1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. All right, team from 2 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: behind quarantine lines, I come to you today with the 3 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: latest unemployment numbers, how the fight is going for our 4 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: frontline healthcare workers, and some other stories not just from 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: this country, but around the globe. Let's rocket Buck Sextons 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: coding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence, magnor 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: mistake America. You're a great American again. This is the 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Former CIA analysts. I can speak to 9 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: three hours without a phone call. Try doing that. Sometimes 10 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: you have said you have wanted that for the healthcare 11 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: workers on the front lines. I know Secretary munition As 12 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: mentioned something about that possibly in the fourth level of stimulus, 13 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: But can you make it happen now? Do we have 14 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: to wait for a fourth law? I think it's something 15 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: we're discussing in terms of bonus or bonus pay. It 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be called hazard pag called Hey. Look, 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: I watched those people go into hospitals that I know 18 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 1: I talked about one of them, right, But I watched 19 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: them walk into those hospitals. And they walk in men, women, young, 20 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: middle age, not so many older ones. And watch I 21 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: watch them, they're almost like and I think I take 22 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: the word almost that they're like warriors. They're going in 23 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: people are cheering. Where there's a building across the street, 24 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: the people are screaming, they're clapping. They're like, they're like warriors, 25 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: They're like soldiers, and we're gonna be doing something for them. 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to the buck Sex and Share everybody. Thank you 27 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: very much for joining. This is has always been, but 28 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: is certainly now more than ever, the absolute highlight of 29 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: my day. This is the best part of my day now. 30 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 1: Every day I am stuck here in quarantine in New 31 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: York City, a quarantine that is not going to end 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: anytime soon. Vice President Pence said right before I saw this, 33 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: right before I came on air, that it won't be 34 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: at least until Memorial Day that things start to feel 35 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: a little bit more relaxed. Not normal, Oh no, We're 36 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: not going back to normal, but relaxed when it comes 37 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: to the restrictions, certainly in New York and some of 38 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: these other areas, it's gonna be June, maybe it's going 39 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: to be July. We got a long fight ahead of us, friends, 40 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: and I'm going to be very cognizant of one thing 41 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: we need to keep our spirits up. We need to 42 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: keep ourselves engaged in our day to day as much 43 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: as possible. We need to find opportunities for growth, find 44 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: ways to stay I don't just mean avoiding the virus, 45 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: but in general, stay mentally and physically as healthy as 46 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: we can. We need to lean on each other, be 47 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: in conduct. I am sorry for those of you if 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: I missed. I meant to do a Facebook live last night. 49 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you the truth. I fell asleep 50 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: on the couch with the dog. It happens sometimes. I 51 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: just I passed out with Tulu. She's a little white 52 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: bundle of furry snuggles, and I you know, sometimes you 53 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: need some fury, some some snuggles with your little pup. 54 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: And so that was what. We just passed out on 55 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: the couch watching Ozark, which I gotta tell you also 56 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: got very weird as a show. It kept very weird 57 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: in this episode, Producer, Mark, you're not up on it yet, right, No, 58 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: I have not started yet. Isn't good? Is it worth it? Oh? 59 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: My god, it's a fantastic show. But this most recent season, 60 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: season three, stuff gets There's there's one there's one thing 61 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: that happens I'm like, they're not really doing that, are they? 62 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: But they are so anyway, you gotta ways to catch 63 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: up before that one um so team, I'm going to 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: be cognizant of that because I'm reading through your feedback 65 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: all the time at night, and producer Mark and I 66 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: are already talking not just about ways going to expand 67 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: content with with doing guests, which we're working on figuring 68 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: out how to do that well, so we want you 69 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: to really hear everything, but also we are in the 70 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: phase of now putting together how we're going to put 71 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: out the Siege of multipodcast, and then I think after 72 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: that we're probably going to do a Battle of La 73 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: Panto podcast, and then we'll get to the siege, probably 74 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: the Siege of Vienna, and then on might moved to 75 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: other battles, other historical things. Someone sent in a fantastic 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: suggestion of a history of the Communist Party. Maybe I'll 77 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: pull together something an amateur an amateur history of it, 78 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: or we'll have a true expert, someone who's written a 79 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: really fantastic book join us for a long form interview. 80 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: I want to do more long form interviews, but we 81 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: are hunkering down here in the Freedom hunt. This is 82 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: going to be the way it is, meaning, you know, 83 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: we're not going to be in our week. We've got 84 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: you know, downtown here, we've got really amazing studios in 85 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: New York, and you know, we work for the best 86 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: radio company in the business. Right now, everything shut down, 87 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: so we're just doing this as we can. The Freedom 88 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: Hut now is more than ever feeling like a not 89 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: just a state of mind, but it's also a state 90 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: of constant a state of constant improvisation, which is where 91 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: we are. And I've been reading your messages and you're saying, look, 92 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: I understand things are really depressing. You got to give 93 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: it to a straight You got to bring us the facts. 94 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: But we also turned to you turned to the Hut 95 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: for contexts, but some escape and some community and and 96 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: I have always tried to provide that. But you know, 97 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: it's it's been a rough. Look, it's the roughest two 98 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: weeks in the country since nine to eleven. This is 99 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: way a rougher than the financial crisis of two thousand 100 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: and eight, Okay, which we all, yeah, that was bad 101 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: for a little bit, but we all really kind of 102 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: knew at our core that that would turn around and 103 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: we also knew that people's you know, people weren't terrified 104 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: that they were going to wake up with an awful 105 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: illness that they might not survive. Right, That's a very 106 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: different level of concern and fear. So I'm reading all 107 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: of your your comments that come in. You A roll 108 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: call is a fraction of the messages that you send, 109 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: But we're always reading and reading and trying to get 110 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: as much context from you as we can, as much 111 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: of your thoughts as we can. So I know it's 112 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: a little bit of housekeeping to start the show, but 113 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: I just want to let you know we are planning 114 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: new and even more interesting. Some of it. We fund 115 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: some of them. Of I promise you this, We're going 116 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: to find ways to help you spend time in the 117 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt that does not require oh my gosh, COVID nineteen. 118 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: Here's everything that's going on with it. And isn't this 119 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: terrible and so scary? Not that we've ever done that, 120 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: but I know that the new cycle has just been 121 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: it's been relentless, it's been remorseless, and every time I 122 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: go out to do anything, which is very seldom now, 123 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: I mean, I really am stuck here in what is 124 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: effectively house arrest. You have that anxiety. I sit down 125 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: here and I get to talk to all of you. 126 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: I was just saying this to producer Mark before the show. 127 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: This is my normalcy. It's not the same way we 128 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: always do it, but this is where I get to 129 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: be back in the world as I am used to it. 130 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: Everything outside of this show, everything outside of the Freedom 131 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: Hunt right now is different. More anxiety, more difficulty. You know, 132 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: there's a lot of things, more more risk. So I 133 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: really do when I say to you all, I appreciate 134 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: this every day. I assure you that's the case. And 135 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: we're working on new projects. Also an update, I told 136 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: you that I have a book because of issues with 137 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: the printing and distro and I can't do book signings. 138 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: Looks like we're going to release My Guide to Socialism 139 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: as an e book, which means it'll be out even quicker, 140 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: and hopefully that'll be within the next four to six weeks. 141 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: But that way you can just download the e books. 142 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: That's what we're looking to do. To try to have 143 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: printers right now. They're all backed up for obvious reasons. 144 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: It's not essential and there's all kinds of stuff and 145 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: given how much the world has changed in the last 146 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: sixty days. I think doing some updates and putting out 147 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: an ebook would be a better way. So thank you 148 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: for letting me just take some of your time to 149 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: do some a little bit of a look ahead, the 150 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: road ahead. History podcasts are are going to start happening, 151 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: and I'm going to crank them out as as fast 152 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: as I can while still maintaining quality and accuracy. We're 153 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: going to start doing some long form interviews. We'll do 154 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: more Facebook lives, just content, content, content, you know, as 155 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: much connectivity with all of you as I can possibly have. 156 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: That's that's the plan going forward, and producer Mark and 157 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: I are all on board for it, all right. So 158 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: now let's get to the biggest The biggest single thing 159 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: that that hit today is the unemployment, the new unemployment claims. 160 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: And this is this is scary. There's there's no way 161 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: around it. I don't know. I was just saying, I 162 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: don't want everyone to be so overlea cancerned. Although this 163 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: is a very real circumstance of fear that we are 164 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: all facing every day. It creates fear. Six point six 165 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: million sought jobless benefits last week. That's the big headline today. 166 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: I you know, a week or two ago, I was 167 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: having real fear that we were heading towards I shouldn't 168 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: say fear, concern, that we're heading toward a great depression. 169 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: And I'm reaching out now more than ever. I mean, 170 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 1: I have got a lot of time at home. I 171 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: don't have a lot of time in general because I 172 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: gotta do four hours radio, but I've got a lot 173 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: of time at home, So I'm reaching out to people 174 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: that I think are the smartest on different issues. Are 175 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: spoke to one of them yesterday on the economy, guy 176 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: who's just become super wealthy by understanding macro trends in 177 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: the economy and just knows what he's doing. So I'll 178 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: give you some of the insights I was able to 179 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 1: glean from talking to him about this. I was I've 180 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: been worried about a great depression, and that has been 181 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: you know, I've been recalibrating my assessment here of what 182 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: we should be, what we are facing, both on the 183 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: virus side and then on the on the economic side 184 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: of things, and trying to establish a proper risk balancing 185 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: between these two things. For everybody who says if it 186 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: costs just one life. And this was a mantra you 187 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: were hearing the last you know, a couple of weeks. 188 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: If it costs just one life, any amount of money 189 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: is worth it. We know that that's not how society 190 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: actually functions, So that's not true. And not even doctor 191 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: Fauci and some of the others out there that are 192 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: are still treated with tremendous you know, still generally treated 193 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: with tremendous respect on the left for their expertise here, 194 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: not even they say we're going to stay locked down forever. 195 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: So that means that at some point you make a determination, okay, 196 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: we can start doing things again, and we have to 197 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: keep an eye in it because you might have a 198 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: spike of the virus. The more I look at this 199 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: and people are getting very mad at me, not you, 200 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: not really from the team, but you know, out there 201 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: in the world, because I'm just trying to ask questions 202 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: and question authority, and I'm willing to look at what's 203 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: going on and say, all right, you know, I understand 204 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: that there are experts, but I also understand that I'm 205 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: being told to do things that could not have a 206 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: more direct impact on me and all the people that 207 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: mattered me. Most in the whole world, especially because I'm 208 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: here in New York, but this is true for all 209 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: of us now across the country. I want to try 210 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: to focus less on the situation of New York today 211 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: because I do think that that's coloring the thinking not 212 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: just of those of us here, perhaps more than it 213 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: should in dealing with this pandemic, but also I think 214 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: it's coloring the thinking of leadership that are making decisions 215 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: for the whole country. They see what's going on in 216 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: New York and there is a tendency to extrapolate that 217 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: to the rest of the nation. I think that's that's 218 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: clearly a mistake. But there's always a balancing of public 219 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: safety with economic needs. We know this. This this is 220 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: a constantly occurring phenomenon, and for anyone says otherwise, they 221 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: then they have to if they're going to be consistent, 222 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: they have to explain why we don't do a two 223 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: or three month business shutdown or even just social distancing 224 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: during flu season when tens of thousand people die. This 225 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: is worse than the flu. I get it. I'm just 226 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: trying to establish the principles that we're working with when 227 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 1: we have a discussion about this right now, if you're 228 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: willing to ask any questions at all, if you're willing 229 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: to say, hold on a second, explain to me why 230 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 1: we should do this, or explain to me what costs 231 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: we're willing to bear. You are shouted down, you're yelled at, 232 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: you are treated like you are a monster. And if 233 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: you're saying I think that we are, we should be 234 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: able to take certainly greater risk in some areas of 235 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: the country, New York would not be one of them, 236 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: in order to get more economic activity going. As I've 237 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: been telling you, you're just they say, blood on your 238 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: hands is what everyone's saying all the time, Blood on 239 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: your hands. We're already we're losing people. That's happening right now. 240 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: We're losing people, and it's a terrible circumstance. But now 241 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: we also see that the economy is we are going 242 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: to look at the numbers that are that are guaranteed 243 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: at this point. I mean, there's no way around it. 244 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: We're going to look at the numbers in the next 245 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: thirty days, and we are in what you would have 246 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: to call a depression right where we're going to be 247 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: in a depression. Here's the upside of this, and I'm 248 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: gonna really trying to be vigilant about you know, I'm 249 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: going to give you the full risk parameters we're working 250 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: within right now. You know, I'm going to try to 251 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: tell it like it is on all this stuff all 252 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: the time. I'm also honest with you and saying this 253 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: is just it's all ad hoc figured out as you go. 254 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: Nobody really understands what the future is going to hold 255 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: with any of this stuff. You know, we could get 256 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: miraculous news about a treatment in the next thirty days 257 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: it changes everything. Or we could be in a series 258 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: of multiple lockdowns for the next eighteen months, and you know, 259 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: we could end up having a pretty high body count 260 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: from this, even with our extreme measures. Right, these are 261 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: both possibilities. I don't know which one is going to happen. 262 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I know which one I'm praying for, 263 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: but I don't know which one is going to happen. 