Nearly a third of U.S. apartment renters did not pay their rent in April. The IRS says they are speeding up the checks printing and delivery. The unemployment numbers are out this week. New jobless claims are 6.5 million.
00:00:00.000The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.
00:00:09.440Hello, America, and welcome. It's Thursday. Nearly a third of U.S. apartment renters did not pay rent in April.
00:00:19.640We are now looking at probably the the biggest eviction and biggest mortgage failure in global history.
00:00:30.000Headed our way. The IRS says they are speeding up the check printing and delivery.
00:00:36.320They are ahead of schedule. They said that those who are waiting for cash, it should begin coming early next week for the direct deposit checks.
00:00:46.820Those who have filed electronically in the past with the IRS, you're going to get it electronically deposited right into your bank.
00:00:55.240Others are going to have to wait for as long as a couple of weeks.
00:01:00.720The first paper checks mailed started on April 20th.
00:01:06.320So it's coming. Just not fast enough for some.
00:01:10.860The unemployment numbers are out this week.
00:01:54.940There are three guarantees in life, death, taxes, and your car will break down after the warranty expires when you least can afford to deal with it.
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00:02:08.200I mean, it's never a good time to pay for car repair.
00:02:10.540It's never like, oh, man, and I just got a check from my dead aunt for five grand.
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00:03:58.880It suddenly reversed the gains of underprivileged groups, kills and creates drug addicts, beats and terrorizes women and children in violent now jobless households and more.
00:04:14.280That's probably the the most accurate description of what has happened.
00:04:20.260We are we are in a place that none of us saw coming just a few weeks ago.
00:04:28.060I have been warning since this became serious in China that it was not the actual virus that would would be something that we should worry about.
00:04:40.980It would be the consequences and the the great depression that would come after.
00:06:10.340Google is providing data for states and counties to help governments understand how well stay-at-home orders are working, among other things.
00:06:20.160Google insists the government cannot track you individually.
00:11:26.820We talked about China and what they're doing, where this came from, all of the all of the evidence on how this did come from experimentation in laboratories in Wuhan.
00:11:41.720But one of the worst things we talked about here in the United States was the business ambassador program in Los Angeles.
00:11:49.640Stu, I don't know if you've heard of this.
00:11:51.620This is one of the this one of the worst things I've heard this.
00:11:56.540We are going to so regret everything that we're allowing to happen right now.
00:12:02.860Los Angeles has a business ambassadors program.
00:12:06.860They deploy city workers and volunteers with the mayor's crisis response team to businesses that appear to be out of compliance with the emergency order and with a goal of securing voluntarily compliance.
00:12:23.060If voluntary compliance is not achieved, the ambassadors then just share information with the city attorney and the LAPD for follow up.
00:12:34.580The business ambassadors have visited 540 noncompliant businesses so far.
00:12:41.560144 have received a visit from the L.A. police.
00:12:45.780Businesses are referred to the police for misdemeanor filings.
00:12:54.740And if you know anything at all about history, we are just repeating one of the darkest times in American history.
00:13:02.720In Minnesota, the government has a hotline that social distance warriors can tattle on their neighbors.
00:13:09.600Washington State has a website to report businesses that are violating the stay at home order.
00:13:14.320If you want to, you know, rat on Bob, the neighbor down the street that's having a barbecue that you weren't invited to, you can go to the website.
00:13:22.740They're asking people all over the country.
00:13:25.780One lady in Connecticut got a golf course shut down after she saw people on the golf course.
00:13:32.920And she said people are dying and these people are out on the golf course and the state of Connecticut shut the golf course down because of one lady.
00:13:52.960Rhode Island, the governor there, a Democrat, took the National Guard and had him go door to door with state police doing a search of people's houses.
00:14:32.060What would you say if Donald Trump said we're going to use the National Guard and we're going to go door to door to see if there's anybody.
00:15:45.740Are leading now to millions of people's personal information being available.
00:15:51.220Cyber criminals are having a field day.
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00:18:18.000Anybody who was saying anything bad about the war, anybody who was saying anything bad about the president or America or the American Protective League, they spied.
00:20:48.260We have much better things to do than rat on each other.
00:20:53.680What do you say we all roll up our sleeves and put America back to work?
00:20:59.160Why don't we help each other now and then go back to work in the next few weeks?
