Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. It's Monday, March three eighth.
Speaker 1: We are in week two of quarantine. The President has
Speaker 1: an update for how long these measures should be continued.
Speaker 1: I'll share that with you. Plus the arrival of a
Speaker 1: US Navy ship here in New York City preparing for
Speaker 1: the deluge of cases to come in the weeks ahead,
Speaker 1: and how does China factor into all this, plus the
Speaker 1: politics around the coronavirus fight coming up on the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. This is the bus Sexton Show, where the
Speaker 1: mission or mission is to decode what really matters with
Speaker 1: actionable intelligence. Make no mistake. Here a great American again,
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want high approval ratings for this. I wish
Speaker 1: we could have our old life back. We had the
Speaker 1: greatest economy that we've ever had, and we didn't have deaths.
Speaker 1: We didn't have this, We didn't have this horrible scourge,
Speaker 1: this plague, you call it whatever you want, the virus.
Speaker 1: But we're working very hard. This all I know. You know,
Speaker 1: I see things, I see numbers. They don't matter to me.
Speaker 1: What matters to me is that we have a victory
Speaker 1: over this thing as soon as possible. When you hear
Speaker 1: that two point two million people could have died if
Speaker 1: we didn't go through all of this, and now the
Speaker 1: number will be, you know, a much lower number. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it's going to be the numbers that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But so I appreciate it very much. But you know
Speaker 1: what I want is I want our life back again.
Speaker 1: I want our country back. I want the world back.
Speaker 1: I want the world to get rid of this this again.
Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty one countries and we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a great victory. Welcome to the box,
Speaker 1: Sex and share everybody from here in New York City
Speaker 1: to you all across the country and around the world.
Speaker 1: The President giving voice to exactly what so many of
Speaker 1: us are thinking right now. We want our lives back,
Speaker 1: we want our country back, we want our world back.
Speaker 1: And this virus has now shown people that it is
Speaker 1: much more than was anticipated a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1: The response to it is going to be a point
Speaker 1: of difficulty and pain for a lot of people. And
Speaker 1: what the economic ramivocations of this may be, nobody can
Speaker 1: tell you yet. But we now are in it. We
Speaker 1: are in this fight that really the last few weeks
Speaker 1: it felt like preparation for here we are now trying
Speaker 1: to establish all the supplies we need, the protocols and
Speaker 1: the best possible practices for defeating a pandemic. That still
Speaker 1: stunning that we're at this point right now, and it's
Speaker 1: also a reminder of really how petty and how unserious
Speaker 1: to so many of the political squabbles of the past
Speaker 1: have been. Here we are desperately trying to come together
Speaker 1: to create enough masks and ventilators, get all this personal
Speaker 1: protective equipment in place. Here we are doing here, we
Speaker 1: are doing everything in our power to try and find
Speaker 1: a way forward that saves the maximum amount of lives,
Speaker 1: while also trying to maintain some economic activity going forward,
Speaker 1: or at least the ability to have an economy, because
Speaker 1: lives also are quite clearly dependent upon that. Anyone who
Speaker 1: doesn't think so should stop and ask will hold on
Speaker 1: a second, If a shortage of ventilators is going to
Speaker 1: cause death, where do the ventilators come from? We need
Speaker 1: economic activity in this country, and the President certainly understands that.
Speaker 1: But I must say yesterday at his press conference, it
Speaker 1: was quite clear that there has been a change in
Speaker 1: thinking from this administration to straight up lockdown. That's where
Speaker 1: we are. We are in the national battened down the
Speaker 1: hatches phase of this fight. The President had to tell
Speaker 1: everybody that the member I had been telling you that
Speaker 1: fifteen days, fifteen days to stop the spread. That was
Speaker 1: the initial campaign, and we should give him the fifteen days. Well,
Speaker 1: we've done that. We've gotten to week two of that.
Speaker 1: And instead of thinking that we're anywhere near being finished,
Speaker 1: what we have been told is the following. This was
Speaker 1: the President yesterday, Bruce and Mark Plick Clip four. The
Speaker 1: modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely
Speaker 1: to hit in two weeks. So I'll say it again,
Speaker 1: the peak, the highest point of remember this is likely
Speaker 1: to hit in two weeks. Nothing would be worse than
Speaker 1: declaring victory before the victory is one that would be
Speaker 1: the greatest loss of all. Therefore, the next two weeks
Speaker 1: and during this period, it's very important that every one
Speaker 1: strongly follow the guidelines, have to follow the guidelines that
Speaker 1: our great Vice President holds up a lot. He's holding
Speaker 1: that up a lot. He believes in it so strongly.
Speaker 1: The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end. Therefore,
Speaker 1: we will be extending our guidelines to April thirtieth to
Speaker 1: slow the spread. We are on quarantine here in New
Speaker 1: York City and other cities as well. We are putting
Speaker 1: in place maximum protective measures for another thirty days. Effectively,
Speaker 1: that's where we're going to be. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be made before you even have some restoration of normal
Speaker 1: economic activity. It's going to be quite a while before
Speaker 1: we see ourselves able to start to breathe more easily.
Speaker 1: Pardon the expression, this was a tough one. Now, the
Speaker 1: market didn't really react very negatively negatively to this today,
Speaker 1: I think in part because the expectation is at the rescue,
Speaker 1: the two trillion dollar rescue package is going to be
Speaker 1: able to sustain the economy with all of the direct
Speaker 1: cash infusions as well as these loans for small businesses,
Speaker 1: that it'll sustain the economy for at least three or
Speaker 1: four months, more or less. We'll see if that's correct.
Speaker 1: Remember that no one's ever done this before. There is
Speaker 1: no playbook for putting an economy at a deep freeze.
Speaker 1: There's no precedent for a society as large as ours,
Speaker 1: with the complexity that ours has, of telling people that
Speaker 1: they have to stay at home, and in New York
Speaker 1: it's getting particularly extreme. I'll bring you into Look, I
Speaker 1: understand this is a show that many of you all
Speaker 1: across the country here, but New York is the worst
Speaker 1: hit place in the entire country right now with this,
Speaker 1: and what you're seeing here is going to be replicated elsewhere,
Speaker 1: the spread of the disease, the fight now it perhaps
Speaker 1: the aggregate numbers here will be larger, but keep in
Speaker 1: mind that the hospital system here, the hospital system here
Speaker 1: is also larger and more complicated than what you would have,
Speaker 1: more complex than what you would have in a vast
Speaker 1: majority probably all other metro marias in the country, just
Speaker 1: because of the size of New York City itself. So
Speaker 1: the President said, look, give us until the end of April.
Speaker 1: Give us until the end of April to get this
Speaker 1: thing as under control as we can, and then we'll
Speaker 1: look to start to have more normal economic activity. I
Speaker 1: guess now we are really in the government's hands here
Speaker 1: in a way that makes me deeply uncomfortable. I'm sure
Speaker 1: many of you feel exactly the same way. There's that
Speaker 1: I have two conflicting emotions about the government response. On
Speaker 1: the one hand. I want to be optimistic and I
Speaker 1: want to be cheerful about their prospects for long term success.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing you can't be cheerful now, it's
Speaker 1: it's bleak out there, my friends. But be optimistic, better word,
Speaker 1: about the long term possibilities here, and I'm hoping for
Speaker 1: the best from our government response. I'm also seeing a
Speaker 1: combination of incompetence and dictatorial impulse from the people that
Speaker 1: are in charge, specifically here in the Mayor of New
Speaker 1: York City, but you'll see this elsewhere too. This is
Speaker 1: going to be a stress test on our society and
Speaker 1: on us, the likes of which we have never seen before,
Speaker 1: this disease. At this point, based on what I'm hearing,
Speaker 1: and I've spoken to numerous doctors who are dealing with
Speaker 1: this problem themselves, and what they're telling me is this
Speaker 1: is I thought it was going to be bad. Really
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, I've realized that this is going
Speaker 1: to be We're in for a real nightmare here. It's
Speaker 1: the disease itself is worse than I had anticipated. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not a healthcare expert. I all I can do
Speaker 1: is read what I read, read what I see. Everyone
Speaker 1: reads what they read, but I am seeing now that
Speaker 1: this is even a level beyond and there are younger,
Speaker 1: healthier people, people in their forties and fifties, who are
Speaker 1: needing to go in for emergency care and get intubated
Speaker 1: on this. So look, you don't come here so that
Speaker 1: I can tell you, oh my gosh, the sky is
Speaker 1: falling and it's not. We're gonna be all right. As
Speaker 1: I've been saying, we will get through this. As a country.
Speaker 1: We certainly have better days ahead. And I think that
Speaker 1: while we're preparing for this and trying to look at
Speaker 1: all the most up to date information we can, it's
Speaker 1: worth remembering that there will be there will be a
Speaker 1: renewed sense that perhaps for you it might even start today,
Speaker 1: an appreciation for the lives that we have been able
Speaker 1: to lead in this country up to this point, and
Speaker 1: a renewed appreciation down the line once we can return
Speaker 1: to some degree of normalcy for really what we have.
Speaker 1: I spent much of my time the first three years
Speaker 1: of the Trump presidency on air, a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: but I repeatedly said to you all, don't listen to
Speaker 1: the people in the media. They're talking about all this
Speaker 1: enjoy your life. You know this, who listen to the
Speaker 1: show said, enjoy where we are. Unbelievable prosperity, relative peace,
Speaker 1: no major terrorist attacks looming over our heads, no economic catastrophe.
Speaker 1: All those things were true until year four. And as
Speaker 1: we enter year four the Trump presidency, he got hit.
Speaker 1: And this is the toughest thing that any American president
Speaker 1: has been hit with since Pearl Harbor. Honestly, this is
Speaker 1: the most And some of you would say, well, in
Speaker 1: some ways, maybe even the Great Depression was a bigger
Speaker 1: challenge than Pearl Harbor itself. We're gonna win, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you have to go back. This is one
Speaker 1: hundred year challenge we're facing right now. Once every hundred
Speaker 1: years of society like ours faces something like this. Now.
Speaker 1: I do take a positive, long term view. I will
Speaker 1: continue to do that. We have a lot to get
Speaker 1: through here today. I've talked to doctors about the prospects
Speaker 1: of these different drugs. The Gilead anti viral drug, the
Speaker 1: drug that's actually used to treat gout. It's been around
Speaker 1: for a very long time, an old drug up in Montreal.
Speaker 1: There's also chloroquin and a zithromycin there's serology tests to
Speaker 1: look at your blood and see if you have anybodies.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of new weapons, just like in any war.
Speaker 1: I mean, those of you who are history buffs. No,
Speaker 1: if you go back to the First World War, Second
Speaker 1: World War, the speed of munition development during a war,
Speaker 1: it's like nothing else because there's a really obvious and
Speaker 1: immediate need for better weapons. We are going to see that,
Speaker 1: I believe, with this disease, we are going to see
Speaker 1: a weaponization of the medical community's knowledge against this virus
Speaker 1: at an unprecedented pace. And it's necessary because this virus
Speaker 1: is even more contagious and nasty and dangerous than a
Speaker 1: vast majority of people who are following it anticipated. This
Speaker 1: thing is. This is bad. It's so bad that you
Speaker 1: start to wonder this really just occurred naturally in nature.
Speaker 1: This wasn't anything that any human beings anywhere around the
Speaker 1: world perhaps had any hand in messing with. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's a question. We have to leave
Speaker 1: open the possibility until we really know what happened here.
Speaker 1: I feel like we have to leave open a lot
Speaker 1: of possibilities. We've been lied to a lot. We're being
Speaker 1: lied to you right now by the Chinese government. Every
Speaker 1: day they're saying they have no new cases. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that. But on the upside here, as I've been saying,
Speaker 1: you will appreciate your life more than you ever have,
Speaker 1: and we are through this. I think that's my belief.
Speaker 1: I certainly will. I'll appreciate little things about life. And
Speaker 1: there's also a closest now that you feel with the
Speaker 1: people that you love. There's a recognition we are all
Speaker 1: We've always been on borrowed time. Now we know we're
Speaker 1: on borrowed time. Now we've been reminded in this era,
Speaker 1: we're all trying to extend youth, you know, into the
Speaker 1: end of a century of our own lifespan. Right, we'll
Speaker 1: all think we're going to live forever and ever and
Speaker 1: be healthy forever and ever. And you know that lessons
Speaker 1: a little bit as you get older. But now you
Speaker 1: know these people that in their twenties and their thirties
Speaker 1: thinking about mortality, thinking about societal collapse, that just never
Speaker 1: really enters your mind. It doesn't really come up. And
Speaker 1: we see that all societies have dealt with this stretching
Speaker 1: back for all of human history, pestilence, plague, this has
Speaker 1: been around for as long as we've been gathering, since
Speaker 1: we came out of the caves and came together and
Speaker 1: started farming and having something that we would call now
Speaker 1: a society. So this is not new in that sense
Speaker 1: at all. But this particular virus reminds us that we
Speaker 1: can all walk around with supercomputers in our pockets that
Speaker 1: we call smartphones, with instantaneous computation, with technology, with communications
Speaker 1: that seem like they're from an alien race compared to
Speaker 1: what we would have had even forty or fifty years ago.
Speaker 1: And yet someone somewhere becoming infected with something you can't
Speaker 1: even see has brought modern society to this point where
Speaker 1: we are in a real fight. We're in a fight
Speaker 1: the likes of which we've never seen before. As I
Speaker 1: said to you, this is a once in a hundred
Speaker 1: years challenge, and you know, it really does take us back.
Speaker 1: There's nothing like this that we have faced in one
Speaker 1: concentrated dose. Yes, the Cold War nuclear weapons staring at
Speaker 1: each other across the line of mutually assured destruction and
Speaker 1: all that, but that was long and drawn out, and
Speaker 1: there was always in the back of our minds some
Speaker 1: sense that you can deal with human beings human beings,
Speaker 1: you can understand even if they don't have remorse, if
Speaker 1: they don't have any sense of decency, which is usually
Speaker 1: not the case. They all have weak points, right the
Speaker 1: immortal words of Schwarzenegger and Predator. If it bleeds, we
Speaker 1: can kill it. Viruses don't bleed, we do. And so
Speaker 1: we are at a disadvantage in that respect, and we
Speaker 1: are mobilizing our society against something that has the ability,
Speaker 1: unfortunately to hit us now and come back and hit
Speaker 1: us again in the future. This will change us forever.