264 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: So we look at this unemployment number, it's it's over 265 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: six over six million, and just based on remember this 266 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: is not unemployment numbers. Often from a from a macro sense, 267 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: people are taking estimates and they look at you know different, 268 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: you know that they're looking at different industries and what's 269 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: affecting it here, and is its seasonal and is there, 270 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: you know, is some industry under particular pressure, and there's 271 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: all this guesswork. There's no guesswork about the unemployment rate. 272 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: In one sense, we know it's going to keep going 273 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: up and up and up. That that's for sure. There 274 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: is no future for the next thirty to sixty days, 275 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: assuming that we don't just decide to turn much of 276 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: the economy back on. There is no future in which 277 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: we see the unemployment rate go anywhere but up, which 278 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: is very concerning where we've you know, the public perception now, 279 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: certainly on the administration and the media's overwhelming perception is 280 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: that things are so bad now with the virus, is 281 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: things are so bad with the virus that there the 282 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: economy just doesn't matter right now. That that's what that's 283 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: what the consensus opinion has been, and that we just 284 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: have to accept that the economy is going to be 285 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: on the economy part of the phrase here is going 286 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: to be on life support. The economy is going to 287 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: be supported by checks from the government for and my friends, 288 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: this I am very confident about. It's going to be 289 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: like this meaning substantial shutdowns and government assistance for at 290 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: least without any cessation, in my opinion, for at least 291 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: the next sixty days. I would bet on the next ninety. 292 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: It's not going to end of April. We're not going 293 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: to see a return to normalcy. That's that's just not realistic, Okay, 294 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: But so we're let's work within what's going And again, 295 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong, you know, but let's work within the 296 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: parameters of where we are right now. How scared should 297 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: we be right now about six point six million unemployed? 298 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: I know, it's it's terrifying that people lost their jobs. 299 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: It's terrifying to the people that are currently wondering how 300 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: they're going to pay their bills. And I'm one thing 301 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: that I am able to see are the stores, the businesses, 302 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: the small businesses that are shut down all over my 303 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: neighborhood that will probably never open again. And I see 304 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: some stuff on the TV from outside the hospitals, but 305 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: I don't see what I don't see the patients the 306 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: same way. And this is one of those your perception 307 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: is influenced by what you can see and what you 308 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: can hear and what is in front of you. I'm 309 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: very aware of the numbers that I'm speaking to doctors 310 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: who are seeing the horrific consequences of COVID nineteen. But 311 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say I am, I am aware 312 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: of the devastation economic and personal devastation to lives and 313 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: the devastation to the economy that's going on right here. 314 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: So now let's let's take a look at on the 315 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: economic side for a moment. Let's take a look at 316 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,239 Speaker 1: what risks we are really running as we see them 317 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: right now. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the 318 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast, all right, So a team instead 319 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: of going through the parade of horribles on the economy. Remember, 320 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: I'm separating out the economy from the terrible death hoole 321 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: that's all around me here in New York City. And 322 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 1: I'm very aware, and I'm talking to people and I 323 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: get this and it's horrible. Okay, I'm talking to the 324 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: economy now. I want to try to present you with 325 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: what the people who are in less how I put 326 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: this properly, who are not don't see catastrophe because of us. 327 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is my view. I've already you 328 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: know my view has been that taking this risk with 329 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: the economy essentially can be a risk to the There's 330 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: a systemic financial risk inherent in all this, and they 331 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 1: could they could essentially crash the American economy and we 332 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 1: can revive it and you have a great depression and 333 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: this country arises that that could happen. I'm not saying 334 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: that will, but I think that the risk, the systemic 335 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: financial risk is absolutely economic. Risk is absolutely enormous. Spy 336 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 1: doing this because it's not gonna for thirty days, Yeah, 337 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: we could probably handle it sixty maybe six months. That's 338 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: that's what it's going to be. I want to give you, though, 339 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: what I have been told on the other side of this, 340 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: and you could come to your own conclusions about where 341 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: we stand on this. Thanks for listening to The Bus 342 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:55,239 Speaker 1: Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the 343 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. But 344 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: even the most challenging of times, Americans do not despair, 345 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: We do not give into fear. We pull together, we persevere, 346 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 1: and we overcome and we win. This week, every American 347 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 1: heart is joined with the people of New York as 348 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: they continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic to 349 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: every New Yorker, Please know that we are by your side. 350 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: I love New York. I love New York too. I 351 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: love this whole country and its people, and I do 352 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: want what's best for all of them. It is deeply 353 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: upsetting to see what's being done to millions of people 354 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: right now, who are seeing their livelihoods evaporate, who are 355 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: seeing their bank accounts drained to zero, who are worried 356 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: about how they provide for their families, the stress, the 357 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: psychological burden of you know, it doesn't matter what's going 358 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: on the economy. I understand if you're the head of 359 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: head of household and you've got you know, a wife 360 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: or a husband that you provide for, and you've got kids, 361 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: this is heavy. This is heavy stuff. I also feel 362 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: terrible seeing and reading the descriptions of p people that 363 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 1: have gone through this virus and are dealing with it, 364 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: you know, have had the symptoms. And we'll talk more 365 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: about about what that's sounding like these days, just because 366 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: it's important for everyone to understand what this does to people, 367 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: what it feels like when you have this, you have 368 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: a better understanding of it. One of the things that 369 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 1: keeps coming up when I'm speaking to doctors that I know. 370 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: One of the doctors is on the front lines told 371 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: me that people are showing up so sick that it's 372 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: very hard to do all that much for them. They 373 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: don't realize how close they are to having their lungs 374 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: completely go and at that point, the viruses progress so far, 375 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: it's very very hard to turn it around. But the 376 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: President's comments here about how we do not give into 377 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: fear and we will rally, this is very important. We 378 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: need to remind ourselves of this on a regular basis, 379 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: because it is easy to give into fear. I have 380 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: I have had some moments here where I'm just a 381 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: little bit, not on this show, but just in life. 382 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: Since this whole thing has happened, I've had a few 383 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: moments of shock. I've had a few moments of I 384 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: can't believe this is going on here, and I have 385 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: to snap out of it, for myself, for my family, 386 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: for my loved ones, and for all of you who 387 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: depend on this show for what it is, and you 388 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:17,439 Speaker 1: know what it is, you know what we do here 389 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: every day. There was a moment yesterday, and I'll try 390 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: to put this on social media so people can see 391 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: I do. I am fortunate, and then I live in 392 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: a small apartment, but I do have a pretty amazing 393 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: view of the city of New York. And it was 394 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: right at sundown yesterday. It was right when the sun 395 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: was setting, and it was a beautiful moment in the city. Visually, 396 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: it's a very tough time here for the city, and 397 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: I don't have I didn't send this to Mark, so 398 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: we don't have perfect aut of this, but you'll kind 399 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: of hear it. I think, you know, as I try 400 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: to play for you, this was a moment of cheering 401 00:21:50,520 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: for medical personnel, first responders, doctors. I was from my window, 402 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 1: and I know the audio wasn't perfect there, but you 403 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: get the idea of people all over Midtown Manhattan, one 404 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: of the most densely populated parts of the most densely 405 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: populated city in the country, that is currently under quarantine, 406 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: full on quarantine lockdown. You we don't call it shelter 407 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: in place, but we're being told shelter in place except 408 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: to get food and for absolute essentials. And then the 409 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: view of it is, every time you leave your home, 410 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: you are taking some degree of risk, even even with 411 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: social distancing and masks and gloves and all all of 412 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: these things that are out there right now, right So 413 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: it was the first time in a while that I'd 414 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: really felt my spirits lift from what was going on 415 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: around me, you know, not including talking to you on 416 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: the show, not including your notes, your support, which which 417 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: means a lot. I it does. It means to me, 418 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: means a lot to Mark. I mean, we're we're in 419 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: the middle of this and when we're trying to do 420 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: the best we can to put out the best show 421 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: possible while all this is happening, but the connection with 422 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: all of you makes us feel like we're never alone. 423 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: Every day we know we're never alone. The team is 424 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: out there, and you know, I know a lot of 425 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: you are. You know, are not not only well armed 426 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: and well stocked, but you live far enough off the 427 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: grid that you know, if if things get really ugly here, 428 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: Mark and Buck are gonna have to put out the 429 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: SOS signal for the whole team and say, you know, 430 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: someone tell us where we can go. Where the Freedom 431 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: Bunker is? Mark, you'd go to the Freedom Bunker, right, 432 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, so where is it? We don't know, 433 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: It's somewhere, you know where some of our audience lives 434 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: out there, you know, I'm sure, isn't there more risk 435 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: of us getting there at this point? I don't know. Man, 436 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: you've seen apocalypse movies. You got to get to the 437 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: you gotta get to like the town that's free or whatever, 438 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: you know, where they've got order and civilization. You've seen 439 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 1: Walking Dead and all that stuff. I know, but in 440 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 1: this situation, they might not let us in. I know 441 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: New Yorkers are I mean, you're from New Jersey, which 442 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: is no better right now, but New Yorkers are considered 443 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 1: My license still says in New York I'm not flying anywhere. 444 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 1: Ah yeah, we are. We are unwelcome in other parts 445 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: of the country these days. So all right, I know, 446 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: I just wanted to share with you. You know, there 447 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: are those little moments now, it's important for all of us, 448 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: those little moments where you can be reminded that there's 449 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: a lot going on in this world, and a lot 450 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: to be thankful and joyful for, even in the midst 451 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: of all of this. And you know, I'm just gonna 452 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: say it. I have more time now to read, more 453 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: time to go back and read the New Testament, do 454 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: things that I feel like I just don't get to 455 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: in my day to day of running around and trying. 456 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: You know, before it was all about how do we 457 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 1: spread the truth and defeat incorrect, destructive, and sometimes even 458 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: evil narratives from the other side, whatever that may be. 459 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: Usually usually it's lips, but often it's other things too. 460 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: And now there where I think we're all taking a 461 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: more existential view of our day to day, which is 462 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: a positive thing. All right, So that's one positive thing. 463 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad stuff out there, but you 464 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: don't need me to tell you about that. Here's here's 465 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: what I'm hearing about. Where we are the economy right now. 466 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: We are suffering, no question about it. We are suffering. 467 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: And for those who are saying things like because I 468 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: understand there's an easy there's an easy approaches. First of all, 469 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I've been very annoyed when I try to 470 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: make the case about unemployment being really dangerous, really bad, 471 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: really really destabilizing. That's a word we're going to be 472 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: using more destabilizing our country. And how we seem to 473 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 1: be taking a New York City approach to the virus 474 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: for the whole country, which I'm sorry, I just I'm 475 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 1: not convinced that that's the best approach. But I want 476 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: everybody who can live to live, all right, and I 477 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 1: got to start from that perspective, and that's that's where 478 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: I Everything that I'm I'm hoping to do is to 479 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: is to maximize life for as many people as possible 480 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: while maintaining freedom and dignity and our future as a country. 481 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: I'm trying to do these things. It's a very complicated, 482 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: very complicated issue. And we see this, you know, I 483 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: think right now that the discussion is not anywhere near 484 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: as open and good faith as it should be because 485 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: some people are exploiting this. I mean, there are certainly 486 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 1: libs in status who are exploiting this and some people. 487 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: But I apologize. If you can hear a little little 488 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: tip tap, little pitter patter of little feet. I haven't 489 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: created secretly an army of little bucks that are running 490 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: around in here, but it is it is too Lula. 491 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: She has she has woken from her slumber and she 492 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: is now wandering around the Freedom Hut and I can't 493 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 1: get her to not can you hear Producer Mark A 494 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: little little tap tap tap, a little tippy taps, A 495 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 1: little tippy taps to lou sit down? See you guys. 496 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,479 Speaker 1: This is what when when the Freedom Hut is out 497 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: of the home. This is the way it's going to 498 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: have to be. It reminds me of the h that video. 499 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 1: It's one of my all time ten favorite viral web 500 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: videos of that guy who did the He did a 501 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 1: hit in South Korea on TV I think for the 502 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: BBC mark. Do you remember this one? Yeah, I think 503 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: it was somebody doing a hit on BBC. It was 504 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: BBC And like a little kid comes bouncing in and 505 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: one of those little baby high chairs that moves, and 506 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: so the little kid comes in on that, and then 507 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: the bigger kid comes like stomping in the room, but 508 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: I think the older sister and then the wife comes 509 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: flying and it's like the great You have never seen it, folks, 510 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: it's the greatest. You know, it's not even really a blooper. 511 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: It's just kind of funny the whole thing. I mean, 512 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: you couldn't have scripted it to be better, and you know, 513 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: we need things like that. Right now, I'm sending around 514 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be a boomer about this, not 515 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: that there's anything wrong with being a boomer, but you know, 516 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: boomers do the forward, forward, forward, thing, I'm trying to 517 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: not do that. Do your parents, Mark, do they do 518 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: they send you like they send you like send this 519 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: chain email? Oh yeah, you get those Facebook messages all 520 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: the time too, from like your older relatives, like don't 521 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: share this or do you activate your Facebook because someone's 522 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: gonna hack into it. Yeah. So I'm trying to, you know, 523 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: to not be not be the guy who's oversharing. But 524 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: if I see anything funny these days, if there's anything 525 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: that's you know, worth, because you know, you need to 526 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 1: spread that that psychological boost for people where they can 527 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: just sort of laugh and forget about things. I saw 528 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: a video making the rounds yesterday of a bear. I 529 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: should send this one to you, Mark. A bear walking 530 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: past a cone and it just makes the cone upright, 531 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: and everyone's like, he's a good citizen bear. Like silly 532 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: things like that. I think I think we all kind 533 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: of need as much as possible. Um. I guess I 534 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: was going to talk to you guys about the economy, 535 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: and I've sort of gotten a little bit sidetracked from that. 536 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: So let me let me redouble my efforts here and 537 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: get into what the reality here is of what the 538 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: government's trying to do you're in the freedom hunt. This 539 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Okay, so here is 540 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: the best case scenario. And I'm not my friends, I'm 541 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: not saying this. I've been somebody who, along with a 542 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: very small handful of people online and on my various 543 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: platforms and shows, have been saying, we need to rethink 544 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: how much damage we're willing to do to the economy 545 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: and for how long? And if you do this, you 546 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: get called, you get called Joseph Stalin a mass murderer. 547 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: I'm just like, can we just I mean, okay, fine, 548 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: we've all agreed now that lockdown is the way to go, 549 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: even though there's we're gonna I'm gonna tell you about 550 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: the Sweden model later. There's some what does lockdown really mean? 551 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: And how long? And the other so much just lockdown 552 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: is feels like a knee jerk response as a as 553 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: a term, right, what is lockdown specifically? Indicator different areas. 