Ep. 449 - We Need Answers
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The entire U.S. is on lockdown, and the economy is grinding to a halt. Meanwhile, there s a disturbing lack of answers from people in positions of authority. Is this an overreaction? Is this a pandemic? And is it really as bad as it appears?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, entire states are now going into lockdown. The economy is
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grinding to a halt. Meanwhile, there's a disturbing lack of answers from people in
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positions of authority. They aren't telling us the end game. They aren't giving us a timetable.
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They haven't done or said enough or anything really to convince us that they've properly
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balanced the threat of an outbreak against the threat of economic collapse. At what point
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does the human cost of destroying the economy outweigh the cost of a potential mass outbreak?
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That's a question that people in positions of authority, the government, they're not really,
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they don't appear to be grappling with. At least they're not telling us. They're not giving us
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the answers. So today we'll try to sort through that. And I have some questions that I need to
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ask. And a few days ago, I was asking questions of the people who are in the, this is an overreaction
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camp. Today, I want to ask some questions of the other side of this. Also making matters much,
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much worse and making the crisis of trust, trust in our authority figures, much worse.
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It appears that some senators have been engaging in insider trading based on the information they
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received in private briefings about the pandemic. So while they gave us, while they were reassuring
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us and telling us it's not going to be a big deal, they were dumping stock. So we'll talk about that.
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And the GOP's stimulus plan has been released. It is terrible, really, truly terrible. And I'll tell
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you why. Plus, five headlines, all of that and more coming up. Now, I know I said yesterday that
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today on the show, it would be the no corona show. It would be a show where I don't talk about the
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coronavirus. But events have changed that. Events, dear boy, events have transpired. And so I feel like
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there's a lot that happened even just last night that I feel the need to address. I must go back on my
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promise then and I beg your forgiveness. Instead of the no corona show, I'll try to make this a low
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corona show. It'll be it'll have the coronavirus. It'll be a mild case of the coronavirus. This show
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will need just a week of rest and some and a lot of fluid to get over the coronavirus. So much has
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happened in the last 24 hours. We're gonna try to get through this. We begin with the state of
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California issuing a lockdown order to all of its 40 million residents. Everybody is being ordered to
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stay indoors in the entire state. Shelter in place. All businesses must close, with some exceptions.
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I think that you're allowed to take a walk or let your kids play outside in your yard. So they'll
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give you that. Very generous. But other than that, you got to stay inside. This reading now from CNBC,
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it says, all dine-in restaurants, bars and clubs, gyms and fitness studios will be closed, according to
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the order. Public events and gatherings are also not allowed. Essential services will stay open,
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however, such as pharmacies, grocery stores, takeout and delivery restaurants and banks. According to the
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order, Californians in 16 critical sectors are to continue working. Those include emergency
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services, energy and food and agriculture. Newsom said that he made the decision based on some new
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information and projections that came in from Johns Hopkins University. He reiterated throughout the
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press conference and in response to questions from reporters, we need to meet this moment and flatten
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the curve together. Meanwhile, the state of Pennsylvania has issued an order not quite as
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severe, but nearly, despite the fact that there are only about 180 cases of the virus in the state,
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a state of 12 million people, and that many of these people are spread out, relatively isolated,
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living up in the mountains in central and eastern and western Pennsylvania. Despite all that,
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the governor issued an order shutting down almost all businesses, but not all. And some of the
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distinctions here, to me, seem kind of arbitrary. You tell me what you think. Reading from NBC
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Philadelphia's website, it says the only businesses that can stay open are, quote, life-sustaining ones,
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farms and their suppliers, food manufacturing, medical care facilities, medical product suppliers and
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banks, retailers that sell food, gas, automotive parts, and building materials may also stay open.
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Restaurants may continue to offer takeout. Other manufacturing and construction companies must
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close, as must all other retailers, insurance companies, legal firms, employment services,
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beauty salons, barbers must close their locations, accountants must close. Social services agencies can
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stay open, but unions must send their workers home. Movie or music studios must close, but TV and radio
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stations may stay open. Beer distributors, it is important to note, may stay open.
