 he did for other teammates?

00:37:45.240 And he decided, no, I'm not going to take a pay cut.

00:37:48.360 Not a dime.

00:37:49.360 He will not give up a dime.

00:37:51.280 It's just incredible.

00:37:52.740 And then you have the new interpretation of Dune.

00:37:57.640 Hmm.

00:37:58.200 Huh?

00:37:58.860 Come on.

00:37:59.440 The first time around was so great.

00:38:01.180 Right?

00:38:01.840 I don't remember.

00:38:02.580 Dune 1 in 1984.

00:38:03.800 What happened in Dune?

00:38:04.780 What was the...

00:38:05.220 Well, that movie was horrible.

00:38:06.140 What happened was it was like eight hours long.

00:38:09.160 I think if I remember correctly.

00:38:10.180 Okay.

00:38:10.300 And what they did was they put a camera on a sand dune.

00:38:14.720 Okay.

00:38:15.940 And then they showed that for eight and a half hours.

00:38:18.140 It was really good.

00:38:19.360 Was there any humans?

00:38:20.300 Some people said it was slow.

00:38:21.860 Not for me.

00:38:22.780 Not for you?

00:38:23.180 No.

00:38:24.440 I mean, that's about what happened in Dune.

00:38:28.020 But this one looks pretty good.

00:38:29.220 Yeah, I mean...

00:38:29.880 The previews are interesting.

00:38:31.300 There's also a prequel, I believe, of the Sopranos series.

00:38:35.040 I hope so.

00:38:35.500 I hope they finally put that together.

00:38:37.780 Yeah.

00:38:38.080 Something about Newark is in the title.

00:38:40.060 Yeah.

00:38:40.760 And look, the Sopranos are still strong for HBO, right?

00:38:44.660 I mean, they have those up.

00:38:45.720 Do you watch them all?

00:38:46.660 Yeah.

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.

00:38:54.440 Stuff like that.

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

00:39:06.560 with the TSA and how...

00:39:09.220 Oh, yeah.

00:39:09.720 What was the...

00:39:10.340 Do you remember the details of that?

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.

00:39:21.700 Yes.

00:39:22.400 And what was it before the whole pandemic?

00:39:24.760 Well, the lowest it got down to was 86,000.

00:39:28.240 86,000 from what?

00:39:29.880 During the pandemic or something?

00:39:31.200 Right.

00:39:31.540 That was in the heat of the pandemic.

00:39:32.440 So what were the normal numbers going through?

00:39:34.080 Over 2 million.

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.

00:39:43.720 So it dropped off by over 90%.

00:39:46.060 Yeah, but it was two and a half million.

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

00:39:56.800 in the theaters not that long ago.

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.

00:40:11.340 Then the next week went to $58 million.

00:40:13.280 The next week went to $5,632.

00:40:16.520 I mean, they were celebrating croods release over the Thanksgiving holiday.

00:40:23.780 Well, that's what I was going to say.

00:40:24.980 Yeah, globally.

00:40:26.020 $14 million.

00:40:26.860 That's what I was going to say here.

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.

00:40:42.100 So again, think of how long that is.

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.

00:40:52.280 It started closing them back down again.

00:40:53.620 Went the other way.

00:40:54.400 $14 million, $13 million.

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.

00:41:09.780 Die Hard.

00:41:10.720 Okay.

00:41:11.060 We can see that at home.

00:41:12.500 It's a Christmas movie, by the way.

00:41:13.540 Same with Dr. Seuss, The Grinch.

00:41:16.580 Okay.

00:41:16.940 Yeah.

00:41:17.480 Love Actually.

00:41:19.020 Jeez.

00:41:19.780 Here's a new one.

00:41:20.580 All My Life.

00:41:21.380 Never heard of it.

00:41:22.040 Don't know these people.

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.

00:41:34.720 It started today, I think.

00:41:36.260 Maybe yesterday.

00:41:37.360 And through the weekend, The Elvis remastered That's the Way It Is movie.

00:41:42.320 Okay?

00:41:42.980 Thank you for that reminder.

00:41:44.280 Wow.

00:41:44.840 Jeffy, that was egregious that I left that off the list.

00:41:48.340 Word.

00:41:49.160 Just a few minutes.

00:41:50.040 Really wasn't egregious.

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00:42:49.320 You know what I love?

00:42:50.000 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.

00:43:07.560 I love that.

00:43:08.200 I mean, it's going to be sad, I think, if the theaters just become obsolete after this.

00:43:15.380 I like movie theaters.

00:43:16.480 I do, too.

00:43:16.940 I really like the new ones where you can go eat meals.

00:43:19.600 Yes, I like that, too.

00:43:20.780 And it's nice to get out of the house.

00:43:22.540 Yeah.

00:43:23.080 And I'll say, like, I go watch a movie.

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.

00:43:30.220 There's no chance of it.

00:43:31.280 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.

00:43:35.940 Like, there's no way I'm getting through a movie unless it's, you know, everyone in the house is in bed.

00:43:41.480 Yeah.

00:43:41.720 So, like, the theater is nice.

00:43:43.080 That's right.

00:43:43.420 That's true.

00:43:43.980 Because you can actually focus on what you're watching.

00:43:46.400 And they made it super comfortable in these new theaters where they got the recliner and all of that.

00:43:51.340 And then they bring you the food.

00:43:52.660 It is nice.

00:43:53.420 You remember John Edwards, the failed candidate for president?

00:43:56.660 I do.

00:43:56.780 But he used to talk about two Americas.

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.

00:44:25.020 Down here, there's a dine-in theater every, you know, mile and a half on the main roads you're driving on.

00:44:30.500 Yes.

00:44:30.700 There's a lot of big, empty buildings that are going to be popping up down here.

00:44:34.080 It's going to be a big deal if they go out of business.

00:44:37.060 It's going to be sad.

00:44:37.820 And a lot of them are.

00:44:38.760 I mean, there's a lot that have closed around here already.

00:44:40.520 Yeah.

00:44:41.320 It's really unfortunate.

00:44:42.500 And I like the theaters.

00:44:43.560 I want to protect it, but I don't know that you're going to be able to.

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00:47:26.460 Well, capitalism seems to be a dirty word to people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1.00

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00:49:23.900 If you go to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's website,

00:49:27.880 she's got some great Christmas gift ideas for you.

00:49:31.100 Really?

00:49:31.360 Yeah, like a tax-the-rich sweatshirt for the low price of $58.

00:49:37.460 Just 58 bucks and it can be yours.

00:49:40.200 Any poor person anywhere can afford that.

00:49:42.760 In a way, it is a tax of the rich because only rich people can afford it.

00:49:46.420 So they'll be, it's a stupid tax for the rich.

00:49:50.260 And she's got a Green New Deal hoodie that you can get for just $65. 1.00

00:49:56.700 And I'm sure that's made of hemp sourced locally.

00:50:00.680 I'm sure it is.

00:50:02.120 Yeah.

00:50:02.540 I'm sure it is.

00:50:03.440 It's good to see.

00:50:04.180 It's so funny.

00:50:05.460 I love that idea.

00:50:06.240 Is it amazing that these, you know, they hate capitalism.

00:50:10.300 It's killing the planet.

00:50:12.400 It's killing people.

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.

00:50:21.440 I love that.

00:50:22.140 Now, I have no problem with capitalism, of course.

00:50:24.880 She's the one that has the problem with it.

00:50:26.560 Yes.

00:50:27.000 I have no problem with you charge $58.

00:50:28.600 I mean, now I will say the prices are much better on studosmerch.com.

00:50:33.580 The Studos America official merchandise, including Santifa Claus for Christmas.

00:50:37.460 And the best mug to drink a warm holiday beverage out of that has a nice cityscape lit on fire

00:50:45.900 with a Christmas tree on fire in the foreground.

00:50:48.480 And it says, it's not a riot.

00:50:50.340 It's just a mostly peaceful tree lighting.

00:50:52.800 And what would I pay?

00:50:53.540 Like $65 for that mug?

00:50:55.080 No, much less than $65.

00:50:57.060 No, really?

00:50:57.580 Yeah.

00:50:57.860 Okay.

00:50:58.100 Yeah.

00:50:58.320 So, I mean, it's a great.

00:50:59.500 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.

00:51:04.840 Oh, no.

00:51:05.560 We sold out of our entire holiday shipment in like three days.

00:51:11.600 Nice.

00:51:11.920 I am constantly amazed by how much this audience thinks Nancy Pelosi sucks. 0.95

00:51:19.300 Oh, yeah.

00:51:19.540 It is incredible.

00:51:20.400 There's almost no limit to the amount of suckage they think Nancy Pelosi creates. 1.00

00:51:25.660 And I agree wholeheartedly on that, by the way.

00:51:27.500 Me too.

00:51:28.040 But that's studosmerch.com.

00:51:29.720 I will say it's amazing to see Ocasio-Cortez try to do this because there's no justification

00:51:34.060 for it.

00:51:35.060 Like, the reason why I want to sell you a Santifa Claus t-shirt is because it's profitable

00:51:40.120 for this company.

00:51:41.100 That's why I want to do it.

00:51:42.020 I think it's a fun idea.

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

00:51:53.700 the show on the air.

00:51:54.760 That's how this stuff works.

00:51:56.700 And what is the justification for this hypocrisy?

00:51:59.320 What is it?

00:51:59.840 What is it?

