Speaker 1: You are entering the Freedom Hunt. The war on coronavirus continues,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna call it the Wuhan virus from now on.
Speaker 1: Here and the Freedom Hunt will have all the latest
Speaker 1: everything we need to talk about coming up. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is
Speaker 1: to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake, America,
Speaker 1: You're a great American. Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. No, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show, everybody.
Speaker 1: We are still doing it from the studio here in
Speaker 1: New York City. You may see some changes. For those
Speaker 1: of you that watch on Pluto, you may hear a
Speaker 1: slightly different, slightly different tonality, I guess in terms of
Speaker 1: the technical aspects of the show, because we may be
Speaker 1: setting up in a remote Freedom Hunt location and the
Speaker 1: relatively near future. The show will still be exactly as
Speaker 1: it is in terms of the content and everything else.
Speaker 1: But things are getting pretty edgy here in New York City.
Speaker 1: People are concerned, and I've been talking to friends all
Speaker 1: across the country. Look, here here's the reality. I mean
Speaker 1: this is this is a news commentary show. We do
Speaker 1: a lot of other stuff here too. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about this, and we're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: this story for the next at least thirty days, you
Speaker 1: got to figure probably the next sixty and who knows
Speaker 1: how much longer than that. So we are in a
Speaker 1: new phase. And that's why I'm talking about it in
Speaker 1: terms of a war or an ongoing major conflict that
Speaker 1: polls at everything in our society. And that's where we are.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're going to talk about the most
Speaker 1: serious and most concerning aspects of it. We're going to
Speaker 1: discuss the things that make all of us nervous. We're
Speaker 1: gonna look at government response, the politics around this unavoidable,
Speaker 1: and we're also going to have a bit of gallows humor,
Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, we've got to we've
Speaker 1: got to keep our spirits up as we pushed through this.
Speaker 1: I said this to a New York lass night on
Speaker 1: wo R, but I'm saying it to you all as well.
Speaker 1: I am very very confident that there will come a
Speaker 1: time in the not distant future when I'll be able
Speaker 1: to sit here and tell all of you. Producer Mark
Speaker 1: and I had Margarida's on a sidewalk cafe after the
Speaker 1: show last night in Tribeca. Down here in Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 1: It's actually a beautiful part of New York City, and
Speaker 1: the streets are a buzz and everybody's okay, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're we got through it. I'm I'm very confident we
Speaker 1: will be able to have that, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to it. I look forward to that day when I
Speaker 1: can say that to all me in. The market's rebounding,
Speaker 1: it's gorgeous weather, and we can start just the food
Speaker 1: fight over the election and whether should be Trump or
Speaker 1: Biden all over again. And although that's going to continue,
Speaker 1: but that day will come and we'll be able to
Speaker 1: talk about that and celebrated together. And I hope it'll
Speaker 1: come in June. It might not come until Longust or September,
Speaker 1: but it'll be here. It will be here. So I
Speaker 1: think we all need to remember that this is not
Speaker 1: going to be the new normal forever by any stretch,
Speaker 1: because right now, man, it's people are people are rattled.
Speaker 1: You know, there's all these different pieces that move with this.
Speaker 1: What are the timelines of the virus spread? How well
Speaker 1: are hospitals equipped? The information overload that you have right now?
Speaker 1: I find myself at night reading and reading and reading
Speaker 1: so much about this that I have to force myself
Speaker 1: to just give give a little bit, like an hour
Speaker 1: of time before I go to sleep, so that I
Speaker 1: don't just go to sleep thinking about wuhan flu, coronavirus,
Speaker 1: the wu flu. By the way, if I say coronavirus again,
Speaker 1: it's just because that's what scotten. That's that's what we're
Speaker 1: being told to say. But remember that's that's an incorrect
Speaker 1: that's an imprecise way of talking about this. And when
Speaker 1: they say COVID nineteen, that's not how we refer to
Speaker 1: diseases usually, right. It would be like asking the general
Speaker 1: public to refer to animals by the by their Latin names,
Speaker 1: you know, by those I think, like a great white
Speaker 1: shark is a carcarrotin carcareous boom knowledge, so you know,
Speaker 1: those are some of the These are the things that
Speaker 1: you'll think about constantly before you get to sleep, and
Speaker 1: then you go to sleep and you wake up and
Speaker 1: the streets here in the city are quiet, and this
Speaker 1: is going to be and everyone, I think recognizes it
Speaker 1: because it's the greatest concentration of people living in the
Speaker 1: closest proximity to each other you know, Los Angeles is
Speaker 1: a huge place, but Los Angeles has really spread out.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is a city of many cities and for
Speaker 1: people to stay home as long as they have access
Speaker 1: to food and the powers on and everything that's there's
Speaker 1: there's less person to person connectivity in the day to
Speaker 1: day life there. I mean here in New York we
Speaker 1: are packed together on the streets, we are packed together
Speaker 1: on the subways. Many of you are like, Buck, why
Speaker 1: don't you come out to me. Maybe this is the
Speaker 1: turning point, you know, maybe producer market, I need to
Speaker 1: pull up stakes and move out to I don't know,
Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere Lovely, Austin, Nashville, Denver. These are all These
Speaker 1: are all cities that I think about sometimes. But that's
Speaker 1: for when we get through this. Unfortunately, we are right
Speaker 1: in the middle of this. We are dealing with a
Speaker 1: national emergency that is going to test us in many
Speaker 1: many ways. And I think that it's important for all
Speaker 1: of us that we understand out that we're willing to
Speaker 1: speak to the anxieties of the moment, that we talk
Speaker 1: to each other, we support each other, we see the
Speaker 1: good that we can in people around us, and just
Speaker 1: you know, I hate. Stay calm is like telling somebody
Speaker 1: to calm down when they're upset, and it never works.
Speaker 1: You tell people to stay calm, and it immediately, at
Speaker 1: least in my mind, evokes somebody who's saying that as
Speaker 1: everybody's like scrambling for the lifeboats or something, stay calm
Speaker 1: and everyone's running for lifeboats, we really are going to
Speaker 1: be okay. And I think that, you know, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of ways everyone's now making decisions based upon
Speaker 1: what they think of as a certainty about where this
Speaker 1: is all going. You know, they think they know that
Speaker 1: fill in the following things, right, They think they know
Speaker 1: if a happens, b happens. I mean, I've got to
Speaker 1: tell you, just think about it this way. You know,
Speaker 1: there are so many people who all they do is
Speaker 1: look at the direction of the stock market, the trajectory
Speaker 1: of different of different companies, and what their earning reports
Speaker 1: are going to be. And here we have Mother Nature
Speaker 1: just saying, yeah, you guys think you know what's coming.
Speaker 1: You think you understand the future, you understand what the
Speaker 1: plan is. You're wrong. Things change, They change very rapidly,
Speaker 1: and people don't don't see it coming. I look at
Speaker 1: this as right now, the next two to three weeks,
Speaker 1: we're more or less going to know if we are
Speaker 1: if we are entering an even more dangerous phase of
Speaker 1: this situation based on all the different projections. You know,
Speaker 1: we also have to have to look at the failure
Speaker 1: now to get testing kits out. Now, testing kits are
Speaker 1: not the answer to everything. I think this has been
Speaker 1: an interesting area where there's there's real concern and there's
Speaker 1: also room for real criticism here. The federal government, run
Speaker 1: by the Trump administration on this one, did not execute
Speaker 1: up to standards. Now. I think if you look at
Speaker 1: it honestly, the CDC and federal regulations and the federal bureaucracy,
Speaker 1: which I know I worked at it, I understand it
Speaker 1: moves very slowly, a lot of red tape, and there's
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of it's what I call bureaucratic sloth. People.
Speaker 1: You know, they're ten percent of the people in the
Speaker 1: organizations do ninety percent of the important work. And that's
Speaker 1: that's just the truth. I mean, I know people don't
Speaker 1: like to hear this, but and I'm sure it's the
Speaker 1: same thing with the CDC, but the testing kits for
Speaker 1: there to be at this stage a manufacturing defect. I mean,
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci has even said that this is a failure. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're past now. Oh no, book, you can't say no, no,
Speaker 1: it's a failure and that's real. But let's also understand,
Speaker 1: all right, so testing gives you a better sense of
Speaker 1: where you can try to contain this. But keep in
Speaker 1: mind that the disease as we understand it right now,
Speaker 1: and I'll get into why it is important that we
Speaker 1: call it the Wuhan virus. Some people are also calling
Speaker 1: it as shorthand the wu flu. I leave that to them.
Speaker 1: I may say that sometimes too. I think that it's
Speaker 1: important that we also don't allow this thing to become
Speaker 1: this uh, this this beast that haunts are every waking moments.
Speaker 1: You know that that creates this anxiety, angsty, and fear,
Speaker 1: become their own become their own enemy. In this whole process,
Speaker 1: it's so easy for all of us to just succumb
Speaker 1: to oh gosh, you know, I mean, I mean a look,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to have some gallos humor. Please understand,
Speaker 1: I'm here writing the center of this. I've been in
Speaker 1: a high risk population for trans for getting the disease
Speaker 1: in the sense that I'm in New York City. This
Speaker 1: is where there's the most cases so far, I believe,
Speaker 1: are in New York State and the New York City area.
Speaker 1: I'm on the subway. I have loved ones who are
Speaker 1: in the age risk category that I'm thinking about every
Speaker 1: day all the time that I'm trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're you know, they're okay. So all of us
Speaker 1: understand the severity of this here, but it also does
Speaker 1: us no good. Once we've dealt with the real facts
Speaker 1: and the day to day and what we know and
Speaker 1: a new information to act like, this thing gets to
Speaker 1: control us. This thing gets to be haunting our every
Speaker 1: waking and even sleeping moment because oh my gosh, what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. You're reading these projections, I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: been a spike. Look, I've downloaded a few books on
Speaker 1: the Spanish flu al though Sonja Shaw's book called Pandemic
Speaker 1: is something that I read on my own about a
Speaker 1: year or two ago, and I have to say it
Speaker 1: was very helpful in the early days of understanding before
Speaker 1: everybody was talking about this so much exactly what's going
Speaker 1: on here. And I'll also tell you when you're looking
Speaker 1: at projections and trying to understand what the future will hold.
Speaker 1: Everybody who studies pandemic disease has effectively been saying now
Speaker 1: that we would be in this position at some point
Speaker 1: in time, and then it would happen almost exactly the
Speaker 1: way that it does. These diseases originate in China, not
Speaker 1: all diseases, but these influenzas and these upper respiratory diseases,
Speaker 1: and it has to do with my Usually migratory foul
Speaker 1: often ducks the migratory foul population, and then there's the
Speaker 1: transfer of a virus that might not even do anything
Speaker 1: bad to the ducks, but that virus can be transferred
Speaker 1: to pigs. And pigs are of our animals that have
Speaker 1: a lot of similarity, so many in fact, that you
Speaker 1: can do some transplants of different tissues, and I believe
Speaker 1: even some some minor organs from pigs to human beings.
Speaker 1: Um that the transfer from the ducks to the pigs
Speaker 1: to the humans. This has been the concern. And now
Speaker 1: I know everyone talking about a guy who ate a
Speaker 1: bat soup, or it was a civit, or it was
Speaker 1: I don't know, some kind of there was some other
Speaker 1: a pangle in. You know, these really rare animals about it?
Speaker 1: Why are people eating these animals? That is a fair
Speaker 1: question to ask. But you know, animals that are that
Speaker 1: are in the wild do present new cross infection opportunities.
Speaker 1: Opportunities might be the wrong word, cross infection risks. And
Speaker 1: this is what has been They thought this is the
Speaker 1: way it's going to be for a long time, and
Speaker 1: now finally we're at this place. So we've known this
Speaker 1: was coming. And I'm actually here to remind everybody of
Speaker 1: that this has been known for a long time. And
Speaker 1: you know, the Sanish flu has in recent years because
Speaker 1: of stars and mers these other upper respiratory infections, it's
Speaker 1: gotten more attention than it has in a long time.
Speaker 1: But it was only a matter of time before we
Speaker 1: were at this place. And I will also tell you
Speaker 1: that when you look at that, look back, and I'll
Speaker 1: be discussing the history of Spanish influenza with you as
Speaker 1: we go forward in the week, because this is the done,
Speaker 1: this is the news story right now. Right. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some other things and you know I'll make I'll
Speaker 1: make some jokes about how like every time I push
Speaker 1: the elevator on the button here in the building. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, this is like, you know, Russian roulette virus style.
Speaker 1: Every time I touch a button with my finger and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh gosh. And inevitably when I think about
Speaker 1: that too, I end up that finger ends up, you know,
Speaker 1: I you know, touch my eye or my nose. I
Speaker 1: almost did it right now as I'm trying to tell
Speaker 1: you how I shouldn't do that. That's how much of
Speaker 1: a habit we're all in. So this is going to
Speaker 1: be a phase of our lives, and it's going to
Speaker 1: affect made your decisions going forward about government. It's going
Speaker 1: to absolutely play a role in the twenty no matter what,
Speaker 1: it'll play a major role in the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 1: But there'll be other things about this too that I
Speaker 1: think we all recognize. What we will be able to
Speaker 1: recognize at least after the fact. This is going to
Speaker 1: change our perception of public health. This is going to
Speaker 1: change our perception of what's you know, of globalization, of
Speaker 1: all these different major forces that we tend to have
Speaker 1: a passive view of. These things are just happening. We're
Speaker 1: just dealing with it. Well, there's more than that. We
Speaker 1: can change course on certain things or we can adjust,
Speaker 1: we can understand that this is not something we want
Speaker 1: to go through again. And you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: try to give you as much as I can. And
Speaker 1: it seems to be right now, a worst case, best
Speaker 1: case analysis situation. That's what you're getting all the time,
Speaker 1: and what I know, and this was just from not
Speaker 1: that the CIA gets everything right. It actually has gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of things very very wrong. And I know
Speaker 1: that because I used to be there and I could
Speaker 1: see all the old assessments and go through them, and
Speaker 1: there's plenty of things the SEI has gotten wrong over time.