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Well, that is very important to note, I will say. And believe me, I'm glad that beer distributors are
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still open. But it raises questions. Is a beer distributor really life-sustaining? I'm a big fan of
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beer. Like Brett Kavanaugh, I like beer, okay? I don't know if I would call it life-sustaining. That
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might be a little bit too far. And so you have to ask the question, because beer distributors are
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closed, or are open, rather. Liquor stores, though, are closed in Pennsylvania. So you close the liquor
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stores, beer distributors are still open. Now, people who know how the state works might point
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out that, well, liquor stores are run by the state, whereas beer distributors are privately owned.
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Plus, Pennsylvania has all kinds of weird rules with alcohol. It makes no sense whatsoever. Like,
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for example, if you buy beer at a grocery store, you can only buy, like, a certain amount of ounces
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at a time. And so, which means that if you're buying beer for a party or something, you have
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to make multiple trips and pay multiple times. It's stuff like that. But still, it raises the
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question, because they've shut down many other private businesses. They're leaving the beer
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distributors open. It raises the question of, are people more likely to pick up the virus while buying
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whiskey than they are while buying a six-pack of Bud Light? Is there any science behind that?
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And if not, then why not leave the liquor stores open? If it's relatively safe to go to a beer
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distributor, then is it not relatively safe to go to a liquor store? And then why wouldn't you leave
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that open, and so that we can keep at least that little part of the economy going? More questions that
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Okay. Other questions about this order in Pennsylvania?
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If you're, and in other states too, not just Pennsylvania, but if you're leaving open all
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these other businesses, as Pennsylvania is, California is, all these other states and cities
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and municipalities that have shut things down, well, we've got other, there's still plenty of
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businesses that are left open because they've been judged rightly or wrongly, absurdly or not as
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life-sustaining. But if the virus is really as bad as you say, and it's as contagious as you say,
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which it might be, I'm not saying that it isn't, then isn't it going to spread at the grocery store
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and at the beer distributor and at these other life-sustaining places? On the other hand though,
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if we can trust people to go to the grocery store and practice social distancing and wash their
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hands and not get sick or get anybody else sick, which we need to trust them to do that apparently in
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order to, we need to have the grocery stores open at least, right? Well then, if we could trust that,
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then why can't we trust them to do it at, say, PetSmart or Dick's Sporting Goods or, you know,
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the insurance agency? So take, you know, a random guy, Bob Smith, gets in his car, drives to the grocery
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store, manages to follow all of the anti-corona guidelines, which again, we need to trust him to do
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that. We have no choice. Um, doesn't spread any sickness or get sick while, while, while buying
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his, his milk and eggs and pile driving old ladies for toilet paper. Okay, great. Now he gets back into
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his car. Why can't we trust him to repeat that feat at, I don't know, Marshall's on the way home?
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He could do it while buying eggs and buying milk. Why can't he do it while buying a pair of jeans?
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These are questions. I think they're good questions and they're questions that people
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in positions of authority need to answer. It's not enough to just shut everything down. You have
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to specifically, well, why that? It's a, it's a fair question. Why specifically that? And if this is
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open over here and this over thing that, and this thing that you've closed down is very similar to
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that, then why not leave it open? It's not like it's a small thing to just, well, we might as well
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close it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not good enough. And I'm just using Pennsylvania
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as an example here because I know the state very well myself, but these kinds of measures are being
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taken everywhere. Of course, if not more extreme measures, but just taking this state as an example,
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um, continuing along with this, there are less than 200 confirmed cases in Pennsylvania right now
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out of the state, 67 or so counties, half of the counties have no cases as it stands right now.
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Last I checked, many of these counties are isolated. They're up in the mountains somewhere.
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Um, and most of the cases are in two counties, Philadelphia County and Allegheny County,
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which includes Pittsburgh. So you take those two out along with Montgomery County and Delaware County,
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which are also counties in, in, around the populous areas, um, around the urban centers of the state.