00:52:00.500 So she can buy, what, more ads to keep herself in power? 1.00

00:52:02.940 It's unbelievable.

00:52:03.660 Well, you know what?

00:52:04.380 It is very typical of the left.

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

00:52:19.720 you for it.

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

00:52:42.580 and everyone knows.

00:52:45.220 I mean, he had to have known when he bought the second vacation home that this was not

00:52:49.540 going to look good for him.

00:52:50.780 But at the end of the day, he'd rather have a second vacation home than whatever price

00:52:57.120 he's going to pay for that on the downside.

00:53:01.180 No doubt.

00:53:01.680 He wants the stuff.

00:53:02.760 Yeah.

00:53:03.060 And look, you know, that's natural.

00:53:04.980 It's human.

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

00:53:17.620 it.

00:53:17.780 But I like, I like the capitalism part of the holidays.

00:53:22.080 I like the gift giving.

00:53:23.480 I like the parties.

00:53:24.620 I like that stuff.

00:53:25.660 I don't, everyone's always like, oh, they're so overcommercialized.

00:53:30.060 I kind of like commercialized.

00:53:33.020 Commercialized brings a lot of cool things.

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

00:53:53.580 I got a new bike.

00:53:54.400 I remember those Christmases and it was a really cool part of it.

00:53:58.020 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:53:59.260 Right.

00:53:59.740 It's fun.

00:54:00.480 It is.

00:54:01.040 It's part of our culture.

00:54:02.860 And yeah, you're right.

00:54:03.900 As long as you're still celebrating baby Jesus.

00:54:06.080 Yes.

00:54:06.820 I think it's okay.

00:54:07.900 That's the reason for the season.

00:54:09.280 Exactly.

00:54:09.740 It is.

00:54:10.160 That's right.

00:54:10.680 This happens every Thanksgiving and with the exception of this one, this is the first

00:54:14.460 year I can remember not talking about this.

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.

00:54:26.640 I can't believe.

00:54:28.480 I don't know.

00:54:29.160 I mean, maybe if people want to go out and buy crap on Thanksgiving, they should be able

00:54:32.340 to.

00:54:32.880 Maybe that's the way they want to go out.

00:54:34.060 Maybe you shouldn't be telling other people what they can do with their holiday.

00:54:37.580 How about that?

00:54:38.640 Maybe if stores want to open.

00:54:39.920 Well, what about those employees?

00:54:41.360 Well, you know what?

00:54:41.900 They don't have to work there.

00:54:43.220 They don't have to work there.

00:54:44.220 And you know what?

00:54:44.780 They're probably getting.

00:54:45.800 And I hear this every year when we talk about this.

00:54:49.900 Employees who say, you know what?

00:54:51.460 They're actually going to pay me double time.

00:54:53.220 So I really want to work on Thanksgiving.

00:54:55.240 But everyone keeps harassing my store.

00:54:58.000 So they have to close.

00:54:59.620 And you know, I kind of want.

00:55:01.060 I need the extra money.

00:55:02.100 It'll be really nice.

00:55:02.860 I'm going to have my lunch at 1 p.m.

00:55:05.180 And then that's when we're going to have our little family gathering.

00:55:07.580 And then at 4 p.m.

00:55:09.720 when the store opens until midnight, I get to go out and make double for my shift.

00:55:13.620 That's awesome.

00:55:15.380 That's not everybody.

00:55:16.320 I know that like some people might.

00:55:18.080 But that's we shouldn't be harassing stores into closing because we think people shouldn't

00:55:24.800 be out.

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.

00:55:31.960 You know what?

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.

00:55:51.460 What kind of policy is that?

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.

00:56:03.200 Don't go to the store.

00:56:03.780 That's all.

00:56:04.320 And if you know you're an employee, find someplace else to work that's closed on that Thanksgiving

00:56:09.480 day or get, you know, get that day off.

00:56:11.580 I mean, like, look, I understand there'll be some people who want the day off and will

00:56:15.800 not be able to get the day off.

00:56:17.240 But that we don't implement those things from government levels.

00:56:21.440 Yeah.

00:56:21.900 Right.

00:56:22.140 Like you have to be able to let the free market do its thing.

00:56:25.460 It winds up working out well in the end.

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

00:56:48.260 game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh.

00:56:49.780 Pittsburgh, Chris Collinsworth was complimenting Pittsburgh fans for their knowledge of the

00:56:55.780 game and how into it they all are.

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.

00:57:12.560 Well, he said the BLM thing.

00:57:14.020 Yeah.

00:57:14.660 That was terrible.

00:57:15.880 That was terrible.

00:57:16.440 Well, it wasn't terrible, by the way, at all.

00:57:18.600 He was he was giving some that was this is like the big week where you had to say something.

00:57:24.840 I think week one, wasn't it?

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.

00:57:33.380 Thanks for breaking that news to us.

00:57:34.920 I like it's such a ridiculous thing.

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.

00:58:18.460 Right, Al?

00:58:20.860 Silence.

00:58:21.680 Definite silence.

00:58:23.220 I was like, I want to know part of it.

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

00:58:31.660 of black lives matter, the organization.

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

00:58:47.620 game.

00:58:47.900 I was like, wow, you're just blown away by how strong the fans are here in this town.

00:58:52.880 How dare you?

00:58:54.100 How dare you say that women in Pittsburgh actually have specific questions about football? 0.94

00:59:04.200 That's all.

00:59:04.740 That's horrible.

00:59:05.360 How dare you?

00:59:05.940 That's that's worse than anything.

00:59:07.540 Harvey Weinstein did.

00:59:08.680 Why is he not in prison right now?

00:59:10.220 I don't know.

00:59:10.900 I mean, forget a trial.

00:59:12.820 He should be right next to Harvey Weinstein in a jail cell.

00:59:16.980 Thank you.

00:59:17.900 Thank you, Pat.

00:59:19.800 Because I guess the insinuation here is that many women don't pay attention to football 1.00

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

00:59:32.620 guess.

00:59:33.100 Like he was surprised.

00:59:34.500 He showed, wow, I was impressed because they knew so much.

00:59:38.260 Yeah.

00:59:38.460 As we all know, as all human beings know, men care more about sports than women do. 1.00

00:59:44.220 This is not a shock.

00:59:45.300 This is not breaking news.

00:59:47.360 It's a fact.

00:59:48.300 It's a fact.

00:59:48.760 Well, that's that's stereotyping women. 1.00

00:59:51.540 Yes.

00:59:51.760 Well, it's a stereotype that happens to be based in fact.

00:59:54.000 It's a generalization is a nice way to say it.

00:59:56.240 Yes.

00:59:56.500 It is a generalization.

00:59:57.980 Every statistical measure will show it.

00:59:59.880 And that doesn't mean that no women like football or know about football, but many 0.54

01:00:04.340 of them, probably the majority don't.

01:00:06.460 And some women know more about football than some men.

01:00:09.700 That is how these curves work.

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 0.99

01:00:29.560 do better overall.

01:00:30.800 I think was I think his summary.

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.

01:00:37.560 Yeah.

01:00:37.960 And they're like, how dare you?

01:00:39.400 You can't.

01:00:40.280 You can't state fact.

01:00:42.080 Right.

01:00:42.500 And that's the thing here.

01:00:43.360 Like, yeah, of course, there are women who know a hell of a lot about sports. 0.99

01:00:46.480 But generally speaking, they don't care as much as guys do.

01:00:49.180 This is not shocking to anyone.

01:00:51.220 We all know it's true.

01:00:53.440 Yes.

01:00:53.720 We all are 100 percent certain it's true.

01:00:56.600 It's like this gender thing that keeps coming back on with, you know, this week it was Ellen 1.00

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.

01:01:14.900 It was by accident.

01:01:15.580 Yeah, by accident.

01:01:16.420 And she's spent the rest of her life running from this great movie she made.

01:01:22.600 And so now she is now Elliot Page, apparently.

01:01:26.880 Yes.

01:01:27.120 She's now Elliot Page.

01:01:28.560 And please stop referring to her as she.

01:01:30.900 As she.

01:01:31.260 Yes, you're right.

01:01:32.080 I'm sorry.

01:01:32.780 I'm on a personal privilege.

01:01:33.960 Okay.

01:01:34.300 Go ahead.

01:01:35.040 Yes.

01:01:35.200 Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.

01:01:39.980 Thank you.

01:01:40.720 Thank you.

01:01:41.420 So excited.

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 1.00

01:01:49.880 Elliot Page.

01:01:50.580 Whatever.

01:01:51.100 Do whatever you want.

01:01:51.820 Whatever.

01:01:52.200 You're you.

01:01:52.600 But we all are certain and we every single person on earth knows that a nine-year-old

01:01:59.660 should not be making that decision.

01:02:01.060 And you can say, well, no, we should actually allow them to be themselves.

01:02:05.500 If I were to say to you, Pat, you know what?

01:02:07.480 A nine-year-old kid.

01:02:08.320 I have a nine-year-old kid.

01:02:09.060 He should be able to choose his college major now.

01:02:14.760 We'll lock him in now.

01:02:15.560 There'll be a lot of college graduates graduating with degrees in Pokemon and Transformers, right?

01:02:24.020 Like, because you don't know.

01:02:26.780 And that's a totally reversible decision.

01:02:29.060 If you go through school, you know, half the people who go to college don't wind up working

01:02:32.560 in the field of their major.