554 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: But here here's the economic miracle that they think is 555 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: going to happen. I think it's fair to call it 556 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: a miracle. I mean, if we get through this and 557 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: we don't enter, we're going to be in a depression 558 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: for a few months. But it's an intentional depression. It's 559 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: almost like when you put a body into a medically 560 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: induced coma so that you can then deal with a 561 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: problem that would kill the person otherwise, and then you 562 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: bring the person out of the medically induced coma. The 563 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: way this is supposed to work is that the government 564 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: is going to just keep shoveling money to people. And 565 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: I don't say that disparagingly. The government should. The government 566 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: has said you can't do anything, you're not allowed to 567 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: work your business, and based on the polling I'm seeing, 568 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: you know a lot of people are still working in 569 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: some capacity, but you're not really allowed to. Now. Part 570 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,719 Speaker 1: of the problem is that people are going to realize 571 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: that even if you can work remotely or even if 572 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: you are still going to your job, the reduction in 573 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: the economy is going to start a affecting things even 574 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: for those who are working like wages. I have friends 575 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: who already have received massive pay reductions. Just send an 576 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: email by their company, by the by their employer. Sorry, 577 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: you're not taking a twenty five thirty thirty five percent 578 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: pay cut. Noay, fans or butts, And it's no one's fault, right, 579 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,239 Speaker 1: It's just this is what's going to happen. People are 580 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: getting furloughed, meaning they're not getting paid, but they're at 581 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: least on health insurance. They can be brought back. These 582 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: are the short term measures. If this is short term. 583 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: And again I'm telling you the I'm not making my argument. 584 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking at this saying I think that we're 585 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: we're rolling the dice with the future of the entire 586 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: country in a sense here. But maybe maybe it comes up, 587 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: what's good what do you want on? I don't know 588 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: enough about gambling. What's good on? Die? You don't want snake? Guys, 589 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: I know that that's ones? Do you want sixes? What's 590 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: the best thing with rolling dice? Come on? When you're 591 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: asking the wrong person, I felt like, I feel like 592 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: you are probably one of these guys that doesn't talk 593 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: about it, but you have like a Swede named after 594 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,239 Speaker 1: you in Atlantic City or Vegas or something, and then 595 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: you're like a high roller just way too cheap to gamble. Ah, okay, well, 596 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: whatever the good dice number is, I feel like maybe 597 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: maybe we get that with the economy and this is 598 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: this is what the planet. By the way, please don't 599 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: be mad at me and write me an email or 600 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: write me a note saying book, why do you believe? 601 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: I'm not saying I believe them. I'm just telling you 602 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: what has been explained to me by people who and 603 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: I'm not doing a very good job of explaining it 604 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: today because I'm trying to just not be mister gloom 605 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: and doom. But they are essentially saying that the induced 606 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: comma analogy is what we're talking. Yes, we are going 607 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: to a comma. This is an induced depression, and the 608 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: induced depression is something that they believe once we get 609 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: economic activity going again, we can be pulled out of 610 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: and there will be some there will be some problems, 611 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: and I'll talk a little bit about where that is. 612 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: If you where I see that happening. When I say 613 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: some problems, let me be massive problems. Right. It's tough 614 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: to use the appropriate language here. But will come out 615 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: of this, and what we won't have is a depression 616 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: that stretches and grinds on and on. And you know 617 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: a big part of the depression. People think of the 618 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: stock market of nineteen twenty nine led to the Great Depression. 619 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: That's not true. There were a lot of government actions 620 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: after the stock market went all the way down that 621 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: made the Great Depression much longer and much worse, and 622 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: one of I mean, there's a few people that have 623 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 1: done extensive studies on this, but really a lot of 624 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: the New Deal policies and a lot of what FDR 625 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: did extended the Great Depression made it a lot worse 626 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: than what have otherwise been. Okay, so people don't like 627 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: to hear that. Libs certainly don't want to hear that 628 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: that's the truth. Can we be in an induced depression 629 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: and then just come out of it? I don't have 630 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: an answer for you. I don't know. That's what the 631 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: gamble is right now now. If that's true, if the 632 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: Manuchin Trump administration ploy here, if their strategy plays out 633 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: the way that they have planned it, they're just doing 634 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: this cash infusions to everybody, and within a few months time, 635 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: and it is a few months. Do not. I'm telling 636 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: you right now because I don't want to have to 637 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: have the disappointing show where I'm like, it's the end 638 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: of April, guys, and guess what it's going to don't. 639 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: We're not going back to work until June at the 640 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: earliest in my estimation. Okay, But assuming that they're right, 641 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: then people will be they'll be able to endure until 642 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: that point. Then economic a lot of people get pulled 643 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: back into their companies because they've been paid by those 644 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,800 Speaker 1: companies to not work, because the government's giving their employers 645 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: money to do that. Look, it's a massively common No 646 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: one's ever done this before. I mean, this is this 647 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: is a massively complicated thing. If the Trump administration pulls 648 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: us off, I would note, it is a miracle, and 649 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: they deserve reelection and then some so they're they're thinking 650 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: that they can bring down all this economic activity. It 651 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: is horrifically painful and scary and bad, and it's a 652 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 1: but they're saying the alternative is hundreds of thousands of 653 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: people dead. This is a you know, this is where 654 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,720 Speaker 1: you get into these calculations, these massive societal calculations. These 655 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: you know this uh, very these very tough choices that 656 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: are being made by the government and by individuals how 657 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: much risk they'll take personally. But if they are right, 658 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,240 Speaker 1: this then comes back online and we get growth happening 659 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: pretty quickly, and there'll be some stop start, and there'll 660 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: be some problems, but effectively they will freeze and then 661 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: unfreeze the economy, and I would just there's a lot 662 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: of that comes with that. Um, you know, will they 663 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: try this again in the future. I think the answer 664 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: is yes, will they say it about about the pandemic. 665 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,240 Speaker 1: But I think there also maybe pushes to for the environment, 666 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 1: for the Green New Deal. We need to shut down 667 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,279 Speaker 1: this or that for a while, we need to not 668 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: drive cars for a month. But this is down the line. 669 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: Let's first get past the horrific pandemic virus. That is 670 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: the best case scenario from the other That is what 671 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,399 Speaker 1: they're telling you. I leave it to you right now 672 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: to mull over whether you think that's a better than 673 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: fifty fifty chance of being true. Thanks for listening to 674 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, 675 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. You're 676 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: seeing here. And this is a bigger problem for society 677 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: is information inequality. Like why did the Santists do what 678 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: he did? Why did Georgia wait so long? It's because 679 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: they were listening to President Trump up until the last 680 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: five or six days. They were watching Fox News, they 681 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 1: were listening to Rush Limbo, and they were following conservatives 682 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: on Twitter or social media, all of whom were down 683 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 1: playing this, so people the information was there, but in 684 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,840 Speaker 1: that information bubble, they were basically getting a lot of 685 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: sort of noise in news pollution. And it has huge 686 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: consequences because all of these steps would you guys talk 687 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: about on the show every day, could have been done 688 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: months ago, certainly could have been done weeks ago. Yeah, 689 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: hindsight is twenty twenty. Jim Van de Hay from Axios. 690 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: A lot of things should have been done, A lot 691 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: of things I think people will think should have been 692 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 1: done when we finally see the consequences of this freeze 693 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: and unfreeze the economy maneuver. I hope I'm wrong. I 694 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. I hope that this is that the 695 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: same member, the same people, the same institutions that did 696 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: not see essentially a meltdown of the economy in two 697 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,880 Speaker 1: thousand and eight coming now we're telling you don't worry, 698 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: we can just stop start the economy, no problem, nbd, NBD. 699 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 1: As the kids say, all right, well, we'll see, we'll 700 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: see what ends up happening with that. But in terms 701 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,879 Speaker 1: of the pandemic preparations and what we've been what we've 702 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: been doing here to fight against this virus. I've been 703 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,240 Speaker 1: saying to you if this was, if it was known, 704 00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: how scary this would be in terms of the virus 705 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 1: is spread and how dangerous it is for people who 706 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:05,880 Speaker 1: get it. I do think there would have been a 707 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,479 Speaker 1: different approach. I think everyone admits that now. But how 708 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 1: could we have known. The people that are saying this 709 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: was obvious now are lying. They're lying. You know there 710 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: are people like me who will tell you there was 711 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 1: bad information. We didn't know it was as terrible as 712 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,959 Speaker 1: it was going to bed. Was anyone saying, here, here's 713 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: the perfect test, go back a month in time. Was 714 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,480 Speaker 1: anyone saying, shut down the entirety of the US economy 715 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 1: minus some essential personnel and feels to keep us fed 716 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: and alive. Was anyone saying that. Do you hear a 717 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,399 Speaker 1: single person All these people are, Oh, yeah, that's where 718 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,800 Speaker 1: we are now. Shut it down, Shut it all down, 719 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: that's what they've That's the doctor Fauci saying he wants 720 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,960 Speaker 1: at the national level, whole country shut down for two weeks. 721 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,880 Speaker 1: And I keep seeing people that pop up with this, 722 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: if we could only stay in place for fourteen days, 723 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,280 Speaker 1: we would see a huge drop off in the virus. 724 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 1: If no one left their home, if no one did 725 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 1: anything for fourteen days, we'd see a huge hrump off 726 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: in the virus. And this I say, Okay, let's say 727 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,160 Speaker 1: we had a ninety percent drop off in the virus. 728 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: That would be amazing, right, What of that? So then 729 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,879 Speaker 1: if we stop doing the sit in place thing, we 730 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: have what happened with the ten percent of virus that's left. 731 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,680 Speaker 1: It starts to spread again. You say, oh, we can 732 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: contain that that. I would just say, how many times? 733 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,319 Speaker 1: How do we contain it? Go back into lockdown? We're 734 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: going to be in this lockdown groundhog Day scenario Groundhog 735 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,640 Speaker 1: Day of the movie, right, which if you haven't seen, 736 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 1: it's a grade one to watch, given that we're all 737 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 1: kind of living the same day over and over now. 738 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: But Van der hay here saying that the Red States 739 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:49,760 Speaker 1: were slow to respond. I just find this annoying and untrue. 740 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: The Red States weren't slow to respond based on first 741 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,719 Speaker 1: as we know, the places that are the worst hit 742 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: so far are generally the very very loose states. And 743 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: this isn't a political issue. This isn't oh you're a 744 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: Republican or you're a Democrats, are you're more or less 745 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: likely to get this. It's places with higher population density 746 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 1: are getting hit. Higher population density and more international travel 747 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 1: have been hit the hardest. With the one exception is Washington, 748 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: where where where there is a population density and there 749 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: are were issues of international travel, but that was a 750 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: little bit of an outlier comparatively to what we're seeing 751 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,520 Speaker 1: in New York and these other cities that are in very, 752 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:36,120 Speaker 1: very tough, tough shape right now. So the Red States, though, 753 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 1: it's it's understandable based on everything we've been told by 754 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 1: the experts, which we've been told so much. And I'm 755 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,359 Speaker 1: always amazing people that get mad at me when I 756 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,919 Speaker 1: point out if I say, hey, the experts have changed 757 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 1: their mind on this, you're a bad person for pointing 758 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,759 Speaker 1: out that they've changed their mind. We are supposed to 759 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 1: believe they're almost like the high priests of social health 760 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,240 Speaker 1: now or the high priests of of our collective safety. 761 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 1: And if you say, well, hold on that, they have 762 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: so many things they don't know. There's so many questions. 763 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 1: It's like you're questioning their whole religion of science, which 764 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,719 Speaker 1: I'm certainly not doing. I want the science to save 765 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,040 Speaker 1: us here. We need the science to save us. We 766 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: need a treatment. People keep talking about vaccines. I just 767 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,680 Speaker 1: if we have to wait for a vaccine, I mean, 768 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,399 Speaker 1: this is a society is going to change so much 769 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 1: the next eighteen months, and it's not vaccines that'll save us, 770 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,560 Speaker 1: it's treatment, right, What would what would you rather? What 771 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: would you rather have a guarantee in a year of 772 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,640 Speaker 1: something that they could inject you with that would protect 773 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 1: you going forward from getting this virus knowing that we 774 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,160 Speaker 1: have to be in lockdown effectively for the next twelve months, 775 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,880 Speaker 1: or a drug that can be given to people that 776 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:51,839 Speaker 1: come down with this that brings the mortality rate, you know, 777 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,920 Speaker 1: down to below where the common flu is, which is 778 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 1: not where the disease is now, and also means that 779 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: for those who aren't in the high risk atagory, you're 780 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 1: probably going to be sick for you know, five six, 781 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 1: seven days, no hospitalization, You're done. I think we all 782 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,360 Speaker 1: know the answer to this question, right, So the treatment 783 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:13,959 Speaker 1: is much more likely to be a game changer. That well, 784 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 1: much more likely in the short term, because there is 785 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,760 Speaker 1: no short term for the vaccine to be a game changer. 786 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,320 Speaker 1: So I'm all in on the treatments. Man, I'm like police, 787 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 1: one of these things. It's got to work, okay. But 788 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,919 Speaker 1: Van he's saying that this is a red state, blue 789 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,799 Speaker 1: state thing. It's just the numbers don't back this up. 790 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 1: And it's it's understandable why Wyoming wouldn't feel the need 791 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,759 Speaker 1: to have the same degree of precautions as New York 792 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: City or Chicago or Louisiana. And it's the densest parts 793 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,799 Speaker 1: of these cities, the places with the greatest concentration of 794 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,320 Speaker 1: people where you're seeing the worst spread of the disease. 795 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,440 Speaker 1: You know, parts of Brooklyn and Queens that are very 796 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,439 Speaker 1: very tightly packed have a you know, whereas there are 797 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,920 Speaker 1: Staten Island, for example, is more spread out, more diffuse 798 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,719 Speaker 1: Borrow Here in New York you just you have far 799 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,880 Speaker 1: fewer cases and there are less people. But even on 800 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:11,800 Speaker 1: a per capita basis, human contact, constant human contact is 801 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:16,279 Speaker 1: a big component of this, meaning that you're coming, you know, 802 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,280 Speaker 1: you're getting close to people that could give you the disease. 803 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 1: So I think that this keeps saying red state, blue state, 804 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 1: right left paradigm that they're talking about isn't really accurate. 