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So you take out those four counties and you have a small smattering of cases stretched out across
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mostly mountainous and rural regions of the state. For an example, uh, Wyoming County in Pennsylvania,
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very tiny little County up in Northeastern Pennsylvania, a thousand people. It is home to,
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uh, Tunkhannock, uh, to the city of Tunkhannock with a thousand people, a couple stoplights. You've
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probably never heard of it. Most of the, of the country as, uh, most of the, of the county is,
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is country is rural. No cases right now in Wyoming County. So why do you need to shut it down?
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It's, it's, it's also not a wealthy County. These are working people. Why aren't they allowed to go
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to work? They're up in the mountains. There are no cases. If nobody has the virus right now,
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and there's a good chance that it will stay that way, especially if you've already locked down the
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counties that have all the cases or most of them. So why lock down that County? These are questions
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earlier in the week. I was asking questions of the people who think this is an overreaction.
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Now I'm asking questions in the other direction. I don't have the answers. I've said that a million
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times. I don't have them. I don't know. So, you know, by now, if you're looking for someone who
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can confidently declare what the right answer is and what's going on, I'll tell you what's going on.
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Here's what we should do. You're, you're listening to the wrong guy. Cause I don't have those.
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I don't have that. And if you know someone who has that, let me know who that person is. Cause I'd
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love to listen to them. I don't know, but here's the thing. If you're in a position of authority
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and you're taking these drastic measures, draconian measures that will cause great hardship to many
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people, uh, which maybe it's necessary, but my point is you ought to have more answers than I do
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or anyone in the audience does. So I don't feel bad saying I don't have answers yet. I'm still
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expecting the authorities to have some answers. The reason I expect it is because of what they're doing.
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This can't be a just in case type of thing. The cost is too great. The human cost is too great
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for just in case. We need to know that there is a specific science-based numbers-based reason
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and that there's an end game, that there's a point where we'll know that it's been successful and we
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can get back to our lives. This can't be open-ended. It can't just be, we'll shut it down for now.
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We'll see how it goes. It can't be that because a lot of people don't have the luxury for that.
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I have the luxury for that, uh, because I can work from home. Many people do not.
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And we also need to know if we shut everything down for two weeks or two months or six months,
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um, and the longer it is, the worse the effect on the economy is going to be.
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Well, how do we know? How sure are we that if we shut everything down and then once we open things
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back up again, how sure are we that the virus, virus won't come surging back to life? And at which
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point we'll have the virus to deal with and a destroyed economy. Um, as I've been talking about
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this this week and trying to work through it myself, getting a lot of emails and messages
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from people who are, you know, who are affected by this or out of work or, or just are thinking
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about it like I am. And I've, I've read almost all the emails I've gotten because I'm, I'm very
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interested in what other people are thinking because I'm just as confused as anybody else.
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But what I, the, the thing I keep hearing is we need the end game. We need to know what the plan
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is. We need more information. This can't be indefinite. The things people are saying to me
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are, are, you know, I'm, I'm willing to make the sacrifice, but I need to know what, where is this
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headed? The other point is if this shutdown, uh, lasts for many weeks or months, the human costs,
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the lives destroyed, the people who die from that, that toll may be greater than the toll that the
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virus takes. I don't know if that's true or not. Nobody does, but it's a persuasive argument. At
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least it's an argument that people in positions of authority need to grapple with publicly, not just
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done in their heads, not in their private meetings, but they need to come in front of the American
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people and explain, if you're shutting everything down, you must be pretty confident. That's not the
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case. You must be pretty confident that the human toll, the human cost of the outbreak will be
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greater than the very significant human toll and cost of the, uh, of, of an economic downturn or
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depression. But that needs to be explained much better than it's being right now.
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Now we were told 15 days at first, 15 days to slow the spread. They said, well, it's, it's,
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you know, if it's only 15 days, we're halfway through it now. I think most of us can agree.
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All right, we can do that. The economy can recover. I don't think 15 days is going to destroy the
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economy. It's going to be serious hardship. I'm not downplaying that, but I think we can recover
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from that. But now we're being led to assume that this will last much longer than 15 days.
