The Glenn Beck Program - The COVID-19 Playbook ｜ Guests： Gov. Greg Abbott & Matt Ridley ｜ 4⧸22⧸20 ｜ The Glenn Beck Program

00:00:00.000 Hello America and welcome to the program. Today, thought police. How close to the edge are we on becoming China and not being able to express an opinion? Real close, and I'll show you why, how, who's behind it, and what's happening in one minute. 0.86

00:00:26.280 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:30.000 Somewhere in America, within the sound of my voice, there's a man who's standing on a ridgeline. He's looking across a canyon at the city below him. From there, he sees the sun just bouncing off of the buildings. Even if the people were closer, he wouldn't see many people moving around, social distancing.

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00:02:25.160 I want to play something that should tell you everything that you need to know.

00:02:32.320 And I want you to listen to this with this framing in mind.

00:02:38.240 Omar Khayyam. He was a poet, a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher.

00:02:48.920 He was a great thinker in Persia.

00:02:53.200 And he's the guy who said, let us remold the world closer to our heart's desire.

00:02:58.980 Now, if you've ever heard that before, most likely you heard it or read it on the famous Fabian Socialist stained glass window.

00:03:08.000 Most people don't even know anything about it.

00:03:09.980 I think this audience does.

00:03:11.240 That is the phrase that the Fabian Socialist used to get us into World War One.

00:03:20.820 World War One was planned. 0.97

00:03:25.520 They knew how many people it would kill.

00:03:28.940 They knew what would happen.

00:03:30.320 But the the European continent, they felt, needed to change.

00:03:36.900 They needed to get rid of all of the old systems because they were all broken down.

00:03:40.680 And great debates in the Fabian Society about, is it worth the life?

00:03:46.520 Of course it is.

00:03:47.300 The ends always justify the means.

00:03:50.640 Well, that brought us into World War One and World War One brought us World War Two.

00:03:55.680 And now the same people, I believe, are taking advantage of this global pandemic.

00:04:04.140 But I want you to decide that.

00:04:07.740 Who drafted the response for what is going on in today's world?

00:04:14.560 Remember, this has never been done before.

00:04:17.000 Nobody's ever tried to shut the entire world down.

00:04:20.420 And we have people that are saying we can't go back to work.

00:04:23.020 The WHO now is saying that we shouldn't go back to work for the next 18 months.

00:04:29.100 Are you kidding me?

00:04:32.060 There won't be anything left.

00:04:36.640 But is that comforting to some people?

00:04:42.000 Because this crisis is a way to remold the world.

00:04:47.100 This crisis, we keep saying we just want to go back to normal.

00:04:50.520 We're never going to go back to normal.

00:04:53.320 The world as we knew it before this is over.

00:04:57.840 People are redesigning everything.

00:05:00.900 For instance, right now we're bailing out all of the universities.

00:05:04.840 Why?

00:05:06.780 Why aren't we taking advantage of this?

00:05:09.100 The university system is broken.

00:05:11.600 We've all known it.

00:05:13.120 They were living on the edge in the first place.

00:05:17.280 They were charging too much in their indoctrination camps.

00:05:20.540 Why are we saving the universities?

00:05:22.760 They've got billions of dollars, most of them, in their trust funds.

00:05:26.500 Let them figure it out.

00:05:30.440 Or is that remolding the world closer to our heart's desire?

00:05:34.540 A lot of people in this audience would say, good.

00:05:36.960 Yeah, that's a good idea.

00:05:38.160 Well, you don't think the socialists are doing the same thing?

00:05:43.060 Who drafted this agenda?

00:05:45.540 And what do they believe?

00:05:49.580 I'm going to show you on tape how a group of global elites prepared for a future coronavirus pandemic.

00:05:58.060 And they did it in November of last year.

00:06:01.480 These people have been meeting for years.

00:06:03.660 Bill Gates, George Soros have been funding this meeting for years.

00:06:07.820 And they have been doing global war gaming on global warming.

00:06:14.280 But this year, they decided to add pandemic to it.

00:06:19.180 If there was a pandemic and global warming, what should we do?

00:06:26.360 And how can we remold the world?

00:06:30.220 Now, this happened months before China reported its first case.

00:06:34.000 And I want to make it really clear.

00:06:36.260 They didn't start it.

00:06:37.940 The pandemic is real.

00:06:40.160 They didn't predict it.

00:06:41.540 All they did was prepare for what we all knew was coming.

00:06:45.040 George W. Bush prepared our country.

00:06:48.060 He believed the pandemic was coming.

00:06:51.020 Barack Obama didn't.

00:06:53.460 And all of the preparations that George W. Bush put into place for a global pandemic

00:06:58.200 stopped and went away.

00:07:03.760 Did George W. Bush plan this?

00:07:06.160 No.

00:07:09.240 We were due for a global pandemic.

00:07:12.340 And so what they did is they got around and they planned for when it eventually and inevitably hit,

00:07:18.440 someone would have a plan.

00:07:22.080 Now, when you look at the plan, it's eerie how similar their plans are to the ones our central planners are using.

00:07:32.400 I think there's a reason for that.

00:07:36.860 Head of our CDC was there.

00:07:39.040 Head of all the banks were there.

00:07:41.100 These were the big global personalities.

00:07:48.580 So who was at the table?

00:07:50.320 Tonight, I'm going to show you the actual video of a three-day war game.

00:07:54.240 Who was at the table?

00:07:55.480 What were the plans?

00:07:57.240 Why did they choose those plans?

00:08:00.260 What are their goals?

00:08:01.960 Are they your goals?

00:08:03.780 Is this really about safety?

00:08:05.440 Or is it about big government, high-tech banking control?

00:08:11.920 What is it?

00:08:13.540 You're going to have to decide.

00:08:14.840 Tonight, I'm going to ask the questions the media and big tech and big business just don't want anyone to ask.

00:08:20.140 But I'll ask them.

00:08:21.720 But I want you to know,

00:08:24.400 if you are not,

00:08:25.600 this is why I've been saying for the last few days or last few weeks,

00:08:28.700 we have got to have a lifeline to one another.

00:08:31.800 We cannot have anybody standing in between us.

00:08:37.120 And why your subscription to Blaze TV is so important.

00:08:41.640 Because I'm going to play something first.

00:08:43.720 Let me play from the actual event 201.

00:08:46.780 This is the audio and video of the event where they are talking about

00:08:53.640 who do we say is the ultimate authority in this situation?

00:08:57.860 Remember, this is before the pandemic.

00:08:59.760 Who do we say is the ultimate authority?

00:09:03.080 And they talk about how there's going to be all kinds of conspiracies,

00:09:05.960 so we've got to all stick together.

00:09:08.220 Who is the ultimate authority?

00:09:10.120 Listen.

00:09:11.160 But also, I agree on the point on having a centralized source of information

00:09:15.440 and a world body that could have garnered the respect of everyone.

00:09:20.180 And I think the WHO in this instance might be that.

00:09:23.340 So there they are deciding that it's going to be the WHO.

00:09:30.960 Now, we have already had Facebook demonetize us

00:09:35.840 and throttle our relationship with you.

00:09:39.060 You probably, if you get your information from Facebook on me,

00:09:44.080 what I'm saying, the shows,

00:09:45.460 you're probably getting very little of what I do

00:09:48.160 because they are throttling us back, severely stepping on our throat.

00:09:53.420 The same with Google and YouTube.

00:09:57.460 Here's YouTube, the head of YouTube yesterday,

00:10:02.620 verifying basically what they decided at event 201.

00:10:06.520 Listen.

00:10:07.640 Talk about that as raising authoritative information.

00:10:10.800 But then we also talk about removing information that is problematic.

00:10:15.600 Of course, anything that is medically unsubstantiated,

00:10:18.920 so people saying like, take vitamin C, take turmeric,

00:10:23.720 like those will cure you.

00:10:25.420 Those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy.

00:10:29.580 Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations

00:10:32.640 would be a violation of our policy.

00:10:33.960 And so remove is another really important part of our policy.

00:10:39.340 So they're removing anything that goes against the WHO.

00:10:43.740 We've already seen this happen.

00:10:47.080 In about an hour and 10 minutes,

00:10:49.480 I'm going to give you some information that no one else has given you on the WHO

00:10:54.240 and why they are so incredibly dangerous.

00:10:59.540 But these are the ones that are accepted now.

00:11:03.960 So if the WHO says it, it must be so.

00:11:09.240 Well, the WHO, the head of the WHO,

00:11:11.560 is saying that we really should be in for the next 18 months.

00:11:15.540 That we're not going to go back to normal for a very long time.

00:11:20.420 Meanwhile,

00:11:20.900 we passed another stimulus package last night,

00:11:25.560 and Chuck Schumer said, don't worry, that's not the last one.

00:11:29.040 There's a lot more coming from where that came from.

00:11:32.920 Why?

00:11:33.620 We're printing money.

00:11:35.180 Money has no meaning.

00:11:36.340 The problem is not a shortage of money alone.

00:11:39.200 Yes, we're having a hard time paying the rent or getting food.

00:11:45.040 But you know what solves that?

00:11:47.380 Commerce.

00:11:49.080 Commerce solves that.

00:11:51.360 There's no place to stimulate the economy because we can't go anywhere.

00:11:56.040 But the economy and everything else is being redesigned right now.

00:12:04.720 Tonight at 9 o'clock, you need to think for yourself.

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00:12:18.700 When you have disinformation, it's Satan's greatest trick.

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00:15:38.700 Stand by.

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00:15:57.160 They are so great

00:15:59.320 and they are great

00:16:01.040 because these are the people

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00:16:05.020 and they did it for people

00:16:07.460 that were mowing

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00:16:11.520 eight hours a day.

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00:16:15.120 for a long time.

00:16:16.140 The ones that just never,

00:16:17.540 ever break down.

00:16:19.620 Made here in America

00:16:21.500 and the company has been around.

00:16:24.140 It's a grandfather, father,

00:16:26.060 and two sons now.

00:16:28.100 The grandfather started it all

00:16:30.060 and it's been passed through the family

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00:16:35.420 They developed a lot of the technology

00:16:38.140 that other zero-turn lawnmowers are using

00:16:41.280 but they've built them to last.

00:16:43.820 Now they're starting to make lawnmowers

00:16:45.840 for the home

00:16:47.220 but they have all of the commercial-grade

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00:16:50.400 So this will be the last lawnmower

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00:16:54.360 And I don't know if you've ever seen

00:16:55.300 the price of riding lawnmowers

00:16:57.120 but they ain't cheap.

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00:17:08.960 yeah, yeah, you could buy that

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00:17:54.000 Okay, the operative word

00:18:10.940 that we're going to have to use

00:18:12.580 to get us through this

00:18:15.680 is courage.

00:18:19.940 You know, I'm just looking behind me.

00:18:21.860 I did a poster of Winston Churchill.

00:18:24.540 I painted a poster

00:18:25.420 of Winston Churchill in a mask

00:18:26.840 and it says,

00:18:27.460 keep calm and carry on behind him.

00:18:29.800 And that is so right.

00:18:31.780 It is so right.

00:18:32.820 Keep calm and carry on.

00:18:35.180 But

00:18:35.320 he represents

00:18:39.220 the courage

00:18:40.580 to do the tough things.

00:18:42.860 And you're going to have

00:18:44.300 to have the courage

00:18:45.520 to say the tough things

00:18:47.200 and to think

00:18:48.120 not like sheep.

00:18:50.200 You have to think

00:18:52.540 for yourself.

00:18:54.640 Three out of four people

00:18:55.700 know now

00:18:56.400 that their personal liberties

00:18:57.700 are being lost.

00:19:00.000 Three out of four Americans

00:19:00.980 believe that

00:19:01.820 they are losing

00:19:02.680 personal liberties

00:19:03.540 and they fear

00:19:04.380 that they're not coming back.

00:19:06.100 Well,

00:19:06.660 you're right

00:19:07.360 to fear that.

00:19:09.940 Now,

00:19:10.560 what are we going to do

00:19:11.300 about it?

00:19:12.660 Well,

00:19:13.200 the first thing

00:19:13.680 we have to do

00:19:14.260 is stop listening to people.

00:19:15.780 80% of Americans

00:19:17.260 think that

00:19:18.280 what Donald Trump did

00:19:19.460 before he did it

00:19:20.660 is right.

00:19:22.420 80% of Americans

00:19:23.780 say we've got

00:19:24.920 to stop immigration. 0.69

00:19:26.160 We've got to secure

00:19:27.520 our borders

00:19:28.340 right now.

00:19:29.800 Now,

00:19:30.120 I don't know

00:19:30.800 if that's just

00:19:31.640 because of jobs

00:19:32.720 or because people

00:19:33.620 see the

00:19:34.480 absolute

00:19:35.620 nightmare situation

00:19:37.740 that is coming

00:19:38.420 on our southern border.

00:19:39.820 When people

00:19:40.780 start to really

00:19:41.900 get sick

00:19:42.540 and Mexico 0.86

00:19:43.160 goes through the roof,

00:19:44.300 they're all

00:19:44.840 going to run here.

00:19:45.660 we've got

00:19:47.980 to be prepared

00:19:48.900 on our border.

00:19:50.240 But what are

00:19:51.080 the Democrats

00:19:51.580 saying?

00:19:52.320 They're now

00:19:52.960 calling Donald

00:19:54.020 Trump the xenophobe

00:19:55.480 in chief.

00:19:57.020 Why?

00:19:57.660 Why are they

00:19:58.240 doing that?

00:19:59.420 Why do people

00:20:00.460 call other people

00:20:01.480 racist?

00:20:02.860 Well,

00:20:03.160 they do it

00:20:03.540 for a couple

00:20:03.960 of reasons.

00:20:04.580 One,

00:20:05.120 because actually

00:20:05.880 they may be

00:20:06.740 racist.

00:20:08.000 But in today's

00:20:09.140 world,

00:20:10.020 no,

00:20:10.420 that's usually

00:20:11.180 not why

00:20:11.960 somebody is

00:20:12.640 called a racist.

00:20:13.320 It's a label

00:20:14.700 to target

00:20:16.620 them,

00:20:17.100 to smear 0.93

00:20:17.760 them,

00:20:18.180 to isolate

00:20:18.860 them.

00:20:19.740 It's all

00:20:20.680 Sololinsky

00:20:21.400 stuff.