Speaker 1: I'll be thinking more in the weeks ahead as we
Speaker 1: do this show, and this show really has become a
Speaker 1: lifeline for my sense of connection and quite honestly a
Speaker 1: continued stability and sanity in the midst of being in
Speaker 1: quarantine in New York City. But this will also change us.
Speaker 1: This whole process we're going through, we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: of dealing with this virus will change society in ways
Speaker 1: that nobody can really anticipate the part of it. I
Speaker 1: think at an individual level, there'll be a lot of
Speaker 1: lessons learned from this that you can view as growth,
Speaker 1: as positive, you know, assuming we get through this without
Speaker 1: horrific levels of casualties. We're going to have a lot
Speaker 1: of loss of life, which is terrible and deeply regrettable
Speaker 1: in every sense. But there'll be individuals, I think, who
Speaker 1: come out of this with a different view of what
Speaker 1: really matters. The part of me that is most concerned
Speaker 1: is for the structure as we have in place in
Speaker 1: terms of long term threat. And we will beat this virus.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll beat in eighteen months, but we will beat it.
Speaker 1: But what does the government look like, what does our
Speaker 1: economy look like? What does America and the world look
Speaker 1: like in eighteen months. I can't begin to tell you
Speaker 1: that I know the answer, but I'm going to be
Speaker 1: sharing thoughts with you as we go ahead. Here, you're
Speaker 1: in the Freedom und This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: We're all in this together, all of us. I have
Speaker 1: never seen anything like it. The unity, the spirit of cord,
Speaker 1: the spirit. I've never seen anything like it. It's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing to watch. Unfortunately, the enemy is death. It's death.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are dying, so it's very unpleasant.
Speaker 1: It's a very unpleasant thing to go through. But the
Speaker 1: level of competence, the level of caring, the level of love,
Speaker 1: I just think it's brilliant, and it's possibly happening, happening
Speaker 1: in other countries. Possibly, I don't know. I can't speak
Speaker 1: to other countries, but I can speak to the United
Speaker 1: States of America. And I've said it before and I'll
Speaker 1: say it again. I am very proud to be your president.
Speaker 1: He knows how serious this is for anybody who was
Speaker 1: doubtful before. And I understand there is certainly a lack
Speaker 1: of trust, and there should be a lack of trust
Speaker 1: in our national news media. When this is all through
Speaker 1: and done with, I hope people realize that these media,
Speaker 1: these media brands that pretend to be objective journalists, it's
Speaker 1: not just a function of I don't like them because
Speaker 1: of their politics and their dishonesty. It's that they have
Speaker 1: done a massive disservice by lighting their credibility on fire.
Speaker 1: We needed a media going into this that we could trust.
Speaker 1: We needed a media where and they came. They came
Speaker 1: on TV and they said to the American people, Hey,
Speaker 1: forget about Trump for a second. This is real. Here's
Speaker 1: the information I want to give you on this. Some
Speaker 1: people did this. I'm not saying whenever I talk with
Speaker 1: the media, there's obviously exceptions. There are some individuals, some
Speaker 1: networks network that were more willing to just bring the
Speaker 1: American people facts and information. But by and large, our
Speaker 1: media let us down at a point of absolute crisis,
Speaker 1: where information was the difference between life and death. They'd
Speaker 1: rather play games and throw food at Donald Trump. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to
Speaker 1: subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Why don't you act in a little
Speaker 1: more positive It's always trying to question to you as
Speaker 1: you get you, and you know what, that's why nobody
Speaker 1: trusts the media anymore. How's that going to you? Didn't
Speaker 1: hear me? That's why you used to work for the
Speaker 1: Times and now you work for somebody else. Look, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. Be nice. Be nice. This was
Speaker 1: what the press reporter on more than anything else. While
Speaker 1: the President of the United States yesterday is telling us
Speaker 1: that we all basically have to be on lockdown for
Speaker 1: thirty days, that we have to be on lockdown, that
Speaker 1: people cannot go and do their jobs, cannot go about
Speaker 1: their lines for another month. We are losing a half
Speaker 1: a quarter built in now a half a quarter of
Speaker 1: economic activity in GDP. Now, I know when we start
Speaker 1: talking about these things, you start talking about what the
Speaker 1: economic impact of this will be long term. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of individuals who say, you're you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're throwing granny off the cliff, You're killing old people,
Speaker 1: You're so hardless. No, I want us to be in
Speaker 1: the best position possible as a country to say the
Speaker 1: maximum number of lives and have the maximum number of decent,
Speaker 1: decent conditions for life in this country. The amount of
Speaker 1: the loss of life that could start to happen if
Speaker 1: we have real decay, forget about decay that's too slow,
Speaker 1: collapse of civil society, and what happens in the streets.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can tell you this, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to be coming in and out on what I'm seeing
Speaker 1: here in New York. You know, there's some positives and
Speaker 1: there's some some real downsides. But first let me go
Speaker 1: back to before I give you my New York centric
Speaker 1: view of this. I mean, I can see a lot
Speaker 1: of Midtown and I can basically see Times Square from
Speaker 1: my window. Now, a lot of you have a pretty
Speaker 1: good sense of where I am in the city. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm close enough to the very heart
Speaker 1: of things that I have a particular, a true perspective
Speaker 1: and view on exactly what's going on in the busiest
Speaker 1: part of the whole city. But I'll get back that first.
Speaker 1: Let me just say that this exchange yet with Yami
Speaker 1: Yai or Yamish, I'm not trying to be funny. I
Speaker 1: actually forget how to pronounce her name. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's Yamish. So she's a journalist and her
Speaker 1: name was trending on Twitter. It's y am I. So
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to again, not making jokes here, I
Speaker 1: just don't know how to pronounce her name. But she
Speaker 1: got into this exchange with the president, and you had
Speaker 1: all these people who were saying journalists out there who
Speaker 1: while I'm sitting here wondering, and you know, I talked
Speaker 1: to a doctor this morning. I'm talking to you, doctor,
Speaker 1: friends of mine, as often as I can to get
Speaker 1: as much information as I can, because this isn't my area. Mean,
Speaker 1: after nine eleven, I went off the CIA, and really
Speaker 1: our main, our main national security threat, our effort was
Speaker 1: against radical radical Islamic terrorism around the world. We had
Speaker 1: two wars with this and this became an area that
Speaker 1: I knew. I had expertise. I knew how much we
Speaker 1: had to worry about different terrorist groups, and I had
Speaker 1: an understanding that other people didn't. And I also knew
Speaker 1: what information the US can I was just I was
Speaker 1: a worker b but I knew what information the top
Speaker 1: people in the US government were making their determinations off
Speaker 1: of because I was seeing it too with this with coronavirus. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, this is not an area where I can
Speaker 1: tell you anything other than I'm just researching and learning
Speaker 1: as fast as I can, as furiously as I can,
Speaker 1: every single day, and I'm trying to bring you the
Speaker 1: most valuable information with some context that I can, and
Speaker 1: also doing making my best efforts to be Look, I'm
Speaker 1: never going to be at not political. It's just not
Speaker 1: who I am when it comes to the way I
Speaker 1: view things. I'm honest with you about my sense of
Speaker 1: reality and life and politics and everything else. But I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make this really about defeating the virus as
Speaker 1: much as I can, and less about the nasty and
Speaker 1: often pointless back and forth with the left and the right.
Speaker 1: But the way that journalists who have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go directly to the source and ask the president during
Speaker 1: these press conferences, the way that they go after him
Speaker 1: day after day, what do they really think they are
Speaker 1: doing here that is worthwhile? And how can they be
Speaker 1: so petty and so immature and irresponsible that they think
Speaker 1: that this is a good way to spend their time.
Speaker 1: You know, this Yamish talking to the president. You know,
Speaker 1: yesterday they I stand with Yamish or there was some
Speaker 1: kind of a hashtag about how as if this is
Speaker 1: an important thing that was going on. Look, I think
Speaker 1: the president, Yeah, should he lose his temper with journalists?
Speaker 1: I mean and under other circumstances, probably not, because I
Speaker 1: didn't really think the president is able to get a
Speaker 1: moment's peace right now. It doesn't even think that he's
Speaker 1: a human being who also is tired, who's worried about
Speaker 1: family members, who's worried about his own health. The Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of the UK has COVID nineteen. Now, we we
Speaker 1: haven't yet seen any evidence that no matter, you could
Speaker 1: probably have the best medical care into the world right now,
Speaker 1: and there's no evidence to prove that if your immune system,
Speaker 1: because of age or other reasons, is not up for
Speaker 1: the fight, there's not that much they can do for you.
Speaker 1: So everybody's worried. Everybody's worried. People particularly in the high
Speaker 1: risk category, are worried about this. But instead of just
Speaker 1: focusing in on getting people the information that we all
Speaker 1: want to have right now, that we all know we
Speaker 1: need to have so that we can better take care
Speaker 1: of each other and of ourselves, journalists want to play games,
Speaker 1: and they're all doing this thing where they're saying that
Speaker 1: that this is necessary because Trumps has boxed this response
Speaker 1: so badly. This is going to turn into a huge
Speaker 1: vicious political back and forth, especially because we have an
Speaker 1: election in the fall, as you know, and we may
Speaker 1: end up having something more like The New York Times
Speaker 1: what a piece in this today. I've been thinking it
Speaker 1: for a while in Britain for the Prime Minister that
Speaker 1: they have a six week condensed election schedule. We're going
Speaker 1: to have a condensed election schedule because you can't do
Speaker 1: the rallies. You can't do and it's in that sense
Speaker 1: it's really not a fair you know, if Russia interfered
Speaker 1: in the last election, the virus is going to have
Speaker 1: interfered in this election. There's no question about it. We're
Speaker 1: not going to have a normal I'm talking about process wise,
Speaker 1: never mind just current events. We're not going to have
Speaker 1: a normal process. I think that's clear at this point.
Speaker 1: And there's going to be a lot of calls and
Speaker 1: a lot of information, a lot of effort to try
Speaker 1: to make this even more easy, and probably people are
Speaker 1: going to want to do mail in ballots, vote online. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm getting it a little ahead of myself with that.
Speaker 1: Trump is trying to get the media to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more positive, a little bit less nasty, because
Speaker 1: people are scared right now, and fear leads to bad decisions.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you this. A week ago, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about how if we keep doing this, we're
Speaker 1: heading for a great depression. Now the administration is saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to hit a great depression.
Speaker 1: We've got this covered for a while. Do I believe them?
Speaker 1: Not really? But am I willing to at least now
Speaker 1: say Okay, they're making the calls. I've made, I've made
Speaker 1: my case, I've made my piece. You know, the liberal
Speaker 1: journalists out there who view this all through a political
Speaker 1: lens and can't even can't tone it down, can't tone
Speaker 1: it down even a little bit. I think that they honestly,
Speaker 1: they're they've kind of lost it. They've lost it for
Speaker 1: a long time when it comes to covering this president
Speaker 1: and when it comes to what we see here with
Speaker 1: the way that they'll ask them questions in public, and
Speaker 1: then they'll talk about how they're on the front lines
Speaker 1: of covering this Oh, there are journalists who are taking risks,
Speaker 1: all right, I really need to not hear that right now,
Speaker 1: because we have medical staff taking risks all across the country.
Speaker 1: You have pediatricians who have to take COVID nineteen precautions
Speaker 1: for every patient I'm not even talking about in hospitals,
Speaker 1: just in practice anywhere, for every patient they see, knowing
Speaker 1: that they may be exposed to not just the kid,
Speaker 1: but also the parents coming in. Infection. Viral load matters,
Speaker 1: the degree of the virus that you are exposed to,
Speaker 1: from what I understand from an immunological standpoint, matters, and
Speaker 1: people on the front lines are taking in that sense,
Speaker 1: the most risk, the healthcare providers, but also people that
Speaker 1: are working in grocery stores and the people that are
Speaker 1: out there are those in the logistics realm who are
Speaker 1: keeping all this stuff going and I really, you know,
Speaker 1: I thank one of the guys who make sure that
Speaker 1: the you know, the heat and the electricity is on
Speaker 1: my building. Today I saw him in my lobby here
Speaker 1: in New York, and I said, I just want to say, man,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming to work. And he kind of
Speaker 1: nodded his head a little bit and he appreciated it.
Speaker 1: But I could also tell he's worried. He's worried, and
Speaker 1: every time I go outside my home and go walk
Speaker 1: around the streets, I'll tell you what that looks like.
Speaker 1: But I have a very different so you have to
Speaker 1: excuse me if I sound a little bit more concern
Speaker 1: today than I ever have one. I think the numbers
Speaker 1: justify the escalating concern. So there's that just from a
Speaker 1: data perspective, but also there's I'm seeing it now. I
Speaker 1: see what's going on, and I've talked to people who
Speaker 1: are also having firsthand experience with this, and I'm in
Speaker 1: the worst place. I'm in the worst place. So think
Speaker 1: of it as though I'm doing a radio show for
Speaker 1: you now, and it's like my city is being hit
Speaker 1: with a hurricane and we're still in the middle of
Speaker 1: the hurricane, and there's a really serious consideration that this
Speaker 1: hurricane is going to hit a lot of other cities
Speaker 1: right after it hits this one. If you, if you
Speaker 1: put my comments today, I think into that context. Now
Speaker 1: a lot of you are Look if you're in rural
Speaker 1: Iowa or you know, or you're in you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, West Texas, or you're in you know, Utah
Speaker 1: outside of Salt Lake City, somewhere, you're outside of Portland,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe an hour's drive. Yeah, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to be fine in terms of your exposure to the virus,
Speaker 1: or I should say, it's unlikely that you'll come into
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have infected have been infected
Speaker 1: with this virus. But if you live in a city,
Speaker 1: I mean New Orleans, is it just breaks my heart.