Speaker 1: But when you study predictions, especially predictions about major political
Speaker 1: movements or predictions about things like a pandemic, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone focuses on worst case, best case in the beginning,
Speaker 1: and then it turns out and you know where this
Speaker 1: is going to usually be something in the middle usually
Speaker 1: tends to not be the very worst case ends and
Speaker 1: not be the best case scenario. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you those two ends of it and hope that
Speaker 1: we can draw toward what is the most likely outcome here.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, here's what I prucer Mark did
Speaker 1: I did I give my little Oh no, I didn't
Speaker 1: because I remember I So a friend of mine asked
Speaker 1: me yesterday here in New York City, And by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, Mark and I are in it, like we're
Speaker 1: here in the midst of all this. You know, he's
Speaker 1: taking public transport to get here. I've been taking public
Speaker 1: transport to get here. They might shut that down, there
Speaker 1: might be changes about that, and we might have to
Speaker 1: get pruser Mark at hell a copter or a limousine
Speaker 1: or something. Well, find we'll find place for that in
Speaker 1: the budget. But the friend of mine asked me yesterday,
Speaker 1: what do I think is really going to happen? And
Speaker 1: I wrote this out without even thinking about it, and
Speaker 1: it was one of those moments where I realized, well,
Speaker 1: this isn't I wrote it to somebody thinking this is
Speaker 1: just if you ask me, like, if you held a
Speaker 1: gun to my head, what's going to happen here in
Speaker 1: New York, which I think will be replicated in lesser
Speaker 1: to lesser degrees in other places, what would you say
Speaker 1: is likely to occur here? And I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: that is in just a second. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: The iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is what I texted a friend who's clearly
Speaker 1: very concerned about what's going on here because they're I mean,
Speaker 1: they're shutting down. We're in lockdown mode. And as long
Speaker 1: and my opinion is, as long as we slow the
Speaker 1: spread of the disease enough so that our medical facilities
Speaker 1: can handle any influx of the severely ill, and as
Speaker 1: long as we still have people that are doing critical
Speaker 1: things we man, we need people keeping the electricity going,
Speaker 1: picking up the garbage, making sure the grocery stores have food,
Speaker 1: you know, keeping the internet on. I mean, like there
Speaker 1: are things that we just need to keep God, as
Speaker 1: long as those things stay in place, and I believe
Speaker 1: it they will. This isn't a natural disaster, or we've
Speaker 1: dealt with the well, it is kind of a natural disaster,
Speaker 1: but it's not you know, an earthquake or a you know,
Speaker 1: a major hurricane where all of a sudden there's no power,
Speaker 1: there's flooding, and you have to deal with that. This
Speaker 1: is a different kind of natural disaster. As long as
Speaker 1: that all stays in place, that infrastructure stays on, I
Speaker 1: think we got a pretty good shot of going through
Speaker 1: a few weeks of lockdown without it turning really ugly.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get into how it could turn ugly
Speaker 1: a little bit, because we got to understand all aspects
Speaker 1: of this, and I know there, you know when I
Speaker 1: first started. Well, I've got so much on this, folks.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is all I think about now every day. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is where I am. So here's what
Speaker 1: I told my friend, though I thought I should share
Speaker 1: this with you. Things will calm down for a few days,
Speaker 1: but there'll be a spike and known cases next week
Speaker 1: when they get a bunch of test results back from
Speaker 1: the newly opened labs. At that point, people will realize
Speaker 1: there are thousands of infected here in the Tri state
Speaker 1: area and at least tens of thousands infected nationally, which
Speaker 1: means that community spread will be very hard, if not impossible,
Speaker 1: to contain. That's when hospital admissions will spike, and that's
Speaker 1: when everybody will really freak out. I think they may
Speaker 1: shut the subways here down and create quarantine zones in
Speaker 1: some major cities. NYC will basically come to a standstill
Speaker 1: for a week or two. Will we be more or
Speaker 1: less okay by June. Yes, but we're in for an
Speaker 1: ugly sixty to ninety days. That's where I think we are.
Speaker 1: That's what I think will happen here. I hope I
Speaker 1: am wrong, but I think that's a middle path. There
Speaker 1: are certainly worse outcomes it out there. We also have
Speaker 1: a talk about the Chinese trying to put this on
Speaker 1: America and there's a great power struggle here that this
Speaker 1: virus is at the center of. I'll get into that
Speaker 1: as well. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts.
Speaker 1: Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. It goes away, it's going away.
Speaker 1: We wanted to go away with very very few deaths
Speaker 1: people have. You know, we call it cases. How many
Speaker 1: cases do you have? Well, relative to other countries, we
Speaker 1: have very few cases relative to certain of the major
Speaker 1: countries that really have a bigger problem than us. We've
Speaker 1: offered by the RAN. Just interestingly, I think we have
Speaker 1: the greatest doctors in the world. We've offered a RAN assistance.
Speaker 1: RAN as having a tremendous problem, and we have offered
Speaker 1: a RAN assistance. If they'd like it, we will help them.
Speaker 1: We'd be glad to help take So here's a part
Speaker 1: of this whole discussion. I don't think anybody has answers for,
Speaker 1: but this is certainly, very certainly very important to our
Speaker 1: understanding of this you are probably seeing today. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's a reason for I think, substantial optimism, and
Speaker 1: then there's a reason for substantial concern. And this is
Speaker 1: these are the two ideas that keep bouncing back and
Speaker 1: forth in my head. You have globally about one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty thousand cases. You've got about five thousand deaths
Speaker 1: from this, right, so you're looking at a global fatality,
Speaker 1: a mortality rate of around you know, two to three percent.
Speaker 1: Keeping in mind that established cases are I mean when
Speaker 1: I say keeping in mind, that doesn't get factored into
Speaker 1: the calculation. But you should keep in mind that confirmed
Speaker 1: cases are absolutely less than actual cases. There's no way
Speaker 1: that's not true. There are a lot of people that
Speaker 1: thought they had a cold or just you know, figure it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here. They stay at
Speaker 1: home for a week, and now they're going about their lives.
Speaker 1: I said it home for two weeks. Now they're going
Speaker 1: about their lives. There's this analysis, right now, and look
Speaker 1: that the Drudge Report has been absolutely pedal to the
Speaker 1: metal on we should all be as scared as possible
Speaker 1: about this from the very beginning. Now, some people would
Speaker 1: say that that's that, that's been the correct position at
Speaker 1: this point. We'll see. I don't think you could say
Speaker 1: that quite yet, because in China is a very crowded
Speaker 1: country with over a billion people, and the cities are
Speaker 1: I mean, Wuhan has I think eight or ten million people.
Speaker 1: How many Look, I will admit this, how many even
Speaker 1: knew anything about Wuhan before the Wuhan virus, which is
Speaker 1: what we will call it. This is going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit like undocumented immigrant or undocumented person versus
Speaker 1: illegal alien. One term is more important and more precise.
Speaker 1: But because you will hear the other one, you know,
Speaker 1: people say, you know, the undocumented undocumented persons, it starts
Speaker 1: to steep in your brain. So we've all been saying
Speaker 1: coronavirus so much that you don't think that I'm backing
Speaker 1: off of this when I say, if I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say Wuhan virus, say coronavirus. It's really just because you
Speaker 1: know this. This is part of the propaganda effect out there,
Speaker 1: And I don't know why we would call something coronavirus
Speaker 1: when that's an imp imprecise way of describing it, and
Speaker 1: with so many other diseases we describe it by the
Speaker 1: first place of known origin. And there's a reason why people,
Speaker 1: it's it's important. This isn't just a you know, getting
Speaker 1: down to the details and who cares. There's a reason
Speaker 1: for all of this. There is a reason why I
Speaker 1: think we need to focus on this. But I'm giving
Speaker 1: you now my we'll get into the politics of this
Speaker 1: and everything else us. The reason that I see for
Speaker 1: optimism here is China's got a billion people and they
Speaker 1: have had what I mean a few a few thousand
Speaker 1: deaths to this point, and they've been dealing with the
Speaker 1: virus for months, and they have over a population of
Speaker 1: over a billion. And they also suppressed it in the
Speaker 1: early days when after scientists who were trying to get
Speaker 1: the word out early I mean, there was a government
Speaker 1: lockdown on this in a bad way, not meant to
Speaker 1: protect the public, meant to protect the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 1: and the regime. Well if China, which does have a look,
Speaker 1: I was just in China about a year ago. You
Speaker 1: trust me, if you were given the option of being
Speaker 1: in a Chinese hospital or an American hospital, your standard
Speaker 1: American hospital, you would take ninety nine times out of
Speaker 1: one hundred. So there's no reason to believe that they
Speaker 1: have a better public health system for dealing with this
Speaker 1: than we do. How now, And you could also say, Buck,
Speaker 1: maybe they're lying about the numbers. Maybe they're lying about
Speaker 1: the numbers, And I say, yeah, I mean that's certainly
Speaker 1: a possibility too. And so you know, if we don't
Speaker 1: trust their numbers, I don't know. You know, they did
Speaker 1: put the virus sequence out there so people could start
Speaker 1: developing tests for it, But if they don't put the
Speaker 1: numbers out, or rather if we can't trust their numbers,
Speaker 1: I don't know how we can really even analyze this
Speaker 1: situation China. I do trust the numbers in South Korea, though,
Speaker 1: I do trust the numbers in Hong Kong and Singapore
Speaker 1: countries that I've gotten this under control. But let's just
Speaker 1: focus on China for a second. If if this disease
Speaker 1: is as easily transmitted and as dangerous as we've been
Speaker 1: led to believe by most of the media accounts, isn't
Speaker 1: it almost well, wouldn't we have to consider it almost
Speaker 1: a miracle if Chinese numbers are correct, that you only
Speaker 1: have a few thousand. I mean, I'll give you the
Speaker 1: updated the updated number as of today, so I can
Speaker 1: stop just saying, you know, a few thousand, So you have, Okay,
Speaker 1: Italy's coronavirus death toll is over a thousand people, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what the Chinese coronavirus death toll
Speaker 1: is anyway, it's it's it can't be more. The overall
Speaker 1: death toll is five thousand. So let's say you've got
Speaker 1: you know, three thousand roughly dead in China. I think
Speaker 1: I think that's about what the number is. That's very
Speaker 1: very small, considering the entire population of China would have
Speaker 1: been at risk for this for weeks and just free
Speaker 1: transmission of this for weeks before anybody was doing anything.
Speaker 1: And I know that they've taken pretty extreme measures to
Speaker 1: lock this down, but okay, you know the measures are
Speaker 1: effectively versions of what we're doing here, Cleaning public areas,
Speaker 1: keeping people home, limiting social interaction, social contact, all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So okay, why would why would we then have to
Speaker 1: be told as we are being told, that there's a
Speaker 1: likelihood in this country, a serious likelihood that will have
Speaker 1: a half a million people dead from this, which is
Speaker 1: what we're being told by some of these estimates apparently
Speaker 1: coming from health experts. Now, for that to be true,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it's not true, I don't know.
Speaker 1: No one can predict the future. You know, that's one
Speaker 1: of one of my most important They're saying one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million Americans could get infected. Okay, well, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million Americans getting infected. If you have
Speaker 1: a mortality rate of two or three percent, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a few million people who die. You've got a
Speaker 1: billion Chinese and we're months and months into this. It's
Speaker 1: supposed to spread very quickly and have a very rapid onset.
Speaker 1: Most people develop symptoms within days of exposure, they believe.
Speaker 1: Although there are these other you know, there's all these
Speaker 1: competing theories and stories out there. For medical professionals, taking
Speaker 1: a step back for a moment, this is just also
Speaker 1: you know, the doctors, nurses, they do all these amazing things,
Speaker 1: and there they are on the front line. They are
Speaker 1: the you know, the Praetorian Guard, or actually no more
Speaker 1: than that, the Pretorian Guard is usually in the back.
Speaker 1: They're the front line soldiers. They are the marines of
Speaker 1: this war. They're the grunts of this war against this virus.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're the ones that are right there
Speaker 1: taking it and and dishing it out to the other side.
Speaker 1: This time the other side is as a virus. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot that modern me doesn't know. I think
Speaker 1: we have generally been led to believe because of some
Speaker 1: of the amazing things we can do with cancer treatments,
Speaker 1: and that modern medicine has more answers than it does.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of big questions out there that
Speaker 1: medical communities still is. I know they're trying to answer them,
Speaker 1: but they don't have answers to you. And if you
Speaker 1: want a very low level of a very low level
Speaker 1: version of this and something far less serious what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here, just going to a doctor and say,
Speaker 1: you know, you have IBS, and doctors will give you
Speaker 1: fifty different reasons for it and fifty different things you
Speaker 1: can do about it, and you know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like good luck, sorry about your ibs. Right then that's
Speaker 1: just a But millions and millions and millions of people
Speaker 1: have that in this country. I think it's the estimate
Speaker 1: ten to twenty million people suffer from it pretty regularly.
Speaker 1: Don't have answers to that. Now, that's obviously not a
Speaker 1: pandemic and people aren't dying from it. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying there's a lot that modern medicine doesn't know yet.
Speaker 1: And when you see all these different analyzes from people
Speaker 1: in the medical profession or estimates or guesses, you start
Speaker 1: to think, Okay, what do we really what do we
Speaker 1: really know here? What do we really have an understanding of?
Speaker 1: So the upside, the big upside that I see is
Speaker 1: that you've had not only slowed transmission rates in other countries,
Speaker 1: so it is possible to slow this thing down. That's good,
Speaker 1: but also that in China you've had really, relatively speaking,
Speaker 1: so few deaths in total that it makes me think, well,
Speaker 1: can't we expect there to be a similar, if not
Speaker 1: better outcome here, especially because we're taking these precautions. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I do and now, so that's on
Speaker 1: the good side of things, right, and the good side
Speaker 1: of things. And as you know, eighty percent of people,
Speaker 1: they keep repeating this, eighty percent of people get a
Speaker 1: relatively mild disease with some you know, flu like or
Speaker 1: cold like really more like cold like symptoms. It's well,
Speaker 1: you get a fever, that's not really so much with
Speaker 1: a cold, but you get a fever and you get
Speaker 1: a dry cough. Those are seem to be the two
Speaker 1: most common, definitely the fever and usually the dry cough,
Speaker 1: and it can linger. Now on the on the side
Speaker 1: of greater concern, I would say a couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: we keep seeing this one hundred and forty thousand people
Speaker 1: worldwide have gotten the disease, confirmed to have gotten the disease,
Speaker 1: and sixty thousand have recovered. Okay, that's less than half
Speaker 1: the people that have had the disease. Now, does that
Speaker 1: mean that eighty thousand of them have just gone the
Speaker 1: disease in the last couple of weeks and so they're
Speaker 1: not yet confirmed that that's possible. But I do have
Speaker 1: concerns that maybe this illness can linger longer than people realize.
