Ep. 486 - The Curve Is Flattened But The Goalposts Have Moved
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Originally, we were told that we were locking down to flatten the curve. Now, it seems they want us to stay inside until, you know, nobody is dying from COVID-19 anymore. Which means we could be locked inside forever. Also, 5 headlines, including The Price Is Right, raising money for baby butchers, and a New York Times writer who thinks the sport of running somehow discriminates against black people.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, you know, the goalposts have shifted in a massive way.
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Originally, we were told that we were locking down to flatten the curve, right? That's what
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the phrase was. Now, it seems they want us to stay inside until, you know, nobody is dying
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from COVID-19 anymore, which means we could be locked inside forever. So we'll talk about that.
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Also, five headlines, including The Price is Right, raising money for baby butchers. And
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in our daily cancellation, we will cancel a New York Times writer who thinks that the sport of
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running somehow discriminates against black people. Yes, that is the claim. And we will
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address that, all of that on the way. But starting with this, a recent CNN headline claims that 68%
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of Americans say a vaccine is needed before returning to normal life. That was the direct
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quote from the CNN headline, which I think has since been taken down because it is, as expected,
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basically fake news. The actual data shows that 68% of Americans believe a vaccine is, quote,
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very important. It's a very important factor when they, quote, think about their willingness to
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return to normal activities. So that's what the survey said from Gallup. And the way that CNN
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interpreted it and spread it around is that 68% of Americans say a vaccine is needed before they'll go
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back to their normal life. There is obviously a clear and significant difference between
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very important factor and needed. Okay, those are two different things. Even so, it's troubling.
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It's troubling because it does show that many Americans seem to be at least hoping that maybe
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they can wait until there's a vaccine before they get back to living their lives. And even more so,
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it shows us what the media wants us to think we think. Okay, so what we can take from this headline
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is not that nearly 70% of Americans think a vaccine is absolutely necessary, but that CNN
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thinks we should think that a vaccine is absolutely necessary before we get back to our normal lives.
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So you notice the massive shift that has occurred, and not just in polls or in CNN headlines.
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We were originally told that we need to shut down for about two weeks. 15 days to slow the spread was
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the slogan. But the interesting thing about 15 days to slow the spread is the part where it says
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15 days, and also to slow the spread, okay? It is well past 15 days now. It's well past 30 days now.
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It's past 45 days. I mean, we are going on multiples of 15. And also, the spread has been slowed.
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Flatten the curve was the other motto. And we've done that too. The only places in America that
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haven't flattened the curve are the places where there was never a curve to flatten.
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Which is the case in many states, by the way. Yet, much of the country is still locked down.
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And the states that open are still condemned as being havens of ignorant, reckless,
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redneck grandma killers. So what happened? What happened? Well, the goalposts have moved.
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Not just moved. They've been uprooted and placed in an entirely different stadium somewhere across
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the town, and nobody knows where. Because now we're hearing that the curve must be, this is according
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to a Times article, the way they put it. They said we have to squash the curve. Not flatten it,
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squash it. California is now going to remain closed until, and this is what the governor of California
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says, Newsom, until there are zero COVID-19 deaths for two weeks. Zero for two weeks.
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Dr. Fauci was testifying in front of a Senate hearing yesterday, and he said that we should
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be wary of opening schools because children might not be, quote, completely immune to the effects of
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the virus. So we've gone from flatten the curve, slow the spread, to complete immunity is what we
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should be looking for. And if we don't have that, then we need to be careful about opening things up.
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We're also told by the media and public health officials that reopening cannot begin until we
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have mass testing. Testing and tracing is the buzz phrase. Overall, the objective has shifted from
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flatten the curve and slow the spread, both goals accomplished, to a vaguer idea of remaining
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locked away until we have some kind of guarantee of safety or immunity. Now, I think a few notes of
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sanity are needed here. A few notes of sanity should be interjected into all of this madness.
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Number one, and let's just be very clear about this. We cannot wait for a vaccine. Can't do it.
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There may never be one, first of all. There's no guarantee that there will be a vaccine.
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I'm not a medical expert myself. I can't tell you that I'm an expert in how vaccines work, but I do
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know this. There are a lot of diseases and viruses out there for which there is no vaccine. So you
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never have any guarantee on that. Even if there is a vaccine, it could be years away. We cannot wait
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that long. Our society will be in ruins if we try to keep it shut down for that long. And the number
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of dead from homelessness, starvation, suicide, drug overdoses, et cetera, will far, far exceed even
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the most dire and also false coronavirus death predictions. Besides, people are not going to
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comply. Many people are already not complying. The idea that we should, much less that we can,
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keep hundreds of millions of Americans under mass house arrest for years is simply madness.