Speaker 1: I love New Orleans. It's just a it's a magical
Speaker 1: and I mean there's just something so special and so
Speaker 1: cool about it in so many ways. New Orleans is
Speaker 1: getting hit really badly right now. Miami, another place I
Speaker 1: love to visit, getting hit really badly. You know other
Speaker 1: cities that I you know, I just I can't even
Speaker 1: name them off top of my head. Detroit's in bad shape.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get worse. So it's gonna happen elsewhere too,
Speaker 1: and understand that the government is making decisions based upon
Speaker 1: what they're seeing happening in these cities. Right now, I
Speaker 1: just like to see there's an opportunity here, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to try to be self assessing as I go
Speaker 1: through this. I mean, I've told you that this virus
Speaker 1: it's worse than I thought I was bad a month ago.
Speaker 1: It's worse than I thought it would be. It's worse
Speaker 1: than I thought I would be. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: self assess as I go through this, because I'm just
Speaker 1: coming to this like all of you, as somebody who
Speaker 1: approaches it with an eye to up as much information
Speaker 1: as possible, learning as much as I can, making the
Speaker 1: best decisions I can, and pushing for the smartest policy
Speaker 1: for the most people. There are no perfect answers here.
Speaker 1: There's no perfect policy. You're going to see, for example,
Speaker 1: that those who were saying just send everybody home, shut
Speaker 1: down the school, send everybody home. There was a spike
Speaker 1: in infections. I can almost guarantee you the data will
Speaker 1: prove this. They've seen it elsewhere. They have, from what
Speaker 1: I understand right now, already shown this to be the
Speaker 1: case in some parts of northern Italy. Sending the young
Speaker 1: people home to quarantine with older relatives was an enormous miscalculation,
Speaker 1: an enormous mistake that is likely to be one that
Speaker 1: we revisit. So, you know, people are making good faith
Speaker 1: errors here and trying to calculate what are sound policies
Speaker 1: that mitigate risk properly versus what allows us to have
Speaker 1: an economy so that we still have doctors getting paid
Speaker 1: and assembly lines making masks in this country, along with
Speaker 1: keeping food on the shelves and preventing there from being riots.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's a lot of moving pieces here.
Speaker 1: And I just also appreciate so much that all of
Speaker 1: you are joining me still every day. And I mean,
Speaker 1: we can tell that this audience is still tuning in
Speaker 1: stn't want to know what's going on. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of what you're seeing, unfortunately on cable news is
Speaker 1: just filler at this point, a lot of repetition. You know,
Speaker 1: they're interviewing the same people. I don't know why everyone
Speaker 1: wants to interview someone who's already been in a press
Speaker 1: conference for two hours asking questions. I think that that's
Speaker 1: at some point that just becomes repetitive, and I think
Speaker 1: the information value of that is less than some seem
Speaker 1: to think it is. But nonetheless it's it's it's troubling
Speaker 1: for me to see what's going on here, and also
Speaker 1: the lack of a willingness to put aside the partisan
Speaker 1: hatchet just for a moment. Well, this country, at least
Speaker 1: this city. I mean, I can't speak to how bad
Speaker 1: will be in the rest of the country. This city
Speaker 1: and other cities, though, are going to get it really hard.
Speaker 1: We're already gained it really Audio. You're in the Freedom
Speaker 1: hud This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. You know,
Speaker 1: your campaign put out you're a critique of President Trump
Speaker 1: and says if he doesn't do these things you know
Speaker 1: he could, he could cost lives. Do you think there's
Speaker 1: already Do you think there is blood on the President's
Speaker 1: hands considering the slow response or is that to two
Speaker 1: hearts of a criticism. I think that's a little too harsh.
Speaker 1: I think what's happening is that failure too. As I
Speaker 1: watched a tree limb to your show where someone said
Speaker 1: that made use the phrase that the president just thinks
Speaker 1: out loud. He should stop thinking out loud. And start
Speaker 1: thinking deeply. He should start listening to the scientists before
Speaker 1: he speaks. He should listen to the health experts. I
Speaker 1: get really tired of this talking point that the president
Speaker 1: should listen to the health experts. The health experts are
Speaker 1: with him and speaking directly the American people every day,
Speaker 1: and he just made a massive decision that some people
Speaker 1: may look back on. I know, right now, it's okay,
Speaker 1: the virus is really bad in some places in the country.
Speaker 1: It's going to get worse in other places. Let's shut
Speaker 1: down for the entire month of April. Let's hope that
Speaker 1: the response from the administration to deal with the economy
Speaker 1: is sufficient. There is the chance that we will look
Speaker 1: back at this decision to shut down well beyond easter,
Speaker 1: to go weeks beyond easter, and recognize that economically it
Speaker 1: was disastrous in a way that you know, we'll see,
Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm hoping that's that's not the case. You know,
Speaker 1: all along, I've been wondering, why is not more of
Speaker 1: the focus on protecting vulnerable populations and just doing social mitigation,
Speaker 1: but allowing people to do more work or to do
Speaker 1: more of their jobs. But I suppose for things like
Speaker 1: restaurants and other businesses. Congregating in numbers is an essential
Speaker 1: part of the business, so you can't really change that.
Speaker 1: It's a very complicated problem. And people that are going
Speaker 1: around dunking on one another because someone's wrong on this
Speaker 1: on You know, I can guarantee this, President Trump, everyone
Speaker 1: who works in the White House right now. You know,
Speaker 1: the people that are dealing with this problem day in
Speaker 1: and day out, if they could wave a wand and
Speaker 1: save every single life from today forward, they would do it.
Speaker 1: We all know that everyone wants maximum life saved. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants everyone's mom, dad, brother, sister, grandma, grandpa, wife, husband, son, daughter,
Speaker 1: you name it, right, we all want all of them
Speaker 1: to come through this. But we also are operating in
Speaker 1: the reality of we are in a war with a virus,
Speaker 1: and right now the virus is taking a heavy toll
Speaker 1: on us with casualties a lot. And remember the casualties
Speaker 1: is wounded as well as killed a lot. Of the
Speaker 1: people right now who are being intubated and going through
Speaker 1: this process, you know, they're suffering very badly even if
Speaker 1: they come through this on the other side. And that's
Speaker 1: why when Chuck Todd says something and this is the
Speaker 1: start of this of this little conversation we're having this segment.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's blood on the president hands? Considering
Speaker 1: the slow response? I mean, Chuck Tod is honestly, he's
Speaker 1: so indicative of the elite media and someone who I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just all smoke in mirrorsm The guy
Speaker 1: isn't very bright, doesn't seem ethical in the least in
Speaker 1: the way that he covers the news is smarmie, is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cry baby. And yeah, he's
Speaker 1: offered up by NBC as someone that you should all
Speaker 1: listen to. I don't know why you wouldn't want Chuck Todd.
Speaker 1: You know you wouldn't want Chuck Todd to have your
Speaker 1: back in any situation. This guy just doesn't strike me
Speaker 1: as somebody of any real character or backbone asking that
Speaker 1: the president has blood on his hands. He really you're
Speaker 1: going to hold the president responsible for this? Is the
Speaker 1: president responsible for what's going on in the rest of
Speaker 1: the world too, because there are a lot of every
Speaker 1: major country right now is either about to or getting
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Speaker 1: Treasury Department an SBA has been working around the clock.
Speaker 1: We will have a program up and running on Friday
Speaker 1: where not only the existing SBA lenders, but FDIC banks,
Speaker 1: credit unions, fintech lenders will be able to make loans.
Speaker 1: Those loans will cover eight weeks of workers salary plus
Speaker 1: additional money for overhead. If you let your workers go,
Speaker 1: you bring back your workers. For every worker you have,
Speaker 1: that portion of the loan is forgiven. So I encourage
Speaker 1: all small distances that's about half of the US private payroll,
Speaker 1: go back and hire your workers because the government is
Speaker 1: paying you to do that. This is an ambitious plan
Speaker 1: and it's the kind of thinking that is needed right now.
Speaker 1: Manuchin is smart. He is a kind of Goldman Sachs
Speaker 1: Wall Street insidery guy. But he's a smart dude. And
Speaker 1: what are you saying here is, look, we are going
Speaker 1: to pay we the federal government are going to cover
Speaker 1: your payroll. So make sure that you're paying people because
Speaker 1: it's free money for you to pay them. Keep your
Speaker 1: employees on the payroll. Maybe this works, Maybe this works.
Speaker 1: Who knows, really, who knows what the long term implications
Speaker 1: will be. You know, there are two ways that this
Speaker 1: goes badly as far as I can see it. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: you know, there are three ways. One is that it's
Speaker 1: and the most likely I think is that it's just insufficient.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of problems with the actual dispersal of
Speaker 1: the funds. The funds are not enough for different businesses.
Speaker 1: That's all part of this. Okay, that's one problem. A
Speaker 1: second problem we lead into, and this leads us into
Speaker 1: I should say, a depression or a recession, one or
Speaker 1: the other. That's a very real consideration. And then we
Speaker 1: have to deal with that on top of everything else,
Speaker 1: and the virus that keeps coming back even though we're
Speaker 1: in the midst of this, that's a possibility. And then
Speaker 1: there's another situation, and that is that we create too
Speaker 1: much a stress, a systemic stress on our financial system,
Speaker 1: so that this stimulus plan, this rescue package becomes essentially
Speaker 1: what people have been warning about for decades, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, once we get up words of thirty trillion
Speaker 1: dollars of debt or whatever it is going to be
Speaker 1: when this is all over, I mean it's two trillion
Speaker 1: right now at it on plus the trillion dollars deface
Speaker 1: that I think we're already going to run this year,
Speaker 1: So that's three trillion. We're gonna be a twenty five
Speaker 1: trillion the blink of an eye, and if we do
Speaker 1: another package, it's going to be another two or three
Speaker 1: trillion problemly on top of that. So we're looking at
Speaker 1: mid twenties trillion dollars of debt. What happens if then
Speaker 1: that leads to a collapse, a collapse of the financial system,
Speaker 1: the dollar, hyperinflation. I mean, all these really scary scenarios.
Speaker 1: Those are the problems. Is that going to happen? I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Anybody can
Speaker 1: really tell you this. I Mean, one thing I'm quite
Speaker 1: certain of is that economists are bad at predictions, about
Speaker 1: as bad as most cable news anchors have been at
Speaker 1: being ahead of this situation and understanding what the implications
Speaker 1: of it really are. But the possibility of financial systemic
Speaker 1: systemic financial collapse, it's just being pushed aside right now.
Speaker 1: We're just taking this Everything that can be done for
Speaker 1: the virus, to suppress the virus at the expense of
Speaker 1: maximum expensive the economy. This is the approach the administration
Speaker 1: has decided to take. And I mean, they have access
Speaker 1: to better information than I do. They have experts, which
Speaker 1: I am not, and in fact, they have thousands of them,
Speaker 1: and this is what they're going to do. I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: But what are we really supposed to do under the circumstances,
Speaker 1: and what are we the American people, going to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're telling us that if we just went
Speaker 1: back to life as normal across the country, this will
Speaker 1: kill hundreds of thousands of people. And the number that
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci said is that it could easily kill or
Speaker 1: I should say, the models clearly show upwards of one
Speaker 1: hundred to two hundred thousand people dead from this if
Speaker 1: we went back to life as normal. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: advocating I've never advocated going back to life as normal
Speaker 1: right away. That is not a real position that anyone's had.
Speaker 1: But even standard or I should say, even escalating and
Speaker 1: de escalating measures for a containment that are on a
Speaker 1: dynamic basis changed to meet the circumstances of the moment,
Speaker 1: that's right now off the table too. It's just going
Speaker 1: to be everything you can do wherever this virus exists
Speaker 1: to shut this thing down and we'll deal with the
Speaker 1: economic fallout later. That is really I just want us
Speaker 1: all to be very clear that there was a discussion.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously the administration was thinking that by April eleventh,
Speaker 1: by easter, maybe we could start to lessen this up.
Speaker 1: So that was going to be balancing things toward protecting
Speaker 1: the economy a bit and taking a little bit more
Speaker 1: risk from the virus. That's what that means. People can say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what it means. Okay, we're gon we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: like adults here, that's what that would be. I mean,
Speaker 1: the moment that you and found she has said as
Speaker 1: much himself, the moment that you de escalate, the moment
Speaker 1: that you drop down some of your protective measures, you're
Speaker 1: just more more at risk from this. And that seemed
Speaker 1: like it was something that might happen in a matter
Speaker 1: of weeks, and now they're saying no, April. April is
Speaker 1: lockdown month across the country, so and the economy is
Speaker 1: something we'll deal with later. I really hope that they
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, because if you know, the same
Speaker 1: way that we didn't see this virus, no one really
Speaker 1: saw the virus coming I've said you before, the pandemic
Speaker 1: is a big thread, and you know, then then the
Speaker 1: question turns into or before we're at this moment, well,
Speaker 1: was this the pandemic virus or not? You know, we've
Speaker 1: had SARS, we've had mirrors, we've had h one M,
Speaker 1: when we've had these other similar incidents that were serious
Speaker 1: but then felt a bit like not false alarms, but
Speaker 1: perhaps exaggerated states of alarm based on what the final
Speaker 1: reality of those viruses were. Are we going to look
Speaker 1: back at this moment and this is the question that
Speaker 1: I posed to you, and I do not pretend to
Speaker 1: have an answer. Are we going to look back at
Speaker 1: this moment where we said everything against the virus doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what the economy looks like right now or what
Speaker 1: it's going to do to it. And do you think
Speaker 1: there's a chance that we'll be saying at some point
Speaker 1: in the future, how could we have missed it's so obvious?