00:20:22.600 So when they

00:20:23.440 call him

00:20:23.920 the xenophobe

00:20:24.620 in chief,

00:20:25.100 they're just

00:20:25.740 reinforcing

00:20:26.520 this for

00:20:27.220 their rubes.

00:20:29.620 What he did

00:20:30.540 in China

00:20:31.260 by restricting

00:20:33.520 air travel

00:20:34.400 was xenophobic.

00:20:36.420 Well,

00:20:36.920 I guess it was

00:20:37.380 xenophobic

00:20:37.900 when he did

00:20:38.360 it to Europe

00:20:38.920 too.

00:20:40.180 But it was

00:20:40.900 right.

00:20:42.080 It wasn't

00:20:42.780 xenophobic.

00:20:43.400 It was

00:20:43.640 right.

00:20:45.900 People

00:20:46.460 are name

00:20:47.320 calling and

00:20:48.020 two British

00:20:48.920 men have

00:20:49.460 been arrested

00:20:50.520 in Great

00:20:51.360 Britain for 0.79

00:20:52.300 posting signs

00:20:53.440 that say

00:20:54.000 pubs closed,

00:20:55.540 borders open.

00:20:57.360 They were

00:20:58.260 arrested.

00:20:59.720 Thank God

00:21:00.440 for our

00:21:00.940 freedom of

00:21:01.460 speech that

00:21:02.020 we have

00:21:02.740 currently.

00:21:04.520 But how

00:21:05.260 much freedom

00:21:05.760 of speech

00:21:06.300 will we have

00:21:07.080 tomorrow?

00:21:08.040 Because it's

00:21:08.940 fading today.

00:21:11.160 More in a

00:21:11.860 minute.

00:21:11.980 trying to

00:21:18.120 figure out

00:21:18.400 the housing

00:21:18.780 market right

00:21:19.400 now is

00:21:19.880 sort of

00:21:20.120 like trying

00:21:20.480 to walk

00:21:21.360 through a

00:21:21.720 minefield

00:21:22.360 blindfolded

00:21:23.400 with big

00:21:24.220 clown shoes.

00:21:24.980 I mean it 0.99

00:21:25.660 is we're

00:21:26.620 going to 0.86

00:21:26.820 blow up. 0.92

00:21:29.300 Already 50%

00:21:30.740 of people who

00:21:31.680 had their

00:21:32.040 houses up

00:21:32.560 for sale

00:21:33.100 have taken

00:21:33.740 them off

00:21:34.300 the market

00:21:34.900 which is

00:21:35.660 probably a

00:21:36.300 smart thing

00:21:36.860 but are

00:21:37.180 they going

00:21:37.420 to come

00:21:37.720 back to

00:21:38.200 the market?

00:21:38.600 it looks

00:21:39.980 like sales

00:21:41.340 on houses

00:21:41.960 are going

00:21:42.560 to be

00:21:43.460 severely

00:21:44.420 restricted.

00:21:45.060 That is

00:21:45.800 not the

00:21:47.400 thing that

00:21:48.040 you should

00:21:48.520 be doing

00:21:49.040 if you

00:21:49.520 need to

00:21:50.060 sell your

00:21:50.500 house.

00:21:51.000 You need

00:21:51.700 to get

00:21:51.940 out there

00:21:52.340 now because

00:21:53.000 it's only

00:21:53.380 going to be

00:21:53.740 harder probably

00:21:55.240 in the fall

00:21:56.100 definitely next

00:21:57.280 year at this

00:21:57.940 time.

00:21:58.480 If you need

00:21:59.560 to sell your

00:22:00.120 house, you

00:22:00.780 got to have

00:22:01.540 the right

00:22:02.140 real estate

00:22:02.700 agent.

00:22:03.460 You have

00:22:03.820 to have

00:22:04.160 your house

00:22:04.600 ready when

00:22:05.180 everything opens

00:22:05.900 up.

00:22:06.220 You got to

00:22:06.900 get it on

00:22:07.280 the market

00:22:07.660 and you

00:22:07.920 got to

00:22:08.260 get it

00:22:08.520 sold.

00:22:09.400 So if

00:22:09.800 you have

00:22:10.160 that kind

00:22:10.660 of urgency,

00:22:11.440 I want you

00:22:11.860 to go to

00:22:12.220 realestateagentsitrust.com

00:22:14.280 because those

00:22:14.900 agents have

00:22:15.820 that kind

00:22:16.320 of urgency

00:22:16.840 too.

00:22:17.900 They will

00:22:18.360 sell your

00:22:19.000 house for

00:22:19.800 the most

00:22:20.280 amount of

00:22:20.740 money and

00:22:21.820 on time

00:22:22.700 as fast

00:22:23.380 as they

00:22:23.680 possibly can.

00:22:24.960 It's

00:22:25.140 realestateagentsitrust.com

00:22:27.620 How are these

00:22:28.520 decisions being

00:22:29.060 made in this

00:22:29.560 pandemic?

00:22:30.340 There's a big

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00:22:37.280 This is the

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00:22:46.960 There is a

00:22:47.280 couple of

00:22:47.740 really, I

00:22:48.480 think, good

00:22:49.160 news, but I

00:22:49.620 want to talk

00:22:50.080 to Stu

00:22:51.200 about it.

00:22:51.760 Also, our

00:22:52.280 guest, Matt

00:22:52.860 Ridley, coming

00:22:53.700 up in about a

00:22:54.260 half an hour.

00:22:56.200 He's made his

00:22:58.020 money on

00:22:59.920 being a

00:23:00.440 skeptic.

00:23:01.660 In fact, he's

00:23:02.540 one of Stu's

00:23:03.440 favorite people

00:23:04.020 because he

00:23:04.440 questions absolutely

00:23:05.540 everything.

00:23:06.800 I remember the

00:23:07.720 morning when Stu

00:23:08.440 came in and

00:23:09.000 said, I think

00:23:09.860 we should be

00:23:11.360 concerned about

00:23:11.920 this.

00:23:12.600 I said, why?

00:23:13.160 He said, because

00:23:13.620 Matt Ridley just

00:23:14.580 said, I question

00:23:16.120 everything.

00:23:16.760 I don't think any

00:23:17.500 of this stuff is

00:23:18.200 real.

00:23:19.300 Coronavirus is

00:23:20.140 real.

00:23:21.240 But there's some

00:23:22.060 good news.

00:23:22.560 We're going to

00:23:22.760 talk to him

00:23:23.280 about the

00:23:23.960 55, is it

00:23:27.220 million?

00:23:28.320 Stu?

00:23:28.820 55 million

00:23:30.540 people, what

00:23:31.700 was it, out

00:23:32.280 of California?

00:23:33.440 Or 55 times

00:23:34.520 bigger.

00:23:35.580 More people,

00:23:36.440 yeah, 55

00:23:37.100 times more

00:23:38.760 people were

00:23:39.440 infected in

00:23:40.280 L.A.

00:23:40.640 County than

00:23:42.180 previously

00:23:42.720 thought.

00:23:43.120 That's really,

00:23:43.980 really good

00:23:44.460 news.

00:23:45.260 And we'll

00:23:45.600 tell you why

00:23:46.180 coming up in

00:23:46.840 just a second.

00:23:48.120 Right now, I

00:23:49.540 want to talk

00:23:50.460 to Todd

00:23:51.660 Staples.

00:23:52.300 Todd

00:23:52.480 Staples is

00:23:53.520 the president

00:23:54.100 of the Texas

00:23:54.800 Oil and Gas

00:23:55.480 Association.

00:23:56.720 He has also

00:23:57.340 been appointed

00:23:57.880 by our

00:23:58.340 governor on

00:23:59.380 the strike

00:23:59.820 force to

00:24:00.340 open Texas

00:24:01.200 up.

00:24:02.240 And so we

00:24:02.880 wanted to talk

00:24:03.380 to him a

00:24:03.620 little bit

00:24:03.880 about oil,

00:24:04.720 what that

00:24:05.020 means for

00:24:05.680 everybody around

00:24:06.560 the country,

00:24:07.540 what it means

00:24:08.060 to America

00:24:08.820 strategically,

00:24:10.560 and what we

00:24:11.400 should do,

00:24:12.320 and what

00:24:13.380 should states

00:24:15.220 be doing,

00:24:16.000 and what are

00:24:16.360 the metrics

00:24:16.940 they're using

00:24:17.580 so we know

00:24:18.800 when we're

00:24:19.160 going to open

00:24:19.640 up a little

00:24:20.260 bit more.

00:24:21.020 Welcome to

00:24:21.520 the program,

00:24:21.980 Todd.

00:24:22.160 How are you?

00:24:23.200 I'm great,

00:24:23.960 Glenn.

00:24:24.200 Glad to be

00:24:24.640 back on your

00:24:25.220 show, and

00:24:25.780 thanks for

00:24:26.180 what you do

00:24:26.640 for our

00:24:26.980 country.

00:24:28.480 Yeah,

00:24:28.720 thank you

00:24:29.100 very much.

00:24:29.740 All right,

00:24:30.360 so let's

00:24:30.740 start with

00:24:31.280 oil and

00:24:32.040 gas.

00:24:32.740 For the

00:24:33.220 first time,

00:24:34.460 America is

00:24:35.380 energy

00:24:35.920 independent.

00:24:36.880 We are

00:24:37.480 exporting more

00:24:39.940 than we

00:24:40.440 import, which

00:24:41.300 is fantastic

00:24:42.360 news.

00:24:44.440 However,

00:24:45.280 with that

00:24:45.680 being said,

00:24:46.900 now our

00:24:48.240 oil industry

00:24:49.060 is on the

00:24:50.580 verge of

00:24:51.080 collapse,

00:24:51.740 we're told.

00:24:52.840 What do we

00:24:53.700 do?

00:24:54.080 What should

00:24:54.580 we be doing?

00:24:56.240 Well,

00:24:57.120 producers are

00:24:57.840 doing exactly

00:24:58.620 what they

00:24:59.060 need to be

00:24:59.440 doing.

00:24:59.840 The market

00:25:00.340 is reacting

00:25:01.460 appropriately to

00:25:03.300 these catastrophic

00:25:04.380 circumstances.

00:25:06.000 Producers are

00:25:06.800 limiting production.

00:25:08.500 They are

00:25:09.000 looking at the

00:25:10.020 markets and

00:25:10.680 making certain

00:25:11.360 that they are

00:25:12.380 the ones that

00:25:13.220 are making the

00:25:13.840 decisions for

00:25:14.640 their operations.

00:25:16.240 And quite

00:25:16.500 frankly, we

00:25:17.080 don't need

00:25:17.800 government to

00:25:18.840 step in and

00:25:20.100 develop a

00:25:21.240 North American

00:25:21.880 OPEC.

00:25:22.740 that's not

00:25:23.420 the answer

00:25:23.860 because producers

00:25:24.720 can respond

00:25:26.060 appropriately.

00:25:27.900 Okay, so you

00:25:28.240 don't think

00:25:28.680 Texas should 1.00

00:25:29.360 tell the

00:25:29.880 Texas oil

00:25:30.540 producers

00:25:31.140 throttle back?

00:25:33.380 That's right.

00:25:33.780 You're saying

00:25:34.100 they're already

00:25:34.620 doing it?

00:25:35.860 They are.

00:25:36.960 Our companies

00:25:38.000 have already

00:25:38.720 announced over

00:25:39.520 $50 billion

00:25:41.220 in capital

00:25:42.960 expenditure

00:25:43.500 reductions that

00:25:44.660 were planned

00:25:45.260 for 2020

00:25:46.060 that because of

00:25:47.500 the dynamic

00:25:48.220 shock that we've

00:25:49.480 had to demand

00:25:50.180 because of

00:25:50.980 stopping global

00:25:52.640 commerce.

00:25:54.480 And look, we

00:25:55.320 know in Texas

00:25:55.980 that if it

00:25:56.540 costs you $8 a

00:25:57.880 pound to make

00:25:58.500 barbecue and you

00:25:59.380 sell it for $4 a

00:26:00.540 pound, you don't

00:26:01.440 need government

00:26:01.960 to tell you to

00:26:02.560 stop making

00:26:03.000 barbecue.

00:26:03.600 You can kind

00:26:04.200 of figure that

00:26:04.800 out yourself.

00:26:05.760 And that's what

00:26:06.240 our producers

00:26:06.740 are doing.

00:26:07.300 And we believe,

00:26:08.060 Glenn, that is

00:26:08.900 the most and

00:26:09.880 best way to

00:26:10.960 restore our

00:26:12.560 economy, to

00:26:13.300 get oil and

00:26:13.820 gas back moving

00:26:14.660 again and

00:26:15.240 employing, you

00:26:16.320 know, thousands

00:26:16.820 and thousands of

00:26:17.640 Texans, is to

00:26:18.880 allow operators to

00:26:20.020 look at their

00:26:20.440 assets.

00:26:20.980 Look at their

00:26:21.780 contractual

00:26:22.500 obligations and

00:26:23.840 to make those

00:26:24.280 decisions.

00:26:25.140 Now, it's not

00:26:26.160 to say that

00:26:27.540 there are, these

00:26:28.700 are horrific

00:26:29.420 circumstances.

00:26:30.460 When you have

00:26:30.900 oil that trades

00:26:33.000 for negative

00:26:33.980 values like we

00:26:35.160 saw a couple of

00:26:35.960 days ago, that's

00:26:37.820 scary stuff, right?

00:26:39.280 But you don't

00:26:40.520 need to react.

00:26:41.640 You need to

00:26:42.060 respond appropriately.

00:26:43.840 And that's what

00:26:44.800 our producers are

00:26:45.860 doing to get

00:26:46.460 through this

00:26:46.960 extremely difficult

00:26:47.840 time.

00:26:49.160 Okay.

00:26:49.720 Is it true

00:26:50.460 that Russia was 0.63

00:26:51.840 targeting our

00:26:53.120 oil and gas

00:26:53.940 industry and

00:26:55.820 trying to

00:26:56.560 collapse us?

00:26:58.720 Well, so let's

00:27:00.020 talk about the

00:27:00.600 global picture for

00:27:01.460 a minute.

00:27:01.820 That's a great

00:27:02.600 question.