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And the fact that I have to explain this, that anyone has to explain it, is madness.
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So the Americans out there, whatever percentage they might represent, and I don't know what that
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percentage is. It should be zero. So if it's anything above zero, that's a problem.
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The percentage of Americans who are dreaming of a day when they can emerge from their homes under the
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protection of a vaccine might as well push that thought from their minds. If you're in that group,
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you just forget about it. It ain't going to happen. You are going to have to get back to your life
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before then. Get used to it. You are going to have to get back to your life when the disease is out
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there and there is no vaccine for it. Get used to it. It's going to happen. Or else, you're not
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for a vaccine. Just can't do it. Second point. Testing and tracing is not the holy grail that
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it's being made out to be. It is not realistic to expect that tests will be widely available to 330
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million people anytime soon. And even if they were available, so what? I mean, let's say that every
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person in the country takes a test tomorrow. Great. What about next week? What about the week
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after? Next month? If a negative test is supposed to grant me permission to go about my day and
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participate in society, how long does that permission last? I mean, are we going to have to
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take tests every single day? Wouldn't that require hundreds of billions of tests to be available? Not to
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mention the capacity to distribute and process all of those tests. Now, I'm not saying that tests are
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unimportant or that we shouldn't have them or anything like that. But there's a certain sort
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of fantastical ambiguity about the testing rhetoric that troubles me. With people acting like, well,
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this is the, here we go, here's the magical switch that we can flip. And if we could just get the tests
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going and, and, and, and wide testing, well, then we can get back to our lives. Um, it, it sort of
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seems that our elected officials really do want daily tests for everyone forever, but who knows if
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that's what they want? Because all we've ever gotten from these people, from elected officials is sort of
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scenes. I mean, we, we don't know exactly what they have in mind or, or what they think we need in order
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to get back to our lives because there's been almost no clarity from anyone from the top down to include
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president Trump, especially him. I mean, you look, you look at president Trump, it's the way he seems to
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feel about the lockdowns on Twitter is very different from president Trump anywhere else. You got Twitter
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Trump and then Trump at a press conference or Trump in real life. Twitter Trump has been against the lockdowns
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this whole time. Press conference. Trump is all on board for them. I mean, Twitter Trump was, was,
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was shouting on Twitter all caps weeks ago, liberate, liberate the States. We have to liberate them.
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And then press conference Trump the next day, uh, said that he disagreed with Georgia opening up.
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Okay. So there's been just almost no clarity from anyone and not just no clarity, but
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contradicting themselves on a day-to-day basis.
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But we're supposed to continue sitting around twiddling our thumbs, putting everything on hold
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in our whole lives until we're told otherwise, until they figure out what the hell they're doing.
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It cannot continue this way. Third point, this is very important.
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There will always be coronavirus deaths, probably even with a vaccine. And this stands to reason
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because there are always flu deaths and quite a lot of them. In fact, even with a vaccine,
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you know, tens of thousands of people might die from this virus every year forever. That might well be
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the case. We have to learn to live with that reality. Just as we live with the reality of so
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many other diseases, not to mention all the other fatal calamities that threaten us every single day
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of our lives. Every single day you wake up and walk out of your house, even if you don't walk out of
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your house, no matter what you do, there are a million things that could kill you. Some of them
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are more likely than others. And the really scary thing is, it is a certainty that one of those things
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will eventually kill you. You will die. Of all the potential things that could kill you, one day, and it
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could be today, it could be tomorrow, it could be before I'm done saying this sentence, one of those things
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will kill you. You will die. Not just you, everyone you know is going to die. Everyone you've ever
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known, they're all going to die. The earth itself is going to die. Okay? Now, again, I mean, these are
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points that shouldn't need to be made, but I think they do. Because the way some people are talking about
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this virus and the way they're approaching it, it's as if they think that if we can just hide away,
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sacrifice whatever we need to sacrifice, even if it's the entire economy, 30 million jobs,
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whatever, we will get to a point where we're safe, where we're completely safe, and then we can go
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about our lives. Like we're immortal or something. No, I mean, that's just not the case.
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And that doesn't mean, you know, the reality that we're mortal and we're all going to die of something.
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That doesn't mean that we should be suicidal. It doesn't mean that we should be nihilistic.