Speaker 1: And that's also where you get into the how long
Speaker 1: are people going to be contagious with this? And you know,
Speaker 1: once you've had it, you know, I suppose you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait till you've get a negative test back
Speaker 1: before you really know that you don't have the risk
Speaker 1: of making contagious for anybody else. That's that's where I
Speaker 1: think we really are with this, that we need to
Speaker 1: figure out what the incubation period is. And there's the
Speaker 1: possibility even viruses react differently with different people, and is
Speaker 1: this has always been the case. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of viruses that people show no symptoms for that. There's
Speaker 1: still something called viral shedding that goes on, which means
Speaker 1: that you're in whatever way you're transmitting it, you're you know,
Speaker 1: little little viruses are getting out and you can still
Speaker 1: give it to somebody. So that's why you know there's
Speaker 1: a there's some uncertainty here. Next week, I think we
Speaker 1: should all be prepared for this, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: say this to you now, and I've what was it
Speaker 1: a few days ago? I said, look, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some days. And then the next day I
Speaker 1: was like, yep, we're having a day where we got
Speaker 1: to batten down the hatches and get ready for the
Speaker 1: squall that's coming. Next week is going to be a
Speaker 1: bad week for this. So I want us to all
Speaker 1: get and by the way, don't you know, don't this weekend,
Speaker 1: give yourself off a break. I mean, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: the same thing. I'm telling Producer Ah, Producer Mark's actually
Speaker 1: moving this weekend, so he unfortunately, dude, we are all.
Speaker 1: I just want to say. I know that people like
Speaker 1: this is a global pandemic or whatever, but you have
Speaker 1: to deal with the global pandemic too, and you are
Speaker 1: moving your home. Yes, this weekend. And when all the
Speaker 1: rumors were coming out, my wife was freaking out that
Speaker 1: like they were going to shut down the roads and
Speaker 1: shut down the transit system and it was bad. I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping tomorrow happens. Yeah, I think you're good for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's better that it's tomorrow than next week. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I'm starting moving. You know, I've moved far too much
Speaker 1: in life, Unfortunately, I've just for different reasons, for jobs
Speaker 1: and for you know things, I've moved too many times.
Speaker 1: Moving is very stressful, so everything. So I understand the
Speaker 1: stress of every that everyone feels right now, particularly in
Speaker 1: this city because we know there are people walking around
Speaker 1: with coronavirus. We know that CBS had to shut down
Speaker 1: it's offices for a day to do a cleaning. I'm
Speaker 1: also not sure I'm not opening their offices again for
Speaker 1: another week. Oh wow, I just knew they shut it
Speaker 1: down for the day. It's a week. So producer Mark
Speaker 1: has friends and contexts that know about what's going on.
Speaker 1: I just focus on the freedom hunt. I know you do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean this is the you know, this
Speaker 1: is the way the city is right now. Everyone's very anxious,
Speaker 1: everyone's very um, you know, concerned about this stuff. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta say right now this weekend, you gotta let
Speaker 1: yourself be with families, stay home, stay in place. If
Speaker 1: you have to go out, you have look half to
Speaker 1: means have to, right. I mean, this is the reason
Speaker 1: I'm here, It's the reason Mark's here, Like, we gotta
Speaker 1: put on a show. We gotta be here to do
Speaker 1: the show. You know, we might figure out some ways
Speaker 1: to leverage technology so that we don't have to be
Speaker 1: co located. Because Mark and I've been talking about this.
Speaker 1: If one of us is near somebody who thinks they
Speaker 1: have if one of us is near somebody who has
Speaker 1: self quarantined, then really we have to self quarantine because
Speaker 1: if he has to self quarantine, I have to self quarantine.
Speaker 1: And now we're like, now there's you know, now we
Speaker 1: got a big problem because now we can't do the show.
Speaker 1: So we're going to try to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to be able to keep the show. We're going to
Speaker 1: keep the show going no matter what, but we're figuring
Speaker 1: out the technology in that right now. This is a
Speaker 1: long way of saying, you know, this is this is
Speaker 1: a weekend where you should really take care of yourself. Rest.
Speaker 1: It's important. I know this sounds like, you know, advice
Speaker 1: from fake doctor Buck or something. It's important for your
Speaker 1: immune system. It's important that you psychologically gave yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: this weekend is the weekend to binge on Netflix. Read
Speaker 1: that book, Calm down, give your mind. You know, you've
Speaker 1: had to make so many wherever you are in the country,
Speaker 1: wherever you are around the world right now, you've had
Speaker 1: to make so many decisions about this, whether it's whether
Speaker 1: you're pulling your kids out of school or not, what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do with your kids now that they're home.
Speaker 1: You know what you're doing about your investments in the market,
Speaker 1: and don't that's one place do not panic. Okay, don't panic.
Speaker 1: Sell bad idea, you know there's and sell if you want,
Speaker 1: but don't panic. Sell. So you know, there's all these
Speaker 1: different decisions, and you have decision fatigue. You know, your
Speaker 1: mind gets clouded with what am I going to do next?
Speaker 1: What am I going to do next? This weekend, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it. Those of you who pray obviously already
Speaker 1: know you don't need you don't need me to tell
Speaker 1: you it's go weekend for prayer. I don't I mean
Speaker 1: prayer like, oh my gosh, terrible things are gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I mean pray for that connection to God. But you
Speaker 1: know you can also try meditation. I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 1: I am gonna be doing a little bit of yoga
Speaker 1: this weekend. You need to. You've we've all been absorbing this.
Speaker 1: We've all been just the last week or so in particular,
Speaker 1: pulling in all this anxiety and stress. Stress is very immunosuppressive,
Speaker 1: and it's also not helpful for you to make the
Speaker 1: best decisions you need to for you and your family
Speaker 1: going forward. So if you have off this weekend, if
Speaker 1: you're already staying where you are, or if you're in
Speaker 1: a place where you know some of you're like Buck,
Speaker 1: I don't see my neighbors, you know, unless I drive
Speaker 1: you know, two miles in one direction, right, Well, that's great,
Speaker 1: and you know, take this time because next week, next week,
Speaker 1: things are gonna get are gonna get ugly. I'm pretty confident.
Speaker 1: I'm not certain. I'm pretty confident because that's what everyone's
Speaker 1: going to realize. Oh, the numbers are much higher. The
Speaker 1: lack of testing has made us think that there are
Speaker 1: fewer cases than there are, and there's a lot more
Speaker 1: community spread than we realized. And then they're going to
Speaker 1: start worrying about are we going to see the surgeon
Speaker 1: in the hospital the week after that? So be prepared.
Speaker 1: Next week is not going to be a good week.
Speaker 1: Next week is going to be tough. Rest this week
Speaker 1: and take care of yourself this weekend. You're in the
Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast, Doctor Fatty.
Speaker 1: Will there be cities on lockdown in the United States?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I mean, as I always say,
Speaker 1: you've got to keep everything on the table. You would
Speaker 1: hope that you wouldn't have to resort to these draconian
Speaker 1: moves of actually locking down a city, But it depends
Speaker 1: on what happens. I hope we never get to that.
Speaker 1: But you never take anything off the table when you're
Speaker 1: dealing with protecting the health of the American public. That's
Speaker 1: the way of saying that we could have whole cities
Speaker 1: under quarantine, my friends, And this is what I was
Speaker 1: getting at for be prepared for that next week. It
Speaker 1: won't be forever. And it's also about lengthening out the
Speaker 1: lengthening out what our health system can handle at one time,
Speaker 1: trying to disperse the cases more on a timeline so
Speaker 1: that it's not all a big spike at one time.
Speaker 1: That's why Italy got so just crushed. But we could
Speaker 1: see that, and we could see it as soon as
Speaker 1: next week. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts.
Speaker 1: Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeart Radio app,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, I think one
Speaker 1: thing that we need to do is put politics aside.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly why Democrats have agreed with the President
Speaker 1: Trump on his goals of paid sick leave and his
Speaker 1: goals of free coronavirus testing, and so all of those
Speaker 1: things have been included in our package. We bump it
Speaker 1: up a little bit more. But you know, in when
Speaker 1: you have a Democratic House and Republican Senate, compromises the
Speaker 1: name of the game. I think the President is going
Speaker 1: to have to accept the fact that we're fighting for
Speaker 1: people who are going to be potentially unemployed. He's going
Speaker 1: to have to accept the fact that we're going to
Speaker 1: push on doctor and nurse protections. But also when you
Speaker 1: look at the best, you know, the best healthcare system
Speaker 1: in the world, that's something that's up for debates. South Korea,
Speaker 1: we're up to. South Korea has up to ten thousand
Speaker 1: tests per day. They've been able to provide test to
Speaker 1: any single person that wants it, and here people are scrambling,
Speaker 1: and it almost seems like the more wealthy and powerful
Speaker 1: you are, the more able you're able, the more able
Speaker 1: you are to access a test. But the more you know,
Speaker 1: the rougher road you've got here, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a lot more difficult for you to access healthcare. That's
Speaker 1: exactly the recipe for disaster in the pandemic now AOC.
Speaker 1: I look, I always try to do this, and I
Speaker 1: think I do a pretty good job, certainly better than
Speaker 1: a lot of other people that think that they work
Speaker 1: in the media. When something is good, or when something
Speaker 1: is brave, or when something is right, I say it
Speaker 1: AOC went on Brett Bear Show. Now, Brett Bear is
Speaker 1: very fair, he's not an opinion guy. I don't think
Speaker 1: AOC would sit down with like Tucker because that might
Speaker 1: which by the way, would be amazing. But sitting down
Speaker 1: with Brett Bart, let's give some credit. She's able to
Speaker 1: go and sit down and do that. I when I
Speaker 1: say able, she's willing to do that. A lot of Democrats,
Speaker 1: a lot of Libs will never do that, won't do it,
Speaker 1: won't subject themselves to anybody that doesn't just give them
Speaker 1: softball after softball and tell them how wonderful they are,
Speaker 1: which I think is really it is hurting. It's part
Speaker 1: of the polarization in this country. It is hurting discourse.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of you haven't asked me, especially given
Speaker 1: the last time I went on you know, Bill Mars Show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were disrespectful and unfair and didn't let me talk.
Speaker 1: But I'm there, I'm making my points. They act that way,
Speaker 1: people at least get to see. I'll argue, I'll argue
Speaker 1: the other side. I'll argue my side on anything with anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Speaker 1: No such things like oh I can't unless you know
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit down with like, you know, members
Speaker 1: of the Nation of Islam or neo Nazis or whatever. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that, But I'm saying anybody, there's
Speaker 1: no forum I won't go into for fear of having
Speaker 1: to deal with the other side. In fact, quite the opposite.
Speaker 1: I'd go on CNN tonight. I would go on Anesty
Speaker 1: Cooper show and talk about the Trump administration's response to this.
Speaker 1: No problem. They just won't have me because they're afraid
Speaker 1: that their anchors will get schooled. Then they will. So
Speaker 1: that's there's a huge difference by the way, between one
Speaker 1: on one versus multi person. When it's multi person, it's
Speaker 1: just think of it almost like a fight. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't care how good you think you are as
Speaker 1: a fighter. If there are four people, and of course
Speaker 1: some of you, I'm gonna get in a preser mark.
Speaker 1: There's so many jiu jitsu experts in this audience, you know.
Speaker 1: Whatever I bring this stuff up, they're like, book, I'm
Speaker 1: a ninth degree black belt and I studied in Kyoto
Speaker 1: with sense blah badih blah, and I could do like
Speaker 1: a and I'm always just like, okay, that's good for you.
Speaker 1: But for the rest of us, if three or four
Speaker 1: people attack you, I don't care. If you're like a strong,
Speaker 1: tough person, you're gonna have your hands full if three
Speaker 1: able bodied males attack you as a guy, you know,
Speaker 1: whereas you know one on one, you might think you've
Speaker 1: got a pretty good shot against a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Same thing when you're debating. If if you're arguing with
Speaker 1: four people because you can't, they're gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: more time to speak than you. There's no equal time.
Speaker 1: What you have something to add to this conversation. You
Speaker 1: called me over, so I came over. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I just I mean, you see in our on our inboxman,
Speaker 1: there are people that, oh yeah, somebody expert on everything.
Speaker 1: We had a guy and by the way, I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this and anything other than other than respect.
Speaker 1: We had a guy when I talked about the fl license,
Speaker 1: I'm like, one of you is gonna write and we
Speaker 1: got a whole paragraph about how much an FFL license
Speaker 1: costs and how you get one. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think there are a few of them. Actually, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of toilet paper experts at these days. Well, well,
Speaker 1: let's be honest though, we're all kind of toilet paper experts,
Speaker 1: are we? No human doesn't use it? And if you do, actually,
Speaker 1: I want want to hear from you. If you don't
Speaker 1: use toilet paper, I want someone's figured out a better way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then then i'd be I'd be somewhat curious to see
Speaker 1: how that goes. So anyway, So AOC, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I I respect people for I can't say I respect
Speaker 1: AOC's positions or knowledge about anything, but I respect that
Speaker 1: she has the goal. And I will say even even
Speaker 1: Bill mar when I did his show afterwards, he said,
Speaker 1: I'm the sugar Ray Leonard of Conservative Tis And you know,
Speaker 1: he does give he doesn't give respect on are to
Speaker 1: people that he shouldn't necessarily from the right, but he
Speaker 1: does understand that there are a lot of people that
Speaker 1: just won't even won't even try, I won't even show up,
Speaker 1: or even worse, they show up and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, you know, I mean Donald Trump's kind of
Speaker 1: terrible actually, and yeah, I know. I want you guys
Speaker 1: to nod your heads and like me. I don't care,
Speaker 1: don't like me, that's fine. Live audience doesn't matter. So
Speaker 1: I'd rather be right than be loved. Maybe that should
Speaker 1: be hm, I kind of like that. Actually, what do
Speaker 1: you think I think I think we'd use that. So
Speaker 1: where was I? Oh? Yes, AOC. So there are two
Speaker 1: worthwhile parts of what she says here. The first has
Speaker 1: to do with wealthy people getting tests. Now, I have
Speaker 1: a friend right now who is receiving and he's been
Speaker 1: very vocal about it. I won't name him because I've
Speaker 1: also been talking to him offline about it. But I
Speaker 1: have a friend in conservative media who's waiting for his
Speaker 1: current see I'm most did it wuhan virus? And I
Speaker 1: need to get into why it's important to call it that.
Speaker 1: Waiting for his wuhan virus test today. I think he's
Speaker 1: supposed to get it, might be tomorrow get back results.
Speaker 1: And he has been one of these people who's saying
Speaker 1: that it has been a nightmare to get the test,
Speaker 1: like trying to actually get the tests they make it.
Speaker 1: You know, you're on the align with the CDC, with
Speaker 1: your healthcare provider. Nobody can figure this thing out, folks, friends,
Speaker 1: This actually isn't really that complicated. This should be very doable.
Speaker 1: This is a failing. But before we get into why,
Speaker 1: it's a failing. You have now some very prominent people
Speaker 1: who have been either confirmed to be in contact with
Speaker 1: wuhan virus or are officially confirmed to have wuhan virus.