00:21:05.240I think there's going to be an explosion of goodwill, an explosion of hard work, an explosion of capital being pounded into our economy if we just keep our head together.
00:31:56.860In this country and in our state, we have a government that is run by, for, and of the people.
00:32:04.000And the people have established national and state constitutions that place specific limits on the role of government in our lives.
00:32:11.180Those limits prevent us from taking draconian measures, much like the Chinese government has done in what we have seen.
00:32:18.740There also is some limits that keep us from taking some of the actions we've seen European governments take that limit citizens' rights.
00:32:27.960Our constitution ensures the citizens' right is protected.
00:32:32.240I agree with the role of the government has set forth in our state and in our national constitution.
00:32:38.220I took an oath to uphold these constitutions.
00:32:41.180The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety.
00:32:45.200They are the ones that are entrusted with expansive freedoms.
00:32:49.540They're free to exercise their rights to work, to worship, and to play, or to even stay home, or to conduct social distancing.
00:32:57.900Since the middle of February, I've been very clear that people need to take personal responsibility for their health and the well-being of their families.
00:33:08.360And our sense of personal responsibility, our resiliency, and our already sparse population density put us in a great position to manage the spread of this virus without needing to resort to some of the measures that we've seen in some of these major cities, coastal cities, and in other countries.
00:33:28.500The calls to apply for a one-size-fits-all approach to this problem in South Dakota is herd mentality.
00:33:36.120My responsibility is to respect the rights of people and the people who elected me, to manage our state operations in a way that reflects the realities of what we have here on the ground in our state.
00:33:53.720I would like to nominate her for governor of Texas.
00:33:57.300I mean, we've been trying to get a hold of Greg Abbott for a while, and I don't know why, but Greg is not coming on the program, the governor of Texas.
00:34:17.060Yeah, I mean, he's left it to the cities, largely.
00:34:18.900And, you know, look, people are doing it anyway.
00:34:20.980I mean, the interesting part about all this is that, you know, we've talked so much about how the government is going to act and the government is going to, what restrictions are they putting on people?
00:34:28.860And people are just doing this because, as the governor here just pointed out, you're responsible for your own safety.
00:57:41.620So we are looking at another 6.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs or are applying for unemployment this week.
00:57:50.340We are probably, right now, Thomas, at another, probably between 12% and 15% unemployment when we see the numbers in the 1st of May.
00:58:01.720And it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better, and they're still talking about four to eight weeks under lock and key.
00:58:11.100The Congress says they want to give more.
00:58:16.320I've been talking to people that are losing their restaurants, are losing everything, have not been able to get in line for a loan because the money is all gone.
00:58:25.680Should the government be making these loans?
00:58:27.840We shouldn't be doing it because we are encouraging the governors to keep doing what they're doing, which is to shut down the economy.
00:58:36.620They're going to end up starving people, the governors are.
00:58:39.080You're already seeing people committing suicides because they can't get medical help or they're locked down.
00:58:45.340The bill that Pelosi wants, she wants a 15% increase in SNAP, $100 billion to local governments, and $150 billion to hospitals, I think.
00:58:54.000So she wants to add another quarter of a trillion to this.
00:58:58.060But the problem, you know, it sounds like it's humane, and the right thing to do is to give all this money away, but it doesn't make the food grow.
00:59:09.480We're going to run out of things that support life on this planet.
00:59:13.820So how do you how do you balance this?
00:59:19.420Because if I, you know, I understand that kind of that to me is critical infrastructure, farm, farming, you know, slaughterhouses, food processing, all of that.
01:00:28.340And we're just pushing these governors to keep doing it.
01:00:31.760If the governors had to make people whole for what they are doing, they would they would start coming up with sensible policy instead of staying stuck on stupid.
01:00:42.720So are there places like New York that should be shut down?
01:00:50.040And that is up to the governor of New York.
01:00:52.480And they that you know, whatever happens there, they have to sustain that in New York.
01:00:56.860Every state, every governor has got different policies.
01:00:59.900Kristi Noem has got it as a policy that's suitable for her state.
01:01:03.500The problem is the feds are proposing one policy.
01:01:06.500If there's a role for government, Glenn, I think it's in getting these masks out there.