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Okay. Well then again, how long, what is the end game? We all need the information that the
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government has, whatever they got, whatever information they're basing this on, tell it to
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us. So you get the sense they're not telling us everything. And we need to know that the people who
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are, who are in, in power, appreciate the enormous, truly inconceivable suffering and hardship that will
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be caused by a long-term indefinite shutdown of the whole economy. Now the city of Los Angeles is
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completely locked down. And now the state is too, of course, but LA has been locked down for a week
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or week or so already. The mayor of Los Angeles was on CNN last night and he was given an opportunity
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to provide answers to some of these questions that I'm asking and that you're asking. His answer that
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he gave pissed me off. I have to be honest with you. And if, when you hear it, it may not be
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Promo code Walsh for an additional 10% off. Now, the mayor of Los Angeles was on CNN last night
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and he was asked some of these questions. And as I said, his answer made me angry.
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Maybe you can tell why. Watch this. The big pushback is the cost, that this tanks the economy. And how
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can it be worth it? This isn't the plague. It's just the flu. 80% of the cases are okay.
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Why isn't this going too far? I started with the premise tonight that human life is precious.
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If we don't start there, I don't know where we ever start. What's the price of that life of that
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loved one who's battling cancer or who has a preexisting condition of your parents or
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grandparents just because they're older and they're going to have a 1 in 8 chance of dying,
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unlike your child who might only have a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying if they get it.
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I think that we, hopefully as human beings, believe that all human lives are precious. And by the way,
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I think it's a false dichotomy. The blow to the economy of us letting this continue to go
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forward, of us not treating this with the seriousness, these companies, these places
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will be under anyway. If we have all of our doctors and nurses sick, they will not only be
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able to respond to this crisis, but to the other health crisis that threaten people's lives. And we
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will lose lives in that scenario too and cripple our economy when people in key sectors can't even
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come to work. Yeah, that ticks me off and it scares me. And here's the reason. He's asked a good
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question. The question so many are asking, is this an overreaction? Are you, aren't you crippling the
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economy? Isn't that going to be worse than whatever the virus would do? His answer is life is precious.
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That's his answer. Life is precious. Yes, life is precious. But you know, Mayor, that's a cliche.
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That's a platitude. That's something you put on a bumper sticker. It's not an explanation that you
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give to Americans who are now out of work and not able to eat or feed their children. You don't give
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them bumper stickers. You don't give them patronizing slogans about life is precious. They already know that.
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They're worried about the lives of their children, their families. You especially don't give them a
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slogan that you yourself clearly don't believe considering as the mayor of Los Angeles, I assume
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you're pro-abortion. And besides, the lives that will be destroyed and the people who will potentially
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die in a Great Depression, if that's where this goes, are also precious. So we need a real answer.
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We need numbers, science, statistics, evidence. The answer scares me. And so much of what I'm
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hearing from these government officials scares me because it sounds either like they don't know the
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answers, they don't have great reasons, and they're doing this anyway because they don't appreciate what
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it costs, what it's doing to people, or they do have answers and reasons that they aren't telling us.
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Either way, it's not good leadership, to put it mildly. We deserve to know, and you need to tell
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us. Listen, as I said now a million times, I'm confused myself. But if these state officials are
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as confused as me or you, then they shouldn't be shutting down the economy for an indefinite period
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of time. Because then they're flying blind and they're just potentially causing a Great Depression
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almost at random or on a coin flip. It can't be that. This can't be, I could go either way, flip a
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coin, okay, shut down the economy. It can't be that. I'm sure that that is not the right answer.