805 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,360 Speaker 1: And it's also just cheap to try and blame people 806 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,360 Speaker 1: who what do they really they really think that the 807 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,839 Speaker 1: biggest names on the right wing media don't care about 808 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,600 Speaker 1: their listeners, wouldn't want to tell them. This is the 809 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:43,319 Speaker 1: greatest refutation that I've seen of the Scarborough Oh we 810 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,239 Speaker 1: got we got another another dumb Scarborough comment on this one. 811 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, whose whole game is his whole existence, is 812 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,440 Speaker 1: to be a I don't know if he's a former 813 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 1: Republican now, but for years and years and years he's 814 00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:00,279 Speaker 1: a Republican who really only has criticism for Republicans. Can't 815 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,839 Speaker 1: imagine waking up and doing a job that involves that 816 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,120 Speaker 1: much debasement of what I supposedly believe in every but 817 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,040 Speaker 1: this is where, this is where he is playing a 818 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,080 Speaker 1: play clip nine. You know it is true what Jim 819 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,799 Speaker 1: saying is. Yeah, there's still so much garbage out there 820 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,040 Speaker 1: every day. And now a lot of the more extreme 821 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,080 Speaker 1: Trumpets are doing everything they can to try to defend 822 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,160 Speaker 1: the President and his extraordinarily slow start, trying to pretend 823 00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:34,160 Speaker 1: that the Intel committees are that the Intel community. His 824 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,160 Speaker 1: own Intel community warn't him starting in January about this 825 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,600 Speaker 1: coming pandemic. It could be a pandemic, it could be 826 00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: very dangerous. The Department of HHS Secretary Asar was trying 827 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,160 Speaker 1: to see him for two weeks and the President wouldn't 828 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,120 Speaker 1: seem And when he finally saw him in the middle 829 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,120 Speaker 1: of January to talk about the pandemic, the President only 830 00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,520 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about vaping. What was going on in 831 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,280 Speaker 1: the middle of January. That's right, the psychotic lib Democrat 832 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,400 Speaker 1: impeachment of the president over nothing. Does anyone think that 833 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: that was really substantial enough for impeachment? Now, now that 834 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,840 Speaker 1: we see what is truly substantial as an issue of 835 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,640 Speaker 1: national concern, what that can look like? The quid pro 836 00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: quo phone call to Ukraine that was going to involve 837 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,719 Speaker 1: you know, Joe Biden maybe through his I mean, this 838 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,120 Speaker 1: is it was absurd, It's absurd. One thing about this 839 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,719 Speaker 1: pandemic that has I think been very clarifying is that 840 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,760 Speaker 1: the issues that we were told were of grave national 841 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,120 Speaker 1: importance before the things we were being told we needed 842 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:43,000 Speaker 1: to really pay very close. This was absurd. This is laughable. 843 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,440 Speaker 1: The Russia collusion thing, all of this, all of now 844 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:50,319 Speaker 1: we know what's really important, and this is what this 845 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 1: dwarfs those other issues. This is not even close. So anyway, 846 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,440 Speaker 1: I'm I sit here and I'm still flabber Guess did 847 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:05,200 Speaker 1: fun word to say by how ridiculous the media continues 848 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,239 Speaker 1: to be on all of these issues, and that they 849 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,200 Speaker 1: pretend that Donald Trump was such a slow start. But 850 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 1: but the best refutation that I've seen of Scarborough on 851 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,640 Speaker 1: this is if he knew, as he claimed yesterday, he 852 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,600 Speaker 1: knew this was coming. I've told you, I didn't know 853 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:19,840 Speaker 1: it was going to be this bad. I've told you 854 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know that we would face a disease that 855 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,839 Speaker 1: if people get this in there in the high risk 856 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:31,320 Speaker 1: category in particular, the progression is vicious and it's brutal 857 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,759 Speaker 1: and it can kill people quickly. And I didn't know, 858 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: because how could I have known. They're claiming now that 859 00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,800 Speaker 1: they did know. Well, I can tell you this, my friends, 860 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 1: if I thought that this was going to shut down 861 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,440 Speaker 1: the economy, shut down the country, and it was going 862 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,759 Speaker 1: to be something that thousands and thousands of people would 863 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,400 Speaker 1: die from, and there was a chance that an early 864 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,520 Speaker 1: warning might have saved lives, who would I be if 865 00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 1: I didn't tell, If I didn't use my platform to 866 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,719 Speaker 1: tell as many people as possible to make those preparations. 867 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,520 Speaker 1: And here's the problem that Joe Scarborough has. He claims 868 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,440 Speaker 1: he knew this was coming, but he did nothing, But 869 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:10,440 Speaker 1: he did nothing to warn his audience. Yeah, Tucker Carlson 870 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,600 Speaker 1: flew down to Marrow Lago as we know, and spoke 871 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,200 Speaker 1: the Trump and said, look, you've really got to get 872 00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,319 Speaker 1: all this. This is this is worse than people are 873 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,000 Speaker 1: telling you. And you know, Tucker gets all the credit 874 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,280 Speaker 1: for that, but he did it. He took that action. 875 00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,080 Speaker 1: We know that. And that wasn't in January, it was 876 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,200 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, but it was still very worthwhile. 877 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,640 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's just being a phony, it's being a fraud. 878 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,000 Speaker 1: But the Trump hatred here hasn't receded. In fact, it's 879 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,560 Speaker 1: only more extreme what you're going to see. And this 880 00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:39,279 Speaker 1: is going to be troubling among many other troubling things. 881 00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,200 Speaker 1: But now, you know, it used to be that the 882 00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:47,560 Speaker 1: things they hated Trump for were entirely really rhetorical, because 883 00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:51,200 Speaker 1: Trump didn't start a war that was unnecessary Trump, you know, 884 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,440 Speaker 1: we didn't have some enormous mass casualty terror attack on 885 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,880 Speaker 1: his watch. But now the rhetoric is going to be 886 00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: Trump Trump killed people with his ineptitude, his stupidity, whatever 887 00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: it may be. Trump has blood on his hands. They've 888 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,120 Speaker 1: been waiting for this moment. They've been just sitting around 889 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,480 Speaker 1: hoping that the opportunity will present itself for them to 890 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:20,080 Speaker 1: be able to accuse Trump of costing lives. People are 891 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,040 Speaker 1: dead because of Trump. Is going to be there their 892 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,680 Speaker 1: rallying cry going in the election, no matter what he does, 893 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,520 Speaker 1: no matter what the fact show, it doesn't matter. People 894 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,120 Speaker 1: are dead because of Trump. This is the bushlied babies 895 00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:35,680 Speaker 1: died of twenty twenty. Because you know, these Democrats, the 896 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,560 Speaker 1: thought of Trump, Yeah, I mean this for them was 897 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:45,000 Speaker 1: a total black swan incident that derailed the would have 898 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,160 Speaker 1: been Trump easily sailing to reelection and we all know it, 899 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,359 Speaker 1: buffoonish Joe Biden was going to beat him. No way. 900 00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,880 Speaker 1: Now now, with an economy that's fantastic and a country 901 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,920 Speaker 1: relative piece, now that we see what we're dealing with, 902 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,920 Speaker 1: as I was telling you the lives, pretending things were 903 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,880 Speaker 1: bad six months ago, a year ago, Oh, the country, 904 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,120 Speaker 1: it's terrible. Trump, What a bunch of liars. Why would 905 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,960 Speaker 1: they have any credibility on any of this? The country 906 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:16,280 Speaker 1: was in fantastic shape six months three months ago. Well, yeah, 907 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:20,080 Speaker 1: basically six months ago, a year ago, eighteen months ago, 908 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:22,560 Speaker 1: and I was telling you that. Now you gotta give 909 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 1: me credit for that. I was saying, guys, things are 910 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,920 Speaker 1: really good. Don't listen to anybody who says otherwise. And 911 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,680 Speaker 1: now people are like, oh, fuck, you were right. Yeah, 912 00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 1: of course I gotta remind myself I'm right about something. 913 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,400 Speaker 1: So as I've been telling you, I'm very angry. I 914 00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,040 Speaker 1: didn't see this one coming more than I did. But 915 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:40,719 Speaker 1: I'll get it right going forward, that's for sure. I think, Oh, 916 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,480 Speaker 1: Bertie Sanders, here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about. It. 917 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,880 Speaker 1: It's just sometimes I'm in a thought process and the 918 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,800 Speaker 1: exact right SoundBite that I need appears on my list 919 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,160 Speaker 1: of sound here that prucing Mark Poles play clip ten. 920 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 1: Instead of rowling the American people, instead of rouling the 921 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,239 Speaker 1: scientific community, instead of educating the American people about the 922 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,440 Speaker 1: need for social distancing and the other things that we 923 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:09,120 Speaker 1: have to do, I think is in action has cost 924 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:13,560 Speaker 1: the lives of many many American Here you go, people 925 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,160 Speaker 1: are dead because of Trump. That's going to be the 926 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,080 Speaker 1: story they're going to stick to it. People are dead 927 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,000 Speaker 1: because of Trump. You're going to hear this. This is 928 00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,160 Speaker 1: the people are dead because of Trump. So vote for 929 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, the guy that no one even knows if 930 00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:32,160 Speaker 1: he's going to be able to just mentally process what 931 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,959 Speaker 1: he needs to to do this job. But Trump, people 932 00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,160 Speaker 1: are dead because of Trump. No one ever said that 933 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 1: people were dead because of Obama with H one N one, 934 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:45,400 Speaker 1: with what a fifteen or twenty thousand Americans dying from that? No, no, 935 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,239 Speaker 1: that wasn't the claim that was made, certainly not on 936 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,799 Speaker 1: the press. But already people are dead because of Trump. 937 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:56,160 Speaker 1: That's that's their reelection bumper sticker, and it's it's unfair, 938 00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,160 Speaker 1: and that's an gentle way of putting it. It's bs. 939 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,279 Speaker 1: But they don't care. They want power, as we know 940 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:08,640 Speaker 1: they want power. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is 941 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:16,000 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. President and the Senate Majority 942 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:20,719 Speaker 1: leader are now suggesting that impeachment distracted the president from 943 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,319 Speaker 1: responding to the virus. Do you buy that at all? 944 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,920 Speaker 1: I think that's an admission that perhaps the president and 945 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,520 Speaker 1: the majority leader cannot handle the job. We have a 946 00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,400 Speaker 1: life and death situation in our country and they should 947 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,640 Speaker 1: not try to hide behind an excuse for why they 948 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,319 Speaker 1: did not take action, But it does admit that they 949 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,600 Speaker 1: did not take action. But let's for an after action 950 00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:46,479 Speaker 1: review down the road. Right now, we have to work 951 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,120 Speaker 1: together to get the job done. And all of the 952 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,320 Speaker 1: statistics that we are hearing break. Every one of those deaths, 953 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,200 Speaker 1: every all of that loss of life is tragic for 954 00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,360 Speaker 1: our country. Why does anybody listen to Nancy Pelosi on 955 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,799 Speaker 1: any of this? Isn't that a fair question to ask? 956 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,279 Speaker 1: Why does why does Nancy Pelosi? I mean, I know 957 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,280 Speaker 1: she's a Speaker of the House, so of course there, 958 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,440 Speaker 1: but I mean, why does she have any credibility? I 959 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,960 Speaker 1: think the answer is clearly, if you're being fair, she 960 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,920 Speaker 1: doesn't have any credibility. She's the person that wanted to 961 00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,799 Speaker 1: play games. She is the person who was trying to 962 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:24,200 Speaker 1: use this moment of absolute national crisis to advance a 963 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 1: left wing agenda while the American people are really hurting. 964 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,040 Speaker 1: Let's let's remember this. You know, I gave you before 965 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,880 Speaker 1: the the induced coma of our economy analogy which I 966 00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,839 Speaker 1: think is actually a very solid analogy which I just 967 00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,920 Speaker 1: came up with. So there's that. But I gave you that, 968 00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,680 Speaker 1: and remember that, you know, Nancy Pelosi and some of 969 00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:48,080 Speaker 1: the other Democrats and Republicans on this. But they're the 970 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,080 Speaker 1: doctors that have to bring the person out of that 971 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,560 Speaker 1: coma right. They they're involved in this, their legislation, their 972 00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:58,400 Speaker 1: ability to understand where the pain points are in the economy, 973 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,200 Speaker 1: and then the bureaucracy as well. They're kind of like 974 00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,600 Speaker 1: the you know, the nurses in this analogy. They've got 975 00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,560 Speaker 1: to get the checks to people, they've got to due 976 00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:11,360 Speaker 1: So how exactly should we gauge that in this whole process. 977 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,640 Speaker 1: But Pelosi never missing an opportunity to make it partisan 978 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,520 Speaker 1: when it shouldn't be. Here's Pelosi saying that if impeachment 979 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,839 Speaker 1: was a distraction, Trump is admitting that he wasn't up 980 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,319 Speaker 1: for this. Oh, I'm sorry. This This is like when 981 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,279 Speaker 1: someone would if someone brings you into it in the 982 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,759 Speaker 1: office and says, explain to me why you shouldn't be 983 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,640 Speaker 1: fired right now, and then they say, hey, you know, 984 00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,000 Speaker 1: you missed some of the TPS reports from today. I'm 985 00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,839 Speaker 1: just you know, oh, yeah, of course you did. Of 986 00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,480 Speaker 1: course you did. But Pelosi doesn't see it that way, 987 00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,439 Speaker 1: because she's ridiculous. Play fifteen here, well to June, let's 988 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,439 Speaker 1: put that in perspective. Everybody says, oh, it's the biggest bill. 989 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,920 Speaker 1: It was comparable to what the President and the Republicans 990 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,960 Speaker 1: did with their tax scam to give eighty three percent 991 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,040 Speaker 1: of the benefits to the top one percent in our 992 00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:00,160 Speaker 1: country that was over with interest. It would close to 993 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,720 Speaker 1: two trillion dollars bill that didn't create jobs, only added 994 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,320 Speaker 1: to the national debt. So let's not make it sound 995 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,719 Speaker 1: like this is something so exhorbitant. It's for a much 996 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:15,960 Speaker 1: better purpose. It is investing in people what is absolutely 997 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,640 Speaker 1: urgently needed. But again, we need more, and we can't 998 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,359 Speaker 1: just stop and say, well, since we have only spent 999 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,319 Speaker 1: as much as we spent on the tax bill, we 1000 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,759 Speaker 1: can't spend anymore. No, Oh, there's so much to work 1001 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,800 Speaker 1: through here. Thanks for listening to the bus Ess and 1002 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:36,640 Speaker 1: Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, 1003 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,440 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. I want to talk 1004 00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:44,000 Speaker 1: about this new talk of an infrastructure bill in Congress 1005 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,359 Speaker 1: to get people back to work. What would that look like? 1006 00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,799 Speaker 1: Who would it put back to work? And are you 1007 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:55,319 Speaker 1: taking into consideration green jobs, green infrastructure. Yes, if we're 1008 00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,560 Speaker 1: going to look the COVID Ford can probably be more 1009 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,120 Speaker 1: forward looking at the and if we're going to do infrastructure, 1010 00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,120 Speaker 1: because there's nothing better than getting the infrastructure going and 1011 00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,920 Speaker 1: going in a big, strong way. We need it big, 1012 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,160 Speaker 1: we needed bold, and we need a futuristic which means green. 1013 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:16,640 Speaker 1: There's traditional infrastructure, roads, bridges, highways, we need that, but 1014 00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,880 Speaker 1: we also need new green infrastructure for the future, so 1015 00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,000 Speaker 1: we should do that. So this is another component of 1016 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:26,240 Speaker 1: what we're talking about. I before was saying to you 1017 00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:31,239 Speaker 1: that we're being told to take it on faith that 1018 00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,320 Speaker 1: there can do this freeze unfreeze economy. And I know 1019 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,239 Speaker 1: I've repeated that a bunch, but just just to put 1020 00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:39,279 Speaker 1: this in context for them about to take us, we 1021 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,080 Speaker 1: also should understand right now that while we are all 1022 00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:47,120 Speaker 1: deeply concerned, crisis is opportunity. We know this always right. 1023 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,200 Speaker 1: Or if you are a Game of Thrones fan, which 1024 00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,320 Speaker 1: apparently a lot of people are because brucer Mark, you 1025 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:52,759 Speaker 1: know that that was the as of at least a 1026 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:56,840 Speaker 1: week ago, that was number one streaming globally Game of Thrones. Hboh, 1027 00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:58,799 Speaker 1: yeah you mentioned the last week. That doesn't surprise me. 1028 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,440 Speaker 1: People catching up? I forgot that I mentioned that, Sorry, 1029 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,640 Speaker 1: but yeah, no, it's I mean, if you want to 1030 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:07,239 Speaker 1: just like spend one hundred hours of your life not 1031 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,800 Speaker 1: thinking about anything other than you know, Cercy Lanister versus 1032 00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:12,640 Speaker 1: the stars. So yeah, it's a pretty good shrew to watch. 1033 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:15,560 Speaker 1: What the heck was I talking about? A second ago? 1034 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,000 Speaker 1: I got on the Game of Thrones tangent, and now 1035 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:23,560 Speaker 1: I lost Schumer. Schumer, thank you. So Schumer is telling us, 1036 00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,560 Speaker 1: you know that the next Chaos is a ladder, was 1037 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:27,720 Speaker 1: what I was thinking about with a little finger. Chaos 1038 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,400 Speaker 1: is a ladder, you know. And that's and and chaos. 