Speaker 1: How could we have missed that this was going to
Speaker 1: lead us in due depression? I'm not making that prediction.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do worry. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: raising this as a question. I worry that that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna be thinking in six or twelve months. And
Speaker 1: it's not going to happen in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but six or twelve months from now, we're going to
Speaker 1: say we went too far toward virus suppression measures and
Speaker 1: didn't keep in mind what the damage to the economy
Speaker 1: would be, what the damage would be to people's lives,
Speaker 1: the ability to fight the virus, all the things that
Speaker 1: Trump in the administration we're talking about last week that
Speaker 1: seemed to now have been not abandoned, but just put
Speaker 1: on hold until we can find something else, figure something
Speaker 1: else out. So, my friends, we will have to see.
Speaker 1: We'll just have to see. I don't have I have
Speaker 1: Manuchin telling you that this is going to work out great,
Speaker 1: which is really what he has to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been very involved in coming up with a play
Speaker 1: clip twelve. I think this program is going to be
Speaker 1: enormously successful and stabilizing the US economy while hardworking Americans
Speaker 1: who lost their jobs or aren't able to work because
Speaker 1: of the medical situation that they get help. So this
Speaker 1: money is going to go into the economy very quickly.
Speaker 1: It is going to help American workers very very quickly.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how long it's going to take
Speaker 1: to kill this virus. I do know we will kill
Speaker 1: this virus. And when we do, I have great confidence
Speaker 1: that the US economy will become roaring back. This is
Speaker 1: what their assessment currently, This is where the assessment currently stands.
Speaker 1: We can put the economy on hold. We can just
Speaker 1: hit the pause button, maximum measures to contain and suppress
Speaker 1: the virus, hit the pause button on the economy, and
Speaker 1: then when we decide to press the start button again,
Speaker 1: we'll be all right. And actually we'll have a huge
Speaker 1: ramp up and things will be good. Man, that would
Speaker 1: be great. And it's a really comforting story at some
Speaker 1: level to hear now, especially for those of us who
Speaker 1: are sitting here saying what happens if we had to
Speaker 1: do great depression? What does that do to this country?
Speaker 1: And you know, then you also get into the analysis then,
Speaker 1: and this is what people right now who view this
Speaker 1: through a partisan lens. I'm trying to view this through
Speaker 1: an America lens. I really am every day and I
Speaker 1: mean that, I know that can almost sound like some
Speaker 1: kind of cliche, but I really am thinking what's best
Speaker 1: for this country right now. Because there's also the chance
Speaker 1: that we look back at this. I'll be talking to
Speaker 1: you more about China today on the show that we
Speaker 1: look at this moment in time and say, this is
Speaker 1: when China became the pre eminent hedge them on around
Speaker 1: the world. What does that mean if that happened? What
Speaker 1: would the Chinese Communist Party with, you know, running a
Speaker 1: country of over a billion people with nuclear weapons and
Speaker 1: certainly some level of biological weapons program. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this is a part of that, but what would it
Speaker 1: mean if all of a sudden that entity is the
Speaker 1: single most powerful, single most powerful government in the world.
Speaker 1: How many millions, how many billions of people will suffer
Speaker 1: lose their life, perhaps in wars. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so much that goes into these calculations when you're
Speaker 1: talking about the future of the United States that right
Speaker 1: now I think that we are I understand everyone's everyone's scared,
Speaker 1: and I'm in the middle of the scariest place. I mean,
Speaker 1: those of you that are listening to show, I could
Speaker 1: walk out my doors and I'll tell you what it's
Speaker 1: like in New York a little bit. But this is
Speaker 1: there is nowhere in America right now that is more
Speaker 1: on edge about this virus than where I am sitting
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, this city is ground zero. But
Speaker 1: I'm saying that the voices of of understandable concern, but
Speaker 1: even some that are that are really now edging on panic,
Speaker 1: they seem to have won out. And now we're just
Speaker 1: we're doing a lockdown, and we're listening to experts whose job,
Speaker 1: understandably is just to limit limit to the greatest possible degree,
Speaker 1: any spread of this virus. And now we're being told
Speaker 1: essentially that there is nothing, there is no other balancing
Speaker 1: factor here. That we're doing every absolutely everything we can
Speaker 1: up to and including shutting down the economy for another
Speaker 1: thirty days. I really, I really hope that they're right.
Speaker 1: I'm not in a position to say that they're wrong
Speaker 1: because I don't know what's going to happen. Honestly, they
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen. But I don't have
Speaker 1: expertise in epidemiology and viral pandemics and all these other things.
Speaker 1: I do know that government and competence is everywhere, and
Speaker 1: that the government. You know, there's a part of me
Speaker 1: that is angry about Okay, the CDC makes or not
Speaker 1: makes part of me. The CDC has about a seven
Speaker 1: six seven billion dollars year budget over ten thousand employees.
Speaker 1: What have they been doing time? This is this is
Speaker 1: the equivalent of the big invasion that everybody knew was
Speaker 1: coming by some foreign country, and it would be like
Speaker 1: the Pentagon sit around saying, yeah, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: try to arm yourself and see if you can help
Speaker 1: us fight this thing off. What really, the best the
Speaker 1: CDC can do is to put out a test that's
Speaker 1: faulty at the absolute critical moment and then tell us basically,
Speaker 1: go to wash our hands, stay away from each other,
Speaker 1: shut down the economy, and don't go outside. And that's
Speaker 1: really what they're telling us. You know that they don't
Speaker 1: really know how how much this disease is aerosoli has
Speaker 1: spread through Aerosoli's droplets versus contact on surfaces and people
Speaker 1: then just you know, putting their fingers in their mouth
Speaker 1: or their eyes. They don't know. They don't know if
Speaker 1: you can get reinfected. There's some report out of China
Speaker 1: that says you might be able to get some percentage
Speaker 1: of people might be able to be reinfected with this afterwards,
Speaker 1: which would be really distressing because usually virus you have
Speaker 1: immunity at least for a long period of time after
Speaker 1: you get it. There's so much about this that they
Speaker 1: don't really know. And I do want to ask the question,
Speaker 1: what is exactly the c D what have they been
Speaker 1: doing all this time? And the National Institutes of Health?
Speaker 1: You know what are they because I know that they've
Speaker 1: done things like to help They've had campaigns to tell
Speaker 1: people to have their kids like eat more vegetables, and
Speaker 1: they want to study gun violence and things like that.
Speaker 1: I know that that has happened. And it just feels
Speaker 1: like there wasn't really a playbook for this to be
Speaker 1: run by you, by the CDC, by the NH, and
Speaker 1: we've been making it up as we go along, and
Speaker 1: you do want to ask what were they doing all
Speaker 1: this time? And really now we're turning. I mean that
Speaker 1: the likeliest scenario would be if one of the I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say likely, it's the likeliest home run scenario for
Speaker 1: us and for humanity would be if one of these
Speaker 1: one of these big pharmaceutical companies comes up with an
Speaker 1: excellent treatment for this. I keep seeing this anecdotal data
Speaker 1: about a zithromycin and chloroquin or hydroxy chloroquin not to
Speaker 1: be confused with the fish tank cleaner chloroquine phosphate. That's
Speaker 1: a no no. I see anecdotal stuff about this, but
Speaker 1: until we have some real clear studies on it for
Speaker 1: a few weeks, we're just not going to know. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue to be in what feels like a
Speaker 1: bit of a guessing game on this. So, my friends,
Speaker 1: the economy is just being We're trying an experiment now
Speaker 1: with the economy that has never been done before. I
Speaker 1: don't know this has ever been done before in human history.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if there's any any analogous situation
Speaker 1: to this. And the people in charge are telling us,
Speaker 1: don't worry, We've got this. Okay, this is the way
Speaker 1: it's going to be. I'm going to try to go
Speaker 1: forward in good faith and listen to the experts on this.
Speaker 1: But I also know that a lot of things we've
Speaker 1: been told about systemic economic risk are only getting worse
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, I mean, like catastrophe, like the
Speaker 1: economy just implodes, like dollars all of a sudden aren't
Speaker 1: worth anything. I mean, that's that's kind of what we
Speaker 1: think of as the worst possible scenario for the economy.
Speaker 1: Which would just all of this country effectively. I'm going
Speaker 1: to hope that that's not going to happen at any point,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be okay, And I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: just downplay in my mind that the experts that we're
Speaker 1: always being told to listen to have been wrong and
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff, and our leaders have certainly
Speaker 1: been wrong on both sides. By the way, this is
Speaker 1: not as there's this sense that one party was right,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a lie, that one media organization was
Speaker 1: right and others. No, that's not true. People have been
Speaker 1: getting this wrong left and right because nobuddy knows. That's
Speaker 1: really the that's the the operating or the operative phrase
Speaker 1: for what the future holds here. Nobody knows. And we're
Speaker 1: just doing the best that we can, and that's we're
Speaker 1: coming together and rallying as people to each other's sides
Speaker 1: as much as we can day to day. That's what
Speaker 1: we can do. And hope that these pray that these
Speaker 1: experts aren't making an enormous blunder by thinking that we
Speaker 1: can do this lockdown for another thirty days. I certainly
Speaker 1: hope that they're right, and then we can just turn
Speaker 1: the account. Let me about broad we'll see you're in
Speaker 1: the Freedom Mind. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.
Speaker 1: This is such a very, very sad time for us,
Speaker 1: so we should be taking every precaution. What the president,
Speaker 1: his denial at the beginning was deadly. His delaying of
Speaker 1: getting equipment to continues is delaying getting equipment to where
Speaker 1: it's needed is deadly. And now I would think the
Speaker 1: best thing would be to do is to prevent a
Speaker 1: more loss of life rather than open things up so
Speaker 1: that because we just don't know, we have to have testing, testing, testing,
Speaker 1: That's what we said from the start, before we can
Speaker 1: evaluate what the nature of it is in some of
Speaker 1: these other regions as well. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: purpose of that is. I don't know what the scientists
Speaker 1: are saying to him. I don't know what the scientists
Speaker 1: said to him. When did this president know about this sident?
Speaker 1: And what did he know? What did he know and
Speaker 1: when did he know it? That's for an after action review.
Speaker 1: But as the president fiddles, people are dying and we
Speaker 1: just have to take every precaution. Nancy Pelosi is neither
Speaker 1: a decent nor an ethical person. And you see this
Speaker 1: now in a way that has made clear what many
Speaker 1: of us have known for a long time. But Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi can't put aside her worst political impulses even for
Speaker 1: a moment. She can't do it. This is who she is.
Speaker 1: The president is fiddling and people are dying. How is
Speaker 1: the president fiddling? What is he supposed to do that
Speaker 1: he's not doing. He has invoked the Defense Production Acting
Speaker 1: now he's actually used it, meaning that he has gone
Speaker 1: to private, major private companies and said, okay, you're now
Speaker 1: doing this. We're going to pay you for it. But
Speaker 1: you're not doing this thing. You're making this product. You're
Speaker 1: making ventilators or masks or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: And this is what he was being pushed toward. He
Speaker 1: didn't want to have to do it. Look like General
Speaker 1: Motors was holding things up a little bit, so he said, okay,
Speaker 1: on the president. This is how it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Notice also, how the people that were claiming the president.
Speaker 1: There's so much that this is showing you about the lies,
Speaker 1: the dishonesty, and the just the general deceit of the
Speaker 1: opposition to this administration. For three years up until now,
Speaker 1: they kept saying that he's a dictator, he's an authoritarian,
Speaker 1: He's a fascist. I mean, these were things that we're
Speaker 1: said about the president, and now that we're in a
Speaker 1: moment where is a true crisis, and the ability to
Speaker 1: seize and wield power now is greater than anything since
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and in some ways is even more
Speaker 1: powerful than what we saw with the aftermath of nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. That ability is not being abused by this
Speaker 1: president at all. In fact, one of the criticisms against
Speaker 1: him that the left and others are using is that
Speaker 1: he's not seizing enough power in order to deal with
Speaker 1: this pandemic. Do you think anyone looks at that in
Speaker 1: that way now and reevaluates all of their Trump is
Speaker 1: a dictator. Trump is basically like Hitler. Do you think
Speaker 1: anyone does that? No, of course not. They choose not
Speaker 1: to do any of that because it was all for
Speaker 1: a purpose. It was all about a struggle for power.
Speaker 1: It was never a boy presenting you with the truth.
Speaker 1: So they lied about Trump until now, and we all
Speaker 1: should take a moment to recognize what it was. It
Speaker 1: was lies. Thanks for listening to the bus sets and
Speaker 1: show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. She's blaming the pros
Speaker 1: in the United States for people dying because of the
Speaker 1: way he's led the country. That's the most shameful, disgusting
Speaker 1: statement by any politician in modern history. Let me tell you,
Speaker 1: we've seen the best of America, from our citizens helping
Speaker 1: each other, delivering groceries, having special shopping hours for senior citizens.
Speaker 1: She's the first politician to blame another politician for people dying.
Speaker 1: This is the same Speaker of the House who held
Speaker 1: up the bill in the Senate for days because she
Speaker 1: wanted same day voting. It is disgusting, but it's really
Speaker 1: not surprising, a isn't it. Nancy Pelosi now claiming the
Speaker 1: President's costing lives because of his response to this. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: she delayed this rescue bill for the entire economy because
Speaker 1: of what Because she wanted money for windmills and diversity
Speaker 1: on corporate boards. No one gives a crap about those
Speaker 1: things right now. Nancy Pelosi, who's not a total left
Speaker 1: wing lunatic, but Nancy Pelosi is, in fact the left
Speaker 1: wing lunatics. I suppose none of this should be considered
Speaker 1: even the least bit surprising. Whether the President also had
Speaker 1: a I mentioned before the the back and forth with
Speaker 1: the press and how they think that still even in
Speaker 1: this moment in time, they are so very important. Here
Speaker 1: was one of the exchanges that I didn't get to before.
Speaker 1: Play clip ten. You were talking about governors of different
Speaker 1: states and you said, I want them to be appreciative.
Speaker 1: You also said, if they don't treat you right, I
Speaker 1: don't call ready. Ready. Take a look at what it says.
Speaker 1: I want them to be appreciative of me, Okay, and
Speaker 1: then you cut it off because it's fake news and
Speaker 1: of your administration. Please let me just finish. You just
Speaker 1: said it again, and you know the answers a lie.