00:27:03.320 A lot of people

00:27:04.180 believe that

00:27:05.820 Russia and the

00:27:08.360 foreign powers

00:27:10.080 overproduction was

00:27:12.520 an attempt to

00:27:13.320 gain back market

00:27:14.440 share that U.S.

00:27:16.240 energy producers

00:27:17.300 have captured.

00:27:18.320 I mean, look,

00:27:18.880 because of

00:27:19.480 innovation and

00:27:20.040 technology, the

00:27:21.280 U.S. has been 0.97

00:27:22.280 the powerhouse.

00:27:23.340 As you mentioned,

00:27:24.520 we are at a new

00:27:25.640 level of national

00:27:26.620 security because of

00:27:28.040 energy security.

00:27:29.720 And it is

00:27:30.440 contemplated that

00:27:32.160 foreign global

00:27:33.080 producers wanted

00:27:34.440 to regain some of

00:27:36.460 that market share.

00:27:37.460 And so they plan

00:27:38.480 to, because the

00:27:40.540 Saudis and Russians 1.00

00:27:41.160 got in a tiff,

00:27:42.300 they were fighting

00:27:43.000 amongst one another,

00:27:43.840 and it would

00:27:44.500 certainly, their

00:27:45.240 actions would

00:27:46.160 negatively impact

00:27:47.040 U.S. producers.

00:27:48.300 They didn't plan

00:27:49.040 on COVID-19.

00:27:51.120 It is accurate,

00:27:54.480 however, to say

00:27:55.440 that the last time

00:27:57.100 we had trouble in

00:27:57.960 America, we

00:27:59.200 retooled, we

00:28:01.400 reinvented, we

00:28:02.540 reinvented the way

00:28:04.840 we drill and the

00:28:06.380 way we pull oil

00:28:07.840 from the ground.

00:28:08.660 So the last time

00:28:09.780 we had trouble,

00:28:12.500 we reinvented,

00:28:13.740 while they just

00:28:14.500 bailed themselves

00:28:15.300 out because they're

00:28:16.300 government-owned.

00:28:17.460 And is that what

00:28:18.140 you're trying to

00:28:18.780 avoid here, Todd?

00:28:20.560 Glenn, that's

00:28:21.300 exactly right.

00:28:22.180 In the 1980s,

00:28:23.600 those of us that

00:28:24.500 lived through that,

00:28:25.400 we remember the

00:28:26.640 job losses, the

00:28:27.980 drastic loss of

00:28:30.080 value.

00:28:31.060 We didn't go to

00:28:32.340 the government and

00:28:33.040 say, bail us out.

00:28:34.400 We hunkered down,

00:28:36.340 we reinvented, and

00:28:37.800 then in 2008 that

00:28:39.240 occurred again in

00:28:39.980 2014, 2015 time

00:28:42.080 period, 70% drop

00:28:43.500 in prices, and

00:28:44.660 because of

00:28:45.160 innovation, hydraulic

00:28:46.140 fracturing, Texas

00:28:48.440 and America is

00:28:49.620 the incubator for

00:28:51.320 ideas because of

00:28:52.880 our free enterprise

00:28:53.540 system, and our

00:28:54.720 philosophy is don't

00:28:55.860 abandon that now in

00:28:57.500 a time of crisis.

00:28:58.420 Let's go stronger

00:28:59.420 through this, as

00:29:00.400 difficult as it's

00:29:01.460 going to be.

00:29:02.840 So the federal

00:29:04.080 government has been

00:29:04.980 saying now they've

00:29:06.420 got another stimulus

00:29:07.260 package, and the

00:29:08.820 Democrats said last

00:29:10.620 night, this is just

00:29:11.580 the beginning, there's

00:29:12.320 a lot more where

00:29:13.160 that came from.

00:29:14.840 I don't know where

00:29:15.800 they're getting it,

00:29:16.400 the cupboard seems to

00:29:17.300 be a little bare, but

00:29:18.240 there is a problem

00:29:20.160 with people paying

00:29:20.840 their rent and

00:29:21.420 getting food, etc.,

00:29:22.540 etc., and businesses

00:29:24.000 staying afloat, but

00:29:25.360 the real problem is

00:29:26.340 not a shortage of

00:29:27.160 money, it's a

00:29:27.860 shortage of

00:29:28.380 commerce.

00:29:29.680 So you're on the

00:29:30.720 task force to open

00:29:32.280 the country back up

00:29:33.700 or to open Texas

00:29:34.720 back up.

00:29:35.660 What are the

00:29:36.240 metrics that you're

00:29:37.120 looking at that

00:29:38.240 will keep us safe,

00:29:39.840 but also get us

00:29:41.160 back to work?

00:29:42.700 Well, we appreciate

00:29:43.860 Governor Abbott's

00:29:44.600 leadership and focus

00:29:45.840 on getting this

00:29:46.540 economy moving again,

00:29:47.920 you're exactly right,

00:29:49.100 when you normally

00:29:50.160 use 100 million

00:29:51.080 barrels a day in the

00:29:51.960 world and that

00:29:52.520 drops to 80 million

00:29:53.640 barrels a day,

00:29:54.920 there's nothing that

00:29:56.200 can fix that except

00:29:57.080 getting the economy

00:29:57.960 going back again,

00:29:59.140 and so what the

00:29:59.640 oil and natural gas

00:30:00.480 industry is doing is

00:30:02.040 looking at operational

00:30:03.640 procedures that we

00:30:05.980 need flexibility on

00:30:07.760 in order to manage

00:30:08.720 through the crisis

00:30:09.380 and to restart our

00:30:10.640 sector of the

00:30:11.220 economy, things like

00:30:12.800 permits, getting

00:30:14.080 extensions from the

00:30:15.160 regulatory agency.

00:30:16.280 We want to be very

00:30:17.060 careful that we do

00:30:18.160 not compromise

00:30:18.800 safety, we don't

00:30:19.700 want to compromise

00:30:20.320 environmental

00:30:20.920 standards, our

00:30:22.040 industry spends more

00:30:23.460 than any other

00:30:24.800 industry or the

00:30:25.760 government combined

00:30:26.720 on innovative

00:30:28.200 procedures, and so

00:30:29.640 we're looking at

00:30:30.740 things that can be

00:30:31.480 done to help

00:30:32.340 managers manage

00:30:34.060 their assets the

00:30:35.120 way they know to

00:30:36.260 by looking at

00:30:37.400 flexibility in

00:30:38.720 government permits

00:30:40.640 and regulatory

00:30:41.620 programs so that we

00:30:43.300 can get through

00:30:43.920 this system and get

00:30:46.120 back to going as

00:30:47.120 quickly as we can.

00:30:47.940 We also know that

00:30:49.100 critical infrastructure,

00:30:50.840 many of our field

00:30:51.780 operations have been

00:30:52.900 exempted, but the

00:30:54.100 back office efforts,

00:30:56.000 the planning and the

00:30:56.840 strategy and the

00:30:57.780 promotion, they have

00:30:59.200 been curtailed.

00:31:00.040 We need to get them

00:31:00.840 back to work, maintain

00:31:02.260 social distancing,

00:31:03.500 use good protocols

00:31:06.460 in terms of making

00:31:09.500 certain masks and

00:31:10.340 gloves and all these

00:31:11.020 kind of things, but

00:31:11.960 those are the types of

00:31:12.740 things that we'll be

00:31:13.460 recommending to the

00:31:14.320 governor, and I think

00:31:15.360 he's got another press

00:31:16.100 conference for Monday,

00:31:17.460 and we're hopeful that

00:31:19.120 we'll have some more

00:31:19.900 leniency pretty soon.

00:31:22.400 Yeah, he's going to be

00:31:23.460 on with us in about an

00:31:24.900 hour and 15 minutes, so

00:31:26.300 we'll talk to him a

00:31:27.420 little bit more about

00:31:28.180 that.

00:31:28.400 The one thing that

00:31:31.600 I'm concerned with the

00:31:32.620 oil industry is these

00:31:35.840 are the kinds of times

00:31:37.180 that, you know, nations

00:31:39.600 go to war in. 0.55

00:31:40.780 I'm not predicting one.

00:31:42.160 I don't want one.

00:31:43.300 I think it could be the

00:31:44.220 worst thing that could

00:31:45.060 ever happen to us if we

00:31:46.340 go to a global war.

00:31:48.280 However, these, this is

00:31:50.020 when people are backed

00:31:50.960 into a corner, this is

00:31:52.280 what happens.

00:31:54.140 And I am very concerned

00:31:56.640 that our oil industry,

00:31:58.400 is not damaged long

00:32:01.540 term, that we would be

00:32:03.560 able to be energy

00:32:04.660 independent.

00:32:05.440 Is there any concern?

00:32:06.640 I mean, one of the oil

00:32:07.760 CEOs just said, we're

00:32:09.380 going to disappear like

00:32:10.200 the coal industry.

00:32:11.880 I think that concern is

00:32:13.440 valid.

00:32:14.000 I think ensuring that we

00:32:15.560 have a domestic energy

00:32:17.740 supply so that we can

00:32:19.420 have energy independence

00:32:20.760 is vital.

00:32:21.960 But let's look at the

00:32:22.880 facts here.

00:32:23.940 The infrastructure that

00:32:25.200 we have in the state of

00:32:26.280 Texas alone, our

00:32:27.780 pipelines, our ports,

00:32:29.280 our refiners, our LNG

00:32:31.340 export facility that's

00:32:33.100 moving clean natural

00:32:34.360 gas all around the

00:32:35.480 world to improve air

00:32:36.700 quality, is right here

00:32:39.300 in Texas.

00:32:39.980 We know that our

00:32:41.120 refining capacity, the

00:32:42.520 ability to move product

00:32:43.640 through our pipelines,

00:32:45.000 the ability to access

00:32:46.220 markets around the globe,

00:32:47.920 our ports, our

00:32:48.980 infrastructure is here.

00:32:50.040 Now, is it a very valid

00:32:52.720 concern about the future

00:32:54.820 of this industry?

00:32:55.760 You bet it is.

00:32:56.960 And we know that

00:32:58.260 uncertainty is the enemy

00:33:01.600 of recovery.

00:33:02.740 And so we need stable

00:33:03.940 policies.

00:33:04.840 We need tax policy that

00:33:06.180 is not punitive.

00:33:07.260 We need science-based

00:33:09.100 regulatory approaches.

00:33:11.040 And we need to not react

00:33:13.500 in a way to get government

00:33:15.080 to put its tentacles

00:33:16.380 further into this industry

00:33:18.380 by mandating the

00:33:20.260 level of production

00:33:21.200 because the market

00:33:22.560 can react much quicker

00:33:24.300 than a government

00:33:26.040 body can.

00:33:27.460 And let's think about

00:33:28.420 it, Glenn.

00:33:29.200 How likely is it that

00:33:30.680 Texas can coordinate

00:33:31.800 with North Dakota

00:33:33.000 and Oklahoma?

00:33:34.320 And can we get all

00:33:35.860 producing states?

00:33:36.720 No.

00:33:37.260 And so will all

00:33:38.620 producing states have

00:33:39.580 the same regulatory

00:33:41.600 schemes that Texas

00:33:43.460 would have?

00:33:44.060 That would be very

00:33:44.860 difficult.

00:33:45.260 And it would be more

00:33:46.340 difficult to enforce

00:33:47.540 and ensure compliance.

00:33:48.880 And so we think

00:33:49.980 making certain the

00:33:51.380 fundamentals are there

00:33:52.380 where we can grow

00:33:53.920 and to make sure,

00:33:55.000 look, we know that

00:33:56.020 monetary policy is

00:33:57.360 important, right?

00:33:58.820 We know access to

00:34:00.640 capital.

00:34:01.660 We need to make certain

00:34:02.400 our federal government

00:34:03.020 is focused on those

00:34:03.800 things.

00:34:04.280 And look, they need to

00:34:05.460 be very cautious in

00:34:06.540 dealing with our

00:34:07.260 trading partners to

00:34:08.300 make certain they're

00:34:08.900 not flooding the

00:34:10.120 markets.

00:34:10.900 And those are things

00:34:11.840 that will all make a

00:34:12.680 difference, we think.

00:34:14.120 Okay.

00:34:14.580 I'm up against a 0.91

00:34:15.300 network break, so I

00:34:16.080 just need a quick

00:34:16.620 answer on this one.

00:34:17.420 But Tuesday, they

00:34:20.840 are going to, the

00:34:22.380 Texas Railway Commission

00:34:23.840 is going to delay their

00:34:25.580 decision on what's

00:34:27.760 called pro-ration,

00:34:28.640 which is what you're

00:34:29.220 talking about.

00:34:30.160 Do you think we're

00:34:31.000 past that, government

00:34:32.300 stepping in and saying

00:34:34.100 we need everybody to

00:34:35.880 work together and start

00:34:38.260 to fall in line with

00:34:39.340 the government?

00:34:40.680 I'm afraid there's

00:34:41.940 incredible pressure from

00:34:43.920 some on the

00:34:45.500 commission for the

00:34:47.300 commission to take

00:34:48.040 action.

00:34:48.800 We firmly believe

00:34:49.920 pro-ration would make

00:34:51.160 matters worse, not

00:34:52.460 better.

00:34:52.980 And our message is we

00:34:54.220 need to focus on

00:34:54.900 recovery, not on

00:34:56.060 creating a cartel.

00:34:57.360 So the pressure's not

00:34:58.640 over and the decisions

00:34:59.720 haven't been made yet.

00:35:00.880 There's three

00:35:01.260 commissioners and we

00:35:04.360 appreciate the fact that

00:35:05.580 they have not

00:35:06.540 unnecessarily

00:35:07.880 intervened and we just

00:35:09.160 need to get them

00:35:09.580 focused on recovery.

00:35:10.340 So we're not out of

00:35:11.520 the woods, even in the

00:35:12.340 Lone Star State here on

00:35:13.580 the day after we

00:35:15.160 celebrated the Battle of

00:35:16.840 San Jacinto where we

00:35:17.640 won our independence,

00:35:18.460 we're thinking about

00:35:19.020 becoming dependent again

00:35:20.100 and that's the wrong

00:35:20.920 move in our opinion.

00:35:23.220 Todd, thank you very

00:35:23.800 much.