01:01:52.260But can you please find out what the tripwires are, Thomas?
01:01:55.280Because no one will give it's all it's all arbitrary.
01:01:58.140I asked Dr. Fauci that question a few days ago.
01:02:01.780He said it was hospital admissions when they start to flatten out.
01:02:05.020But the problem is, as soon as they start to flatten out and they ease off of this mitigation phase and something flares up, they're going to shut it all back down again.
01:02:35.340What distinguishes a truly great real estate agent from merely an adequate one or worse, a bad one is the question that I asked several years ago with a group of real estate agents.
01:02:50.200That are the 500 best real estate agents in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal.
01:02:58.900And I found out in talking to them that there there are some traits.
01:03:02.220There are some things that are the signs of somebody who's going to get the job done.
01:03:07.300So we put this together and we decided to start a company that was just a free service to you.
01:03:12.640If you're looking to buy or sell a house and we'll go out, we'll find the right real estate agents in your area.
01:03:19.300The ones that are going to be the most motivated, the ones who have the best track record, the ones that fit into the parameters of what we found from the 500 best in the country.
01:04:06.960He's a real estate agent out in California, Malibu, Beverly Hills, and he drives a vintage Mercedes Benz, which has, you know, a rag top on it.
01:06:42.240They tell me they'll be out 30 minutes or so, but you're going to have to call for a ride because of the, you know, COVID pandemic thing we're dealing with.
01:09:19.620You know, you can see him out on any given day between Burbank and Beverly Hills, just driving one of his 200-plus cars, you know, classic cars.
01:10:08.360And he's like, oh, no, don't worry about him.
01:10:10.000He took the kids for, like, probably 15 minutes and was driving them around in some of the cool electric cars from the turn of the century.
01:12:47.900I find people that buy in that market are a little different from people that would buy a $500,000 home, let's say.
01:12:57.700You know, I mean, you know, you come across the strangest things.
01:13:01.960It's important to be a diplomat and have an open mind because, you know, we agents, we want to close deals, you know.
01:13:09.640And, you know, in terms of the people, we try not to judge.
01:13:14.560You know, sometimes it can be a little hard not to.
01:13:18.980But, yeah, they're a little different.
01:13:21.420Can you – I mean, I wouldn't want to hurt you in any way.
01:13:25.760So, I mean, feel free to say no on this.
01:13:27.600But is there any – without attaching names or any kind of identifying stuff, is there any strange thing that you would care to share that you have experienced in your 30 years?
01:13:36.340Well, every transaction is different, that's for sure.
01:13:44.260In terms of strange, normally privacy issues, you know, they want to be very private with their life and their lifestyle.
01:13:53.040You know, that could be bringing in massive trees or foliage or building massive walls just for privacy, you know.
01:14:02.000And, you know, you look at them like, okay, I understand your privacy.
01:14:07.220But you sound like you want to – instead of seeing the house from the front, you want to cover the entire thing up where no one can see it from the front, the back, the top.
01:14:17.820I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that, you know, in terms of building.
01:14:21.500I mean, what do you – you might as well live in a cave if that's the case.
01:14:57.840You know that – I mean, there couldn't be – if you had an old car or an old Mercedes especially, there – I mean, there would be – there would be nobody better that you could dream of to stop by than Jay Leno.
01:15:10.280That's what he grew up working on, and that's what got him into cars in the first place with those old Mercedes.
01:17:18.780You know, one of the things that we can do to help each other is to reactivate our 912 project groups.
01:17:30.340And get together and find out how you can help your own community.
01:17:34.080I mean, just the staff of Mercury One jumped in their cars, I think this was last week, and went to Costco and bought a whole bunch of food and essential items.
01:17:45.280And they created these boxes that now are in the trunk of every Irving, Texas.
01:17:52.400That's where we, our studios are, in the back of all of the police patrol cars.
01:17:57.700So, if somebody is on a call for a domestic abuse situation and one of the parents is taken away, the family is stabilized somewhat to make sure that there's food and essentials in the kitchen when that parent is taken away.
01:18:15.400That's just that's just that's just the employees of Mercury One that that did that because of you.
01:18:20.860Mercury One has just earlier this week sent 10,000 PPE level one gowns to the hospitals in New Orleans.
01:18:30.320We are delivering hand sanitizer to police and fire and hospitals.