Speaker 1: You know. I let me just say you're sapent and
Speaker 1: your response and your answer is a lie, because here's
Speaker 1: the story. You're ready. I said, I want you to
Speaker 1: be appreciative of me, and then you go on and
Speaker 1: then I go on and you cut it off. But
Speaker 1: it says when you am not appreciative. I don't want
Speaker 1: them to say things that aren't true. I want them
Speaker 1: to be appreciative. We've done a great job. And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about me. I'm talking about Mike Pennce. The
Speaker 1: task course I'm talking about the Army Corps of Engineers.
Speaker 1: Thank you. But then you went on to say if
Speaker 1: they don't treat you right, I don't call. He's a
Speaker 1: different type of I don't call no. I don't call no.
Speaker 1: I don't call the governor of Washington in this time.
Speaker 1: But Mike Pence calls, and the head of FEMA calls.
Speaker 1: I don't stop them. Did I ever ask you to
Speaker 1: do anything negative? Mike to Washington, the state of Washington, Michigan.
Speaker 1: I love that state. That's one of my favorite places
Speaker 1: in the whole world, Michigan. This is a example of
Speaker 1: the nonsense that you expect from the press. We all
Speaker 1: know how Donald Trump speaks. We all understand that he
Speaker 1: has a very particular way of saying things, very Trumpian way.
Speaker 1: When he says that they're not nice to me, I
Speaker 1: don't call. They're saying is that he has one of
Speaker 1: the other members of the task force speak to leaders.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jay Insley has been an immature joke during
Speaker 1: some of this. I mean, after the President had a
Speaker 1: conference with him, I think it was two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: had a call with him, he went to Twitter and
Speaker 1: slammed the President unfairly on Twitter. So why isn't it
Speaker 1: a smart move? I mean, if you were managing a
Speaker 1: company and you had a very critical matter to deal with,
Speaker 1: which certainly addressing this is if you had a critical
Speaker 1: matter to deal with and you were involved in a
Speaker 1: personal dispute with somebody in the company, why not take
Speaker 1: out that personal level and make it just about doing
Speaker 1: whatever is necessary to get the job done. So he's saying,
Speaker 1: Mike Pence will be the one who makes the phone call,
Speaker 1: not me. That doesn't strike me as in any way
Speaker 1: a cause for alarm. I mean, he's the vice president
Speaker 1: and he'll talk to the States and make sure they're
Speaker 1: getting everything they need to get. But they still they
Speaker 1: drilled down on these things and they look for the
Speaker 1: most negative version of it possible because their audience has
Speaker 1: really been psychologically conditioned to view things as negatively as
Speaker 1: possible all the time about this administration. And they're certainly cause,
Speaker 1: they're certainly cause for criticism for the Trump administration on
Speaker 1: a number of fronts, but it's never in good faith.
Speaker 1: It's never offered up as well, they didn't do this. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the context. We were told that Trump was a
Speaker 1: trader and that he was basically a fascist who was
Speaker 1: destroying democracy for three years. These people are insane and
Speaker 1: that hasn't changed. That hasn't changed despite everything else. So
Speaker 1: this is what we see happening. And then you got
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, who remember he was going to do a
Speaker 1: press conference every day, and then they realized that that
Speaker 1: didn't work, that didn't look good. You're going to have
Speaker 1: what a shadow state with Joe Biden running it Right now,
Speaker 1: we don't need to hear what Joe Biden thinks about
Speaker 1: different responses or what he would do if he were
Speaker 1: in charge. We got big your things to think about,
Speaker 1: and he's not in charge. So why they back off
Speaker 1: those press conferences, Well, they got rid of them because
Speaker 1: it didn't look good for Joe Biden, and in part
Speaker 1: it's because he doesn't offer anything valuable at this point
Speaker 1: in time. Play clip nine. Let's set aside President Trump's rhetoric.
Speaker 1: Is there an action he has not taken that you
Speaker 1: would be taking right now if you were president? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be doing two things. At least one, I would
Speaker 1: make sure that he uses a Defense Production Act, not
Speaker 1: only to do with the issue of whether or not
Speaker 1: there are ventilators, but I would do the same thing
Speaker 1: for mask and gowns and mask and all and shields,
Speaker 1: all the things that are first responders and our doctors
Speaker 1: and nurser's need. Why are we waiting? We know they're needed,
Speaker 1: They're going to be increasingly needed. You just heard the
Speaker 1: president's folks person talk about the increasing knee. A lot
Speaker 1: of Democrats really don't understand not just that government is
Speaker 1: full of slow, slothful, corrupt, inapt people, which it is, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but also the way that the private sector works and
Speaker 1: why you can get more things if you allow the
Speaker 1: expertise within the private sector to do what it does. Right.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the disconnect. When it comes to public sector stuff.
Speaker 1: It's always listened to the experts. It's always the CDC
Speaker 1: says this, the NIH says that, and sometimes that is
Speaker 1: certainly the correct, the appropriate response. But they defer to
Speaker 1: the experts there. But they won't defer to experts within
Speaker 1: the private sector when it comes to making stuff. You
Speaker 1: know who's really good at making things? People who make them.
Speaker 1: You know who's not as good at them? People that
Speaker 1: just say, you know, make make a million masks appear
Speaker 1: because we say so, this is what you see. This
Speaker 1: in socialist command command control economies. You see this in
Speaker 1: places where the state is in charge in this way,
Speaker 1: at this level, where they just will you know, this
Speaker 1: is what the Soviet Union would do. They would say, okay,
Speaker 1: we want there to be x amount of loaves of bread,
Speaker 1: so that's what the breadmakers have to make. And guess
Speaker 1: what that didn't take into account what the price of
Speaker 1: wheat was, what the price of labor was, and so
Speaker 1: they were all these shortages and problems. You know, Democrats
Speaker 1: who are claiming the president should just direct the private
Speaker 1: industry to make all this stuff don't understand that he's
Speaker 1: telling some private industry, hey, can you guys make this,
Speaker 1: will pay you, and then leaving it to them to
Speaker 1: make because they'll be better at it. And then if
Speaker 1: someone slows down too much or they're being haggling too
Speaker 1: much in the negotiation, he invokes a Defense Production Act
Speaker 1: and we go from there. So that's where this is
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, Joe Biden coming forward and acting
Speaker 1: like he would just make some declaration about how they
Speaker 1: need to be fifty million masks or whatever. Then I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows, I don't even know what the number is.
Speaker 1: Right now, they think they need nationally, but it's an enormous,
Speaker 1: an enormous number of these surgical masks. Who knows what
Speaker 1: that would mean, wouldn't I don't think it would help
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden just make this declaration. But I mean
Speaker 1: a big problem here is that they're they're trashing Trump
Speaker 1: so much in their response for obvious political reasons, and
Speaker 1: then they turn around and they offer us up Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: who is really a confused l lily and an honestly
Speaker 1: corrupt guy and uninspiring and has no real executive experience
Speaker 1: of any kind other than I mean, you can talk
Speaker 1: about the executive experience his son got on the board
Speaker 1: of a company he never should have been on. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is not someone that you would put on the
Speaker 1: board of any company to advise you, unless you were
Speaker 1: just looking for his name, which we know that's a
Speaker 1: thing that happens on the boards of companies too. So
Speaker 1: that's where we are right now. I mean, we're looking
Speaker 1: at this entire response and we're saying, well, hold on
Speaker 1: a second, we're supposed to think that Joe Biden would
Speaker 1: do such a better job or Nancy Pelosi, who do
Speaker 1: says a better job in truth, government at all levels
Speaker 1: has failed you. There have been failures, there have been missteps.
Speaker 1: There should have been more information out sooner to the
Speaker 1: public about really what this was and how dangerous it
Speaker 1: was going to be. I think I'm not convinced, for example,
Speaker 1: that the response that views this as a national level
Speaker 1: thing where everywhere you should have a lockdown instead of
Speaker 1: place by place, and the federalism that was being discussed,
Speaker 1: or a more federalist approach of states and localities making decisions.
Speaker 1: And then I think that in the end we'll look
Speaker 1: back and think that probably would have been a better move.
Speaker 1: But here's what we're up against. During all of this,
Speaker 1: no matter what happens to the economy, and no matter
Speaker 1: what happens in the aftermath of this, and the aftermath
Speaker 1: now feels like it's very far away, you will have
Speaker 1: people who tell you that it doesn't we save two
Speaker 1: million lives, and that there's nothing so no, no destruction
Speaker 1: of the economy, no erosion of civil rights, no erosion
Speaker 1: of self civil liberties, rather, no erosion of any part
Speaker 1: of our society. They will say it can compare to
Speaker 1: the did they save two two million lives? We'll end
Speaker 1: up seeing what the final number is here, but that
Speaker 1: will be the claim, So just be prepared for that
Speaker 1: as well. If you think that we head into a
Speaker 1: great depression and all of a sudden there's shortages, there's
Speaker 1: not enough food, there's real problems like that, they'll turn
Speaker 1: aroun out and say when you want to be like,
Speaker 1: I told you guys, we had to do more for
Speaker 1: the economy, they'll turn around and say to you, but no,
Speaker 1: we saved two million lives, so shut up. The government
Speaker 1: knew what it was. You know. The government response here
Speaker 1: was the correct one, and it's viewed somehow as a
Speaker 1: partisan response, even though I think this is just everyone's
Speaker 1: trying to make the best decisions they can under the circumstances.
Speaker 1: And I certainly hope that the economy just comes roaring
Speaker 1: back and maybe Manutrition's right. And you know, the people
Speaker 1: right now who are in the prediction business have a
Speaker 1: very very tough way ahead of them because really those
Speaker 1: who are good at predicting things understand that what they
Speaker 1: do is pattern analysis, and they look for similar situations
Speaker 1: how they played out, and then they try to look
Speaker 1: at they try to gauge the percentages for how something's
Speaker 1: likely to play out in the future, and you can
Speaker 1: really do that with this because we're we've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like this before. So that that's my feeling on this,
Speaker 1: my friends. There's still a lot of information we need
Speaker 1: to make better decisions. But Joe Biden, I'm await. Here's
Speaker 1: just a you know, I wanted to give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of a a moment away from the virus
Speaker 1: and everything. Here's Joe Biden giving one of his biden isms.
Speaker 1: Play eleven. What do you make of the fact that
Speaker 1: the President's John rading has bumped up during this crisis? Well,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think that's a typical American
Speaker 1: response in every single crisis we've had that I've been around,
Speaker 1: going back to Jimmy Carter and the hostages all the
Speaker 1: way through to this moment. President's ratings have always gone
Speaker 1: up in a crisis. And but you know, that little expression,
Speaker 1: the proof of the you know, is going to be
Speaker 1: an eating of pudding. You know, what's it going to
Speaker 1: look like? I hope we're in a situation going into
Speaker 1: the fall where this is under control, We're done all
Speaker 1: the right things, and things are beginning to move and
Speaker 1: the president is listening to the scientists, as I said,
Speaker 1: and stopping the you know, the personal attacks on people
Speaker 1: who disagree with him, and I think let's let's get
Speaker 1: away from the childishness of this and focus on the problem.
Speaker 1: The proof is going to be in eating the pudding.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, Actually, Joe Biden's quote there, everything
Speaker 1: he said about we got to see where this is
Speaker 1: and let's stop the personal attacks and we'll have time.
Speaker 1: I'm on. I mean, I think it was a very
Speaker 1: astute thing to say. So, as much as I just
Speaker 1: wanted that the proof is going to be in eating
Speaker 1: the pudding, I just like the way he said that one.
Speaker 1: But actually his analysis there was pretty was pretty good,
Speaker 1: which is that people should stop with the nasty personal
Speaker 1: stuff and let's see where we are in dealing with this.
Speaker 1: I think that's a better approach for all of us.
Speaker 1: It would certainly be a better approach in the media.
Speaker 1: Especially now. Okay, it's hit us. Now we're in the
Speaker 1: midst of this. Now we're in the fight, and we
Speaker 1: know that it's a big one and it's real and
Speaker 1: this is scary. So let's look to do the best
Speaker 1: we can under the circumstances and not do what Pelosi's doing,
Speaker 1: which is just the most disgraceful partisan finger pointing stuff.
Speaker 1: It's it's just bad news. It's bad news. When Pelosi's
Speaker 1: able to do what she does, she does not help
Speaker 1: anybody except herself. You're in the freedom hunt. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sex and Show podcast. Everyone has been instructed
Speaker 1: that if they see worship surfaces going, services going on,
Speaker 1: they will go to the officials of that congregation. They'll
Speaker 1: inform them they need to stop the services and disperse.
Speaker 1: If that does not happen, they will take additional action,
Speaker 1: up to the point of fines and potentially closing the
Speaker 1: building permanently, closing the place of worship permanently. The Mayor
Speaker 1: of New York City says, I think everyone heard that
Speaker 1: and said what But this is what I mean by
Speaker 1: we have been conditioned to think that the threat of
Speaker 1: tyrannical overreach comes from this president. That's what the media
Speaker 1: has been telling you for years, even though every time
Speaker 1: he's had some policy dispute with the other side, it
Speaker 1: goes to court, he goes all, he goes through the system.
Speaker 1: You have this bad faith hashtag resistance judiciary that comes
Speaker 1: up with the most preposterous justifications for slowing down this president,
Speaker 1: and they have decisions that they go forward with that
Speaker 1: are just garbage, and then it has to make its
Speaker 1: way through the judiciary, and Trump eventually is right. But
Speaker 1: they've been telling us that Trump is a threat of
Speaker 1: tyranny for all this time, and now you have the
Speaker 1: Mayor of New York City saying, yeah, if you have
Speaker 1: a true look, I don't think people in New York
Speaker 1: right now should be gathering in large numbers for any reason,
Speaker 1: and that includes that includes religious services. There was a
Speaker 1: case in South Korea. They did a whole case study
Speaker 1: of a woman who had COVID nineteen went to services
Speaker 1: there and infected a whole lot of people in our church.