00:35:24.080 I really appreciate your

00:35:25.120 free market attitude

00:35:27.160 and your aversion to

00:35:29.880 government, state, local,

00:35:32.120 federal, or whatever,

00:35:33.100 getting involved in

00:35:34.060 making free market

00:35:34.860 decisions.

00:35:35.720 Keep it up.

00:35:36.640 If there's anything we

00:35:37.380 could do to help you,

00:35:38.160 you just let us know.

00:35:39.760 Glenn, you're the

00:35:40.320 best.

00:35:40.660 Thanks a bunch for

00:35:41.360 letting me be on.

00:35:42.160 You bet.

00:35:42.960 You bet.

00:35:43.460 Todd Staples.

00:35:44.160 We're going to talk

00:35:44.620 to the governor of

00:35:45.260 Texas here in a little

00:35:45.980 while.

00:35:46.280 We also have a really,

00:35:48.740 really great guest.

00:35:49.600 One of Stu's, I think,

00:35:51.060 kind of heroes, if I'm

00:35:52.860 not overstating here,

00:35:54.620 Stu, Matt Ridley, a

00:35:57.260 really deep thinker from

00:35:58.740 Great Britain who is 0.90

00:36:00.800 somebody who is a

00:36:04.160 question, he questions

00:36:05.580 authority all the time.

00:36:06.860 So we've got some

00:36:07.500 questions for him coming

00:36:09.220 up in just a little

00:36:10.300 while.

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00:37:12.760 Tonight at 9 p.m.

00:37:13.360 Eastern on Glenn TV, the

00:37:15.360 coronavirus led to a

00:37:16.740 devastating shutdown of

00:37:17.940 our economy and our way of

00:37:19.440 life.

00:37:20.220 But who drafted the agenda

00:37:21.460 for our response?

00:37:23.060 Glenn reveals how a

00:37:24.180 group of global elite

00:37:25.160 prepared for a future

00:37:26.220 coronavirus pandemic just

00:37:28.180 months before China reported

00:37:29.840 its first case.

00:37:31.100 Glenn asks the questions

00:37:32.060 the media and big tech

00:37:33.140 don't want you to hear.

00:37:34.700 Event 201, the

00:37:36.180 coronavirus war game.

00:37:37.960 9 p.m.

00:37:38.520 Eastern tonight at

00:37:39.640 blaze tv dot com slash

00:37:41.040 Glenn.

00:37:41.900 This is the Glenn Beck

00:37:43.520 program.

00:37:58.180 This is the Glenn Beck

00:38:04.700 program coming up.

00:38:07.980 We have Matt Ridley.

00:38:09.900 He's from England.

00:38:11.240 He is a guy who is

00:38:12.940 debunked so much.

00:38:15.060 Let me just give an

00:38:15.740 article that he wrote in

00:38:17.460 Aesop's fable about the

00:38:18.840 boy who cried wolf.

00:38:19.800 The point of the tale is

00:38:21.060 that eventually there is a

00:38:22.200 wolf, but the boy was not

00:38:23.660 believed because he had

00:38:24.660 given too many false alarms.

00:38:25.840 In my view, COVID-19

00:38:27.800 coronavirus is indeed a

00:38:29.840 wolf, or at least it has

00:38:31.560 the potential to be one 0.70

00:38:32.980 coming from you.

00:38:35.520 A friend said to me the

00:38:36.400 other day, that's scary.

00:38:37.760 I'm known as an

00:38:38.600 obsessive and serial

00:38:40.000 debunker of false alarms.

00:38:41.800 I've been at it for almost

00:38:42.940 40 years since I realized

00:38:44.380 as a science journalist in

00:38:45.700 the 1980s that acid rain was

00:38:47.460 being wildly overblown as a

00:38:49.220 threat to forest.

00:38:49.980 I was right.

00:38:50.920 The skepticism has served

00:38:51.960 me well. 0.83

00:38:52.860 I didn't believe that mad cow

00:38:54.200 disease would kill hundreds

00:38:55.240 of thousands, as some

00:38:56.240 experts were claiming.

00:38:57.700 In the end, 177 died.

00:38:59.580 Likewise, I refused to

00:39:00.680 panic over bird flu, swine

00:39:02.180 flu, SARS, or Ebola.

00:39:04.040 I set out to debunk

00:39:05.300 exaggerated claims about

00:39:06.740 population explosion, peak

00:39:08.380 oil, peak gas, nuclear

00:39:09.840 winter, the ozone hole,

00:39:11.560 pesticides, species,

00:39:13.120 extinction rates.

00:39:14.760 I mean, the list goes on

00:39:16.420 and on and on and on.

00:39:18.460 He said, so it is my job

00:39:21.620 to debunk these things.

00:39:22.980 This is not an imaginary

00:39:25.000 hobgoblin, as he calls it.

00:39:27.720 We're going to talk to him

00:39:28.940 about the numbers.

00:39:29.820 I want to talk to him about

00:39:31.300 the NIH or the NHS, the

00:39:35.540 National Health Service in

00:39:38.100 Great Britain.

00:39:41.320 I mean, it's, is it

00:39:43.840 socialized medicine?

00:39:45.260 Is it everything that they're

00:39:46.420 saying at the BBC and

00:39:48.120 and everybody is claiming

00:39:49.900 or is American free

00:39:52.640 market health better?

00:39:54.540 Even though we don't have

00:39:55.900 a real free market.

00:39:57.220 That's all coming up.

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00:42:41.840 I've been watching the BBC,

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00:42:51.820 things when it comes to their

00:42:52.880 health care system, how they are

00:42:55.120 just not allowing any private

00:42:59.180 industry to make tests.

00:43:02.040 We screwed it up at the beginning

00:43:04.240 because we weren't letting private

00:43:06.020 industry help on the tests.

00:43:08.000 CDC wanted it all.

00:43:09.880 Well, we finally opened it up for

00:43:11.660 everybody else, and now it looks

00:43:13.100 like we've got enough tests.

00:43:14.700 Great Britain won't do it.

00:43:17.080 We want to talk a little bit about

00:43:18.380 the things that are true and not

00:43:20.580 true, the things about the

00:43:22.820 socialized medicines and also the

00:43:26.820 free market, which we don't really

00:43:28.480 have here, but we're closer to a

00:43:30.680 free market with a guy who is known

00:43:33.460 to question everything.

00:43:35.820 Big fans of our next guest,

00:43:39.200 Matt Ridley.

00:43:39.920 Stu raves about this guy all the

00:43:42.620 time, and I remember going,

00:43:44.820 holy crap, maybe this is something 0.66

00:43:46.480 really frightening. 0.98

00:43:48.160 When Stu came in and said,

00:43:50.240 Matt Ridley, he just said we should

00:43:52.820 be concerned about coronavirus

00:43:54.560 because he never is concerned about

00:43:58.880 these things.

00:43:59.580 His job is to debunk them.

00:44:01.840 We talk to him in one minute.

00:44:04.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:09.420 All right, pretty soon we're, I think,

00:44:11.520 going to be going back to work unless

00:44:12.920 we listen to the pinheads at the WHO

00:44:15.040 who say, but we're going to be like

00:44:16.600 this for months.

00:44:19.140 No, I don't think there will be

00:44:20.520 anything left if we're like this for

00:44:22.020 months, but maybe that's just me.

00:44:23.820 We'll get out into the world again

00:44:25.580 and we'll be going places and doing

00:44:27.160 things that we used to frequent all

00:44:28.820 the time.

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00:45:22.720 Get it now on Amazon or wherever books

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00:45:30.060 Matt Ridley is the author of many books.

00:45:32.740 His latest is How Innovation Works.

00:45:35.100 It comes out on May 19th.

00:45:38.260 We hope to have him back on to talk

00:45:40.360 about that book a little later on.

00:45:43.780 He can be found at RationalOptimist.com.

00:45:48.160 Matt, welcome to the program.

00:45:49.680 Great to have you.

00:45:53.020 Glenn, great to be on your show.

00:45:55.500 Yeah, thank you very much.

00:45:57.020 All right, can we just start with,

00:45:58.540 first of all, how are you feeling about

00:46:00.840 the coronavirus now?

00:46:04.060 I mean, you came out in, I think, in

00:46:06.180 March and said, I think this could be

00:46:09.460 real.

00:46:10.700 How are you feeling about the

00:46:11.900 predictions of it and where we're

00:46:13.520 headed?

00:46:17.180 Well, I'm still, I still think it's

00:46:19.980 pretty scary.

00:46:20.840 I still think we've got a long way to

00:46:22.020 go. 0.99

00:46:22.300 It's going to kill a lot of people.

00:46:24.500 But I think we are likely to crack

00:46:27.060 this problem, to solve it, to find a

00:46:29.360 way out of it, whether it's a vaccine

00:46:30.660 or a cure.

00:46:31.840 At the moment, I think the therapies,

00:46:33.460 the cures are looking more promising

00:46:34.760 than the vaccines in short order.

00:46:36.400 And even if it's just an app that

00:46:39.560 tells you on your phone when you've

00:46:41.240 come close to somebody, you've had it,

00:46:42.840 plus a lot of testing so that we can

00:46:44.820 really do the contact tracing, then I

00:46:47.100 think we can we can gradually solve the

00:46:48.720 problem.

00:46:49.000 We may have to live slightly differently

00:46:50.640 for a few months.

00:46:52.220 But I'm optimistic that we will get

00:46:54.080 through this without a huge death toll.

00:46:56.360 But it's already quite a big death toll.

00:46:58.340 And it is a terrible blow to the world

00:47:00.340 economy.

00:47:00.740 So how do you feel we have balanced

00:47:04.160 the the death toll and the the world

00:47:07.940 economy?

00:47:08.540 I mean, there is a there is a tipping

00:47:10.340 point that you start to do damage that

00:47:14.320 just is going to cause even more death

00:47:16.860 in the long run if you don't have some

00:47:19.460 commerce going on.

00:47:20.600 How where do you think that?

00:47:23.000 Well, what's the line that you would be

00:47:25.140 looking for the trip wire to be able to

00:47:27.340 open things back up?

00:47:30.740 Well, I think you know, if you strangle

00:47:36.160 somebody and then you take your hands

00:47:38.600 off their throat, they're fine as long

00:47:41.120 as it's only been 30 seconds.

00:47:43.080 If it's been three minutes, then they're

00:47:44.820 not fine.

00:47:46.620 And somewhere in the region of, you

00:47:51.180 know, three weeks of lockdown is OK, but

00:47:53.540 six weeks may not be or 12 weeks may not

00:47:57.920 be.

00:47:58.480 I worry that we're getting close to the

00:48:00.200 point where we've got to find a way out

00:48:01.740 of this lockdown.

00:48:02.440 Otherwise, a lot of businesses are going

00:48:03.780 to go bust.

00:48:04.340 A lot of people will have lost their

00:48:05.380 jobs.

00:48:06.060 A lot of the economy will never come

00:48:08.120 back unless we do that in the next

00:48:10.740 few weeks.

00:48:11.580 So in this country, we're locked down

00:48:14.040 for another three weeks from a few days

00:48:16.540 ago.

00:48:16.840 So two and a half weeks from now.

00:48:18.460 But we haven't got a plan for how to ease

00:48:21.880 the lockdown.

00:48:22.460 It can't be all at once.

00:48:23.940 We realize that we can't have football

00:48:25.320 games and boxing matches with people

00:48:28.020 watching and all that.

00:48:29.600 But if you get schools back, you get some

00:48:31.640 small businesses back, you get shops

00:48:33.220 working again, you got people doing

00:48:34.780 sensible things.

00:48:35.720 You've got you've got the summer

00:48:37.380 sunshine, which is going to help a little

00:48:38.900 bit coming along, etc.

00:48:41.000 Then I'm pretty sure that we can rescue a 1.00

00:48:44.420 good chunk of the economy and see us bounce

00:48:46.220 back.

00:48:47.800 But we've got to do it pretty soon.

00:48:49.360 I think we've passed the point where we're

00:48:50.900 doing more harm with the lockdown than the

00:48:53.320 virus is doing.

00:48:54.240 And that's partly, of course, because we've

00:48:55.400 got on top of the virus.

00:48:56.660 We have slow.

00:48:57.360 Right.

00:48:57.980 Right.

00:48:58.820 You know, so what looks like what looks

00:49:01.420 like disaster is in a way success, if you

00:49:05.220 see what I mean.

00:49:06.580 Yes, I do.

00:49:07.340 So are you concerned about a rebound here

00:49:10.660 in America?

00:49:11.160 There are everybody's talking about, you

00:49:13.840 know, there's there really seems to be

00:49:15.200 only two camps the way the media is

00:49:17.700 portraying it.

00:49:18.920 But it's not true.

00:49:19.780 But it's the I don't care if anyone dies.

00:49:22.540 I want money or I want to keep the economy

00:49:26.780 closed for 18 months for everybody's safety.

00:49:29.660 But that's not realistic.

00:49:31.340 Either of those are realistic.

00:49:33.000 But we're being told by those who want to

00:49:36.320 keep us in lockdown that, you know, there

00:49:38.840 could be a real bad rebound if we open up

00:49:41.940 too fast.

00:49:42.560 And I think that's reasonable.

00:49:43.980 But how do we know what too fast is?

00:49:47.200 And are you concerned about a rebound?

00:49:49.520 Yeah, I think that what we know, I mean, I

00:49:53.240 think you're right.

00:49:53.820 The rebound is possible if we open up too

00:49:55.780 fast.

00:49:56.840 On the other hand, we can't keep the lockdown

00:49:59.100 going so long that we don't risk a rebound

00:50:02.260 at all, because during the lockdown, we're not

00:50:05.100 creating herd immunity.

00:50:06.640 You know, we're not getting enough people

00:50:07.940 exposed to the virus for it to be able to slow

00:50:10.300 down the spread. 0.98

00:50:12.160 So the end of the lockdown has to come with

00:50:17.440 the help of technology, particularly diagnostic

00:50:19.640 testing and tracing, but also better treatment.

00:50:23.560 And I think, you know, if we can just get it

00:50:26.180 so that people are not going to die when they

00:50:27.720 go to hospital because we worked out how to

00:50:29.260 cure them, then I think we can, as it were, take

00:50:32.140 the pain of people catching it, not at a high

00:50:35.560 rate, but with a moderate rate allowed by

00:50:38.420 contact tracing and social distancing and all

00:50:41.500 those sort of things.