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It doesn't mean that we should take a position of not caring about our lives or not trying to
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We have to accept them. We have to take whatever reasonable precautions we're comfortable with
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headlines. Number one, if you are a Price is Right fan, and I've always been more of a Jeopardy and
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Wheel of Fortune person myself, but if you are a Price is Right fan, you may want to reconsider ever
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watching the show again. And I'm not one for boycotts normally, but I think donating money,
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a company donating money to mass murderers is about as good a reason to boycott as you're
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ever going to find. The Price is Right this past Monday aired a primetime special called
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The Price is Right at Night, and RuPaul the Drag Queen was there for some reason, raising money for
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Planned Parenthood. Apparently the show pledged to match all cumulative prize winnings for the entire
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episode and then donate all that to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is an organization,
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I remind you, that kills 300,000 children every single year, more than 300,000 children every year.
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And we should also note that Planned Parenthood already rakes in over a billion dollars a year.
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Okay, from the money they get from the abortions, they make hundreds of millions on abortions,
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and then also they get $500 million a year from the government, and still do. Because that's
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something that our supposed pro-life Republicans never did anything about when they had the chance
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to. So not only do they kill children, but if somehow that's not good enough reason to refrain
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from making them the charity that you, the charity beneficiary for your show, they also are a very rich
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organization, and they're not hurting for cash at all. There are many organizations out there that are
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hurting for cash, and that also don't make a billion dollars a year, and don't make $500 million a
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year from the government, and that also, oh yeah, don't kill kids. I mean, believe it or not, there
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are organizations out there that need money, that don't get money from the government, and that rather
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than killing kids, actually feed kids, and clothe kids, and provide services to kids. How about one of
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those instead? Number two, here's another massive, massive scandal that will get no attention whatsoever
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from the national media. According to a report from the local ABC affiliate in Harrisburg,
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the Pennsylvania health secretary's mother was pulled out of a nursing home and put in a hotel.
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Now, remember, Pennsylvania sent COVID patients into nursing homes, just like New York, New Jersey,
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California, other states. On a mandate, they sent these infected people, not people who'd recovered.
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In New York, it was they had to be stable. So as long as the coronavirus patient is stable,
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then you can send them to the nursing home. That doesn't mean recovered, and that doesn't mean not
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contagious. That just means they're not on their deathbed yet or anymore. And so Pennsylvania did
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that too. Sent the people in nursing homes, but at least in the case of the health secretary's mother,
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she was protected. So it shows us government officials knew what the result would be,
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knew what would happen. So they protected their own loved ones while leaving the rest to die.
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And many of them did die. In fact, in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania has 4,000 COVID deaths,
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70% of them. And this number keeps going up because we talked about this, I don't know,
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yesterday or a few days ago. And the number wasn't 70% then. So now what they're telling us is that 70%
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of deaths in Pennsylvania are from nursing homes. That leaves, if you're doing the math, that leaves
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around 1,000 in a state of 13 million who died outside of nursing homes, which would be 0.008%
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of the population. But the state just extended their lockdowns into June. 0.008% of the non-nursing
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home population in Pennsylvania has died. And they extended the lockdown into June.
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Number three, this isn't really a headline, but it is news. I want to show you this. This is from
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Avik Roy. He's a Forbes editor. And he got this data from the CDC. I want you to take a look. Here's
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a table showing COVID-19 deaths by age group. We talked about the nursing home population. Well,
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it's not just nursing homes. Here are how many died in each group per million people. And this is for
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the United States. So you can see there, under 25, your chance of dying from it is literally one in a
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million. Under 45, it's 17 in a million. And then as you get into the 65 and over, and this doesn't
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take into account, by the way, pre-existing conditions. So if you're 45 and under, generally
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speaking, your chances of dying are 17 in a million. But if we were to narrow that down,
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if you're 45 and under and healthy, then it's even less than 17 in a million. But then you look,
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and as we get into 65 and over, then 75 and over, especially, and then most of the vast,
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vast majority of deaths are 85 and over. And you look at the bar graph, you compare the bar for 85
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and over to the bar for 45 and under or 25 and under. So we shut down our whole society for a
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disease that almost exclusively targets, kills people who are 75 and over or 85 and over, which
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is just incredible. Now, here's more. I want to show you this too. This is also from Roy.
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Again, CDC information. And it's a map that shows the percentage of deaths from nursing homes in each
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state. So take a look. And we've been covering this on the show extensively. But you see there,
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you look around at these states, 50%, 60%, a lot of 50s and 60%, 70%, 80%. I mean, this is truly the
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nursing home disease. We could rename the coronavirus, the nursing home disease,
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NHD, NHD-19. Because that's what it is. You take out the nursing home deaths and the deaths of people
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75 and over. So like the nursing home set, whether they're in nursing homes or not,
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the nursing home demographic, you take that out and you have a disease that's
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about as deadly as a bad flu. And for some demographics, a lot less deadly than a bad flu.