Speaker 1: So it can happen, it does happen. It's important not
Speaker 1: to do that. But to threaten to shut down a
Speaker 1: place of worship permanently, how is that helpful in this moment?
Speaker 1: And also under what authority? With the Mayor of New York.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd come up with some authority, but that
Speaker 1: is disconcerting. It's also disconcerting that the same person who
Speaker 1: is now telling us all that I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: all hope is lost, but he has not been the
Speaker 1: mayor of New York has not been a calming presence,
Speaker 1: that's to say the least with all this stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Here is what he was saying before we saw quite
Speaker 1: how bad this whole thing was playing sixteen right now,
Speaker 1: we have twelve hundred hospital beds. That is a very,
Speaker 1: very substantial capacity. The message to the orches from the
Speaker 1: beginning has been this is something we all can handle together.
Speaker 1: Go about your lives, go about your business. We have
Speaker 1: the capacity to keep this contained. I think we should
Speaker 1: say the other day in the meeting that health and
Speaker 1: nostrils is in strong shape, something like ventilators. You can
Speaker 1: speak to that on ventilators. New York City is in
Speaker 1: good shape and based on even the most dire predictions
Speaker 1: of percentages of people who will have serious illness with this,
Speaker 1: we will be fine. I want to keep encouraging people
Speaker 1: to go out and live their lives and patronize those businesses.
Speaker 1: One other questions tomorrow evenings. Yes, she's safe of people
Speaker 1: who have Yeah, the point isn't the commissioner can jump in,
Speaker 1: Yeah if you if no one has symptoms, neither the
Speaker 1: visitors nor the people being visited. Yes, that was a
Speaker 1: lot of guidance, a lot of advice at the president.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that the mayor rather was giving the people
Speaker 1: of New York City. How much of that looks in retrospect?
Speaker 1: Luck it was even a little bit a good idea,
Speaker 1: none of it. You're gonna have a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are playing the blame game and saying that people
Speaker 1: didn't respond to this properly. They and and it's going
Speaker 1: to be a political nastiness all across the board. I
Speaker 1: would just say that with Deblasio, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: taking a very firm hand with everybody here in the
Speaker 1: city today, and it's hard for all of us who
Speaker 1: see this situation not to feel a little bit of well,
Speaker 1: weren't you telling us until recently that everything was going
Speaker 1: to be fine? And now you're telling us everything is
Speaker 1: the opposite of fine. And he has professional health people.
Speaker 1: All they do is look at this. He listened to
Speaker 1: the experts we were told, and the experts were wrong
Speaker 1: on this one too. A lot of people were wrong.
Speaker 1: Don't pay attention to the finger pointing right now. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of time for that later. Right now, we've got
Speaker 1: to get through the storm. Thanks for listening to The
Speaker 1: bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts,
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. In retrospect,
Speaker 1: is that message, at least in part to blame for
Speaker 1: how rapidly the virus has spread across the city, Jake,
Speaker 1: we should not focusing, in my view, on anything looking
Speaker 1: back on any level of government right now. This is
Speaker 1: just about how we save lives going forward. We all
Speaker 1: were working, everybody was working with the information we had
Speaker 1: and trying, of course to avoid panic, and at that
Speaker 1: point for all of us, trying to keep not only
Speaker 1: protect lives, but keep the economy and the livelihoods together,
Speaker 1: keep ensuring that people had money to pay for food
Speaker 1: and medicine. I mean, this was a very different world
Speaker 1: just a short time ago. But the bottom line is,
Speaker 1: when none of us have time to look backwards, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how we get through to Sunday
Speaker 1: next Sunday, and then what we do the week after that.
Speaker 1: There's some truth to this, the looking backward right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously de Blasio is particularly vulnerable to that
Speaker 1: because of the stuff that he was saying. And I've
Speaker 1: played for you before, but we are now all trying
Speaker 1: to just focus on what is ahead of us and
Speaker 1: how we can move forward, how we can do everything
Speaker 1: possible to make the best decisions we can in the
Speaker 1: days ahead as a country, as a nation, as a city,
Speaker 1: as a state, everything all across the board. And it
Speaker 1: is a very different world right now. I mean, there
Speaker 1: were people who were talking even a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: who were looking at models, and some people were saying
Speaker 1: we could have two million dead, and some people were saying,
Speaker 1: we'll probably have twenty or thirty thousand, something like that,
Speaker 1: which would be similar to a bad flu season, it
Speaker 1: seems like right now, or actually that's just a pretty
Speaker 1: standard flu season. It seems right now like we're gearing
Speaker 1: up for I mean, the President yesterday claimed that anything
Speaker 1: under one hundred thousand dead from this would be would
Speaker 1: mean that the administration had done a good job. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a shift in thinking. And for a lot
Speaker 1: of us, the calculation about how quickly to get back
Speaker 1: to work versus at least some of us get back
Speaker 1: to work with enhanced precautions in place, versus the possibility
Speaker 1: of additional infection. The pendulum is swung in the other
Speaker 1: direction right now, and we are in maximum defense mode
Speaker 1: against the virus, and the economy is just being put
Speaker 1: on hold. So I want to tell you what it
Speaker 1: was like this weekend for me here in the city.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, I have time for cooking, which
Speaker 1: I will say was nice. I'll maybe get into that
Speaker 1: a little bit later. I'll tell Producer Market some of
Speaker 1: my cooking exploits. But I went for a walk with
Speaker 1: the dog. And just for those of you who are
Speaker 1: worried or saying, why aren't you in quarantine, I mean
Speaker 1: I am in quarantine. I go out by myself with
Speaker 1: the dog, and I can walk around my neighborhood. I
Speaker 1: don't see anybody. Really, there's nobody out on the streets.
Speaker 1: It's empty. I post sit a photo that I took
Speaker 1: on Sixth Avenue facing south here in New York City,
Speaker 1: and that photo just shows you that not only there
Speaker 1: are very few people on the street in the most
Speaker 1: crowded what's usually the most crowded part of Manhattan, which
Speaker 1: is the most densely populated part of the Five boroughs
Speaker 1: as far as I understand it, at least during working hours,
Speaker 1: and there were no cars. I've never seen that before
Speaker 1: in my life, where there were just no cars, and
Speaker 1: if there's anything that was close to it, maybe it
Speaker 1: would have been, you know, during a period of incredibly
Speaker 1: heavy snow, and you know the thing, let's snow, as
Speaker 1: we know, it's gonna mouth and we're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: This is orders of magnitude more concerning. You know, this
Speaker 1: is exponentially more concerning than honestly any of the natural
Speaker 1: disasters that we've had hitting New York City and at
Speaker 1: least in my lifetime, including Hurricane Sandy. So I walked
Speaker 1: around the streets and it's there's an eerie feeling for sure,
Speaker 1: because there's no people, there's no businesses open. You are
Speaker 1: very aware here that this is a city. The city
Speaker 1: is sick. I mean, it feels like the city is
Speaker 1: in lockdown, like it's in some kind of hospital. Ward
Speaker 1: as a city. And I spoke last week to a
Speaker 1: doctor friend of mine in one of the hospitals here
Speaker 1: and he told me about the situation. He said, it
Speaker 1: is really bad. There's that photo going around and at
Speaker 1: a Brooklyn hospital. Brooklyn and Queens have been hit the
Speaker 1: worst so far, but there's a photo going around of
Speaker 1: bodies being being put into the back of a refrigerated truck.
Speaker 1: There are refrigerated trucks outside the major hospitals. That's that's
Speaker 1: all very real, folks. Some of you've been asking me,
Speaker 1: are these things really happening. Yeah, it is happening. Another
Speaker 1: friend send me a photo from his window of the
Speaker 1: field hospital that they've set up in the very fields
Speaker 1: that I used to play sports on as a kid
Speaker 1: in school. So the field hospitals are out in the
Speaker 1: fields of Central Park. There is a field hospital now
Speaker 1: near Mounts One. They've put up big tents and it's
Speaker 1: they're ready for taking patients out there too. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is where we are. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: city that is it's like it's preparing for a war.
Speaker 1: But instead of setting up anti aircraft guns and you know,
Speaker 1: putting surfaced air missiles and sandbags and things like that,
Speaker 1: we're lining up ventilators and tents and medical personnel. It's
Speaker 1: it's a very it's a very tough time in the city.
Speaker 1: People have been asking me about the nine eleven comparison.
Speaker 1: I think this is now. I didn't. I wasn't in
Speaker 1: New York on nine eleven. I was up at college.
Speaker 1: I came back. I think within a couple of weeks probably,
Speaker 1: So I was in the city pretty soon after the
Speaker 1: nine eleven incident happened, and there was already then, I
Speaker 1: can say, at least a sense that the city was
Speaker 1: gonna was gonna bounce back, We're gonna be okay. You know.
Speaker 1: There was still that shock and the and the loss
Speaker 1: of all those people that were died in the towers
Speaker 1: and the NYPD and FDNY and all the folks who
Speaker 1: were affected by that. Certainly that was on everyone's minds,
Speaker 1: but as a city, there was no sense that the
Speaker 1: entire city was going to be was going to be
Speaker 1: taken down by this, that the city would never really
Speaker 1: be the same, at least I don't remember that at all.
Speaker 1: Right now, you walk around the streets in every restaurant
Speaker 1: you pass, everything you see that you go past, you
Speaker 1: think to yourself, they've closed down or they closed for good.
Speaker 1: Every store, every restaurant, every business you walk past them.
Speaker 1: You think how long, how long before they're not able
Speaker 1: to ever open their doors? And the answer is gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of them never do. That's a different feeling,
Speaker 1: that's a different place than we've ever been in before
Speaker 1: as as a city, and it's it's very, very distressing.
Speaker 1: I'll also say that there's an element here and this
Speaker 1: is maybe this won't be a concern at all the NYPD.
Speaker 1: The police department here has I think a few a
Speaker 1: few thousand people who are outsick now that the department
Speaker 1: is over. I mean, if you at civilians, it's over
Speaker 1: forty thousand. I think the uniform personnels in the mid
Speaker 1: to high thirties. But you've got a couple of thousand
Speaker 1: officers who are outsick, and you've had a few hundred
Speaker 1: officers who have tested positive for coronavirus at this point.
Speaker 1: And if you look at what's going on on the
Speaker 1: streets at this point in time, it feels like it's
Speaker 1: desolate and eerie and unsafe to Cops are not going
Speaker 1: to deal with the lesser crimes, that's for sure. They've
Speaker 1: already said in Brooklyn they're not going to prosecute for trespassing,
Speaker 1: for theft. This is a combustible mix, and no one
Speaker 1: really is focused right now on the possibility of a
Speaker 1: breakdown in civil society. But it wouldn't take much. It
Speaker 1: would not take much. And you walk the streets of
Speaker 1: New York City and you have a police force that's
Speaker 1: already been hit hard by COVID nineteen is going to
Speaker 1: have more people out in the days ahead, and you
Speaker 1: just have a general sense of fear. I mean the
Speaker 1: city yesterday was a wet, cold day, It's been soaked
Speaker 1: in fear. Today is a little bit better, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit sunnier, and you know, the warm weather I
Speaker 1: think is really going to help a lot. But I
Speaker 1: just hope that we're not in a combustible situation where
Speaker 1: we end up finding ourselves. I just hope we don't
Speaker 1: end up finding ourselves dealing with problems that are caused
Speaker 1: by the virus in the lockdown to the virus, but
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with the virus. And that's where
Speaker 1: I get worried about the moment you start having shortages.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are all these stores right now. You
Speaker 1: can't get toilet paper, you can't get paper towel. You know,
Speaker 1: we're dealing with real shortages because of panic buying. What
Speaker 1: happens when you go to the store and there's there's
Speaker 1: not food? Now that doesn't feel like it could happen
Speaker 1: right now? How many months of this do we think
Speaker 1: we can sustain? And what happens if there is just
Speaker 1: from the unemployment and the anger. I mean, people are upset,
Speaker 1: they're in their homes, they can't leave. If we have
Speaker 1: some civil disorder, it's essentially on the streets. Things get
Speaker 1: very ugly very quickly here. So and I don't think
Speaker 1: that I don't think that they're that that's um out
Speaker 1: of the question. And I've spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: in this city. I've been through a lot in this city,
Speaker 1: and there's a sense right now that one one push
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction for us while we're dealing with this,
Speaker 1: and you could have problems pile on topic. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: this is all wrong. Maybe the people understand how serious
Speaker 1: this is. Everyone's staying home, everyone's scared by the virus.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's not going to be You might
Speaker 1: even see a drop in criminal activity city wide. You
Speaker 1: probably will right now because there's just aren't people out
Speaker 1: on the streets, and you know, everyone's in their homes.
Speaker 1: So unless you're gonna do a home invasion, a burglary
Speaker 1: is a very risky thing to do. But I am.
Speaker 1: I am concerned. That's the best thing I can say.
Speaker 1: But I did see the on the upside. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get to the upside for a second. Today is
Speaker 1: a tough one, folks. It's tough because Trump just extended
Speaker 1: the thirty days and it seems the administration has been
Speaker 1: swayed to instead of trying to take a more state
Speaker 1: by state and more you know, economy friendly or economy
Speaker 1: surviving approach to this, there's like, nope, forget it, We're
Speaker 1: just doing total lockdown. We're going for the total lockdown approach.