00:50:42.580 So I think that's the way to think about it is

00:50:44.560 a slow easing of the lockdown so that the

00:50:47.660 rebound is copable with, so that the health

00:50:50.100 services can cope with the rebound when it

00:50:51.900 comes.

00:50:53.140 We're talking to Matt Ridley, author of How

00:50:56.880 Innovation Works.

00:50:58.080 He's from London, thus the delay in our

00:51:02.360 conversation.

00:51:04.120 Let me change the subject just for one quick

00:51:06.880 question here.

00:51:07.980 Why is it that in the UK you would put the word

00:51:14.460 the before car, like, hey, get into the car, but

00:51:18.400 you don't use the word the before the word

00:51:20.940 hospital.

00:51:21.940 I don't get it.

00:51:22.900 I want to know.

00:51:25.920 I just noticed that.

00:51:27.620 Yeah.

00:51:27.740 You always say, let's go to the hospital and we

00:51:29.800 always say, let's go to.

00:51:30.640 Yeah.

00:51:31.400 Don't we?

00:51:31.940 Right.

00:51:32.680 I don't know.

00:51:33.560 It's weird.

00:51:34.300 Let's go to the restaurant.

00:51:35.500 If we're going to start to accuse each other of

00:51:42.480 mishandling the English language, I'm sure.

00:51:44.960 Okay.

00:51:45.980 Yeah.

00:51:46.460 All right.

00:51:46.920 All right.

00:51:47.420 We'll move on.

00:51:49.300 All right.

00:51:51.000 Let me take you to something that I find also

00:51:54.400 perplexing.

00:51:55.220 Let me let me take you to something I also find more

00:52:03.700 perplexing than the absence of the word the before

00:52:07.260 hospital.

00:52:08.340 And that is I've been watching the BBC and I've been

00:52:13.980 seeing the private industry screaming.

00:52:16.900 Please let us help with testing and you for some reason

00:52:23.460 will not allow the the private sector to help.

00:52:28.200 This is what Germany did it the right way. 0.76

00:52:31.020 We didn't even do it the right way.

00:52:32.420 We got bogged down in our governmental, you know, CDC as

00:52:35.960 well.

00:52:36.720 And that's why we screwed up the testing.

00:52:38.880 Germany immediately went to the private sector because, you

00:52:42.460 know, they learned lessons from the past.

00:52:44.160 Uh, why, why is it that England just will not allow the

00:52:50.620 public sector to, to get involved in this?

00:52:55.880 Well, this is a really interesting point and you're

00:52:58.620 absolutely right.

00:52:59.200 The Germans have a decentralized health system with 28

00:53:02.660 different health authorities, each of which is, is going

00:53:05.260 out there and finding whoever can provide it with testing.

00:53:08.000 They don't have their own labs.

00:53:09.440 They don't try and do it in house.

00:53:10.780 And as a result, they got off to a flying start by getting

00:53:13.320 the private sector involved.

00:53:14.760 The U S was slow to do that.

00:53:16.560 And the CDC tried to hold onto a monopoly on the testing and

00:53:20.260 it quickly did a U-turn and realized that wasn't going to

00:53:22.860 work.

00:53:23.640 The UK was even slower.

00:53:25.780 It is now changing.

00:53:28.040 We are now getting the private sector involved, but it's

00:53:30.380 been a shockingly slow process.

00:53:32.780 And, uh, the excuse given by the authorities is that they

00:53:35.960 wanted quality control.

00:53:37.120 They didn't want tests that didn't work being used by

00:53:40.120 people.

00:53:40.380 So they didn't want to order them from people who they

00:53:42.660 couldn't trust.

00:53:43.540 But the real reason,

00:53:45.280 yeah, dislike of, of the private sector.

00:53:49.760 And, and I wrote about this two years ago.

00:53:52.480 I wrote about the hostility of the national health system to, uh,

00:53:57.440 ordering private sector diagnostic tests, um, in a different

00:54:02.240 context.

00:54:02.820 Um, but it's, it's, it's, it's basically saying we don't trust

00:54:07.180 you because you're a for-profit institution and we're not.

00:54:10.840 And that's a shocking way of going on because they buy food and,

00:54:14.500 uh, you know, they don't expect right on a state farm.

00:54:18.320 Um, uh, so it, there's no reason not to go out to the private sector.

00:54:23.140 And as a result, the UK in the middle of March abandoned testing people with

00:54:28.820 symptoms, even people who were getting sick were told, don't go and get tested.

00:54:33.560 Stay at home.

00:54:34.420 Um, uh, we were only able to test the people who were so sick.

00:54:38.280 They got into hospitals and we promised again and again that we would be doing

00:54:43.000 a hundred thousand tests a day and a hundred thousand tests a week or whatever

00:54:46.720 it was.

00:54:47.020 And we kept missing these targets and it's still happening.

00:54:49.900 And I've been talking to some of the testing companies and they have horror

00:54:53.080 stories about the procurement process, about the bureaucratic nature of it.

00:54:57.180 So I feel very, uh, concerned about this.

00:55:00.440 I think we we've mishandled it, that aspect of it.

00:55:02.880 And we're about to do it again because with respect to personal protective

00:55:07.180 equipment, PPE, um, we are being told that no, the public should not use face

00:55:13.220 masks.

00:55:13.880 And that is now in defiance of the world health organization advice as well as

00:55:17.280 most other countries.

00:55:18.540 And the cat was let out of the bag yesterday when it emerged that the reason

00:55:22.760 for this advice was because they were worried that if the public bought face

00:55:26.500 masks, there wouldn't be enough face masks for the doctors and nurses.

00:55:30.580 Well, they did that.

00:55:31.360 They did this to us here in America.

00:55:33.600 Uh, they, they did this to us in America and it was, it was astonishing.

00:55:39.020 And as soon as we had enough face masks for the hospitals, that for the

00:55:42.980 hospitals, um, we, we immediately turned around and all the press said, Oh, you

00:55:47.840 know what?

00:55:48.140 They do work for the general public.

00:55:50.380 We knew it in the beginning that they were lying to us.

00:55:53.380 It's, uh, it's astounding that you're going through this now.

00:55:56.400 I agree.

00:55:59.820 And, and, uh, you know, this is one of the things that we have to revisit at the

00:56:03.200 end of this, because I mean, of course it's not perfect to put something over

00:56:06.600 your face, but it's bound to be better than, you know, um, coughing out, uh,

00:56:12.780 droplets of virus.

00:56:14.580 So the, the, the last thing I want to talk to you about, uh, Matt, and we really

00:56:19.580 appreciate having you on.

00:56:20.840 We're, we're big fans.

00:56:22.140 Stu, you have to say hello to Stu because he just, he reads everything that you

00:56:26.180 write.

00:56:27.080 Um, so say hi, Stu.

00:56:29.040 Hello, Matt.

00:56:29.980 Hi, Stu.

00:56:30.900 Great to talk to you.

00:56:33.000 And I, and I will say, uh, I'm very excited for the new book and the rational

00:56:36.720 optimist.

00:56:37.300 I consider it a foundational book in the way I think about the world.

00:56:40.160 It is a, it's an incredible book and it's something that if you haven't read, you

00:56:43.380 should go out and get right away.

00:56:47.060 Um, thank you very much.

00:56:48.220 So the last end of that book, which go ahead, I was just going to say, right at

00:56:54.720 the end of that book, I say, look, it's going to be a great century.

00:56:57.640 Everything's going to go fine, but of course I could be wrong.

00:57:00.460 There could be global flu pandemics.

00:57:03.060 I said, I would love to talk to you, uh, further.

00:57:09.740 If you have time, um, you know, on a, on another day about what the world is going

00:57:15.640 to look like and how we're, I mean, I know that, you know, the famous Fabian, the

00:57:22.140 socialist window, uh, mold, the, uh, mold the world closer to your heart's desire.

00:57:26.940 This is the kind of thing where people are molding the world.

00:57:30.440 Um, and we don't seem to be thinking that way.

00:57:33.120 We just all want to go back to normal.

00:57:34.580 No, wait, there's some things that maybe this provides opportunity on.

00:57:39.340 For instance, getting rid of a lot of regulation to get us back up on our feet, uh, faster.

00:57:46.320 Uh, but I'd like to talk to you about that, um, later.

00:57:49.080 I, I, I want to ask you this, uh, one last question.

00:57:52.300 Uh, we could not get how Boris Johnson was treated.

00:57:57.720 No matter how many people we called, no matter what we did, no one in the press in the UK,

00:58:04.400 nobody in the press here was, uh, allowed to see.

00:58:08.420 And my theory is because private doctors were probably called and involved.

00:58:14.100 Do you, do you find that to be reasonable or, or not?

00:58:19.160 Um, I don't think so.

00:58:23.840 I think it's, it's, it's a, uh, perhaps surprising cultural difference that he's not our head of

00:58:31.780 state.

00:58:32.120 He's just head of government.

00:58:33.700 Um, and, uh, in, in that sense, he's not so quite so much public property for the media

00:58:41.280 when it comes to personal life.

00:58:43.000 We have, I think in the media in the UK just held the line on medical issues.

00:58:50.680 So, I mean, I remember I was a reporter in Washington in the 1980s and, um, I remember,

00:58:55.920 you know, these press conferences about the insides of Ronald Reagan's intestines.

00:59:00.460 Um, you know, which was surprising to me at the time.

00:59:04.700 Um, uh, so I think it's, it's, it's, uh, as it were, uh, by the media rather than,

00:59:13.000 and some sinister reason why they don't want to tell us because it's a story that would

00:59:17.200 embarrass the national health service, but I might be wrong about that.

00:59:20.860 I, I personally don't know, know anything.

00:59:22.940 I mean, I know Boris, he's an old friend, but I've not, of course, spoken to him during

00:59:26.860 this.

00:59:27.400 And, um, uh, he, he was extremely ill.

00:59:30.760 We know that.

00:59:31.500 And it was a very, very worrying time for those of us who greatly admire him, uh, and,

00:59:37.440 uh, um, uh, for everybody else too, because he, you know, he is the leader of our,

00:59:41.880 of, uh, government and our country.

00:59:43.820 Uh, and we are a bit leaderless at the moment.

00:59:46.180 We are waiting for him to get better enough to be able to, to particularly lead us into

00:59:50.700 the exit from lockdown.

00:59:52.640 Um, so we need him better, uh, quickly.

00:59:55.520 Um, we were told that he was not put on a ventilator, that he didn't get that bad, but

01:00:00.800 we now know from other reports that ventilators seem to be not helping.

01:00:05.820 Indeed, they might even be making things worse for some patients.

01:00:08.620 Uh, so perhaps he was not put on a ventilator because they realized that it might make it

01:00:14.280 worse.

01:00:16.260 Matt, thank you so much.

01:00:17.560 The author of how innovation works.

01:00:20.060 Um, you can find him at, uh, mattridley, uh, dot com or the rational optimist.com.

01:00:26.180 Look for his blog and is, uh, his latest book coming out next month.

01:00:29.920 Thank you so much, Matt Ridley.

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01:02:20.140 You play that is raising authoritative information.

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01:05:31.780 Welcome to the program.

01:05:33.000 What I'm about to tell you is, uh, going to be banned most likely on Facebook and, uh,

01:05:39.340 Twitter and YouTube and every place else because it goes against the WHO.

01:05:44.600 But three weeks ago, I called for a full audit of the WHO.

01:05:48.380 At this point, you know about their assisted cover up with the overlords of the Chinese communist 0.78

01:05:53.620 party, uh, to try to hide the fact that China is directly responsible for the coronavirus

01:06:00.040 pandemic.

01:06:01.240 President Trump has rightly halted all us funding to the WHO until we can find out what

01:06:07.500 the heck is going on over there.

01:06:09.320 Who's involved?

01:06:10.580 How deep is this?

01:06:12.200 I don't see the media asking any questions of any kind of substance.

01:06:17.040 After Trump cut funding, the head of the WHO accused the president of politicizing the

01:06:22.500 coronavirus, but the media as usual refuses to look into the political relationship between

01:06:27.940 the head director, uh, Ted Rose, uh, of the WHO and the Chinese comedy, uh, communist party.

01:06:35.280 Now, let me give you a quick recap of what we were able to find it just a few weeks ago.

01:06:39.980 All of it.

01:06:40.700 I revealed on blaze TV.

01:06:42.560 If you're a subscriber, it can still be found on demand.

01:06:45.300 It's really important.

01:06:46.860 Ted Rose is the first WHO director to not have a medical degree.

01:06:51.200 He's actually an Ethiopian politician.

01:06:53.520 Now I could be nice and start with, he was the Ethiopian minister of health, but that's

01:06:59.800 not where he was lately.

01:07:01.020 And I'm going to get back to his posting as the minister of health here in a second.

01:07:04.620 But his last job was the, with the Ethiopian government.

01:07:08.280 He was their minister of foreign affairs.

01:07:10.480 He was basically their Mike Pompeo.

01:07:12.480 He was also the chairperson of the executive council of the African union.

01:07:17.140 It is widely reported now that China has an intense connection with the, uh, the, uh,

01:07:22.880 past couple of decades with Africa, very specifically in Ethiopia, which has been dubbed China's

01:07:29.880 dream in Africa.

01:07:31.440 So exactly one month, one year ago, this month, Ethiopia hosted its second belt and road summit.

01:07:39.680 Now belt and road is China's strategy to dominate all international trade. 0.96

01:07:44.280 Apple and Samsung used to be the most popular phone companies in Ethiopia until China moved

01:07:50.040 in.

01:07:50.480 Now it's the Chinese phone maker techno.

01:07:53.460 The Chinese presence in Ethiopia is staggering. 0.96

01:07:56.580 And we went through it on blaze TV.

01:07:58.800 The Chinese construction companies are building structures all over the country.

01:08:03.360 They fully funded a $47 million rail system and over 30,000 miles of roads.

01:08:08.460 They proved, uh, 70% of the funds for another railroad, uh, that, uh, links Ethiopia to neighboring

01:08:16.380 countries at a pot, uh, at a cost of $3.4 billion.

01:08:20.820 The Chinese investment in Ethiopia is growing at a rate of 52% a year, still growing.

01:08:26.520 That's a high price tag.

01:08:28.620 How is Ethiopia ever going to pay that back? 1.00

01:08:31.100 Well, the answer is they can't in cash.