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If they have good, solid reasons, reasons that balance the cost of the outbreak against the cost
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of an economic collapse, we need to hear them. They need to be explained in great detail
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from these people in positions of power. And if they have it figured out to that extent,
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then they need to be able to tell us what success looks like and how we'll know we've gotten there
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and when the end date is, or at least a ballpark estimate. Because the other problem is people can't
00:22:38.640
budget, they can't navigate their way through this if they have no idea how long it's going to be
00:22:43.320
until they get their next paycheck. And then you read about these senators who allegedly dumped
00:22:48.620
stock after private briefings on the virus outbreak back in January. According to reports,
00:22:55.200
Feinstein, Burr, and Loeffler, probably among others, but those are the names that are out there
00:23:01.520
right now, allegedly were told how bad it would be in private briefings in January. Then they went and
00:23:07.840
sold their stock while telling the public that everything would be fine. At least Burr and Loeffler
00:23:12.580
went out shortly after that and they were downplaying it. When they knew that wasn't the
00:23:18.380
case because they were dumping their stock. Now, if this is true, of course, these people should be
00:23:22.480
publicly flogged and thrown in a cage for the rest of their lives. But this is devastating to hear
00:23:27.280
right now, especially now because it further erodes what little trust people have in the
00:23:31.000
institutions that are making these decisions. That's a powder keg. When you've got people making
00:23:37.620
these kinds of decisions and affecting people's lives in such a dramatic way, and we can't trust
00:23:42.560
them, powder keg. I mean, you're asking for chaos. According to these reports, lawmakers were keeping
00:23:50.620
the truth from us or obfuscating it, watering it down while they went off to profit off of what they
00:23:55.980
knew. Where else is that happening or something like it happening? This is why platitudes won't cut
00:24:02.500
it. We need answers, real answers, real data, a real plan. This is not a game for people.
00:24:07.740
If I didn't have an income right now, I keep thinking about if I didn't have an income
00:24:10.300
right now, I've got four kids to feed. What the hell would I do? I would be at a point very soon
00:24:15.580
where I would say, even if the China virus gets 10 times worse than it is now, and even if the
00:24:21.300
mortality rate is 10%, I still might have to work. It's worth the risk to me to work because I got to
00:24:29.180
take care of my kids. What am I going to do? What choice do I have? Now, by the grace of God,
00:24:33.680
I don't have to make that calculation. A lot of people do and will, and who knows, if the entire
00:24:37.720
economy comes collapsing down, then maybe eventually I will too. There are very few people who are going
00:24:43.240
to be insulated from it completely. I don't think I'll be one of them. So who really knows?
00:24:49.960
We just need a better, we need better leadership, more information, and a better plan. Speaking of
00:24:54.140
needing a better plan, Republicans unveiled their stimulus plan, their plan to help American workers.
00:24:58.040
And it is, look, I'm sorry to keep the outrage flowing through these segments, and I'm sorry
00:25:05.180
to be so negative, but their plan is outrageously, outrageously bad. Let me read the report from CBS.
00:25:12.520
And in fact, before I do that, I want to check in and tell you about Honey. Now, I've told you about
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slash Walsh. That's joinhoney.com slash Walsh. All right. Republicans unveiled
00:26:46.220
their stimulus plan. Reading from CBS, the phase three bill unveiled by Senate Republicans on
00:26:50.480
Thursday includes rebates of $1,200 for most on individuals who reported less than $75,000 on
00:26:55.840
their $75,000 on their 2018 tax returns. So $1,200 if you reported less than $75,000 on your 2018 tax
00:27:05.340
returns or $2,400 per couple who filed their taxes jointly in 2018 and made less than $150,000.
00:27:12.780
Another $500 will be added for every dependent child, low income Americans with at least $2,500
00:27:17.540
of qualified income, but who do not earn enough to pay income tax, get a smaller benefit of $600
00:27:22.300
or $1,200 for couples. The payments will be gradually phased out for individuals with income between
00:27:27.980
$75,000 and $99,000 at which point payments cut off. And then also from what I've read, it phases out
00:27:34.380
completely for couples at $198,000. This is terrible. They're going to send you $1,200 to compensate for
00:27:44.380
all the lost wages as long as you didn't make more than $75,000 two years ago. What if you made $80,000
00:27:52.400
two years ago, but you make $65,000 now and you've been out of work for two weeks? Well, you're out of
00:27:57.760
luck. What if you're a single parent with three kids who makes $100,000 and lives in a place like New York
00:28:03.380
where the cost of living is extremely high? A person in that situation is not anywhere close
00:28:09.060
to wealthy. They're essentially living paycheck to paycheck, but they're out of luck, apparently.