Speaker 1: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is on Brett Bear Show, and right
Speaker 1: around at that point in time, I think it came
Speaker 1: out that that was six pm last night, so I
Speaker 1: was in who I think that's when we saw that
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had self quarantine and his wife
Speaker 1: was showing symptoms. Turns out the Prime Minister of Canada's
Speaker 1: wife has coronavirus um that I can, right, I don't
Speaker 1: know enough about sports, producer Mark. You remember the NBA
Speaker 1: player who has been confirmed with it on the Jazz
Speaker 1: right as Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert, he has it, right,
Speaker 1: he has corona. Yes. And also Donovan Mitchell, who's from
Speaker 1: Queens is on the same team as the JABA players.
Speaker 1: Are two players and he's a star. Ah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're all stars though, producer Mark, we're all unique
Speaker 1: snowflakes made in God's image. Yes, of course, thank you.
Speaker 1: We're all special. We're all special. So that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: bringing and of course Tom Hanks and his wife. People
Speaker 1: are now thinking, okay, hold on us, and I believe Balsonaro,
Speaker 1: the president of Brazil, these pro Trump, populous president of Brazil.
Speaker 1: Um he has been tested. He is negative. But somebody
Speaker 1: in his retinue, one of his people, communications directors. I
Speaker 1: think either him or his wife has it. I think
Speaker 1: they believe it's tough to even keep up with this,
Speaker 1: but you're seeing and then all, my gosh, the lives
Speaker 1: they all want. They all want to know why President
Speaker 1: Trump has not been has not been tested for this,
Speaker 1: and they think that it was casual enough contact between
Speaker 1: the president and anybody who might have this, that it's
Speaker 1: not necessary. Prominent people are getting this, which is I mean,
Speaker 1: it's bad that anyone gets this, but it is at
Speaker 1: least raising awareness that anyone can pick this up, that
Speaker 1: this is a just like anyone can pick up a
Speaker 1: cold right. It doesn't matter who you are. Prominent people
Speaker 1: can get this. And why is it though, that they're
Speaker 1: able to get a test so quickly? AOC brings that up.
Speaker 1: I will say that it I mean, maybe that's just
Speaker 1: a perception. Maybe those prominent people are just able to
Speaker 1: maneuver the system. More effectively because I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I do know that my friend who's been he's been
Speaker 1: waiting for over a week to even find out what's
Speaker 1: going on with this test, and I think it took
Speaker 1: him a week to get the test, and you know
Speaker 1: that's that's unacceptable. So the testing issue is real. Look,
Speaker 1: if we had if we had a test sent to
Speaker 1: the home of every American in the country, let's understand
Speaker 1: that would be helpful. I'm not going to pretend like
Speaker 1: that's not helpful to know who has it right now,
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't mean that we wouldn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about this, right It wouldn't mean that we still wouldn't
Speaker 1: have a surge coming up possibly of confirmed cases. And
Speaker 1: they're still community spread and you know, you know, so
Speaker 1: even if you knew who had it, you'd have to
Speaker 1: know who had it and then know everyone that they
Speaker 1: came in. They call it contact tracing, and you'd have
Speaker 1: to do a contact trace of anybody that would come
Speaker 1: into contact with that person. Because I also don't know
Speaker 1: if you if you're able to if they're able to
Speaker 1: pick the virus up before you're symptomatic. I don't know
Speaker 1: the sensitivity of the test. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: that goes into this, and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: still on unanswered questions and one there was one news
Speaker 1: is Once report today. I think, does the Miami of
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Mayor of Miami, the Miami of mayors? Well,
Speaker 1: that would probably be really interesting. But does the Mayor
Speaker 1: of Miami have it? Or is Pricer Mark? Would you
Speaker 1: check from me on that? When I think, I don't
Speaker 1: want to ever say that the public figure has coronavirus
Speaker 1: and doesn't, but I thought I saw that there's so
Speaker 1: many headlines coming out on this, so yes he does, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Mayor of Miami does have it, so that you
Speaker 1: know has coronavirus. So people are getting this all right,
Speaker 1: so we know that there is this problem with the testing,
Speaker 1: and let's understand this right now. There are going to
Speaker 1: be discussions about this. This is what the left has
Speaker 1: focused on. And I see how long I've gone without
Speaker 1: really making this political. I'm gonna try to do that
Speaker 1: as much as possible, because this is one of the
Speaker 1: very people always say well, this is not political, when
Speaker 1: they mean it's very political. You know, it's as political
Speaker 1: as it gets, you know. Oh, and just talking about
Speaker 1: you know, access to women's reproductive health. This shouldn't be political,
Speaker 1: oh police, it's very political. This is actually above that,
Speaker 1: this issue of protecting our vulnerable population. We also we
Speaker 1: keep talking about vulnerable seniors. Um, it's not just seniors
Speaker 1: who are in the vulnerable population. And you know, as
Speaker 1: I've said, the one thing whenever you talk about vulnerable seniors,
Speaker 1: everybody's got a mom and dad, a grandma, grandpa, great grandma,
Speaker 1: great grandpa, great uncle. You know. You know, so even
Speaker 1: if you're not in that population age wise, there are
Speaker 1: people then you know, nearest and dearest people to your
Speaker 1: heart are And so that's why everyone focuses in on
Speaker 1: this and understands this is like, you know, we go
Speaker 1: to war with this virus, so they don't touch you know,
Speaker 1: grandma or grandpa or anybody else. Right, That's that's what
Speaker 1: we're trying to accomplish here. But it's not even just
Speaker 1: that age, that age cohort that really has to be
Speaker 1: on guard when they talk about comorbidities. You know, this
Speaker 1: is where everyone starts to think about how you know,
Speaker 1: your your health is so important and you must do
Speaker 1: everything you can. Is on each and every one of
Speaker 1: us now, I know people get I have celiac disease,
Speaker 1: not because I'm a bad guy, right, I mean, people
Speaker 1: have things that come up. It's not because I made
Speaker 1: bad choices. It just is. But to the degree, no,
Speaker 1: I don't need gluten, And that's what I mean. You
Speaker 1: make the choices you can because if if you don't,
Speaker 1: you're just going to play a worse hand. You know,
Speaker 1: we've all been dealt a hand with our health, but
Speaker 1: you've got to play the best hand you can. There
Speaker 1: was a very interesting I'm trying to find it right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. There's so much information coming in team. So
Speaker 1: if today sounds a little bit less, you know, a
Speaker 1: little more free form of a show and a little
Speaker 1: bit less like I've got this precise. Usually I come
Speaker 1: in here and I've got three hours of topics broken down,
Speaker 1: you know, issue by issue, content by content. What's the takeaway?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how I approach the show today. I
Speaker 1: just feel like we're all drinking from a fire hose.
Speaker 1: So it's a little more of a as we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: this was on respiratory fitness. I thought this was this
Speaker 1: was fascinating and for America, you have to put this
Speaker 1: in the overall column in terms of our ability to
Speaker 1: withstand the spread of this disease. This is from Carl Quintanilla,
Speaker 1: who is a reporter anchor at at CNBC, and he says,
Speaker 1: the two most important parameters in respiratory fitness. This really matters,
Speaker 1: right because this disease goes for the lungs. That is,
Speaker 1: that is the way that this is taking people, taking
Speaker 1: them out where they have to go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: And then even some people don't make it through, don't
Speaker 1: win the fight in the hospital, even if they have intubation,
Speaker 1: if they're in the ICU. So respiratory fitness is really
Speaker 1: really important, and he says the two most important factors
Speaker 1: in that are one. Now, one of these is an look.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of sympathy for people that have
Speaker 1: any kind of an addiction. I get it, But I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at the numbers here, are looking at the
Speaker 1: aggregate of what we're facing. Whether the person smokes cigarettes,
Speaker 1: it's very very important when you're gauging their respiratory finness.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling you this because you know, I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of team buck that you're you know,
Speaker 1: you smoke, and I'm just looking out for you. You
Speaker 1: have to consider yourself if you're a smoker in a
Speaker 1: higher risk Even if you're a thirty five year old
Speaker 1: or a thirty year old smoker, you got to consider
Speaker 1: yourself to be in a higher risk category in this.
Speaker 1: So please take those precautions that people are talking about.
Speaker 1: I know it's a little counterintuitive, but if you're if
Speaker 1: you're a long time smoker, I mean not if you
Speaker 1: smoke one cigarette a month or something, but if you're
Speaker 1: a long time smoker and you're in your thirties and
Speaker 1: your forties and your fifties, you got to think about
Speaker 1: this like your this disease is going to come after
Speaker 1: you very very possibly like somebody who's in their seventies
Speaker 1: or their eighties, in terms of your lung your ability
Speaker 1: for your lungs to fight back against this. So you
Speaker 1: got to be very careful. And the pollution level is
Speaker 1: the other part of this that's also a really important
Speaker 1: indicator for how well member. You know, I was in China,
Speaker 1: as I said a year ago, and I was I
Speaker 1: was leaving Shanghai, which usually is not as badly polluted
Speaker 1: as as Beijing, and it's it is like something out
Speaker 1: of a post apocalyptic movie when the and it was
Speaker 1: still there, and it's apparently a lot better than it
Speaker 1: used to be. But you can see this, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't even really explain it to you. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just looks like a collection of smog and when
Speaker 1: the sun's going down, it kind of bounces off it
Speaker 1: in a not appealing way. And you know, you have
Speaker 1: this this goo that's all in the air. It's just pollution.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm all about conservation. I'm against pollution.
Speaker 1: I'm just not against CO two, which plants rely on
Speaker 1: for air, and you know that's CO two is not
Speaker 1: a polluting but we all have to pretend, because the
Speaker 1: green movement is insane, pollution is bad. And I'm all like, no,
Speaker 1: we do not want these you know, industrial facilities spewing
Speaker 1: out acrid smoke that that hurts your lungs, and you
Speaker 1: know we breathe out ct So how much of a
Speaker 1: polluting isn't really folks, let's think about that for a second.
Speaker 1: We're it's literally coming out of your body every second.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to think that's that's pollution anyway, don't get
Speaker 1: me started on that. You know, these days, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you as a part of me. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: a little rebel, you know what I'm not doing these
Speaker 1: days as we're all like in lockdown and trying to
Speaker 1: stay alive and worried about our loved ones. No, they
Speaker 1: can come after me for the not recycling. Sorry, not
Speaker 1: doing it. It's going right into trash. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about it. More important things stankkul
Speaker 1: All right, So on smoking and on pollution, the smoking
Speaker 1: rate and the average pollution levels. Here's what you got,
Speaker 1: country by country. China smoking rate forty seven percent, average
Speaker 1: pollution level forty one percent. South Korea smoking rate forty
Speaker 1: nine percent, average pollution level twenty four percent. Iran smoking
Speaker 1: rate twenty one percent, average pollution level twenty four percent.
Speaker 1: Italy twenty eight smoking rate, pollution fourteen. United States smoking nineteen,
Speaker 1: pollution nine. This matters. We have a lower percentage of smokers,
Speaker 1: and we have and this is probably the most important
Speaker 1: in terms of looking at the aggregate numbers and how
Speaker 1: this will affect the population of this country. Overall, we
Speaker 1: have much cleaner air than these other countries. Now, I
Speaker 1: know this seems like, how can this really matter? This
Speaker 1: is what It all comes down to, is can your
Speaker 1: lungs get enough oxygen to the rest of your body
Speaker 1: if and when this thing attacks you and your lungs.
Speaker 1: If you are dealing with daily pollution all the time,
Speaker 1: your lung capacity is affected and the strain on your
Speaker 1: lungs is already higher. So I'm not Look, this is
Speaker 1: not like, oh, we're great. It's America. We got clean air,
Speaker 1: so we're not. No, of course, this has still killed
Speaker 1: people in this country. I think it just killed the
Speaker 1: first person in New Jersey. It's killed a bunch of
Speaker 1: seniors out in Washington State. But we're in better shape
Speaker 1: than a lot of these countries we've already seen from
Speaker 1: day one, because of the health of our population and
Speaker 1: because of the age of our population. Italy's population is
Speaker 1: much older than ours as a percentage, and then also pollution.
Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. So I also wanted to get into the
Speaker 1: testing situation here because we're told a lot about the
Speaker 1: failure and the testing. There's some lessons here about the
Speaker 1: CDC and about bureaucracy, and then also about ingenuity, and
Speaker 1: there's a big focus now that I want to drill
Speaker 1: down to a little bit about local government, local action,
Speaker 1: and how if you're relying on the FEDS, you're going
Speaker 1: to be waiting a very long time. Local governments are
Speaker 1: stepping up now in a way that we should focus on.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the bus Sex and Show podcasts.
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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, just to give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of a of a either a little bit
Speaker 1: of a pause in all the Wuhan, I haven't even
Speaker 1: gotten into the reason why we should call it that,
Speaker 1: and try I keep meaning to and team, there's so
Speaker 1: much and look, we're gonna be in this together. We're
Speaker 1: in this every day until this thing is passed. So
Speaker 1: shields high for real. This was a story that I
Speaker 1: thought was just worth taking a moment to look at.
Speaker 1: Andrew Gillham. You may remember Andrew Gillham. He was a
Speaker 1: very celebrated by the media gubernatorial candidate for the state
Speaker 1: of Florida, very important state as we all know, for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. And he was the mayor of Tallahassee, which,
Speaker 1: as I understand it is not a particularly well run city.
Speaker 1: It's got city with some problems, but it turned and
Speaker 1: I think, now he's a CNN contributor. He was because
Speaker 1: you know, CNN, if you become a famous Democrat running
Speaker 1: for office, you know the first thing you move when
Speaker 1: you move to when you lose is you just go
Speaker 1: to Jeff Zucker and he starts writing your checks. Turns
Speaker 1: out that this is breaking news from today. Andrew Gillham
Speaker 1: was quote in an inebriated state, inebriated state, on the
Speaker 1: scene of a possible drug overdose at the Mandrean South
Speaker 1: Beach Hotel early this morning with clear plastic baggies containing
Speaker 1: suspected crystal meth. Not only was he the Democrats and
Speaker 1: he came close to winning the Democrats favorite I mean,
Speaker 1: the media love this guy. He was their choice for
Speaker 1: the governor of California, I'm sorry, pardon me, governor of Florida.