01:02:34.040 You can always change your profession.

01:02:35.220 But we would all recognize it's completely insane to let a nine-year-old choose their

01:02:42.260 college major.

01:02:43.360 But reasonable.

01:02:44.240 But reasonable.

01:02:44.700 You can't let them switch their gender. 1.00

01:02:46.620 Which isn't reversible, right?

01:02:48.440 There is an irreversible series of surgeries and hormone treatments and all these things.

01:02:54.100 And we're going to act like that's rational.

01:02:56.960 We all know it's ridiculous.

01:03:00.120 Every single progressive who makes the argument that it isn't insane knows it's insane.

01:03:06.840 But they're all, secretly, they all know that it's a crazy world position.

01:03:13.580 They are living in crazy town on that one.

01:03:16.360 But they're all thinking to themselves, well, they're trying to signal, right?

01:03:21.600 They're trying to signal some sort of tolerance.

01:03:23.780 Well, we don't understand all of these positions.

01:03:25.580 And we have to make sure that we're always on the right side of these issues.

01:03:29.940 It's just nonsense.

01:03:30.820 And they all know.

01:03:32.040 And the same thing with this Collinsworth thing.

01:03:33.420 He's saying something that everybody knows is true.

01:03:34.940 And we have to act like we deny it for some reason.

01:03:38.220 Yeah.

01:03:38.420 And get all pissed off about it.

01:03:39.780 Because there's nothing else to get pissed off in the world about.

01:03:42.480 No.

01:03:42.620 So we got to attack Chris Collinsworth for his sexism.

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01:04:49.160 You know, something that hasn't gotten a lot of publicity, which is kind of surprising,

01:04:53.720 because usually when a billionaire is caught in some sort of sex scandal, that's all you hear about for a while.

01:05:02.560 But this Robert Kraft thing at that massage parlor in Florida seems to me he's gotten pretty much a total pass on that.

01:05:11.420 Is he not?

01:05:12.860 I mean, they don't talk about it at all.

01:05:15.180 How do we not talk about this with Jeffy?

01:05:17.060 Right.

01:05:17.520 We should have.

01:05:18.160 This is central to his life philosophy.

01:05:20.320 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.

01:05:30.840 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.

01:05:43.840 And he's pretty much in the clear.

01:05:48.660 Really strange.

01:05:49.980 And it turned out not to really be about sex trafficking.

01:05:52.260 They weren't trafficking, like, you know, selling sex slaves or anything.

01:05:58.180 They were just performing certain functions for the clientele under certain conditions.

01:06:05.680 Right.

01:06:06.200 Yes.

01:06:07.020 Certain functions.

01:06:08.360 It's funny because I think, look, people obviously take sex trafficking really seriously for a good reason.

01:06:13.600 And they should.

01:06:14.280 They should.

01:06:14.880 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.

01:06:24.680 Sold into slavery.

01:06:25.520 Sold into slavery.

01:06:26.900 Yeah.

01:06:27.060 Is being forced to do these things.

01:06:28.840 And we all know that there's another side of that business, right, where people are doing these things willingly.

01:06:34.980 We might not like it.

01:06:36.180 It was consensual.

01:06:36.640 But that's not, I don't think of that as sex trafficking.

01:06:40.340 No, I don't either.

01:06:41.280 It's a different thing.

01:06:42.040 It's soliciting prostitution. 1.00

01:06:43.500 Right.

01:06:43.680 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.

01:06:53.920 And I know a lot of times it's difficult to parse that out, right?

01:06:57.400 Some people would say that they're doing it willingly, but in reality maybe have pressures behind the scenes.

01:07:03.440 And it's a complicated story to know, no doubt at all.

01:07:07.900 But they apply sex trafficking, the title, to every one of these situations.

01:07:15.140 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.

01:07:23.980 And it's like, I think that can get, it gets mixed up.

01:07:27.460 And I don't think what, I don't think what Robert Kraft was involved in was sex trafficking.

01:07:31.440 No, he got a massage and then a little extra, I guess, supposedly.

01:07:34.960 But how does that, how does, how does a guy in Kraft's position get away with?

01:07:38.200 I don't know.

01:07:38.980 That's what I'm wondering.

01:07:39.760 Is Jeffrey Tooman ever working again?

01:07:42.260 No.

01:07:42.700 Like, I don't, is he ever going to be on, he may, who knows, he may pop up on CNN again.

01:07:47.480 And a pop up is probably not the right way to talk about that.

01:07:49.480 But, you know, here's a guy who, who did much, he didn't commit a crime, right?

01:07:56.140 He did something that was gross by mistake, right?

01:08:00.300 He got caught doing something by mistake.

01:08:02.600 Robert Kraft went, got this stuff done.

01:08:05.460 He's a huge.

01:08:05.740 And did it on purpose and paid for it.

01:08:07.800 And not to mention, he runs an evil football team.

01:08:10.560 Yeah.

01:08:10.800 That should be disbanded.

01:08:11.860 Thank you.

01:08:12.560 Thank you.

01:08:13.220 Immediately.

01:08:13.820 It's less evil this year than it usually is.

01:08:15.840 With Tom Brady out of town, I don't feel quite as passionate about that one.

01:08:18.700 But, but it's, it's incredible.

01:08:20.640 I mean, they're still interviewing him on TV.

01:08:22.660 They never say anything about it.

01:08:23.960 It's just, Robert Kraft is fine in all this.

01:08:26.580 Here he is, this daughter to normal guy with a daughter to normal life.

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01:10:07.660 With your thoughts, questions, concerns, whatever, we can take care of them all.

01:10:12.920 That's why we're here.

01:10:14.680 Let's go to Bill in Florida.

01:10:16.060 Hey, Bill, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.

01:10:19.820 I'm doing good.

01:10:20.820 How are you doing?

01:10:21.580 Good.

01:10:22.160 Doing good.

01:10:23.280 Okay.

01:10:24.400 Okay.

01:10:24.840 So I just wanted to ask the tough question.

01:10:26.860 Why would you get a vaccine shot if you've already had the disease, already had the virus?

01:10:33.980 Well, love of needles is my first answer to that.

01:10:37.100 I just really like it.

01:10:37.900 That's always a good one.

01:10:38.640 If she heals good, you know, just getting it injected.

01:10:40.860 It's fun.

01:10:41.880 I mean, I don't think anyone thinks the immunity lasts forever.

01:10:44.860 So I think at some point, people who have had it would consider getting the vaccine.

01:10:52.280 I mean, I think.

01:10:52.840 It's a good question, though.

01:10:53.360 It's a good question.

01:10:53.980 I think anyone who's like me, Pat.

01:10:56.360 Yes, a survivor.

01:10:57.520 A COVID-19 survivor.

01:10:58.120 Yeah.

01:10:58.780 Should probably be last on the list to get it.

01:11:01.920 Right.

01:11:02.420 Assuming everyone, everyone who wants to get it should get it before people like me should

01:11:06.580 be able to get it.

01:11:07.780 Just until it's in plentiful supply.

01:11:10.520 I haven't really heard the experts talk about whether or not you need to get it if you've

01:11:14.620 already had it.

01:11:15.760 It's something that they should probably mention.

01:11:18.020 Yeah.

01:11:18.240 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

01:11:24.580 going to run out of people who have it, you know, you're going to get to a point where

01:11:29.340 you hit that number of the maximum number.

01:11:32.200 And a lot of people, I think, if they think it would help them get it again, a lot of

01:11:36.480 people went through tough times with COVID.

01:11:37.920 Mine was really easy.

01:11:39.060 I mean, you don't even have symptoms, did you?

01:11:41.860 Do you have any symptom?

01:11:42.920 Were you tired or?

01:11:44.120 I was completely asymptomatic.

01:11:45.640 My wife was completely asymptomatic.

01:11:47.100 My daughter was completely asymptomatic.

01:11:48.540 My son had, I would say he was tired and had a little stuffy nose for like a day.

01:11:53.340 Like, I mean, it was like so light.

01:11:54.560 I would still call it asymptomatic.

01:11:56.120 I mean, it could have been something else.

01:11:57.580 It was very, very much nothing.

01:11:58.780 Though, I will say, I mean, the people we got it from weren't asymptomatic.

01:12:02.860 The people we got it from got sick.

01:12:05.180 You know, I told you a story the other day, about the other day from a friend of

01:12:09.860 mine who they had a gathering of about 10 people, an older couple.

01:12:15.820 You know, someone showed up and said, oh, yeah, I was visiting a relative and they

01:12:19.960 tested positive.

01:12:22.040 And everyone's like, why the hell are you here then?

01:12:24.400 You know, like you're not supposed to show up to a gathering.

01:12:26.760 They decided to have it outside.

01:12:28.940 They all kind of felt awkward to say anything.

01:12:30.920 Long story short, nine of the 10 people now are positive.

01:12:34.640 And one of them is in the hospital on the verge of death.

01:12:37.520 And it's like this stuff just like it hits people so much differently.

01:12:42.360 Another guy who's our, you know, our age, Pat, a dad who I know, his whole family got

01:12:50.140 it.

01:12:50.380 You know, seven, I think seven people in the household.

01:12:52.200 Every single person got it.

01:12:54.900 Five of the seven were completely fine.

01:12:57.060 Like the kids, I think one of the kids was sick a little bit.

01:12:59.460 You know, dad was kind of sick a little bit.

01:13:01.180 Mom, they thought they might lose her.