01:08:33.720 Since the year 2000, Ethiopia owes China over $12 billion.

01:08:39.180 That's half of their entire external debt owed to the Chinese communist party.

01:08:43.800 They have no way of ever repaying it, at least not with cash. 0.71

01:08:48.140 No one in the media will ask these questions and making even more ridiculous.

01:08:53.240 Uh, this whole situation is the fact that China has a track record for buying influence in

01:08:59.340 international organizations within the UN, an official within the white house recently told

01:09:04.700 radio free Asia that China's foreign investment in places like Ethiopia and Africa is part of a plan

01:09:10.780 to quote reshape the international system to accommodate its political and economic interests.

01:09:17.320 They go on quote in service of this strategy.

01:09:21.620 China has consistently sought to trade financial incentives for votes, offering bribes and canceling

01:09:28.140 debt for countries that support them.

01:09:31.040 Now, the Washington Post recently reported that China forgave, uh, Cameroon's debt just

01:09:36.520 one month before they withdrew their country's candidate to head the UN's food and agriculture

01:09:42.020 organization.

01:09:43.180 China also threatened to cut off exports from multiple countries in South America.

01:09:48.060 If they didn't back their candidate to head the FAO, guess who now sits at the head of

01:09:54.120 that UN organization?

01:09:55.340 Yes, the distinguished gentleman from China.

01:09:58.980 So why is it suddenly out of bounds to notice the same mafia style tactics from China directed

01:10:04.340 at the WHO in 2017, the WHO director shocked the world when he announced that he was naming

01:10:11.680 President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a WHO goodwill ambassador.

01:10:18.400 Mugabe, you know, as in the ruthless human rights, abusing land grabbing, hyperinflation inducing,

01:10:25.300 dictator.

01:10:26.300 Oh, and you can also tact Marxist, Leninist and Maoist to that impressive resume.

01:10:32.300 So why the heck did the WHO, more importantly, their director, think this was even a remotely

01:10:39.020 good idea?

01:10:40.780 Well, it all makes sense.

01:10:43.160 If you see that China loved themselves some Mugabe, he was helping China move into Africa. 0.82

01:10:50.120 They had strong ideological ties.

01:10:52.840 Marx, Mao, Lenin, the current president, Xi Jinping and Mugabe, all of them together.

01:11:00.580 That's one heck of a party.

01:11:02.000 The Washington Post reported that the WHO director's decision to honor Mugabe was speculated

01:11:09.500 as, quote, a payoff to China, which worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help Tedros

01:11:15.740 defeat the United Kingdom's candidate for the WHO job, David Nabarro.

01:11:21.100 Tedros's victory was also a victory for Beijing, whose leader, Xi Jinping, has made public his

01:11:27.820 goal of flexing China's muscle around the world. 0.79

01:11:32.100 Really?

01:11:33.400 This is the guy that everyone in the world, including our media, is claiming is acting in

01:11:38.280 good faith when he covers up for China over the coronavirus.

01:11:42.760 Not only did China have a deep ideological link with Mugabe in Zimbabwe, they also have

01:11:49.020 a deep ideological link to the WHO director himself.

01:11:53.060 Again, you won't get this information anywhere.

01:11:57.800 What do I mean by that?

01:11:59.600 Well, the government that he used to serve in Ethiopia are Marxist-Leninists.

01:12:06.600 In fact, he wasn't just part of it.

01:12:09.520 He's a member of and served both as health minister and foreign minister in the Ethiopian

01:12:16.560 Tigray People's Liberation Front.

01:12:19.780 Oh, I love them liberation fronts.

01:12:22.420 It's a radical socialist movement that was so violent that they were officially designated

01:12:28.960 a terror group.

01:12:30.920 Some of their highlights include forced displacements and land seizures, torture, which include, and

01:12:38.480 I'd like to quote here, prisoners were raped, tied to trees, held with animals, had water

01:12:45.440 bottles hung from their genitals and their fingernails pulled out, and a slew of other human rights

01:12:51.340 abuses. 0.72

01:12:52.880 But that's what you get from Marxist revolutionaries.

01:12:55.880 I know what you shouldn't expect.

01:12:58.920 You shouldn't expect one of their members to become the director of the WHO.

01:13:04.640 But what do you know?

01:13:05.600 China saw a friend in both Tedros and his Marxist government buddies.

01:13:09.700 They probably saw talent they could use when Tedros was allegedly caught covering up epidemics when

01:13:16.120 he was the minister of health.

01:13:17.740 I told you I would get back to that.

01:13:20.560 Outbreaks of cholera were instead classified under him as, quote, acute watery diarrhea.

01:13:27.240 Despite the fact that outside experts tested stool samples and, lo and behold, it was cholera, he said it wasn't.

01:13:36.440 The Washington Post reported back in 2016 that certain European officials were lobbying hard to keep the words

01:13:43.780 cholera and Ethiopia out of any conversation.

01:13:47.620 Ah, sure.

01:13:48.980 Well, this kind of talent could be used by China.

01:13:51.220 He appeared to have experience covering up epidemics, and he's not only a member of cover-up, he also is a Marxist

01:14:00.400 who is tied into a Marxist-Leninist-terrorist political party.

01:14:07.220 Wow.

01:14:08.100 He was actually one of the nine executive members of the Politburo, so he knows how China works.

01:14:14.800 As Ethiopia's foreign minister, he helped China move into his country.

01:14:18.520 In fact, let me quote a Facebook post from him.

01:14:23.540 This is something that he posted in 2015.

01:14:26.940 Under the Go Global Program of Janna, we expect increased Chinese investment flow to Ethiopia.

01:14:34.540 The eight industrial parks identified throughout Ethiopia, some already under construction,

01:14:39.340 will facilitate the migration of Chinese companies to Ethiopia.

01:14:42.680 He even wrote an op-ed with his Chinese counterpart, one from 2014, entitled A Role Model for Bilateral Ties.

01:14:52.580 This particular article was published in the Chinese Daily, a publication that is owned in its entirety by the Chinese Communist Party,

01:15:00.280 more specifically the publicity department, otherwise known as the propaganda arm of the Communist Party.

01:15:07.540 Now, all of this should be on the front page of every American and Western investigative news outlet in the world.

01:15:17.180 The head of the WHO, who comes from a radical Marxist political party that was dubbed a terrorist organization,

01:15:26.440 who covered up outbreaks when he was the minister of health in his own country,

01:15:33.260 was helped into office by the Chinese government, and has been caught doing favors for China.

01:15:41.720 Now, he's been caught repeating doing exactly the same thing with coronavirus.

01:15:47.680 That's the story.

01:15:50.000 The facts are clear.

01:15:51.640 The WHO director is in with communist China.

01:15:57.480 We must stop listening to the WHO until they clean this mess up.

01:16:05.660 Not a dime should go to them or, quite frankly, the UN until this is fixed.

01:16:13.580 And then after that, we should still think about it.

01:16:16.240 By the way, every word that I said is documented.

01:16:20.480 Go ahead.

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01:18:29.360 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:42.460 Tonight, we are going to tell you about where a lot of these plans that are happening right now all around the world, where they came from.

01:18:52.780 And it's something called Event 201.

01:18:56.560 That monologue, that information that I just gave you was actually on the edit room floor.

01:19:03.840 That exposing China, Mugabe, and the WHO, that wasn't good enough to make it into tonight's special.

01:19:13.420 What I'm going to show you tonight will boggle your mind, and I'm going to be called all kinds of names.

01:19:24.580 I can guarantee you it's going to be gone on Facebook and YouTube.

01:19:28.200 I'll be shocked if this lasts on those platforms.

01:19:33.200 It's why the Blaze TV is so important.

01:19:37.160 But I'm going to show you something that all of this was planned.

01:19:42.460 I think it was back in November or October.

01:19:44.640 I think it might be October.

01:19:47.240 And it's not that they knew this was coming or anything like that.

01:19:51.540 It's that people have been talking about a pandemic for a while and Bill Gates and the UN and George Soros and people like that had the money and they saw an opportunity.

01:20:04.640 Or maybe Bill Gates just really, really cares about saving people, which I think is likely the answer.

01:20:12.380 And they did something about it.

01:20:15.380 They got all of the heads of the banks and the CDC and people from China and all over the world together and said, OK, let's war game for three days, a pandemic and what we should do.

01:20:28.760 So a lot of the plans that we are executing right now came from that conference.

01:20:35.800 The problem with it is, is this conference, they do this from time to time.

01:20:41.420 This is the first time that they added pandemic.

01:20:43.880 It's always been about global warming, but this time they added pandemic and they decided, how could we get our sustainable global warming ideals and ideas through?

01:20:59.260 How can we get the Green New Deal to happen if there is a global pandemic?

01:21:05.600 Now, I'm not just going to show you documents.

01:21:08.160 I'm going to show you the people behind the tables where they are all war gaming this, because this is not a secret.

01:21:16.280 It's not a conspiracy.

01:21:18.080 This is done all the time by the Bill Gates Foundation.

01:21:22.480 It just happens to coincide with this pandemic.

01:21:26.400 So it's not like they're a group of evil people that were plotting and then they came up with the coronavirus.

01:21:32.440 It's none of that.

01:21:34.640 Unfortunately, that's what it will turn into by some people.

01:21:38.300 But that's not what it is.

01:21:40.500 These are people who just saw a problem and decided that they would get their people together and say, OK, what can we do?

01:21:47.300 And can this work to our advantage if we want to change the world?

01:21:52.520 Well, that's what's happening right now.

01:21:54.160 And if you happen to be a global warming person, you're going to love all of this.

01:21:58.640 If you happen to be a big government person that wants more global control and and sustainable development and all of those catchphrases that mean socialism, you're going to be fine with this.

01:22:11.220 If you're not for all of those things, you're going to have a real problem because you will see where all of this comes from.

01:22:18.220 And you will see why the W.H.O. is being held up as the official word because it originated there at that council.

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01:25:48.020 We're skipping our coronavirus update because I think we have a much more important update.

01:25:52.220 We have Governor Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas on with us.

01:25:55.980 He is the 48th governor of Texas and my favorite governor that I have.

01:26:01.120 I've lived all over the country.

01:26:02.220 I think this is this guy is the best I've ever seen a native Texan and the first guy to try to open up a state.

01:26:10.060 Governor, Governor Abbott, how are you, sir?

01:26:14.200 Doing terrific.

01:26:15.440 We are excited about getting Texas open back up, but open in a safe way so that we will continue to protect the safety of everybody and reduce the spread of COVID-19.

01:26:26.220 But we know that we can open up so many businesses in the state of Texas and get people back to working.

01:26:32.440 We can protect both lives and livelihoods at the very same time.

01:26:36.740 So, Governor, I know you have to say those things, but not to this audience, because I hate this.

01:26:44.220 I hate this argument that's going on right now that if you want to open things up, you just want everybody to die because you love money.

01:26:51.220 No, there is a balance.

01:26:52.880 There is a balance.

01:26:53.860 We can't kill the you know, it's like chemotherapy.

01:26:57.920 Us staying at home is chemotherapy.

01:27:00.300 We want it to kill the cancer, but we can't give too much of it or kill the whole body.

01:27:06.080 So what are the tripwires that you are looking at that will allow us to open up more and more?

01:27:14.020 One of the tripwires is making sure that we continue to have a downward trend in the number of people who test positive for COVID-19.

01:27:22.740 We hit our high watermark about 13 days ago on April the 9th.

01:27:28.600 I haven't done the math, but that's about 12 or 13 days ago.

01:27:31.860 And that was the only day in the state of Texas where we had more than 1,000 people test positive.

01:27:36.860 But I will tell you more important than that are the numbers about the number of people who are in hospitals.

01:27:43.600 And that number, even though we've had more people test positive for COVID-19, the number of people in hospitals has remained pretty much flat.

01:27:53.420 And Texas, even though we've had too many people pass away, Texas pretty much has the lowest rate of fatalities related to COVID-19 in the country.

01:28:05.120 And so why do you think that is?

01:28:06.320 You know, it's a great question because the disparity is so wide.

01:28:13.380 We're second best in the nation for the number of recoveries.

01:28:16.540 Let me give these numbers because they are amazing.

01:28:19.040 New York, 989 deaths per million.

01:28:22.400 Over the entire U.S., 131 deaths per million.

01:28:26.560 Texas, 17 deaths per million.

01:28:31.140 Right.

01:28:31.460 And so in one day in New York, there were far more people who lost their lives than we've had during this entire pandemic in the state of Texas.

01:28:43.080 And our goal is to make sure we keep it that way.

01:28:46.880 And here's something important for you and your audience to know.

01:28:50.300 And that is Texans have done a good job in slowing the spread.

01:28:53.560 But it doesn't mean that the coronavirus has departed the state of Texas.

01:28:58.620 As we begin the process of opening up, we must maintain these distancing practices that have led to great success in the state of Texas.

01:29:06.900 Here's the deal.

01:29:08.080 If you've gone grocery shopping or whatever the case may be, you know that you've gone to the store and you've been able to do that without spreading the coronavirus.

01:29:15.560 We want people, as they begin to go to the hair salon, as they begin to go to restaurants, or as they begin to go to a movie theater, whatever they may be doing as we begin to open up businesses, maintain those safe, healthy distancing practices so that we can ensure that we can open up without spreading the coronavirus.

01:29:38.240 So if you see the numbers start to go up again, are we going backwards?

01:29:42.740 Are we going to close things again?

01:29:47.020 Here's what doctors and infectious disease experts have said.

01:29:52.560 And that is, when you open back up, you do need to expect some level of increase in the infection rate.

01:30:00.420 What matters is not so much what the infection rate is.

01:30:03.740 Again, what matters the most is the number of people who are hospitalized and the number of people who are losing their lives.

01:30:10.000 Understand this very important fact, and that is, of the people who have lost their lives, most are, over 50%, are over the age of 75.

01:30:21.420 And what we need to do is we need to protect our most vulnerable population, many of whom are in nursing homes.

01:30:27.980 And so we have stricter standards for nursing homes to make sure that COVID-19 is not being imported into nursing homes.

01:30:34.500 And if we can safeguard our seniors in Texas, we can do a terrific job at minimizing the loss of life.