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I mean, a lot more people who are 24 and under, especially, and a lot more kids especially,
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have died of the flu than COVID-19. Number four, the singer Brian Adams. Well, in fact,
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into trouble. It's caused controversy because he blamed coronavirus on, quote, bat-eating bastards.
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That's what he said in an Instagram post. There's been a lot of consternation over this. He says,
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tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tendency of gigs, but thanks to some effing,
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bat-eating, wet-market, animal-selling, virus-making, greedy bastards. The whole world is now on hold,
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not to mention the thousands that suffered or died from this virus. My message to them, other than
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thanks an effing lot, is go vegan. People are very upset about this. I don't see the problem.
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I mean, it seems to be a lot of accuracy there. I mean, you know what? And you also have to allow
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people. I know that this is, it's salty language and, you know, it's not, who cares? I think you
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have to allow people to be angry. Okay. And the fact is that this virus did come from China
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and it seems pretty obvious that there was a, you know, a lab involved in there somewhere.
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Also, maybe the wet markets. I mean, people are going to be angry and you have to allow people to
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be angry. This is not racism. This is just people are pissed off. And yes, they're mad at China.
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They should be. And that's okay. We're allowed to be.
00:26:09.500
Number five, a nice segue here. Perhaps this, perhaps the Brian Adams post will be discussed
00:26:13.620
in an upcoming NBC special. Reading from Deadline, it says, as Asians and Asian Americans continue to
00:26:19.080
be the target of harassment during the coronavirus pandemic, NBC Asian America, an arm of NBC News,
00:26:24.500
will host a virtual town hall titled United Against Hate on May 13th, which is, what is that today?
00:26:30.940
Oh, it's today. You can watch it. With guest appearances from comedian Margaret Cho, the town
00:26:37.560
hall will examine the rise of racism against Asian Americans during the pandemic and what can be done
00:26:41.420
on a legislative nonprofit and individual level. That's what NBC News is focused on. Okay. We got this
00:26:47.720
pandemic, thousands dying, economy destroyed. What we're focused on, though, is people saying mean
00:26:56.860
things about Asians. That's the important stuff. And that's the real crisis here, right? We can all
00:27:03.820
agree. Yeah. Let's go to our daily cancellation. And for today's daily cancellation, we are canceling
00:27:10.200
the writer of this editorial in the New York Times titled, Jogging Has Always Excluded Black People.
00:27:16.540
Not a parody. That's the real, real title, real editorial was written with a straight face,
00:27:25.140
presumably. The piece written by Natalia Melman Petrezala ties the Ahmaud Arbery case to a general
00:27:34.660
epidemic of discrimination against black joggers and runners, alleging that somehow black people are
00:27:41.380
excluded from the activity of jogging. That's what she says. So she writes, in part, this disparity
00:27:48.580
should come as no surprise. Running has been a pastime marketed primarily to white people ever
00:27:54.000
since the jogging craze was born in the lily-white Oregon track and field world of the late 1960s.
00:27:59.900
Black people have not only been excluded from the sport, one survey by Running USA found under 10% of
00:28:04.580
frequent runners identify as African American. They've also been relentlessly depicted as a threat to
00:28:09.100
legitimate white joggers. And it goes on from there and it ends on this note, Mr. Arbery's death
00:28:15.880
and the ensuing outcry is in some ways the latest data point in the sick mashup of structural racism,
00:28:21.420
gun violence, and vigilantism that becomes a hallmark of American life. But it's also an example of the
00:28:27.620
glaring whiteness of recreational running, a hobby that 47 million Americans embrace in part
00:28:32.420
because of its enticing illusion of universalism, but that has never been and still is far from an
00:28:38.200
equal opportunity endeavor. So she just put them all, she got it all in there, structural racism,
00:28:43.620
gun violence. I'm surprised she didn't tie climate change into it. I'm sure somebody has done that by
00:28:50.120
now, tied the Arbery case to climate change. I guarantee you someone's done it. If I looked it up,
00:28:54.040
I can find it, but I won't because I have enough things to be annoyed about right now. Okay. I don't
00:29:01.680
think I need to spend a lot of time addressing this. First of all, jogging or running, one of the
00:29:08.360
great things about it is that it can't exclude anybody. So if, if one in 10 of joggers are black,
00:29:16.820
what does that tell us? It just tells us that black people generally don't like to jog. I mean,
00:29:22.740
that's, that's what that stat tells us because if they wanted to jog, they could, I mean,
00:29:28.080
literally nothing can stop them unless you don't have legs. So as long as you have legs,
00:29:32.780
you can jog. And in fact, even if you don't have legs, there are people that figure out
00:29:35.700
workarounds there. So basically you can jog almost no matter what. Um, so I'm not sure if white people
00:29:42.740
got together and decided they wanted to exclude black people from jogging, I'm not sure how they
00:29:47.880
would even conceivably do it. If that was in a project they wanted to take on second point.