01:13:02.860 She wound up recovering, but they thought she was on the verge.

01:13:06.300 It is really so weird.

01:13:07.700 And Christopher, did she have the extenuating circumstances like she had some other morbidity

01:13:12.380 or no?

01:13:13.480 No.

01:13:13.580 Really?

01:13:13.940 Yeah.

01:13:14.200 No.

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

01:13:25.360 on this.

01:13:25.820 It's very, it does happen, but it's very, very unlikely.

01:13:28.740 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.

01:13:37.020 All that's totally sane.

01:13:39.020 However, on an individual level, there are people who actually have terrible outcomes.

01:13:44.380 I mean, you know, there's a reporter who just wrote a story about this, got it in March

01:13:49.040 or April and is still sick.

01:13:51.060 Still.

01:13:51.820 It's November.

01:13:53.560 Still sick.

01:13:55.240 For like six months.

01:13:56.660 Yeah.

01:13:56.900 And this is that long haulers thing.

01:13:59.240 Again, it's rare.

01:14:00.820 And that does.

01:14:01.360 So when you look at it as a, we get like in this weird thing where we're arguing societal

01:14:07.700 versus individual points as a society, you cannot close down your society.

01:14:12.140 You can't just turn it off and say, we're not going to open any businesses that everybody

01:14:15.960 stay home and the government will pay all your bills for the next year.

01:14:18.440 You can't do that.

01:14:19.620 On the other hand, as an individual, you can stay away from these gatherings.

01:14:23.660 You can do things that you think will help.

01:14:25.560 It's not worth just going out and I'm just going to go get it because I've heard the death

01:14:29.280 rate is low.

01:14:30.260 Like people always say this.

01:14:31.480 Well, you got a 99% survivability rate.

01:14:33.700 Who the hell wants a 1% chance of death?

01:14:36.020 Like that is not a good idea.

01:14:38.420 As an individual, you should try to avoid these things.

01:14:40.820 As a society, what we're planning as government policy, you cannot just shut down all of human

01:14:48.660 creativity and commerce every time you have a situation like this.

01:14:53.220 You have to be able to plow through it the best that you can.

01:14:56.180 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

01:15:07.380 rooms for the next year.

01:15:08.980 Like that is where it should be.

01:15:11.400 And so few, so, so little of the debate has actually occurred in that space.

01:15:17.060 Sadly.

01:15:18.060 Sadly.

01:15:18.640 Sadly.

01:15:19.200 That's true.

01:15:19.960 Judy in Pennsylvania.

01:15:21.360 Hi, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.

01:15:23.680 Hi guys.

01:15:24.020 Hey.

01:15:24.400 Hi guys.

01:15:25.140 Merry Christmas.

01:15:26.200 Merry Christmas.

01:15:26.520 Thank you.

01:15:28.100 Listen, going back to your discussion yesterday about having like a identity card for this

01:15:34.660 thing.

01:15:35.480 Last night on CBS news, the 11 o'clock, the anchor was saying, I think it was the CDC.

01:15:41.840 He was quoting said that when you get this vaccine, you will be given a card with, you

01:15:50.100 know, the date you got your vaccine and then the date for the second vaccine.

01:15:56.580 So yes, papers, please.

01:15:59.780 We are going to have some sort of identity card to go along with this.

01:16:05.020 In fact, it reminded me of the vaccine chart or card I was given for my son when he was

01:16:14.160 in school before I started homeschooling him in order to show the school district.

01:16:20.500 Yeah.

01:16:20.660 He was up to date.

01:16:21.560 Like, yeah, yeah.

01:16:23.200 So there's two parts of that, because there is a situation where we've talked about the

01:16:28.120 mandates.

01:16:28.580 I don't agree with government mandating the vaccine by any means.

01:16:32.220 They do.

01:16:33.060 They are saying at this point they're not talking about it, but who knows, right?

01:16:35.960 We'll see what happens down the road.

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.

01:16:43.720 I think it's if the effectiveness is as high as they say it is, you might not.

01:16:47.540 And they might not even need to get to the point where they're discussing it.

01:16:50.800 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

01:17:01.120 it at a certain time.

01:17:02.440 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

01:17:10.160 that stuff could happen.

01:17:11.280 I think we're seeing ticket masters already said, you know, yeah, you can come to our events

01:17:15.760 if you have the vaccine.

01:17:17.180 So I think a lot of private businesses will do that.

01:17:19.060 Some states will do it.

01:17:20.400 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

01:17:27.880 worthless.

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

01:17:32.000 get the second shot and whatever it is, a couple of months.

01:17:34.480 So they are do they are dishing those out with each dose.

01:17:37.660 Appreciate it.

01:17:37.940 Thanks, Judy.

01:17:38.300 The other thing is the government government officials have found a way to insert themselves

01:17:47.560 into our lives even deeper than they had before.

01:17:50.920 And they're not going to want to give that up.

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,

01:18:01.300 I believe.

01:18:02.000 Like Cuomo.

01:18:03.240 Cuomo will try to make things mandatory.

01:18:05.480 Uh, Gavin Newsom, probably in California, will try to make things the vaccine mandatory.

01:18:11.260 In other words, you have to have the vaccine.

01:18:13.180 Your children have to have the vaccine or they can't go to school and you can't go to

01:18:16.640 work or you can't go to a movie theater or a restaurant or a grocery store unless you're

01:18:21.840 vaccinated.

01:18:22.640 I mean, there will be those efforts, I believe.

01:18:25.180 I think you're right on that.

01:18:26.380 It just I think if you get to a point where enough people take it willingly, right, right

01:18:31.160 off the bat, you you might we might be lucky here is what I'm saying.

01:18:35.480 I think that if capitalism did as good a job as they are reporting, they, you know, did

01:18:42.260 generally Pfizer and Moderna and all these things.

01:18:44.100 And we're really getting 90, 95 percent effective effectiveness rates.

01:18:47.680 The numbers are going to drop fast.

01:18:49.920 I mean, if they can get this by like March or April or something like that, you're going

01:18:55.000 to get if you get these numbers at 50 and 60, 70 percent of people are taking it.

01:18:59.600 The numbers are going to drop fast if it's if it actually works.

01:19:02.080 And at that point, they're not going to need to mandate it.

01:19:04.380 The numbers are going to be so low that they're not going to need to do that.

01:19:07.680 Now, will Andrew Cuomo do it?

01:19:09.060 Well, Andrew Cuomo was awful dot com.

01:19:11.860 So, of course, he's going to do it.

01:19:13.320 We all know Andrew Cuomo will do anything that he believes will benefit him at any cost

01:19:18.600 to anyone else.

01:19:19.320 That is the Andrew Cuomo guarantee.

01:19:20.800 So that's definitely, you know, but again, I have relatives and live in New York and

01:19:27.060 they're complaining about Cuomo all the time.

01:19:28.380 And I say, you know who lives in New York?

01:19:30.200 You.

01:19:31.160 You know who doesn't live in New York?

01:19:32.920 Me.

01:19:34.280 I don't know what to tell you.

01:19:35.700 At this point, flee.

01:19:37.400 Flee the state.

01:19:38.600 That is what that is.

01:19:39.340 The answer.

01:19:39.800 That's really good advice.

01:19:42.460 Tim in North Carolina, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.

01:19:46.180 Hi.

01:19:47.720 How are you doing?

01:19:48.360 Good morning, guys.

01:19:49.240 Morning.

01:19:49.420 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.

01:19:57.700 Yeah.

01:19:58.060 Everybody would be in their own car.

01:20:00.480 You could order from the snack bar and have it delivered.

01:20:03.020 What's up with this?

01:20:04.080 Yeah, I like it.

01:20:05.020 Yeah.

01:20:05.300 You know, if we've had a bunch, I don't know if this is the same way across the country,

01:20:08.360 but we've had a lot of, we do have a few drive-in theaters here in Texas that are operating

01:20:12.620 normally like all the time, which is pretty rare.

01:20:14.860 But we had a bunch of pop-ups here where they would just take a big parking lot and put up

01:20:20.600 a big screen at the end of it and they would just show random movies, you know, for people

01:20:25.080 to kind of get out and do things kind of more when it was in the real lockdown period.

01:20:29.100 That was one of the few things you could kind of go out and do, which is a great idea.

01:20:32.660 Yeah.

01:20:33.020 They did it in churches too.

01:20:34.220 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 0.97

01:20:40.860 their tires.

01:20:42.780 It's like, come on, guys, just stop.

01:20:46.160 It's so frustrating.

01:20:47.540 It's so frustrating.

01:20:48.480 I think it's not more widespread on the drive-in movie theater because they kind of went obsolete

01:20:53.260 in the late 70s and early 80s and there aren't very many of them like you just alluded

01:20:58.080 to.

01:20:58.420 There's very few drive-in theaters that are operational.

01:21:01.500 I guess they could come back.

01:21:03.100 Right.

01:21:03.300 I think if this was going to be a decade-long type of virus that we were dealing with, then

01:21:08.400 you might do something.

01:21:08.980 Then they might do that.

01:21:09.740 Yeah.

01:21:09.940 I will say, you know, that I wonder if theaters get to that point like drive-ins are now.

01:21:15.480 In Texas, there's at least two within an hour of us that are actual drive-in theaters

01:21:20.020 and that are operating, nothing to do with COVID, just operating.

01:21:22.820 Oh.