Speaker 1: So that's been a bit of a bit of a
Speaker 1: shock to process in the last twenty four hours. I
Speaker 1: did see this morning the the hospital ship, the USNS Comfort,
Speaker 1: the Navy's hospital ship. It came right past my window,
Speaker 1: so I mean not like I could reach out and
Speaker 1: touch it, but I could see it from my window
Speaker 1: as it sailed in into New York, went up on
Speaker 1: the went up the Hudson River, and it's out a
Speaker 1: pier not far from intown Manhattan, And that was It's
Speaker 1: just encouraging to know that we've got the eyes of
Speaker 1: the nation on the city right now, and that the
Speaker 1: Comfort is going to be there to deal with heart attacks,
Speaker 1: deal with strokes, deal with you know, all the other
Speaker 1: medical issues that do not stop because we are in
Speaker 1: our homes and there's a virus out there. So it
Speaker 1: is encouraging right now to see it's encouraging right now
Speaker 1: to see what's going on on the at least in
Speaker 1: that respect, from the from the perspective of trying to
Speaker 1: have things in place that will help us. And you know, now,
Speaker 1: I could do the whole dunk on the MSNBC show,
Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow's show for saying we'll never get here and
Speaker 1: everything else, But you know what, it's not even that's
Speaker 1: not even important right now. People are wrong. People are
Speaker 1: wrong all over the place. I don't know anyone who's
Speaker 1: who's understood at every phase of this how to handle them,
Speaker 1: what to do. And I think maybe here's the thought,
Speaker 1: maybe we could, at least for this week, try to
Speaker 1: extend a little more, a little more decency, grace, forgiveness,
Speaker 1: and understanding to each other, especially as we try to
Speaker 1: work through this together as a country than we would
Speaker 1: on other issues. Maybe we could all aspire to that.
Speaker 1: That would certainly be nice. But the Navy ship arrived.
Speaker 1: You got numerous trials going on right now for drugs
Speaker 1: that could really be helpful against this. Everyone's focused on
Speaker 1: chloroquin and zpax azithromycin as a possibility. We don't know yet.
Speaker 1: There's also a drug up in Montreal that's a it's
Speaker 1: a very inexpensive, very old gout drug, but it deals
Speaker 1: with inflammation and it may it may be useful against us.
Speaker 1: There's some hope that will be useful against the cytokine
Speaker 1: flood that occurs in the lungs when you are infected
Speaker 1: with this, So that's certainly a possibility. And then there's
Speaker 1: also this big drug out of Gilad rem Severe I
Speaker 1: think it's called out of Gilead Pharmaceuticals. So those are
Speaker 1: all possible places where things could get could get better.
Speaker 1: Those are all areas where we could see a real
Speaker 1: reason for particular, you know, for some enthusiasm about this
Speaker 1: fight and that we've made a breakthrough. We'll have to
Speaker 1: see if in fact any of them come through, and
Speaker 1: that would be a game change. Also, the syrology tests,
Speaker 1: we got to know who's already had this and how
Speaker 1: many people in the country have already had it, and
Speaker 1: then they should be cleared to go back to work
Speaker 1: assuming they have immunity, which I mean going back to
Speaker 1: work sooner than later. That would be great, But it's
Speaker 1: going to be my friends. Oh I did well. I'll
Speaker 1: give you some quarantine updates coming up here in a second.
Speaker 1: But let me just for a moment talk about what's
Speaker 1: going on with China. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. China is definitely responsible
Speaker 1: for much of the pain that we are all feeling.
Speaker 1: The Chinese Communist part of the Chinese government, not the
Speaker 1: Chinese people, but the Chinese Communist Party made decisions that
Speaker 1: have had ramifications throughout the world. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this is their Chernobyl, but it's much much worse than Chernobyl. Chernobyl, who,
Speaker 1: as we know, once they managed to take you know,
Speaker 1: they managed to try to address the problem. It did
Speaker 1: not turn into the global destruction mechanism that many were
Speaker 1: concerned it would be. Um, this is sure, noble if
Speaker 1: the worst case scenarios actually came true of the initial
Speaker 1: projection of putting all of that radiation into the air,
Speaker 1: that would spread everywhere else. And the Chinese government is
Speaker 1: lying about this, has been lying about it at every step.
Speaker 1: Here's a guy from the World Health Organization, though he's
Speaker 1: being asked a question by a journalist. I believe a
Speaker 1: journalist from Hong Kong about different countries responses to this.
Speaker 1: And the guy's name is Bruce Aylward. He's from the
Speaker 1: World Health Organization. Just notice notice how he handles this question.
Speaker 1: Play five considered Hiwan's membership. Hello, it was I couldn't
Speaker 1: hear your question. Okay, let me let me let me
Speaker 1: repeat the questions right, because because I'm actually curious on
Speaker 1: talking about Taiwan as well on Taiwan's case, we decided
Speaker 1: to give doctor Alward another call to fund and I
Speaker 1: just want to see if you can comment a bit
Speaker 1: on how Taiwan has done so far in terms of
Speaker 1: containing the fires. Well, we've already talked about China, and
Speaker 1: you know, when you look across all the different areas
Speaker 1: of China, they've actually all done a good job. So
Speaker 1: with that, i'd like to thank you very much for
Speaker 1: inviting us to participate, and good luck as you go
Speaker 1: forward with the battle in Hong Kong. We've already talked
Speaker 1: about China. Wow. World Health Organization representative here is like,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, we do we do the Chinese bidding
Speaker 1: on this issue. Chinese don't recognize Taiwan. We don't recognize Taiwan.
Speaker 1: We won't even talk about Taiwan. So when people talk
Speaker 1: about the propaganda situation, when people discuss the reality here
Speaker 1: of Chinese propaganda being used by Western media, just understand
Speaker 1: there's also international organizations that succumbed to this pressure. There's
Speaker 1: a story. You know, I'm not to get an tomorrow
Speaker 1: a little bit because I don't really have time for
Speaker 1: it today. I want to get to Roll call. But
Speaker 1: there's a story about how did China mess up so
Speaker 1: badly when it came to dealing with this because they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be They've been preparing for this for a
Speaker 1: long time. They have in place, what were the most
Speaker 1: robust reporting mechanisms possible. That was what they thought, that
Speaker 1: was what they were telling everybody, stretching back for over
Speaker 1: a decade. How can the Chinese government get this so wrong?
Speaker 1: And the answer is the Chinese government doesn't care about
Speaker 1: human life. It cares about power. But there's a more complicated,
Speaker 1: in the weeds version of why the Chinese government mess
Speaker 1: this up so badly, and I will get into that,
Speaker 1: but you know, the world health organizations also willing to
Speaker 1: take China's word for it. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: these international organizations One of the problems, whether it's the UN,
Speaker 1: the who you name it, one of the big issues
Speaker 1: is that they have this mentality of treating all nations
Speaker 1: like they're equally decent regimes, like the act of the
Speaker 1: people that are engaged in, you know, the day to
Speaker 1: day governance, are all are all just like each other.
Speaker 1: You know, one country is as good as another country.
Speaker 1: There's the equivalent of moral relativism expanded out through nation
Speaker 1: states that exists in all these international institutions, and it
Speaker 1: leads to things like this where you have China being
Speaker 1: treated like it's a good guy here by the World
Speaker 1: Health Organization, and just a refusal to talk about Taiwan,
Speaker 1: which is an independent country. I mean, right now, Taiwan
Speaker 1: is an independent country. We're in the middle of a pandemic,
Speaker 1: and we can't talk about what Taiwan is doing. We're
Speaker 1: going to just say that it's part of China. That
Speaker 1: would be news to Taiwan, by the way. So the
Speaker 1: World Health Organization and some of these other bodies that
Speaker 1: are supposed to be a political and just helping us
Speaker 1: out with the disease, just remember that they're all these
Speaker 1: big international institutions are very political and the Chinese government
Speaker 1: is going to not just try to avoid blame for this,
Speaker 1: They're going to They're going to try to capitalize on
Speaker 1: the situation as much as they can. And look, I
Speaker 1: start to get work. What if China recognizes our financial
Speaker 1: weakness and decides that they can they can afford because
Speaker 1: of their manufacturing base and their accessing out of raw
Speaker 1: materials because of the Belton Road policy. What if they
Speaker 1: decide a dump US treasuries the tune of a few
Speaker 1: trillion dollars they own. Well, we'll get into China more tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I think. What we'll do more of a deep dive
Speaker 1: into China and the COVID nineteen crisis. Roll calls up next.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. And by the way, I really
Speaker 1: do appreciate all of you writing in now more than ever.
Speaker 1: It's like my connection to the outside world. So I'm
Speaker 1: stuck here in quarantine. I feel a little bit like
Speaker 1: Matt Damon in The Martian and you guys are my
Speaker 1: comms back to Earth. So thank you so much for
Speaker 1: writing in and sharing all your thoughts. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get you Alex. I heard Mark. Hey, producer Mark, how
Speaker 1: are you, by the way, buddy, we haven't even checked
Speaker 1: in with the at house producer Mark. I'm doing well, well,
Speaker 1: thank you? You are right. Yeah, everything's great here so far,
Speaker 1: so good with you in quarantine? At least you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a goldfish or something, or maybe a plant.
Speaker 1: I don't really see how a goldfish or a plant
Speaker 1: would keep me occupied for very long. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know a company, Yeah, I mean I guess, yeah, not really.
Speaker 1: But what is are you alerting dogs? No? I love dogs. Oh,
Speaker 1: you love dogs. It's just expensive to be in this
Speaker 1: apartment building. Yeah. And plus right now, you wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to be house training a dog. That's for exactly, so
Speaker 1: you don't want to be outside all the time. I
Speaker 1: got a dog here. She directs my life right down.
Speaker 1: Whenever she wants to go out, I gotta go out.
Speaker 1: Whatever she wants is what I gotta do. So it's
Speaker 1: it's busy. It's amazing. What dog hasn't interrupted the show yet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's very quiet. I mean she's in the room with
Speaker 1: me all the time. In fact, I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: She actually sleeps on my feet sometimes as I'm doing
Speaker 1: the radio show at least feeling great. She's like, she's
Speaker 1: like a little baby seal warming my feet with her
Speaker 1: with her white fur and her blubber. It's great. She's
Speaker 1: a chubby one. You're gonna make saying that. She's gonna
Speaker 1: be so mad at me for saying that, but she
Speaker 1: knows it's coming. Come on. She's a soft She's a
Speaker 1: full figured French bulldog, that is for sure. All right now,
Speaker 1: Mark is okay, so we're good with that. I heard
Speaker 1: Mark mentioned Mitch Rap That's one series I like. Who
Speaker 1: was going to recommend it to you? Vince Flynn is
Speaker 1: the author. Daniel Silva's Gabriel Alan series is good too.
Speaker 1: And if you like short podcasts, you should check out
Speaker 1: the way I heard it with Mike Roe Shields Hie
Speaker 1: good Sir Alex, thank you for all those recommendations. I
Speaker 1: do appreciate that, and I will say that what you know,
Speaker 1: what I did over the weekend like everybody else, because
Speaker 1: I feel like there's this greater sense now more than ever,
Speaker 1: that you want to have some community with people and
Speaker 1: you want to be able to talk to them about
Speaker 1: things you're watching. Because I can't see people, I can't
Speaker 1: experience things with them. I can't go for walks with them,
Speaker 1: or or go to dinner with them, or you know,
Speaker 1: I can't cook dinner for my parents right now, which
Speaker 1: I like to do sometimes. So watching things and being
Speaker 1: able to talk about them is fun. I did watch
Speaker 1: the Tiger King mark. Did you get to it yet? No?
Speaker 1: We were binging a different show this weekend. What'd you
Speaker 1: binge over the weekend? The one about a creek that
Speaker 1: I can't say the first name of them? That? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: are you almost done with that one? We got through
Speaker 1: two seasons just this weekend alone, so we are pretty
Speaker 1: much pretty close to the end. Yeah. Nice, Okay, cool. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to hear what your thoughts are on
Speaker 1: Tiger King. I thought Tiger King the first couple of episodes,
Speaker 1: we're pretty amazing, very entertaining. Then I think it kind
Speaker 1: of I think it's seven episodes in total. Then it
Speaker 1: kind of got a little bit, a little two into things,
Speaker 1: it got a little depressing, and it finished Okay, it finished, okay,
Speaker 1: But the first two episodes are just are just mind boggling.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty amazing stuff that goes on. If
Speaker 1: I here's here's the question for you, producer Mark, if
Speaker 1: you if you could have if you had to have
Speaker 1: any exotic and dangerous animal, meaning it has to actually
Speaker 1: prove some some threat to your safety, but you got
Speaker 1: to have it as a pet. So we're talking lines tigers, bears,
Speaker 1: oh my king Cobra's, elephants, hippopotami. What do you go for?
Speaker 1: This is a ridiculous question. There was any higher series
Speaker 1: just about people that do exactly this. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess lying cubs are kind of cute, exactly, that's what
Speaker 1: most people go for. Panda. Yeah, I like that answer.
Speaker 1: I think a panda is actually an excellent choice. They're
Speaker 1: very cute, and yes they're bears, and they're dangerous and
Speaker 1: they're big. I wouldn't want to pet them though. Do
Speaker 1: you ever see the video of the guy that got
Speaker 1: too close to a panda cage in China and it
Speaker 1: grabs him and holds him against the bars, and you realize, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a lot stronger than me. Yeah, it's not a puppy,
Speaker 1: it's not. Yeah, it's not a cute little They look cute,
Speaker 1: but they're actually big bears. The one thing that would
Speaker 1: scare me more than I think a lot of people would.
Speaker 1: I think I think the larger primates, so baboons and chimpanzees.
Speaker 1: When those guys go bad, it's it's very bad. They're
Speaker 1: really scary. M I would also recommend anybody that wants
Speaker 1: to I've told you about Project Nim many times. That's
Speaker 1: a great a great documentary on on chimpanzees. And I
Speaker 1: would also say for me, I would want a Bobcat.
Speaker 1: I just think a bobcat would be really cool and
Speaker 1: it's pretty realistic too. You could have a pet Bobcat
Speaker 1: at home and it wouldn't take up that much space.
Speaker 1: It's about the size of a of like a labrador.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're maybe even a little smaller than a labrador.
Speaker 1: They're not that big. So I don't know. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: I'll get a pet bobcat one. All right, you do that,
Speaker 1: let me know how it goes. I'm never coming over, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll bring it to work. We'll make sure it's safe
Speaker 1: for you though. Tracy hey Buck and producer Mark, I
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you for showing up every day.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay up on the news, but I
Speaker 1: get so annoyed seeing all the lies. I've had to
Speaker 1: steer clear of social media because I get sucked in
Speaker 1: by ill informed friends. If I just listen to you guys,
Speaker 1: it centers my chee. I feel like I know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Be safe, keep those shields high. We appreciate you,
Speaker 1: and you're in my prayers. Well, Tracy, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and we certainly try to keep
Speaker 1: things centered and and and good to go. Mark, can
Speaker 1: you see the how far are you from the from
Speaker 1: the Hudson? I can see swamp. I can't see Hudson.