Speaker 1: But he also was talked about by some people as
Speaker 1: a possible VP candidate. And look, if this was like
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago and he was a young guy and
Speaker 1: this happened and we found this out later, I'd be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, look, I know drugs are bad,
Speaker 1: oding is very serious. I get all that, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're living at a time now where we
Speaker 1: are more forgiving of people's youthful and disgressions, and we
Speaker 1: used to be al much just having on. Then we
Speaker 1: make up in discretions that didn't happen, and we make
Speaker 1: up assaults that didn't happen. But you know, in general,
Speaker 1: I think we're a little bit work But not if
Speaker 1: you're being talked about, actively talked about as a possible
Speaker 1: VP candidate, then you probably shouldn't be in an inebriated
Speaker 1: state at a drug overdose scene at the Mandrea and
Speaker 1: South Beach Hotel. I've been too, by the way, which
Speaker 1: let me tell you, party never stops there. That place
Speaker 1: is the place is lit lit af for sure, that's
Speaker 1: where that's where the party happens. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: it's a lot of at the Mandrean and at once
Speaker 1: that other the slsoh, man, you better put your party
Speaker 1: shoes on if you go to the SLS and South Beach.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. So Andrew Gillam will
Speaker 1: see if this ends up being what it looks like.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, yeah, that's a that's a real thing
Speaker 1: that's going on right now. That's a news story for
Speaker 1: you that has nothing to do with virus. Um okay,
Speaker 1: so CDC and then uhuan virus and then we gotta
Speaker 1: get into some other stuff. The CDC is a federal
Speaker 1: bureaucracy that is vast and bloated and wasteful and spends
Speaker 1: a lot of time not doing We all think, here,
Speaker 1: here's our perception. And it reminds me a little bit
Speaker 1: of the movie The Strain, which I'll come back to
Speaker 1: later because there's a lot of If you haven't watched it,
Speaker 1: I think now is the time to watch that show.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, if you haven't seen The Strain,
Speaker 1: it's kind of about it's a pandemic. That's really Also
Speaker 1: it's set of a disease. It's a vampire. Essentially, a
Speaker 1: vampire disease makes people in the vampires. That's a disease. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm just if you're gonna be corn self quarantining or
Speaker 1: social distancing and you want something to watch, maybe it's
Speaker 1: the worst thing to watch because it might freak you
Speaker 1: out a little bit because the hero is a guy
Speaker 1: from the CDC. The main character is like the CDC
Speaker 1: director of you know, infectious Disease. It's basically doctor Fauci,
Speaker 1: but like a forty years younger version of him, who
Speaker 1: somehow is also really good with like machetes and weapons.
Speaker 1: But you know, of course, so although I bet Fouchi,
Speaker 1: I bet Fouchi you could throw it down if you
Speaker 1: needed to in the zombie apocalypse. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: get the feeling, you know, if you talk to him,
Speaker 1: he probably in the Old County, you know, in the
Speaker 1: old country, back in the day, and the Bronx played
Speaker 1: a little stickball, and I bet he was in some scraps.
Speaker 1: So you know, I can just see a day and said,
Speaker 1: you know Tony Fauci from the Bronx. Okay, so is
Speaker 1: his name Anthea? It's Anthony right. The CDC was asked
Speaker 1: if they could allow labs to do their own tests,
Speaker 1: and they said no, because they're not allowed to say
Speaker 1: yes because the bureaucracy has rules and the bureaucracy won't
Speaker 1: just bend rules. Now, that's probably where Trump should have
Speaker 1: put out an executive order for the CDC to be
Speaker 1: able to expedite any test requests, and not just test requests,
Speaker 1: but the ability to set up a test and do
Speaker 1: it remotely. Because there are a lot of state labs
Speaker 1: that have the ability to do this. I will say
Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo, who I've given a hard time too many times,
Speaker 1: and I think rightly so in the past. Governor Cuomo
Speaker 1: seems like he's on this. You know, I believe strongly
Speaker 1: that you know, the Democrats, and you're seeing this from
Speaker 1: the Democrat executive leadership roles a lot more than seeing him.
Speaker 1: The legislators are all doing the Schumer Trump is terrible.
Speaker 1: He can't handle it. We're all gonna die because Trump.
Speaker 1: That's what Schumer is doing, which is disgusting. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Hippolo. If I was in charge, yeah, you're in charge,
Speaker 1: you'd have to wake you up from a Chardonnay nap.
Speaker 1: But Newsom seems like he's on it. Cuomo seems like
Speaker 1: he's on it, and I'm thankful about that. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't see them. I don't see them taking cheap shots.
Speaker 1: Maybe that'll it will change at some point, but I
Speaker 1: think while we're in the midst of this pandemic, you
Speaker 1: know they're they're on our side. They're on our team,
Speaker 1: and they're making that pretty clear from their public actions.
Speaker 1: Cuomo set up a drive through clinic just like South
Speaker 1: Korea has here in New York, and now they're prioritizing
Speaker 1: people from neuroshewe, which has been the hardest hit, and
Speaker 1: they're prioritizing anybody with symptoms over people that just think
Speaker 1: they may have been exposed. But we've got to drive
Speaker 1: through where you'll be able to go sample. You're in
Speaker 1: your car, you don't have to deal with anybody be
Speaker 1: exposed to anybody. That's the kind of stuff we need.
Speaker 1: We need ingenuity, We need people to be thinking outside
Speaker 1: the box to use the resources we have most effectively.
Speaker 1: And the CDC, I hate to say it got in
Speaker 1: the way of that. CDC slowed down, slowed down a
Speaker 1: lab in Washington State that wanted to start doing testing.
Speaker 1: Not good. The CDC slowed down. You know, the processing
Speaker 1: of this stuff. I mean, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of bureaucratic red tape at a
Speaker 1: time when man, we should be taking a chainsaw to
Speaker 1: red tape. And if there's ever a time where you
Speaker 1: could expect that government would finally wake up and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we just got to do what we need to do here.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm hoping that we have a vaccine in
Speaker 1: a year, and I mean I think that the press. Look,
Speaker 1: Trump is a guy who understands incentives. You know, we
Speaker 1: we should say, you know, whoever whoever gets a vaccine.
Speaker 1: I mean, would anybody I'm just gonna put this out there.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how the mechanism for this. People
Speaker 1: have talked about bounties for curing diseases before, but would
Speaker 1: anybody check to you know, whatever, you get to sell
Speaker 1: your vaccine and the government's going to reimburse you for that, fine,
Speaker 1: we should put a three or four or five billion
Speaker 1: dollar bounty on top of whoever cures this thing, whoever
Speaker 1: gets the cure and gets it done the fastest. I
Speaker 1: don't see why that's Think about how much money that
Speaker 1: would save the government. I mean, so it shouldn't. You know,
Speaker 1: the market is working here, but there's all these regulations
Speaker 1: and everything else. Maybe a little a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit of an extra incentive. I would be all
Speaker 1: for it, because remember, this is not this is like
Speaker 1: a foreign invasion. This is not standard market stuff. This
Speaker 1: goes beyond that, right. You know. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: if you see a marketplace that's operating, and you know,
Speaker 1: you want to have rules and contracts and people in
Speaker 1: free exchange and they can buy you're not buy into
Speaker 1: all these things. If somebody shows up with a flamethrower
Speaker 1: to let the whole market on fire, that's when the
Speaker 1: government has to step in, right, that's when you actually
Speaker 1: want something other than just like the free exchange of
Speaker 1: goods and services. And this virus is is like that flamethrower,
Speaker 1: and this virus is trying to just burn it all down.
Speaker 1: So we do need Now there's a role for government,
Speaker 1: there's a role for every individual, and there's a role
Speaker 1: for everything in between. And as I've been saying, you
Speaker 1: are responsible for your health. This is one thing that
Speaker 1: I've had to learn because I've had many frustrating experiences
Speaker 1: with the medical community. And some doctors who listen to
Speaker 1: the show have told me, you know that they think
Speaker 1: that that's that's not representative or whatever, and that's fine.
Speaker 1: I just can only speak from my own experience. I
Speaker 1: find that modern medicine can be great. It can also
Speaker 1: be really really disappointing because of the system we have,
Speaker 1: because of the incentive structure, because of healthcare the way
Speaker 1: it is, and you know, the bureaucratization of things. When
Speaker 1: we really need people who are allowed to heal and
Speaker 1: focus and work with people. So that's that's good to see.
Speaker 1: In New York. We have the localization of approaches, and
Speaker 1: this is where the federalist system we have the genius
Speaker 1: of that federalist system. The federal government's doing its thing,
Speaker 1: you know, has to put some funding in place, maybe
Speaker 1: some broad rules of the road, but every community should
Speaker 1: be coming up with what they do here. And we're
Speaker 1: also going to be learning. Some communities will do things
Speaker 1: that work, some won't. Those communities will will unfortunately pay
Speaker 1: a price based on those decisions. But that also allows
Speaker 1: other communities to say, whoa, Okay, so this place did
Speaker 1: this and that worked out pretty well. This other place didn't.
Speaker 1: And this is where everyone starts. Looking at the flu
Speaker 1: pandemic of nineteen eighteen Spanish flu, where I believe at
Speaker 1: the time Philadelphia and Saint Louis were the third and
Speaker 1: fourth largest cities in the country, respectively. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: Saint Louis was ever that big comparatively, but you know,
Speaker 1: I guess this is what this is what I've read,
Speaker 1: so I'm assuming it's right, and Philadelphia makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: But you didn't have the explosion of population on the
Speaker 1: West coast cities like California and I'm sorry, like San
Speaker 1: Francisco and Los Angeles until into the twenty you know,
Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenty nine, thirty forties. So Philadelphia did
Speaker 1: not take the kind of quarantine shutdown measures that we've seen,
Speaker 1: and Saint Louis did, and Saint Louis had a much
Speaker 1: better outcome from that flu than Philadelphia. Right, So you
Speaker 1: see that different cities make different decisions and that affect them.
Speaker 1: So the local has become very important. Now we've got
Speaker 1: to get to wuhan virus. And why do we call
Speaker 1: it that? You're in the freedom of hide it. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. The World Health Organization
Speaker 1: now has officially officially declared COVID nineteen a pandemic. Down
Speaker 1: Playing in being overly dismissed or spreading misinformation is only
Speaker 1: going to hurt us and further advantage the spread of
Speaker 1: the disease. But neither should repent it or fall back
Speaker 1: on xenophobia. Labeling COVID nineteen a foreign virus does not
Speaker 1: displace the accountability for the misjudgments that have been taken
Speaker 1: thus far by the Trump administration, so maybe crystal clear.
Speaker 1: The coronavirus does not have a political affiliation, will infect Republicans,
Speaker 1: independence and democrats of life. Will not discriminate based on
Speaker 1: national origin, race, gender, or zip code. We'll touch people
Speaker 1: and physicians of power as well as most vulnerable in
Speaker 1: our society. You will not stuff rady at all. Travel
Speaker 1: from Europe or in it a part of the world
Speaker 1: may slow it, but as we've seen, it will not
Speaker 1: suffer the traveler restriction is based on favoritism and politics. Rather,
Speaker 1: risk will be counterproductive. Joe Biden is not a strategic mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I'm trying to avoid that. He's a blundering
Speaker 1: buffoon and a moron who is corrupting all that stuff. Today.
Speaker 1: There'll be other days where I say that more openly
Speaker 1: because I think that that's all true. But Joe, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is not somebody that I think we should listen
Speaker 1: to on this at all. And also there's a lot
Speaker 1: that he says there he's trying to do the travel restrictions,
Speaker 1: he's basically saying this isn't political, and then he tries
Speaker 1: to take all these political shots at the administration as
Speaker 1: though we're not clever enough to figure that out. But
Speaker 1: when he says that coronavirus, see, I just did it.
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen as he calls it, has no nationality, or
Speaker 1: we shouldn't fall victims of xenophobia. That is Chinese propaganda
Speaker 1: right now from the Chinese government. In fact, the Chinese
Speaker 1: government has already produced a book that they're distributing, and
Speaker 1: I believe they've already translated in different languages. Fox Knew
Speaker 1: has a story about this that Americas are sponsible for this,
Speaker 1: and maybe America even did this on purpose. They're telling
Speaker 1: the Chinese people this. Now, a lot of the more
Speaker 1: sophisticated Chinese news consumers are going to be like, come on,
Speaker 1: this is more of the Communist Party. But a lot
Speaker 1: of them won't. A lot of them will think that
Speaker 1: maybe they've been through this horrible scenario because of nefarious
Speaker 1: American activity. My friends, Trump is the first president to
Speaker 1: realize what we're really dealing with when it comes to
Speaker 1: China and the confrontation that looms on the horizon here
Speaker 1: of two superpowers, it's us and them, and they want
Speaker 1: to be number one. They want to be the hedgemon.
Speaker 1: That's very clear from everybody who's paying attention to what's
Speaker 1: going on in that country. And I even said when
Speaker 1: I was there, I'm talking to people who are in
Speaker 1: the business community in China. There's been a shift from
Speaker 1: the Chinese culturally, politically, and from a just a news
Speaker 1: consumer perspective thinking America's great. American markets are all some
Speaker 1: American Coca Cola is delicious and McDonald's is wonderful and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff that we've all the globalization
Speaker 1: who look at this too. Now, we're better than America.
Speaker 1: They're kind of lazy, they're kind of slow, and we're
Speaker 1: going to defeat them, and we're rivals, and in fact,
Speaker 1: we're better than they are. There's been a shift in
Speaker 1: their thinking, and the Chinese Communist Party knows this, and
Speaker 1: they're also going to have to deal with a lot
Speaker 1: of economic displacement in their own country. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are upset, and totalitarian regimes know that the narrative
Speaker 1: that they even if they have to force it down
Speaker 1: people's throats, the narrative of regime self preservation is very important,
Speaker 1: and we are going to see that continue to be
Speaker 1: an issue here. We're going to see them try to
Speaker 1: convince their own population and as much as the rest
Speaker 1: of the world as they can that this is an
Speaker 1: American problem. No, this came from China. China lied about it.
Speaker 1: Because China lied about it, there was much more global spread.
Speaker 1: People in Italy got this. There's a large influx of
Speaker 1: tourists from China to Italy. Italy is one of the
Speaker 1: great tourist destinations, of course for the whole world. But
Speaker 1: you know, they the Chinese government's lack of transparency on
Speaker 1: this issue had real consequences for other countries and they're
Speaker 1: now trying to displace that unto us, and that's unacceptable.
Speaker 1: This is the Wuhan virus comes from Wuhan City, China.