00:28:15.580
Now, it's not entirely clear to me. They say that if you're joint, if with a joint income, then the
00:28:19.740
phase out limit is $198,000. If you're filing jointly, well, what if you're a single parent,
00:28:25.920
you're filing as head of household, but you're not filing jointly because you're not, you don't have a
00:28:30.060
spouse. Are you at the $198,000 threshold or are you at the $99,000 threshold? That's not entirely
00:28:37.200
clear. It looks like you're at the $99,000, but either way, it's terrible. What if you're a family
00:28:42.200
of six making $200,000 a year, but your business has taken a massive hit and it might not ever recover
00:28:47.080
and you're burning through your savings? Out of luck. Sorry. So we're going to give money to a single
00:28:53.620
person making $70,000 in Vermont, meaning this person has, is, is basically well off. They have
00:28:59.420
no dependents, low cost of living. In fact, imagine a, a, a, a, a, a, a single person making $70,000
00:29:05.720
low cost of living and is working from home right now and hasn't lost any income. They're going to
00:29:12.260
get a check, but a family that loses everything and lives in a high cost area may get nothing.
00:29:16.720
Does this make any sense? Now, if you really wanted to means test this thing, which is what
00:29:23.440
they're trying to do, you would need to know where people live, if they're single parents,
00:29:29.140
how much they're making now, not two years ago, how much they've lost in the last two weeks,
00:29:34.320
how much they're expected to lose over the next few months, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:37.700
It's impossible to know all of that, which is why you need to give money and a lot more of it
00:29:42.300
to everybody, you know, and let people who don't need it, donate it. That should be the plan.
00:29:50.020
Give money to everyone. Let them donate. I've already said, we don't need the money. Give it
00:29:53.480
to me. I will give it to somebody else. I'm not alone in that. I'm not some super generous,
00:29:58.040
charitable guy. Americans like to donate. Why do you think there's a viral GoFundMe campaign
00:30:04.360
every day in this country? Many times for frivolous reasons. And it's like, it's, that's why it's so
00:30:09.400
easy. It's unfortunately, there's a, that's the bad side of being so charitable as Americans.
00:30:13.000
We're very easily scammed. Anyone could come up with a scam GoFundMe and make a million dollars
00:30:17.360
just because we'd love to donate. So what do you think Americans are going to do? You get a,
00:30:22.180
you get a campaign going, you send checks to everybody. You get a campaign going,
00:30:25.400
already suggested, hashtag pass the buck, encouraging people, get all the celebrities,
00:30:29.360
instead of singing John Lennon, imagine, get, get them to encourage, you know, they can take
00:30:33.360
videos of themselves, whatever, passing their money along to someone, whatever it is.
00:30:37.260
People like to also be charitable and brag about it on, on, so take advantage of that too. This
00:30:41.140
will be very easy to do. You don't have to means test. We're not relying on the government to decide
00:30:45.820
who deserves it and who doesn't. Local communities can decide that. I know who in my life and who I
00:30:52.020
know that, that needs the money. The government doesn't know. I do. So give me the money. I'll pass
00:30:57.140
it along. And it's not like I'm saying, give me your money or give me, no, no, give me my,
00:31:02.960
it's my money. I'm a taxpayer. I work. I, I support the system. So that's my money. Give me some of my
00:31:10.920
money back and I will pass it along. And for the people who are out of work and need it, that again
00:31:16.280
is their money and not just $1,200. They're going to need a lot. What's, what the hell is $1,200
00:31:21.160
going to do? You know, for most people that doesn't even pay rent. If you've got three kids,
00:31:27.640
you get 1200 bucks and you're not working, that money is gone like that. You're going to decide,
00:31:32.240
am I paying rent or am I buying food for a month? Or am I doing a little of both? Well, a little of
00:31:37.640
both doesn't work, does it? Because paying half of your rent's not going to work. Feeding half of your
00:31:41.240
kids won't work. This is, I have to try very hard not to, not to, I'm trying to control my language so I
00:31:52.640
don't start dropping vulgarities. This is a family show. It just makes me angry. This is not,
00:32:00.320
you, this is not good enough. You're telling people you, you are shutting down. Whether it's
00:32:06.320
justified or not, you are doing this. You are taking people's money. That's their money they
00:32:11.000
have in the first place. You know, we're, we're the ones supporting the system. It's our, our money,
00:32:14.620
give it back to us. And I don't want to hear that we can't afford it. You know, billions of dollars
00:32:19.920
are wasted every, billions are wasted every year on, on programs and agencies and, and initiatives
00:32:27.160
and everything that are entirely superfluous and that exist only to provide money and income to
00:32:32.260
federal employees. Get rid of those. What about all the foreign aid we're sending everywhere to
00:32:37.460
other countries? Well, we need that now. We need the foreign aid. We need aid for ourselves.