00:29:55.700
And this is the obvious one. Well, this is all obvious, but black track athletes,
00:30:01.720
not only do black people run, but they dominate all of the running events everywhere. They dominate
00:30:09.740
the Olympics. They dominate the track and field circuit in America. I ran track as a, when I was
00:30:14.980
in high school, I was by no, it was by no means a white sport. I can tell you that right now.
00:30:18.560
It was a pretty healthy mix of, of white and black and other races as well. Um, black people
00:30:23.620
certainly were not underrepresented in the sport of running in my experience. Third point. Well,
00:30:31.400
there is no third point. This is just stupid. I don't, I don't even have the energy to talk about
00:30:35.340
it. I mean, give me a break. Just give me a break with this stupidity. You're canceled. Natalia,
00:30:40.580
Melman, Petresla, you are canceled. You are excluded from ever writing anything again.
00:30:47.600
Though you can still jog. I'll give you that because like I said, nobody could possibly stop
00:30:52.820
you if you want to. The only thing stopping people from going for a jog is that most, not just black
00:30:58.100
people, most people in general don't like to jog. It's, it's, it's, uh, most people, when they think
00:31:03.440
about what's a fun thing to do, I got a, I got 30 minutes to kill. What do I want to do with the
00:31:07.740
time? Most people aren't saying, let me go run. That's like the last thing anybody wants to do
00:31:12.140
for most people. Now I actually enjoy running myself, but I realize I'm kind of a weirdo.
00:31:16.440
It's a weird thing. You've got, you got some time to kill. There are so many fun things you could do.
00:31:21.640
Who says to themselves, let me go put on some shoes and go run down the street.
00:31:25.960
Only a freak would like me. Most people say, let me lounge on the couch. Okay. Let me grab a beer. I mean,
00:31:32.840
that's a much more normal thing to do and probably in the long run, better for your knees.
00:31:39.480
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Okay. I want to get to a few of these emails. I've been kind of lax on reading emails recently.
00:32:40.000
Let's see. This is from Ben says, hi, Matt. And if you become a Daily Wire member, you also get
00:32:44.940
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00:32:51.540
be an All Access member for that. You can just be a regular member. From Ben says, hi, Matt. What is
00:32:57.460
your take on the mask issue? Some people are saying they'll refuse to wear them. Others are saying that
00:33:02.480
it's our responsibility to wear them. Do you think wearing a mask is caving into tyranny? Where do you
00:33:07.580
stand on this? Yeah, Ben, you know, I'm not dogmatic on the mask thing. I'm just not. I don't really
00:33:12.320
have, I guess I don't have an official mask stance as far as this goes. I wear a mask
00:33:21.240
whenever I go to the store around here because I don't have a choice because every single store in
00:33:28.080
my area requires it. So I don't, so I wear one. Um, and, and the first thing I'll say about that
00:33:36.700
is I'm, I have always been a big believer in and defender of the rights of private businesses to
00:33:43.640
make their own rules and to set the terms for engagement. Um, no shirt, no, no shirt,
00:33:49.340
no shoes, you know, if that's their rule. So that's it. You don't have to agree with it.
00:33:54.260
If you don't agree with it, you don't have to go. And so if private businesses want to have a rule
00:33:58.200
saying you have to have a mask to come in, I respect that. And I mean, what else am I going
00:34:02.540
to do? Am I going to charge in there without a mask? I refuse. And then I'll just get carried
00:34:07.300
out by security. Nothing is accomplished by that whatsoever. They have every right to make the
00:34:11.300
rules. I don't have a right to go into, you know, Safeway without a mask on. That's not a right
00:34:15.960
that I have. I have a right to go and buy stuff from Safeway. If I follow the rules,
00:34:19.180
that Safeway or whatever other grocery store, uh, sets up. And so I respect that. Now you could
00:34:24.920
point out that many stores are requiring masks because they're forced to require them by the
00:34:29.560
government. I'm not a fan of that. I would like to get to a point where, um, and I would like for
00:34:34.640
that point to be right now. In fact, I would like for that point to have arrived a long time ago
00:34:37.800
where people just make their own decisions and businesses make their own decisions about how
00:34:41.340
they're going to handle this. Most people choose to be responsible anyway, let businesses decide if
00:34:46.480
they want to require masks or not. The thing is, uh, many businesses will, would require it and will
00:34:54.120
require it. I think whether the government says so or not, but as it stands right now,
00:34:59.840
even though businesses are forced to require it, the fact is they still require it. The businesses do.