Speaker 1: That is what happened, and whether it escaped from a
Speaker 1: virology lab which is which is I wouldn't say it's
Speaker 1: a conspiracy, it's a theory. It's happened before. So people say, oh,
Speaker 1: that would never happen. Well, they've lost other viruses that
Speaker 1: have gotten to the general population. They just didn't happen
Speaker 1: to be as bad as this one. But it probably
Speaker 1: came from the animal trade there. As I said, there's
Speaker 1: I think they called zoo nah transmission between different animals,
Speaker 1: did different species and you know, maybe China need not
Speaker 1: allow people to eat like rare and endangered and bizarre
Speaker 1: animals as a regular practice. You know, we do have
Speaker 1: laws here that you know, you can't you can't keep
Speaker 1: livestock within city limits. There are reasons for that, because
Speaker 1: we don't want people, you know, living next to pig
Speaker 1: pens and goat farms and all these things in very
Speaker 1: very close quarters for reasons like this. And if you
Speaker 1: look at the way Chinese animal husbandry takes place, or
Speaker 1: you know, with livestock, the way that they proximity to
Speaker 1: livestock and the sanitary conditions. Chinese have a huge livestock
Speaker 1: industry and particularly pork pigs. That's why they're very upset
Speaker 1: about the swine flu epidemic the last time around, because
Speaker 1: it had really affected their their pork industry, and that
Speaker 1: is something that China doesn't want to have to deal
Speaker 1: with or be held to account for. But you know,
Speaker 1: Chinese practices when it comes to the senate conditions of
Speaker 1: their livestock industry, Chinese pollution, these are issues that affect
Speaker 1: the whole world, and China is not a good neighbor
Speaker 1: on this stuff at all. It's the opposite and that's
Speaker 1: really where you're going to see this conflict, this continued
Speaker 1: friction playout in public. And that's why we call it
Speaker 1: the Wuhan virus, because that is what it is. It
Speaker 1: is a virus from Wuhan. We are now Producer Mark
Speaker 1: and I are thinking about how we get home safe
Speaker 1: from the center of New York City and what's going
Speaker 1: to happen to our loved ones, and what's going to
Speaker 1: happen to our city, and what's gonna happen to our
Speaker 1: country and to our fellow Americans. Because of what happened
Speaker 1: in China and the way that Chinese government did not
Speaker 1: respond openly and with an eye toward humanitarianism and people first.
Speaker 1: We now we are sitting here in New York City,
Speaker 1: and because of what happened in Wuhan City, China, and
Speaker 1: the way the authorities reacted to what happened there, that's
Speaker 1: affecting all of our lives. It's affecting the lives of
Speaker 1: every single one of you who's listening to this. I
Speaker 1: know you're all making the same decisions, you all the
Speaker 1: same concerns, and you know we're standing here just waiting
Speaker 1: to see are we you know, are we faced with
Speaker 1: an onslaught or are we going to be able to
Speaker 1: turn back the tide? You know? And this is well, well,
Speaker 1: well we'll have to see. I think next week is
Speaker 1: going to be tough. Thanks for listening to the Bus
Speaker 1: Sesson Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcast, the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Everybody gets Friday.
Speaker 1: The country is in need of the the wit and
Speaker 1: wisdom of none other than the seven foot tall Guru
Speaker 1: of Texas, mister Jesse Kelly, who joins us now. He's
Speaker 1: also a host of I'm Right with Jesse Kelly on
Speaker 1: Pluto TV's channel two forty eight, the first and also
Speaker 1: he is of the Jesse Kelly Show, which is on
Speaker 1: KPRC Houston, the the great lead in for the Fantastic
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show, which is right after him. Hey, so
Speaker 1: people in Houston have six hours of radio they need
Speaker 1: to listen to every night. Jesse. Great to have you on.
Speaker 1: It is good to be here. I don't know if
Speaker 1: everybody's going to appreciate my wisdom because I have a
Speaker 1: little different take on everything that's going on now than
Speaker 1: everyone else, but I'm giving it anyway. Well that's what
Speaker 1: we're here for man. We know that we can go unfiltered,
Speaker 1: uncensored with Jesse Kelly, especially if we're taping it, because
Speaker 1: then we can bleep out anything we have to, so,
Speaker 1: which is always a smart move I found out. So, dude,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. You know my brother. I've got
Speaker 1: two brothers. They're They're the greatest dudes in the world.
Speaker 1: You'd want them in your foxhole, you'd want them at
Speaker 1: your party, Like, they're great guys. My brother last night
Speaker 1: was at a Whole Foods here and he's like, I wonder,
Speaker 1: and you know, he texted me, He's like, I wonder
Speaker 1: what it's going to be like in there, and he
Speaker 1: kind of it was kind of like that scene in
Speaker 1: a movie where he walks in and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's very quiet. It's kind of civilized. And then he
Speaker 1: turned a corner and he started sending me photos in
Speaker 1: real time. Empty shelf, empty shelf, empty shelf. Oh there's
Speaker 1: the vegan section totally full, empty shelf, empty shelf. Like, well,
Speaker 1: what's it like down in Texas right now? Are people
Speaker 1: panic buying like that? No? No, And this is interesting.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with somebody from Pennsylvania. Somebody who lives,
Speaker 1: you know, not rural, but I mean certainly not the
Speaker 1: city Pennsylvania. And I asked, hey, what's it like there
Speaker 1: are are the shells empty or people panicking? And this
Speaker 1: person told the point blank, they said no. They said
Speaker 1: they think all this panic everyone else is doing is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Everybody's going about their lives relatively normally. And yesterday I
Speaker 1: went to an arcade. I took my sons to an arcade,
Speaker 1: which arcades are sweet. Now, by the way, I highly recommended.
Speaker 1: I haven't done that forever. Took my sons to an arcade,
Speaker 1: went to a gym, went to a restaurant, went to
Speaker 1: a grocery store, all of them I frequent regularly. The
Speaker 1: crowds were just as fact as normal. It's as if
Speaker 1: nothing has changed down here. And frankly, I love it.
Speaker 1: I think this a panic is absurd for a virus
Speaker 1: that is almost completely safe for people who are old
Speaker 1: and sick. Now, if you work with somebody who's board
Speaker 1: and sick, you need to take extra precautions. If you're
Speaker 1: not somebody who's like that, guest, wash your hands more.
Speaker 1: But this hoarding things, as if this is the black
Speaker 1: death Part two is the most ab third public planic
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my entire life, even if I
Speaker 1: had stot like yoga tested, because the virus isn't even dangerous.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I remember, it wasn't Hurricane Sandy,
Speaker 1: which did hit New York really really badly. There was
Speaker 1: a hurricane before Hurricane warning before that, maybe a couple
Speaker 1: of years, and I don't even remember what it was called,
Speaker 1: but I do remember that I had friends who were
Speaker 1: acting on the sort of you know, the advice of
Speaker 1: the city and stuff, you know, in the middle of Manhattan,
Speaker 1: who were filling their bathtubs so that they could have
Speaker 1: access to fresh water. And then when the storm actually came,
Speaker 1: it was it was nothing. It was like some high
Speaker 1: wind and that was one of these times, and we
Speaker 1: had all been told, you know, and the whole Foods
Speaker 1: was it was like, you know, boogie fight night, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, people were in each other's faces. I went
Speaker 1: to one, everybody was stocking off. They're all, you know,
Speaker 1: really really freaked out. You know, I'm out of the
Speaker 1: mine because I'm here in New York, and I think
Speaker 1: you got to take this thing seriously. I also agree
Speaker 1: with you about the highrist population issue. And you know,
Speaker 1: especially if someone like cares for their parents and their
Speaker 1: parents are in their sixteen seventies or eighties, like you know,
Speaker 1: that's a different situation. But the hoarding of food and
Speaker 1: particularly the hoarding of toilet paper, I mean, there's I
Speaker 1: just saw a tweet before where there I don't even
Speaker 1: where where Summerlin. I don't even know Whereummerlin is. And
Speaker 1: this is like, I know more about mid East geography
Speaker 1: than American geography, but they say there's like a three
Speaker 1: hour line to get into the Costco just to get in,
Speaker 1: never mind to get out. And think about that level
Speaker 1: of panic buck for something that has killed forty people
Speaker 1: in over twenty of those people were from the exact
Speaker 1: same nursing home in the state of Washington. Again, I
Speaker 1: am not saying this thing is nothing. It's not nothing.
Speaker 1: It is serious. It's spread like wildfire. If you were
Speaker 1: old with heart and learn problems, it is dangerous, extremely
Speaker 1: for you. For everyone else, including children, There is no
Speaker 1: indication this thing is in any way dangerous. In fact,
Speaker 1: all the numbers come to the fact the regular flu
Speaker 1: is more dangerous for you and me and kids than
Speaker 1: this bugan flu and people are lining up at Tosco
Speaker 1: stocking up at torn toilet paper like they're going to
Speaker 1: crap themselves to death. I find that to be the
Speaker 1: most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I Summerland, by the way, is in Nevada. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I just learned something new, a little little American geography
Speaker 1: lesson for the buckster in real time, because like, I
Speaker 1: can't say things like that on air and not correct myself.
Speaker 1: I gotta know where everything is. Although whatever, we're not
Speaker 1: on radio in Summerland, So work on that, Summerland, work
Speaker 1: on it. But ye know, I gotta tell you, man,
Speaker 1: I think that next week we're really going to see
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put this out there. I am hoping
Speaker 1: that I'm not preparing for this to be the case
Speaker 1: because I think that it would be. But but there's
Speaker 1: a part of me that that hopes that really this
Speaker 1: has been you know that it's like twenty or thirty percent.
Speaker 1: The anxiety and the fear and the actions were all
Speaker 1: taking are completely warrant because I think there is there
Speaker 1: is reason to do stuff and to get ready for this,
Speaker 1: no question, But I'm hoping that this has been magnified
Speaker 1: substantially by the media, to the point where within a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks we'll be able to turn around and say, Wow,
Speaker 1: they really were doing this because Orange man bad and
Speaker 1: they hate Trump at some level. Not it's not entirely,
Speaker 1: but I think that they've I think that there's been
Speaker 1: a desire to exaggerate and exacerbate so that they can
Speaker 1: they can hurt people, or they can make fear worse
Speaker 1: than it would otherwise be based on the facts. Oh,
Speaker 1: no question, there's such some of that. Now. I'm actually
Speaker 1: not going to act like that's all. But because the
Speaker 1: truth is what it toasted diseases, they have a way
Speaker 1: of scaring the public in the way that other things don't.
Speaker 1: I mean that the disease is one of those natural
Speaker 1: human spears because you can't see it. I mean you
Speaker 1: canl you know, is all of a sudden you get
Speaker 1: in your dad. So it's it's something people are scared of.
Speaker 1: But the shoe as the matter is whose sight of
Speaker 1: the working man too? I mean everyone's talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't feel out my much madness practice because they're
Speaker 1: canceling all these you know, sports, They just canceled the Masters.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's stuffs Warreth and maybe it's not, but
Speaker 1: it's not about the players in, the millionaires and the owners,
Speaker 1: the people. Take a step back and think about how
Speaker 1: many people's livelihoods depended on I've been talking regularly hour
Speaker 1: They working people depend on these events going off, and
Speaker 1: without a second thought, everybody's just closing everything down. Well,
Speaker 1: that's fine for the millionaires, also, Tiger, what's gonna be fine?
Speaker 1: What about the families that make their entire living, all
Speaker 1: their profit off the Master's going off in a gusing
Speaker 1: it's gone now. I mean, I'm not saying there's no
Speaker 1: reason to close anything, but let's not just close everything
Speaker 1: really knilling because but that really affects working people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I worry about the economic implications of this because you know,
Speaker 1: there's some people who you know, like, we're continue to work, right,
Speaker 1: and we're doing what we do, But there are some
Speaker 1: people and we're affected too, because what keeps us on
Speaker 1: the air? Right? Sponsors? What do sponsors do? They sell
Speaker 1: products to the public. So if people are not buying, Fortunately,
Speaker 1: a lot of our sponsors you can buy online or
Speaker 1: you go online, right, I mean not all of them,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them, that's the case, but it
Speaker 1: affects everybody economically. I mean, our forum. Looking at your
Speaker 1: form on K right now is just like a form
Speaker 1: of self torture. It's just a bad idea. Don't touch it,
Speaker 1: don't look at it. Come back to me any right,
Speaker 1: come back in a year or six months, at least
Speaker 1: maybe a year, and see how you're doing then. And
Speaker 1: by the way, it might be long in that, it
Speaker 1: could be two years, but anyway, but Jesse, I just
Speaker 1: want to know if you do have to engage in
Speaker 1: some self distancing, which it sounds like you're not going to.
Speaker 1: What is the Kelly families like self distancing pastimes? What
Speaker 1: do you guys do exactly what we did this morning?
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm actually letting my voice places video games.
Speaker 1: We spend the last hour out of the public hard
Speaker 1: plays basketball, and we're just going to continue to live
Speaker 1: our lives. And if I have to continue of the
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show from my living room, thenk you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna see me in my pajamas and they're pretty
Speaker 1: risk let me tell you. There we go manum By
Speaker 1: the way, speaking of risk a, yeah, you know where
Speaker 1: this is going. So mister Jesse Kelly, you are well
Speaker 1: known for making jokes that make many of us, including me, laugh,
Speaker 1: But they're the kind of jokes that many of us
Speaker 1: are like, I don't know, like I would always be,
Speaker 1: by the way. I actually got a trouble once just
Speaker 1: for responding to one of your jokes. So that's speaking
Speaker 1: of contagion. There's Jesse Kelly humor contagion. If you just
Speaker 1: respond to a Jesse Kelly jokes, the wokeness will come
Speaker 1: after you. They're like, how dare you? It's Jesse might so.
Speaker 1: Jesse's tweet was the follow The was the following hold
Speaker 1: on a second. In response to the the NCAA Men's
Speaker 1: and Women's tournaments will be held without fans and only
Speaker 1: essential staff and limited family and attendance, Jesse wrote, quote
Speaker 1: with a heavy heart, I must announce that nobody will
Speaker 1: attend the NCAA Women's basketball Tournament for the fortieth consecutive year.
Speaker 1: End quote Jesse, what has the response to this tweet been? Like?
Speaker 1: It's been an endless brage of esp female ESPN personalities,
Speaker 1: w NBA players in every local hack radio, White Knight
Speaker 1: trying to trying to try to school me on behalf
Speaker 1: of the local women's team'll trying to tell me how
Speaker 1: wonderful women's basketball is. That women's basketball sucks, and everybody
Speaker 1: knows women's basketball sucks. And it's not like I have
Speaker 1: anything against women playing, and I think that's great. It's
Speaker 1: everybody in good shape and looking good, and that's really important.
Speaker 1: But my thing is, don't don't insist that I acknowledge
Speaker 1: something is enjoyable to watch when it's not. You brought
Speaker 1: up women's tennis and we were talking earlier, like you said,
Speaker 1: that's the good promist. Women's basketball. Basketball itself is such
Speaker 1: an athletic game, it's running. It's m if people watch
Speaker 1: sports to see things that they can't do that they
Speaker 1: don't feel like they would be able to do. And
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter, as women's basketball is boring
Speaker 1: because women aren't as physically athletic as men. That's not
Speaker 1: even close to being controversial. That's a fact. The truth is,
Speaker 1: the average high school player or the best player in
Speaker 1: the WNBA couldn't make the top forty high school basketball
Speaker 1: men's teams in this country. And that's a fact. That's
Speaker 1: just a fact. It's a sport about that fleticism. But
Speaker 1: they yeah, so I want to ask you why do
Speaker 1: all these people then, especially those who make a living
Speaker 1: commenting on sports. I mean we did when we were
Speaker 1: talking right before, you know, right in the break. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm an avid tennis player. I love tennis. I've
Speaker 1: been playing my whole life. Women's tennis is a great product.