01:30:41.640 So I'm really concerned, Governor, about our southern border, because Mexico and many Latin American countries are, they have not hit a peak yet. 0.98

01:30:54.940 And it is, I think it's Ecuador, the numbers are off the charts.

01:31:00.040 And there will be a movement, I would think, to come to America, especially Texas, where it's good.

01:31:07.640 I know I would do that if nobody was watching the border, and I need to get my family to someplace safe or get some medical care.

01:31:15.680 What are we planning on doing on the border?

01:31:17.920 They're already, they're calling everybody a xenophobe if you do this.

01:31:21.700 But if there is a crisis on our border, the left is going to pound us on how we're not letting these people in for health care.

01:31:32.560 What are we thinking?

01:31:33.360 No one has let up on watching the border.

01:31:38.880 I stay in contact with the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety that has a high level of involvement of watching the border.

01:31:46.720 We have assigned in the Texas budget 500 Texas Department of Public Safety officers to be involved in border security-related missions.

01:31:56.480 And then on top of that, I have been in conversations with federal leaders about what's going on on the border.

01:32:02.700 And what's happening is cross-border traffic has dwindled to just a trickle right now.

01:32:09.540 It's been a long, long time since we've had as few people coming across the border as there is right now.

01:32:16.040 That said, we will always remain vigilant, making sure that, for one, the laws are applied.

01:32:21.920 But second, we want to make sure that there's not going to be any cross-border importation of COVID-19 into our border counties.

01:32:30.440 So far, it's remained good.

01:32:32.600 But as usual, we're going to stay on top of it.

01:32:36.240 Do you see the schools opening up this fall?

01:32:40.060 Are you concerned about a rebound in a new flu season?

01:32:44.720 Again, all the talk is from all the doctors that there could very well be a rebound until there is a vaccine for this.

01:32:58.880 And what's going to happen, however, between now and the school year, is there will be a medication that will come out that people can take that will treat COVID-19.

01:33:08.360 So right now, if you have COVID-19, there's no FDA-approved drug that will help you be able to take a medication that will help you overcome COVID-19.

01:33:16.680 However, before the school year begins, that should be available in mass scale.

01:33:22.940 And we need to see how well that works, how well it diminishes it.

01:33:27.620 And again, the population that typically goes to school is at lower risk.

01:33:32.860 Our goal is to be able to open schools in the fall, but we simply will not be able to make that call until we get closer to that time period.

01:33:42.540 How are the government's finances here in Texas?

01:33:46.120 I know these states that had these unbelievable retirement programs, they've all been crashing for a long time.

01:33:53.580 And I think they're using this to grab as much federal cash as they can for these collapsing states.

01:33:59.540 How are we financially?

01:34:01.120 Well, listen, our revenues are down for the state.

01:34:06.080 Our revenues, our number one revenue is sales tax revenue, which of course is down.

01:34:11.760 And we also have revenue coming in from oil and gas severance tax, which of course is down.

01:34:18.800 And so our revenues are...

01:34:21.120 Our pensions are not as challenged as what you see in some other states like Illinois, New Jersey, New York, et cetera, California.

01:34:30.280 And so we will not be as challenged in that regard.

01:34:34.200 And so we're going to be okay with regard to our pensions.

01:34:37.640 We need just to weather this immediate storm and then we can figure out where we are on our finances.

01:34:45.820 As you know, as you were kind of talking about in your lead up to it, and that is there's been a tidal wave of financial support coming in from the federal government,

01:34:56.220 some of which is going to the states, some of which is going to local governments, in part to fill holes because of lack of revenue.

01:35:05.100 And we need to see what that will total.

01:35:07.440 As you know, we have a multi-billion dollar rainy day fund in the state of Texas that we will be able to tap into to help address any type of budgetary shortfall.

01:35:18.320 And right now, we simply are not able to figure out the math of what our shortfall may be as we continue to figure out what the cost

01:35:27.380 and the extent to which these costs will be reimbursed by the money coming in from Washington, D.C.

01:35:32.060 I have so many questions I know you have to run.

01:35:35.100 Let me ask one more question, and that is, Texas is, I mean, I moved to Texas because it's the free estate.

01:35:44.040 And I hope we're doing things that we're going to, you know, ease some of the restrictions on businesses so they have an easier time opening back up.

01:35:53.800 But one of the things that has really disturbed me is, for instance, I live in Dallas.

01:35:59.440 Police officers now have the authority to stop people, to check if they are essential workers, or they're just people driving around.

01:36:09.540 What is that?

01:36:11.300 Why can't we drive around? 0.90

01:36:13.240 Don't you think some of these restrictions are ridiculous?

01:36:16.180 Well, by law, when we are in a time of disaster, it's the governor's disaster declaration that has the supremacy power over local disaster regulations.

01:36:33.880 And as a result, for one, under my disaster declaration, you are free to drive around wherever you want to.

01:36:41.160 For another, I'm going to be announcing another declaration that opens up so many businesses across the state of Texas.

01:36:51.120 And that will be the law in the state of Texas.

01:36:54.320 And every county will be required to follow that law.

01:36:57.740 And so we will be injecting a whole lot of freedom.

01:37:00.800 But I will tell you this along the lines of what you're talking about,

01:37:02.820 and that is another thing that happens in disaster declarations is we waive this regulation or that regulation injecting a whole lot more freedom and ease of doing business.

01:37:14.640 And a lot of people are saying, you know what, this has worked so well,

01:37:17.980 we just need to continue on even after this disaster to do away with those regulations

01:37:23.720 and make sure we have even more freedom in the great state of Texas.

01:37:27.000 Right. I'd love to see those and discuss those with the audience, not necessarily with you,

01:37:32.900 but I'd love to see them because that's the direction that we should be going.

01:37:37.680 Governor, thank you very much.

01:37:39.360 Appreciate your time. Appreciate all your hard work.

01:37:41.940 I know this has been a stressful time for you and everybody on the staff,

01:37:45.040 but thank you for the job that you are doing.

01:37:47.900 Governor Greg Abbott.

01:37:48.820 Well, g'day, Glenn. Thank you, Glenn.

01:37:51.020 You bet. Bye-bye.

01:37:57.000 Well, you know, Mother's Day is going to be a lot different this year for a lot of people.

01:38:05.860 You might not be seeing your mom like you normally do.

01:38:08.940 And, you know, it's going to be a difficult time for everybody, I think.

01:38:13.100 Now is not the time to screw up the present for Mother's Day.

01:38:16.180 This is not the year for that.

01:38:20.420 You want to make sure...

01:38:21.220 Because you are toast.

01:38:22.840 You're toast.

01:38:24.100 You forget mom now.

01:38:25.600 Yeah. 1.00

01:38:26.100 You're screwed. 1.00

01:38:27.000 You forget your wife this year, you're dead. 1.00

01:38:30.540 You be in the wood chipper, brother, and no one will come to your rescue.

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01:38:42.420 You can't even do that this year. 1.00

01:38:43.580 You are screwed. 1.00

01:38:44.660 Nope. 1.00

01:38:45.160 Don't let that happen.

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01:40:15.440 Thank you so much for listening.

01:40:17.780 We really appreciate it.

01:40:19.340 Thank you for being here today.

01:40:20.840 Anyway, the special tonight that we're doing at 9 o'clock is really a must-see.

01:40:33.140 I don't think this is going to last on Facebook or anyplace else if anyone decides to cover it.

01:40:41.540 I'd be interested to see if they cover it.

01:40:43.560 If they cover it, it's going to be labeled conspiracy theory and everything else.

01:40:48.080 And I want you to know right up front, we are not saying that this virus was engineered or this is what we're going to show you tonight.

01:40:56.300 It's just people who were concerned about a pandemic, just like George W. Bush was, and prepared.

01:41:03.640 And when the pandemic happened, they were ready with an answer.

01:41:08.920 And unfortunately, I don't agree with their answers.

01:41:12.240 I don't agree with their motives.

01:41:13.820 I don't agree with it's all based on Agenda 2030, which is the next goal.

01:41:22.700 Agenda 21 we exposed.

01:41:24.800 Agenda 2030 and everybody said, oh, it's crazy.

01:41:27.240 And so they dropped it and they went to Agenda 2030.

01:41:30.280 Well, this is Agenda 2030.

01:41:32.620 And it was done with Bill Gates money.

01:41:36.620 And we have it all on videotape.

01:41:39.520 And we're going to show it to you tonight at 9 o'clock.

01:41:41.660 If you want to know where these policies came from and why these policies were put in.

01:41:48.240 Maybe not by even people in the White House.

01:41:51.720 They were handed a folder.

01:41:53.080 Here's what we do.

01:41:54.720 They may not know what is behind the decisions of the recommendations in that folder, but it is global government, socialism and control.

01:42:07.020 We we also got something through a Freedom of Information Act that we're going to be sharing with you in the next few weeks.

01:42:13.680 It's that the tech side is was doing exactly the same thing.

01:42:22.280 And this is a redesigning of our entire society globally.

01:42:28.280 And you must be aware of it.

01:42:30.780 And we're going to take you through it.

01:42:32.180 We'll give you all of the sources.

01:42:33.380 We'll give you all of the raw material.

01:42:36.400 Please be careful on who you listen to on this stuff, because it can easily be tipped.

01:42:42.060 It can be, for instance, Stu, did you see that video yesterday of the president?

01:42:51.360 I'm sorry, of John Roberts in the White House press room.

01:42:56.940 Yes, I did see some of that.

01:42:58.580 Yeah.

01:42:59.680 OK, so this was going around as blockbuster.

01:43:02.780 Look, the whole coronavirus thing is a hoax.

01:43:06.220 And everybody in the press room has already been vaccinated.

01:43:08.880 Well, no, that is those words were said on tape.

01:43:14.800 But those words also struck me as gallows humor.

01:43:20.300 Yeah.

01:43:21.720 And and that's not what was really going on.

01:43:26.660 But people took those words and twisted them to try to convince some people that, see, everybody in the press room knows this.

01:43:34.360 This whole thing is a hoax.

01:43:35.660 Yeah.

01:43:35.840 I mean, it's already been tested.

01:43:37.260 Two things have been vaccinated.

01:43:38.800 Right.

01:43:38.960 Right.

01:43:39.140 It seems like two things are going on there.

01:43:40.560 One is there.

01:43:41.540 One person is seriously discussing the study from L.A. and Santa Clara, where it looks like maybe more people were effect infected than previously thought, which, you know, which is counterintuitive is a good thing in this particular context, because it gives you a better idea that maybe it's less lethal.

01:43:59.280 On the other side, there's somebody there who's just joking.

01:44:01.460 Right.

01:44:01.540 He's like, oh, yeah, well, we don't care.

01:44:02.720 We've already been vaccinated.

01:44:04.120 You know, you can.

01:44:04.880 I mean, it's certainly the way it comes off to me, you know, and clearly.

01:44:08.120 That's the way that's the exact kind of humor we would use.

01:44:11.780 Totally.

01:44:12.040 I could see that.

01:44:14.200 Well, it doesn't matter. 1.00

01:44:15.280 I mean, let them all die. 1.00

01:44:16.200 We've all got the vaccine. 0.99

01:44:17.660 I mean, that's the kind of stuff we would say.

01:44:20.360 Yeah.

01:44:20.520 It's not maybe, you know, it's, you know, Ronald Reagan got in trouble for this when he was by an open microphone and started talking about bombing Russia or Soviet Union at the time.

01:44:31.900 It doesn't always it's not always a good idea to joke by an open microphone.

01:44:35.340 But it does seem like there is there is an element of truth, though, in the conversation in which, you know, there are these studies that at least show some promise.

01:44:44.580 I mean, I don't know.

01:44:45.940 You know, there's also a real issue with, you know, false negatives and false positives in the study.

01:44:50.960 Yeah.

01:44:51.160 And but it's, you know, you could even say you could even say that he wasn't joking when he said so it was all a fraud or it was all what it was.

01:45:01.180 I think he says it's basically the flu is.

01:45:04.240 Yeah.

01:45:04.380 So this is this is this is all made up.

01:45:06.160 No, no, no, no.

01:45:06.900 This wasn't a fraud.

01:45:07.860 This wasn't perpetrated.

01:45:09.800 You know, maybe the numbers were wrong, but no, this this is the information we had.

01:45:16.220 This is now the new information that we have.

01:45:18.380 This is an ever changing story.

01:45:20.220 This is the Glenn Beck program, American financing, NMLS, one, eight, two, three, three, four, www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org.

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01:46:55.760 One of the things that I think Donald Trump really needs to get a handle on and and make sure that he is out front on this is the PPP.

01:47:08.620 The the mom and pop shops.

01:47:12.960 The the small businesses of America are the ones that provide 48 percent of the jobs in America.

01:47:20.640 And when you have.

01:47:23.180 When you have these huge companies, which I would deem as huge, I mean, you know, if you're a if you're a half a billion dollar company, I think you're big.

01:47:35.640 You know, you're not the pizza place and the pizza place should have equal footing with everybody else when it's coming in line.

01:47:44.600 In fact, I think some of these mom and pops, if we're not if we're not helping the entrepreneur, you will lose the next line of entrepreneurs.

01:47:54.480 And that is what makes us different.

01:47:57.800 You know, you have Fiesta restaurant group.

01:48:00.280 They employ 10,000 people.

01:48:05.460 OK, so they got a loan of 10 million dollars.

01:48:09.920 Now, Fiesta restaurant group.

01:48:11.380 Let me look up what do you let me see if I can jump on here and see what that is.

01:48:16.320 The Fiesta group.

01:48:17.640 No, I just just sends me to their stock and their stock is crashing.

01:48:21.400 It's like a Pollo Tropical, Taco Cabana, several of in that realm.

01:48:27.740 OK, so at least 75 companies that have received the aid were publicly traded and received a combined 300 million dollars in low interest taxpayer based loans.

01:48:40.240 OK, I think these are big businesses, but what are we doing for the little guys?

01:48:49.140 So there's this whole did you see the list of the of the public companies, the big publicly traded companies that were helped out?

01:48:58.860 I've I've seen bits and pieces, some of the companies.

01:49:01.800 Yeah, I mean, you know, I know steak, excuse me, Shake Shack was one we talked about earlier this week and they actually were returning their they gave the money back.

01:49:08.480 Yeah. And it's not like I understand that there's differences.

01:49:12.400 If you're a franchise owner and you own one of these places, you are running a small business.