Speaker 1: Can't you see swam not Hudson. I'm just wondering if
Speaker 1: you were able to catch a glimpse, because if you
Speaker 1: were in Jersey City, for example, you definitely would have
Speaker 1: been able to see the ship coming up the Hudson.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a pretty big to do because
Speaker 1: they're all the helicopters and the tug boats and stuff
Speaker 1: around it, So it was a pretty big, pretty big scene.
Speaker 1: But you know, swamp, swamp is good. Swamp is good too. Christy,
Speaker 1: hey Buck, thank you and producer Mark were still doing
Speaker 1: the show every day. You guys are so nice. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Our city stay at home order begins tomorrow through April sixteenth,
Speaker 1: but I work in law enforcements, so I still have
Speaker 1: to head to the office. I am glad to have
Speaker 1: a job though, and a change of scenery from my house.
Speaker 1: My cats are likely tired of me talking video of
Speaker 1: taking video and photos of them. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: make them into social media influencers so they can bring
Speaker 1: some revenue and stop freeloading. Also, I really miss sports,
Speaker 1: social distance hugs from North Carolina. Well, Christie, thank you,
Speaker 1: and yeah, we all we all missed those distractions. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the reasons this is so hard
Speaker 1: for us all psychologically, is that we don't have those
Speaker 1: those real things to focus our attend And it makes
Speaker 1: me appreciate actually how much sports professional sports are so
Speaker 1: really useful to people. Yeah, it's entertainment, but even beyond
Speaker 1: that as as escape and as an emotional focus into
Speaker 1: something that's that's positive and that's you know, how would
Speaker 1: you describe a producer, Mark, I mean, when you're watching
Speaker 1: a Great Rangers game, where does your mind go? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's an escape. But if you remember in New
Speaker 1: York right after nine to eleven. The first sporting event
Speaker 1: after nine eleven was on September twenty first, I believe
Speaker 1: the Mets played the Braves. Mike Piazza hit a game
Speaker 1: winning home run and that building shook. It made everyone
Speaker 1: smile for the first time since the towers fell, and
Speaker 1: it was such an escape for everyone. I think that's
Speaker 1: the big difference you were talking about nine to eleven
Speaker 1: before in comparison to this is we don't know when
Speaker 1: it's gonna end. We don't know when we can smile again.
Speaker 1: That's what sports did back then, and I mean, I
Speaker 1: just hope sports can come back sometime to make people smile. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we do have the We do
Speaker 1: have that clip of here's here's a agreed upon socially
Speaker 1: distanced cheering from buildings all over New York City for
Speaker 1: people who are out there on the front lines keeping
Speaker 1: work going. Can you play that audio? See producer Mark.
Speaker 1: I even liked the whistling there. Yeah, I was wondering
Speaker 1: if you would complain about the whistling, but no, I
Speaker 1: even liked it. Yeah, it was necessary. Yep, that was
Speaker 1: good whistling. That was a very nice moment. It was.
Speaker 1: I mean really, if you see the video of it,
Speaker 1: it's even better because you can tell that there's people
Speaker 1: in buildings all over a part of New York just
Speaker 1: cheering for our first responders, cheering for doctors, nurses, people
Speaker 1: on the front lines of this thing. So it was
Speaker 1: a moment. You're going to see more of that, which
Speaker 1: we're gonna need too. I mean, keeping morale high right
Speaker 1: now is very, very important. Sarah, hey Buck, I love
Speaker 1: the trivia about your mom being a professional ballet dancer.
Speaker 1: I teach at a classical ballet school that I hope
Speaker 1: will still be in business once this is over. We
Speaker 1: started live streaming classes this week, which is nothing like
Speaker 1: the real thing. My hubby and I were supposed to
Speaker 1: fly to New York City with our son this morning
Speaker 1: for his senior trip. Now we're wondering if he'll be
Speaker 1: graduating from high school on time. Hopefully we'll be able
Speaker 1: to make the Big Apple too. With all the TV
Speaker 1: show talk, I haven't heard one anyone mentioned Mozart in
Speaker 1: the Jungle. It's one of my favorites. I love your podcast.
Speaker 1: I'll look forward to it every day. Shield Hie, Sarah
Speaker 1: and Arizona, Well, thank you so much, Sarah, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen Mozart in the jungle, so sounds good. It
Speaker 1: takes place in Manhattan anything, it takes place in a
Speaker 1: normal New York right now, though it is going to
Speaker 1: be a little tough for me because it's such a
Speaker 1: right and this is the hardest it's ever been to
Speaker 1: be in this city right now, through all the natural disasters,
Speaker 1: through nine to eleven, this is this is really right now,
Speaker 1: I think is the most it's the toughest period we've
Speaker 1: gone through. Jeff hey Buck, I really enjoy your podcast
Speaker 1: and how you systematically tear down the leftist narrative is
Speaker 1: really disgusting what the media, democrats they're one of the same,
Speaker 1: are doing with this crisis. I find that interesting that
Speaker 1: these same liberal governors say we can risk one life
Speaker 1: with this virus while also advocating for effect fourth trimester abortions,
Speaker 1: fourth being shortly after birth. How about those precious lives.
Speaker 1: There's no consistency at all. Stuck working from home in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Yeah, I mean it's first of all, thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to podcast, and I'm really glad you
Speaker 1: enjoy you get something out of it every day and
Speaker 1: as for the not risking one life with the virus,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's this make this feels good for people
Speaker 1: to say it's just not true. And I know it's
Speaker 1: really easy to demagogue this and show people down, but
Speaker 1: we make we as a society take risks all the
Speaker 1: time that we know will end in risks. Right now.
Speaker 1: There's a difference between shoving somebody off a cliff and
Speaker 1: saying somebody, all right, you know you can drive down
Speaker 1: this road, but some people may skid off the end
Speaker 1: of this cliff and we still want a road here.
Speaker 1: That's not the same thing. Yeah, Beverly Ruts, could you
Speaker 1: please up Tlu on your lap again during your live broadcast.
Speaker 1: She's so cute and thank you for making my day
Speaker 1: so much better. Well, Beverly, maybe we'll do a Facebook
Speaker 1: live with Toulu and maybe we can bring her into
Speaker 1: some of the If you're not already watching on Pluto
Speaker 1: TV channel two forty eight, the first please do. Pluto
Speaker 1: TV is a great app for you to have right now.
Speaker 1: Think of it like you're just adding an entirely new
Speaker 1: cable TV lineup. But it's free, free, free, free on
Speaker 1: your phone and you just click the channels. You want
Speaker 1: to have a lot of channels. The first is the
Speaker 1: channel that I'm on with Jesse Kelly, Dana Lash, Mike Slater.
Speaker 1: And it's just think of it like we're keeping you
Speaker 1: company and bringing you up to speed every day, and
Speaker 1: you can watch video of it and we're all connected.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like I'm doing a FaceTime call with
Speaker 1: every single one of you who's watching on Pluto TV.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what it looks like too. But that's
Speaker 1: because I have to do this from home. People are asking, well,
Speaker 1: what is your studio look like that, Well, it's because
Speaker 1: we aren't allowed to be in studios anymore because of
Speaker 1: the global pandemic, so there are some some trade offs
Speaker 1: we have to make. And as for Talu, yeah, Talula
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun and she's great for live
Speaker 1: broadcasts and we'll bring her back into it as soon
Speaker 1: as we can. She doesn't like to sit for that long,
Speaker 1: but say sometimes she gets a little squirmy, you know,
Speaker 1: she wants to go and sniff and find like leftover
Speaker 1: chicken on the floor somewhere. I gotta keep my floors
Speaker 1: really clean because otherwise there's any food in the kitchen
Speaker 1: on the floor. She goes right for it. She's amazing
Speaker 1: that a little sense of smells incredible. I got her,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. I got her some doggy steps
Speaker 1: so that she doesn't have to bother me when she
Speaker 1: wants to be at the foot of the bed or
Speaker 1: when she wants to get up on the couch. She
Speaker 1: likes to do this thing where she winds and then
Speaker 1: i'd come over and pick her up. And she weighs
Speaker 1: about thirty thirty two pounds. I think, so she's a thick,
Speaker 1: as I said, a full figured boss, a full figured
Speaker 1: French bulldog. I got her stairs that she can climb up,
Speaker 1: and I kept doing this thing where I would hold
Speaker 1: a little piece of chicken at the top of the
Speaker 1: stairs to see if she'd walk up, and she would
Speaker 1: immediately run around to the other end of the couch,
Speaker 1: or run around the other end of the bed and
Speaker 1: jump up like she's evil Kinneval all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: and she's doing a trick where she's flying over twenty
Speaker 1: cars or something, jump right up onto the bed, jump
Speaker 1: right up onto the couch, and take the chicken out
Speaker 1: of my hand. So she doesn't need the stairs. She
Speaker 1: won't use the stairs when there's chicken involved. But when
Speaker 1: there's no chicken, I am the human elevator and I
Speaker 1: have to make sure that I pick her up. You're
Speaker 1: in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, we got married. Good evening, Buck, first time
Speaker 1: watching you on Pluto TV. Thank you for all you do.
Speaker 1: But I can't help looking over your shoulder and seeing
Speaker 1: how high up you are. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: live that high. Keep up the good work. I enjoy
Speaker 1: your show. Oh Mary, I'm glad you got to watch
Speaker 1: it on Pluto TV. Thank you for tuning in, and
Speaker 1: for everybody else out there listening on Radio World. If
Speaker 1: you want, you can always check us out on video two.
Speaker 1: And yes, I am very My apartment is very high
Speaker 1: up I am. I live higher than probably ninety five
Speaker 1: percent of you have a building where you in your
Speaker 1: town or city that's as high as where I live.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably fair to say, maybe have a
Speaker 1: five percent of you listening, maybe ten percent of you listening.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm way up. I'm over forty stories in
Speaker 1: the air, So that's that's up there. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many cities even have that many residential towers over
Speaker 1: forty stories. But it's I'm up, I'm up in the sky.
Speaker 1: It's a great view, but it's it's. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: want to look down too close to the window sometimes,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, Mike buck Neither CBS, nor ABC, nor
Speaker 1: nor eight NBC aired the task Force update today. The
Speaker 1: CBS even news reporter claim that Trump wouldn't talk to
Speaker 1: governors of Washington and Michigan unless they appreciated him. That's
Speaker 1: not what he said. She gave the false impression that
Speaker 1: he's holding up assistance until they kiss his button. Now
Speaker 1: the media can lie and twist around what he says,
Speaker 1: and we can hear we can't hear the important info
Speaker 1: provided by these updates. Yeah, Mike, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's absurd that they're not running the press conference. They're
Speaker 1: not letting us see exactly what the president says on
Speaker 1: those channels. What could be more newsworthy than the press conference?
Speaker 1: You know, what could be more newsworthy? I just I
Speaker 1: asked that question in all honesty. Jerry, Hey, Buck, I'm
Speaker 1: oss listening to the podcast. It's good to hear feisty
Speaker 1: in the trenches fighting buck back. I didn't vote for
Speaker 1: Trump but listening to press or Friday, I thought out loud,
Speaker 1: thank God for Trump. I'm in the trenches with you now.
Speaker 1: Shield's high. Well, Jerry, thank you man. And I'm if
Speaker 1: I seem like I'm just not as as feisty in
Speaker 1: the fight today, it's just I'm a little yesterday was
Speaker 1: it felt like a setback with the extension of the
Speaker 1: quarantine managers here for a month. But I'll be back
Speaker 1: in action tomorrow. I'll be back in action doing all
Speaker 1: that stuff, so it'll be It'll be good for sure.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Um, let's see what
Speaker 1: we got here, Karen. Please don't try to cut your
Speaker 1: own hair. I'm ninety nine percent sure you will be sorry.
Speaker 1: If you can't find a hat big enough, tell us
Speaker 1: you're head circumference. And I bet someone on Team Buck
Speaker 1: could knit you a hat, or you could wear a
Speaker 1: scarf Pirates style or a turban um. What do we
Speaker 1: really I can't cut my own hair. I trimmed the
Speaker 1: beard down a little bit because a beard was getting
Speaker 1: really it was starting to look like Tom Hanks and castaway. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, here we go, ned you a hat or
Speaker 1: a scarf? What what do you think I like the
Speaker 1: turban idea. I could definitely do a knit hat if
Speaker 1: somebody has a great idea for that. That says team
Speaker 1: buck on, it's gonna wear a hat indoors um, Yes,
Speaker 1: when you're on the show. Uh, yeah, I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know U. So yeah, we will. We will have
Speaker 1: to see how that goes. Fiona. That sound like Trump.
Speaker 1: We'll see, We're looking at it. We'll see. With Buck's hair,
Speaker 1: We'll see. I love your show. I'd regularly of the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to your three twenty seven show. Now, you
Speaker 1: spoke very unfavorably of the actions of Representative Massey of
Speaker 1: Kentucky me the statement, you don't lecture someone constitution when
Speaker 1: their house is burning down. I respectfully disagree. Our constitution
Speaker 1: is necessary to give guidance and provide guard rails, especially
Speaker 1: in times at crisis. Well, yeah, but it wasn't about
Speaker 1: It wasn't a constitutional issue, So that's actually a bad
Speaker 1: example that I used. It was a legislative issue that
Speaker 1: had to do with too much spending. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: they were rounding people up and putting them in camps. So, Fiona,
Speaker 1: I just had to say that it wasn't enough of
Speaker 1: an emergency to justify what Massey was saying he was
Speaker 1: going to do, which is why he didn't do it,
Speaker 1: and he backed down. Thank you everybody for listening. We'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We will be better, stronger in the future.
Speaker 1: Today we fight, we stay together, shields high,