Speaker 1: I mean, and those women, by the way, would beat
Speaker 1: ninety nine point you know, at the professional level, they'd
Speaker 1: beat anybody who wasn't at least a men's D one
Speaker 1: college level player or any female on the tour. And
Speaker 1: those are guys who are really really good at tennis.
Speaker 1: And there are even some women like Serena Williams who
Speaker 1: would be pretty much all the you know, D one
Speaker 1: tennis player guys and could probably beat up to the
Speaker 1: top one hundred or so of men on the tour.
Speaker 1: So there's just this, it's a different sport. There's greater
Speaker 1: parody because, as you point out, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: just you know, there's not quite the same focus on size, speed, strength.
Speaker 1: Why is it that people get so upset whenever I mean,
Speaker 1: like I you know, I think the WNBA is a
Speaker 1: boring product to watch too. Why can't I say it's
Speaker 1: just an opinion about an entertainment, Like why can't I
Speaker 1: say if I don't like a movie, I can say
Speaker 1: that why we although you can if with the all
Speaker 1: female Ghostbusters, which I guess is kind of answering my
Speaker 1: own question here, why can't you say w NBA is boring? Jesse?
Speaker 1: Here's why this actually points to a larger societal problem.
Speaker 1: We have watched the leftist, the social justice warriors completely
Speaker 1: reorder society and they've been successful. It's not like they're trying.
Speaker 1: They've done it. They've completely reordered society, and they've done
Speaker 1: it in such a way to where what's up is
Speaker 1: now down, what's left is now right. And you are
Speaker 1: not allowed to say the sky is blue anymore. If
Speaker 1: they decide that women's basketball is just as good as
Speaker 1: the men, then you're not allowed to say otherwise blueist
Speaker 1: they decide that the sky is green and the sky
Speaker 1: and the sky is green, and if you dare to
Speaker 1: step up and say the sky is blue, they will
Speaker 1: try to bully you and shut you up from acknowledging
Speaker 1: the simple fact that everybody else on earth can see.
Speaker 1: And it's why I always win when I can in
Speaker 1: these little dust stuffs with them because in the end,
Speaker 1: I'm right, yeah, you know, I mean on this one,
Speaker 1: I saw your apology, to which I appreciated, but you know, look,
Speaker 1: I mean if and also, by the way, I'm not
Speaker 1: telling anybody don't watch the w NBA, you know, or
Speaker 1: you can't watch a great if someone really enjoys it.
Speaker 1: But you and I both know, like the people who
Speaker 1: enjoy women's professional basketball are either women who play basketball
Speaker 1: a lot or people who have family members who are
Speaker 1: like playing in college or something like that. And the
Speaker 1: stands are pretty empty and a lot of those games.
Speaker 1: And I also think that people like take their daughters
Speaker 1: to it because it's become this like parents will take
Speaker 1: their daughters in these WMBA because it's become this kind
Speaker 1: of girl power thing, which I don't really understand why
Speaker 1: they wouldn't do that with other Well they don't do
Speaker 1: that with other sports. Oh, there's no question. And there's
Speaker 1: more towards basketball basketball even the basketball has always been
Speaker 1: a little bit more woke if you will, then the
Speaker 1: other sports. So there's this real I am woman hear
Speaker 1: me roars to it, and like you said, look, if
Speaker 1: you want to go to a w NBA game. A
Speaker 1: lot of people will hurting themselves. Everybody. Jesse Kelly, He's
Speaker 1: gonna be grilling steaks, hanging out with the fan, playing
Speaker 1: video games, going to the arcade and the gym this weekend.
Speaker 1: He is not worried, but he's right with Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 1: Is the show that he has on Pluto TV show
Speaker 1: him through forty eight the first If you haven't guys,
Speaker 1: especially right now, entertainment is going to be really valuable
Speaker 1: in the week's ahead. Download that Pluto TV app and
Speaker 1: you can watch me. You can watch Jesse Dana lash
Speaker 1: So do check that out. And also kp RC Houston.
Speaker 1: You get Jesse Kelly followed by Buck Sexton. So from
Speaker 1: like what is it, seven Eastern all the way up
Speaker 1: until like midnight, it's just awesomeness. Yeah, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of greatness on the radio right there. It is, indeed,
Speaker 1: Jesse Kell everybody, Jesse, thanks, oh Man, be safe. You're
Speaker 1: in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Somebody said to me, now, when you elbow buff you
Speaker 1: get close to the person, So forget any physical contact.
Speaker 1: Gleetings now in Eastern Eastern style. Bow in the Eastern
Speaker 1: style that Superlosi says, I will say if if this
Speaker 1: means that you know that I've never been a big
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it. I've never been a big
Speaker 1: handshake person. And I know that it's like I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be like kind of a manly thing for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, a handshake. And you know, also when
Speaker 1: people in the past, I mean, I give a normal
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't do like a you know, a
Speaker 1: weekend shake. But people that like squeeze my hand aggressive,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, do you wanna do you want to
Speaker 1: see who can punch harder? Like, why are you trying
Speaker 1: to make my hand uncomfortable? I don't. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I've never been somebody that you know is a big
Speaker 1: hand I know it is a handshake deal, and there's
Speaker 1: all this stuff out there. I'm not a big handshake person,
Speaker 1: never really have been. Um, So we'll have to and
Speaker 1: it does in moments like this, you gotta ask yourself
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Well? Why why would we
Speaker 1: continue to have handshakes? Elbow touching is bizarre, obviously. I
Speaker 1: think I think some form of you know, if you want,
Speaker 1: some form of salute would be fine. I think if
Speaker 1: you want to be a little more form a little
Speaker 1: more respectful, um, that that would make sense to me.
Speaker 1: I think if every walked around kind of giving a salute.
Speaker 1: I you know, it's the same reason I like to
Speaker 1: call everyone sir and mam until I know you you're
Speaker 1: sir and mam. I feel like I even call Producer
Speaker 1: Mark sometimes sir, just because you know it's Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: and if I don't, he'll get surly. So you know,
Speaker 1: you got to be able to adapt under the circumstances here, um.
Speaker 1: And I think that making sure that you don't have
Speaker 1: to shake everybody's hand. And it's also you know, look
Speaker 1: a lot of people you see when you're in like
Speaker 1: the airport restaurom and you see people coming out of
Speaker 1: there hand washing reminders that we're seeing right now. It's
Speaker 1: not just for it's not just for Wuhan virus. You know,
Speaker 1: the handwashing reminders should be out there for everybody on
Speaker 1: everyth There's a reason why they have those up. I'm
Speaker 1: always in a restaurant bathroom. I'm like, why do they
Speaker 1: have to have this employees must wash hands thing? Because
Speaker 1: some people need to be reminded. So I'm all for
Speaker 1: changing this up a little bit. And this is where
Speaker 1: I'll start to bring up more of the the aftermath
Speaker 1: of Spanish flu and how that affected our culture and
Speaker 1: really really important ways. So that'll be something we got
Speaker 1: to do next week. This topics is obviously not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: so I'll have a lot of time to spend with
Speaker 1: you on all of that. But the getting fresh air
Speaker 1: and being out in the sun, and although this actually
Speaker 1: a lot of it is a legacy of our battle
Speaker 1: with Spanish influenza, So that's something to keep in mind
Speaker 1: here that there's going to be There's going to be
Speaker 1: things that, even after this disease passes, are changed in
Speaker 1: our culture, and there'll be cultural references and touchdownes that
Speaker 1: we'll be aware of long after this is gone. So look,
Speaker 1: I've been saying to you and I want you all
Speaker 1: to make sure you have a great wee can. I
Speaker 1: also want to get into your thoughts on all this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's going to be a lot of that.
Speaker 1: We did talk Unfortunately right now there are more impressing concerns.
Speaker 1: We did talk about getting a voicemail box set up
Speaker 1: for all of you so you can call them. We
Speaker 1: can hear you and play your audio on the show.
Speaker 1: We are going to do that, but first we got
Speaker 1: to make sure the world doesn't collapse. So that's on
Speaker 1: the back burner. But it is on the burner, so
Speaker 1: we will get to it. Thanks for listening to The
Speaker 1: Bus Sesson Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey,
Speaker 1: Team Bug, it's time for roll call the team. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna want to hear from you a lot in the
Speaker 1: week's ahead. You guys might be especially if we go
Speaker 1: into lockdown moade here in New York. The team we're
Speaker 1: the show is going to continue, don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: But you know you're gonna be my my contact with you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to see family. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be We're gonna be self distance from from family here
Speaker 1: in New York. At least I'm gonna self distance from family.
Speaker 1: You're not even gonna get to see me, that's probably true.
Speaker 1: I will FaceTime though, why just so you can see
Speaker 1: my smiling face. I don't want you to miss me too.
Speaker 1: I know what you look like. Ouch. So yeah, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit of a lack of human
Speaker 1: connectivity for a while here in the city. That's gonna
Speaker 1: happen for at least a few weeks. So hearing from
Speaker 1: all of you is going to be really helpful and
Speaker 1: helpful for the show. But also, look, I'm gonna want
Speaker 1: to hear from across the country. Tell me you know,
Speaker 1: I want to hear what you guys are going through.
Speaker 1: I want to hear if you're scared, if you're not scared.
Speaker 1: I want to see if there's lines at the store
Speaker 1: or not, if you know the local schools have shut down.
Speaker 1: One thing I think might be an outcome I was
Speaker 1: mentioning before some of the cultural and political takeaways from
Speaker 1: all this. One thing that I think is going to
Speaker 1: be very relevant here is a lot of people are
Speaker 1: going to have their kids at home that aren't used
Speaker 1: to that because the schools are closing. I mean, are
Speaker 1: all schools in New York about to close? Or where
Speaker 1: are we the public schools? No, it's if you have
Speaker 1: a case of closes for the day. They're keeping the
Speaker 1: schools open for now. But some places I think the
Speaker 1: schools are Somebody told me that his kids school in
Speaker 1: Baltimore were shut down for three weeks. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the worry in New York City is that a lot
Speaker 1: of there's one hundred thousand kids that are homeless and
Speaker 1: rely on meals from the schools, so they ucate them
Speaker 1: open as kind of a really as a support system,
Speaker 1: support network for children here. So you have and I
Speaker 1: want to hear from all of you across the country. Mean,
Speaker 1: you guys are going to be giving us. I want
Speaker 1: you to be my front line correspondence for what you're seeing.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's up in Portland, down in Austin,
Speaker 1: out in Boston, in Fort Wayne, in Baltimore, and you know,
Speaker 1: you name it all. We have affiliates all across the country.
Speaker 1: I want to want to hear from you. FA And
Speaker 1: if you're listening to the iHeart app in the middle
Speaker 1: of wherever all you need to sell service, right you're
Speaker 1: listening in central Montana. I think we're actually on a
Speaker 1: station in Montana somewhere. But anyway, Yeah, and I'm just
Speaker 1: saying we're one hundred and sixty so it's hard to
Speaker 1: keep track, all right, elam hey buck. For the last
Speaker 1: four months, I've been working in a mind numbing and
Speaker 1: soul destroying contract role and the light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel of the every day has been your
Speaker 1: podcast show. Thank you so much, Elam. I really appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 1: I arrived for my nine to five job to keep
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve, earphones in, head down, always moving forward.
Speaker 1: Good for you man, stay in the fight. I finished
Speaker 1: in four weeks time. However, you will continue to be
Speaker 1: my daily podcast show so that I can hopefully watch
Speaker 1: your name and brand grow from strength to strength. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Elam. I really appreciate all that you're burning. Impressions.
Speaker 1: The millionaires and the billionaires have given me many morning chuckles,
Speaker 1: as well as your interactions with producer Mark. You two
Speaker 1: make for a good team. Give you up the good
Speaker 1: work and thank you again for being that familiar and
Speaker 1: dependable voice in my earphones every day. Elam, absolutely my man,
Speaker 1: shield time. Thank you so much. Great to have you
Speaker 1: on the team. And it's an honor that I get
Speaker 1: to keep you informed, entertained and keep your honestly, just
Speaker 1: keep you company. Um. And I'm somebody who because I
Speaker 1: was such a long time radio listener, I know what
Speaker 1: it's like when you develop that you know that that
Speaker 1: feeling of community you have when the host. I mean
Speaker 1: for me, it was rush when the host of that
Speaker 1: show is your connection to all these other like minded
Speaker 1: people across the country? It said, Look, it's a special thing. Um.
Speaker 1: And plus I got producer Mark. Does anybody else have
Speaker 1: producer Mark? You as wonderful, as wonderful and as incredible
Speaker 1: as as the Russia Limbaugh Show is? Do they have
Speaker 1: a producer Mark? Don't? I mean they do have. Mister
Speaker 1: Snerdley is pretty awesome. Ever metd Not? He's actually great.
Speaker 1: You guys would get along too. Mister Snerdley is nobs,
Speaker 1: Isn't he in Florida with Russia? Yeah? Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, yeah, one day we'll meet. Yeah, he's um.
Speaker 1: He is a little larger than you are. I think
Speaker 1: he's about six four issues. He's a big fellow. People
Speaker 1: would the name mister Snerdley does not evoke a man
Speaker 1: who I believe is about six three or six four.
Speaker 1: And I mean he looks like he could be a
Speaker 1: d end on the Giants. He's a large guy. Sure. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I will not mess with the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm say, yeah, you don't pick a fight, No, of
Speaker 1: course you guys would love each other, all right, Jim right,
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, I'm a I'm a liberal. Pardon me. I'm
Speaker 1: a medical laboratory scientist at a major hospital system in
Speaker 1: the Michigan area. So my co workers in my handle
Speaker 1: all the testing starting today since there were two cases yesterday.
Speaker 1: On the other side of the state, people in the
Speaker 1: healthcare system are in full blown panic mode. All non
Speaker 1: clinical staff are a work from home till future notice.
Speaker 1: All entrances are locked except one which is fully manned
Speaker 1: with a screening team. All people are screened upon entrance.