00:35:04.280
And so I'll wear one, um, because the other option would be, like I said, to charge in their maskless
00:35:11.140
just so I can get carried out by security to make a point. I'm not sure exactly what the point would
00:35:15.180
be or to not go to any stores, but I want to go to the store and I need to. And also that part of my
00:35:19.320
whole point, I don't want to be locked in my house. I want to get out. And so if this is part of what I
00:35:22.840
need to do, I will do it. I just want to get out. And I want, if I want to go to the freaking store,
00:35:26.540
I'm going to go. And I've been doing that this whole time. Um, so, you know, that's,
00:35:33.260
that's basically how I feel about the masks. I, I think that, um, I don't wear one unless I'm forced
00:35:40.780
to. I've already said about masks to wear, like I see people driving down the street and masks,
00:35:46.880
wearing them in the car. I think that's stupid. It's kind of crazy. If you want to do it, it's your
00:35:52.420
right. Go ahead. Okay, fine. Um, I think walking down the street in a mask is crazy.
00:35:58.580
And if the government tries to require that, and maybe in some places they are requiring it,
00:36:02.580
that is also crazy. Um, not only crazy, but you know, I see people jogging in masks.
00:36:08.880
Not only is that unnecessary, completely unnecessary, but I have to imagine it's pretty unhealthy because
00:36:17.280
it restricts the flow of oxygen. You know, you're, you're breathing heavily. You're, you're,
00:36:23.140
you're breathing in a lot of your own fumes as you're running down. And as it gets hotter now,
00:36:27.280
and it's humid, humid. I mean, think about all the germs and everything. You've got your own sweat and
00:36:32.120
saliva and breath just piling up in this mask while you're jogging down the street in 85 degree
00:36:37.640
temperature. That does not seem at all good for you. That seems much less sanitary, uh, much worse for
00:36:45.080
your lungs than not wearing the mask at all. So I would recommend that people not do that. But in
00:36:51.240
terms of wearing it at the store, for me, it just comes down to does the store required or not? If
00:36:57.300
they do, that's their right. I'll respect it. Uh, and I also think that, you know, here's the other
00:37:01.760
thing. Um, I want to get the economy going again. I want businesses to open up again. I want people to
00:37:10.460
start getting hired. I want all these things to happen. Well, a lot of businesses, regardless of
00:37:15.940
what the government says, I think a lot of businesses are going to require the masks because
00:37:20.240
they're worried about liability. And, and, you know, we just know what's going to happen. Like
00:37:25.300
eventually things are going to open up. Somebody's going to get sick and they're going to trace that
00:37:30.360
sickness back to Walmart or somewhere. And they're going to try to sue Walmart for $50 million or
00:37:34.860
whatever it is. Uh, that's going to happen. And so it shouldn't happen. I mean, that's the idea that
00:37:41.240
you could sue a company because you got a virus while you were there is dumb, but it will happen
00:37:46.520
in our litigious society. So businesses are going to want to take measures to protect themselves
00:37:51.700
against liability so they can say, yeah, well, we did what we could. And if businesses have to do
00:37:57.560
that in order to open up, in order to protect themselves from being bankrupted by lawsuits,
00:38:01.980
then I respect that too. All right, let's go to Joe says, uh, Matt, I appreciated your analysis of
00:38:10.400
the Takashi 69 Instagram video. I also love your music reviews in general. I'm sure you know this
00:38:15.740
since he's your favorite artist, but Takashi has a new song out. His first song since getting out of
00:38:20.400
prison. It's called Gooba. I would love to see slash listen to your review of this masterpiece.
00:38:25.640
Well, thanks Joe. Um, and although I am a huge fan of the musical artist Takashi 69, I have,
00:38:30.900
I had not yet had the pleasure of, of encountering, uh, the Gooba song that you're referring to.