01:18:36.080The Nazarene Fund is still conducting operations to rescue families in the Middle East.
01:18:41.060There's a lot of adjustments that have had to be made on that.
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01:19:12.220OK, the new book is out and next hour, we're going to kind of get into some of the things that is that is that are coming our way.
01:19:22.320They're already in Congress talking about moving us down the line a little closer to universal health care.
01:19:30.620They've got all kinds of new programs that they want to introduce for the hospitals.
01:19:45.240And if it would be deregulated a little bit more, it would be even better.
01:19:49.680And we wouldn't have had to worry about building all of these little, you know, places where we have, you know, beds in in in, you know, stadiums, et cetera, et cetera.
01:20:17.880The things that they have had to do in in Europe and in Italy and the things that are happening and the rationing and everything else, because they no longer have a free market system in there should tell you all you need to know about universal health care and universal Medicare, Medicaid.
01:20:38.080We have it in our new book, and we're going to talk about it coming up, arguing with socialists.
01:20:43.880It's a new book that is out now at bookstores everywhere.
01:21:28.740When I was a kid, the Internet was called the library and all the information you could possibly ever want was right there at your fingertips.
01:21:38.020Unless you were living in a Stephen King novel, then the library was a, you know, a pretty safe place to be unless you were in a Stephen King.
01:21:46.380But anyway, the Internet called the Internet and it's anything but safe.
01:21:52.340Norton, the first name in Internet protection, understands and knows right now.
01:21:57.620Everyone, including your kids on the Internet, a lot more than usual.
01:22:02.400I don't know if you're having a problem with your kids, but I am really having a problem with mine.
01:22:05.600They don't understand the potential dangers, no matter how much you preach to them.
01:23:04.160So let's look at our coronavirus update.
01:23:06.520First, the numbers total confirmed cases were now at one point five million up from one point four.
01:23:13.620Almost one hundred thousand added to it.
01:23:15.440Total confirmed deaths worldwide, almost at 90,000, up seven thousand yesterday.
01:23:21.300The U.S. now has almost half a million that are confirmed cases.
01:23:26.220Four hundred and thirty five thousand one hundred and sixty.
01:23:29.380I can guarantee you there are a lot more than that.
01:23:33.340Fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety seven deaths.
01:23:37.800That is up almost two thousand from yesterday.
01:23:41.760Nearly two thousand deaths in the U.S. makes this the highest death rate day so far for the pandemic in any country on Earth.
01:23:51.540U.S. has now officially tested two million people, just over two million people, 2.2, making the U.S.
01:23:58.68044th in the rate of testing per one million in population.
01:24:03.600Less than one percent of the population has been tested for covid-19.
01:24:06.940What we have found out now is that the virus spreads nearly two times faster than previously estimated.
01:24:14.000This is coming from Los Alamos, the national laboratory.
01:24:16.580They published a study estimating the total number of other people infected by each SARS covid-2 carrier.
01:24:23.180The research found people infected during the initial outbreak in Wuhan probably passed the virus to an average of five point seven others.
01:24:34.760That is more than double the two to two point five other people estimated by the World Health Organization.
01:24:40.740But we can't take them at their word on anything anymore.
01:24:45.560Patients sick with the seasonal flu, by comparison, will infect about one point three people.
01:24:50.960If the numbers are accurate, the coronavirus pandemic could only be stopped by a widespread vaccination or built immunity for at least 82 percent of the population.
01:25:02.620That's according to researchers who reviewed the Chinese data from the CDC, including the mobile phone data that tracked the movement of patients leaving Wuhan.
01:25:11.860The WHO is facing significant criticism for downplaying the contagious nature of covid-19 and China's role in in in the cover up to that stopped that could have stopped the spread of this virus.
01:25:33.820More Western governments now agree the virus likely came from a Chinese laboratory, not from exotic food markets.
01:25:44.020I don't know if this is good news or bad news.
01:25:47.180I mean, it's good news that people aren't eating bat soup.
01:25:55.500But it's but it's bad news that it came from a laboratory.
01:26:00.220We can add now Great Britain to the growing list of governments who are confirming that SARS covid-2 virus likely came from the Chinese Communist Party backed viral research lab.
01:26:14.140The U.S., U.K., Israel, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Germany have all reached similar conclusions.