01:21:23.080 It's become sort of this retro, cool, fun thing to do.

01:21:25.740 Yeah.

01:21:25.940 And I think you might get to the point, building off of this HBO Max story we did last hour,

01:21:31.460 where all of the new movies are going to be in your home for a month.

01:21:35.980 If theaters go, quote unquote, out of business and they're destroyed like a lot of people

01:21:40.200 are worried about, you might get to that point where it's just this sort of more of a novelty

01:21:44.760 thing.

01:21:45.500 The good thing, though, is if you can tie them to restaurants like these dine-in theaters,

01:21:49.060 I feel like there's always a role for them because everyone wants to go to a restaurant.

01:21:52.140 So, watch a movie and eat.

01:21:53.660 Yeah.

01:21:54.080 What do you want to do?

01:21:54.800 Would you rather watch a great movie or have to talk to someone in your family?

01:21:57.480 No, I'd rather watch the movie.

01:21:58.920 Obviously.

01:21:59.800 Pretty obvious.

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01:23:22.960 I like this story.

01:23:24.760 President-elect in, that's quotations.

01:23:30.560 Harder to pull off on the radio.

01:23:31.580 Harder to pull off on the radio.

01:23:32.600 Yeah.

01:23:32.900 Yeah.

01:23:33.260 But I was doing the quotation mark thing.

01:23:35.340 Scare quotes.

01:23:35.560 Yes.

01:23:36.260 In the air, the scare quotes.

01:23:37.940 President-elect Biden says he's going to ask Americans to wear their face masks for 100

01:23:44.320 days after he takes office.

01:23:46.500 I got a little breaking news here.

01:23:49.480 We're already wearing masks pretty much everywhere you go.

01:23:55.600 You got to wear a mask.

01:23:57.760 On the sign of a place I just had lunch at yesterday, it said no mask, no service, just

01:24:03.080 like they used to do with the no shoes, no shirt, no shoes, no pants, no service.

01:24:08.140 Yeah.

01:24:08.240 What I've been doing is I wear a mask, but I go in topless.

01:24:11.300 Really?

01:24:11.700 Yeah.

01:24:12.120 Yeah.

01:24:12.380 And no shoes.

01:24:13.220 All right.

01:24:13.540 And just really kind of put the whole thing to the test.

01:24:16.420 Yeah.

01:24:16.680 Yeah.

01:24:17.040 It works well.

01:24:17.560 I like that.

01:24:18.260 People notice you.

01:24:20.320 I bet they do.

01:24:20.980 I'll say that.

01:24:21.600 They do notice.

01:24:23.660 Which would scare you more?

01:24:25.640 A guy coming into a place of business with no shirt, but he's wearing a mask.

01:24:28.740 mask, or he has a shirt on, but no mask.

01:24:33.640 I'm going to go with the no mask.

01:24:37.600 Really?

01:24:38.080 It scares me a lot more.

01:24:39.040 Really?

01:24:39.780 No.

01:24:40.160 No.

01:24:40.580 No.

01:24:41.640 And I don't want to see your feet at my restaurant.

01:24:43.600 I'll tell you that.

01:24:44.460 Yes, please.

01:24:45.100 I'll tell you that.

01:24:45.560 Put your shoes on.

01:24:46.060 Keep the feet.

01:24:46.640 Put a mask over your feet.

01:24:50.160 Really?

01:24:50.660 Yeah.

01:24:50.760 Rather than shoes, you'd like to see the mask on the feet.

01:24:52.960 If you're wearing open-toed sandals, I'd like you to put a mask over your toes, please.

01:24:57.500 We're eating food in here.

01:24:59.120 Okay?

01:25:00.360 I like that rule.

01:25:01.460 This is my policy.

01:25:02.700 All right.

01:25:04.220 But that's what Biden told Jake Tapper.

01:25:06.820 He hopes the mandate will help reduce the spread of COVID-19.

01:25:10.840 So I guess it's going to be a mandate?

01:25:12.660 It's not.

01:25:13.240 He can't.

01:25:13.720 There's no way to put a government mandate federally.

01:25:15.660 I don't know how you do that.

01:25:16.560 I mean, he's even said, I'm going to go try to convince the governors to do it.

01:25:19.900 But he changes that all the time.

01:25:21.680 He goes back and forth on these things.

01:25:23.640 Almost all states, I think, do have it.

01:25:25.500 Yeah.

01:25:25.840 I mean, I know, like, you know, South Dakota doesn't.

01:25:28.160 And, you know, but even North Dakota put one in recently.

01:25:31.440 Yeah.

01:25:32.300 So, I mean, it's certainly most of them at this point.

01:25:36.180 Here's what he said yesterday to Tapper on the first day.

01:25:39.560 And I think my inclination.

01:25:41.160 Right here.

01:25:41.900 Jake is on the first day I'm inaugurated to say I'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask.

01:25:49.660 Just 100 days to mask.

01:25:51.680 Not forever.

01:25:52.140 100 days.

01:25:53.360 100 days.

01:25:53.600 And I think we'll see a significant reduction if we occur that.

01:25:57.480 That occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably.

01:26:05.000 Somebody might want to tell Joe, again, it's been more than 100 days already for wearing the mask for most of us.

01:26:11.940 Right.

01:26:12.160 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.

01:26:23.500 By the way, when you go out in public, you've got to wear a mask.

01:26:25.880 Yeah.

01:26:26.080 37 states have statewide mask mandates right now.

01:26:28.960 13 don't.

01:26:29.680 But as you point out, a lot of local areas within those states do.

01:26:32.760 Yes.

01:26:33.160 I know, like, Florida, for example, tried to basically say that you can't do the local stuff.

01:26:38.700 You're not allowed to go that way.

01:26:40.960 And that's happened in some states as well.

01:26:42.580 But, I mean, overwhelming majority, even people, even in states where there's no mask mandates, the majority of people wear masks.

01:26:48.440 Here's what Biden said about that.

01:26:50.020 What an orator.

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01:28:01.460 888-727-BECK.

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01:28:06.720 More of the vid stuff and the shutdowns and the lockdowns and the Joe Bidens saying just 100 days, not forever.

01:28:16.260 Just 100 days.

01:28:18.400 How long has it been that we've been wearing masks so far?

01:28:22.100 I don't know.

01:28:22.700 It's got to be about 300 days, right?

01:28:25.420 400 days.

01:28:26.500 It's been a long time.

01:28:27.640 It feels endless.

01:28:27.740 It does.

01:28:28.140 I just don't think you can go to people anymore and be like, come on, just do this thing we want you to do for a little while longer.

01:28:34.600 People just don't buy it anymore.

01:28:36.580 Because they're lying.

01:28:38.000 This is why I like the vaccine idea.

01:28:40.340 I think this is our only way out of this, honestly.

01:28:42.780 I do, too.

01:28:43.240 We just need a technological solution and we're screwed.

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01:30:02.600 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.

01:30:13.580 And they are, you're seeing a lot of it come from restaurants and bars.

01:30:18.900 And it's weird because, like, they're just like the public face of this.

01:30:21.800 It's interesting in that, you know, restaurants have seen real devastation.

01:30:25.540 Bars, obviously, even worse. 1.00

01:30:26.860 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.

01:30:41.140 Because there's so many restrictions and weird things like this, like, it's hard to keep track of.

01:30:45.700 But, so, you know, that's happened a lot.

01:30:48.240 And they've been kind of the public face.

01:30:49.880 You think about some of these industries, though, that have totally gone away.

01:30:53.100 I mean, like concerts.

01:30:55.000 Right.

01:30:55.480 You know, concerts.

01:30:56.020 We have Eric July, who's a Blaze TV contributor.

01:30:58.760 Love Eric.

01:30:59.700 And he comes in for the news and why it matters.

01:31:02.140 He's been on this show.

01:31:03.000 My show, Stu Does America.

01:31:04.440 I'm sure Pat Gray Unleashed as well.

01:31:05.800 And he talks, he's a musician.

01:31:09.360 He's a singer for a band, you know.

01:31:12.140 And that whole business is just dissolved.

01:31:17.860 Yeah.

01:31:18.180 Like, if you go to a concert venue, basically, you're just turned things off for the year.

01:31:24.180 And the thing about that is that for these bands, that's now how they make their money.

01:31:29.280 The concerts are far more lucrative than the record sales because the digital record industry

01:31:37.760 has just pretty much destroyed the massive amounts of money they were making from that. 0.77

01:31:42.400 So, they're not making the big bucks with the recordings anymore.

01:31:46.320 They're making the big dollars at the concert venue.

01:31:49.100 And now they don't have that.

01:31:50.460 Just gone.

01:31:50.980 So, then what do you do?

01:31:51.900 Yeah, then what?

01:31:52.540 I mean, you know, we talk about professional sports.

01:31:54.340 Obviously, you see these professional sports leagues who have gone from, I mean, you watch

01:31:59.660 the games, you watch an NFL week of games, you know, half the games have zero fans and

01:32:05.600 half the games have, you know, maybe 10 or 20 percent of the fans.

01:32:09.540 I mean, they're talking about the Super Bowl at, I think, 20 percent capacity.

01:32:13.560 It's something like 15,000 people, supposedly, in the stadium, which I can't imagine what these

01:32:18.780 tickets are going to cost.

01:32:20.180 But you look at all that.

01:32:22.320 What about minor league teams?