00:38:36.720
I did go and search the video on YouTube at your behest thinking that I would offer my review of it,
00:38:43.540
but you forgot to mention that I would be fired if I played even five seconds of that video on this
00:38:49.180
show. So I'm not going to do that way too explicit for a family show. I couldn't possibly get away with
00:38:53.820
it, but I am always up for offering my musical reviews of, uh, of videos and things. So if you
00:38:59.340
have any suggestions that are, you know, PG 13 or, or better, please send them along to the show.
00:39:05.760
Uh, let's see here. Uh, there was one other, a couple others. We have a few minutes. I
00:39:13.740
is from Sarah says, Matt, I listened to your podcast about the court case in Connecticut.
00:39:19.080
I wondered if it would be better to forget the battle about the meaning of women of woman and a
00:39:24.140
girl and forfeit the terminology and focus only on chromosomes. Should the girls and their lawyers
00:39:29.040
argue that there should be sports for people with XX chromosomes because those born with Y chromosomes
00:39:34.980
have an advantage in sports and should play on their own. I guess you would also need to clarify
00:39:39.900
that people with two XX chromosomes who supplement hormones known to increase athletic ability should
00:39:44.960
also be excluded from participating in that category. I am just wondering if those, if using those
00:39:49.580
definitions might make it less emotional, less controversial because the definition of gender
00:39:53.980
is already too muddled in our current culture. I don't know if that is a giving up the battle that
00:39:58.440
needs to be fought or just using correct scientific terms that everybody can agree on. Yes, sir.
00:40:03.360
I understand what you're saying. I've heard the suggestion before, like, okay, let's just forget
00:40:06.280
about this. You know, forget about a boy and girl bathrooms or, or ladies and men and just put
00:40:13.160
XX and XY and that sort of thing. And that's kind of what you're talking about. I'm, I'm not in favor
00:40:18.840
of that for two reasons. First of all, it wouldn't make a difference. It's not going to work. You're
00:40:23.120
not going to, when it comes to leftists and they're engaged in this war against reality and common sense
00:40:27.580
and science, you're not going to be able to do an end run around them, um, and, and say, okay,
00:40:32.920
we'll just call it XX and XY. Not going to happen. It won't work. They won't agree to it. So that's the
00:40:38.560
first thing. Second thing is no, no, I just, I refuse to do it because you talk about, you know,
00:40:46.720
let's use scientific terms. Everybody can agree on the word female is a scientific term that every
00:40:54.680
rational, insane person can agree on. And I refuse to abandon it. Same for a woman, same for girl,
00:41:00.080
all of these terms. We all know what these terms mean. There are a lot of people who pretend not to
00:41:07.800
know what these terms mean. And then there are a few people who are, um, crazy and, and, and maybe
00:41:14.400
really don't know what, what the words mean. Uh, because if you don't know what the word female
00:41:18.560
means, I mean, there are only a few, if you don't know what the word female means, you're either
00:41:21.760
lying and pretending you don't know, or you're crazy or you're very ignorant. I mean, or you're like a
00:41:28.080
child and no one's ever, you know, you're, you're a four-year-old child. You don't know, but if you're an
00:41:31.500
adult, you should know what these words mean. And I think that everybody does. Almost everybody does.
00:41:40.320
It's just that, you know, we talked about the court case and, uh, who was it? Judge Chetigny
00:41:44.780
up there in Connecticut. He's talking about trans females. He knows what the word female means.
00:41:54.420
This is, this is a grown adult. Okay. He's just pretending he doesn't. So I'm not going to go
00:41:59.340
along with that. And I don't think we should. I think we absolutely stand our ground on this and
00:42:05.040
say, no, no way. This is what a female is. The word is important. The word has meaning. It is a
00:42:11.840
scientific biological term, and we will not stop using it. And we will not use it incorrectly just
00:42:18.740
to suit anyone's delusions. It's not going to happen. Uh, finally from Antonio says, hi, Matt.
00:42:23.960
Recently, I started getting interested in the topic of NDE near death experience. Have you read the books
00:42:28.480
of Tim, uh, von Lommel or Raymond Moody? Have you had the opportunity to delve into the topic?
00:42:34.680
What is your opinion about these experiences? Well, Antonio, I think we've talked about this
00:42:38.400
on the show before, but I can't remember exactly. Just to give my very brief summary of my, my view.