Speaker 1: If people come in and have symptoms, the room is
Speaker 1: shut down for two hours after they leave, and then
Speaker 1: cleaning starts. It's crazy how much panic the government and
Speaker 1: corporations are stirring up to make it all worse. From
Speaker 1: Sunday till today, I've not only seen the first positive
Speaker 1: flu eight tests I've seen all year. The rest of
Speaker 1: the season has been mostly flu B. But out of
Speaker 1: the fifty states I've run over fifty percent a fifty
Speaker 1: tests I've run, over fifty percent have been positive. So
Speaker 1: the system will be stressed even more with the giant
Speaker 1: uptick in flu. Just wanted to give you some info
Speaker 1: from someone who is dealing with this disaster. My overall
Speaker 1: assessment is the media and the Dems see this as
Speaker 1: their last and best chance to beat Trump in November.
Speaker 1: The public be damned. I've also passed the buck to
Speaker 1: eight other people and turned to you for their daily
Speaker 1: news coverage. Now shield's high, fellow patriot. Well, jim Man,
Speaker 1: you're on the front lines of this, and thank you
Speaker 1: for some insight into what we're seeing, and also for
Speaker 1: passing the buck to other people. That's a great help
Speaker 1: to us, and it's an honor. And when I say
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, I really do mean that. Even producer
Speaker 1: Mark gets a big smile when we see the podcast
Speaker 1: numbers going up every month, and they've only gone up
Speaker 1: about fifty percent in the last six months overall, so
Speaker 1: only fifty percent. Yeah, I passed the buck yesterday. Really,
Speaker 1: I got into an umber from the train station. I
Speaker 1: can't use my car for whatever reason. But he was
Speaker 1: talking about rush, so, you know, and he was complaining
Speaker 1: that he won't have any sports to listen to because
Speaker 1: they're all canceled. They'll go, you know, if you need
Speaker 1: something to listen to in the car Buck Sex and
Speaker 1: Show podcast bam Bruster Mark even passes the buck. Look
Speaker 1: at me, well done, high five for us. It's good
Speaker 1: and now he'll know what I look like. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's nice because also now we hopefully can both continue
Speaker 1: to get paychecks to buy food. So when we're standing
Speaker 1: in line for hours and hours at Costco, at least
Speaker 1: our credit cards will will work. I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: doing it. That's where we're heading, I think, John, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, here we go. Wow, I just got It's
Speaker 1: funny as I'm here, I'm talking about this. Wow. They've
Speaker 1: just they have told me that my I ordered from
Speaker 1: a delivery service a few days ago, because that's very
Speaker 1: common in New York, and they're telling me that it's
Speaker 1: like basically missing everything. I just got that alosimone here.
Speaker 1: Of course I knew that. I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So no laundry to church in, no paper towel, all
Speaker 1: the all the things that I was hoping to just
Speaker 1: I didn't order huge. I just ordered like one or
Speaker 1: two so I could have them for the next week,
Speaker 1: you know, a week or swore Nope, out. I don't
Speaker 1: know how. I don't know how that happens. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how they You know, something's going on here. They're
Speaker 1: like selling laundry detergent on the black market. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm gonna stock my new apartment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like whatever I don't have. Oh well, I'm I am
Speaker 1: not I am not pleased about this circumstance right now,
Speaker 1: because I needed I need laundry detergent. I've seen the tweets.
Speaker 1: If you go to a bodega, apparently they're fully stocked
Speaker 1: and empty, but all the grocery stores are packed and
Speaker 1: fully stocked and empty of people. But all the grocery
Speaker 1: stores are empty of food and have many people. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to a market yesterday that will remain un
Speaker 1: named because I don't want everyone to like flock to
Speaker 1: it. It It was I had everything totally normal, so I
Speaker 1: don't understand. But then my brother went to Whole Foods.
Speaker 1: Whole Foods, it looks like like the ravaging hordes have
Speaker 1: come through and taken everything. So basically what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is stopping boogie, go to a bodega and get what
Speaker 1: you think. Great, dude, I love bodegas, local small business.
Speaker 1: I'll make it a bodega. By the way, for those
Speaker 1: of you don't, it's like it's a Spanish word for
Speaker 1: a grocery. We have them here in New York and
Speaker 1: they're often owned by people from Dominican immigrant families Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican immigrant families, and bodegas are a commonplace thing here
Speaker 1: in New York. I feel like they don't have that everywhere.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't have Delis in DC, so you
Speaker 1: know that definitely don't have both degas. DC is a
Speaker 1: weird town. It is a weird town and everything closes
Speaker 1: like nine o'clock too. John, Hey Buck, Greetings from the
Speaker 1: beautiful mountains of Idaho. A buddy and a co worker
Speaker 1: I've known for almost twenty years has been trying to
Speaker 1: pass me the buck for the last few years, but
Speaker 1: two hours of content was always a little too much
Speaker 1: to squeeze in my packed load for podcasts. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad I got over that hang up. I look forward
Speaker 1: to the the Freedom Hud every day, even if I'm listening
Speaker 1: to it at one point five speed. Keep up the
Speaker 1: great work, shields high well, John, Thank you man. Hey
Speaker 1: listen to what as fast as you want. And for
Speaker 1: those of you that that are you know listening and
Speaker 1: you want to kind of condense it. You could always
Speaker 1: try that. Listen to one point five percent speed. I
Speaker 1: speak with enough pauses between what I say because I
Speaker 1: hate filler words, because like I could like sit here
Speaker 1: and like I mean, like totally like talk the way
Speaker 1: that like even some other I mean, you know, radio
Speaker 1: host talk, you know, and they do. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I like precision of language. I like people to be
Speaker 1: able to listen to what I'm saying, and the words
Speaker 1: that I'm using have a purpose, and the purpose is
Speaker 1: not to allow me to think of the next thing
Speaker 1: that I'm saying. I just will take a moment to
Speaker 1: think about the next thing that I'm saying. I prefer
Speaker 1: that I have. Actually one thing that one knock on
Speaker 1: me in the past has been sometimes people have been like,
Speaker 1: were you reading that monologue? And iverything, No, I'm just talking,
Speaker 1: and they go, what sounds like you? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you think? It sounds like a read? They
Speaker 1: will know, but you're so few filler words that it
Speaker 1: we assume that you were reading it, even if you
Speaker 1: were reading it really well, and it didn't sound like
Speaker 1: a read in terms of tone. I don't know anyway,
Speaker 1: A little humble brand, a little Panela back for the buckster.
Speaker 1: Let's see we got here, and thank you John for that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And you're right, hey, buck on your talk.
Speaker 1: I knew we're gonna get some toilet paper actually, and
Speaker 1: you're talking about toilet paper during college and at work.
Speaker 1: I bring in my own toilet paper from home. My
Speaker 1: university and workplace has cardboard for toilet paper, and I
Speaker 1: eat a good amount. If you get my drift. What
Speaker 1: what does that mean? I think he's saying he poops
Speaker 1: a lot buck oh, eat a good amount period. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I thought he meant eat a good amount of Pardon me,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was bout. I thought he was saying,
Speaker 1: eat a good amount of cardboard for toilet paper. I
Speaker 1: don't think he eats the toilet paper. No, I understand,
Speaker 1: but that's why I was so confused. My workplace, workplace
Speaker 1: has cardboard for toilet paper, and I eat a good
Speaker 1: amount that. Okay, the grants a grammar issue. It's a
Speaker 1: grammar issue. Eat a good amount of what now I
Speaker 1: get it, eat a good amount? Okay? Whoa pardon me? Team, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I hope you're not having lunch. I'm guessing the t
Speaker 1: the TP run is because people think that the quarantine
Speaker 1: for two weeks and they want to be prepared. You're
Speaker 1: the man, No, Andy, you're the man. I think you're correct.
Speaker 1: I just think that that's you know, they can keep
Speaker 1: the shelf stocked if everyone just buys what they need.
Speaker 1: You know, look, if you want to buy what you
Speaker 1: need for the week, I get it. But to buy
Speaker 1: what you need for the month. If our shelves are
Speaker 1: all bare in a month, we got bigger problems than
Speaker 1: just whether or not you bought a month's worth of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that that's where we are. I
Speaker 1: will say that I when I started the media business
Speaker 1: long time ago, I worked for Glenn Beck, and you know,
Speaker 1: we did a lot of There was a lot of
Speaker 1: talk there, and Glen would talk a lot about about
Speaker 1: being prepared. And the people that are that tend to
Speaker 1: focus on preparation or not the kind of in your
Speaker 1: not like in your face, haha kind of people. But
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them right now are kind
Speaker 1: of like, yep, knew this was coming, got six months
Speaker 1: worth of food in the basement, plenty of fresh water,
Speaker 1: a generator, ammunition, and we're fine, I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: it because they're not gonna say it. But I don't
Speaker 1: know a lot of them are kind of like he
Speaker 1: and we. Meanwhile in New York here us as bougie
Speaker 1: New Yorkers like oh good, heavens the whole food just
Speaker 1: running short on site, Tan and Tofu will be all right.
Speaker 1: I hope you're in the Freedom. This is the Buck
Speaker 1: Sex and Show podcast. Chris writes hey book. As an
Speaker 1: English major back in college, I can appreciate all of
Speaker 1: your recent book recommendations. I always had thought that I
Speaker 1: have read in nineteen eighty four back in high school,
Speaker 1: but it turns out I read Animal Farm. The only
Speaker 1: way of knowing that was by the fact that I
Speaker 1: save all my books that I've read. It's a goal
Speaker 1: of mine to one day have a whole collection and
Speaker 1: a nice bookshelf in my future home, probably not in
Speaker 1: my homestate of California at the rate of housing costs nowadays.
Speaker 1: I'm curious do you do the same in terms of
Speaker 1: saving all of your books. I liked to refer back
Speaker 1: then whatever I need as resources. Very good Rush and Chris,
Speaker 1: and thank you for writing in. I used to save
Speaker 1: all my books, but I've moved so many times, and
Speaker 1: books are so heavy when you have a lot. When
Speaker 1: I used to have multiple full bookshelves, bookshelves, boot bookshelf, bookshelves,
Speaker 1: and I just I got so tired of carrying them
Speaker 1: and also finding a place for them in my tiny apartments.
Speaker 1: Because I am not a wealthy man, so I had
Speaker 1: to get I gave a lot away, and I really did.
Speaker 1: I I don't throw them out. I would take I
Speaker 1: took whole loads. I would use like rolling rolling Duffel
Speaker 1: bags and fill them with books and take over a
Speaker 1: couple at a time to a place called the Strand
Speaker 1: Bookstore here in New York City, or they'll pay you
Speaker 1: for some of your books, but really they're just gonna
Speaker 1: like take them off your hands and then try to
Speaker 1: resell them or find a place for them. So I
Speaker 1: really appreciate that the Strand does that. You know, you
Speaker 1: go in there, you're like, ah, these books are they're
Speaker 1: very they're very wonderful, and I'm expecting to get a
Speaker 1: lot of money for them. And they'll go through like
Speaker 1: fifty of your books and they'll say, okay, great, um,
Speaker 1: here's a check for three dollars and you're like ah,
Speaker 1: not worth what I thought it was, So I do
Speaker 1: not hang on all. I hang on too books that
Speaker 1: have particular sentimental value, anything that's been inscribed by the author. Um.
Speaker 1: I have a number of books that you know the
Speaker 1: author has written a little note to me or something.
Speaker 1: I keep those, obviously, but and other books that I
Speaker 1: just feel like you got to have. But maybe I'll
Speaker 1: maybe I'll take some foe. I've done this before, and
Speaker 1: some people get mad at me because I say I
Speaker 1: don't do this, but and then I always do it.
Speaker 1: I could take some photos of my bookshelves, because we're guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need to all hunker down a bit and
Speaker 1: get used to a lot of things being closed, and
Speaker 1: it's a great time to knock off some books from
Speaker 1: your reading shelf or from the stack. I got the
Speaker 1: stack next to the bed, although now I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit more clean, so I don't really do that. I
Speaker 1: kind of have a stack that's next to the stack
Speaker 1: of books in my bookshelf. But I'll take a photo
Speaker 1: of what I have on the shelf. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: mostly I'll read from kindle too, because I like to
Speaker 1: read at night before I go to sleep. It helps
Speaker 1: me fall asleep, and I can't. With the light on
Speaker 1: reading that makes it harder for me to fall asleep,
Speaker 1: But with a kindle man, I could pass out in
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. So yeah, Tom, Well everyone the media is
Speaker 1: consumed by the hysteria of the COVID nineteen virus and
Speaker 1: the free fall of the stock market. The American judicial
Speaker 1: system is returning to status quo and sweeping all the
Speaker 1: crimes of the past eight years under the rug ag
Speaker 1: Bar has given the nod to continuation of the FI
Speaker 1: as a program, no changes to FBI coverups, and no
Speaker 1: serious charges against anyone from the deep state for all
Speaker 1: the egregious crimes committed against the American people by institutionalized
Speaker 1: corruption in America. There may be more information coming that
Speaker 1: explains what happened today, but the moment appears that American
Speaker 1: citizens and our constitution are getting screwed again. I'm with
Speaker 1: lou Dobbs on this one. There should be outrage, but
Speaker 1: instead we're told to lack The lack of real justice
Speaker 1: is the new normal. Any thoughts on this Shields high Buck.
Speaker 1: By the way, I know that there's some people who
Speaker 1: work in conservative media at certain websites who listen to
Speaker 1: this show. I know this for a fact. Listen to
Speaker 1: this show every day. I want and a half speed
Speaker 1: for ideas for articles and things. So I always appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to help the movement in that way, and
Speaker 1: I mean that I'm not I'm not being sarcastic. I
Speaker 1: really do appreciate to that and I'm happy to help
Speaker 1: people out. Tom Yeah, I mean, we're not going to
Speaker 1: see justice for these spying against Trump. In fact, they're
Speaker 1: probably going to try to do it again in the
Speaker 1: next election. And I know that that's not what people
Speaker 1: want to hear. But I tell you the truth. And
Speaker 1: when I think it's not what people want to hear,
Speaker 1: there will not be justice for this. I think the left,
Speaker 1: it doesn't care what the Durham probe says, the ag
Speaker 1: of the a USA in Connecticut or no, the Yeah,
Speaker 1: the US attorney, not the USA, the US Attorney in Connecticut, Durham,
Speaker 1: who's on this. It's not gonna be enough. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hold your breath on that. One of my men.
Speaker 1: So everybody, well, we are making contingencies to make sure
Speaker 1: the show stays in the air every day, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens, come, what May. We are going to be
Speaker 1: thinking about all of you over the weekend. Producer Mark
Speaker 1: and I sent you are our biggest, warmest I was
Speaker 1: gonna say hugs, but I guess we can't touch. But
Speaker 1: you know, we're thinking about you guys, and we're praying
Speaker 1: for all of you. We're all gonna be fine. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come through this. We're gonna have some celebratory shows
Speaker 1: in a few months we can talk about how we're
Speaker 1: all past this. Take care of yourself, Take this seriously,
Speaker 1: and remember our rallying cry, remember our battle cry. Here
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