1039 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,160 Speaker 1: The Democrats certainly see as an opportunity to ram through 1040 00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,040 Speaker 1: things like the Green New Deal to get things that 1041 00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,880 Speaker 1: they want because the federal purse is open now in 1042 00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:42,359 Speaker 1: a way that it never has been before. Really, I mean, 1043 00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,680 Speaker 1: we're this has never been done. So there's going to 1044 00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,160 Speaker 1: be a sense that modern monetary theory Mike is getting 1045 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:51,920 Speaker 1: to try out here in a weird way. Remember MMT, 1046 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:56,280 Speaker 1: I think I've mentioned this before. MMT is the idea 1047 00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,239 Speaker 1: that a government can just create money, and as long 1048 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,480 Speaker 1: as it keeps an eye on inflation and tries to 1049 00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,640 Speaker 1: control it, the government should just create money for whatever 1050 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,040 Speaker 1: it thinks is essential and just do it now. Some 1051 00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,399 Speaker 1: of you might say, but that's and they say, well, 1052 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,520 Speaker 1: government already does that. But there's always within these limitations 1053 00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:16,240 Speaker 1: of what is GDP, how much money is already in circulation, 1054 00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,720 Speaker 1: what is inflation. They're they're looking at all these different 1055 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,840 Speaker 1: stats and pulling very trying to pull very specific levers 1056 00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,600 Speaker 1: about what they're going to do to the economy. MMT 1057 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,640 Speaker 1: is just we need three trillion dollars of infrastructure, right 1058 00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,680 Speaker 1: the check and then you know, figure it out and 1059 00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,680 Speaker 1: do what you gotta do, but write the check. We 1060 00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:36,520 Speaker 1: are in write the check status right now with the 1061 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,000 Speaker 1: federal government, which is concerning to those of us who 1062 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,480 Speaker 1: have been for years now, for decades, some people have 1063 00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,520 Speaker 1: been beating the drum Ron Paul perhaps most famously, there 1064 00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:50,320 Speaker 1: are others. The debt is a problem. The debt can 1065 00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:54,840 Speaker 1: consume us like this, and mathematically we know they're correct, 1066 00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,880 Speaker 1: but we are going to have that. There's the short 1067 00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:05,840 Speaker 1: term restart the economy challenge, and as I said, I 1068 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,840 Speaker 1: think it'll probably be in June that they even try, 1069 00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:10,600 Speaker 1: not not full on, but that they even try to 1070 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,720 Speaker 1: get things gone. But there's a shorter term restart the 1071 00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,920 Speaker 1: economy challenge, and then there's the longer term structural challenge 1072 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,080 Speaker 1: of not only the debt that we will have accumulated 1073 00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,640 Speaker 1: from really trying to do what is necessary here, get 1074 00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,000 Speaker 1: people their checks. Oh please, I've been meaning to say this. 1075 00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,440 Speaker 1: Those of you that are suffering right now economically from this, 1076 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:32,400 Speaker 1: those of you whose businesses I need to hear from you. 1077 00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,240 Speaker 1: I need your I'm in New York. I have a 1078 00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:41,920 Speaker 1: very particular personal experience of this crisis, which is ninety 1079 00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,840 Speaker 1: nine percent focused on the virus, one percent focused on 1080 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,680 Speaker 1: the economy. I'm talking about around me here in New 1081 00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:50,360 Speaker 1: York City, it's ninety and because we're losing so many people, 1082 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:55,320 Speaker 1: it's ninety nine percent virus, one percent economy. I know 1083 00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,760 Speaker 1: a lot of other places there's a different, different balance, 1084 00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,640 Speaker 1: and I need to hear from you. I need to 1085 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,560 Speaker 1: hear from you in Austin. I need to hear from 1086 00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:09,360 Speaker 1: you in Los Angeles. I wan't know what's going on 1087 00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,520 Speaker 1: and going on out there in Denver. How is Denver 1088 00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,880 Speaker 1: doing with this? I need to hear from you in Baltimore. 1089 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,200 Speaker 1: How is the Baltimore area handling this? I need to 1090 00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,440 Speaker 1: hear from you all across the country. Please write in, 1091 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,320 Speaker 1: especially if your business is shut down, if you've been furloughed, 1092 00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:26,920 Speaker 1: if you're out of work. And I mean this, I 1093 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:28,560 Speaker 1: don't want two or three of you to let me know. 1094 00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,120 Speaker 1: I want a lot of you to let me know, 1095 00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:36,760 Speaker 1: because I can get from that mosaic that inflow of 1096 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,520 Speaker 1: data from all of you across the country. It keeps 1097 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:43,240 Speaker 1: me more in touch with what's really happening across This 1098 00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,880 Speaker 1: is what So, yes, I read all of your notes 1099 00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:47,640 Speaker 1: and comments, and I try to do as much as 1100 00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,840 Speaker 1: I can to keep in touch with you virtually so 1101 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:52,840 Speaker 1: that I'm doing the best job I can on the show, 1102 00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:56,160 Speaker 1: that's for sure. But also it really is part of 1103 00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,840 Speaker 1: my education. I don't know what's happened opening right now 1104 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,320 Speaker 1: in San Diego. Tell me right, so please do. Facebook 1105 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,040 Speaker 1: dot com, slash buck Sexton or the email is Teambucket. 1106 01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:12,040 Speaker 1: iHeartMedia dot com, Instagram. I'm increasingly active on Instagram. It's 1107 01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,200 Speaker 1: just Buck Sexton, and I know a lot of you 1108 01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,360 Speaker 1: are on Instagram these days. You send me a message, 1109 01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,080 Speaker 1: and just if I don't reply, don't take that personally. 1110 01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,560 Speaker 1: We just we get hundreds and hundreds of messages coming 1111 01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:26,120 Speaker 1: in every day. I will read it, though, I will 1112 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,080 Speaker 1: read it even the mean ones, pruser, Mark, that's your job, 1113 01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,240 Speaker 1: though you have to read the mean ones. I read 1114 01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,720 Speaker 1: all of them, uck, I know, I know, even the ones, 1115 01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,320 Speaker 1: even the ones that bring it tear to my eye, 1116 01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,720 Speaker 1: not tears of joy. So okay, back to the economy. 1117 01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:42,280 Speaker 1: The problem here is that you're going to have this 1118 01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,360 Speaker 1: open checkbook phenomenon, and Democrats are going to say that 1119 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,960 Speaker 1: they're gonna want to push for things that clearly aren't 1120 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,640 Speaker 1: tied to this problem of the virus and the immediate 1121 01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,040 Speaker 1: economic effects. They're there. They want to do infrastructure. I 1122 01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:57,240 Speaker 1: think Trump has actually said he wants to do infrastructure too. 1123 01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,840 Speaker 1: You know, we are repeating we're gonna have a whole debate, 1124 01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:02,800 Speaker 1: not right now, but in the months they had a 1125 01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,960 Speaker 1: whole debate about the Green I'm sorry, not the Green well, 1126 01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,720 Speaker 1: the Green New Deal, but also the New Deal, because 1127 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,960 Speaker 1: part of the Green New Deal back and forth is 1128 01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,920 Speaker 1: going to be didn't what was the lesson of the 1129 01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,120 Speaker 1: new Deal? Was this something that we want to replicate? 1130 01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,000 Speaker 1: Liberals will say yes, I don't think I don't think 1131 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,080 Speaker 1: that they I don't think that that's something that we 1132 01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,920 Speaker 1: should just concede because I think they're wrong. So this 1133 01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:30,480 Speaker 1: is going to be quite a fight. But the trillions 1134 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:31,800 Speaker 1: of dollars we're going to be told we have to 1135 01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,760 Speaker 1: spend on infrastructure, a lot of it will go to 1136 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,480 Speaker 1: green new deal stuff. And this is the paradox that 1137 01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,000 Speaker 1: I can already see forming. And this is a prediction 1138 01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,160 Speaker 1: that I'm very confident in. I would say, Hi, if 1139 01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,120 Speaker 1: I was back in the CIA days, I'd say high 1140 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:51,880 Speaker 1: confidence in this prediction that the normal person response to 1141 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,800 Speaker 1: what's going on now, if we're taking lessons learned about 1142 01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:56,720 Speaker 1: how we go forward and where we spend our time 1143 01:01:56,720 --> 01:02:00,320 Speaker 1: and energy and dollars. When it comes to science, the 1144 01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,880 Speaker 1: normal person response would be this is a real problem, 1145 01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,840 Speaker 1: which I have said, I've actually said this before in 1146 01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,280 Speaker 1: the show, that the pandemic disease is a real problem. 1147 01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:13,840 Speaker 1: Any biotic resistant bacteria is a real problem. Climate change 1148 01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,520 Speaker 1: is not a real problem, not one that needs to 1149 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,280 Speaker 1: be dealt with as any kind of emergency. They will say, 1150 01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,160 Speaker 1: look at what happened because you didn't listen to us, 1151 01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,000 Speaker 1: And I know that's not the truth, but they'll say, 1152 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,200 Speaker 1: look at what happened because you didn't listen to us 1153 01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,840 Speaker 1: on on pandemic disease. You know you didn't deal with 1154 01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:32,760 Speaker 1: this as well as say the Obama administration did ef 1155 01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,320 Speaker 1: they're going to rewrite the history of all of this. Now, 1156 01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:39,080 Speaker 1: you must listen to us on the Green New Deal 1157 01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:42,120 Speaker 1: and get ahead of this so that we don't have 1158 01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,919 Speaker 1: the massive flooding and earthquakes and fire and brimstone and 1159 01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,080 Speaker 1: you know, frogs falling from the sky whatever. They well, 1160 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,040 Speaker 1: they that's biblical stuff, so they wouldn't like that. But 1161 01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:54,600 Speaker 1: I mean the other scary environmental things that they say 1162 01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:59,680 Speaker 1: are going to happen, so be prepared for that. This 1163 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,840 Speaker 1: is where we are going. This is where we are 1164 01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:06,440 Speaker 1: heading in this discussion, and a huge debt makes it 1165 01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,480 Speaker 1: harder to get your economy going, especially if we have 1166 01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,760 Speaker 1: a normalization of interest rates. Right now, interest rates are 1167 01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,400 Speaker 1: effectively zero. We may go to negative interest rates pretty soon, 1168 01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,680 Speaker 1: although there's debate as to whether that will happen. But 1169 01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,920 Speaker 1: having a huge debt for the economy is going to 1170 01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,560 Speaker 1: be a drag on us getting going again. We know 1171 01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:27,160 Speaker 1: that that's going to be a problem for us, will it? 1172 01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:30,000 Speaker 1: You know, are we going to face some kind of 1173 01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,560 Speaker 1: a collapse moment though, or we lose the dollar as 1174 01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,240 Speaker 1: the reserve currency for the world. I spoke to. I 1175 01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:38,200 Speaker 1: mentioned this. I spoke to a very smart economic advisor, 1176 01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,120 Speaker 1: someone I've known for years, and he's he is not 1177 01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,320 Speaker 1: and he's a he's a pessimist about a lot of things, 1178 01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:45,840 Speaker 1: and he's a conservative. For those of you're saying, is 1179 01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:47,960 Speaker 1: this someone like live who works at Goldman Sachs or 1180 01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:52,440 Speaker 1: you know what, is another Morgan Stanley one of these places. No, 1181 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,240 Speaker 1: he's a conservative, but he said he's not. He's not 1182 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,600 Speaker 1: worried about this leading to He doesn't say it's impossible, 1183 01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,080 Speaker 1: but the lead leads to collapse. But we are going 1184 01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:05,360 Speaker 1: to have to go through an economic cleansing of the 1185 01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:10,320 Speaker 1: market that is going to be brutal. There will be 1186 01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,160 Speaker 1: massive corporate bankruptcies. We already are seeing bailouts, but remember 1187 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:19,400 Speaker 1: those bailouts are supposed to be short term fixes till 1188 01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:23,640 Speaker 1: the economy gets going again. This is actually exposing some 1189 01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,160 Speaker 1: structurally unsound companies that have been unsound for a long time. 1190 01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:33,360 Speaker 1: GM is likely to go bankrupt. Based on the projections 1191 01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,160 Speaker 1: that I've seen and based on what very smart people 1192 01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:39,400 Speaker 1: are telling me about this, Ford is likely to go 1193 01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:42,040 Speaker 1: bankrupt unless they get some kind of bailout and keep 1194 01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,840 Speaker 1: in minding a GM was bailed out ten years ago, 1195 01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,880 Speaker 1: and here we are again bail just as what's said. Then, 1196 01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,360 Speaker 1: if you bail them out but you don't make them 1197 01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:52,480 Speaker 1: change any structures to the union contracts or any if 1198 01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:55,320 Speaker 1: they're not a competitive business model and they don't change, 1199 01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna just need to do this again. And that's 1200 01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:00,000 Speaker 1: where we're going to be. Now. This is a little 1201 01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:01,880 Speaker 1: bit more down the line. I know we have more 1202 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:06,720 Speaker 1: immediate and more imminent concerns to tackle, but there is 1203 01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:11,320 Speaker 1: going to be a massive reallocation of capital that occurs here. 1204 01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,560 Speaker 1: And I'm bullish on the long term of the US economy. 1205 01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:18,840 Speaker 1: I think we're going to be in great shape in 1206 01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:22,000 Speaker 1: five years. What I'm trying to avoid now is us 1207 01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:25,080 Speaker 1: being in really bad What I want us to avoid 1208 01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,280 Speaker 1: us being in a really bad shape for the next 1209 01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:31,040 Speaker 1: two to three years, which if we do this thing wrong, 1210 01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:36,600 Speaker 1: could happen, and that means massive unemployment, huge increase in 1211 01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,920 Speaker 1: drug use and abuse and overdoses and suicides and depression 1212 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:41,960 Speaker 1: and misery and all the things that people like me 1213 01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:47,960 Speaker 1: even worried about with the Great Depression Part two. We 1214 01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:51,600 Speaker 1: will see just there are always unintended consequences with all 1215 01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,560 Speaker 1: of these. If you just read Hike, if you read 1216 01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,560 Speaker 1: the Road to Serfdom, every intrusion in the market, the 1217 01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,040 Speaker 1: government then has to wants to follow up with a 1218 01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:02,720 Speaker 1: second intrusion to balance what it has imbalanced. And this 1219 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,440 Speaker 1: is why it just gets deeper and deeper and more 1220 01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:08,800 Speaker 1: and more market control. The government is the economy right 1221 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,640 Speaker 1: now essentially, or is dictating the economy, and we are 1222 01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:15,760 Speaker 1: still the economy, but the government is making the major decisions. 1223 01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,600 Speaker 1: And you got to think that this is going to 1224 01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,439 Speaker 1: put us in a place where all of our old 1225 01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,960 Speaker 1: modes of thinking about this are going to have to adjust. 1226 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,080 Speaker 1: This is I keep running out of ways to say 1227 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:31,240 Speaker 1: the uncharted territory, you know, staring into the abyss, all 1228 01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:34,680 Speaker 1: these somewhat cliched phrases that when you're doing four hours 1229 01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,640 Speaker 1: of extemporaneous radio every day, you're going to find yourself saying, 1230 01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,640 Speaker 1: even if you try to avoid them, that ends up 1231 01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,760 Speaker 1: happening to me, folks. You know, I wish, I wish 1232 01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:46,080 Speaker 1: I could tell you that I've mastered the way of speaking, 1233 01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,280 Speaker 1: as though I am writing with precision and clarity and 1234 01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:52,280 Speaker 1: never saying the things that I go. Ah, that's a cliche, 1235 01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:57,120 Speaker 1: but Schumer and Pelosi and the Democrats. They see an 1236 01:06:57,120 --> 01:07:03,280 Speaker 1: opportunity here for a massive making of the economy, and 1237 01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:07,520 Speaker 1: it's going to be very hard to stop them, very hard. Indeed, 1238 01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,640 Speaker 1: they're going to point to all the spending that's going on. 1239 01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,960 Speaker 1: You're going to have to have corporate bailouts because otherwise 1240 01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:16,320 Speaker 1: you're gonna have massive unemployment either. There's going to be 1241 01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:20,080 Speaker 1: places where, you know, whatever happened. Libertarians, by the way, 1242 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,560 Speaker 1: they're real quiet lately. I've been seeing people point that out. 1243 01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:24,880 Speaker 1: And I have a lot of libertarian friends, but I'm 1244 01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,960 Speaker 1: just no one really cares about legalizing marijuana right now. 1245 01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:31,120 Speaker 1: That's for sure, the I know, so I'm going to 1246 01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,000 Speaker 1: get angry emails about that one. I'm just messing with you. Libertarians. 1247 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:41,800 Speaker 1: You're cool, we're friends. But government intrusion, government expansion is 1248 01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,080 Speaker 1: on an unprecedented scale right now. And the Democrats this 1249 01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:48,080 Speaker 1: is an opportunity for them, and they see it, and 1250 01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,800 Speaker 1: you know, they see it right now, an opportunity to 1251 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:55,840 Speaker 1: remake the biggest parts of the American economy in a 1252 01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:01,439 Speaker 1: progressive image. They're going to try sees this opportunity, doesn't 1253 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,160 Speaker 1: matter how terrible the virus gets with all. It doesn't 1254 01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,960 Speaker 1: matter how desperate the economy becomes. Remember, they are the 1255 01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,000 Speaker 1: party of the government is always the answer, and that's 1256 01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:12,920 Speaker 1: not going to change. And increasingly it's going to be 1257 01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:14,760 Speaker 1: a challenge for people like you and me to make 1258 01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:18,040 Speaker 1: the case that the government is not always the answer, 1259 01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,840 Speaker 1: because right now we've been forced into for now the 1260 01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:24,559 Speaker 1: government is the answer. There's there's nothing else. What else? 1261 01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:28,519 Speaker 1: What else are we going to do? You're in the 1262 01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:35,960 Speaker 1: freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. The 1263 01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,840 Speaker 1: Congress has got to act and act the site to 1264 01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:42,080 Speaker 1: make sure that every American understands that they will be 1265 01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:45,640 Speaker 1: protected economically, that they're going to have the healthcare that 1266 01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:49,320 Speaker 1: they need, that we're going to use the Defense Production Act, 1267 01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:52,600 Speaker 1: which Trump has not utilized, to make sure that we 1268 01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:56,519 Speaker 1: have the equipment in our hospitals and our doctor's offices, 1269 01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,920 Speaker 1: whether or their masks, the gowns, they're gloves, they've been belated, 1270 01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,439 Speaker 1: the ICU units that we need. We're going to be 1271 01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,880 Speaker 1: able to do that. But this requires an unprecedented effort 1272 01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:10,280 Speaker 1: in a bipartisan way. From the United States Conflict. He's wrong? 1273 01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:12,200 Speaker 1: Does anyone care that he's wrong? Now? Of course that's 1274 01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:15,160 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders. No one cares that he's wrong. The president 1275 01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:17,240 Speaker 1: has invoked the defense and is using the defense production 1276 01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:22,400 Speaker 1: to act now, So the Democrats offer up a Marxist. Yeah, 1277 01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:24,080 Speaker 1: that's who you want to charge when the economy is 1278 01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:26,160 Speaker 1: already in a tail spin. Let's put a Marxist or 1279 01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:27,840 Speaker 1: a guy who doesn't seem to really know where he is. 1280 01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:32,719 Speaker 1: Here is what Jimmy Fallon had to say about Joe Biden. 