01:49:16.160 And the concept is, you know, look, I've got a location.

01:49:20.140 I've only employed, you know, 30 or 40 people in this location.

01:49:23.660 Well, I am a small business, just like another small business with that same size.

01:49:26.900 But under that big umbrella, it's definitely not what the average person pictured when they talked about small business loans.

01:49:33.120 And you wonder if there's a better way to go through the larger corporation for some of that stuff.

01:49:38.180 Right. So if McDonald's is getting a small business loan, I have a problem with it.

01:49:42.560 But if my local guy filed with a local bank and he owns a McDonald's, that's totally different.

01:49:49.480 But McDonald's is a corporation should not be standing in line with everybody else because McDonald's is always going to get to the front of the line.

01:49:58.100 You know, so they have an advantage when they go to the front when they are employing so many people.

01:50:03.860 That's not a small business. The local McDonald's is a small business.

01:50:08.980 And if it's locally owned, I understand that Starbucks.

01:50:12.840 If Starbucks goes and files for, you know, a loan is a small business.

01:50:18.000 Excuse me. No, but my local Starbucks is a franchise.

01:50:23.780 That guy only makes money two days out of 30.

01:50:27.340 So he's not going to be able to keep that open.

01:50:31.600 So, yeah, I want to help him keep his doors open, but I don't necessarily want to help Starbucks.

01:50:38.720 Does that make sense?

01:50:39.920 Of course. And that's not what anyone thought of when they talked about this thing.

01:50:45.140 You know, when it was approved, I think everyone recognizes people think of like, OK, I've got a guy.

01:50:51.060 You know, there was a story I heard yesterday of a guy who dumped his life savings into opening a restaurant in January. 0.71

01:50:58.400 That sucks in a major way.

01:51:01.960 And it's like, well, that person, it's totally not their fault. 0.93

01:51:06.120 They didn't do anything wrong.

01:51:08.280 They were asked by the government to go out of business, basically.

01:51:13.580 So, of course, those are the types of people that if we're going to comply with these policies in a short term basis until we can get things restarted and understand this thing and build up our PPE and all those other things,

01:51:23.620 then it makes sense to offer them some sort of compensation to get them through this time so they can hopefully keep their employees employed and everything else.

01:51:32.700 But I will bet you that that guy gets nothing.

01:51:35.420 Well, yeah, I'll bet you that guy goes in for a loan and he doesn't have 12 months of records.

01:51:39.480 Yeah. So he doesn't have any business record to show that he would have succeeded.

01:51:44.760 So I can guarantee you that guy's just out.

01:51:48.120 And that's just one part of it.

01:51:50.120 You know, we know a lot of small business owners across the country that we've dealt with over the years.

01:51:53.640 And so many of them I've heard from that say basically version of the same story, which is if you went to the bank all the time and had a relationship with a specific banker and you did business there all the time,

01:52:06.640 you got in front of the line. If you were a business that was running on cash flow and didn't need loans from the bank all the time.

01:52:13.280 Well, then you didn't have a relationship like that and you were not able to get in line.

01:52:17.520 And a lot of those people got, you know, tossed out of the program.

01:52:20.980 Now they did approve all this new money. Maybe we'll see that get solved here with a second batch.

01:52:26.060 I'm never optimistic with a government program, though.

01:52:28.380 I'm never, never optimistic on that.

01:52:31.480 By the way, who thinks Harvard should get nine million dollars of federal aid?

01:52:37.640 Oh, come on. Harvard.

01:52:40.620 Harvard.

01:52:41.440 They've got a multi Harvard.

01:52:43.020 They have a 30 billion dollar endowment, right?

01:52:45.820 Or no, no, no. It's no, no, no.

01:52:47.440 It's it's 41 billion.

01:52:48.740 Sorry.

01:52:49.420 Forty one billion dollars in their endowment.

01:52:52.840 And they came and had their handout for nine million dollars and they say they can't make it without it.

01:52:59.560 Oh, come on. 0.87

01:53:00.200 Excuse me.

01:53:02.920 That is like that's like Bill Gates coming and saying, I need a bailout.

01:53:07.700 I'm sorry. I need a bailout.

01:53:09.200 You know, Richard Branson is looking for a bailout right now.

01:53:12.120 But at least Richard Branson is putting his island and all of his assets up as collateral.

01:53:18.320 I don't mind if you need a you need to go get a loan and you're willing to put your assets up for collateral and you're a billionaire.

01:53:28.120 OK, well, at least you got skin in the game.

01:53:33.600 Harvard needs 10 million dollars from us when they have 41 billion in their trust fund.

01:53:40.820 I don't think so.

01:53:41.660 I don't think so.

01:53:43.820 I don't think they should be able to run that place just on the interest being generated.

01:53:47.320 Generated from or, you know, the investment income being generated from that.

01:53:53.500 I mean, there's no there's no reason for us to be ever giving them another dime in any circumstance when you have a forty three billion dollar endowment.

01:54:01.460 So the Ivy League is comprised of eight elite private colleges that control endowments with a combined value of over one hundred and forty billion dollars.

01:54:13.720 One hundred and forty billion as of last year.

01:54:17.320 Five of the schools reported operational surpluses of over two hundred million dollars in their last financial statement.

01:54:28.620 And eight of these schools are now set to receive sixty one million dollars from you, from you.

01:54:36.500 Your kids are never going to go to Harvard.

01:54:38.720 Your kids are most likely never going to go to Princeton.

01:54:40.900 They're never going to go to these Ivy League schools.

01:54:43.640 They have one hundred and forty billion dollars in cash reserves right now.

01:54:51.160 And they came and they made two hundred million dollars in profit that they could just put off to the side just last year.

01:55:01.040 And they're crying poor mouth today.

01:55:03.080 Oh, my gosh.

01:55:04.840 Oh, my gosh.

01:55:05.820 I mean, is there no?

01:55:06.760 Well, no, there's not.

01:55:07.700 There's no shame.

01:55:08.940 There's absolutely no shame.

01:55:11.100 Should point out that my kids are smarter than everyone else's kids.

01:55:13.660 So they may very well go to Harvard or Princeton.

01:55:16.680 So to make sure America knows that.

01:55:18.000 I just want you to know, even if my kids were smart enough, I'm not I'm not sending them.

01:55:25.220 No, I'm not kidding.

01:55:26.220 Not especially with this stuff going on.

01:55:28.860 I mean, you know, you see how it turns kids, you know, I don't know, foundations inside out.

01:55:36.960 Almost all colleges seem to do that these days.

01:55:39.860 But there's no need for this.

01:55:41.940 Right.

01:55:42.220 And I think like you look at the people who are legitimately struggling.

01:55:46.560 I talked to a small business owner who said, I am looking at this program.

01:55:50.300 This program will give me about two and a half months or two months of of money to pay my employees.

01:55:57.480 However, it is not a it is not a grant unless I keep them employed for four months.

01:56:05.940 Well, what's the difference here?

01:56:07.660 How do I make up that difference?

01:56:09.020 I can't pay them for four months because you've told me I'm not allowed to make any money.

01:56:13.460 So what am I supposed to do here?

01:56:15.740 I'm already behind.

01:56:17.000 I'm all my reserves are out the window.

01:56:19.300 I've got a couple of weeks left of cash.

01:56:21.300 What am I supposed to do?

01:56:23.060 And that is where, like, you're seeing this thing, I think, start to creep up now, Glenn, in the media where they're doing the same thing they did with the Tea Party, which is talk about these.

01:56:32.620 Oh, yeah.

01:56:33.200 These protesters in this.

01:56:35.040 They're all astroturf.

01:56:36.500 Here's the rich millionaire who also supports them.

01:56:39.040 He's probably behind them, too.

01:56:40.280 And all of this stuff as if there's nobody in America who is feeling the pinch of an entire economy being shut down and now can't run their business, can't pay their bills, can't put food on the table.

01:56:53.380 These people are begging to get back out there.

01:56:56.400 And, look, we may need to keep this closed down for a longer period of time, particularly in certain areas where it's really bad still to this day.

01:57:05.660 The tri-state area is probably the top of that list in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey.

01:57:10.180 But the bottom line is these people are real people who have real jobs and real families, and you're not letting them go to work to earn money to support their actual kids and spouses.

01:57:20.840 That's a massive problem.

01:57:22.280 I'm not surprised they're out there protesting.

01:57:25.180 Would anyone, would anyone have compassion for Google or Apple coming with their handout at this point?

01:57:36.080 No.

01:57:36.400 They've got cash.

01:57:37.700 They're making money hand over fist.

01:57:39.340 Listen to this.

01:57:40.360 Brown University has $4,200,000,000 in endowment.

01:57:46.180 They just got almost $5,000,000 from the United States government.

01:57:50.100 Columbia has $10,950,000,000.

01:57:53.860 They just got $12,000,000 from the federal government.

01:57:57.260 Cornell has an endowment of $7,000,000.

01:58:00.200 They just got $12,000,000.

01:58:02.340 Dartmouth, $5.7 billion in their endowment.

01:58:06.920 They just got $3,500,000.

01:58:08.440 Harvard, $40,000,000,000 in their endowment.

01:58:12.160 They just got $8,500,000,000.

01:58:14.420 University of Pennsylvania, $14,000,000,000 in endowment.

01:58:18.440 They just got almost $10,000,000,000.

01:58:20.980 Princeton has $26,000,000,000.

01:58:23.900 They're getting $2,500,000,000 from the United States.

01:58:27.720 Yale University, $30,000,000,000.

01:58:30.220 They just got $7,000,000,000 from you, the taxpayer.

01:58:35.500 For what?

01:58:36.560 None of these people ever pay taxes.

01:58:39.700 They don't pay taxes.

01:58:41.500 They don't play by the same rules.

01:58:44.000 This is despicable what is happening.

01:58:47.440 Donald Trump needs to hold these corporations and these kinds of institutions accountable.

01:58:54.620 They should not get a single dime, period.

01:59:00.000 All right, let me tell you about a gold line.

01:59:14.160 There was another story out today about gold that I wanted to share with you.

01:59:19.280 And the headline is, The Fed Can't Print Gold.

01:59:26.420 Now, this is from the Bank of America.

01:59:28.980 They've just called gold the ultimate store of value,

01:59:32.500 and they raised the target price of gold in the next 12 months to $3,000.

01:59:37.880 They said because the Fed can't print gold unlike every other asset that they're doing it to.

01:59:44.760 Central banks and governments double their balance sheets and fiscal deficits.

01:59:48.260 We up our $8,000,000 gold target or $8,000,000 gold target from $2,000 to $3,000 an ounce.

01:59:58.760 And while that's not all smooth sailing with a bank warning that a strong U.S. dollar backdrop,

02:00:04.680 falling equity, volatility, blah, blah, blah, China will remain in headwinds.

02:00:10.160 Now, it looks like the central bank lunacy will be the barbaric relic.

02:00:18.900 According to the most clueless people of the 21st century, it only had value in the dollar because it was tradition.

02:00:27.980 The U.S. bank just said that gold is the ultimate store of value.

02:00:32.080 Okay, so who do you believe?

02:00:34.900 Who do you believe?

02:00:36.860 This is the banks now.

02:00:39.440 These are the people.

02:00:40.300 They're advising the banks.

02:00:43.020 Okay.

02:00:43.500 They're saying, hey, we should have more gold because that's real value because our own other arm in the Federal Reserve is just devaluing money.

02:00:55.660 There was another story that came out this week that said money is worthless.

02:00:59.580 That story was in the New York Times.

02:01:01.920 Money, sorry, not worthless, meaningless.

02:01:04.880 It's meaningless.

02:01:06.660 When money is meaningless, it's a very short ride to worthless.

02:01:13.840 You're going to see a strong dollar for a while, and then it's going to crater.

02:01:19.280 Please do your own homework and figure out if gold is right for you and your family.

02:01:25.220 You should have about 10% of whatever you have, I believe, in gold.

02:01:29.920 Don't go crazy, but 10% is usually what's recommended.

02:01:34.660 I think you need to diversify as much as you possibly can.

02:01:39.060 Gold is, let me just quote this again, the ultimate store of value.

02:01:45.000 Goldline.

02:01:45.720 Call them right now.

02:01:47.340 1-866-GOLDLINE.

02:01:48.940 1-866-GOLDLINE or goldline.com.

02:01:52.400 Tonight, at 9 p.m. Eastern on Glenn TV, the coronavirus led to a devastating shutdown of

02:01:58.460 our economy and our way of life.

02:02:00.740 But who drafted the agenda for our response?

02:02:03.620 Glenn reveals how a group of global elite prepared for a future coronavirus pandemic

02:02:07.980 just months before China reported its first case.

02:02:11.600 Glenn asks the questions the media and big tech don't want you to hear.

02:02:15.200 Event 201.

02:02:16.500 The Coronavirus War Game.

02:02:17.980 9 p.m. Eastern tonight at blazetv.com slash Glenn.

02:02:24.300 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

02:02:26.360 So, Chris Cuomo, you know, with his fake coming out party, still has not been addressed

02:02:43.580 by CNN.

02:02:45.760 I don't know how they are handling that internally, but God bless CNN, huh?

02:02:52.980 How are they still in?

02:02:53.940 I loved Elon Musk saying, I can't believe they're still in business.

02:02:57.800 It really is incredible.

02:02:59.100 I mean, like, look, I understand that they're a left-wing, you know, media organization.

02:03:03.000 And we don't expect them to address all of our political concerns.

02:03:06.860 But this is one of your journalists who was violating a quarantine, whose brother is the

02:03:13.040 governor of the state.

02:03:14.040 And you keep letting him interview him on a show as if he's going to be held accountable

02:03:17.180 in any way.

02:03:17.920 And then you have him fake his coming out of the basement as if it's the first time

02:03:22.780 he's been out when it's on record that he was, and he even, by the way, he even disclosed

02:03:28.060 this.

02:03:28.740 Of course, Cuomo said that he got in an altercation with someone on a bicycle about this.

02:03:33.880 This is not okay.

02:03:35.340 And the fact that they have addressed it and just pointed to the video as if nothing was,

02:03:39.060 you know, awry with it is really amazing.

02:03:41.700 I mean, they, the standards are lower than we even expected.

02:03:44.220 That's pretty darn low.

02:03:47.700 That's pretty low.

02:03:49.000 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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