00:42:44.140
I'm not a big believer in NDE near death experiences. Uh, well, I guess I should say,
00:42:48.900
I believe that people have experiences. I'm not saying they're, they're lying about the experiences,
00:42:54.580
but I think the experiences are probably neurological and psychological in nature,
00:42:58.760
not spiritual. Um, all the stuff about people floating up to heaven and meeting Jesus and,
00:43:04.120
and, and meeting their dead relatives and, and that sort of stuff. I'm skeptical of all of that
00:43:08.780
for a few reasons. Number one, we should note that, and this to me is the, is the clincher really
00:43:14.720
people of all religions or no religion have these experiences and their experiences are always
00:43:23.120
specific to their own beliefs. So a Hindu person is going to have a very Hindu like near death
00:43:29.540
experience. I think that should tell us something, doesn't it? I think it just tells us it's something
00:43:36.140
out of your own head. Second, um, these experiences can be duplicated by drugs like, you know, like
00:43:42.460
hallucinogens, LSD and stuff like that. You can, you can create, uh, a, a, a version of a near
00:43:49.280
death experience through a drug, which I think also tells us that it's psychological. And third,
00:43:54.600
um, the people who've had NDEs aren't actually dead. You know, I know they might say something
00:43:58.520
like I died for three minutes on the operating table, but they didn't really, they didn't
00:44:01.580
actually die. They didn't have a C their, their brain activity did not cease. They weren't fully
00:44:07.020
dead. Now, if somebody, that's what we call it a near death experience. Now, if somebody actually
00:44:12.120
dies and is buried and a week later rises from the grave and starts talking about the afterlife,
00:44:16.380
okay, I'm going to pay attention to that, but that's not this. This is near death. And besides,
00:44:20.840
what is the claim? Is it that like when you get close to death, your soul sort of accidentally
00:44:25.700
slips out of your body and floats up to heaven? I just think that metaphysically, it doesn't make
00:44:29.740
a lot of sense. And the fourth thing is, and this is important. Nobody has ever come back
00:44:34.540
from the afterlife from one of these NDEs. I mean, at least when we talk about documented modern cases,
00:44:42.240
nobody's ever, as far as I'm aware, come back from the afterlife with anything very special to say,
00:44:51.160
as far as I can tell. Mostly they just report the same kind of experiences that other people do,
00:44:57.380
which again, is a version of the experience that a Muslim would have or a Hindu or anybody else,
00:45:02.440
which, which, which also again, often sounds like an LSD trip. And sometimes they come back with a
00:45:08.860
message from the great beyond. I mean, people have written entire books about messages they got when
00:45:12.800
they went to heaven after they supposedly died on the operating table or whatever. But the message
00:45:17.400
is, you know, not to be rude about it, but the message is never very impressive. It's always just
00:45:21.140
something that I could have told you without, without having to die to get the message. It's never
00:45:26.560
something that you would think a person would need to die and go to heaven to hear and report back.
00:45:31.820
So if somebody ever has an NDE and they come back and they have a message that they couldn't
00:45:39.680
possibly have known, you know, or they have a prophecy that comes true or like something like
00:45:44.820
that, then I think, okay, my ears are going to perk up. I'm going to pay attention. But if,
00:45:49.180
if they come back and all they have to say is, you know, basically love each other and live your
00:45:52.640
life to the fullest and stuff like that, I don't know. I just don't think that God needs to pull any,
00:45:56.760
any soul from their body to bring them to heaven, to tell them that and then send them back. I mean,
00:46:01.020
they could have gotten that from a greeting card at Hallmark from the, you know, the greeting card
00:46:03.780
aisle at Rite Aid. So that's why I'm skeptical of all of that. But, you know, I'm, as with anything
00:46:12.000
else, I'm open to new evidence. So, and I do find it, I do find it interesting. So thanks for that
00:46:18.340
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00:47:01.700
What would you give as just advice for an entrepreneur, business owner right now who's
00:47:06.740
going through these tough economic times, but did you have any specific advice that you
00:47:12.400
I think you're in a 60, 90, 120-day mindset. You're only running the business for that amount
00:47:18.560
of time. I think that's where I would tell you to start. Because when you do that, guys,
00:47:22.020
here's what happens. I get clarity for 60 days or for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days. And we're
00:47:28.180
running the business based on that because the world, the economy is going to change and get back
00:47:32.520
to a much more normal situation. So the issue is how do we stay alive? That's my fear is how many
00:47:37.760
businesses will absolutely close the doors forever because of this. But if you can hang on, better
00:47:43.660
That's literally where my brother and I are right now. I mean, we're in this. So we're not like sitting
00:47:47.340
here as talk show hosts, thought leaders. We're actually in the trenches right now making very
00:47:53.580
difficult decisions. Early in our business, we created three budgets. We created a livable,
00:47:58.540
a comfortable, and an incredible budget. And so we're pivoting immediately to the livable budget.