00:32:41.100
You know, maybe instead of sending a, you know, a $3 billion in cash to some other country,
00:32:48.120
some foreign government, maybe give it to your own people. We've got military bases all across
00:32:53.860
the globe. Maybe shut a few of those down. I mean, there's, there's plenty of money out there.
00:32:59.960
The government makes $4 trillion a year, $4 trillion, and they waste most of it.
00:33:06.400
They could afford, and when I say they, I mean, we could afford to give checks of
00:33:20.200
All right, let's go to, uh, headlines. I said, this would be a low Corona show,
00:33:26.160
but I've talked about coronavirus for 30 minutes. So you can't trust me,
00:33:31.180
especially when I get emotional, I start screaming. You never know when it's going to end.
00:33:36.400
But, um, I am going to try to at least give you five headlines that have nothing to do with
00:33:39.640
coronavirus. I will try to do that. So these are five non-Corona headlines. I'm a man of my word,
00:33:45.400
partially at least. I'm partially a man of my word. Um, okay. So five non-Corona headlines.
00:33:50.600
There are other things happening in the world. Okay. It's not just this. Number one headline,
00:33:55.800
Oprah Winfrey has not been arrested for sex trafficking. This is, this is a headline because
00:34:02.400
there was a rumor online that Oprah Winfrey has been arrested on sex trafficking charges.
00:34:05.600
Turns out that was just a rumor was made up by a 4chan or somebody. And, um, she sent out a tweet
00:34:11.120
yesterday saying, no, I haven't been arrested on sex trafficking charges. So it turns out that she
00:34:14.780
hasn't been. That's the story. I guess every single headline could just be famous people who were
00:34:22.700
not arrested on sex trafficking charges. Um, headline number two, Nick Nolte has not been
00:34:32.320
arrested on sex trafficking charges. No, uh, reading now from the daily wire, Marvel comics is
00:34:37.960
finally debuting. It's long promised non-binary superhero as part of their new warriors reboot.
00:34:42.620
And, uh, the name of this individual is snowflake, an obvious jab at transphobic detractors bounding
00:34:50.320
into comics, uh, revealed their trailer for the Marvel's new warriors reboot earlier this week,
00:34:55.400
and both snowflake and their twin safe space feature prominently. The original new warriors
00:35:01.900
debuted in the early 1990s as a selection of rebel mutants, somewhat junior to the more experienced
00:35:06.580
Avengers. They came along at a time when Marvel was trying to retool a number of its characters
00:35:10.760
for a younger audience used to edgier, more relevant stories. And so now we're going to have
00:35:15.480
a non-binary superhero. I'm glad that look in the middle of everything that's happening. I, at least
00:35:22.680
Marvel is working on the important thing. This, this is what we need in these times. I hear from people
00:35:30.040
all the time. So many American workers are saying, I'm out of work. How do I feed my family? What I need
00:35:38.240
is a non-binary superhero. And so I'm glad that Marvel is answering that call. Number three,
00:35:44.460
according to the mirror reputable publication, a herd of elephants have broken into a home in a village
00:35:49.580
and gotten drunk on whiskey. That's it. It's a headline. Okay. That's like you want to note and
00:35:57.660
you wanted non Corona news. This is, this is, this is what you get. Number four, a pig in England
00:36:03.200
swallowed a pedometer. That's one of those, a step tracking things like a Fitbit. He was given a
00:36:08.040
Fitbit, I guess, so that he could get his fat butt into shape. But as gluttonous as pigs tend to be,
00:36:13.260
he, he ate it, pooped it out. And then, uh, and then it started a fire after it came out of his,
00:36:21.140
out of his butt. So that happened in England fire because of a pig. I, I get, I get, I tried. That's,
00:36:29.000
that's all I got. I can't even do five. That's all I could find. That's really, I spent hours
00:36:33.260
scavenging through the internet to find five stories. I had nothing to do with coronavirus.