01:32:23.480 You know, what about, what about like the, you know, here, I think this is around the

01:32:28.840 country.

01:32:29.140 I've been to them with the kids and other places as well, but they have like trampoline

01:32:32.720 parks and like these indoor sort of like, almost like indoor amusement parks in some

01:32:37.160 ways where they have trampoline parks and they have like all these cool things for kids

01:32:40.320 to do, go-karts and, you know, all these things where people are sharing the same space

01:32:46.480 and doing physical activity or whatever indoors.

01:32:48.820 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

01:33:01.520 it was.

01:33:02.020 How do these places stay open?

01:33:03.340 I don't know.

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

01:33:13.220 it's Gruel.

01:33:13.800 It's probably, maybe it's Gruel.

01:33:15.180 I don't know the guy, but he was talking about the madness of these lockdowns and these

01:33:21.400 restrictions.

01:33:22.120 Listen.

01:33:22.680 Here's the situation.

01:33:23.920 Do we take the pandemic seriously?

01:33:25.400 Of course we do.

01:33:26.520 Am I saying that we shouldn't close outdoor dining?

01:33:28.860 Yes, I am.

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

01:33:44.120 in order to protect our customers.

01:33:46.120 We shut down indoor dining.

01:33:47.400 No problem.

01:33:48.180 I got a warehouse full of plexiglass right now, okay?

01:33:50.640 We went outdoors, all right?

01:33:52.460 Now that's getting shut down.

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

01:34:01.820 rise in cases related to this.

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

01:34:07.900 restaurant.

01:34:08.260 I can go to Target.

01:34:08.980 Amazon's making tons of money.

01:34:10.540 All big business is getting rich.

01:34:12.320 Okay.

01:34:12.920 Outdoor dining does not lead to any of that.

01:34:15.440 Therefore, screw that.

01:34:17.100 We're staying open outdoors.

01:34:18.820 It's that simple.

01:34:20.000 Wow.

01:34:20.540 That's great.

01:34:21.520 And he's right on all of that.

01:34:23.440 All of it.

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

01:34:39.560 customers, which is already a really big deal.

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

01:34:56.880 who are scared, feel better.

01:34:58.380 Some of them might be effective.

01:35:00.440 Some of them don't do much of anything.

01:35:02.200 They're just feel good measures.

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

01:35:11.420 asked you to shut down.

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.

01:35:21.220 We know you spent a fortune on that.

01:35:23.060 Here's some cash for that.

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

01:35:42.640 trillion dollars.

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.

01:35:52.240 Yeah.

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

01:36:09.280 an unemployment system.

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.

01:36:16.940 It is.

01:36:17.600 It's, it's closer to eminent domain.

01:36:20.340 The government has taken your property.

01:36:22.520 It's taken your business.

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.

01:36:59.440 Really?

01:37:00.040 I think it's, are they actually open?

01:37:01.760 Yeah.

01:37:02.060 They're like, they're actually cruising.

01:37:03.700 They're selling some cruises.

01:37:05.300 They're, uh, I don't know.

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.

01:37:15.460 That is surprising.

01:37:16.180 You know, I mean, there's like, what about this live events business?

01:37:17.980 This is a whole convention business, right?

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

01:37:38.260 wearing masks.

01:37:38.840 They don't want to do that.

01:37:39.560 It's not comfortable.

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.

01:38:27.620 You can't understand them.

01:38:28.860 You can't have fun.

01:38:30.340 You can't go talk to somebody.

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.

01:38:57.700 You can do that at home.

01:38:59.020 It's an experience.

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.

01:39:17.180 Yeah.

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.

01:40:10.640 It just devastated your business.

01:40:12.900 So how do you ever, how do you ever get that back?

01:40:16.540 You just can't.

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.

01:40:29.120 government or a state government.

01:40:31.000 It's just not possible.

01:40:31.960 It can't happen.

01:40:33.060 No.

01:40:33.360 So this is a tragedy and, and I really feel for people who've lost their livelihoods like

01:40:38.500 that.

01:40:38.780 It's really a shame.

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01:41:43.760 Pat and Stu for Glenn.

01:41:50.400 Uh, let's go to Daniel in Texas.

01:41:52.920 Hey, Daniel, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.

01:41:56.260 Hi, how are y'all doing today?

01:41:58.180 Good.

01:41:58.560 Good.

01:41:58.720 All right.

01:42:00.180 I have a quick question.

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?

01:42:15.940 We have had enough of all this stuff.

01:42:19.860 We are going to go ahead and take ourselves out of the States.

01:42:25.100 How would that help Texas?

01:42:26.900 And how would that hurt Texas?

01:42:29.900 Hmm.

01:42:30.520 Uh, good question.

01:42:31.400 Thanks, Daniel.

01:42:32.140 Uh, I don't see that happening, but, uh, that's something that always comes up when times

01:42:38.240 get tough or when times aren't tough.

01:42:40.520 Uh, it can be, or every time you walk into a place in Texas, uh, that's someone brings it

01:42:45.780 up all the time.

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.

01:42:57.480 Um, but it's not, it's not going to happen.

01:42:59.760 Can we constitutionally do it?

01:43:01.240 I think what would happen is, uh, there'd be civil war.

01:43:03.880 Uh, so I don't really want that.

01:43:06.680 I don't really want that.

01:43:07.380 We tried it once.

01:43:08.080 Yeah.

01:43:08.460 It didn't work out that well.

01:43:09.420 You know, uh, I'm glad we got rid of slavery.

01:43:11.820 Would have rather done it without the whole civil war thing.

01:43:13.940 Uh, would have rather just made it, you know.

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.

01:43:24.240 I like the way that it is.

01:43:25.120 I love Texas.

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

01:43:29.740 country better.

01:43:30.980 That's kind of where I would like to go.

01:43:33.000 Instead of worrying about all of us seceding separately.

01:43:35.340 It would cause less trouble.

01:43:37.220 Yeah.

01:43:37.700 Uh, I think so.

01:43:38.720 So, uh, John in Georgia, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:43:42.480 Hi.

01:43:42.620 Yes.

01:43:43.020 Uh, hi.

01:43:44.140 How are you doing?

01:43:44.860 Good.

01:43:45.640 Um, so just wanted to touch base real quick.

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,

01:43:58.340 went out of business, uh, March 15th.

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 1.00

01:44:13.320 to work until events can happen again.

01:44:16.140 And, uh, there seems to not be much conversation happening, uh, around this segment of the economy,

01:44:24.180 which is really large.

01:44:26.240 It's concerts, it's corporate events, it's business meetings, it's weddings, it's, it's

01:44:31.540 everything that is a gathering of people.

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

01:44:45.800 business until we get back to work.

01:44:48.240 Right.

01:44:48.640 Um, and, uh, it's the audio visual business that, um, uh, I own an AV company and we've

01:44:55.360 been shut down since March.

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,

01:45:06.900 wait a minute, this is different.

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.

01:45:20.940 This is this one we should take seriously.

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.

01:45:47.800 They just flat out canceled.

01:45:48.620 And they just canceled it.

01:45:49.320 They canceled it on March 4th.

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

01:46:18.800 not in that place.

01:46:19.680 No.

01:46:20.100 Yeah.

01:46:20.420 People were thinking, oh, well maybe we, you know, we might have to change things around

01:46:22.980 a little bit.

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.

01:46:29.800 God only knows.

01:46:30.220 I mean, you know, Louisiana went, uh, famously went ahead with Mardi Gras and it didn't work

01:46:35.800 out all that well, uh, for Louisiana.

01:46:38.120 Um, so it is one of those things where that entire industry, you know, banquets, uh, conventions,

01:46:44.160 uh, concerts, standup comedians.

01:46:47.240 Yes.

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

01:47:07.800 party.

01:47:08.400 Wow.

01:47:09.020 Yeah.

01:47:09.360 We're not going to have a company Christmas party this year, are we?

01:47:11.540 I don't think so.

01:47:12.280 Are we?

01:47:13.160 I can't imagine.

01:47:14.120 Sarah usually knows those things.

01:47:15.340 You don't know those things?

01:47:16.240 No.

01:47:16.540 No.

01:47:16.880 Okay.

01:47:17.240 She's drunk.

01:47:18.480 Uh, actually it was, uh, I was kind of relieved when the church Christmas party was canceled.

01:47:22.280 I know.

01:47:23.020 I was okay with that.

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

01:47:29.380 about it.

01:47:29.780 Let's be honest.

01:47:30.280 It's kind of nice.

01:47:30.600 Yeah.

01:47:31.080 Yeah.

01:47:31.360 Let's face it.

01:47:32.000 There are some benefits.

01:47:33.620 Uh, you don't get invited to weddings anymore.

01:47:35.560 Right.

01:47:36.200 Uh, you know, this is, I'm turning around on this whole COVID thing.

01:47:39.820 You know, I will say it's not such a bad idea.

01:47:42.140 People are like, oh, these masks, these masks, this is terrible.

01:47:44.600 It's tyranny.

01:47:45.160 Yeah.

01:47:45.380 But you know what?

01:47:45.940 No one ever talks to me anymore.

01:47:47.720 Like I never have to deal with a conversation in public ever again.

01:47:51.900 Uh huh.

01:47:52.180 It's just, I got a mask on.

01:47:53.460 And we're going to start talking to each other.

01:47:54.980 No, exactly.

01:47:55.600 I walk right by them.