01:26:21.520The virus behind covid-19 was most likely laboratory grown.
01:26:26.120That's farther than we went last night on our special last night.
01:26:31.500We did a great special on the Chinese Communist Party and how it's just killing the world.
01:26:38.620I want to play a little piece from that special where we we went over the evidence that it was actually and confirmed by the Chinese Communist Party before the outbreak that they were doing experiments with these particular bats.
01:26:56.120very close to where they said the bat soup was watch.
01:27:00.800In February, two researchers from the South China University of Technology published a paper that was immediately taken down.
01:40:24.700Maybe we can get here, too, which is instead of having a, you know, sometimes we've been doing this for a while, where you have a doctor's appointment, and you go in with a doctor, and it's just you and the doctor in the room.
01:40:39.000Let me give you a different exciting idea.
01:40:42.200What if I had a cold, Glenn, you had a cold, and let's say a dozen other people had a cold.
01:40:48.740Why do we all need to go for 15 or 14 different appointments when we can all go into the room at the same time with the same doctor, and he can kind of just do the little spiel once to all of us?
01:41:54.800Listen, this group appointments of between 10 and 15 people with the same condition have been piloted in Berkshire, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle, all over Great Britain.
01:42:06.840It's a, according, according to the NIH, it's a fun and efficient way to meet with your doctor.
01:42:38.180In fact, I've gotten several emails in recently about people that are buying gold.
01:42:43.840And I can't recommend it highly enough.
01:42:47.520I've been saying this for a very long time that you want to be able to have it.
01:42:53.060I was talking about it when it was, you know, $300 an ounce.
01:42:57.140The banking system, I think it was JP Morgan, came out and said that they estimate the gold will be between $2,900 and $3,200 an ounce by this time next year.
01:46:35.560So my mother came to the United States pregnant with my brother Joseph
01:46:39.060and worked at the mills in Rhode Island to make enough money to bring my father and I over to the United States.
01:46:47.580And in the Azores at that time, under the socialist dictator, poverty was everywhere except within the government.
01:46:55.660The people were arrested and imprisoned.
01:46:58.240The families were persecuted on behalf of, you know, the other members that might be speaking out against the governor or the dictator in the government.
01:47:57.580I put in for Vietnam and I kept on getting sent to, like, Little Creek, Virginia, and then they sent me to Massachusetts, Newport, Rhode Island, and they shipped me out to the Sixth Fleet Mediterranean Force where all we did was play war games.
01:48:15.900Numerous of times I put in for it, but I guess I was more important out there than anywhere else.
01:48:22.620And when you were in school, you were the kind of guy that would protect the kids from bullies, especially anti-Semitism drove you crazy, right?
01:48:31.240It did drive me crazy because I knew I was an immigrant and I was first picked on.
01:48:36.700I didn't become a citizen until I was 11 years old.
01:48:39.700And that's when I became a citizen of this country, this great country, by the way, under naturalization.
01:48:48.520And, yes, and then while I was in school, especially like the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth grade and places like that, we had a lot of foreign, well, not foreign immigrants that came over.
01:49:01.340We had Italians, we had Jewish, we had all of this, and if you were any of those, you were in trouble.
01:49:08.340They would come to you, they'd take your lunch, they'd threaten you, and it wasn't just one, it was like in groups.
01:49:14.600You wonder why there's school shootings today and stuff like that.
01:52:43.140So your governor removed not only the fact that you were essential and could remain open, but the governor also then removed your ability from getting any help as a business because you were forced to close.
01:52:58.220So all the governor is trying to do is just force you and people like you out of business.
01:56:13.280But then to say, you're not an essential business, so you have to close, and I'm removing your kind of business from eligibility to get any kind of funding.
01:56:25.000So, in other words, he's dooming and damning these businesses to death.
01:57:49.120And for somebody like me who does, I don't smoke any meat or anything because it's, I'm not going to sit there and watch the logs and tend to the charcoal briquettes and all of that crap.
01:58:56.300I think people are starting to try to figure out any way to get out of the house.
01:59:01.160Like whether like the excitement to go to the gas station or through a drive through or to a grocery store has never been higher in the United States of America.
01:59:11.500Just to see another person that's not the person, the people that you have been seeing constantly for three days.