1281 01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,760 Speaker 1: Play eleven, Welcome to Today at Home edition monologue. This 1282 01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,840 Speaker 1: is very saying. Joe Biden is my guest tonight. He's 1283 01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,800 Speaker 1: actually a pretty spry for seventy seven. For example, he's 1284 01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,240 Speaker 1: going to zoom with me tonight. That's right. Biden's been 1285 01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,880 Speaker 1: campaigning from home, but it's a little awkward every day 1286 01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:48,840 Speaker 1: he shakes hands with his wife Jill and asks where 1287 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,240 Speaker 1: she's from. It's a joke, I know, but it's only 1288 01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,200 Speaker 1: funny because we know that Biden does forget things and 1289 01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:56,920 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to know what's going on sometimes. I think 1290 01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,120 Speaker 1: it was yesterday that he said he had five grandchildren 1291 01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:02,000 Speaker 1: in some lists, of course, not left wing journalists, but 1292 01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:05,280 Speaker 1: some journalists point I know he has seven. How many 1293 01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,840 Speaker 1: of you who have grandchildren have recently forgotten how many 1294 01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:11,479 Speaker 1: grandchildren you have. I'm going to guess very few. But 1295 01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:13,920 Speaker 1: and I do not say this to be mean about 1296 01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:17,080 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. I am on a mission to be as 1297 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,920 Speaker 1: as not mean. I mean, first of all, I think 1298 01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,320 Speaker 1: if any one of the biggest criticisms of me in 1299 01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,920 Speaker 1: this business, including from like former agents and people that 1300 01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:27,559 Speaker 1: I wear, is that I'm too nice to people. I'm 1301 01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:30,040 Speaker 1: just too nice, which I don't know. I mean, I 1302 01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:31,800 Speaker 1: don't think I'm that nice, but I'm too nice for 1303 01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,280 Speaker 1: this business, is is what I've heard from some folks. 1304 01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:36,360 Speaker 1: I think they just haven't spent that much time with 1305 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:41,479 Speaker 1: me off air. But now again I can producer Mark. 1306 01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:43,240 Speaker 1: I threw myself off because I was like, Mark's gonna 1307 01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:46,840 Speaker 1: say something, get emitted here. But I'm trying to be 1308 01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:50,680 Speaker 1: fair to It's more fair than ever right now. And 1309 01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:52,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to be mean about Joe Biden. It's 1310 01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,920 Speaker 1: just that we're always told that if Joe Biden was 1311 01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,160 Speaker 1: in charge, more people would be alive. That's a very 1312 01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:02,000 Speaker 1: that's a bold claim, and it just doesn't square up 1313 01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:05,840 Speaker 1: with reality. There's no reason to believe that that's true 1314 01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:08,080 Speaker 1: based on what I'm seeing, so I have a hard 1315 01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:10,920 Speaker 1: time just letting it all slide. Littel all. Go see, 1316 01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:13,439 Speaker 1: with Bernie Sanders, you have somebody who doesn't understand the economy. 1317 01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:15,320 Speaker 1: That's not what you want when you're going into an 1318 01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:19,160 Speaker 1: induced depression. And with Joe Biden, you of somebody who 1319 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,559 Speaker 1: seems like he doesn't always really know what's going on 1320 01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:25,160 Speaker 1: around him. That's just bad at any crisis. Thanks for 1321 01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,360 Speaker 1: listening to the bus sets in show podcasts. Remember to 1322 01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:32,040 Speaker 1: subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever 1323 01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:35,479 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. I want the American people to 1324 01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:38,840 Speaker 1: know that President Trump and Vice President Pence and their 1325 01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:42,160 Speaker 1: administration are working tirelessly every day to protect the health 1326 01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,880 Speaker 1: and well being up Americans and respond to the coronavirus. 1327 01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:48,200 Speaker 1: Our adversaries should take note, however, this president has a 1328 01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:52,760 Speaker 1: clear eyed focus on America's national security interest. And let 1329 01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,200 Speaker 1: me be clear, it would be a mistake, a mistake 1330 01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:58,640 Speaker 1: with terrible consequences for any adversary to attempt to do 1331 01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:01,519 Speaker 1: us harm during this health crisis, or ever for that matter. 1332 01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:05,160 Speaker 1: So that was the Natural Security Advisor Robert O'Brien saying 1333 01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:08,920 Speaker 1: that anybody who decides to mess with us right now 1334 01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:15,439 Speaker 1: would be would be visiting tremendous harm on themselves. I 1335 01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:18,160 Speaker 1: do believe that is true. One thing you can say 1336 01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:22,519 Speaker 1: about countries like ours is that we don't seek war 1337 01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:27,720 Speaker 1: with anyone. We want peace. But when we are provoked, 1338 01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:34,240 Speaker 1: especially when we when the national mindset is of fear 1339 01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,040 Speaker 1: and pain and we're in a tough spot as we 1340 01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:40,240 Speaker 1: are right now, when we are provoked, we are a 1341 01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:44,640 Speaker 1: fearsome thing. Indeed, this country, as we know, we have 1342 01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,519 Speaker 1: we have dropped nuclear weapons. No one else has ever 1343 01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:53,080 Speaker 1: done that. We have leveled cities with our bombs we have. 1344 01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:57,040 Speaker 1: We are not somebody that you want to to poke, 1345 01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:02,240 Speaker 1: especially when we are in a bad mood as a country. 1346 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,559 Speaker 1: So there must have been some uptick in threat reporting. 1347 01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:07,719 Speaker 1: This is why I'm bringing this up. Uptick and threat 1348 01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:14,240 Speaker 1: reporting about Iran specifically, and well, Iran is losing tens 1349 01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:16,160 Speaker 1: of thousands people to COVID nineteen. I mean, they're they're 1350 01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:19,800 Speaker 1: just they're not up for this. They don't have the ability, 1351 01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,960 Speaker 1: they don't have the wherewithal from a medical standpoint to 1352 01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:26,720 Speaker 1: tackle this problem. In the least I know, there's a 1353 01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:28,800 Speaker 1: lot of blame being put on the sanctions right now, 1354 01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:34,600 Speaker 1: but the Iranian regime brings the sanction upon themselves, the sanctions, 1355 01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:36,479 Speaker 1: and that they would even think about trying to hit 1356 01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:38,000 Speaker 1: our interests in Iraq right now. It just goes to 1357 01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:40,679 Speaker 1: show you that while their own people are dying, they're 1358 01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,920 Speaker 1: more focused on, more interested in lashing out and killing 1359 01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:47,160 Speaker 1: our people than protecting their people. Assuming this threat reporting 1360 01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:52,160 Speaker 1: is accurate, and it's not. Sometimes threat reporting is just chatter. 1361 01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:53,920 Speaker 1: I mean I used to see it all the time, 1362 01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,920 Speaker 1: and the CIA have this could happen, that could happen, 1363 01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:58,640 Speaker 1: and then it turns out it's just nothing. It's you know, 1364 01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,320 Speaker 1: General so and solving off to Colonel so and so 1365 01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:06,400 Speaker 1: and some dictatorship somewhere and nothing's actually going to happen. 1366 01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,200 Speaker 1: But I am very confident that anyone who would mess 1367 01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:12,759 Speaker 1: with the United States right now in a military sense. 1368 01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,160 Speaker 1: I do worry about what China is going to do 1369 01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:21,040 Speaker 1: to us. In a economic I do worry about that, 1370 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:24,559 Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about that a lot. But somebody 1371 01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,040 Speaker 1: you fire off a bunch of missiles at a US 1372 01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:30,240 Speaker 1: Army base right now, I don't know anybody. I cannot 1373 01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,960 Speaker 1: think of a single person that I know who if 1374 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:38,479 Speaker 1: in response to that, we we just unleashed Hell. Another 1375 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:41,760 Speaker 1: Maximus reference, Right, we unleashed Hell. Everyone say, you know 1376 01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:45,920 Speaker 1: you poke the bear. That's that's where we're I guess 1377 01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:47,680 Speaker 1: the eagle and the bear is kind of a Russian thing, right, 1378 01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:49,280 Speaker 1: but you know, poking the bear is an expression that 1379 01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:53,840 Speaker 1: we used to So there was a particular national security 1380 01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:58,719 Speaker 1: flavor to the briefing yesterday the President gave, including General Millie, 1381 01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:02,679 Speaker 1: talking about who is trying to exploit the vacuum right now? 1382 01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:07,880 Speaker 1: Who is trying to show you know, who is trying 1383 01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:12,040 Speaker 1: to look at this as an opportunity drug cartels. And 1384 01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:17,160 Speaker 1: I've just finished watching Narcos season five, which was incredible, 1385 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,240 Speaker 1: and Narcos is one of the ten best shows of 1386 01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:23,000 Speaker 1: all time in my opinion. And I'm in the middle 1387 01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:26,720 Speaker 1: of Ozark right now, which gets very weird. But it 1388 01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:29,599 Speaker 1: is true that cartels see this as an opportunity to send. 1389 01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,200 Speaker 1: We have a law enforcement with a lot of a 1390 01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:39,960 Speaker 1: lot of problems. We've got the COVID nineteen crisis, taking 1391 01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:43,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people offline from a law enforcement community, 1392 01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:47,280 Speaker 1: also just stretching resources, law enforcement resources across the board. 1393 01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:50,600 Speaker 1: Here's General Millie, who I gotta say, this guy You 1394 01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:54,479 Speaker 1: could not, and I say this with respect, you could 1395 01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:58,200 Speaker 1: not find someone to play a general, like a badass, 1396 01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:02,400 Speaker 1: hard nosed general in a movie. Who does that better 1397 01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:06,679 Speaker 1: than General Millie, the actual general. Sounds that appears on camera, 1398 01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,960 Speaker 1: but here he is talking about drug cartels. Yesterday at 1399 01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,520 Speaker 1: the press briefing play one, we came upon some intelligence 1400 01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:16,280 Speaker 1: some time ago that the drug cartels as a result 1401 01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:18,800 Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen. We're going to try to take advantage 1402 01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,400 Speaker 1: of this situation and try to infiltrate additional drugs in 1403 01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:24,599 Speaker 1: our country. As we know, the seventy thousand Americans die 1404 01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:29,120 Speaker 1: on an average annual basis to drugs. That's unacceptable. We're 1405 01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,960 Speaker 1: at war with COVID nineteen, we're at war with terrorists, 1406 01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:34,080 Speaker 1: and we are at war with the drug cartels as well. 1407 01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:36,919 Speaker 1: This is the United States military. You will not penetrate 1408 01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:39,479 Speaker 1: this country. You will not get past Jump Street. You're 1409 01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,320 Speaker 1: not going to come in here and kill additional Americans, 1410 01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:44,240 Speaker 1: and we will marshal whatever assets are required to prevent 1411 01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:47,479 Speaker 1: your entry into this country to kill Americans. So right now, 1412 01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,320 Speaker 1: the Navy has marshall additional Gray Hall ships from both 1413 01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:53,280 Speaker 1: Paycom and yu Coom and for the naval Fleet at 1414 01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:56,080 Speaker 1: Norfolk and they are set sail already and they are 1415 01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:58,120 Speaker 1: in the Caribbean right now. In addition to that, there's 1416 01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:01,519 Speaker 1: ten coastcard cutters and they're shill Operations Forces and Security 1417 01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:05,600 Speaker 1: Force Assistants brigades along with Air Force reconnaissance aircraft. The 1418 01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:07,840 Speaker 1: bottom line is you're not going to get through now. 1419 01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:09,519 Speaker 1: It's not the time to try to penetrate the United 1420 01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,040 Speaker 1: States with illegal drugs to kill Americans. With the United 1421 01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,640 Speaker 1: States military and we will defend our country regardless of 1422 01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:19,280 Speaker 1: the cost. Yeah, I believe that guy. I think that 1423 01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:23,280 Speaker 1: he definitely makes the case and that the drug cartels 1424 01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:25,280 Speaker 1: would see this as an opportunity. It is not even 1425 01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:27,839 Speaker 1: the least bit surprising that they are correct. From their perspective, 1426 01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,400 Speaker 1: it is an opportunity. But military is letting them know. 1427 01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,880 Speaker 1: Don't think that you're going to start just running huge 1428 01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:37,519 Speaker 1: amounts of opioids in particular into the country. Keep in mind, 1429 01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:41,280 Speaker 1: given the lockdown situation right now, we are going to 1430 01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:45,920 Speaker 1: see a spike in drug usage. Look, you know, I mean, 1431 01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:49,559 Speaker 1: I enjoy a little bit of mescal, a little bit azequila. 1432 01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:52,840 Speaker 1: I'm trying to hold off on having that for as 1433 01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:55,000 Speaker 1: long as I kencause I feel like it's going to 1434 01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,639 Speaker 1: be very easy to get into a habit of Oh 1435 01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:00,000 Speaker 1: I just finished the radio show. Time for a glass. 1436 01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,040 Speaker 1: I'm home alone. What am I gonna do? I got 1437 01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:06,719 Speaker 1: a chubby, little French bulldog to keep me company, although 1438 01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:11,240 Speaker 1: she is very sweet. But you know, I feel like 1439 01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:12,960 Speaker 1: this is going to be a challenge for all of us. 1440 01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:16,519 Speaker 1: People aren't used to this. It really does remind me 1441 01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,559 Speaker 1: a little bit of the feeling that I had sometimes 1442 01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:21,599 Speaker 1: when I would be But it's not even the same 1443 01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:24,960 Speaker 1: because I was on a big I was generally on 1444 01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,000 Speaker 1: big military not always, but I was generally on pretty 1445 01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,639 Speaker 1: big military basis overseas a rock Afghanistan. But your living 1446 01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,840 Speaker 1: quarters tended to be in a I lived in a 1447 01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:35,600 Speaker 1: shipping container. A lot of you who serve in the 1448 01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,200 Speaker 1: military know I'm talking about. I was never military CIA, 1449 01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:40,120 Speaker 1: but I also lived in one of these shipping containers, 1450 01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:41,920 Speaker 1: had a roommate. Sometimes you had a couple of roommates 1451 01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:45,559 Speaker 1: in there. And I think I've told you the story before, 1452 01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,479 Speaker 1: but it's one of my great moments of pride that 1453 01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,240 Speaker 1: a guy who had thirty years in the intelligence community, 1454 01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:55,000 Speaker 1: he told me that I was the best. I was 1455 01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,920 Speaker 1: the most considerate and polite roommate he had ever had 1456 01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:00,479 Speaker 1: in any assignment. After we were together for months and 1457 01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:03,960 Speaker 1: months in Afghanistan, which I really thought was really cool, 1458 01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,360 Speaker 1: you know, I was like, oh, that's really nice. So 1459 01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:10,400 Speaker 1: we watched a lot of episodes of Entourage and The 1460 01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:13,280 Speaker 1: Office together on these little DVDs you can get in 1461 01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:17,760 Speaker 1: the markets in Afghanistan. But back to uh Anyway, I'm 1462 01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:21,759 Speaker 1: used to used to close quarters living. That's not something 1463 01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,800 Speaker 1: that's unusual for me at all. But producer Mark, I'm 1464 01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:26,360 Speaker 1: gonna need you one more time. I went, I go 1465 01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:27,800 Speaker 1: in these tangents and then what was I saying a 1466 01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:33,400 Speaker 1: second ago? General and Millie was General MILLI, Oh the cartels. 1467 01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:38,960 Speaker 1: Thank you, the cartels. There they are. Oh, people that 1468 01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,840 Speaker 1: are in close quarters who aren't used to it. This 1469 01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:42,800 Speaker 1: is what I was trying to say, are going to 1470 01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:48,200 Speaker 1: feel emotions and psychological pressures they have in before, at 1471 01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:50,120 Speaker 1: least when I was overseas the military. I'd go in 1472 01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,120 Speaker 1: the red zone, I'd go off base. I you know, 1473 01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,599 Speaker 1: I'd hop into a thin skin and hope I didn't 1474 01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:56,160 Speaker 1: get blown up. I mean, these are things that used 1475 01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:58,200 Speaker 1: to happen. So in fact, when you were on base 1476 01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:02,280 Speaker 1: that little a little shipping container. Man, that place fell homy. 1477 01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:04,840 Speaker 1: That place felt cozy. You know, you're like, oh, I've 1478 01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:07,000 Speaker 1: got a little DVD player in here and an actual 1479 01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,599 Speaker 1: Iraq to sleep in, and okay, you know, I got 1480 01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:14,559 Speaker 1: some of my stuff. But if you're not used to this, 1481 01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:15,960 Speaker 1: it's going to be a syle. It's going to be 1482 01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:17,960 Speaker 1: trying psychologically. Which is why Mark and I are talking 1483 01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,759 Speaker 1: about how we can do more freedom Hunt, more freedom 1484 01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:22,599 Speaker 1: Hunt content out there, put it out there. And that's 1485 01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:24,439 Speaker 1: why I've wren work in the history podcast and things 1486 01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:26,599 Speaker 1: you can listen to and keep you company. And one 1487 01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:29,240 Speaker 1: of one of my proud I speaking of my proud 1488 01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:31,800 Speaker 1: moments here, I remember years ago a woman who was 1489 01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:35,000 Speaker 1: Team buck Oss. She sent me a note about how 1490 01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,840 Speaker 1: when things were really bad for her going through chemotherapy, 1491 01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:43,520 Speaker 1: she listened multiple times to the Battle of Lepanto podcast 1492 01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:47,280 Speaker 1: and it's just for whatever reason, it allowed her mind 1493 01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:51,519 Speaker 1: to escape the difficulties of that chemo process. And there 1494 01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:53,599 Speaker 1: I almost did tear up when I read that note, 1495 01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:55,960 Speaker 1: and I really appreciated that. But we're going to try 1496 01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:57,559 Speaker 1: to do as much of that kind of work here 1497 01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,200 Speaker 1: as we can it's good for me. It's helped for 1498 01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:01,479 Speaker 1: me to have my mind on those things. I think 1499 01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:04,879 Speaker 1: it's helpful for other people too. But the drug abuse problem, 1500 01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,320 Speaker 1: which is where I'm keep trying to come back to this, 1501 01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:09,840 Speaker 1: that general Millie. They're trying to get ahead of this, 1502 01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:15,120 Speaker 1: trying to anticipate that opioid use, for example, is likely 1503 01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:17,400 Speaker 1: to go up, and as we know that stuff is 1504 01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:23,439 Speaker 1: so lethal. And oh, another place that China is more 1505 01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:27,880 Speaker 1: responsible than most people realize. Another place where if the 1506 01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:32,120 Speaker 1: public knew exactly what the Chinese government was really up to, 1507 01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:38,280 Speaker 1: they would probably feel very differently about a lot of 1508 01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:41,439 Speaker 1: things with regard to China. It's the Chinese precursor chemicals 1509 01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,519 Speaker 1: or what are sent to the cartels in Mexico, and 1510 01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,800 Speaker 1: the Mexican cartels can pay top dollar for chemists. And 1511 01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:48,599 Speaker 1: this is straight out of Breaking Bad. If you've seen 1512 01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:51,759 Speaker 1: Breaking Bad, is a very similar setup. And they're making 1513 01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:54,439 Speaker 1: fentonel and car fentinel in these labs and sending it 1514 01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:59,280 Speaker 1: north into this country, and they're trying to they stamp 1515 01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:06,520 Speaker 1: them to look like pharmaceutical grade OxyContin and other prescription opioids, 1516 01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,000 Speaker 1: but they're not. And that means that you don't really 1517 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:12,040 Speaker 1: know what dosage, what purity you're getting, and this stuff 1518 01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:14,880 Speaker 1: is just lethal. You can die from the first dough. 