00:36:38.840
And that's all I could find actually only three because the elephants who got drunk,
00:36:42.200
that happened because they broke in, they broke out of a preserve or a zoo or something
00:36:46.240
when the country was locked down. I don't know. I didn't actually read the whole story, but, uh,
00:36:50.480
so I gave you three. All right. This has been a successful segment. That's why I'm a professional.
00:36:55.580
Now let's move on to your daily cancellation. And I, I, you know, I, I figure it's a very
00:36:59.700
difficult week. Let's end on a positive note. So I'm going to, I'm going to, what I'm going to do
00:37:04.040
here, and this is a first may never happen again. Um, but I am going to, I'm going to reverse cancel
00:37:10.820
someone. This is the opposite of canceling. This is bestowing an honor rather than heaping scorn on
00:37:17.660
someone. And, uh, what I want to do is I want to recognize a great achievement, a great artistic
00:37:22.420
achievement. It is, it is Corona related, but I think it's worth it to see this. You'll, you'll
00:37:27.100
enjoy it. The department of health actually has put out a PSA about the outbreak, very helpful PSA.
00:37:33.060
And though it's a little bit aggressive, frankly, it also is a work of art. I believe, uh, maybe one
00:37:38.120
of the great governmental PSAs of all time. Take, take a listen to this.
00:37:42.200
Move, you got coronavirus. Oh, you got coronavirus. We ain't finna do this coronavirus. I ain't
00:37:48.580
finna take a trip with this coronavirus. Move, you got coronavirus. You got coronavirus. We
00:38:00.200
aint finna take a trip with this coronavirus. I'ma chill at the crib cause I'm safe here.
00:38:05.600
I ain't even about to drink me a Corona beer. I'm about to stay at the crib for about a year
00:38:10.300
and i ain't coming back out until this clear i done bought me a mask and a lot of gloves
00:38:15.520
and i still feel like that it's not enough i ain't shaking no hands i don't want a hug
00:38:20.460
make sure you wash your hands with a lot of love so if you got that cv they gonna find you
00:38:25.460
if you coughing i ain't trying to be around you i ain't even trying to stand beside or behind you
00:38:30.560
i'm gonna try to help them mother find you there you go i believe the lyrics were written by dr
00:38:37.540
fauci that's from what i read if you got that cv they gonna find you dr fauci circa march 2020
00:38:44.940
direct quote now actually credit where it's due that was written by the rapper and poet uh g mac cash
00:38:50.860
which may be dr fauci's rapper name i don't know nobody knows it's a mystery all i can say is that
00:38:57.780
it's good to see you know there are so many great things about this and and you know frankly that's
00:39:02.680
my jam as the kids would say that's lit dead ass okay um really made me want to raise the roof
00:39:10.020
frankly uh but all i can say is i think it's good to see hip-hop culture embracing snitching
00:39:17.000
at least as it pertains to diseases because you heard he said in the song you know if you if you
00:39:22.400
got if you got the cv if you got coronavirus i'm gonna tell them i'm gonna tell them other
00:39:26.460
efforts where to find you so if you commit a crime right if you kill someone if you sell drugs
00:39:31.880
we're not going to snitch that's where that is an occasion wherein the snitch will get the stitch
00:39:37.680
uh or the snitch will wind up in the ditch proverbially but if you're sick sorry bud you're
00:39:44.260
on your own that's and i appreciate that i appreciate the ethic there i'm not really sure what the ethic is
00:39:49.840
but i appreciate it anyway you know that ben shapiro always says that rap rap isn't music
00:39:56.220
well what do you say now ben what do you say now you think mozart composed anything that could
00:40:02.820
remotely compare to what you just listened to right there facts don't care about your feelings
00:40:08.200
neither does the coronavirus and we will leave it there i think you guys i think it's probably enough
00:40:14.920
um i hope you guys have a great weekend as great as it can be please do stay safe out there and um
00:40:24.200
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00:40:50.100
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00:41:08.420
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