01:47:56.460 I don't have to see their face.

01:47:57.620 I don't have to look at them.

01:47:58.700 You go into, that's kind of nice.

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

01:48:07.760 my day is going.

01:48:08.440 It sucks.

01:48:09.120 I'm wearing a mask right now so I don't die.

01:48:12.740 That's how it's going.

01:48:13.940 Don't even ask me.

01:48:15.280 And usually they don't.

01:48:16.320 I know.

01:48:16.440 It's funny too.

01:48:17.120 You get like, you know, I didn't, I, I, I want to go visit my relative at the nursing

01:48:22.060 home and I can't do it.

01:48:23.720 And you're like, wait a minute.

01:48:24.460 Last Tuesday when you were allowed to do it, you didn't show up either.

01:48:27.240 Let's be honest about it.

01:48:28.640 They've been sitting there by themselves for six months.

01:48:32.180 The Zoom calls more than these poor people have had. 0.96

01:48:35.060 That's kind of sad.

01:48:35.860 Yeah, because in some cases that has been going on for years.

01:48:40.720 I mean, I, I guess we do, you know, we're going to get all these things back maybe next

01:48:45.360 year and all of a sudden, Hey, now you can go to everyone's wedding.

01:48:48.180 Oh, come on. 0.87

01:48:49.140 I'm too scared.

01:48:49.920 I'm still too scared.

01:48:50.920 That's why I did a t-shirt that just says, uh, sorry, can't make it self-quarantined.

01:48:54.360 I was going to keep using that for an excuse for years and years and years.

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01:50:30.160 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

01:50:39.040 to change now, right?

01:50:40.220 We, you didn't, you couldn't have anybody over for, for Thanksgiving.

01:50:43.220 Uh, well, even more so for Christmas.

01:50:46.000 I hope you all are listening as, with all the trouble you're going through, you cannot

01:50:51.380 be traveling during these holidays.

01:50:53.720 You got that?

01:50:54.160 As much as you want.

01:50:54.880 I, I have a large family.

01:50:57.340 Okay.

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.

01:51:04.700 When one comes, everybody comes.

01:51:05.880 You think I'm joking?

01:51:06.760 I'm not.

01:51:07.480 Why would I think you're joking about it?

01:51:09.080 That is such a weird thing that he does all the time.

01:51:11.940 You think I'm joking.

01:51:12.760 I'm not joking.

01:51:13.980 No, nobody thinks you're joking.

01:51:16.180 Why do you always say that?

01:51:18.080 I don't know.

01:51:18.380 He, it's like a weird tick.

01:51:19.360 He has, he, he throws it into sentences all the time when everyone's sitting there.

01:51:23.020 Like they're not, they're not laughing.

01:51:24.880 They're bored.

01:51:25.660 Right.

01:51:26.380 That's a totally different thing.

01:51:28.380 I don't even care.

01:51:29.360 Let alone think you're joking.

01:51:30.780 People go away every Thanksgiving.

01:51:33.200 My deceased son, before he passed away, uh, we'd all go away and we'd go away on Thanksgiving

01:51:39.040 to be just a nuclear family.

01:51:42.140 Mom, dad, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, grandchildren.

01:51:46.540 Cousins.

01:51:47.100 And, uh, second cousins.

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.

01:51:57.940 In the region.

01:51:58.400 That's it.

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.

01:52:12.440 I love this.

01:52:12.920 Here we go.

01:52:13.360 He's not a fear monger.

01:52:14.640 It's Republicans at fear monger.

01:52:16.400 He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we're likely to lose another 250,000 people dead between

01:52:24.560 now and January.

01:52:26.100 Okay.

01:52:26.340 That's okay.

01:52:27.780 It's a lot.

01:52:28.120 He doesn't want to scare anybody, but we are likely to have a quarter of a million people

01:52:34.440 dead between now and January.

01:52:37.280 Now, January is in, uh, what?

01:52:39.760 26 days?

01:52:40.920 28 days.

01:52:42.000 It's December 4th.

01:52:43.220 Yeah.

01:52:43.340 Okay.

01:52:43.680 So 28 days.

01:52:44.600 So four.

01:52:45.180 So you're basically looking at about 10 K a day, which would be high.

01:52:48.440 It would be high.

01:52:49.620 We've never cleared 3,000 in a day.

01:52:51.240 Yeah.

01:52:51.620 It's 2,700 right now.

01:52:53.400 Right.

01:52:53.580 And it's, you know, we will probably will break those records and over the next few weeks.

01:52:57.560 I mean, it probably will happen.

01:52:59.280 It is very widespread right now.

01:53:00.680 But will it go to 10,000 a day?

01:53:01.180 I'm going to go to 10,000.

01:53:02.120 I will be very surprised if it hits that number.

01:53:03.740 I think so.

01:53:04.620 Uh, I, so I was trying to figure out where he got this number from.

01:53:07.580 We were joking about this in the break.

01:53:08.620 I'm like, it's possible he could say globally, 10,000 people a day will die, which is about

01:53:15.400 the level we're at now.

01:53:16.720 Is he trying to say that?

01:53:18.120 If you look at some of these estimates, he says from now until January, does that mean he,

01:53:23.660 you, do you give them January?

01:53:25.840 Like, I mean, until January to me says till December 31st.

01:53:29.060 Yeah.

01:53:29.340 Right.

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

01:53:41.680 able to get there.

01:53:43.000 Oh, really?

01:53:44.140 Yeah.

01:53:44.580 I mean, like if you're at, if the worst possible thing happens and you will get, which is

01:53:49.160 really stretching to give him all of January.

01:53:51.460 I mean, he said until January.

01:53:52.900 I mean, I don't think you could do that.

01:53:55.260 More likely he just screwed it up.

01:53:57.120 Because if we give him till January 31st, well, now we've given him till February is

01:54:02.680 how that would be.

01:54:03.500 Right.

01:54:03.780 Right.

01:54:04.280 Until February.

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?

01:54:16.100 Yeah.

01:54:16.320 Like if you have a vaccine that inoculates 30 million people by that time, I mean, the

01:54:21.100 number is going to be a lot different.

01:54:22.520 But don't they also say if you have to relax restrictions in order to do that?

01:54:28.380 And it's going the other way.

01:54:29.440 Think about the, I think that's a great point.

01:54:31.100 I mean, think about what that means.

01:54:32.360 It says, it's an estimate that it revolves around easing mandates.

01:54:38.640 We are not, we are doing the exact opposite.

01:54:40.580 People are adding new mandates.

01:54:42.640 Now, the effect of mandates is very overblown.

01:54:47.100 Very overblown.

01:54:48.920 You go and look at the mask mandate states.

01:54:50.960 Forget even whether the masks work or not for a second.

01:54:53.220 Just throw that away 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?

01:55:03.580 It's like 15%.

01:55:05.040 I want to say it's like in a state like South Dakota, about 65% of people are wearing masks

01:55:10.660 regularly.

01:55:10.840 Even when there's not a mandate.

01:55:12.300 Even when there's not a mandate.

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.

01:55:19.340 Not everyone listens, right?

01:55:20.880 And the same in South Dakota.

01:55:23.040 A lot of people are wearing masks just because they think it might be helpful, right?

01:55:26.340 And let's just wear them.

01:55:27.540 You know, sometimes they're mandated in stores.

01:55:29.240 You know, there's other reasons.

01:55:31.340 But like when you look at statewide policy, there are really good personal liberty reasons

01:55:36.540 to argue about those things.

01:55:38.000 When it comes to pragmatic actual effects, people, generally speaking, make their own

01:55:42.680 decisions.

01:55:43.540 They make their own decisions.

01:55:45.480 And they're going to err on the side of being cautious.

01:55:48.180 Yeah.

01:55:48.580 I mean, like.

01:55:49.220 Usually.

01:55:50.020 The mask thing is interesting because you could look at a lot of the studies.

01:55:53.380 Some show very little benefit from masks.

01:55:55.340 Some show decent benefit from masks.

01:55:57.100 Nothing shows.

01:55:58.800 It's not a panacea.

01:56:00.680 There is no.

01:56:01.560 It's not a cure for COVID.

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

01:56:26.160 to mandate something should be really high.

01:56:29.340 Like I don't want any of it.

01:56:30.540 But even if you do want mandates, it should be incredibly high bar you have to clear as

01:56:35.560 far as benefit.

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

01:56:57.380 steps.

01:56:58.060 Yeah.

01:56:58.360 You know?

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

01:57:07.760 not.

01:57:08.480 But, you know, hey, if you want to take some steps that might help, I think most people

01:57:12.000 would say that, right?

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.

01:57:22.200 If it's really expensive, you won't.

01:57:24.580 You know?

01:57:24.920 That's how you make decisions.

01:57:26.160 You were able to take a cost-benefit analysis and look at how your risk, you know, is in life.

01:57:31.920 And you try to judge that risk.

01:57:33.220 That's how we all live.

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.

01:57:40.920 We also don't go 170.

01:57:43.420 You know?

01:57:43.820 Whether the mandate is there or not.

01:57:45.400 Now, Pat, of course, does go 170.

01:57:47.080 That's why he gets 15 speeding tickets a week.

01:57:48.980 Yeah.

01:57:49.120 Once in a while.

01:57:50.020 Do 170, 175, something like that.

01:57:52.160 Yeah.

01:57:52.580 But that's, you know, you're not in the norm on that one.