1519 01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,400 Speaker 1: So please, everybody out there, I know if you listen 1520 01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:20,080 Speaker 1: to this show, you already know how dangerous opioids are 1521 01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:22,640 Speaker 1: because I've talked about it a lot. But you know, 1522 01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,760 Speaker 1: glass of wine, glass of Scotch, fine, right, you know, 1523 01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:29,240 Speaker 1: we try to everything in moderation, everything in moderation. But 1524 01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,400 Speaker 1: you know this is not the time to be especially 1525 01:22:33,439 --> 01:22:35,840 Speaker 1: because for those anybody out there who would would need 1526 01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:39,320 Speaker 1: this advice, what you really don't want right now is 1527 01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,080 Speaker 1: to have to go to a hospital because of any 1528 01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:46,320 Speaker 1: kind of drug experimentation that's gonna especially in a major city. 1529 01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:48,160 Speaker 1: Right now, you do not want to You never want 1530 01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:50,880 Speaker 1: to do that, but really, right now, you do not 1531 01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:54,479 Speaker 1: want to deal with that at all. So that's why 1532 01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,400 Speaker 1: I think they're worried about the drug cartel situation, that 1533 01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:59,120 Speaker 1: there'll be a spike in people are all stuck in 1534 01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,240 Speaker 1: their homes and you can really only lead to get 1535 01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,519 Speaker 1: leave to get essentials. If you're a drug cartel, what 1536 01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,200 Speaker 1: are you gonna do. You're gonna You're gonna post people 1537 01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,760 Speaker 1: up outside of Walmart. You're going to post people up 1538 01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,120 Speaker 1: outside of different places where there is allowed to be 1539 01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,080 Speaker 1: some commerce of essentials, and you're gonna say, hey, you've 1540 01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:15,800 Speaker 1: been a lockdown for sixty days, try this, And people 1541 01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:18,800 Speaker 1: who do that can end up dying very easily. So 1542 01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:21,120 Speaker 1: Millie's trying to stop it from the supply side. As 1543 01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:23,280 Speaker 1: we know, that's a very trub. They're very tough game. 1544 01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:25,360 Speaker 1: It's never going to be perfect, but they're doing what 1545 01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:31,040 Speaker 1: they can. And the situation of the American people right 1546 01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:36,280 Speaker 1: now is we're particularly susceptible, I think, to in an 1547 01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:40,880 Speaker 1: infusion of mind altering substances, especially including people that have 1548 01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,000 Speaker 1: never done it before. So we got to be vigilant 1549 01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:44,639 Speaker 1: about that. And also of those of you that have kids, 1550 01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:46,080 Speaker 1: and you don't need me to tell you this, I 1551 01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,719 Speaker 1: don't even have kids, but I know you know this already. 1552 01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:51,080 Speaker 1: You've got to make sure that no one's trying to 1553 01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:52,880 Speaker 1: get in their home. It's easy to it's easy to 1554 01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:54,960 Speaker 1: keep watch over them now right, easier than before. But 1555 01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:57,400 Speaker 1: you want to make sure that no one's sneaking any 1556 01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:01,240 Speaker 1: stuff that is experient. They've views experimental, but could have 1557 01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:07,120 Speaker 1: really terrible consequences. And then there's a situation of Mexico 1558 01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:12,120 Speaker 1: to our southern border when it comes to COVID nineteen. 1559 01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:17,760 Speaker 1: Let's address that a little bit. You're in the freedom Huh. 1560 01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:25,240 Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Someone said, do 1561 01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:27,599 Speaker 1: you think if we took precautions earlier than we did, 1562 01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:30,639 Speaker 1: our numbers would be lower than it is now. Yes, 1563 01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:35,280 Speaker 1: I think that if Trump took this seriously, if Republicans 1564 01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:41,639 Speaker 1: took it seriously, I think that if if we decided 1565 01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:45,720 Speaker 1: to listen to scientists early and more than we listened to, 1566 01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:50,240 Speaker 1: you know, people who care more about profit and human lives, 1567 01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:54,320 Speaker 1: we would have taken precautions much earlier, and we would 1568 01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:56,919 Speaker 1: have saved lives. We either would have gone into lockdown 1569 01:24:56,960 --> 01:25:00,160 Speaker 1: earlier in some circumstances, or we would have started do 1570 01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:05,120 Speaker 1: seeing these damn ventilators way earlier than we are now. 1571 01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:07,880 Speaker 1: It would have invoked the Defense Production Act. But because 1572 01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:11,000 Speaker 1: Trump didn't do that early enough, now we're scrambling, and 1573 01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:15,080 Speaker 1: everything that is happening is happening late. In every decision 1574 01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:19,240 Speaker 1: that we make late means that people are dying unnecessarily. Right, 1575 01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:20,720 Speaker 1: Trump has blood in his hands. Of course, we know 1576 01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:22,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna keep repeating that we're gonna hear that every 1577 01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:25,080 Speaker 1: day from now into election day, and then if Trump wins, 1578 01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:27,240 Speaker 1: every day after that until he's no longer present, they're 1579 01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,160 Speaker 1: never going to stop with this. So get used to that. 1580 01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:32,280 Speaker 1: But the storyline here that Trump didn't listen to the 1581 01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:35,800 Speaker 1: experts and that this was all in some way avoidable 1582 01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:38,519 Speaker 1: if only Trump had listened to experts. This is what 1583 01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:42,160 Speaker 1: you keep hearing. This is absurd. The experts didn't know. 1584 01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:45,519 Speaker 1: As of two weeks ago. The experts were thinking about 1585 01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:47,920 Speaker 1: maybe after the fifteen day period, letting us go back 1586 01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:50,080 Speaker 1: to work, and you know, we'd sort of deal with it. 1587 01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,320 Speaker 1: You know, we have to do some spike. There'd be 1588 01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:54,920 Speaker 1: a spike here, spike there, we'd handle. That was where 1589 01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:58,960 Speaker 1: the experts were, at least the Coronavirus Task Force expert 1590 01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:00,960 Speaker 1: experts who are not have been a stration appointees. These 1591 01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:02,840 Speaker 1: are people that work at CDC, These are people that 1592 01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:06,800 Speaker 1: come from the public health sector. So this listen to 1593 01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,960 Speaker 1: the experts, and then things would be so different. I'm 1594 01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,360 Speaker 1: still sitting here. I'm still upset because I listened to 1595 01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,000 Speaker 1: the experts about a mask and guess what, I don't 1596 01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:17,080 Speaker 1: have a mask. Don't buy masks. You're stealing them from 1597 01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:19,000 Speaker 1: first responders and other people on the front lines who 1598 01:26:19,080 --> 01:26:22,240 Speaker 1: need them. Okay, but maybe they can get the best masks. 1599 01:26:22,240 --> 01:26:24,360 Speaker 1: But can I put something on? And oh no, you 1600 01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,920 Speaker 1: don't need it, they said. And now it's oh no, 1601 01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:29,679 Speaker 1: you probably should get something, but maybe just a bandana 1602 01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:32,840 Speaker 1: because all the masks are gone. Thanks experts. I bring 1603 01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:34,559 Speaker 1: this up and people get mad at me. I mean 1604 01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:37,760 Speaker 1: on social media. You know that the lib blue check 1605 01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:41,360 Speaker 1: rage brigade comes after me. I'm sorry they told me 1606 01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:43,280 Speaker 1: something it was wrong. Am I allowed to be annoyed 1607 01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:44,960 Speaker 1: that they told me something that was wrong? Of course, 1608 01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:47,760 Speaker 1: not do as you're told. You see, Libs are used 1609 01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:50,160 Speaker 1: to this, do as you're told or else by this state. 1610 01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:54,000 Speaker 1: I don't like that, I ask questions. I got problems 1611 01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,680 Speaker 1: with that. But I was talking about Mexico and this 1612 01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:58,439 Speaker 1: is where the liberal narrative about all. This is why 1613 01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:00,400 Speaker 1: I played that AOC clip for you going to run 1614 01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,439 Speaker 1: into problems. This is not an America thing. This is 1615 01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:07,439 Speaker 1: a global thing. Spain, Italy much worse soft than we 1616 01:27:07,520 --> 01:27:10,440 Speaker 1: are are. There. Government's run by Donald Trump, pus so incompetent. 1617 01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:14,800 Speaker 1: No UK is in tough shape here two tomorrow remind me, 1618 01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:17,320 Speaker 1: I will talk to you about the Sweden model. Sweden 1619 01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:21,880 Speaker 1: is running an experiment that they're either Sweden is either 1620 01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,680 Speaker 1: going to show that all the fearmongering and panic has 1621 01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:26,800 Speaker 1: pushed us to make wrong decisions, or Sweden's going to 1622 01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:30,080 Speaker 1: get crushed in the next couple of weeks by COVID nineteen. 1623 01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:32,680 Speaker 1: So remind me, Pruster, Mark, remind me tomorrow. I want 1624 01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:34,120 Speaker 1: to talk about the Sweden model. I meant to get 1625 01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:38,559 Speaker 1: to it today, but Mexico is going to get hit 1626 01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:41,559 Speaker 1: by this, and Mexico is not ready for this. Mexico 1627 01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:46,120 Speaker 1: is not up for this. John Daniel Davidson, who's a 1628 01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:50,720 Speaker 1: very good, very good reporter down at the Federalist, has 1629 01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,080 Speaker 1: a piece about how coronavirus is about to explode in Mexico. 1630 01:27:54,160 --> 01:27:58,400 Speaker 1: Here's what he says. Mexican President andres Man Manuel Lopez 1631 01:27:58,479 --> 01:28:02,679 Speaker 1: Obrador recently just smissed the need for caution, urging Mexicans 1632 01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:04,880 Speaker 1: to go shopping and eat out. He even took his 1633 01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:10,040 Speaker 1: own advice, staging large campaign style rallies, kissing babies, embracing 1634 01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:13,639 Speaker 1: supporters and saying things like you have to hug. Nothing 1635 01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:17,360 Speaker 1: is going to happen. Well, now something is happening. On Monday, 1636 01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:19,839 Speaker 1: Mexico declared a state of emergency. The number of confirmed 1637 01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:23,080 Speaker 1: cases exceeded one thousand, with at least twenty eight deaths. 1638 01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:25,559 Speaker 1: The number of actual cases is, no doubt, a lot 1639 01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,760 Speaker 1: and no doubt a lot higher. And then we get 1640 01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,400 Speaker 1: into what we're looking at here for Mexico, at our 1641 01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:35,880 Speaker 1: southern border, below our southern border, the raw numbers quote 1642 01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:40,559 Speaker 1: of supplies on hand suggests an impending humanitarian catastrophe. Mexico, 1643 01:28:40,720 --> 01:28:43,719 Speaker 1: the population of one hundred and thirty million, has only 1644 01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:47,639 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty six ICU units, fewer than fifty 1645 01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:51,920 Speaker 1: thousand hospital beds, fewer than twenty five hundred ICU beds, 1646 01:28:52,479 --> 01:28:56,360 Speaker 1: and just over fifty five hundred ventilators. That's for the 1647 01:28:56,560 --> 01:29:02,040 Speaker 1: entire country. New York City alone has six thousand ventilators 1648 01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:06,240 Speaker 1: and two thousand ICU beds. Now, this is going to 1649 01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:08,680 Speaker 1: be very bad for Mexico. Assuming this spreads the way 1650 01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:10,439 Speaker 1: the experts have all been telling us that will spread 1651 01:29:10,479 --> 01:29:12,920 Speaker 1: down there, what do we think is going to happen? 1652 01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:17,760 Speaker 1: People are going to make a run north, They're going 1653 01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:21,080 Speaker 1: to want to get out. Securing the border is now 1654 01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:22,720 Speaker 1: all of a sudden going to become a much more 1655 01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:25,760 Speaker 1: obvious national security imperative than it has been in a 1656 01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:29,280 Speaker 1: long time. Because anyone who's trying to avoid this impending 1657 01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:31,559 Speaker 1: catastrophe in Mexico, where what is their best option to 1658 01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,040 Speaker 1: come here? And as we see with the cruise ship 1659 01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:36,120 Speaker 1: situation right now, where are these cruise ships that want 1660 01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:38,559 Speaker 1: to come here? We are We are not looking. Our 1661 01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:40,559 Speaker 1: system is already stretched. We are not looking to take 1662 01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:43,920 Speaker 1: in more COVID patients north or south of our border. 1663 01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:48,080 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the bus seton show podcasts. Remember 1664 01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:51,479 Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or 1665 01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:57,040 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. All right, roll call every body, 1666 01:29:57,080 --> 01:30:00,479 Speaker 1: And as I've been saying, it's essential that we have 1667 01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:03,240 Speaker 1: roll calls coming in because not only do I want 1668 01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:05,800 Speaker 1: to hear from you, I need to know what you're seeing. 1669 01:30:05,840 --> 01:30:07,479 Speaker 1: I need to know what you're dealing with in other 1670 01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:11,360 Speaker 1: parts of the country. I need to know your stories. 1671 01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,080 Speaker 1: It'll make me better at this job right now, So 1672 01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:17,160 Speaker 1: please please write in. And just because you don't get 1673 01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:19,160 Speaker 1: read off on roll call. We only have so much 1674 01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:21,400 Speaker 1: time every day doesn't mean that we're not seeing it 1675 01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:24,960 Speaker 1: and I'm not taking it into account. And reading reading 1676 01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:27,960 Speaker 1: what you are sending me and Producer Mark too, which 1677 01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,400 Speaker 1: he likes because then when someone makes fun of me 1678 01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:32,280 Speaker 1: and it's really funny, and then Producer Mark and steal 1679 01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:34,880 Speaker 1: their joke later. I know the games you play, Producer Mark, 1680 01:30:34,920 --> 01:30:36,960 Speaker 1: I'm onto you. I don't steal peoples choke. I'll give 1681 01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:39,200 Speaker 1: them credit. That's true. He does give them credit for it, 1682 01:30:39,200 --> 01:30:41,040 Speaker 1: but he'll still he'll say, remember that guy who said, 1683 01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:44,320 Speaker 1: you know you look like Missus doubtfire And I'm like, yes, 1684 01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:46,840 Speaker 1: you do look a little bit like missus that if 1685 01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:54,639 Speaker 1: I will slice you, that is ridiculous. Anyway, where were we? Oh? Yes, 1686 01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:57,840 Speaker 1: roll call? So please do send it in Facebook dot com, 1687 01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:00,479 Speaker 1: slash buck sex and team buck at iHeart Media dot 1688 01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:04,599 Speaker 1: com And let's get to it, Christie Buck. A week 1689 01:31:04,680 --> 01:31:07,040 Speaker 1: or two ago, you mentioned the possibility of sporting a 1690 01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:11,400 Speaker 1: man bun. I would advise against that. Also, we would 1691 01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:13,080 Speaker 1: love to have you in Denver shieldsaye, and we might 1692 01:31:13,120 --> 01:31:15,160 Speaker 1: have read this one before, but yeah, no, no man bun. 1693 01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:20,080 Speaker 1: Right now, I am going to try to cut my 1694 01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:22,519 Speaker 1: own hair a little bit. It's going to be interesting. 1695 01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:25,479 Speaker 1: Maybe I should live stream it, because really the backup 1696 01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,519 Speaker 1: option is to start cutting your own hair, and if 1697 01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:30,280 Speaker 1: it starts to go bad, then I just I do 1698 01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:34,040 Speaker 1: have clippers. I've got very good clippers actually, And man, 1699 01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:37,120 Speaker 1: I have not had like a high and tight or 1700 01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:39,040 Speaker 1: any kind of buzz cut since I was probably twelve 1701 01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:41,400 Speaker 1: years old, so that would be quite a look. But 1702 01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:45,600 Speaker 1: you've got it. Would I should probably raise money and 1703 01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:47,120 Speaker 1: do this for charity or something right now, because I 1704 01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:48,360 Speaker 1: think people would just love to see me look like 1705 01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:53,120 Speaker 1: a jackass. But Mark, do you have a buzz cut? 1706 01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:56,200 Speaker 1: Would you say, Hollie, what do you describe the mark? Ye? Mark, 1707 01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:58,360 Speaker 1: I mean I guess it's a buzz cut. Yeah, it's 1708 01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:00,320 Speaker 1: kind of a buzz cut. It must be nice. I 1709 01:32:00,400 --> 01:32:02,880 Speaker 1: really like, sir. You must get out of the shower 1710 01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:05,559 Speaker 1: and just like take a washcloth, you know, rub it over, 1711 01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:07,719 Speaker 1: rub over the top. Once you're good to go. Yeah, 1712 01:32:07,760 --> 01:32:09,519 Speaker 1: that's the best part. I don't have to do anything 1713 01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:11,200 Speaker 1: to my hair. I don't have to worry about it. Yeah, 1714 01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,280 Speaker 1: you can the air drive. It's very nice, Heidi. I 1715 01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:16,000 Speaker 1: just want to write it with something I've been thinking 1716 01:32:16,080 --> 01:32:19,000 Speaker 1: during this pandemic. Yes, we are in social isolation. Yes 1717 01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:22,559 Speaker 1: we are, Yes, our loved ones are at risk, and yes, 1718 01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:25,320 Speaker 1: the economies and dire straits. With all that said, I 1719 01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:26,760 Speaker 1: just think we should take a moment and take a 1720 01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:29,080 Speaker 1: deep breath to look around and realize how lucky we are. 1721 01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:33,639 Speaker 1: With the truly amazing infrastructure and technology we have today. 1722 01:32:34,120 --> 01:32:36,640 Speaker 1: We still have quite a bit of social contact during isolation. 1723 01:32:36,720 --> 01:32:39,640 Speaker 1: We aren't alone. I have hope that my generation and 1724 01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:42,160 Speaker 1: the generation is younger than me, we'll find market solutions 1725 01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:45,720 Speaker 1: to withstanding social distancing. I really truly believe that for 1726 01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:48,920 Speaker 1: many people, maybe most industries these days, we have the 1727 01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:51,000 Speaker 1: technology to be able to do many many things at 1728 01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:53,320 Speaker 1: a distance. Maybe I'm just too hopeful, but I pray 1729 01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:55,479 Speaker 1: about this every day. God bless American, God blessed team 1730 01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:57,439 Speaker 1: buck Well, Heidi, thank you so much. And I think 1731 01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:01,400 Speaker 1: that's it is important. It is thank thank Heavens that 1732 01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:03,360 Speaker 1: we have the technology we have so we can keep 1733 01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:05,880 Speaker 1: I can keep doing this show, keep doing my job, 1734 01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:09,280 Speaker 1: Producer Mark, and I and the rest of the team can. 1735 01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:14,360 Speaker 1: This wouldn't have been possible in this way even probably 1736 01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:16,800 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, maybe even ten years ago. But the 1737 01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:18,720 Speaker 1: way we're able to do it now with video and 1738 01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:21,320 Speaker 1: all the high speed internet and all the things we 1739 01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,400 Speaker 1: can do, it's it's pretty amazing. It's pretty remarkable. And yeah, 1740 01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:28,120 Speaker 1: I had a I did an entire Sexton family with 1741 01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:31,720 Speaker 1: my siblings and my parents and everyone's significant others. So 1742 01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:36,280 Speaker 1: my little sister's husband, we all did a Zoom family 1743 01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:38,479 Speaker 1: call on Saturday night, because well, what else are we 1744 01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:41,400 Speaker 1: doing Saturday night? Everyone's home, no one's got work, So 1745 01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:43,719 Speaker 1: we did a Zoom and it was great. I really 1746 01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,840 Speaker 1: recommend this for all of you. Don't worry about the 1747 01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,519 Speaker 1: fact that right now that Zoom is I think partially, 1748 01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,200 Speaker 1: or it is owned by China, or there's some Chinese 1749 01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:54,680 Speaker 1: connection and they may be monitoring all your calls. Just 1750 01:33:54,720 --> 01:33:57,840 Speaker 1: don't talk about anything super classified on your Zoom call. Okay, 1751 01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:01,519 Speaker 1: but zoom is. Zoom is great and it was really 1752 01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:03,920 Speaker 1: nice to Mark. Have you done this yet with your fam? Yeah? 1753 01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:06,439 Speaker 1: I did it with a bunch of friends less Saturday 1754 01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:08,320 Speaker 1: as well. We did like a Saturday and a happy 1755 01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:12,720 Speaker 1: hour over Zoom. Okay, h and I team, I've got 1756 01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:15,479 Speaker 1: to tell you something very special today. You have to 1757 01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:19,120 Speaker 1: send in a note if you can where you wish 1758 01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:23,080 Speaker 1: producer Mark happy birthday. Because it's produced and I can't 1759 01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:24,760 Speaker 1: sing to him. I would, you know, I would but 1760 01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:27,200 Speaker 1: they'll sue me. Yeah, I know they'll sue because they 1761 01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:30,320 Speaker 1: don't like you using the happy birthday, So I might sue. Well, 1762 01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:32,120 Speaker 1: and you're the birthday boys, so I gotta I gotta 1763 01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:35,479 Speaker 1: respect your wishes. There's no question. But Arie l missus 1764 01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:37,960 Speaker 1: Mark is with you, right, are you? Guys? Is she 1765 01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:39,759 Speaker 1: making you a cake? What are you doing for the birthday? 1766 01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:44,360 Speaker 1: She actually got me fifty baked by Melissa cupcakes. Wow? Yeah, 1767 01:34:44,479 --> 01:34:48,280 Speaker 1: like a birthday box of them? Nice? Did you did 1768 01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:49,840 Speaker 1: we found? No? We did? We introduce you to the 1769 01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:53,240 Speaker 1: mystery the Mystery buck girlfriend. You finally met her? Yeah, 1770 01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:56,840 Speaker 1: so she exists. But I can attest why doesn't cut 1771 01:34:56,840 --> 01:35:01,720 Speaker 1: your hair? Um? She might? I think I might. I 1772 01:35:01,840 --> 01:35:05,360 Speaker 1: might bring her into this one instead. She might, So 1773 01:35:06,120 --> 01:35:10,160 Speaker 1: we'll see if that ends up. If that ends up happening, 1774 01:35:10,240 --> 01:35:12,120 Speaker 1: it's it's But the thing is, if I mess up 1775 01:35:12,160 --> 01:35:14,360 Speaker 1: my own hair, no one is at fault. I think someone, 1776 01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:17,679 Speaker 1: someone that close to me wouldn't want to be the one. Yeah, 1777 01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:19,599 Speaker 1: you know doesn't want to pull the trigger on this one, 1778 01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:22,760 Speaker 1: but likely to mess it up. That's probably true, and 1779 01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:24,880 Speaker 1: she's way better at it. She'll she'll do a much 1780 01:35:24,920 --> 01:35:27,160 Speaker 1: better job than me regardless. Like if you could have 1781 01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:29,200 Speaker 1: like Mark, if if she could, if she could use 1782 01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:30,680 Speaker 1: the clippers on your head, or I could use the 1783 01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:33,760 Speaker 1: clippers on your head, you definitely would want her. Yeah, yeah, 1784 01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:37,599 Speaker 1: for sure. So so she got you baked by Melissa cupcakes? Yeah? 1785 01:35:37,840 --> 01:35:39,720 Speaker 1: Are you guys gonna watch something tonight? What? How else 1786 01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:41,800 Speaker 1: are you going to celebrate? You know? How else do 1787 01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:43,880 Speaker 1: you the quarantine birthday? By the way, are you twenty seven? 1788 01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:47,120 Speaker 1: Twenty seven? Yeah? Well you guessed it right. I didn't guess. 1789 01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:51,000 Speaker 1: I knew, I knew. Yeah, I'm very close to thirty 1790 01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:54,639 Speaker 1: now I don't like it. Twenty seven, man, that's that's 1791 01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:56,200 Speaker 1: a that's a great age. You know where I was 1792 01:35:56,240 --> 01:36:00,200 Speaker 1: when I was twenty seven, Iraq or something Iraq, trying 1793 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:03,000 Speaker 1: to help my country. Oh so now you're shaming me 1794 01:36:03,080 --> 01:36:05,720 Speaker 1: for not being in Iraq, That's what it sounds like. No, 1795 01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm just I think everybody right now is serving their 1796 01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:11,640 Speaker 1: country just by trying to stay home. So it is, 1797 01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:14,840 Speaker 1: it is what it is, um all right? Anyway, everyone 1798 01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:17,880 Speaker 1: please wish producer Mark a happy birthday. He is the 1799 01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:20,880 Speaker 1: glue that keeps the show together. He keeps the trains running. 1800 01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:24,800 Speaker 1: And I know you all appreciate all his contributions, and 1801 01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:27,040 Speaker 1: as our show continues to grow, I have to keep saying, 1802 01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:30,000 Speaker 1: good job, producer Mark. You know we're we're crushing it. 1803 01:36:30,120 --> 01:36:34,040 Speaker 1: So thank you, Thank everyone in advance. Yes, and happy 1804 01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:36,559 Speaker 1: birthday to producer Mark and his lovely wife. Hopefully they 1805 01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:39,639 Speaker 1: have a great, great celebration. And I do when when 1806 01:36:39,640 --> 01:36:42,960 Speaker 1: we're back, when when social distance no longer happening and 1807 01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:44,960 Speaker 1: we get your birthday, we will we'll do like a 1808 01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:47,280 Speaker 1: double party for you, like even bigger. We'll see you 1809 01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:49,559 Speaker 1: next year. Then, Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna well, 1810 01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:52,560 Speaker 1: maybe two years. It's gonna be a long time. I 1811 01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:56,320 Speaker 1: hate to say, it's gonna be a while. Already back 1812 01:36:56,360 --> 01:37:00,800 Speaker 1: to Roll Call here with Ken watch the Pluto TV 1813 01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:03,839 Speaker 1: stream for the first time today. Are you wearing pants? 1814 01:37:05,040 --> 01:37:07,679 Speaker 1: Inquiring minds want to know. It's a very important question, 1815 01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:13,320 Speaker 1: actually important question. I am wearing pants. Are they sweatpants? Yes? 1816 01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:19,080 Speaker 1: Are they cool like Sean John brand sweatpants? No? Are 1817 01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:21,960 Speaker 1: they Costco brand? Maybe we don't have to get too 1818 01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:25,479 Speaker 1: specific here. I haven't warned anything other than sweatpants since 1819 01:37:25,479 --> 01:37:27,320 Speaker 1: the last day I went into the office. I mean, 1820 01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:29,960 Speaker 1: there are a few things about our current world that 1821 01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:32,680 Speaker 1: as scary and bad as a lot of stuff is, 1822 01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:38,920 Speaker 1: the no need to get dressed up scenario is something 1823 01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,320 Speaker 1: that I think people are going to adopt one more 1824 01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:44,360 Speaker 1: the western style business suit. I know it looks good, 1825 01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:46,600 Speaker 1: but it should really be more for formal occasions, and 1826 01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:49,120 Speaker 1: this should not be what anyone's expected to wear to 1827 01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:50,800 Speaker 1: work or to the office. But I we'll see if 1828 01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:53,360 Speaker 1: that change isn't time. But yes, I am wearing pants. 1829 01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:56,799 Speaker 1: Producer Mark would insist on such, and then he writes, seriously, 1830 01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:58,200 Speaker 1: I know you're in the belly of the beast. I 1831 01:37:58,280 --> 01:38:01,160 Speaker 1: lived there for years on the East Side. I'm worried 1832 01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:03,600 Speaker 1: about you. I'm a seventy nine year old vet, and 1833 01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:05,360 Speaker 1: you need a Hurra to keep you up. The country 1834 01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:08,799 Speaker 1: needs your clear thinking and calm demeanor. Hanging for your fans, 1835 01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:10,760 Speaker 1: well can thank you. I will hang in, and I 1836 01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:19,000 Speaker 1: do really appreciate the hurrah and the support. It's it's 1837 01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:20,679 Speaker 1: tough here in New York, but I know it's different 1838 01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:22,320 Speaker 1: everywhere else in the country. So I'm trying not to 1839 01:38:22,320 --> 01:38:24,640 Speaker 1: take to New York centric a view of everything and 1840 01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:26,719 Speaker 1: make sure that we're talking about these things the way 1841 01:38:27,400 --> 01:38:30,479 Speaker 1: that they are best reflective of the national situation. You know, 1842 01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:33,320 Speaker 1: this is a national show, but yeah, no, New York 1843 01:38:33,360 --> 01:38:35,000 Speaker 1: City is in bad as We're in bad shape. But 1844 01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:37,120 Speaker 1: this is where this is worse than the weeks after 1845 01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:39,920 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. It's not as bad as nine to 1846 01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:42,000 Speaker 1: eleven on the day, of course, but the weeks after 1847 01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:47,400 Speaker 1: this is a more difficult play psychologically for the city. 1848 01:38:47,439 --> 01:38:51,519 Speaker 1: I think right now, Michael, hey buck, you've been sounding 1849 01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:53,840 Speaker 1: like what lockdown is starting to weigh on you, and 1850 01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:57,240 Speaker 1: that's understandable. I don't normally contact famous folks, but I 1851 01:38:57,280 --> 01:38:58,880 Speaker 1: want to remind you there there's still a lot of 1852 01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:00,720 Speaker 1: us in the hinter land the work to keep the 1853 01:39:00,720 --> 01:39:04,080 Speaker 1: country going. Give our fellow Americans all the help we can. 1854 01:39:04,120 --> 01:39:05,840 Speaker 1: While you're in a bad place, hang in there, You're 1855 01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:09,080 Speaker 1: not alone. Love the show shield time, Michael. I do 1856 01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:11,400 Speaker 1: thank you for that, and I know that I know 1857 01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:13,519 Speaker 1: there are people in the rest of the country who 1858 01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:16,360 Speaker 1: can do more and are doing more to keep us 1859 01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:19,040 Speaker 1: all going, and I wish that I could be a 1860 01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:22,559 Speaker 1: greater part of that effort, do more to help those people, 1861 01:39:23,080 --> 01:39:27,280 Speaker 1: And we absolutely recognize that. We're very, very thankful, and 1862 01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:31,120 Speaker 1: that's that's where we're at for now, So Michael, appreciate 1863 01:39:31,160 --> 01:39:33,439 Speaker 1: you writing into and especially for those who have never 1864 01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:36,840 Speaker 1: written in before, now's a great time. Every every message 1865 01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:42,280 Speaker 1: is appreciated. Steve buck Ser, has your perspective on the 1866 01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:44,519 Speaker 1: coronavirus changed at all? About it being and in the 1867 01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:47,280 Speaker 1: wild disease and probably not manufactured in a Chinese lab? 1868 01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:49,920 Speaker 1: Given we seem to be learning about its communicability, what 1869 01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,120 Speaker 1: if at some point in the future we find it 1870 01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:55,400 Speaker 1: mutates quickly. Worse yet, what if the disease affects our 1871 01:39:55,439 --> 01:39:57,240 Speaker 1: troops to the point we'd be unable to respond to 1872 01:39:57,240 --> 01:40:00,559 Speaker 1: a Chinese move against Taiwan. Steve, I think I've been 1873 01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:04,439 Speaker 1: pretty clear that I absolutely think that there's a high 1874 01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:14,280 Speaker 1: percentage chance that the coronavirus, the coronavirus is something that 1875 01:40:14,360 --> 01:40:16,639 Speaker 1: came out of a Chinese lab. I think I've made 1876 01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:19,680 Speaker 1: that one. I've talked about it several times, and it 1877 01:40:19,720 --> 01:40:22,200 Speaker 1: makes perfect sense to me if that is what happened. 1878 01:40:22,479 --> 01:40:26,200 Speaker 1: I don't think this was intentional release as a bioweapon, 1879 01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:30,200 Speaker 1: but an unintentional escape from a poorly run lab that 1880 01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:32,280 Speaker 1: really shouldn't have been doing this kind of research in 1881 01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:35,920 Speaker 1: the first place. Yes, yes, I think that's possible. The 1882 01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:37,920 Speaker 1: only reason I don't say that's what happened is I 1883 01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:42,519 Speaker 1: don't know, and I really avoid stating things as fact 1884 01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:46,639 Speaker 1: here when it's still a guess for obvious reasons. So 1885 01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:50,000 Speaker 1: there you go. There you go, Steve, like he calls 1886 01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:55,519 Speaker 1: me Buster too, You're in the freedom Hunt. This is 1887 01:40:55,560 --> 01:41:02,840 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast, all right, Tommy writes in 1888 01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:05,479 Speaker 1: love the podcast, Buck, I'm pulling for you and all 1889 01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:08,719 Speaker 1: New Yorkers as this awful scourge, unleashed by the CCP 1890 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,479 Speaker 1: continues to kill and hold the city hostage. I live 1891 01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:13,519 Speaker 1: in South Dakota. Things are much different here. We've only 1892 01:41:13,560 --> 01:41:17,679 Speaker 1: had one fatality so far. Shield say, Tommy, God bless 1893 01:41:17,760 --> 01:41:19,960 Speaker 1: thank you for writing in. And I know places are 1894 01:41:19,960 --> 01:41:21,160 Speaker 1: doing a lot better than we are. I mean, New 1895 01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:23,720 Speaker 1: York's the worst right now for this, So we know 1896 01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:27,600 Speaker 1: that other places are in much better shape. And I'm 1897 01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:30,040 Speaker 1: glad that you have that peace of mind and that 1898 01:41:30,080 --> 01:41:34,120 Speaker 1: freedom of movement, and overall it's better situation for you. 1899 01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:36,960 Speaker 1: And that's true in a lot of places right now. 1900 01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:40,800 Speaker 1: And as for the Chinese Communist Party, yeah, they're responsible 1901 01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:43,519 Speaker 1: for this troubling. I'll return to this tomorrow. But we 1902 01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:48,240 Speaker 1: think that The propaganda from China is clumsy, is obvious, 1903 01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:51,080 Speaker 1: and it is and yet it still is working in 1904 01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,120 Speaker 1: large part, I believe because of the assistance that our 1905 01:41:54,160 --> 01:41:58,000 Speaker 1: own media, whether on purpose or just inadvertently, has been 1906 01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:02,200 Speaker 1: giving to them by magnifying that propaganda. There's a very 1907 01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:06,000 Speaker 1: real problem here of only forty seven percent of Americans 1908 01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:09,280 Speaker 1: think that China is mostly responsible for this, only forty 1909 01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:12,840 Speaker 1: seven percent. That number should be over ninety, but it's not. 1910 01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:18,000 Speaker 1: And it's suspiciously close to Trump approval ratings, isn't it 1911 01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:21,439 Speaker 1: When you think about that, it's just forty seven, not twenty, 1912 01:42:21,560 --> 01:42:24,720 Speaker 1: not eighty forty seven percent. It's almost like Republicans think 1913 01:42:24,720 --> 01:42:28,400 Speaker 1: that China is responsible, but Democrats don't. I hope that's not. 1914 01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:30,760 Speaker 1: I would love to see and I don't know. I 1915 01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:34,960 Speaker 1: would love to see a biparty breakdown of who blames 1916 01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:38,440 Speaker 1: China for this. I think that the Democrats blame Trumps. 1917 01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:41,479 Speaker 1: This is going to be a big back and forth, 1918 01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:45,200 Speaker 1: a big debate going forward. People that blame China because 1919 01:42:45,200 --> 01:42:48,160 Speaker 1: it is China's fault will be viewed as carrying water 1920 01:42:48,240 --> 01:42:50,439 Speaker 1: for Trump because the Democrat point of view is going 1921 01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:53,120 Speaker 1: to be forget about China's role, and forget about how 1922 01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:56,040 Speaker 1: hard so many other countries have been hit. Got to 1923 01:42:56,080 --> 01:42:58,760 Speaker 1: blame Trump for this, We all blame Trump for this. 1924 01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:01,120 Speaker 1: That's going to be there, As I've said, that's going 1925 01:43:01,200 --> 01:43:04,120 Speaker 1: to be the reason that they're supposed to get someone 1926 01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:06,800 Speaker 1: else elected into the presidency. Robert, right, Hey, Buck, I'll 1927 01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:08,679 Speaker 1: listen to you almost every day now with the podcast. 1928 01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:12,720 Speaker 1: I hope there are as many factories churning out chloroquin. Proactively. 1929 01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:15,479 Speaker 1: Noticed that all the NYC doctors are taking it. So 1930 01:43:15,520 --> 01:43:17,559 Speaker 1: what else do we need to know that could and 1931 01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:21,879 Speaker 1: probably would change the dynamics of this whole pandemic emergency. So, Robert, 1932 01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:25,879 Speaker 1: it's interesting I talked to a doctor today about this. 1933 01:43:25,880 --> 01:43:28,240 Speaker 1: This morning, I spoke with a doctor who's giving chloroquin 1934 01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:31,120 Speaker 1: to patients and he says that there are some patients 1935 01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:33,920 Speaker 1: that are on the chloroquin protocol who it seems to 1936 01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,599 Speaker 1: be helping. Says, the problem is that the ones who 1937 01:43:36,640 --> 01:43:40,439 Speaker 1: are getting better because it's so early that we don't know. 1938 01:43:40,920 --> 01:43:42,760 Speaker 1: Because here's what can happen. You have somebody who's in 1939 01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:45,880 Speaker 1: the hospital who's got a bad version of the disease, 1940 01:43:45,920 --> 01:43:49,920 Speaker 1: but they're not in ards RDS they're not deteriorating totally. 1941 01:43:50,600 --> 01:43:52,880 Speaker 1: And then you give them chloroquin for four or five 1942 01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:54,879 Speaker 1: days and they're getting better. It's well, did the chloroquine 1943 01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:57,080 Speaker 1: make them better? Were they already getting better? And other 1944 01:43:57,080 --> 01:43:58,880 Speaker 1: people this is according to the doc that I talked to. 1945 01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:02,439 Speaker 1: Other people are other people rather who are patients who 1946 01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,240 Speaker 1: come in very very very sick. You start giving them 1947 01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:07,920 Speaker 1: the chloroquint is zithromycin protocol, but they might be dead 1948 01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:11,840 Speaker 1: in two days or even twelve hours. So if they're 1949 01:44:11,920 --> 01:44:15,720 Speaker 1: that close to the end, if they're that sick, the 1950 01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:19,960 Speaker 1: chloroquin is zithromycin may not be enough. But that doesn't 1951 01:44:20,040 --> 01:44:22,799 Speaker 1: mean that chloroquin and is zithromycin may not be useful. 1952 01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:27,240 Speaker 1: And increasingly I'm seeing anecdotal reporting. Remember that was from 1953 01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:29,519 Speaker 1: a doctor who's dealing with this every single day. Kids 1954 01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:31,400 Speaker 1: so brave. I can't believe he's doing this, But a 1955 01:44:31,400 --> 01:44:33,240 Speaker 1: lot of people are doing this right, it's just amazing. 1956 01:44:33,479 --> 01:44:39,439 Speaker 1: But anecdotally, there's information that the hydroxy chloroquin is useful 1957 01:44:39,640 --> 01:44:44,679 Speaker 1: very very early on in the virus, in the virus's 1958 01:44:44,720 --> 01:44:49,920 Speaker 1: progression with the zithromycin. And so maybe that's what's missing here. 1959 01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:53,680 Speaker 1: So and if we get COVID testing up high enough. 1960 01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:55,200 Speaker 1: What will happen then is if you think you have COVID, 1961 01:44:55,200 --> 01:44:56,479 Speaker 1: you get a test, and as soon as you get it, 1962 01:44:56,520 --> 01:44:59,120 Speaker 1: you want to start taking this protocol right away so 1963 01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:02,000 Speaker 1: that you do not progress into the much worse states 1964 01:45:02,120 --> 01:45:05,439 Speaker 1: of the disease. I'm not saying that is happening or 1965 01:45:05,560 --> 01:45:08,120 Speaker 1: what should happen, or I'm just saying that could be 1966 01:45:08,720 --> 01:45:10,719 Speaker 1: from what I'm hearing from doctors, that could be the case. 1967 01:45:11,240 --> 01:45:13,760 Speaker 1: And it's interesting to me because I know of chloroquine. 1968 01:45:13,760 --> 01:45:15,720 Speaker 1: I've known of chloroquin for a long time because of 1969 01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:19,600 Speaker 1: its use in some places. I was in in Africa 1970 01:45:19,920 --> 01:45:24,240 Speaker 1: where it is an anti malarial and an anti malarial 1971 01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:27,080 Speaker 1: I don't remember what the eye took doxycycline, which is 1972 01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:30,799 Speaker 1: an antibiotic for anti malarial when I was there, which 1973 01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:33,000 Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I think was terrible on 1974 01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:36,439 Speaker 1: my system and the adverse consequences of that I felt 1975 01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:39,400 Speaker 1: for a long time afterwards, But it was better than 1976 01:45:39,439 --> 01:45:44,080 Speaker 1: getting malaria. Chloroquin I didn't take. But I do believe 1977 01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:47,040 Speaker 1: that most malaria prophylaxis you take every day, and you 1978 01:45:47,040 --> 01:45:49,760 Speaker 1: take it for a long periods of time. So if 1979 01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:55,200 Speaker 1: it turns out that the hydroxy chloroquin a zithromycin protocol 1980 01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:59,160 Speaker 1: is taken for a prophylactic reason. You'd be able to 1981 01:45:59,160 --> 01:46:01,000 Speaker 1: take it for pretty long periods of time while the 1982 01:46:01,360 --> 01:46:04,439 Speaker 1: while the virus is out there. Again, we don't know. 1983 01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:07,800 Speaker 1: It's early. They they've got to figure this stuff out 1984 01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:10,840 Speaker 1: before we can really start making big determinations about how 1985 01:46:10,920 --> 01:46:13,240 Speaker 1: much of this and when and everything else people should take. 1986 01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:16,320 Speaker 1: So that's what I'm hearing from doctors, That's what I'm 1987 01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:19,839 Speaker 1: hearing from people on the front lines of this and Team. 1988 01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:24,160 Speaker 1: I gotta say I ran through the show pretty quickly today. 1989 01:46:24,200 --> 01:46:26,120 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you about the Sweden model tomorrow. Very 1990 01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:28,720 Speaker 1: very interesting what they're doing in Sweden to deal with 1991 01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:32,240 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Also turns out the FBI was abusing its 1992 01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:36,040 Speaker 1: authority on Faiza, who knew everybody obviously, Maybe I'll give 1993 01:46:36,040 --> 01:46:38,280 Speaker 1: you an update on that. And we're working on some 1994 01:46:38,280 --> 01:46:40,479 Speaker 1: other projects. So please pass the buck. Now is the 1995 01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:43,280 Speaker 1: best time ever in terms of getting new people to 1996 01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:46,439 Speaker 1: listen to the show, So please please pass the buck. 1997 01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:49,679 Speaker 1: Tell people about this show, share the podcast with them, 1998 01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:52,280 Speaker 1: text them the link to the podcast, spread the word. 1999 01:46:52,360 --> 01:46:54,439 Speaker 1: Team talk to you Tomorrow shield tie