01:57:55.260 No.

01:57:55.520 Probably not.

01:57:57.340 Bernadette.

01:57:57.880 Hi.

01:57:58.320 You're on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Stu.

01:58:01.920 Hi.

01:58:02.640 You guys are doing great.

01:58:04.160 I just have a question.

01:58:06.420 Before, God help us, Biden takes over.

01:58:09.800 Does he have to have a, shall we say, a physical by the White House doctors?

01:58:15.400 And what if he doesn't pass mental capacity?

01:58:19.480 You know, you almost should have to do that.

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.

01:58:27.520 No.

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.

01:58:33.820 Remember that?

01:58:34.580 Most in history.

01:58:35.640 I think he was the most healthy person ever.

01:58:37.360 Yeah.

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.

01:58:56.220 But that is their cabinet.

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.

01:59:06.460 Like, oh, use the 25th Amendment. 0.84

01:59:07.780 Just throw him out.

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.

01:59:20.160 Whoa! 0.71

01:59:20.560 Shocking.

01:59:21.120 No one saw that coming.

01:59:22.680 Who would have known that his cognitive abilities are declining?

01:59:26.500 Right.

01:59:26.760 There was no way to tell.

01:59:28.220 There was no indication of that, certainly.

01:59:30.140 Yeah.

01:59:30.580 And I don't want to say by the way.

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.

01:59:37.440 Right.

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.

01:59:47.500 Right.

01:59:47.840 The pressure of it would likely make him resign.

01:59:50.540 It's just like, you know, like Nixon.

01:59:52.160 Right.

01:59:52.360 He didn't actually get thrown out of office.

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.

02:00:11.140 Incredible.

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.

02:00:19.200 Yeah.

02:00:19.460 So like for a few hours.

02:00:20.220 And you'd have to know about that.

02:00:21.320 Yeah.

02:00:21.560 Like the government needs to know.

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. 1.00

02:00:38.400 And I think she does.

02:00:39.480 She does.

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.

02:00:46.900 Yes.

02:00:47.580 Nikki in Pennsylvania.

02:00:48.800 Hi.

02:00:50.280 Hi, guys.

02:00:50.840 Merry Christmas.

02:00:51.840 And God bless you.

02:00:53.520 Thanks.

02:00:54.040 You too.

02:00:54.320 Same to you.

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.

02:01:04.000 Because.

02:01:04.220 No, because, because, yeah.

02:01:06.160 Because she plays Vanya.

02:01:09.040 Yeah.

02:01:09.480 Is she going to become Vaughn?

02:01:11.300 Is she going to be a man?

02:01:13.000 A brother now?

02:01:14.280 Good question.

02:01:15.200 You know, she was, she was a lesbian who corrupted of, you know, a married woman. 1.00

02:01:21.340 So.

02:01:21.760 Right.

02:01:23.360 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. 0.82

02:01:31.280 So she was, in the woke world, she was allowed to play that role on Umbrella Academy because she also was a lesbian. 0.94

02:01:38.100 Mm-hmm.

02:01:38.800 However, now, she is not a lesbian.

02:01:41.260 No, she's.

02:01:42.040 She's a man, we're told.

02:01:43.720 So I guess she's hetero. 0.88

02:01:44.700 So now, she's a heterosexual male if she likes women.

02:01:47.580 Which, by the way, I think her preferred pronoun is certainly not her any longer.

02:01:52.940 Sorry.

02:01:53.420 It's a point of personal privilege.

02:01:54.860 Yeah, go ahead.

02:01:55.700 Go ahead.

02:01:56.040 Please do not use gendered language to, to address everyone.

02:02:00.980 To, to, to, to, to.

02:02:01.920 Okay, thank you.

02:02:02.780 So I didn't mean to do that.

02:02:03.740 But I think she likes they.

02:02:05.860 I think it's, is it in he, they?

02:02:08.140 She, I think she.

02:02:09.660 Can we check on that?

02:02:10.340 I don't know.

02:02:10.760 We'll, yeah, we'll check on it.

02:02:12.000 But I saw an article that was referring.

02:02:14.800 He, they.

02:02:15.540 He, they?

02:02:16.160 Mm-hmm.

02:02:16.780 Okay.

02:02:17.260 He, they.

02:02:17.740 All right.

02:02:18.320 So they were referred to as they.

02:02:21.340 But also you could refer to Ellen Page as he, who is now Elliot Page.

02:02:26.800 But my point is, though.

02:02:27.560 Did you just dead name her?

02:02:28.500 I did.

02:02:29.240 But the point is, doesn't, so Ellen Page doesn't exist is what we're supposed to believe, right?

02:02:35.020 Yes.

02:02:35.740 But that's a great question because she's in the middle of a role on, on Umbrella Academy,

02:02:40.660 which I do watch, have watched, and I've watched both seasons.

02:02:44.420 Is it good?

02:02:44.780 And it's good.

02:02:45.360 Yeah, it's fun.

02:02:46.060 It's a different kind of show.

02:02:46.960 It was written by, who was it?

02:02:50.380 Is it written by, some rock star wrote it.

02:02:54.400 And I can't remember, is it, My Chemical Romance guy, maybe?

02:03:02.240 Or, yeah, is it My Chemical Romance?

02:03:04.180 Gerard Way?

02:03:05.480 Yeah, he wrote it.

02:03:06.980 And it's actually really good.

02:03:08.560 Anyway, she does play. 0.96

02:03:10.080 My Chemical Romance, yes.

02:03:10.660 As Nikki pointed out, he, they, was she, her on the show.

02:03:18.620 And so, now that they've established that for two whole seasons, I don't know how they're

02:03:23.180 going to handle it.

02:03:23.860 I mean, she has to step down from this role. 1.00

02:03:25.520 You would think so, right?

02:03:26.360 Every role.

02:03:26.900 In fact, I think she should have to get, shouldn't she give up her royalties for Juno, where she 0.74

02:03:30.940 played a pregnant girl?

02:03:32.520 Yes.

02:03:33.120 I mean, she should have to give up all those royalties. 1.00

02:03:34.940 Yes.

02:03:35.440 I would, I would assume this is something that, I mean, how many times did she take roles 0.96

02:03:39.520 that girls or women could have played when she supposedly was a man the whole time? 0.82

02:03:45.280 That's a really good point.

02:03:46.700 I think it's, I think it's wrong.

02:03:48.240 I mean, we saw this, you know, as ridiculous as this conversation is, last year, at least,

02:03:52.880 or no, this year, at least twice, there were, uh, white women actors, not actresses, but 0.60

02:04:01.540 actors, who voiced characters that were not the exact same as them.

02:04:07.780 So, therefore, I'm outraged by that, by the way.

02:04:09.660 Outraged.

02:04:09.860 Like, there was one woman who was a mixed, mixed race. 0.64

02:04:13.200 Yeah.

02:04:13.460 And she was voicing a mixed race character.

02:04:16.040 However, it was a different mix.

02:04:18.220 So, she had to give up the role.

02:04:19.420 I'm serious.

02:04:20.600 That is legitimately a thing that happened.

02:04:23.200 Stupid.

02:04:23.780 So stupid.

02:04:24.540 But if they had to do that, then certainly he, they, has to do it now.

02:04:28.680 Exactly.

02:04:29.280 He, they, can't continue to play a role that a she, her should be playing. 1.00

02:04:33.980 Appreciate that.

02:04:34.620 Thank you.

02:04:35.040 Especially, now a she, her that liked a she, her, she was qualified for that role. 0.96

02:04:38.420 Now that she's a he, they, and still likes she, hers, she's now a straight white male. 0.98

02:04:44.700 Now, he, they are straight.

02:04:44.940 The worst thing in the planet.

02:04:46.660 Exactly right.

02:04:47.320 A straight white male.

02:04:48.780 If you're gonna transition, transition to something good.

02:04:51.960 Not a straight white male.

02:04:53.920 That's the last thing we need is more of them.

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02:06:06.960 Pat and Stu for Glenn.

02:06:07.940 Let's go to Adam in Ohio.

02:06:10.880 Hey, Adam.

02:06:11.560 You're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.

02:06:14.660 Hi there.

02:06:15.200 I wanted to talk about our friend Uncle Joe, if he were to step foot into the White House.

02:06:20.580 So he has this 100-day mask mandate idea, which has got to be one of the stupidest things,

02:06:27.320 in part because he's going to be able to claim success and have nothing to do with it.

02:06:33.540 Wait, why are you saying it's stupid?

02:06:34.660 It's not stupid for him.

02:06:37.620 That's a good point.

02:06:38.920 Because after 100 days, I mean, that takes you to May 1st.

02:06:42.480 You've had two and a half months of warming weather, outdoor activities resuming.

02:06:48.400 And the vaccine, right?

02:06:49.600 You're going to have 50 million people vaccinated by then, probably.

02:06:52.420 And then he'll take credit for shit.

02:06:53.580 Thanks a lot, Adam.

02:06:54.380 He'll take credit for all of that.

02:06:55.980 That's a great point.

02:06:56.220 Even though it was Donald Trump who got those things moving forward at the pace they moved.

02:07:03.420 Right.

02:07:03.820 If this vaccine works as well as they say, this will be Joe Biden's vaccine.

02:07:09.300 It will somehow, they will retrofit this to be Joe Biden's success story.

02:07:13.560 Even though nothing could be further from the truth.

02:07:15.000 Amazing.

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